skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What, exactly, is "entitled" about asking someone to cancel through a simple process on the same web site they signed up with?

The fact that you feel entitled to their hard earned money, despite providing no service or value.

> just a few hours before their next subscription payment was due

What's wrong with that? Are customers required to provide notice? It doesn't cost you anything to back date the termination date if you don't feel like handling it until Monday. It's your system.

> they were told three times when they signed up

Expecting your EULA is binding, and that if you choose to deviate from it, that's because you're just such a great guy, and if you felt like attempting to take their money or tarnish their credit for not using the cancellation avenue you prefer, you'd be perfectly within your rights... All that sounds rather entitled to me.
I had almost forgotten about all that drama. Spot on.

Remarkably, they claim that they may still lock stuff up behind a "premium features" paywall in the future: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/premium-fea... (bottom paragraph)
Night Work Games
Thanks for the correction. The poster's comment was incomprehensible otherwise.
Observing Erlang/Elixir production releses
For those wishing to experiment with the developer tools, here are instructions for installing the android runtime for chrome (ART):

https://developer.chrome.com/apps/getstarted_arc

This developer tool does not use the play store. One needs to download the app's APK file in order to install using the ART as described above.
That mostly defends high-fat/low-carbo diet. What I am looking for is where exactly should one put boundaries.

For example, if both high-fat/low-carbo and very-high-carbo/no-fat are good, can one combine them? If one eats very high fat meal, how long one has to wait before eating carbos-without-fat? Is it just few hours? Or should it be 16 hours? Or should one just not do that?
> if you go to a good college Windows is discouraged for CS in favor of Unix

You realize students in architecture or graphic design don't care about your petty OS war right? and you're statement is completely false. I went to a good college and I learned both server administration on Unix and Windows.

> Are people really PAYING to learn photoshop? Waste of money.

People are paying for an education that will get them a job, if the industry mandates the use of Photoshop for a specific professional task it's in the interest of a student to learn it. And obviously you don't know Photoshop, like at all or you wouldn't say the things you're say.

> Word processors and photoshop do not require college classes to learn. They should just be a part of local community colleges that allow people to earn certificates for using office software.

You realize there is a world between learning a word processor and Photoshop for a pro usage ? no you don't. Otherwise you wouldn't say such ignorant thing.

The problem is that you are a programmer and you think every discipline works like computer science where everything is in the cloud ... it doesn't.
> a hacker who will stay up till 4:00 AM rather than go to bed leaving code with a bug in it.

Question for other folks here: In your experience, does staying up until 4:00AM tend to lead to you being more or less productive in the long term?
Chatbot Fail: Why chatbots might be a waste of time, and why that doesn’t matter
You are right that gpucc still depends on NVIDIA's ptxas tool that translates PTX to native binaries. NVIDIA does not publish the specification of their native binaries. Besides that, it is fully open-source.
Context for some of the jokes: https://fun.irq.dk/funroll-loops.org/

Internet culture throwback.
You can have self driving cars where you can turn the system on and off like you can on the Tesla S. That would work for me. I can't see them banning human driving in a hurry.
Same as priests and rabbis.
http://llvm.org/docs/CompileCudaWithLLVM.html
When mining the block chain, it is possible to have different miners temporarily working on a chain that will later be invalidated because it's not the longest chain. Maybe it would be possible to somehow use that behavior to encode a self delete?
How Some of These Biggest Brands Are Using Live Video
Sure, they're not cavemen.
Still going! They even migrated to HTML5!

http://html5zombo.com/
> "there aren't doctors out there recommending cutting out fats and subsisting on sugar"

That's true as far as it goes, but the internal fight inside the medical research community was whether it was fat or sugar that was the culprit in a host of physical problems. Fat won in a slam dunk, even though it turns out to be wrong. Doctors are largely not researchers, and they are taught what was the conventional wisdom. There is no suggestion of malice, just bad (or at least overturned, but it was actually bad in this case) research that has been promulgated in the medical community. A lot of doctors think fat is bad and pay less attention to sugar.

The Guardian recently wrote about this: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/07/the-sugar-con...

So, it's not bullshit to say a lot of doctors don't understand the nutrition.

OK, later! :)
Except the article does not state that.
My dad has a US Volkswagen diesel. He's told me he can refill the urea tank, but he can't reset the computer to tell it the tank was filled, so there's very little point for him to actually refill it. His car will stop working unless he brings it into the dealer, one way or the other.
I think it's very difficult, though, to know what state of the art software driven vehicles are good at and not so good at, though. Maybe the missing-stop-sign-intersection was a problem in version 0.7.1 but fixed in patch 0.7.1.4.

Any good articles by engineers describing where current autonomous cars are still worse than humans? And which issues are just "bug that hasn't been fixed yet" vs. "we're still not sure how to solve this one in principle".

Agree, though, that a journalist should be interviewing real engineers and trying to summarize, paraphrase, and edit what he hears to the best of his or her ability, instead of just speculating.
You don't need a self driving car to do this today, just hail a cab or get an Uber.
Realistically, if you decide you are going to design a language where types are always coerced to perform operations instead of stopping execution when mismatched types are encountered, the choices JavaScript makes are pretty sensible.
NSA has a big in-house training operation. Unlike startups, they're not looking for narrow specific skills in new hires. A year of paid formal classroom training for a new hire is not unusual at NSA.
I'm not sure each sect's restrictions but in Herzog's "lo and behold reveries of the connected world" it showed a group of Eastern monks using cellphone in the US
Fancy Juice Doesn’t Cleanse the Body of Toxins
Browserify and Webpack bundling seems to work pretty well.

I agree that getting ES6 modules in the browser will be nice, in the end, I see it working in practice a lot like it's implemented in Babel, to work with CJS modules.
Although some are men who live in caves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cave_monasteries
Since JavaScript is the only way to achieve a lot of things people want to do it is not going anywhere, even when the craze for server-side JS eventually dies.
So are there accounts of state sponsored DDoS followed by cracks that have been managed/diverted on Medium or is the article just saying journalists should use infrastructure and not self-host?
Is is just me or was the authors transition from "How I got hacked by the Chinese" to "Here's some analysis of articles on Medium" kind of jolting?

I would have liked to see some analysis on the prevalence of these attacks on blogs instead.
I see Eli Bendersky's name on this; his site ( http://eli.thegreenplace.net/ ) has a number of interesting C++ articles, some of which I've even carefully printed out and taped into my notebook of really useful things. If you're a C++ programmer, there are a lot of useful reads on there.

I don't see anything specifically about this in the archives, but maybe that's something to look forwards to.
Sat down on my desk for ten minutes and browsed news
two things noticed (with a third footnote that is not a footnote in significance, and significance having decided no ordering at any level) -

1. Nation's first LGBT magazine editor and US embassy worker in Bangladesh hacked down along with companion. I think the Bangladeshi state has become a big concern for the following reason - it is a highly populous country with a rising literacy rate (at least in terms of primary education). such a dense populace with literacy without proper higher education armed with the power of the internet is extremely sensitive to propaganda. i have a sick feeling that one of the alternate realities possible has Bangladesh serving as a powder keg that served a source of Jihadists in a WWIII.

2) Tom Brady's suspension to be or not to be reinstated. Beautiful (but ineffective, to the yet to be learned dismay of the provocateurs) distraction during a vital time on Earth.

footnote: According to PressTV News Videos on YouTube (afaik a channel from Iran) says that all warring sides on Yemen agree on calling a truce except the government loyalists and Saudi Arabia.

edit: removed "state run" - I assumed that.
Right, forgetting about the trailing slash is similar to forgetting about the semicolon ;), thank you for pointing that out. Besides Perl, it should also work with sed, I don't know about anything else.
I'm all for rooting my phones, media devices, gaming consoles...but I think I'd stop short of rooting my car. I think back to the Toyota electronic throttle control system bugs--we can hardly trust manufacturers to develop robust automotive software on their own, long before rooting and customization are thrown into the mix. The media system modded in this post _should_ be completely separate from the "brains" of the car, but that's still not a risk I would take.
React, IoT, Bots, APIs: Why Web Development Needs a Change
Many people use browsers for the vast majority of their computing tasks (email, facebook, word processing, etc). Chrome handles this easily without the burden of general OS maintenance.
Vegrandis: Atomic shared variables for Erlang
Three hours of my life, spent waiting on hold, are going to die.
Ask HN: Is there a good replacement to Google sets?
I want to generate a set from some expected members of the set. Can any online service do that?
Confusing piece. Not hacked, DDoS'd. Wordpress is bad for non-techies. Medium is drastically limiting the number of tags on articles.
Keras as a simplified interface to TensorFlow
This was a legitimate question. A big part of Buddhism is getting rid of all materialism. They aren't even allowed to cook their own food, and can only eat before noon!
That's the USA. In Europe, things are more easy to rig.

For examples, see http://www.beuc.eu/great-fuel-consumption-scam#thescam and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKUtiL-R4sU (subtitled in English)

Car manufacturers do not make the measurements themselves, but they directly do pay for it, and do shop around for the best testers. That raises doubts as to the independence of those testing firms.
Just to note that the "a monk" he emailed is one most well-known monks in the world, so I'm really unsurprised that his communications are being monitored. Certainly not close to fame as the Dalai Lama, but he's well known if you read even a little about meditation, tibetan buddhism, or the science of meditation.

Mattheiu Ricard has written a lot about the intersection of meditation and neuroscience, etc. Really fascinating stuff. Here's a TED talk he gave: https://www.ted.com/talks/matthieu_ricard_on_the_habits_of_h...
What is a good platform for distributing business documents?
Background - I'm a programmer at a financial services startup.

My boss came to me today and asked if I know of a platform/service that can manage distributing legal/reporting documents to our clients. With very little idea of what kind of platforms manage client subscriptions in this way, I mentioned just using Google Docs, which he doesnt like because it would require effort on his end to organize the delivery/sharing of documents with our clients, and it would require our clients to have Google accounts which they dont all have. Something that can manage sending reporting emails is more along the lines of what we need. I dont have any idea what to look for to solve this problem - document sharing platforms like Google Docs/Dropbox clearly aren't a right fit. Any suggestions of services that can fit the need for distributing documents or ideas on what to look for?
So maybe this article is a good example of why we§ let them:

- It's ~2180 words long

- It takes ~600 words (10 paragraphs) of stumbling around before the author reminds themselves of what we're actually here to talk about: the CIA rewriting (or erasing in this case) history

- It takes another ~500 words (9 more paragraphs) before the article actually mentions the factual thing that happened that this article is about (document collections removed from public view).

People can write how they like, and it might just be that you enjoy the way this person writes, and so enjoy the process of working through this prose to the meat of his point.

However, I can't help but think that if this was shorter, and if it got to the heart of the issue quicker, more people might finish reading and comprehending it, and actually learn what the article is trying to get across.

§ I'm not from the US so when I say we I really more mean you (if you're from the US) but you get the gist
Not sure why a downvote was left without a comment but I'll upvote you and leave a comment that I wholeheartedly agree. This is not an acceptable method of packaging or distributing software.
You didn't continue reading to the point where they found the real price (after the first year): $6.93.
> I wouldn't even initiate due diligence unless you had already convinced a couple doctors or researchers from respected hospitals or universities that your company could succeed.

There is much inertia in maintaining the status quo. What you say here about 'convincing doctors or researchers' is a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem. It's being worked on by a Psychologist (PhD) I know and his colleagues, but the progress is glacial.

Soon after my girlfriend got siphoned off into that world where the patients never get better (court-ordered treatment), I emailed the president of an organization of changework professionals whom I'd had a session with months before. His organization is on the fringe of acceptability to the broader sphere of conventionally-practicing psychologists and psychiatrists. I wanted to draw attention to the plight of people who get stuck in the care of people who think they're more competent than they really are. He wrote back to tell me that "the missionaries get eaten by the cannibals," which I thought was a good point.

Now we're at the point where I can join the hecklers, and also share my insights. It's been about 6 weeks since her last discharge. The injected Aripiprazole (brand name: "Abilify", which is sold as an "anti-psychotic") wore off 2 weeks ago. She is now unmedicated and hasn't slipped back into psychosis like the professionals were sure would happen if she didn't take their brain-shrinking drugs. Last week she was hired for a real job, and started training today. It's a low-skill position, but it's just right for her at this time.

There is a regular stream of submissions on HN about mental health, so I know there's interest. I have an idea...

Thanks again!
My intention was to send the same message. That's why I put Docker DNS as "potentially useful but still in its infancy".
Is he being ironic

> I really hate to say this, but I am quite disappointed with the startup scene in Indonesia. In Silicon Valley, you compete fairly with each other through creating better products and services. People highly respect good products and services. In Indonesia, you compete with each other through $$$. The one who has the most cash in their bank will most possibly win the competition.

All the hypergrowth startups are burning piles of cash with almost no sustainable way out.
I hope you at least leave notes about what you do. Few things are more infuriating than seeing a complex task assigned to someone, and the next entry is "Solved." and the ticket closed. Great that the problem was solved, but the corporate organization tool exists to make solution information more available to others with the same problem.

In a way, ticket systems are another type of documentation, along with man pages and KB articles and persistent chat (like Slack).
My employer isn't trying to cram the GPS system down my throat
I'm confused ... the article starts with an account of the "hack" (although it seems to have actually been just comment spam) and then ends with a rant about WordPress and then a data analysis of the posts on Medium ... ?? ... am I missing something?
I don't really disagree with a lot of what you are saying. Note that you've backed down from low calorie diets cause metabolic damage to low calorie diets are mentally difficult to sustain which I agree with.

You've offered introducing fats as a way to stave off hunger (aka increasing satiety) but introducing fats are far from the only way to increase satiety. Introducing fiber, for instance, is another way.

You also seem to be in favor of a ketogenic diet. Let me say that I totally believe that a keto diet is a great way to eat healthily and boost compliance for some people. Others have a really hard time tolerating large amounts of fat, and so we still need to find alternative solutions for them.

I agree that simply telling people to have more willpower is not the solution, but I think it's important to recognize that the diet is not causing physiological damage to the vast majority of people (it's not the insulin spike in and of itself that causes damage, it's what happens after that, ie: more food intake). So maybe we can attack this from the pure will power front and leave the diet alone (or maybe not, but let's be deliberate about what we are doing).

Regardless, the UofM study is heavily discredited and I still maintain that it is not relevant to what you are arguing either way: the study is designed to study extreme starvation and famine. Brink of death type stuff. Obese people who feel hungry are not that. We know this because if you don't feed them they don't die.

FWIW I actually have read/watched all the links you've posted (I had before this conversation as they are all relatively well known), and I still hold by all my points.
How should we attribute 3D printed objects?
Meja+rias+ukir+klasik+putih+MRI-001
The clothing choices of female politicians and business leaders is routinely commented upon by the media, to a far far far far higher degree than males; nobody is making this a gender issue. It already is.
Came here to say this - your comment showed up after I submitted mine. Can anyone else explain the extreme change of topic?
You don't think you risk making a similar mistake by simplifying a complex bunch of interconnected stuff into "fat = okay, but sugar = really evil"?
I think if the author copy pastes this article and then says: "So I'll be estimating the cost was approximately half a billion dollars" the agency might release the papers to prove him wrong. Either way they are punished for using this tactic.
Just because a company has a tough hiring process and some accomplishments does not mean they have state of the art processes or bug free code.
You're right that the “clever” tricks that dynamic languages allow (and, to varying degrees, encourage) make programs less easily comprehensible for humans and machines alike. However, this is an indictment of dynamism, not cleverness.

As an example of why clever tricks aren't always a bad thing, Haskell's lens library is essentially a big bag of tricks for manipulating compound data structures. However, lens differs from your typical dynamic metaprogramming library in significant ways:

(0) Its design actually follows from a few, simple and very general principles. So you don't need to memorize the entire lens API; instead, you can use the principles to discover the API. The only other thing that offers a similar degree of discoverability is IntelliSense, but IntelliSense for dynamic languages is typically not as good as it is for languages like Java and C# - especially when dynamic metaprogramming is used!

(1) You don't need to resort to arcane reflection hacks to figure out what's going on in lens code. Parametricity (free theorems) and type class laws (provided that you follow them, and this is usually very easy to check) tell you everything you need to know.

(2) Since lenses, traversals, prisms, etc. are ridiculously general, the time and effort you invest in learning them pay off over a wider range of projects.
Being Effective and Liked
In before the cease and desist from Microsoft by calling your product Open365.
MS can't copyright a number.
Put that on your homepage then!
That signup for looks like the Star Tribune's (the main paper in Minnesota). Similar pricing and everything.

Saw the Star Tribune doing some fun pricing stuff a month or so ago. Just try and compare these prices:

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/943809_10154050270527...

- Digital: First Month free, then $14.99 a month

- Sunday+Digital: $13.90 for 10 weeks, then $4.54 per week, billed at $59.02 every 13 weeks

- 7 Day+Digital: $39 for 13 weeks, then $7.05 per week, billed at $35.25 every 5 weeks
Why not, he even carries a MacAir with him.
I think those are great questions and anyone who gives you a confident answer on them is kind of full of shit. The bottom line is nutrition is just not that well understood scientifically, and since there is so much evidence emerging showing people reacting pretty differently to the same dietary inputs I think it's that much harder to answer nutritional questions that precisely and build nutritional models that work broadly.
Clarifying the C memory object model (n2012)
> The content left little doubt on the origin of the attack. I had sent an email to one of the most notorious opponents to the Chinese regime. It retaliated mercilessly.

Wait what?

Your blog becomes the target of common everyday run-of-the-mill comment spam, and you just immediately assume this is a State Sponsored attack? Please... you, and your blog are really not that important.

And we're supposed to just accept the Chinese government monitors all monk's email inboxes, and then launches attacks against anyone who dares email them? Ya right... If the Chinese government was going to go through that much hassle, why not just shut down or intercept/delete all inbound email coming to the monks? Or prevent the Monks from responding?

The much more plausible narrative is this blogger had an outdated Wordpress install, and some bots pwned his server in a completely unrelated scenario.

Checking his blog, he is indeed running an outdated Wordpress install (even after the attack!)[1].

[1] http://builtwith.com/?https%3a%2f%2fmondaynote.com%2f
Clearly, I meant in a presentation to the FCC that tries to change the regulations.
In a related fact, consumer debt normalized to household income has also increased massively[0].

[0] http://www.money-zine.com/financial-planning/debt-consolidat...
Please don't donate to the Wikimedia Foundation
Apparently the article has a linkbait title, and the Medium analysis/advertisement is the primary thesis.

This is disappointing to say the least.
As someone who works in London, I can definitely say that a lot of people will walk straight into the road at the first slightly clear opportunity. In the the City of London part, your car being stopped for about a minute seems to be enough for the large group of waiting pedestrians to try and walk around it.
>The content left little doubt on the origin of the attack.

That's quite a leap.