skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
rtags works with CMake and is the only working intelligent completion system in Emacs I found over the years.
Have you heard of Kratom?
The first related article implies pretty strongly that they will delete most of your data from their storage, and even backup storage.

It may take up to 90 days to delete data stored in backup systems. Your info isn't accessible on Facebook during this time.

Copies of some material (example: log records) may remain in our database but are disassociated from personal identifiers.
Yes, if anything you are the true victim here.

Keep thinking of yourself as the victim, great mindset, you have a great life.
There's a weird disconnect in this article between the reality of what Zuckerberg is trying to do and the agenda being pushed by the author.

You have this paragraph:

"The social network has been lobbying to build more housing in the region, which Silicon Valley cities, worried about traffic and preferring a commercial over residential tax base, have fought against. In East Palo Alto, Facebook has invested $18.5 million into the Catalyst Housing Fund, an affordable housing initiative; the company has set a goal to grow the fund to $75 million."

Followed by this paragraph:

"East Palo Alto’s residents have long felt disempowered against change brought by tech leaders like Mr. Zuckerberg. A 2.6-square-mile town where one-third of the school children are homeless, it has stood as a sign that Silicon Valley’s wealth might not spread to those beyond its tech campuses."

If Silicon Valley’s wealth is not being spread to those beyond its tech campuses it's not for a lack of trying.
Sad, but entirely predictable. Supply side econ is just as absurd on a local level as it is on a national level.
Cmd-a is select all in OSX by default and Cmd-e does nothing for me. The capital versions don't do anything noteworthy for me either. In emacs, home/end would be M-< and M-> no? To your point, Ctrl-a/e/f/b/n/p all work as they do in emacs in OSX.
So I have to consent to be shown ads? So every site has to by default block all their own ads?
At the time when I deleted my Facebook account, in Fall 2014, the ToS said that if I delete (not deactivate) my account, then Facebook must delete my data "within a reasonable amount of time".

I have not read the Facebook ToS since then; assuming that line remains the same, if they do not delete your data and you decide to sue, it's about whose lawyers cam make a better case for whether a reasonable amount of time has passed.
Kratom has been (somewhat silently to the mainstream) been helping many break free of opioid dependence. It also has helped many who are in chronic pain and can't get access to good lain relievers, or are allergic to them.

Edit: r/kratom can be a good start. It also is in need of support as the FDA is currently trying to regulate it.
The standard flow for "deleting" your account actually says "deactivate your account", and the fine print is explicit in that everything comes straight back when you log in again.

There's also a hidden link in the support pages somewhere that's supposed to actually delete your account (which is what's linked here)
That kind of encoding is only the right call if you want for a message to be a foo, a bar, OR a foo+bar.

If you've got an opcode, name it semantically with a name field. If you've got a type to serialize, do it semantically and don't just do like what the library I ported does and put the Golang type annotation in a string.

And don't let objects inhabit a fusion like this. It leads to surprising behavior with malformed messages.
What in the world makes you think that's a bot's reply?
For those who want to know more, this topic links nicely into A-D-E theory, Dynkin diagrams, and Coxeter groups.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-XzhVrXIVeSVcV9iRJ4S...

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-XzhVrXIVeQ298S6uCyo...

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/week230.html

https://unapologetic.wordpress.com/category/geometry/root-sy...

http://www.math.harvard.edu/~lurie/papers/thesis.pdf

Beautiful world this author is peeking into. Enjoy.
One of the tests: https://wexnermedical.osu.edu/-/media/files/wexnermedical/pa...
No, they can show you ads that don't use your data. You'd have to allow them to use your data to give you better ads, but you'd just get worse ads in the meantime.
I don't disagree that many JSON APIs are poorly designed.
It is very hard to accept this, but economies can be strong in very imperfect countries.
How to Start Trading Cryptocurrency for Noobs
Not to beat this horse to death, but was reflecting on the same earlier today:
https://segahmeer.com/post/stepping-out-of-sergey-brin-shado...
What steams my clams is folks using go type names in f
Label fields, or making surprisingly behavior with fusion types that and up actually seeing use in the wild.
Which part of Waitress, Bus Drivers, Cleaners, etc get Robots took over in the past 20 years? ( Not now when AI and Robots are in use, but in the past )

Yes technology was part of it, but rampant inflation or vast increase of liquidity is also another factor, and economist are still puzzled as to why wages aren't going up.
The Chinese art of selectively enforcing their laws to the detriment of those that won't play ball with the government really makes it hard to believe Xi's press-tornado of successful anti-corruption measures.

The government has been actively extorting international companies into "joint" ventures. These ventures essentially require "treats" (as an insider told me) every several months. These treats would be manufacturing processes, engineering drawings of proprietary IP, or technical training for their engineering staff. Boards of Directors can't ignore the scale of the Chinese market, but it comes at the cost of essentially giving away your business prospects within the country inside of 15 year window.

China's current long-term strategy seems to be:

1) Spend an egregious amount to woo top talent [1], [2]

2) Learn from them over the next 5-10 year period [2]

3) Transcend the need for foreigners in China

It's a pretty terrifying environment and many Chinese investors are desperate to get their money into foreign investments [3]. Instead of laundering illegally earned money, they are laundering legally earned money that they can't get out of China. At least that is the hearsay that I've heard from several different sources (VC events, friends of friends etc).

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/04/world/asia/china-soccer-x...

[2] Qi Lu, Baidu's COO YC interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSydk0XzxEE&t=351s

[3]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-03/china-dri...
this is why i cringe when i see the comcast ads claiming that they are so pro NN and they won't throttle/etc. they say "legal" traffic. we know where they're going with that... traffic that they consider "legal."

Slimy.
If default exports are meant to help export only a single value from a module, how come they allow also exporting other values alongside the default value?
Erhem, please excuse me. I was walking my dog as I wrote this and I accidentally inverted first statement.

For workloads where lots of concurrent and contingent I/O dominate, coroutines win handily.
> I think they were somewhat beaten to the punch by Ninja Theory's astonishing work on Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice. They won the real-time award at SIGGRAPH 2016 in triumphant fashion. Not only did they create a tremendous technical achievement, but they produced a game with genuine artistic intent on a fraction of a typical AAA budget.

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Yh-zFCILR4

> https://youtu.be/OMENy0ptoyM?t=48s

Their previous game "Enslaved: Odyssey to the West" also had pretty good facial animation. Especially when compared with contemporary AAA titles like Mass Effect.
I have, but I don't know much about it, so I am unclear what relevance that has to the discussion. My hand wavy understanding is that a) people sometimes use it to try to break addiction and b) this sometimes goes very bad places. (Correct me if I am wrong.)

My understanding is that marijuana does not have a big downside, so it strikes me as a better thing to pursue here.
The proper way to improve education in a community is to get involved with the existing school systems -- the schools are already there. Be wary of ideologues possessing way too much money combined with an impoverished sense of ethics (e.g., Zuckerberg) who shun existing civic institutions and go off to start their own for-profit/corporate 'schools' instead.
i've had similar instances, but it was solely because many kids nowadays have no idea that there is a such a thing as email that is not "Gmail." Google has done such a sneaky job of spreading into education that kids know nothing that isn't Google. They know Google Drive, YouTube, Gmail, Chrome, and are confused when something else is in front of them.

Google has become the walled garden that they pretend they aren't.
Captured by a video camera.

But, those are all examples of why photorealistic CG is fiction. We've never achieved it in video.
Alternate headline: "New CEO discovers scandal covered up by predecessor, launches internal investigation and announces findings to the public once the investigation is concluded"
Watch how you use those words - if one defines ‘better’ and ‘worse’ in the context of my privacy, then ads that don’t do creepy things are better.
I like the frontend design for this work. Nice job
Joys and frustrations of putting 34,000 lines of Haskell into production
The category links don't work.
There's also the YOLO ("you only look once") algo for object localization, a little bit faster and with higher accuracy, comparison to SSD inside.

Demo (real time detection): https://pjreddie.com/darknet/yolo/
Yes, or 30 years ago. The curve just got a lot steeper in 2008. That is from a Global perspective, since US just export inflation to everywhere else. Basically every asset class, mainly property market has been rising much faster then wages. Yes technology has made things much more efficient, hence the much much slower price rise in food, transport, clothes. But the majority of living cost is housing, and that is a part technology has little to no effect on.
sad that they point at HughesNet or something equally awful as "competition" too. :/
Interesting article. Just based on the title, I was expecting some intuitive explanation of the higher dimensions stabilizing at 3 polytopes.

I guess the n-tetrahedron, n-cube and n-octahedron generalize to any dimension, but that's it?
Hmmm even going to this WSJ story via Google requires a login or subscription. Is there an alternate link to the full article?
I've actually gotten really interested in city-wide wifi mesh projects since all of this NN news is coming out. Kinda makes me want to share my 1G symmetric connection and build a mesh network with my neighbors somehow. I used to be really interested in mesh a long time ago but I have trouble finding what the best protocols are for building such a thing.
So I need to explicitly accept targeted ads from every company that shows targeted ads? Does this mean every website that shows targeted ads, or can a blanket large provider (e.g. Google) get a single consent and apply it to all websites hosting Google ads?

This seems like it would give a market advantage to Google, because they have products that people want and can likely get a fair number of people to consent if the consent was among useful consents. But smaller advertising companies would have a much harder time getting consent, especially if people don't recognize the name as providing anything useful.

And how does this apply to logs? It's common for web servers by default to record urls visited and IP addresses. Would that be legal without explicit consent?
You pretty much missed the entire point of what wealth is for.
They meant ctrl-a and ctrl-e.
Is there anything inherently bad about a site using your data to serve you more relevant ads, as long as your data is not passed on to a 3rd party?
>The proper way to improve education in a community is to get involved with the existing school systems

That didn't work out too well when Zuckerberg tried it: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-newark-schools-p...
My assumption is that parent thinks this somehow makes ISPs a common carrier, and that means blah, blah, blah. I’d be supremely surprised if highly-paid corporate lawyers somehow overlooked this. “Where are all these class action suits coming from? What?! $1000/hour and you got pwned by some random guy on the Internet?”

Yeah, I don’t think so.
It's been looking really creepy after I purchased a Plush Cuddle Death Star, because now it keeps showing several repeated ads for them right next to each other. I already have one, and now they want me to buy a whole cuddly fleet of them! Oddly enough, I haven't seen any ads for the R2D2 mug I ordered with it.
CMD-e used to be "eject selected disk" in Finder/desktop. Will thus also cause the error-"bloing"/"don't know what you want"- sound on most macOS versions, if nothing suitable is selected.
> This also means you cannot put more than 20 points on a sphere without some being closer to each other’s neighbors than others.

There's an important limitation missing here: you must also require that the angles formed between a point and successive neighbors are all equal. As written, the Archimedean solids also space points out equally distant from their neighbors, but the angles between neighbors are different. (Not sure if all the Archimedean solids inscribe a sphere, but there are 13 of them.)
Replace wsj.com with fullwsj.com in the url
Dara's response: "None of this should have happened, and I will not make excuses for it ... While I can't erase the past, I can commit on behalf of every Uber employee that we will learn from our mistakes."
Completely agree. The "media" is notoriously writing headlines that cause outrage. Outrage sells and keeps them in business.
Me, myself and iPhone: Teenagers are growing more anxious and depressed
You think Grosse Point, MI isn’t already getting better water than Flint?

(Context for our non-US readers at home: Grosse Point==wealthy Detroit suburb, Flint==nationally famous for lead-filled water.)
Thank you for sharing that link. I am not familiar with Russakoff's work and it looks very thought-provoking.
Is that enough though? Since they are supposed to reveal their hack a week after it happened, going public straight away is the best thing to do.
Creating charts in RoR
Very soon, by mid of December, we should have it ready.
Do you think investors would have pressured this approach rather than have an immediate disclosure to save PR?
Block SSL traffic? Not even possible. Why does everyone want government regulation on the internet? It's very short-sighted.
A-D-E? Surely you mean A-B-C-F-G-H-I? :) (Yes, I know that list is redundant...)
I'm not using macOS, but it sounds like the Dashboard key, which now does nothing, is not sending F4 instead.

Unfortunately that's simultaneously perfectly consistent while it also violates the principle of least surprise:

- It remains technically correct - the Fn keys are in "do special thing mode", and this key has no special thing associated with it any more

- It is now a dead key, which is extremely confusing because, now that it does absolutely nothing __under the default configuration__, it's arguable as to why it's even there anymore. From the "my computer is a physical thing that humans interact with" standpoint (as distinct from the "behold my mathematically perfect 4GHz calculator" standpoint), it kinda makes a lot of sense for that key to go "oh I just send F4 because I don't do anything special" to me. In fact NOT doing that would irritate me no end!

Anecdotally, this reminds me of the recent 1+2+3 calculator incident in iOS: it's pretty obvious all the frontline developers at Apple have touch-bar MacBooks (something something "politically-correct forced dogfooding", oooooo) so this inconsistency fell through the cracks.

Apple is starting to fragment from the bottom up in a big way...
Rise of Cloned Apps
This media then blames everything on Facebook and twitter and google, and write an article everyday about congressional hearing and how Americans are not trusting tech any more.
We're mostly web developers so we designed our complex shipping invoices in HTML and ran them through DocRaptor's API https://docraptor.com for many years with beautiful results at a reasonable cost. Eventually other teams in our organization started doing the same so we paid a few thousand bucks for the package DocRaptor uses in the backend https://www.princexml.com and run it locally.
They’ll need all the power they can get. Decentralization is coming for them. If they’re not all terrified they should be.
For many on shared hosting with Cpanel, spamassasin isn’t good enough, I don’t want to even deal with spam, much of it needs to just go to a black hole
I “deleted” my account years ago using this link (back in 2014), came back last year and found that it was never really deleted. I happened to click “login” when I realized my password manager was still filling in my password (to be expected), and it logged me in just fine, same profile page... it was as if I never clicked delete.

I deleted it again, and it finally “took” this time, but I have no idea what happened before. My best guess is that iOS was still logged into it through its facebook integration and that counted me as having logged in before the grace period expired. Either way it left a really bad taste in my mouth.

(I was a facebook user in 2005 and kinda stopped using it around the time they stopped letting you have your “news feed” just be a simple time-sorted list of your friends’ posts. Neither of my attempts to delete my account were any kind of statement — the site was just boring to me and I never found myself posting much.)
That’s not how you’re supposed to handle hacks, especially when other people’s data is compromised. You’re leaving victims needlessly exposed.
I would assume essentially all the code since then has been rewritten. I wouldn't expect any behavior from back then to remain.
It’s the regulation. I work on EU GDPR tech stuff currently (this stuff is HOT at the moment and I have a feeling that even many large companies are quite late on the train!) in financial services sector and while some data needs to be kept for x years according to the law anyway, rest really needs to be deleted and at least my current client really doesn’t want to play with the financial risks involved with getting caught in a possible EU GDPR compliance audit.
Even if you only count the 2 months since Khosrowshahi learned about the 2016 hack, Equifax still took less time (6 weeks) to do its own secret investigation of its hack and publish the results - and yet it was vilified by the public and press for its slow disclosure.

Plus, Khosrowshahi told Softbank about the ongoing investigation 3 weeks before the rest of us - while this information was important to Softbank, it would also be important to any other potential investor, and we do not know whether any others were indeed told about it.
> Until they add you again.

Do I think this could be abused in a number of ways? Yes.

But as long as they only add you if you have actually sent spam this should be ok.

And if I did this I guess I'd try to come up with an free (but annoying so it would still be a punishment) way to get off tell list. Something like: go to this web address that is only reachable for 5 minutes at some random time. It will then give you instructions to actually send the removal request. ;-)
wew nice, thanks for the tip
interesting, looks like they are marketing themselves as ethereum 3.0

Hard to trust some ICOs these days but the smart contract space is pretty full of future opportunity

GUI contract builder sounds like a cool novel approach to offer some visual programming system, i find with ICOs its super hard to invest in something that's not running in production in front of everyone.

For investing in the crypto coins that are stable and in production checkout the live forecasts at https://bitbank.nz
Your schema can simply say it is illegal for an object to have both of those tags once. I'm not sure how you'd do any better with a unityped system like JSON. Unless you're advocating using something other than JSON? What do you mean by "do it semantically"? What other alternative is there besides a field for a type tag?
I meant to suggest that opt-in features for FP style programming might be accepted, since there doesn't seem to be an actual ban on non-zero-cost abstractions.

Re "extra", I'm not sure what you mean - does it mean that the abstraction is implemented efficiently, but still has the cost that is usually associated with that abstraction? For example, dynamic dispatch is as fast as a DIY dynamic dispatch in assembly?

The borrow checker, AFAIU, has a cost in that it forbids some (more efficient) shared data accesses that it can't prove safe but still are.
The volume! If I had had my headphones in when I tried it, I'd be deaf for sure. I now have my system volume on the lowest notch and the mixer channel on the lowest notch. It's still pretty darn loud. Am I doing something wrong?
Here's the link from the @WSJ Twitter feed (redirects from Twitter's t.co URL shortener ignore the paywall): https://t.co/pT9ofXBDdA
The danger of the relapse is that a person often returns to the same dose as when they last used. Their body is no longer able to handle that high dose and they OD.
Thank you for sharing. must have been hard to write it.
Maybe because nobody's using Bitcoin as a currency and it's all speculation.

Currencies actually get used for transactions...
Reminds me of The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton. Just re read it the other day and although it’s fiction and overblown, it is crazy to see the future catch up to what was science fiction 30 years ago.
Though I disagree with what you consider “least surprise”, that’s a helpful point of view, thanks.
I applaud regulations promoting user privacy, even if this seems heavy handed. But does anyone else wonder about the implications of applying that regulation to those who collect data on EU residents whether they operate in the EU or not?

Has the US State Department stated a position on the matter?
While the bombing succeeded in destroying the factories, the Germans simply transferred bearings from machines where they weren't particularly needed to where they were.
I guess my thoughts are, why would you? The only time you would use VFX is if you can't do something in real life cheaper, and since it's extremely expensive that rules out filing the frame with mundane realistic objects.
Aside from time and budget, art direction and production design often rules out a photorealistic look anyway, even if technology allows it.

I'd like to dig further into what you mean by photorealistic CG being fiction? There are still tricky areas that are actively being researched, but I've seen plenty of CG assets that are photorealistic.

What do you think is technically missing from CG video, that makes it lack realism?
Slow as in not robust enough. It's essentially on life support since the EU crisis of 2011. The US has pretty much recovered after 2008. Euroscepticism is just a symptom of things going south just about everywhere in Europe except maybe Germany and Switzerland. Just look at the failed ECB stimulus policy with negative interest rates.

The US is at the opposite pole, meaning too little social protection. I was thinking about some kind of middle ground, like in Canada or the UK.
Don't underestimate how bad bad ads can be. I turned off targeted advertising on my Android phone for a while. The result was that around 50% of ad banners I saw were ultra-spammy strobing things--presumably the only ones that will pay for untargeted ads--making apps with built-in ad banners essentially unusable. I wound up changing back. That may have been the intention.

(An Android ad blocker would probably work best, but getting one running on my ancient phone was more hassle than I wanted.)