skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does not apply to just anything, since links are one-directional.

This applies to philosophy because articles tend to mention the general categories they fall under. The classification of knowledge generally falls under the purview of philosophy, so naturally following links upwards will lead to it eventually.
A good friend of mine is a student of philosophy, and I often argue with him about the importance and usefulness of the discipline. His favorite metaphor on the matter goes like this: If each domain of science was a finger, philosophy would be the thumb. It's the one that the others should rest upon when being used.

Of course, I always dismiss his metaphor as pie-in-the-sky ridiculous. But I must concede that this phenomenon occurring on Wikipedia gives a lot of weight to his argument.
If you keep going you end up in a cycle:

Philosophy -> Reality -> Existence -> Ontology -> Philosophy
It takes 6 weeks to form a new habit.
> the modern 'hamburger' menu, absence of menu bar, unnecessarily dynamic UI elements, hidden swipeable menus, etc all serve their role as annoyances

These issues you pointed out are fads, trends, and attempts to appeal to the modern design hive mind. They are not "design". They too will die and new fads will emerge. What stays constant throughout is quality aesthetics, a devotion to user centric study, homage to form, and an unrelenting passion for standing out.

> I think many designers are in their own world, and more often than not design interfaces that harm usability when they go about "disrupting" things...

This is a very strange statement. Are you insinuating that most designers harm usability with their attempt to make it better? So basically all designers are failing? I would be inclined to disagree, although the current state of design is in great peril [1](I will give you that).

> It seems like they're trying to merge aesthetic with functional

Aesthetics are vitally important to the functionality of a product. I've voiced my opinions on functionality vs. aesthetics many times and it's often the case that people view them as two entirely separate entities to focus on and study. They are not. A poorly designed product is a poorly designed product is a poorly designed product.

1. http://www.elischiff.com/blog/2015/4/7/fall-of-the-designer-...
Wow, that Guardian article is really well done. Our lack of concern for the environment leaves a terrible legacy both in lives and pure dollars. 10's of billions to not even properly clean up what could have been dealt with at the source for thousands or millions. The rising number of superfund sites shows the increasing cost burden to this way of doing things - this is probably the best argument for the fiscally minded who do not identify as environmentalists.

The article explains a few ways the cleanup is spreading waste elsewhere, and it makes me wonder what similar sorts of choices we are making today in areas where the 'science isn't clear' or other excuses that were probably used in the 60s when this started. Are we changing the way we do things, or just which things are being done?

Thanks for sharing this.
I think you and I have a vastly different definition of propaganda. I considered your post to be information or ideas methodically spread to promote or injure a cause, movement, nation, etc. In this case, the cause and movement would be "microsoft is still evil, do not forget." do you disagree that your post fits the definition under these constraints?
> assumed it was so that drivers wouldn't hit on passengers

To my knowledge, Uber relays calls between drivers and passengers through its own phone network, which effectively anonymizes each end.

For example, an Uber driver once called me, and then my phone lost service. I tried to call back with a friend's phone, and an automated Uber message said that there were no active rides associated with my friend's number.
There're a lot of sour grapes in this thread about performance and made up metrics, but let's take them at their word:

For a site as seemingly simple as Medium, it may be surprising how much complexity is behind the scenes. It’s just a blog, right? You could probably knock something out using Rails in a couple of days. :)

This hints that there is a lot more functionality being put up behind the scenes in terms of datamining and analysis and whatnot than is apparent from the simple "display an article", which indeed is a trivial Sinatra or Express (not even Rails!) app.

If you're not the customer, etc. etc.
That's not what the article is about.
Oh yeah, that assembly already existed in order to create the binary in the first place!

Thanks for the tip.

(The gdb disassembly shows memory offsets, which might be helpful for some purposes.)
build does not look like a valid target. You can just says "make dev" to build a binary for the current box.
But as an outsider, obesity in the US is obviously a consequence of the prevalence of junk food and the marketing power of the food industry.

That doesn't sound like the most scientifically-founded assertion to me, especially given that you're looking for scientific evidence for or against low-carbohydrate diets. I guess it also doesn't necessarily tell you whether low-carb diets are any good or not, so it's a red herring here.

A really great book that points out many studies related to low-carbohydrate diets (especially experimental studies comparing against low-fat diets) is "The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living". Written by two scientists who've spent their careers studying this, they point out that almost all studies which show poor results and undesirable side effects from a low-carb diet only last a few weeks - whereas it takes a few weeks for humans to adapt to a diet like that, so a study must necessarily get over that hump before making any conclusions.

Furthermore, low-carb diets cause people to lose a lot of electrolytes, which is the main cause of bad side effects, and many studies do not tell their low-carb subjects to supplement with salts. Studies which last longer than a few weeks tend to show favorable outcomes, generally with fat loss exceeding low-fat diets and better adherence as well over the long-term. If you want more details, I'd recommend you get the book.
Yeah, of course you can substitute anything :) 7 or 8 years ago in high school we had a "degrees of separation to Hitler" wikipedia game.

Perhaps philosophy lets you add additional constraints (e.g. click the first link of a certain form) or obtain slightly lower numbers?

Historical figures have the advantage that you don't have to navigate up through layers of classification, you just have to get to a date link (there were better tricks -- date links were the "last resort").
https://github.com/flosse/rust-os-comparison
The Turris open router project
Scientists Connect Brain to a Basic Tablet – Paralyzed Patient Googles with Ease
I'll be an opposing voice: please vote against Initiative 1401, which alienate the property of those who already own such items, and further reduces the incentives for those who live near such animals to farm them, rather than to poach them.

Elephants are endangered because they are not owned; cattle, for example, are not endangered because the demand for them is profitable. The right thing to do, if one wishes to preserve endangered species, is to make it possible for people to legally raise, own and harvest elephants, rhinoceroses, tigers and the like.
"Ugly" doesn't always mean bad in the sense of user experience. Some people think Wikipedia is ugly, but when I got to a wikipedia page, I rarely have a hard time finding what I need. My experience as a user is prime. I can't always say the same thing about when using a minimalist interface.
Better on /r/tabled since all his responses are downvoted

https://www.reddit.com/r/tabled/comments/3q3mwn/table_iama_m...
"Each drug dealer, each mugger, each killer, and each felon with a gun had his own lawyer, his own case, his own time before judge and jury, his own sentencing, and, in many cases, an appeal or other post-sentencing review."

This statement is demonstratively incorrect, given how the accused tend to be pushed hard from all directions to accept a plea deal and skip judge, jury and sentencing.
Interesting, this and phk's ntimed are both sponsored by the Linux Foundation. I guess it makes sense on some level to have concurrent projects that tackle the same problem from different directions.
There's overhead to P2P; if there wasn't we'd never have had servers, the desktops on the LAN would have just done it.
My phone is 2,5 years old and still works very well. Just has tons of bloatware (damn you HTC!). Might have to root the phone to uninstall that junk.
While I agree with the overall thrust of your comment -- that playing armchair architect is sort of proving the author's point -- the post doesn't really even attempt to dispel the notion that their stack is overkill. And, honestly, to me, that would make for the more informative and interesting article -- don't just tell me the package you use for bloom filters, tell me why you need a network daemon for bloom filters!
OpenBSD developers: Ted Unangst
New clothing line for money tight students
drug, gun.
I'm not quite sure which depresses me most --- the assholish questions, or the sociopathic answers.

This is, truly, a great day for humankind.
> You assume, strongly, that the user wants to use the same expressions that exist in their program.

Maybe I wasn't clear --- I think we agree on this point. Debugging parsing is different from (and in some ways, harder than) regular compiler parsing because users want to use familiar syntax that is different from regular program code. I can write print/x $pc+4 --- no C compiler interprets "$pc" to mean the program counter.

While it's true that it's a UI issue, this classification doesn't make the problem any easier.

> you could pretty easily extend DWARF to tell me how to call functions in C++

What extensions would you add? We already have stack-layout information, and the debugger implicitly knows the platform ABI.

> C++, debuggers are a tool of last resort

I've seen this phenomenon too, and it's upsetting: debuggers can be much more efficient. I've put a lot of work into making end-to-end debugging seamless, but I still see developers using traditional in-code tracing.

I want to try making Mozilla's rr available in an equally easy-consumed package and see whether the ability to reverse debugging begins to sway people.

> Second, you make the strange assumption an agent can't read or work with core files, and needs a live process?

I think we mean different things by "agent". I was talking about a remote stub that lives in the process to be debugged. If you instead move that logic to an pluggable component that the debugger merely hosts and that it uses as a general abstraction of how to debug targets of various sorts, debugging core files is feasible. (But in that case, how is it different conceptually from struct target_ops, which we already have?)
These people are rarer and rarer. On HN I always see the top comments excusing poor performance with having supposedly better productivity and security.

It really seems that many devs are allergic to the word "optimisation" and lash out when they see it. No one says you have to write your code in assembly folks, but do run it in a profiles and make sure it's now slow.
Russian Presence Near Undersea Cables Concerns U.S
Your project looks really cool, but it would be great if one could share a link to a query.
Thanks for the feedback! I tried to include support for Windows along the dev process, but I have not actually tested/ran it under windows. Pull requests are more than welcome.

As far as the cache directory, I'll add in support for creating the directory if it doesn't exist.
That is a reasonable suspicion, unless you actually read the article.

1. The lawsuit was filed after the pay increase.

2. "Profit growth continued to substantially outpace wage growth." So basically the company is more profitable than ever.

3. This guy is an outspoken advocate of paying people an equitable wage. It'd be a lot of trouble go to through all of that charade just to pay his brother less.

4. Profits don't always have much to do with the value of a company, which is what the lawsuit is about. Furthermore, the lawsuit might be about the documents they signed (or didn't sign!) related to selling stakes to one another.
But, the main thing would be knowing the pricing what the client is willing to pay and negotiating with them.
Yes, it's an extra button.

It just felt like a really comfortable mouse. And the software was good. And it was my first mouse that didn't have a ball, and did have a scroll wheel.

Some people had problems with cords, but I didn't.
Vector clocks and Conflict-free replicated data types should make it safer and easier for more and more applications to follow a similar approach to distributed data storage with delayed synchronizations to the reference data-center:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-free_replicated_data_...
Flip it around to Eyeman's initiatives, which when not being soundly turned down by voters, get overturned in the courts. My point being, even if it's one individual driving it, it's still one-person-one-vote (and the courts act as a buffer for when we collectively make a bad choice). I don't care who's behind 1401: is it a good idea or not? In this case, I vote "yes" regardless of what drove it. In the case of all of the Eyeman-driven "advisory votes" (what a waste of paper and ink), I vote "no" (which translates to "maintain" on the ballot) across the board.
Handbook to extra-constitutional data collection:

1) Do whatever you want

2) Invoke state secrets or national security when questioned on 1

3) Claim in court that no one has standing

Bonus card, use only once:

4) When a case reaches the supreme court where people notice how you invoked state secrets purely to stymie jurisdictional challenge, lie to the judges [1]

(As you see in this decision, which relies on the tainted supreme court decision, you only need the magic card once anyway to establish precedence)

After you've used the magic card in step 4, the question naturally occurs how to make use of the information collected. Try parallel construction [2] should whoever you were targeting set foot in a court of justice. The point is to ensure people don't make it there; a hellfire will ensure in due course, US citizen or not, that a lot of paperwork is saved.

[1]: https://theintercept.com/2014/02/26/doj-still-ducking-scruti...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
Seems completely unapologetic. I'm trying to be shocked, but then, he's apparently still CEO, so clearly the company that employs him can't be that outraged by his behavior.
I wasn't asserting a value judgement on the viewpoint, only noting the seeming popularity of it.

Yes, narrowly construed, corporate officers have obligations that look a something like that. I look at it as an activity that takes place in the broader world of policy making. Personally, I think to judge the cost or benefit of corporate lobbying as a driver of policy requires substantially more investigation than simply whether or not they are properly representing their stakeholders.

"For all lawful purposes" covers a range of behaviours that many folks have a problem with, those employees and investors also have voices, votes and the ability to spend money whether or not the corporation does, the supposed alignment of interested between corporate officers, investors and employees really isn't there in many cases of corporate lobbying (unions exist for a reason, for instance, and so to shareholder lawsuits), game theoretic concerns about what it does to democracy, and on and on.

None of which really matters to the analysis that AirBnB really comes off like a nest of entitled jackasses with this ad and turned off a lot of people who may well have been otherwise sympathetic to the notion that this proposition has some really bad provisions. If I were a stakeholder, I'd likely be thinking that the officers did me a disservice by spending a ton of money to convince lots of people vote against my hypothetical interests.
Roccat Kone XTD+

+ mousewheel can be "nudged" left-right, works as middle mouse button and has clear "steps"

+ 2 extra buttons (would prefer 3)

o driver could be better, but does most things

o relatively bulky
I think it needs [1985] added to the title. That's the date of the paper's publication.
Thanks for recommending D4H! (I'm the author)
Magneticum Pathfinder: Evolution of the universe in unmatched precision
Its here already in Poland. Virgin Mobile introduced #Freemium, ~$1 SIM that stays active for one year, and gives you free "Facebook, Facebook messenger, GG(polish communicator), ask, and Twitter"
Not quite a mouse, but I use a Wacom Intuos 'Pen and Touch' small tablet.

Not everyone has the need for a pen interface, but I find it useful for notes and idea explanation. There is also a wireless kit available for it, but I haven't tried it out.

Before my tablet, I used a Kensington 'Orbit' trackball. I liked it a lot, but it didn't last well.(the buttons got soft, the rollers got more and more resistant despite cleaning)

I tend to use oddball things like trackballs and touchpads with my desktops because i'm left handed, and I haven't found any decent feeling lefty mice besides semi-uncomfortable ambidextrous styles; plus I mostly just keyboard.
What is it about? (other than the statement "there are no rules in math" which I think is so outrageously wrong I can't even argue against it here)
Point taken.

I looked at a list of "ugliest mammals". The #1 of some of the lists was Sam the Chinese Crested dog. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_%28ugly_dog%29 .
Finding S&P 500 Clusters for Diversification with a Dendrogram
That's a very peculiar perspective to say the least. However I don't think it makes much sense TBH. Nobody would lower his/her expectation of the work just because that guy said he worked so hard and didn't even sleep much in the past several months. On the contrary, the more likely thought is that "you've worked so hard and sacrificed a lot already, then the work you've done must be awesome, otherwise you're really even more of a fail." If the guy said that he just did a random side project for 1 hour per day, then the expectation would indeed be much lower. So I can't see myself agreeing with the author's line of reasoning. Pointing out that people sometimes would like "freedom to fail" for more personal projects is a good point, and a wish to lower expectations of others is indeed commonly seen in many occasions (reasonable/moderate or not), but this attribution of reason seems quite arbitrary.

In any case, overworking and sleep deprivation are definitely bad. No matter what the reason behind them and what actions to be taken, they should not be an acceptable norm for any sane person. That's for sure.
Average users just want to get work done and have no ability to diagnose and debug.

Counterpoint: we should stop infantilizing users. They have such trouble diagnosing and debugging in part because we keep hiding the complexity from them and teach them they aren't responsible for basic functioning of their tools.
French city launches literary vending machines
JavaFX

https://www.vinumeris.com/lighthouse

(there's a promotional video).

Note that to use it requires you have some bitcoins.

WRT the development process, it worked pretty well. The 3rd-gen Java UI stack is much better than Swing and was a pleasure to work with. Much better than the web stack.

The app is open source if you want to read the code:

https://github.com/vinumeris/lighthouse

I built the installers for each platform with the 'javapackager' tool that comes with JDK8+.
Click bait title. Gross.
and as the eternal septembering continues, newbies upvote the bad content, whilst posting comments filled with bad reddit puns, SJW crap, and "this." as the entire content of their reply.
This is not really math, more arithmetic, but you might enjoy it nonetheless: http://www.speedsums.com. Definitely not a substitute for actual math though - some of the other comments here are great for that.
Ask him for contemporary examples of philosophy's usefulness to science. While on the subject, you might want to argue that philosophy has become too self-referential to be relevant.

I don't think the Wikipedia phenomenon means a whole lot. Here's an alternative metaphor: philosophy is the pot we put all the loose ends in, until some advance in science allows us to work on them some more. That doesn't mean philosophy is making progress on them.
Reread parent post. It says "conspiring to do economic harm", which they did.
Windows 10 ISO All in One Multiple Editions 32bit and 64bit
The GOP Has a Tech Talent Problem It Might Not Solve
This is an unfortunate truth.

I suddenly found myself finding big-game hunting a whole lot less morally repugnant when I realized that the big money that goes into it is very much used to keep many species alive. Operators of paid hunting areas have a very strongly vested interest in keeping their revenue stream going, and thus, in keeping viable populations around.

I am not pro-hunting by any means, but given a world where wildlife is hopelessly outmatched by man for resource competition, the only way to keep endangered species populated is to harness some aspect of humanity to fight for their preservation in ways that matter. Paid big-game hunting and animal cultivation is an effective way to do that and should be done more.

The conflict between man and wildlife is one-sided enough that blanket "protection" is not sufficient to save many animal populations. They need active cultivation and encouragement if they're not to be wiped out through attrition (via illegal poaching, loss of habitat, etc). Simply making it more illegal isn't going to prevent that.
If it made the front page of Hacker News, it wasn't a "private" joke.
Nice read. Let me also post nice video tutorial regarding haskell.
https://www.livecoding.tv/video/haskell-messing-with-spacema...
A couple of greatest hits:

[–]LouisDeFeo 2 points 16 hours ago*

Since a new drug came out that's almost the same as your company's for such a cheap price, how do expect to turn a profit now?

[–]martinshkreli[S] 0 points 16 hours ago

no new drug is FDA approved for toxoplasmosis.

[–]LouisDeFeo 1 point 16 hours ago

You're right, excuse me. I meant when it gets approved, how do you expect to turn a profit?

[–]martinshkreli[S] 0 points 16 hours ago

they're not going to do that. they don't have the resources.

and:

[–]strik3three 2 points 16 hours ago

You've said the rise in the cost of Daraprim won't effect most patients because the insurance companies will absorb the cost. Does it not stand to reason though that the insurance companies will pass those cost back along to the policy holders who pay the premiums. How does that argument not perpetuate the problem of out of control medical cost?

[–]martinshkreli[S] -1 points 16 hours ago

It definitely stands to reason. But the other thing to consider is that as more companies generate revenue and profits new companies sprout to compete with them for that profit pool. This keeps costs down.

and:

[–]HomerPepsi 1 point 12 hours ago

Money aside, how do you feel about being hated by the world?

[–]martinshkreli[S] 0 points 5 hours ago

It doesn't bother me. My priority is patients and I have a ton of support from them. I don't answer to the media or random internet crazies.

And the winner (appeal to common practice fallacy):

https://twitter.com/MartinShkreli/status/656180089747611651