skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all the focus on sharing/timeline, and how we subscribe to those we befriend. Earlier networks seems to have more of a focus on "profile" creation and curation.

Early versions of Facebook were like this too. I remember the outrage in my friend groups when Facebook added the "News Feed" feature. That was around fall of 2006, I think.

I joined Facebook in the summer of 2006 (I'm sure many posters here preceded me -- I would love to know more about Facebook's features and "culture" before then). It used to be the things you could do on Facebook were pretty much limited to:

* Update your profile. including university-centric things like your course enrollment (which you could use to connect with classmates). Facebook also presented statistics like the "top 10 most popular books" at your university, based on user profile data.

* Update your "status". This was always directly preceded by "$YOURNAME is" in the status update UI, which is why if you read old Facebook statuses they're in the third person and lack a subject, like "is SO GLAD finals are over!!" instead of what you might see today: "SO GLAD finals are over!!" or "I'm SO GLAD finals are over!!"

* Upload photos to albums, and post comments on them

* Visit your friend's profile to read their status (I don't remember if past statuses were available; I think not), post on their wall, view their profile, poke them or browse their photos.

* Create groups and invite your friends to join them. Groups had walls and profiles, too.

There was no aggregated feed of your friends' status updates. There was no feed of your friends' activities. Really, there were barely any activities to begin with: comments on posts and even the vaunted "Like" button were implemented well after I joined ("Likes" on comments came well after each of those). Skimming Wikipedia, it actually looks like "Like" didn't come until 2009, even though it feels like it's been around forever.
The problem with Friendster is that one feature wouldn't scale, and it's not obvious that Amazon would have been able to scale it either. Some problems don't scale in linear.

The founder of Friendster believed that the "degrees of bacon" chain was a critical feature. That chain is incredibly expensive to calculate for very large graphs, and produced multi-second page loads. In retrospect, the obvious answer is "drop that feature"; Facebook does fine without it. But Friendster product management thought it was the secret sauce... and maybe it was a reasonable thing to think back in 2002? Dunno, but it sank the company.

Most of what I know about Friendster comes from their #3 and #6 employees (friends).
You get hexagons because of close-packing.[1] Circles (or a 2D array of spheres) of the same size fit closest together when they are arranged in a hexagonal pattern. Push a bunch of marbles together and that's what you get.

The bees don't know anything about hexagons. They just make circles close together and then as the cells are filled, stepped on, and come into contact with other wax cells, they "ballon out" into a hexagon shape.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close-packing_of_equal_spher...
That's not analogous as the Bat was not developed for Bludgeoning. This was software designed to steal money / cause issues regardless of whom sold it. I don't know anyone in infosec that regularly creates fully functional and marketable platforms. It's also different than exploit proof of concepts, as again, this is designed to steal.
There's a purely practical thing that these need to deal with: sometimes when you board you hand over the end stub and keep the large portion, and sometimes you hand over the large portion and are given the stub .... This means that all (or enough) information needs to be on both bits .... You can't just put the seat number on one bit (or the flight number on one bit, as you may need it for customs forms later) etc etc
Not going to hesitate to toot your horn here, man. This is extremely well done! It's all great!

That globe as an interface itself is worth congratulations and should be an envy.

I'll have to look more into your work.
According to the wiki page, that means that they're looking for co-maintainers.
>> Helmets are pretty misunderstood. They don't offer much in the way of protection in a serious accident

> Have you got a source for that claim?

The CPSC (Consumer Products Safety Commission) impact testing standards for bicycle helmets only require that the pass tests like a guided free fall on a weighted headform from a height of about 6.5 feet. That's the equivalent of falling over from a trackstand, for example.

If you're going at speed or are hit by a car, the forces the helmet will experience will far exceed the force generated by the impact tests as specified above.
My thoughts are that 'you' as a person change constantly, year to year, and who you are now is not the same as 5, 10, more years ago. I don't think it's so much that you are a different person because you lost a limb or are drunk, it's the change in personality and mind that accompany those that makes that person different. You could absolutely lose a limb and be 'the same' person, but you could also change significantly.
I understand the concern, but this concern misses the nuance of what 'nature prefers' means.
Sounds amazing! Now I'm really interested how your setup can do that. Will you publish anything about it, or is this the kind of secret sauce you'd rather keep secret?
I created an account just to give you a vote.

> Crucially, subjects are not aware that they are choosing letters from their name.

That is asinine. By what mechanism can a researcher make someone forget how to spell their name?

This is simply a theory that says "People are most comfortable and familiar with things which they are comfortable and familiar with." It's an essentially meaningless psychological observation.
> It's probably also hard to know what a good security audit looks like, unless you grasp basic security in the first place.

If you replaced security with accounting, the above still makes sense! Why do companies pay through the nose to get an accounting audit done right, but much less willing to do so for a security audit?

I say the solution is to put the (legal) responsibility to the company. Once there's financial incentive, it becomes a priority.
Interestingly, the makeup of your gut biome con dramatically affect personality.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/06/gut-bacte...

Parasites can also alter your personality. Perhaps they can even turn you into a cat lady/man.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2013/09/19/cat-lady-paras...
Your mention of going from bright light to a dark room is literally my current working life. I shoot cameras for image quality, which often necessitates a dark room. I've come to prefer the room dark even when I'm not shooting. The past few weeks of where I live, the outdoors has been rather bright... so leaving the lab room dark has become even more attractive.

About two months ago I went to the eye doctor with the last free spot on his schedule, the first one in the morning. I inquired to his booking. "Oh, I've had some people cancel because it's a nice summer day. They have better things to do than be in a dark room all day." I thought, 'Dude, you have no idea what I do for money right now." He's on wetware, I'm on hardware, we're both -- obviously through keeping the job out of our own volition -- enjoying doing the same job.
One step closer to the Wonkavader. Which always freaked me out that it could move anywhere and even fly.
The author of that random blog is Sean Carroll, professor of physics at Caltech specializing in cosmology and GR.

That doesn't mean he must be right, but I feel pretty comfortable citing him.
> I prefer odds over evens.

A few years ago someone told me that for anything other than within a especially formal garden design, most people prefer the visual of odd numbers of similar plants grouped together - from small bulbs planted at the scale of several centimetres, up to large trees planted at ten metres or more apart.

Of course, how you identify what most people 'prefer' is challenging - it may be more a reflection of what looks natural or random.

But, like how red cars are often spotted in groups of three, once I started noticing numbers of like plants clumped together, at various scales, it does seem to hold true.

Your preference may be more deep-seated than at a purely integer level. :)
China plans to destroy an ancient Buddhist city to get the copper buried there
Has anyone met an actual perfectionist (i.e. someone who produces near perfect work)? All the "perfectionists" I have met are either delusional (i.e. their output is far from perfect), or who are just slow and who use it as an excuse for their lack of productivity.
Maybe I don't understand the situation correctly but the tweet was: "Hey @KidsPass - when do you plan on doing anything about the massive security issues with your website?" Followed by a link explaining <wavy-hands> how important it is to be secure. </wavy-hands>

I can understand why someone could block that as spam, especially someone who host such a blatant security flaw.
14 nm is still a fairly large size on the molecular scale. Things of this size still behave classically for the most part (that is, ignoring the fact that a transistor, however large, is an essentially quantum-mechanical device to begin with). What might matter at this scale is thermal and capacitance effects.
Brave's features are not an extension. It's is a fork of Chromium. Any mechanism they include in their build has none of the limitations extensions have and they're not extensions at all.
OpenZFS is the parent project from which ZFS is applied to Illumos, FreeBSD, and ZFSoL

http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Main_Page
Depends on where in the US you ride. Lots of cities are getting better very quickly, thankfully. There have been large changes in the last 5 years.

> As pointed out, helmets could be a net loss in safety in a safe biker environment.

I haven't seen any data on this yet. Do you have a source for this claim? I don't buy it.

> Biker helmets are a sign of bad road safety.

Bike helmets are a sign of someone who knows that the energy of impact is proportional to mass times the square of velocity. Every doubling of your speed does 4x damage if you crash.

I've crashed my bike on my own probably 10x more than because of someone else. Hitting debris, riding in the rain, riding at night, unseen obstacles, railroad tracks, animals, mountain biking trails, all things that have taken me down. If I didn't have a helmet, I think I'd have cracked my own nut a long time ago, and road safety would have little to do with it. You can go without if you think it's somehow safer, I'm happy to wear mine.
> Thing is, our senses are all very good, everyone can hear when singers are out off tune

Yeah. But how precisely people are able to do this varies a lot, and correlates strongly to musical training or (anecdotally) growing up in a "musical environment". This supports the emotional granularity idea from the article.

[Now all pop music is auto-tuned by computer, but a lot of older music (Madonna, etc.) is grating if you have moderately good musical hearing.]
A good compiler for a dynamic language can also be a wonderful tool and ally.
Why landscape mode?
I'm aware of that, I just didn't want to additionally confuse someone who is barely familiar with ZFS with the whole OpenZFS fork and so on.
Expected value is 0, right? .75 * 10000 - .25 * 30000
Software mirrors, http://yacy.net/, i2p, https://filecoin.io/
No, but I've met people who strive for perfection and know when to let go.
Debugging SSL Errors in Your API Monitoring
every drupal site you've ever administered is insecure because of the new triple-axel md5 unlink()-based heap overflow i've discovered.

so just send the money.
Wasn't that one of Dante's levels? Seventh Circle (Agile)
The tech bubble is always bursting in the sense that 99% of all startups do not make any money for either the founders or the vc's.
I know in this practical universe, Newton's laws of physics and Einstein's views of quantum physics were both at one point "facts" but later shown to be mere approximations and both of them worth being doubted. There's no point to having science if all we are going to do is assume everything that comes out of the process as the gospel.
Systemd was popular with distro maintainers before GNOME started to be built around it. What was responsible for that initial surge of popularity (amongst distro maintainers)?
Very interesting story. Also it's mildly weird to see such a correct/appropriate use of the word 'literally'.
I am wondering if the solution is to use modular counterweights that can also be moved sideways and swapped around too.
This is super interesting but

due to the per-CPU inode table
structure, it is impossible to
move a NOVA filesystem from one
system to another if the two
machines do not have the same
number of CPUs.

seems like a dealbreaker. What use is a FS if it isn't portable? At least it sounds like they're very aware of this issue.

I'd be very interested to see what they end up doing to make this behave better prior to upstream consideration. I wonder if a linked list journal of inode table changes (with space drawn from per-CPU freelists) would be safe/fast enough. That could be periodically coalesced and remapped to the NOVA device's non-CPU aware inode table.
$ git log --since=”2016-01-01” --pretty=format:”%an” --no-merges -- fs/xfs | sort -u

https://pastebin.com/0Yv5giDK

XFS history
https://lwn.net/Articles/638546/

Linux file systems, where did they come from? (Presented by Dave Chinner who has been XFS maintainer for a few years.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMcVdZk7wV8
> But where's the evidence of miners switching?

Why does this matter? If you're concerned about double spend, just wait for more confirmations and treat it as a slower to resolve chain. In any case, double spend problems could only happen if miners _did_ switch, so then you wouldn't need to be worried about miners not switching.
This time is most certainly different.

Why? Read greenspans most recent set of half truths he published.

This time is different because leading nations are mired in more debt than they have been since the 1920s, and interest rates are lower than in 200 years. Essentially this time is different because the next time the debt bubble bursts it will be politically devasting on a scale not seen in 90 years.

The global depression in the 1920s led to world war. So this time is different than the last 70 years of economics since ww2.

Greenspan says it like the 70s. No its not. There is no gold standard to default upon. And the fake oil crisis of the late 70s was engineered by u.s. bankers to soak up a lack,of demand for usd on international markets.

That strategy will not work this time. If oil doubles in price it will not stregthen the dollar as it once did. The next bout of stagflation will lead to a dramatically weaker dollar. Impirted consumables will actually get more expensive in the u.s.

How will the startup world be affected. Im not sure it will look much different than any itber bust sabe for the fact that it will be worse because theres more debt to default on than last time.
> re-pricing in eCommerce comes to mind

what's re-pricing?
If you did this every day, there is little to no issue with you driving. Regular users get a tolerance, even my grandma will drive while high if she has a proper tolerance and its only a bowl or two.

They were strict when I first came to help them about not smoking and driving, which I of course respected.

However once Grandma was smoking daily she realized its really a non-issue. Even for her. She's 66 btw.

As long as you have a tolerance. That is the key here.

If you do not:

then you shouldn't drive until you have a shower, some snacks and a light nap.
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Mind you, by that definition it's easy to construe it as borderline "unwelcome sexual advances" or "verbal harassment of a sexual nature".

That said, I acknowledge it's very situational whether something might be read as unwelcome. Which is why avoiding these things in a professional context seems pretty wise.

Anyway, since we're replying here to door's comment... I think they're right regardless of whether we want to call it "sexual harassment". If you offend someone in a way which feels creepy / harassing to them, even assuming that you absolutely meant it in a non-sexual non-flirtatious entirely-platonic matter, your should apologize, maybe clarify your intentions, and say you'll do better in the future. Attempting to argue that you didn't mean it that way so they shouldn't be offended is counterproductive.
You could add a video stream from a live online news channel on the top right? (on my side the top right was pretty much empty)
The likelihood that anyone who sees this will also ever have physical access to their phone is astronomical.

My disk encryption password is 1223334. Doesn't do you much good when you have to be sitting in front of my computer to use it.
I find that regulating when and how I see people helps.

I can be social, personable, agreeable, all that jazz. But like any given normal introvert, I need the recharge by myself and alone. For how long? Of course that depends. For me, I'll arrive to a party acceptably early [and gladly help out or whatever] or right on time as expected, and leave in classic Dr Who style when very few people notice; "happy to come, happy to go" and don't overstay my welcome.

I feel like I am aware of what I am "missing out on not to see people sometimes". Chitchat, small talk, how's it going, your troubles, my troubles. However, good fences do actually make good neighbors. I've gotten great help from my neighbors and such, with about as much effort put in by either of us as described by Robert Frost, and I couldn't be more grateful.
this is a core use case for e-bikes--at least for those deterred by hills in their route. Others (because of, for instance, geared drive trains) are ok with elevation gain/loss, and still others actually prefer hills (like my colleague training for a triathalon). Having showers at work is nice as well
if a human is allowed to do something on a site, it goes to reason that a bot should be allowed too (granted using the same access frequency as a human).

Blocking scraping is like DRM. Don't do it. Use a legal mechanism to deal with copyright infringement, and use acceptable usage policy to deal with heavy users that are using more than their "fair" share of bandwidth.
I might have to disagree with you on two things.

I know plenty of people who are in CS for the challenge. They absolutely love writing software.

Also, nurses do what they do because they feel great helping people but in no way is that easy. Working in terminal care is extremely mentally taxing as many to all of the people they work with are preparing to/going to die. In the same way, nurses in the ER/ICU have to deal with people dying that are in no way prepared to die and that is also extremely mentally taxing. In regard to being physically taxing, much in the same way that people in CS have to deal with deadlines and long stressful working hours, nurses can often end up with up to 18-20 hour shifts with their off-hours and off-days classified as on call hours that they will usually get called in to work for.

Nurses definitely are in the field because they enjoy helping people but that in no way means that they have an easier job than people in the CS field.
I think a lot of the problems that cyclists have when riding amongst motor vehicles have to do with existing laws (such as riding as far right as practicable when going less than the normal speed of traffic).

In reality, most traffic lanes are not wide enough for a cyclist and a car to travel side by side with sufficient clearance between the two vehicles. A cyclist is about 2.5 to 3 feet wide and many states have laws requiring at least feet of distance between them and the cyclist. The cyclist will also ride about 2 to 3 feet from the right edge of the lane. A car is a little less than 6 feet wide on average.

If you add those distances up, you end up with a total of 14 to 15 feet. Even on interstate highways, lanes may only 12 feet wide. On surface streets, they may only be 10 feet wide. Because of this, you end up with the situation where cars will "lane split" while passing a cyclist and frequently misjudge how far they are from the cyclist when passing them. Also, the lane splitting car cannot leave enough room for cars in the adjacent lane because the lanes do not have sufficient width to accommodate a vehicle and half of another vehicle.

Another problem is that cyclists riding to the right aren't as visible to traffic as opposed to those who are "taking the lane". They're more vulnerable to collisions such as "right-hooks", traffic entering from side streets and opposing left turning traffic who didn't see them.

The laws should be changed to say that cyclists are like slow moving vehicles who are entitled to the full use of the lane they're riding in and passing traffic must move completely into the adjacent lane, when safe to do so, to pass the cyclist and only return to their original lane of travel after they have sufficient clearance. The law should also allow vehicles to pass cyclists on a double-yellow when its safe to do so with the same conditions as above.

This will legally sanction the "take the lane" type of riding and make cyclists more visible to the rest of traffic.
The NRA approach to safety and securing yourself and belongings. If everyone has a gun, everyone will be safe. Except for those who once owned guns and after a very scary mishap believe that it's safer to not own guns, and those that have already criminally mishandled guns and used them in commission of serious and violent crimes, and those who after weeks at the shooting range still can't hit the broadside of a barn. Except those people, everyone will be safe. Oh, and children. Screw the children, because they just don't have the mental capacity to understand the consequences that may occur after one shoots another.

I like this plan. Can't wait for my father, who can barely figure out how to attach a picture to an email in AOL's webmail to start poking for XSS and CSRF vulnerabilities on the sites his spam mail links to, and changing his username to "1;DROP TABLE users" everywhere.
TL;DR: A repl that uses Docker and executing code in Function-as-a-service way
Is this not totally unbelievably obvious?

'A new study has found the sky is blue'

Ride a bike and you quickly realize how obvious this is.
I don't see it as such a big problem. Most filesystem images aren't intended to be ported directly between machines in general. As long as they have a tool to read the filesystem on a different configuration, a filesystem with this restriction could still be very useful for generic bulk storage on a single node.
> I find comments from folks like you ignorant and of low quality.