skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No big. Just more evidence that luck and timing are huge factors as to what hits the front page.
It has nonetheless started to replace some uses already.
> You’ll die without food long before you’ll die without health care, and yet few people say we need to “take the profit motive out of farming”

Yes, and the reason few people say that -- even while people do argue for regulation to limit certain commercial practices in farming that they view as harmful to food availability, affordability, and/or quality -- is because you don't see monopolies on basic foodstuffs in the developed world being used to drive prices on foods that people rely on so high that many people, even with the safety net provided by government, can't afford essential foodstuffs in a first-world nation like the US.

That is, because, problematic as it is, the combination of private for-profit business and government regulation operating in food markets is working adequately well, such that people are less likely than is the case for healthcare in the US to perceive that the model under which it is provided is broken, inadequate for the needs of society, and essential to fundamentally reform.

History has shown, more than once, that when the systems of delivering food are perceived to be as broken as the US system of delivering healthcare is now perceived to be, people do clamor -- often violently -- for change.
Yep. I grew up with Pokemon and didn't even install Pokemon Go.. but if it had legit PvP battling and trading, I would definitely give it a spin.

How cool would it be if you were walking down the street with your phone in your pocket.. and all of a sudden it started vibrating, you pick it up - TRAINER BATTLE. You look around, and you see someone else with their phone out looking around too. Now all of a sudden you're in a pokemon battle with a total stranger!

So much potential for cool experiences.. and yet they're doing nothing of the sort.
Most really don't. A lot of big sites don't seem to care, at least in my experience.

The few that I've seen just 'ban' your IP for a few minutes. If you hit Wikipedia too much too quickly, they will essentially refuse to serve you for a while. It was a number of years ago I was doing it, but basically you would be scraping then you would just stop getting info (Maybe I wasn't reading response codes and could've realized quicker what was happening)
Actually Unladen Swallow's aim was simply to be fast. :) They attempted to do that through using LLVM's JIT but ran into a lot of bugs in LLVM and had to spend their time fixing rather than on Python itself. There was no specific work to deal with the GIL.
I'm sorry, but I think this is making the same errors in the opposite direction.

1) Yes, child abduction/predation is unlikely ... because we've adopted a huge number of countermeasures that close of this vector. That doesn't (by itself) mean you can just stop doing those measures and act like the risk is still low.

2) The risk of death by bathtub is not 75%.

3) Terrorists ramp up efforts against any vector they've found to be weak. While they currently account for a very small percentage of deaths, that doesn't mean we should have just shrugged our shoulders and done nothing, even basic measures like locked cockpit doors and ending the recommendation of passenger compliance.

4) Trayvon Martin was acting suspiciously and similarly to burglars -- peering into houses around the time there had been other burglaries and reports of similar behavior [1]. OBVIOUSLY he didn't deserve what happened (let's count how many people miss this clause!), but we don't know, as you're implying, that Martin was somehow merely walking home and not casing houses during a spate of robberies.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Trayvon_Martin#Bac...
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When similar standards of diagnosis are used across countries, they find similar rates of ailment. The difference is that the criteria for diagnosis in the US catches a much larger percentage of the population. Moreover, the US is also much more likely to use pharmaceuticals as the front-line treatment to any ADHD diagnosis.

Really, my concern isn't about children who would be diagnosed either way, or who unambiguously need pharmaceutical treatment (who exist in all areas). It's about the marginal cases where pharmaceuticals may not be warranted.

It would be dreadful to administer chemotherapy drugs to patients who got a false-positive on a cancer screening (cancer is not a spectrum, but I'll run with your analogy).

And as I said in another comment, skepticism of the long-term use of this medication in young children does not at all mean advocacy of non-treatment, non-intervention, or lack of support for children at the margins of the ADHD spectrum.
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> The Achilles heel in all of this is how to make green energy affordable. Last time I checked, getting a small solar array on my house would cost in the neighborhood of $20K just get it installed.

Depending on where you live, green energy might already be affordable today.

I had the same sticker shock at solar prices. While looking into that, I learned that my local for-profit electric provider offers a "green energy" option, where they promise to replace my billed electricity usage with mostly wind energy instead of the coal / natural gas mix normally used.

The total cost of that is $0.01/kwh extra. Or, roughly $6/month extra on an average electricity bill, to switch from coal to wind.

https://new.consumersenergy.com/residential/programs-and-ser...

A plan like this should be affordable for the vast majority of Americans.
Err, what?

The first Zelda for Wii (Twilight Princess) made some use of the controller. It's how you aimed ranged weapons, and how you did special sword swings. This game was also released for the Gamecube, so they couldn't do too much with pure wiimote controls.

The second Zelda for Wii did more, including using wiimote movement for flapping when flying, and more intricate sword control.

Mario Kart shipped with a wheel attachment so you could steer using that.

Metroid games for the Wii make extensive use of the wiimote pointer for aiming.

The Wario games are all about utilizing different control schemes, as are the Mario Party games.

The 2D Mario games did not make much use of the wiimote, but that's a good thing. Forcing weird controls onto a game type that doesn't fundamentally support them well is not a good thing.

As can be expected, Nintendo was one of the biggest users of the new functionality on their system. I'm not sure where you're getting this idea they didn't use the new functionality, unless you mean they didn't use only the new functionality, but why would they do something as stupid as that?
Doubling the number of them doesn't make it more right.
I didn't read the article about the two year old. Thank you for sharing the details! I think their research was in trying to understand why we've turned into a culture that is afraid to let their kids have freedoms that use to be common.
I was actually searching for such a jurisdiction as my startup was shut down by a company that invoked the CFAA late last year. What do you suggest? The EU is even worse than the US when it comes to data freedom and tech access. The law on the books in many former British colonies provides marginally more protection (the "Telecommunications Act"), but it'd probably still be disputable, and you'd be shut down anyway unless you had millions sitting around with your lawyers' name on it.
- Fixes for compiler bugs; probably not that likely, but I'm used to knowing that on a free toolchain I can always try a newer version to see if it exhibits the same behavior. Being locked to an old version feels risky.

- New language dialects (i.e. C++11). It's annoying to not be able to use the same techniques you use elsewhere because your ASIC core vendor made your compiler decision for you.

- New compiler features. It's no fun to have some clever trick I use other places fail to build because it depends on a compiler warning or some other GCC-ism that's present in all my other environments.

I also like to write unit tests and other simple mockups that can build and run on a plain linux machine, so it's nice to keep the delta between the two compilers as small as possible.
Both are real risks. The aftermath of a stranger kidnapping the child is usually much worse.

The likelihood of each is quite low, though - at least in western societies.
Interestingly, Apple has already started randomizing MAC addresses [1] on iOS (8?) and newer devices. Though maybe not quite as successfully as it seemed at first.

[1] http://www.imore.com/closer-look-ios-8s-mac-randomization
Perhaps for the use-case of node, being fully compiled could be a bit better. But I'm not convinced. Java has demonstrated (over two decades now) that initial compilation to machine code isn't essential for performant software (ok, less than two decades for hotspot JITs in Java). The cost for node is in startup time, but this is, like with Java, amortized over the life of the program. For a single-run executable, it's perhaps too costly (but we use truly interpreted languages for this as well, so depends on the task), but for a server, it's potentially pretty good.
> I somewhat disagree with the suggestion that my judgement of morality should have no impact on my judgement of the risk to a child.

The risk to the child for a specific situation does not change based on the reason why a parent put the child in a situation, the same way that the probability of getting hit by a landmine doesn't change based on whether you're walking across a minefield to cheat on your spouse or to save a baby.

The researchers wasn't asking "how good of a parent do you think they are", they were asking "how risky do you think this behaviour is", and it is irrational to be changing your estimation of the risk in a situation based on the reasons for being put in that situation (but what else is new when it comes to human psychology).
How is Python's type system less safe than C's?
The same can be said for God. Belief in God can provide people with a sense of meaning and purpose they might otherwise lack. The Flying Spaghetti Monster, at least in its current - most noodly - form, does not. As always, a useful truth is better than a useless fact.
This book also deals with similar themes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies_My_Teacher_Told_Me
"I doubt very much there was ever a point in history where 2-year olds were left with zero supervision."

In Denmark today 0-2 year olds are regularly left outside in a baby stroller to nap while their parents are inside.
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Kids are really sturdy and will heal from basically anything. Adults don't remember the reason kids "believe themselves immortal", and think they're dumb. They're not. The play that kids do evolved to teach them motor skills - not die.
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Whether it's part of Zen philosophy, I don't know, but it's been found in a number of studies that meditation makes you kinder towards others, and increases compassion and empathy, and decreases biases, so I don't agree with your insinuation that the purpose is to "make yourself precious and ignore the world."

I, too, used to think meditation and zen philosophy were particularly solipsistic, and only about improving oneself, and then I read enough studies to convince myself that "improving oneself" is actually a laudable goal that involves becoming a better person for the rest of the world.

In one classic study, participants randomly assigned to learn meditation vs unrelated cognitive skills were significantly more likely to offer their seat when a disabled person walked into the lab weeks later. Other studies have shown similar effects.

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/07/mindfulnes... (Opinion)

https://static.squarespace.com/static/52853b8ae4b0a6c35d3f8e... [Psychological Science]

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/52853b8ae4b0a6c35d3f8... [PLOS one]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3156028/

http://scan.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/09/28/scan...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23957283
Big O notation is asymptotic. Using only 5 insertions to understand Big O is definitely the wrong way. For example, insertion sort works better when the array is small, but insertion sort is definitely O(n^2), worse than qsort.

Don't let Big O notation fool you, don't misunderstand Big O.
Apart from the performance gain, the generated stubs (and the generated protobuf classes) are a nice improvement in developer experience.
Yeah, seriously. I've got an old iPad 2 and while I don't expect it to run like a (whatever the current iPad is called) the thing has been relegated to e-reader duty as even opening more than one tab in Safari causes it to lag and freeze up.

I've always spoken well of Apple's software update record but it comes with a nasty flipside in my experience: unlike an old x86 PC or Android device, once you update the OS, you're generally stuck. No downgrading and certainly no "slimmed down" builds or alternate OSes to breathe new life into physically intact but not-current hardware.
True that, I hope Zuck sues me so I'll get extra famous
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Before that move, half my office was playing. We'd often play together. Right after the banning of maps, I have only seen one person in the office play a single time. Interest died immediately.
Note: still the top grossing app in the iOS App Store.

As always, don't forget to put the scary raw numbers into context. 12 million out of 45 million means they've retained 73% of their user base month over month. We can't derive actual retention numbers from that because new users, etc. but 15% is great month over month retention for a F2P mobile game. Assume Pokemon Go is doing that. That would mean 6.5M of their current user base stuck around since the beginning of August, and they picked up just under 25M new users in one month.

I dunno about you, but I'd be really pleased if my new game got 25M new users in the second month after release. Not as good as the 45M I got in the first month, but that's not rationally sustainable.

Time spent in game dropping is bad. DAU dropping is bad. I wouldn't spin this as good news. Niantic could absolutely be managing live operations much better. But click bait is click bait.

If you're sitting here saying that it's failing because everyone you know stopped playing, you need to figure out how to make your mental model explain why it's still top grossing.
Coming from the UK bank personnel, I think the authors are thinking more about gocompare and moneysupermarket, which you can think of as centralised reverse-auction sites.

And from personal experience, at least for general home utilities and insurance providers ... they work reasonably well. They would be really good if the quotes also included the small print features in comparable dimensions. At the moment you'll need to go over all those yourself, and doing that side-by-side even just for the best options takes a lot of time.

But due to financial nature of the services, there is plenty of space for dirty kickbacks. Hence, trying to reduce collusion within and between the choice engines is a laudable goal.

Disclosure: Finnish expat, UK resident.
As someone who does a lot of scraping, I was happy to learn about Antigate :)
Haven't come across those yet but yes I guess it could be painful.
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We also need darkness and the occasional glance to infinity for the health of our eyes. I believe that kids today are just not getting the 'eye exercise' needed for healthy eyes. Everyone seems to be wearing glasses or contact lenses. We are going blind!!!

We have healthcare systems that put kids in glasses at the first available opportunity to correct things, eyes get lazier and more corrective optics is needed. We also have sunglasses for when the sun is out, again, eyes get less exercise. Then, as per this article, we have 24/7 lighting in offices, shops and selected homes. It is not just the stars we are not seeing any more, the sun is not seen either!

I was fortunate to grow up in a rural area with very few streetlights. Also, my childhood bedroom did not have electricity. If I wanted to read late into the night I had to be by the window. In those days it was apparently bad for your eyes to do just that, that was the new 'masturb*tion' as far as eye care was concerned.

I also had to walk or cycle to school. With cycling you do get to exercise your eyes properly, that glance behind and back again in a split second to see what car is going to 'hit you' puts those eye muscles through their paces. Stuck in traffic in the back of an SUV just does not give your eyes the chance to get good.

Nowadays I am amazed that people have the lights on during mid day during mid summer. Such an insult to the glowing thing in the sky! I detest that because I believe that anything short of an unshielded nuclear reactor is just bad for the eyes. Nobody I know sees it that way. My eyes are far from perfect, if I drink a dozen pints of beer I can get double vision, not that I have drunk enough to experience that in decades, uptime of non-blurry sight has been 9 nines for me.

There is also a myth that screens are bad for the eyes. Again I beg to differ. I have been working with screens as intensively as the next programmer to read this thread. However, in the office, if someone needs to read the (IMEI?) serial number on the back of an iphone, I can just read it fine, which is weird when it is a 19 year old asking the favour. (Actually just remembered also grew up with a lack of TV due to reception issues in aforementioned rural area so probably not watched screens as much as most).

Nowadays we have a culture of going to the gym, doing pilates and other such nonsense to compensate for sedentary lives. I say 'we', I mean us white folk in 'first world' countries. We could have gone the other route, just using wheelchairs everywhere, but, some semblance of physical health is an aspirational thing.

Now, eye health... If we could have dark skies for the sake of the children rather than a few anorak wearing boffins then that just might work.

As an aside, one benefit of having quality eyesight is that I can use hi-res screens with text the size that it used to be in books, i.e. small. My colleagues have to have normal resolution screens with text the size of the 'large type' books that public libraries have for old folk. Yet they can be in their early twenties. Quality eyesight with no corrective optics is as important to me as being able to breathe.
I'm definitely not ignoring the fact that YC has invested in startups 'worth $80B'.

However - my last statement is correct.

Most YC businesses will NOT IPO, not even close. Most of the 'success stories' from YC will come from acquisitions, you can hardly deny this.

Sure - most of the valuation may derive from YC businesses that (eventually) do an IPO, but they are very small in number, so I think it would be disingenuous to use an $80B valuation, which is derived from a tiny number of companies (mostly one: AirBnB) - to describe 'successful YC companies'.

Also, to be fair, as far as I am aware, in the entire history of YC, none of their companies have done an IPO. So, there's that.
> he biggest advantage of Node.js is that you can reuse the same code on the client and server, and thus it's ideal for creating universal single-page web apps. Being able to reuse the same code on the client and server is a massive advantage that can't be understated.

This advantage is totally overblown, and in fact I am not sure it even is an advantage. It definitely makes things easier in the short run, but it always comes around to bite you in the ass. The fact is, objects on the server and objects on the client are different things, and while you write less code up-front because the differences aren't always immediately obvious, you end up writing a lot more code later because you didn't think about the very important differences. Representing them as the same thing enables shoddy programmers to not think about the context of where their code will be run.

> "There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses." -Bjarne Stroustrup

"[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business." -- A. A. Milne
We use a one-time token for each interaction. We don't use Bluetooth encryption, but the tokens are signed and cannot be replayed/transferred, so intercepting one is near-useless.
> C's type system has some safety issues, but it's still safer than Python's.

Uhm. An error in Python code code can lead to a runtime crash with an exception or a bad result ...most of the time. An error in C can lead to anything from an impossibly hard to diagnose memory leak to an exploitable buffer overflow... most of the time.

C may be be "statically typed", but I think the number of people capable of writing (and maintaining!) secure C code is incredibly low. Heck, even the openssl devs failed at this at least once.

And the fact that C is "static" and Python is "dynamic" does not make C's type system safe. Heck, even js's type "system" is safer than C's if when you use the word safe you refer to, you know, security.
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I got error when clicking on "save and get new tracking code".

BTW, the tracking code sends a request to your server for each ajax request? That looks like a big cost to end user (duplicated number of HTTP requests a browser makes).

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Lovely but the headline sorta implies that the village has reached balance with itself, which doesn't take into account the manufacture of the panels and glasses and building materials it's using to reduce carbon emissions going forward, nor the production of cars - of which I see at least two of in the picture there.

Laudable, but local closed systems don't mean too much if the macro system's belching out god only knows what to keep innumerable microsystems functioning anyway.
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I don't disagree. I'm completely on board with reducing GHGs. I'm talking about proposals to pump sulfur compounds into the stratosphere[1], or the loon that decided to dump a bunch of iron into the ocean several years ago.

You might be reacting to my parting, pessimistic shot - that's fine. I don't think we should give up either. I'm just not optimistic when it comes to humans and collective action problems.

[1] details may be incorrect; I haven't paid a ton of attention to the specific proposals.