skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maciej (HN handle 'idlewords') has an interesting take on this that I'm struggling to find in my history right now. The basic idea is that all of the data these companies collect is still ultimately useless in practice. We still don't have advertising that is even close to being relevant.

But the data retains its toxic qualities (of being a database of every action I take on the Internet and some in the real world).

I fire up the YouTube homepage and all of my recommendations are for UK daytime TV. Celebrities, 'Jeremy Kyle' (the UK Jerry Springer), etcetera.

YouTube sends me adverts for female hygiene products and dog food. (I am male and I own no dog.)

Even when I get advertising that's not selling me stuff that would require I buy something else first (sex change, dog) it's invariably for something vastly overpriced or some sort of megabrand.
Regardless of political opinion, I think it's disgraceful to only show biased views.
Exactly. Imagine being a student given a tome of knowledge called something like, 'Principia Mathematica'. Upon receipt of the book you say, "I will soon be able to make engines efficient, structures solid, understand the planet's rotation, and make mathematical models precise." Then two days later someone asks how to draw up plans for a rocket ship to the moon. You'll get there, but you have to read the text first, then you have to understand it, then you have to experiment with it, and then you will (go to the moon). Nothing in your prediction was unrealistic, but it takes time to learn.

A few decades ago ago we read our first line of source code from a computer from the year 2,000,000,000 - some pretty advanced technology that was just handed to us. Two decades ago we did our very first read-through of an entire human. The reading itself was not particularly productive. We already knew some of the most important lines of code, from the decades before, and we annotated a lot more sections that are critical for basic function. We've even traced a few bugs back to the source code - especially those bugs where 1) the source was unusually easy to read [1], or 2) the bug was really bad [2]. As of this year we've developed compilers to enable us to write and run small, multi-line programs of our own composition [3]. We're doing really well in trying to read, comprehend, manipulate, and act on some of the most sophisticated technology ever presented to us. More sophisticated by orders of magnitude than the silicon in Nvidia's new graphics card (16nm 2d dry feature size [4], vs 0.1nm, 3D wet feature size [5]) . Reverse engineering it takes a bit of time, and yet we've already put that knowledge to significant use.

Further, once we do get our working knowledge up and running there will be a significant outpouring of function from having reverse-engineered such technology. But of course there is a lag time in the millions of lab-hours being poured into understanding that technology before we can actually use it. Not dissimilar to the rapid advances in science-fiction when a race reverse-engineers an advanced alien technology. How long did it take us to build The Machine in Sagan's 'Contact'? We will not just cure cancer, but we will be capable of all sorts of new feats. Purchasing the textbook doesn't make one a master - it's the study, the hard work, and the practice.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_papillomavirus

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRCA_mutation

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11417689

[4] http://wccftech.com/rumor-nvidia-pascal-gtx-1080-gddr5x-gtx-...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolution_%28electron_density...
I also wonder how the question was phrased, in my experience Kosmopolit/Weltbürger has a lot of cultural baggage in the German cultural sphere; that it requires some sort of personal refinement (Herder, Kant, Klaus Mann), a label most people won't assert to themselves.

On the other hand the term was used as a negative propaganda term in the eastern bloc[1]

In my experience German's are way more likely to call themselves Europeans first (more than most other European nationalities), and happily skip the world citizen part for convenience's sake. Even the E in PEGIDA stand for Europeans.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootless_cosmopolitan
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> nobody really knows a solution that makes everyone happy

Impossible and usually the worst approach to have. The best thing is to have a visionary that blazes the path for the rest to follow. Sadly the vast majority of visionaries will fail.
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Eisenhower had to bring in 101st Airborne to Little Rock, in order to rule in the governor and his National Guard.

You can argue things have changed since 1950s, but near every controversial action making the headlines (book bans, stand your ground laws, ID teaching in schools, anti-immigrant action, homophobic legislation, racially motivated police crimes) seem to come from county and state level.
You'd probably have to go back a ways to at least the early 1900s I'd guess to get the right combination of horribleness to get that. These days workplace suicides are relatively rare 1-2 per million workers. Also being poor sucks but US workers are waaay more mobile than a rural Chinese person who move into a company town from their home town/village so before they'd get to 'I'll kill myself in protest' they'll probably get to 'I'll change jobs or quit' first.
I just don't think you can generalize like that. A "powered" landing for an aeroplane is very different from what SpaceX is doing, e.g. an aeroplane can and often does abort and go around, whereas the rocket has no such capability.
I feel like shifting the blame towards consumers only shirks the responsibility that companies have to act responsibly. How much longer are we gonna excuse companies that only act in their self interest just so we don't have to do anything about it?

EDIT: Whether people like it or not, free market forces don't always offer the best outcome. We stopped depending solely on free market forces when we put in place anti-monopoly laws. We've identified that regulation is needed in some cases. Lets use it damnit.
Do you believe facebook does this? It's a Gawker article.
Not a co-founder, but certainly a web front-end programmer required:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11634804

Initially a short term paid project, but this has the potential to become a long-term project. It's never going to be a unicorn, though, so if unicorns are all you're interesting in, this isn't for you, except potentially to mark time and add to your portfolio.

But if you're interested in a small, paid project, feel free to contact me to chat about what might be done.
It's crazy how Facebook and Google could tip the scale during Election Year
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/how-google-co...
How do you think No developer knowledge? Is that possible for building a landing page?
So an emotional emotional attachment to a nation which an individual recognizes as their homeland, is 'stupid'. The nation has provided that person with certain values which she/he deeply appreciates and feels strongly about: is that stupidity? Isn't it a good idea to determine what those values are and how they relate to other people before you generalize so crudely?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriotism
Plenty of research on this topic and hard evidence abounds.

Regarding US share of research funding versus the rest of the world, this is well established... Public funding and private profits are the two big US sources of medical research dollars. The NE Journal of Medicine reports that the US funds about half of all global medical research spending, and that's split approximately evenly between public and private funding.

Here's [1] a CBO paper on the topic of pharma R&D spending / reinvestment which is also worth a look. R&D as a percentage of sales ("research intensity") is higher in pharma than almost any other industry, and increased significantly in the 80s and has held constant since then.

[1] - https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/109th-congress-2005-...
Twitter is TLS by default, so it wouldn't be very useful to just capture the traffic. They'd have to either MITM (which would be detectable e.g. by the SSL Observatory) or by obtaining Twitter's TLS keys for decryption.
lxrun /uninstall /full (then reinstall by typing "bash" again)

... but even that seems to have bugs. It doesn't manage to delete all the files in the home directory!

https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/310

They will get this stuff working, and it will be great. Because Microsoft. But whatever they're doing now is just stupid. I worked with some pretty chaotic teams at MS in high pressure situations and development was never approached like this nor was it this "messy." They're pretending this is how the sausage is made. This is not sausage.
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Sugar removes acidity. I would add some sugar to home made tomato sauce sometimes.

Sugar is bad, but it's got some qualities as well. The same could be said about many things we still eat/drink/breath, but the problem with sugar is that we just use too much of it.
It's a Gizmodo article, unless I'm missing something.
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What's with the exclamation mark at the end of function names? e.g. println!("foo")
https://www.bugsnip.com/ ;)
Python is dog slow. This is why it is used as a glue language for C modules. This is the canonical way to do things. Javascript OTOH is decently fast on its own, but you can't really interact with libraries written in C or FORTRAN, as far as I know.
It has been blatantly clear something is up with their Trending algorithm when you notice there is a Trending: Hillary Clinton header on top of every single shared Bernie Sanders article. Never once have I seen a Trending: Bernie Sander header.
I disagree - It's a private company's prerogative to display whatever content they wish - A competitor could choose to suppress liberal articles.

As long as they are not breaking any relevant speech laws, then I see nothing wrong with their actions. If we shut down all biased media, all we'd really be left with is the BBC (although a large number of people would disagree here)
Just take the time making your website slimmer. Do not care about the others and rape the benefits having more visitors than the others. It is egoist, but this is the only way companies are going to move, if the competition is getting more visitors because of slimmer websites. If this practically does not change anything, then, this is a false problem.

For my website (chemical databank) I was able to measure the benefits of reducing the page size with more visitors from countries with poor Internet connectivity.

So, just do it and enjoy the competitive advantage as long as you have it! This is the best way to get things moving.
What makes you think this is about economic betterment?
This. My management is like generals fighting the last war. They continue to push process as an answer to anything that has caused an outage instead of reworking the process that we already have.
Great idea. But how do we get to there from here? Particularly when doctors' professional bodies are large, powerful, and full of people who are convinced that that never did them any harm?
Who are owned by Gawker Media
Do you believe kelukelugames? It's a HN comment
Based on Twitter's share price, they need any positive press they can get at this point.

But fundamentally, as long as Dataminr (as by extension, the Intelligence Community) is only accessing publicly available information purposely broadcast by users, this is pretty innocuous.

If Dataminr/IC was pushing for data from protected accounts, DMs, or other non-public info, then it's a different game.
Point taken and I'm sure, you (and I for that matter) would benefit from your suggestions. But it wouldn't change anything for the existing bloated websites, because they could be written in a lightweight way but aren't.
This isn't quite the correct link -- this is a link to that day of posts, which happens to contain only one post. But the actual link to the post would be http://www.filfre.net/2013/02/the-pinball-wizard/
Gizmodo is part of the Gawker empire. Their writers overlap and all push for click bait. I dislike their sites except for Deadspin because I don't mind reading trashy sports news.
The article hints at them having done something wrong and that it could have been prevented. Any divers/cavers know?
See the main problem then, is not a problem with if websites are obese or paper thin, the question is are websites and our browsers doing a good job of using already existing features for helping users.

I think we should be complaining about developers and admins who doesn't enable gzipping, we should be angry with the fact some websites don't even bother setting headers to cache static resources. We should not be throwing out hands up in air screaming crisis because our web is becoming more useful.
All industry's are regulated. The general case is normal laws. Ad networks serving links to compromised websites is likely already illegal.
This has nothing to do with GPS imho. Plenty of people died in the past by following an out of date map, or incorrect directions. The most common theme in situations like this is not realizing when you are crossing over from an inconvenience to a life threating situation. Driving somewhere without thinking "what happens if I break down out here? Does anyone know where I am?" Then taking additional risks without understanding what the stakes are.
That's like taxing it only in Idaho. Of course it must be done in an economic block, like the US or the EU or China.
Our fictional pundit predicted more correct primary results than Nate Silver did
Or they try to prolong their patents or very slightly change the formula of an existing drug so they can patent it again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_drug#Prolongation
I'm interested in knowing more about your plans. I've got good connections in the industry and have also worked and taught Tableau. I've got a technical background but also studied business as well and have been doing customer development trying to build my own startup.
When I was living in India, I used to see my dad praying 1 or 2 hours a day, I used to see my friends waiting in a queue for many hours just to visit their god in a temple. I used to wonder isn't this a complete waste of time from society's point of view.

If all these people could use that time to do something productive, it would help the country. I remember my aunt telling me that only God can fix India's problems, when I disagreed she was pissed off.

I wanted to be a hero and fix India's problems but then I took the easy way out and moved to a developed country.
Since when is grace relevant at all? It's pretty apparent how effective Fox News is, graceful or not.
Oh come on. He is clearly referring to the problem of water being wasted as a valueless common good, mostly in the western world. And indeed, what is happening for instance in California right now can be seen as tragedy of commons problem (see e.g. http://legal-planet.org/2015/07/13/tragedy-of-the-commons-ca...)

But sure, if you need to confirm the BigCo CEO as incarnation of Satan, go ahead...
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That signifies a macro. It's meant to visually distinguish macros from ordinary function calls because macros may have arbitrary semantics (they can expand into any code at all). The stdlib defines `println` as a macro because it allows for a neat compile-time parsing of format strings.

(See [1] and the linked source if curious.)

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/macro.println!.html
The only thing your comment right there proved is that you don't know what you're talking about.

They don't operate on a financial motivation. They have literally no requirement to do so. What they do is identify commercial products that any/all of the federal government may be interested in using and fund it if possible, or at least try to fund partial features.

For example, Google Earth was funded by In-Q-Tel long before Google bought the product. In fact, many startups use In-Q-Tel funding as a badge of honor when pitching to VCs later on, as it shows a potential revenue source given the existing financial commitment.
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To be honest I think there are good arguments to both sides, and I don't think there is really a one size fits all solution here. If you use unsigned you've got to pay attention to certain corner cases, if you use signed you've got to pay attention to different corner cases, it's up to you to decide which is more common in your code.
If /r/technology has a lot of paywall and ad-filled links, and HN does not, yet both sites have similar moderating technology, then either dang et al. are seriously better admins, or HN is frequented by a better class of person.

There, you done gone made me say it.
I see your point. They are a private company, they have their right to display what they wish, just as we have the right to not view it.
Fun fact: Despite the hyper-cautious (2015) in the headline here, the AMP page described, the one that Google said they were going to fix, still redownloads the same video file every 30 seconds, thus making it, still, theoretically unbounded in page size.

The NPR page about ad-blockers which was 12 megabytes without an adblocker and 1 megabyte when using an adblocker is now 1.4MB with an adblocker and "only" 1.9MB without -- to display about 1,100 words.

The medium article that was over a megabyte seems to have removed the pointless 0.9MB invisible image.
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Ahh I see, my bad, didn't realize Gizmodo is part of Gawker.
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Shockwave traffic jam recreated for first time (2008)
I can honestly say that I've clicked on quite a few static ads with the intention of learning more. Dynamic ads, however, I refuse to click.
Does all my code pass through your server? That would be a problem.
I think it would be foolish to NOT assume facebook AND Gawker do this.
It's laughable that they led with the genetic cause for schizophrenia which (a) probably doesn't exist and (b) wasn't found a few months ago; they found a weak statistical association across a large number of variants that explains < 3.5% of the variability in disease susceptibility. What this demonstrates is what we've learned over and over across the past decade with association studies: yes, we're a product of our genes, and variation affects us, but no, common diseases are probably not mostly driven by genetics.

For me, the big story in genomics over the past few years is one of massive failure. We spent a lot of time and effort sequencing tumors in the hopes that the genetics would tell us something interesting and lead to cures. It did not. We now have a relatively complete cabinet of the major variants that drive tumors. Most of these variants we already knew about before we did these genomics studies (through older sequencing methods from decades prior), and most of what we learned tells us nothing new.

Genetics is at this point mostly garbage information. Why? Because we don't know what it means. We still don't understand gene expression, we don't understand signal transduction, and we can't understand the effects of mutations without painstaking characterization. All of these things mean our sudden wealth of knowledge of genetic variation tells us fuck-all about biology.
You changed your comment. Where is the remark about the singularity? The entire meaning of your comment has changed.
I love Maciej's writings, though he hasn't published anything for a few months now. His last writing on advertising was this, might be what you're thinking of:
http://idlewords.com/2015/11/the_advertising_bubble.htm

I agree with every word.
I see no evidence one government would suffice. There's too much diversity in the world, of both the politically fashionable kinds and the kinds that are currently politically unfashionable to acknowledge but don't cease to apply because of that. Even the EU is frequently criticized for instance for the difficult-to-the-point-of-impossible task of tying together all of its economies under one currency, just to give one example of major structural issues it raises, and is at the very least under a lot of stress, if not outright coming apart. If you can't even integrate Europe you can forget about running the whole world under one government. The EU is your best case.
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Diabetes is a product of genetics. If you have the bad genes, and you overeat sugar, you will get diabetes. If you don't have the genes, overeating the sugar will still have bad longterm effects (fatty liver, etc) but you will most likely not get diabetes.
Thanks, seems to be a good idea to try to post it also here!
This edit:following medium.com article clocks in at over 100mb in total, due to unoptimised gifs (so don't open it on mobile):

https://medium.com/@tubikstudio/ui-animation-microinteractio...

http://imgur.com/SsurT3W

Aside from the fact that it's impressive to make flat-styled animations that big in gif form, I think the people behind medium.com are just as much to blame for not giving feedback to the uploader about the size of the attached images, nor offering a non-destructive optimising pass or serving the gifs reencoded as .WebM for browsers that support it.
That is partially what I meant. They are deceptive, yet effective, just like Fox News.
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But both of those things are good for you!
I am a conservative and I see nothing wrong with this. It is their software and their servers, after all.

I want a collapse in trust in the major social networks. This is the internet we are talking about. Let them suppress, and let them see what happens.
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arguably, they are deciding with votes. There appears to be massive support for the idea, and it's getting lots of upvotes.
Nothing beats being healthy, which is why I'm not one of these idiots who doesn't read labels. I've put in the work to optimize my purchasing habits, so I know that the average grocery store contains about 38,718 items. It only takes me around 15 seconds to skim a label for nutritional content and add a mental note of it's contribution to my dietary needs, so I can finish shopping in a new store in just over 161 hours. I have a special exercise routine I do during that time to maximize the experience.
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