skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of a run-in we had with a 'nut'. She had looked up the lab on campus and walked in asking for the PI. After some back-and-forth, she mentions that she had been emailing with our PI for a while concerning the government implanted mind-reading device in her brother's brain (I was in a neuro-lab at the time). Without missing a beat, one of the other grad students starts questioning her about the device: when is it active, what is the range, power requirements, etc. She, as a layperson, really has no idea. After some probing about her brother's condition (likely her own condition, but who knows) we get her to accept that the power output of the device would be very tiny and that the government's receivers can't be more than a few meters away at any time. She seemed very satisfied with this conclusion. I think there were some mentions of Faraday cages too that she liked. At the end she mentions that her brother is a schizophrenic but that the medications don't work. Another grad student then took over and started to talk with her about how schizophrenia was thought to behave and the importance of proper medical supervision, but this occurred in another room. After some more time, the 'nut' came back to thank us for talking with her and taking her concerns seriously. She seemed very relieved at the conclusions and was smiling. We never saw her again and I don't think anyone mentioned it to the PI either.
Here’s the Classified Letter About Russia Democrats Sent After Trump Was Elected
> Could AI identify long lines outside of restaurants

Google already gives you the hours that restaurants are busiest, so they basically have this info
Ha. I've told new hires that one thing they must keep in mind is that this job is not about teaching.
I think you are confusing "generic code" (which is a pretty generic term) with "Generics", which has a somewhat more defined meaning in programming languages.

We could agree that the latter can be implemented relatively efficiently (given a few concrete examples to clarify what that means). But that does not mean that their use, or more generally, the use of generic code, is always the best and most efficient to do. It is not, by far.
In my view Yelp's first real product is their credit card rebates. That's what they need to concentrate on. Speaking with owners of a few places that are using it, they are super happy. It actually gets customers in and they (owners) are in complete control of what kind of discounts they give to people without having those people use coupons or otherwise jeopardize full value sales to those who aren't using it.
I think it would be more accurate to say that users are fatigued and worn out. Password fatigue is a thing. The updated password guidelines from NIST are a good start.

Or the users are negligent rather than clueless. Look at the DNC hacks of Podesta.
Extreme secrecy plus consistent very high returns sounds like the hallmarks of a ponzi scheme
Samsung’s Futuristic Foldable Smartphone Is Here
Generally when talking about price movements the opposite is true. That is a prediction that the market will move at some point in the future will cause that move to happen right now instead, but only if that prediction is believed.

And if you have a model that people believe which predicts the movement of stocks but doesn't have any good reason for those predictions then it may very well move the price of those stocks in the ways that it predicts. But in doing so the money of the people who believe its predictions will be transferred to the people who don't until it stops having an effect.
How to use customer feedback to increase sales for e-Commerce
I think HK has one of the best (if not the best) design of any news aggregator sites out there. It’s perfect and I hope it doesn’t ever change. I can’t think of many websites that scale so well from a mobile phone to a desktop computer.
My guess is that it’s harder to block ads on an app.

And apps can track more details about you, yielding more revenue (or potential revenue to an acquirer).

Investors probably ascribe more value to apps-based services than web-based.
Will any of these work in the third world in a way that's geopolitically acceptable? The US frowns at small third world countries having access to nuclear reactors.
I was a pretty heavy Yelp user when I lived in SF, but I found the ratings not really that helpful elsewhere, even in NYC.

I mostly use Google Maps these days, and while I don't necessarily trust the user ratings or it's personalized score that much more, the fact that it will link you to, e.g. Eater listicles that mention a place is a super strong signal that a place is good in an area you don't know.
Funny how Google only realized this a few years after started to sell its own phones with OLED screens.

It's also funny how Google has only made Android "whiter" since then.
Doesn’t the browser string make it clear which browser is being used?
WordPress

"WORDPRESS IS POWERING 26% OF THE WEB"

https://digital.com/blog/wordpress-stats/
Another blind developer here with his two pens.
I like python because it has no braces. Sometimes the screen reader does not read them or if it does, it takes time to process the info and you still could be confused about the level of nesting. That's why in university I reformated all of my lisp code to follow the indentation rules of python as it helped me keep track.
Generally, if the language has no too much strange symbols with important meaning, they are all just text to be read. So, the language is not an issue for me, but the tools to read/write/compile/debug. In that line of thought, if it works on the command line, it is good. Make it readable, make it verbose and avoid fancy syntax so that there is no ambiguity when reading.
To be fair, asking this for every single session ignoring my answer that has been the same the past 1000 times makes it a stupid, anti-user action.
Accessibility is closely tied to portability. As a minimalist its not about what you can add but rather what you can take away and ensuring everybody understands reading the code with minimal effort everywhere.

A more accessible and portable language is one that eliminates overloading and redundancy. Everything in the syntax and expression is deliberate and its not open to various subjective forms of reasoning.

Eliminate white space as syntax. Beauty is subjective, but it isn't necessarily accessible, and it certainly isn't automatically simple. White space as syntax is common in nearly all languages. Even in Java there is white space to separate keywords. White space elimination allows any manner of visual expression and beautification of the language. It also prevents corruption of the code over the wire due to reformatting of corrupting user-agents and OSes that have different line endings. One form of corruption is when a token is shifted, due to different reasoning of line termination, onto a previous line terminated by a line comment.

Eliminate operator overloading. In JavaScript the plus character could mean addition, or string concatenation, or type coercion, or other weird things. The plus character could be a single character operator or the dreaded ++ which could mean post-increment or pre-increment. In JavaScript the forward slash could mean division or regular expression. For a blind person reading the code as characters or tokens this kind of overloading is unnecessarily confusing bullshit.

Conversely JavaScript has two different syntax forms for assignment. The common form of assigning is using a single equals character. In object literals a colon is used for assignment. This is stupid and looks completely different from the algebra on which equivalent logic is based. Make the colon character the character of all assignment. This leaves the single equals character free for comparisons. If the language imposes a strong/static type system there will be no need for double or triple character comparison operators.

I would invoke a strong/static type system. This allows error detection very early which reduces testing time and jumping between application environments.

I would design the language in such a way that it encourages code in structures. It is easier to follow code when it reads similar to its flow control at execution time. In this regard I would write the syntax such that it encourages containment, nesting, function as organizational models that can be nested, and design everything around primitive data structures.

I am not a fan of OOP programming where the application is easier to write/expand than to debug or read. OOP constructs tend to be convention heavy, keyword heavy, and syntax heavy. Functional/structured languages allow the deliberate organization of its pieces to do much of the heavy lifting as opposed to referenced or logical organizations.

Don't worry about superficial tooling support. Solve the language design problems, the hard problems first. The helpful tooling bits will be easy if you have nailed the hard decisions and produced something with clarity, simplicity, and deliberation.
This is the Electron demo using Blazor by Steve Sanderson.
https://github.com/SteveSandersonMS/BlazorElectronExperiment...
Prima Games shutting down
BTW the syntax looks identical to how an argument is passed by reference in C.
Because the company can control the experience more than in a browser. No need to worry about AdBlocking. Also, they can nag you to allow push notifications.

Companies like reddit and yelp are not focused on the customer experience. They're trying to boost their KPIs. Perhaps, early on, those were customer-centric, but we now live in an age where a path to revenue is more important than ever.

So we get obnoxious nagware. The only thing is to look elsewhere.
They've just pivoted into "legitimate" government. The middle bunch of the org chart of some government departments in MA is sprinkled with these people.

Edit: some vs most. I can't speak for all of the departments.
Well, being precise here (sorry, biologist talking)––the whole point of this article is that the "shared environments between closely related persons" is precisely not heritability.

The issue at stake here is that genetics play a far lesser role in determining longevity than other non-genetic inheritable factors (like the "shared environment" examples you give); e.g. the heritability of longevity is considerably lower than previously thought.
There at least used to be YouTube videos of people outside the US flying large drones in autonomous mode over to the next town.
I'm a bit skeptical about that. Fiber has mind-boggling bandwidth scaling compared to beaming radio signals through a hundred kilometers of atmosphere. Light has a higher bandwidth and you can put more than one fiber into a cable and there's less interference too.
This. Very few language designers understand the usefulness of being able to parse the code while it is incomplete/being typed out.

You end up with “hacks” to color your code vs a real parser to compile the code.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Pacific+Ocean/@-0.1930911,...

Google Reviews of the Pacific Ocean.
In my experience: issue management, because every company has required JIRA for some strange reason.
Is there any evidence people prefer assortative mating given enough racial heterogeneity (i.e. people who look like you aren't the only choice)? I'm personally mostly sexually attracted to people who look nothing like me, and anecdotally I think most people I know are like this too? In my experience people are appealed to assortative mating since they don't live with people from other racial/ethnic backgrounds so there are cultural barriers (language, prejudice, differences in social class, education, slang etc). But in multiracial areas (e.g. the Bay Area), it seems to me that people do prefer mating with individuals from other races. Am I wrong? Any papers investigating this question?
I was with the author, until I saw the HN redesign. Looked beautiful, but not functional. Made me realize why HN / reddit / quora / etc use the format they do: it works.
They prompt you endlessly on Android as well with a huge "CONTINUE" button to install their app versus a tiny "or go to the mobile site" link to stay in the browser with just the last 2 words being the hyperlink. This annoying choice takes up fully 1/3 of the screen.
How useful yelp is varies enormously if you travel. In the U.K., as an example, Yelp can feel like a wasteland - often little or no reviews, and it has nothing like the mindshare it enjoys in the US. As a result many businesses do little or nothing to keep the information on their Yelp page accurate, it’s barely even on their radar. In the US one can often use Yelp almost as a verb in a conversation (“let me Yelp us somewhere for lunch...”), this is met with blank stares in much of Europe in my experience.

The lack of good data on Yelp in the U.K. has indirectly hurt other players there too, when Apple maps first launched business location information was largely drawn from Yelp, which basically seeded Apple maps with very bad information. Locations were wrong, many businesses that simply didn’t exist anymore would appear. Granted it’s been years since I last checked, but in the first few years of Apple map’s operation it was a pretty significant issue. This methodology worked great in Cupertino I guess...
Slightly OT but related interesting trivia. Look up a language called CRN++ developed by UT Austin for "programming deterministic (mass-action) chemical kinetics in performing computations".
Press release type article here - https://interestingengineering.com/synthetic-biology-gets-a-...

ArXiv abstract here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.07430

Git repo here: https://github.com/marko-vasic/crnPlusPlus

Hope to see some interesting synthetic molecules published by you :-)
The article says: "Unlike essentially every other cloud computing platform I know of, it doesn’t use containers or virtual machines. "

Surely there were others before like Azure Service Fabric ?
Flux version 4.84: Grayscale mode, distraction-free reading
I only wish it was longer.
there was numerous accounts of extortion and bullying in regards to yelp in the past, I am so not suprised by this and it's just going to get worst
I think the authors are thoroughly confused. The presence of assortative mating in no way reduces the potential narrow-sense heritability of a trait.
Google maps does not show all entries. I stopped trying because restaurants would show or not show based on zoom and other factors unknown to me. It’s not rating or ads.

It’s really frustrating as sometimes searching for “Mexican restaurant” won’t include all Mexican restaurants in the map area. And will include random weird stuff. And it won’t show the top items.
meh, Apple's certainly not alone in their profit margins on upgrades. It's a fairly universal strategy to keep the baseline appealingly low. Dell, for instance, charges $400 to upgrade from 16GB to 32GB RAM on some racks.
Not interested at all in derailing good conversation here but let's give a shoutout to the authors for bucking up the $1500 to Genetics [1] to make this article Open Access. It's fortunate that this work was funded by Calico and Ancestry, because otherwise that likely wouldn't have happened.

[1]: http://www.genetics.org/content/after-acceptance
I dearly hope my bank raises a flag if I decide to choose a language other than English on the ATM. I’ve only chosen it 9134 times in a row.
Technically everyone on iOS is using Safari - Firefox, Chrome, and Edge all use the same rendering engine.
Nobody's gonna do much better than lagging the market price using a model based purely on historical price data, markets aren't nearly that predictable.
GitHub now supports Git Wire Protocol v2
Bullshit. Greenpeace has a political agenda, but without the Greenpeace logo it was merely calling for consumers to take ethics into account when choosing where to shop. It's not political just because a political organisation happens to support the same cause. Just about every other advert on TV is some company talking about their green credentials. That's not banned just because the Green Party would also agree with it.
Of course a language-specific sandbox with a highly restricted domain-specific API will be faster than an OS container or VM. The tradeoff is that it can run less applications unmodified, so less people can use it.

I think Cloudflare workers are a cool implementation of domain-specific scripting. I’ve used it and it’s great. And with their scale I’m sure they’ll advance the state of the art in various ways. But there’s no radically new insight here.
Bad thing: some useful resources could be deleted if it's author will not use YouTube, but left his content for archiving purposes on YouTube.

I has YouTube account with forgotten password, but account page has few videos, that could be useful for some users (and for me, as archive copy).

Look like I should now download all uploaded videos back to my laptop...[0,1]

$ youtube-dl -f best -citw -v <url-of-channel>

[0] https://askubuntu.com/questions/856911/using-youtube-dl-to-d...

[1] https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/14083
Boo-urns.
Transmission of antibiotic resistant E. coli mapped in giraffe social networks
What is your preferred alternative?
A building serves a utility, yet can we call all architects craftsmen? Can we say that an architect is limited to the extents of the utility in design or do those constraints actually impose a new form of art?

Similarly, cinema is an art form, yet movies are built collectively by many craftsmen. There is no mutual exclusivity there.

I think, however, artistry of software comes from the design, not the code per se. The end product can be an artpiece, or a utility, depending on how its designed.

Let’s also not forget the pure art form of software: demos. What they are to the software is what sculptures are to the architecture.
They want your contact list, location, email inbox etc etc, I assume.
Invisible allows people to outsource their most repetitive work and daily tasks
> As far as I know, their satellites are not capable of steering beams, and rely purely on the placement directly down from where they are

This is wrong. From their FCC filing(1), they use AESA phased array antennaes, and each satellite is capable of simultaneously maintaining "many" (unspecified) steered beams that are <2.5 degree wide.

Also, the receiver is capable of distinguishing between multiple beams covering it so long as there is more than 10 degrees of angular separation between them from it's point of view. If I understood it correctly, this will allow nearly every visible satellite at the same orbital height (less the ones very nearest to horizon) to communicate with targets that are geographically very near to each other at full bandwidth. After the very first phase has been launched, they can provide a total of ~500 Gbps of downlink bandwidth to any spot target that lies between 40 and 60 degrees latitude. The later additions at high orbits help with total capacity and especially with targeting multiple targets relatively near each other, but do not help provide more bandwidth per city, as that is limited by the 10 degree angular separation requirement.

The VLEO (330km-ish) constellation will help with that by reducing the size of each spot.

(1): https://cdn3.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/8174403/S...
None of those definitions mean "disclosure," which is certainly what was meant.
Now v2 requires a fundamental change in how development happens and how the application is architected. It is too prescriptive.

VM/Containers allow people to develop and structure the app however they want, largely decoupled from deployment/infra.

I don't understand how many people have no issue being told to rewrite your apps so they fit inside lambdas...
car manufacturing is far more advanced and difficult than a smartphone which you can carry on your hand.
This. A major reason that college is so expensive is that they aren't really schools, but mini cities within a city. Don't see why they can't just offer classes and let the students live the rest of their lives like everybody else. Works fine in Europe.
Phones have to be charged everyday anyway. I personally prefer prettier UI rather than better battery life.
FUD. Unicode keywords and operators in Perl 6 are optional. For each unicode version, an ASCII alternative is also available.
With aforementioned filters, yes. The idea of a social network with freedom of speech guaranteed at the platform level is interesting to me. If someone is saying something I don't like, I merely need mute them or the topic they're speaking about.
Yes, that was intentional. In my language you can pass code by reference, not just data.
Trip advisor is turning into the experts exchange of reviews. Great seo, not useful material.

I was recently trying to find the best fish restaurant in Key West and TripAdvisor was all over results with the same stupid results.
Unfortunately, Yelp's dead corpse will be drug around a little bit longer because of Apple Map's dependency on it.
Yeah, and that still exists doesn't it?
second time I hear about kratom this month, do you know studies, or scientific review of it ?
Don't you want to view it in the official Reddit app for the best experience?

No, no I don't. And the official reddit app is not the best experience.
The problem is even now Yelp is probably the best resource out there for finding new restaurants but I find Yelp poorly run. There is no innovation, the UI hasn’t been updated or changed since the first release. They have so much potential, for example, they should have been the leaders in delivery and should have provided the api for Uber eats. They just don’t do anything outside of maintaining the servers for their basic service, at least that’s what it feels like.
Maybe I misread something... But it sounds like they upgraded the tires, and the track mode at the same time, then ran 2 seconds faster. How do we know the track mode upgrades made the car faster, and not just the tires. Tires make a HUGE difference. This is a bad test, IMO.
How does it feel to lose your free speech? I'm pretty sure you support the unpersoning of Alex Jones and other opposition speech. So now it comes for you.
> than is even theoretically possible using terrestrial fiber,

If we're talking about theoretical limitations then hollow core waveguide fibers should get you close to vacuum speed.
Yup, and even when you switch to old mode it frequently reverts when you use the back button. They are intentionally making the web mobile experience horrible because they think that you'll be more engaged if you use the app.
I wouldn't say that redundancy is the alternative to brittleness.

The altnernative is smaller code, less tightly coupled, that uses fewer libraries and more beginner level language constructs.

There's no technical impediment to that. It's actually less work technically. It's just hard to design that way, because you have to actually understand your domain much more deeply.

That's where stability comes from, not redundancy but the opposite of that. Fewer parts, better understood.
Funny that the headline mentions Ferrari but the article indicates that the benchmark was set down by an Alfa Romeo. I'm not a car guy but aren't Alfa's more like sedans where Ferrari's are full-on sports cars?
reddit and imgur are two of the worst offenders as well.
In modern usage, assortative mating is less about race and more about socioeconomic group. Would you marry a woman (or man) significantly poorer than you, from a poor family, etc. I mean, my wife and I are by no means the same race, but we're absolutely the same in socioeconomic strata, which means our children will be resultingly advantaged.
I love that some of the reviewers are even labeled "Local Guide"s
The problem with your analysis is that the OP should be read like a poem, not an essay. That's my take, at least.
Welcome to ML in 2018.
I literally just threw up after finishing my avocado sandwich.

should add NSFL to that link.

im done with HN for the rest of the day.