skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GP is not objecting to Facebook telling him that John Smith liked the article, too. He is objecting (I think) to the fact that Facebook knows who he is (as evidenced by knowing who his friends are), and knows that he just read that article (as evidenced by telling him who among his friends liked it).

And that is creepy, I think, and one reason I have all the good adblockers and tracking blockers and cookie cleaners that GP mentions installed, too.
I had the same experience and reaction. Leaflet is so nice and clean, it's a constant pleasure to use.

I miss coding maps... ;-) Are there ideas somewhere of things to do...?
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As a layperson the only genetic testing I am familiar with is the BRCA gene for breast cancer. Other than false positives and the risk of unnecessary treatment, is there a reason not to test all women for it and similar genes?

Additionally, is this company performing research or just doing testing on known factors? If it's the latter then I am not clear about why this is so objectionable. How is this company different from the others that provide genetic testing through your healthcare provider?
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That's not quite true.

For example, in Cedar, Modula-3, Active Oberon, D you can mark a pointer as not being under GC control.

Other GC enabled systems programming languages offer similar feature.
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And the political content. You might have a ""Twitter Revolution"" but you'll never have a Disney one.

On the other hand, something might finally be done about the harassment of the few remaining users.
> The number of users clicking on Coderwall from Google increased 14.8% (yes, this was statistically significant).

Would be very curious how they calculated significance here.
I'll worry about the right to interfere in foreign affairs when we stop invading "because we can", when we end the war on drugs, and a number of other frankly hostile and ridiculous international policies. Then, we can start to worry about the right to save an intelligent species from extinction, because of international barriers.
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There wasn't a sudden increase in rankings - this test showed CTR from Google increased dramatically with the change. When it was rolled out to the entire site, clicks went up, and over many weeks impressions/rankings followed.
Regarding D, you can even get stack overflows if the destructors require nested calls.
I don't understand the "delta between test and control" figure. Can anyone explain?
Where do you see a 7 year contract in the UK? The longest financing term offered by Tesla is 48 months, you can get a Tesla Model S 60D/70 for about 350-400 GBP a month (after a down payment (of about 20K + another similar payment at the end), but I haven't seen a 7 year contract any where.

NVM I found the 7 year leasing program.

After a down payment of ~16,000 pound, you get to a monthly payment of 622 GBP for 71 months for a Tesla Model S 60 (not D).
http://imgur.com/a/1Asgz

This isn't "affordable" by any means, and this is the most basic Model S, without AWD, autopilot or any other upgrade package.
This would make a lot more sense than a tech company buying Twitter.

Twitter is, more than anything, a media company. It's a bit unfair they're compared to tech companies in terms of performance.

Twitter is a cultural phenomenon more than a product. That's why I'm always skeptical of people questioning its long term success. Unless another platform emerges to replace it, its cultural momentum should be enough to sustain its presence, even without profitability.

Maybe Twitter will never be individually profitable, but it has enough cultural power for a large media company to justify subsidizing its costs with profits from the overall income of a media empire.

As such, Twitter seems better off as a unit of a large media company like Disney rather than a calculated profit center like Google or Facebook. Its synergy with other products can make it a sustainable investment for a media company.

Disney was one of the first companies to popularize Twitter, as ESPN and ABC contributed to its early growth by bringing athlete and celebrity tweets into the mainstream. The Disney media empire benefits from this synergy with Twitter. It therefore makes sense for Disney to roll Twitter into its media portfolio.
When they ditched the Firefox phone I new it was over. They didn't really give it an earnest try. Smells a lot like HP's destruction of webOS. I would not be surprised if powerful players in the industry pressured them to drop it.
I'd suggest: at the point where you start paying for the "sharing" in money.
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So the assumption being made here is that students either get it or they don't based on genetic predisposition? I, for one, don't particularly subscribe to the notion that every CS student needs to score an INTP on the Meyers-Briggs to be successful.
This Chinese Company Is in Talks to Buy Dick Clark Productions
I work on PouchDB, in terms of those points:

"great client-side performance": PouchDB is more than fast enough for most use cases, its just a wrapper over indexedDB. (there are areas we can improve, particularly performance of map reduce / mango queries).

"native models that are extremely easy to use": Not sure what that means, PouchDB and CouchDB use json, its native and easy to use in JavaScript

"conflict-free sync (not conflict resolution!)": Certainly going to have to take a look at this, any conflict free sync protocol I have seen put a lot of limitations on how data within your application is structured but conflict resolution certainly is something that can be improved within Pouch / Couch.

I do think there is a bunch we can (and are) improving in PouchDB and its great to see alternatives, will be looking into this further now. But I certainly do not agree that (C|P)ouchDB are not suited for mobile <-> web sync, thats the primary use case I work on Pouch for.
Disney owns ABC. I would hardly call it an apolitical company.
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OL3 can do map rotation, has Canvas and WebGL output on top of DOM like Leaflet, the projection with different CRS are better handled, more API to do geo calculation, but it has a bigger size.
There's got to be an arbitrage opportunity here.
Random info because I used to work at an office supply store:
Most brother toner cartridges are cheaper because they separate the drum (That extra piece you take apart and place the cartridge in when you replace the toner) from the toner container. This makes for cheaper cartridges, but at some point you will have to replace the drum and that can sometimes be as much as a new printer. That said drum units last for >10,000 pages usually. Overall in my opinion it's a better design than HP or Cannon who's cartridges include the drum and are thus more expensive up front, because you are only replacing what needs to be replaced at the time.
Some of the people who care most about privacy are also very social: activists and politicians.
I don't count Microsoft out of the space over the long term. Unification of the Windows platform from microcontrollers to servers is fairly far along and mobile phone operating systems are, for Microsoft, just another application of the Windows 10 technology.

Windows 10 Mobile has some of the advantages of iOS in terms of security updates and the Microsoft developer infrastructure -- whether that's a good thing depends on one's technical opinion of Visual Studio versus Xcode and Android Studio in terms of programming ergonomics and features and languages.

All that said, that doesn't mean that Windows Mobile will ever be successful or that a world where it's Apple, Google and Microsoft would be significantly better.
This could send shockwaves throughout the entire web.

If the premise of the complaint is that users connecting with a facebook account didn't explicitly give permission to use the data associated with it then I imagine a swooping change will have to happen with all services that use Facebook, google sign on as they'll have to explicitly gain user's consent to use the exact information they're mining.

You might go, oh well they already do, I doubt it honestly and they likely rely on implicit consent but I can see this having major shockwaves
Yay Stockholm syndrome.

"How much would it change your perception if you found out that a good portion of the refill ink market is also supplied by HP?"

Keeping in mind that the median personal income in the US is around 45k per year, how much would you care whether HP made that printer ink or not if you invested hard-earned salary in a printer several months ago, and stocked up on a few hundred bucks worth of cheaper ink, only to have HP secretly make it obsolete?
I had never heard of SailfishOS before this thread. Now I really want to pick up a device with SailfishOS, but I was planning on getting on GoogleFI compatible device in the next couple months. Decisions...

In any case, thank you for your efforts. I've been waiting for UbuntuOS for all the features I didn't know Sailfish has already.
The leaf just seems to make too many compromises to reach low cost. The tiny size, the poor range, the ugly styling, the tiny wheels, etc.

The Chevy Bolt is no looker, but it seems to be less of a compromise than the Leaf. It look much more roomy inside and gets Tesla-like range at 240 miles per charge.

Obviously, everyone here is waiting on the Tesla 3, but the problem is that the federal $7,500 tax credit is limited by quantity by manufacturer. Tesla will most likely run out before Chevy does, which might give Chevy the advantage here. It does look like the 3 will come in around $3,000 less than the Bolt, which is going to be quite the advantage for Tesla's customers who have pre-ordered. Right now it looks like non-pre-orders will not be able to get the tax credit.
FCA = Fiat Chrysler ?

(I had read it like some sort of regulatory agency or independent association)
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Printer cartridges are emblematic of the (sadly widespread) tendency for companies to build things that are obviously wasteful, and clear alternatives should be available.

Every time you have to “throw away” something that looks 70% reusable (or in the case of printer ink, not even fully empty), it’s aggravating. We really need to push all companies to build reuse deeply into their products so that none of them feels pressured to go that route just to stay competitive. And if competition is not an issue, and it really is just a scam for more money, executives need to be going to jail.

It is not hard to imagine a slightly modified printer cartridge that saves virtually all of the electronics and casing, and just plugs in a new ink pod; or, one that has a “gas tank” kind of port where you can add more ink. They just need to do it.
And "flash memory" itself can't be flashed anymore. Isn't it called that because you could erase an EEPROM with a light?

That would be EPROM, not EEPROM. The 'EE' meant Electrically Erasable, so it didn't have (and didn't need) that little window on the top of the DIP package to shine the UV light upon the chip itself of EPROM.

Which was still a vast improvement upon PROM, which was write-once.

My first encounter with that stuff was a 2nd gen version of the floppy disk controller for my RS Color Computer. The newer version wasn't compatible with the Deft Pascal [1] compiler I had purchased, so some guys at the user group helped me to program the older 1.0 version of the firmware to see if that would work. It didn't. :-( The text editor was still handy though.

I eventually got OS-9 Level III running and picked up a C compiler on sale though.

[1] http://www.kenandmartha.com/coco/DEFT.html
Why doesn't facebook buy Twitter? It aligns well with its mission, also helps in establishing monopoly.
According to the book "Console Wars," rivalry between Sega Japan and Sega USA was a major factor in the decline of Sega post-Genesis.

Sega Japan delayed the release of the SegaCD due to the politics of setting up alliances with other Japanese manufacturers and was also directly responsible for the complex design of the Saturn.

Sega USA stole a lot of thunder with the Genesis and Sega Japan wanted to take control back. Sega USA had an alternate design in the works, but Sega Japan insisted on the Saturn.

Up until that point, the "friendly rivalry" between Sega USA and its parent Sega Japan had been mostly beneficial. For example, Sonic would have turned out very differently if it were 100% developed in Japan or 100% developed in the USA. The back and forth on Sonic really benefitted the character and the game.
This is the closest I'm come across.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idealab

There's a little bit of an overlap with a startup studio.
Also while doing it in Madison, Wisconsin (not too many other large employers for programmers), and with a 1 year non-compete on Epic software.

So if they leave the company, they probably have to leave town and learn something totally new.

(All those, and more, are the reasons I decided not to go to an on-site interview with them after invited.)
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I keep thinking there must be great potential for using the ML Module system to create high-performance, customize-at-compile-time libraries, like C++ template libraries but without the messiness and potentially even more expressive.

But I've had a hard time finding SML or OCaml projects that advertise this as a benefit. Does anyone know of a project that's achieved this? Maybe many do, but don't state it that way explicitly?
Each node is an object and has a "checked" variable.
Which of these categories does "epigenetic" factors fall into? It seems to straddle both ...
>You will find his lectures to be very entertaining and easy to understand, being a psychologist whose desire is to make a computer operate like a human brain, he's more interested in how the brain actually works, than hacking ML code.
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>Hinton describes backprop, why he invented it, and exactly how it emulates the way the human brain works.

Of course, basically no actual neuroscientists or cognitive scientists think the brain actually works via supervised backpropagation. So he actually has a bit of a holy war going on with the people who properly work on human learning rather than machine learning.
I said it before and I'll say it again: Scott Adams has gone on the longest pro-Trump streak I've seen, running continuously for over a year now.

To claim that he "switched endorsements" is click bait at the very least (he says it right on his opening paragraph, actually, if you read between the lines).
The group projects of 6 people with one person at computer while everyone else watches for an few hours, then it's done. Four people doing nothing, one person coding, and one person searching the internet for help. Typically the four doing nothing are having an existential panic attack because they realize how useless they are being, or maybe they don't. Who cares? They're about to get an 'A'.
Aw jeez, sorry to hear about that... I'm really hoping this wasn't recently. Our service has changed drastically over just the last year, in product, expertise and especially pricing now that we're big enough for partners to take seriously. We've definitely gotten way better at shipping reefers -- if you'd like to give us another shot or have any questions feel free to ping me at evie@flexport.com and I'll get you set up!
Run an infinite for loop and look at the performance degradation is about the dumbest test you could do. That's literally asking it to not stop executing. Yeah tab isolation would mean you only crash a tab but that isn't a good example.
>To be fair, approximately half of that stank is JavaScript hipster junk
>This is a prime example of stupid hipster stank

Always seemed like JS had issues, none of which I ever thought were related to 'hipsters'? Are we to conclude that JS without 'hipsters' would bring about a better ecosystem for web programming? How do you spot a hipster? By the way they dress, think or speak?
I am curious as to how that 'hipster' theory came into your view.
Pure curiosity - is this for an 8 hour day? or 10? or more? Just wondering what the downsides are to working for a bank.
Edinburgh works for me, although it seems skewed towards multinationals and banks rather than small companies. I nearly went to work for "Clydespace" in Glasgow.

I too have heard good things about Liverpool these days.
Hi! Tim from Realm here. Glad to hear that Realm's been working out well for you in place of Core Data. :)

In response to your drawbacks there:
* Definitely try out the Realm Mobile Platform. We're also looking at leveraging CloudKit to seamlessly authenticate all devices belonging to a user.
* Multi-process encryption wasn't possible until relatively recently (Issue #1845 on our newly open-sourced realm-core project!), so we'll definitely be looking at it from now. Please do thumbs-up any of our GitHub issues for features that you would like.
* We've published articles on how the Realm Core works in the past, but now that it's open-source, you can go and see the code for yourself!
* It's possible to generate compacted copies of Realm files, so you can implement this functionality yourself if you need it. We've had long discussions about whether this should be an automatic feature, but we feel in most cases it would be premature optimization.
Most applications don't have anywhere near the huge Web-facing attack surface that the browser has, and have to do a lot more communication with the host OS than the browser does, so the tradeoff is less worth it. However, I think something like this will be slowly making its way to more applications as time goes on. The browser is just the most obvious first test subject.

I'm not really worried about it being used as a crutch. ASLR and stack canaries didn't stop people from fixing application bugs, because people know that no mitigation technique is perfect, and they're supposed to be a last resort if the application fails.
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Yeah the first "formal" sophomore SE elective I took was literally "hey isn't OO the best? Don't you love drawing UML diagrams? What word is P-O-L-Y-M-O-R-P-H-I-S-M, and can you write a 1 page essay on it?"

Once you get up to the actual SE electives, they're all about the formalization of software and how it can be represented. These classes are usually avoided by students as well, since students opt for fun (from the student's pov) classes like robotics programming, compiler design, web development, crypto, etc, which only makes the SE classes seem like more "fluff".
The article includes the following example:

let a = UnsafeMutablePointer<Int>.allocate(capacity: 1)
a.pointee = 42

FYI, you should never do this.

Assignment to the `pointee` is only safe where the `pointee` is already initialized. If the pointee is uninitialized, you should be using `initialize`. e.g.

let a = UnsafeMutablePointer<Int>.allocate(capacity: 1)
a.initialize(to: 42)

While it doesn't actually matter for `Int`, it does matter for classes, unspecialized generics and other Swift reference counted types since Swift will try to release the destination before assigning a new value into it. If the destination is uninitialized garbage, this can cause a crash or other misbehavior. Following proper practice is a good idea – even if you're using a hard coded pure value type like `Int` – since it prevents problems down the road if you decide to change.

Similarly, you should `deinitialize` the buffer when you're finished, not simply `deallocate`.
"... we have not forced anybody to use it."

What kind of an argument is that?

Send everybody a binding agreement that allows the company to collect data and use it for commerical purposes. Let the users decide whether to sign it.

Surely, if the above is a solid argument, then most everyone would sign it.

"Yes, we held out a carrot, but we did not force any rabbits to take it."
Yeah, they both can write, although almost all of the writes are done by the daemon process and the normal user (the GUI process) reads and processes the results. The 'database is locked' problem seemed to happen most while the daemon user is writing and the normal user is reading.

For the moment I added a patch to my apps whereby the applications handle the locking by itself at a slightly higher level as I got a bit tired of the problem.

This is done via a separate lock file that is opened exclusively before any write action and closed after the write. By doing that I can simply delay the reads for a bit when the GUI process tests to open the lock file and that appears to have cured most problems.

It's a tiny bit more advanced as the above, but that's basically it and it appears to have cured most issues.

edit: might have misread your question, was it about the WAL journal mode? Yes the processes do commit the transactions they write. I need the results immediately, not after sqlite decides to process the WAL journal.
Honestly, I do think this is a good thing. The problem I have with VR isn't just the number of apps but the quality and differences in experiences (I am not much of a gamer and the stores are 90% games. Would love to see more 'apps').

DayDream could be a lot of people's first introduction to VR and so having a smaller library of high quality content for a few months before opening the floodgates may not be a bad idea.
If Mercury is in an eccentric orbit, then the sun's gravity changes depending on where in its orbit is is. Adding to that, when it'a closer, the difference between the gravity on the bright side and dark side is more pronounced than when it's farther away.
Yeah, I suppose so.
This Bitcoin hacker group helped users clear $200k in free products in 2 weeks
This bitcoin address (https://blockchain.info/address/15coYbSjEyWsW5D58k4FurvguMcWVfGzrS) gets a 10% commission for people double spending bitcoin (basically getting money back after a user gets a product online) through a bitcoin hack (http://www.glasshunt.co/exploits/bitcoin-double-spend) It has collected 35 bitcoin, meaning that 350 bitcoin ($211,000) have been double spent through the glasshunt.co service since launch a few weeks ago when they released a video of hacking an online casino (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtGzV_-agcI) and (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysVCU1b-UBA). Dash a competing currency has been promoting the videos and tool to undermine bitcoin as seen in the previous video.
The Glass Hunt group has created their own cryptocurrency which is obtained through hacking challenges they post on their site at challenges.glasshunt.co. It is an anonymous group that also has upcoming hacker classes for hacking blockchain technology in order to make the ecosystem more secure.
To be fair a basic "Hello World" in .NET core with Kestrel server shouldn't be that verbose. AngularJS version should even be more verbose.
"and I do not have the power to make them change."

This is pretty irrelevant. they have the power to change.

There are plenty of alternatives, in fact, you listed them!
No idea but I'm really tired of all the negativity on here. Not even the noblest of projects escape, the negativity still finds a way. Every time I open the comments I think "ok, let's see what the HN crowd complains about this time" and I'm seldom surprised.
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I think that's what fftw does
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Has anyone here installed Signal and NOT seen that popup?