skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TFA is about France targeting advertising that is known to cause anorexia. GP's point is that (in the US) obesity is a much larger issue and should have far more resources put into tackling that problem. Not being allowed to advertise to minors would be one idea. But since TFA is about France the situation is different.

Your comment is a perfect example of being hypersensitive about this issue. As someone who used to be obese, I find it quite horrifying that more isn't being done to protect children from harmful advertising. I'm lucky that I found my motivation to combat my weight problems in my late teens, many people aren't so fortunate.
Are the quantum changes also in the Android version of Firefox?
From the article:

> If Pai’s majority permits fast lanes for the biggest internet service providers (ISPs like Comcast, Verizon and AT&T), companies could speed up or slow down the sites and services they prefer.

Is the slow down part a real thing? I'm familiar with local peering to speed up last mile services (ex: Netflix hubs) but I'm not aware of ISPs targeting specific companies to slow down their bandwidth. Beyond generic packet shaping to slow down or limit your overall connection, is targeted throttling like that for real? IANAL but I'd imagine the latter would get an ISP's ass handed to them in a lawsuit.

> Fast lanes or “paid prioritization” create anticompetitive incentives for ISPs to favor their own services over those of their competitors.

A better solution is to require that ISPs be only ISPs. If they don't have their own content mills to push then you don't have this problem. While you're at it, split out the physical maintenance of the pipes from the companies providing the ISP services so that the latter can compete as well.

Ah fuck it, just let the municipality run it and be done with this. Then we can all go to our local townhall meetings and listen to irate neighbors rail at our local representatives for throttling their porn downloads.
The food we have in the U.S., particularly in low-income areas is atrocious. However there are a lot of excuses being made about obesity, including that it's caused by poverty. Yes poverty is a component, but the obesity epidemic is striking all income groups, with no particular correlation to income [0]. It's more about the diet and exercise choices that people choose to make, include the middle class and upper class who most definitely have the ability to make choices around the food and beverages they consume.

Further many of the most wasteful calories are not caused by high-sodium, high-fat processed foods but by excess sugar consumption in the form of sugary drinks. Switching to water, black coffee, or unsweetened tea could help the "Big Gulp" demographic big time.

0: http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullart...
They'll probably just render a completely digital image instead, no photoshopping involved in that.
Some interesting insights there. Thanks for this article.
I just hope this doesn't lead to more draconian IT laws all over the EU... ;)
int_19h has previously posted a nice overview of some of Solidity's flaws:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14810008

Such issues make the language extremely error-prone.

A possible remedy was also suggested:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14809743

Prolog sounds like a great tool for encoding rules, and there has already been some research for encoding legal texts in Prolog.
Naw. We became so dependent on our electrical infrastructure that non-working ATM is just one more additional woe.

If you want EMP resiliency, you may want to invest at least a few billion into it. Of course, steering the governmental budget to spend money on stuff that only raise electrical bill and will only prove its worth in an emergency and catastrophic situation is a hard pill to swallow, especially when there are competing priorities.
Austria is quite a small country and I wouldn't assume culture differs a lot across companies. Which type of work was it?
By the way, "Abrahamic" is the standard adjective applied to that collection of religions - it looks like you might not have known that. It's a useful word in some specific circumstances :)
But people with old IE won’t get a favicon that way
We in Zimbabwe know a thing or two about running on cash only. Been doing it for almost a decade.
Creepiness is a complex subject, and there are many shades of it.

In general, it seems to be anything that makes women sexually uncomfortable is perceived as creepy (from Models by Mark Manson). But the ones that can (and should) be avoided is:

- Expressing sexual intentions in some sneaky way (like, staring at a girl but hesitating with talking to her). Though, importantly, playful flirting is not considered creepy (even though it's not about showing things explicitly).

- Pursuing her for too long when she is not interested (some behaviors can be super romantic or creepy, totally depending on her interest in you, which you may not know).

Yet, from what I seen (and learned) being upfront (or flirting playifully) AND leaving ample space for her to turn you down (so - not being to pushy or needy) is good enough (and actionable).

To some point it is not possible to be creepy-proof if you want to show any sexual intentions. At the same time, it's not a big deal (and shouldn't be).
I guess for foreigners, first world countries, this is quite normal. However, here, at Brazil, this is the very first initiative where a private company decides to invest in research, aiming to keep innovative researchers working at Brazil. This should be more praised than usual.
The best craftsmen create their own tools.
But why do you need to look happy when you are happy? Asking as an Eastern European.
It's probably not even you, it's probably your life.
Ah yes, that guy.

I've been following him for a little while. Lurk his slack channel. If you think he's going to jail, you may be underestimating him: https://medium.com/@PinkApp/pink-app-trading-latency-for-ano...

Do I think he is in it for the money? Oh yes. There's no doubt. But he clearly has the energy and drive to be creating something new. It's either a new kind of scam or a fundamentally-new type of enterprise, but either way, it's new.

Very few people have used tor to forge a public persona that they use to influence a ton of people and spark debate about a central issue. Satoshi and maybe gwern.

I am holding out hope that he's genuine, because as far as I know he's already received a ~crapton of money with his ICO and yet he's still here, still risking his neck.

And at the end of it, maybe sex workers will end up with protection. Maybe the system will become regulated. I don't know whether it's a good thing or bad thing, but my point is that it could change things. And that, I think, is worth watching for.

If he's genuine, his business model is the first public execution of the cyberpunk dreams presented in Snowcrash. Hopefully he doesn't get himself publicly executed, ha.

On the other hand, yes, there is a high probability he's outright scamming everybody. If so, then I'll be a bit sad, but scams have existed since the beginning of time. The interesting thing here is that there's nothing fundamentally preventing this idea from being real the next time. It's theoretically possible! It wasn't possible before, and ICOs are the reason.

If you think any of this is a defense of either ICOs in general or his actions in particular, you're misreading me. It's important to look objectively about what's going on and notice any new trends in the world. Especially when they're due to shifts in technology.

EDIT: Interesting that no one is addressing the argument. Quite a radioactive idea.
Depends on how much you are hanging the definition of quackery on the presence of intentional fraud and charatanism.

I meant the usual inventors that claim to be on the verge of becoming miraculously rich after the miraculous achievment of building an unlimited energy or propulsion machine, but alas there is still some small issue.. I'd love to show you, but you'll need to sign this NDA first.

When an aquaintance of mine started doing this, trying to build a perpetual motor using magnets and suction pumps, and insisting I join his madness by signing a NDA, over and fucking over, refusing to get a job to support his family, feeding them dreams of riches that are born only of a psychological inadequacyand need to be special..

well pooh.
Supercell, >10B valuation, is Finnish.
If there would be an emp blast anywhere in the world you would have far bigger problems.
Btw a cash counter in my local mcdonalds was out of order meaning the lady had to write down every payment on a piece of paper. Because apparently it is not enough to just hand over the banknotes. You need to know that you sold cafe latte for 3euros and a mcmuffin for 1.5.
Everyone's biased, but descriptions matching those above are commonly observed here regardless of political views. They are in fact common to the point of triteness.

If I were to talk about what's actually going on and explain why Norway fosters less tech innovation than Sweden it would have to be in a different form than comments. But I wanted to point out that the explanation might have to do with things unrelated to regulations, taxes, and safety nets.

Are Finns drunker than Norwegians?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_alcohol_c...

Is this bias?
Also, each and every photo in an add has the same warning, so it's completely ignored by the people.
There is work on rotation invariant CNNs, but I'm not sure why you would expect that property to just fall out of standard CNNs.

As much as architecture research gets denigrated these days, MLPs aren't what set off the revolution.
That's because everything in Australia is [secretly] plotting to kill you! ;)
See my other comment reg. cash. Cash is not the solution it is just a band aid.
My theory (as a Dane) is that Danish people get votes the happiest people because they are complacent.
There's a few things potentially wrong (or right, in fact, depending on context - maybe you want them to fall through) with those switch statements, so I'm not sure precisely what he's objecting to...
License for those interested:

https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu/blob/master/LICENSE
No, my point is they don't have to move. Housing for the homeless afaik is largely entirely voluntary, and one of the big issues in my understanding is that, even when available, some will choose (for various reasons) not to use it. Making it available elsewhere will make it even less likely one would accept the help, and even if they did it wouldn't address the issue in the area being discussed.
Yet we're all hypersensitive about telling women they are overweight or obese.

One of the reasons for this is that women don't really get told they should work on their fitness to improve their own quality of life. The framing is almost always that the only real value a woman has is as a sex object. Telling women they need to lose weight is also a blame game where people with relatively little control over their lives are tasked with yet one more standard to meet instead of being given the support they need.

I am a woman. I am still alive when I should not be in part because I refused to cave to enormous social pressure to diet and force my body to conform to certain expectations. After getting the right diagnosis in my mid thirties, I was empowered to finally take proper care of myself. I shrank dramatically, even though that was not a goal of mine and my doctor was not trying to get me to lose weight because my condition usually leads to people being severely underweight and this helps kill them.

Our built environment used to be designed with fitness is mind. Now, many Americans are prisoners of their cars, spending long periods driving to and from work or school and finding nothing within walking distance. Elevators and escalators have replaced stairs. Sedentary office jobs are more the norm than hard physical labor. Everyone is too time stressed to go home and cook a real meal from scratch, so folks eat crappy microwave meals or get fast food at the drive through window or some other equally unhealthy option.

From my perspective, women giving push back and saying "I'm not your bitch, don't hang your shit on me. Quit judging me for how I look and pressuring me to conform." is actually the essential first step for trying to take control of their lives. That control leads to better health. Women starving themselves to try to conform does not lead to better health. It is just one more source of stress and problems for people who already tend to have too little control over their lives.
Or use a pencil and a box
In Australia (after we introduced plain packaging laws for cigarettes, banned advertising, and made many other related laws) smoking has dropped significantly[1]. It's amazing how much advertising and education plays into this. What if it was not legal to advertise junk food to children, or you had plain-packaging style laws for junk food?

I used to be obese, so I completely agree that fat people usually are somewhat aware of how fat they are and of the health impacts. It's just hard to make them care, and they need help with going through a lifestyle change that they are going to make mistakes during.

[1]: http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mediareleasesbyCatal...
this topic is covered in /Doc/BlkChain.DD.Z
Humorously going through K12 in Texas I remember multiple safety lessons before doing (literal) field trips in grade school about rattle snakes and I never received drivers education through a school.
Well portion sizes are smaller, but most people walk, bike or transit to work. For example this week I haven't done any exercise due to a "sports"-related injury, and yet managed to burn an average of 2571 calories -- and before you think I'm lucky to live near work, my one-way commute is 30 miles. Even just 40 minutes of daily physical activity built into a commute can make a huge difference.
Until they freeze your account or ban you for some silly reason.
Yeah I'd really like built in profile support. Tab containers aren't the same thing for me. Neither is the round about way of using profiles currently in Firefox.
It's not a competition, some countries are way worse and have been for a while (Saudi Arabia recently legalized women driving - does it mean its getting better ? and from a far enough historical perspective you could say Turkey is merely returning to its Ottoman legacy)
There is a clear world-wide regression in civil liberties vs. government power in tandem with religious revival and education is key to that.
If anybody wants to know the truth, you can just go to the official Catalan Goverment education page: http://xtec.gencat.cat/ca/inici/

The page itself it's only in Catalan, with no translation into Spanish available. If you as a parent only speak Spanish, tough luck, you don't have the right to get to know official information about the education of your child in the official language of your country.

If you are curious, you can see the obligatory contents of any course (called Seqüències didàctiques). For instance, 1r ESO (roughly first high school year):
http://xtec.gencat.cat/ca/curriculum/eso/sequencies/

The only subjects that are not in Catalan are "Llengua castellana i literatura" (Spanish language) and "Llengua anglesa" (English language).
Wow, okay did you just assume my food preferences?

Try not murdering innocent life for your next meal.

(I jest)
Nah, if there is a bad shadow or they want to remove a few hairs from the fringe, they have to add the same warning. They ant write "This image is 99% not Photoshopped.".
But we are talking about green accounts here. Literally colored green usernames. Why is HN doing that if not to indicate they are new accounts?
Sure, but I'm not aware of any language with an optimizer that minimizes permanent storage (for example).

The gas model has been forced to be a close representation of actual costs, because last year it wasn't close enough, and someone took advantage of that to launch denial of service attacks.

Incidentally, last year someone wrote an Idris backend compiling to EVM for their doctoral thesis. They concluded that it had some benefits but not as much as they expected. [1]

There's an effort in progress to migrate from the existing EVM to a modified webassembly [2], which would allow usage of existing languages, and potentially improve performance significantly. It's still experimental and may or may not work out, but seems to be making good progress. [3]

With the existing EVM there are new languages in development that may improve matters, including Viper [4] (by Vitalik) and Bamboo [5] (by someone the Ethereum Foundation employs to work on formal proofs).

[1] https://publications.lib.chalmers.se/records/fulltext/234939...

[2] https://github.com/ewasm/evm2wasm

[3] https://blog.ethereum.org/2017/08/23/roundup-5/

[4] https://github.com/ethereum/viper

[5] https://github.com/pirapira/bamboo
> Not only became adaption to the given reality the goal of development, but the pathological was seen as a failure to adapt to reality. The validity of that reality was not questioned. The sick carried the blame for being sick. That the pathological could sometimes be the only way to maintain autonomy itself in the face of pseudo-social realities was completely outside the ken of such a mode of thought.

-- Arno Gruen, "The Betrayal of the Self"

That people get depressed or sick in other ways isn't terribly surprising. Look at the world we're making for ourselves and others to live in. It's like toddlers getting sick when crawling on a floor so dirty you can hardly see the floor, and if our first and only reaction is to ask why would the toddler get sick and what kind of protective clothing could they wear, because we're unwilling to face those shitting on the floor, it does not take a scientist to see what's going on. Putting your head over a microscope like an ostrich is what's required to not see it.

Yes, there are actual intricate mechanisms. Just like there are for getting infected in an environment full of pathogens. I'm not even saying they are not interesting or worth studying and quantifying and whatnot. Microscopes are useful, for some things essential. But sometimes the lame, boring answer, like "the world is still too unjust, too many children get abused or neglected in so many ways, often enough because their parents get trampled on, too", is the correct one, that is, it's the correct first part, it requires then acting on that. Until that sentence is no longer true. It's like a spoon to a soup; whoever told you using a fork is more elegant is trapped and trying to trap you.
A minimalistic C++ reflection system
I just got back from a holiday in Turkey. What a beautiful country. It was shocking to have things like Wikipedia and Imgur blocked though. Was a real eye opener.
The github repo shows it compares poorly to Firefox for privacy.
Awesome. Which game, out of curiosity?

I must say the color clash and that weird "in color, but oddly monochromatic" vibe of Spectrum games has a certain charm.
"Problem solved."

I don't think you've predicted this correctly.

Does the prominence matter? Size? Adjacent material?
You can't demolish 100 unit SRO in the mission, rightly so, without a development agreement that would relocate the current SRO tenants into a new building without interruption.

There's no reason to have this kind of thing be an example scenario because that's not how housing gets built. SF isn't tearing down 100 unit SROs, they're tearing down one story commercial.
My mother and wife were both photographers at some point and basically every photo is modified, touched up, and otherwise "enhanced" in Photoshop or other tools. It doesn't matter if it's a landscape, a room setting, or a person.

While saying "this has been modified" might be valuable, without knowing how this seems misguided at best.
Can we do that with a chat system? Because Slack threading is just inadequate, imo.
> On the other hand, the unthreaded approach can help keep the discussion focused and tight.

Or that earlier posts get lost because no one actually sees them. With threaded discussion, if one subthread has gone off-topic, you can always collapse or kill that subthread.

And your point doesn't always hold true. For example https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17
>Why would you hate. Net ? It's an awesome environment

I don't hate it, I have a form of allergy to it, it is not the same thing.

I personally like small, portable, self-contained programs capable of running "everywhere" both in "installed" OSes and in reduced environments, such as a PE or RE, and .Net based programs are none of them (this is not specific to paint.net, that is an actual practical example of how "awesome" the environment is).
Ask HN: For those in tech security, do you get paranoid?
Lately I've become more interested in data, network and pretty much all forms of security within tech, and have been researching a variety of topics and learning a lot in the process.

My question is for those of you who have been doing this for a while or for a living. Do you find yourself paranoid about your home network and devices, and all the personal information on them? The more I learn and understand about security, the more I find myself worried that there are others out there who are smarter and more organized that could cause me harm if they directed their efforts to me.

Does this get better over time? Is it not worth worrying about because of the unlikelihood of it happening?

I don't consider myself a targeted individual, but the question of what-if creeps into my mind at times, especially with all the recent news and media.
Bad autoconf tests with nested functions are incompatible with clang
It does not help that in the US (or at least in California) you have to drive everywhere. I live in Europe now, but when I lived in the US I barley walked anywhere since it was just too far.

In Europe I do not even own a car anymore. Most things can be done with a bike, by foot, or by public transport. For a few things where I prefer a car, I just use car sharing. So now I am way more active every day.

And thanks to certain trains always be running late, I am running at least once a day as well!
Almost everyone in the US is a prisoner of their car. Our built environment presumes that you have a car. We make it very challenging to live without one. And then we have to listen to Stephen Hawking be judgy about how we "choose" to not be active, which he can't understand from his wheelchair.

Most Americans are confined to a wheeled chair for many hours a week. We just call it a car, but good luck getting free of it.

(I have lived without a car for about a decade, so this comment is not expressing discontent with me feeling trapped. I escaped that trap and walking everywhere has helped me shed a lot of weight without intending to.)
As a senior dev, I'd recommend moving off of PHP or at least training junior DEV's how to code properly before using PHP. Even in the old days of BASIC with numbered lines you could teach solid principals. These languages just have more ways to screw up, which need to be understood by anyone using them. But to understand how and why you can screw up, you need to understand what good coding practices would look like.
It's a weird coincidence to read this. I was doing basic research on depression and saw that dopamine played a role in helping people feel good. One WikiHow article [0] later, I had an idea: Start reaching goals. I started very small, like taking progressively longer walks.

Since that time I have earned something like five different certificates in various areas of interest (ARRL coming up next) and as a very recent development, completed my university degree after 15 years of delay due to, among other things, depression.

I find that depression can still affect me, but the episodes don't last as long (around 2h max, lately) and I have a bunch of tools for dealing with them.

[0] http://m.wikihow.com/Increase-Dopamine
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