skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll take a stab at the "let it be natural" question:

It means not placing content customers don't want in equal or more prominent positions than content that is important to them. I don't want highlighted ads inline, pushing content that I want to see down off the page (and exacerbating the naive solution you mention of displaying things in chronological order).

This is not to say that I don't agree with your correct insight on the technical difficulties, but want to add that I think part of the problem of the problem of "natural" is not just the complicated algorithm of showing relevant information, it is the fact that Facebook is prioritizing things customers don't want in that algorithm.
Semantics. Pypy's RPython dialect is "a restricted subset of Python that is amenable to static analysis", to quote the PyPy website.
Your body can't metabolize nitrogen without glutamic acid. It's part of how you, and I think maybe all the rest of your siblings in phylum chordata, build proteins. I don't see a lot of reason to believe that it causes "nerve problems" in the human body, but would welcome a citation to the literature that shows that.

It gets worse for your argument. Here's a paper that demonstrates that very large oral doses of MSG in both mice and humans don't even significantly raise the plasma concentration of glutamates.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3136011/

This should probably be unsurprising. Your body is designed to deal with consumption of glutamates; in fact, even though it's so vital to your system that you produce it yourself, humans get most of their glutamic acid from dietary sources. Hypersensitivity to dietary glutamate would be maladaptive.

The idea that your body has carefully delineated locations where it's safe to have glutamic acid (probably not coincidentally in the nervous system, the most complex part of the body), and that ingesting "artificial" sources of glutamic acid throws that out of whack, is again I think a manifestation of the naturalistic fallacy.
Manipulating The Big Mo'
This brings up a really good point. Being in my early 20's and in college, I have many friends who have a strict policy of not friending family on Facebook or going by a pseudonym because they don't want their parents seeing all the picture of them partying etc.

I wonder if FB had implemented a feature like G+'s circles, if this wouldn't be an issue.
I highly recommend this: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/news-feed-eradicat...
Some words like "oriental" or "retard" are very often used very innocently with no negative connotations or intents, though. "Political correctness" is an issue because we demonize people for trying to communicate with non-approved grammar.

Sure, people who knowingly inject offense into their speech and then cry 'free speech' are assholes. So too, though, are the people that cry foul at someone else innocently (if naively) expressing themselves.
>So is basic hygiene, but you can't expect to be successful in life without that either.

An option does not mean that something is exactly equivalent or that it does not come with side effects.

>It is possible to opt out of Facebook, just like you can opt out of society and go live in a shack in the woods.

Definitely not in a shack, definitely not on Facebook.

You, like a lot of people in the thread, see Facebook as required because 'everyone' uses it, except everyone uses it because it is required. Your own hangups or how it will be perceived by others makes you look on it as if it was required and not just something you chose to do one day.

Honestly a friend that won't interact with you unless you have a Facebook account isn't someone I would call a friend.
It's a reasonable question, but is it practical? 9/11 only killed a fraction of the number who probably died in the last few days in the recent typhoon, but the effect was to bring the entire country and economy to a halt.

The US would need statesmanship beyond that of Churchill to galvanize and harden society against those eventualities.

Moreover, in an era of dirty bombs, chemical weapons and even full nuclear devices, the consequences might not always be merely a "handful of casualties," and the grotesque effects of certain weapons, particularly on children, would be images that would be highly likely to incite increasingly aggressive responses.

The US historically is not a society that is accustomed to the idea of being under any kind of siege, nor of allowing its families to remain under threat of any kind. That's not the underlying narrative, and it's just not in its DNA.
Yep, that's pretty much what I mean. I'm not sure whether or not I've ever seen a car run a red light in person (aside from the all-too-common squeaking through yellows), but in any case I can't remember any specific instance.
Not directly (but I agree). I'm saying that averages ignore distribution. If you combine one part of 100% growth and nine parts 0% growth then overall you have 10% growth. Does that mean all the parts are growing, or even most of them are growing? Nope.
I believe he said growth was so great because riches was spread more evenly. Not high taxes, even though that was also the case.
I donated a bit to: https://www.wfp.org/donate/typhoon

This thing needs lots of help now.
They already have, sort of. I have heard "what, are you challenged?" or "you are special" a few times now... which is actually one step further than disabled down the euphemism treadmill.
"We have a lot more disposable income than teenagers do."

That's arguable. Most people I know with teenagers would say their kids have more influence on family spending than they do.

For me personally, years of barely scraping by have left me with anxiety and guilt anytime I spend money on frivolous things. My kids on the other hand seem to have no issue spending their allowance on movies, toys, and shitty little trinkets. I'm not sure how to instill a sense of frugality without letting them go hungry for a while.
That's a different argument though than just "it's more code so I won't do it". If we are discussing performance then the assumption is you have a performance problem you need to fix.
It is built into QDP++, which is the low-level code underlying lattice QCD code bases like Chroma and MILC, though!

Not for gauge configuration generation, which has to be done sequentially, but inversions and measurements can be mapped / reduced.
Missing the sentence where the parent comment mentioned "using the activity feed to keep up with friends." Seems your rebut about my rebut failed, actually.
At least we can rest assured that, in the event of some horrible cataclysm, there will always be plenty of human fossils hanging around somewhere, to preserve humanity's legacy.
You really need to show me where The Founding Fathers say that Freedom is Speech is out there to talk about weather while enjoying tea.
The Freedom of Speech is there to talk about dangerous, unpopular ideas without the Fear of Prosecution. And that's what PC killed. Example: try having any type od scientific discourse even in a medical field about DNA differences among races that cause higher rates of lung disease among blacks.
Just plain stupid. And I agree that future generations will be laughing at PC as much as they laugh at MacArthur communist witch hunt from 1950s.
"If the channels of democracy still exist in any form (and the alternative is unthinkable), then we have to take control of them and put forth real statesmen to answer this challenge."

Of course the alternative is thinkable. History and politics and sociology classes are not that carefully censored and some people actually like the liberal arts. World history did not being with the US constitution and it'll go on past it, its already just a piece of paper as our leaders say, so I guess we are already in a post-constitutional era.

You won't be permitted to change things by voting. As has been said before, if voting could change anything it would be outlawed. You'll be given two choices, one who is in support of the NSA and says he opposes abortion but won't do anything about it, and the other who is in support of the NSA and says he supports a womans right to choose but won't do anything about it, because divide and conquer is how you control uneducated people, and no one is more uneducated than your average American, although there is a cultural goal to obtain training to obtain credentials to obtain a job to become a consumer.

The purpose of a democracy is to provide a tranquilizing influence on the masses once mass media exists, until mass media is conglomerated and mergered into only a few large controllable corporations. At that point democracy is not even needed as a soporific. This is the stage we're at now, confusion that we're subjects or serfs but not fully realizing it yet, just kinda confused.

This isn't just being grouchy or pessimistic; its a blueprint for the future. Want to know what will happen next election? Closest thing to a time machine ever invented? Read the above closely and guess what happens next based on it. History never repeats itself, but it does occasionally rhyme.
OK, maybe I am not understanding you correctly, but what you describe seems to be, if the data is on one machine, connect to a cluster of machines, and run processing in parallel on that.

That doesn't imply a NoSQL solution to me. Just parallel processing on different parts of the data. If I am wrong can you point me to a clearer example?
Only lazy financial journalists who have trouble defining what "the economy" is in the first place.
I know people argue that it's not exactly the same, but isn't standards-compliant C accepted in C++ anyways? Why make the distinction if you're going to use a subset anyways.
Are you saying that computer science isn't a science?
I can't say whether or not an acquisition offer is validation of an idea from an investor's perspective.

To play devils advocate, I could also argue that if you are considering it, then you weren't hockey sticking, and thus i shouldn't invest in you.

Also, one thing to consider is, and this is my opinion, that taking early investors could potentially be an impediment to an acquisition. The reason being is that your investors are interested in getting some kind of multiplier on their return. If you were considering a talent acquisition, not having investors means that almost any sum of money could be worth it to you.

When my-cofounder and I were shopping around for investment before, we were at a point where we weren't sure if we needed to hire a sales force to help us grow our customer base. So we put together a plan for what kind of money we needed.

One kind VC gave us the advice to try doing the sales ourselves for the summer. If it worked out, then we wouldn't need to raise any money. If it didn't work out, then at least we would know it was really hard, and then we could go try to take outside money. Either way we would know something.

Fortunately for us, we ended up trying to do sales that summer (it was hard.) And because we had been so open with potential partners (and acquirers), we ended up with a deal that worked out well for us. I'm not sure it would have made sense had we raised any money.
Your line about C++ not having enough features is cute-sounding but actually it's anti-intellectualism under the religion of minimalism.

First of all, it's not my line, it's Rob Pike's line. Second, upon seeing how the C++ people intend to fix deficiencies of C++ by throwing even more features at it, it's very difficult to see it in any other way. Third, the only "anti-intellectualism" I see here is named C++: It's actually symptomatic of certain organizations that instead of trying to see the big picture and really fix things in a systematic way, they "anti-intellectually" hack and tweak and tinker and micro-optimize. For example, IBM has been doing that in the 1960s with their HW architectures before they got their shit mostly together, which is why the ACS project failed, only for it to be rediscovered forty years later, with modern CPUs finally (!) utilizing these ancient but very well working techniques, such as superscalar out-of-order design that will celebrate its fiftieth birthday in a few years. Now, the same breed of people who ditched ACS in the 1960s are apparently in charge of design of mainstream languages. I wonder if we'll survive the next decades in good mental health before enough people realize the same thing again, ditch that crap and start all over again.
You should generally do Report Spam,at least I do that. If the email was sent from something you didn't actually subscribe, hitting unsubscribe tells the spammer that the email id is in fact genuine which will ultimately get you more spam.
The Wall Street Code (VPRO documentary on HFT)
Yes I think the same. Understanding how thinking machines self organise out of a set of sufficient conditions is very important. I am commenting mainly so I can read your link later.
There is that pesky issue of machine vision. But no worries I've got one of my graduate students ready to spend a whole summer on it.
it also identifies you to them as an enemy of sorts

i much prefer a system of feedback/preference in which anonymity is preserved, while also the voter/sender's validity as a natural US citizen individual is assured as well. right now we tend to have one, or the other, but not both
The link says the Marines are deploying from Okinawa.
So. If C++11 is so bad, how would you make a language backwards-compatible with C++ that solved many of its problems?
fascinating documentary on high frequency trading.
If you're interested this one is similarly good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq1Ln1UCoEU
Good points, but there's a good reason why passwords are asked to be typed twice.
> If someone wants to use a website, they should use the website.

…except when that website first make you use facebook.

> If your belief that Facebook logins are a bad thing is widespread, people will stop only implementing Facebook logins because it's a bad business decision.

These things are a slow process.

> Stop whining because the market doesn't agree with you.

Luckily, my "whining" (the part about the social logins that you could only argue against, my privacy points were bulletproof and spot-on) is backed up by evidence:

http://www.emarketer.com/Article/Privacy-Concerns-Keep-Users...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5408735

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4603204
If you need C you should write C. If you don't need C, you should write in something nice, I.E. not C++. Why sacrifice ease of use 90% of the time in order to gain access to low level features 10% of the time? Any high level language worth anything has the ability to call C code via some mechanism (some better than others, Java probably has the worst mechanism out of any high level language). Use two languages that work really well at what they do, rather than one that sucks equally at both.
300!? That's way too much.
A negative attitude is not "in reality".
Groovy is backed by Pivotal (http://www.gopivotal.com/)

I do develop a lot with Groovy these days, love it!
Well-designed libraries usually trump poorly-designed libraries, performance-wise, regardless of which language they're implemented in. C++ isn't a magic bullet; it's plenty easy to write bloated, poorly-performing software in C++, just as it is in Java, C#, Ruby, etc.

Here's just one counterexample to your claims: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4257659/c-sharp-versus-c-...
The problem is we have no theory of intelligence

I don't think we can have a theory of intelligence. At least in the public consciousness, intelligence is one of those "God-of-the-gaps" style concepts that continually evolves in order to maintain the illusion of human superiority.
That sounds more like parallelisation rather than a use case for NoSQL.

Why is that any better than all of your data on one database server, and each cluster node querying for part of the data to process it? Obviously there will be a bottleneck if all nodes try to access the database at the same time, but I see no benefit otherwise, and depending on the data organisation, I don't even see NoSQL solving that problem (you are going to have to separate the data to different servers for the NoSQL solution, why is that any better than cached query from a central server?).
I realized a while ago that they're really not trying to provide a good UX anymore. There are some complainers, but most people are locked in and mostly enjoy it. If you're smart you block people and prune your friends list wisely.

But then that damn news feed sort order keeps popping back to the default sort order... "Top Stories." It's a tiny little link; just large enough to exist. When the default is selected it just says "Sort". It's designed to be ignored. A UI anti-pattern used with intention. If they could remove it without a revolt, they surely would.

Facebook doesn't want you to have a good user experience: Facebook wants you to have a Facebook Experience. One that they control and provide, with information they get to choose, and other people get to buy. News stories are bought and sold and "Top Stories" is just another way to let them insert whatever the hell they want above the fold. That space goes to the highest bidder, or the highest generator of ad revenue, or the most viral stories they've algorithmically decided to enhance. It's a method of control designed not to improve the experience, but to forge the great machine and make it a more efficient way to guarantee a value proposition.

It's simple really. And it's not so bad, in the end. People have been complaining about TV commercials since their inception, but they're widely accepted and more valuable than ever. Facebook is just taking its place in the economic reality of media. They've grown up.
maybe. At the moment it looks like its US bank accounts only, and then there's the question of what happens if one of the employees absconds with a bunch of money or the company as a whole goes out of business while they've got large chunks of my money.

At least in my jurisdiction if any of those things happened to my bank, I would be paid out of government mandated and controlled insurance.
I once generated this:
http://panzi.deviantart.com/art/Prime-Numbers-102507767

Each red pixel represents a prime number.

The source download link is currently broken. I'll fix that in a minute (if I can find the source again).
If Google is still serious about making a successful "social network" or whatever is the next evolution of that, then they should buy Whatsapp. I'd hate to see Facebook acquiring that one, too, like they did Instagram.
DevelopHer: Hackathon For Women Looks To Create A New Programming Culture
If they _are_ fat, what is the basis of their complaint for not wanting to be called fat?
it's funny how people rant about things they don't understand and don't even try to understand them.

getting relevant stuff on your news feed is trivially simple on facebook, you don't even need to major in anything.
I have never heard anyone herald the Twitter IPO as a sign of economic recovery. The IPO is in the news constantly because it's a minute-by-minute spectacle of wealth lost and wealth gained – not because people think it's a sign of easing economic times.

> Meanwhile, in the real America – the one where you can't call Uber to take you to a launch party – people are dropping out of the workforce, the recovery is weakening and early cuts in food stamps are already slamming the poor. That real America is the one that's not getting much attention.

I don't think the economic slump that affects such a large segment of the population is not getting much attention. The shoddy economy has basically dominated economic news for the past five years; I see articles about its poor state every time the jobs numbers come out. The public doesn't believe the economy is recovering either: http://www.gallup.com/poll/151127/Economic-Conditions-Weekly...

This article draws the wrong conclusions.
Well, to the extent that it's a scientific problem, it sure would help to have a theory. I sure don't expect that theory to enter the public consciousness anytime soon, if at all.

But I do agree with your sentiment as far as the way intelligence is usually discussed, even among the science-literate.
I don't know how it would be done, but I can only see two scenarios. One is to charge the insured the full, unsubsidized premium, and give the tax credit in 2015. The other is to pay the subsidy to the insurance company throughout the year.

In the former situation, some people just cannot afford it.

In the latter situation, you can have some fraud (by the insurance companies).

I guess they could offer both options, and if you choose the latter, you need to apply through the government, so they can verify that you exist, etc.
I think it's even more skewed than that. Growth that occurs among wealthier people has a disproportionate impact on the average, too.

For example, if the top 10% of people have half the stuff, then just 20% growth among the top 10% and 0% growth among the rest will give you an average of 10%.

On the other hand, if the bottom 90% experience 5% growth and the top 10% experience none, it looks like an average of merely 2.5%.
Yes, but if you want to derail people who are attempting to unsubscribe, this is a great way to do that. "Just trying to protect our customers"
Not much money in dying moms unless you're an oncologist.
The XKCD panel included below point 4 seems misguided to me.

Asking for the admin password prevents AUTOMATED, DRIVE-BY installs of device drivers etc. Only responding since people seem to take XKCD's opinions on tech seriously.
Single-Search Access to Clinical Trials Information from 15 Data Providers
So is it fair to say it is an "ease of use" use case?
The problem with SAS is that their software is old and only sold to enterprises that have been swindled into buying it when the open source alternatives are superior.
Feinstein is a terrorist.

(Haha iOS attempts to autocorrect Feinstein to festering, perfect)
I'm not sure Sensenbrenner is the best example of what you're talking about. While he did introduce the Patriot Act, he's not a member of the intelligence committee (which is where the minimum required Congressional relationship you're talking about should exist). And for better or worse, the relationship there with the intelligence community seems to be great. Mike Rogers and Dianne Feinstein (who chair the House and Senate intelligence committees, respectively) are among the biggest supporters of US intelligence agencies. Now you could argue that their positions make them biased (although it also makes them better informed), but it's hard to argue that they're not more useful anecdotes than Sensenbrenner.
Growth was so good in the 50s and 60s because demand was so high from a range of countries that had just destroyed almost everything in them and needed to rebuild.

The rest here is just the usual luddite stuff reframed for a post-industrial revolution era.
Where does "digg" fall in that?? ;-)
You may consider using Mongo's aggregation framework[1] instead which is zillion times faster[2].

[1] http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/aggregation/

[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13908438/is-mongodb-aggre...
Or allow one state to operate another state's exchange.

The states were given federal money to build their state ACA programs... so the government already owns it.

Now, imagine if they had been forced to open source this stuff, at least between the contractors.
Validating performance testing simulations. Tie the inputs of the load generators to the outputs from the application server logs and verify the system works as designed at scale.
Maybe he's remembering the 1918 earthquake? I don't know why the US would fail to help Puerto Rico, it's a US territory.