skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> in the current research model, if you can't make a publication with it, it's not worth your time

Which is why it's high time publishing data along with research is made the default, if not mandatory. This way the incentives are aligned and there's time and money budget for this vital task. Some journals are leading the way here.
Unless Uber had already identified him as fraudulent, or he attempted to use a sign-up promotion again (and this is considered fraudulent) AND Uber are actually using DeviceCheck for exactly those two purposes, then this is not the correct answer.
> And not this.

Why not?
Not since iOS 10.3
These guy's have been releasing free stock images weekly
Ibogaine also reportedly has that effect. [1]

Out of the addictions you claim you had, only alcohol is severe. Cannabis is mostly psychological addiction but users often combine it with tobacco which is also physiological addicting.

Caffeine addiction is very easy to break with some sheer willpower. The withdrawal symptoms only last 1-2 days, and the side effects are a serious headache. That's nothing compared to heroin, nicotine, or alcohol addiction.

Sugar (and salt) is just a matter of habit. There is no conclusive evidence sugar is a proven addiction. You don't see burglars breaking in to steal sugar, do you?

Why would Ayahuasca work better than professional guidance (e.g. CBT) plus drugs with a proven track record such as Nalmefene, Naltrexone, Bupropion (Zyban), or Disulfiram (Antabuse)?

You wrote: "addictions [...] evaporated during my trip and did not return for many weeks". Do you mean your cravings were gone? I don't think one ever fully heals from an addiction. You're still an addict, just not one who's practicing their addiction (giving in to it). That is precisely where professional guidance can aid one.

To anyone who is addicted to alcohol I'd like to state: search professional help, please. Don't DIY medicate. If you are a severe alcoholic, you should not quit overnight. That is very dangerous. Instead, you need to slowly lower your dose. The best way to do that is, again, under professional guidance. A shaman might know a lot about Ayahuasca, but he's no MD.

Don't get me wrong, it is interesting to explore and discuss, and I'm also a proponent of scientific research in this field. However we should be wary with drug-related advice, or unrealistically high expectations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibogaine#Addiction_treatment (Yes, Wikipedia. Contains various references)
As an Eastern European living in America. These days I smile so much for no reason during the simplest interactions with people that I feel like an idiot. I'm not happy at all.
This seems like a lot more balanced assessment of the guy than the original article, which seems almost entirely fueled by toxic vitriol
Only with first-to-the-patent-office, a recent (but devastating) change in the law in N.A.
Stallman was right.

Why Patents Are Bad for Software, 1991:

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/projects/lpf/Links/prep.ai.m...
Now you need to have "significantly more" than being implemented with a computer. Opinions differ over exactly what this means.
Hi there,

First of all, thanks for going through the mission statement and appreciating what I'm doing with this project.

Having worked in a startup for over 2 years now, there's one thing that I have noticed.

Most people like their butts glued to their chair and keeping activity to a minimum.

I mean like for traveling even 1KM they tend to get a cab.

I tried getting some guys to the gym with me or to eat healthy.

Some tried. Some didn't. Most of them didn't stick to their healthy habits for long.

What I was doing was cheerleading them to health. That's not the push they required.

They needed to know what's wrong with their current habits. Why they should be improving their habits. How to do it.

That is when this project was born.

I wanted to hand out claims that are backed by science in a lucid manner. Also, what I think most blogs do is just say stuff and end the article.

I want my readers to take away actionable tips after completing the article. They should be knowing what to do right after reading each article.

That's my main aim with this project. Educate, inspire, and influence people towards a better life. To help them decide what's good for them.

I launched the site yesterday. Planning to do 1-2 solid articles each week.

Thanks again for your kind words. I'm more thrilled to work on this project after reading this comment.

Made my day.

Watch out for more articles on the blog.

Cheers!

Rahul
At Airbnb, most core flows (search, home booking, map, trips/itinerary, inbox / messaging, the signup/login screen, profile, settings, and the hosting flow for listing your place) are all native. Most screens are built using a declarative abstraction on top of UICollectionView and UITableView.

The Trips tab in the app (itinerary) was actually rewritten in native after originally being implemented using RN.

It’s really too bad that people have this perception of RN’s use at Airbnb. I feel like people assume the whole thing is RN, which couldn’t be more wrong.
> while imperative code is closer to how machine works

somewhat. less so these days than say back in the 8086 era.

cpu's these days do all kinds of wild stuff, with their long pipelines, staged execution, executing multiple instructions simultaneously, and other interesting behavior.

combine that with smarter compilers that can transform code in various ways to capitalize upon cpu developments, and you might be slightly surprised how some ostensibly boring and linear imperative code actually behaves on a present day cpu.
From that article:

"The Daily Stormer then raised the stakes with a claim that Cloudflare's management was supportive of its ultra-nationalist ideology."
Try the name of the guy who came up with it.
Do you have evidence that ayuhuasca is mutagenic? Inhibition of enzymes is temporary and generally harmless if you are careful not to consume certain drugs while inhibited.
The legal meaning of "prior art" has been changed by recent amazing legal decisions. It means "awfully damn famous" now.
But see, cross-compilers and cross-platform standard libraries are actually different things than compilers and standard libraries. In the context of cross-platform mobile, they are quite important things to spell out.
Passing the torch
Well, the average top male manager in CZ in 2015 made 67 769 CZK monthy [1] or $3,080USD.

The average person in parliament in 2016 made around 100 000 CZK or $4,545USD. The head of parliament made 200 000 CZK or $9,091USD a month.[2]

The judges are paid by years on the bench. A judge started with 78 500CZK a month and after 18 years on the bench made 104 900CZK in 2015. And the judges also get money on the side for all sorts of things, so you can think of their pay as being like "spending money", their basic living expenses are already paid by the state. It's not an extreme amount of money, but it is generally true that politicians and judges are the best paid professions in the country. [3]

[1] http://www.statistikaamy.cz/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Hol%C...

[2] https://www.novinky.cz/domaci/423136-poslanci-si-pristi-rok-...

[3] http://www.ceska-justice.cz/blog/ustavni-soud-o-platech-soud...
Twitter is a joke.

I keep reporting accounts that call black people "nic gurr" to avoid being caught dropping actual N bombs and they are almost never banned.

I guess Daily Active User KPI is more important!

Edit - For anyone wondering about Trump's place on Twitter, he's not going anywhere. Twitter is extremely proud of his account and is using him in advertising in Japan:

http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-ads-featuring-donald-...
Glad to know that you liked the design. I've been working on this for some time now.

I'll keep polishing it.
It is naive to think this battle wasn't going to eventually come to Cloudfare or the Internet as a whole. The US has some of the most extreme laws on allowing free speech and there is still plenty of stuff that we don't allow. Humanity has decided there are just some things that shouldn't be said or shared. Child porn is the most obvious example. Once you go from 100% free speech in which anyone can say anything to disallowing a single thing, you have to start defending where that line is. I don't think that is bad. I also think it may be a dangerous thing for the technolibertarians in our community to continue pushing for 100% free speech as if it is an ideal state because it doesn't account for how negative speech can silence the speech and infringe on the rights of others.
> E.g. see Mike Pall's statement on LuaJIT

I am playing devil's advocate here, but Mike's statement doesn't amount to evidence. I understand he's afraid, and he's saying he thinks it's now too onerous to do due diligence. And I agree -- he's right. OTOH, it's not normal to guarantee that a piece of software is free from patent liability. Nobody could even if they wanted to, and even if the patent system was healthy. Company lawyers have told me not to look for patent infringement when I write code, they say just write algorithms that you believe nobody else invented, and "they" (competition) will let us know via the legal system if they see a claim.

> Are you sure you want to live in a world where people can't legally write and release LuaJIT for free without its users facing legal ramifications? Same deal with machine learning. What will the LuaJIT of machine learning be?

I don't want to live in that world. But is there not a flip side from the inventors point of view? If I invented something very useful, and very non-obvious, and say just for purposes of example, that Mike Pall put that idea in LuaJIT, released it for free, and my commercial competition then downloaded LuaJIT and put me out of business, I would probably be some combination of sad, mad, and poor.
Very good writing indeed. However, the metaphor here gives me the feeling of "enough internet today"...
Btw, the anchor link to #project-structure don't work. Hope you (if you are the author) fix that soon.
The functional difference between 'causes schizophrenia' and 'triggers latent schizophrenia' to someone who is diagnosed with schizophrenia after ingesting ayahuasca is practically non-existent.

Sure, you can generalize that those with family members who have schizophrenia are at an increased risk of having it rear its head. However, not everyone with schizophrenia gets diagnosed nor do many people have detailed psychiatric evaluations of their relatives to make decisions off of.
Exactly. Hacker news
I grew up in the Deep South, and you can really change the way people feel by being unflinchingly friendly. People who hold controversial opinions generally know that they do (if they aren't crazy) and expect people to recoil at first contact. When you don't recoil, it throws them and makes them think. At that point, you are entering mind-changing territory. Then you start asking them questions that allows them to do 80% of the talking. They will usually stumble on their own logical fallacies at that point, and you have thus led the horse to water, which is about all you can do.

Not very many people are very good at this. Which is unfortunate.

TL;DR When you get all worked up over the way people are talking, you have allowed them to seize control of the debate and have generally lost the opportunity to change that particular mind.
> then I delete the if statements once the feature becomes permanent and gets released to all users

Doesn't this throw out some of the point of feature flags? That if your production servers are getting hammered, and you're having trouble scaling (for whatever reason), that you can degrade service by toggling off various features which are more resource-intensive so that your service doesn't crash entirely.

Feature toggles implemented through conditional logic seems like an anti-pattern to me. Developers make mistakes, and it's very easy to forget to wrap work around the necessary toggles and accidentally expose not-ready code in production, which may also have security consequences.

It seems to me like a better pattern would be to feature-toggle on an API level, and force developers to plan and commit to relatively stable APIs when they deploy new features to production. This is achieved through an API gateway model - a versioned API is introduced to the gateway, and new versions of services must pass integration testing proving that they adhere to that API before the API gateway will serve the new version of the service with traffic. Developers may introduce new code, and new unstable APIs, and deploy them to production, but they will not be user-facing until a new, stable API is pushed to the API gateway to serve to users. This preserves developer flexibility in pushing new work to production, without exposing that work to the user, until the feature is stabilized and ready.
Very good article. It is really astounding the amount of work that needs to be done in the python ecosystem!
Compelling Science Fiction issue 9
It's true, Catalonia already proclaimed its independence on the evening of October 6th 1934 (it only lasted until the early morning of October 7th 1934, though).
We certainly don't have proof, but there's a helluva historical correlation between patent enforcement (or existence) and countries with strong economic growth, particularly in technology sectors. That has to be referred to as evidence - since evidence which cannot be misleading, i.e. "incontrovertible evidence" is actually proof.

Moreover, histories of technology often show simultaneous invention, and in such cases, the obscure and unsuccessful efforts very strongly tend to appear in areas where patent law is not efficient or respected, and therefore investment for development of inventions is lacking. Without his patent, James Watt could not have and would not have (finally, after a long effort) found a sufficiently rich partner who could fund the development and production of his new kind of steam engine.

Note too that even if patents weren't globally efficient (which I strongly believe they are), they nonetheless attract inventors to your country and so are locally efficient (a prisoner's dilemma that only coordination through treaties would defeat.)

This doesn't mean that present patent law is ideal, or that the historical context hasn't at least partly vanished, however: very complex technologies (which we're now awash in) create situations in which it may be more valuable to cease to produce smartphones and instead use patents to hold a gun to the head of others and merely extract rent from those still producing them (sneezeMicrosoft.) Since you aren't producing phones, others can't retaliate by refusing to license their patents - you no longer need their patents. When more than one (or perhaps a thousand) IP holders want to extract rent from the same item, obviously this can introduce great inefficiencies. Few patents are truly essential (outside FRAND standards, a different situation) but many are costly to get around. One way or another, sooner or later, we may have to deal with this situation. I wish I knew just how.
Intranet via VPN?
Web Components: The Long Game
So Halliburton could have funded the very long expensive development of Xerox machines... how?
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The unbanked use this amazing new innovation called cash.
> Don't get me wrong, we shouldn't tolerate the intolerant (e.g. nazis/terrorists)

No. They are precisely who we should tolerate. That's what free speech rights exist to protect.

We shouldn't tolerate violence, but we should tolerate speech.

> See how Google/YouTube/Twitter did mass bans and ended up including people like Jordan Peterson.

But according to the left, peterson is an intolerant person.

This is why we have principles and rights. The first thing everyone used to learn in a philosophy class was that if the neo-nazis don't have free speech, then nobody has free speech.

You can disagree with neo-nazis. That's your right. But if their speech is curtailed, then nobody has speech because speech no longer is a right, it's a privilege that depends on the whims of the offended.
Android 8.0 Oreo- Updated version of Android in this year
Not all software is about just "a business method".

E.g., compilers, differential equation solvers, linear program solvers, graphics rendering routines, ...

Some software is more ingenious than a lot of "mechanical" patents.

(By the way, this raises the question why e.g. mechanical engineers can make money using patents, while software engineers could not.)
Journals should not accept for publication articles which do not come with data and analysis source code for full replication of the results reported.
Wouldn't the obvious answer seem to be to provide certainty factor estimates where varying degrees of evidence are available?

Anyways, I've rarely ever seen historians qualify their data points. Unfortunately humility is only for the scientists, and because they can't escape the same consequences of uncertainty when drawing conclusions from data (i.e. statistical significance). Confidence is for the rest of us, not because it is helpful, but because our human nature commands it.
Show HN: Hashdex – easily check if a file is already on your filesystem
> in any case, software patents are almost never specific about what sort of computer you will use, so it is not clear what "apparatus" is being described

Well yeah, that's what I meant about it being on the line. The patent system was designed before computers, and it clearly was built with the idea that physical things people built, and mathematical ideas people imagined, were two separate categories. With computer software, there's no distinction. I really can build a physical machine that does things using only mathematical ideas. The patent system wasn't designed to see that possibility.
Fineness, I assume? Although it'd be important to have finesse, too!
don't ask me how, but this works (at least on windows):

https://i.imgur.com/dtan6HH.png

https://pastebin.com/AcZEgqaP
Ask HN: How are Kubernetes startups doing?
I know there are quite a few Kubernetes startups around, also from Y-combinator. I have been wondering how they view the container management space.

Is there a gigantic pull where everyone is slowly converging towards managed container engines by Amazon/Google/Microsoft?

How much are companies like CoreOS, as early movers, struggling against them? What is their long term view when asked how to survive against the big cloud providers who are racing to the bottom, price wise, and who don't even need to a turn a profit on most features?
ClojureScript on Glitch.com
It wasn't clear you understood that, you could have easily been using federally recognized as the infallible source to see tribal maps, and it also isn't clear that anybody else would understand that
While everything you wrote may be true, the US still seems to be exceptionally bad by international standards. We have a lot of rural communities here in the UK as well, where people also need private transport because the public alternatives are lacking. But our vehicles are a fraction of the size (and have a fraction of the fuel consumption) of some of the giant monstrosities that seems to be much more common in the US, and so even though our fuel prices are much higher (almost entirely due to higher taxes), people living in rural communities still manage to get around. The same is true across much of Europe.

While running a car may be cheap in financial terms in the US, environmentally and in terms of scarce natural resources it is anything but, and at some point the US is going to have to deal with the social acceptability of one person driving an enormous vehicle for long distances many times per week or within our lifetimes there are going to be serious problems.
Great work - but from my understanding this isn't "The category theory you need to know to be a good programmer in a Haskell like language." It's much more advanced and It's a "'concise' way to learn category theory for people with a background of programming".

At least that was my take from the chapters I've read so far.
I think git is a great example of bridging the mutable/immutable gap. The "mutable" stuff happens locally in the ram, or on a local filesystem, as someone edits their files, debugs, whatever. A commit represents a save checkpoint. Somebody has decided that this state is worth snapshotting, that it would be a useful reference down the line. At this point an immutable version is made, ready to be shared.

As with git, even if a version (commit) is immutable, it doesn't mean it's worth saving. Lots of times, you might make a temporary branch locally to do some work. Then you'll merge it and push the merged version upstream. Later you might check out a new copy from upstream, not caring that your temporary working branch isn't there.

User friendly versioning is a major challenge for dynamic, distributed applications. How do we gracefully bridge the gap between long term (distributed) memory and short term (local) memory? Each specific application has its own needs and tradeoffs.

And how do applications communicate about which versions are compatible with the applications' needs? About which versions are worth holding onto?
No, as he says Spain can vote to split amicably or they can go to war. The US isn't apart of the UK because they won the war. Virginia is a part of the US because the south lost the war. For an amicable split you would see something like India and the UK.
I generally go for 'they' to be neutral, but it doesn't always feel right.
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The right person loves the start-up life, and is eager to take ownership of all things technical. There's significant equity available along with a living salary. Plus there's the opportunity to build something new and cool, market to a vast, untapped market, and, most of all, help safe lots of lives, families and communities.

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Spooky Science: The Ghost Frequency
The "problem" in this article's premise is coupling links with physical servers, for which DNS and CDNs have solved.

Distributed computing certainly has it's role, but the added complexity of cache invalidation, versioning, and content synchronization are undeniable.
Does anyone know a good introduction to angr? I looked for one a while back and found most of the tutorials rather cryptic.
Shell out some money for a mindfulness course instead for a more professional, guided course instead of apps. We bought some CDs from our instructor (in our native language) as well and ripped them to MP3 residing on our mobile devices. So we don't have to resort to suboptimal apps, which have privacy implications. YMMV really.
That is what the judicial branch of the State is for: if someone has a problem with some kind of content, he can go and denounce it.

The other possibility is just chaos and vigilante justice. Which is what the CEO of Cloudflare did.