skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand this is far from the point of this piece but interesting bit anyway I think.. I don't agree with some of what she says (I've gone through this account recovery process without issue since it's been in place for quite a while--I deleted my account 2 or 3 years ago).

Twitter I expect to be a place where I am following strangers. Facebook on the other hand.. I am very much surprised to see that she could not identify people that she has 'friended' (the 'all black people look alike' Facebook bug aside). Why click 'friend' if you don't actually know the person?

Again, I understand that is not the whole point of the article but it is worth mentioning that Facebook has been pulling this stuff for years and for her to get ticked off about this stuff now seems a bit ridiculous.
The Benefits of a Quiet Ego
What Steam is to gaming we will be to the web
I like that idea -- although I would agree that Rosetta Code often does not represent idiomatic code, even for longer-established languages. The wikibooks algorithms book might also be a good candidate, although I've not yet seen Rust on there.
@TheSpiceIsLife, do you think hijacking the "Gluconeogenesis" process is what the sugar-water industry is aware of? ie: sugar hit following sugar removal.
The advertising is going to be extremely targeted too. If person is going to the shopping mall to see an optometrist then the stores at the same mall could bid to pitch to them. They would literally be showing their ads to someone who is about to be a short walk away and trump even Amazon on how quickly a product can be in the hands of the consumer: "press purchase now and we'll have it waiting for you at the front desk for pickup". Doing a late evening airport to hotel journey? Ads for takeaway food to be delivered to your room or ads for tours and events in that city. Not on the same level of annoying as audio ads for something I don't want playing while I am trying to read an article. I am sure they will figure out a way to be extremely annoying though; I can easily imagine poorly targeted ones that play automatically and so loud you can't have a conversation in the taxi.
I have mild tinnitus although it is always there I am not bothered by it unless I read something like this article. It's like breathing I don't notice it until someone says something about it.

But I wouldn't doubt neck tension is an issue since I grind my teeth at night. Even awake and sleeping face down I can hear a sound like water rushing or a fluttering sound and realize it's my jaw muscles. I can't control it but I am sure it would be an issue and may cause or influence my tinnitus.

I tried the reddit neck method but no luck.
I completely agree. This is why I've been skeptical of socialist healthcare - your business becomes everybody's business. We MUST have a private option; a way to opt-out of public benefits for healthcare, if we are to maintain the option of freedom.
Intel ME is relatively new, but it is also probably worth noting that it does not phone home until software asks it to be activated.
What a terrifying mentality.
Don't know if these recent articles will turn out to be the death toll for Evernote. Kind of like a self-fulfilling prophecy. At this point, Evernote could pretty much do anything and still nobody on this thread would be convinced they are doing it right.

Another thing that I never liked about evernote is their API is perhaps the worst API I have ever encountered. Thrift should never be used for external APIs, period. [0]

[0]: https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-poorly-written-APIs/answ...
Rugby League Live 3 System Requirements – THE GAMES
All of these cross-language benchmarks inevitably end up like this.

They tend to tell you as much or more about the cleverness/knowledge/available free time of the people writing the specific implementation in each language as they tell you about the languages’ inherent differences.

I don’t think it’s a solvable problem though, as there’s no perfect definition of “how anyone would realistically write the code”. Realistically, people are going to write the first naïve implementation they can think of until it becomes a performance problem and someone has time/resources to throw at speeding things up. In the case that a piece of code is a bottleneck and performance matters enough to devote engineering effort, folks will start doing all kinds of crazy “unrealistic” optimizations to real-world code.
What's hilarious to me is this is one of the times, linguistically speaking, where you have an "easy out". The author could have used "they" without it being insulting since it's valid mostly normal English.

I'm not a otherwise biased person here. I seriously can't understand why anyone feels the need to make make life harder for someone over a petty thing.

Except when language matters. I often feel something I've started calling "pronoun paralysis" and it's not because I'm talking to someone that doesn't care about this and I'm attempting to "inject" bias into the conversation by awkwardly referring to a male to female post op female who identifies as female as anything other than "she". It's the opposite, when I want to talk in detail with someone about this topic who does care, or who is a member of the LGBT community, it's time to put on the linguistic bomb disposal suit and waddle my way awkwardly through a conversation like I'm recreating a scene from The Hurt Locker. Can we all just be more accepting of the use of they/them/theirs and end this mess? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
Actually the QP framework combines use very powerful programming paradigms - actors and hierarchical state machines - and reduce greatly decrease bugs.

But using it is complicated. If someone could create something with similar powers but with shorter learning curve , maybe similar to the arduino, it would be a great tool.
So many features! Anyone know what the IRC Client is used for?
> Maybe the real question is how your 0.01% can find each other in order to discuss ideas.

I'm one of that 0.01%.

I encourage others to contact me to get the discussion going.
Beware of this program. One push of a button to start recording a WebM that automatically gets uploaded with the link landing in your clipboard is too much power for one man.
Thanks.

(Though this is somewhat belated--since it took 4 days, I suspect you'll never see this. I'd be interested to know if I'm wrong; please speak up in that case!)
But guys, you better change the background music of your demo video.
SQuery medical semantic search
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Perhaps there can be screenings at some frequency to determine one's health. If a person consistently shows a lack of inclination to take care of themselves and follow advice, that behavior is logged and they automatically get de-prioritized when waiting lists are involved. I would assume that generally healthy people are just more of a positive investment, but if someone makes the motions of good health but encounters some life-changing event then they can be said to have shown an inclination to take care of themselves.
Having a profile you can "claim" is a feature, just look at IMDB actor profiles if you want a more understandable example that's not reliant on Facebook's creepy surveillance. It's not creepy to Facebook that they gather the info ergo they see no reason to not create the absentee profile since to them the profile is "look we've already done all this work for you" type bait for the few remaining internet users not on Facebook.
Sharing rides with strangers is precisely the kind of thing that I'd hope to avoid by replacing public transport with self-driving cars.

But anyway, yes, it does appear that the economics of the self-driving taxi beat the economics of the bus or the train, especially given that buses and trains generally operate at a large loss and still charge people, on average, a higher fare than what they'd pay for a self-driving taxi.

A self-driving bus that operates a route could be even cheaper, but why bother when you can hail a cab to take you straight to your destination without stops for just a few tens of cents more?
I'm obviously biased, but the loaded question in this title drives me insane.
Have you done any research on the side-effects of energy drinks?
Looks like people in the US don't live past 85. Someone born in 1930 is not older than 100% of people in the united states.
Well, yes. Another way to look at the benchmark game is "if I'm not using a fast low-level language, theoretically what speed gain might I expect if I wrote a portion of my project in X language and called out to it (ignoring data marshaling)?"

It would be interesting if entries were categorized into idiomatic and non-idiomatic representations of that language, but that would also require people agree on what is idiomatic for that language, which is easier said than done in a lot of cases.
Similar,

I was on a team designing a mobile app and we sometimes had confusing conversations with the project-manager, at some point he told us he was partially color-blind. Specifically in this image: http://i.imgur.com/jJIWv9X.jpg , all three pics look exactly the same to him. This app was basically a monitoring app using the well-known traffic colors of green=OK, orange/yellow=UhOhWarning, red=BigProblemHere.

That incident made us take extra care in designing the app such that we never conveyed info solely with the colors.
No, my attitude isn't anything about trans people.

Facebook is a bad force in society. It's known how anti privacy they are. So you choose to deal with them at your own risk.

I certainly would love for Facebook to be slapped down, somehow: I only desire bad things for that company. They should certainly be forced to change their policies and I enjoy seeing any pressure on them for that reason. And perhaps one day there can be a law somehow, though it probably makes more sense to allow people get to get a birth certificate with their new name as that'd be more general.

Meanwhile, if your ID docs contain such info, then perhaps maybe don't share them, maybe? Or just Photoshop your birth cert? I don't know anyone that'd give up their ID to Facebook in the first place, let alone if it was high-risk.
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I didn't know someone does this on purpose. I just have a low appetite in the late evening and the morning, so I've been doing this for a few years now.

I heard that you you want to lose fat, you need to speed up your metabolism which means eat more often. I wonder how this works with this kind of diet.
Set Theory for the (Smart) Masses
Yes. Typically it's "Google rank equals money which equals better product which means even better Google rank." Having an eye on the ranking becomes a business metric and we wind up with the Internet he have today, with Seoul optimised pre launch landing pages and other garbage.
I agree. Though Coke Zero is significantly better than Diet Coke.
Here's Joshua Klein's talk where he mentions the UofW students needing to disguise themselves. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXQAgzfwuNQ
I'm honestly surprised there are still people willing to trust their data to a "trial" version of a commercial database. I thought the FoundationDB situation was such a nice example that people would learn from it.
I was using Cowboy 1.x with my project.

erlang.mk was around. My two gripes with it:

* It enforces warnings-as-errors. This is a personal preference, but I hate this while developing. I want to iterate, not have to clean up unused variables that I already know about.

* It -until very recently- failed so, so, so hard when run with parallel make. I -at first- idly wondered if -somehow- Cowboy application builds were just non-deterministic. I then remembered that I aliased 'make' to 'make -j3'. Building with 'make -j1' fixed the build and put me squarely in the Rebar camp.

Rebar is just a far better fit for how I work.

> ...did you use the cowboy_http / bootstrapped release template...

Nah.

When learning new things, if I'm not in a rush, I tend -at first- to avoid templates. I've been burned by boilerplate code in the past, and have had boilerplate code cover up the true crawling horror that was more than a couple of APIs.

I'd rather initially do things "from scratch" [0] so that I can better evaluate the thing I'm learning, and the quality of its supporting documentation, or -if the documentation is inadequate- the explanatory power of its test suite and other sample code.

I did -however- read Cowboy's Getting Started guide, along with a huge chunk of the documentation. I actually started with the API documentation, figuring that it was going to be like erlang.org's documentation. Whoops! [1]

[0] And by that, I don't mean "from first principles". I'm quite happy to read an example, partially or fully digest it, then paste it into my text editor.

[1] Again, I know how good erlang.org's documentation is and how very much work it is to make such high-quality documentation. I don't mean to slight Loïc Hoguin. :)
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1505660

New England Journal of Medicine, Aug 2015

GMOs, Herbicides, and Public Health

"...unlike regulatory bodies in 64 other countries, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not require labeling of GM foods.

... determination by the IARC in 2015 that glyphosate is a “probable human carcinogen”1 and 2,4-D a “possible human carcinogen.”

...These developments suggest that GM foods and the herbicides applied to them may pose hazards to human health that were not examined in previous assessments. We believe that the time has therefore come to thoroughly reconsider all aspects of the safety of plant biotechnology. The National Academy of Sciences has convened a new committee to reassess the social, economic, environmental, and human health effects of GM crops.

...we believe the time has come to revisit the United States' reluctance to label GM foods."
For those mocking Russia for this, note that they are joining Germany and France in enacting these laws[0]. While I believe in democracy and freedom, I also think that anti-Russian sentiment is being stirred up for the wrong reasons, by people who see Russia as an enemy of the US.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_genetically_modi...
Here's the thing... traits some in collections. Mongoloid or African American are words that describe a collection of physical traits.

Black people will have darker skin AND frizzy hair. Asians have asian eyes AND black hair. This is proof that traits are inherited in collective groups.

You are stating by certain magic these collections of physical traits that describe an asian or a caucasian magically only correlate with other physical traits. So in a sense, for asians: Black hair correlates with asian eyes but these traits can absolutely never ever correlate with anything related to intelligence and behavior.

What is the mechanism in genetics that deliberately demarcates physical traits from behavioral traits? What causes social traits to be totally random while physical traits come correlated with one another? I think it is more logical to conclude that there is no mechanism that does this.

Please note that I am well versed in the theory you present. It is often used as a scientific basis for racial equality. I agree with the intent of the theory but I disagree with it as a practical truth. Life is just unfair. Anyway, the theory does address a valid point but here's why I think it's wrong:

I think searching for genetic markers at the molecular level doesn't yield results because behavioral and physical traits are abstractions on top of DNA.

Imagine two programs, one written in C++, the other in Haskell. Both programs have the same behavior... let's say they both return the derivative of an expression. If you analyze the source code for correlations without completely understanding it (largely the way we analyze DNA today) you will find that the languages are completely uncorrelated. Both are totally different in style, structure and syntax. This occurs even though the surface behavior (finding the derivative of an expression) is exactly identical. This is what I believe is happening with the DNA. You cannot find correlations with race because the correlations only occur at a higher level of abstraction not in the source code.
Are you writing this comment from a moving vehicle?
Fantastic to hear! I don't even want to think about the horrors that 4 years of heavy core changes would do to a language.
I hate to hijack this thread even further, but: losing WWII helped Japan immensely in the long run.
Welcome to the Future Nauseous (2012)
It's overstepping Facebook's bounds. While legal, it's rather rude and just shows what a shitty service they are: don't trust them with your info.

At best, it's a mismatch between what Facebook thinks it is and what users are led to believe.

Though, in practise, it's doubtful that it's actually company policy to do this. It's most likely the result of crappy support departments, overloaded with tons of requests. (Users are mostly idiots, so most tickets are of poor quality, and it leads to being aggressive in "resolving" tickets, even when the user is fine and in the right.)
Part 1 is at http://orangejuiceliberationfront.com/raw-graphics-output-on... but mostly covers setting up a VM.
is KMS going to work in VirtualBox without the extensions?
> I guess I'm saying don't be a jerk, be mindful of sight-impaired people when designing your products.

Agreed. Or name your javascript tool the same thing as the most popular screen reader.

JAWS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10005415

JAWS: http://www.freedomscientific.com/Products/Blindness/JAWS

They even preserved the all caps. Now when vision impaired people search for their screen reader, they get results for a javascript framework, since they're both in the context of software as far as a search engine is concerned.
Right. The other WTF was the 'DNS changer'.

Still, best program of that sort I've seen to date. Def recommend.
It would be a struggle
Actually, this: https://github.com/mroth/phoenix-showdown/blob/master/RESULT...

I was either unaware (or had forgotten that) he had taken a second stab at the benchmark. I do hope he updates the document with the root cause of the enormous variance in response time.

Edit: Good find, BTW. Thanks for digging that up.
I really liked this — but how to cultivate a quiet ego?
> "...if you’re a user, chances are, you’re quite relieved (or even ecstatic) at the ability to block web fonts and experience a faster web."

These days, with increased processing power and standards adoption generally available, we really have been able to push the weight of websites.

Conversely, battery powered devices and sketchy wideband internet access are growing rapidly.

Sure, we have the power, but it's becoming apparent that at this scale effeciency is very important. More users than ever want more content faster than ever.

Globalized (literally) asset sharing, with technologies like digest references in script and link tags could make a big difference. Why not even pre-package really popular stuff (jQuery, Helvetica, etc) with the browser or OS?
Why click 'friend' if you don't actually know the person?

Perhaps someone is a relative in another country? Someone who you've never seen in person, or maybe you met for a few minutes, 30 years ago.

That's the situation with me. I created a Facebook account years ago but never used it. I recently logged in again to contact a particular individual. I had 13 friend requests pending. Which I accepted, even though I didn't "know" the people.

Those people were my cousins in another country, and their spouses, and their children, etc. Other members of my extended family interact with them, even though I don't.

So should I refuse their friend requests? No. Facebook is for more than friends that you can identify. It's a way to keep in (loose?) contact with distant relatives.

I'm sure there are plenty of other reasons why people "friend" people they don't "actually know". The real world isn't as simple as you suggest.
Recently the major names have reissued the Arp Odyssey and MS20 (by Korg), roland's recreations of select juno/jupiters, and the Moog mother. Very exciting time to be a knobby/CV synth hobbyist. Before this, there were a select few inexpensive knobby synths that people sought out if they couldn't budget for bigger Moogs: Radias/MS2000, jp8000 and 8080, maybe an SH 201, etc.
I didn't mean to imply that and I've changed my comment to reflect edited.

I agree with you. Facebook should fuck off. Yet this is ultimately a big part of their platform, collecting data on users. This isn't much of a secret.

If your ID puts lives at risk, why send the original version to a third party with a reputation for being against privacy? If for whatever reason you decide you must deal with them, at least submit fake docs.
Tog also believed in research on your actual users, not cargo culting from decades old research in very different systems with very different users.
The Ownership Problem
> if rust could compile within 5-10x the time go does, it would be much more pleasant to work with

As someone who's been around Rust for a long time but writes very little code in the language, I'm looking towards the MIR work and language services effort to improve this. The language is reasonable to work with once you're over the learning curve and you can mentally visualize the allocations/pointers/borrows moving around but the learning curve is really hard. Having a faster feedback loop on a higher information density interface than console text (I have a dream of dynamic borrow/lifetime overlays) to act as an extended tutorial would go a very long way.
As a user, I hope this pushes designers to consider the aesthetics of a page rendered in a font supported by the browser. Unlike JavaScript, a web page rarely needs a custom font to function, so designers must assume users would block custom fonts if preferable.
The bottom line is that self-hosting is a great way to shake down your language on a large-ish codebase and a fine way of encouraging outsider contributions, but should really only be done once you actually have a relatively solid idea of what your language is going to be. :)
There are some interesting issues at play here. There is obviously some desire to have levels of standardized-form content that can be consumed in the way that the user desires.

However, I disagree with a closed internet. Websites, like brick and mortar businesses, should be able to do what they want. They are responsible for the user's experience and should be able to craft it as they see fit. A browser (or extensions) should not be forcing an agenda for how consumers may or may not want to experience the internet. (Ads in partciular, are a unique part of the discussion).

I appreciate websites like medium, reddit, facebook, pinterest, and others that standardized content formats for users to experience in a consitent way.

The "death of RSS" is related here too. It's a complex issue. With RSS the user has significantly more control, but the problem is that you lose context and it can often become hard to browse large amounts of content.
If people were going to do what they were going to do, then advertising wouldn't exist. And you wouldn't be commenting here. Influence matters.

As for your advice to focus on one's self, maybe you should try taking it.
Yeah, but in reality, designers may just turn back to static images to maintain a consistent appearance. That would force a step backwards.