skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The only real defense against this is to come together as a nation

Isn't the other defense effective education, so people know how to spot suspect things and do their own research?

(I imagine this has high correlation with "coming together as a nation")
They're certainly inflaming it.
Are the Haskell godot bindings in a usable state? Very interested
How easily even professional manipulators are manipulated
Which only makes the argument that perhaps your access to firearms should be associated with actual proven need versus want. I don't get why this debate even exists though. Unless the second amendment is overturned firearms will always be legal and that's an unlikely thing to happen. If killing kids didn't make people care enough to outlaw them, then killing more isn't likely to increase the desire to outlaw firearms. Repealing the second amendment is a very, very unlikely scenario. Someone could walk into a nursery full of newborn babes tomorrow surrounded by a full tactical SWAT team, murder the entire SWAT team and babies and the response would only be that the SWAT team needs more weapons to protect against the killers and that perhaps the babies should have been armed as well. America has a hammer problem where they see the only solution to violence is more violence.
My readability bookmarklet doesn't remove the vertigo-inducing animated background. So I'm going to have to pass on reading this one.

Will someone please post a summary?
I found the paper: Impact Acceleration Stress. 1962

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=WTQrAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA92&dq...

None of the bears suffered serious injuries beyond broken bones and whiplash, but they were killed and autopsied afterwards. The paper doesn't explicitly state how many bears were used, and I think hundreds might be an exaggeration, but at least a couple of dozen bears were used based on the number of tests run.
I find it intriguing that people are still surprised that there are attempts to polarize and amplify both sides from foreign actors. Hell, it happens just as intentionally from within our borders. I literally gave a talk on automating it before the 2016 election. I even used the data to project the winner of the election. People laughed. Then November rolled around.
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In his own words: Ward Cunningham, Inventor of the Wiki
WikimediaFoundation https://youtube.com/watch?v=XqxwwuUdsp4 at about 3:00 and on for a minute. There was a release of hypercard in ‘98 - four years after he was working on the wiki.
I've seen a lot of #1, but not a whole lot of #2, and #3 seems to be pushing #2's agenda.

Just curious on what "liberals" have had their online platforms removed.

From my general experience with the internet since my youth, it seems that online discussion in unmoderated communities seems to be fairly "conservative" in that they are brutally honest and unwilling to accommodate others special interests.
I agree. The current players in the healthcare system view people as numbers, and that is terrible. Doctors are the most natural patient advocates, but unfortunately physicians' ability to influence healthcare, on a system or patient level, has decreased significantly in recent years.

I would love to see (and am hoping to build) solutions that give more power back to doctors and patients, and focus on patient experience and outcomes.

I know that a lot of consumers want to take their health decisions into their own hands, and I support that, but i think most people want help from an informed professional who is on their side (ie not controlled by a hospital or insurance company with competing interests)
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The link I provided [1] has coinmarketcap.com that is forced HTTPS but not sure if that was or not.

There's some discussion of known Comcast injection here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15890551

The response from Comcast was [2]:

> This is our web notification system, documented in RFC 6108 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6108, which has been in place for many years now. It presents an overlay service message on non-TLS-based HTTP sessions. If you click the X box or otherwise acknowledge the notice it should immediately go away. If that is not the case let me know and we'll have a look at what may be happening. [2]

But ultimately no, however there may be some possibilities:

- ISP offered 'apps'. Get people to agree to an install of some monitoring app for some [insert random marketing benefit] from ISP. Maybe if you install the app you get more data cap space etc and they can monitor browser access. Further, install this in known apps or as add-ons on setup for other apps.

- ISP offered 'VPN client' that again, gives some cheaper monetary benefit like more data cap space or more speed 'free', strips out other advertising or tracking as a benefit.

- ISP offered 'email client' that does all of the above.

- Check for subsequent request after page loads to known ad networks and replace with their own in HTTPS

- ISP level proxy MITM, modem customization for 'fast lanes' that are actually slow lanes.

- DNS level data collection not to inject but to sell marketing profiles via metadata and correlate with other data from apps.

First one is the most probable but as of right now HTTPS injection is obviously hard to do if not impossible without some social or security hole.

Nobody in here would probably fall for these attempts but most would considering the outrage that they didn't know friend harvesting was happening on Facebook. If whatever they try lowers their monthly data caps or limits then majority of people will do it.

Since ISPs are your 'gateway' to the internet and you pay them, most people assume trust and privacy, most don't know they bribed their way into the tracking/ad business, many didn't know cable tv modems had mics either. With that assumption of trust since people are paying them, they'll more easily fall for any of the possible attack/tracking vectors listed and more probably.

With the ISP privacy protections removed [3], my guess is most ISPs, due to lack of competition, end up more like hotel wifi where tracking/injection is the norm [4] as it is completely legal now. With the removal of privacy protections and net neutrality, we have killed the pristine, non tracked, private gateways to the internet we cherish.

[1] https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2016/12/comcast-s...

[2] http://forums.xfinity.com/t5/Customer-Service/Are-you-aware/...

[3] https://www.flake.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2017/3/flake-i...

[4] https://medium.com/@nicklum/my-hotel-wifi-injects-ads-does-y...
In any organization there is some number of people, who, if sufficiently motivated, could work together to pull off a 'data heist' and not be immediately uncovered. At a good company that number is high, at a bad company that number is 1.

What do you think the number is at facebook? At google? At your bank? At your healthcare provider?
A pencil on a spring is enough to measure maximum acceleration, I'm sure by 62 they had something at least as sophisticated.
> Alembic is a good migration ... tool

Having used it for 2 years that is not the adjective I would apply. I infrequently go looking for a better solution. But, it's a hard problem to solve, so...
"Its mono's fault" was told to me by one of the founders of Xamarin, in person, not by Unity. Perhaps they did offer Unity a license to their newer stuff, but at completely unacceptable terms. Xamarin's concern was that Unity would be a direct competitor with their own cross platform product.

I don't consider this to be anyone's fault, my point is that post-MS acquisition, it is easier to get access to the newest mono runtimes/compilers, which is why we are seeing them appear in Unity and in Godot.

>MS began to release their own .NET implementation under the kinds of license terms that Unity wanted years ago, but Unity didn't budge

That one wouldn't have targeted all of their platforms, right?
TFA is an example of #2. But I agree that on the whole #1 seems a lot more common.
Isn't https://scratch.mit.edu/ a modern incarnation of this style?
LOL, I got 1 share so I can watch the whole thing unfoldes from the front seat ;-)
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Annoying though it is, it's only on the title; the article text is readable.
yes I can definitely see Migra is more productive when switching around between schemas in development. But I'm not sure how I'd go about using this approach if i need to deploy a fixed series of schema migrations to a production server farm.
TFA didn't have a platform removed, the post is on tumblr on their own account, after all.
dang - i fell for it!
I'd be interested to know what circumstances made the concept flourish. Massively popular yet difficult-to-program devices sitting in every home?

If I could go back in time I would have stuck with QBasic for at least another five years before moving to C. I wasn't close to ready for the briefly exciting dive into "real" coding, which led to abstract CS concepts, the thick books with exciting illustrations on the covers, the CS classes which were so boring. Meanwhile I believe I could have actually been shipping software had I stuck with QB. Gar to admit but true.
Standards are a great blessing for humanity. We don't pay much attention to standards but without them, society would be more difficult. Shipping containers are just another sample of their benefits.
One that many of us will remember is the standardization of power cords for Cellphones. There was a time all phones had their power connectors which made it impossible to share power chargers. Now we take it for granted that we can grab one from a friend or go to the store and buy one without much trouble. A small step but one of many that make a large difference for society.
I encourage you to spend time in actual academic fora, where language choice absolutely will get you disqualified from a conversation. Nobody is obligated to listen to anybody.
Trying to inflame it. I haven't seen any evidence it was effective. It's not as if there was a shortage of outrage on Facebook or Tumblr.
Two ideas:

1) clustering similar ideas, for example when I looked at it there were multiple about finding friends. Related, you could build an reddit-style ranking instead of a purely temporal one

2) if you want to turn it into a product, maybe a way to share “hey, this is exactly my app”... saw some similar comments here. Probably you’ll have to work on anti-spam too :)

Good luck, great project so far!
why is this flagged?
AppleScript, for those who don't know, was heavily inspired by HyperCard. And apparently was one of the (many) core language inspirations behind Javascript too.
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This got a loud, hearty laugh out of me. Someone get this person a beer.
Do you have a link to your talk? It sounds interesting
If you're using Firefox, reader view works well (the note paper icon towards the right side of the url bar).
Correct, anyone who plans to start their own business needs ACA. You might think "But if I own a business, I can buy insurance through it". What if you fail? What if you succeed moderately and sell it for a few million? What if your investors fire you? What if you get sick before it succeeds? What if your spouse or children get sick before it succeeds?
At the risk of courting controversy, arguably that's what Flash was: ActionScript, for example, being based on HyperTalk. Certainly it included many of the concepts originally found in HyperCard. Of course, that too has been superseded, and ironically - after many years of holding Flash in some degree of contempt - I have to admit to being rather saddened by the fact.
Scratch is nothing like HyperCard.
Kinda wish my browser would follow your advice; the blog post is over 10 megs.
Isn't it the case that all bitcoin transactions are in some kind of . . . what do you call it . . . ledger? And don't we know roughly the price of bitcoin in USD at all times? It seems like it would be pretty easy to import all this info into a spreadsheet or even just a little Python script to calculate everything correctly according to wash rules and what have you.
My adblocker blocks the whole domain, so I am also waiting for someone to post a summary.
It seems like the era of von Neumann probes would be pretty late to start mining asteroids. We'll presumably be mining near-Earth objects long before we have self-replicating probes. There are already several companies working on that, after all.
People have written a lot about programming languages that try to use natural-language syntax, but one idea that I remember is that both HyperTalk and AppleScript are a lot easier to read than to write, because you can relatively easily use your knowledge of English to understand what the code is doing, but you can't easily use your knowledge of English to figure out how to phrase instructions in a way that the interpreter will understand. And your own praise of HyperTalk mentions its being easy to read, not easy to write. :-)

One way to experiment with this distinction might be to look at the Wikipedia page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperTalk#Fundamental_operatio...

and read through the examples and see if you follow them. I'm sure you will.

Now, close the page and try to write a valid loop, and a valid user interaction, and a valid test for the existence of a file. I don't think you're likely to succeed unless you've actually programmed in HyperTalk recently.

But I could readily imagine that many people can learn HyperTalk more quickly or comfortably than a language without the natural language elements. Maybe part of that is the low psychological barrier to using a system that looks like it makes sense semantically, compared to learning special meanings for lots of symbols.
I'm a bit confused, who do you think is in power in the West these days?
Keep in mind this is an article extolling the virtues of outsourcing critical components of your business by... a company that you outsource critical customer interaction components to.
If you look at the biographies of the most esteemed scientists and mathematicians who contributed much to humanity's knowledge, many if not most of them had a chance to get special education, either through mentorship or gifted programs since they were in primary school or younger. The cases of Terence Tao, John von Neumann, and Albert Einstein are some that I know of for certain.

Another data point from a personal perspective: I was fairly gifted (though far less than the names I mentioned) and came up with the idea of limits in math on my own when I was 9 years old. I never got any proper mentorship and the development of my math skills and intuition was held back by the boring classroom materials and routine homework I needed to attend/finish. I did not have access to or even aware of any advanced materials I could learn from, and thus wasted several of the best years to develop those math skills and intuition.
> Well-regulated advertising is important in helping consumers make informed purchasing decisions.

Citation needed.

This statement is just the pablum that people in the industry repeat to help assuage their guilt at what they are doing. I say this as someone who worked on ads for a company that had more than half of all US internet ad spend at the time.
Access is a function of cost. If medical care is affordable for people near the poverty line then we will be able to solve the access problem entirely. (this is my goal) Governments, charities, and businesses will pick up the slack as they already do.
The supplement or the pill has magical abilities though. Many people who will say "I die when I die" when told to diet or exercise will take a pill with no complaints.

And as a hobby dieter & big loser: Once you realize diet is something requiring long-term conscientiousness, the truth and enormity of the change can hit very hard. It is an emotional roller coaster that can just as easily make people more fat than when they started.
Maybe the Russian propaganda narrative is Russian propaganda.

If you wanted to destabilize the west, just gently implying hat the sitting US president is secretly maybe a Russia spy would be a pretty good way of doing it.
I think you raise a good point, but in general no.

No, for what’s considered the classical interview of one or two phone screenings + one day onsite. No because I think it’s already very expensive for companies (both the process and accounting for errors), and it would create a false incentive for people to just randomly shop for interviews just to get paid an extra.

Probably yes, though, for everything that goes beyond. For example, the “classical” come for a day to work on w/ the team, or build this feature, or solve this problem and prepare a presentation.
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Any relation to https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot ?
Most new taxes come about at times when the locality creating them is under financial stress. Wars are financially stressful. Thus you'd expect that any given new modality of taxation would be created, with some relatively high probability, in proximity to a war.
As much as I want to credit python, I doubt that was the cause. It's typically far easier to ship a new feature at a small company, because there's no bureaucracy, no wait for QA, no need to translate text into 20 languages, etc.
>Facebook's business model is unlike Apple's business model in that it does not make money from sending 12-year-olds into cobalt mines.

This is the kind of response that I am increasingly finding indistinguishable from propaganda intended to sow discord.
They really did a good job with the mountain of evidence, too.
It is attitudes like this that created the problem in the first place.
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> Hell, it happens just as intentionally from within our borders.

I would love to do a little experiment where some of the anti-white, anti-gun, anti-religious, etc. vitriol spewed by American media, academics, and celebrities is repackaged via tweets from several Twitter accounts appearing to originate from Russia just to see everyone denounce these “horrible attempts to sow division.” Honestly I’m pretty sure these Russian troll attempts everyone is so up in arms about are already doing this — but it would be nice to have the big reveal at the end.
It would be interesting to see a social media platform emerge where instead of a real name policy there was a metadata policy where each post contains the IP/User-Agent/etc... for utmost transparency and validation by parties viewing the site. It would be a DDOS/security nightmare but for a relevant example check out congress-edits https://twitter.com/congressedits
> What has Apple opened up along the way?

A few highlights:

iPhone OS 2 — Native apps.

iPhone OS 3 — Apps can now connect to external accessories through serial I/O or bluetooth. Apple also began permitting turn-by-turn navigation and push notifications. Apps can now access music library. Lots of new APIs.

iOS 4 — Apps can now perform limited tasks in the background with multitasking. Lots of new APIs.

iOS 7 — Multitasking is liberated further. Apps can even send audio streams to other apps. Apps can also run JavaScript directly, allowing app scripting for the first time. Lots of new APIs.

iOS 8 — Developers can now create and sell third-party keyboards. Apps can now use Touch ID for authentication; have deeper access to camera exposure settings; register extensions for sharing and notification centre. Lots of new APIs.

iOS 10 — New APIs let VoIP apps do stuff that used to be exclusive to the native dialler. Some apps can now hook into Siri. Lots of new APIs.

More recently, Apple has relaxed its stance on apps executing (interpreted) code that is downloaded from the internet.
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Ironically, it does not work in Safari. :(
The interest payments on debt are almost always going to be larger than a "safe" investment would provide in returns, because the lenders need to make money somehow.
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And the <hr> elements between sections.

I also find that type of animation really annoying, even if it didn’t cause problems due to its high resource demand.

As a rule of thumb, I’d say animations should only be used for short-term things. Eternal animations will make a substantial fraction of people’s devices heat up, have fans speed up, &c. I think it is probably most.

And in the case of this article, animations don’t even fit with the art direction which is otherwise delightful.
Asked about the delisting, a Facebook spokesperson said that “a number of the studies have been archived, but they’re still available at the individual links.” Asked why the “Government and Politics” section had been removed entirely, the spokesperson did not reply.

I’ll just bet they didn’t. “We’re covering our ass like it’s on fire” is probably a bad PR, move, but it’s painfully obvious that’s what’s happening. The funny thing is they’re hurting themselves even more with half-baked apologies. They’re going back to the playbook they’ve used for the last dozen scandals, but this is different.

Facebook the company might survive this, but Facebook the social network is going to die.
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