skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are nearly identical. But your current CPU does not have a integrated hardware decoder for AV1, thus it might practically be slower for now.
Pre-1967 ASCII had slightly different printable characters and somewhat different control characters. See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII
Instagram passed Twitter's DAU count well before the introduction of stories.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/instagram-hits-300-million-users-...

Stories is what they introduced to kill Snapchat's growth.
>It's actually interesting how many people I meet at the gym that from the outside appear very fit and healthy, only to find out they're actually pretty ill, from IBS and other gut issues, thyroid problems, etc. The gym is actually masking many diseases for people because physically they appear healthy.

Any idea how that compares to the average population? I'll bet you'll find that the gym population is pretty much the same as the regular population, with the exception of possibly greater cardiovascular health.

I just take exception to treating a 40 day fast as some sort of panacea, it seems like it's going to do more harm than good to a lot of people. There's no way the rest of your life won't suffer after a couple of weeks of starvation.
I could of babysat, asked neighbors for help with yard work, shovel snow or asked my parents if there were things that I could do on our property to earn an income. I got my first job when I was 15.

I do want to point out that my father never filtered my internet. He just let me know that any site I visited was being tracked and that I should take that into consideration when being online. I maintained complete autonomy online and my parents did not lie or obscure what they were doing. I would say that this prepared me well for what would become 'social media' over a decade later.

This parental tracking actually became a game of cat and mouse and I learned more about computers because of this. I was intrigued about how things could be monitored, how the OS and file systems worked. I ended up going to a vocational school for computer networking.
Javascript itself supports destructuing fine, here's some javascript straight from the firefox console:

> let a = [1,2,3]
undefined
> [x,y,z] = a
Array(3) [ 1, 2, 3 ]
> x
1
> y
2
> z
3
True. I'm only speaking of the "old" foundation trilogy, because I'm assuming that's what the series will be based on. I could be wrong, of course.
Patchwork looks great. But it's an old-school distributed/federated app in the vein of IRC or XMPP, right?

The definition of a "dApp" these days seems to require blockchain, either for storage or for a token ecosystem. This co-opting of the word "distributed" is unfortunate but probably as difficult to fix at this point as the misuse of "crypto".
Easy to google: https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account
> Well, the CGI industry had money, competent people, and 10 years to upgrade. An entire decade. And a LOT of tooling and documentation to help.

I don’t think that’s a money issue. Python 3 upgrade is not really compelling. You get slower speed - at least until recently -, tests might pass on 3.x, but documentation and edge cases still are better on 2.x, etc. While nothing is really exciting in the 3.x branch.
Thank you for digging up the link, appreciate it.
thinking of moving our project from knockoutJS to Vue. what do you all think.
cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...
In the future it will be possible to use Ethereum Dapps even if you don't have any ETH. The way it works now is that ETH is needed in order to pay for gas. However, it will be possible for the contract to pay for gas in the future. Developers would be able to add some ETH to their contract, so that it is free to use (or some parts of it are free) if they wanted to.
When I was growing up, I delighted in breaking all of the layers of security my parents loaded up the computers in the house with. I never relented when they tried to block something and they only escalated things, including physically locking away electronics (which also didn't work, I learned how to pick locks and gained access to electronics in other ways), then even further escalations ensued. The main effect of this was not that I couldn't access content they didn't like, but that our relationship soured to the point where I moved out two days after turning 18 and none of us spoke for a few years.

Blocking things will only encourage your son to try harder to get at them and to become more secretive with you, and will have lasting damage on your relationship, especially if you double down when he inevitably works around your blocks. You cannot control him, and he is not yours to control. Remember, your son is an entirely independent person who is growing up much faster than you realize.
Might be a little biased, but I did find this two-part series helpful. https://www.dataquest.io/course/exploratory-data-visualizati...
The whole concept of gas is user hostile and is a huge setback to broad adoption.
> What you describe changes the name from "index" to "WIP commit", keeping the same semantics.

I.e. you get it.

Importantly, the semantics is available through a common interface rather than a different design and implementation of the semantics for the index versus commits.

> you now have a "commit" that doesn't behave like a commit

Well, now; literally now you have a commit that doesn't behave like a commit: the index.

If a real commit is used for staging, it behaves much more like a commit. It's just attributed as do-not-publish so it doesn't get pushed out. Under this model, all commits have this attribute; it's just false for most of them. Thus, it isn't a different kind of commit.

> I strongly believe that things that behave differently should be named differently.

Things that do not behave completely differently can use qualified names, in situations when it matters:

"work-in-progress commit; tentative commit; ...."

For instance we use "socket" for both TCP and UDP communication handles, or both Internet and Unix local ones.
Any protocol for encrypted gopher?
That field is case sensitive for now. I'd like to get more data first, but I can edit the entries easily if they are similar.

I'd like to provide a autocomplete dropdown for Employer and Title in the future, but I didn't want to have a limited set in the short term.
IMO, federation is a better model of this. With Mastodon, sure somebody is still paying server costs, but there is no unavoidable fee for the software/service and it has the same censorship-resistent properties.

(I'd like to see signed messages in Mastodon but that's not a problem inherent to a federated model)
People do this thing called 'research'. It is a method of finding information that, among other things, allows them to mentally model future possibilities. Accurate overview information is really useful for this - one doesn't need to know that the answer to question 14a on form 6735n has tax implications in order to get an idea of the process, compare to other states, etc.
Somewhere in a room, HBO's Silicon Valley writers are actually frequenting HN... ;).
I was able to purchase a $1,000 computer when I was 14 due to smart saving of my money. While it isn't possible for everyone, I did grow up in a middle/upper middle class family where it was possible.
https://steemit.com/ is very popular
Everything about everybody, living or dead, is known in near real-time.

We got a demo of Seisent, since bought by LexisNexus, mid-2000s. Our use case was to uniquely identify patients to improve record matching across heterogeneous databases.

Back then, Seisent was just based on publicly available data. It spanned all of North America, The Caribbean, and a good portion of Central and South. In those regions, every single person has been unqiuely identified. Easy to do thru process of elimination with that much data.

When shown my own data set, everything about me was right there. Everywhere I've ever lived, worked. My entire legal trail, like mortgages, marriage. Seisent even inferred my ex-wife's affair (FOAF).

Seisent sold their tech (big graph database, query language, some gear) to the NSA. Who was able to add non-public data. Like phone records, electronic transactions, etc.

That was 10+ years ago. Now I imagine they're slurping data up globally.

Siesent, Palantir, Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple, etc effectively know everything about everybody.

I assume foreign efforts are doing the same.
Accessing Data – The Reactive Way, Vert.x Series – Part 4, Clement Escoffier
Next up: Russian trolls hit HN, too
https://github.com/Murtnowski/Alz23andMe

I made a script to examine the raw text dump from 23andMe. See the README for a list of interesting genes to check.

23andMe does have the raw data you can look up. You can use the raw explorer on the site or download the data to text and then examine it.

Recently they just got permission in the US to do some health screening again and now they let you opt in to a Alzheimer health section.

I find looking at the raw data to be easiest.
I hadn’t heard of this, it’s an interesting concept
>One could also be defined as someone in Russia (or another boogeyman de jour) finding funny memes and posting them on the internet to troll Americans

Sure, in another universe where we didn't already know this stuff is a coordinated effort to destabilize our political system...
This comment could benefit from a little more research. Sure, being a successful venture investor is about being in the right place at the right time, but USV is one of the best out there. Fred Wilson has written extensively about his flops and misses (they passed repeatedly on Airbnb for example), and has also written extensively about the dynamics of investing across risky-enough ideas that there are a lot of failures in a successful portfolio. Sure, Twitter has made a lot of ridiculous decisions, but as an early-stage investment, it returned the fund.
I've tried many languages for the last 35 years and C# is, at least of the C-style OO-focused languages, one of the nicer ones if not the nicest one. Microsoft has been doing very nice things with it the last several years, especially.

I, for one, am very happy with C# in Unity. I would still prefer a LISP (Arcadia/Clojure comes to mind) as a first class citizen, and support for a truly functional language (such as F#) would be nice, but I can live with C#, especially with the more-functional C#6 and .NET 4.6/.7 support in the latest Unity versions.

If Unity supported CoreCLR and all CLR languages natively, as well as NuGet, along with Rider (or VS/VSCode) it would be a near-perfect development environment for games, IMO. Not necessarily for everyone and everything, but enough to be good for many things and many people, including amateurs and learners.
There are actually more than two options you know, at one point there were 17 nominees on the republican side.

Out of all those 17, the biggest idiot won, and now you want to take away the best excuse for this fracas that the elites have come up with?

I think the fact that the orange one is an idiot is pretty dangerous in and of itself, completely independent of however easy he is to be manipulated.
It's useful to read the actual proposal, which doesn't seem to match the angle from creative commons: https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/voss11.pdf

For example, compare this from the article:

> 11. This is the provision that would introduce an additional right for press publishers to extract fees from news aggregators for incorporating short snippets of—or even linking to—their content.

With this from the proposal:

> 2a. The rights referred to in paragraph 1 shall not extend to acts of hyperlinking which do not constitute acts of communication to the public.

EDIT: the analyis from Julia Reda is pretty good too: https://juliareda.eu/eu-copyright-reform/extra-copyright-for...
If I was born just five or so years later, I'd be that guy's kid.

My mother didn't know how to discipline me. She would try and then I would convince her to give up. She never put any controls on anything I did-- consequently, I didn't learn what life could be like with those controls in place.

Parenting is mostly a guessing game, but I honestly believe that no matter what, one has to teach discipline in some form or another. Once you see the kid disciplining him/herself, then you cut down on the discipline you provide. The human brain is not necessarily designed to be naturally disciplined. Your kid will veg out if you don't teach and enforce rules that show them what can happen when rules are in place-- things like graduating high school, for example.
Yup. Textbook regulatory capture.
Thanks. But I could not find the link anywhere, can anyone even get here from Facebook page: https://imgur.com/1ijzgqV
No it is not backed by real dollars in a central location. It's a kind of a derivative. The way it works is very interesting. Recently Andreessen Horowitz and others invested 12M into the project.
Of course it was a sham. No one's interests are aligned to getting this solved.

Facebook want to get away with as minimal regulation as possible, and any regulation that does happen it wants to harm its incumbents.

Politicians want to get re-elected, and want regulation in so far as it harms the chances of anyone 'doing a Trump' and using social media to unseat their own Congressional seat. They're not that exercised about privacy otherwise they wouldn't have spent the last year arguing for a right to hack people's phones.

Users want to make the right noises / virtue signals to their friends about privacy but ultimately don't want to pay for Facebook.

'Researchers' want to make a name for themselves off the back of this issue and appear on TV but Oh My God don't ask me any questions about how this actually works or what an alternative looks like.

The media and publishers want the exposure and ad revenue that comes from running this story, but want to avoid anyone asking any difficult questions about them signing over their involvement in FB schemes such as Instant Articles or how they track their own users.

The process worked exactly as designed - it allowed everyone to have their pound of flesh while ensuring nothing actually gets done.
How can you be "a lot faster" than Julia? Julia is regularly 1.2x C and sometimes faster than c when leveraging builtin fortran libraries.

What's mmu? Is it matrix multiply? Why isn't it *

What is the +.* operator? Can you show me where this operator is described in a non-apl math paper?

Im sorry, but when i see apl, I just see a lot of symbols I can't bother to look up to understand. Code reviews would be a nightmare.

in Julia, if I were to write a numerical type for galois fields (and I have), I could write compile-time optimized code for performing reed-solomon erasure coding using the builtin matrix operators - the code would be exactly the notation you see in the papers describing erasure coding.

You can't do that in apl.
How does Blockstack make money?
Here is a really good video on steem:

https://youtu.be/6HseuaDMmGo

Guy uses it a lot. The video goes into its history and some of the issues that have emerged on the platform.
After they've gone through puberty and we've talked about difficult topics like safe sex. A lot of filters cannot help but block access to USEFUL sex ed information while aggressively trying to limit pornography access.

While I'd prefer they limit their porn access as a teenager, plenty of well adjusted people didn't and came out fine. I am far more concerned about "sexting" (and having it shared around at school/used to bully), and authorities trying to prosecute underage kids for having pictures of their own (and their love interest's) bodies on a device they own.

The whole "porn is a public health emergency" thing is largely bullshit. Unhealthy attitudes to sex and an overreaction by authority figures might be a "health emergency" though.

Particularly as a lot of parents will happily let teenagers watch people get blown apart in movies and on TV, but suddenly two people lovingly touching each other naked is just a step too far! It is hypocritical. Particularly with shows like GoT that they're going to watch because everyone else is (and we are).
Sounds like a great time to start a biotech company. Though there will be some competition. Am aware of at least two companies in this space ;)
The article (and some comments here) seems to not be distinguishing between monitoring and blocking. The title says “monitoring” which is kind of a solved problem. I monitor my family's network regularly, looking for bandwidth spikes, evidence of viruses & malware, outages, etc. I’m not going to sit there monitoring content or where my wife and kids are at all times.

Blocking content, on the other hand, is destined to fail. Whitelisting will always be too strict, blacklists will never cover everything you might find objectionable, and heuristics will be inexact. If you want to block out the world from your kids my advice (as a parent myself) is don’t—instead invest the time and effort into establishing a trusting and understanding relationship and instilling the right values. Values drive motivation which drives actions.

As a parent I’m not my kid’s friend but I’m also not house dictator.
It rather works the exact opposite way, teenagers are way more likely to find disallowed things interesting.
I guess one could be defined as such.

It's certainly interesting that the number of Russians discovering r/funny increased by an order of magnitude in the run up to the election. And that Putin found r/gifs so entertaining that he hired thousands of Russians to post on it and similar places. Don't you think?
It also probably left traces in the mysql(postgres?) logs.
It shouldn't surprise anyone on HN that you can freely edit your own data.

More generally it's very common for forums to have a post edited by mods/admin, usually the edit will show up but if you mess with them they may be tempted to hit back and forget to set the "changed by xxxx" flag.
Honestly, if you have a Visa/Mastercard with no foreign transaction fees then just use Apple Pay/Samsung Pay. It's almost ubiquitously used in the UK, and would be very rare to find somewhere that didn't take it.
Failure of failure to replicate
You already got some great resources here. I also drop my blog https://flaviocopes.com where I am tackling one frontend development topic every day, if you want one more item in your RSS feed!
Confirming success is only necessary when users do not trust the program (due to bugs, confusing UI/API, etc.). They will seek reassurance that their actions are successful. However, if users trust the program then no confirmation is needed.

We should be creating stable and predictable programs so that we can maintain users' trust. Otherwise we have to introduce hand-holding which degrades everyone's experience through extra cognitive overhead and user interaction.
really scary. Can you imagine the CIA create a small molecule that interferes with ApoE3 to give and ApoE4 phenotype?! Inducing dementia in terrorists and then allowing them to return home??!!
or Inducing dementia in suspected spies? or inducing dementia on political dissidents?

Or can you imagine the use of this small molecule (which btw is undetectable in the blood) for nefarious political purposes? Have the democrats already used it on our president??!!
Wow, the blockchain terminal one is so freaky. It's just two monitors. And yeah, like the article says, the demo screen is blank.

Why do you need a whitepaper for a terminal anyways?!
I'm currently blocking these domains using uBlock:

cdninstagram.com
facebook.com
facebook.net
fb.com
fb.me
fbcdn.com
fbcdn.net
fbsbx.com
instagram.com
m.me
messenger.com
tfbnw.net
whatsapp.com
domain.app domains coming soon from Google
> That’s assuming the regulations work instead of just throw obstacles in the way of new companies.

Not only that, laws have a tendency to set a particular model in stone.

The model large companies use is to collect everything they possibly can and then use bureaucratic processes to control access.

The model small companies and individuals use is to minimize the data they collect and use technical means to ensure that the company has no access to the customer's data at all. This obviously tends to be more secure.

But if the bureaucratic process is required by law regardless of whether it's really protecting anything, the more secure model becomes impossible -- you have to collect all the data because it's the only way to make enough money to pay for the bureaucratic overhead.
First, "single instance" isn't fair since it was multiple comments that were edited.

Second, silently misattributing words to people (he went behind the site's back, into the database, so the "comment edited" star never appeared) is not a "prank", it's a serious breach of trust, unprecedented in the history of the site, and calls into question anything anyone has ever written. If I remember right, this was only ever proven because archive snapshots of the comments pre-edit existed.

If someone familiar with Reddit history now is ever called to legally account for their comments, Reddit Inc. now gets to be called and has to prove they didn't screw with the posts. Can you say liability exposure? Sheesh.

There are some lines you just don't cross. If Huffman would edit people's comments on the sly for funsies, it shows he has no professional ethics that would prevent him from doing the same thing in a more important situation. What's to say he hasn't already in the matter of some other litigation we're not aware of?
My house my rules is perfectly fine. Any policy is bad if you're a parent with trust and empathy issues
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Why does it always seem as if such proposals are written by clueless people?

Can't we, people of HN, draft proposals collaboratively, perhaps with some moderation system?
Maybe I'm wrong, but I have the impression that Ruby is now an expert's language, and much less accessible to beginners than it used to be. And, while it remains useful and used, it's not growing...

When trying to learn it, I encountered incompatible examples and tutorials, complex and changing ways to update it... and then my toy code stopped working. I eventually found the cause of the code-breaking change, fixed it... thought a bit, and decided against ruby. That's just me though.