skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because you got into Facebook so late.

People who are 20 are doing on Snapchat today what I did on Facebook when I was 20: multicasting. I either want to send a message to everyone or to a group. Sometimes in a personal message. I see almost no real difference in content. Snapchat might be a little racier in personal messages, but that happened on FB and Twitter as well.

The ephemeral nature was built into Facebook and Twitter as well, to some extent, as the services weren't searchable. You'd post something and after a few more posts it was essentially "gone from view".

Outside of marketers and people trying to "build an audience" I really see almost no difference at all in the way people use it. It's just a matter of how old you are and what service was popular at the time.

Don't believe me? Do this as an experiment: Create a new account on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat. Follow only 30 real people. No more, no less. 30 people you know. No marketers or self promoters or any of that nonsense. Just follow 30 real people, maybe a celeb or two the way a 20 year old might. Look at the content. It's all the same stuff. Having fun here, doing this with person X, Y, and Z. Cute dog photo. Inspiring quote. Maybe a DM with some nudes. There is nothing to "get" other than to understand that as you become older the thing that's changing is you. The biggest difference between Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat is how old you and your friends were when you started using it, and what what point in the lifecycle of the service you were at.
Bakhit's work is very interesting.

> Looking at the US from abroad, it is frightening to see a nation recruiting a lot of its poor and poorly educated into the biggest war machine the world has seen

Though the evidence is not 100% conclusive, that doesn't seem to be true:

> So 50 percent of the enlisted recruits (i.e., not including the officers’ corps) come from families in the top 40 percent of the income distribution, while only 10 percent come from the bottom 20 percent. [0]

> under blatantly false premises and justifying its operations with obviously false narratives.

Unfortunately, the American public in general supports involvement in wars regardless of the premises, e.g.:

> A Gallup poll made on behalf of CNN and USA Today concluded that 79% of Americans thought the Iraq War was justified, with or without conclusive evidence of illegal weapons. 19% thought weapons were needed to justify the war

Opposition to war basically only happens when the number of casualties is too high and/or the US is perceived to be losing.

[0] http://freakonomics.com/2008/09/22/who-serves-in-the-militar...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_opinion_in_the_United_...
Heh, I just checked out whitehouse.com (not .gov!), which now says (with no images):

WhiteHouse.com Official Site

Celebrating our 19th Anniversary (1997-2016)

World's Most Famous Adult Site coming back Summer 2016
This is one objection I really don't agree with.

It's basically impossible to imagine a perfect (ie. time-unlimited) basic income experiment. For one thing, we kind of need results sooner rather than later. I don't think waiting a generation to get crucial results for the future of political economics is tenable.

Moreover, financing for such an experiment would have to be truly massive.
Apple's needless introduction of ALAC, basically a slightly dumber FLAC, was inexcusable.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3#Licensing.2C_ownership_and...

"MP3 license revenues generated about €100 million for the Fraunhofer Society in 2005."

Is that small amount of money ?
yeah no, snapchat was never a timeline and thats what was good about it

you want to be connected with someone because you are friends but don't like the random shit they post but don't want to unfriend them? thats a problem for a different social network but not snapchat
While Yahoo’s ‘legacy’ Messenger service is
recordable for compliance purposes, its new
platform, launched in December, isn’t.

UH, HOW'S ABOUT FIXING THAT, AND WHAMOLA?

Seriously. Yahoo! as a brand struggles for post 1999 dot com crash relevance, and it refuses to budge on a single, trivial client-side feature, that requires zero overhead? And not only that, they refuse to do so for a loyal and influential subset of their users?

I shudder to think of the stupid daily stand-ups where lazy bastards fart up reasons not to open up a reasonable portion of their service, at the expense of perhaps the entire service.

...unless, of course, the goal is to loose an albatross, and finally be free of messenger.
> When you have more than a handful of friends that you're trying to keep in touch with, are you really going to ask every single one of them what they're up to each day?

Good god why would I care?

I imagine this difference in attitude accounts for some of the confusion over snapchat's purpose.
Men and women have been subject to different pressures throughout the evolution of our species. Its seems unlikely that this would not lead to some differences either on average or across the populations.
Naming and hearing of are very different things.
Twitters UI developed around how people used Twitter. hashtags, RT, @mention all evolved from the massive userbase. Twitter is a platypus.
Dave Cutler's likes skiing, he was the head of WinNT and most important person behind XBox and Azure ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Cutler ).
Vorbis and FLAC may be distributed under very permissive open-source licenses, but they may also infringe on software patents, which is ostensibly why Apple has avoided them. They also may not, but under the current US patent system we can't really know until a court case; it does make sense for Apple (or any other company trying to avoid paying huge sums to patent trolls) not to test these waters. Licensing AAC and MP3 from Fraunhofer was an easy way to pass the buck.
Visually it is confusing. The goal is to test for equality but there is the "!" (not) operator in there, so my brian translates it quickly to "not equal"

That is why I always write == 0 on comparison even if it is longer. It removes a negative and makes it clear.
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To be fair, without knowing what that API does, I could see a situation where it itself doesn't know how long the data would be. Parsing free-form char-terminated data, especially over the network, is one example that comes to mind, and another is decompressing compressed data in a self-delimited stream; in general, data whose length cannot be determined apriori. Furthermore, the API probably doesn't want to allocate and buffer the data itself since it could be very long, nor does it want to impose a fixed limit since the application should decide that.
That might be a slippery slope though. Is a known random sequence less random than an original one? Should a randomness detector keep a database of all random sequence ever produced to give lower scores to known ones?
I don't think I've given any indication of who I disagree with.
> this just feels like a solution in search of a problem (except for sexting)

ahhh the old-millenial-stuck-in-2013 version of snapchat

Follow @ArsenicTV, while your finance buddies snap you insider merger and acquisition tips on stocks, and then tell me you "don't get Snapchat"

get w/ it
The way I have looked at this is that a big problem is the confusion of "objects" with "abstract data types" and the clinging to "data" and "assignment statements". As soon as encapsulation is really enforced the object can do what it needs to deal with the design parameters (including keeping histories, etc.).

Again: it's really worth looking at Dave Reed's MIT thesis ...
Wouldn't basic income necessarily have to be a government institution like reverse taxes. You can't support the ideal of basic income on a whim.
They can just program the AI to use the 4 chords most pop songs already use?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpB_40hYjXU
It is a timeline though. I open Snapchat and I see all the messages and stories, in order—sorted by time. It's not jumbled, there's no features. There's no "Featured" or "Top Stories" or "Retweets". It's just a timeline of content. From people I follow or people I know who have sent things to me.

My Snapchat looks just like my Twitter did in 2008, except with a few more boobs.
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Good questions.

Since I don't use gets, I have to imagine myself fixing some legacy code.

Firstly, I imagine that this code already defines the arrays, so all I have to do is edit the definition to use this use this fictitious GETS_MAX constant, for which I have to include one simple header (which might already be included for something else). No actual logic has changed. (On the other hand, the adjustment to the size of the array to GETS_MAX could be a problematic issue; it is not without risk of something breaking.)

To use fgets, I have to edit the calls to add the size parameter. Moreover, I have to scan the buffer for the presence of a newline character and overwrite it with a null. gets does that and the code may be relying on it (using "relying" ironically, with regard to gets).
you can save them
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You can imagine it coming from government, just like you can imagine the government lasting long enough to tax you the rest of your life, you could also imagine it reverse taxing you the rest of your life
So he changed it from a one-time cost of ~$11, to a recurring annual cost of $11? That seems like a pretty big change.
The barbell effect of machine learning
Could this be one of the most expensive software development failures of all time? Is MS putting money on top of that to show how much of a failure it was and how they decided to deal with it? At a minimum, just letting the story be told from the grave to allow for people to look out for similar things in other projects? Interesting I think. I don't know of many companies who allow/support documentation of a failure of this magnitude. MS continues to amaze me these days.
There were some vague reasons behind it. Apple claimed it improves battery life for mobile devices (possibly because it is 'dumber') and it's based on the mp4 container format used by other Apple-preferred formats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lossless#Codec
You don't need to run the study for more than five years, but to get an accurate view of behavioral changes the test subjects need to be paid a basic income for life. So "we need it faster" isn't really a problem.
Both points are true, however, the fact that the persons that receive the basic income will know it's ending, will definitely change their behavior...
Experiments are designed to seek the truth of a theory.

For example, if the participants who receive this money are poor and they know that the money will stop coming 5 years from now, they may save every penny they can. This may lead us to conclude that basic income does not lead to irresponsible spending. But if any government institutes basic income indefinitely based on the results of this study, it may produce a very different outcome.
Lots of win32 API calls work this way ><
This is clearly unethical and I hope illegal so that it is prevented from happening. Experiments on people like this will absolutely have dramatic changes that will last their entire lives.

It's bad enough we have television shows ruining people's metabolism, likely for life, just for some ratings. But then to come from someone claiming to be doing academic research, especially in light of the history of research like this, is repugnant.
Ignored it again, and don't be coy, come out and state your opinion.
Perhaps it was written on gold-lined vellum?

I'm assuming the plan required the input of lawyers or other expensive advisors. Still it seems excessive for a bootstrapping company.
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I have a fabulous idea for how to provide a basic income on a private basis (and potentially turn a profit). Can write it up, if you are interested.
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> Licensing AAC and MP3 from Fraunhofer was an easy way to pass the buck.

Not really. Someone else could pop up and claim to have a patent over AAC or MP3, just as easily as they could for any other codec. Licensing a patent from one party makes absolutely no guarantee that someone else couldn't pop up with another patent and either payment or destroy a product. And I seriously doubt that a patent license for AAC or MP3 came with indemnity against any third-party patent claim.
I read the Oakland trial as a quick, local platform to determine what the best cadence for delivery and data gather would be.

Identifying the little bugs early (Visa gift cards versus Amex gift cards prove to be a better option for folks that don't have bank accounts...etc) while streamlining the reporting structure will allow the larger, long term experiment to run smoother.
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Women earn lower because they choose to earn lower. Men face more pressure to earn a higher income than women, so naturally men dominate the high income fields. Then, once married, it makes more sense (economically) for the lower earning partner (the woman) to become the primary parent further widening the pay gap.

Want to fix it? Tell women to instead (statistically, as a group) start marrying down in income. Then men will face less pressure to earn a high income (and be able to, like women now, marry up for economic security), so will have more freedom to choose, and pay gaps will equalize.

The reason women go into non-profits is that it doesn't significantly effect their sexual selection. A man who does so would be significantly limiting his sexual opportunities. You don't need neuroscience to explain it. Men face every economic pressure that women do AND a sexual pressure. So naturally men earn more.

I would also be hesitant to try and fix it because the entire human endeavor is built around the male's desire for high status, which is fundamentally sexually motivated. Fix it and humanity stagnates.
I'm not sure I agree with it, but there may be a point there that upper and middle class white women playing the victim card discredits it for those who have had more serious barriers to entry.
For many years, nobody shipped implementations of MP3 at all; there are still Linux distributions today that don't provide support for MP3 out of the box. Many don't support MP4/h264, either.
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You should have given them an explicit list of domains to query for in the headers.
I think headline means SnapChat crashes more than the twitter app or anything else.
Clojure: The Elements of Style
What an unfortunate name. Of all the animals the longhorn just so happens to be associated with my glorious alma mater.
sorry, I'm missing the joke. this was homework in my linear algebra class last semester. why was it published in a science journal in 2015?
Well clearly they aren't as common as ones for tech, or else OP would have seen them.

If both types of programmes have the same presence it is vanishingly unlikely that OP would not be aware of them.

So either he is a liar or your overestimate their presence..
Sure, I can "imagine" it. If the government adopts a policy of basic income that's not really an experiment though.
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Obscurity by bureaucracy at its finest. We all do this to some extent in our day to day jobs. Remember that behind these emails are real human beings.

Keep pressuring, keep pursuing, for you, for us. Observe, pressure, and report. Rinse, repeat. There are plenty of us that appreciate your hard work in holding the system accountable. Keep up the good fight ++1
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Yeah. The way I think of this is, let's start from (my subjective) aesthetic first principles. Take an abstract human body, and look at its poses and movements: standing, sitting (and other forms of resting), walking, running.

A smartphone is a complete failure from that perspective: looking down and pecking at a screen? No way. Now, holding and looking at something is a natural enough movement, but chronically craning your neck down with such focus and duration? I doubt it. A smartwatch is a bit more natural, but to bring up subjective aesthetics again, I'm not too comfortable with the concept of adults wearing digital watches.

Google Glass was a step in the right direction in my opinion--you can interact with a UI while looking straight ahead--but as you said, the camera and other aspects weirded people out (there may be a future in contact lenses with similar tech?) Voice interfaces like Alexa are definitely in line with my view.
It says "My last guesses (most recent at bottom):"

But the most recent guess is at the top.
US agencies do what they want until they're told otherwise. i realize it's a legal burden to step outside of those bounds, but know that the agent who interviewed you spent ten or twenty times your effort to make sure your input was meaningful.

type a serious racial slur along with an offense if you'd like me to reply to this.
WinFS wasn't a filesystem, but implemented upon NTFS as filesystem filter driver and dotNet based service, the files were stored in a hidden directory (SQL Server Compact and raw files with generated filenames in sub folders). The dotNet service was just very slow.

The original vision of "information at your fingertip" was behind the Cairo project. And Cairo had an object stored in the NTFS filesystem driver. WinNT4 and 2000 got several of the Cairo inovations. Well, some hidden APIs were still left in (at least in WinXP era).
Not really. Someone else could pop up and claim to have a patent over AAC or MP3, just as easily as they could for any other codec.

And in fact, that's exactly what happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcatel-Lucent_v._Microsoft_Co...

A $1.5 billion jury verdict was handed down against Microsoft, which was overturned by the judge.
But isolating/segregating with women-only groups like this is good?

I hope your dislike of Justice Thomas is just because you don't agree with his politics. I think your use of profanity is inappropriate regardless of your reasoning.

Perhaps you would like economist Thomas Sowell better. Or perhaps you're unwilling to give honest consideration to other views.
I'd definitely be interested in reading your plan for growing money on trees.

(Sorry for the snark, but I am actually interested.)
>I admit other branches of engineering might look differently, no clue about it.

I'm a materials engineer I work at a large scale industrial plant (1000+ employees). Our diversity statistics are probably even bleaker than amongst software/IT type engineers. There are woman in engineering management positions at my work. Not a lot -the number probably reflects the overall workforce makeup. I'd estimate my workplace is greater than 95% male.

Some areas of the company are much more diverse than engineering, notably HR, Accounting/Finance and relevant to this topic our IT department.

My Sister is a mechanical engineer she works in government planning. Previous to this role she worked at a power plant. According to her the public sector much more diverse than private.
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Oh come on, surely there's no such agency. ;)
There was an anonymous Japanese post by a preschool teacher that echoed similar sentiments. The main reason he quit was because the parents treated him with suspicion for having deviant tendencies.
There's music and then there's music. I'm glad they are at least thinking about long narrative structures.

Ultimately I don't think this is a very worthwhile because I personally believe the entire definition of art and music is a production that is filtered through the human experience. The same piece of music would mean more to me coming from a human than from an AI or program. If someone told me it was from a human and then later told me it actually came from an AI, it wouldn't really accomplish anything deep; it'd just make me feel tricked.
Some (Apple) staunchly refuse to support free codecs. They on purpose put blockers for wider adoption, so the above is not surprising.

I make it a point to buy music in FLAC, and then encode it in Opus for playback (that's why I try to avoid buying when FLAC / lossless is not available). But so far no store sells music in Opus optionally.
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Seems to be the case in the East as well, judging from what I've read.
I imagine it involves people doing some sort of task we don't normally consider work but kind of is. Watching ads or maybe being part of a reality TV show.

But I could certainly be wrong and would very curious as well
> but they may also infringe on software patents, which is ostensibly why Apple has avoided them.

No, it's not the reason. Anything can infringe on unknown patents, even same AAC. Opus and Vorbis aren't any more risky, Opus is actually much less. Apple are just jerks who don't want that barriers for entry (requirement to use patented codecs) would disappear.
I agree that my "having a soul" comment is nebulous, but were into a pretty fuzzy territory as it is when it comes to "what is art", and thats especially true with music.

>If instead you define art as the communication of things that can't be fully expressed by direct sterile language

Reading this, the first thing I thought of was emotion, feeling! So much of that is wrapped up in who we are, in what we are, in our experiences, and in our limitations.

I like spitballing --- and the thought exercise follows:

Lets say tomorrow we have AI, real thinking machines, with the classic 3 laws of Asimov. Lets also assume we have a few of them. Because of what and who they are, is it possible that AI generates something that other AI's consider "art" but that we, as people, do not?
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I remember getting a Longhorn build - it took all day to install, and 15-20 minutes to boot.

The first and only time I booted it up, I was greeted with an analog clock. The seconds hand tended to get stuck and jump 3-10 seconds at time. The only reference I can find to it: http://lifehacker.com/5078415/analog-clock-adds-a-classic-ti...

That's when I knew that it might be a good idea to stick with XP until further notice. Further notice ended up being 6-7 years, when I finally went and bought Windows 7.
Based on history from previous and successful requests, I shouldn't have needed to. They've fulfilled requests as vague as that in the past.

Submitted two requests two days ago that might be a bit better than providing the domains, though. One for DNS resolution logs of the mayor's office and another for all domains and times for all emails sent from their office. If just one of those are successful, then I don't need to play any more FOIA games with mayor's office.

Sure, I could just submit the same request to their IT department like those two... but, no. I'm getting that information from the mayor's office directly, dammit. :)
Could this be a category to put startups into? Neglected Yahoo commodity as a service.