skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think some sites do cruder checks for the addons themselves, so that whitelisting everything still doesn't work.
Fascinating. I agree with the analysis that the Internet is giving more power to 'voters' because the content that gets talked about the most (and thus voted on) is the one they consume the most. However, I think there's some nuance needed with that model.

The collective group of US megamedia companies have the means to focus public attention on topics they want, even if the population normally wouldn't be amenable. I don't think it's as cut and dry as 'I, a rational person with wholly my own thoughts and feelings, consume and internalize the media I want rather than what's shown to me.' Rather, the media I am exposed to plays a part in shaping my beliefs, even if it's subconscious, and media companies have strategies to get their stuff in my face.

As a population, the Internet has both given us a wealth of information and taught us to rely more and more on intuition as the sheer quantity of knowledge is far too much to handle.

As a side note, Facebook has already admitted to toying with its users emotions. I would not be very surprised if they have some 'variables' they can 'tweak' to bias their users. The authors benevolent assumption could just very well be wrong.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/technology/facebook-tin...
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The burying part is just (materials|nuclear|mining) engineering and it's practical. The forecasting and risk modelling over > 100k years is the uncertain part, even in deep bedrock in very seismically stable areas. IIRC the documentary makes a point about how difficult it is to signal to post apocalyptic stone age generations 100k years in the future not to go there.

Though many people think the used fuel will get dug up before then to be reprocessed into fuel...
> I keep thinking about designing a functional language with stack allocation, though...

You might be interested in concatenative programming, effectively a modern functional take on Forth-like languages. Factor is a mature, dynamically typed concatenative language, with an excellent interactive environment reminiscent of Smalltalk. I have also been working on a statically typed concatenative language for a while now.
> Think about it, have YOU ever seen it?

Uh, yes? Hiroshi Ishiguro's creepy robot double in the original article, just for starters.

> We've all seen videos, but no real life robots in the uncanny valley.

Wait, what? Are you saying that a thing that looks creepy in videos is no indication that the same thing will look creepy in real life? I don't understand.
I was wondering, is Moneyball actually a good read in case you are not American and not really familiar with Baseball? (because I liked some of Michael Lewis' other books).

Btw, there's an upcoming Coursera course on Mathletics/Moneyball: https://www.coursera.org/course/mathletics
Unmentioned in the article - Curl supports --resolve, this single feature helps us test all sorts of scenarios for HTTPS and hostname based multiplexing where DNS isn't updated or consistent yet, e.g. transferring site, bringing up cold standbys, couldn't live without it (well I could if I wanted to edit /etc/hosts continuously)
Definitely a kind gesture from this CEO considering that some people won't even leave a tip when they're served wild caught fish by a minimum wage employee at their favorite restaurant, however, this is a first-world donation. Sure, we shouldn't judge his donation on how much he sacrificed personally, but IMHO it would have more impact to human progress if he actually sold the stock to help refugees that actually are in need of housing, bread, and water.

If what I wrote above doesn't make sense to you, perhaps the following quote will resonate with you: "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have little." -Franklin D. Roosevelt
"users increasingly find all their news [...] via Facebook"

Mind-boggling!
When you use the "royal 'you'," inevitably someone will take offense, that they aren't like that. These sentences can usually be rephrased with "I."
I've started to prefer (including by using it to influence where I spend money) companies that grow the old fashioned way: Make some money and use it to make a little more. Or heaven forbid, were bootstrapped.

Why? Seems from experience to be far less likely to produce an "Our Incredible Journey" message.

I don't want to sign up for a service, love it, find it useful and be told GTFO after 2 years, ps Google bought us.

I've also got very wary of using any new Google, Facebook etc service. Chances are, it won't last.

There's something incredibly unhealthy about the way it's all about getting to $1bn and to hell with the product, customers, that got you there etc. I also think the burn rates have got out of hand. Surely there's a better way than burning £20m a year to produce something you'll shutter without a second thought when it runs out. What happened to seeking profit and longevity?

I'm very glad I had my time in startups though!
i wonder; do many people usually get offended merely by some abstract sense of "going against my worldview"?
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They're way too far away. 2030 maybe, 2040 or 2050 more likely. Those are timelines in which we can replace everything with renewables
Yes. Or at least, I found it interesting and engaging despite have almost zero knowlege of baseball.

That being said, I'm a huge fan of many other sports, so that no doubt contributed to the enjoyment.
That sounds a lot like saying that, I dunno, coulrophobia (the fear of clowns) isn't real, because it's never been observed in a laboratory setting. The specific theories about how the uncanny valley functions and what it says about human psychology may be bunk, but the basic idea--that things that look almost but not quite human can come off as very creepy--is borne out by countless humans' personal experiences.
Well... this is liable to easily fall into political arguments so I'll engage in some tortured phrasing here to keep this uncontroversial. My thought is that the Republicans have long (since 1968 or so) sought political support from a large section of the population that they haven't had much interest in actually representing. And then this group has later felt betrayed by the lack of representation, over and over again. So their passion has increased.

So I think that's part of why technology has had such a huge effect - this group has always been there, but for the "first" time (speaking broadly) they've got the ability to have a direct relationship with a candidate who is truly representing them (or, may only be appearing to representing them, but doing such a convincing job at it that he's freaking out other Republicans).

As for how to define this population, it's tricky - I read a few essays a while back that called them "The Borderers" - but at any rate it's definitely more nuanced than calling them evangelicals or culturally conservative or isolationists, etc.
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I wrote a Monopoly Clone in Seaside for University.
The framework was really intuitive, but the documentation could use some work.
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It's somewhat hard to compare CLI vs GUI programs.. but in my experience, wget --mirror is simpler than HTTrack for simple tasks, which takes a little bit of mucking around to start downloading. HTTrack has a smaller learning curve for more complex situations though.
Wow, this is a great article. I just assumed that the sun's gravity would assist in pulling a payload in, making it less costly than trying to launch out of the solar system. Really, really, interesting.

Edit: Just wanted to mention that disposing of nuclear material by trying to launch it into space is absurd, but the orbital mechanics of the problem are pretty interesting.
Does it come with the catch that I have to join his professional network? Do people working at LinkedIn have to use LinkedIn? I always wondered the same about Facebook, some awesome engineering challenges but many techies I know, including myself, have zero desire to have a facebook profile
Even if this weren't insanely expensive...

The sun is far away in terms of delta-V. Getting to low-Earth orbit requires something like 9.4 km/s of delta-V. Getting from LEO to the Sun requires another 21.3 km/s of delta-V.

There are probably transfer orbits that could use gravity assist to make this figure lower, but those orbits spend a lot of time looping around planets and generally hanging out in the solar system, which is probably not the best thing to do with our waste.

It's actually cheaper to escape the solar system than to shoot for the Sun - around 18.15 km/s delta-V from ground to escape.
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After reading about FP, TCO, the question shifted from `what` to `why`.
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But, then the question is, why isn't this happening so much on the Democratic side? Is it that a greater number of Republican voters feel disenfranchised by their party [or government] and are thus taking things into their own hands, so to speak?
well, the obvious solution is using profit/people rather than revenue/people, isn't it?

EDIT: ah, as another commenter mentioned, it is also true that you might be growing fast with low profit so I guess both measures make sense (or not) in different contexts.
This was a good read, as was "Thinking Fast and Slow".

I remember thinking, while watching "The Mentalist[1]" that people who are practiced in that sort of deception that the character Patrick Jane used probably mainly understand how to execute exploits on the interface between System 1 and System 2 thinking.

The wheel of fortune story sort of confirms that for me now.

[1] That was a pretty good show for network, for a while.

It also makes me wonder if people who are mistrustful of System 1 or somehow depend more on System 2 are somehow perceived as obnoxious by people who are not. I would think that a very potent source of friction.
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This will be a landmark app, in that it looks to be one of the most flushed out stabs at vr painting. It defines a number of UI/UX components and philosophies all using direct manipulation (with what looks like an Adobe-flow), plus a number of original 3D-specific tools.

Congrats to the team at Google
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Thanks for the link. Great break down of the barriers. I did know that the size of the required velocity difference would
be that significant.
Ah, I see. I guess you'll have to weigh whether that giant obstacle to adoption is worth that feature. My bet is that it won't be.
In case anyone is as confused as I was at first, agumonkey is referring to the fact that Functional Programming languages are capable of Tail Call Optimization, which allows functions to be composed without adding a new frame to the stack.
> html5-sandbox or iframe will have you terminated from adsense, at least. don't know about the others.

Really? what's the justification for that policy? You'd think ad networks would want ads to be safe for users.
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I hoped to find something about "the stack" as in "full stack development" (DB, middleware, frontend etc) because _that_ stack also needs some sorting out.
> "Merely doing what is beneficial at the time" is
>just bad advice, both on personal and social
>(national) level

Maybe, but it sure beats doing what was beneficial centuries ago.
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When you get all your news from social media, and you and your friends think a candidate "tells it like it is," but there is contradictory evidence, you and your friends will tend to reject that evidence.

More generally, when your Bayesian prior belief in a candidate gets too high, anyone who disagrees just makes themselves seem disreputable in your eyes; their disagreement strengthens your belief in the candidate.

What could count as direct evidence that the candidate is wrong, when you and your friends have filtered all of your news?
Well written but disagree. I don’t see the internet playing a significantly larger role in 2016 than in the last couple of elections. The real distinction is the trajectory of the economy and people’s belief in the future. Sanders and Trump both represent populism, just on different sides of the political spectrum. Populism is the defining factor of this election cycle, not the Internet. I love tech, but sometimes it isn’t the center of the universe.

Perhaps the Internet has made insurgency candidacies easier, but I bet history would dispute this. A quick google search of underdog candidates shows that Lincoln may have been one.[1] I wasn’t alive then so can’t say for sure, but American politics seems to be a battle of insurgencies and their absorption by one party or the other to gain the upper hand. A strong vein of populism can even create a whole party dedicated to bringing down a single perceived elite institution.[2] Even while one of their main targets, Andrew Jackson, was trying to take down the elite bankers himself.[3] Populism is the undercurrent here, not a change in technology.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Lincoln-President-Underdogs-Republican...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Masonic_Party

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_War
String did "virtual graffiti" in 3d in 2011! https://vimeo.com/15935674

When I last explored this idea, "stickers" are necessary since most surfaces in real life are generic "textures", so there's no way to know which section of a wall you're looking at if you're too close to it.
You're completely off your rocker.

The Willis Graham Act nullified the Kingsbury Commitment by which the government had tried to stop the unfettered expansion of Ma Bell, since it hadn't actually worked the government shifted to trying to regulate Ma Bell itself through the ICC (and the FCC a few years later).
Has any of the Soyuz capsules ever landed outside of Russian/Soviet controlled territory? Does anyone know?
I would think so. Baseball is only a ... background element in the story, really. Warning: I used to follow baseball closely, so I may need to recuse myself :)

IMO, this is one book of a "trilogy" - the Kahneman book, "Moneyball" and "The Checklist Manifesto" by Atul Gawande. They all came out in roughly the same time and are three different views on this problem.
Of course, the original text mentioned how "chairs" were probably considered technology at some point, but now we take them for granted.

The same went for light switches, fridges, VCRs and whatever, each "new technology" had to mature, and so should computing but it hasn't yet.
I was one of the C.H.I.P. kickstarter backers. I actually have two. I've been quite pleased with them. Apart from the issue with early C.H.I.P.s not booting[1], I've been had very few issues with mine.

I really like the idea of these small, cheap, hackable and ubiquitous computers that we can assign to a project and not worry about the cost. One issue with the multitude of different companies making these things (Raspberry Pi, Beagleboard, Next Thing, etc.) is that some systems garner large communities (and subsequently lots of support) whilst others seem to remain small. Most of my endeavours with these computers has been software related but I imagine that the size of the community comes into effect when it comes to hardware support. Is there something that can be done do try to minimize this difference?

[1] https://bbs.nextthing.co/t/c-h-i-p-boot-repair-tool-for-mac/... (that site was having issues with its CSS at the time of posting)
Pre agriculture society has built Goḱbi Tepe, and other "stone age monuments", its not far fetched that they diverted rivers and thus caused desertification of some area which may had other effects on global climate.

Wasnt the Sahara a swamp pre-agriculture?

Also, the "pre-agriculture = low population" is just a speculation, it could have been far higher population in some areas and we wouldnt have any evidence for it today. See for example Americas before conquestadors, there were areas with millions of people, and not all doing agriculture or even horticulture.

The best areas which could have supported a very high population have been destroyed, all the best areas were taken by "civilized" war people, and now the only nomads/hunter gatherers left are in far-reached shitty areas.
With the exception of Sanders (whose propositions do not make fiscal sense) all of the candidates, are unbelievable or have had a history of being unbelievable. So, it's not as if there is one [viable candidate]* who is immune to lies, exaggerations, distortions, obfuscation, scandal etc.

Kasich and Carson [and O'Malley?] are "too nice" to win anything.
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yup pretty much. We managed to report and fix some bugs though. But it is pretty hard to get the point of contact person for some websites.
> Really? I had a feeling everything is javascript heavy these days. Especially with React, angular, backbone, meteor... Maybe I should give it another try.

The point is to white list scripting on websites . It allows faster browsing, lessens CPU load and memory consumption and save battery life on mobile and laptop. Most websites do not need javascript to be turned on to be browsed.
Please file an rr issue. I've had it working in the past.
I think it's that Sanders is still part of the establishment in a way that Trump is not. Either Sanders or Clinton will graciously accept a loss and campaign for their opponent in a way that Trump may not.
Which of these places would you prefer to visit?

* Fukushima Prefecture, Japan - near the Fukushima Daiichi power plant

* Pripyat, Ukraine - near the Chernobyl power plant

* Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India - near the Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant

* Bullitt County, Kentucky - near the "Valley of the Drums"

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You choose lead as your example for chemical waste, but lead is only a moderate risk compared to the nastier chemical pollutants. The real hazards are things like the PCBs (among hundreds of other nasty chemicals) in the 100,000+ leaking drums at the "Valley of the Drums", or the 42 tons of methyl isocyanate sprayed over Bhopal. These incidents have already had significant costs in human lives and ongoing health problems for the local population.

In comparison, Chernobyl killed only handful of people and Fukushima hasn't killed anybody yet. We are still waiting to see the costs of extra cancer cases from these disasters, but it won't be anything close to the damage from the chemical industries or coal power industries.
Well, it's as responsive as design it to be. The framework only gives you the building blocks(tags), you can still use bootstrap or your own responsive design with it
I enjoyed it: not a sports fan, knew little of baseball except that the one game pro game I've seen in person was super-boring [to me].

_Moneyball_ isn't about baseball so much as it's about how easy it is for humans to be tricked by our intuitions and habits. Moneyball talks about baseball from the point of view of someone who everyone just assumed would be good -- and wasn't -- as he's trying to make more and more objective assessments of players, and wielding his conclusions against competing, more traditional managers.
Thanks for decyphering cryptic acronyms. To add to this, Tail call makes you realize that logically, function call != pushing on stack. Then I started looking at how people handled recursion on hardware before stack support was added. And how people managed the stack explicitely themselves. (can't find that article again sadly).
I think you can had existing mainframe OSes to the exceptions list.
> No matter where you do this, you're assigning a variable
> on the stack.

In the C standard this is referred to as "automatic storage duration", and it can be weird to some (though obvious in retrospect) to consider that C actually features automatic memory reclamation (albeit limited).

The important insight is that if you have a piece of memory that's scoped to a function, it's so trivial to free that memory that even C does it for you automatically. This is important because of what happens when you want to take this one step further: is it possible to make this same property apply to memory that's allocated on the heap rather than the stack?

For one, there's escape analysis, which is a static analysis that tries to determine if a piece of heap-allocated memory has the potential to leave a function's scope. If not, then you can allocate that memory on the stack instead without changing the semantics of your program. Go does this, and it's an important optimization for reducing GC traffic.

A step beyond that is linear typing (or maybe call it unique ownership), which is a static analysis that extends the "automatic storage duration" concept with one additional feature: a function can now hand off a piece of memory for some other function to free at the end of its scope. With this concept it's now possible to extend automatic storage duration to heap-allocated values as well, meaning you need neither a garbage collector nor explicit `free` calls. Rust does this, and it's one of the fundamental pillars of the language.
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It's not just "buy a notebook".
If you really want to cover all bases, don't even do the personal work in the office on company time...even if you are using your own laptop.
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If someone consumes their news via Facebook/Snapchat and either doesn't have cable or has cable and a dvr, how do megamedia companies have the ability to focus attention? You can easily opt out of pretty much all media advertising if you want these days.
We have one in our office and it really is amazing. My favorite moment was when I pulled my hand back to go around a line, forgetting that it was virtual. Real immersion.

We also able to comp the drawings on to video. Not perfect yet, but trying: https://twitter.com/evanbbb/status/704727611201724416
Burroughs, IBM mainframes, Ada Machines (by Rational), Xerox Parc and ETHZ workstations are probably the best examples of more higher level friendly architectures.

Or at least the better documented ones.
Seems ingenious - it's an active system that uses entirely passive components. No power draw, and will always work.
IIUC HN uses them too.
Hololens has a tremendously small FOV and everything it projects is translucent. Not exactly a great medium for viewing art.
Use the Chrome Postman extension together with Postman Interceptor. It's really awesome.