skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which country is this? France or one of the Scandinavian countries?

"New WHO analysis shows alarming rates of overweight children ... According to a new report published by the WHO Regional Office for Europe, being overweight is so common that it risks becoming a new norm in the WHO European Region. For example, up to 27% of 13-year-olds and 33% of 11-year olds are overweight. ... Some countries have managed to contain the epidemic; France and some Scandinavian countries at least keep it at a stable level" - http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0013/243400/N...

"Obesity rates in France are among the lowest in the OECD, but have been increasing steadily ... Obesity rates are relatively low among children too, and have not been growing over the past 20 years" - http://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/obesityandtheeconomic...

Perhaps you don't know what overweight looks like because you are used to the "new norm"?

"More than a third of overweight teenagers do not regard themselves as too heavy and think they are about the right weight, a study in England shows. ... Over the last few decades, studies in adults have hinted that fewer people are able to spot when they are overweight. And scientists speculate that the rising levels of obesity across the population might have "normalised" the idea of being overweight or obese, making it harder to recognise the extra pounds." - http://www.bbc.com/news/health-33453456
I think you will be less pessimistic if you asked yourself who this "we" is that made an uncosionable mistake. Each of us is an individual who can contribute to, but not control the whole of society. We often vent frustration on forums like this when the conversation is about solving public problems.

I'd say the "grain" of truth a about consumers being able to change the landscape by changing their habits is exactly right. It might be unrealistic for everyone to do it en masse (though such things have happend in the past and will happen again). But it is entirely realistic for indivduals the landscape around themselves.

For example I don't glue myself to my phone, and am no longer on Facebook so I can't bring myself to care much about the evil things that Facebook is said to be doing on peoples phones.
I'm ancient (late fifties), but even so, I'm struck by the somewhat creakingly defensive tone of several comments in this thread - stolid narratives on the virtues of middle age experience and perspective. Fourty years younger me would be shaking my head. Present day me still is, a little bit.

I try to keep up. I am not necessarily very good at it, but I try. I have sort of given up on quite a few of my contemporary friends who seem to have sort of given up on trying. But all too clearly, ideas and crazy angles just aren't coming the way they used to. I was probably at my creative peak when I was sixteen. Didn't really know shit about anything, but my writings and drawings from that time are still holding up, as fresh and inspired as anything I ever did.
dissolving the soap, cleaning the unetched segments so ink can adhere to them
It can still be the case that the advantage humans have when throwing works even better if it is combined with different muscle.
I generally like the language, and its compiles-to-C model. It doesn't pretend to be anything other than what it is: a GObject-specific language, not really a competitor to C++.

I seem to recall that the bindings weren't totally up-to-date though. The latest GTK outpaced the available Vala bindings.
It is a possibility, of course, but I don't think it's very likely. Segwit is (finally) about to activate on BTC which means we'll eventually get Lightning Network on mainnet.

Segwit is not going to activate on BCH because the BCH proponents are ideologically opposed to Segwit.

Additionally, almost no businesses are taking payment in BCH. BCH has to build its ecosystem up from scratch like any other altcoin. I think it has similar chances of "overtaking Bitcoin" as, for example, Litecoin.

EDIT: I don't know why the BCH price has gone up so much. It's almost certainly in even more of a bubble than BTC is currently in.
Records for the 1 minute mile are closer. Especially since records aren't broken every Olympics.
PoS has done a great job at attracting a loyal following e.g. http://reddit.com/r/ethtrader and it only looks like it's gaining in momentum.
Right. I understood that point. I'm saying that I think you're wrong. There has been no ebb and flow from where I'm standing. The criticisms against Go really haven't changed much, and neither have the people making them. On the flip side, Go has been becoming increasingly popular, and I see no signs of it slowing down.
Your API-Centric Web App Is Probably Not Safe Against XSS and CSRF (2015)
Thanks! I built this by refactoring out the core technology which hook.io uses in production and put it into a separate open-source project.

By design, Microcule operates without needing containers or virtual machines. It's up to the user how they wish to isolate their services. I have heard from a few users who have successfully incorporated Microcule with Docker in production.

see: https://github.com/stackvana/microcule#no-containers
for now at least, it doesn't look like significant mining effort has switched chains: http://fork.lol/pow/hashrate
That is being worked around since 1974. "Tommy John surgery" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulnar_collateral_ligament_reco...) is legal in the MLB.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulnar_collateral_ligament_reco... halfway claims you won't throw faster than before if you get that operation, but I'm not convinced those are objective statements; _if_ this were to make you a faster pitcher, and that became generally known, I would think the MLB would be under pressure to forbid it, and the surgeons making those statements would lose customers willing to pay lots of money for these operations. Also, if the tendon is the factor limiting speed, putting in a stronger one should lead to increase speed)
Ah cheers, makes sense.
Throwaway account, no names, vague time and place details, for reasons.

I loved my job, programming and developing software was what I always wanted to do, and had been very successful doing it for years. My company was shooting for new areas, with underwhelming results so far, but trying nevertheless.

Then, at one point, my personal life took a serious blow, one that relatively quickly destroyed my relationship with my spouse, but without the ability to separate or divorce. Social and family-at-large life, which had never been intense but was always satisfying, vanished. During that time, my company's situation simultaneously degraded in quality of projects, budgets and general outlook, and my job increased in scope with a lot less hands on programming, less resources, more management, more teams and more firefighting (human and technical). Like in the personal side, I was professionally stuck without the ability to make drastic changes.

After a few months of this, with increasingly frequent episodes of stress and anxiety, I ran out of steam and blew up completely. I took a leave under medical supervision, doing therapy and working on coming to terms with all the various aspects of what I was dealing with. Despite the newly available time to do whatever I wanted (within reason), I couldn't do anything at all. My mind ached to do some coding for its own sake, but it took a long time before my body could again be able to keep focus on anything for more than a few minutes.

Time has passed. Therapy helped, coming to terms has continued to advance at a very slow pace but is still very far from complete. My focus came back, and I went back to work in pretty much the same circumstances, professional and personal, that I was before the blowup. Part of the anxiety turned into desire to overcome challenges, another part remained (and still does) as energy-draining anxiety.

I wake up every day knowing that I'm not over it. I remind myself that me and everyone around me wants, and to various degrees needs, me to go on. I hope that things work out, and it is quite possible that they will, although it is impossible to predict how, when or to what extent. I have learned to allow myself some room to, in the bad days, not be the nice and strong person I want to be, and instead let weakness take over while I try to rest. One weak day something bad may happen. Many days trying to stay strong may lead me down the hole again, hard. I just try not to think of, or control, the future much anymore.
I believe the majority of the main Facebook app is still "real" native code.

It's certainly possible to use any native API you like when using React Native. You can easily write a modules to bridge to native APIs, but you need to be comfortable to drop into native code when required and do that work for both android and iOS. If you don't feel able to do that, you'll be limited to the libraries that others have already written. It's not hard to do though.
How do you know?

How can anyone know?
Fair enough. And my point about why Apache avoids stronger licenses actually applies to google too, but they are just more flexible about it on a case by case basis.
Oh, if only.
Segwit is not necessary for Lightning Network. It's a false dichotomy: on-chain scaling does not preclude off-chain scaling (which is what LN is).

Bitcoin with Segwit will prioritize off-chain scaling (hence the 1MB blocksize limit and the current moves to prevent increasing it to 2mb), while Bitcoin Cash wants to enable on-chain scaling as the mainstay; but by no means are they mutually exclusive.

The Segwit activation raises new questions and concerns: the agreement to proceed with Segwit was a compromise known as Segwit2x (Segwit + 2mb blocks). Now it appears much of the Core team has no intention of honoring the 2x part (see core software 0.15 changelog: it will block any nodes signaling for segwit2x). Yet the 2x part is locked in - meaning we are currently headed towards a hard fork.
I see. Thanks for the information.
This is terrible advice.

First, because I think you're factually mistaken - for a lot of people, a big name on your resume is a huge, positive flag.

Second, because there are other effects of working at a large company which you're not considering. Most importantly - they're large! That means you're going to interact with a huge amount of people. In 3 years at a BigCo, you'll likely have contacts not only in various departments, but probably in several other companies as well, both because of work with outside companies, and because of interacting with employees who left.

Not to mention, you can learn a lot about the industry that you might not necessarily be exposed to while at a small startup - via interactions with those outside companies (customers, partners, etc). You can also work on seriously big things, which you won't be working on at a startup, for example.

None of this is to say that working at a BigCo is the right move. I actually tend to think the opposite, depending on various factors. But it's definitely not an all-downsides proposition.
What happens in case of a hard fork? How will they ensure that no one will validate blocks in the wrong fork? With PoW the miners much choose one fork or at lest split the hash power. With PoS the miners can validate blocks in both hard forks without too much effort.

Moreover, if the 51% dislike the one fork, or the version before the fork, it's too easy to validate correctly in the part of the fork they like and launch a 51% attack to the other fork. This would have killed ETC and BCC instantly. (I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature.)
I've noticed this too but it seems to be the same thing on both macOS and iOS, maybe it's on the server end?
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Down the Breitbart Hole
Block chain transactions are not as opaque as you think.
Certainly I've been guilty of it. It's part of why I'm so careful about who I work for.

I'm proud at least that we recognzed and stopped that behavior early on my project. But I didn't question the instructions I was given very directly without help from others, which I'm a bit ashamed of.
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How quantum teleportation actually works
It might imply a patent license, it might not. I don't think it's ever been tested in court. But at best you're getting a license to the Preact author's patents, if there are any, which there probably aren't. You're definitely not getting a license to Facebook's patents - but because Preact is a clone of React (in outward design, at least), any Facebook patent that applies to React has a decent chance of also applying to Preact. So I'm not sure it helps that much...
!! is an extremely common idiom, across multiple different programming languages.

Code should be written so that it is understandable by other professional programmers, not people who started programming two weeks ago.
Can a Crowdsourced AI Medical Diagnosis App Outperform Your Doctor?
Flextrans will provide the capability of Lightning Network on Bitcoin Cash as well.

The only point for BCH is that transaction congestion won't force people to use layer 2 settlement layers, as there is a philosophy of an onchain scaling solution as well where transactions will remain cheap.

The block reward will still be supplanted by transaction fees in this solution, eventually. Whether with blocks being extremely large, or with a few halvings later.

Flextrans wouldn't be implemented solely for the lightning network. It would just be possible to do that as well.

edit: annnnnd a downvote without even a rebuttal, reminds me of a bitcoin reddit. a little disheartening.
Very experienced and skilled devs. Plus they build everything on the Java platform and always have, so they get a big productivity boost over many companies that use less effective tools.

Also, not VC backed. A 'real' company, that actually makes money because people buy their products. Our expectations of how many developers are needed for things is inflated by the prevalence of unprofitable venture backed firms that over hire.
people throw out good computers quite often.
Sounds like any old-school internet forum.
The reward is targeted based on participation- If too few or too many people stake, the reward adjusts to return the chain to the targeted participation rate.

Economic models so far, however, suggest the reward needs to only be a tenth of POW reward.
The replies below show why, because JS.

Bad languages don't allow a nice life.
Given the reasoning for why we are at our limit given a few comments up, that specific combination is unlikely to yield benefits, as the ligaments cannot take any additional strain. Are there better ligaments to be swapped in a well?
My experience is completely different from yours in regards to every single point you make. Working at a big company (amazon) has increased my salary significantly, made me better technically, and noticeably made it easier for me to find a job elsewhere afterwards (this could be because my technical skill were better afterwards, and I had more experience). Additionally, I actually loved my team at Amazon. My manager was incredibly empathetic and caring, far more than any managers I have had at smaller companies before. I just wanted to provide a different perspective, and show that generalizing about companies, especially large ones, is a bad idea and often grossly incorrect. Your experience and the people you talked to (likely) represent a very small part of the whole company.
Dumb Contracts and Smart Scripts
Content free reply: You can buy old bus tickets with a palindrome number from Argentina ("capicua"). You get 504 of them for 350 dollars :) https://articulo.mercadolibre.com.ar/MLA-613223635-boletos-c...
No: If they validate blocks in both chains, their entire staking deposit is immediately destroyed (in both chains)

This is one of the main innovations in modern POS algorithms.
I was surprised that 17 belongs into more classes than 3 or 2.
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But were they playing under MLB rules? A high school team?
Is truly hard. And not even thing in use it for Xamarin or something else.

I love to have a react-native-like for just the UI and do my code on swift/F# for the rest.
> better using

I meant to write "better than using." Also, I was not aware of the implied patent license argument.
What major parts of the main Facebook app is React Native used for? Serious question.

In the Instagram app, really only the settings screens and the bookmarks feature are written in RN - 2 of the simplest features in the entire app.
Should be tagged as 2014. The included video interview is even older, from July of 2012.

I can't find any recent news about them. Only what they post themselves, which doesn't seem to have much concrete information: https://www.reactionengines.co.uk/category/news/
Such as? It seems fine to me.
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It's happening right now, for me. Burnout feels like having no purchase on life, nothing making sense, no creativity, no joy, just fleeting comforts amid growing and deepening discomfort.

The way I see it, this kind of tiredness can't be met by a good night's sleep. It's a tiredness of the soul.

Sadly, what I have found is that to cope with the tiredness, boredom, stress and loneliness of my 'successful' life, I have turned time and time again to pornography. My use has spiralled and includes really quite violent, and in some cases illegal, stuff. And I have hated myself for it. I don't even enjoy it.

The problem is that the porn addiction itself exacerbated and accelerated the burnout process, and further isolated me.

Now I have decided to take some time out, with friends and well away from any internet connection, to break the cycle and re-sensitize myself. I need to breathe and feel my body again and feel connected to life and other people. In a few days I will be away from the Internet in a beautiful place in nature with good, supportive people to be with me.

And for the first time, I intend to be open and share this struggle and let them know really how dark it has gotten in here.
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“Powers” is a strong word for how it’s used in practice at FB from what they’ve detailed.
Gotta say, I never really cared or knew much about surfing, but I always still kept an idea of it in my head that it was this solitary, cool, independent, zen-minded thing. This article shatters that illusion into a million pieces. Come to find out it's just another "sport," with everybody obsessing over $$$gear, and grasping for their place in some kind of hierarchy that has doctrinaire douchebags at the top, and way too many clumsy ignorant pretenders at the bottom.

You know, like cycling. Which I actually do care and know about, but I avoid "cyclists" like the plague so I can maintain my illusion that it's this solitary, cool, independent, zen-minded thing. (It is when I do it.)

So of course in hindsight I'm not sure why or how I was surprised by any of this. Humans ruin everything.
Never needed it before, don't need it now. Pretty simple.
>Is anyone here planning on suing FACEBOOK? Who amongst us has the team of lawyers to undergo that? This is for 99.999% of people not a legitimate concern.

I don't think it is wise to think about this in these narrow terms. Consider the following scenario:

Avoidance of these problematic license terms becomes "a thing" in the industry that moves and shakers, but not the likes of us, are worried about.

You might have aspirations to sell your company to BigCo, or get investment from VCs.

Now we have a concern that use of problematic license code is a poison pill that these investors are not willing to swallow. You aren't considering suing Facebook, but they might think about it.

We saw exactly this with GLP'ed code in the past (I have signed a couple of deals where I had to pledge on a stack of bibles that we did not have any GPL code in our tree).
It's just as bad or worse in the alternative approaches, like POW.
Yes, by a long way.
Off topic, but are you the BatFastard in Generals.io, by chance?
Future of Mobility
For a great live demo of the auto-scaling and metrics shown in Grafana see my video from Dockercon's Cool Hacks closing ceremony - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h2VTE9WnZs&t=1058s
Just because people have a different view of sexuality, and confine it to a specific time and place, doesn't mean that it's a repressive society. You have to realize that most Asian cultures are heavily focused on context, and place, and not just the pure, isolated act.
> BCH has to build its ecosystem up from scratch like any other altcoin.

Perhaps, but BTC is throwing its ecosystem away with a core team that is committed to congestion and high fees. Bitcoin Cash already has the customer side of the customer-vendor double-sided marketplace handled as well as Bitcoin does because they have approximately the same distribution among bitcoin owners.

It isn't the same hurdle as litecoin--half of the chicken and egg problem is already solved. Because of the fees, and the damper they will place on sales, there's an incentive to switch to boot.
Photoshop through voice commands is a real thing
Sharp observation. See my comment above. This general takeaway makes fine sense when you calculate the scope of the lifestyle differences.

Here's my loose take:
Music is a unique beast; especially these days. It remains the most scientifically fleeting artforms. The reasons why are sensory/media based for the most part, and usually entail a long-winded conversation because of the sheer abstraction of where the power lies in the medium. The conversations a musician has with it's audience actually seems to correlate more with what we consider childishness. In short, it's highly intuitive. Having this type of conversation briefly with rooms full of fans does not quite exercise the 'theory' end. Older musicians whose flame is still burning will usually have a deep and nuanced relationship with their art and practice that only those close to them can begin to understand. Maintaining that is rare.
This might sound weird, but I seriously love my sleep. Self employed independent developer now so I can structure my life in whatever way I want it to.

I just feel way better and am more productive whenever I get between 8 to 10 hours of sleep every day + don't have to wake up from an alarm.
Retguard: OpenBSD/Clang
To clarify, is this a valid usecase to introduce streaming architecture to the system?
Not to mention the radiation, the circadian rhythm disruption, the poor nutrition, and the alcohol.
You're only committing a "appeal to authority" fallacy if you contend that something is true because the person saying it is "an authority." Pointing out that someone is clueless on a topic and suggesting they read the literature and gain some baseline knowledge is not the same thing at all.

As to whether it is, as someone said above, "simply ceasing to argue" one can rightly say "so what?" None of us owe some random person on the Internet our participation in their argument. Time is valuable and it's entirely reasonable to check out of an argument or discussion and say "here, go read these books" if you don't stand to gain anything from continuing the dialog.
I presented Open/FaaS at Dockercon in April showing an Amazon Echo dot with voice skills, integration with 3rd party data, GitHub/S3 and auto-scaling in response to demand - it's a nice high-level overview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h2VTE9WnZs&t=1058s