skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. This is by far my most highly rated post on hacker news.

I want to clarify that this is utter bullshit, and that I don't actually do this. Well, most of this. I have easier ways of working from home. Like, I put an event on my boss's calendar that says I'm working from home.

And I hate umbrellas. I fucking hate them. If you live in New York City and you use an umbrella, I want you to go home and die right now.

You have no idea of the space that you are taking up with those things. You have no respect for your fellow humans. I hate you. And I don't want to live in this world with you.

Get a little wet. Don't stab me in the eyeball with your stupid, incompetent umbrella that you aren't paying attention to.

I have a little note next to my door that says: don't take the umbrella--It's a jackass thing to do.

Guess what happens. I never take the umbrella. The tomatoes thing was a joke, for those of you who missed it.
> I grew up eating crabs and lobsters weekly and it didn't kill me.

You don't know yet what is gonna kill you. You might get a stroke tomorrow caused in some part by doing those things. That is essentially why living healthy is a thing, and why the number one cause of human death in the world is bad eating habits and not old-age.
It's not believable that the Israelis would risk an expensive new plane only days into testing on missions. The only "source" is a French journalists, and numerous other experts have expressed substantial doubt about his story.
Could you elaborate on what these features are? Personally I'm a fan of FF mobile.
Farmed salmon is really fucked up. We used to catch ones which broke out from freshwater farms (mostly accidentally) and depending on the time of year the flesh would be grey (they feed dyed meal before they go to market) and they all had weird extra fins and deformities..

I'll eat it, I know where it comes from at least though.
You mean just using javac -sourcepath is too hard?
It's a Berkeleyism. It's not TCP, it's old Berkeley Sockets semantics. [...] Linux does support it, with the "shutdown(2)" call.

The shutdown(2) system call was added to BSD on January 8th, 1983: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/csrg?view=revision&revision=10208

So... Berkeley Sockets supported this a bit more than 8 years before Linux even existed. This is totally not a Berkeley Sockets problem.
The calculation is likely that users do not participate as much if you increase the cognitive friction involved in performing an action. Having to select an explanation for the vote is absolutely a much heftier problem than just expressing the sentiment.

The issue is probably less in the interface presented to users and more in the way the backend accounts/tallies scores, and then uses that data to determine the placement of the content.

The "direct democracy" approach of just taking the raw counts and sending them through a pre-set formula results in groupthink and echo chambers, we know that. As you know, Slashdot's saving grace was not that they required posters to say "Insightful!", but that there was reasonable human curation supervising the system.

Reddit takes a laissez-faire approach to moderating content, leaving it in the hands of subreddit moderators, and afaik does not attempt to modify non-spam vote counts (except for a few exceptional subreddits).

While you could definitely write more objective algorithms for ranking content, the question is really "Content is better according to whom?" Because the fact is that most people do not want to hear from the other side. You will not have a successful community where one story is "Vote for Trump" and another is "Vote for Clinton". You will have factions that try to tear each other apart (reddit is also an example of this, but not because the ranking is trying to be fair).

Not only do most people not want to be "open-minded", aka "experience and suppress cognitive dissonance until it's rationally justified", most people are frankly incapable of doing so. They do not subscribe to the FB pages of both Local Dems and Local Reps because they like to know both sides of the issue. They subscribe to one or the other, or neither, because they've selected a tribe and completely intend to stay with it. Information contradicting or deriding their tribe is a vexation, and they won't tolerate it.

The implication for content ranking is that if you want an intelligent ranking system for interesting, challenging, or in-depth discussion, you want something completely different from what the public demands.

And that really gets at the crux of this whole issue. We look at "native ads" promoting fake dating sites, penis enlargement pills, and gambling, and we scoff. These work because many other people don't scoff, they say "Yes, I want sex and money" (and who can really blame them?). While they may be socialized to be embarrassed about it, they take advantage of the privacy the internet offers them and click anyway.

Now the question is, you have a business that has to make money. Like it or not, which market is the better target? The discretionary, measured, judicious reader, or the person who will impulsively click through to a site promising him an elongated penis?
Thanks - it's hard to be on alert when it's the 2nd here. I hope it isn't a joke.
Things that happen at a lock-picking convention (2013)
From what I understand, it isn't really anonymous. People who care, know who the writers for each country are. At one point I knew who covered each country in the middle east, I've since lost interest / forgot, but it was openly discussed in media forums.
Probably related to the second exploit which used apply.
The explanation started off with occam's razor: it's tradition. Then morphed into occam's butterknife: some complicated rationalization.
I will echo one of my favorite comments on this site: "Left of whom, Darth Vader?"
Well, not to get too off topic but this argument never really resonated with me. I'm either going to die suddenly/instantly in some accident (or otherwise in some situation like this stroke where I don't knowing it's coming) or I'll contract cancer or some other miserable thing that'll off me slowly in which case I'll die by suicide.

Should I avoid nice things to get an extra 10 years when I'm 70? Not this cat, but I don't judge anyone for feeling different.
We are destroying the planet
It's certainly an argument for minimising human space flight (e.g. don't use manned flights for routine events / keep a minimal crew by placing the craft under computer control), but not eliminating it entirely:

* Manned space flight, e.g. putting a man on Mars, is going to catch the public's attention more than unmanned flight, and IMO anything which helps popularise the sciences is generally a good thing.

* Human space flight is a goal in itself. People have been exploring the Earth for centuries despite the risks, so exploring space (in person) is just an extension of that. There also may come a time where living off-planet may be necessary, or at least desirable, so having the knowledge to do so may be useful.
Wow, and I still remember how captivating the intro cutscene music was in KQIV!
It's really not that clear. Vegetarians live longer, but that probably means we should all live like them, not eat like them: they tend to smoke less, get more exercise, and (because they tend to be better educated and wealthier) have better healthcare and even social lives. Smoking is pretty easy to correct for, but then these vegetarians all run off, work in soup kitchens, and get flooded with endorphins from the joy of altruism, and physical exertion. Try measuring that!

If I had to summarise what I remember from when I studied something related, I'd say your best bet is to eat (a) small amounts of (b) mostly white meat.

(a) is pretty obvious: a bit of meat on occasion is enough to ward off any possible malnutrition. If you don't go fully vegan the risk isn't high, but neither is any negative effect the meat may have.

(b) is probably more controversial, but contrary to what a certain crowd has been hyping, it seems like the evidence against red meat is still ahead. More in regards to cancer, a little less for cardiovascular diseases. The mechanisms aren't clear: Harald zur Hausen (Nobel for HPV) thinks it's viruses from undercooked red meat and only eats it well-done. Cholesterol is more of a symptom than a cause...etc.
git pull doesn't take just a few a seconds on huge repos. Pulling down a ~day's worth of changes takes several minutes in ours.
When you have a life span of ~35 years, hey, eat all the meat and dairy you like.
I will agree there is a lot of market hype on that page, but I went to the page after reading the comments expecting to read nothing but buzz words without a clear idea of what the AI does, but I think Adobe is fairly clear on the intended use cases - automating the already existing tools across the majority of the Adobe product line, such as OCR, Automatic PDF creation, Content Aware for photoshop, and so on.

The idea is that their cloud offering is now backed by the AI to include tons of AI pony tricks, like emotional analysis of writing or digitizing physical copies of data.

Now, that being said, maybe I'm misunderstanding, but it seems like they're just throwing as much CPU behind their AI, setting it up on Adobe Cloud, and then letting it handle the tedium of the most common and time consuming tasks. But I maybe I'm wrong. The examples for each section though seem pretty straight forward - let AI do what you can already do with Adobe products, but the AI can do it automatically on upload instead of a user scrolling through a hi-res scan or taking the time to shop people or wires out of photos.
Adobe has another page about this that is slightly more concrete.

https://www.adobe.io/apis/cloudplatform/sensei.html
The Economist articles often provide opinions. By being anonymous there is also none of the public/social shaming that goes on, like what happens with Peter Thiel.
It is similar with the product we are developing. When I need to explain to the user how some feature is used, I often end up redesigning said feature so that explaining should not be needed. Makes for a much better UX. :)
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> saturated fat

American Heart Association made some recommendations like this in the 90s that caused everybody binge on carbs and weigh 300lbs.

Recent studies (http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/early/2010/01/13/ajcn.2009... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9635993 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19364995) failed to find ill effects from saturated fats. (Trans fats are another story.)

> hormones

It's been years, and we're still waiting for any actual evidence on this one. If it concerns you, there is hormone-free meat, just there there are pesticide-free veggies.

> cholesterol

Scientific consensus is that eating cholesterol has zero effect on cholesterol levels, since the body regulates production of it anyway.

> Livestock are fed B12 (and other stuff) which is why it's prevelant in meat as it is.

True, though cows, sheep, goats, deer, etc. naturally produce B12 themselves (or more accurately, their bacteria do).

> getting B12 through meat where you also get all kinds of bad stuff sounds illogical instead of just taking a vitamin pill.

It seems a little bit of red flag if a diet is deficient enough that you need pills to compensate, but I have no opposition to them per se. I take multi-vitamins now and then.

I didn't make a comprehensive list of meat's better-than-average nutrients (e.g. iron comes to mind). Can you get the same nutrients without meat? Yes, it's possible. On the other hand, there's a reason humans are omnivores, even if we like to pretend they're not.
Bluntly, no. Laypeople are not the intended audience for scientific papers and usually lack the background to provide an informed review (hell, even most researchers in the field do). They do lack certain biases and incentives that researchers familiar with the topic usually have, but that doesn't compensate for what they don't know (for example, whether the claimed phenomenon has been tested many other times and not shown up; whether the claimed mechanism is bunk; whether the supposedly novel idea has already been published many other times).

That being said, laypeople can (and should) absolutely call out research malpractice like what's described in the article.
The American author Michael Lewis has criticised the magazine's editorial anonymity, labelling it a means to hide the youth and inexperience of those writing articles. See https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/1991/10/-quot...
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Bittersweet story of Heinmans scientist sister
The page explicitly says:
"Note: The vm module is not a security mechanism. Do not use it to run untrusted code."

https://nodejs.org/api/vm.html#vm_vm_executing_javascript
I have to wonder if something like this exchange ever occurred:

"I named it Roland because I wanted it to sound the same in other languages..."

"But, but... English speakers read it as Roland. Japanese speakers read it as rorando."

"Yes, exactly. Same thing."
Best smoked fish in the entire world (they deliver globally) google the Hebridean smoke house.

(This ruined smoked salmon for me, I guarantee they won't disappoint however be warned you can't uneat it and you can't go back...)

Give it a go.
Though the docs pretty clearly state "Note: The vm module is not a security mechanism. Do not use it to run untrusted code."
Point out to her that her (and your) customers are not the people who are getting Adobe products and doing their own design work. The people who will take advantage of the new tools that freak her out are mostly people who are already doing it, they're just not doing it as well.

Her customers are the people who want someone to "make this work" and who don't want to mess with it themselves any more than they want to buy a big chest of tools and do their own vehicle maintenance.

Her customers are not the skilled amateurs now getting better tools. Her customers are the business people who already have too many things to do and aren't looking for ANOTHER project to add to their plates.

edit: minor phrasing
The Guardian article links to the paper, which has this in the introduction:

Relative risks (RRs) were estimated by Cox regression,
stratified by sex and recruitment protocol and adjusted
for age, smoking, alcohol, body mass index, physical
activity level and, for women only, parity and oral
contraceptive use.

I wouldn't disagree that there's still a lot of uncertainty, but at least for cancer, I'd bet on a small but significant effect. Anyway: what is pretty much proven is that living like a vegetarian is quite beneficial. You can probably even continue eating meat.

(One possibly life-prolonging behaviour observed more in vegetarians: not considering the Guardian to be a 'sensationalist' newspaper)
The point wasn't that they couldn't attack ones enemy, it was that they had become vulnerable to attack. The reason they could be used for bombardment was that air superiority had been claimed by carrier based aircraft. I don't recall ever reading of battleships being used for air defence. Have you a source? Smaller ships certainly were but big, slow firing guns that can't point upwards seems like a pointless and wasteful accessory on a huge target.
It's hard to take something like this seriously when it spends 3 (large) paragraphs scare mongering about the fact that fish "may" contain plastics, only to end with:

>> Even though current research shows we do not absorb most plastics, it’s possible that a small amount (about 1 percent) can still accumulate in our bodies over time.
That number might change: research on microplastics in our food is still in its infancy, and while some studies have documented the detrimental effects of plastics on fish and other aquatic animals, we still don’t know much about their long-term effects on humans.

So, all current scientific evidence points to this not being a problem. But it _might_ _maybe_ _someday_!

edit - I've also never heard of any food safety guidelines that specify different storage temperatures for different species of fish. The whole thing is pretty suspect.
Labeling is a major issue for all products, but I have to say, I think he'd stop eating everything else he's eating if he was also a scientist in touch with their production.

The food we eat is mass produced, we should assume very low quality and environmental sustainability.

Now, should I stop eating fish? Nothing was proven a health concern, what's the effect of the small plastic I'll ingest through fish?

Most studies I've seen on health correlate healthy individuals with eating fish. Now, those are probably a few years or decade old, is fish worse today? I think it's still inconclusive.
Having Linux as dom0 is just a matter of convenience for the Xen project not to write everything themselves, they could eventually get rid of it.

The point of the paper is that an hypervisor behaves just like a mikrokernel, with guest systems running exactly the same way as applications would do on a mikrokernel OS.
I try to explain my motivation behind change in commit log and avoid technical details myself.

But I have another checkpoint. I always diff the code and review it as if I had to show it to a reviewer. If I need to explain something, it should be made better.
I know they have research groups like ARPA back in the day that gave us the internet we know and love from ARPAnet. But they really do need a startup like mentality with smaller teams inside to come up with competing ideas.

Defense contractors probably have something like this internally and that may be why they won out over bureaucracy, but that then leads to companies blaming one another for changes/scope/spec problems. Prototypes probably aren't focused on enough to shake out issues early on and throughout.

Or maybe do more x-prize type events for skunkworks starting and recruiting. Self-driving cars really came from this with the DARPA Grand Challenge.

With DARPA like challenges, as a side benefit, ideas can both be military and commercially available and it helps people understand that military funds aren't just for blowing things up but lots of great tech come from it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge
Lots die suddenly from strokes and heart attacks (and other diet-related stuff) in their 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s too. I get it when you're 70, but when there's a real chance of it happening already at 30 and increasingly from that point. That realization is what made me switch my unhealthy habits out what healthy ones that I've come to enjoy just as much if not even more since I'm now also much healthier and can enjoy much more cool stuff that I couldn't before.

Said another way: if food is your measure of happiness in life, you should branch out and try something other than eating, and even then, food is not good because there is meat in it. A good dish is a good dish in any case, and there are thousands of good dishes containing no animal products what so ever.
Plus they have an online directory of their editorial staff and correspondents.

http://mediadirectory.economist.com/
Honestly I'm so tired of the latest "hey, there's potentially nasty-sounding stuff in common food category that could possibly do vague bad things under vague unspecified circumstance, so stop eating it!"

From all the blogs about various pesticides, pollution, feed issues, animal cruelty, we might as well just go back to sustenance farming and grow/raise our own... oh wait we can't do that because fracking and industrial soil pollution! You can't trust your back yard! /rolls eyes

So much of online "health advice" is a series of micro-optimizations at best.
No problems chrome / Android here
No, Cliff is very real, I used to live a block away
So finally I can remove the static tunnel to be able to update from codeplex repos on Linux. A nightmare
Because it's not a correction. An important part of what I was trying to say in my actual comment is that one should consider that there might be nothing to correct. In my version, I've conveyed my initial reaction as a point of reference in case that's something they wish to avoid in the future, and then that I discovered I was wrong.

I suspect readings of it in a negative light are because of the context of the current conversation. Otherwise, I'm not sure how something that is essentially "at first I was confused and thought you were wrong, but then I found out I was the one that was wrong" is supposed to be taken negatively.
"CS riddles" test exactly what they're meant to.
I get that but there has to be a balance. Both Brian Williams and Judith Miller were in my opinion justifiably held to account for their false reporting and I believe that helped improve the fact-checking in those news organizations. Sometimes reading the Economist, the articles come across as downright condescending
Right! How many places did you work that made you vow to never use after seeing behind the curtain?

We live in happy ignorance of the horrible shit in most of our food but we have pretty reasonable controls that none of it is complete poison.
The premise being old and experienced authors can't make mistakes.
probably it would steam at cruising speed and ram through the wooden ships for days while conserving it's main guns.. I'm pretty sure a cannon ball wouldn't penetrate the armor of a battleship
I actually read that article from a link here a few days ago or so. It does seem to be the case that even without the political situation, it would be tough to cancel in that we need a new generation of fighter and it would take too long to start a new program from scratch now. I guess we have to make the best of what we have with the F-35.
Yeah, very evocative.

Being not-very-emotional, I always figured that "they grow up too fast" wouldn't hit me, but it has. There is so much more I wanted to provide my son (the oldest, age 7). I wish that I could just put his growth timeline on pause and continue to get to enjoy him, at least until I feel like I've gotten the TODO at least half-way cleared out.

7 years gone by, 7 more years and he'll be 14. Half of his childhood already slipped through the hourglass and I barely noticed it. Can't take it.

Same story with his siblings. It seems that no matter how much time you spend with them, it will always feel like it evaporated, and there will always be stuff you wanted to do but couldn't get to. I don't expect that to change, but the sadness in that slippage is profound.

I hope the future, where they're all old people, is somehow competitive with the present. Hard to conceive how that could happen right now.

Speaking of something in eyes...
Synchronizable abstractions for understandable concurrency
That was the norm then:

> The debate over the [US] Constitution ... was done almost entirely through pseudonyms. Most writers, on both sides of the question, chose to conceal their names from the public, as was the custom in the late eighteenth century. A free press, one of the most essential principles for the founding generation, was presumed to include a right to anonymity.

http://www.learnliberty.org/blog/anonymity-and-doxing-in-the...
Hacker News, obviously.
Out of curiosity, what "freedom" is that exactly?
Here's a really funny one: English speakers don't even notice the difference between 'th' in theater and 'th' in the. The sound is completely different, but unless the difference is pointed out, we never even notice it.

R and L are way more similar.
You are not handling the error, you are just returning it.

More correctly, you would decorate the error:

foo, err := bar()
if err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to do bar: %s", err)
}
Blacklists are a losing game. Always use a whitelist.
It's more hard sell. HN responds better to soft sell.