skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would adding delays make the market less turbulent? The standard dynamical systems intuition says that adding delays creates instability. Think about how many stable ODEs have wildly unstable numerical solvers, at least when the step sizes are too high.

Or in terms of project planning, if you have 2 day sprints, you can course correct every 2 days and rapidly approach a usable product. If you have 3 month sprints, you might spend 2.9 months building something totally wrong. 2.9 months of moving the wrong way will get you a LOT further off course than a badly planned 2 day sprint.
I don't know if I am somehow particular guilty of creating factions. Look at this thread or most of the links posted on Facebooks initiative. They are all unbelievable biased and political. (From both sides!)
There is little to no actual argumentative exchange in those pieces. Repetition trumps dialogue in public policy. Just compare it to some technical threads on HN.

Therefore I'd say factions are just a realistic description in this case.

> The very idea of "free basics" is about normalizing the idea that Facebook can prevent who people can access.

I don't know.. You would agree that this is rhetoric? The gesture of reframing other peoples actions towards your critique on it? Consider explaining your local bakeries expansion towards delivery by saying "The very idea of their delivery is about normalizing the idea that you don't go out to buy bread."
It tells us what you want others to believe the bakery is doing instead of what the bakery is actually doing.

While you are right to say that internet providers already exist, I am sure you would agree that this is not introducing your next claim which is "Facebook is abusing their position [...] to manipulate people into supporting their plan."

"Somebody manipulating others for support" is biased rhetorics for "Somebody is lobbying for his cause which I don't like."

Of course they do need lobbying, which is what both sides currently do. Both do things that can be seen as manipulation. It is, however, unconnected to the first part of the sentence. Maybe to make it sound as if there is a causal relationship?

"They can do this because being a gatekeeper of social interaction is one of the most powerful political tools known to man.'

Of course every interest group, big or small, can lobby. But it's probably advisable to name the opponents size if it can be used to create a big against small emotion or to introduce size-based exceptionalism.

> [...]tactics such as lying to users saying their friends support "free basics".

Facebook isn't lying about people pressing their support button and I guess you know that. It's simply a form designed to be sent by users. Software paternalism might be controversial, it however doesn't take away peoples autonomy in deciding to press the blue "send" or "sign" instead of the small grey x. This is also how parts of change.org work.

Of course nudges convert to lies, lobbying converts to propaganda the moment the opposing campaign gets to describe them.

You probably came up with the market thing by reading my profiles joke about economists. However, market theory is only tangentially relevant for the policy decision on banning facebooks initiativ or the analysis of it's consequences. This is also true for the "the homo economicus is wrong" and the "but there's no perfect information" memes.
There's a saying that I heard recently that seems applicable here:

Happiness is an emotion; joy is an attitude.
Canada tried the transaction tax - it was a loser, and resulted in retail investors paying 9% more to trade.

http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/pub/faculty/milne/322/IIROC_FeeCh...

Most of your other suggestions would probably have the same effect.
golang didn't show up? My thoughts are because of it's name makes it hard to identify correctly, possibly?
Cyber-Terror: How real is the threat? Squirrels are more of a danger
True, but spending time meditating would inevitably be reducing something else - even if it's just an equivalent of goofing off on HN.

If you enjoy meditating, or think there's a sufficiently high chance of benefits from it, you won't mind. But if you remain sufficiently unconvinced, why spend time on it when you could enjoy more free time instead, just because someone else is convinced there is value in it? To me it seems less an interesting thing I'm eager to try, and more a new chore or exercise I'd have to take up, so the time spent wouldn't be taken straight out of the activities with the least utility - more likely out of "daily/weekly maintenance habits" time. So it would really need to be more effective than whatever I usually would have done instead. If I'm going to spend an extra 10 minutes/day on a new habit, is meditation going to be the most effective one?

It's a similar argument to why I wouldn't spend an hour a week going to church, just because someone else thought it would benefit me with little downside risk. Sure, it might, but I'd need more convincing before I decided to put the time in.
>NeXT, for all its technical merit, was a repeated commercial failure. It failed as hardware, it failed as an OS for other people's hardware, and then it failed as developer tools of other people's OSes.

Well, we seem to forget that OS X 10.0 is basically NeXT with a new skin. So it might have failed as an "OS for other people's hardware" meaning PCs, but it did phenomenally well with Apple's hardware.

And even the "failed" NeXT company got sold for a cool half billion, an order of magnitude better than e.g. BeOS ($11 million).

And NeXT's itself market performance was OK enough to allow it to live and reach several versions all these years up to 1997 until it was bought.
Lots of questions asked. Only 4 questions answered.
I'm not a fan of payment for order flow. The problem is that it lets HFTs pick off the uninformed orders, leaving the orders that actually reach the exchange more "toxic". This lowers the incentive for others to rest orders on the Central Limit Order Book, harming price discovery. So while in the short term no one is harmed, the long-run consequences could be bad.

With that said, yeah, the NYT piece is terrible.
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There were no constructive comments when I posted my message.
I was not sending anyone anywhere, I was notifying that there is a duplicate with the same URL. Personally, every time I submit a new recent story I make sure it hasn't been submitted before.

Anyways, I think this case with URLs not being completely the same but directing to the same page should be pointed out and discussed.

My submission linked to:

https://medium.com/@networksecurity/oleoutlook-bypass-almost...

While this submission links to:

https://medium.com/@networksecurity/oleoutlook-bypass-almost...

Whereas just:
https://medium.com/@networksecurity/oleoutlook-bypass-almost...

would suffice.

Doesn't this leave room for multiple "spammy" posts?
That's a pretty incredible read. Anybody in a start-up either as a founder or a current CEO should read this and take it to heart. That took real guts to write, much more so than your average start-up post mortem or 'I messed up' post.
Lots of good advice on this question for Quora [1]: "I am in my late 20s and feel I have wasted a lot of time. Is it too late for me to achieve something worthwhile?".

Tl;dr: no, it's definitely not late. But doing nothing about it won't help. The secret is to start.

[1] https://www.quora.com/I-am-in-my-late-20s-and-feel-I-have-wa...
Not in the browser, but there is the open-source MakeHuman:

http://www.makehuman.org/
Yes i like coding
The benefits of high income levels tend to compound across generations.
Users don't always use all of their apps apps every day. If you go to the app 20 days after updating the OS, good luck remembering the OS update 3 weeks ago and deducing it was that which broke it.

Especially since, with the ability for apps to upgrade automatically, many don't even keep track when this or that app was updated.

Of course it usually is even more obscure, e.g. the bug only affects PART of the app's functionality, a part which you might have not invoked in your last run before the OS update. So, another deduction for many would be that that feature works intermittently because it's not coded well, etc.

Besides, even when the user can deduce that the OS broke the app, they don't complain to Apple, but to the software maker "fix your app", "where's the update release?", etc.
Ahhh, you're right (here from .au I kind of automatically substitute "National Parks" for "BLM", cause that's a reasonable close translation to our local government nomenclature. I forget Natioanl Parks and BLM aren't synonyms.)
I've done the work before to make rails 3.2 work on 2.2. I recall the problem is due to a breaking Bcrypt name change and Yaml serialization, and it's a one line patch. The maintainers are aware of the issue but held back so as to not break every 3.2 installation on a minor upgrade (would have to be called Rails 3.3 for semver?). Rails 4.0 isnt that hard of an upgrade path if you include the attraccessible gem.
This seems to be a upping the ante from Facebook, as a response to the earlier petitions against internet.org and zero-rated apps.

I feel so angry at their persistence in this case. My feeling at this time is for the SaveTheInternet petitioners to also up the ante in return, by starting a movement to get people off Facebook.

As such it was lucky that WhatsApp founders did not have the bxxls to wait another year, when they could have acquired FB instead. All my school friends use WhatsApp more over here. And recently I am seeing increasing no. of people sign up on Telegram. (WhatsApp groups suck, that's another story, but kind of suggest that social networks are far from done. FB is perhaps the version 0.1 in social network maturity)

We should convey a clear message to Facebook, play fair or pack up. Early. I am glad I did not login to that stupid thing for over 3 months now.

PS: I have signed this petition as well as at least one earlier. I request other people based in India to do the same.

edit: minor
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HTC One X9 has been released in China
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People lose money in the market because of bad timing (buying high selling low) and poor strategy (buying energy stocks in 2014, for eample), not because of dark polls and stuff like that.
Meditation is not pseudoscience, this topic has been brought up multiple times in HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=meditation https://hn.algolia.com/?q=mindfulness

If you read the HN threads you will find countless people talking about how meditation has helped them from their personal experiences.

Meditation has a lot of benefits and the results have been scientifically validated by different groups of researchers:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005789407...
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00845519
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1361002/
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/01/eight-weeks-to...

A recent research even showed that meditation is more powerful than a placebo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10789738

If you are still skeptical, watch this video by Dan Harris, a skeptical news reporter turned meditation evangelist, it convinced me to meditate everyday and I think it'll convince you too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAcTIrA2Qhk
McAfee will run as Libertarian Party candidate for president
Startup Tales: We just rejected a funding offer. Here’s why
Ask HN: Hosting a Java Spring web application
A self-taught newbie here who would like to know where to host his Spring web application. This is more than a hobby application. Do I go for the cloud and, in that case, is Pivotal Web Services the best? Or, do I go with a VPS host? In the latter case, which host would be good for a non hobby app for a newbie? Last time I was here, someone suggested Webfaction. At the moment, I am not sure whether that would actually be a good idea.
They thrive in water, but adapted to be able to withstand dry periods by desiccating and stopping their metabolism (you could say their life is suspended, really) and resuming when water returns.
In their dry state (anhydrobiosis/cryptobiosis) there's not really anything that would violently evaporate in a vacuum and thus destroy cell structure, like there is in live cells, and they repair DNA damage after they rehydrate, so they're not harmed much by vacuum or ionizing radiation.
I can't imagine python's BC run faster than a binary (C# sometimes can, but python?).

Care to elaborate how do you picture that happening?
Why don't you edit it?
Meditation is not a unitary practice. There are important forms of meditation that involve extreme concentration on a single object, inducing unimaginably strong "tunnel vision."

For an obvious example, consider the kasina practice of old-school Theravada Buddhism.

http://web.archive.org/web/20031230220324/http://www.birken....

Breath concentration is done in a similar way, but with the sensation of the breath as the object of fixation rather than a colored disc.
I don't understand why all or nothing is a reasonable demand. If that's your demand, then pay up or otherwise convince the telcos like fb has. What's wrong with that?

I do understand why telcos won't give all internet for free. In fact I'm amazed fb got them to allow any chat app at all, given that it'll kill SMS.

What I'm asking is why is potentially raising entry costs in the Indian market worth, morally speaking, denying internet to millions of people?
The only dignity the phrase "3D printing" ever had came from hobbyists, the ones building repraps in their basements. You're confusing hobbyists with popularity - 3D printing became a meaningless buzzword only when media and marketing got wind of it and the concept hit mainstream. Industrial technologies used in the past were not even called "3D printing" before that.
Relevant, from a former DNC Tech Director https://medium.com/@joshhendler/why-the-bernie-breach-isn-t-...
> it's not like many 19-year-old web pages are still around and serving working links either.

Define many.

mysql geocities
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 93532573
Server version: 5.0.45-log Source distribution

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

mysql> select count(*) from master;
+----------+
| count(*) |
+----------+
| 44366377 |
+----------+
1 row in set (0.01 sec)

mysql>

If 44 odd million qualifies as many then there are many such pages, and there are many more besides the ones that weren't caught here and on the archive. The old web is very much around, it is just tiny compared to the new web which is one of the reasons people think it has disappeared.

Yes, old pages do die permanently, but achive.org is doing an absolutely outstanding job at capturing it. The bigger cause of information mortality is not neglect but outright murder, and murder on 'the open web' is a lot harder than murder in a walled garden.

AOL is a special case, and facebook is trying very very hard to be the new AOL. Don't underestimate the risks of not learning from the past, the author is in my opinion not so much dancing on the grave of AOL as they are warning us about our possible future.
That's too bad realy..

I think I'll just contact a few startups around here to see what they're up to
No worse than a lobster.
Perl 6 finally released
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Actually, Hacker News sometimes invites submitters to resubmit a story that is highly relevant but didn't get traction. So, it's natural that resubmissions sometimes occur. (Although that's not the case here.)

I think it's indeed only worthwhile pointing to an existing thread if there is already a valuable discussion.
The tricky thing is that it's such a personal, subjective, experiential activity that it seems likely that any amount of scientific PDFs would remain unconvincing.

"I keep hearing people talk about how lime is so tasty, but why should I spend my hard-earned money on a citrus fruit until I've seen convincing evidence that it's actually tasty?"

I'm interested in how people make decisions about what to do. Especially considering how the frontiers of science are so difficult to keep track of. Like, if you were to base your diet on recent nutrition research, you'd have to spend hours every day just reviewing the literature, and you'd probably have to change your diet every week to accomodate for new findings, contradictions, etc.

To me it seems like people are most likely to just go by their own intuitive desires and preferences, using science at most to validate and confirm what they already wanted based on other factors. So, bluntly speaking, someone who is really fascinated by "spiritual" stuff will google for "meditation benefits pdf" and someone who wants to do other things with their time will look out for criticisms and "FUD."

Mostly I'd just make the point that if you try and sit quietly for ten minutes on three consecutive days, that's a negliglible time spent to try for yourself something that a lot of people say is significantly nice in some way—and that's probably a more efficient use of time than to try and look through the available scientific evidence.
What? Corporations have been successfully (well, except for this issue) blocking executable content in email from a long time now.
I was working on this at one time back in late 2014. A bunch of people used scripts I made to start downloading all the file areas. Then... AOL removed the files in January 2015. They also removed support for AOL 4.0 or 5.0 and below last April, and that was the version that a very incomplete Python client was claiming to be.

The research I did into archiving AOL helped me find this: http://lizardhq.org/2015/12/05/aol-desktop.html

Hopefully I'll do enough reversing to fix and finish the custom client one day. Newer clients wrap the login and just the login in some form of SSL/TLS. Which I still need to figure out.

Maybe people can help. There's a channel at efnet #aohell and plenty of information on the archiveteam wiki.
The original article link to http://www.SaveTheInternet.in is actually to http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.SaveTheIntern...

That looks like a link where facebook has replaced the link to the website with their own URL for tracking purposes. As a consequence they have to prevent open redirect attacks - https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Open_redirect .

Yes the same system can be used for censorship - but facebook can do that anyway because you're sharing links through a platform they have total control over.

The irony (of using a facebook tracking url to promote an anti-facebook site) is beautiful.
It's an advertorial written by the CIO of Yale. Yale is backing IEX.
No actual Word doc is involved here - only the pretense of one. This is functionality supported by Outlook directly.
In that case I guess my trouble with your point of view lies not with the "at some point" phrase but rather with the generalization implied by "any discussion". That argument is almost always used against people who complain about spoilers, and sadly it's often insultingly non-understanding. I'm not saying that all discussion are spoilers. While my personal wish is to not know anything about a movie before seeing it (which I have never regretted afterwards, by the way – the opposite, having advance knowledge, has not hurt the experience always, but it has never ever improved it), I realize that this is hard to achieve and requires me to take care of that, not everyone else. As you mention, that would impose too much of a burden on everyone else.

But that does not mean there is not still a lot of stuff that really should be considered spoilers, and the complaints about these should not be brushed off just because you think I expect you to not mention anything about a movie. I think it's a very valid criticism when the article in question reveals something that even the trailers kept unknown by never showing that person, without any need for it in the context of the article. It's like saying "The Sixth Sense, where he was dead all along, was quite good, I loved the cinematography." a week after that movie was released. While I personally would not have wanted to know about the cinematographical quality either, I realize I can't complain about hearing something like that when reading a review or when I'm not fleeing a discussion of the movie quickly enough. I never would complain about that. But I'm sure I'm not the only one who would be pretty annoyed to read said plot detail in an article about e.g. "The decline of quality in M. Night Shyamalan movies" a week after that movies release.

To sum it up: I agree with your basic point, but I think too often people that are fine with spoilers don't care about the fact that other people have a different level of acceptance and when confronted with that simply resort to saying "Well, it's silly to have this level of acceptance."
I watched the first couple seasons and it really is a good show. I have been wanting to get caught up, but no time lately.
I keep hearing that it has improved, but I still can't believe that after I watched about half of the first season when it released. I guess your comment is the last straw :D
Password: "6 digits minimum with at least one upper and lower case and one numerical digit."

Can you please change this? A minimum length should be all that's required.
Many of the books look interesting, but there are simply too many given my backlog. Anyone have an idea of 2 or 3 books that are must-read material from the list?
The article is full of examples of meditation being used to treat mental and physical ill-health.

>> Putting meditation to the test

>> “Training allows us to transform the mind, to overcome destructive emotions and to dispel suffering,” says Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard.

>> and tested the effects of different meditative practices on cognition, behaviour, physical and emotional health and brain plasticity.

>> It suggests that meditation can indeed change aspects of your psychology, temperament and physical health in dramatic ways.

>> watching for changes in their mental abilities, psychological health and physiology.

>> at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore,

>> meditation seems to have an effect on emotional well-being. A second study from researchers with the Shamatha project, to appear in the journal Emotion, concluded that meditation improves general social and emotional functioning, making study participants less anxious, and more aware of and better able to manage their emotions.

>> The ability to manage one’s emotions could also be key to why meditation can improve physical health. Studies have shown it to be an effective treatment for eating disorders, substance abuse, psoriasis and in particular for recurrent depression and chronic pain.

etc etc.
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The first season is definitely the worst of the lot, that's always annoying. Like I said, the first impressions are very "generic monster-of-the-week procedural". The season 1 finale is one amazing piece of work, though, and it only gets better from there.
> Additionally there is no indication that "intelligence" beyond human level is at all possible.

I think there's a lot of evidence that modern humans are far from the upper limit:

1) Humans are the stupidest possible creatures that can build a technological civilization, otherwise it would have happened earlier in evolutionary history.

2) Human brain size is limited by the birth canal.

3) The human brain uses less than a lightbulb's worth of power.

4) John Von Neumann made many amazing accomplishments, and we managed to get him by genetic lottery starting from normal humans.