skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What most people seem to be missing and which the article does not properly explain is why some people think it is necessary to delete each item individually.

Yes you can both deactivate (soft delete) an account and you can actually say to facebook to actually delete it. Deleting an account does not allegedly remove your data from the Facebook servers. Deleting items however will remove your data from the servers. The idea is that you should delete each little thing first, and then delete the actual account.

From the FAQ at http://suicidemachine.org/ :

"Facebook and Co. are going to hold all your informations and pictures on their servers forever! We still hope that by removing your contact details and friend connections one-by-one, your data is being cached out from their backup servers. This can happen after days, weeks, months or even years. So merely deactivating the account is just not enough!"
You should also take a look at Javelin then. It's still more of a proof of concept, but if you love functional programming then it (seems promising to be) even more fun than React for building web apps.
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I'd assume that's like how they do tracking for medications--based on the packaging.
That's interesting, IIRC pull-downs were used in GEM and Amiga Workbench too...
Is that something a grep couldn't fix?
I only said OpenDNS was one of the options. There are many DNSCrypt enabled servers not run by OpenDNS. Seems anytime someone event mentions OpenDNS the same arguments get brought back up. If you don't like OpenDNS, then use DNSCrypt with another server. Simple solution.
I am not a patent lawyer, but the second patent appears to be for an interface where windows can situationally be rendered translucent, not for the general idea of pull-down menus.
> I strongly doubt there is any such thing as "medical-grade" marijuana.

Actually, marijuana contains about 70 different cannabinoids. Different strains contain different ratios of these cannabinoids, and therefore different strains can be more (or less) effective for treating various ailments. Epileptics may require different strains from people suffering from chronic pain, for example.

For people who have very specific medical needs, it is very helpful to have access to specific strains so that they can consume less and still reap the benefits.
From my undestanding, the Chrome doesn't display emoji because of poor unicode handling, but its a difference in the (font?) renderer used.

See http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/41228/why-do-emoji-...
and https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=90177
I probably don't know enough about how to measure stastics like this, but wouldn't we have to question what caused the idea to reach 10% in the first place?
How is this connected to races?
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> x86 is a modern architecture

It's a modern ISA, implemented by modern microarchitectures.
No.

While it might be a shame that Python 3 is getting adopted so slowly, Python itself is in no way under fire. They're not the first language to have molasses-like adoption of new versions, and they won't be the last.

People most likely stick with Python 2.x because it works, and it's one of the best programming languages for quick prototyping (scripty stuff) ranging to highly optimized stuff (numpy, cython, pypy,etc).

R is new and R is cool, but what about D? or what about Go? What about Rust? Whenever I start new projects, I struggle with this, then ultimately go with python because for most things, it's truly "Fast Enough", and many of the higher level concepts that it gently leads you into (generators, lazy evaluation) don't bash you over the head (as much as I like Haskell, it is not an easy thing to learn).
I actually found this really hard to read because of how large the text is, the author needs to reevaluate his font size.
So that affects how the project is hosted, big whoop. Another "amazing" property of platforms without a gatekeeper!

(PS- pretending the lawlers' games are important just serves to propagate their influence)
Probably because someone else would have, or already has, and kept it secret instead. What you don't know can hurt you.
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Yes, "shoddy research" is unfair. But the scientists went way overboard with their interpretation, given how tiny the differences were.

I don't read Jezebel or Feministe, but here are a couple of less mainstream links on the subject:

http://lindeloev.net/?p=64

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/12/getting-in-a-tangl...

There are many interesting analyses linked from this Storify:

http://storify.com/deevybee/postpublication-peer-review-on-s...

The author of that Storify points out that much bullshit came from both camps - those who believe strongly in sexual dimorphism in the brain (the multitasking/map-reading crowd), and those who refuse to believe in any. Meanwhile we should just be looking at the data for what it is and keeping in mind how little we know about anything when it comes to this marvellous organ.
I'm wondering about how 'club card' tracking is affected by this. If I use a club card at the hardware store, and it has a corresponding website that allows me to manage the card's account, is the tracking law going to apply to purchases I do in store as well?
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Il faut se le dire, de nos jours, il est de plus en plus rare de prendre soin de nous! Ce n'est pas qu'on en a pas envie, bien au contraire
Maybe you should do that research yourself before you spout off about how marijuana legalization in Colorado will drastically affect the racial ratios of imprisoned inmates here.
> when goods are traded between two Euro countries, these goods aren't really paid for

This is a very politically biased and misleading perspective on reality.

Consider an alternative world in which the central banks of the Eurozone would have been consolidated entirely. That is, no more Bundesbank, no more De Nederlandsche Bank, only the ECB. All commercial banks would have central bank accounts directly there.

In this world, everything in the real economy would look exactly the same as it does in our world.

However, this alternative world would not have Target balances in its central bank system, and therefore nobody (including you) would ever even think to write that "goods aren't really paid for".

But how can it be that goods are paid for in this alternative world while they aren't paid for in our world? The answer is that that just doesn't make sense.

Goods are paid for even in our, non-hypothetical world. Yes, there are flow imbalances, but guess what: That happens in every region ever that has a unified currency.

If you don't like that, then please just be honest and come right out and say so. Don't try to cloud your opinion in misleading rhetoric.
Here's an example in Sage, if the verbosity of OpenSSL code annoys you as much as it does me:

n = 115792089210356248762697446949407573529996955224135760342422259061068512044369
p = 2^256 - 2^224 + 2^192 + 2^96 - 1
a = -3
b = 41058363725152142129326129780047268409114441015993725554835256314039467401291
E = EllipticCurve(GF(p), [a,b])
P = E(48439561293906451759052585252797914202762949526041747995844080717082404635286,
36134250956749795798585127919587881956611106672985015071877198253568414405109)
"""
Q = E(91120319633256209954638481795610364441930342474826146651283703640232629993874,
80764272623998874743522585409326200078679332703816718187804498579075161456710)
"""
e = 0x12345678
ei = inverse_mod(e, n)
Q = e*P

def to_bin(x): return ("%060x" % x).decode('hex')

def from_bin(x): return int(x.encode('hex'), 16)

def dual_ec_drbg(s, len):
out = ''
for i in range(0, len, 30):
x, y = (s*P).xy()
s = Integer(x)
x, y = (s*Q).xy()
r = Integer(x) % 2**240
out += to_bin(r)
return out[0:len]

def recover_s(s0, s1):
for i in range(2**16): # For all possible 256-bit x
r = i*2**240 + s0 #
if E.is_x_coord(r): # is valid x?
R = E.lift_x(r) # Lift it to a point
x, y = (R*ei).xy() # Undo s*Q
s = Integer(x)
x, y = (s*Q).xy() # Check if it matches next observed block
if (Integer(x) % 2**240) == s1:
return s # done
return None

import os
# Get 3 blocks: 2 are for the break, the other to confirm prediction
s = dual_ec_drbg(from_bin(os.urandom(16)), 30*3)
s0 = from_bin(s[ 0:30])
s1 = from_bin(s[30:60])
s2 = from_bin(s[60:90])
# Recover internal state
s = recover_s(s0, s1)
# Now try predicting something
t = dual_ec_drbg(s, 30)
assert( from_bin(t) == s2 )
print "Done"
I also have a 27" 2560x1440 display, and I found this really difficult to read. The fonts are far, far too large and I kept feeling a bit overwhelmed at any distance. It was an actual effort of will to continue reading it until I lowered the page size to 75%. Viewed from around 2'1" distance as well.
The Dock patent is specifically on the dynamic resizing and repositioning of icons when moused over. A plain collection of icons won't infringe this patent.

The second patent is a design patent, which means you'd have to have a menu exactly like that to infringe.

Funnily enough, one of the icons in the figures in the first patent is for Internet Explorer. I think I also spied one for Word.
Not RTG-based, but still a seriously proposed concept https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Nucleon
That's fair. I actually had a similar experience with our publications team replacing a word across multiple pages on multiple spaces of our wiki. I can hardly imagine not immediately seeking/knowing to try to seek a better solution.
Yes, but it doesn't solve everything and it's not available to everyone.
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FBI investigates military style attack on California power station
Yes, except this is directly in conflict with what any reasonably profit-minded investor/person in power at Facebook would want.

Less timeline history/stuff on your wall/activity log/etc is less time spent on Facebook. Simple as that.
I did this a year ago. I used the mobile site because it has less JS and iMacros[1] to delete the posts. Took me about an hour to delete approximately 900 posts.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/imacros-for-fire...
My friend, having lived in a country which "pulled a devaluation stunt" of 25% (the UK) let me point out the currency devaluation was market driven and necessary because in the wake of the financial crisis the pound was very obviously overvalued.

And the terrifying bogeyman of hyperinflation?!!! 5% for a couple of quarters and now it's at around 2.1%. And that's after said devaluation and bucket loads of printed money in the form of QE.

In other words, I think your cure for is worse than the disease.
No, seriously. This is a common theme in just about everything ESR writes. For example, for some inexplicable reason, the Jargon File used to have an entry stating that hackers tend to be libertarian. This, of course, was written when ESR self-identified as a libertarian. Later on (post-9/11), he decided that he was a neocon instead. Strangely, the entry in the Jargon File was then updated to state that hackers tend to be neocons.

That's just one particularly egregious example. There are a gazillion others. Pretty much everything the guy has ever written has similar implications, where he defines a hacker as being whatever he sees himself as at the time. He really really wants to believe that there is a very specific hacker subculture (in his words, "our tribe"), and that they have a shared culture, heritage, and beliefs about things, and that they have some sort of meritocracy where certain members of that subculture are universally agreed upon as being wise and correct about everything (in his words, "the elders of our tribe"), and of course, that he is one of those people at the top of the imaginary meritocracy in this imaginary subculture.

Also, for bonus douchebaggery points, as if he needed them: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=208
Wow! I have been waiting for such a thing since I got my Chromebook :)
Beautiful...but would posts be available in cached versions of the site...like a timeline itself...sorta like how you can look up previous versions of a site on google...
He wants to keep using the account, just remove the historic activity.
Would love to be pointed towards any kind of mathematical analysis of this at all. There's a really big problem -- you need high ion temperatures to achieve fusion, but it's electron pressure that's transfered by a shockwave, and therefore it should be electron temperature that will increase. It takes on the order of seconds for electrons to transfer their heat -- of a temperature of hundreds of millions of degrees kelvin to ions.

Can a spherically compressed high pressure concentration really maintain itself for the time required to heat the ions?

A good treatment of this is in the 1978 Nobel Prize Lecture of Soviet physicist Pyotr Kapitsa

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/197...
Depends what you mean by "better". UTF-8 generally ends up using fewer bytes to represent the same string than UTF-16, unless you're using certain characters a lot (e.g. for asian languages), so it's a candidate, but it's not like you could just flip a switch and make all javascript use UTF-8.
Well...

1) If the landlord has kept a set of keys, this possession would be illegal, and if he has not then he would have to break in the apartment, which would also be illegal. Sure they might have done it anyway, like any burglar could, but why?

2) In no case whatsoever the landlord has a right to enter without the permission of the renter or a court order (which could happen given reasonable suspicion that the place might be deteriorated).

Since the rent was paid, I fail to see why the landlord would have gone to such lengths to visit this place. He was most probably just happy to receive rent from someone who never had problems or complaints.
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Funny though how your language makes the "non-machine tender" positions sound very robotic and machine-like: binmen, shelf-stackers, mailmen.

All sound like roles easily ascribed to machines. In fact, my garbage man is a truck driven which has a giant hydrolic hand which grabs the bin and dumps it into the truck. The driver has to minimally tend to the mechanical arm only when the bin needs a slight relocation (moved away from a different class of bin) to allow his arm to grab the right bin.
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The problem is their messaging. If they stood up and said to politicians "You must spend money to pull your economies out of the slump", it would have been much better.

Also, even if it wouldn't have been that effective, more aggressive interest rate moves would have done something, and that something on the margin means less suffering in the world.
The reason I singled out the train as a particular case is that it's clearly domestic travel, not international. If there are foreigners on board, they'd have to come through some other border crossing before getting on the train. You can't get to Penn Station from outside the country without going through customs somewhere else, most likely an airport. Which means that this is not equivalent to a border crossing, unless you adopt a meaning of those terms so vague that anything within 100 miles of the border is the functional equivalent of a border crossing, which seems to be what the border patrol is doing.

And yes, it is possible to find places in the country, even in the 100-mile zone, where DHS is not engaged in abusive activity. That's cold comfort to folks who have to deal with them when they are.

ETA: if you're wondering about international train travel, like from Canada, I've taken one of those trains, from Montreal to New York. (Very scenic route, right down the shore of Lake Champlain.) The border-crossing inspection happened in Vermont, outside St. Albans, within minutes of where the train crossed the border. That's what "functionally equivalent to a border crossing" means, if it means anything at all.
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Asimov was working off a population model proposed by Malthus in 1798 [0], which has long been known to be flawed. It's not just industrial human populations that have slowing growth rates; most populations creatures have slowing growth rates as they near the population level the environment supports. The most common model for this is called "logistic growth" [1].

The "current doubling time" is kind of a misnomer -- it's how long it would take the population to double given the current growth rate, but the rate itself is also shrinking. Human population growth reached its peak (percentage-wise) in the early 1960s [2] and most credible estimates now have the world population leveling off in the 9-12 billion range (less than a full doubling from current levels) [3].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Essay_on_the_Principle_of_Po...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_function#In_ecology:_m... -- note that some populations follow very different trajectories in special circumstances. The Kaibab Deer are a rather tragic example: http://depts.alverno.edu/nsmt/youngcc/research/kaibab/story3...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_growth#Human_populat... - see also http://www.growth-dynamics.com/articles/Kurzweil_files/image... , which is taken from the article http://www.growth-dynamics.com/articles/Kurzweil.htm

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_growt...
It need demonstrate only one useful real world application for you to be wrong. It does not need to become universal.
As others have said, a web site that validates the consistency of its own content seems to have potential.
I would also consider the Internet of Things; a Thing having its own IPv6 address and its own domain name. QR Codes can help take care of the intractability of long hashes.
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This sounds awesome; I wish there was more information available. I can't quite visualize how the vortex would work. It needs to reach all the way to the bottom of the chamber so the plasma can be injected through it, but it also needs to be small in diameter at the center of the chamber so the pressure wave can collapse it completely. Can those requirements be met simultaneously? How fast would you need to spin the metal? Is it really possible to make a stable vortex such that no liquid metal ever falls into the lower plasma injector (which would presumably destroy it), even as you send shockwaves through the chamber once every second?
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Why on Earth did you post a link to this wikipedia article on Hacker News?
It's no wonder why Elsevier draws such ire from the librarian community... an analogy would be if a company legally disallowed its employees from discussing their salaries with anyone, in order to reduce the information available when any other employee negotiates a salary or raise.

A great comment, but did you intend the part I quoted as ironic? You are correct about the intent and the effect, but I think many (most?) companies request this of employees, and some require it. For managers and supervisors in some states, this is even legally defensible: http://ask.metafilter.com/45192/Wait-you-make-50k-more-than-...
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I agree with you, except on the timescale. I'd say next 100 years. For your prediction to be right, we'd need a pretty good prototype of the 'brain cap/scanner' in about 20 years. I don't know if that's enough to be able to do this type of diagnosis, based of course on what we currently know.