skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We truly live in the best of all possible worlds, Pangloss!
> Don't houses in DC start at around the seven-figure mark?

No, houses in desirable neighborhoods start at seven figures. Housing prices are quite reasonable in most of the SE quadrant and large parts of the NE quadrant.
Lots of interesting ideas and hardware advice on http://www.rtl-sdr.com/
There are SO many cases where just delivering a prebuilt page would work so much better, and yet they don't. It's incredibly frustrating. Generate the HTML once server side and cache the hell out of it. Generating it EVERY PAGE LOAD for EVERYONE is cheaper for you but costs a lot more CPU time for everyone else. It's a waste of energy, it's a waste of battery, and I'd go as far as to say immoral.
Yes, you are absolutely right.

I should have said the question the articles are conflating are:

- Is he guilty?

- Should we have a death penalty?
I'd like to see a wiki documenting the harm that comes from Facebook, sort of like how https://reddit.com/r/gunsarecool documents mass shootings.

Violet Blue is lucky because she has a platform and her problems will get notice. Everyone else just deals with their life quietly, and we the public don't get a good grasp of the problem.
I respect her (disclaimer: I know her IRL from conferences and stuff) for not doing the "hey, I know a Facebook employee" solution; that is almost always my first response to problems with services, but doesn't scale, and doesn't help the actually vulnerable people who don't know people.
I like when a simple data structure works in harmony with a simple algorithm to get really good performance. Like the algorithm would be completely mediocre if you replaced the data structure with something naive, but the data structure "unlocks" it and makes it fast:

- union-find data structure in Kruskal's minimum-spanning-tree algorithm, or for labeling connected components in binary images

- min-heap in Dijkstra's single-source-shortest-paths algorithm

- trie in the Apriori frequent-itemset data mining algorithm

Spatial partition data structures like octrees and kd-trees are really cool. Useful for anything that simulates physical space like games, graphics, CAD systems. Never implemented one myself though.

Least favorite is the red-black tree. It has nice theoretical properties but is so ugly and complicated. Most times I've thought about using one, I ended up choosing a hash table, trie, or sorted array instead. If I ever really need all its properties, I'll go all the way and use a b-tree for its cache friendliness.
Also people tend to consume a lot more when in juice form. A 16oz glass of OJ is ~8 oranges worth of juice.
It's extra work but I just eat oranges or juice them (manually, screw cleaning out a big juicer).

I'll also add that if you drink juice, you can consume a lot more sugar than if you ate the fruit - eating the "whole" fruit you'll feel full quicker.
Solid path for a free graduation in Computer Science
Fuck facebook. If you do not agree with the platform................................
That was weird.

I stopped using Facebook a few years ago (don't remember when), because something trivial about the site annoyed me (don't remember what).

The author seems to have written many accounts of what a terrible company Facebook is, how LGBT people are treated appallingly by them, how they're starting in on refugees and how they're ruining privacy for everyone. And then jumped through every possible hoop in order to keep using their website!

Is she just confused about how boycotts work?
The Drowning Child and the Expanding Circle (1997)
Ask HN: What are the best Open Source iOS apps?
To see how real-world iOS apps look inside (good UI, high-performance networking/processing) I picked DuckDuckGo. Are there any other apps that meet this criteria?
Maybe she thinks using Facebook is a basic human right or something.

I say if you hate a website just don't use it. It's really simple.
No that's pretty fair.
I'm curious as to what inspired you to follow their trails? Their literature, a particular work, what?
C++ and C# when I was working with him. He also wrote a bunch of (pretty good) documentation.
Public shaming _has_ proven to be very effective
Whatever you get, make sure you have an antenna lined up for it. It's completely useless if it does not have an antenna. And many of these dongles use weird antennas that you can only get online. So mind that.
There was an additive synth, but it wasn't Kurzweil and there was only one model I knew of and saw advertised only once. With 128 sine waves to set, it could do everything but required everything to do something.
A survey of insecure Flash crossdomain policies
I don't know. It feels like she's about as interested in suffering publicly for the cameras as she is in fixing the problem. If she really just wants her Facebook profile closed (as she says), that can probably be done with back-channel methods: no need for crying at all.

I don't think Facebook's failure to 100% accommodate all of the OP's demands is really a story. I'm sure Facebook has many problems, but this story is more about the author's problems than Facebook's.
Thanks.

Okay, I know some about
the details of IBM's VM
and a little about VMware.

I have wondered: The way
VM has worked on IBM mainframe
instruction set has been
partly due to an accident of
the design of that instruction
set and, then, some extensions
for VM. Really, that way, tough
for the program running to
know if it is running as a
virtual machine or not. So,
in particular, the program
running on VM can
be using privileged
instructions and not know
that it doesn't really
have access to the real hardware.

So
I've wondered
if the Intel x86 instruction set
also has this accident and, thus,
can run operating systems that
use privileged instructions
but not know they are running
on a VM. Or maybe the ability
to run on a VM was from some
extensions to the Intel
instruction set. Do you know?

Does the Microsoft CLI/CLR
software have some
security features beyond
just any native program
in, say, Fortran or assembler
running in an address space,
process, or whatever Microsoft
calls where a program runs?

I'm beginning to get the
prerequisites for reading
the OP, that is, understanding
what the long standard alternative
to native code has been.

Heck, I can understand native
code -- at one time I
entered some simple programs
via the computer console
sense switches. And I printed
out the object listing
from a Fortran compiler
and went over the
machine language instructions
one by one. I discovered that
even for some simple code
and a good Fortran compiler,
assembler could be faster
by a factor of several.

Just read the Wikipedia
article. Nice and easy.

Thanks.
I suggest that the measures are largely security theatre to begin with. Consider the attached accounts of determined identity thieves (1,2). Facebook needs to inconvenience children, but also needs to acknowledge its own theatre in serious situations. Consider that many of the mechanisms that government issued ID use to prevent forgery are impossible to verify unless you're in physical possession of the ID.

It also needs to provide a mechanism by which it does not gain and store additional information during the process of someone trying to opt out of their privacy free zone.

1 - http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-15/an-identit...
2 - http://resources.infosecinstitute.com/confessions-of-an-iden...
That README was amazing.
That animation with population count seems fake, no Indian or Chinese born in last 5 minutes I have been looking at it!
Drama. Begging to be repeatedly victimized, then publicly crying about it when there is an easy solution.
> And then jumped through every possible hoop in order to keep using their website!

I don't think you read the entire article. Her goal at this point is to delete her account[1], which she cannot do until she regains control of the account. She's at a stalemate right now.

[1]"But now I just want out. I want my account deleted. I want the bullshit, inaccurate pages Facebook creates about me without my consent gone, too, but that’s just a bitter little joke for the ages, isn’t it? Facebook is just going to do whatever the fuck it wants to me. And to you."
‘I’m Stalin’s daughter’
a lot of people are gullible, naive, insufficiently informed, etc... This is why along with basic "buyer beware" policy most developed societies have strong consumer protection laws in place too. Facebook is just preying on such people as there are no laws to protect them from it.
I assume the pink industry is prostitution? The purpose of prostitution is almost entirely paying for what someone looks like. I should hope it's clear that it's not racial stereotyping to say that eastern Europeans have eastern European features.....throw in the fact that people reasonably tend to make an exception for racial preferences when it comes to sexuality (i.e. "I'm not attracted to East Asians" gets a hell of a lot less flak than "I won't hire east Asians", in large part because it's really damn hard to override sexuality preference), and it should be clear that your question really has no bearing on what we're talking about.
Are they actually keeping track of multiple requests from same IP/Browser/etc...?
> facebook’s account security is apparently based on its users knowing what every one of of its friends looks like (do you?)

This isn't central to the post or anything, but uh, is this really that uncommon...?
You're getting downvoted, though you are not wrong.

Obesity is a huge problem socially, financially and systematically (look at the cost of obesity on any social healthcare system. It's staggering). Type II diabetes has a near fool proof known cure: Lose weight.

The challenge is that's hard for a huge swath of people, likely due to many factors, some self inflicted, some societal. But the bottom line is we know how to fix T2D, it's just not available in pill form.
From several sources, alcohol is involved in anywhere from 75000 to 88000 deaths in the US each year. How do that relate to this graph? According to: http://www.alcoholismdrugabuseweekly.com/article-detail/drin...

There are about 30,000 gun deaths every year in the United States, and two-thirds are suicides, said Kaplan. His research analyzing the NVDRS has found that about 24 percent of the men and 17 percent of the women who died were intoxicated at the time of their deaths.

“There’s a strong relationship between alcohol use and the choice of method,” Kaplan told ADAW. Men who used firearms were 76 percent more likely, and women were 68 percent more likely, to be intoxicated than men and women who used other methods to commit suicide.
Comp Mark II: Simple 4-bit/1 Hz Virtual Computer
She's hardly the model of anti censorship:

In July 2008, Blue sought restraining orders against online critics David Burch (aka Ben Burch) and Nina Alter to prohibit them from e-mailing her, editing her Wikipedia page, or writing unkindly about her online.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Blue
"Autoautomobile" is too clumsy, so how about "autocar"?

Later on, when they get really smart and start doing unmanned item delivery and shopping trips and passenger pickup all on their own, we can call them "robocars". Law enforcement robocars with weapon systems can be called "robocops" (or maybe "enforcement droids"?).
Is that similar to the concept of the Eigenface?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenface
This is an advertorial for Mesos, which attacks some of these problems at a deep level.

It's (not yet) a full PaaS, though Mesosphere is driving there along with Docker and Hashicorp and everyone else who built parts of the solution and then realised there's not much profit in selling cogs.

I like Cloud Foundry -- which is a PaaS -- probably because I've worked on and seen how that sausage gets made. But there's also OpenShift. And Heroku, which people often forgot pioneered the whole space.

The bin packing problem is hard in theory, but at the scale we're talking about, it becomes less about the perfect fit and more about the fact that keeping up-to-date information is hard under realistic conditions. You can show linear scaling for short tasks. Wait until you're running in someone's whacky private DC.

Diego (the container scheduler in the next generation of Cloud Foundry) doesn't try to maintain a perfect view of state in order to do its job. It's basically impossible to really do so. Instead it satisfices by turning container placement into an auction, then periodically goes out to sync up with reality.

If you want to play with it, the best option is to install Lattice[0].

Standard disclaimer: I work for Pivotal Labs, a division of Pivotal, which is the largest donor of engineering effort to the Cloud Foundry Foundation. So I guess my comment is an advertorial too.

[0] http://lattice.cf/
Definitely more engaging than the usual "made with love" bootstrap website.
Daniel Bedingfield – If You're Not the One (HIXMF Cover)
The security questions might be done wrong, I'm more saying that "a real person on the inside who can personally verify your identity" is in fact a key part of the security process.
How does Marx end up on that list? Sure, the communist systems which spring from his thinking were a failure, but you can't compare him to Hitler. Stalin would be a more appropriate choice.
CGPGrey already named them autos, and I take his word on things like that. Ride your auto to work day!
_ Do you think you belong to the young or old? You are the NaN person alive on the planet. This means that you are older than % of the world's population and older than 34% of all people in Lithuania. _

This sounds comical, but what does it mean?
It's sad :(

Mirimir might like a Facebook account, but then he doesn't have a phone or government ID. So he's just shit outta luck. He could maybe get some usable fake ID. But Facebook isn't so easy to trick with online mobile numbers.

But then, who needs Facebook?

Edit: I'm agreeing with the author that Facebook can't be trusted to keep disclosed information private. My point here is that the only reliable strategy is to avoid providing true identity. And Facebook makes that virtually impossible.
How much are you asking? Evernote's pricing plans and features work for me, I'm looking for a viable alternative in case it vanishes.

Picking up some sarcasm in your comment, could you ask the questions or make the statements you're hinting at and I'll be happy to discuss!
Also like the NooElec -- the price is right.

But it took me a while to figure out I had to kalibrate it, using the GSM network.

http://www.rtl-sdr.com/how-to-calibrate-rtl-sdr-using-kalibr...
Maybe should distinguish between levels of automation:

0-automobile: must be pulled around by external power source

1-automobile: provides its own locomotion

2-automobile: also provides its own navigation

3-automobile: also decides when it should be used (what trips to take, in what order)
As a software developer, this article scared the shit out of me. One of my biggest fears in life is losing my sight because of the challenges that would be presented being blind.
I'd be interested to see the comparative performance for a "hello world" Phoenix app.

But in reality we need a better benchmark than "hello world".
Something like TodoMVC, but for server-side development.

eg.

GET /todos
* authenticated
* 100 todos
* + threaded comments

implement the same in Rails, Phoenix, Express, and use that as a benchmark.

(edited for formatting)
Enter your gender, birthdate, and birth country into google analytics! No thanks.
Put the stats regarding police shootings the numbers are greater then all the casualties of all wars from Korea to today .....CNN...write about that....How about US War Crimes against people all over the world directed by our Presidents past and present....just more CNN Bullshit
The difference is most people snorkeling for the first time do it with an instructor who is very much interested in their well-being. I don't think the guy who sells you LSD is gonna lose sleep if you happen to develop a lifelong mental condition.
Hopefully the military is supporting this research also. Lots of vets with missing limbs that could use this. Maybe one day a soldier could even go back to active duty after losing a limb if they wanted.
How can the "people older than you" counter be increasing?
I've tried Evernote a bunch of times over the years and always been disappointed. I really wish there was something that worked more like Circus Ponies Notebook, but synced data w/ multiple clients like Evernote does. Oh well, I guess I just need to keep waiting.
I just tried it and sometimes it avoided the vector allocation but at least once it allocated and filled the vector, and then immediately deallocated it. (It didn't reread the data back from the vector.)
64Gb is cheap.

So is 640Gb, compared to developer time.

Abandoning well-understood technologies is usually more expensive than just evolving what you have to run on a smarter substrate.

[Edited for confusing redundancy]
If I have an executable that is running on my system, I know that it will continue to run tomorrow. If I am using a web service, I don't know whether it will continue to exist. If it is running locally, I can manage my own backups, my own settings.
I'm loving the concepts and pitches keep them coming and Ill try to help as many of you as I can!
Linux on Android
That's a nice thought, but the facebook problems she mentions (harassment/trolling/doxing) are only exacerbated with more publicity.
"This is reality. This is not theory. This is not assertions on Hacker News about how you must have something to hide if you want to keep something private. This is not about a man in a position of power and influence, who has industry privilege and respect for his wealth and status, at Google or Facebook saying that anonymity, or multiple online identities, demotes a 'lack of credibility’. We don’t care of you believe we’re credible, we just don’t want your willful ignorance to ruin our lives or get us killed. This isn’t about telling us that someone must have been targeting LGBT people that one time – because, wouldn’t you know, you seem to have a new reason every year. This isn’t about how many people were in your company’s Pride contingent, and it damn well isn’t about jerking around a group of drag queens – who cope with the suffering done by outing every day, and for fuck’s sake we’ve buried too many people we love – for one of your little press appeasement moments. This isn’t about YOUR beliefs, or what you think is best for us. This is about you making us live in fear. This is about the fact that you have had a chance to make it right repeatedly, and when faced with one kid saying no please don’t publish my birth name – you looked away, again. https://www.facebook.com/help/community/question/?id=1020470... "

I normally avoid tumblr like the plague, but I chose to read this post. I encourage anyone who reads this to view the full post to get complete context.

I thought it was raising some good points about Facebook's poor UX for account recovery.. until I got to this paragraph. I feel that while there may be many valid points to this article it is shrouded in certain biases and stigmas that dilute the overall positive message it was trying to make in the first place.
She was using it for business and journalistic reasons, as she mentioned.

And she didn't jump through every hoop. She didn't upload her ID.
I did read the whole thing. Her goal now is to get the account deleted. She was trying to keep using the site before they asked for an official ID.

"Facebook is just going to do whatever the fuck it wants to me. And to you."

Perhaps, I don't know what Facebook is doing to me. I didn't delete my account, I just stopped using it. It fact, I still get emails from them that are redirected to a 'facebook' folder that I haven't checked in a while.

I'll check now. Hmm 1,558 unread messages...ok...

Oh well, if it was important, they would have phoned or emailed or something :)
I've no idea why she's put up with FB for long. I've none of the issues she has with Facebook, I just hate it on privacy reasons. So... I don't use it.

But if she's gotta use it just submit fake ID. Scan your license or passport, and edit information. This works fine and there is nothing wrong with it.

Complaining about their security policies... Eh I'm gonna guess that FB engineers probably want to protect user accounts as that's in their interest. It doesn't help them to lock users out for no reason. FB is a private company, and, as much as I dislike them, they can do whatever they want, including requiring ID to login.

Though, I'd imagine you could file a lawsuit to force them to delete your info, if they refuse to do so without ID. But that'd probably leak your ID in the process.
The market you don't see is the market for PaaSes, which make the question of "how do I run this, anyway?" basically vanish.

Continers are the fundamental building block for modern PaaS design. There's a reason OpenShift 3 was built on top of Kubernetes, or why Cloud Foundry was built on top of a pre-Docker container system.
I can't open a sqlite3 file easily in Excel for easy data manipulation, visualization, and sharing.
I thought the obvious problems with forcing the issue with real names online was well known at this point, and that pseudonymous participation was generally accepted.

Is this really an accurate interpretation of FB policy?
Minnesota Man Arrested, 6-Months in Jail for Having a Windmill on His Property
friends and i have successfully evaded facebook's idiotic (read: trans-exclusionary) "real" name policy by photoshopping the text of legal documents on a few occasions. a laborious option! but worth considering.
Okay. Read it now! :-)

I think one reasonable strategy of learning how some piece of software works or is meant to be used – especially when documentation is poor – is to just look at the source code (tests included).

I'm just getting started with the Phoenix framework, and I'm learning Elixir at the same time and reading through the source code helps me a lot, because:

1. I can check out how things are implemented
2. I get to read some idiomatic Elixir which helps me learn the language better

One can get reasonable understanding of software at the interplay between reading the docs and reading the source code.