skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SOAP became very slippery and got washed down the drain.

Seriously, SOAP is based on a number of rather heavy-weight standards: WS-*. In recent times, I have only seen it used in the context of Java based systems running on enterprise frameworks. Given the choice, I much rather use REST with JSON (instead of XML and its baggage).
Homeopathy 'treatments' must be labelled to say they do not work
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I visit every 6-12 months, and to be honest, with all the heritage buildings gone, it's just another boring, white lower class city. Yes the port hills are still there and still amazing but it's not anything close to what it was.
That is long gone, specially regarding string formatting.
>If you knowingly post and spread damaging fake information (deliberately engineered to accuse people of child molestation) on the internet[...]

What you're missing here is that they genuinely believe it to be true. As incredible as that may seem to you and me, that is the reality of it.

I've actually been lurking in r/pizzagate since the start, watching in horror and fascination as people convince themselves of the most outrageous things. But they're convincing themselves, and they do actually believe.
We live in a post-factual society it seems.
Grouping of sub-dependency groups (e.g. a testing group).

That seems like an improvement over having multiple requirement files. Then again, I'm perfectly happy with separate dev/testing files.
Yes, it is Apple's artwork. While Apple might have licensed it to some third parties, I'm more inclined to believe that they turn a blind eye to others using it 'inappropriately' because it still plays in their favour.
Sounds like something a child molester would say.
About time. The Ruby, Elixir, and Rust communities are far, far along in their package management tools. Working with pip feels like going back in time these days.
The NY Times helped rile up the mob that harassed Tim Hunt.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/12/world/europe/tim-hunt-nobe...

They aren't opposed to Internet mobs, just those that don't fit their agenda.
Who are you to determine who is fit to vote or not vote? The point of democracy is that EVERY citizen has a say in their government, despite how insane their belief system may be.
This attitude is kind of infuriating. The fact that there are problems with the mainstream media does not mean that the current explosion of complete and utter bullshit, what has been referred to as "the post-fact era", is somehow better or OK.
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You have clearly not read the links I posted. Doing so would contribute positively to your development.

The fact that you're a HackerNews user, means that you're most probably white and male. That's not racist, it's statistics, as I made clear from the very start.

So cocktailpeanuts, my username here is my real name. I connect my real identity to this whole discussion. Why don't you do so too?
Adam is a total bad-ass and amazing how he's world class in so many disciplines and styles of climbing.
Actually, us astronomers will never have to script anything with JS. They'll give us a GUI which will limit what we can do to strictly valid commands: e.g. point the telescope at this position in the sky and observe using this instrument for this much time.
Auto-playing audio? Are you kidding me?
While I'm not completely against the main idea of the post and plan on incorporating many of these pieces into my next project, the statistics in the post seem disjointed and don't really combine to sell the idea of a PWA.

First:

More than half of web traffic comes from mobile

Certainly more people are surfing the internet on their phones than desktops but how much of this traffic would be to a site that would ever be a native app? How much of that traffic is returning vs. one-off visits? There are more sites online than there was in 2007 and the internet is more pervasive than ever... this stat could simply just be more traffic to different sites. Following up on this statement, the author says that people are checking out Facebook in their browser. I'd be interested in a citation around the number of users who access Facebook via the mobile web vs the app.. that seems like it would be more relevant in this case.

Second:

Users spend 80% of their time using 5 apps

Why would a PWA change this stat? Just because I don't have to install an app doesn't mean that I will magically use it more frequently or depend on it day-to-day. If an app adds that much value to my life, is the installation process really a barrier?

Third:

80% of users who download an app fail to become active users

Why is that a function of a native app specifically instead of just a bad sales or onboarding funnel? Why would a user be any more likely to turn into a paying customer if that native app was instead a PWA?

How do any of the challenges facing native apps related to sales and customer acquisition disappear if the app becomes a progressive one?
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Just as if you don't agree with Apple, you are welcome to use the alternatives. If you don't agree with GNU, you are welcome to use the alternatives.
If you don't want anything complicated you could actually use Pandoc to generate the HTML for you. Then you could either insert the resulting HTML into a layout template yourself or have Pandoc do it (by creating a template for Pandoc).

EDIT: Oops, Pandoc was already mentioned. I should have refreshed the site.
1. Make sure you're using the latest stable version of React core

2. Get a CDN for static assets

3. Use Webpack, again, for making development easier

Saved you a click.
>What exactly are you suggesting here?

There is no coherent suggestion.

What he and his cohort is doing is yelling 'Lugenpresse' into every discussion on the topic they can find.
One use case I don't see covered is grouping by python versions. Sometimes "soft" dependencies are only available/supported/not-broken on certain python versions.

It'd be nice to be able to mark a dependency as being conditional based on some expression, e.g. `$PYTHON_VERSION_MAJOR >= 3`.
It's not a joke. It's literally someone on the verge of a psychotic break from reading too many LessWrong blogposts. Those folks aren't only into game-theoretic polyamory and shitty harry potter fanfiction, far from it.

Just because it isn't a joke doesn't mean it isn't hilarious though. Look into roko's basilisk, if you dare!
We need to target those with a financial incentive to lie. There are many unscrupulous people who gain financially by increasing the size of the consumer market of misinformation, and their source of revenue is advertising.
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Bear in mind that brand equity is often earned. I feel that Apple have genuinely earned over the years. However, they now risk losing a lot of it due to the fragmentation of their ecosystem.
I agree. In Hugo's case there wasn't even a way to generate a completely static website for the longest time (i.e. not a blog or anything like that) and I'm not even sure they've fixed it yet.
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If there is even a 10-20% chance of electric being the next big thing, Toyota's lack of investment might deliver another Sony-sized lesson...

I don't see how Toyota CANNOT take this seriously, if nothing else than as a giant hedge.
> What benefit is it for a group to have themselves incarcerated?

I don't understand what you're referring to.

> However, a Chinese study showed that >80% of women won't consider dating a man if he doesn't own his own apartment and earn above a cultural set amount... Does this mean that women in such culture are the one in power, and that they just happen to give up power in the work force since its in their best interest to have men with high income?

But that is the whole point of the power discourse. Power shapes social norms.

> Its not easy comparing two asymmetrical reproductive strategies and asking which one are in more control

I think it is fairly obvious that men have more power in most cultures.

> The question is then, where that power ever part of the group or was it just granted?

The power is "a part of the group", but it ebbs and flows. Government is a mechanism that interacts with power (like all social mechanisms). If the government structure is binary, i.e. only one party can be in control at any one time, then this will naturally amplify power fluctuations because that's how binary mechanisms work.

> it is also less rigid in its predictions.

It's very hard (or even impossible) to make predictions in an intractable dynamical systems. That's just a mathematical reality. That's why social science doesn't try to make predictions on a large scale and over long durations, because that's just mathematically impossible. Similarly, biologists are unable to make predictions about evolution. They have no choice but to be content with retroactively explaining the dynamics.

> The thing that would disprove culture as the culprit of power, is if a group had power to change such culture. Do you know of any such case?

Plenty. The French revolution has dramatically changed cultural perception of aristocracy and hereditary power. More recently, feminism has changed cultural norms dramatically. It was once believed that women don't have the (biological) mental faculties to be good doctors or lawyers. The deeper and more internalized cultural norms are, the longer the process. There is an amazing book called The Civilizing Process[1] by Norbert Elias that chronicles the gradual social development of disgust. It shows how things we perceive to be visceral are actually the product of social processes.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Civilizing_Process
This is probably unlikely as JWST is designed to fly in L2 and not in a geosynchronous orbit. Additionally, at the wavelengths it is operating at (mid-infrared), if it pointed towards Earth, it'd just see the heat of the Earth's atmosphere. Probably not very great for spying.
“You don’t need to fix up a shithole!”

Well, maybe. One shithole some friends lived in in Melbourne had had all the copper piping stolen, so the landlord had replaced it with garden hose. Touching the shower head or taps in the bathroom resulted in a mild electric tingle. Something wasn't right there I tell you. Probably electrical earthing and the absence of a residual current device.

Another shithole, this time in Adelaide, I lived in for a couple years, when it rained heavy one gutter overflowed and there would be a waterfall above the window inside the house.

Couple other shitholes I saw in my 20's weren't so bad.

Filth is fun when you're young.

Also, there's no way a lender will get in on you borrowing to buy a shithole.
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In fairness, the list comprehension would probably be the most "Pythonic" way to do this. The nested iterator might be discouraged (under "explicit is better than implicit," perhaps), so a more Pythonic snippet might look like:

persons = [Person(name) for name in names]
valid_persons = [person for person in persons if person.isValid()]

Take this all with a grain of salt, though -- I haven't spent that much time internalizing classical Pythonicness.
Libel does not require that the writer knows what he is saying is false (though doing so will increase the amount of damages you can collect). You can successfully sue for libel by only showing that the statements made against you were false, and that you were damaged by them.
This reminds me a lot of #SpiritCooking, which had a big effect on the election.

For a traditional-valued person who thinks that participating in #SpiritCooking performance art is immoral, it's not much of a stretch to believe that the participants would also abuse children.

For those of us who are familiar with liberal culture and gay culture, Tony Podesta's art and James Alefantis' instagram feed seems harmless. For people with more traditional values, it's incredibly weird and degenerate.

If you're curious to read more about the pizza/pedophile theory (which I think is nonsense, by the way), see reddit.com/r/pizzagate.
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There was a comment here previously by [redacted] which said:

"There are just so many pieces that almost neatly fit together - it's gross. Too many coincidences to just hand-wave away.

More context: https://www.reddit.com/r/pizzagate/

Their reaction to this article specifically: https://www.reddit.com/r/pizzagate/comments/5e8lg7/the_nyt_j....

Insane ramblings of paint-huffers? Or people who maybe saw something they shouldn't?"

They deleted their comment - I guess they were getting too many downvotes. But I created this account to reply, so screw it:

How can anyone ever disprove a conspiracy theory like that? It's impossible.

I saw in passing an interview with someone who thought that Hillary was ordering child abuse victims using "Pizza" as a code word. I never actually realized it was a serious accusation.

"False news" isn't the issue. It's people are completely unable to evaluate how likely something is in any meaningful way if that person is on the opposite side of politics.
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Sadly, this actually is a Pedophile ring. When it is exposed, you will regret doubting the sincerity of those of us frantically trying to get the word out. Just google "pizzagate instagram" and see for yourself what the fuss is about.
Come on, this is a complete false equivalency. In Tim Hunt's case, Tim Hunt actually said the things that were the cause of other people's ire. Perhaps you can argue that NYT's opinion pages were one sided, but at least they are explicitly labeled as opinion.

The mob that harassed the pizza shop owner was riled up by a totally false and horrific, incredibly libelous lie.
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>That'll make everyone stay up all night hacking to bring your lackluster platform to parity with its competition.

Do you know any other platform that managed to form a foundation for org-mode? Until there is, emacs may not be called a "lackluster platform".
It's also a great place for motivated actors to pour gasoline on some minor embers and turn them into a wildfire, allowing an irrelevant minority to seem like a representative majority.
The larger agenda of... informing people about incorrect information?

We're at the point where NYT could publish a video of someone confessing to murder with a weapon in their hand and someone would comment "typical corporate media shills".
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Not really a fair comparison - the islanders of the 'cargo cult' were trying to entice aircraft full of cargo down by recreating what the explorers did - build towers, runways out of palm leaves, and wave coconut 'radios' around.

But they didn't know aircraft were built by humans, what radios did, or that there was a huge society far away building aircraft and training people to fly them.

And how many aircraft did they ever see, and how long did they spend trying before they were invaded/educated/gave up?

If they had 7 billion aircraft, seeing them all from scratch, and a thousand years to investigate, would they have progressed further?

We know brains work, we believe they are completely grown and contained within a skull (no remote factories building them), and we keep exploring further and building better tools and gathering more data.

The roundworm C. elegans has one of the simplest nervous systems of any organism, with its hermaphrodite type having only 302 neurons. Furthermore, the structural connectome of these neurons is fully worked out. There are fewer than one thousand cells in the whole body of a C. elegans worm, each with a unique identifier and comprehensive supporting literature because C. elegans is a model organism. Being a model organism, the genome is fully known, along with many well characterized mutants readily available, a comprehensive literature of behavioural studies, etc. With so few neurons and new calcium 2 photon microscopy techniques it should soon be possible to record the complete neural activity of a living organism. By manipulating the neurons through optogenetic techniques, combined with the above recording capacities the project is in an unprecedented position to be able to fully characterize the neural dynamics of an entire organism.

In trying to build an "in silico" model of a relatively simple organism like C. elegans, new tools are being developed which will make it easier to model more complex organisms.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenWorm

Is that 'cargo culting', or is that 'reverse engineering in progress'? And what's the difference - existing knowledge or approach?
Look at the archive of this man's instagram. Judge for yourself. Don't just take the NYTimes' opinion as sacred. This is a massive scandal that is breaking as we speak.
I'm no conspiracy nut, but the way Podesta and others talk about food in Wikileaks emails is kinda weird.

But then, weirdness != criminality.
Yeah, but it was also nice to see him struggling with his nervousness. Just like the rest of us. Maybe he's just human too.
I believe the initial estimates for the budget were extremely optimistic. I believe after Congress almost cut funding on it, they came up with a very realistic budget and schedule and have been following it very closely since. I know people who are working on the testing, and it seems like they aren't cutting corners. So I wouldn't worry more than normal for deploying a 6.5 m telescope in space.
It's a full blown moral panic and it isn't pretty. But it doesn't help when the NYT simply invents a stronger version of the story right off the bat, probably for effect:

> All of them alleged something that made Mr. Alefantis’s jaw drop: that Comet Ping Pong was the home base of a child abuse ring led by Hillary Clinton ...

I've heard of this story before, and I can't remember a version of it that had Hillary Clinton in that role.

I don't think making up facts for extra effect really helps debunk a story.
I wonder if in my lifetime we'll ever see a big, sustained free climb go up that surpasses the Dawn Wall. It took Tommy Caldwell 7 years just to unlock it. Testpieces like that don't come around very often.
I'd like something like `npm install --save Django` -- a command that finds the most recent stable version of Django, and then adds _that_ package to requirements.txt, and leaves Django's dependencies out of reqs.txt.

I know that it's just a few simple operations for me to do it myself, but npm has spoiled me.
More like, you chose to make your life more difficult by using free software on non-free OS.
Why not look at the evidence? Why just dismiss it? What if it were an actual pedophile ring and you just brushed it off, letting children continue to suffer?
wtf how?
There are a disturbing number of new accounts being formed to comment idiotically on this thread. Mods should lock. The troll brigades are landing. The real target of this misinformation campaign is very likely to be the site Media Matters, as the article obliquely suggests.
Have you looked at the evidence of this incident? Perhaps if you would, you would feel differently.
Interesting, I actually didn't know that. I'd still need to be able to add people, I'll check that out thanks.
Trouble is, there is no smoking gun (at least yet) to suggest anything actually wrong.

But the optics just don't work out. Performance Art is almost always weird even for most liberal people. It appeals to a very small percentage of the world. As a politician, you don't want to be associated with that - at least not in public
> you can't really fault people for investigating after the number of secret child sex abuse scandals that have happened in the past two or three decades.

Are these people really investigating though? What they are doing is posting threats, lies and rumours on social media sites under the guise of "we just don't want children to be raped." Nobody that posts:

> I won't stop tweeting about #PizzaGate until I know for a fact that there aren't children in danger being covered up by the US government

is "investigating" anything unless you count "making Twitter posts that contain the #PizzaGate hashtag" as an investigation.

You're also missing that many of these people are starting with the conclusion that child molestation is going on, and they are just looking for evidence of what they "know" is happening. That's not an investigation. That's a witch hunt.
I believe NASA is considering this, but the technology won't be possible in the next few years.
Emacs-Gud Will never support llvmdb either... sad...
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It is a strange interpretation of freedom, if you are free to run the software how you want, except if RMS disapproves your OS. I think this way of "defending free software" is rather counterproductive. I say this as a strong supporter of free and open source software and both a Mac and Linux user. I want Linux or any other free operation system to be strong in the market. But this should be reached on features and capabilities, not on limiting software on other operation systems. Fortunately thanks to its open source nature, it should be possible to maintain a branch of Emacs for the Mac which keeps this feature alive. This is where open source is strong.
Some americans are so fucking stupid it's beyond me. Unfortunately that is also true for the population in my country and much likely the entire world.
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This story is worth reporting and NYT is squeezing it to distract from its own failings. They should not lump all non-mainstream media under the fake news label, when even mainstream media reports fake news - Besides Clinton, Iraq weapons of mass destruction was another example.
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We've always lived in a post-factual society.

You're only beginning to realize now.
> This is at least part of what people mean when they lament that software engineering isn't treated as a profession in the manner of doctors or lawyers.

This is an apt analogy. You may have just driven that point home for me. Do you think that pharma and health insurance companies want doctors to think about what's ethical? Likewise, do law firms want their lawyers to think about whether an IP shakedown is ethical?

My takeaway from this talk is that I'm a Chad. Greater forces in my industry may expect me to sling code and ship features, but my role in this whole mess is to stop and think. Or not.
To my understanding the unicode standard encodes an ASCII transliteration of an Unicode symbol to itself, but what about typographical similances? Wouldn't that be a hard problem? Perhaps there are two unicode characters that look exactly the same (using a given typeface) but have different transliterations. Or vice versa - two totally different looking characters share transliterations and gave false alarms.
The fake news thing is really starting to dampen my faith in democracy. There's just no way to counteract it in the age of viral media. It's the DDoS of the political sphere. And it's a national security threat since countries can use it to undermine each other's elections. If democracy doesn't work maybe the best we can hope for is a competent benevolent autocratic state. Maybe China is the right model after all.
Nobody is talking about the bias being spontaneous. It is chronic and cultural.

Do you have anything to back up your claim that African American officers are more likely to use force against African Americans than white officers?
How are people so quick to dismiss what they are talking about on 4chan and reddit? What if this is a legitimate pedophile ring of Washington elites, and what if they are using their influence to brush it under the rug? Doesn't that possibility bother you? Why not examine the evidence (intentionally omitted from this article) yourself?