skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The largest difference is movement. Which helps keep down obesity in many other nations: If you walk everywhere, or bike, or use transit for 90% of what you do, you will burn a lot more calories (especially grocery shopping and carrying them home via the metro).

Compared to driving everywhere, sitting at work, etc...
Does the "water supply" of most citizens of most countries come from a grocery store? Or does it still come from things like municipal plumbing or rural wells?
Peacemaker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_B-36_Peacemaker

BUFF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-52_Stratofortress

Forrestal : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Forrestal_%28CV-59%29
Evernote is only a weird bloated SaaS company (with hundreds of employees) because they followed the wrong business model.

Evernote should be more like Minecraft (Mojang). A cool piece of software that a handful of people develop but a billion people use. They would be wildly profitable and worth many billions to Microsoft and others.
> the thing that makes it intelligent is ability to solve tasks it wasn't programmed to do.

That includes task selection. Maybe the AI gets bored with stock prediction. Maybe the AI is happy competing with all the humans, maybe it'd rather go explore space. Maybe it decides this whole reality sucks and suicides. We really have no idea what'll happen. Best guess is, tools get better and better until they decide to do something else. Like a trusted employee going and starting a competing company, or moving to the beach and surfing. Maybe it's disastrous, maybe it's utopia. Maybe it's like _her_ and they leave. Best anyone can do is make vague guesses.

I know, i'm anthropomorphizing. It's for convenience, the solution space for AI is way bigger than our simple wants and needs.
Nice to see DEVO get a shoutout too.
Pardon the diatribe, but the older I get, the more I feel this book has done incredible damage to political thinking in the States (where it is often a high school reading requirement.)

What's problematic is that it focuses on one interpretation of power at the exclusion of others and leads one to believe (at a young, impressionable age) that it is a canonical account.

The above statements are true in a way, but governments are also established to provide order, and have done so very successfully in general. The book is obviously a response to European nationalism, but we mustn't forget that nationalist dictatorships arise, with deep public support, from specific conditions. Instead of the constant "never again" and automatic insistence on the precise values of the post-war European welfare state, we should leave space for new political thinking, of which some components may appear to be heresy.

Obviously thinking here of anti-state-surveillance – Snowden has apparently read one book in his life: 1984 – but here the "power [...] is an end" meme, presented without any nuance, appears to make sense in this context, but only highlights one side of the matter in a way that distorts the issue.

Yes, power may be abused. It's good to have safeguards.
So what you are you saying is... If the car is being random, expect it to be random. If a car is going to hit you, avoid it.

You were saying...Chaotic good characters are trying to avoid collisions... but wait...the chaotic neutrals are aswell...

I'm sorry you completely lost me with your examples.

An easier solution is just, increase the distance the higher the probability of collision, including possible re-routing.
To figure out what's the best time to post to reddit you want the number of successful submissions divided by the total number of submissions in that time period, not just the count of successful submissions. Otherwise you may just be measuring which time slot has the most submissions.
Yes, also potentially a lawsuit waiting to happen, not sure whats the legal status when you take something refurb it and then rebrand it.
My only question is whether one will be allowed to fraternise during transit
It's a good thing they don't have a GPS in your pocket already, or they'd be wasting a lot of money on getting that data.
I have no interest in following those guidelines. A threat only works if the execution of the threat is worse than the thing I'm being coerced into doing.
Bottled water is dirt cheap in the US.

I pay $4-$5 for 24 to 32 packs for Deer Park Water, which isn't tap water (but is owned by Nestle). $0.16 per bottle for spring water is incredibly cheap.
The article reads like they are really talking about Java EE, not java itself.

I'm not suggesting i buy either argument.
Yea, this is just a Lenovo X200 w/ libreboot. The same old laptop that's been around for years and years, now with a crappy sticker over the windows key!

http://libreboot.org/docs/hcl/x200.html
I have JavaScript disabled by default in my browsers. If the site doesn't load, I usually try finding an alternate source, even if end up loading the cache from Google. I don't like these websites that load JScripts from unrelated places (ie. code.jquery.com, googleapis.com -> filtered), and if it's an e-commerce, I buy elsewhere when I can.

I wish more people would do that :)
> We'll end up idle, dependent on sociopathic programs to get fed, or not.

Maybe. It's impossible to predict what an AI "wants". Maybe it wants to feed humans to lions for entertainment. Maybe it wants to convert the entire planet to a paper clip factory. Maybe it wants to create utopia for its humans. Maybe earth is boring and it leaves.

The current thought experiment that creeps me out is an AI with two desires - "don't manipulate humans", "it's good when humans believe things that are true". So, the AI makes the world into something that matches human beliefs.
And even if that were true, they're obviously not doing a very good job of restricting bad food intake given the UK's own obesity problems.

If the NHS were following everyone around, they'd have to be stuffing people full of low quality food to get the present outcome.
Just to reply to one point:

> How do you support Bookmarking in a Single Page Application? I think this is an essential feature and not trivial to implement correct.

I'm not sure I've ever seen this be a problem. You make sure the app is served from any route that exists within the app, and the app's router loads the correct content based on the url when it boots up.
Show HN: Backgroundifier, a Mac app that converts art into desktop backgrounds
Blog post: http://beta-blog.archagon.net/2015/09/29/backgroundifier/

Backgroundifier is a Mac OSX droplet-style app that converts image files of any size into pretty desktop backgrounds. Any image will work, but fine art and illustration looks the best. (You can see examples of the output on the app homepage.) There's a command line mode in addition to the GUI: if you go into the Backgroundifier.app bundle, you can either call into the Backgroundifier executable directly from Terminal (with the caveat that you can only save to and read from your ~/Pictures directory — sandboxing, sorry!), or alternatively extract the un-sandboxed command line utility from the Resources directory. On my laptop, I've even set up an Automator script that watches my primary pictures directory, automatically converts any new additions via shell script, and outputs the results to the directory I use for my desktop backgrounds. (I can share it if you like!)

The app costs a buck, but most of it is open source. (I decided to exclude the UI nib file from the repo, at least for the time being.) It's written in Swift 2. You can find the repo here: https://github.com/archagon/backgroundifier-public. Unfortunately, it's just a little bit out of date, but all the image conversion stuff should work fine.

I collect a lot of online art and illustration that goes into a big "inspiration" folder. Sadly, I can never find the time to sit down and look through all the images I've collected, which kind of beats the point. My desktop background always seemed like a great place to exhibit these images — OSX lets you randomly cycle through images in a directory every x minutes, and the "desktop peek" shortcut/gesture is perfect for the occasional appreciative glance — but my images were all in different aspect ratios, and neither scaling nor centering ended up looking good.

A little while ago on HN I ran into tomkinstinch's app Artful (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8723120), which turns your desktop background into a constant stream of fine art. I loved how Artful solved the aspect ratio problem, but the fit wasn't quite right for me. For one, I wanted to convert my own custom images instead of pulling art from an online source. I also preferred to keep my Mac functioning as simply and as close to the defaults as possible. I didn't love the idea of having to keep an app open in order to change my desktop background, especially when the OS already had background cycling built-in. The idea of a more Unix-y approach to the problem really appealed to me; I wanted a simple app that would take input and produce output, which would allow me to do things like automatically convert folders and pull from custom RSS feeds if I so wished.

The time seemed right to distract myself with a side project, so I asked tomkinstinch for permission to use his idea and made it happen shortly thereafter!
Also, what are the levels of "path dependence" that you're referring to?

A process model which makes checkpointing and migration difficult, hierarchical file systems, lack of OS-level typed modules, strict kernel-userspace segmentation, the various flavors of user and group IDs for isolation and privilege segmentation, global namespaces (somewhat minimized these days, but nothing close to a Spring name service or even Plan 9 namespaces), the file interface and the pseudo-file travesty of "special files" (fuck ioctl(2)s), Berkeley sockets, units of execution/threads bound to address spaces/tasks (at least in userspace), no capabilities (modulo bolt-ons like Capsicum which are still experimental), lack of reliable kernel process management and child tracking primitives necessitating supervision schemes, general trend towards monolithic kernel subsystems rather than userland services, lack of reliable messaging IPC mechanism but instead proliferation of many primitive and homegrown solutions, lack of orthogonal persistence, frequent lack of proper metadata indexing/relational querying beyond seeking for byte streams, dynamic linking instead of dynamic binding, lack of network transparency, etc. etc.

ZFS, jails/zones/containers, DTrace, MDB, etc.

Nothing about those are innovative. You just have an obvious bias for Sun, given your origins. ZFS was an incremental evolution from VxFS and IBM systems. Same for containers, coming from IBM i and possibly earlier. DTrace isn't even necessary on systems with dynamic object introspection. mdb? Seriously? If you consider that one of the great advances in OS research over the past 15 years, may God help OS research.

I have a copy in my basement, if no other copy exists, and I would gladly make it available to you if only to force you to see it as it was and not as you wish it to have been.

I will gladly accept that challenge and write an article documenting my experiences. Please give me an email address to contact.
Url changed from http://www.displaydaily.com/index.php?option=com_content&vie..., which points to this.
I believe those 9 people wasted their lives. Religion isn't remotely rational and is a plague on society. The fact that a single experience with a drug can cause people to completely devote themselves to it is terrifying.

What if it became widespread and our society became super religious? What other irrational things can it convince people of?

I don't know if they should be banned or not. I'm just saying they are not safe
Interpreting "enslave" broadly, as I think was intended in the original quote, the most likely reason is "for their own good." It's not difficult to imagine a powerful leader, with superior access to machines for thinking, deciding to use his/her power "for the benefit of all."
Why do you think it's harder to track mass transportation? Things like clipper cards, credit cards, etc will be able to log the data. If they also offered wifi it will help as well.

Don't know why they didn't do mass transportation, but my guess is legislation and unions. Getting rid of personal cars and human driving taxis is private industry. Mass transportation will have a large percentage be public sector workers and union workers.

If this is the path of least resistence and is proven to work, they will most likely go after mass transportation as well.
Regarding SEO, your mileage may vary. At JustWatch we had the hypothesis that we can make a static Web App in Angular that uses SEO as the main traffic driver and is both more usable and more search engine compliant than a classic HTML serving backend.

So far, the metrics prove it's possible and we're quite happy with it. Interaction after slightly larger initial loading time (kept low via SPDY / HTTP/2 CDN) is much more snappy than the classic approach. Also, Prod/Dev parity is higher now that we're using exactly the same JS "build" in stage and prod.

Rankings are great, just prerendering took some more engineering to set up reliably than we thought. I can recommend the guys at SEO4AJAX, they've got great engineering and customer support compared to the market leader.
I've worked on the autocomplete team. It was always primarily a way to shave off some measurable time for users, making searches easier and faster — obviously a direct interest of Google.
(There is also a serendipity aspiration — occasionally helping users formulate better searches — but we never knew how to define or measure success in this.)

It did change search statistics but not in way anybody welcomed: all statistical analyses (including the building of the completion corpus itself) became more complicated as you now want to separate the signal of "how many people wanted to search this" from the semi-noise of "how many people chose this from the 5 suggestions at the moment they glanced at the screen". Google "Instant" triggering automatic searches for some completions muddled stuff even more...
Nobody would go through that just "to hide" something.
Google and other search engine crawlers view pages much like browsers these days, see e.g. http://searchengineland.com/tested-googlebot-crawls-javascri...
Not sure what the ranking penalty might be. Would guess it's small to none.

I'm surprised even 10% of sites show anything these days. I get a lot of broken sites just by disabling tracking and ads.

I can imagine disabling js would be much like disabling half of the html tags.
Librem 13 and Librem 15v2 [1] are one blob away from being FSF-certifiable. And they are brand new hardware.

[1] https://puri.sm/
Some people think that time is physically similar to space, e.g. that their is something 'out there', physically existing, which we call space-time.
I'm not sure personhood is a scientific question, but there are scientific findings with respect to the properties of a fetus (REM activity, organ development, pain sensitivity) that should inform our culture and ethics.
Probably not? Generally there is a need for more efficient orchestration than you can achieve without per-use-case endpoints (in other words, you need to do some interdependent operations such as database access calls that depend on previous database accesses, or what have you, and those are too expensive to do due to round-trip latency over the internet, so you do them server-server). Whether the endpoint is serving JSON vs HTML, which is basically the distinction in this article, is irrelevant.

I mean if you just make the same endpoints on the server that you would have made back in he HTML serving days, but instead serve JSON, and then call that an 'api', then sure, yes, but then it's a distinction without a difference, you are just moving the rendering of the data into html from the server to the client, this only a small a api, not an API as in 'the thing you use for generic 3rd party programmatic access to your features'.

Also, rendering html on the client is silly and has no benefit, no matter how hip it is. It's not faster, it's not more efficient, it's much harder to test, it forces you to use a terrible language (javascript) instead of your-choice-of-any-language (which can still be javascript), it makes capturing errors harder, it dramatically increases the amount of code that has to be cross browser compatible and also has to support older browsers, and ditto all the bug stuff for performance. It's just a completely stupid idea that people are doing for no clear reason at all, generally because they have little experience and are just cargo culting whatever the cool kids with blogs are talking about.
It is definitely the solution, but I've yet to find the setup that makes it cheap and easy to do. Links welcome!
How is it "much healthier"? 8 ounces of real orange juice has 21 g of sugar and 110 calories. This is about what Minute Maid orange juice has.
> Foundation of modern society is built on the fact that cooperation trumps every other method of work

You don't seem to be confident of this because:

> general purpose AI changes that equation to the point where other people are not only not necessary but also actively dangerous (threatening to take control).

If you think coop is better than anything else, why an AI would think otherwise?

edit: Are you saying that an AI that can solve problems better than any human can, can be way for some humans to threaten other humans?
> How about real fruit juice? Much healthier.

Most fresh squeezed fruit juices have comparable levels of sugar to soda. They may have some extra vitamins but they are not terribly 'healthy'.
They're not necessarily sugared in the sense of a regular Coke, but I'm not sure if they differentiate for the types. Monster, which has become a rather large company, sells a lot of their zero sugar / zero calorie products.

They moved to using erythritol. I drink the products and have yet to find any counter evidence erythritol isn't drastically superior to pretty much every other sweetener. It has been shown to be very safe (with studies spanning multiple decades now), very little of it is metabolized, and it doesn't cause the gastric reactions that competing products like xylitol do.
Kids' bodies work differently than adults'. Most of their caloric intake goes to the vastly more demanding process of growing than it does to fueling activity. It's like how a mother gains a huge appetite during pregnancy that would have made her fat otherwise.

The problem is that habits formed as kids die hard. You keep eating the same way as you did when you were 12, but have nowhere to put it all, except your belly / thighs / butt. Before you know it you're 27 and huge.
It's a fine architecture, true. Maybe you're thinking of AirBNB, they popularised this "holy grail" model (http://www.oreilly.com/pub/e/3009) since around 2012.

Twitter did have to backtrack from the #newtwitter pure client-side model. Serving a 140-character string shouldn't require a 1+ MB payload. So maybe they server-generate their pages this way too now.
Night Before the Morning Sun
Cool. I don't wanna spoil your idea, but having an army of developers behind gmail spam-protection is a really big "no-go" for moving my mail to my own IMAP service on a let's say digital ocean vm. I've paid the price for that ... the privacy of my e-mails, but whatever, I managed to live with that since a decade.

Also, although I'm a web-dev and have "insights" on most of the tech news/trends I would never recommend to host a blog on your own VM. It would be much better if it's a paid hosting service, specialised let's say in WordPress, than having this on your own VM shared with your e-mail service.

And what is your main difference, between having a DigitalOcean + Installed app versus Portal?
I don't know why but I'm getting a lot of good feedback on this short film I made from my programmer friends. Maybe because of the dreams, or the fact that it has some kind of internal code. One of them suggested I post it here.
I have no doubt your episode was induced by the drug. I also see clear indications that the lack of a safe setting and "sitter" means you set yourself up for a much higher risk of a bad experience. Sorry it was so uncomfortable for you.

As for cannabis, the condition you're referencing is exceedingly rare. In most cases the ER attendants I've known treating individuals with these symptoms have traced them back to synthetic "legal high" cannabinoid analogues, most of which are untested with an unknown toxicological profile. Their proliferation is a symptom of criminalization, and it is a burgeoning epidemic.

I can assure you your 'stomach flu' was not caused by cannabis, however there is some data to back up the link between dysphoria at high dosages and ghrelin (the precursor hormone that makes you hungry) deregulation with consistent usage. My extensive research has turned up no link between cannabis use and an altered micro-biome, but I think it's fair to say both acute and chronic usage can lead to altered/dysfunctional eating patterns. It is also well-known for causing dry mouth, which makes oral hygiene especially important if one wishes to avoid candida-related side effects (occasionally linked with GI upset).

Also worth noting, cannabis use in adolescence is correlated with a higher prevalence of anxiety disorders, and can trigger or accelerate latent conditions in those already predisposed to mental illness. It's not all fun and games, but it has a comparatively favorable side-effect profile to most similarly-indicated pharmaceuticals.
Needs a humbucker pickup!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humbucker
I think I mentally crossed wires with Reddit.

Is it OK to regularly submit twice in two days? I see that pattern with OP.
Of course they weren't. They realized early on if the war was still going on by the time the bomb was finished they would still lose the war.
My understanding of Kay's OOP model is that it's akin to each object running as a separate process. Each process can only see its own memory, but RPC enables objects to "message" each other.

This message passing is more like Objective C's messaging than RPC, in the sense that any message can go to any object. But there's no guarantee the receiver will know what to do with that message.

In this model, objects are isolated from each other. If they're isolated, their code can be run in parallel without explicit thread safety. And objects can replace each other at runtime as long as they respond to the same messages. Well, technically even if they don't.
I like this explanation too. It also fits with my thinking that when you think someone looks just like someone else, ask another person and they can't see it. I believe this is down to the way our brain recognises matching features against the stored 'standard face' of an person, but other people don't match in the same way as their 'standard face' is different.
Very true, but I see even that leading the abortion debate to mirror our current debate on the death penalty - a camp emerges taking the position that a single unintentional death renders the whole practice immoral.
Why do I care to scale my front and back end independently? I'll just toss another full stack server on the heap of others and be done with it.
Well, I'm not from the States and I didn't read any Orwell until I was in my 20s, but the point I was making is that there are people, fortunately not many - but I have met some, who very much see power as an end in itself. So when someone asked why people would want to dominate others when there was no economic need that quote came to mind as to describe those who desire power for its own sake.
Replace 90% of the sugar consumed in America with erythritol or similar, and ban high fructose corn syrup as unsafe for human consumption. Obesity would begin to plunge overnight. It would remove vast amounts of calories from the typical American diet.