skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> depression can be seen in their eyes - once you know what having a healthy and strong body means, and then losing it forever.

I've talked to a friend of a friend who basically doesn't fear what normal people fear (e.g. talking to beautiful women, surfing, rock climbing, talking to strangers - he is really successful at sales). I asked him what his biggest fear was. He said it was to his lose health/lose control of his body (e.g. bad accident/paralysis).

We all have fears, and I think, in the end, we all fear mortality. And those who don't have the fears we most have (e.g. talking to beautiful women), fear their mortality/fragility of even the most fit body the most.
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It is interesting to me that the "most insane" regime in the world seems to be North Korea. Yet the negative effects there seem to be limited to strictly within their borders. Whereas the "much less insane, though still far from perfect" regimes (esp the Muslim/MidEast/Arab/etc/) ones seem to be the the ones which are exporting their evil and pain and stupidity out into everyone else's countries.

most nuts? North Korea. but they keep it in-house. less nuts? pick random Muslim/MidEast/African nation, but they allow it to leak out. For whatever reasons/excuses.
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I made an app for myself to track every transaction, but I stopped after realising that I don't really need to. I am quite frugal so I simply don't spend enough that I feel I need to know every little detail.

I might check the total every now and then out of interest. I also don't have any investments or a lot of recurring things.
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> The whole "security" thing is a sideshow; the real goal here with "Secure" Boot is to make it harder to install unlicensed copies of Windows.

This is an utterly ridiculous conspiracy theory with zero connection to the reality.

Not only does Secure boot not affect someone trying to install a pirated copy of Windows, but it singlehandedly does more against malware than the entire AV industry ever.
What are the fields where the next big thing is pretty close?
I think it's important to follow the fields that are pretty close to be changed.
If we look back than we will see that the change happened in fields where the technology was ready for practical application. I tried to think about it in terms of everyday problems that we are ready to solve.

Here is my list:

1. Human Resource management revolution.

Blockchain technology could make possible "honest recommendations". Imagine if you could find people based on recommendations (started from high school and common around the world) from other people and all of theme are stored in immutable database. It will remove HR specialists, you just need to look for who recommended your employee, and what is the "status" of recommender.

2. Remote meetings

Now we already can work out of the office. But face to face comunication is still the most effective way of communication. Virtual reality will make remote meeting more effective and realistic.

3. Everyday routines automatization

Internet of things are already in our lives, and there are already critical mass of apps exist. I think it will boost in next 2 years on how we manage all around us: cars, appliances, gadgets...

4. Delivery services

Drones are already tested by amazon. We just need delivery services start using them.

5. Self driving cars

Tesla and google cars. It's just a matter of time when it will become popular.

And what is your list? It's also interesting to see a list where the "next big thing" already happened for the last 2 years.
Many lifetimes. It is of course impossible to absorb the sum of all humanity's knowledge. But it is possible to have a 30000 feet view of it (or perhaps a shitty satellite view obscured by clouds). And I would feel very uncomfortable if I didn't have at least a basic knowledge on how my environment works.
>Obviously the world is better off without insane political nonsense.

Then we agree? Filter bubbles are bad? The world would be better off if Facebook changed?

>Facebook has probably had hundreds of highly educated and outside-the-box thinking people looking at the Newsfeed. Someone there has thought of and probably tried every approach to improve the quality of their recommendations using the metrics they are interested in. They probably thought of every possible metric to be interested in, and pathologically optimized the metrics they're interested in, long before advertising was the primary way they made money.

I'm aware of how optimized it is, but it's built on bad principles. They use a variety of metrics to measure "engagement", including likes, shares, time spent reading a post, comments, hides, etc. But none of these metrics are perfect, and so optimizing for them leads to bad outcomes.

The only objectively perfect measure would be to actually ask individuals what articles they want to see more of, or less of, after they read them. To my knowledge they don't do that

I think your games analogy is perfect. Facebook games generated huge amounts of engagement and ad money, just like clickbait garbage is doing now. But it was having a negative effect on society, with countless people becoming addicted to clicking cows, and some losing vast amounts of money to their addiction. Facebook chose to sacrifice it for the public good (and their image), and I think they did the right thing.
The old news networks made an effort to present two sides of an issue that were both within the mainstream. They seldom presented any of the many other "sides" that were further toward the extremes.
And for some issues the media essentially invented the sides themselves just so that they could frame the story in terms of some sort of "controversy".
I have a protocol implementation in development which looks somewhat like this (minus the "delete this" part, I just keep my Peers in a bunch of vectors and remove them from those, Rc then drops it when the function ends and nobody is capable of accessing it), as part of a protocol implementation. Turns out it's relatively easy - it's what the Rc<RefCell<T>> type is for.

I'm coming from Python, so the odd simple integer/boolean check (what Rc and RefCell come down to) aren't an issue for me - they might be for you depending on what you're writing, I suppose, although 99% of the time they're not going to be what you need to optimise.

However - Rust is not an object-oriented language. This sort of design isn't necessarily what you want to be using. In your particular case, what you'd probably want is the EventLoop owning the Socket and MyClient, callbacking MyClient directly, and allowing MyClient's callback to return a value describing whether to destroy it or not. Libraries like rotor[0] do exactly this.

[0] https://github.com/tailhook/rotor
Maybe you could use something like the rail-and-cantilever shelving scheme you find in a lot of stores. That way, you only have to install it once and the height is easy to adjust thereafter.
Which is never going to happen, because the current system allows Facebook to keep charging companies for continued access to customers they've already engaged.
But can't you tell Facebook to show you everything that your friends post?

You can try.

I gave up trying to get Facebook to show me the newsfeed I wanted to see, not this "Top Stories" thing. Eventually I gave up on Facebook altogether and deleted my account.
"The volume of guns owned isn't important at all. It's important instead to have freedom to buy guns I want to own with features that please me."

See, you want to have the freedom to buy whichever guns you want. I want the freedom to not have to live with people like you. "Features that please you" is a matter of novelty. Not being surrounded by nutters with guns is a matter of personal safety. I find the latter more important. Stay in NJ.
If it's an AMD, chances are pretty high as well.
Interesting; I stand corrected. Thank you for responding!
fair enough, although I guess I think of Friendica as being more social network based rather than realtime chat/messaging/VoIP like Matrix.
I use mine as a cat heater.
An old laptop is probably best used as a terminal, provided it has decent keyboard and screen. I put my ThinkPad 720C (best laptop keyboard ever, but 4MB RAM) to good use as a Linux terminal using VNC back in 1999... It'd probably be still useful in that role today for what I typically do.
What kind of regulations does a treatment like this have coming it's way?
Falcon.io is hiring developers in Copenhagen (onsite) - mainly Java Backend, but Python Backend or JavaScript Frontend jobs are also available.

Falcon is a SaaS company that provides a Customer Experience platform, so we have a range of different products to work on and lots of data to work with.

We are looking for developers that are passionate without being religious. You love experimenting but also strive for excellence.

We like to see what you build so we usually send a little challenge as part of the recruitment process which you get to discuss with our Director of Engineering.
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There were some science fiction stories (I forgot their names and authors) in which time travelers actually encounter a lot of practical difficulties in past societies, because the people they encounter don't believe them or don't readily see the benefits of their suggestions. So maybe you need to add "a stone-age agrarian society that's eager to take advantage of my knowledge", since that part can't necessarily be taken for granted. :-)
Falcon.io is hiring developers in Copenhagen (onsite) - mainly Java Backend, but Python Backend or JavaScript Frontend jobs are also available.
Falcon is a SaaS company that provides a Customer Experience platform, so we have a range of different products to work on and lots of data to work with.
We are looking for developers that are passionate without being religious. You love experimenting but also strive for excellence.
We like to see what you build so we usually send a little challenge as part of the recruitment process which you get to discuss with our Director of Engineering.
Read more about Falcon and our Backend engineering job here: https://jobs.lever.co/falcon/b72d99ae-23b6-4cce-bb51-d79b330...
Last time I've been programming on Pascal was almost 20 years ago, just before I've learned Java. The Delphi was a breakthrough in 90s, but today, when we have MLoC-size apps, this language is just too outdated, fighting the wars of the past and preserving some unnecessary legacy. Memory management? Dependency management? Reflection and generative programming support? There are some things, of course, that are still nice to have in languages like Java (I liked the class helpers), but, thinking about development productivity and code quality, I'm not sure this can be called anything else but a steampunk toy, as modern as contemporary replica of some Art Nouveau thing.
All your other comments from the last ~3yrs are marked as [dead] (and this one was, too) -- you might be hellbanned, just fyi. Declaring London above all else in the world is certainly controversial, but not downvote-into-oblivion contoversial ;)
For comparison: US money supply (M2) was $3400 billion in 1992 and it is $12700 billion now.
According to this list, "I Ejaculate Fire" by Deathklok is not a very metal song.
hashish-laced donut holes, but your point still stands.
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Stop being overly paranoid.
+1. Yes, cultural diversity is good. But we have plenty of ways to have that without needing 1000 languages :

- art;

- food;

- social constructs;

- city organisations;

- and slang if you really want your tongue to be part of it.

We don't need to spend time and energy to save old ways of communication. Let's us it to make communication better now.

What's more, anything that live eventually dies, which is something we need to learn to accept. Now we are already spending a lot of energy to save our bodies, and a bit of it to save other living creatures, and I'm on board with that. But saving languages seems a waste to me. Either the system will procude or derive the next linguistic generation, or it will merge the old ones, but all in all, this is something I'd gladly let natural selection kick in.

At the very least, I wish we would all share a minimum of one language. I'm french, I consider my language much more efficient to describe things than english, but I'll be ok to just say "let's make sure everybody at least speak english" and be done with it.

I travel a lot, and the language barrier has never once been a good thing. Best case scenario you have goofy confusion and laughters, worst case scenario you have hate.

Now we don't need to eradicate the language diversity. But it's nor do we need to save it. It's ok to loose some of our knowledge. Yes, even books, stories, ways of thinking. Things die, that's how the system get balanced.

(Plus when we will create galatical aliances with aliens, we will need a earthling language, so let's start now people !)
Its crazy as it takes 3 - 6 months to get up to speed on any non complex software system. They will save on wages but loose on productivity.
Good luck than.
> the problem with tcp is that it conflates congestion loss with error loss. this causes backoff, ergo poor performance under conditions such as lossy links, handovers etc. etc.

Indeed. But, while there are many other congestion handling protocols that are frequently used on smaller networks [1], is there anything better than TCP style that is thought to work on "Internet scale"?

[1] E.g. Infiniband has some kind of credit/token based flow control, producing a lossless fabric. There's even stuff like that for Ethernet, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Video_Bridging has 802.1Qav, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit-based_fair_queuing
Lua is almost as dynamic and flexible as Python and is very easy for the programmer. LuaJIT's performance is close to that of C.
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You're thinking of the west coast. Kaitangata is too cold for sandflies to get to large numbers =)
That's why developing with shared libraries is such a PITA. Got to preserve those precious ABIs.
Ask HN: How do you manage you investments?
I'm interested to hear how people manage their personal investments (stocks, bonds, IRA etc.), and any advice on that score. Do you do it through your bank, do you have a personal broker, online services?

I am especially curious about how people go about finding a reliable financial advisor. Referrals? Trail period?

I am especially interested in hearing from people outside the US, more so if they have assets in the US that they manage as well.
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>Facebook is becoming an echo chamber that prevents us from being confronted with opinions we don't agree with.

Google has already been like that for years and yes, it's bad. It certainly influences the users' view on things if they don't know what's going on.
It also makes Google unsuitable for critical research, unless you know about it and change the seach queries accordingly.
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It is also very interesting to see them partner with gradle.

That way they get a foothold in the android world (since most android apps are built with this build system) and it will be interesting to be directly able to compare kotlin & groovy scripts.
Yeah! He should go back to sleep!
Use uBlock.
Yes, the dot is completely optional, and I think it's one reason I got emails for other people. Senders wants to email to samuelle.something@gmail.com, somehow mistake it to samuelle@gmail.com and I end up being the recipient.
I think you should indicate that this is a off-topic discussion from 2004 debian user mailing list somewhere in the link title.
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Flexible timed traffic lights in the Netherlands [video]
>I'll agree that it does correlate with firearm related deaths since that is plainly evident in the data but those deaths are replaced with other means when firearms are taken out of the equation.

I guess that last part needs citation as I do not really buy that. Other weapons are far harder to use: knifes etc need you to come up close which means a far greater step. And also collateral damage from bad aim and bullets bouncing around make guns messy in crime. Orlando shooter with a knife would not have been news at all and all that.

And by restrictions I would not necessarely mean your rights taken away to own them but requiring you to have proper training (the heavier the arm the more years of mandatory training) and yearly psych evals. People who won't pass or refuse to take those two are the people I would not want to see with guns in the first place.

Not sure what the correlation is but here you need to pass tests like that to own a gun yearly and there is no gun crime to speak off. Replacement is hard to test; one would need to either do the reverse in the US or here to test it. Research will not give much insigh imho due to the different dynamic of the weaponry.
> They're not geared towards an interactive experience with viewers and have no idea how to provide it.

This can't be the full answer. Starting an on-demand stream 10 minutes before the actual show is so mind-boggingly stupid that I cannot imagine incompetence to be the root cause. In other words, Hanlon's Razor does not apply, and malice on their part should be assumed.
If you step back it's amazing how many heated arguments are just about semantics. Some words have different meanings to different people and they never stop to clarify definitions. e.g. 'marriage', 'money', 'liberal' and more.

Filtering feeds is necessary in flood of data and people will always flock those with similar outlooks but filtering specific search results is censorship and deception and is putting up an invisible barrier between communities.

Agree about the liking needing to be private. I would love them to add a bullshit button to comments so I can vote down illogical and facile arguments that have resorted to name calling.
In terms of OSI layer 7 protocol, Matrix uses HTTP, though in the future it may specify other application protocols.
A bad joke, but this somehow reminded me about: Darwin Awards movie, Autopilot Cruise Control scene. Afaik, Tesla Autopilot is an assistant, not an fully autonomous system. Which inherently means that it requires constant supervision. Using boats or planes autopilot won't either relieve you from monitoring where you're going to end up. Afaik, some of the news articles were titled with pure lies. 'Autonomous car', hmm, nope. Tesla isn't such. It's always important to acknowledge the true capability s of a system and not blindly trust it. This applies to any more or less automated system. People start blindly trusting it even if it really shouldn't be trusted. Let's say robot or AI stock investment bots. Luckily those are't going to kill anyone.
I know, quite rude. It's sad that what happened happened. But in technological sense, we all knew it was going to happen sooner or later. We're going to see more and more things like this in future. - I've blogged several times about this same phenomenon, even before this case.
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MSGraph and Excel API: Office 365 Waterfall chart addin with d3js- is that stable?
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Sure... somewhere I have book that covered writing a full blown multi-threading "OS" in Turbo Pascal.

In the late 80's I wrote a framework that allowed multi-user games (via dial-up) to be created. Included 256 color graphics, mouse input etc... had fun fighting IRQ conflicts etc. Good times :)
> I have yet to come across any concept in any human language that can’t be expressed in English.

Well, no shit? The only language you speak is English. Any concepts that are foreign or difficult to explain in English would probably be out of your realm of understanding.
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How is customs going to be any different whether or not eBay facilitated the sale?
The BBC usually flags it's dodgier stories by using single quotes somewhere in the title e.g considers 'growing' drones in this case or http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36700571 ... 'second' gator.
> How do we mend that gap? How do you persuade people to hang out with people from a group they believe are "batshit insane" or "inherently aggressive" or other rubbish like that?

I don't know how, but I think one place to start is figuring out how to bypass the actually batshit insane/aggressive ones[0] (on your own side trying to keep you in, and on the other side trying to keep you out), since they effectively are the next barriers you encounter if you actually manage to pop the filter bubble.

[0] http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2939
> the tech team, who now also hated me because I literally did what took them 4 months in a night while taking calls

So you're the mystical 1000x developer. :)
Isn't this the classic trap? Who best make baking regulations than top bankers. Who best to legislate oil then the oil industry. Who's best at defining technical procurement than your technical team?

Has there ever bean a great answer to this? Is it a conflict of interest or an area of domain expertise.
>It teaches responsibility, maintenance of a fragile and precision machine, puts you in control of your personal safety, and can put dinner on your plate if you're ever up for a bit of hunting.

That all goes for having a domestic dog as well and that is a lot less harmful (probably will actually help) if you ever have a psychotic episode.
The vast majority of apps today are still small, and certainly nowhere near MLoC-size.

It certainly lacks features many of us takes for granted. But people e.g. still write C, that is far more primitive, so if people want to do Object Pascal, why not.

Though it's a shame to see it effectively win over a language like Oberon (if one first is to stay in the Pascal lineage).
Yep, "I Pencil" came to my mind as well. But opaqueness is the only thing that AI shares with global market (or catallaxy as Austrians would call it).

What Brian Eno is missing, is that global markets are created by billions of human minds on the basis of a constant process of trial-and-error (to the extents government allows them to try and fail). It's not just error tolerant. It's constantly making profit by improving and correcting errors. And it's been around for 1000s of years.

Whereas computers have been around for less than a century and are programmed by a few people and AI may not have with "common sense" or error tolerance. To deliver yourself to that seems unacceptable to me.
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To me that's a stretch. AI is not a carpet under which you put everything you don't know about how the World works.