skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does Scientology pass that test? I believe it was created to give its founders and leaders access to a profane amount of other people's money while simultaneously avoiding both taxes and accountability. From there, it's only a short leap to Mormonism, and another step from there to the Catholics, Southern Baptists, and United Methodists.

The intellectual dishonesty comes in when actions observed to be taken by adherents to the religion are ambiguous, and interpreted in one way for a favored religion, while interpreted in another way for an unfavored religion.

Pastafarians wear pasta strainers as hats, with full pirate regalia as vestments. This action is interpreted as mockery of religion. Catholics wear miters and embroidered dresses. This action is interpreted as tradition. Pastafarians end prayers with "ramen". Other religions end theirs with "amen". You can't be any more certain that a Pastafarian truly believes in the flying spaghetti monster than an adherent of an Abrahamic religion truly believes in Jehovah and stories from their holy book. How can you tell? Maybe they're just in it for the social networking one day a week.

The fundamental problem is that religion is not founded on personal beliefs, not rationality, so any rational rule you can devise to separate "serious" religions from "fake" religions will end up harming a genuine adherent to some religion, somewhere. So the only good way to handle it is to allow all religions to self-identify as religions, applying "duck tests" only as necessary to uniformly enforce laws that may apply equally to all religions.
The tech world is wrong about marketing
That shift happened so rapidly and so completely that it's not going to wind up being a big issue, I think.
Virtually all of the text is underlined because virtually everything on that page is a link.

It dates from a time before it was considered "good design" and "usability" to hide the links from the readers.
I pretty much stopped taking pictures years ago when I stopped doing film photography.

I realized I never looked at them, so why bother?
The 1% that actually read stuff, are usually under some sort of group journal usage license like a university library, or large organization site license, so they usually aren't paying anyway. I think the biggest hurdle is that these decisions are usually only made (with the exception of the occasional individual $15 ieee article purchase ) by top level executives at the journal's and the "customer's" organizations, while the costs burden is pushed on to every one else at that organization.

My fellow researchers firmly follow the, "citizens paid for it, we are gonna share it" mentality so all results and source material is made available for free online. if someone wants everything organized into a strict 10 page limit, they can have it, but they arent getting anything more than what everyone already has access too.
have you read what you linked? there are no reflections here, this is not SDR, just reading RSSI.
I only wish I'd charged them more when I contracted for them...
Everything was made to be broken. Got this neat effect where the ball was spinning rapidly in the corner of each spawned window! http://imgur.com/gmwQOCb
The Netherlands is making moves to ban all non-electric vehicle sales by 2025
What is really fucked up is this though: "After the Nevins & Associates contract expired, the University hired in 2014 the Sacramento-based company ID Media Partners in an $82,500 contract to “design and execute a comprehensive search engine results management strategy" aimed at improving the reputation of the University and Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi."[1]

So basically, they are using student tuition to promote a private person (Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UC_Davis_pepper-spray_incident...
Cobra: Build Modern CLI Apps in Go
I think the most important point was brushed over in the article--that journals offer prestige. Scientists are entirely aware of the problems, yet they still volunteer to submit their work to them, because they significantly improve the chances of promotion and tenure. These things are already tremendously competitive, so most would rather not volunteer for a handicap by publishing in other venues.
The Real Rates of Business Survival
Million Dollar Machines to Debug Nvidia  GPUs [video]
Oh man, you brought back a few memories of when I tried internet dating. So many posed photos next to world landmarks. Look at me! I'm well travelled! Look how interesting and fun I am!
> and don't want script kiddies to mooch off my talent that easily.

You do realise that's not how research, science and engineering work right? Just because you think it's morally justifiable to "own an idea" doesn't mean it is morally justifiable to do so.

Besides, do you really think someone is going to supplant you that easily? If you're really worried, use the GPL and then use their improvements to improve your own work.
> their ability to reproduce our work in months once they understand the secret sauce.

if the secret sause is so simple that they can copy it in months without violating copyright laws, may be it's not so saucy after all!

Data, whether code, or algorithm, is not physical, and therefore, unless you don't give the code out (e.g., sell via SaaS), it's gone as soon as you release it, obfuscated or not.
"When people cease to use manners in everyday social interactions, they are essentially throwing sand into the workings of a machine that has low tolerances for friction in the first place." - Paraphrased, can not recall who said/wrote it.
Amazon SEO study finds largest ranking factors
Perhaps the volcano wasn't the cause, but IIRC there's reason to think that humans display less genetic diversity than might be expected, pointing towards a bottleneck somewhere in the past.
Same boat 99% of it is a blur at best. I think what makes experiences memorable is not only the picture but the people you travel with. Assuming they remain in your life years after the "experience" you can continue to reference and talk about that time you went to ... and did ... These people with or without the picture will do a much better job of making an experience live on.
Barriers to brilliant decision-making and how to overcome them [pdf]
I'm sort of the same way. And oddly, I do remember other random, unimportant moments with vivid clarity even 20+ years later. I guess for some reason my subconscious thinks those are significant but I can't rationally figure out why.
I was really envious of artists when visiting the major european cities: they really saw the buildings/sculptures. Everyone one just takes a picture and moves along, to finish the Louvre in a single day.
is it possible that

for (const element of list) {

should actually be

for (let element of list) {

?

the former one raises "SyntaxError: invalid for/in left-hand side"
Amazon should add a "please required" setting. It would be good training for all of us.
Yes, it could and there is a good chance it eventually will.

Not because it would be actually possible to hide it but because code has/will become so complex that it wouldnt really make sense anymore. Take, for example, sites like Facebook or Gmail: even the developers tools barely help understanding them, let alone the raw "view source".

This (human understanding) will not get better with an intermediate language like WebAssembly (which should not be considered an obstacle though). And this does not take into account a possibly even more drastic change in technology and the web (or whatever the web would be called then).
I'm going to assume someone gave him notes prior to the interview and he read them so he would sound like he knew what he was on about. Having said that, I would pay for the comedic value of seeing GW Bush string that sentence together (even if someone else did prepare it for him).
> Instead of trying to understand the proprietary encryption/decryption, just run the decryption code without understanding it.

When I have encountered this sort of problem in the past, I would drop the encryption module into another Android app and directly call the functions. I would then run the other Android app on a phone or Android emulator. Custom emulation seems unnecessary for most cases.
The web won't be over until it becomes ironically post-modern.
The counter argument to this is you pay to use national parks even though you already pay for it.

This analogy is completely wrong. The money you pay in admission to the parks go towards the parks in order to maintain and improve the parks, even though you already do that with your taxes.

The money you pay to scientific publications goes to the publisher alone, it does not, in any case, end up financing science.
I would say the former. There are so many things about "being there" that even the world's best photographer with the world's best camera equipment would have a hard time capturing. I'm a hobbyist photographer myself, but there are some times I just want to put my camera away and "take a memory".
> "The counter argument to this is you pay to use national parks even though you already pay for it."

You would have a case if the publishers did not make huge profits from the research and contribute nothing back to the research. When you pay for access to a park, you know that money is going towards the running and improvement of the park.
I fear that it will not stop there. With Pirate and Ninja sects already identified, I must conclude that the Zombie and Robot sects are worshiping in secret.
I think a better term would be apologist, not shill. For better or for worse, Thomas's interest in the law gives him a position on Federal power that is often at odds with the more old-school libertarian/anarchist members of the HN community.

Speaking for myself, his apologia of The State also irritates me quite a bit, but I try to keep my mouth shut because he contributes so much to the community.
Well, they have to incentivise you to visit. I can understand why they don't put their pieces online, they want you to come, maybe pay for entrance or donate, buy something from the gift shop. Putting it online is rightly, or wrongly, detracting from that.
One day mid last year I decided to delete all my 10000 photos spanning a decade. The reason built up gradually and it was the emotions these photos evoked that did nothing but get in my way of enjoying/experiencing the now.

Whatever's significant enough to be important, I remember. I feel a lot more free and happier by not hanging on details of the past.

In contrast, I think writings, like diary and poetry are much more useful to keep, because they can be interpreted differently over time which means they can be related to at the time of reading, years later.
123-reg flaw 'deletes customers' websites'
Yeah, it really seems like the author is making an argument against cameras in general. Tourists have been taking pictures for a long time. Instagram didn't invent trying to impress people with photos of your travels.
The thinking, such that it is, is broadly this: the government funds research, therefore it is in favor of the research, therefore it is a waste of such (scarce) funds having the recipients lobbying the said government in favor of the findings, given the government was in favor in the first place.

This is the best explanation I've come across.

Of course, anyone with the slightest bit of intelligence will see that this is either incredibly stupid, or incredibly devious.

Given the trajectory of the current UK government (for example privatising the probation service whilst bragging that not only did it not have any evidence this such a plan was a good thing, and that it was not going to look, because sometimes trusting 'gut instinct' is a smart idea), this has all the hallmarks of shutting down dissenting voices, rather than trying to spend money wisely.
Some amusing edits by this Wikipedia account suspected to be linked with Powa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Techtrek

The second diff changed "Known for: serial bankruptcy" to "Known for: Consistently anticipating technology trends"...
> rather than simply regulating the use of funds, it would prevent a researcher from speaking out in favor or against policies based on their research.

I'm not sure it does, the clause is about "allowable expenditure":

> “The following costs are not Eligible Expenditure:- Payments that support activity
intended to influence or attempt to influence Parliament, Government or political
parties, or attempting to influence the awarding or renewal of contracts and grants,
or attempting to influence legislative or regulatory action”

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...
Did everyone go to the native model when ad-pocalypse hit e-mail and everyone started to use spam filters?

Current ad-blocks are similar to blacklists. They are very basic, but they do get the vast majority of unsolicited advertisement, so it works. I remember the days when some argued that you only needed to block chines IP ranges in order to stop spam.

Then the world started to use content filtering, looking for specific words or statistically pattern that provide a probability patter for spam vs ham. I would predict that a AP-style network that automatically submit articles into multiple "spammy" websites would automatically be flagged by anti-spam organizations and thus be quickly blocked.

Native ads is also currently in a bit of a problem with tax and customer protection laws. That might just be growing pains however.
What if the 2016 presidential candidates were Shakespeare characters?
If foldLeft is strict, like in Scala, then it needs constant stack space, but then you can't short-circuit it so you need to traverse the whole list to return a result, which might lead to O(n) space depending on what you want to get out of it. And by tail recursion I'm not necessarily referring to the actual call-stack. Maybe I'm a little loose with the terms here.

Tail-recursive algorithms are those that can use constant memory (stack or heap) and which in a language like Scala can be translated to usage of a loop or a trampoline, whereas the actually recursive algorithms are those that really need some sort of stack to work and that grows directly proportional to the input size. Usage of a stack is the definition of recursivity from algorithms books, like Cormen et al. For example doing an in-depth traversal of a balanced tree will really, really need a O(log2 n) stack, regardless if the evaluation is strict or lazy or whatever language tricks you can pull.

Does that make any sense? :-)
So I'm going to mount a tiny defence of some of the stuff at Powa - the PoS platform was not a total bust. Delivery of it clearly was a total failure as it never went to market.

But as a cheap card reader to compete with iZettle at the $30 price point, it wasn't awful. The wider PoS terminal product with the stand, printer etc could also have been good and brought the price of PoS equipment down considerably.

But this effort was de-emphasised as the much more exciting (and IMHO pretty worthless) qr/soundprint/beacon-driven sales app.

And management were clearly living in cuckoo-land.
This is what I do - most of my picture taking is spontaneous, when I feel that I'm suddenly in a moment that would make a good picture, I'm aware of it, and it is a good moment to take a picture.

The trick for me is that I don't feel particularly compelled to have to take pictures to share with people. My experiences are for me first - to enjoy them, one would have to be enjoying them with me to get the full experience :) .
> Religion (like philosophy and superstition)

One of these things is not like the others.

This book ("Think" by Simon Blackburn) is a wonderfully readable introduction to the subject if you haven't studied philosophy before:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think:_A_Compelling_Introducti...

It's one of the books every smart person should read.
Faith:

1. complete trust or confidence in someone or something.

2. strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof.
"buying" the free copy of XCode and installing it is required for the command line tools that homebrew relies on.

No, you can simply download the command line tools that Apple provides free of charge - which the homebrew install script in fact does.
I think the simpler reason is for a similar reasons as to why Medium get's penalised by the algo - links from Breitbart (and Medium) generate less useful discussions than other sites, thus they must 'work harder' to 'earn' their place on the front page.

Similar to the 'flame war detection' that flags posts with more comments than (up)votes.
Very droll I'm sure, but 'tis but a small price to pay for your stolen inheritance.
The major difference between how Norwegian citizens have benefited from oil extraction and how British citizens have benefited from it is still less a matter of policy differences and more a matter of oil extraction per capita though

$156 billion sounds huge until you divide it by a population averaging 60 million and make it accrue over 40 years.
In this context it doesn't usually imply that they literally both drank from a single beer. Just that they each drank a beer in one another's company.
If I remember correctly, it should show up in the details tab.
At least the subsystem process that is.
There's nothing stopping the work from being used, as far as I can tell. This is a clause about how the money from the grant can be spent.
I should have mentioned that in my initial comment; Lazy IO is beautiful and OK for a simple application, but it's smarter to use a streaming library like Pipes of Conduit for anything big.
And yet no one cries foul when right leaning papers post articles suggesting LGBT people are mentally incompetent or morally depraved barbarians that'll eat your babies for breakfast. It just seems to me that if you want to be taken seriously by folks on the opposite end of the political spectrum then the right needs to do itself a favor: stop vilifying LGBT and other minorities categorically. It's not that hard, really.
Why the Great Divide Is Growing Between Affordable and Expensive U.S. Cities
Load Balancing with Consul and IPTables
The article is about costs. Unsplash is made by https://crew.co/ and featured in their "labs" section, so I assume the project is payed for by other projects they do.
The First Roman Fonts
This story on the front page again?
Ok, so in a nutshell this guy wants a machine to do parenting for him. Education should come from parents primarily. Not teachers, or friends and definitely not a machine.
Google Cloud and Autodesk enable 10x improvement in media rendering efficiency
I just wanted to try that since it seems interesting. Sadly it tells me to enter the address of the home where I grew up, but then promptly refuses to recognize anything that I put in. It also says I can try schools, but does not recognize any of those either.

Maybe it only recognizes American addresses or something, but I don't know any of those.

edit: Ok I got it working by putting in Amsterdam, which happens to be a city and not an address.
Unnecessary, but fun.
But that merely enumerates pathnames that contain the word "git", not programs that might still invoke the vulnerable version of git directly via "/usr/bin/git".
UX Design as a Problem Solver
Racket is Racket.

CLISP also can use a JIT - it uses GNU Lightning for runtime native code generation (https://www.gnu.org/software/lightning/).

Anyway the Racket JIT seems to be a bit limited:

> The JIT compiler works incrementally as functions are applied, but the JIT compiler makes only limited use of run-time information when compiling procedures, since the code for a given module body or lambda abstraction is compiled only once. The JIT’s granularity of compilation is a single procedure body, not counting the bodies of any lexically nested procedures.
I just don't talk to computers. Amazon Echo is a device I would never consider owning.
They rake in tons of money because many users care a lot less about the look and feel than they do about the service/content they provide.

But many is not all. If they were designed to be beautiful as well as functional, they might well see a bump in transactions.

The reason they don't is either deliberate branding (Drudge, I'd guess) or incompetence (eBay), or because it's not obvious the bump in traffic would be worth the expense and time (Amazon.)

And also history. When you've been around as a brand for a decade or more, you don't need shiny.

But it's really not a good plan for a startup to have an ugly site now unless it's making some kind of ironic retro point about itself.
It's interesting that one of the most popular uses of LevelDB is in Bitcoin (and its forks) and it isn't mentioned in this article. Especially since there are so many other bitcoin articles on this site.
Do you really think so? I wish I had your optimism.

I'm pretty sure that in 5-10 years the tabloid press will do their best to dredge up the old social media photos of anyone in the public eye, and turn it into 'journalism' with their usual tone of faux-outrage. And people will still keep coming back and giving pageviews to the Daily Mail.

I really hope I'm wrong and you're right, and the explosion of online sharing will mean we're all more accepting of the fact that people do silly things when they're young which shouldn't be held against them forever. I just can't see it happening.
The problem is that it's unhealthy to be wholly focused on only 1 aspect of your life. Plenty of people become depressed by not feeling socially validated on social media.
Hubspot sounds awful, but it's not as bad as whatever keeps pushing this to the front page.

I don't know if it's a voting ring, inattentive readers clicking based on the headlines, or what, but it has to stop.
I remember playing with this at least 8 years ago. It's really scary that there's enough information disclosure in browsers that it's possible to do this.
I had never heard the 8/10 statistic and always thought it was about half of normal businesses fail within 5 years, and 90% of startups fail within 3 years. Looks like fleximize supports the 1/2 statistic, and I found the data for the 90% one [1]. I think it's important to note that not many people talk about how many companies continue to operate in zombie mode, or how many are just small side businesses that don't really generate much revenue, but continue to exist for tax purposes (ex. my friends and I pretty much all have a business we use for occasional contract work).

[1] https://s3.amazonaws.com/startupcompass-public/StartupGenome...
This is exciting! I can only wonder if Oracle has been enough trouble to pester Google into using a language such as Swift.
This looks neat; the integrated Lipo charger is a welcome add-on.
New Lua(JIT) front end for bcc merged
Hi! Author of the article here.

I've updated it, because that's a good remark: the list doesn't show the process's name either.
By this notion, I should get free tickets to all college football games. And my driver's license registration should also be free, don't my taxes already go to paying for the DMV? Wait, should anything that is even remotely funded by taxpayer dollars now be free for everyone that pays taxes?
For that matter I'm pretty sure the growth of the petroleum driven automobile industry in Asia and Africa is going to vastly outstrip its gradual (and later perhaps even mandatory) replacement with electric vehicles in the West...
I don't think it's intentional subversion. AFAIR, having command line wrappers in /usr/bin pointing to command line tools or xcode tool chain predates SIP. If anything, protecting developer tools was either neglected, or changing the concept of how it works to suit SIP was deemed not worth the cost.

I mean, SIP is generally only partial protection anyway, isn't it?
Maybe changing the number is part of their strategy. ;-)
You don’t need more than one cursor in vim
Agile, but Still Really Not Agile? What Pipeline Automation Can Do for You. Pt 3
Boaty McBoatface ‘unlikely’ to be name of Britain's new polar research vessel