skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So can science explain how a photon traverses the slits in the famous two slit experiment? So far, it has provided any number of ideas about that, but it's not been able to settle the question: and some believe it's beyond the realm of knowing (the predominant position if I'm not mistaken.)

To be fair, I actually agree with you. Science may not have all the answers today, and it may not have some answers for a very long time. But I don't think there are aspects of the universe that are inherently "unknowable". Many times throughout history we have not had access to certain facts due mostly to our technical progression and eventually we have found ways to overcome those obstacles. I see a reality that is, in fact, real and knowable, even if our access to some of that knowledge is not yet possible.

Of course, that thinking would be due to my positions on metaphysics. :-) This is where metaphysics can be important; because it can inform your choices about what can even be pursued.
Check out uBlock Origin.
"Why should giving money to creators be a centralised thing (many to many) instead of just a one to many relationship between the creator and their fans?"

That had many years to happen. It objectively didn't happen. Fact trumps theory.
I was also wondering about the same thing:

Implementing a graph on top of a RDBMS is trivial, and if the semantics are correct (the same as the ones exposed by a graph db?), then I'm not sure why would people want to use a proper graph db.

I thought that probably it'd be an issue of performance: the "right tool for the job" that "does one thing and does it well" probably is leaner and more efficient. After all, unlike a trivial implementation, getting a graph on a RDBMS to perform well might not be that simple after all (still, your idea of inheriting tables might make things more flexible and maybe more efficient)

But then, when looking up some Neo4j benchmarks, the numbers seems to not be good at all:

http://baach.de/Members/jhb/neo4j-performance-compared-to-my...

I'd like to hear from someone that used Neo4j (also, other graph databases are interesting) in production, and benchmarked it against a RDBMS prototype, finding the former as the better solution of the two.
Since it is possible to opt out—why not?
edge is not stored as IAV the table hierarchy is:

> Node <- Entities

> Edge <- M2M

which is strange since an edge is already a M2M.

Thanks for the monetdb link.
It is confidence. It is the right tool for the job.

What would you propose as an alternative?
Insurance vs charity
Science is about creating a model that reflects the predictable outcomes in the natural world. If something is unpredictable, science works to understand why. If something that previously was predictable suddenly became unpredictable, science would happen and our model would change.

Science is not a mindset or field. It is an act of accomplishing understanding. If there is something mankind can reason about, we can also do science-y stuff with it.
> Optimizing eating habits (without causing starvation) is much easier than running an extra 10 miles on a treadmill. This disparity in effort is obvious if you ask obese people if it's easier to eat a glazed donut (consume 200 calories) or run 6 mph for 20 minutes (burns 200 calories).

Anecdotally, I find that the initial bit of exercise makes the biggest impact. The added benefit of the "exercise first" approach is that after exercising, I find that I don't even want the donut. If I try to tame food first without exercising, I crave worse food which makes that effort considerably harder.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2089580/spammers-buy-chrome-e...
I have to laugh at the whole idea of the 2000 calorie diet and recommended daily amounts. If you think for just a second or two, it's a ludicrous idea to stipulate that everyone shall eat 2000 calories, be you man or woman, short or tall, child or old fogy. If you are a 5' petite woman, you may find that on a 2000 calorie diet, you don't remain petite for very long. If you are a 6'5", powerfully built man that expends tremendous amounts of energy at work, you may need 3-5 times that many calories just to maintain[1].

Human beings exist on such a wide spectrum, on so many attributes, that simply declaring that what is good for the ideal median person is exactly what everyone else should do is insane.

[1] http://espn.go.com/blog/houston-texans/post/_/id/12059/bacon...
Didn't get that for a moment, you mean you think Google or Yahoo bought the very product that blocks their income?

Despite all the alternatives that can be installed instantly?
Interesting point, though I do think people tend to do it the hard way. By that, I mean that most people have probably tried some form of extreme calorie deficit diet, which typically doesn't work in the long run. It's exceptionally hard to conform to these for any period of time. Even if it's successful once or twice, I suspect people will have a negative perception of the experience, perhaps feeding a bit into denial in the future.

I'm advocating a much slower approach, based on a little bit of knowledge about what you're eating, plus some convenience tricks like swapping out your heavy staple meals for something a bit healthier (that's still easy to make). My guess is that most people want to see rapid, drastic changes, and are demotivated when that doesn't happen (or takes too much effort), hence the failure.
Agreed. But throwing no money at anything necessarily leads to a worse outcome.

They could be doing R&D/investing it (+jobs, +spending), donating it (-taxes, +social good), or simply paying it back to shareholders if they can't figure it out (+money in circulation).

Anything is better than nothing.
To anyone who is concerned by this change, I recommend taking a look at μBlock Origin [1,2]. It's blazingly fast, very flexible, and under active development. I made the switch about a year ago and it has served me very well.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...
It actually amazes me that people find the statement that slow languages are actually slow offensive and worthy of downvoting. As I said, it is my experience that simply switching from slow to fast languages even on "IO dominated" workloads has real, visible effects.

If you haven't tried it, consider trying it before becoming offended at the idea that your tool may not be appropriate for all use cases. Yes, it can matter when your language is 50 times slower than another.
Some mistakes, yes. But this was a case of such a basic and clear cut use case that should have been tested.

My understanding is that companies such as this rely purely on manual testing. Thus it is easy for things to slip through the cracks. Usually they never get hit by penalties or get caught so the pressure to do better is not there.
Or uBlock Origin, which seems to be preferred due to disruptions with the developer who took over uBlock.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
I had trouble understanding this title, and I realized it's because I speak Chinese. "Yuan" doesn't sound anything like one. it's more like "you" + "an"
Is Web Summit a scam (continued)
My own Saturday morning run is about 4 miles and burns ~500 calories according to Runkeeper, so I estimate you're running about 16 miles every Saturday? Do you really expect an overweight, out-of-shape person to jump into a 16-mile run to burn 2000 calories a week? If they drink 2 sodas a day, they could switch them to water or even diet soda and remove even more calories for less effort.
oh who purchased the plugin? I'll take the other side of both those bets.
Only just getting to grips with it the past year and even then I'm not doing anything in the way of advanced. I have, however, found knowing only a subset of its features has dramatically improved my efficiency at the terminal. Awk and sed have been a useful learn too - I need to check out gawk. Apparently if trying to use awk and grep (emphasis on trying), I should just use gawk.
It would be nice to have a comparison with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_XR
To whoever downvoted that:

Samsung vs Apple Market share:
2015Q2	21.4%	13.9%

Amazon compared to the next largest online retailers:
http://regmedia.co.uk/2013/08/29/amazon_chart.jpg
(Selling more than the next 12 competitors combined. By a lot.)
Critically, uBlock Origin.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
This is a flawed argument. Nothing can be proven in that sense. We cannot even prove that 1 = 1. I cannot prove the sun will rise tomorrow, but there is a high probability it will.
You're correct. There is no copyright for ideas, and licenses are just a way to "relax" your copyright. Unless it's patented you are free to make your own implementation of the format without any restrictions.
I've done this before with MySQL in 2011 after throwing my hands in the air with two different graph DBs.

By far the most productive thing I did. People will say that you need recursive queries, etc, but I found most of the time just keeping the query set in the application layer was easy enough and super fast. Scaling it was easier too because there are lots of articles on scaling the MySQL / Postgres.
Adblock does not block Google ads by default.
I think it was when I stopped making excuses for my grandfather and started admitting he is a racist, lecherous, inconsiderate asshole (promoted by all the stores the other old folk would reminisce over him being exactly that his entire life, like it's all just a lark), that I stopped seeing old people as "otherly".

Being "set in your ways" is not endearing, and certainly not acceptable. "It was a different time" is bullshit. No, it wasn't. There is no demarcation line between now and then. There weren't any different issues, everyone had the same problems. We are all products of the same past. Time is continuous. Playing this game of "you get a pass because you're gonna die soon anyway" is infecting future generations with the idea that we can tolerate intolerance if the intolerant person is particularly stubborn enough.

Barring straight up senility, the persons your elders are now we're the people they've always been. If they don't get technology today, it's because they have always been unable to easily learn new things. If they say racist shit today, it's because they lived through the civil rights movement of the 60s--as well as all of the other movements we've gotten to live through ourselves--and said "yep, that's not for me". If they act like your opinion can't possibly be right or important, it is because they were always a sociopath.

Age doesn't make you an asshole. If anything, I've seen it mellow people out. You will be you, just slower.
It is a mixed bag.

In finance technology is seen as a cost center, not a profit center. They want the minimum needed to ship. Early on this results in a lot of tech debt. Later on, fixing the system is too hard and thus they need to hire super smart people to figure out the mess they are in for any code change.

Enforcement actions are INCREDIBLY rare. The penalties are shockingly low. Thus the cost of failure to comply is low, and the businesses are not prioritizing compliance.
How+to+Ease+Up+Manager’s+Work+with+a+Time+Tracking+App
I know what you're mocking but it is a bigger loss of utility to have a good looking, likeable person off the streets than an ugly one.
How to grow as a data scientist if you are the first data scientist at a company
Adam Irving – Hipsters (2015) – music video, funny worth checking out
The most solid feature is lossless responsiveness. Stopping the download gives you a lower-resolution image. When scaled, the image then becomes lossy.

Here is a thorough analysis of how good that lossy image is: http://flif.info/example.php

It shows how very good lossy BPG is, but also how good FLIF is against anything but BPG (and against lossless BPG).
Background:

Site in development from idea to now for some 5 years. 3rd iteration, finally ready to release though. Lots of learning to get to this stage, with plenty more to go, I'm sure.

Doesn't need thousands of accounts to be profitable, so hoping in the next 3-6 months I can get some sales under my belt and continue to improve things.

This phase actually feels like the hardest part. I know people say that if you're marketing at launch you're too late, I'm not in a particular hurry to rush to profitability. Cautious growth, bootstrapped, is the approach. I've got all the runway I need.

Questions about stack, purpose, market fit etc. all welcome. Also of course comments on look and feel especially welcome.
There's also progressive PNGs. Progressive JPEGs have the advantage that they increase compression ratio (though they're more expensive to decode, as you need multiple passes and refresh)
The author claims it to be royalty free. Also commercial "standards" by one party are worthless
How to get a million users fast when you are not so lucky?
The opening sentence of your README should explain, briefly, what the project is. Take a look at this link on a mobile device -- there's literally no useful information about its purpose or function, because everything beyond the opening paragraph is collapsed by default.
Keyvi: in-memory finite state automata database with persistence
Except... how does a new image format work in modern browsers? It gets included in Chrome, IE, Safari, and Firefox.

Apple and Google won't touch GPLv3, so that means this image format is dead on arrival as a web format.

Sure you can use it locally to compress your photographs, cool. But it won't be a web standard with GPLv3.
In fact, it makes it impossible to use in practice. None of the major browsers are GPLv3.
Not really propriety software - as you & bildung said, it's not a problem if you can just buy a license. I meant anyone working on FLOSS software that isn't GPL compatible, which is probably most FLOSS software. MIT, BSD, etc are very popular these days. And image formats are generally intended to be widely-adopted standards used across different applications.
Hormones act in blood concentrations of 1E-12 [1]. This is by design, they act as triggers.

When you consider hormones affect everything, from how and where you put weight, to sexuality, to behavior it's incredible how little thought lay people give to them and the endocrine system. (The Intercept has a very interesting 3 part series about an endocrine disruptor that DuPont splashed all over WV and Ohio causing thousands of cancers [2])

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_human_blood_components

[2] https://theintercept.com/2015/08/11/dupont-chemistry-decepti...
I've gotta chime in and express my support for aabajian. It really is this simple. Everyone else that says it isn't and that we aren't accounting for the burn rate of different calories (carb vs fat vs protien) are just making excuses. The simple fact is that today's foods are easier to eat and more energy dense. If you don't want to gain weight you have to eat fewer calories. The talk about balance is good for your overall health and maintaining proper bodily function, but there is a direct relationship between calories that your body digests and your weight (coupled with your energy expenditure).

The fact is that a man in 2006 burns less energy than the man in 1988, so if they ate the same diet the 2006 man should weigh more (as the study finds). We move less, have more comfortable environments (energy is cheaper so we can afford to keep our homes at a better temp). A man in 1988 had to walk down the hallway to send a fax, now we just send emails. A man in 1988 used to physically move to attend meetings, now we just [video]teleconference. Life was just a little bit harder in 1988, and that means that we burned more energy then. Coupled with the increase in average height (healthy tall people have higher BMIs than short people, and height increase is a trend in humans that has existed for a long time), people in 2006 are clearly going to be bigger. If you want to weigh the same amount you either have to burn more calories to make up for the fact that your life is easier now or you have to eat less.

aabajian has pretty much hit the nail on the head. I will point out that as you gain weight your resting metabolic rate increases to support keeping your extra mass alive, so 50 calories extra per year may not exactly turn into 100 lbs of extra weight, your energy expenditure to keep the mass alive and to move it all around may catch up to that extra 50 calories.
I was surprised that almost everything that I'd heard about prisons in the US was wrong. (I went digging into source documents to confirm the below.)

- US prison population is declining in both absolute and relative numbers, even as the population is growing. [1]

- The prison population skews strongly toward violence. I totaled up the numbers from my own state's prisons[2]:

51% - HOMICIDE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, ROBBERY, ASSAULT, KIDNAPPING
21% - BURGLARY, LARCENY, STOLEN VEHICLE, FRAUDULENT ACTIVITY, FORGERY/COUNTERFEITING
17% - DRUGS
11% - Other

- The violent offender percentage is increasing over time, while the drug related charges are decreasing.

- Federal prisons make up less than 10% of the US prison population, and have a very different composition, and legal pathway for getting there. Any statistic you see that is about only "Federal" prisons or prisoners is next to meaningless in the context of the US prison population.

- The percentage of US incarcerated that are in privately owned prisons is actual lower than the quoted 8%, and is actually somewhere around 5-6%. (Both TFA and Wikipedia make the mistake of thinking that Federal Prisons + State prisons equals all US prisoners. The are forgetting about local jails, which account for roughly 25% of US prisoners.)

- Prisons contain far more convicted murderers than you could think possible. People with lesser charges leave soon, and people with murder convictions stay for a long time. 15% of my state's prison population is in with either life or more than 30 years.[3] 50% of my state's prisoners are serving more than a ten year term.[3] But at the same time the intake numbers look entirely different - most people arriving have less than a 2 year term and only 1.3% of arrivals last year had a 30 year or more sentence. [4]

[1] http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/p14.pdf

[2] http://www.doc.sc.gov/pubweb/research/InmatePopulationStatsT...

[3] http://www.doc.sc.gov/pubweb/research/InmatePopulationStatsT...

[4] http://www.doc.sc.gov/pubweb/research/AdmissionsTrend/Admiss...
"Makes people fat" is a bit of a reach, but it has an effect on the holistic reasons why one becomes fat.

The links are dubious, but they are there. Plastic Packaging contains a high amount of BPA (Bisphenol A) which acts as a xenoestrogen - slightly unrelated: the generational drop in testosterone in males has been tied to this[0].

Back on topic, cells containing the metabolite of BPA, BPA-Glucoronide, have been found to accumulate more fat than untreated cells.[1] [2]

This is part of the reason why "BPA-Free" plastic products (think: Nalgene water bottles) use this tagline in sales.

[0] http://www.livescience.com/29401-bpa-testosterone-levels.htm...

[1] http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bpa-may-prompt-mor...

[2] http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/777288
How to Learn from Books
Especially since Netflix is using React pretty heavily- they must know that there's a conflict.
I think license depends on your goal. If your goal is to create a web image format.. you need all the browsers to agree to include you. All browsers will not add a GPLv3 image type. Therefore it is dead before it launched.
Or any open source project that is not GPLv3, like Firefox.
It's a pity that all these articles comparing iOS ad blockers look only at the paid apps, some of which have some dubious backgrounds (like selling out to whitelist specific sites). A comparison with free ad blockers would do a whole lot of good instead.
Why are e-books still stuck in neutral?
Blatant plug: My pain at all these unnecessary hieroglyphics & man page work is why I built Crab, so I could use SQL to find things and an EXEC command to run commands on them.

etia.co.uk

Really it shouldn't have to be this hard.
They may be informed and "aware" that password managers are a pain to use compared to using the same password for every site.
I am one of the "eat whatever shit in a big quantity and never gain weight" people, and I think you may have a point. After discussing it turns out if you add anything I don't eat that much.

First, I never eat in the morning. And I mean never, I can't eat after waking up, I always need a few hours before being able to eat without being disgusted, I know it's bad but I don't think it has an effect really (I don't do it since I'm like 12 or 13).

Second, I NEVER eat between meals. I don't do snacks, unless someone give one to me or whatever, but you get the point, I don't fucking eat some chocolate bar everyday at 4pm, or eat chips all day because I'm bored.

I often only eat good food, or what I think is good food at least. I never use the microwaves, always buy "fresh" meat, eat vegetables aswell (only recently, not when I was a teenagers).

So in the end, I may eat like a savage during the meal earning my reputation, but in the end I don't really eat a lot of shit.

Anyway since I watched Fed Up I understand while US kids are obese. Their public cafeteria in school literally are fast food. Not to mention the retards crying out for freedom when the gouvernement even think about taking action into kids diet.

I won't even start on the sugar and science thing because it sound very threatening but I don't know enough to judge how accurate it is, even though I have no doubt it's very likely given history (hello smoking industry).
I just switched over to uBlock Origin. The lack of transparency here worries me.
No open source software can use this unless it is already GPLv3. Most of it isn't.
That's what's funny about some of our security mechanisms today...for instance the browser tries to help you ensure that this is the site you really meant to reach but it has no information about whether the site is under "new management" (which you tend to care about for something like a restaurant).

Maybe companies should be mandated to update their key stores every time they change their board members, say, so that the old keys are revoked and you must take some action to "approve" of the new people running the company.
Faker (PHP Library)
Interesting that they once made bicycles. Does anyone know who would be the Miele of bicycles?
> Do you have any sources for this?

Actually the second link you provided mentions how private prisons take steps to keep inmates 'in' longer. So that's on incentive.

I haven't taken the time to look into it in detail (so shouldn't make sweeping statement of course), but I do remember hearing in other submissions on this site that prisons lobby and fund elected representatives who are 'tough on crime' and who might send convictions their way, so a truer 'incentive' to incarcerate initially not just keep them there.

I'll see if I can dig those up.
How Good Are the Office 365 APIs for Node.js?
The author has expressed interest in dual-licensing, so there will probably still be options. GPLv3+ or LGPLv3+ sounds reasonable.
Oh, I know it's a huge problem on multi-user systems. I was just pointing out that homebrew treats it that way so they can have sudo-less access. Technically I guess it's not world writable in a default homebrew install though, just owned by a normal user. Which also defeats the purpose of /usr/local really, but I've never found that design decision from Homebrew to be very good.

It is entirely possible I misunderstood SIP. The first thing I did was disable it, and I haven't bothered any more about it. My impression though was that it locked down all "system directories", however Apple chooses to define that. Which would disallow changing the permissions on /usr/local, but also would disallow creating new files or directories under a protected directory. Is that not what it does?