skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, are you the guy who wrote some articles about lag prediction in game networking ?
If yes, thanks. Helped me a lot.
I'll send you cakes someday.
So now we know BusinessInsider is lurking on HN.
There is Workflowy, which doesn't have all the features but works well for what it is (a zoomable outliner)
Empathy maps: way not to end up on products graveyard
The focus on the corpus callosum reminds me of the research that suggests men and women have variations there. [1] (Sexual dimorphism). This research is controversial [2], but there does seem to be evidence [3] for it.

I am curious how that relates to this research. i.e. It's easy to reach for the "damage" label when it's really about "different," which is why it's egg-shellish to discuss sexual dimorphism. A confounding factor is that this brain structure varies quite a bit among individuals and in age, but only in women and much larger study groups are needed. [4] It's possible these brain structures are more involved with personality and physical maturity and show up as defects under a normative mindset.

This writeup suggests possible less efficient information, but maybe that's what "feeling chilled out" means and maybe it's actually better for individuals and humanity to be chilled out once in a while.

So in conclusion, I wouldn't say this means we need to study cannabis more, but we need to study the brain more!

Also: How obnoxious is it of the Guardian to link to the journal, but not the article?! That undermines my trust in their write-up. If you consider the extra time the author could have made to get to the article itself, presuming he/she has actually read it and has a link somewhere, it must be near-zero. Then you consider the amount of time interested readers like me have to go searching for it, times the number of readers, the benefit/waste is just irresponsible. And this seems to be the norm for newspaper articles. It's a sad state.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_callosum#Sexual_dimorph...

[2] http://gormanlab.ucsd.edu/courses/files/psy222/Bishop.pdf

[3] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15891572

[4] http://www.jneurosci.org/content/11/4/933.short
Hmm - that's such a tightly controlled market, with such limited ability to disrupt the core business model (tickets + merchandising + licensing rights = cash), that I wouldn't really think of it as a bubble. What are your thoughts?
there are cameras with a lid that you can physically close video-taking, no way to bypass it.
Now that's sensible, approach it like any other drug out there and inform the people of the different percentages of thc, cbd (and whatever else that actively influences anything). At least then we would have an educated society, using substances as they please KNOWING what good (or bad) certain substances could do. But just putting out studies suggesting "brain damage" is just witch hunting. Terrorism kills 100 procent more brain cells than THC does ;)
Sending a timing context sms to your wife is now considered "job automation" ? Seriously ?!
Literally any distributed object store, filestore, or OS (see Amoeba and Globe). Only need to add some security enhancements to some parts as others did for that and other use cases.
Why is everyone acting as if the GitHub repo contains the original scripts?
The difference, to me at least, is that Hitler was very forthcoming with his plans for Germany...Mein Kampf quite clearly laid out his intentions, and almost all Germans owned a copy for political reasons.

So in that case, it seems voters knew exactly what they were getting (and eventually got) with Hitler.

Obama, not so much...obviously.
All positions have a political dimension into them. Real world is not computable - hence, opinions and beliefs dominate.

From a purely mathematical point of view, any political grouping is arbitrary and non-exact.

Until someone figures out a social calculus - in effect, an algorithm to compute what is good and what is evil - there really is no scientific high ground for thinking fascists are in absolute terms worse than 'computer geeks'.

What we can do - and improve on- is recognise we have different opinions and that's ok (although pathological behaviour which sometimes stems from certain political beliefs is not).
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Chomsky's output before the mid-70's was very highbrow, but most of it subsequently is very readable and straightforward.
Well, OK; my question was based on your “pinyin is not relevant”; if it's pinyin or pseudo-pinyin then it has its own rules, just like any other non-English language that uses roman letters, and English orthography is irrelevant. Then writing ‘Xi'an’ is just an affectation like writing ‘Roma’ and ‘Wien’ in place of ‘Rome’ and ‘Vienna’.
It's me, I'm the smartest man on Earth. I'm still waiting for people to catch up. I find it strange to predict the next 14 years when the world is exploding with Africa/Asia literacy and the internet mainstreamization, and the technology. It's like trying to guess the flow of streams, with the waves beating. In 1935, it was a smaller scale of events. It doesn't matter, anyway. The world doesn't need more ideals and high-level thoughts, people function less than they think at that level, and there is progress enough, it needs empathy and respect, and fixing the bottom, for a more cohesive whole. These days I worry about what Africa will be when pacified, since it seems to be the major change, with internet, and they have a different culture, and they got shafted a lot, it seems. Africa is 1.1B people, US+Europe, so with our level of education, it'd be a crazy actor. http://ourworldindata.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/ourworl...
People rave at the impact of major works, but the impact of achieving literacy in one generation, and opening all these infinite doors to half of humanity, this is a major event, and you can predict it just as well as you can predict the path of an engulfing ouragan... I'm in such a poetic and verbose mood. Alright, I give up the title. Another day.
In mother Russia, database fixes you.
Thereafter black americans since the 1970s
I collect the best deals for developers/designers/entrepreneurs here: http://dealroundup.io
"Mashhour Abu Daqa, a former Palestinian telecommunications minister, ... believes Israeli carriers were behind the ban, trying to protect their interest in the captive Palestinian market."

this logic of economic subjugation (which I'm sure happens in other industries as well) reminds me of how the European powers treated their colonies - places to extract natural resources from and sell their surplus goods to at monopoly prices
> Also: How obnoxious is it of the Guardian to link to the journal, but not the article?!

That's standard practice. Indeed, by linking to the journal the guardian is doing better than most UK news sources.
Then again, the owner of the company that you drank with in the smaller days wasn't really your pal either.

True. The hiring of professional HR means the mask has finally come off. You can't pretend to be one big happy family anymore.
Complication kills, not complexity. Complex systems are made up of simple independent pieces. Those pieces work together naturally often leading to new behaviors. Because they are independent, they can also adapt easily to changes in the environment.

Complication is different. Complicated systems have dependencies that are more tightly bound together. Because of this, they can't adapt as easily to environmental changes. Consequentially, this creates conflict between system and environment that can often be destructive or violent.

Or at least that's my social hypothesis. I based my idea on the Rich Hickey "Simple vs. Easy" talk on software complexity. I think his ideas could be generalized to societies as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI8tNMsozo0
> i often wonder if they actually believe what they are saying

They probably believe it. I fully expect that I've actually done it before without even realising.
If we believe in democracy, yes! We are totally responsible.

The fact that there is such a disconnect between the actions of government and the will of the population shows how flawed "democracy" is.
> conjured up a "right to privacy" that it could not place anywhere within the text of the Constitution.

If rights are enumerated, you do not have a right to freedom of movement, nor of procreation, nor a right to use telecommunications, because your rights were frozen at what the authors of the Constitution wrote down.
what do you mean by "highly intelligent individuals"?
Everything is hackable if you try hard enough.
... and I am sure the company owners do realize that.

that's a very dangerous assumption. The company comes first for them. If you can't or won't fit into their vision then, thanks for everything and good luck.
aka the raging cretinisation of the world or overfitting, from data science jargon; second time in a row I'm forced to write this here on HN, I'm probably overfitted too. :(
Exactly my thought. No way this is real.
"Everyone has a phone and it's always with him/her"

Except me. That's the point. I would much prefer it offer a protocol and let me choose how I wish to use that said protocol. Some people walk around with 1 mobile phone. I have several mobile phones I use at different times and places. Most services permit multiple logins and seamlessly display all information on all devices. Also, at times when I have my computer around, I want my computer to BE my phone, so that everything is consolidated. It's quite ridiculous that I have to peck at a phone when I have a laptop staring at my face. Facebook lets me just use that laptop to continue conversations seamlessly, without even having to carry my phone, and without needing to re-login to anything. And I can move from room to room several dozen times a day, having all conversations simultaneously open in all of my rooms. Information flows with me.

Unfortunately, because WeChat wants to dictate how they think I should use technology, I don't really have a choice but to create separate WeChat accounts on every device, launch Android emulators on PCs, and create a chatroom for every contact I have, inviting all of my other accounts. It's a super-cumbersome way to use technology but they don't offer me a choice.
Front-End Bookmarks
If it's free you're the product. Gee, where have I heard that before? Funny, how things boomerang back to hit you in the ass.
I enjoyed Cahill's book on this topic, but it is a bit of a romantic overstatement of the case. A more balanced perspective here: http://www.theeway.com/skepticc/review05.html
Whose products will you use? Not Google and Microsoft sure, but even Apple has been the subject of similar accusations [1].

Then you're left with the niche stuff. If that has similar flaws you might not even know unless you (or someone in the significantly smaller user base) notice(s) it.

[1] http://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/your-iphone-knows-exactl...
Written in 1933. In the same year, Heidegger joined the Nazi party.

Now go figure who was the most prescient of the two.
It's not an argument against Switzerland, just an argument that women had officially less rights even in rich Western societies until very recently and that it wasn't easy to achieve the current state.
The question I was pondering in the comment was whether the tragic cycle of progress and destruction is true or not. I'd love to learn otherwise - but data paints a bleak picture. It took just about twenty years after the 'war to end all wars' for the second World War to begin. Even though there isn't a World War at the moment, UN recently published a report stating that the displacement of humans due to war and persecution is at an all time high in recorded history (http://www.unhcr.org/558193896.html). The question so is whether we are we simply doomed to repeat history.

But as you noted, there is a degree of hidden bias in my statement. I will be more careful in such thoughts in the future. However, one cannot think about the world in a completely detached manner without making any sort of personal value judgements. We have to ascribe some degree of validity to people's opinions and decisions, and to where we personally stand in that spectrum. It is just that such judgements should be made after deliberation, and not slip in as a patterned thought as I have erred here.
I dug through Eich's story. He was ousted for his donation. I saw no mention of a defense and only people calling for his head because of the donation. Would you have links for reactions to his defense?

Also, the parent argument is that death threats are a disproportionate response, not that they're new.
Pretty sure it's a reference to The Prodigy.
Don't forget France. A politician noticed a PS4 console in a terrorist's room and concluded that that's what they used as a super-secret communication channel. Turns out they used good ol' SMS. Already intercepted. They announced that from now on they'll also intercept the PS4 messaging traffic anyway.

Then there's the plan to put ankle bracelets on "known extremists"...
"Anycast has historically not proven to be useful for stateful protocols in the internet because of the inherent instability of the internet."

Inherent instability meaning packet-switched networking, a.k.a. the most basic mechanism of how the internet works.
Just want to remind everyone that marriage equality is a big deal but more than half of the country was against it in 2008.
Because they didn't bother to read or can't read the scripts.
Nimble add-on to translate for Mozilla Firefox
"If you believe that, I've got a bridge automation script to sell you"
> In fact, without the rising Arab civilization undertaking huge efforts to acquire and preserve what the Western countries were discarding as "unchristian", we would have lost even more knowledge than we did.

Not to discount the advancements of Arab world during this time period, but this is not an either/or thing and is much, much more complex than you are portraying it. Large amounts of knowledge were actually preserved by the church (mostly in monasteries) and the parallel church structure set up during the latter periods of the Western Roman empire helped cushion the decline of the West as Rome shifted East.

The "Dark Ages" were not dark (which is why historians have almost universally quit using that term in favor of "Middle Ages") and are a very complex and interesting time period.

I highly recommend Dan Carlin's excellent Hardcore History episode "Thor's Angels" [0]. He spends four hours talking about just this very specific period (what happened in Europe when Rome declined), and spends lots of time talking about the church's role in stabilizing what could have been a whole lot worse.

[0] http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-41-thors-a...
Imagine polling this forum to identify their heroes and then poll a non-technical forum. Then contrast the two lists for macho qualities. You can probably do this simply by counting the sports heroes.

Admitting that one is not immune to biological influences is really what matters. In this respect, nerds are more mindful. Also, nerds historically belonged to the out-group. Again with mindfulness, we will hopefully sympathize with the out-group even if our recently elevated social status is permanent.
There's been a lot of recent interest in this topic. For example: http://www.amazon.com/The-Fall-Rome-And-Civilization/dp/0192...

Summary is that though Rome didn't fall overnight, there was a massive economic collapse first in the west and then several centuries later in the east (the latter coming on the heals of a devastating outbreak of the plague).
Wolves, coyotes, domestic dogs are another example that comes up in this discussion.
Smalltalk is the future the GUI promised us. But something went wrong in the '80s and we got stuck with file systems, terminal emulators and command line arguments.

Isn't it absolutely crazy that we have laptops with 6-megapixel screens, and we use those capabilities to simulate a 40-year old video terminal that in turn simulates the behavior of an even older line-based Teletype machine? [1]

Programming today is fundamentally the same it was on a PDP-10 many decades ago, except that the unintuitive CLI interfaces have been propped up by fast web search: "Just google it, no big deal."

[1] http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty/
> ...shows how flawed "democracy" is.

As compared to what?
Please feel free to elaborate
Don't forget considering universal healthcare to be an abomination.
not quite. carriers in Israel behaved in the same cartel fashion towards the Israeli market up until not so long ago when the government broke it: http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/.premium-1.65109... (paywall)
Apologies if you did not understand what I was trying to say. Evidently I mistyped but I think it was clear what I was trying to say, but on the basis that you were not able to understand due to my error please let me clarify.

They either didnt check the veracity of their information and protested something they didnt fully understand. Which to me means they didnt really mind what reason they were using to protest there i.e. they didnt believe in the reason given, but that didnt mater as it was just an excuse to use as to why they were doing what they were doing.

OR

They did check and find it to be false but protested anyway because the reason for the protest was never really anything other than an excuse to wander round intimidating people.

In both cases my point was that the reason given was just an excuse, whether it was true or not was not important to the protestors.
Everything has to resolve to an image/representation at the hardware level.

> For that you need the internal representations of two different objects at once, not just their responses to a bunch of methods. If your language is objects all the way down, that's fundamentally impossible.

?

The machine instructions that operate on images are register based. You load the operand image into register(s) and invoke semantic (e.g. addition unsigned 32-bit), storing the result in registers.

Given that fact, your line of thinking would generalize to "there are no object oriented languages", since even getting the length of an array of Ducks must resolve to logical and/or mathematical ops at the machine level.

> .. special code detects ..

That sounds like an optimization to deal with the reality of contemporary hardware.
Preventing sensitive data leaks
I name variables 'old', 'current', and 'new' all the time. Just not in C++/Java.

And why would you want to name a variable 'int'?
There's nothing wrong with profanity.
More discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10611713
"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else." - Winston Churchill
Firefox asks you what you want to share when you first use it (it is a band on the bottom).

They're definitely not hiding it, and you can change it anytime in the option. Again, not hidden at all.
Yes, I am that guy! Glad to hear you enjoyed them :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjalmar_Schacht
It's just another echo chamber. Don't hate the players, hate the game.
There are two separate functions here. Recruiting is one, protecting the owners from the employees is another. Not every company assigns responsibility for recruiting to HR; some make it primarily the responsibility of the hiring team/manager, others have a dedicated recruiting team separate from HR, others outsource and/or spread the responsibility around.

Recruiting (however and by whomever it's done) is essential to your company's ability to create products or services and generate revenue. This is what most people think of when they think about what success means, so it's not surprising that you would think of HR as key team members if you're accustomed to them doing recruiting. However, the other function, of protecting the company's owners from its employees, has nothing to do with the success of the company in that same sense; it doesn't help to generate revenue and may even hinder your progress toward it by separating the company from some of its most productive and creative employees. Instead, this function serves to direct as much of the revenue as possible to the owners of the company rather than employees (and/or their lawyers). Since most people who aren't the owners are focused primarily on products, services, and growing revenue, they don't think about this as being part of "success", so this traditional HR function makes them "the enemy" and an obstacle to success as they define it.

Both views of HR are correct; which is appropriate depends on who you are and on how your company assigns responsibility for recruiting. But make no mistake about it: if you're an employee, as the OP is, the part of the company that protects it from you is not your friend, even if the same people also help you recruit great teammates who help you achieve your goals.
Sure, as talent and willingness to learn is enough to hire someone. It will take about a year until you write "ok" code though.
Home office desk of a Instagram influencer
Shopify real-time orders
TermSuite 2.0 is released  (Terminology extraction, term variant detection)
I've checked, I have "health" and "crash reporter" turned on and "telemetry" turned off, but this connection I've observed to some server named telemetrysomethingmozilla or something such was reestablished after every page load.
They are also sometimes called 'the last piece of England', reflecting both their westerly position and the fact they are a place where some aspects of time have stood still.

The boat that takes tourists there is called 'The Scillonian'.
Amending it to say machine integers doesn't help. There's a neat trick used by at least one language implementation (unfortunately the name escapes me) where the language is fully semantically defined in itself, but where the implementation then "cheats" by recognising certain patterns in the definition and replacing them with lower level machine representations.

So you can have objects all the way down if you like. You just need something (such as an interpreter or compiler) that recognises your own self-consistent definition and swaps out pieces of it for a more reasonable implementation.

Admittedly it might be seen as a bit of a cheat, but I quite like it because it treats the mapping from a logically "pure" model to machine as an implementation issue. I'm working on a Ruby implementation and took the opposite model of having a lower level representation that I can "escape" into to implement the low level details, but I'm tempted to re-implement the small parts of the core that I can't do in pure Ruby to work the same way, as a experiment (though I better actually find some time to finish making it self-hosted first)
"A correction may teach startups to focus less on headline numbers, more on fundamentals."

To me, this is the most important sentence in the article. The amount of hand-waving in this industry is staggering. The point of a business is to create value. Most of us would interpret this as, "create value for a customer." The idea being you then capture the value you've created later on.

There are hundreds... thousands of people working in and running startups that totally miss this mark. "Create value," to them, means, "get an amazing valuation." You know those stories about hyper-competitive MBA-types? There are people around us who base their own self-worth on how much money they raise compared to their peers. I have an inkling that it's becoming a bit of an epidemic.

The article hits the nail on the head in that top-performing firms can't create enough of a signal to be heard over all of this "valuation aggression." How can they compete? Get more narcissistic and play the game everybody else is playing... now we have all the makings of a positive feedback loop. It's easy to forget fundamentals.

I welcome a correction, and I don't think it's pessimistic to do so. It's just economic homeostasis at work. Need to negate that feedback loop at some point. The competent and well-intentioned will be the most likely to survive. It's why we argue for a free market, right? :)