skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Girard got it right.

Social media, as a whole, is a really big net negative to one's psyche, as we get to know what others have or desire, and become infected with their passions, fears and desires in this memetic process.

It makes us uniform, bland, predictable neural networks, cogs involved in unifying the capitalistic market, and losing values far more important than money.

Thankfully, there is still some resistance to that mental girardian unification, southern Europe seems to be harder to unify and bend to the global monoculture of anglo-capitalistic gollumization (I think Venkat at ribbonfarm.com wrote somethink about it)

And I also still think we have a chance to suceed in this gollumized society as a species, we'll just be less happier in our endless pursuit of darwinian fitness.
Frankly, I'm completely mystified by this paper. It appears to be built on a circular and self-contradictory logic.

The paper compares hours of music practice to scores in the Swedish Musical Listening Test (SMLT). It finds no significant correlation, concluding that there is no causal relationship between musical practice and musical skill. The SMLT does not directly measure practical musical skills, but is treated by the authors as a valid proxy measure because it correlates with hours of musical practice (Ullén et al, 2014).

Practice does not improve musical ability because hours of practice are not correlated with scores in the SMLT. The SMLT is a valid proxy measure of musical ability because scores correlate with hours of practice. See the problem?

Ullén, F., Mosing, M. A., Holm, L., Eriksson, H., & Madison, G. (2014). Psychometric properties and heritability of a new online test for musicality, the Swedish Musical Discrimination Test. Personality and Individual Differences, 63, 87–93. (10.1016/j.paid.2014.01.057)
A hotel reservation service is certainly world changing.
I apologized in a meeting yesterday when I realized I said something factually incorrect. I actually fact checked myself to discover the error. I wonder if that was a mistake. Given how our leaders act, I think we are more wired to trust people who never acknowledge their mistakes.
If only we could revert to how Google Search was X years ago...
It's pretty interesting that the version of css which contains a box model (2/2.1) took 13 years to settle as a standard ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascading_Style_Sheets#Standar... ).

Also interesting is that it took 8 years for XMLHttpRequest to settle into the version ( 2 ) that supports accessing other origins ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest#History ) and that Internet Explorer didn't support CORS until version 10 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest#Cross-domain_re... ), which reached general availability in 2012 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_10#History ).
This comment violates the guidelines in like, a handful of ways. Could you please read them and not post like this again?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
France : this is all regulated. The law says that

- you have a certain amount of days off (varies by job, in my case about 40 days a year)

- you have to take 10 days in a row (2 weeks) during the "hot season" (June to September IIRC)

Beside that this is an agreement between you and your boss. I guess it would be illegal to formally set a cap on continous vacation, in practice it may happen but I've never heard of that.

People will typically take 2 to 4 weeks during summer (with an average of 3). In smaller companies one can be forced to go on vacation in August when the company closes.
Absolutely. But few would make comparisons or draw parallels to them, whereas they'll be quick to do so for the Nordic nations or similar.
What if simply believing that one can't learn these things prevents them being learned (by that person)?
Ask HN: Book that is completely opposite of how you think as a software dev?
Have you ever read anything that has exposed you to a way of thinking that's just so incredibly different from everything software development/startup related? A kind of new mental model that doesn't even fit the abstraction-based, incredibly analytical mental models that devs usually try to use to explain the world (i.e. “mentals models are a mental model”)? It seems to me like we (and I’m probably projecting here) try to quickly put ideas into a rough abstraction so we can classify them and be done with it. But how about a style of thinking that has no concept of abstraction, or models? Or what’s an abstraction of software dev style thinking? If there is some higher level of abstraction to dev thinking, then what’s another ‘concrete’ style on the same level as that? Just some thoughts…I’d love to hear suggestions on books that were starkly different than how you currently think about the world.
Calling it "deep learning" was the first mistake. It makes it sound a lot more profound than it really is. "Machine intuition" is the term I prefer.
If there is any higher praise of that ecosystem, I haven't seen it.
> That translates to 'is not good' in my language

The original line is more precise. In most cases, I need the gist of a block of text in an unfamiliar language. Google Translate is faster and cheaper than a human translator. That makes it better, for this purpose, than a human, despite its lower accuracy.

When I need legal documents translated, most human translators are not good enough. A specialist, and only a specialist, will do.
“Principles”, by Ray Dalio (review)
Those are pretty woefully underpowered for folding..
This one is a generic but full thin wrapper over Nuklear. It's not tied to cl-bodge in any way :) https://github.com/borodust/nuklear-blob is an asdf system with loadable compiled shared libraries for it. Hopefully, it soon will be in the main quicklisp distribution.
Bertrand Meyer suggested you could split most code into decisions and actions and that makes the code more
maintainable. My own experiences seem to support this.

Machine learning only (partly) addresses one of those categories. There’s still plenty of work to do even if AI decision making is less buggy than human code.
My disclaimer: my coworkers are using Scala and SBT. Gradle + Java isn't slower than Ant or Maven. Gradle + Kotlin is a little slower, they just need to make the annotation processors incremental.

But for Java, incremental builds with compiler avoidance combined with the build cache, parallel builds (incubating features close to maturity) mean I write more sophisticated, easier to maintain builds than I ever have with Maven.
I agree it could be, usually.

But this is Google. They deprecate things with last week's milk. I feel like they have a pretty good idea of what's still running, and shut it down if it doesn't make them at least half a billion a year. I still miss many products, and I wasn't even a Reader user (so no, it's still other stuff I'm disgruntled about).

These days you can't even do a Youtube search without an account, and an account needs a phone number of course, so you have to resort to HTML scraping to do simple stuff like just using the top hit (so you can fire off a tab with some song in the background, without waiting for it to load and click a result with the mouse). There used to be an API for simple things like that.
I just don't buy it, there is so much waste and the gap between what the 0.001% have and everyone else is so big. I've played enough simcity to know it's tough and takes planning, but you can balance the needs of everyone and not go bust. Many people are coming to realize that the consumer wealth dream being sold to them does not actually contain comfort, satisfaction, or personal fulfillment.

Greed, corruption, and willful ignorance/incuriousness however are a cancer on the system that makes for a race condition that keeps us from actively investing in that balance. It's hard not to be apocalyptic, but it's even crazier to think that our collective consciousness can't figure out a way to arrest that cancer before we all end up eating jellyfish out of acidified plastic oceans supplemented with snowpiercer cockroach bricks.

The corruption rife ganges river sanitation project[1] is a great example of a massive opportunity to increase quality of life for a staggering amount of people sucked dry financially by said cancer. There are ways to NOT do that. We have the ability to figure out how. We also at this moment, still might have enough time.

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/what-it-takes-...
> What scenario are you envisioning where this is an issue?

Not the parent, but the problem specifically with using github repos with a hash to identify a specific commit is that if someone can make a collision, they can make the code anything they want.

Linus doesn't consider this a problem, because he doesn't use untrusted repositories.
JavaScript closures are more than just functions with scope
Cryptocurrency Worth $170M Missing from Italian Exchange BitGrail
It's always important to put this in perspective with the human History.

There is no place on earth that lived in peace for ever. Not even for a very long time actually.

Any country goes back to times were it's at war on it's own territory, or were it's under a dictatorship.

It will be true again for France, the US, Canada, Spain, any country.

We will go back there, it's an absolute certainty.

Maybe not (hopefully not), in our lifetime.

But ignoring this is not only wearing blinders, it's a recipe for making it worse.

Things like AI, facebook, the NSA intercepting anything, image recognition, cameras in every streets, tracking devices in every pockets and... DNA databases are going to be weaponized against the population.

Even if you don't believe in this (which is always strange to me, but for the sake of the argument, I'll have to acceptit), at least consider that it will make any neutral entity in power more likely to become malevolent by giving it the opportunity to access abusable huge power.

Hence, if we want to survive and evolve as a specie, we need to deal with those tools carefully, as they are very potent, and this means what they can do for us is as great as what it can do against us.
There’s an easier way (had the same issue with Spotify and iPhone 4): use the same iCloud account from the “old” device to login on a newer device. There, download the app you want to use on the older device. Once it’s installed, go back to the older device and go to the App Store to “purchased apps”. This will now include the app you just downloaded on the newer device. Click “download”. The App Store will recognize that this app won’t run on your crappy old iOS version, but since you purchased it, it will offer you to download the latest version that still works on your device... insane, I know, but less involved than a mitm-proxy...
What operating system are you running on? I paid for and downloaded Haskell For Mac[1] and it's been a great dev experience so far. The IDE is similar to Xcode (I'm an iOS developer) and the REPL is great for trying stuff out.

[1] - http://haskellformac.com
We already live in a world with cameras, microphones, and recorders of all sorts spooling data to the "cloud". And this futuristic world wants to sell me the idea that one of the richest families in the galaxy can't afford security that entails in recording all physical happenings that goes on in the house?

I don't accept that.

Sure, video can be forged or deleted. But we can even solve that by spooling to write-once read only systems. A dot matrix printer is an early form of that for Syslog. Hard for a hacker to 'hack' a printout. Or, in this case, whatever techno-magical hardware can be used.

And regarding killing his body and device, all he needs to do is increase the update frequency and make it realtime backup for his residence. Then, no mystery. He'd remember.
I did say if we get a handle on the energy that fixes a lot of things. If that furnace was powered by a CO2 free source the chemical reaction is neutral once the concrete is used.
A Close Reading of Teen Boss Magazine, a Horrifying Artifact of Our Time
I only support voluntary non governmental collectivization of industry via common share holding schemes

There is such a thing as a Sovereign Wealth Fund:

http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/19/investing/norway-pension-fun...

"The fund is among the world's biggest investors in stocks, owning $667 billion worth of shares in over 9,000 companies globally. It owns on average 1.3% of all listed companies worldwide"
I don't think the comparison to 'neo tokyo' fantasies is warranted. When people were scared of Japan taking over the world with robots, those fifth generation projects were moonshot technologies without any clear commercial application.

The difference is that ML today (at least the kind of technologies where China has and is gaining an edge) are deeply embedded in the commercial sector and public security.

We're not talking about China building a superintelligence in some kind of basement of a research facility, we're talking about facial recognition in public spaces, consumer products that get data from a billion customers who all pay and live on a centralised platform and so on. That's a reality already and it's not a stretch to say that China's environment is more suited for this than any other place on the planet.
Social media in my opinion is a scourge on our society. It is a place that fosters narcissism and sociopathic natures. The little good it does bring is heavily outweighed by the bad.

Some will say it brings families and lost friends together across the world. This is true, but could be had without the endless streams of gloating, selfies, and photos of what you have eaten.

Recently I have had a child. And I have already decided that the only social interaction he will have will be real-time or near real time. This means face to face, live video, real time chat (sms Hangouts is okay). This shows real interest and attention to the other party in real time and allows true connections to be formed. No endless scrolling through people's lives you meet once.

I should also mention photo albums of actual events will be allowed too.

I know that this will be hard and I will likely fail. But I am going to do my best to help my son learn how to truly interact with people and feel fulfilled with the relationships he has. Never do I want him to feel the loneliness of endlessly peering into others life's from a small window on phone.
Not sure about "will surpass". Possibly the inflection point already happened.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/02/china...

> The 2017 AAAI meeting—which ultimately relocated to San Francisco—wrapped up just last week. And as expected, Chinese researchers had a strong showing in the historically U.S.-dominated conference. A nearly equal number of accepted papers came from researchers based in China and the U.S. “This is pretty surprising and impressive given how different it was even three, four years back,” says Rao.
At the Feet of the Mother
Study the leaked iOS source code and surprise them ;)

Other than that and on a more serious note, Leetcode and algo and data structures are your friends. Maybe read a thing or two about UX, like the book "Don't make me think" that got mentioned here a couple times.

Good luck!
It's not an incredibly common use case, but many computers exist simply to show a dashboard or visualization. It would be excellent to say "drop this script tag on your page" and you instantly turn that Mac Mini into less of a waste.
Easier implementation is the goal. There are currently only four companies working on a web implementation.

Also, I think users would have more control if documents didn't automatically gain the same privileges as applications.
https://joannavass.typeform.com/to/Vy18OL

Hey all, we are a team working toward democratising genetic testing. We are trying to gauge how much people know about genetic testing and what people feel about it. I have a super short form (4 questions only). Would really really appreciate some input from the good folks on this channel!
Loved this podcast episode!
It isn't for you. It is for the person who can open a tab, but doesn't want to run a full client. Installation, sandboxing, laziness, etc.

A university or corp could push a tab open script to thousands of desk tops, while they wouldn't push Folding@Home client.
Yep, how'bout some half-million lines cobol program written in the '70s authorizing your transaction today?
Ask HN: What’s the best open source helpdesk?
I’m on a sabbatical helping a nonprofit reign in their donor relations and volunteer email support.

Zendesk and the usual suspects are way out of their budget.

What are your recommendations for a user friendly open source helpdesk solution?

Bidirectional email support, SLAs, assignment, and prewritten responses are nice to haves.
It sounds like the main issue in that article is local shortages. It doesn’t say anything about global supply (e.g., how long would it take to deplete the Sahara, and would that be considered land reclamation?)
You're just confusing the issue. Population growth is decelerating and is expected to plateau within the next 80 years. Overpopulation is not going to be a problem, depopulation may actually become a problem.
> someone has to raise their kids, support their families?

Not asking rhetorically, but do you think that this is a pressing concern for many addicts?

>on the "positive" side, they die early, no SS or medical expenses...

It's funny that you raise this point. Last year I had a conversation w/a big name researcher who has been "studying" the Opioid 'crisis' as part of a broader matter.

He agreed that the prospects (social and financial mobility, etc...) of many of those who are affected wouldn't likely improve much even if Opioids were taken out of the equation.
He stated, yes actually said, that alcohol would be a preferred vice because "One can live a pretty good life as an alcoholic."

I don't have any experience as an alcoholic, so I can't say, but I think the comment and the ease with which the researcher made it are telling of a greater issue.
CLOUD Act: A Dangerous Expansion of Police Snooping on Cross-Border Data
Great, so the poorest countries that are least capable of supporting their current population will be the most burdened?

That isn't encouraging.
Russia is probably doping their participants though.
A Basic Cohort Test of the Lead-Crime Hypothesis
How does this interact with WASM?
The rate we are using resources is also decelerating with increased efficiency through technological advancement.
How I Healed My Own Brain Injury
All communication ceased about 12 hours after launch. The vehicle has no solar panels, so the battery (presumably not the stock one) depleted.

NASA regularly broadcasts live HD video from a comparable distance (ISS).

Not so easy to do from deep space.
This. What is worrying me is core services seem to perform worst than before like GMail, but even search or YouTube.
I remember reading an interview with Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits. He mentions how glad he was that he never joined the singer/songwriter scene because leaning picking and rhyhhm guitar gave him the facility to play whatever he wanted.

Edit: here he expresses some of the same sentiment https://youtu.be/OG__SwkV3wg
> This is not terribly surprising, but it’s nice to see some experimental confirmation.

Not really being serious here, but this made me chuckle a bit, on an article about fake news, etc. The sentence above literally reads like confirmation bias happening in real time, the way you phrased it.

I'm not saying you are guilty of it here, the phrasing just jumped out at me - and is a good example of the kind of thought, that when we have it, ought to trigger our inner skeptic :P
Bryant here from Cognition. We're running two entities, a tech company and law firm, and the tech company received investment from YC.
So is an online bookstore.
I use a bookmarklet with the following as the URL to submit whatever page I'm currently viewing:

javascript:window.location="http://news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u="+encodeURIComponent(document.location)+"&t="+encodeURIComponent(document.title)
What problem does this solve for the end user?

Few sites even use WebGL for anything interesting.
You didn't read what I wrote. My first point was the defined benefits are already phased on in the rest of the developed world.
Your other points do not address the main point of whether the US can afford to pay pensions. Of course it can. Countries like Italy still survive, even while funding 25% of people in the old system (defined benefits).
This situation reminds me days when we, at W3C HTML5 WG, were trying to sneak SQL specification into HTML5 "umbrella". And one particular flavor of it - the SQLite's SQL as it was defined at the moment of writing.
Haven't got through for many good reasons as we know.

As of GPU exposure to the Web ...

It makes sense only when we will have stable and unified GPU abstraction. As for now DirectX.12, Vulcan and Metal are close but different.

Like the WebGL that is (more or less unified) OpenGL. But even that looks too foreign to HTML/CSS/script - immediate mode rendering in architecturally retained display model of web documents.

And conceptually: HTML5 umbrella is large but not infinite.
3D rendering is too far from HTML "endless flat text tape" model.

I remember those <applet> days when browser was used as a component delivery platform for stuff that does not fit into DOM and structured yet styled text. That was conceptually the right way "to grasp the immensity".

These days, with WebAssembly, we have another incarnation of the <applet> idea and I think GPU functionality belongs to it rather than to HTML. GLSL to be expressed in WebAssembly bytecode terms but not in JS.

Web standards have to be backward compatible and I doubt that current still ugly GPU paradigms will survive on the long run. Like tomorrow someone will come with practical voxel based system instead of current abstract vector ones, what will we do?
How big were these implant capsules? The rodents might have been cronically uncomfortable and that may have been a factor in their loss of appetite. I know when I feel sick I don't eat as much. Could they do this again with a larger animal with weights that could be applied without any potential discomfort? Or would putting huge weights on your knees while sitting make you less likely to binge eat?
I have a first-gen iPod Touch, bought in late 2007 a week after launch. Maps app still works!
Baltimore:

https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/07/daily-...

Chicago:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/data/ct-homicide-spikes-c...
I'm going to make a guess here: You never worked in an enterprise environment.
HN readers might not be aware of "Skoville", a social media site for children under 13.

https://www.skooville.com/

It has some superficial "educational" Flash games (about being safe online, or about getting a job and paying your bills.

But it also has some of the negative features of social media.

https://www.skooville.com/
How not to design a blog
Easy to answer. China has billions of people and is getting exceedingly good at finding enough talent in this huge pool.
This is sort of similar in Russia which has the additional advantage of better tuned education system and just as few scruples.
Correct. I started my own subthread on this subject: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16347902
Future of space travel
Revealed: The naughty tricks used by web ads to bypass blockers (2017)
You can't diversify more than just holding the total market. And since market returns are zero sum for you to make that great profit someone else had to lose. I'll just take the market average at very low fees and not worry about it. That's what the first link explains.
Is there anyone that you can bring up the ranks to make your omission less detrimental?

Slowly integrate them into meetings, company decisions; make sure it's someone you trust. And slowly step back.

Just an off-cuff thought.
I like "machine perception". We're not much past the point of sensory-motor development.