skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People doing PhDs generally don't pay the university, they get paid. Perhaps this needs to be more widely known so more people will do a PhD (society could certainly do with more people understanding how academic research is done, even if they don't all go into academia).
How is that relevant to CSS?
would there be a way to filter out this content? I know HN doesn't want to be as fragment as reddit, but I guess many of us don't have the time to sift through huge piles of submissions each day.
The problem with regulating current ad systems is that we are asking company's like Facebook and Google to act as censors, deciding what is acceptable and what is not. Crypto-currencies and the IRA are out but ask-your-doctor drug ads and fast food are in. Corporations are not the people to decide this for the rest of society.

I believe any form of advertising where the recipient has not specifically chosen to view the ad should be considered a rights violation and banned. This would force advertisers to produce ads people wanted to watch. It would also put an end to billboards, TV commercials, banner ads and most kinds of inline ads. Basically everything that is currently foisted upon us against our will. This would be a radical change but it is the only change that could solve the problems we currently face with advertising today.
I can't help but feel that it is very likely our ancestors (if we make it long enough) will look back on the limited understanding we have at this point in time regarding spooky action at a distance, the theory of everything, general relativity meets quantum mechanics, etc. and be astounded for a number of reasons. The biggest reasons being 1) that everyone could be missing something so obvious while at the same time 2) going down such wrong but entertaining rabbit holes.
That's cool, just didn't know how to confirm at start.

Reminds me of a game by Microsoft. I really like Wordament. What I like about it, is that if you select the same language, you get the same puzzle. So you can play against a friend who's sitting in the same room! Who'd have thought I'd love a game by Microsoft (for Android!). Only annoying this is the ads; I wish I could buy a premium version.
The HN post title ’Fertility rates decrease as rents increase’ to the article’s ’People Aren’t Having Babies Because The Rent’s Too Damn High’ reflects this well. Thanks HN.
I see many people clamoring for the death of Facebook but don't they own many of the up-and-coming social networks anyway? If people are ditching Facebook for Instagram you might as well switch to cocaine to stop your crack addiction.
They also sold half of Europe to the Soviets, started a war in Vietnam, and nuked Japan.

See? Goes both ways.
(This is unedited output of Apple’s voice input):

Voice recognition when I’m out and about don’t want to get my phone out it’s for the best use for it for me but as this text shows voice recognition isn’t very good you had even indoors
I wonder when the next "facebook" will come along. I predict people will abandon facebook just as they did with myspace, as soon as something new, cleaner and with less spam will be available to migrate to. Of course after some period of time the new service will also end up filled with memes and ads and the cycle will continue once again.
Most of my feed now is friends liking or commenting on pages I have no interest in. If I could remove all that I might check it out more often. Or maybe I would discover none of my friends post anything anymore?
I didn't do the math for the US, but in France, the class that pays most of the education (and health and etc) system (through taxes that is) is also that which profits from it the most. Since in the US education and health system are way too expensive, this might be different.
Alternative take: upvoted comments are about the article content, while greyed out ones are people criticizing the programming language in a way that is tangentially related at best.
Instapaper exists since 2007 and has a trademark on the name filed in August 2010: http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4808:v4h...

Instagram has their trademark since September 2011 (http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4808:v4h...).

So no, Instapaper is not "lucky" to still be in the App Store.

Don't assume that because Instagram is well-known that they have more seniority and the rights and abilities to do whatever they want.
Statelin – a finite state machine for Kotlin and Android
I'm in the additive manufacturing industry, things are really heating up. But there are plenty of other opportunities in related fields that I've barely heard of. Aerospace, medical, defense, auto etc are all driving some big changes in how their parts are made because of new regulations and opportunities.
How do people get funding to do this type of research.
That’s a very specific, very broad claim. Can you explain how (apparently all) religions structure and market their pyramidal incentive schemes? I’m not currently active in any organised religion, but I have been for long periods of time and didn’t really notice any pyramidal incentives. In fact there didn’t seem to be much in the way of proselytising at all and I was certainly not involved in doing so. What was I missing?
How does SimCity2000 render the terrain? I know it's 2d isometric but any good article on the actual data structure/algorithm?
Thank you. I appreciate you at least addressing an issue.

Do you know of any means to pay money online anonymously? I really don't.

I guess cryptocurrency is theoretically supposed to do that, but it seems more like weird speculation than an actual online currency. I haven't pursued it because it doesn't seem like a genuine means to get paid.
The problems I’ve had were already documented in open Github issues and someone had found a hacky workaround for one of them, but they don’t appear to have anyone trying to fix them. I could hardly comprehend the problems, as they were well outside of Python. :( I have faith, though!
Internet not same as web. Public web is just one type of internet usage. Almost all ads are on web, triggered from web or html email, leaving rest of internet ad-free. Certainly there are incumbents who want users to think internet and web are synonymous.

Radio and TV were "passive" mediums where broadcasters were in control and audiences passively consumed what was offered. Ads were included. Web has traditionally been more interactive. Users had control of what to consume and when, through specific, focused (HTTP) requests.

No web user intentionally requests ads. Think about this.

The user requests a specific resource.

Then how is advertising being "included"?

Answer: Popular web browsers load resources (ads) automatically, by default. Requests for ads are made by the browser, not the user. Companies that sell ads write these browsers and try to dominate the "browser market". Other web browsers (that might avoid loading ads) are discouraged. Web developers take advantage of the popular browsers written by ad sales companies to manipulate the pages users request, filling them with ads.

Going back into the history of the www and browsers, the intent of auto-loading resources may have originally had nothing to do with advertising. But today, it has everything to do with advertising (and tracking).
Every time somebody mentions how awsome f-strings are makes me laugh. It was
around ten years ago when Python community was looking down at Perl and shell
with their string interpolation, but now that Python got pretty much the same
it's suddenly not considered a misfeature.
Python long ago made the guarantee that:

> Keys and values are iterated over in an arbitrary order which is non-random, varies across Python implementations, and depends on the dictionary’s history of insertions and deletions. If keys, values and items views are iterated over with no intervening modifications to the dictionary, the order of items will directly correspond.

That is, the order will be maintained between calls, so long as the dictionary had not been modified.

Going back to "str(some_dict) == str(some_dict)". I would not expect to always be the same, but for entirely different reasons. Consider:

class Strange():
def __repr__(self):
import random
return str(random.random())

some_dict = {1: Strange()}

>>> str(some_dict) == str(some_dict)
False
Did you forget http://www.uasf.co/ ?
Yes I think a signature of self certification is all that's generally required to keep the accelerator out of trouble, but again there are accelerators that don't even know this limitation exists with the SEC. Blame Shark Tank and general lack of knowledge of investment regulations.
There is nothing obvious about quantum mechanics; those that say that they fully understand it intuitively probably are the first that don't understand it. The main answers we have about it are the results of math, not the results of something obvious intuitively so there is a very low chance we'll get answers intuitively when nothing we have so far came from that route.

tl;dr: we are too bozos for Quantum Mechanics.
You can use either PS or P.S. – neither is incorrect – a quick internet search reveals that. Also, considering it comes from the Latin post scriptum which is not capitalized and taking into consideration that writing in lower case is far more accepted these days writing p.s. is not a problem. But generally upper case is used. Compared to the loose/lose tectonic shift p.s. doesn't even register on my Richter scale. When in doubt, just look it up.
Ah, but younglings flock to the IM platform-de-jour instead of Facebook. Right now that's SnapChat and WhatsApp. Most 13 year olds have no interest in Facebook as it's considered uncool[1]. This attitude has been in place for a few years now. Couple that with more and more established users leaving the platform, and you start to see the decline that's being reported.

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[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/02...
Your aquarium analogy visualized: http://youtu.be/xara4Z1b18I
If you go to the istore version history for the same app, there have been regular feature updates and bug fixes in the same time frame. Are you implying that the android version simply doesn't have any bugs to fix?

This update in September is enlightening:

Added support for iOS 11 password autofill.

You know which other OS introduced system-wide autofill suppport? Android Oreo.

I think it's safe to say that Instapaper is abandoned on Android.
DevOps for Networking
The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon?
For that exact line I might expect that the result is true but still consider that line as "smelly" and meaningless, since dict equality cannot be compared by comparing their string representation.

I'd expect that any two ways of forming a dict with exactly same contents can result in different str(x) representation, and also that serializing and deserializing a dict can result in a different string representation.
Isn't it more a case of facebook's audience fragmentation towards snapchat, whatsapp, etc?
Most of the value that you're creating is captured by someone else. So why should you be expected to spend all your life to benefit someone else's interests?

Exactly. And they push you hard to squeeze just a little bit more out of you, every day. I am currently working a contract. They offered me a full-time post, to move to one of the move expensive cities on the planet, and make half of what I do now. Naturally, I questioned the defunct logic in this particular offer, and the come back was "but you will be full-time". Suffice to say, the negotiations, such as they were, rapidly went downhill from there. My client is pretty pissed with me for not wanting to work for half of what they are paying me now. Whatever. My next contract is on the horizon, I have several lucrative offers on the table, and I am pretty sure my current client will be surprised when I hand in my notice.

Somehow, clients are taken aback when I discuss remuneration in terms of receiving a fair share of the value I create. They point at their ability to snare others for a minimum as evidence that I am not playing the game correctly.
Yes, because the iphone OS version has had regular bug fixes and new features in the same time frame. Unless the Android version is fully free of bugs and supports any new Android OS features already, I's say that it is abandoned.
Maybe, but there's a bit of a difference between the practice of loanwords and grammar usage.
time is a psychic measurement of action, it doesn't exist by itself
Quantum Random Access Memory
Facebook has always been the next AOL. In comparison, you'll rarely hear someone say "I'm leaving Google search". Social nets vs Search and Search still wins. This is why there's still a large difference in value between them in terms of revenue, users and algorithmic technology.
With cyclical references add "freed sometime between now and eternity".

If this is not a definition of a memory leak I don't know what is.
I am not knowledgeable enough in Quantum Computing, but I don't see any architecture presented in this article, as the authors have said in the abstract.

Would someone kindly point me towards it?

Thanks :)
Advertisers would love to see that too.
The author claims to have had no funding for this research. Perhaps it is undergraduate work?
I did leave Google search. I so did many others on HN.
Maybe people did not perceive whatever they viewed on your site to be worth anything to them? A visit is neither a sign of actual relevant interest nor an endorsement.
Haven't you read the paper? I cite:
The author received no funding for this research.
On a blockchain, right?
I immediately cloned it for this reason just in case. Wanted to make sure I didn't miss the opportunity to play this game again in case they did a take down. Still have the old games, but I haven't had the willpower to learn how to use Wine.
I've never heard daemon pronounced that way. It's always pronounced the same way as demon but it may be a local thing.
Hmmm... https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/201...

NB I hate Google for breaking the above URL but I’m tired of fixing them...
I looked up Quantum RAM (QRAM) as has been discussed in the review, and I found the original work by Seth Lloyd. But I fail to find any architecture for the QRAM in the original paper.

Would someone knowledgeable enough kindly point me towards it?

Thanks :)

PS -> I've submitted the original QRAM paper in the HackerNews feed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=16307460
It's amazing that we waste billions of dollars a year on aids and cancer research and other nonsense when we could be producing this kind of scholarship.
Naked mole-rat mortality rates defy Gompertzian laws by not increasing with age
Except that historically money was issued by all and sundry. The notion that ONLY sovereigns may/can issue money is historically quite a recent one (and quite wrong in any case -- witness the innumerable local-exchange systems all over the world.)
Common Lisp is a standard, but the various implementations of that standard have added non-standard features. For example, I believe Unicode support was added to SBCL around 2004.
XML Referencing in Android and Other Tales from XML-Land
Social nets are much more easily duplicated than algorithmic search.
That was very well explained.
Would it be possible to include this into GIMP?
OpenPose: Real-time multi-person body, face, and hands estimation
The Flexbox Guide
In a world where things like this[0] have legitimate reason to exist, an article where phrases like "barbarianism", "dumpster fire" or "you have got to be fucking kidding me" aren't central to the thesis hasn't really explained modern CSS.

[0] http://howtocenterincss.com
So... .000005% of the population?
5 BUSINESS BENEFITS OF SOFTWARE REENGINEERING AND REFACTORING
I mean the following without snark even though it can easily be read that way:

I contribute to society by making the choices I want and not imposing my expectations of contribution on to others.

The best thing you can do for society is take care of yourself first, because that's what you have the most control over. How justified is much of the debt, guilt and obligation that we feel? I guess most of us believe that if we shirked these things then babies would be abandoned in the streets and all sorts of lawlessness would occur.

Is my lifestyle naive and selfish? Maybe. But I know who I am and I don't have to justify my choices to anyone else. I am not going to make a list of my good deeds to make sure people respect me. What if instead of trying to save the world so you can be happy you chose to be happy and that led to you saving the world? Why do we assume the former is more true than the latter?

It's really hard to talk about these things without coming off as being "holier than thou" but I think they're questions worth asking. They're questions I still ask myself all the time, I don't believe that I've reached some higher plane of enlightenment with all the answers.

People should be allowed to suffer and sacrifice their happiness but they have to want to it can't be imposed on them (consciously or not).
I am (trying to) leave Google search for Duck Duck Go. Many people I know are doing the same. Admittedly it is harder to leave Google search than Facebook.
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To "escape" Facebook, in 2017, I tried to maintain a Messenger account with a phone number but without a Facebook account. By accident, I discovered that the Messenger-with-a-phone-number thingie that they have is just a Facebook account that doesn't allow you to log in "traditionally." But if you manage to get the auth token to log in, it allows you to play with a lot of stuff. It allows you to rate places, edit places, see people's profiles, register for events invisibly. It doesn't allow you to interact and post status updates, but it is still very much a Facebook account behind the scenes.

If it entertains you, I have a draft here for you to see my 6 months journey working with fb security on that "bug" (disclaimer: it wasn't very fun or exciting... basically, I didn't qualify for their bounty program. They only give out rewards to bugs that could be used to get other people's personal info.)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSa-LjM5IzyTWJuD...

Edit: I have updated the link to the doc with the proof of concept video removed because the names weren't blurred. Bad taste on my end, my apologies.
Certainly bad practice. If developers want automation it's better to suggested to download assets (or even do it automatically) from Web Archive. They're exempt from DMCA and it's trustworthy source.

https://archive.org/details/SimCity2000_Special_Edition_Maxi...
Good thing that we as a society know where to invest our valuable time.
Definitely not an RPC. The animation takes about 8 seconds, and if you force close the app during the animation you can reopen with the final state resolved.
E=mc^2 is surely one of the most misunderstood equations in physics.

The best interpretation is as part of the full momentum-energy equation (letting c=1): E^2 = p^2 + m^2. This simply says that the energy E of a system is a combination of energy due to movement (p) and energy due to mass (m). At rest (p=0) this reduces to E=m, or E=mc^2 if you kept track of units.

> Even masses at rest have an energy inherent to them.

This is a real insight.

> Mass can be converted into pure energy. This is the second meaning of the equation, where E = mc² tells us exactly how much energy you get from converting mass

This is a pop-sci explanation, but it falls apart when you dig a bit. Does F=ma tell you that "force can be converted into acceleration?" Of course not; it tells you that force implies acceleration, and vice versa.

Or: if mass can be converted into energy, then you would have more energy and less mass, so E=mc^2 would no longer hold. It can't be both an equivalence and an exchange ratio.

> If you take a photon and and electron and smash them together, you get a photon and an electron out. But if you smash them together with enough energy, you’ll get a photon, and electron, and a new matter-antimatter pair of particles out. In other words, you will have created two new massive particles.

Later we learn that mass is determined by energy and momentum, both of which are conserved, so mass must be conserved too.
Around here, if somebody is talking into a phone on the train, they get dirty looks. It really is not at all common and pretty awkward. I have never witnessed anybody give a voice command to their phone.

At work, we isolate the frequent-phoners from those who have to concentrate for prolonged periods of time. If more poeple start talking at work, the distractions are going to get worse.
Do you read the ingredients of anything you eat/drink? This happens all the time. Read ingredients of "Apple Juice" or "Orange Juice" and it will often say upon inspection "Contains 12% juice" or something of the like.

Yeah... your Egg McMuffin probably has SOME egg in it, but that's about it.
simply by making certain business practices illegal.

"Shit's Easy Syndrome," from a great Steve Yegge post: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2009/04/have-you-ever-legali...

Unfortunately I'm more cynical than Mr. Schneier. His three reasons are true, but irrelevant, because the companies don't even have to care how valuable the data is right now. It's already free and clear, outside of maybe COPPA. It's the territory of privacy that they have stored for anything they can think of in the future, while right now it's fine to be used as an excuse to sell mundane ads based on it. I feel the regulation he desires is unlikely to happen because now the big data companies have more money than God, as well as much more focused interests than "a group of Facebook users," and can use that money to lobby. All the while us mooks are left to set up GoFundMes and hashtags 8 years before someone, somewhere gets standing in court. If they get past arbitration, that is.[1]

There is effectively no consequence to any use or misuse of data on the ownership side and I don't see that changing, not the least because data is the very lifeblood of the businesses that have been formed around it, it is the family jewels, and it will be protected from outside forces of all kinds. A data SarbOx isn't going to be more effective than the ineffective original because nobody's really going to tell them what they can do with their data. They have conquered frontiers of privacy, and we're already on the way to a new regime oriented around them. Can they be beat back? Who knows.

This is why setting up what sounds essentially like an informational campaign that tells you that all this is happening is a bit of the old horse and barn door, and I'm pessimistic that they would ever run anything that might threaten the financial prospects of these companies. Perhaps it could even be seen as a submarine campaign to ease the transition into a new concept of privacy, anchoring the other side of the debate (wittingly or unwittingly, it doesn't matter).

We can be smarter, sure, anything's possible, but it's not that simple. A lot of smarter people also work for these companies (and in government) and are fine with the way things are.

Now I feel like reading up on the taming of the American West, there might be some relevance here. Putting that on my list, and as far as solutions go I think that's the best I can do right now.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaz2hxZLycY
Each purpose must be listed separately; the fact that user gave you the data and consent to use it for one purpose doesn't imply that you're allowed to use that data for another purpose.

In your example:

"This data is absolutely required for the service you requested" >> no consent needed, you're just informing the user;

"Also, we'd like to use that data to personalize your feed" >> opt-in;

"Also, we'd like to use that data to personalize your advertisements on partner websites" >> a separate, different opt-in. The user can enable the personalized feed while denying you consent to share that data with advertisers.
ooooh - first ng nobel candidate for this year