skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the Hackernews' "echo-chamber-ness" is extremely exaggerated. It only feels like that if you're in the minority viewpoint in a thread (which happens to me, too). However, it's not echo-chambery if dissident viewpoints live side-by-side dominant viewpoints, even if the latter are 80% of the thread replies and upvotes.

An echo chamber is arguably more when we actively suppress dissident viewpoints. Reddit is infamous for moderators doing that simply by deleting comments under some pretext of 'spirit of the subreddit' or such. With Facebook there's a first-and-last-name-and-picture-visible shaming that can be scary and damaging, repulsing the opposite viewpoints. At a more extreme, you can help foster an echo chamber by organizing a large group of people to scream and picket and threaten a speaker that has the wrong views, reminding all the others of what happens.

HN to me is an oasis. Even if I get downvoted when I have a minority view. I still feel as if intelligent arguments are considered.

With Reddit, how many intelligent comments are there? The English grammar alone is awful, full of shortcuts, cliches and new millennial-speak. But worse: the responses are short. One-liners. And even worse: argumentation is ad-hominem and emotive.

In summary, I think Reddit is about emotional expression, and HN is about (an attempt of) rigor and rationality.
It's awesome that some people can break away from the addiction entirely. But, for me, even if I don't have sugar for months at a time, I still crave it deeply. And when I consume it, it has an extremely profound enjoyable feeling to it. For me, it's not coke or soft drinks, but rather sweet drinks like horchata and milk tea (not the real one), syrupy stuff, donuts, etc. I apply moderation.
> Ignoring them doesn't work for either trolls or bullys.

This goes against decades of received wisdom: DNFTT, anyone?

For what it's worth, I agree with you, and I always thought simply not feeding trolls was pointless: There's something similar to a broken window effect in terms of overall tone. If someone comes to a site, sees a lot of negative comments and general asshattery, they'll file that place away as "where the asshats are" even if those comments are being studiously ignored by the regulars. That means the only ones who want to comment there will be the ones who want to act like what they see around them: asshat trolls.

I also think that ignoring them until they go away is a bad strategy: Even if you ignore one or two of them successfully, there's dozens if not hundreds of them waiting to join. You can't outwait them all without the community degenerating due to the broken window effect I mentioned above.
Apparently artificial sweeteners can stimulate a large insulin response through the sweet taste receptors even though they don't increase the blood sugar - this over time can cause weight gain and reduce the effectiveness of insulin leading to Type 2 diabetes.

I say apparently because its been passed on to me in conversation with friends who medical staff. However that was a number of years ago and I haven't done the research myself to confirm; so as with every thing on the internet, take it with a grain of salt.
This is what I don't get; for someone wanting to use an irc client ":thumbs-up:" is as least as good as the actual graphic. Nothing is lost. And that goes for all the built-in emojis in slack.

Now if it was :4677: it'd be a different story - without some support it'd be hard to understand the constant identifiers.

/shrug
Georgia bill might limit efforts to find internet security problems
Getting Started with Sass/SCSS
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Would this be similar to doing:

git log -p --full-diff | egrep --line-number -EiEio "[^A-Za-z0-9/+=][A-Za-z0-9/+=]{40}[^A-Za-z0-9/+=]|[^A-Z0-9][A-Z0-9]{20}[^A-Z0-9]" | strings -a | more
Stevia is not artificial, its an extract from a plant like sugar is from cane or sweet potato. I think its always a good idea to don't encourage people to eat processed stuff, even fructose can have bad side effects, but when eaten the whole plant its not bad, the body process sucrose differently when eating a cane for example.
I'm currently two weeks into a no-Coke month (I guess it would be "no soda" but truly that's the only one I drink). I have a couple reasons for trying it:

- 1) Coca-Cola is an objectively evil corporation that I would like to support less.

- 2) I don't know exactly what's in it, and thanks to the corruption at the FDA, Coca-Cola doesn't have to tell me. I worry about what other additives might be lurking about, in addition to the 12 teaspoons of sugar per can.

- 3) I'd simply like to see if I can.

I'm not sure if I necessarily want to wean myself off it completely so much as seek out other sources.

One thing I'm investigating at the moment is Open Soda, which was a list of ingredients for Coke based on a leaked, older version of the recipe. A vendor in the UK sells a pre-made mixture of the oils, which I have debated ordering [0]. It would in theory let me make a batch of my own Coke with less sugar or whatever I feel like using.

Other things I've tried have included just sipping club soda or sparkling mineral water in its place. If I want a bit of flavor, I mix in a shot of Balsamic Vinegar. It's surprisingly decent. Remembering that it comes from fermented grapes (assuming you're getting some decent quality stuff and not the low-end BV from the grocery store), you get enough sweetness to carry it through.

[0] http://cube-cola.org/
Pro-tip: if you make it rule to never buy sweet treats (or only sunday or whatever), they will get used to it and it will be easier. If you buy them randomly, they will see hope of getting them all the time. If you occasionally cave, they will be more likely to negotiate.
The solution I‘ve found most effective is to cook everything from scratch, and not use any preprocessed foods. Once you start using healthy sauces, you open the door to the less healthy ones, and soon you‘ll end up mixing ketchup with mayonnaise :D

Recently I‘ve started making myself rice flakes with coconut milk, or a few steamed veggies (brokkoli, carrot strips) with some coconut milk and seasoning. Both are easily done within minutes, and free from artificial colors and flavors, and of course sugar. I basically throw chunks of brokkoli in a little bit of water, put the lid on and let it cook gently for 10m or so.. didn’t expect that to be so easy. Then add a few sips of coconut milk, salt and some fancy spices - done. We need self-made dishes to be simple, quick and tasty, or the convenience of preprocessed foods will catch up on us. Whenever I‘m hungry and in danger of making some fries or other abominations, I go for the rice flakes instead. Those take 5m to make, are cheap, and super tasty (ok I might have a coconut milk fetish).
> Embedded devices

I'm excited about this. In my experience, embedded (and by extension, a large part of kernel/driver programming) is the last stronghold of C, because it's a place where you really need fine-grained control of your environment and C gives you that by default.

It's my day-to-day workhorse, and I often feel like I'm stuck in the dark ages still dealing with issues of tooling and expressiveness that CS has solved long ago. Free me!
There was a momentary "wow, which terminal?" before realizing the headline surely intended an alternative reading.
Fake sugar might be the reason you find sweet treats tempting. Cut that and you will yourself unaccustomed to overly sweet things.
>> Heres just hoping that Mozilla is prepared

> Rust is an open source project

So is Perl6
In general I agree - if you're happy eating just fresh food like meat and veggies I'm happy for you - but I cannot, for practicality reasons. I just tend to keep my processed food very low carb - for some examples: I eat a lot of Quest bars (usually 5g net carbs), Lily's has some great stevia sweetened chocolate (http://lilyssweets.com/), and Fat Snax cookies are amazing (https://fatsnax.com/products/cookies).
>Territorial Dispute will search files on the infected computer for file names and registry keys known to have been used by malware deployed by other nation-state hacking groups.

This seems rather easy to defeat; it is analogous to security by obscurity. You only need to learn (1) what files and registry entries that specific malware generates and (2) what subset of those are harmless. If Territorial Dispute only looks at file names, then that makes things even easier.
The text of the bill is at http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/en-US/display/20172018/S....

The exceedingly vague statute runs the risk of making much security research illegal. And the long arm provisions mean it is not just limited to researchers in Georgia. History is full of instances of companies who did nothing to fix fundamental security problems until an independent researcher brought the issue into the bright daylight of responsible disclosure.
Same here! We're really happy with it.
Excuse me potentially asking a question that's daft in the context of TFA, but relevant purely to the headline...

The disaster warnings that interrupt TV broadcasts, like tsunami evacuation orders, does Netflix display them?

I've not seen anything about it, and my Google-fu is struggling because they have a show called The Warning, and a lot of disaster movies.

Many of my friends don't even have a TV for anything other than consoles. Only one of my friends doesn't have Netflix.

If the Netflix app displayed "TSUNAMI WARNING - If you are in insert place name, head to high ground immediately", they're far more likely to see it.
my 2¢ addition: careful with your abstraction.

Our instincts tend to be all wrong. When making general statements about a business, most try to make the most general statement possible. Otherwise we feel like we're selling it short. It's like when people write resumes. All trees, no forest.

That's why "X of Y" is so common, it's a formula to get past your bad instincts to a better, less accurate abstraction.

People are bad at going to abstraction without passing through specifics. If you'd never heard of jobs, it'd be hard to explain without examples. Fireman would be easier. Policeman would be even easier after that. Once we have two, the concept of job gets easier. Starting from the abstract... we'd be talking about, wages, specializations, uniforms, sick days... hard.

Case in point here, can we see this deck for an actual startup or startupses? It'd be easier to grasp the good/bad points in context.
What a horrible layout. This article may have been written as an advert for Firefox reader view
The Azerbaijani banks issued almost 3,000 mortgage loans in 2017 - from https://www.azernews.az/business/124717.html

The sharia laws prohibiting interest payments are also be relevant in a country with 95% Shia religion (I presume there are typical ways of structuring the mortgage to avoid "interest" e.g. see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_banking_and_finance )
Building Windows: 4M commits, 10M work items
How Psychopaths See the World
4. Build your own product/service and market it. Could dovetail nicely into #3 and #1. How entrepreneurial are you?
Looks like the article hyped things up.

They pick an arbitrary large interval of fifteen years. And does seventeen really qualify as a child while eighteen is somehow bonafide? Seems silly.

The real number is:
"More than 1,000 children aged 14 or under were granted marriage licences."

So the real problem is much closer to ~65/yr than ~13000/yr. That's still very messed up and should be fixed. But it's not what the headline is trying to sell you.
But humans are VERY very slow at this. Even our world-class moderation systems (the legal system in many countries) is excruciatingly slow, often taking months or years for a single decision.
At least we hope so

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum#Vacuum_metastabil...
I can't remember where I read it. But there apparently is a link between something tasting sweet and your bodies insulin response. The study seemed to suggest that our upper intestines have similar cells as our tongue and can actually taste food. The result is that eating sweet tasting things that are not sweet cause a insulin serge, which the body then registers was not needed due to the lack of actual glucose increase. The bodies intenral feedback loop is adjusted for this and over time you end up getting little to no response to eating sweet tasting stuff regardless if it had glucose in it or not.

You also have to step back and ask your self why so many people who avoid sugar but use artificial sweeteners are having problems with diabetes.
As much I disagree with racists, I believe that a healthy society must allow them to speak.

I tried to find a quote from Dershowitz’s book on defending Nazis but gave up due to paywall.

Toxic is not an objective measure for speech. But like in real life, toxicity depends on the dose. Life doesn’t eliminate toxins, it reduces them to manageable levels (or dies).

There’s also the practical effect that banning is irreversible. Toxicity is not terminal, but banning doesn’t allow for redemption.
I'm not buying this guy's long-winded "debunk." I think the book Sapiens does a better job at discussing the potential theories and the evidence to back it up.
At the same time, I feel like we are seeing a breakdown of trust in institutions because of actual mistakes that, in years past, would have gone unnoticed.

Although this distrust does have negative impacts to our society, I view this distrust as an overall good thing.
The algorithms used for Ether and some other altcoins require more RAM than is economically available for the current ASIC implementations. This was specifically done to deter use of ASICs.
Spotify Announces Launch of Line-In
The internet did not exist in its present form, extent of influence, flexibility, etc., without this being an issue for any length of time. Don't lie to yourself.
I'd say that if you're in a technical interview with a non-technical manager, you may've chosen the wrong company to interview with. And if it's a non-technical portion of the interview and you have trouble making yourself understood (to a manager), you're back to the "it's not a good fit" conclusion.
Yes, it's definitely still on the radar. I have a basic version working, but ran into some complexity with Apache and PHP's request model. It doesn't make sense to run EnvKey in every PHP process (since they are per-request), so I'm thinking it needs to cache based on the Apache pid. I'm still working out the best way to accomplish this. Sorry for the delay!
Completely agree about downvoting. It really does nothing for me as a user, as I am able to reply to something if I feel strongly enough about it. A great way to go about detoxifying social media is to limit negative interactions as much as possible.

Upvoting, on the other hand is valuable as it helps cut through the noise. A great example was the thread awhile back about WhatsApp encryption where the first comment was from Moxie.
Could you please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow those rules when commenting here? They include these two:

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

"Don't be snarky."
A devil's advocate argument, for people to have something explicit to rebut here:

One of the guises state police operate under in America is the "highway patrol"—a force that searches for terrorists and drug trafficking and the like.

And presumably, air travel is a privilege, not a right, just like driving a car is. (Or is it? Taking public transit is a right that can't be denied to someone unless they explicitly break a rule of the system. But airports are private companies...)

So, given that, is there a legal reason that there is no "airway patrol"?

I'm not suggesting they have the powers of random search & seizure that the TSA seems to have, mind you. But should there be state police that are stationed at airports, who search people when they have probable cause?
> Real identities

Real real identities (i.e. government issued digital id) have never been done. I am sure they will come eventually. The political process is just very slow compared to the pace of technology.
I would encourage you to read any thread on harassment or the treatment of women and marginalized people in the tech industry and then revisit that thought.
The author also makes a few contradictions.

They need less surveillance because there's more "eyes" on the ground, and yet the biggest walkable cities that come to mind, nyc and London are the most heavily surveiled on the planet.

big walkable urban areas also happen to be less safe from crime, rather than safer as the author asserts.
It is wildly inaccurate to call HN or Reddit “strong moderation” — the tooling alone is abysmally bad, plus Reddit can’t put the “post anything you want as long as it is not literally illegal” genie back in the bottle so easily after a decade.
Show HN: Brain Math – Daily Math Exercises for Healthy Brain
yep, that's it.

5 years ago I went on a diet where the only thing I did was to look at all the ingredients and nutritional values in everything and if they wern't there I didn't buy it (most burger places will supply it if you ask).

It is APPALLING what gets added to everything in order to be just-a-bit-better-tasting than the competition. Your brain doesn't know why brandA is better than brandB. And it's not just sugar, salt and fat are also adjusted.

But you don't NEED those flavors. You have to wean your body off the flavor. Foods have subtle and delicate flavors that get masked by the assault.

You can't hear the sounds of a bird chirping or a trickling stream if you are next to a rock concert.
You're quite right. I have a friend who moved to the US from a small european village. He commented that the food here is very intense -- all of the flavors are exaggerated and nothing tastes real. Too much salt, too much sugar, too much artificial... everything. Even the beef, he said, is intense in its flavor (a consequence of corn fed vs grass-fed cattle?) but ironically, the chicken is quite bland.

It is my own observation that supermarket/farm vegetables are often bland compared to "backyard" varieties. Most people have no idea how flavorful a simple tomato can be until they've had an "ugly" heirloom tomato left on the vine until ripe.
Coke reentered my life with their new Coke Zero formula. I sincerely love it, I just hope science will come up with a cure for the horrible disease this will eventually induce in me.
If it's a popular sauce in America, it's almost sugary as a rule. BBQ sauce, maple syrup, salad dressing, tomato sauce. Mustard might be the one solid exception (?)

I don't know if this is because sugary sauces become popular, or because popular sauces were adulterated with sugar.
It's possible the TSA will claim that taking a device for some amount of time and giving it back doesn't qualify as a (4th amendment) search.

However, from a security perspective it would be awful if they could disappear with your device whenever they wanted - that certainly makes me uncomfortable.
Neither of these are Git features. Vote with your legs if you think what you want should be available in a service like this.
Wow what an amazing coincidence. I was at the library today and picked up this book. It wasn't featured in any way, my eye just happened to fall on this particular book, on one of the many many shelves there.
I'm saying this as a massive clojure fanboy: java.util.concurrent is an amazing set of concurrency utilities and is the building block for many of clojure's concurrency features. It's definitely worth knowing when writing performant java AND clojure (you can wrap the little bit you need so you don't have to scatter java interop all over your codebase). Sometimes a (swap! atom fn) doesn't cut it.
From what I have seen on HN, the algorithms are very memory heavy. Lots of relevant discussion in this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16378417

Pro tip: google "hacker news" + whatever your interested in to find lots of high quality comments about a topic on old articles. That is how I found the previous link and what I do when looking into new technologies.
Here is the link to the blogpost that describes the problem: http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_...?
This answer is slightly misleading. Fermionic fields have negative vacuum energy, while bosonic ones have positive. This is an basic fact of quantum field theory, a consequence of Lorentz invariance and Fermi-Dirac statistics (resp. Bose-Einstein statistics).

Supersymmetry makes use of this fact: When the bosons and fermions come in pairs, their vacuum energies can cancel because they have opposite sign. But the association of minus signs to fermions and plus signs to bosons is older and more elementary than supersymmetry.
At this point is there a way for small organizations and individuals to protect themselves from data theft? IP and trade secrets are hard to develop in a closed network without internet access at all points.
I’d like to add one more tip: good design. I’ve seen and designed many decks for startups and some engineers pay zero attention to design. Sure if you have insane traction or other extraordinary data points it becomes less of an issue. But the investors, like yourself, are human beings who want things to look clean, neat and be clear. Nice design doesnt mean add nice colors. It means to make it a joy to go through with visuals of your product, clear font and font color selection, consistent branding etc. don’t waste too much time on the design but do treat your deck as a product of its own.

If you need any advice, feel free to ping me.
That seems reaching to me. After all, highway patrol cannot simply start going through your belongings without probable cause which has a potential to be tested in court. Same rights are clearly not afforded to the air travelers in TSA interactions which seem to exist in a legal limbo right now.
People eat too many calories. An easy way to cut calories is by reducing the number of sugary things you eat because they taste so good you want to eat a lot of them. But nutritionally, as long as you control for calories, a bowl of ice cream is not terribly different than a grilled cheese sandwich. Yeah, the ice cream has more sugar, but in your stomach that bread is being broken down into sugar anyway.
- Comrade, you must close your factory tonight at 12.01 am.

- (a millisecond later) Yes sir.

It's that simple. No matter how much money you invested in it, or what contracts you have signed. Countries like China, Russia, Saudi Arabia and the likes have, let's just say, "efficient" systems. The government wants it done and so it is.
Mixer4 – an audio mixer and processor controlled through simple text files
Relevant Onion article:

https://www.theonion.com/man-who-drinks-5-diet-cokes-per-day...
Do you mean the new Coke Zero Sugar in the US? I actually prefer the old version as the new one tastes a little more like Diet Coke.
I've never actually used Facebook so I haven't seen the effects of only upvoting. But up/downvoting is not meant to signal agreement or disagreement anyway. It's meant to signal whether it's a useful post or not. But people treat it as the former which is why it creates echo chambers. I think the Facebook "upvote" is meant to signal agreement. Does it also make the post go to the top?
Dangerously minimizing? What's dangerous is a culture addicted to simulating political action by managing online comments. Instead if putting resources to making your local garden great, to mangle Nietzsche of Ecco Homo, people get worked up by actions they have no control over instead of working locally to change conditions where they could have an impact.

And you lack imagination and historical hindsight if you think the concept of "toxicity" can only be wielded by whatever you consider to be the forces of light. So to speak.