skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Anger, like false news, is cheap and easily digestible; it is the fast food of the indignant."

and

"Today, and especially today, as the threat of desensitization—and the accompanying seductions of detachment, outrage, revulsion, indignation, piety, and narcissism—looms over all our lives, we might need to ask ourselves the question that Chekhov asked himself in the spring of 1890: What will move me beyond this state of anesthesia? How will I counteract the lassitude that creeps over my soul?"

At first I was "withdrawing from engagement altogether," but now I find myself with more compassion and an urge to help myself and others move forward.
Windows 10 Security Internals [video]
What is the problem with fructose, do you think?
There was a renaissance of grassroots psychedelia in the overlapping hacker and rave culture of the 1990s. I miss that stuff.

Today's culture is disturbingly vapid. There is little in the way of either genuinely creative counterculture or mainstream high culture. The pop culture is five chord pop that all sounds the same and endless remakes of the same film, and geek and fringe culture seems full of low effort meme trash and mean spirited nihilism. It's not at all surprising that fascism has risen up in those festering swamps.

It reminds me of the eerie artistic anticlimax that served as a prelude to collapse in one of Lovecraft's stories about the history of a vanished elder race. "The Cursed City" I think. Like the old ones our art and culture reached a peak from the 60s to the 90s and then gave way to blobs scrawled in MS Paint.
In the past, diversified land holdings across many countries haven't been a great strategy, because they're too difficult for the foreign owner to hold on to politically and military. Land is expensive to protect.
Why did google dislike Nokia?
This brought parchive/par2 to mind; as I recall, given an index file, which you could keep separate, you could do a rolling scan for the recovery blocks and file blocks on the disk, even without the file system structure. Unfortunately, it sorta looks like that software hasn't been worked on in a while.
Our generation was locked down consuming TV. They can create Youtube channels and make other kinds of content.
And are getting it back with hybrid tablets and the new type of netbooks.

I seldom see Android devices on that category at local computer stores.
Why not both? For a computer class it seems better to give kids a Raspberry Pi or similar for messing around, without risking breaking the computer they rely on for homework. Plus they can use their other computer for looking up things on the Internet.

These days it seems like anyone messing with hardware should have more than one computer.
They'll never get it. They could really own the space and be a serious competitor to RedHat. Especially with all the self-driving car research and other real time tasks QNX would rock if it were open source.
Search Engines and Ethics
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Kids these days...
Social Networking and Ethics (2015)
> Similarly, the US is facing a grim truth that even it cannot maintain its entire massive infrastructure in the face of modern economic challenges...

The US could easily maintain its infrastructure; we just need to stop wasting our money on useless war equipnent. There are something like 2,000 tanks sitting in Arizona collecting dust for an outdated style of warfare. https://www.google.com/amp/www.military.com/daily-news/2014/...

Then on top of that we have the dumb F35 program, which is so clearly a waste of money as drones have become so much more important.

It's so frustrating that congress wastes all this money to line the pockets of the military industrial complex. This money would be better used by investing directly in the US infrastructure and supporting the economy.
Why would Google be a reliable source on whether Google does(n't) violate privacy laws and parents' privacy concerns? It has been shown in the past that they violated the 'Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act':

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/01/google-st...

They were also tracking students once they used Google services that were not covered by Google Apps for Education (which is kind of hard to avoid, since you have to sign in on a Chromebook):

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/10/google-changes-its-tun...
How did you get the .edu domain?
But IIRC, the standard library doesn't offer any support for sessions, i.e. signed cookies. That's kind of mind boggling to me. How common are web services without any kinds of sessions?

These sorts of omissions make me question what the language authors are even doing with the language if they haven't come across that need. Or maybe they just didn't share their solutions.

I have more:

Password generation. I come across that need very often in the type of stuff I do. It's pretty trivial to implement (at least something that works without considering performance), but why is this sort of stuff not included in the standard library (Python doesn't have anything either IIRC)?

Unique identifiers. Go doesn't have a library for UUID's in the standard library. I want to generate UID's for logging so I can group separate log lines into a single request (so something "fast" and doesn't have to be 100% guaranteed unique). Would have to use something 3rd party.
This is amazing! But I only see payment settings for US and UK users, can users from other countries use the service?
Why wouldn't they have that information easily available on file then? Why the whole detaining process for 4 hours when it should have been something easily checked?
Apples are an interesting case though, since they don't breed true at all. What happens is that lots of trees are allowed to grow from promising parent stock and then occasionally a new marketable apple is discovered. That tree is then cloned by grafting cuttings to established roots.

Fuji and Gala are quite sweet, but they also stay quite crisp a long time compared to older varieties, so it isn't just sugar content. Same with Granny Smith, which are popular because they are relatively tart (while still being fairly sweet for apples).
Thank you, at least one other voice of reason in the comments. People just don't get it: a hamburger will spike insulin more than a whole can of soda. Fruit juice doesn't do that nearly as much. It is healthy, or at least, way healthier than the standard American diet.
It metabolises to fat in your liver if you consume more than a tiny portion of it.
If you add a Buy It Now option (which I've done a few times), it costs you 50p upfront, and it disappears as soon as the first bid is placed.

It's just a waste of money unless you get really lucky and it sells before anybody places a bid.
Cool. I know some folks in Taiwan who would be very interested in this sort of thing. If you ever come through this way, I'm happy to show you around! Understood that your consulting work pays more and takes priority. Still crossing my fingers for part 2 tho :-D
Obviously this is a situation that has been central to mankind's situation for centuries: people who know only one book -or collection of books- very well, even able to quote directly from it, who think they thus know the truth and answers to all questions. Thus, they feel confident enough to ignore the rest of the published works of mankind, including the discoveris of science.
Oh God, this is brilliant. Thanks for the bookmark !
My netbook Eee PC manages 5h.
They probably meant cyberpunk, since they mentioned the combination of techology and social impact.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk
> How do you think Objective C would perform if every operator was a dynamic method call as it is in Ruby?

Depends very much on what you mean with "every": the 97:3 rule applies, and is almost certainly even more highly skewed today[1]. So for the vast majority of code, it wouldn't matter. Correction: doesn't matter. For example, Apple's Swift language produces code that is incredibly slow when non-optimized, loops and the like can easily be 1000x (a thousand times!) slower than optimized, and yet Xcode's debug builds default to non-optimized and people don't report that their debug builds are unusable.

Another example: I implemented the central re-pagination loop in my BookLightning imposition app[2] in my Objective-Smalltalk language[3], which currently has just about the slowest implementation imaginable (an AST-walker inefficiently implemented in Objective-C), at least an order of magnitude slower than Ruby. Despite that, BookLightning is at least an order of magnitude faster than the OS-X print system, which is largely written in C. Why? It computes by page (which is sufficient for this task), rather than by individual PDF graphical element. That difference is so great that the steering code controlling the computation just doesn't matter.

> Surely then you'd start to get frustrated with the overhead?

As long as Objective-C were still a hybrid language: probably not, because I could always eliminate the overhead in the (very) few places that mattered, and could do so reliably/predictably [4]. In fact, for Objective-Smalltalk I am very much leaning towards that approach (Smalltalk-ish by default, optimizations optional), and so far things are looking good.

> That's why languages like Ruby need the speculative optimisations.

Or C libraries, which is what I believe high performance Ruby code does.

p.s.: I think Truffle and Graal are awesome, and as a researcher I wish I'd come up with them. When doing actual practical performance work, I prefer simpler and more predictable tech.

[1] "The Death of Optimizing Compilers" http://cr.yp.to/talks/2015%2E04%2E16/slides-djb-20150416-a4....

[2] http://www.metaobject.com/Products/

[3] http://objective.st/

[4] http://blog.metaobject.com/2015/10/jitterdammerung.html
I've gone that road, even had financing lined up for a 'ransomware' style buy-out. Nobody even wanted to talk.

Very frustrating.

I completely share your sentiment and your vision.
These are real people that data is available on the net. These people DO NOT know that their data is being used by a fraudulent company saying that these people signed up when they didn't. My name was used to sign up and I never gave anyone permission to. Plus they used maiden name which I haven't used for 15 years.
Class action lawsuit coming and someone should goto jail for identity theft!
The article mentions poor wifi infrastructure, but I'm surprised (or not? This is TechCrunch?) they didn't mention privacy. At parent-teacher meetings, reps from my local school board have said that they can't use google apps because of privacy concerns, what with student data being stored on servers in the US.

Is google addressing this? I'd love to see chromebooks used here but the privacy issue is real and if kids' personal or school data is being harvested on a US server, it's tough to advocate for them.
A interesting new way to fight EGO
It's the ecosystem. My friend swore by his Android, always telling me how he could never switch to iOS. Until one day one app that he REALLY wanted to use had a nice polished iOS version but the Android version was clearly total crap with no obvious intention to improve, since then he's switched to iOS and isn't talking too much about Android anymore.

So even if you have a small following, those people eventually drop off too one by one over things like this.
Absolutely, and I have loved Apple's focus. But I think that as their product line has expanded, they've devoted the same amount of focus to more things, rather than increasing the "overall focus", if that even means anything. So they're doing more things, more poorly, instead of when they had a smaller list of things they were doing.

And I don't think they can really get by these days doing fewer things; I think they're right that an integrated ecosystem is the right answer, but part of that is, ecosystems are large. So they do need to do the more things, but they just don't seem to be doing the more things that well.
A lot of educational software is games as opposed to office software etc where the keyboard is the main / best input device. The iPad has done a lot in schools, especially the K-5 market, for example, see edtech like Osmo. You might not think it makes sense but students especially younger ones are benefiting from it every day.

https://www.playosmo.com/en/

(My mom is a teacher and I've helped her research and adopt a lot of this into her classroom including several iterations of iPads and augmented reality based learning games.)
Whey protein literally grows cancer. What are you doing? Stop the stupid behavior. Seriously. You're not a baby cow, stop consuming baby cow food.
Hmm your app looks cool. Maybe you need to connect with your users better, maybe nobody knows about it? Maybe the message isn't getting across.
I had Windows phones for a few years - Windows 7 & 8. I moved to Android with a Nexus 5X, but still had fond memories of Windows phone. It was a limited but snappy little platform.

My Pixel is off for repair at the moment so I've had to revert to the Lumia 735. I've upgraded it to Windows 10. It's awful.

The UI is sluggish, apps take over 30 seconds to load in some cases (Messenger and Whatsapp being key culprits), and it just generally feels counter-intuitive to use. I'm hating every second of using it.
> Lego isn't interested in furthering either a custom or secondary market

Once Lego's patent expired it tried a fairly shady legal theory that the interconnect shapes were trademarked/trademarkable. They pursued this all the way to the Canadian Supreme Court where they lost unanimously.

http://www.smart-biggar.ca/en/articles_detail.cfm?news_id=15...
Can this technique be used for recognizing handwriting of individuals?
Precisely because it limits it to specific markets you mentioned. The new 3310 got a ton of press in the US/AU/EU etc and lots of people like myself would love to buy one as a second phone. In a lot of places such as Singapore the 2G network is already phased out. It's a huge missed opportunity.
Ah. Was admittedly not thinking much outside my little bubble with that comment. Thanks!
I was almost expecting this to be a late April's Fool...

I guess it's a way to get more people to sign up for a Google account - you can "send to any email" - but that's not really accurate as you need a Google account to send/receive funds. It's not surprising of course, anyone technically inclined would realize this is a wrapper around:you can now place money in escrow with Google and let people know via email. Just like you could probably "send [money] via carrier pigeon" with PayPal...
Indeed, I took more issue with what you didn't say, than what you did. However I still disagree with the point about it being specific to "Commercial fruit juice", particularly when it comes to home squeezed citrus/orange juice.

The "I juice it myself so its healthy", mentality is easy to get carried away with, Cannot resist the bluecumber.
A frugivore human asking if fruit is healthy. What a sad, pathetic reflection of how brainwashed our society has become.
Surely if you can find the article on google, you don't need their advanced content search; you know the title and can use the simple search
The main point seems to be that the term "free software" is misleading, so you get to describe its benefits when someone asks you what it is.
Can you send and receive money for "non personal use"? E.g., I tried paying some small test consultant fees from my company using Facebook's "send/receive money", and they quickly told me I was violating their terms of usage. I can't tell either way from this Gmail page. Just curious (not that I would actually use things this way, but zero fees can be nice for small transactions).
Are you using the Pixel or another Chromebook?
In my experience, if you're on good terms with the staff at your juice place, they'll often put the extra in a second cup for you.

Edit: I agree that the waste is ridiculous
Me either particularly since a lot of what we consider "masterworks"/"master pieces" where often only moderately popular (if that) in their contemporary period.
That's not true, I've tested that before. People seem to be used to typing in CC info into a stripe form, for example, and have no problem doing it.
And I generally think most vegetables taste terrible. What's the point of going on about personal preferences here?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academia.edu#Domain_name

"Academia.edu is not a university or institution for higher learning and so under current standards it would not qualify for the '.edu' top-level domain. However, the domain name 'Academia.edu' was registered in 1999, prior to the regulations requiring .edu domain names to be held solely by accredited post-secondary institutions. All .edu domain names registered prior to 2001 were grandfathered in, even if not an accredited post-secondary institution."
At 4 WTC, the official rule when fire breaks out is "Use the elevator". I've never heard of that before.

New elevator technology is amazing and they're extremely reliable. Perhaps the safest mode of transport, even before aircraft in people-per-km-travelled
Pressure drops as speed increases. A rapidly (enough) moving elevator car experiences this.
Can a translator for the Army be a bad guy?
Absolutely !
Btw I love the podcast, totally worth a listen. Production quality is top notch. Definitely on par with Motherboard.
Okay, but in a sense it is also GMO correct?

In fact it is exactly this sense that is used when people say "nearly everything is GMO these days".

https://www.cagw.org/media/wastewatcher/almost-everything-ge...
Research into paranormal ability to break through spatial barriers [pdf]
And both, while noble causes, are unrealistic for most software products.
Something about extraordinary claims and extraordinary evidence.

I see only the first.
Partitioning in MongoDB (or Lack Thereof)
Even Socrates knew books are detrimental to our memorization abilities.
Eating an orange involves a great deal of time and effort, and results in a lot of mess and stickiness.
The really scary part, to me, is the way a Google account is now effectively mandatory for a large section of US children. Sure, it's a "school account", but that doesn't stop them from being data mined or advertised to. I do not think such practises should be normalised at an early age, or sanctioned in an official capacity.
Is it really meaningless?
I work in a public high school and this restriction on .edu is a source of frustration for me- the US-based and post-secondary restrictions on .edu domains are terrible.
Essence of Calculus [Videos]
Then why are you using a .EDU top-level domain for what is clearly, even by your own exact words, is a for-profit venture. Who's authorization did you seek to do this?
food is an expression of culture. your post makes sense in a purely utilitarian context but fails to factor in the history and cultural associations behind authentic regional cuisine. there's nothing wrong with new combinations and styles as food continues to evolve, but you're marginalizing an entire facet of culture by trying to distill food down to just taste and nutrition.
Do you have a source for this insane claim?
Interestingly and somewhat related conversation-wise, for people with diabetes sweet potatoes are a better choice than regular potatoes. A sweet potato (48) has a lower glycemic index and more fiber than regular white flesh potatoes (76).

Also interesting is a banana (52) should be eaten in moderation by anyone with diabetes, moderate index but less fiber? I have relatives with diabetes but needed to eat a banana for the potassium but all they were allowed was half a banana.

My skinny vegetable eating family on my mom's side have type 2 diabetes mainly the women of the family. My overweight, ex-smoking, little to no exercise family on my dad's side don't have type 2 diabetes except one.

And sugar doesn't cause diabetes like so many people seem to say on the Internet. You certainly crave sweets but sugar isn't the cause of type 2 diabetes.

Eating lots fiber for slowing sugar absorption and for feeding your good gut flora in your microbiome seems to be the key to many things in life and health.
If you want to put on fat, a diet rich in sugary drinks will do you wonders. Doesn't have to be expensive fruit juice either. Just drink lots of soft drinks every day, like, 3 litres or more, and you're setting yourself on a solid path to obesity.

If you want to put on muscle you'll need to do better than that.
The k-5 point is a good one. The company I work for and my thinking is focused on older students, in the 7-12 range mostly. But I'd think the fragility of the ipad would be an even bigger downside in that age group.
But going back to the original argument that was being made - you say that you don't need speculative optimisations to make something like Objective C fast. But you say to do that you don't use the dynamic features where you need performance - use macros and C functions instead.

So yes you don't need speculative optimisations... as long as you apply similar optimisations manually in the source code yourself. I'm not convinced therefore :)
What is a frugivore?
> Open access to an ocean of articles without the ability to search through them is meaningless.

As an academic mathematician, I disagree. The ability to search through articles' content is great, but being able to access an article given its authors and title would already be quite valuable.

I hope that academic researchers eventually converge on a completely open-access model, involving commercial enterprises to the minimum extent possible.

But researchers are too preoccupied with other things to make this a priority. For the moment, I am happy to see anyone taking on entrenched interests (e.g. Elsevier), from whatever angle. The status quo is bad enough that I welcome "creative disruption" of essentially any sort.
It really is astounding how people took a once powerful brand and dashed it on the rocks. Granted, there were always numerous unresolvable problems with the concept of online auctions, but eBay also did many things that seem to sabotage their service. I don't know anyone who sells anything there anymore because the majority of disputes are resolved in favor of the crooked buyer. It was also never good for a reasonable person as something about online auctions often causes at least one person to bid ridiculously high on items that aren't even rare. And now I am pretty sure you can't even see sellers' ratings on the results page.

At this point, I only ever use eBay to buy prescription medicine from overseas. I just can't understand how someone could let a once household name rot like this. As evidenced by the article, and my own experience, this is another case of a business blindly believing that the customer is always right and forming policies around that flawed idea.
we are very serious software ENGINEERS. very serious people. like lawyers, but not as attractive.
Were you thinking of the following article?

Eric Anderson, Song Lin, Duncan Simester, and Catherine Tucker (2015) Harbingers of Failure. Journal of Marketing Research: October 2015, Vol. 52, No. 5, pp. 580-592.

It was posted to HN in July 2015[0] and a PDF is at [1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9839344

[1] http://www.bm.ust.hk/mark/staff/song_lin/song_lin-jmr-2015.p...
Yep, they are very fast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvU2KEl5_ZE

https://youtu.be/vbSww5SBqN4?t=75

https://youtu.be/zYimxuEAEtk?t=67