skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>neurons then undergo abrupt, nonlinear rundown in the ion gradients across the cellular membranes.

that should generate a [miniscule] EM wave.

>This depolarization develops en masse from either one or multiple foci and spreads in the tissue as a self-propagating wave.

so a very sensitive EM detector should see a burst of EM radiation. One can wonder whether some [very sensitive to EM] people may perceive that as "departing soul" (and technically that burst of radiation does have the imprint of the neuronal configuration which generated it). Also one can wonder (well it can be calculated/measured i suppose) whether that burst of EM radiation can cause some electrostatic effects and or some kind of luminescence around the body in say very dry air or the air with very fine dust or in presence of some non-typical gases or liquid drops suspended in the air.
Great point. Then perhaps we should aspire to be like gorillas, instead. Instantaneous, implicit martingales and brownian motion calculation in their minds subconsciously, exactly like us, except, they don't shitpost on the reddit.
Hi, OP here, thank you so much for the list and effort.
Presumably this park would have been built on private land, so it wasn't going to "privatize" any public land.
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Hundreds of Comcast users, to be clear. And that's just the article's random number, I doubt there's anything backing it up.
Ask HN: Quitting in a month, what to do next?
hey folks, I'm going to quit my current job end of this month and I'm not sure what to do next.

I have a couple of options:

1.Full-time Open Source Developer - I've been following projects like Moby (Docker), Kubernetes & CNCF friends, Redox, Blender for a while now and am familiar with their codebase but haven't had the chance to contribute. I am not sure how this'll pay me though.

2. Join one of the big software companies - I have a few offers at hand but am not sure if I'd enjoy any of those. The pay is really good but the work probably isn't going to be satisfactory. I cannot discuss the offers here because of NDAs.

3. Wild Projects - Twitch streaming my programming experiences, tech podcasts, etc. I think this'll go well with Developer Advocate / Tech Evangelist roles and I've been wanting to do this for a while but I'm not sure how to start and if they pay as much as pure software engineering roles.

Hope the HN community will help me out.
The other problem is that several subreddits were known to "leak," where the subscribers to some subreddits would go out and spread that kind of thing across the rest of the site. If the racist content stays in their subreddits, it's still terrible that it's there, but at least it can be firewalled off. But when the users of those subreddits start spreading that content through the rest of the site, it's much more difficult to avoid it.
I wonder if this approach results in good error messages?
I am cautious about this whole arrangement, but that's more an issue with IGN than Humble Bundle: The store is still just selling games. IGN now has a motivation to slant things in favor of their sales, which makes them less trustworthy. But as long as Humble Bundle is still selling games, it's fine.

But I always worry with a big acquisition that they might change parts of the platform I like, and so that's my biggest concern.
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> 2)This indicates that there is a way to write a program in javascript which gives me f_i for i. Let's call that function gen_f(i)

The whole point, actually, is that there isn't a way to write a program in JS which gives you f_i for i (pragmatically, you have no access to T). You might think of some clever way to try and augment your language (but that will be tricky; T is infinite but programs are finite, so you'll run into the Halting Problem). The Second Theorem of Incompleteness shows why you'll never be able to do that, but that's another post for another day.
And how do you do that when they come at you by the thousands?

And do so in a way that doesn't boil down to a blame the victim solution of simply leaving the platform?
> This is ultimately student preference.

Sure. But the last time I checked, almost all MOOCs were lecture focused. Like I said, I've yet to find any with a text component as good as Dive Into Python or Learn C the Hard Way or other free online textbooks. Perhaps there's are a few out there, but every time I've browsed MOOCs I've found just about everyone to be lecture focused. Out of the dozens I've looked at (on multiple platforms) I can only think of one that wasn't, and that was eventually removed.

Plenty of people use the internet to learn plenty of things. I think it's time to consider how much of the "failure" of MOOCs is due to the failure of online learning, and how much of it is due to the fact that university classes aren't a great way to teach people things (at least for a large chunk of the population).

> I will say that your post is confusing as you say you don't want instructor anecdotes but then MOOCs should be doing more for larger-scope community building.

Instructor anecdotes were an example of why I don't like lectures. With a book you can scan over content that is superfluous and get to the information you need. You can re-read or take slowly the parts you have trouble with, and quickly skip over the parts you already know. All of this is much, much harder to do with lectures.

I'm confused as to why you think professor anecdotes are related to large-scope community building? They're quite different things, and if people view them as serving the same purpose then there's even more of a misunderstanding when it comes to education than I had previously believed.

As for the difficulty of community building, I think you should broaden your horizons a bit. For instance, if you're a bit late on a Coursera course the forums are pretty much dead, and you're better off discussing things or asking questions on another site. Likewise with Udacity - the course might still be active, but everyone that has completed the course has moved on and won't see your message. This isn't because of a difficulty in community building, but because of a conscious decision that most MOOCs take to segregate their forums by class.
Don’t worry about that. Just retweet it as a fact, pronto.
The article is specifically talking about added sugars, and their net effect.

> Big Sugar has paid researchers to conduct misleading — if not false — studies about the health effects of added sweeteners.

The core issue is not the type of sugar, but the nature of it being basically everywhere in packaged foods.

The author also mentions that it's not worth trying to quantify the amount of sugar:

> Don’t agonize over the sugar content of every single thing you eat.

I find the best rule of thumb is to "eat around the outside" -- most American supermarkets push produce, meat, dairy, etc., to the outer walls of the market, and design stores to make you criss-cross the packaged goods aisles in the center. If you focus shopping on fresh foods, you generally will eat better (with a slightly more expensive grocery bill).
I believe you might be referring to "ectomorph"?
The only real consistency i've seen between toxic communities and healthy ones is size. When you try to call 100k people a "community", it's a bad community where the toxic people have a louder voice than the good ones. If the community is a core group of <1000 participants and maybe 10000 spectators (following the 90-9-1 rule of online communities) it can be good. When it grows larger than that, it needs to be split up or shut down.

The only way i see to save reddit is to set a maximum size for a subreddit, and shut down or otherwise isolate every subreddit that grows bigger than the maximum threshold.
Yes, when people use them. There is no really elegant way of adding a type annotation to a `do` block.

(do x <- pure 1
y <- pure 5
pure (x + y)) :: Maybe Int

It isn't uncommon to have to scan the `do` block for some statement that constrains the monad somehow.

This is a known and discussed problem, so I'll refer you to the article usually reference around this issue: https://wiki.haskell.org/Do_notation_considered_harmful
I think in part they do, otherwise OS X wouldn't have gained as nearly as much marketshare on the promise that "It just works"
"How do universities prevent the "echo chamber" effect where a few mods or a few users can take the whole conversation in one direction?"

They turbocharge group think. Probably not the best example of an open minded community.

A distant cousin of my wife went to a Seminary; within a relatively narrow range of beliefs, he claimed there was a lot more intellectual freedom than universities along the lines of teaching how to talk to devil's advocates and heresies and converting non-believers. More of a carrot and stick than university which is solely stick-style, who can most emphatically say "I can't even" and so on.
I would encourage you to look up the GamerGate scandal from a few years ago, and update your knowledge on the topic of online trolling/harassment.
Have you been following what’s going on in the UK with their anti-“hate” speech laws?

Tweet something that someone decides is offensive to them, get a visit from the police? I’d say it’s a very rational concern that these regulations would be weaponized against “wrongthink”.
Great, now I have to guess if you are a human or a bot that’s both pitching and retelling it’s own inception in the same sentence.
Worked, but not 100%. Many people were still willing to pay 10$ over and over and over again, for whatever reason, to reregister and keep posting (badly) just to get banned again.
I disagree with the fast food analogy because that has obvious and direct personal costs, while infotainment negatives are subtle and externalized.

Re: trust and appeal to authority; your example made me realize people are drawn to grand conspiracies because unverifiable theories are infallible... Luring in people unfamiliar with probabilistic reasoning and consilience.
When's the last time you saw someone smoking a cigarette?
Any luck in bringing support to PHP yet? I know we had chatted a while ago about that being a possibility - was hoping that was still on the radar.
Would they? I don’t think they address the real problem here.

Simply using social media to campaign has never been the issue. There was never backlash against Obama for doing so. There’s precious little backlash against Sanders. The only real backlash has been against Trump, and aside from being Donald Trump, the only difference is that many of Trump’s social media supporters were secretly backed by the Russian government, and I don’t think transparency requirements would have stopped the Russian government.
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> Did anyone read this book?

Just skimmed through a few pages, found a small name error:

> Java millennium (Java ME) which is made to create Embedded Systems
Perhaps. The question is which of those things really move the needle; can you have some, not all? For example, our completion rates are 90%+ - better than universities, but there is no social humiliation, loss of personal freedom, or financial hit.
Q is the set of all functions that take an integer as an input and return a 0 or a 1. A is the set of all function in Q that are computable.
LambdaMOO tried switching to democracy around 1993, with "LambdaMOO Takes A New Direction". Basically, the mods ("wizards") instituted a petition system for technical changes and ceded all social decisions to a separate arbitration board. The resulting three and a half years of chaos is summarized in the last post on http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/LambdaMOO

In the end, the wizards published "LambdaMOO Takes Another Direction" and took back control, concluding:

> Over the course of the past three and a half years, it has become obvious that this [refraining from making social decisions] was an impossible ideal: The line between 'technical' and 'social' is not a clear one, and never can be.

A great deal has been written about this experiment (and a Web search will find much analysis, along with full text of LTAND and LTAND2), and there are a wide variety of perspectives on why LTAND failed, but one conclusion that nearly everybody seems to reach is that attempting to give a community democracy with no higher guidance is almost guaranteed to be a recipe for disaster.

Reflecting on all of this, I have no idea how the US founders managed to get something that worked at all, much less as well as it does. (And notice that it took them several tries to get it right.)
I'm not sure about artificial sweeteners. I know that in small doses they're probably safe but determining health effects of everything we eat is hard (we eat a lot of different stuff).

I use "splenda (sucralose) [1] the yellow packet" sometimes and I find I don't need very much at all for my tea, as they are significantly sweeter than the real thing. Its basically modified sucrose.
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucralose

There is ongoing research about how the body reacts to "sweet taste" vs "carbs" in terms of insulin response. I find the less sweets I eat the less I crave them over time. [2]
[2]https://www.health.harvard.edu/diabetes/ask-the-doctor-do-ar...
f_i was defined as the ith program in lexicographical order that is guaranteed to terminate and to only return 0 or 1 (from the article: "we can just throw out programs that loop infinitely or don’t return a 1 or a 0")

This means that to write your "gen_f(i)" function, you'd have to solve the halting problem, which is impossible. So there is no mechanical (and hence no Javascript-based) way to create the gen_f(i) function.

Note that f_i is still a well-defined mathematical object, and so table T is a well-defined mathematical object (and then so is fbar). But they are not computable objects.
Thanks, I enjoyed writing it!
> implication that selling a product designed for privacy and secure communication is inherently intending to facilitate criminal activity. At what point is the line crossed? There are products with seemingly fewer 'legitimate' uses that don't appear to cross this line such as lock picks, police radar detectors, miniature surveillance equipment, etc.

The legal basis depends on the country.

But in general, that line is always crossed when you market your product for the purposes of facilitating criminal activity. Distancing yourself from the consequences of the illegal activities performed with your product becomes much more difficult. That he knew about, actively participated in and marketed the platform for drug trafficking was a large part of what damned the Silk Road op-- he couldn't (successfully) make the "b-b-but I was just running a website!" defense.

There's a behavioral aspect to it too though. The idea is one that you can sell a box of armor-piercing rounds to a civilian and he'll use them lawfully, to go shoot up some pesky armored deer or abandoned cars or something. But if you specifically sell him "cop killer"-branded bullets, you're giving him the idea that this is an acceptable use for the product. We don't want that in society.
$ ldd chrome | wc -l
124

Shift-Esc is Chrome's own task manager. I don't know how they count.
The RFC supports it, eddyb's list of milestones in the compiler just don't get you all the way there.
Occam's razor proves useful here. A more common and likely scenario is a glitch not malicious intent. Until evidence of such intent is brought to light there is very little reason to assume it exists.
Stallman and Doctorow have the convenience of not running organizations which have to work with various corporate needs. They can afford to be religious and uncompromisingly devout. I don't think Tim has that luxury.
I believe there have been some studies that show that artificial sweeteners affect your insulin response to real sugar, but I think it's far from settled science.
Or put another way, "Don't eat packaged/processed foods. Buy whole foods, and assemble it yourself".
> they just need to rename iTunes Store as "Media Store".

'Apple Store' is already a great brand. Why not just declare that the Apple Store now sells media?

The Apple store is nice, both the physical and online versions, while the iTunes store is pretty bad. How about getting the Apple Store people to use their skills on the media store?
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> Treating them as common carriers so they are not allowed to discriminate seems like something that is needed

Common carriers for what?

Google and Facebook are by definition discriminators. You access Google so it can discriminate for you, and give you discriminated results that match what you're looking for, and not the entire internet.

You don't sign up for an ISP for discrimination, you sign up for access, so you want it to not discriminate at all.

ISPs provide access, social media and search provide aggregation. Trying to regulate both in the same is pointless.
How do you filter out user sentiment without downvotes?

I think there are flaws in downvoting, but they are less than systems with only upvote (eg Facebook).

Upvote only encourage extreme views that attract attention because if 5% like and 95% dislike (theoretical) this is ranked higher than 4% and 0% dislike.

What we really need is a score that is like as percentage of views that will be more meaningful.

Mixing in some sort of cost to post/vote will help as well because people will be more judicious with likes. Currency is hard to work out as steem is a big fluffed-fest. Maybe something where you get credits every day and can exhaust or bank them.
> Only a small minority of crates should require any manual work to opt in to a new edition

Is this going to be tracked through the system that catches compiler regressions against the entire crates.io ecosystem?
My daughter has chocolate in the cupboard from Easter this time last year. She has a can of soda maybe once a week and does eat not much candy, when she does it's recognised as a treat and not a part of her normal diet. She does drink smoothies that I'm sure have a good bit of sugar. I never buy products with artificial sweeteners if I can help it and I never use fake sugar (Truvia/Stevia/…) supplements–I'm actually not sure what people put them in, is it coffee and tea? I prefer regular Coke or Pepsi (for instance) to the diet alternatives because I can totally taste the artificial sweetener and it leaves a gross aftertaste in my mouth.

To the people here who have commented that a life without artificial sweeteners is unimaginable to them I am at a loss for words. I do not know what to say to you. I'm not saying that I have an iron will or anything–once you go without for a while you lose the taste for it, it really is that simple I think.Surely it can't be as difficult to kick as say beer or cigarettes?
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> on't have any effect on your blood glucose and really are completely different

Source for this? My understanding is that the link between non-caloric artificial sweeteners (NAS) and diabetes is growing increasingly clear. For instance:

NAS linked to glucose intolerance (pre-diabetic hyperglacemia): https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13793

NAS unlikely to be healthy alternative to sugar for prevention of type 2 diabetes: http://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h3576.full
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I detest this smug mentality, that so called trolling is trivial to identify and differentiate from legitimate, but unpopular opinion.

I feel strongly about it because it creates opportunity for censors, both in the form of moderators and communities themselves, to stifle debate under the guise of "detoxification." This kind of communal policing is ground zero for the echo chamber phenomenon.

We live in a reality where there will always be those who abuse platforms of communication for nefarious purposes. We also live in a reality where we are able to temper our own outrage, and we must if we wish to maintain healthy, open dialogue.

Offense is taken, not given.
The argument always boils down to "non-technical" people only know how to use a web browser and they can only only use things available within the browser. They seemingly have absolutely no knowledge of any other type of application (like a word processor, chat client, email client, etc).

This argument directly contradicts my first hand experience communicating with people online. They were perfectly capable of using those various applications to communicate with others.
"Privately owned public spaces" do indeed have a pretty mixed history... but if projects can be structured in such a way as to let a private entity provide support for public land, the results can be fantastic.

The Central Park Conservancy or Bryant Park Corporation in NYC are great examples - public land, managed and principally funded by private entities, going way beyond what a public parks department could ever hope to accomplish on their own.

https://ny.curbed.com/2017/4/19/15355610/nyc-privately-owned...

POPS projects can work if the government enforces them properly. They aren't replacements for public parks, but are better than nothing on a block that might otherwise not have any public space at all - and even public parks can benefit from private investment and control if done properly. Both the city and developers though should avoid the trap of thinking a POPS is a substitute for a public park. They serve different purposes.
Thanks - you correctly caught an error and I’ve edited the post to address it. The danger is in the confusing affordances, and the point was about that and not the direction of the door swing (which as you’ve correctly pointed out has other more primary considerations.)
I go through full withdrawal cutting out sugar, and it was the only thing that got me to actually stop going back to it. It took me about 3 times going back and forth and the last time I decided I really didn't want to go through the process of getting sick again.

I used to eat a few bowls of ice cream each day. I'd drink tons of root beer and cream soda. I still miss it every so often, but I know it's the right choice for me given how my body reacts to it.

I have found that I have no problems with monk fruit. The first time I tried it, it didn't really taste sweet. There was more just an after taste that I was unfamiliar with. After having it a few times though, my tongue must have adapted because it is a sweet flavor to me now. I don't crave it and have no negative side effects when I stop eating it.

It feels pretty liberating to cut out the stuff that you have cravings for. I was definitely a slave to caffeine and sugar and I'm glad to be free from those traps now.