skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have some sort of reference for this? I'd like to learn some more about the impact of ketogenic diets on A1c.
A sad truth that no tech company is actually going to start off with an internal data security and access keys and rules surrounding such things.

I mean, its inconvenient, sure, but damn why is it nobody cares about security until something actually happens.

Question: IS this actually illegal though? Pretty sure if godmode were illegal in apps/sdks, half of the valley could be sued right now. What are the specifications on that?
Org mode has one advantage that sets it apart: Elisp.
How to Responsibly Help NGOs with Technology
I spend a lot of time in the PCMR Discord, which is pretty lively. The technology seems to be solid, while the UI has issues (notifications from half a day ago are really hard to find for example on mobile devices). Otherwise I'm on Discord every day and love using the service. I miss some slack features, but the VOIP is very good.
"then we'd have cellular immortality. You could still die from accidents, disease, homicide, but not from ageing."

Is death from "aging" a medically recognized cause of death? I thought people died from things like heart attacks, cerebral hemmorages, etc.

"If only someone like Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg were willing to throw a billion or $10 billion to answer this question."

Google's way ahead of you. They have an anti-aging startup.[1] I'd be curious to find out if the fruits of their research will be available to the general public or only Google employees.

[1] - http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/03/googles-anti-aging-...
You just ruined my day. Maybe my entire life. Kudos!
This predates nodejs, every ecosystem has been re-implementing make, poorly. Java has ant/maven/gradle, .net has nant/msbuild/psake. Ruby and python have their own. I wrote a post recently about using make with higher level languages (TLDR- it's much more simpler and more concise than it's "successors"):

http://flukus.github.io/2016/11/30/2016_11_30_Rediscovering-...
Niall Ferguson: I was wrong on Brexit
SF MTA Blames Uber, Lyft for traffic congestion in SF
That's a great point, though I surmise that there is no waste in the human body.

Human's constituents are entirely composed of cells or organelles, and those all consume energy. If there were any cells/organelles that did not contribute at all to the human, he would have a lower performance than humans without the waste, and so evolution would select them out.
Well -- they also raised ~$15MM right after they finished their crowdfunding campaign.
"chan" is simply short for "channel" and is left over from nomenclature used by the original Japanese imageboard users. Nothing nefarious, just a way to identify the site as an imageboard the same way "XyzBlog" would be identified as a blog. It is up to the moderates\users to control the content.
Terminal is one of those mission critical apps that I must be able to depend on at all times. The last thing I want is for my terminal program itself to be leaking memory all over the place which seems to be common with electron type apps.

Dependability has to come before the bells and whistles and this appears to be a long ways out just skimming through the amount of bugs that are caught in this comments section.
Discord is targeting the gaming community, though it can also be used as an alternative to Slack, which is, for example, what the devs behind Yarn (https://yarnpkg.com) use it for: https://discordapp.com/invite/yarnpkg
Oh yeah, it seems AMD wants to prove me wrong (I hope so): http://radeon.com/en-us/instinct/
The real question is which one does IRC better.
Perhaps then one ought to use a textbook and TempleOS side-by-side to learn x86.
Why do so many out-group people think an in-group person has their best interests in mind? By definition they are from two opposing groups.
Spacebattles
The arXiv website operates on less than $1M per year (source: Wikipedia page) and takes care of everything that is needed to disseminate knowledge except for arranging reviews (don't forget that traditional publishers are not actually doing the reviews). In terms of arranging reviews, it shouldn't be hard to do better than the publisher-run reviewing platforms (which in my experience are all incredibly crappy). I don't know what is the budget of review-specific systems like Easychair (run by a company) or the French Épisciences (public project) but it's probably not that much.

Compare these costs with Elsevier's >$2G/year revenue...
"Pebble was profitable for a time"

must've been a fun couple of hours
IMO it comes down to the fact that Amazon literally has my last 13 years of purchasing history, yet it seems that all they are doing is "you looked at x, lets show you y variations of that x."

My dream is that I go to Amazon.com and there are a ton of different unrelated products that people who purchase similar things as me buy. So if I only buy "buy it for life" kitchen equipment, it doesn't show me the most popular but crappy version of something, it shows me the one that I'd actually purchase.

Such an easy problem with suuuuuch a difficult solution though. Not to mention the obvious privacy concerns there.

Oh well, I know that they have good people working on the solution, and no chance I could do it better :p
One could just as easily argue that if Ellsberg had focused on making documents public more quickly, more lives could have been saved during the Vietnam War.

Both were imperfect people in unique situations, but Gladwell's distinction seems to boil down to "Harvard, game theory, & Nobel prize winning PhD advisor" in the case of Ellsberg vs. "community-college dropout" in the case of Snowden, followed by Gladwell falling over himself to redefine "insider" right after spelling it out in detail with the language of class, prestige, and societal privilege.

I don't think Gladwell understands enough about either person - or "leaks" in general - to draw meaningful conclusions.
Dang, I guess they just never thought of that.
Pirates has a really memorable soundtrack though.
I find that strange. CentOS is supposed to be downstream. They're not supposed to do anything except compile from Red Hat sources. Are you suggesting that Red Hat fixed the issue, released the source code, and CentOS compiled and published before Red Hat could compile?
I think db48x's point is that you can't force open source, since people can still obfuscate it enough to render the openness moot, unless you literally legislate and enforce a full style guide on every single programmer (hence the dystopia).
Lots of muddled thinking, but some good points and a good start. There are a couple of things in particular that I think are interesting and worth drawing attention to. None of these are religious ideas per se; they are philosophical.

The first is the the idea of telos. Telos in the philosophical sense refers to that toward which something is ordered. It is frequently misunderstood as something identical with conscious intent, but it has nothing to do with such intent per se, only with what may be called the causal structure of a thing. For example, when I say that a heart is ordered toward pumping blood through the circulatory system, I am not speaking of conscious purposes. I am speaking of the way in which the heart is structured and the way it functions and to what end it functions. Indeed, without telos, we could not explain efficient causality. We could not explain why hearts tend to pump blood instead of, say, materializing elephants or playing the Dies Irae of Mozart's requiem. Even biologists who strive to suppress talk of telos inevitably resort to teleological language like "function". Sometimes such terminology is dismissed as only metaphorical, but such dismissals are flippant and do not pass closer examination. After all, if a term is metaphorical, then you have to ask what the metaphor stands for. Deny teleological language and biology ceases to make sense.

The reason teleology has been a difficult thing to digest has largely to do with the mechanistic turn in philosophy that has seeped deeply into ideas about science. Notice how popular debates between atheistic, materialist proponents and theistic, dualist opponents of evolution typically center on the probability of something as complex as life arising without a mind to have caused it. Paley's ghost haunts the discussion. The reason is that both the opponents and proponents of evolution in these debates hold to a mechanistic, Cartesian metaphysics where teleology is conceived of as extrinsically imposed by a divine intellect and now something intrinsic to things in themselves. Of course, the proponent will deny the divine intellect, just as he will deny the immaterial Cartesian mind, but he will not have not escaped the metaphysics altogether. This metaphysics has causes a proliferation of problems in philosophy that admit no solutions.

However, it is a mistake to think that this metaphysics is the old contender. There is a small but vibrant revival of Aristotelean metaphysics under way and with it comes a "revival" of teleology.
It's the somewhat extremist techno boffins who turn off JavaScript - there are so few of them relative to the general Internet audience that IMO the "works without JavaScript" goal is a waste of effort and should be completely ignored.
I think traditional forums are different than sites like reddit and digg where votes and participation change what is shown.
Pleasantly surprised to see Lee Child mentioned there.

The Enemy (mentioned in the list) is a prequel, though. But it is special in the sense that it is narrated in first person. Special because (no, not a spoiler): Reacher, the protagonist, doesn't say much, but the internal thinking is described in a very attractive way through out (so readers naturally long to hear in first person). The most common thing you read in the books is: "Reacher said nothing". Heck, it's so common that there's even a book written with that phrase as the title; it shadows the author, Lee Child, to investigate what it takes to make the popular character -- http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/529959/reacher-said-...

FWIW, other books from the author I enjoyed and recommend: Echo Burning, Die Trying, Tripwire, Persuader. (/me fondly recalls reading 17+ books (even saving money as a student 10 years ago to pre-order) until a few years of years ago; will resist making a comment on the Reacher movies; but makes a sincere please to read the books first, and ignore, as best as you can, the movies).

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Related author: Robert Crais (characters: Elvis Cole and Joe Pike).
If you don't rewrite commit history (it sounds like you don't) you can see it by looking at the diff of the latest commit on the PR.

Also, I haven't used it extensively since its release, but doesn't the Reviews feature resolve this now?
I'd say that my tolerance depends on the kind of project.

Does it do 3D maps? I can understand that the UX will be terrible even with a lot of progressive enhancements. Does it display text (i.e. news sites)? Then it should by all means work without scripting support, and should display images that would usually be lazy-loaded.

I am also willing to compromise on functionality. If a site offers nice, client-side filters for their 100 products, it is OK if they do not work as long as I can [Ctrl]+[F] to find products.

Another thing to consider is that most users who block sites consciously use a plugin that allows unblocking scrips based on the domain (e.g. NoScript, uBlock, uMatrix). Scripts that enable functionality should be hosted on the same TLD or a CDN. I have no mercy if your site depends on various A/B testing and ad tech scripts to work, but I will gladly allow scripts from the origin host, especially if the functionality I gain is explained well.
I personally think that it's unreasonable to expect websites to work without JavaScript at this point. The "JavaScript disabled" edge case is something I've honestly never even thought about.
I like Something Awful. Outside of its general-purpose forums, it's very good, with plenty of reliable information and well-researched discussion about a large variety of topics.

What I like the most about it is that it costs $10 to join, and if you get banned, you have to pay another $10 to reinstate your account. This keeps the lowest common denominator trolls out and discourages shitposting.
If they need ideas for a pro version I'd probably pay far too much to be able to record each user into individual audio files (recorded locally to each user and combined on my system) for podcasts, letsplays (YouTube videos), remote meetings, etc
Look up DO-178B market. They regulate the software lifecycle itself requiring evidence each part is handled. After source is analyzed and tested, they also do source-to-object code verification. Tools that generate code have to be similarly qualified as you said. An example done by a top company in the domain is below:

http://www.eecs.northwestern.edu/~clk800/rand-test-study/_er...
We try to not use Javascript unless we have to. I don't see the point in all this fancy js stuff like smooth scrolling (which usually breaks with swiping back on trackpads).
Yes but it's really messy. Only 1 host, no 'production' traffic, and if you want to run RHEL in production, you're left with a mix of CentOS/RHEL machines all over. Compare that to startups that use Ubuntu everywhere.
Is his father still alive? Is the only son? How losing the mother had affected to the other members of the family? Who cares for the father currently?
What you call 'atom' is actually called 'symbol' in Lisp. Keywords are in Common Lisp a subset of symbols, those who are in the package 'KEYWORD'. Keywords also have themselves as value. Thus keywords evaluate to themselves.

'atom' means something else: 'not cons'. Anything that is not a cons cell (the two-pointer building block of linked lists) is an atom: numbers, characters, strings, symbols, arrays, ...
Thus a string is an atom, too.

CL-USER 1 > (typep "foobar" 'atom)
T

CL-USER 2 > (typep 4 'atom)
T

CL-USER 3 > (typep 'foobar 'atom)
T

CL-USER 4 > (typep '(foo . bar) 'atom)
NIL

True though, symbols (not atoms) are often used as keys for key/value data structures like assoc lists, property lists, hash tables, CLOS instances and others.

Common Lisp also allows symbols to have arbitrary names. It uses | and \ as escape characters in symbols.

CL-USER 11 > '((person |Marvin Minsky|)
(|KNOWN FOR| |Artificial Intelligence Research|)
(lab |MIT AI Lab|))
((PERSON |Marvin Minsky|)
(KNOWN\ FOR |Artificial Intelligence Research|)
(LAB |MIT AI Lab|))

CL-USER 12 > (setf mm *)
((PERSON |Marvin Minsky|)
(KNOWN\ FOR |Artificial Intelligence Research|)
(LAB |MIT AI Lab|))

CL-USER 13 > (assoc '|KNOWN FOR| mm)
(KNOWN\ FOR |Artificial Intelligence Research|)

Symbols are by default interned in a special data structure and are looked up at read-time. Thus they are compared by pointer identity. In Common Lisp this data structure is called a package and there can be more than one package.
It shouldn't yet sometimes it does.
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lol, you realize that none of the Google "software engineers" are accredited?

Google Canada calls their employees software developers. Everyone would just call themselves a different name and life would move on as nobody cares.
It is unfortunate that so many people are looking to blame anything - big companies, government, whatever - anytime their worldview has to reconcile a hint of the imperfections of humanity.
Great point. Thanks!
Well, first of all, thank you for putting it this succinctly; I honestly hadn't understood where the "elitism" claims were coming from, but, sure, that makes sense.

Here's the thing, though: Gladwell is probably not wrong about this. Ellsberg was far better read in to the program he leaked about that Snowden is to the topics of his leaks. As you can imagine, most of my industry friends and acquaintances are broadly pro-Snowden, and an argument that I've seen from literally none of them is that Edward Snowden had the technical expertise to either vet his documents himself, or to build a process whereby they would be effectively vetted. Which you can see by the shitshow that was the original PRISM disclosures.
I surmise that there is no waste in the human body

This is a naive interpretation of evolution. For one, selection doesn't occur instantaneously.
> According to the San Francisco Examiner, some 45,000 Uber and Lyft drivers are now working in the city. By comparison, a mere 1,800 taxi drivers cover the same turf.

Of course, they're not all working at the same time, so this isn't a great comparison. Lyft/Uber drivers also likely have a wider geographic range, so this probably counts drivers who serve primarily outside of SF but occasionally venture in.

Also, black car drivers don't show up in this data, further obscuring the true comparison.

The overall article wasn't bad, but stats like this don't help.
Thanks a lot, will try that, its going to be hard, as sugar is prevalent in almost everything we eat.
Fortunately, many fields also have fully open-access journals and conferences which provide the prestige without making your papers hard to access. (In my field, e.g.: the ICDT conference, IJCAI, ICALP, LICS; the LMCS and JAIR journals.)

The reason why these haven't completely taken over is because prestige has a lot of inertia, and publisher-run titles retain their prestige (and still attract quality submissions and reviewing). But it's not true that you have to publish with closed-access publishers to get reviews and prestige.
As to the discriminatory and societal problems you write about, I don't know.

But there are certainly standards for particular fields of applications, like medical IT, enforced through stricter liability laws in that field.

In the 1990's and 2000's there was also a very long push for standardization (POSIX/SUSV, programming languages, SQL, SGML/XML, IP protocols, etc.). These efforts (and the success of Java) was also seen as a measure against Microsoft becoming predominant in the 1990's by many developers.

But in this decade, it seems like this isn't anymore a priority. A guy here on HN recently wrote that he'd never consider a language environment lacking a "canonical" or solitary implementation (like, say Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl, or other languages tied to their runtimes have). I found this very interesting, as it's the opposite of what I'm doing (I use only use languages having a language spec and multiple implementations).

I also see it as a generational phenomenon. Look at node.js today. Back in 2011 or so it started as a really practical asynchronous server-side JavaScript runtime based roughly on CommonJS platform specs also implemented by other JS runtimes. Nowadays, the entire reason to use JS in the first place, its ubiquity/portability, is completely lost, and node.js build setups are approaching or even surpassing J2EE-ish levels of complexity/absurdity (webpack, babel, angularjs, etc.).
This is the trouble with web dev. There are a million factors in play, and it's very tough to create tests for them all, not to mention potentially financially restrictive with the need for multiple browser testing VMs. You have to test cross-browser, make sure all the versions of IE you want to support play nicely with your JavaScript and CSS. The site also needs to be responsive and handle resizing gracefully. Then how about making your site accessible, making sure all the aria tags are where they should be, and that screen readers will read, or not read, your content properly. When there is time to polish, it's often in the form of CSS transitions or animations.

Making my site fallback to no-js gracefully affects so few people, that it falls by the wayside since there's so many other higher priorities that affect a lot more people.
horizontal pod autoscalar ftw!

http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/horizontal-pod-autoscal...
> Is there any reason to keep maintaining a website for users without Javascript enabled?

The search engine robots. They might be able to crawl your JS site, but I wouldn't bet my business on that.
Ha, I see your point. I used "offline" because it is happening in a way that is disconnected with my interactive usage. It doesn't analyze the handwriting as I write, it processes it in batch later, and this might even happen during a moment when I'm not connected to the internet. But I can see why this usage could be ambiguous or confusing.
> but I can't see any way that NPCs in a virtual reality/simulated universe can be conscious

If in the future we have even faster computers, and ability to scan all the molecules in your brain (at good enough resolution, but not beyond Heisenberg). Then we simulate the chemistry going on. Do we now have consciousness in a computer?

It is hard to see how billions of neurons together create consciousness. Just like how it hard to see how computer can be conscious. But claiming "impossible" is quite a strong claim. How do you support it?

If our universe is a simulation, it is one of atoms or quantum fields/gravity or something that gives rise to those. Anything else we see is build from those things. Therefor consciousness seems like an effect grounded in this universe.
I think the problem with crowdfunding (and early adopters in general) is that product hype can be a product unto itself. That's part of the value that Kickstarter provides, but it disappears when a product hits the wider market, and all that's left is the actual value of the product.

Wearables will gain more traction when wearing them actually enhances their value (fitness trackers that measure your pulse, VR headsets glasses that change what you see).

Smart watches, unfortunately, were just redundant. The entire idea of a smart device is that it has everything you need on one device. Carrying two smart devices makes no sense, and the phone got here first.
Indeed. Glycemic index is fairly idiosyncratic (varies from person to person) and generally a poor indicator of insulin response anyway, especially the overall amount of calories consumed ia not taken into account. It's just another pointless metric invented to sell quinoa.
Do these plugins care if content (images, in particular) loaded by the scripts is hosted on the same TLD?

What do they do about sites that use Google's CDN hosted libraries for things like JQuery? Do they have a whitelist?
Yeah, but sadly, many tenured academics are not making any such moves either... There is definitely a "pyramid scheme" problem where the need to publish in unethical venues survives because of the needs of non-tenured academics, but it's not the entire story.

Add to this the fact that most reviews are probably performed by tenured academics, so if all of them refused to review for unethical venues, it would have a lot of impact. I don't think unethical venues would survive if only non-tenured researchers published there.
I completely disagree. Not only is it a requirement for websites to present the content (if not in a pretty way at least a readable way), it is also practically a requirement for a search engine to index you and it may also be a legal requirement for your support of differently able visitors.

I also have a pet peeve about websites that enforce very small fonts/padding/other things which should be tweakable by user style sheets for improved visibility.