skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PHP and Wordpress

Had to start over at the bottom after alcohol addiction destroyed me.

Landed a job working with WordPress and started having quite a bit of with it. Naturally I just HAD to start tinkering and learned PHP to write plugins and manipulate the hell out of it.

PHP isn't all that bad and is actually pretty easy to pick up. My only gripe with it is that quite a bit of the libraries aren't on par with other languages I've used. For instance, PDF generation libraries aren't nearly as good as Ruby, .Net, heck even ColdFusion is better.

Great thing about Wordpress is that thr plugin eco system makes stitching websites together a breeze. There is a plugin for almost anything.
The UK has some unitary authorities which are cities, like the City of Leicester, which is administered separately from Leicestershire.

As you said though, it makes close to no difference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_authorities_of_England
> Just to clarify, are you saying you run Debian on your phone?

Yep.

> If so how does that all work?

I just installed QtMoko ( http://qtmoko.sourceforge.net )

> What sort of phone do you use?

An OpenMoko Freerunner ( http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner )
Nope, but I did kick the habit of visiting it multiple times daily. Now I login once a month or so (in incognito), check the updates from my real, actual friends of family, and close it until next time. I also don't post anything there. I do use Instagram, however.
I deleted Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin, twitter, uber. I have stopped using chrome on my computer and device. I dont use google for most searches on my personal computer. I have gone back to relying on a RSS feed to keep up with the news. And have disabled all personalisation features on my google pixel 2.

It is impressive how truly evil companies are becoming in silicon valley.

I was recently at a Kent Beck talk (yow 2018). Where he went in great lengths to tell us how people can use facebook to elect fascists. I assume he means Trump. On the other hand, he also said that from the inside Facebook does not feel like it is doing anything nasty.

As a complete outsider to silicon valley - has valley basically become group think and finding it difficult to have discussions around morality and collective responsibility. Purely relying on "thought leaders", usually tech-journalists to drive these discussions?
Do it like any other sport: go back to basics and play in a restricted style.

Go through Knuth AOCP. You don't have to work every problem(nobody really does) but the book is there to point you towards fundamental computing concepts.

Strip down your language in the process. If you're used to something bulky like C++, try hopping over to Go or Lua and see how you like those.

Finally, throw out any abstraction and try coding in a primitive way for a while: use basic loops, arrays, and rarely a function call. Hold off even on defining structures with fields. Doing this will get you in the appropriate mindset for solving real problems, because it leaves no room for burying the design underneath the abstraction - you just apply one algorithm after another and rely on good commenting to know what it does.

Aim to read more code from real projects, open-source ones that people are using. Good code that is in production mostly contains necessary complications. It often doesn't do things in a fancy, code-challenge style or a style that takes a performance optimization because it is aiming only towards surfacing the feature as quickly and reliably as possible. That is a good goal to aim for with any real project.
> Det Insp Helen Evans, of Lincolnshire Police, said it would be "remiss not to thoroughly investigate every solid piece of information" and he will be given an update "in due course".

I will never seize to be amazed at the capacity of some people to not think for themselves.
iOS Safari MediaStream Bug (and Fix)
They way you compete with Google et al, is to find a niche they think they’re serving, but in reality completely suck at.
Blumenthal wants FCC to prove 5G wireless technology is safe
Again, can you specify what test would nullify this hypothesis? What data would you need to see to change your mind on this? I asked in a different comment for a test regarding the kind of data needed to know if this hypothesis is wrong. I'm assuming you'd reject anecdotal data. You can certainly, rather easily, amass a large collection of essays from women who reject this hypothesis. If that data isn't valid, then what kind of data are you looking for? What would you need to see to agree this hypothesis is false?
I've learned a lot this year.

1. Relationships:
After surviving my divorce, I was more grateful than ever to live the bachelor life but it was not until I decided that I never want to enter another relationship that I was able to fully redirect my energy towards other areas of my life.

2. Diet:

- Carbs: People are becoming obese because excessive sugar has become a normalized addition to their diet.

- OMAD: Not only is it possible to eat once a day without adverse side effects, it's actually healthy to do so.

- Extended fasting: It's even possible to go for multiple days without eating if you manage your electrolytes (look up snake diet on youtube) and this also has great benefits.

3. Listen to more music: It's one of the simplest ways to alter your mood for the better.
I have a very similar story. I spent many many evenings in my teens learning to “script” with Taran’s Sphere Scripting For Dummies website and .chm file for the Sphere Server UO emulator.

Best part is I didn’t even realise I was programming. In my mind I was just making the game do what I wanted.
Article is a little snarky but I really agree with the main point: we've accepted terrible tools and comlile times. It's been years since real Innovation happened in this space - regressions if anything. Fingers crossed for Rust improving their compiler, C++ getting their Modules, C# speeding up Roslyn... Or blow makes Jai's million LOC/s really happen.
PKI. After many years of reluctantly fumbling around with OpenSSL as needed, I took the time to learn X.509 in more depth and to get comfortable with Go's "crypto/x509," which is a pleasure to work with. I'm now a lot more comfortable programming with TLS and certificates.
Awesome! Hope you enjoy it, so far mine has been a lot of fun!
> I couldn’t go through with it for reasons I’m embarrassed to admit

Quitting Facebook may not a choice without severe consequences. I'm lucky enough to be able to stay away from Facebook, but I know everyone isn't in the same position. It's important to acknowledge that Facebook is inextricably intertwined with many peoples professional and social lives.

Your workplace may require you to Workplace by Facebook for collaboration. The parents group at your childs school may only communicate via Facebook. Perhaps the bachelors party of a dear friend may be planned via Facebook.

Embarrassment is the last thing you should feel for being trapped by this tyrant.
want to hang around? Join the mailing list, the more the merrier

https://evolvis.org/mailman/listinfo/ccc35-virgins-discuss
I think he meant json as a data model, ie nested objects, arrays and PODs, rather than json as a textual representation..
I absolutely have. The four part series between the two was enthralling.

I'm not sure how you could you think logic, rationally, and objective truth seeking go out the window in Jordan's case. I know that sentence is a shibboleth of the secular community, I've said it myself. But it's just inaccurate.

With Sam it's funny. He says he wants to extract the good from the past and in the same breath rejects the good in religion explicitly because it has all this baggage that Jordan explicitly rejects.

I have merely accepted Jordan's assertion that within religion are rational, logical, objective truths about ourselves and human psychology that are not found anywhere else.

I await with bated breath the day Sam can write a story as powerful as Job, teaching the principle that when tragedy strikes it will feel like God and Satan are plotting against you; but the Right Thing to Do when tragedy strikes you is not to reevaluate your foundation, as we are wont to do. There are many other stories in the Bible about what to do you are suffering because of your own choices.

The Bible is merely psychologically profound.
When you say you enrolled in 10-601, what did you do? I assume you aren't actually a student at CMU.
I deleted it several years ago, then re-opened it briefly this year, then almost immediately closed it again.

I needed to buy FB ads for a project I was working on, so I signed up with a brand new email address. Immediately after signing up, it was messaging people in my old network that I had joined facebook and suggesting they add me as a friend. Really creeped me out. I just wanted to join so I could buy ads and have zero contact with other people.

So I immediately deleted it and decided I was going to live without facebook ads.
An alternative would be to have contextual ads that were based on the present state of the page, but none of your history. This is how it always was, only a few years ago.
This will be very unique, but I learned soldering and a small bit of electronics :)
Enchantment: Use Numpy in Chez Scheme
The problem is that the champagne socialist does things too, to support his stated goal... just nothing useful. It just further entrenches his social position, but never actually the peoples he claims to help.

That they do work does not ensure its meaningful; at a minimum it needs to somewhat justified...by something. Personally, I’ve yet to find a decent argument for deplatforming (it seems to go against every acceptable idealistic political stance; I mean, its fundamentally against freedom of speech, which is an absurd stance to be taking — and afaik, not a stance otherwise taken), which for me implies that not much thinking actually went into the operation as to whether it was something that should be done.

Which is the behavior you’d expect... of a champagne socialist. Calling for big political events, possibly even organizing them, without considering whether this would actually support their cause in any real fashion.. because it doesn’t matter whether or not it does. It just needs to be interpreted as helping.

Its just positioning.

Ofc, this is also the behavior we associate with politicians, but thats another can of worms ;)
What do you mean by federal agency (given that the definition itself is unclear)?
>I am relatively certain, given the time scales involved and the nature of your response, that you didn't read my links, and you haven't provided any of your own

The content of the links didn't seem relevant to the objection I offered. Perhaps that's incorrect, but you didn't make the case.

>Doing logic is doing metaphysics. Suppose 1+1=2 for addable numbers... that if you have 1 orange, and you add 1 more orange, then you'll have 2 oranges.

I could object to doing math being an instance of metaphysics, but setting that aside, the issue is that the connection between logic and metaphysics is the "mostly unobjectionable" subset of metaphysics that I mentioned previously. So again, you can't substantiate the objectionable parts with arguments that only apply to the unobjectionable parts.

>An ontologist in today's postmodern world surely knows that the (inherently mathematical!) structures that they are building and studying are created, not discovered; subjective, not objective; narratives, not truths.

Here you seem to be admitting that metaphysics is unsubstantive! Metaphysics purports to discover what exists, not subjective notions of preferred taxonomies. But it is precisely the charge that nothing objective is being discovered that underpins the argument against metaphysics.

Now I understand why you see a close connection between what a programmer does and what the metaphysician does: they're both theorizing about contingent domains of inquiry, with no external objective facts at stake. But now I don't get why you object to saying metaphysics is unsubstantive.
I'm hoping this is a common enough printer that parts shouldn't be too hard to find in the future. From what I can tell everything is fairly accessible for fixing. Thanks for the heads up though!
An American Phrasebook
Totally subjective opinion, but 1970s Heinlein is the literary equivalent of somebody's creepy libertarian uncle who leers at teenage girls.
In the two Heinlein books I remember, Stranger in a Strange Land and Job, the protagonist is a middle-aged man who has beautiful young women throw themselves at him. The women have no needs or agendas of their own; their only motivation is to please this man. Job seemed so much like the author's personal fantasy that I had to put it down.
Do They Know It’s (An Emoji) Christmas?
I did the same thing. Unfollowed everyone but super close family and friends. It does wonders to clear addiction. Now I check it for maybe 5-10 minutes once a week and that's it.
> People post pictures of me on Facebook despite my objections.

We need to make legislation against this. I know taking pictures in public places is fair game. I also know celebrities are subject to having this information published due to the public nature of their lives. But for those wanting to live private lives, we should be able to ban tagging or indexing and sue those parties that enable this to happen without consent.
> whites flee to the suburbs, put up giant financial barriers in the form of zoning

In terms of $/sq.ft. an urban residence in the US will almost universally be priced higher than a suburban one. There are a few exceptions to the rule (Atherton might be pricier than SF, Beverly Hills pricier than LA), but in general if you have a fixed price point in mind, suburbs will get you more space for your dollar.
Anyone know of any commercial solutions for this that don't involve e.g. having to disassemble the book and feed in a stack of pages?
Ideally something on Amazon but "prosumer" lever stuff is good too.

I would love to have digital backups of my library and personal notebooks.
Is everyone that's getting rid of their Facebook also getting rid of their cell phone? I don't really use Facebook much but don't have a compelling reason to delete it. It's good for contacting people whose phone numbers I don't have.
Duct Tape Special – MythBusters Jr
It escapes from being malicious only because it is very explicit on what it does. But it's very likely that are malicious links to it that hide its destiny.

And it's entirely what ad-blockers should be out to block. So, yes, good thing that it's blocked.
There are some open source efforts I think. Health would fit nicely with open source + continuous testing.
> After his death in 1988, Heinlein’s estate helped establish the Heinlein Prize Trust. It regularly gives out large cash awards “to encourage and reward progress in commercial space activities.” The most recent award – $250,000 – went to SpaceX founder and libertarian-minded entrepreneur Elon Musk.

But they could of course beat that: in 2016, they gave it to Bezos! So much for "large cash award"...
You are suffering from one cut in the thousand cut death mechanism. Each corporation will take away a little of what everyone used to have by default, in exchange for something worth just a little less than what they're taking away. Once every corporation, government office and secret agency has taken their cut you will no longer be a free person. Some time down the line, someone will notice that you are not a free person, and then they will do something that could impact your happiness.
Yes. I seldom used it and in the wake of the CA scandal, deleted all my posts, photos, and then finally the account itself.

I don’t miss it and am quite happy that I got around to it and that a one-time cost of 45 minutes of my time has likely paid itself back twice over by now.
Complete speculation, but I think most likely is local residents who oppose expansion of the airport.
Yes. During the election I was viewing FB as a more negative influence on my day to day attitude. When initial news of their profit seeking behavior during the election hit, I quit.
I'd rather have irrelevant ads than targeted ones. When I visit a web site and see irrelevant ads, I have more confidence (but not 100%) that they are not collecting or using information about me. So I'd rather see irrelevant ads.
> The fact that these issues have become less overt and hostile is part of the problem - we compare current racisms to the more "overt" ones and therefore conclude they have disappeared rather than change form

The author does not deny that this is a challenge for 3rd-wave anti-racists - indeed, this is a major point of the article itself. However, it seems unhelpful to call it a "problem", with no further qualification, as if the 1st and 2nd "wave" were not contending with far worse problems on the racism front. To think otherwise begs the question of why anyone should even bother to address racism at all, when racism itself can never disappear but merely "change form" into something else, ready for the (n+1)-th wave to address in turn.
Your example is a little misguided...
I keep trying, but the fact is that all my friends and family rely on Facebook for communication (usually through Messenger), so either I use it and stay connected or I don't use it and I become completely disconnected.

We can argue the virtues of becoming disconnected until the cows come home, but practically speaking, I still rely on my family and friends for a lot of things. Putting myself on radio silence is not an option.

I've been spending the past couple days looking into what options I have available to continue using Facebook whilst never visiting the website or using its apps. Most positive options seem to involve using a bridge to another service.
A bear isn't rational though. If I'm trying to avoid getting shot, then I don't need to outrun anyone. I can simply hand over my wallet/phone or whatever the criminal is after, and I'm safe.

I'd much rather choose an increase in the chance of having my possessions stolen (the chances of getting caught in this crime are pretty small anyway), than an increase in the chance I get shot.

Plus, by taking the "don't carry a gun" route, you can increase legal restrictions on guns. Gun control won't stop hitmen either, but crackheads in the UK don't have firearms.
No, and I won't delete my Facebook account in 2018 or 2019.

I log in to Facebook Feed maybe once every 2 - 3 months, just to see how the space looks like, always disappointed in how irrelevant the information is to me. No friend posts, no insightful publishing, just randomly shared articles, ads, sponsored content and page suggestions.

I also do Instagram sometimes, that feels a bit more towards what I want in that I can actually see what some friends are doing but seeing my wife and close friends scrolling on and on on their feeds and praising it really makes me wary of immersing myself too much in this gamified addiction center.

I use Facebook Messenger to keep contact with my friends and WhatsApp to talk to my family; I have my track blockers on, I have my ads blocked and notifications disabled on my phone so Facebook is minimally invasive for me. Not sure what point I'm trying to make, I think it's a bit counterproductive deleting your account on the biggest network on the planet. What I think we should be pushing for is people disengaging with their devices and their notifications and being in charge of when they want to connect.

I was once a daily Facebook user, I felt connected, I felt empowered, I felt knowledgeable and I never stopped to consider if it is truly so. The change for me happened when I decided to disable notifications on my phone. Ever since then, I've been a lot better at managing my daily attention and random apps don't really hold my attention any more than what I am willing to offer them.

Again, I'm feeling like I'm rambling without a cohesive thought, so I'll end it with the personal insight that it's not necessary to drop a service as long as you get to control how it works for you. The data mining and shadow profiling are the cost you pay for a free service, but being on it constantly is a choice individuals can make for themselves.
As a former fat guy, on number 2, it's more than just sugar. It's quantity. Skinny/normal people really just don't get how much food a fat person eats. It's insane. Like the thing you mention about skipping meals, fat people don't do that unless it's to skip the fifth meal.
You're missing his point.

Your distinction still places the trust in the discretion of the police/press. If they don't disclose the name, then it's harder for character witnesses to come forward (e.g. the couple's neighbors in this case).
Kotlin. Amazing.
Social Media and the Ubiquity of Sharia Law
Gonna take a wild guess how that adventure will unfold.
Yup, makes sense for sure... if it's cock-up or conspiracy, it's always cock-up.
Which isn't a strong enough correlation to suggest causation. Sounds a bit too "it's-a-conspiracy-because-it-inconvenienced-me" to ring true to my ears.
No, but I only log in once a month using incognito mode and I never post. I take any conversations over to email or SMS. I can't leave completely, but I can limit the value that they get from me.
I read Stranger in a Strange Land when I was 14 years old and it was blindingly obvious, even then, with my incredible lack of life experience, that heterosexual relationships did not actually work like that.
Me personally I'm not 100% convinced that the current ML/AI approaches (that I'm aware of) will yield new big steps forward.

Neuromorphic computing could have the potential I think, if we can build hardware that's good enough.
Me too. Haven't missed it either.
Why delete though? Just keep it inactive. I use my account maybe like a few times a year, as well as a couple of fake accounts for logins to other sites.

I think it will hurt more if you don't delete the account but don't use it much because it reduces revenue per user, or ad views per user.
The pi and e example seems more complicated than it looks. If you ask a human who doesn’t know about pi or e, how much effort would it take for them to figure out the next digits? Seems like they’d have to rediscover the math first (or I suppose, perform a google search)
Even if you ditch your voluntary use of their services (like search, docs, forums), you are still faced with things like reCAPTCHA pervasively track your browsing and gatekeeping your access to large swaths of the internet.
If you turn the word dating into a "service", all your arguments become false.
Federal Service was not necessarily military. The point was that it had to be grueling, something that you had to endure (self-sacrifice). Although yes, if they needed you to (possibly) sacrifice yourself by joining the armed forces, then that's what you got. You could list preferences, but the choice was ultimately not up to you what kind of service you'd perform.

As for the responsibility aspect, that's exactly addressed in the book as well:

>Sally answered, "Uh, service men are disciplined, sir."

>Major Reid was gentle with him. "Sorry. An appealing theory not backed up by facts. You and I are not permitted to vote as long as we remain in the Service, nor is it verifiable that military discipline makes a man self-disciplined once he is out; the crime rate of veterans is much like that of civilians. And you have forgotten that in peacetime most veterans come from non-combatant auxiliary services and have not been subjected to the full rigors of military discipline; they have merely been harried, overworked, and endangered — yet their votes count."

As for the military dictatorship, just as in the previous paragraph: you could not vote (or be voted for) as long as you are in Service. The Federation was a Stratocracy (of veterans), not a Military Dictatorship.