skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Sheesh. I see so many anecdotes about people being liberated by removing social media, as if they're heroin addicts starting their journey to recovery. I think someone just needs to say it: have some damn discipline.

I think that's what this person was doing when she deleted them altogether. Her compulsive behavior made her realize how pointless 99% of social media is.
> Evidence and logic were valued; appeals to traditional sources of authority were not.

I'm not a member of either major party, but I'm tired of people labeling the left as the party of 'logic and reason' and the right as the party of stubborn, mindless tradition. Both party platforms are bent to suit political whims, so ultimately, both parties are laughably contradictory in their values.

There's plenty of rational reason on the right. If you don't agree, read Thomas Sowell and I bet you'll be forced to reconsider.

As a side note, why the hell can't I copy text from the article? Very annoying. Had to search for text in the developer console just to copy the quote above.
I have recently created an account, having resisted up until now with the excuse that my son, then a teenager, said that it was "creepy" when persons of my generation were on Facebook. He informs me, however, that persons his age are leaving Facebook in favor of SnapChat and Instagram.

(I have so far spent all my Facebook time looking into what would be required to use its OAuth functions.)
Java/JWM interop was a good starting point to make corporate adoption easier and Scala was/is pretty successful with that strategy. However, in my opinion, Scala developers are not necessarily interested in Java and see it more as the necessary evil.
Question: what kind of frameworks can be practically migrated to Scala Native?
I don't know russian, but in croatian which is somewhat similar adding pre to infront of the word makes it stronger, does not change meaning. Like too beautiful or as beautiful as it could get. Though in russian it could be different. (edit or even more beautiful than it is allowed/expected/needed)
Well, it makes a lot more sense from Facebook's perspective. They get a bit of control over people's browsing habits and most importantly, tons of browsing and behavioral data.
Yeap. There's some research that suggests the unconscious mind is better at making complex decisions then the conscious mind. [1][2]

"Thinking hard about a complex decision that rests on multiple factors appears to bamboozle the conscious mind so that people only consider a subset of information, which they weight inappropriately, resulting in an unsatisfactory choice. In contrast, the unconscious mind appears able to ponder over all the information and produce a decision that most people remain satisfied with" [1]

[1] https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn8732-sleeping-on-it-b...
[2]http://people.hss.caltech.edu/~steve/rightchoice.pdf
> In the kind of "digital physics" where you have a fixed grid it would be possible to create a truly perfect square

Discretization is not really the problem: you instead have to fix the definite position and momentum of the microscopic components of the square such that all the parts of it stay in place relative to one another and to the total arrangement of the shape they collectively form.

Switching to a taxicab geometry doesn't change the tendency of matter to move around; it only defines the points in which matter might be found in principle, and where it can never be found, ever.

In effect, the dynamism of spacetime is a red herring (we have difficulties building ideal spheres in flat space, theoretically speaking), and spacetime geometry (in the sense of minimal lengths vs infinite differentiability) is at best a marginal contribution to the problem.

While Lorentz invariance is essentially what blocks the quantization of energy, you can still have a discretized spacetime that preserves Lorentz invariance. One broad approach to that involves a Lorentz contraction on the spacings between the allowed points, so that observers may disagree on the lengths of objects marked off in Cartesian coordinates on the fundamental lattice spacings. In particular, even in the absence of gravitation, one observer will conclude a small object has a definite lattice length while a generic accelerated observer (and at least some boosted observers) will conclude that the same small object's length is in superposition.

Additionally, one may quantize lengths and times as in a Snyder spacetime, and still recover Lorentz invariance (or at the very least do away with preferred frames; things are tricky where boosts are high and ultimately it is likely impossible to recover the Lorentz subgroup in its entirety) in a quite natural fit with a deformation of Special Relativity.

Unfortunately we still have GR with its strong successes and several viable models which have minimum length scales. So at least at the energy limits we have access to now, we can't really make a concrete choice about which better describes our universe. In part that's because almost all these minimal-length theories are carefully designed to reproduce General Relativity in some limit because of its strong successes.
Kanth, like many, senses that a global financial crisis, or some other equivalent catastrophe, like war or natural disaster, may soon produce painful and seismic economic and political disruptions.

"many" "some" "like/or" "may" "soon"

That's about the safest prediction I've ever seen; whatever discontinuity the future brings Kanth and his "many" are right!

And no, the Western world is not a failure because Trump got elected. Calm yourself. A little push back on the Progressive Project (tm) isn't the end of the world. The truth is that if you could find some way to tolerate not overwhelming your precariat with foreigners you could have your way for the foreseeable future, unchallenged. But what good is power if you can't inflict "our values" on the plebs, right?
Instead of a binary yes/no decision, the various positions of the i ching means you have a wider range of "oracular" output - 64 hexagrams to be exact.
Agreed. Revoking all user sessions instead of a specific token is the common case. The only usage I see for revoking a specific token is when the user is deactivating a specific client.
I see that in most of the first world countries 'self'made' is a very incorrectly used word, no one can be completely 'self-made'
I'm only replying because you solicited thoughts. I think you dislike Facebook, and would love for it to be sued/ruled a monopoly/forced to break up. I think people are quite aware of exactly how big a fish they are, and that they are nothing compared to what Microsoft used to be.

More importantly, you could buy a computer and phone and live without Facebook (or Instagram. My life would be poorer without Whatsapp though).
Can you please elaborate on your first point, or provide a few examples of reasons that academia tends toward liberal group think?
Do you think your brain works well? Try this 45 seconds test and get surprised
Moore's law will come to a end but as with other paradigms with computers when one ends another one starts and they continue to advance at a faster exponential rate.
Yes many different types:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_blood_group_systems#Bloo...

And organ transplantation has demanded an even greater understanding of tissue compatibility than blood transfusions.
no its not. its painful every day. when my alarm rings, i'd rather not get up and my brain comes up with a million reasons about why I should really not get up. just like everyone else.

the trick is to accept that life is not about comfort. when you get out of your comfort zone and do things that make you feel uneasy, you feel a lot more alive, though. you have to force it hard for 3 weeks. then you're hooked.
Google Fred Update – Massive Ranking Fluctuations
"No Country For Old Men" also comes to mind
House Reps introduced a bill to let telecoms sell your personal internet history
I think first past the post voting makes people vote for parties whom they only agree with on a few large issues out of a huge platform. People then spend a lot of time rationalizing their vote by reading/digesting opinions from their in-group, slowly transforming into a straight-line party voter.
> Enables Meanness

Now that's an understatement, if I ever saw one. I'd call it more of a "stand underneath a waterfall of sewage".
What exactly would be regulated?
You may as well ask:

"Why are parish school students so Christian". This is not to say that they viscerally believe in these qualities... oh nooo. It's just that if you want to play the game, you optimize for the environment (I may have picked that up from Alan Watts). Simple RL really.

Idiots, and loudmouths, on the other hand will get ostracized and have pots broken over their heads; one shouldn't be surprised if something one writes on a public forum will get one fired from school/work (may have happened to the younger me once). This is not the depressing thing though - no the depressing thing is that the rules of the game are never explained clearly. In this sense, the Western liberal dogma is essentially the Christian one of grovelling expiation. You know... one can be as bad in action, but words and "belief", expressed tirelessly over and over, are key to salvation [1]. Terrible, terrible messaging to the naive younglings.

This probably explains why some (generally poor) idiots in the Midwest send tons of money to "harvest Asia in the name of Christ" (well atleast to those in power), while jumping up an down to keep these "loved" people away from their neighborhood. Then there is the New Age movement, "meditating" and "yoga-ing" for "peace" "health" and "environment" (and lots of greens), while showing total disdain for the path [2]... Namast.. No, fk you!

All this facade gets really really tiring.

[1] The laity in much of Asia believe in very similar things to be fair... although they don't get bonked on the head with a book everytime they are out of line.

[2]　acharya: "Guru" lit. he who walks the path
Facebook has the advantage that its users connect themselves with their friends, colleagues, and relatives. The users also give Facebook nearly all data about themselves (full name, phone number, date of birth, mother, father, etc.). People organize their events and talk about everything related to their lives. Facebook also provides their newsfeed and can track what they click and, most importantly, like.

Unless you have a Gmail or a Google+ account Google has to guess. Google can guess pretty well but they still have to guess instead of just know. You search for something on Google and then go there. Facebook keeps you on its site and encourages you to comment on Facebook which then incentivizes others to stay on Facebook, too.
Remastering the Beatles Live Album Using Matlab
Technically, a stalemate is a draw and the 50 move rule is a different way to get a draw.
Yeh I'm not sure why this is even a thing. I thought everyone knew that algorithm at this point? Hell, I'm using the same thing on a couple projects.
Not an expert, but as secret stuff gets leaked it tends to create huge public discourse and leads to political action.

Knowledge about their actions does seem to have an effect on the country. Secret service staff would probably not necessarily evaluate it as a good effect though.
Exactly. That's the value of the coin-toss: the fleeting moment the coin is spinning in the air can be an incredible forcing function for revealing your preferences.
If both work, and the one interpretation overlaps and is an international standard, who cares?
That's almost seven years out of date. The algorithm has changed significantly since then.

Example: Flags affect a story's position, but that algorithm doesn't mention flags at all.
Boom GC is a dependency
Makes me wonder if this will change soon. I mean, look at the whole 'alt-right' thing, the readership on sites like Breitbart, The Donald subreddit, etc. They're not made up of older folk with religious tendencies any more, but young college students/graduates posting memes on social media sites.

I think it's quite possible we could see highly educated people become more conservative in the foreseeable future. Especially with all the comments about protests and social media shaming and crazy professors...
Mixpanel opens up about extending the option exercise period
It's impossible for me to believe that a person who can hand roll a file encryption tool in C, who knows how to use LUKS and signed git tags, who knows about ChaCha20 and HMAC-SHA256, didn't understand the results of a google search for "linux encrypt files". Did he have a seizure right after hitting enter in the google search box, inadvertently close the browser window, and then wake up and forget having done the search?

Did he not search at all? Did he search only in his own bellybutton and find nothing but lint and a few old pennies? Or did his own cognitive dissonance just keep him from admitting to being trapped in a massive NIH black hole?
Saying he found nothing is being dishonest because he either didn't bother looking in the first place or he ignored what he found.
I was confused about libsodium/NaCl APIs, specifically crypto_sign vs crypto_auth. The difference:

1. `crypto_auth` is for secret-key signatures (auth): https://download.libsodium.org/doc/secret-key_cryptography/s...

2. `crypto_sign` is for public-key signatures: https://download.libsodium.org/doc/public-key_cryptography/p...

And tptacek is arguing secret (symmetric) key is preferable: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13866983
There's some interesting ideas here. The suggestion that the Enlightenment may have erased several millenia of human wisdom is interesting - it's reminiscent of coming across a piece of legacy code, erasing it, and starting over. After you work out all the edge cases, your "clean" code starts to have a lot of the same stuff as the code you erased.

I also found the criticisms of economics interesting. Other than micro-economics laws like supply, demand, division of labor and others, I've never read an economic theory that didn't have some hand-wavy aspect to it. The suggestion that the entire field has served more to dehumanize us than add to our general understanding of scarce resource distribution is a valid point to raise. Though I felt like Adam Smith was the wrong person to place the blame on, if blame need be placed. If they're suggesting that the field hasn't advanced our understanding much past the basics, then why blame the person who best crystalized the basics?

There's clearly some controversial stuff in here that's meant to be controversial, but if you can look past that, there's some unique ideas.
It'll be interesting to see if he tries.

My impression is that he has the charisma of a loaf of bread and won't do real well in politics.
I can already tell this is more "heavy weight" than JS fiddle but also similar.

Is there a reason I can't make something private to view? Is that a paid feature that will come later?

Sometimes I just want to play around and don't want people to know how silly my code is and then hold it against me as a person.
To the extent that a human is otherwise deterministic, a coin toss is too.

You have plenty of noise in the inputs that determine your actions by way of brain, even without coins, but it's still the state of your brain + those inputs that determine the next state of your brain and therefore your actions.
Mostly true..if you have to support a network of dealerships and can't get 30% gross on each car you sell (TSLA).

EV sales are currently less than 1% of total sales volume. But the fastest growing segment.
Good point. I wish we knew how to convince vendors to use secure defaults and actually care about their users' security. Public shaming seems to be one way that's working, so thanks for the post! :)
The review makes it sound as if nobody else pointed out the interwovenness of "the" Enlightenment, capitalism and increasingly isolated, individualist modern societies. Yet, while they might fall under the category of "Utopia" which are supposedly not needed, these points have been investigated extensively (and rather famously) by people like Adorno & Horkheimer in their "Dialektik der Aufklärung" (Dialect of Enlightenment) and their individual works, in various essays within Marcuse's "Kultur & Gesellschaft", in Deleuze/Guattari's L'anti-Œdipe (Anti-Oedipus) as well as many similar scholars that can be described perhaps most broadly as successors to the "Left-Hegelians", among whom especially Feuerbach and Marx also stand out in their respective appraisals of a capitalist, utilitarian society and the heritage of christianity, respectively.

When it comes to "huddling", Heidegger's "Sein & Zeit" (Being & Time) at the very latest emphasised the importance of being-in-the-world and being-with-others, rendering being entirely social (and this is despite the fact that the book remained, in essence, a fragment). Similarly, Wittgenstein's "Philosophischen Untersuchungen" (Philosophical Investigations) also highlights the shared nature of language games and the importance of society when he ponders the overall possibility whether private language(s) can exist. In doing so, both remain thoroughly wed to the modern world and do not harken back to a "simple society" or some such.

However, this list seems to suggest a different bias by describing the Western World chiefly as one designed by Smith & Hobbes, leaning on a relatively narrowly defined notion of anglophone philosophy to define the status quo as a direct consequence of the Enlightenment. It also betrays a fairly narrow focus on the US, since, as one comment on the site itself rightfully asks, this fails to account for developments such as the modern welfare state in various places outside the US, which would have to be impossible for a strictly isolated and/or egoistic society that forgot the importance of living together. And while the review off-handendly discounts both capitalism and communism, it fails to account for any of the real-world examples of societies located somewhere between these two polar opposites, as these social contracts seem to fulfil exactly the kind of "moral economy" that seems to be at play. That said,because these countries, in turn, face their own turmoil and challenges, this would seemingly get us back to where we started, except that we would already have gotten rid of an overly simplistic dichotomy that seems to have Smith and Lenin as their respective strawmen-come-cornerstone. In that case, however, we're faced with an interesting conundrum: If neither capitalism nor communism is the right answer, and if seemingly moderated in-between states face similar challenges, what exactly does the book advocate that is not yet another utopia that somehow safeguards the individual's freedom while also including it in a network of social interaction, responsibility and mutual assistance without being like any of the discounted examples or extremes?
Agreed. An example where a human easily finds a win while a computer fails would be much more convincing of the point Penrose is trying to make.

Anyway this position reminds me of the fact that if there is any kind of situation where computers struggle it's exactly these kinds : where everything is closed apart from a few pieces. IIRC that was exploited by grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura few years ago for his handicap match against chess engine Komodo.
I use FocusWriter[1]. http://i.imgur.com/uKVODsM.png

It requires a little bit of config as the default appearance is a bit bleh but if I have to do any kind of long form writing I reach for it straight away.

The font I use is "FS Me", it was designed in partnership with Mencap for legibility for people with learning disabilities[2] which doesn't apply to me (though some people might argue otherwise) but I've found it to be incredibly easy on the eye for long periods.

[1] https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/
[2] http://i.imgur.com/uKVODsM.png
Hi! Sorry for the very late reply, there's been a lot of interest and I haven't had time t get back to everyone yet.

I'm very surprised to hear about the behavior you ran into with the loading messages on top of each other -- we haven't run into this issue in the native client yet (I don't think). If you're interested, I think a GitHub issue may be best so that I can have a reminder to look into this later on this week.
Easy interop with C++ or Rust? I'll believe it when I see it.
And all this striving towards Chekhov's idea of cultured allows one to achieve what? I'd venture that for most it would amount to smugly patting themselves on the back for having achieved such a fine state of serenity. If this version of cultured means just another way to feel superior to others, I'm happy to be uncultured.
my phone can be turned off. when it annoys me, I turn it off.
Or rather, who does it best serve to perpetuate such a polarized form of political identity?
Experimental Blimp Autopilot Test Flight with Raspberry Pi and Emlid Navio2
I can make an attempt at an alternative:

Distribute signing and encryption keys to all servers. Have them encrypt and sign the outgoing serialized token, whatever that consists of. Have them verify and decrypt the incoming token. This is just straight-forward cryptography, with keys known only to the server, so I'm pretty sure you won't get any arguments from (1). (And, I suppose the encryption could even be skipped, if you don't care that the internal format of the token is known.)

Emergency revocation of all tokens [0] is simply rotating the signing key. All tokens issued prior to the rotation will fail verification with the new key. That should trigger the authentication process, which will issue a new token with the updated key. This solves the revocation issue present in argument (2).

[0] Any other form of revocation is, in my opinion, not distinguishable from having server-side state. If you have to keep a list of bad tokens, why not just keep a list of the good tokens instead... And then it's only a short hop to the token being nothing but a key to lookup the full session state on the server.
I can't find it since I'm at work right now but Jonathan Haidt has some great work on this. Liberal group think is present, but only really dominates the social sciences/humanities. But in these fields liberal group think has increasingly dominated since 2000. He has some stuff on departments going from 3:1 liberal:conservative to more like 10:1.
The downside being that the browser will attach it to every request; if you use cookies, you MUST be aware of this, or you are (IMO) pretty much guaranteed to write a CSRF vuln.

(I'm much more in the localStorage + Authorization header for this reason. I recommend [1] for reading. If malicious JS is running, cookies won't save you, since the malicious JS is capable of simply making the request itself, to which the cookie will automatically be attached by the browser. localStorage+JS eliminates CSRF. If someone XSS's you, the difference is irrelevant.)

[1]: http://blog.portswigger.net/2016/05/web-storage-lesser-evil-...
Working with MediaWiki 2nd edition published – now freely available online
What do you think happen with all hybrid platforms ? I.e react native, Cordova, ionic , other , they all load js assets remotely.

Even w/o hybrid platform, developers today are loading js assets remotely, and basically inject new code - All THE TIME.

what Apple did is just flagging the ones that are most upfront about it, but everyone can do it, hence the rollout suggestion IMHO
Dissecting Reinforcement Learning Part.5 – Genetic Algorithms
Interesting, it took me reading the comments to realize the board orientation vs the piece movement. Like many people the fact that the black bishops are basically unable to attack anything stands out, and given the orientation that none of blacks other pieces can move. Once you see those two things, the solution does just pop out.