skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is from 2014 and it is about a paper studying "social effects in consumption" in a controlled situation (i.e. while you are stuck in an airplane), and another paper about social influences of high schoolers signing up for an SAT prep class.

While the studies are interesting, it is hardly worthy of the click-bait title.

TL;DR if you sit next to someone on an airplane who buys a drink you are 30% more likely to buy a drink yourself (and presumably the study successfully controlled for people traveling together).

Edit: The post title was just changed from what I clicked on "People around you control your mind: The latest evidence" which was so much more entertaining!
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Article now says "Editor's Note: This post is no longer available on the Huffington Post.", but you can read the intro on Yahoo.com still.
Yet they've managed to massively raise their r&d expenses.
NPR(?) did an excellent analysis of the lyrics and rhymes in the song a while ago, but I can't find the episode.
systemd is now used for user sessions, the article doesn't link to the technical release notes:

- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/YakketyYak/ReleaseNotes
Should I grade-skip my gifted child? Yes
Working everywhere with the same tools on one device would be awesome and I can imagine Unity and Linux being much better at this than Microsoft's pathetic attempt.
I agree with this. Even if MS formats were all proprietary, proprietary formats can generally be hacked/decoded/understood. Closed remote storage services on the other hand, can hold your data hostage, and there's not much you can do about it.
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Would love to see if these networks learn concepts of fast retrieval for eg indexing etc
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Playwrights have won several times. The problem with screenplays, as they exist today, is that they basically never really have 'an author' in the traditional sense.
Back when I worked for a large telco my division(SE ie the heir to the part of the GPO that built colossus) had over 60K FTE most of which where managerial and professional.
>We are at the highest debt levels ever

We also have the highest population levels ever, the most assets ever, and the most wealth ever.

Debt to GDP has fallen, drastically:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HDTGPDUSQ163N
Reason to exist != mindshare.

By that time, big names and whatsnot was on Twitter and you have snowball effect going. And you can observe how the shift goes from sms backed to web and app backed.

But once you mostly interact via web and app, the whole thing about 140 characters goes out the window and you basically turn into a cramped "facebook" (or perhaps and RSS feed).

At the same time the main innovation was not happening at twitter hq, but in third party apps (Tweetdeck etc) that allowed people more control over just what part of the stream they wanted to pay attention to.

Twitter is effectively coasting.
On the airline experiment: says if the person sitting next to you purchases something, you're 30% more likely to purchase something.

Isn't the person next to you more likely to be your friend or family member? What portion of people travel alone? And if they're related, chances are high they have similar expectations/acceptance of in-flight purchases.

Edit: found this article with more details:
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/pedro-m-gardete-fellow...
Apparently, if they have the same reservation #, it doubles.
I think the contention is that lyrics and novels are non-overlapping subsets of literature.
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What's the connection between airbags and heat strokes?
>The savings glut is caused by ... There is not much investment happening in our economy

There is not much investment in the economy because there is not much demand. There is not much demand because of income and wealth inequality.

After all, what's the point of producing goods and services for people who can't afford them?

>http://larrysummers.com/category/secular-stagnation/

Any economics projections made by Larry Summers ought to be taken with a metric ton of salt. After all, his track record at gambling with Harvard's money is just abysmal:

http://www.alternet.org/economy/larry-summers-federal-reserv...
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Reservation information was used to control for people flying together - not that I would consider it a foolproof method. In all the times I've flown, probably 80% were with someone but the reservations were not made together. I doubt I'm the only one for whom this is representative since it was business travel.
I think this is a good thing in the long run. I have no problem being the beta tester for a unifying ui. This can consolidate development focus which arguably will reduce bugs. As people get more tired of one ui, there will likely eventually be enough pushback to cause more custom options.

A major difference between ubuntu and every other os is ubuntu is open source with a rich enough history to show it has staying power. Worse comes to worse another fork happens. But the OS UX paradigm has a huge opportunity to evolve with this kind of focus
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More likely the song: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakety_Yak

Don't remember it from Twins?
Why does the text go blurry for me when I hover over the cards?
Postwar Sex Education and the Roots of White Male Sexual Entitlement
I'd guess mostly the song: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakety_Yak
This guy used to run a BBS I used back in the stone ages!

http://users.axess.com/twilight/sock/cocofile/rs232mod.txt
WTH is going on with internet? The comments on this article are excellent, at least the first 10/1600 are. But it doesn't appear that they've used voting to sort the top 10.

I really expected commenting on a highly political article like this on a site liked cracked.com to degenerate quickly.
Well he hasn't accepted the award yet ;)
I'm afraid I won't be a lot of help in terms of gaining traction, but I can say that here at Big Corp this is a regular problem I have as a team lead. I don't know if the size of the company has anything to do with it, but I doubt it.

I think stand ups are not replaceable by this or much of anything since the face time and active communication are what is most important to me there. But, my memory isn't great and 30 minutes later I probably couldn't recap the meeting for you. Having something like this would help solve that, but I also know that I probably wouldn't keep my own up to date.

I could see something like this having really nice Jira integration, for whatever that's worth.
Lessons Learned from Scaling Uber to 2K Engineers, 1K Services, 8K Git Repos
Darkweb marketplaces can get you more than just spam and phish
Crazy things can happend in dynamically typed languages (such as in Perl)
Makes me think airlines will soon start strategically placing "purchasers" throughout the plane in order to maximize the effect of this social pressure.
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Aside from the feedback button talked about here, I wish the craze of implementing these annoying on-page full-screen popups asking you to subscribe to a newsletter would stop.
Nope I think it is a horrible idea also. Microsoft showed us that mixing the UX between a 5" screen and a 25" screen sucks. I can't imagine Ubuntu working it out any better.

Why the hell do they worry about UX convergence yet I can't put the dock on the right side of the screen?! (and only just got the ability to put it on the bottom earlier this year!)
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In interviews, Elon has stated he spends around 80% of his time on engineering. So it is his vision, his money, his company, AND his engineering. There are other makers, too, but he did make them.
The Turing Test thing was my first reaction also. These are sites consciously imitating the stylistic markers of real news, where the only signal for falsification is the content of the story. They regularly fool real people - sometimes because The Onion's sarcasm slips past someone, sometimes because the piece is 100% plausible, yet false.

Facebook could save itself some predictable pain by blacklisting The Onion and SportsPickle and other high-profile fake news sites, but they aren't going to be able to crack this problem with algorithms (or if they do, those algorithms will have far better uses).
I think your homepage needs some work. You can't see what the product is actually like, what problem(s) it solves and what features it has.

If I want to "Get Started" I need to sign up, I want to see what it is like first. There are no details of what you do with my email address if I sign up; Is there a trial? What can I do if I sign up but don't pay.

Small point: when I hover over the "cards" on the homepage in Chrome, the cards pop out slightly but the text blurs.

I wish you luck!
Use IPFS [0] and take a look at Identi.ca [1].

[0] https://ipfs.io/

[1] https://identi.ca/
Generation Adderall
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/magazine/generation-adderall-addiction.html
Now that the headline is changed from the click-bait attempt at reducing individual responsibility for actions, I'm struck by just how insidiously pervasive these attempts seem to be. One could make a slightly paranoid case that it is a left-leaning goal to convince people that the aren't in charge of themselves anyway, so just let mama gov't take over.
Nerdgasm.
This is why certain groups have such a strong interest in controlling twitter, facebook, google, etc. Most people simply go along with what they perceive as the majority opinion. This used to take the form of doing whate everyone around you does, which is why political views tended to group up so much by community.

But we no longer have communities, we no longer speak to actual people, especially not about anything like politics. So that instinctive conformity is now based on easily falsified information presented though the media. This is why facebook prevents certain topics from trending, and puts others that are not naturally trending into the trending queue.
>"Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts": an amazing example of musical story-telling

This song and 'Tangled Up In Blue' and 'Hurricane' are practically novellas in song form. I think the 'long form storyteller' Dylan is often the least acknowledged, but probably my favorite Dylan song format.
I miss the days when new Ubuntu releases included things desktop/laptop users could get excited about. Nowadays it's all stuff for servers and phones. I run Ubuntu on both my workstations, so it's sad to see that use case feel more and more like an afterthought.
It is a terrible idea. No matter their popularity phones have tiny screens and limited, slow input methods compared to desktop PCs. And mobile OSes have to be provided with special workarounds to deal with the absolutely terrible mobile IP networking that cannot even keep a TCP session open reliably.

Convergence to a user interface that provides the crutches for these limits of mobile platforms neccessarily gimps the desktop UI too.
I looked into this a while ago. Here are some notes I made:

- https://git.heldscal.la/roger/the_wired/wiki/OStatus

- https://git.heldscal.la/roger/the_wired/wiki/Salmon

Hope it helps. Essentially, you can basic functionality going by implementing webfinger and an atom feed. This old guide might be helpful: https://web.archive.org/web/20120306210855/http://ostatus.or...
They are very rarely "actual fake news", but usually untruths presented in a way that is impossible to falsify. At least to my experience. Perhaps you could cite a news item that survives but is proved to not have happeend.
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All of the Nobel prizes are awarded by entirely different organizations except for Physics and Chemistry. The Nobel peace prize was established by Nobel's will exactly like the other Nobel prizes. It has just as much claim to being a real Nobel prize as any of the other Nobel prizes.
I feel I'm similar to you. In high school in many classes, like AP Government, I rarely took notes. I often would put my head down (facing down) on my desk and just listen to my teacher usually just repeating in my head what they said. I would do this to help eliminate [visual] distractions. My teacher called on me with random questions a few times and after I had rattled off the correct answer, often faster than others, he stopped "checking" on me. I scored a 4 on the AP test, higher than most others in my class. My teacher even told me he was surprised that I did that well.
www.unwander.com
10+signs+of+SIBO
DOT to provide $165M to make U.S. cities smarter
"Who's a dictator? We're now exclusively following jets used by "authoritarian regimes" according to the 2015 Democracy Index by @TheEIU"

That's what the list is based on according to their Twitter.
This depends on the car, the better the car, the more stable it feels at higher speeds, especially when maneuvering. In cheap weak ones 130 kmh feels like it's taking off, in great ones 200 kmh feels... adequate.

I got once 220 kmh with by older BMW 330d on unrestricted part of German highway, but it's quite stressful experience. You feel via your senses how fast everything is, you feel how long it takes for car to break to something more reasonable (ie 150) because of other drivers - this happens all the times, so it's almost never a smooth ride. And you know that any issue with the car like tire blowing means instant horrible death, and probably not only yourself.

Most normal tires have rating till only 220 (that is for new ones!), at speeds around 250 and more you will trash whole tires in 1 day (and you need good ones, not some cheap chinese crap with no grip), and whole car is just suffering much much more compared to regular driving.

Interesting one time experience, but even me I don't go over 150-160 on an empty road during day.
Yeah, a lot of people just play it safe. "Nobody gets fired for buying IBM" and all of that stuff.
The revenue comes from investors. A lot of those investors are saying the same thing you are: "Look at all this revenue, they must be doing well!" For those people it's a closed cycle: investors see revenue increase and invest because they see revenue increase, other investors see revenue increase and invest because they see revenue increase.

But this isn't a sustainable business, it's basically an unintentional pyramid scam. Businesses need to make a profit in order for people to receive a return on investment, and Twitter has never, not once, ever made a profit.
Updated packages without the whole UI/system being changed underneath you isn't always bad.
Winston Churchill also won the Literature Nobel Prize (for his book on the second world war). Writing history is probably even better than songwriting as an alternative to fiction.
Notable fact: '69' makes it as '3rd most used combination of 2 numbers in passwords'.
Yes it's crazy; if you add up R&D + Sales, the total is $1.6B; their revenue is only $2.2B... And that's without factoring in the costs of simply keeping the business running - They still need to pay datacenter costs and salaries related to the ongoing maintenance of the site.

When you look at the billions of R&D dollars which were spent over the past few years, you have to wonder where all the money went. I can't remember the last time Twitter released an innovative product... If ever.

It's not like they were spending their R&D on high-risk ventures like finding a cure for cancer or building a quantum computer. With the kind of R&D they do, you expect to see results at reasonable intervals...

I wouldn't be surprised if there is some kind of fraud going on.
I don't quite understand your point in the context of twitter. It went public in 2013 and has been under investor scrutiny for the last 3 years. Even so, the sustainability problems have persisted despite the glaringly obvious balance sheets and steadily declining share price. This is a problem of investors (public and private) letting the board get away with hemorrhaging money for too long.
>Many modern political issues do not have a middle ground - take abortion, you are either for choice, or you believe it is infanticide

Those two options are not mutually exclusive. All healthy humans have an instinctive aversion to murder, and murder is universally considered morally wrong, but they do not have such an aversion to infanticide. In many cultures infanticide has been considered acceptable, and even in modern American people aren't going to ask too many questions if a new mother claims it was an accident. A new-born baby does not speak, it does not use tools, it fails the mirror test. By any objective measure it's less of a person than many animals we kill without a second thought. There's a strong argument that the mother should be allowed to make that decision, possibly even up to a short time (eg. 24 hours) post-birth.
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I write C++. I write a lot of it, I've been using it since 1987.

I love LISP and Smalltalk, but I'll never ship a product in those languages. I've written a ton of C# and Java and somewhat less Javascript; those environments are fine (though I found myself paying much closer attention to object lifetime than I wanted).

I'm dead set against garbage collecting C++ because the semantics just don't fit well with the available runtimes. A few times I've written garbage collected heaps for specific types of objects; crossing the boundary between the hand-allocation world of C++ and the dynamic world of a GC environment is not a happy or particularly efficient experience, especially in the presence of threads.
I am currently using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. There are lot of changes since 14.04 LTS. GUI change is easy to notice at the first time. You will see different look in GUI. But, I don't know the GUI somewhat buggy to me sometimes. The screen appears to be black and it will repaint when you are moving your cursor around the black screen.

My friend told me that Ubuntu's GUI system was so heavy. He suggested to use Ubuntu Mate or Kubuntu as alternative distro.
I used to generally update version after version, but recently, I have not seen a good enough reason to switch from 16.04 to 16.10 (I intend to stick to 16.04 till the next LTS version is released).
OH wow I didn't know that. This was in ... 2010. His voice had the sound of a death rattle, absolutely unrecognizable.
I actually had several of the extra filters enabled already, but only once I added "Fanboy's Enhanced Tracking List"[0] did uBlock Origin successfully block this technique. I'm not sure whether any of the other filters would accomplish the same result.

After enabling this filter, 0942v8653's version also failed.

[0] https://www.fanboy.co.nz/enhancedstats.txt
A celeb/politician/etc's popularity is what brings regular people to twitter. To charge the celeb would be counterproductive and probably move them over to a competitor for good.
This is the old "raising everyone's income creates inflation" argument that is unfounded.

Yes, there is the supply and demand curve that shows prices increasing with increasing wages. But those graphs don't show the percentage increase wrt incomes, which must be less than 100% because wages are less than 100% of the cost of a good or service (think about it). So rising incomes benefit buyers more than sellers. Since the wealthy control the means of production, it's easy to see where this notion came from.

Inflation comes from printing money. Please stop conflating it with increases in demand or production (which is deflationary anyway under a constant money supply). I'm no economist and I'm not arguing the long-term monkey business that rent seekers will inflict on the poor, but that's a separate issue from simply giving people more money or a UBI.

EDIT: Upon further thought I realized that increasing supply causing deflation is as untrue as increasing demand causing inflation.
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Microsoft's Managed C++ is frankly scary, but its gc root type seems pretty close to this.
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He did exactly that last year https://techcrunch.com/2015/10/13/twitter-is-laying-off-8-pe...
Another shutdown. This time, it’s India’s first Tinder, after a 5-year run
i can imagine quite a few situations where any reasonably small limit on speed would end up in horrible crash (ie overtaking trucks in single lane mountain roads)
And Ethiopia is on the Index[0] as "Authoritarian", so should be included if the information can be found.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index
Has Dylan himself commented on the award?

He's unpredictable (and irascible) enough to make me want to hear what he thinks about all of this.
I have a saw, you have a log. If we bring our resources together, we can build something more economically valuable than the sum of the parts, and we both benefit. That's not a zero sum game.
this is where an mba comes in handy... he's basically saying that the company is spending too much on prople (among other things) so a private equity firm (the financial buyer, as opposed to a strategic buyer) will see an opportunity to buy the company and fire a bunch of people (including engineers), which will improve the profitability of the company. because valuation is the net present value of projected earnings, and because pojections are typically based on recent performance, the company will have a higher valuation and will sell at a higher price. being armed with debt means that the PE firm can buy all the equity for a fraction of the price and make out like bandits on the sale.

so the quality of the engineering team doesn't factor in at all. =/
There's a lot more back story. [Here is a video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqD8lIdIMRo) of Putin explaining that we're essentially on the brink of a major world war, and that the average citizen in the western world is oblivious to it. (Or just look up "Putin's warning" and pick your outlet.) Couple that with Hillary's insane anti-Russian position and things could get ugly really quickly.
literature (n) — written works, especially those considered of superior or lasting artistic merit.

...don't see why lyrics shouldn't count. Radio plays, films etc. also count.
That MusiCares speech is a great read if you have 30 minutes to spare. A few favorite bits:

On Dylan's immersion in classic folk:

>If you sang "John Henry" as many times as me – "John Henry was a steel-driving man / Died with a hammer in his hand / John Henry said a man ain't nothin' but a man / Before I let that steam drill drive me down / I'll die with that hammer in my hand." If you had sung that song as many times as I did, you'd have written "How many roads must a man walk down?" too.

On what's often missing from rock & roll:

>The other half of rock & roll has got to be hillbilly. And that's a derogatory term, but it ought not to be. That's a term that includes the Delmore Bros., Stanley Bros., Roscoe Holcomb, Git Tanner and the Skillet Lickers... groups like that. Moonshine gone berserk. Fast cars on dirt roads. That's the kind of combination that makes up rock & roll, and it can't be cooked up in a science laboratory or a studio.
Having one person be the CEO of two different companies at the same time just feels like an incredibly stupid idea.