skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For anybody who doesn't get this comment: http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html
I have no doubt that a lot of social information is being transferred in a new way, much the same as the introduction of the telephone allowed a lot of social information to be transferred in a new way. My point is that true socializing and socialization are human, not digital experiences.

Not trying to be pedantic here. It's just important to sort out the terms used if any analysis is going to be useful. What's happening on facebook is not social. It's bits of data around being social. Different thing entirely. Perhaps we need a new term for whatever it is, but whatever we call it, it's not the same as face-to-face real socializing with real people.
I don't understand this. AFAICT, parent is implying it's meaningful to compare Middle Easterners sharing information about protests and violence, and Westerners sharing unverifiably truthy HuffPo/Breitbart/whatever articles.

It's true that both of those examples boil down to 'humans digitally sharing information', but the circumstances surrounding both the humans and the information are so different as to make this kind of reductive comparison useless.
Why is it so hard to make a website for the government?
tl;dr summary: "Here is what DRAM is. Photoshop, FCPX, and Logic Pro X don't need 32 GB of DRAM, so you don't either."

... Thanks, ZDNet.
Might be true that Python has some advantages in wrapping GTK+ or even QT. But the parent mentioned "proper penetration of the GUI market". And I think also for Python the amount of GUI applications is quite low.
Fact check: Copernicus was not killed.

He died of natural causes at 70. According to viral stories at the time, moments after having seen the first print of his book.
http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/11/the-forces-that-drove-this-...
Yes, I confirmed that.
Exactly. It isn't just that it's shorter; it fixes a right-left-right-left alternating reading order, turning it into a left-to-right reading order.
Also a short walk away, at University College, is the Flinders Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology [1] (and you can see Jeremy Bentham's partly preserved body in a glass case down the hall[2]...

1: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/petrie/
2: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/jeremy-bentham
Fathers! Keep Donald "Grab 'em by the pussy" Trump away from your daughters.
Depends on why they're here. Also I don't accept it as given that a species that has figured out interstellar travel has necessarily figured out how to actually talk to an alien.
Some do, see http://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2006/08/7601/ , but it's hard for US authorities to find and prosecute someone in a place like Chine.
I think you're misinterpreting me, and also distorting my words significantly, which I object to. I didn't say we should tell people "who aren't aligned with the liberal intelligentsia" to fuck off. I was speaking narrowly about lawyers from places like Breitbart; i.e., the kinds of folks who have been trying to apply pressure to Facebook and making accusations.

NOT the general population.
The general rule of thumb to use with correlation studies like this is any result under three fold is not likely to hold up in a randomised study. The correlation between smoking and lung cancer is 15 fold.
Per that AWS page, you might want to add an asterisk that you lose read-after-write if you make a GET or HEAD to the keyname before your first PUT. So checking if the object exists will punk you down to eventual consistency.
Is anyone going to do one of these in C#?
> doesn't have the intelligence or patience to stitch alliances and deals to implement those policies

Does he need to?

Has at least 2 years of completely republican rule.
> The perfect system would be way more trustworthy than backroom hand counting by party insiders where the only metric to try to avoid corruption is to have two parties counting at the same time.

I studied cryptography, and it's hard for me to imagine a cryptographic proof I'd trust more than that system; it's almost impossible for me to imagine an implementation that I'd trust as much.

Most people have never studied cryptography, and will never trust a cryptographic proof at all.
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>But who is this common guy? In America, it's a white guy.

No. That's YOUR definition of the common man. Their definition of the common man is themselves, a person who have lost his job, because all the companies in his town have sent all the jobs oversea.

This election has nothing to do with racism. For many Trump supporters, having a job so you can feed your family is the most important issue. You're attributing too much to the racism stuff. Just because racism is an important issue for you doesn't mean Trump supporters cares about it.

They just wants their jobs back.
Not every decision needs to have a positive impact on the bottom line. Sometimes decisions are made which hurt revenue/profit for branding reasons.
> Package management. Macros (Rust has a widely used ORM). Generics. Easier error handling. Pattern matching. Functional features, such as map(). A more flexible module system. Built-in FFI. Inline assembly. Etc, etc

Package management and easier error handling are the only ones that doesn't roll up into safety or performance, and I dispute that Rust's error handling is easier than Go's.

> I'm going to push back on this too ... our core infrastructure ... libraries have outsized importance.

Granted, but that's not "pushing back" on my point, because important though those libraries may be, they still don't constitute a majority of applications.

> This assumes that C is OK for safety critical applications. It's not. The status quo is bad. The bar should be much higher.

Agreed. Rust is better than Go for safety critical applications--note that I never tried to argue the opposite--only that Go is better than the status quo, terrible though it may be.
Hi there, based on the story of OldGeekJobs.com by John Wheeler I've created this site with vacancies for refugees with a residence/work permit. Posting to the site would indicate that the company acknowledges the refugee's education level. Work is the best way to integrate and we don't want their skills go to waste.
Then the issue is with your definition of successful. If you only main for professional success, indeed, working more hours will put you at advantage.

But having been with already some people on their last days of life, I don't remember any of them regretting of not having spend more time working, but always of having had more time with family and friends.
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https://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/WINVote-fin...

Windows XP Embedded not patched since 2004.

WEP network password 'abcde'

RDP open on voting machine.

User: 'Administrator' password: 'admin'

MS Access database, password 'shoup' (company that made the machine)

The machine I used was a Hart eSlate with comic sans fonts, microsoft clipart graphics, and exposed ports. What happens when I plug in a rubber ducky that presses shift 5 times?

If you Google the secretary of state election results sites (where everyone scrapes the information from), you see html tables straight out of the 90s, and some of the servers run Windows Server 2003. https://www.google.com/search?q=secretary+of+state+election+...

Were some hacked? You tell me.
Of course there is almost nothing, which you cannot possibly do in any other language. The question is, at which effort and the resulting program quality.
Go gives you strict (vs C) static type checking. Its local type inferencing saves you a lot of typing (as in keyboard) and makes the code concise and thus readable. It has a proper package system and very fast compile times (for larger projects way faster than C and C++). It has a rather rich standard library, it has a great GC which gets even better in 1.8 (100 microsecond stop times).
> or at least, doesn't seem to

Pretty sure he doesn't drink or anything because of what happened to his brother.
just curious, why write file parsers in go rather than say, python

i would think python would be easier.
Is this not simply a library that unifies multiple services into a consistent abstraction?
Alibaba's TaoBao and TMall are using it actually.
I love pixel sorting! I had seen it done by rows or cols before, but never the whole thing, and the result is beautiful.
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Right, I was supporting your argument by providing one historically consistent potential reason for endorsement from that segment of the population.
That makes sense, but has anyone verified that the check is being performed?
> but voting is supposed to be anonymous

It's actually much much worse than that. Votes not only have to be anonymous but not verifiable by the voter (i.e. they should have no way to prove who they voted for after their ballot is submitted). You don't want to live in a world where rioters could target anyone who couldn't prove they voted for their candidate or domestic violence for the same reason. Also, if votes are verifiable then it becomes easy for a person to buy votes or for companies to offer 'incentives' to vote for a particular candidate.
30 minutes once a year? That sounds like my sex life
It's possible that when switching to PHP7 opcache was enabled by default, whereas it may not have been beforehand. Most likely opcache is responsible for the autoloading improvement.

That said, a faster parser and intepreter would do autoloading faster as well, so it may not be opcache at all and just by virtue that the autoloaded classes are interpreted faster.
This is the thing that people should actually be "scared" of.
You're right, I agree. This petition is pretty absurd, especially because the election is over (it would've had more substance if it was a non-election year). Just wanted to point out that "because it's the constitution" shouldn't be a discussion-stopper.
I'm so dissapointed to Facebook Twitter and Google to suppress people's opinions and deleting people accounts!!
More importantly, it's safer in terms of using only valid memory.
Generally those fact checking sites will link to sources. It's much easier to find sources through them then to go digging through the emails manually.
>None of these choices are particularly important. Being CONSISTENT does.

The thing is - there isn't much consistency in his syntax. The most obvious example is the indentation, that appears to be 8 spaces except for one line which is indented with 4; there isn't consistency in whether to have a space or not before semicolons, before and after parentheses, or before and after binary operators.
I've seen the word "bigot" thrown about more in the past week than in my entire life. It's incredible how few people seem to understand that the literal definition of bigotry is the complete disregard or ignorance of another person's beliefs, creeds, or opinions.
main(a,b){if(puts(*(int*)b)){}}

Needs to be compiled as a 32-bit program, and the executable renamed to Hello\ World!

:)
Work/life balance makes you a better person too
Exactly. Texas and California were pretty much in the bag from the get-go; I'm sure if winning the state was irrelevant, more voters may have come out.
Most of the modern IDE's have built-in auto code formatters. You can style your code according to your preference with just a couple of clicks. Unless you are using the plain old NOTEPAD for coding.
> compared to C it is safer. I never saw a segmentation fault

Well, yeah, it has a GC so it kind of gets that "automatically", I was thinking more about the type system side of things.
And compared to C almost anything is indeed safer.

> I prefer go to python or javascipt. It's far too easy to make errors in them.

That's fair, but these are both dynamic languages, so almost anything with any level of static typing beats them in this regard, I was interested if Go does anything beyond that.

Not to say these are not fair points, but nothing a whole host of other languages haven't provided before Go.
> false stories about the Clinton family committing murder and Huma Abedin being a terrorist flew fast and furious despite refutations from responsible news organizations

I know people who believe this stuff.
> "For instance, what's the highest assignment one can have as a Boy Scout? Junior Assistant Scoutmaster. The Scoutmaster is always very firmly in control."

It sounds like you were in a Boy Scout troop being run with a Cub Scout mindset, rather than one operating according to the official rules and goals. I've never seen JASM described as the highest job assignment a scout can hold; most people would say that's the Senior Patrol Leader, while JASM is a transitional job for experienced scouts to learn how to step back from being a direct leader to being a mentor who helps enable the boys to lead their troop.
Shitty Facebook and Twitter was all time against Trump!
> we're looking at a mass extinction event for sure

Curiously, this ongoing mass extinction event has a name already -> Holocene Extinction[1].

> The Holocene extinction, otherwise referred to as the Sixth extinction[1] or Anthropocene extinction,[2] is the ongoing extinction event of species during the present Holocene epoch (11,700 years before AD 2000) mainly due to human activity.

My understanding is that the ongoing extinction event is not showing any signs of slowing down and is likely accelerating.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
>They voted for a man who wants to register every Muslim in a database.

But the NSA already registered every Americans in a database. It would be racist to exclude Muslims from it. We must be inclusive in our surveillance of U.S. citizens.

>They still voted for an outspoken racist and sexist.

Accusation without evidence. Not an argument.
That's the voice of Science.

And we (in the USA) just elected a leader who doesn't believe that humans have anything to do with climate change.
Comparing Go to C is like comparing C to assembly. You get segfaults because C is lower level and allows you to do things that are nearly impossible to do in higher level languages.

Better comparison is to compare Go to Java, also doesn't segfault, because it doesn't let you.
Not sure I follow what you are arguing for. But what I am trying to say is that the EC is designed to protect us from people EXACTLY like trump. That is its purpose. It has nothing to do with Hillary getting the popular vote, although that does add to the argument.
The apocryphal story I've heard is that the 5-day / 8-hour workweek came from Henry Ford doing rigorous research on productivity in his factories (and that 40 hours/week was less than the norm at the time).

I'd believe that's true, but I'd also believe there's reason to suggest that what holds for factory workers doesn't hold for information economy workers. (Although anecdotally, I find that I'm WAY more productive when working closer to 6-hour work days than 8-hour days.)
These aren't, in my view, necessarily orthogonal. I recently had a big, ambiguous project on my plate where I had to learn some new technologies. I had a good time making toy prototypes of the system I would eventually end up building.

It was my off hours, it furthered my work, and it was fun and fulfilling for me. The best is when your work gives you ambiguous problems that feel like side projects you'd normally want to do anyways.
I think it also lets you turn this:

try!(baz(try!(bar(try!(foo())))

into

baz(bar(foo()?)?)?

Which isn't as bad as the alternating order for chained evaluation, but cleans up a lot of the noise.
People are spending 10's of $ per vote in some areas, flipping a few per machine would easily be worth it. Just the presidential race can spend up to 40$ per vote, add in senators and local officials and votes are worth quite a bit.

Remember some poling places have 10,000+ votes. If you change 500 votes that's both hard to detect and frankly likely to tip many local elections. Now, different people doing this to a few different locations and well it adds up.
> Either you want out of the bubble or you don't.

I don't think that's a fair assertion. It's possible to both want to understand opposing points of view but also not have the bandwidth to filter out clearly not-worthwhile text.

I'm never unblocking comments on YouTube. I'm never going back to Reddit.

It's like being home for Thanksgiving: When the conversation starts with "Well Obama's a Muslim so..." you know it's time to take your turkey plate to the living room and watch the parade.
Looks like a lot of members are flagging this thread
>Telling people who aren't aligned to with the liberal intelligentsia to fuck off is exactly what got us in the current mess.

I am so sick of this argument that Trump's victory is somehow the fault of bubble-trapped city-dwelling liberals for not understanding how the rest of the country thinks. Trump supporters are the ones who have either been manipulated to vote against their own interests; implicitly elected a Republican administration no different from the ones that they now claim to have rejected; ignored the obvious signs that Trump is of the same "elite" ilk that seeks to exploit them; been duped to amplify social hatred and reinforce the worst bigotry and sexism of the right-wing; benefited from many of the federal supports they claim to hate; or neglected the existential peril of their belief that the economy is more important than the planet's ability to sustain life; if not all of the above. Should the left have picked a candidate that is more aligned with the issues of the working class? Absolutely. Does that mean it's entirely on them? Hell no.
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Perhaps. There's also evidence that gut bacteria produce a significant amount of neurotransmitters, such as serotonin. There's always the cause/correlation piece, but it's not unreasonable to believe that gut bacteria play some role, regardless of the ultimate cause.

https://www.caltech.edu/news/microbes-help-produce-serotonin...
Have you done any research at all on snopes? I just spent 5 minutes on google and found that one of snope's main "fact-checkers" is Kim Lacapria. She used to write for a blog called "The Inquisitor", a site known for posting bad news stories, similar to the right-wing Alex Jones programme. They have published fake quotes and stories without doing research:
http://www.inquisitr.com/670091/retraction-and-apology-to-ro...
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/story-about-costco-pulling-d...

As for Kim, she describes herself as "...an openly left-leaning individual myself", if you ctrl+f for those words here:
http://www.inquisitr.com/402558/scandal-envy-behind-petraeus...

As you can see, journalistic integrity is lacking from both sides of the political spectrum. Please do not get all high-and-mighty and think you're better than everyone else, because you would be falling into the same trap you mock others for. I hope in the future you will examine sources with a more objective view and keep an open mind, and not just believe whatever someone wants you to believe so they can make a quick buck off of your ignorance.
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Of course, it is the basis of evolutionary theory. . .
I don't know how many other people do, but I do, since I'm in a startup and I'm my boss. I'm worried that I might get fired any day now by myself for not working hard enough. ;)

Seriously though, it's harder to avoid in startups, and this forum is more or less dedicated to startups, so I'd expect quiet a few people here do land in this boat. I'd also guess side projects that involve programming probably count as work, as far as what the author intended, and everyone here has side projects going.

Keep in mind that there are plenty of managers that subconsciously reward extra time, and plenty of workers that will put in a little extra to get ahead. It's not fair or good for work/life balance, but it happens. Drawing your own hard line is a good thing, and nobody should be expected to put in unpaid time, but sadly it doesn't work the same for everyone everywhere, and being too vocal about extra work can have unintended consequences.
Oh really? You think?
Here's the problem. Anyone who has $key could determine who they voted for. Not only would the average person not know how to sufficiently protect this key but it makes votes trivially verifiable by the voter which is equally as bad.
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You believe Hillary supporters are wrong and you are right.

Hillary supporters believe you are wrong and they are right.

That you see, is the problem.
The article actually talks about using that time to work on things other than what your day job is about.
On the other hand, under the present system the governor of, say, Florida can tilt the election by reducing/increasing the number of voting places in strategic locations. It may only affect 1% of the voters, but it can be enough.

The same action will move popular vote by only 0.06%, which means there's a much smaller chance of it changing the outcome of the election. As a result it would also discourage state/local governments from trying something funny (not enough incentives).
It's not - it points out that the two conclusions have equal supporting evidence, but different implications. Hence, based on the information in the article, there's no reason to expect that on average, a child joining scouts would improve their lifetime mental health.

Conversely, looking at the source journal article, the researchers did actually check for confounders in several ways, giving some credence to the idea of a causative effect of scouts participation on lifetime mental health.

http://jech.bmj.com/content/early/2016/10/05/jech-2016-20789...
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>> The most successful people I know work a lot of hours.

That's also anecdotally untrue.
Bacterial have something far better than sex - horizontal gene transfer [1]. They can share genes with any organism.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_gene_transfer
It's amazing how much Trust Me, I'm Lying explains 90% of what you see shared on social networks these days. A great book, and still really relevant.
Submitting this because:

> This research found that the presentation of pricing in fixed broadband ads was likely to confuse and mislead consumers about the cost of broadband services. 81% of participants were unable to calculate correctly the total cost of a broadband contract when asked to do so after viewing an ad.

I knew lots of people can't work out the price, but I didn't think it'd be 80%.
> under existential threat

You mean government regulation a la China because some memes really are dangerous? If you increase the velocity of transmission, then even in a free system there are some dangerously infectious falsehoods that it might be in the public good to slow. Think War of the World on Facebook.
>And Facebook is already seen as political; that ship has sailed.

I don't think that's true. Certainly the extremes on each side will say that. But I think everyone in the middle doesn't. I don't. Certainly not in the same way as I see Fox News/CNN/MSNBC as political.
Flattr and Patreon have taken steps to separating payment from distribution. Someone will eventually build a distribution channel that allows "second screens" to be used for payment. This is not unlike attribution for advertising that leads to a sale. Instead of attributing advertising, we can attribute the actual content being used to lead to a payment.

Why would someone "pay" for something they already "have"? Because payment is not for the last song, it's for the next song, to support what will be created by the artist. Sound strange? No, it's how Netflix and others fund content creation. Why can't fans do the same for their favored artist?
My prediction is the climate scientists are vastly overestimating the impact, or its hopelessness, and that the universe will find a way.
> alternatives with more choice

> iOS