skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've read arguments that the dot-com boom and bust caused a huge amount of internet infrastructure to be built out- which were still available for the post-crash companies to use for cheap, because all the capital costs had been paid for already (by the investors who lost everything in the crash).
The most recent review(for technologies to reduce loneliness) i found is from 2014[1].

The results are inconclusive:

"Two studies examined Internet-based video communication.
Tsai and Tsai (2011) focused on the efficacy of
videoconferencing to improve nursing home residents’
social support. Participants in this study were asked to
make contact with family or loved ones at least once a
week via services such as Skype or MSN. After regression,
the authors concluded that videoconferencing was
effective in reducing loneliness (p < 0.01).

Meyer et al.’s (2010) study on web-based communication
included a nine-item instrument that examined social
contact and interaction. Using a sample of 33 participants,
the authors did not find a statistically significant relationship between loneliness and the use of webcam."

Maybe it's partially depends on the technology(quality and eye-contact establishment, viewing full body language[which research says both help with trust]), and maybe on other on the social aspect of the interaction - contacts with family members should help more than chatting with people you have much stronger bond with .

[1]http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13607863.2013.875...
I'll be putting all guesses into my never_work_here.txt file and then I'll respond to them all at once.
Headless Chrome is coming
So do you have friends that you physically meet at least once a week ?

Do you exercise regularly?
What cars are we talking about? Modern cars integrate their entertainment system with a bunch of car-specific features, so it's no longer possible to swap "just the player" unit, like it was possible earlier.
Doesn't matter, they have ad revenue piling up all around them. More moonshots incoming.
Whereas before they would have had no contact, now they at least have virtual.
trying to understand 'what user needs'

Who is the "user"? The story of how the product began development was:

Iridium began as a pet project of Motorola
executive Barry Bertinger and some engineers
in the mid-1980s after the former's wife
famously complained of not being able to
phone the US while on holiday in the Caribbean.

I didn't see that story in the article, but it's probably in the book. That and Iridium flares are the two most interesting things about Iridium, to me at least.

[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/down-to-earth-rea...
Well the fascist countries for instance traditionally had a centrally planned command economy too, and 'fascist' (although that word has perhaps even more baggage than communism) is probably a closer fit to how companies act than 'communist'. Also while "crazy ass dictatorship" lacks any sort of unified political/economic manifesto, they always seem to end up looking like centrally planned economies too, though fewer companies of any real size end up as "crazy ass dictatorships" thanks to the magic of bureaucracy.
I thought the article would mention web of trust and the flaws with CAs.
The don't replace anyone statement doesn't make any sense. Instead of training foreign workers we could be training American workers for these jobs.
It's possible that by providing a fraction of the population with greater luxury than an equal allocation of resources would allow for, those people are able to achieve greater advances in technology than otherwise, which lead to better results in the long run.

Or more pithily: Maybe we need gardens to cultivate civilisation.

That said, I am very aware that this is probably a post-rationalisation for my tribal intuition that nearby people are more important than distant ones.
I don't know if I saw the HN submission from the others (though I do remember upvoting the post from the Tor blog)...and while there are definitely users who espouse skeptical bias beyond a principled belief in "innocent until proven guilty" when it comes to sexual allegations...but from your description, it sounds like the women were sharing hearsay ("Jake finally raped enough people that Tor as an organisation couldn't ignore it anymore."), whereas Farr has offered a first-person testimonial, which is often more persuasive to people when it comes to evidentiary value.
In Common Lisp it is easy to return multiple closures.

Emacs Lisp now has lexical closures, too.

Common Lisp has no problems with 'polymorphic print'.
Some say UBI has no connection to technology. It is just about eliminating welfare administrative costs and making people contribute to their communities in other ways.
Clustering also isn't a supervised learning technique. Even though you might say DNNs can be unsupervised (autoencoders), it generally is not the case in practical systems. So it's not a good comparison at all.
Cheng Lou – On the Spectrum of Abstraction
It is fantastic - so glad you posted. On the transpilation thing; Babel still has a total use case. TypeScript doesn't provide es6 APIs such as Map / Promise / Array.find etc I output es6 from my TypeScript and pipe that into Babel to get the new APIs and to do transpilation. Works great. (There's a number of ways to do it; I use WebPack with ts-loader and babel-loader which rocks.)
These two paragraphs don't follow:

"Figures like this show that cancer is not only extremely pervasive, but also becoming more and more common. But why will so many people develop the disease at some point in their lives?"

"The fact that tumours are constantly changing their genetic makeup is one of the reasons why cancers are so hard to "kill".

The article's faulty reasoning seems to imply that cancer is more and more common because of evolution. The scientist's work is examining the evolution of a cancer's cells since its initial genesis in the patient. Unless cancer is transmissible between individuals, there is no on-going evolution in cancer that is making it more efficient across the pathology of multiple patients. Thus, this doesn't add much to our knowledge of why cancer is more and more common.
Empathy requires a public face, the ability to acknowledge and react differently than your base instincts tell you to. Otherwise you only come off as empathetic to people you agree with. Your supporters are enthralled because they see you as an honest mirror, but everyone else thinks you're loony tunes. That ability to keep a public face is perhaps the difference between the universally-loved hollywood celebs, and that polarizing politician.
Not sure how much has changed in a year, but Youtube runs at breakeven/potentially a loss[0]:

"The online-video unit posted revenue of about $4 billion in 2014, up from $3 billion a year earlier, according to two people familiar with its financials, as advertiser-friendly moves enticed some big brands to spend more. But while YouTube accounted for about 6% of Google’s overall sales last year, it didn’t contribute to earnings. After paying for content, and the equipment to deliver speedy videos, YouTube’s bottom line is “roughly break-even,” according to a person with knowledge of the figure."

[0]http://www.wsj.com/articles/viewers-dont-add-up-to-profit-fo...
Yeah I'd do most systems work in Python too, but bash has some useful safety options in shopt, some neat syntax items like ..., arithmetic subshells, etc. which can make it fine for basic scripts.

I guess you think Bourne shell -> Python depending on complexity. I think bash -> Python depending on complexity.
That Wikipedia page lists Zavidovići as a place where these things are found - which is the location in Bosnia described in the article.
It's not a problem. You can resort to any type and works with 3rd party stuff like with normal JS code.
Is that really something that is available to the ordinary man/woman in the street? (Genuine question, I have no idea ..)
it will never work the tory rule in the uk
I thought that really came through in I/O this year. The Allo team does not seem to be the same team as the one making Hangouts. Which is fine... except that has a Hangouts user I really wish they would dedicate themselves to a messaging app and actually make it good.

The more confusing one was web vs. native - there were a dozen sessions on progressive webapps, yet they barely got a mention in the keynote, while Instant Apps got a full showcase. Internal competition is all very well, but it's frustrating as a developer to not be able to get a clear answer as to which platform we ought to be developing for.
Only if your DNS system supports it, and you host it yourself.

If you have DNS managed by your domain registrar, this helps you very little.

So, for the average small site that’s neither made with a kit where the hoster has a one-click SSL solution, nor large enough to have their own nameservers, this is a real issue.

And yet, these sites are the target demography for LE.
I don't think selfies are really the crucial common factor here. It seems to be more of a general "hey guys, watch this" thing, and selfies are just one way of communicating that. Doesn't make it any less sad though.
Airbnb's Secret Tool for Designing for Every Person on the Planet
> exactly, instead they went on the road of giving physical pixel per css pixel, which means we need to create all combination of kinda valid queries to support future devices (problem isn't THAT bad now, but it's getting worse)

Do you have examples of other device and browser combinations of this being a problem? Let's make this situation better!

(FWIW, these browsers are likely not conforming CSS implementations, because you either must have 1 CSS inch equal 1 physical inch (and 1 CSS pixel is still 1/96 of a CSS inch, with whatever ratio to device pixel that ends up being), or by relating the CSS pixel to "the visual angle of one pixel on a device with a pixel density of 96dpi and a distance from the reader of an arm's length", but hey, they exist so we may as well add media queries to deal with the resultant fallout.)

[Edit: In the Galaxy Tab 7.7 case, the reference pixel, assuming 15.75" viewing distance (which is totally non-scientifically the viewing distance my partner uses her tablet at) works out to be 1/170th of an inch: almost exactly a device pixel. I guess a lot of the problem with tablets is the viewing distance varies so much...]
Nest grew from 280 employees around the time of the Google acquisition to 1200 employees today.

Holy.. what are they all doing?
There is also a fundamental need to have those devices be secure. Consumers take this for granted because they have been secure for so long. They don't know what's coming. And when they find out then there whole thing will probably blow up. It just takes a few companies to tarnish it for everybody else.

The problem with IoT is the I
Yes, but maybe this is too ambitious. Maybe, for now, we should be happy if we can remove the battery.
Photoshop express editor
But that assumes hardware vendors' signature verification code is correct -- and crypto is really hard to get right
You might not call it feature engineering, but let's face it - most DNN models vary dramatically in structure based on the problem at hand.
Dad?
This link works around paywall for me:

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/8e2f59c0-2b01-11e6-a18d-a96ab...
Not all drivers are driving cars. Some 'drivers' are actually on foot. A driver is someone both navigating and controlling their movement, requiring different type of map than a passenger or wandering tourist who cares more about seeing lots of place names and interesting landmarks. The driver wants/needs an uncluttered display that can be scanned for vital information quickly.
It's fun as hell knowing what's going on in the house at all times and feeling that I'm protecting myself and my family. Whether or not that's true is to be determined.
This a little bit seems like just moving the question on another level - from software to hardware.

How much it would cost to you in terms of hardware - and maybe speed? - to have extensions which will have those nice features, especially if they are flexible, i.e. switchable? Would you need less gates than a Forth system?
"showing your passport on skype" seems insecure - I imagine it would not be very hard to paste a page with some computer-vision image registration barcodes on the photo page, and then hack up a video filter which pastes in an arbitrary bitmap.
those were a bit higher prices mentioned, but generally prepared food in Suisse is super pricey (especially if you pay bills for more than yourself only), and in the same time food leaves much to be desired when compared to some neighbors (France, Italy).

most common things expat complain here about - 1) going out becomes a rare experience if you are not single - just too expensive compared to anywhere else in the world; 2) the need for adjustment to swiss ways of doing everything (ie strict rules of living in apartments, massive bureaucracy and so on) - you need to change, they won't; 3) finding accommodation is often as hard as landing a job (which is often super hard, too much global competition) - they just don't build new housing, so prices went through roof and your resume and salary and skin color and nationality and no-pets-no-small-kids and everything needs to be perfect, otherwise goodbye. since there are 100-200 other people applying for same place; 4) having kids is prohibitively expensive, international schools are either paid by your employer or you put your kid to (good) public ones. You need to be seriously well-off for kids, or compromise on couple of things.

I live in Geneva, I love it here, but I am not here for salary. You can get much more value for your salary elsewhere in Europe for doing same job as here. Munich, London and couple of other places would work better. But I am a mountain freak, having Chamonix as 45 minute drive from apartment is priceless for weekends and having France 2 kms away makes spending a bit more bearable.
Wait, can you be opposed to rape and not be a SJW? That just blew the fedora right off my head.
Well I just found an even faster guide than what I did back in the day. Still, cannot boot into the BIOS until starting/shutting down Windows:

> Windows 10 keeps the [Fast Startup] feature as Windows 8. (For more information, please refer to Windows 8-Introduction of [Fast Startup])

> Due to the reason, you CANNOT press F2 to enter BIOS configuration when booting the system.

Source: https://www.asus.com/support/faq/1013015/
Well, I can’t really compare – I’ve never been in the US.

But I’m gonna assume the relaxed zoning in the EU, and the resulting mix of commercial, residential, and offices, often even in the same building, leads to the people having a reason to go downtown.
you might enjoy reading the analysis of loader.c number here:

http://djm.cc/bignum-results.txt
Taking a long-term view, 23% in favor is strong progress for an idea that was once considered outrageous.

Let's see the trend in future referendums. You could argue that basic income may be impractical today. But over the next 10, 20, 30 years, the world will change dramatically.
Not a fair comparison at all. Some people may be allergic to certain ingredients. Some ingredients are also obviously less healthy than others.

There is literally zero distinction between a GMO and non-GMO ingredient that is not completely fabricated or imagined.
Openshift is moving from a PaaS system to a CaaS(Container as a Service) system.

It might not be the best solution if you want a PaaS but it is certainly a good CaaS platform.
their revenue is probably pretty awesome... but hosting and streaming videos does cost lots of money too.
This will make land ownership harder, which is a regressive measure and will further income inequality. Land and home-ownership represent significant steps towards generational wealth, because when you are paying off a mortgage you own the home while in the case of a lease you own nothing.

Literally, this you are advocating economic policy from the Ancien Régime.
It's why the UK had 3 different types of strategic bombers - developed by different teams and with different levels of risk and performance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_bomber
Isn't the signature part of the executable?
Agree with the authors points except regarding use of the amp elements. If the author wanted the benefits of the amp-img element and to include outside scripts they can. Google will not index the page as a valid amp page but the elements will still function the same.
Has it been confirmed that Zuck even browses HN, nevermind have an account? I mean, he's important...but lots of important people have created accounts and posted on HN at some point...Brian Chesky, Drew Houston, Peter Norvig...though the revelation that Alan Kay posts on HN takes the cake http://www.themacro.com/articles/2016/06/hn-highlights-june-...
System.js, Rx.js, decorators, ng2's DI - there's a lot of new concepts thrown in for the unfamiliar
To DAO or Not to DAO?
Well, you still need some transpiling in order to remove the Flow type signatures. In practice, they end up being pretty similar in terms of needing a build step.
Uber and Airbnb Should Have Never Happened the Way They Did
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11839303
The original didn't require infinite precision; rather, it required that the average of two different numbers be between the two or equal to the smaller one. This is true in integer arithmetic due to rounding down, but apparently not true for floating point.
Some regulation is necessary to even define a free market.

If you believe current US (at least for most of the population) law theory, all employment relationships are completely at-will. They may be terminated at any time for any reason. I would argue that is all that is required for a free market. This would seem to contradict the claim that most companies to not internally operate as a market.

I know there exist serious breaches of this freedom (ie. slavery), but it is not supposed to be the norm anymore.
Pseudo-random generators, for sure, which are entirely deterministic. It does not even matter if you had a source of truly random numbers. Given the same sequence of numbers, an algorithm will return the same result. That is what it means to be a function.

The problem is not that, "my answer must be 'unpredictable'", but, "the actual answer may not be computable" (and so, no algorithm may ever derive it).
Do you mean to train them against their will?
A collective of people who have been abused by Jacob Appelbaum
You don't need to verify it on the target system though?
Join a sports league / hiking group, etc. My wife and I are both fairly anti-social by nature, and work in fairly anti-social fields, but we have lots of good friends from frisbee, skiing and climbing. For whatever reason it's easier to form friendships in an athletic / outdoor context.
Britain, too, is infected with political silliness: George Will
website@solipsys.co.uk
I think the biggest advantage is that typescript emits code that is good JavaScript. This means if I decide to stop using typescript, I can just use the generated JavaScript. It also means that there transpiled file is smaller. Using scala.js for a small project wouldn't make sense if you cared about file size at all. It could be worth it more as your project grows, but your then you are that much more commited. There's no exit strategy like with typescript.
> what kinds of systems have people found to address it as an adult?

Most people find a "permanent friend" aka significant other aka spouse. I realize this is hard for some people, but that is what the majority of humans do.
Your tsconfig file should have that option set (as well as emitDecoratorMetadata).
Zuckerberg clearly doesn't give a shit about his Pintrest, either.
some cancers are transmissible (HPV-induced, for instance, and those of the tasmanian devils, the list goes on and on, not kidding)
Thanks for sharing this link, very interesting.
>GNU was created on the basis of the GPL. It's not an accident that the "GNU stack had the GPL", it was a plan from the beginning to create a system which people could use in freedom.

The accident was that the plan was conceived by Stallman and involved GNU/GPL.

What I'm saying is a similar plan with BSD/MIT licenses, if it was initiated by another guy first, would be just as good.

In other words that the reason GNU/OSS got that far was that they provided software people needed at the right time -- not because they were GPL as opposed to BSD licensd.
Ah! Missed it. Sorry about that then.
Infinite monkeys will make it infinitely fast :P
Ah, I remember this good ol' days with having everyday-sex with Opera, IE, Chrome, Firefox. Those prefixes and gradient syntax were awful.

Thankfully, It's 2016 year now, and we can just forget about.
it's a mixed bag. I know in my home country (Slovakia), if they had same vote as Swiss few years back, people would vote for some ridiculous bad stuff. One example out of many - extending minimum paid vacation per year from 4 weeks to 6. Swiss population said NO, because of the financial consequences to employers. Now tell me, how many countries out there would end up with same result given this option?

Quality attracts and breeds more quality. Somehow, they manage to pull it off for last 800 years, in one way or the other.
>it would have been absurd to write that toolchain with a "kind of free" license. why would RMS bother? it's not like he didn't have access to existing software.

BSD/MIT is not "kind of free". It's freer (more people can do more things) than the GPL.
Exceptions!

There is a book solely dedicated to the topic: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0131008528/?tag=stackoverfl08-20

Had it mentioned (together with another only-one, but fpor ASP) in an http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/14831/how-to-... answer, which the proud professionals then dewnvoted and eventually deleted :)
> The article's faulty reasoning seems to imply that cancer is more and more common because of evolution

No, it doesn't. It just says that there is more of it, mostly because we live longer and smoke cigarettes and such.
Your solution is more foolproof, but Micro Snitch[1] is worth looking at - same company behind Little Snitch.

[1] https://www.obdev.at/products/microsnitch/index.html
The notes left on his hotel bed daily are the strangest part. Implying Jake is a Fed, or his supporters were actively compromising his physical security?
The two things coming in 2.0 that most excite me are

- moving types to npm (despite the great work of Blake on typings, managing type definitions is still out of band) - npm install @types/somelib will be great.

- AST transforms, which will open up some interesting options for bundling and optimizations, sort of like babel's plugin ecosystem.
I see little difference between the two. They're just different forms of the same abstraction.
Could you please explain the last sentence ?
The article addresses why it's more and more common. Specifically, it suggests our cells haven't evolved to live that long, so if you're older than 40, then at some point or another your cells will mutate - which may or may not get the attention of your immune system.
I can verify this is true - I have a friend at Facebook in Menlo Park caught in this situation (he is an engineer still on a student visa, graduated from a top CS program), so he is moving to London for at least an year so that he is eligible to transfer back on an L-1 (the H-1B lottery hasn't been kind to him).
You can embed the type information in special JS comments that the checker understands: http://flowtype.org/blog/2015/02/20/Flow-Comments.html

Your existing minification step will remove the comments. But even if you don't remove the comments the code will still run.
It is possible to design a Java specific CPU, see this guy's thesis[1]:

[1] http://www.jopdesign.com/thesis/thesis.pdf
mert: An iTerm 3-compatible tab and pane manager