skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remember that the trust relationship in OpenPGP is not transitive. If you know that Alice's key is valid and you trust Alice, then if Alice signs Bob's key, you know that Bob's key is valid. However, unless you also personally trust Bob, then you cannot trust any signatures that Bob makes. (Unless Alice's signature also indicates trust in Bob; but this is not the common situation, think of e.g., keysigning parties.) Hence, if you have a path from you to Carol going through Alice and Bob, and you trust Alice but you do not know Bob, then you have no guarantees about the validity of Carol's key (Bob may have signed a phoney key).

Of course, checking paths in the Web of Trust is not entirely useless, because a key which is connected to you probably has more chances to be valid. However, it offers no strong guarantee on trust unless you personally trust all intermediates along that chain.
If websites are obese, JavaScript is the refined sugar.
Lets assume that all the physical health problems are solvable with a magic pill, even if this is 500 years in the future.

Is there an intrinsic, rather than pragmatic, reason why mass obesity would be a bad thing? To use the given WALL-E example, what would be so bad about living in that world?
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Regarding asthma: it is currently considered to be an auto-immune disorder. The latest theory I read is that the lungs need to develop their own resistance to infection; more specifically, developing lungs need exposure to hazards to tune the immune system and prevent overreactions of the immune system later [1].

Regarding antidepressants: there exist strong links between depression and stress. Current society is arguably more hectic and stressful than what we've had before, but I'm not sure if that is fixable (it is, however, one of the reasons I use an ad-blocker).

[1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140606091157.h...
I'm reminded of a time when somebody at my university wrote a piece critical of the Chinese government in a student newspaper, and the following weeks were filled by comments from Chinese students infuriated by this slur on their national character and threatened boycotts by student recruitment organizations. The same article written about any Western state - including the apparently highly non-internationalist Germans - would have passed without comment and certainly without the taking of offence. And that was highly-educated, middle class Chinese citizens studying in a foreign language overseas. So whilst Chinese people certainly may have reservations about shortcomings of their government, claims it makes and the people that work for it, I'm not inclined to believe that the vast majority of them are similarly sceptical about the importance of Chinese national and ethnic identity their government works so hard to promote.

In particular, I don't perceive a country which rules dual nationality impossible to be likely to be more internationalist in public outlook than countries where large proportions of the population trace their ancestry to other continents, foreign languages are universally spoken, foreign media is consumed as often as domestic media, international travel is something most people actually do, immigrants are not novelties even in rural areas and the government couldn't give two shits about patriotism.

Sure, there are plenty of people born in China who see things differently, but the survey implies that two thirds of Chinese people living in the People's Republic of China don't really see themselves as Chinese.

You don't have to think that Chinese citizens are disproportionately racist, nationalistic or xenophobic (I don't) to find it quite hard to believe that they're substantially less attached to their national, ethnic and cultural identity than most of the rest of the world.

Even the diasporas - which undoubtedly would give different survey results - are as good at preserving their cultural identity as they're economically successful.
I dunno, if you have been gestating a foal, you might be a little undernourished at the end of the process, so a placenta's worth of nutrients might then be "vital."
I don't agree with the downvotes, but I disagree that inventing is any more dead now than it has ever been. As far as I know, successful inventors have always needed the startup skillset. If you look at historical inventors' stories, it is very rare to see the classical case of an inventor who builds a prototype, patents it, and the world then beats a path to their door. Instead, typically an inventor will partner with someone who has more business skills than themselves and they develop a market for it together. That sounds a lot like a startup to me.

Considering how the vast majority of patents end up protecting intellectual property which is worth nothing, the real barriers to professional inventing don't seem to be in the patent arena, but in the business arena. It has always been hard to sell an invention to a large company for commercialization. At least today the option of making an invention-based startup which could then be acquired by a big corp provides a business path. If there is a problem with that path, it is only that startup funding seems to focus on internet marketing more than actual invention these days.
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I'm all for splitting a task into more manageable pieces where convenient:

1. readpst will convert your PST into a mbox-compatible structure

2a. there's plenty of tools to search that (e.g. Mozilla Thunderbird)

2b. in the past, I've used "readpst -M" to just generate a set of files, and then "grep -HIrn" to search for a string, no further tools needed; you may want to look at more sophisticated approaches.

This has the advantage that all processing is local, and you're not exposing your data to some hopefully-benevolent cloud entity.
I think they had to go with ARC due to the requirement that swift interoperates with Objective-C. If that hadn't been a constraint, yeah it would be an interesting decision.
it's not just that though, there's the push for systemd which was not welcomed and alienated a lot of sysadmin folk who frequent hackernews.

personally I felt rather shafted by systemd, not because it's bad, but because my arguments were never even met, it was just a brushing off from some of the people who had already accepted it.

So I tried the BSD's and they were significantly better than I imagined they would be, I would put money on this being the case for other people who are upvoting these topics.
Lending Club is building a two-sided marketplace, which is always hard. I've been lending on the platform for almost 3 years now. It was always difficult for me to find loans that met my criteria. Borrowers have 14 days to get their loans funded by lenders and loans were typically funded by lenders within 1 day. So lenders were outnumbering borrowers.

Starting in January this year, however, loans started taking longer and longer to fund. Recently, I've seen them timing out. This means that in the marketplace, the balance shifted and borrowers outnumbered lenders. Another indication that Lending Club was experiencing a shortage of lenders: they began offering bonuses up to $2,000 for new accounts.

Finally, this earnings release indicates that loan originations, while still growing, has slowed considerably. That is the formal evidence confirming a significant slowdown in new lenders.

I suspect that there was a lot of pressure internally for sales personnel to bring in new capital through either retail of commercial lenders (they've served both markets for quite a while), and, someone or some group got too aggressive. Whether LaPlanche knew and ok'd the deal, or whether he was just 'person in charge' and has to take the fall, I don't know. But this will be a major wound. It's really sad that it is self-inflicted.
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So a company that blatantly cheated will pay some fines and still be worth billions. The founders and early employees will all be rich, or richer than they were when they started. The investors will get a very healthy return.

The lesson: break the rules and grow so fast that by the time regulators catch up, you can put on a show of reforming and still keep most of the value that you created.

Admirable disruption or horrible cheating? I don't know how to feel about it.
You can invest in Lending Club via a tax deferred account like an IRA. You won't be taxed on gains that way.

Agree that handpicking is a waste of time. Let the autoinvest feature work for you.
No paywall...no annoying auto-play video:

http://archive.is/vh3yl
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"Multitasking is impossible" is seriously overgeneralizing from personal experience. It's just not true that it's impossible. It's certainly impossible for me - if my laptop is open, I'm not listening. But that's not true for everyone!
Apparently it's not coming from a single curator. The manipulation of the trending section was much wider spread than that:

"Several former Facebook “news curators,” as they were known internally, also told Gizmodo that they were instructed to artificially “inject” selected stories into the trending news module, even if they weren’t popular enough to warrant inclusion—or in some cases weren’t trending at all. The former curators, all of whom worked as contractors, also said they were directed not to include news about Facebook itself in the trending module."

The article then mentions a second curator that also admits anti-conservative bias:

"Another former curator agreed that the operation had an aversion to right-wing news sources. 'It was absolutely bias. We were doing it subjectively. It just depends on who the curator is and what time of day it is,' said the former curator."
The blame also rests with regulators like the FDA, who for decades promoted a food pyramid that was basically upside-down in terms of what was healthy; who for decades promoted that partially-hydroginated oils (trans-fats) were preferable to natural saturated fats; who encouraged a "low fat" diet that prompted food producers to substitute sugar for fat to make foods tasty and consumers to consume an unhealthy high-starch, high-sugar diet and a nearly manic avoidance of fat.
No one is saying "high quality" journalists should work for free (although their employers would probably prefer it), only that they can no longer depend on advertising for revenue. If companies want to remain on the web and continue making money they're going to have to be more creative, begging people to view their ads by blocking ad blockers (while understandable) probably isn't going to work in the long run.
What's really sad about this is that they had to give up Leaf because the whole thing was VC-backed. Commercial support is a huge part of open source software's viability.

I applaud their decision to pivot and shift their focus elsewhere to win. That said, the irony is too great for me not to mention: open sourcing is now recognized as a hugely democratizing force in the software world to upend commercial giants, yet it's commercial giants that can afford to invest in the long run and support open source projects (so that they can increase the sphere of their influence).
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yes, actually :)
For people in the developed world with good technology infrastructure, yes.
But it's also quite inconsiderate to tell people to upgrade their dataplan (which for some people might be a financial limit) instead of trying to think of better ways to reduce cruft and unnecessary data transfers.
Your body is as much part of you as your mind/thoughts/consciousness. Just like a battery is still a battery even after it holds no more charge. It's not a piece of metal but a battery. A dead one at that.
Let me see if I can try to simplify the underlying problem here (I dabble in this space):

Little bit os background: writing pattern matching signatures is hard, adding a bunch of "known malicious" hashes to your malware database is easy.

So, company A with a staff of folks writing pattern matching signatures has its engine added to VirusTotal and virus total shares/sell hashes found by that engine to folks that pay for its API. Company B, without a staff of engineers writing pattern matching signatures, signs up for VirtualTotal API and creates its malware database based purely on the hashes other actual engines create.

Two important things to keep in mind, when this happens at the scale of VirusTotal (basically all real engines are participating) the end result "hash database" is, essentially, bullet proof since it's likely that any sample used to test its effectiveness will be run by VirusTotal first.

We (I run scanii.com a malware/content detection API service) run into this all the time with folks either abusing or just not understanding the reason VT exists.
Here are 1000 whole genomes:

http://www.1000genomes.org/

The VCF files are reasonably formatted, the raw sequencing data is in the FASTQs, which are huge and hard to deal with.
Go nuts!
That's the thing... There's one company that figured out that the way to make money on ads is by simply making them relevant to the user, and that's Google.

The majority of the other ad companies are still--despite all the massive dot-com failures during the boom--trying to just throw in ad referrals everywhere hoping something will stick, and trying to hand off those connections to the highest bidder... like, maybe if they just keep doing it for decades, somehow it will magically become profitable.
Shouldn't HN have a policy against posting articles that are behind a paywall? Yes, I know that you can jump to google and search for the article to try to avoid the paywall - but shouldn't a news aggregator make a statement about letting paywalled news sources be on their own?
did you have caching disabled in your dev tools?
How is an article that is clearly incredibly biased on top of the front page?

Leechers who don't contribute got cut off - that sounds incredibly fair... yet the article spins it to sound like it was malicious.

I guess the entitlement complex rolls all the way up to businesses, too...
I am interested. Could you email me at aakash(dot)sigdel at gmail
I don't see a correlation. Spain may be relatively simple to explain, as I pointed in another comment, it's a country composed of very demarcated regions, some of which with their own independence movements. It's not surprising to me that a good number of Spaniards feel little attachment to "Spain" as a whole.
And don't forget Milk based products http://www.diabetes.co.uk/causes-of-type1-diabetes.html#milk
Perhaps HN and reddit should block every website with an average page size larger than 1-2 MB? That would give those sites some incentive to optimize their pages.
Actually, it’s a story in itself that a problem noted by an older article is still relevant enough to be discussed. In the 6 months since, has the industry even looked at this or is it even worse?

A fast-moving industry needs equally-fast solutions. If 6 months can pass and people are still talking about a problem as if it was yesterday, then not enough has happened. Some ideas of more that could be done: talk to your web-developer friends; have them talk to their managers; start publicly shaming bloated web sites; submit issues and/or pull requests to web browser projects with ideas for how to fix HTML; or something.
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Yep. There's nothing wrong with sugar. Nothing wrong with meat, or milk. Or fat.

People's lifestyle is wrong where they mostly sit around and do not move much. They overeat, average US citizen consumes 3600kcal daily.

Instead of focusing on the lifestyle, we demonize sugar.

Now, the company that uses sugar goes to play with capitalism and buys a producer of diabetes pills and everyone seems to assume that sugar is bad.

I just cannot understand how you consider something containing 25% sugar harmful. Where exactly did you get that number?

Do you consider meat harmful since it has been shown in (Is Meat Killing Us? jaoa) 1.5 million people metaanalysis that there's a considerable relative risk increase of all-cause mortality?

Every single thing is potentially harmful. You believe that consumption of milk isn't harmful? Cows milk is there to create a bull out of a little baby cow? Should we stop marketing milk for children?

This fear of food is absolutely orthorexic. There's no scientific evidence implying sugar is unhealthy or potentially harmful, and if you consider the pseudoscientific nutrition research as evidence, then you should also be fearful of the meat, eggs and dairy since there's bunch of "evidence" for that too.
By six, you're usually at something like "because that makes me happy". By seven, you're into metaphysics and cognitive science.

Of course, some issues are genuinely simple, and you're off in unhelpful territory halfway through. I suspect five why's is a decent estimate, but not necessarily more accurate than four.
I'll check it out, thanks!
I believe Swift 3.0 is the last breaking release. Version after this will avoid breaking the API and language as much as possible, and I imagine allow backwards compatibility for changes they do make.

I'm okay with the fast-moving nature of Swift. It's a very young language that obviously needed a lot of changes, and if they had to take the time to make the earliest features available all the way in version 3, Swift would already be bloated. But they have been able to do away with backwards compatibility which is difficult in the industry, and I think it allowed them to make a richer language, not held back by anything.

Side note: For at least some of the changes they've made, they've also built into the compiler and Xcode smart error messages that see the old syntax, and allow you to click one button to fix it to the latest syntax. Such as the old `for i in 0..10 {}` to the new `for i in 0..<10 {}`, Xcode will tell you to basically insert the `<` for the new operator.
I'd put Go at the top of the languages to compare it to. Maybe Java as well. The ecosystem still needs some time, but Swift's potential on the server is excellent:

- It is incredibly fast compared to current interpreted languages (i. e. factor 30+ vs. Python, possibly faster than C)

- Linux & OS X, open source

- Typed, safe

People like node.js mostly b/c it allows some code to be written once and run on both the server as well as the client. Considering almost any Web API also has an IOS client, Swift has the same potential.
I was always under the impression that human multitasking means failing at multiple things at once. It seems to be just that different people feel different about success.
I am confused why Facebook needs news curators to begin with? Why can't the news just be organic entirely and use ML to curate it per person. I can understand blacklisting certain sites or topics just for pure sanity or appropriateness. Having people as curators just seems like wasted capital.

Anyhow, I find this abhorrent, but I think Facebook has every right to do it as a private entity. I don't think they have a social responsibility to be 100% even. What does bother me is that they claim to be evenhanded, I do want transparency, especially when you are basically the monopoly in social media (excluding Snapchat and Twitter, they own everything.)

This also presents a problem, I think with Twitter's new algorithmic timeline and why the real-time feed is vastly superior for their model (I'll beat this dead horse until Jack realizes how dumb it is.)
maybe in the other direction? :D
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Seems to be loading from cache for me (chrome 50).
Did you leave "disable cache" active in network inspector?
Physics. More specifically, 'conditions'. More specifically, the environment in which the ingredients are produced determines how the ingredients assemble. The analogy to the ingredients list is a decent one, but it is also a tad misleading. You generally do require knowledge of the environment to figure out how the parts will assemble, but many of the parts do work in many different environments and can be considered whole and separable objects rather than ingredients. But trying to separate evolution/life from its environment is the first mistake a student makes when studying evolution. As a grandparent stated, if the genes are the starting positions in Conway's Game of Life, the laws of physics are the rules of the game, and the physical conditions (temperature, pH, gravity, time, etc.) are the topology and specifics of the board you'll be playing on. Then you just hit play and certain concepts self-assemble - the flier, the block, the boat, etc. Some can then be used as objects in themselves, some can be used structurally, some can be used to build/destroy structure - that is life.
They re-did it a few times from scratch, then decided it was hard, and made it a commercial only feature. It still isn't stable. Also, even with their previous clustering, each influx node had to have the entire dataset, so you're limited by the size of data that fits on a single node.

Druid was built from the ground up to be distributed. It means there is some work to set it up, but once you do, it scales horizontally very easily. Bonus points if you run it on something like mesos making it quite easy to deal with (we do).

https://influxdata.com/blog/update-on-influxdb-clustering-hi...

https://influxdata.com/blog/influxdb-clustering-design-neith...

http://www.refactorium.com/distributed_systems/InfluxDB-and-...

etc. They redid their clustering a few times and the 3rd time around made it closed source. Note that $employer also sues influx for data that we are ok with losing ie: metrics. If the data has a low amount of dimensions, influx is faster than druids. However, if you have 3+ dimensions, druid spanks the pants off of influx by nature of distributing the computation better.
I think you're dramatically underestimating the degree to which institutional investors are involved in peer-to-peer. There are entire software startups selling analysis software to hedge funds for peer-to-peer lending.

It almost certainly was not a single wealthy individual.
How many HN threads get derailed by people complaining about the web site's css, etc? It's practically a trope by now.
> 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.

Not so easy way :-)

The video says that 20% of the wealth is cultural. I guess it's more. Western countries are probably so successful because they inherited the greek and roman culture.

Some countries in Asia (like Japan) switched from feudalism to capitalism in few decades.

The difficulties of Africa could be explained by the lack of the writing (unless it's a consequence). The society is more flat than vertical.
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> Keep in mind that this allegation is coming from a single conservative curator who no longer works there.

This is false, the headline even alludes to it being more than a single source. The entire article uses plural terms and refers to 'several.' I think you read the lede, but skipped the rest.
Thank you for confirming. :)

I've always thought the idea behind "5" was to encourage you to ask more than once or twice. I think it's natural to stop after once or twice but you usually get the good stuff further along. Why is the sky blue? The atmosphere. Oh, ok -- I got it. There's a lot more to the story.
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1) I'm an Emacs user and enthusiast.

2) I look into a lot of videos about Emacs.

3) I've noticed that, recently, many of these videos and screenshots are by people using OS X.

4) Someone wondered about an OS X video on the Emacs site.

5) I pointed out #3.