skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I always wonder about Brave New World is if Huxley was right when he portrayed the people in charge of the BNW's system as being convinced they were doing the right thing, as opposite to the 1984's "evil" party.
Original clip was uploaded 8 years before Fox published their version.
And this is why I use firefox
The shell is not involved in looking at the first line of the program, that's what happens in `exec`.
Balance Driven Development
not just meat

The entirety of food production is insane.

We import workers from other countries to have them pick our fruit and vegetables.

We use tons of various chemicals to combat and kill all kinds of insects, birds, animals to keep them away from our crops.

We grow huge amounts of food in areas without fresh water sources

etc.
There is a difference between supporting a strong defense and donating money to anti-LGBT campaigns.
The issue with surveillance isn't that boring stuff might be surveilled. It's that the small fraction of people with interesting things to surveil will be surveilled.

I don't care if the NSA sees my communications. There's no real chance of them thinking I'm a terrorist. I emphatically do care if the NSA sees the communications of the next Malcolm X or Mohandas Gandhi or Harriet Tubman. Or worse, if that person is so afraid of surveillance a priori that they don't bother becoming an activist at all.
Getting people hooked/addicted is not new, it's been used in TV series and shows for decades. I'll explain it all in my next post...
> but throwing management methodology out the window and hoping that "good people" just somehow summon good software into being is comically naive.

Maybe so, but to play devil's advocate, it's Valve's entire business model.
> Sincerely, people should just stop going there.

Because that worked so well in Cuba.
> But it is very irritating when the doomsayers don't adjust their doomsaying based upon current scientific work.

I love this line. It's like somebody just submitted doomsaying homework, and you are not taking issue with their premise per se, but taking off points for the sources they used.
Toss a coin and it will land on someones holy ground..

My intentions were not to harm, that was why I said "no offence, but". I cannot more than explain myself. Sorry if I offended anyone (despite explicitly saying "no offence"). Someone should probably censor me, like, a lot.
Yeah, I know about that from other articles. That sounds like a inefficiency that will resolve itself as that market gets saturated and these apartments go down in price. They will be much less attractive investments then. If you prohibit the market from going its course they will remain empty.
Was that good or bad?
>The last five years I've felt my views become increasingly marginalized

From a conservative/libertarian outlook... wouldn't that be your problem to solve? Isn't the conservative position that if we just remove big government equality should work itself out?
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Right https://blog.cloudflare.com/sha-1-deprecation-no-browser-lef...
So does Google Music, you need Chrome if you want to use it without Flash and even then it doesn't work immediately.

http://googlesystem.blogspot.nl/2016/04/google-play-music-st...
Minecraft's database, and the elements worth value inside of it, are not based on a blockchain. This makes the entire server's economy as secure as the underlying code around exchanging items of value, mob kills, etc. Proposing they use a sidechain solves no problems for their use-case, as far as I can tell.

Given sidechains are already fairly complicated to understand[1], I'm not sure I get why suggesting their use without showing the use-case here makes a lot of sense for building Blockstream's business model. I guess that's the difference between promoting a company and contributing in a conversation.

[1] https://blockstream.com/sidechains.pdf
Another case that I think shows the music industry likes to have things both ways was the Eminem digital sales vs. licenses lawsuit that got settled privately (I mention elsewhere but here's a link):

http://www.spin.com/2012/10/universal-settles-influential-em...

Not to mention the industry wants all its aging / legacy acts to not think about how sound recordings before 1972 may be eligible for return to the creators rather than the business enterprise that owns them currently. It's complicated but financially worth the trouble for some!
It's the data. If you are in New York and chat "Where should we eat?", the phone has to either have a massive amount of data on hand or request some data to make local suggestions.

Then you have to balance how current the data is and storage and so on against the elaborate privacy protection. Google knowing that some person is near some intersection probably isn't much different than Google knowing some person is in NYC. Fresh results about the intersection will naturally be faster to return than fresh results for a larger area that then have to be filtered down on the device.

I guess this is a good reason to add POIs to OpenStreetMap.
I used to be a hardcore longboarder. I'd burn down mountain roads. The worst injuries I experienced were the super sudden stops where human reflexes just aren't going to cut it.

"Making it a natural reaction" simply doesn't jive with physics when you're going a certain speed. Sorry, but what you said is dumb hippy logic.
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It saddens me whenever I go out wit my friends and I try to have a conversation, that everyone is glued to their phones and can't have face-face conversation.
Do you love musicians? The record industry doesn't.
Many buildings in NYC are built as-of-right— within current zoning code. As-of-right building is much quicker and cheaper than getting a variance, which is partially why New York.

New walk-up buildings are perfectly common in the outer boroughs, where land values justify them. There's one going up around the corner from me. They meet the ADA by having an accessible first floor unit.
Likewise, Google penalizes webpages by size. A 3 megabyte page gets a larger penalty than a 1 megabyte, which has a larger penalty than a 1 kB page.

But, they give themselves a free pass, as their own "webpage guidelines" page is 3.4 megabytes long! But, even worse, it has a video on a carousel that repeatedly downloads the video whenever it restarts the video loop.
Yeah, it seems silly to create a sidechain for what is essentially a centralised balance book system. Since the server can run off with the money anyway, there is complete trust there.

Blockchains are cool because they solve the problem of a global ledger without centralised trust. If the problem you're solving does not require the lack of centralised trust, it's just a really complicated and resource-heavy way to implement a balance database.
If you want people to take you and your projects seriously, you are going to have to stop being so antagonistic. I've seen you act this way here, on Reddit, and on GitHub...

The sarcasm, childish comments, and resorting to insults the second someone criticizes your code isn't giving me any hope that you can competently maintain a project like this.

Take a look over the HN Guidelines [1] and the "Approach to comments"[2] sections of the site.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
American here.

I grew up not eating lamb. It is a weird thing to me. If I went to a restaurant and saw 2 options "Beef meatballs" or "Lamb meatballs", I would pick Beef because it is familiar. I think Lamb is a more tasty and more healthful food, but I think it is just not being part of our culture we eat it less.

On not being part of our culture, I am sure price has something to do with it. Factory mass produced beef is much cheaper than lamb.. but for example Shrimp is also more expensive than beef, and we eat a lot of shrimp..
He mentions "thousands of other techniques" that exist, if you read the article. I'm sure advertising is a subset of those.
So probably the allergies have are unrelated to playing in the dirt or breast feeding?
The areas surrounding Manhattan are very safe (especially by American urban standards) and the MTA is an reasonably capable railroad operator. It's terrible at capital projects, however.
The menu options metaphor applies so well to government. Especially given our current predicament.
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Why? What does this mean?
Are there parts of YouTube that require Flash in Chrome other than legacy embeds on non-YouTube sites that enable the embedding page to script the Flash embed via a JS API?
I literally said I very much agree with the principle of restricting and monitoring the access law enforcement has to communications. in my comment.

People that are worried about the NSA (hopefully!) aren't making their choices based on this dude's article, which is actually premised on it being important to protect your boring stuff from teh Google.
I use Chrome for my flash garbage. Its much better than taking my current browsers resources and bogging it down
I never understood why "root mean square deviation" is called standard deviation instead of the MAD. That always annoyed me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNx8cG7SrNc
The infusion of food as science is not represented in the chart. For example people eating boiled corn 30 years ago vs Doritos 10 years ago.. both would show up as "corn".
Node.js has nothing to do with the performance of this server.
> Sadly the Armed Response Technologies website has died

https://web.archive.org/web/20140208152223/http://dspace.dia...

Some programmers never learn. The following illustration depicts a delightful beach on a Caribbean island, a few seconds after the following line of code was executed:

Oh sh...

return strcpy(malloc(strlen(s)), s);

It's still a beach, but it's no longer quite so delightful.
Turning on E2E encryption by default and using your chat data for commercial purposes doesn't have to be a zero sum game...

You can always extract important words from a "block" of chat messages, and feed that into your advertising engine, while keeping the exact sequence of your words and messages encrypted.

Now if the AI bots require the exact sequence of your words to do NLP processing, then yea, you're SOL until the mobile devices become powerful enough to do that processing locally on the device.
Perceived benefits, or conditioned response?

One of this most insidious things about totalitarian states is people self censer to the degree it's hard to know what they actually feel.

One example I think most people on HN may see is how people talk about work. It's really rare for people with white collar jobs to admit they hate their job. Sometimes it's years after they quit before someone will say they hated a job.
I don't have a refutation for your first point regarding fast food, although according to Wikipedia[0], 7-11, being a grocer and thus state-regulated, would be excluded from the sizing law.

> The law, rather than the opposition to it seems like an explicit, intentional example of the OP.

Indeed. However, we must note that using techniques described in the OP aren't necessarily bad: merely that when the values of these large (not-always-tech) companies do not align with their customers, consumers are manipulated toward actions that ultimately run counter to their (presumed) values, such as their physical, financial, and emotional well-being.

If a government, which ideally represents the values of its constituency, chose to regulate using these same principles, the result could be a net benefit for society.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugary_Drinks_Portion_Cap_Rule
It's a plausibility check that could be used to flag things for human review.
Here's my favorite one ever...

http://aem1k.com/world/
A principle that should not be forgotten
True enough. I've sometimes thought about distilling my own as an experiment. It takes a long time to find out the results, though, and you're in constant danger from the revenuers.
What's Novice? It's extremely difficult to google.
Great writeup. I think this should go hand in hand with articles explaining why p <= 0.05 is not an end-all be-all confirmation of your hypotheses/conclusions. Before I jumped to the software engineering world, I did biostats and was essentially a "bioinformatician". You quickly realize how many experts in the field misuse statistical tools entirely while using their results to prove a point, or worse, draw conclusions incorrectly from their results. A big faux pas I saw a lot was using normality-assumed parametric tests on non-normal data where the skew was clearly significant (i.e. you couldn't get away with it like some non-normal data dists.). Seriously, go take a look at some bioinfo papers (or any biology papers for that matter), it's getting pretty bad. However when we learn (even in master's or Ph.D. programs) about these mathematical tools, we are not often taught about what the math means. I'm sure I'm not the only one to have been taught formulas as a means to prove your research rather than the theory/intuition behind them. Luckily there are articles such as these that force you to step back and consult the maths again to learn what is really going on.

As an aside, I'm sure this sort of thing happens in all walks of life, not just maths/data science. Some programmers don't understand the intuition of certain things that they code and when it is time to explain they will likely freeze because they know how to code it, but don't really know why the code works fundamentally.
Do you really see no problem with telling others who they can and can't marry?
I can't see myself supporting or working for a CEO that thinks it's okay to donate to Propositions that support this level of imposition on other peoples'lives. I guess the board of Firefox agreed.
From your perspective, restricting marriage to a man and a woman isn't anti-gay. And that belief isn't inherently anti-gay in my view. But the real effect of enforcing laws surrounding that view includes: missing tax breaks, missing legal protections, not being able to visit your dying partner because you aren't next of kin. So the real world outcomes of the legal enforcement of that view are anti-gay and unfair.
I don't know how Safari does it, but it works, is incredibly fast, and eats much less memory than Chrome. (My browsing habits suggest Safari is about 30-40% cheaper in terms of memory, but that's anecdata so truck loads of salt required.)

In any event, there are way too many replies to keep count of in this thread, but all I can say is that however Safari does it – it just works(tm). Accidental backspace has literally never been an issue for me since they implemented this. There are convincing arguments why backspace as a short cut is a bad idea to begin with, but old habits die hard, and I for one am very happy that Safari makes this work.
Hmm, when we speak of quining, we ask "How in X programming language, do we write a program that outputs it's own text".

But in what language is this "program" written?

The best I can guess is that the unix shebang hack/convention is a (very, very minimal) language all of its own.
Name calling followed by a smiley face is still name calling.

Christians are the dominant majority in this country. Yet some of them won't shut up about being persecuted. I doubt they seriously follow the teachings of jesus christ.
It is still a useful metric.

If we show Diabetes rate has doubled in the past 30 years, and the consumption of something (Cheese?) has tripled in the past 30 years, it may be worth doing a study on the effects of cheese on health. Note I didn't say immediately blame cheese for obesity like the news would...
Well - my "hobby" project is running the league website for a pool hall that was written in PHP ~12 years ago. There are 4 different leagues, each on their own database, all running very similar (but not the same) versions of the code on similar but not the same db schemas.

So I'm trying to modernize it by building a separate app that can interoperate with the 4 different schemas and do all the same things that the old app did. It's an interesting exercise in replacing legacy code piece by piece while still using it (all the leagues would not function if the site didn't work, and there's basically 3 weeks out of the year when the leagues aren't playing).

Professionally, on the other hand, I work at a startup where I've more or less had my hands in the code from day one.
We just don't have a big culture of eating lamb for whatever reason. It may be a result of how the country was settled: sparse population, big open spaces with often harsh weather and large predators (coyotes, wolves, and mountain lions), long distance travel needed to bring the animals to market. I could see those factors favoring larger animals like cattle, smaller animals like chickens which can be raised locally, and "easy" animals like pigs. My family used to raise sheep and they definitely had a tendency to die easy, however delicious they are.
There's a lot to be said about the poor design of suburbs.
Just came in here to point out that we've allowed a title with a double bind in it on our site, which is not cool. I love music and I'm part of the SV culture, or at least on the fringes.

How about a "this is a double bind" argument button next to stories?
The hit, which is why stuff out of left field like Len's "Steal My Sunshine" instantly got pushed by KROQ and the record label and to this day rakes in tons and tons in royalties for a guy who absolutely hated being a pop sensation and to this day thinks the song is a horribly twisted joke and can't believe it was a hit:

http://www.stereogum.com/1877413/behind-the-music-steal-my-s...
I think it's also useful to keep in mind that it's not just propaganda, China's government is overall doing a decent job especially if you compare to how things were before. China basically spent a century being kicked around by outside powers, culminating in the Japanese rampaging around the place for a decade. Since the Communist Party took over, China rose to become a world power, with a strong economy, strong military, and no trouble with invaders.

Clearly, the Communist government is not without its own problems, e.g. the Cultural Revolution, which I'm not trying to diminish in any way. Some of those (like the Cultural Revolution) are seen as a failure of government which the current government tries very hard not to repeat. Some (censorship, general political repression) are accepted, either as necessary or unfortunate but tolerable.

Clearly, you can make the argument that China would be doing even better under a good democratic government. I'd be pretty receptive to that argument personally. But it's pretty hard to convince people that they should undergo a radical change in government, when the terrible effects of political upheaval are still fresh in people's memories, and the current regime has overseen such improvements. Throw in the ridiculous shit coming out of Western democracies at the moment (e.g. Trump) and that job gets even harder.

Edit: regarding the downvote, let me ask: if you had to be transplanted into the body of a Chinese person at some point in time, would you rather it be 1900, 1940, 1970, 2000, or today? From everything I know, I'd vote 2000 or "today" without hesitation, and not just because of computers and smartphones.
It depends on several factors like country, sector, and who you work.

But as you grow older you are forced to either become a manager or sales person.

I guess the question is not about age, but wages. In your 20s you still don't know how much money you'll need for a living. When you realize how much you need, you buy a house/car/whatever else expensive enought not to be paid upfront, then unexpectedly have family, then kids and you know you need money. Much more than you get from a technical position.

BTW, remember for the business you are an expense, something they need to build the product, but eventually all technical stuff can be bought or outsourced.
Common wisdom says whoever is interested in reading this kind of stuff, will end up reading it.
Heh, yeah. It's like talking to climate "skeptics" - people who believe climate change is real but disagree on the level of human agency. You can show them graph after graph of greenhouse gas emissions being pumped into the atmosphere at alarming rates and they'll say "I'm not that alarmed, we don't know how much of an impact it will have." Meanwhile, coral reefs are bleaching, Florida is flooding, and we are experiencing record heatwaves AND snowfall. At the very least, it doesn't take much to make clear that we should still DO SOMETHING.
"The song “Drag Me Down” by One Direction appeared on YouTube 2,700 times after the service was asked to take down unlicensed copies. These 2,700 pirated uploads allowed Google to continue profiting from advertising while the artists got nothing."

When an average music video has hundreds millions of views, 2700 views is actually an incredible proof of how quick google is to take down pirated music.
For comparison, the original "Drag Me Down" video has over
459,286,538 views.
The animation makes no sense to me, but I think the visualization is extremely informative.
The modern day "professional", they may hold degrees, may sound impressive, probably read a few books on the topic from O'Reilly, but basically are not that good. Same with programmers, most are not that good. Same with decorators, or writers, or any field really. There will be the few who like it, learn it, practise it, aim to get better at it, but the vast majority, no.
Just saying there are two sides doesn't make it so. In all the debates there is the right and there is everyone else.

Examples:
Gun control: The right, absolutely no controls. Everyone else is a sliding scale of limited access, limited capacity to complete removal.

The right has set themselves apart by not even wanting to negotiate. There is no sliding scale to them. Elected politicians that want to stay elected adhere to Grover Norquist and the Bush Doctrine. What's the sliding scale on that?
Actually it wasn't, I appreciate the links. Thanks.
Isn't this an anti-pattern? I mean, Lambda is suppose to eliminate the need for servers and server admin work. However, working with their services, like Lambda, are so tedious that solutions like Apex and Serverless have to be put on top of them. So now you have to learn to use a "Serverless Framework" to abstract the complexity of a serverless service?

In my view, they got it wrong. If the service is too cumbersome to use and requires these extra frameworks to actually use them effectively, then there's a fundamental problem with the service it relies on.
I can't attest to Eich's personal views, but giving money to maintain a status quo that is discriminatory against gays is anti-gay.
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It's so bad in SharePoint. I try to avoid !important as much as possible, but it's really hard. Maybe it'll get better with the release of the SP Framework. Who knows?
There's no need to resort to insults in-reply to questions or criticisms.

It's a valid question (that i think you did answer, but not very well). Dropping to very unsafe "lower levels" should only be done when absolutely necessary as a single mistake here could cause massive security issues.
I honestly can't tell if you're being sincere or exaggerating to make a point about how little privacy modern society allows.

But, this is somewhat worrying: "If I could crinkle into a ball and fade away, I would, but, unfortunately, I'm still breathing."

If that's not a joke, you should probably see somebody about your depression.
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