skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The visitor pattern doesn't disappear under CLOS, but all the framework boilerplate code does.

So that is to say, we can still have a situation where we have a tree of objects T with nodes N of different classes (expression, if-statement, ...) and visitor objects of different classses (pretty-printer, evaluator, ...).

Then given some generic function G and visitor object V, we walk the nodes of the tree, and simply (funcall G N V) for each node N that we encounter.

The remaining verbiage is then in all the method specializations we have to write for G for all the N V combinations that occur.

For all the framework brevity, we yet have an additional flexibility relative to the Visitor Pattern: namely, we can not only vary the choice of visitor object V, but also of G. The Visitor Pattern fixes the generic function in terms of some hard-coded some visit()/accept() protocol.
I started playing around with NN-s recently and this looked like a good tutorial until the partial derivatives :) It would have been so much better to turn a complex math concept like that to code in smaller chunks because it's hard to extract from the full sample which part refers to which equation.

Also, the bias is not explained at all.

- Why is it there?

- What does it do?

- What value should it have?
Yeah, I think the issues that arise with roommates are well understood and generally acceptable given the benefits. Shared mortgages are insane.
You are neglecting public health concerns. People’s sleep tends to be disrupted when they have to wake up long before sunrise. Sleep is important for the population, more important then afternoon sunshine, I would say.
> I think this makes sense, today it's about this advertiser, but if they set this precedent, what is stopping them from requesting information on their competitors in their next election?

What's wrong with that?

This information should be publicly available. If you're running political advocacy ads, your funding sources and the ads you run should be available to all for review.
If you've been following him for a while on YouTube then you'd know he's bought more than just taking the risk on the two Teslas mentioned in the article, including a $70,000 Model X.
I usually prefer simple and efficient, but the complaints against this intentionally-artsy website really remind me of people who don't see movies as a valid art form.
I agree that using Duolingo alone is probably not the most effective way to learn a language, but I find its quick drills work well in tandem with other methods. I'm currently using Babbel (free 3 month trial) with Duolingo and the combo seems to work well. Is there some other app that you would recommend?
Indeed, I am upgrading it to a larger machine.
Google products mix the terrible data privacy of Facebook with terrible Google product design. No thank you.
Lavabit seeking investment for end-to-end encrypted email
I don't think we need to go full wikileaks on this yet. Worse, I don't think leaking the answer would make any difference even if you found an invoice to Mr V Putin.
Fair enough, I can see your point =]
Works just fine on my crappy corporate Windows computer with Chrome.
If only there was an entire field that exists to characterize when subsampling a population is valid and sound.
Right now big ad is a fleet of dreadnaughts. If we can get them down to a level of submarines that is an improvement, as they are easier to kill.
How are you measuring effectiveness?
> All of the downsides of living with family and few upsides

You choose your friends, not your family. So unless you're not discriminating who your friends are, I don't see how it's similar to family at all.
The US government already subsidizes underpaying employers in the form of food stamps and other palliative services.

If employers were required to pay for the foodstamps and welfare services of their own workers, I wonder if we would see a change in their behavior? It would suddenly make less economical sense to reduce costs by pushing their most vulnerable workers below the poverty line, since that would just push up their welfare costs. Today they don’t pay a dime - so hey, if the government is subsidizing you to screw your workforce, and public opinion is brainwashed to blame the workers instead of you, why would you not do it?
Letting go of frustration is the first step to tackling legacy or inherited code
Have you looked into Apache Guacamole (http://guacamole.apache.org/)

Once you install Apache Guacamole on the remote machine, you can access it via your web browser
> It sounds like we've just got a new word for another normally distributed human thing

I was trying to find some stats on the distribution myself, but couldn't find anything. All the data that's easily searchable is about people who have ASD :/

> Is it just that autistic people get more tired from the standard social guessing game? If this is a spectrum, then where is the cut-off? Is it all self-diagnosis then?

I guess so, I'm no expert on this myself, just know that I'm relatively high on the spectrum, but below this "magical" threshold you mention. From personal experience most social interactions for me are very tiring, especially around non close friends/family. However I can't comment on whether this is normal for most people since I've always been this way. I self-diagnosed myself through literature and a few online tests, but it's obviously not as accurate as a real diagnosis done by a professional. You can try to self-diagnose, but you obviously have to take the results with a bucket of salt.

>Also, what is stimming?

Short for stimulating. Basically engaging your senses to make yourself feel calmer/more comfortable. This explains it in more detail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stimming
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You already have 2 generations of MS Kinect. It can already stream RGB-D images, lidar provides no color information. There is no killer application for cheap lidar, there are many cheap devices covering <10 meter distance range with great resolution and their adoption is still extremely low.
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The website fills me confidence with its heading:
"Recieve Comments"
It really depends.

If your mortgage is big enough (over 750k as of the last tax bill, which is not that uncommon in some real estate markets) or small enough (so you don't itemize your tax deductions; that roughly corresponds to mortgages under $300k for married couples, I would think), then putting money into paying off the mortgage has a guaranteed 4% _after-tax_ return for some number of years that depends on where you are in your mortgage payoff cycle.

Would you buy a government bond on those terms in the market?

There are obviously liquidity issues with home equity that are much less of a problem with bonds, but I am also not seeing any 4.5% (generously assuming a 12.5% marginal rate on your bond interest) US treasuries bonds in the market right now, at any maturity.
Author of the post in question here. Thanks for the thoughtful commentary. Always nice to stumble on a conversation about something I've written that I assume nobody has read. :)

Few quick responses to some of the themes that you've all surfaced:

The essay is coming from the context of my own work, which is focused on public-service journalism and local journalism. These types of journalism can result in different types of reporting products, e.g., https://projects.propublica.org/chicago-tickets/ Many of us in the industry consider these types of products "journalism," but they are not necessarily what comes to mind for most.

National security reporting (The Intercept) and national reporting of any kind, are for sure different beasts, and beat to a different drum. National reporting, as pointed out, tends to report what has happened. National security reporting is typically adversarial reporting, and -- as pointed out -- the concept of pull journalism is probably not a fit there.

However, in the context of local and public-service journalism -- where, when it works well, it aims to explain "the climate not the weather" (i.e., _why_ something is happening, not simply that it happened) -- I believe there is an opportunity to do a better job "centering the user" in the conversation about what to report, and -- frankly -- what the reporting product looks like (Is it written? Is it video? Is it a database? Is it a podcast?).

All that to say, the essay simply proposes that there are patterns in journalism that have become cemented over the decades, and that re-thinking these patterns in the context of the changes that have occurred in the way people consume and interact with information are worth exploring for new journalism undertakings.

Three cents! :)

P.S. Thanks for catching the typos!
CAD tool stopping others from writing to its file format
I believe you are discovering that living by your principles requires effort. This is a natural discovery and seems to reflect reality.

I have accepted that it's easier and better for me to be a pragmatist on these stances. Especially because the idea that "facebook is ruining democracy/the world/motherhood/apple pie" is my own biased opinion of the future. And I'm no good at predicting the future.
> it is quite common to re-mortgage on the same property to get a better deal

Or to "extract" equity as money to spend. There's a huge amount of advertising out there trying to convince people they should take out a home equity loan and spend the resulting money.
Well, there are several things to keep in mind. 1. The sharper the frequency response the worse ringing in the phase response. 2. Human hearing is a mystery and the near ultrasonic freq may actually have some influence on the perception of the music. 3. You need to use analog filters before the ADC and after the DAC anyway, and it is so much easier to implement with a much less steep freq response, if used with higher sample rate. I mean, you sample it at 192 and the filter it down to remove anything above 96. There is no point to resample all the time up and down.
Does Lavabit even have any trust remaining with users after all these years, having removed customer accounts when it shutdown abruptly?
That is exactly why there is a massive h eppidemic in the us. Drug companies lied about oxys , everyone got hooked, couldn't afford it and moved onto h. Now that's laced with fent and everyone is dying
The only time I have ever encountered a code base where the visitor pattern was necessary and fulfilling its purpose is Babel (the JS compiler).
Oh, yeah I can explain that, no problem! I'm one of those people myself. I've never heard of a single example of potential harm that could come as the result of tracking. So as you can imagine, to me these articles seem like a bunch of made-up hoopla over nothing.

To explain my mindset, basically it boils down to:

"Can something bad happen to me as a result of tracking?"

And nobody has ever said "Yes, here are examples."
Seeking more control over brands, Amazon pulls the plug on thousands of vendors
I know a lot of people who want to quit Facebook, but nobody wants to be the odd one out who misses event invitations and stuff because they're the one person in their social circle who doesn't have an account. To partially solve this, I've been talking to a group of friends about all forming a pact to quit Facebook at the same time. This idea seems to resonate, and I've already gotten about ten of my friends to agree to it.

It's frustrating to know that despite how bad they are, despite every new discovery of terribleness, nothing's going to change, and they're just going to get bigger.

Plenty of other social networks that once seemed dominant have collapsed in the past. I agree it feels frustrating, but if a large enough minority of users abandons Facebook I do think that we could hit critical mass where even people on FB start using alternative communication tools to keep in touch with ex-Facebookers, and then that'll start creating a positive feedback loop by making it easier for more people to leave as other platforms fill in and pick up the slack.
No, BBC, the future is not yet another generation of youngsters paying more for less and resorting to obviously impractical group mortgages in support of your relentless pro house price inflation agenda. The future is for them to have some semblance of security of tenure without having to "get on the housing ladder" and prop up the whole sordid ponzi scheme.
> the service that Facebook provides is unparalleled

Except that it's not. The vast majority of what Facebook does can be done without Facebook. The essential problem now is that there are large numbers of people who have only ever known Facebook and are unaware of how to accomplish those things without it.
What's wrong with G Suite? I know a couple companies that use it, and it seems pretty handy. I mean, there's still Windows and MS Office that Google doesn't compete with, but hangouts/gmail/google calendar all worked well when I was at a company that used them.
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>> I think many people are misinformed about what is happening in data collection and processing, and if they were well-informed, would care more about their privacy.

Yea, people are uninformed. But, I think you're overestimating people's capacity to care about issues that will have no real consequence on their life. The average person just wants to spend time with their family/friends, gossip, and enjoy their hobbies. Facebook helps them do just that.

>> But I think people are misinformed, greatly. Very few people have any idea how intense FB's data collection efforts are, or how insecure the data is when it goes there, etc.

This is exactly the type of information that people don't care about. "So, you're telling me FB knows I'm browsing Groupon for wedding gift deals and looking at cat pictures on Reddit? O, and other people could have access to that data?" Shoulder shrug...

>> Democracy is at stake. This is more than a question of individual privacy: people need to understand that our society is crumbling due to lack of privacy.

I guess this is the type of argument people actually care about. The problem is that their uninstalling Facebook isn't going to change anything, other than making their lives less fun. If there's a real threat to democracy, the solutions need to come via regulation.
A common work-around is for a federal agency to hire a contractor to write software and require the copyright be transferred as part of the contract. The federal government can hold copyrights, so it's legally kosher.
That would be a challenge.

Back in the heyday of expert systems and original Mac’s, I did an expert system in Hypercard. Not really production worthy. But interesting from perspective of exploring UI.
> there's a bug in that procedure

Are you sure? I don't think there is!

> Before he signed the act, digitally signing wasn't legal,

Is that true? I think this is the source of error here. In your quote citation (the full extent of my knowledge on this topic), it says that the bill being signed is to facilitate the use of those signatures, and to ensure the validity. It doesn't state that it is making e-signatures legal for the first time ever, it's stating that it is clarifying that they are for-sure good-to-go.

I don't think there is a bug in the procedure.
Do all networks obey the scale-free law? Maybe not
amazing read, good content
Here is a link[0] to CD dynamic range database from where you can check how a particular mastering fares.

[0] http://dr.loudness-war.info

There are of course multitude of other factors impacting mastering quality, but as far as DR goes, this DB is a pretty good source.
> In general I’m surprised that “paid + source access for customers” isn’t a more popular model of software development.

Microsoft has a "shared source" agreement with governments.
The committee wasn't asking for all the information to be available, just specific information on some group promoting an idea they oppose. If the UK wants everything to be public they need only pass a law to do so and Facebook will comply.
In a lot of countries the majority of phones plans work on a prepaid credit system and every text you send eats up X amount of credits. You can send an unlimited amount of messages and videos on WhatsApp for free if you have access to the internet. Phone calls eat up even more credits, but you can make as many as you want on WhatsApp.
Lots of my family just takes the side of "I have nothing to hide".

My little brother is 20 years younger then I and was raised by youtube. I find his attitude towards things really weird. Like I asked him why he didn't use an adblocker to get rid of all the ads and he replied "I want to support to the streamers by watching their ads". As someone who grew up in a more punk/fuck authority, don't sell out 90s this threw me for a total loop. If he was on an android phone he would be mashing that ALLOW ACCESS button to play every game.

I quit facebook after cambridge analytica. Probably 2 weeks of typing "Fa...." into my browser and going "oh wait". There a few birthday parties/bbqs I probably missed because of not being reminded I exist on peoples invite lists, but they weren't the closest friends to begin with.
It really wouldn't kill you to be nice when giving this feedback.
> put a global Deny rule for 31.13.x.x and problem is solved.

Since Facebook is only one of a huge number of other objectionable data leakages apps present to us, I recommend something more expansive than that. I recommend blocking all outgoing traffic entirely by default, and only enabling outgoing traffic for specific apps to specific destinations as needed.
Great stuff and free :) question - you don't need to urlencode the paramteres in the URL? how so? Further - isnt that limited to 1024 chars per URI specs ?
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They say they can record multiple returns per single pulse. This can really useful for forest mapping (e.g. on a drone).

For video games maybe but I'd always try to avoid looking at those, even if LiDARs are eye safe it's not fun staring at them.
But that's actually a tenant of privacy: You are free to care about it only when it matters, and you chose who and on what terms enter into your privacy sphere. Privacy is the inherent understood baseline. Everything else needs to justify it's existence, with explicit consent, and that consent can be removed whenever the individual feels like their individual liberty is now being violated.

I really like this definition of privacy on the Wikipedia page about the subject:

> The right to privacy is our right to keep a domain around us, which includes all those things that are part of us, such as our body, home, property, thoughts, feelings, secrets and identity. The right to privacy gives us the ability to choose which parts in this domain can be accessed by others, and to control the extent, manner and timing of the use of those parts we choose to disclose
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Not even close. She wasn't the pioneer, she used someone's else's idea and didn't paid any respects to that person. She's one of the Kardashians, she could even sell garbage and become a billionaire at the age of 5.
China's wealth inequality might be in that category as well
This all works very nicely until it's time for back-end rendering and/or sanitation. At that point, it becomes a shotgun-wedding to wkhtmltopdf, React server-side rendering, bespoke Node scripts w/ SVG DOM subsitutes, or all of the above.

Nobody's going to notice five more dependencies out of the hundreds already in package.json, and everyone already drank the kool-aid on a gig of RAM and a supercomputer as table-stakes for generating a five-page PDF, so go for it!
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Most have no clue of the scope of stalking and creepiness currently ongoing, or in fact the depth of data being collected, collated and invasive profiling involved.

Google, Facebook and others have a whole collection of intentionally misleading dialogues and practices that deceptively conceal what they are doing under the catchall of 'improving user experience' or some such thing. Surely if they actually thought people 'don't care' all these firms and technical folks involved won't feel the need to be deceptive.

This comes across more as tech folks trying to offload their own responsibility in designing, building and profiting from surveillance systems by wishing that people didn't care.
What am I really losing though by allowing access? The company is passing on info to advertising networks so they can try and get me hooked on more mobile games.

No one cares who you are, they are just trying to sell ad space.
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Ok? I don't see how that changes anything. You may get "whacked" by the government for other reasons too, like they mistakenly thought your house was a meth lab and you didn't put your hands up fast enough. The fact that other reasons exist doesn't mean that this one doesn't.
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This title is untrue according to research done by Dr. William Dement at Stanford. In his book Promise of Sleep he says they did a study where people were put in a room at an earlier than bedtime time, no electronics or devices or lights. They ended up sleeping 1-2 hours longer (closer to 10 hours) for a week and then it started to reach normal levels (closer to 8 hours) over the second week.

The premise of the book Promise of Sleep is "Sleep Debt" and they proved you can pay back Sleep Debt up to about 1-2 weeks worth and the rest is absorbed by the body.
Very cool concept.

Are their any limits embedded to prevent users from cheating at the game? ( I know that would mean that people are cheating themselves, but am curious)
FBI head Christopher Wray: We can't let criminals hide behind encryption
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Yes, it usually means “large dataset of mostly junk that someone dumped on us, which we filtered through ended up with a not really that big dataset and then analyzed using fairly standard means.”

Although telling people you have giant big data infrastructure that performed deep learning to power your AI and cognitive automation sounds a lot sexier.
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> Not a bad idea really.

I think it's a genuinely bad idea to put any single entity in the driver's seat like that.
map[T]struct{} is a type-safe set type. It's just not an ergonomic one.

FWIW, I'm usually using map[T]bool and only ever inserting `true` values. It uses a bit more space, but membership checks read like

if set[key] {

instead of

if _, ok := set[key]; ok {
probably the most easy going read-through i've seen
Why have functions and control structures when we can just jmp?
When I originally read about Visitor in the GoF book it was fun to work through its convoluted way but seemed ugly in any language, including the original SmallTalk.

I'd probably just do type checks and maybe use a 2D table for the possible interactions.
Both pinch and cmd+ work fine for me. Cmd+ makes the font effectively bigger and reflows the text just fine.