skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's interesting and makes alcohol sound pretty menacing. I should read more about it. It definitely sounds like seizures and heart issues come up the most. Plus their livers are shot, so toxicity of normally benign treatments is a concern.

Also interesting that, in the very wealthy area we're in, outside of infants and the elderly, middle-aged white men going through alcohol withdrawal are the most common ICU patients.

(sorry for derailing discussion away from opioid addiction)
Phrasing and tone aside, you're not making any point about the content.

To deconstruct your comment:

>Just that your opinion is different from others and happens to currently match the majority view doesn't mean you should be rude to those with different opinions.

Who is he being rude to? The hypothetical reader who believes all social progress made since 1960 was a mistake and Jim Crow was fine and good?

>There are plenty of people with more nuanced opinions on gender roles that aren't bigoted.

This isn't saying anything of substance. You are claiming some people have a more detailed opinion on gender equality than "it was bad in 1960/70" and is also not a bigot. This is just patently true... so what point are you trying to make??

So completely bereft of any meaningful contribution, the only thing left is some condescending tone policing. That's why I down-voted you.
Kratom is fine and all but I'd hardly describe the high as "mild". I'll take it once every few months but not more often than that primarily because it feels way too nice (much of the reason why I've not gone beyond dabbling in opiates).

It should go without stating that I very much support keeping it legal and available, especially to people who are addicted to opiates.
We need to blast off into space sooner than later to escape this tyranny. We must declare independence.
this could absolutely have been a trivial oversight; if they're a rails app it's as simple as a stray line putting an "is_authenticated" before_filter or something on the controller. easily the kind of thing you'd have while dark-launched and then forget to remove later.
PRISM isn't a software backdoor. It's a system for sending selectors (metadata query terms) to providers under FISA 702 Directives. PRISM : FISA warrants :: Stripe : credit card authorizations.
Yep, these studies have been appearing at human-robot interaction conferences for a couple of years now.
That link doesn't really lead anywhere useful. Got another link with details/contact info?
> Im pretty sure, baring literally nazis, you can get just about every person on board with "It's ok to censor people that want genocide".

Well gosh, that sounds simple! Who could possibly argue with that! And of course, quite a large number of Americans believe that legalizing abortion was genocide. So we're all on board with shutting down plannedparenthood.com then, right?

And to think, I thought censorship was a complex issue.
I don't have a whole lot to add, except to say that this is a great article with excellent presentation of data (minus the flexible boundaries; -10% female construction!).
The Soul of a New Machine
No, I think Google was catching up to Yandex, because pagerank alone was not enough to give relevant results in russian. Eventually they did and started competing with each other.
I have flagged the submission for exactly this reason: the page is not fit for purpose, and indeed appears to maliciously require code execution in order to display some text. Even after I allow one bit of JavaScript, I can briefly see the text and then … back to the loading animation.
So this is another online commenting system, light-weight & with some unique features for dealing with large discussions. — Yesterday a HN topic about an online commenting system, Mozilla Talk, being used at Washington Post, got lots of attention ( > 500 upvotes). So I thought that maybe now is good time to post this. (Here's yesterday's discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15232147 )
The withdrawals do lead to destructive behavior.
Thanks! For some reason that didn't come up, all I got was an urban dictionary reference that didn't seem in context.

Wonder of this article is the source?
https://medium.com/incerto/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e...
let's rewrite social idioms to use < > as quotes.
Yeah pretty much. My personal take is there probably needs to be a larger paradigm shift in society and most people's general outlook, ultimately. I'm not quite sure proper moderation or emojis or comment filtering will help all that much. Let's face it, while on some sides optimism abounds, there has been pervading (and maybe growing with the access to information) a jadedness that is pervasive in how people conduct themselves.
>The original argument was that naming them "monoids" reduces cognitive load. Can you explain how exactly you see this reduction in cognitive load coming to pass in programming?

My original argument (in this thread above) is that identifying patterns like monoids (and monads) gives more power through better abstractions.

Not that it's simpler than not knowing those abstractions (obviously assembler which ditches all abstractions is as simple as it gets conceptually).

>What aspects of associative operations with a neutral element are so central to teaching programming that naming such a construct "monoid" gives us a stepping stone towards better understanding programming?

It's about unifying similar usage patterns and having a mechanism to treat things like optionals (Maybe), errors, IO etc in a uniform way.

As a simplified no-monady example, consider languages with a string distinction between primitives (ints, etc) and objects (like Java, at least before generics/auto-boxing). A language that comes and treats both of these things (primitives and objects) as the same -- all objects, is an eye opener, and allows for more kinds of expressions than a language that treats them as distinct kinds of variables does.
You make it sound as if as soon as farmers had surplus, we took that surplus and invested in public education.

Wikipedia reads that England had their agricultural revolution in the 16th century and the population boomed to 5.7 million by 1750. [0]

School however:
"The Elementary Education Act 1880 insisted on compulsory attendance from 5 to 10 years.[20] For poorer families, ensuring their children attended school proved difficult, as it was more tempting to send them working if the opportunity to earn an extra income was available." [1]

The main issue with public education was that people didn't want it, hence compulsory attendance.

The British Empire ruled the world, and had an industrial revolution -
"The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840" [2]

Something tells me given the choice to go work in a factory and make money, or go get educated - people chose to go make some money.

None of this had anything to do with technology not allowing the existence of public education - if anyone could afford it, it was the British Empire at the time. They just had other priorities - like bullying the world and trade. The usual capitalist stuff.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_agriculture#British...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_education_in_Englan...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution
Wouldn't humans creating recognizable images by choosing a particular aberration that looks like something familiar be more akin to intelligent design? Without this intelligence and creativity to see something in each new breed and branch, coupled with the ability on the site to rank images and label images. The final images would have ever existed.

According to Dawkins, Evolution has two objectives. Optimizing survival and procreation. We saw how the randomness toward an objective failed to produce anything meaningful in this example so how is this similar to natural evolution?

I see no similarities.
Unfortunately, you need an infinite number of them to construct any signal, and I think my computer would run out of memory before that :)
> 40-50 Indian rupees (~70 cents)

Ha! They sold for CAD$15 around here...
Their really isn't any big incentive to do that. Software is still eating the world. https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424053111903480904576512...
A couple of things that normally annoy me are that it's just a .zip file not an installer so the user has to figure out a "sensible" place to install it is ... and that there's like emacs.exe, emacsclient.exe, runemacs.exe or whatever - a bunch of .exes and it's not clear unless you've dug around a bit[0] which is "correct".

But after that it was relatively plain-sailing for me. What else was troubling you? Note: it's possible that we've got totally different workloads and needs - not saying you're doing anything wrong, I'm just curious

[0] - OK you don't have to dig far, (it's on https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html) but it still annoys me a tiny bit
I'm not sure the statement that "women were given the opportunity to be homemakers instead of laborers" really jives with reality.
Google Engineers and their first programs (Programmer's Day)
That's not the definition, that's just what it does.

The definition of infinitesimal is "the smallest-magnitude number that is greater than zero". If you divide a finite number by infinity, infinitesimal is what you get, but don't go thinking that if you multiply it by infinity again that you will get the same number back, because you won't.

The floating point standard does not include a representation for infinitesimal, but an underflow now hints at its existence, instead of just going to zero.

It's probably easier to think of quantities like zero, one, infinity, and infinitesimal as the base vectors in mutually orthogonal dimensions. Their behaviors can be defined separately, such that whatever rules you choose for them can produce different types of math, perhaps useful for different purposes (or none beyond cranking out the dissertation), in the same way that slightly changing the Euclidian parallel lines property can produce elliptic and hyperbolic geometries.
Can you not make more goofy videos and share them too? I've done likewise and had it cash out a few times at this point without much effort.
> So what you're saying is that black people can't be trusted to have their own opinions because of institutional racism? Words fail

No, I'm saying that you cannot make an appeal to authority. It is a logical fallacy. Just because some blacks were in favor does not mean it was not racist
I did, too. Didn't ask for anything.
Addiction by definition does cause negative destructive behavior. That's part of the definition. What you're describing is a combination of the psychoactive effects of it and its withdrawal symptoms.

I do agree with you, however. People become addicts due to how our society has criminalized and deregulated drug manufacture and sale and made it extremely hard to teach people how to do properly.
Althogh this has certainly become the narrative of late, TFA seems to discount this fairly strongly;

"To that point, pain treatment is not the most significant risk factor for addiction. Far greater risk comes from simply being young and from using alcohol and other recreational drugs heavily. Ninety percent of all drug addictions start in the teens — and 75 percent of prescription opioid misuse begins when (mainly young) people get pills from friends, family or dealers — not doctors. Opioids are rarely the first drug people misuse."
They strike me as something less charitable: a vehicle for certain coders to pretend they're engaged in higher mathematics by using the jargon when less formal language will do (often with more clarity in fact).
Unless Chelsea Manning is trying to convince us to trust her with our private data, I don't see where the irony is.

It's similar to a reformed/retired safe cracker is telling us which safes are hard to crack. The safe cracker would be in a position to know about how difficult it would be to crack safes.

The major difference being that the safe cracker possibly stands to benefit from lying to us in an effort to make their job easier (convince us to get safes that are in reality easy to crack). In the situation with Chelsea Manning, I'm not sure where you think that she stands to benefit from us following any advice that she's giving.
NSA Broke the Encryption on File-Sharing App Kazaa
Maybe their digestive tract had carried the seeds ...
> May be there is racism that is institutional, but the point is most people even those who are against harsher sentences today thought it was a remedy

I didn't. I thought it was racist back then. Many black leaders thought it was racist back then too
The complexity might be minimized, but not avoided. You would still need an escape mechanism for something like «She said «The \» key on the server doesn't work.»»

ASCII did add <>, [], and {}, any of which could have been used for quoted strings, had the programming language designers chosen that option.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_literal#Paired_delimite... points out that PostScript and Tcl have a string literal which allows matched quotes.

PostScript: (The quick (brown fox))
Tcl: {The quick {brown fox}}
I'm thinking more of an economic consequence, rather than a legal one. Customers boycott businesses all the time for speech they find distasteful. A newscaster uses a racial slur and advertisers threaten to pull sponsorship until he's fired. A company owner endorses a candidate or cause that customers don't like so they vow never to do business with them again, etc. etc. I personally stopped using GoDaddy years ago because of their stance on SOPA.

So, why couldn't businesses boycott customers for the same? If someone's speech is so odious that nobody wants to be associated with them, even in a remote, business sense, I think that should be allowed as a reasonable consequence.
It is the first time I have noticed either type of ad. I obviously cannot remember all ads.
Male vs Women rape statistics seem to denote the same thing, 10% difference, 18% difference, -5% difference. How many cases did the study cover? Looks to be about 300 given the dataset from the website.

300 is a small statistic.

10% of 300 is even smaller.

Science is hard.
Stopped reading at: "Something like the DynamicsCompressorNode is practically a joke: basic features from a real compressor are basically missing, and the behavior that is there is underspecified such that I can’t even trust it to sound correct between browsers. "

Then if you look into it:

dictionary DynamicsCompressorOptions : AudioNodeOptions {
float attack = 0.003;
float knee = 30;
float ratio = 12;
float release = 0.25;
float threshold = -24;

Which are indeed the basics that you need and totally enough for most use cases.

Check out a vintage compressor that has a dozen implementation as VST plugins:

http://media.uaudio.com/assetlibrary/t/e/teletronix_la2a_car...
That's a non-sequitur answer that also manages to concede the point of the comment upthread, which is that there has in fact been a retributive cast to drug policy for black people.
Then you work to change the incentives.
I misread the comment.

> Google Voice just used to use data to set up a PSTN call. Has something changed?

Google Voice did not originally support data only calling(VOIP) like I said read the comment above me. He is supporting what I was saying.

> Yes. About 4 years ago they integrated full VoIP calling into something they call the Hangouts Dialer. Outbound works well, although I often have to initiate a call twice due to setup connectivity weirdness on LTE. Inbound basically never works, so I leave the PSTN forwarding on for that reason.

I have been on Google Voice for a fairly long time. Google Voice used to only supports PSTN calling although it uses data to trigger the call.
The "science" on treating Opioid addictions at this point would just be reaffirming what we already know with mountains of "anecdotal" evidence. You want to solve the Opoid problem? Legalize Ibogane, DMT, Psilocybin, and MDMA, it is that simple.
I'm confused... she sold tens of thousands of dollars of fidget spinners, getting on that craze immediately that she heard about it (she had product within 5 days) and knowing that it was a fad that was destined to die out (hardly the first... I remember Tamagotchi's pretty well, and the apparently New Zealand-only Chatter Ring).

I don't think the comparison to TripAdvisor and travel agents is particularly strong, and I think you'd be hard pushed to make the case that thousands of travel agents who'd maybe heard something about the place you wanted to go is better than thousands of reviews and photos from people who've actually been there. TipAdvisor has lots of problems, to be sure, but it's still better than travel agents.

Unrelated to the above, I'm actually excited for the craze to die out. I think I might be one of the people fidget spinners were originally made for. I don't have any problems focusing, but I habitually spin things in my fingers - my iPhone, my wallet (I've worn marks into the leather), pens... It's usually completely unconscious. So I'll be looking forward to trying a fidget spinner once the fad has gone away.
That's not at all what they said.
This reminds me of the great (I think) star trek TNG episode The Game (I had to look up the name, then felt silly). I imagine you and your wife picking them up just to be able to make it home without being accosted.
The work was first posted to arxiv in 2012. It can take a while until a result is understood by enough experts to confirm its correctness. Imagine if journalists wrote an article claiming P=NP is closed every time someone posted their attempt to arxiv.

Also, this work very recently won a prestigious award.

Also, result published ---> result accepted ---> journalist writes high-quality piece explaining result to lay people can take years.

> the lack of an actual citation was very disturbing

The first linked text in the article is a link to the arxiv paper.
Not a lawyer to know one, just common sense they got banned based on being Russians, unless of course we can be proven otherwise (with evidence)
> ‘‘Now, in less than half a year, spinners are done,’’ Osborne says. ‘‘I’m moving on to squishies’’ — squishable toys that are also (questionably) marketed as attention aids. ‘‘I think they’ll last at least a few months.’’

As a side note, squishies have been around for a while too, at least since last year. My son is a big fan of them. I'm pretty sure he learned about them from YouTube kids, which sometimes seems like trove of toy commercials. Unlike what Ms. Osborne seems to think, I don't think fads in the future will be any shorter, I think they'll just be created in different ways.
That's advertising. Some consider it a subset of marketing. Some consider it an entirely separate area. I agree. Ads on web pages are resource hogs. ;)

In its purest form, marketing is any communication from a company. Without marketing you would not know about any products from any company. So some forms of marketing are very valuable to everyone. As with any discipline there are bad points as well.
Steer clear of Kraken. Their software/infrastructure is more inept than anything I've seen in recent memory. Coinbase and Bitstamp seem fine. Put your coins in cold storage or a hardware wallet such as Trezor.
Most Russians I have met - being critical or bragging about themselves usually come up with the same arguments of how much they are "not western".

Actually during my years in Germany, UK and Russia and in most west and east European countries I have seen the same attitude in similar ways. In UK beyond London you'll see the majority referring to Europe as "Europe" and us. Similarly in Turkey, "Europe" is externalized.

Russian dynasty after Peter 1., Communist elites, and the last 500 years of Russian history revolves mostly rooting some ideas/technology from "Europe" and exercising this power in Europe and East and South. So I would consider Russia as "western". Especially after I have seen the bigger world of Indians, South asians, South americans, Africans - those cultures are diverse and unique alternatives to the "West" but I would say Russia is not.
"everyone has a plan 'til they get punched in the mouth" -- Mike Tyson
This is equivalent to asking what is the average number of digits necessary to represent an arbitrary natural number. If you assume that this is a finite number you can quickly arrive at a contradiction.
This continues to drive me absolutely nuts. At the very least you should have your elevator pitch right up front.
> Companies need to do a better job of grooming their own highly competent staff to be good executors

Given that Equifax is unlikely to face any meaningful punishment over this ... why? Until the laws change to deincentivize this type of behavior, market forces have decided that a good face is the best choice for a company's profit margins. Corporations will always game for maximum profits, so it's up to us to set the parameters so that they work in a way that is healthy for society.
Would you see the same irony in any other whistle-blower writing this article? I don't think most people see whistle-blowing as equivalent to breaching individuals' privacy. One is defending the public from wrongs done by powerful organizations, while the other is harming the public by threatening their privacy. You have to erase a lot of details to draw an equivalence there.
Same thing happens with twitter lynch mobs. Another day, another victim.
Is it a specific test, or all tests? If there is a story exploring this, I'd be somewhat interested in reading it.
IBM pushing for software patents legislation in the US, and abolish Alice
> We've lost the bastion of professional journalism.

I don't read it this way at all.

There are still fantastic journos all over the place. Now, you can find fantastic journalists at BuzzFeed -- they just aren't the ones writing the listicles. You can find fantastic journalists at WaPo and NYT, but they are a strict subset of all article writers at their institution. You can find entire media outlets which are largely fantastic journalists, such as ProPublica.

We've only lost the idea that all news/media writers on the internet are "journalists".

> We need someone to vet this stuff for us.

The world is more complicated than it used to be.

We need more media literacy of readers. In the past, there were media gatekeepers who were very educated and (debatably) ethical. But with the democratization of media, there are no fences or gates anymore so people simply bypass the gatekeepers.

The institutions of our world are changing. Not only the specific names of institutions and the new generation of people manning them, but altering what it means to be an institution. The "populist" movements worldwide (including the current Trump+Bannon / Bernie / Brexit / anti-EU, and the Arab Spring + similar revolutions against the entrenched powered interests) are eroding the long-established institutions. Media consumers feel the sand shifting between their feet and are afraid of all media and institutions right now. Some of these populist movements are using this fear of change and fear of media to their advantage.

And then again, a fantastic journalist is not the only thing you need. You also need to have editors to keep journalists honest and ethical, even in a time when news outlets have to compete with "free" by thinning their editor ranks and outsourcing "journalism" to non-staff citizens.
Your argument would be much stronger with data. I wouldn't be surprised if the truth is somewhere in the middle and I certainly wouldn't discount the impact of the Vietnam War, feminism, social services, heck even consumerism, etc. on the tendency of people to work or stay at home.

And you're totally right that homemaker/stay-at-home-parent should be represented in the workforce... developing software is cake compared to that workload.