skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but that doesn't mean your argument won't be perceived as such. The knee jerk reaction is to think "yeah but those laws are obsolete", and identify with the direct connection between driver and rider (as the "sharing economy" whitewash encourages).

I for one don't mind the obsoleting of taxi regulation by direct summoning (which itself solves most of what taxi regulation was a response to), but I also don't perceive Uber as looking to eliminate regulation - they are hoping to become the new middleman by owning the market, buying "appropriate" public regulation to create a barrier to entry, and then enjoying the security of a public organization with the accountability of a private one. Actual P2P empowerment would consist of a bona fide application that directly interacted with driver app, with appropriate reputation system etc. But of course there's inherently no "scalable" profits (aka rent) to be made off of that, so investors aren't lining up.
https://xkcd.com/882/
Always attend scheduled eye exams -- all Type 1 diabetics (in the UK, where I am) are given diabetic retinopathy screenings annually, regardless of when they were diagnosed (it's rare for retinopathy to occur in those who've been diagnosed for under 5 years). They're really important, as retinopathy caught in its early stages is much easier to treat and treatment is usually more effective.

There's some evidence excessive alcohol consumption is associated with higher-than-normal incidences of diabetic retinopathy, though I've read studies that say there's no effect if alcohol consumption is moderate. Some studies say cannabis has a preventive effect.
Slightly different domain, but I recently had to work on a system that retained email addresses that were known targets of aggressive spamming (450MM rows).

In a nutshell, the idea was to compare lists of emails and test to see how many accounts in the given list were also in the database. We'd typically get 10k item lists to test against the database.

Initially, I was creating a temporary table and doing a unique intersection on it. That took about 45 minutes on a modest machine. Next, I hacked up a bloom filter search (since all we cared about was whether or not the items in the sample were in the database); that ran in a little under a second for a set of 10k, but got a little unwieldy with sets approaching 1MM+.

We talked about it, and decided to just use Elasticsearch, and to just split the database into a bunch of buckets. Search time went up a small bit for small samples, but went waaay down for larger samples.

Also of note, going from spinning platters to SSD did make a pretty huge improvement in things when we were using a relational database. Now that it's all basically in memory, it doesn't matter so much.
I switched to evernote when I switched to a Mac, but I never liked it much and it crashes frequently. Due to the 'switching hassle', I never got around to switching back to Onenote when it came out on Mac.
Oh yeah, it's definitely proprietary and closed. I just think it ties into the other topic where freeware (FOSS or not) can't be trusted unless it comes with protections for users that carry on into the future. That includes stuff like this and proprietary, open-source models.

"(but, unlike the old days, versions do not expire every 3 months)."

Definitely an improvement.
They missed the ship without dead simple bookmark service a.k.a Pocket !
I'm a bit behind on this thread and I am an Angular guy myself, but I think Ember is moving this direction.

http://www.programwitherik.com/ember-pods/
Rockstor 3.8-8 released
An AI (at least assuming it results from foreseeable extrapolations of current research) isn't going to have intrinsic motivations like "boredom" or "happiness" so anthropomorphic thinking a very useful way to reason about its behavior. Its only "motivation" will be to maximize the objective function it has been given by those who (at least nominally) control it. If the AI is very intelligent that still allows for a great deal of unanticipated behavior though.
I think native apps qualify as the offline-mode for a platform like evernote. I don't user evernote personally, but I do ride caltrain for ~2 hours every week day during which I try to be productive offline. For me that means having a local development database and usually some documentation for whatever I'm working on. I can easily see this meaning evernote native for a fervent note taker. Granted you could have a web app using local storage but that's unreliable at best and they already seem to have a problem with syncing..
Sublime has a "save on focus lost" option, so you don't even have to remember saving.
I tried to use EverNote to study scanned books in TIFF format. It was painful, it wasn't able to import 50,000 pages and apply OCR. I eventually wrote script using Tesseract and a web app similar to Google Books. I could take notes on the sides of the pages and the collect them by tags.

Now I use Skim for Mac to take notes form PDF files.
Sounds like you're projecting your younger self on me. But in fact, "it's all about fucking" is not a conclusion from some philosophical perspective. It's all there in the story.

The character forgot his guilt because a hot girl spoke to him. That's 90% of what we know about her, that she's sexual attractive to him - in fact, that she's the most attractive girl he's ever seen. This is not a story about "human connections" or finding "acceptance" for one's past - heck, they didn't even talk about Vietnam. This is a story about overcoming sexual arousal through guilt. No, about sexual arousal overriding guilt.

And that is why it doesn't matter that the girl left. What "redeemed" him was not the girl, it was his own boner. "You're with me still", indeed.
I'm pretty sure that you could do that with org-mode…
Azure supports RDMA over IB on certain node types but (my 2 cents) without more detailed information & control over topology it's hard to run non-trivial MPI jobs in anything close to an optimal way. The hiding of the "secret sauce" that cloud vendors do may not be important for most commercial users but it's a roadblock for a lot of HPC.
'mailto:' URLs in JavaScript
Hardly, the CEO of Uber is quite willing to buy a bunch of driverless cars when they become available.

Think of Netflix...
A few months ago, Reddit's /r/tifu was crawling with creative writing students, shoveling their slop all over it under the guise of "true stories".

(Nowadays it's all ridiculous sex stories, which somehow ends up being an improvement.)
Yup. I used to belong to a non-profit which had its headquarters in Milpitas (just checked, and it still does). Several years ago, they radically changed their fee structure, complaining that costs were too high. Well, sure: if you base yourself in one of the most expensive parts of the country, costs will be far too high!

Also, as a developer, there's no way I'd want to live in the Bay Area. I'm glad that many people enjoy it, but California's not the place for me, not at all.
Naturally I can't answer your question about the specific person the GP was talking about, but FWIW, blind programmers are working productively in all popular languages (and some less popular ones too). Even significant whitespace, as in Python, isn't a problem, because the more full-featured screen readers can be configured to announce changes in indentation.

Accessibility of development environments and tools is another issue. For example, Xamarin Studio is totally off-limits because it uses GTK, and GTK is inaccessible on Windows and Mac.
The majority of people never had access to a hardware modular either, unless they were involved with an experimental music program in a University. For the younger generation now interested in hardware modulars, software modulars may have been a gateway. I think enjoying modular synthesis isn't that different to enjoying programming more generally, people like to explore and see what new things they can create.
It was a huge thrill to program a synth correctly and get an instrument that sounded exactly like the one used by a famous group in their top ten hit.

Today it still boggles my mind that I have a fully working CS-80 as a Reaper plugin.
Note that part of the beauty of BigQuery is how it allows you to go deeper into any dimension without pre-planning (AKA defining partitions or indexes).

Case in point, many comments in this page point at the "best time to post" chart. But what if that time varies by subreddit?

The answer at https://www.reddit.com/r/bigquery/comments/3neghj/qotd_best_...
Speedcoding
Normally "law suits over likeness imitations" imply a lost sale by the plaintiff since a customer bought an alternative product after being confused by the likeness. This is the basis for the complaint and damages.

This is not the case here. Presumably every refurbished laptop was originally sold by the plaintiff, so there is no lost sale. It is no different from selling second hand goods. See the first sale doctrine.
>The first amendment shouldn't really apply to corporations.

Should the feds be able to shut down Hackernews? It's a corporation. NY Times? It's a corporation.

The distinction you want to make is commercial speech should be able to be regulated. And it is. False advertising is illegal but lying about politics is a first amendment right.

Also, sugar isn't harmful in moderation.

Plus the science of diet is hilariously poorly understood. 15 years ago people would have been trying to ban fatty food. Now all the sudden fat is good?

And that goes triple for popular diet advice. It's all fads. We still can't figure out a diet that works for whole population long term.
As if that woman was the first person to talk to him. Even if he had somehow lost all his family and friends back home, he would still have had some comrades in arms. And if he had been abnormally lonely it would have - should have! - been in the story, but it wasn't.

No, the point was not the act of listening, it was that the girl was hot.
Don't worry, I am unscathed.
> It's no secret that soda and so many other drinks are packed with sugar, but no one seems to care or understand.

I both care and understand.

The fact that soda is an easily-consumable, relatively cheap, energy-dense, decent-tasting liquid foodstuff is why I purchase it.
Only 12% of admitted students are from outside the US. Harvard clearly favors US applicants.

https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/admissions-statistics
I load tested (using wrk) nginx serving a two line, static HTML file, against a basic Cowboy service that parsed parameters, did an ETS lookup, and rendered several hundred json elements, on my EC2 micro.

nginx came in at 14612 requests per second, and the dynamic code under Cowboy option came in at 13336 per second.

The same server was pulling 147 requests per second for a "hello world" rails application (Unicorn, production mode). Cowboy really isn't joking when they talk about performance.
Some of your questions are because there is a lot of overloaded terminology. Virtual Machine, for example, has two meanings:

1) A system virtual machine provides a complete system platform which supports the execution of a complete operating system (OS).[1] These usually emulate an existing architecture, and are built with the purpose of either providing a platform to run programs where the real hardware is not available for use (for example, executing on otherwise obsolete platforms), or of having multiple instances of virtual machines leading to more efficient use of computing resources, both in terms of energy consumption and cost effectiveness (known as hardware virtualization, the key to a cloud computing environment), or both.

2) A process virtual machine (also, language virtual machine) is designed to run a single program, which means that it supports a single process. Such virtual machines are usually closely suited to one or more programming languages and built with the purpose of providing program portability and flexibility (amongst other things). An essential characteristic of a virtual machine is that the software running inside is limited to the resources and abstractions provided by the virtual machine—it cannot break out of its virtual environment.

The CLI is the second type of virtual machine and something like VirtualBox, VMware, and IBM mainframe VM's are the first kind.

> Why byte code? Or, in what sense can each code be only one byte long?

Again, it's not "byte code" it's "bytecode" which is defined here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bytecode

"Bytecode, also known as p-code (portable code), is a form of instruction set designed for efficient execution by a software interpreter"
I'm confused by your comments, and am asking for clarification of your perspective. What exactly is your point?

While 20% of the population still smokes, the incidence rate has hugely decreased over time[0].

According to the CDC, in 1965, ~43% of the population smoked. In 2011, it was just under 20%, with a goal of 12% by 2020.

Transparent labeling, increased regulation and awareness, plus general advances in understanding the consequences of smoking have had a massive effect on the rates of smoking. It's not perfect, but a similar reduction in obesity over the next 50 years would be an incredible accomplishment.

Now if only we could tackle that burgeoning mental health problem...

[0] - http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/tables/trends/cig...
Y'know, I tried using Erlang/OTP with rebar3 and cowboy to make a web app. And it turns out that I couldn't even figure out where to put my code, much less how to run it.

It seems a lot of people are having success with Erlang but I can't figure out how these applications actually run; it almost seems like there isn't a single step-by-step tutorial on the Internet for setting up an Erlang system using "best practices."

Am I just missing something? Because I feel like I'm hugely missing out.
it also contains that pesky thing called "crystalline fructose" which apparently is a mild form of arsenic

This is literally one of the most scientifically illiterate things I've ever read. Please at least try to understand basic nutrition or even chemistry before sharing your opinion on these issues.
A lot of people just can't get over the terrible taste of artificial sugar. If someone ever creates an artificial sugar indistinguishable from sugar or corn syrup, it'll be a multibillion dollar invention.

I'd give my right arm for zero calories coke, I'd rather have a perrier than diet coke.
Personally, I don't think it needs to be there at all. There are other ways to make it more interesting, like imagining a world where it's illegal for humans to drive, than to lazily call the cars boring just to troll.
Bill Nye's LightSail: Making Sci-Fi Real – Make:
Which key to I press on the keyboard for those when I want to hand edit docs for quick testing?
> Guy snatches a few moments with one of those pretty girls that have been ignoring him for all of his life - what do you expect?

That's not in the story! It would at least have made a modicum of sense if he was a desperate loner who was going to kill himself over his feelings of absolute social and romantic rejection, but none of that is in the story.
How frequently would you need to change the whole house filter in your house?
Synth are to music what assembler is to programming: you can do anything, total control over every minute factor. Intensely compelling to some of us.
UserVoice discussion here: https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/110705-dev-platform/sugge...
But the front page can churn a lot more during the busy times.
That doesn't seem like that big of a difference to me. In fact, I'd say the actual headline is more hyperbolic. The inside story of how $1 billion is specifically written to cause people to click the link.
You don't think there is a risk that if drugs were totally legal, food produces wouldn't start adding addictive drugs? These companies are already trying to engineer the most addictive dorrito possible.

People love stuff like red bull and coffee because of their stimulant properties.

I bet there is a huge market for Frosted (with Coke) Flakes.
can the ai modify its objective function?
Twitter is a dubious hit. It's wildly popular, but its profits are very unimpressive, to say the least.
I'm not trying to be rude, but you have never emailed me to warn or cajol or ask me anything.

Are you relying on people to check replies rather than using their email?

That seems pretty flaky as there is no notification system in place to tell people about replies like, for example, reddit.

You're on American time, I'm on UK time, I must be in bed when you send your warnings and this seems pretty unfair to people outside of your hours.
That's a good point, but it's not just a question of people paying attention the next time - putting a large city into disaster mode has a huge economic cost. For example, in preparation for Hurricane Sandy in NYC, the entire transit system was shut down to keep subway trains out of tunnels that were expected to flood, and it took quite a while after the hurricane for all the trains to be running again. This made it hard for people to get to work after the hurricane (even in areas of the city that weren't flooded) and cost businesses a lot of revenue. If politicians routinely shut down the transit system for hurricanes that never actually hit the city, they wouldn't be very likely to get reelected.
Yeah, DuckDuckGo is great. Actually, it's sometimes smarter than Google the way it displays information directly on the site (e.g. the definition of a word)
Obesity rates for the USA: http://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statistic...

Percentages of adults within these categories [Overweight, Obese, Extremely obese] increased gradually until the late 1970s, at which point they began to climb more quickly, leveling off somewhat around 2000.

(Scroll down to the section titled "Trends in Overweight and Obesity among Adults, United States, 1962–2010")
'python -m SimpleHTTPServer' is actually fairly terrible if you try to use it to share a file amongst coworkers. Try it and you'll see, downloads will actually fail.

It also freaks out if the root dir is blown away, which can be quite common if you're trying to use it with a static site generator.

'python -m SimpleHTTPServer' is great for serving files to yourself but that's about it.
When remembering that, it's also good to remember the regulatory regime present at the time. [0]

From a food and drug regulation perspective, that time is very different from this time. That difference makes your pithy quip not so very clever.

[0] Compare the date at which cocaine was removed from Coca-Cola [1] to the enactment date of the Pure Food and Drug Act. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola#Coca_.E2.80.93_cocai...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Food_and_Drug_Act
Russia bans all GMO food production
With regard to B), this is well explored and is called 'GI' or 'Glycemic Index'.[1] High GI foods cause an insulin response in an effort to maintain blood glucose at 5.6 (fasting) - 11.1 mmol/l (postprandial), one of insulins roles is to cause cells to remove sugar from blood and store it as muscle and liver glycogen first then body fat. Once the sugar has been removed from general circulation the hungry feeling recurs.

Saturated fats provided the longest sensation of satiety, followed by protein, then high fibre carbohydrates.

Additionally, our livers have the nifty ability to create sure from pyruvate, lactate, glycerol, and glucogenic amino acids through a process called Gluconeogenesis.[2] Loosely, this is handy for the brain which usually uses glucose for energy, except during fasting when ketones are used.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycemic_index
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluconeogenesis
That misses the problem. Where do you put the new headstones?
Yep. The standard we accept for what constitutes a "workable" development environment has essentially trended towards "what is the crappiest workflow that can be tolerated by a professional programmer working 40 hours per week on it".

There's no real incentive to market programming tools that have a higher standard for usability, because there's no ecosystem of sensible "there is consensus that this should be a a thing and this is a sane way to do it" programming tools, so you can't work at that level anyway. Someday there will be a market again for sane development environments but right now everyone just powers through the learning process until they get to the level of "my mind is warped enough that I can comprehend a build file this evil" level because that's where the money is at anyway. It's a chicken and egg problem. No ecosystem no market.

It's just an accident of history that such a thing ever existed in the first place. A waypoint on the way to the era of industrial mindfuck programming.
There has been a minor uptick in foreign investment, but you have to squint really hard to see it:

https://en.santandertrade.com/establish-overseas/portugal/fo...

And FDI stock is down.

The Portuguese are resourceful and they are trying to make the best out of a bad situation. Nevertheless, nothing in the data justifies the title "The Portuguese Miracle: Young Entrepreneurs Lead Country Out of Crisis". This is just more of the same German propaganda that's been trying to justify austerity for the last 6 years. The phrase "One size fits one" applies to monetary policy in Europe: monetary policy has been adapted to German needs, at the cost of great pain for the rest of Europe.
This seems clear when you compare ancient religious texts side by side with what was known about the natural world in their respective times. Unclean animal species, menstruation rituals, etc.
cowboy's documentation is pretty poor and there's no good 'getting started with cowboy' thing i can point you at, but this is pretty good for erlang in general:

http://howistart.org/posts/erlang/1
Look into wercker.com - it works with docker containers so cross-platform python should work OK. They have some blog posts about Windows support too.

It's currently free whilst in beta but I guess they expect to charge eventually.

I'm not affiliated with them in any way but I have been happily using the service (testing Node & Python on Linux) for almost a year.
because there are plenty of note taking / writing apps that use dropbox directly?
> What friction?

apt-get install $PACKAGE_NAME

This friction.

Both on the side of the user who would need to go through an install process that is often an order of magnitude longer than loading a web page, and on the side of the developer who needs to go through the tedious process of developing and packaging their apps for every single native platform they want to support.
Previous models had a loss function where you are either right or wrong. This model uses the similarity of concepts.
Not that I completely disagree; but the problem with this definition, on a practical level, is that it seems to cause more harm than good. Identity politics have prevented our country from having an actual conversation on race since those of us in the majority are effectively not allowed into the conversation. So if there are two sides of an issue and one side is not allowed in the discussion then there is . . . no discussion.
If you have to take a class on math skills, you don't have them.

I fail to see what your point is.