skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yes one's own experience is always anecdotal and due to perception bias we believe our personal experience to be significant. You're not special, we pretty much all do this.

Please define active user as it could mean anything, then again don't, as number of used (which is more appropriate than users for facebook) and advertising dollars are hardly valid metrics for bringing people together and positive life changing.
Turns out you are right actually, some are suffering through the experience and feel they are forced to use facebook[1][2][2], note that they are mostly in the same demographic group which happen to be the next generations of adults.

This tin foil hat edge case is a boat that has sailed a while ago, facebook is a major privacy problem[3][4][5] and as we know privacy is the foundation for liberty and freedoms. But Facebook is also censorship[6][7] and manufacturing public opinion[8].

Not only that, but contrary to your personal experience facebook usually makes people miserable and feel bad about themselves[9][10][11][12] and other personal experience point to it being bad and getting worse at giving you the meaningful posts[13].

If you care about your loved ones and family you should help them get away from facebook[14][15], not trap them in by putting all you interactions with them there.

[1]: https://medium.com/backchannel/a-teenagers-view-on-social-me...

[2]: http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/05/22/teenagers_ha...

[2]: http://mashable.com/2013/08/11/teens-facebook/

[3]: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/it-security/why-you-should-...

[4]: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/23/1218189/-HBGary-Pal...

[5]: http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/06/the-online-privacy-lie-is-u...

[6]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/01...

[7]: https://www.aclu.org/blog/naked-statue-reveals-one-thing-fac...

[8]: https://medium.com/message/engineering-the-public-289c913902...

[9]: http://www.npr.org/2012/10/18/163098594/in-constant-digital-...

[10]: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563214...

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/mar/17/facebook-d...

[11]: http://qz.com/546799/a-study-forced-people-to-quit-facebook-...

[12]: http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/2158359...

https://hbr.org/2011/12/facebook-is-making-us-miserabl

[13]: https://www.refheap.com/ee96f4d90abd10b643cee0448

[14]: http://saintsal.com/facebook/

[15]: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/andrewbrown/2010/ma...
You can compute things lazily upon need.
From “Think Like a Vertex” to “Think Like a Graph” (2013) [pdf]
Sorry, I'm is not registered user of that SN, but periodic getting spam emails about invitation. Hope that without any motives.

Thinking beware with gifts ...
I noticed the same thing, though it looks like the DOI works correctly now. There must have been some delay in the online publication going live.
Building data processing and visualisation pipelines in the browser
> Wants secure webserver
> Uses IIS
I found how it handles turns: http://labanlab.osu.edu/Turnfolder/turns_expframe.html

I couldn't find notations for partner dances, however designing notations for contacts shouldn't be difficult. Notations for lead and follow more so.
> Hence: make trains longer (and extend platforms), or make them wider (which requires to expand the tunnels).

Neither of these are possible with any realistic budget, and the year-long line closures for the latter would be intolerable.

It's much cheaper to build a new line — for example, Crossrail and Crossrail 2.
Cool, but why does it need permission to access my microphone?
Quote from the article: Mark Zuckerberg did not donate $45 billion to charity. You may have heard that, but that was wrong. Here’s what happened instead: Mr. Zuckerberg created an investment vehicle.

In doing so, Mr. Zuckerberg and Ms. Chan did not set up a charitable foundation, which has nonprofit status. He created a limited liability company, one that has already reaped enormous benefits as public relations coup for himself. His P.R. return-on-investment dwarfs that of his Facebook stock. Mr. Zuckerberg was depicted in breathless, glowing terms for having, in essence, moved money from one pocket to the other.

An L.L.C. can invest in for-profit companies (perhaps these will be characterized as societally responsible companies, but lots of companies claim the mantle of societal responsibility). An L.L.C. can make political donations. It can lobby for changes in the law. He remains completely free to do as he wishes with his money. That’s what America is all about. But as a society, we don’t generally call these types of activities “charity.” (End of quote)
Such as Queinnec's Lisp in Small Pieces (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_in_Small_Pieces)
> a world-class brain surgeon can believe that the pyramids were constructed to store grain

Carson is a world-class surgeon trying to convince whatever subset of the Republicans (a) can decide the outcome of the primary and (b) aren't already secured by Trump.

He probably says whatever nonsense he thinks will please rednecks with a 90 IQ and an sinking feeling that "their" country and its core values are being pulled from under their feet.

And I can understand if he's a hard time empathising with people who think that >6k years ago, when pyramids where built, the Earth didn't even exist.

TL;DR: I think/hope he's failing at understanding plebeians, not Life. It might be wishful thinking because I don't want to live in a world where someone could be both so smart and so dumb.
(The movie. Not the decidedly pro-robot novel.)
I always found the American system of speed limits ending in 5 a bit weird. If you have a modern car that has a speedo going to 150 or maybe even 180 miles an hour, the distance between 20mph and 30mph on the dial is 1-2mm, so tiny that it's really hard to stay in that spot right between them to follow a 25mph limit
It is already is better..... Proprietary tools sustain because of better marketing, and legacy costs (retaining staff to do things in a different way)

Often when people talk about open source "not being as good" what they really mean is "not being the exact same" if a button is in a different spot or something is named differently that is perceived as being "worse" because for the most part people hate change.
This is great. I recently had to create a prototype application for a charity with offices in a developing country and this would have been a perfect fit. I don't have access to GitHub at the moment but I wonder how far along their implementation of the 'off-line first' sync mechanism is, this is a non-trivial thing to implement.

I had a quick look at the demo and it looks like the development is in the early stages- a bit of (hopefully constructive) feedback: I think they (you?) may be trying to attempt to do (and cover) too many clinical disciplines at the same time- maybe implement individual modules (like patient registration) and test them in all (old!) browsers in more detail before moving on to the next. Also think long and hard about how you implement your data model (clinical indicators e.g. blood pressure often have a context and are temporal values, how do you model these?). This is a great effort and has lots of potential.

EDIT: also, the name seems to suggest to me like there is a run on hospitals- but that may be a personal thing.
Here is a strawman, because I want to challenge the other parallel universe.

Let's say this whole pledge thing didn't exist and the only thing that GAFE promise is no ads. Now let's supposed Google is collecting and anonymizing usage data, like most sofwares do, is that a big deal? Since 99% of the people won't read the ToS and most people assume some level of usage data will be collected, what would be people's stand on that?

I think, Google's stand on the current issue is that they disagree their intent violate the pledge. They would argue data collection is anonymized, and like most software out there (Chrome, FireFox, etc) these are telemetry (and all sorts) collected. For Google the collection is for regular development purpose. Perhaps they will argue that they did not do a good job at making a "disable me" option, and that they didn't make that clear to their customers. I supposed EFF just doesn't trust Google handling the data in the first place, since Google can lie about not logging the individual user name in some server's log file.
This is not Letsencrypt!!!

https://letsencrypt.org/
Could you link to them please as I work at an MIS company that moved from open to closed source and wondering if our old codebase is still out there.

This project looks good, but it does remind me of the issues with management systems for public services. With the level of requests we deal with from school users that "need" features to satisfy management/governors/government it makes it very hard to do open source and be suitable.
The iPhone message chime is the same note as the Sloop John B intro
A thousand years earlier: What do you propose as the alternative to feudalism?
> ...the distance between 20mph and 30mph on the dial is 1-2mm, so tiny that it's really hard to stay in that spot right between them to follow a 25mph limit

You are doing it wrong. You do not need to stay "in that spot" - you only need to ensure you are not speeding. For most drivers, this is not hard, and if you are not able to do it, perhaps you should not be driving.
Reacting to People’s Careers the Way They React to Me Becoming a Mathematician
EFF complains about students’ personal information Google talks about stuff it does after completely removing information about individual users.
Am I the only one who thinks the Westminster station feels like the inside of the Death Star?
You honestly can not see the difference between a text book and being required to use software tools that are continually collecting data about you outside of your control...
Marin Todorov – What’s in for Us After the Indiepocalypse?
The UK and the US have no moral standing in this world as long as they continue to remain quiet and continually support and trade with this backwards country.
That's not what compliance is about in the medical field.
It's an advert. I wouldn't look too deep into it.
> I wonder how far along their implementation of the 'off-line first' sync mechanism is, this is a non-trivial thing to implement.

The are using PouchDB + CouchDB for offline first / syncing which is how I came to notice it (I am a maintainer for PouchDB). So their ability to sync should be reliable and well tested and if not then its bugs for us to fix :)
I do not necessarily have an issue with using proprietary software; I have an issue with being forced to use proprietary software. I do not think a valid comparison can be drawn to being forced into using a specific textbook. There is nothing "active" about a textbook unlike software. There is nothing hidden away from me that I am unable to see in the textbooks. Any biases or malicious activity will be visible and avoidable. In proprietary software this is not the case.
Testing pre-commit with git
I especially like how you skipped past the entire point of my post - that speed limits ending in 5 make little sense, and that's the point I wanted to discuss. Whether I can stay below the limit or not was neither mentioned, nor has any impact on this discussion.
That's not necessary. If we assume that both juries and judges pick the correct verdict with a certain probability independent of what the correct verdict is, then all that is required that the jury has a higher probability of being wrong than the judge.
That's a good point, but an issue I will have to face when that time comes. Being accepted into school isn't a solution to my problem with the public education system, but a temporary out.
Let asynchronous I/O happen in Node.js by returning control back to event loop
It's probably even way worse. I think it was one of the gravity wave experiments and they talked about how they picked up signals from people walking in neighboring building, cars driving on the highway and even the ocean waves hitting the beach while the beach was fifty or a hundred or so kilometers away. Maybe it's as simple as a high pass filter but I'd also like to know more about the details.

EDIT: It was probably not this exact article [1] but it matches my memories pretty well. They also mention some of the countermeasures.

[1] http://www.nature.com/news/physics-wave-of-the-future-1.1556...
Isn't this a privacy issue? There are some very small GP offices. From the HSCIC FAQ:

I am prescribed a drug for a rare condition; can I be identified in this dataset?

All practice level information down to presentation level is being released, but no
information about patients is contained in the data. It is not possible to identify
individual patients in the data.
In line with the recent High Court ruling on the release of abortion statistics, data can
be released unless an individual can be identified from the data or from other data
that is already in the public domain. The release of practice level prescribing data
does not enable the identification of individual patients.
If you are the only patient receiving a certain drug in your practice then the number
of items prescribed and their cost for that medicine will be in this dataset but it will
not show which patient received it. Note that information about the price of drugs is
already available in the public domain.

That last paragraph doesn't make sense. I can easily imagine someone who knows a friend/relative has a rare condition using a data source like this to see how often it's being prescribed, and (perhaps) whether they're taking the medicine as often as they're supposed to.
Well with self driving cars coming, will they be able to determine if they should let you take control? The technology to monitor eye movement is there and being able sense alcohol on your breath would not be that hard to pull off just by it sampling.

Listened to the whole 911 and the patience of the operator was just great.

"Sorry Mr. Peters, I cannot allow you take control of the car at this time, continued attempts to do so will result in total shutdown or notification of the authorities"
Pakistan lawyer files for return of Koh-i-Noor diamond
>a legally enforceable document whereby companies promise to refrain from collecting, using, or sharing students’ personal information

>This is not connected to any specific person

How can data not connected to any specific person be considered personal information? I mean what's bad here, the fact they collect it and then scrap the personal information? Or the fear they probably don't?
Teaching your 9th grader to prioritize and make his/her own decisions might be the most useful thing you can do.
Building a l2tp/IPsec VPN based around a OpenBSD head-end – Part 1
> 12 Tender Japaneses

The only thing I can find googling this is a worldwar 2 aircraft carrier. Can I have the original title in romanji I want to see if it has been dubbed or subtitled.
World of Commodore 2015: December 5 in Toronto
I love Westminster station! To me it's more like the 'real world' from the matrix though - so not dissimilar to the Death Star.
That is great :) As a complete newbie on the subject- does the offline caching use HTML5 browser storage or something like that? I can imagine there may be a limit on the amount of data that can be stored? It's not unusual for an internet connection to be cut out an entire day :)
I think this is one of the things targeted by running through a check list (like flying). Could that approach help for code?
It's also interesting to see the graph of contributors (https://github.com/apple/swift/graphs/contributors). I noticed for example that Slava Pestov (The creator of the Factor programming language) has made a number of commits. Apple has hired some really smart people to work on Swift!

Edit: Also jckarter the creator of the Clay programming language is in there too!
I'm not surprised. The very notion of a "jury of your peers" is fundamentally flawed.

Imagine how dumb the average person is. Now realise that half of them are even dumber than that.

Now imagine you've got a firing-squad of these morons deciding your fate for you, with no legal training and empty stomachs.
This is a great initiative, I logged in the beta and tried a few things, which mostly worked, although somewhat slow. Probably a lot of hospital administrators active now :-)

What surprised me most is that the UI does not seem to be mobile responsive, and does not work well on smartphones. I would have guessed that in developing countries mobile use would be hugely important?
Because a large number of sites use Bootstrap, Materialize, or one of a small set of base themesets.
In Ireland (where I live) most primary school teachers are women, and most bus drivers are men. How do you measure autodidacticism among teachers and bus drivers? This is an interesting idea, but the fact that it only applies to very specific fields of endeavour suggests that it's not terribly useful
Even there, I guess there are regulations in place.

If they are followed is another matter.
Use a red circular light if the robot is being controlled by AI of course
It doesn't date that far back, really. Mac people used to be very keen on lecturing others that they were also using a "PC", as recently as the late 90s. One swift ad campaign in mid-00s changed that completely.
If you don't understand what I'm saying -- and that could be entirely my fault -- you can just ask. If you (mistakenly) assume that by 2 + 2 I mean the expression "2 + 2" rather than the computation 2 + 2, why not assume that you may have missed something (which is the actual case) rather than assume that I don't understand the basics (which is not)?

Since I don't wish to discuss this topic further with rude people, but I do wish to explain my point to other readers, I'll note that the entire concept of computational complexity, which is probably the most important concept in all of computer science (and is at the very core of computation itself -- there can be no computation without computational complexity), is predicated on the axiom that in computation 2+2 does not equal 4 (in the sense that they are "the same"), but is computed to be 4. If 2+2 were actually 4, there would be no computational complexity (and so no computation).

As a matter of fact, an entire model, or definition of computation (another is the Turing Machine) called lambda calculus is entirely based on the concept that substitution is not equality in the theory of computation, by defining computation to be the process of substitution (which is what lambda calculus calls reductions). If 4 and 2+2 were the same (as they are in classical math), there would be no process, and the lambda calculus would not have been a model of computation but simply a bunch of trivial (classical) mathematical formulas.

Indeed, some people confuse the LC notation with classical mathematical notation (which it resembles), and mistakenly believe that 2+2 equals 4 in LC in the same sense that it does in math (I assume because the same reductions preserve equality in math). This is wrong (in LC reductions do not preserve "sameness" but induce -- or rather, are -- computation). To their defense, LC does make this fundamental distinction easy to miss in hiding 100% of what it is meant to define -- namely, computation -- in operations that classical mathematicians associate with equality[1], and in itself does not have a useful formulation of complexity[2]. Nevertheless, those people might ignore computational complexity, which is the same as ignoring computation itself, and while they may turn out to be great mathematicians, you would not want them specifying or writing your traffic signal or air-traffic control software.

[1]: Although I believe most notations take care to not separate consecutive reductions with the equal sign but with an arrow or a new line, precisely to signify that reduction is not equality. Also, unlike in math, LC reductions are directional, and some substitutions can't be reversed. In this way, LC does directly represent one property of time: it's directionality.

[2]: The challenge complexity poses to LC is great, and only in 2014 was it proven that it is not just a model of computation but one of a "reasonable machine": http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.3311
We recently used Kobo Toolbox (http://www.kobotoolbox.org) for a health related survey in a developing country... The Ministry of Health required the data stored locally to be encrypted on the device and during sync (not just over https), which caused some problems for deployment. That will be an absolute requirement from any gov that looks to adopt the tech. Not sure if it was a PouchDB or Kobo shortcoming.
Yahoo's 'seemingly permanent decline': is this the end for the once-mighty firm?
Those pictures really looked a lot like the newer stations such as Canada Water to me. All concrete, glass and cold lighting. Undoubtedly they work and are functional but we end up with these cold, cavernous halls which serve just to get you out of them as quickly as possible. The Underground I love is the one that feels a bit lived in and isn't clinically perfect. I like that different stations can bring different eras and have a completely different feel to them. Such as Tottenham Court Road [1] with its lovely mosaics. Now it's just a bit more bland. All over the Underground is a lot of history and design that was probably never meant to last over 100 years [2] but it did. I don't think these new designs are going to be pretty in 100 years.

Maybe I'm harking for a design philosophy that never really existed. And I like the old District line trains so what do I know!

[1] http://now-here-this.timeout.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/...

[2] http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dILlxEDvx20/UkwfeIhKOyI/AAAAAAAAAu...
Not a relevant comment for the article, but when I saw the title I was expecting a DNA sequencing experiment.
Unspecified, so legally murky. But there's a notion of "implied license", so someone using the code could argue that "openly putting it somewhere publicly" constitutes and implicit license grant.

Note by the way that you are ALREADY explicitly granting some rights by putting it on GitHub:

We claim no intellectual property rights over the material you provide to the Service. Your profile and materials uploaded remain yours. However, by setting your pages to be viewed publicly, you agree to allow others to view your Content. By setting your repositories to be viewed publicly, you agree to allow others to view and fork your repositories.

Arguing that this constitutes an implicit license to use this code probably wouldn't be too hard. However trying to relicense/redistribute is less likely. In the end this will have to be decided by a judge in court.
But you seem to be claiming that spacetime is unlikely to be quantized because the Planck length or Planck time, i.e. the quanta of length in spacetime, would be contracted in different reference frames. Therefore Planck units of length/time wouldn't be frame invariant - they'd depend upon your inertial reference frame. So claiming Planck units are frame independent violates the idea that spacetime can't be quantized (at least for the reason you stated), since the quanta would experience relativistic contraction and dilation. The explanation seems to go against your original comment.

Edit: I may have given the wrong impression - when I said "Planck units" I meant quanta of space, time, area, etc. Not "natural units" where all relevant physical constants are taken to equal one. It appears the term "Planck units" refers to one of multiple sets of natural units, of which I was not aware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_units#Planck_units
Gelly: Large-Scale Graph Analysis with Apache Flink [video]
C# hasn't looked like Java since probably version 3. Standard idiomatic C# code looks more like dynamic scripting language with each new version, especially v4 and v5. Comparisons to Java are outdated.

I think C# is a great language and wish it was more popular than it is. Shame it's so tied to Windows and .NET.
Part 2

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/data/library/techarticle/d...