skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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If you watch a speeded up version you can see a torsion wave travel down from one tower to the other, and then reflect back again. Quite impressive.
What I'd like is facebook without any algorithmic 'intelligence' behind the feed.

I'd really like to keep up on the minutiae of life that people casually post to facebook. I'd particularly like to see posts from people who don't post very often or who I don't interact with very often. But AFAICT there's no way to stop it prioritising, filtering, hiding, reordering as it sees fit. And that's with it set to display "Most Recent" instead of top stories.

I don't 'like' anything, or have hundreds of pages spamming my feed. I have a number of friends somewhere between 50 and 100, most of whom don't post that much, that often. I'd just like the unedited feed of what they post, but apparently that's not possible.
Oh, and this has nothing to do with Facebook's atrocious behavior in all things privacy?
I wonder if the original framers of Constitutions around the world thought that one day the lawyers would ultimately rule public policy.
I've noticed that a lot of the "busiest" people are the least productive. I suspect its a defense mechanism for people who, at least on a subconscious level, realize how unproductive and meaningless their job and/or output at a job really is.

My wife's sister and her husband are both the two "busiest" people you will ever meet. Yet when I spend time with them, I'm reminded of the fact that neither of them is very intelligent (perhaps the wrong word, but put another way they have no depth of understanding about anything outside of their jobs in cargo transport, zero creativity or appreciation of any kind of art, and little to zero knowledge of world events) and they don't seem to progress any quicker in their careers. In fact, as my wife has noted, they have lagged behind us and all of our friends who enjoy a healthy work-life balance. There is nothing scientific here about this anecdote, of course. I think that perhaps the easiest way to be extremely busy all the time is to not step back, take a breath, and think about a more efficient way to accomplish task X.

In a culture where status is attained through work, if you lack the creativity and skills to be a standout wizard who breezes through and builds cool shit that others think they could never do (translations: anyone on HN) then perhaps "busy" is the other way to earn some semblance of status.
Does anyone find it creepy that gmail also tracks your mouse movement?
http://www.reddit.com/r/stoicism
Remember those scripts that changed your instant messenger status when you started listening to a song? Or posted in IRC about it?

Automated narcissism doesn't exactly make for good conversation. People will get bored of it after a day or two.
I really hope WebGl+javascript kills CSS and html and all the other web stuff and we get back to desktop rich applications.

And a URL can map to some state/object too. Google can then think about searching for things richer than just textual.
Adidas track pants and leather shoes (mentioned in the article) are typical attire of Russian gopniks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopnik).
If anyone is Ripe for Disruption, it's data carriers, especially on mobile. Those crooks practise legalised piracy at the highest level. And they are entrenched all right. Any ideas?
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" the European Commission is not elected by universal suffrage, but appointed"

True, but they are appointed by governments that are themselves elected by universal suffrage.
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Seems like this thread is full of people typing while wearing tinfoil hats.

They have added a feature which works the same way Shazam et al do. You want to share what you're listening to? Press a button, the mic gets activated, and Facebook ID's the song for you to save you typing it out and searching yourself.

They are not listening to you all the time, even when you're in the Facebook app.
Thank you! Good comments is the reason why I enjoy HN. Have you heard about Martin Armstrong? He writes about waves with regards to economic activities and stuff going back to Roman times. Something to do with π. I'm not sure I'd follow his advice with my wallet, but he did move in high circles and usually does make for an interesting read (esp. the historical stuff). : http://armstrongeconomics.com/1113-2/
Actually literally everything in the universe guarantees that we will reach a stable solution. That's how things work. That stable solution may end up killing billions of people but eventually you get a status quo. Systems gravitate towards low energy states.

Also an Elysium like scenario? That movie was a joke and made no sense. If you're gonna believe in science fiction as the model for the future at least go for something that isn't terrible.
Someone made a wind based energy generation system based on the same principle but the name escapes me, it was all over the news a couple of years ago.
You'll probably enjoy this Jon Raffman film which reflects on what it meant to be such a local hero or minor god.

http://youtu.be/4WPZbwDHz-0
“In fact, people are human. They have limiting processing capacity, and you can’t just stuff information down their gullet.”

I recognize myself in that. Studies come and go, and not only do I not have time to keep up with them, I don't have time or ability or desire to judge them, and then apply that to what I buy.

That, together with the idea that products are designed by marketers and advertisers rather than nutritionists who care about you, leads me to this strategy: Start with non-packaged, least ingredient foods, and use packaged foods where necessary.

If it's in a box, it's likely made of highly processed grain and lots of chemicals. If it's from the meat and produce sections, less or none so.

Don't drink fruit juice, eat fruit. Drink water.

Some things are unavoidably packaged, but mimimize what's in the package. Milk, packaged of course; go for non-hormone laden varieties. Peanut butter, use the one that has one ingredient: peanuts. I've tried Jiffy recently, after eating only peanut butter for a long time, and it's unbelievably sweet, because it's sweetened. Oatmeal, packaged, notwithstanding the oatmeal that you get out of the feel-good hopper at Whole Foods.

No package, because most packages have lots of non-food ingredients. When packaged, least ingredients. Adjust for personal tastes and needs.
As with most tech, if there such a leap in speed (about 10 times) then a lot of other applications become possible. You could remove a layer of caching because its not needed anymore, thus reducing your app complexity. But apart from that, imagine how many places use markdown? If people all move to a 10 times faster implementation, that an incredible reduction in wasted cpu cycles.
Kind of OT but take a look at this [0]. They've actually just announced good privacy changes.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7783609
In a more hilarious and trollish side there is of course the unforgettable KTVU:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qvjNSYRMu4

And people wonder why PR firms are strong. They are strong because there aren't any proper journalists left.
That was a pretty good article that appealed to me because I don't like the trend of fewer but much larger companies crowding out competitors. Google is a particularly interesting case because their income stream from ads really might not work long term on mobile.

I have never been much of a fan of Facebook but seeing how most of my family's use of the Internet is wrapped up in Facebook, they might be around for a very long time.
It's obvious that Edward Snowden was upset with mass surveillance for quite sometime and did a lot of preparation before taking the final leap to disclose the truth.

He is a hero and has brought out a (long due and) renewed interest in privacy and security. We'll all be the better for it in the coming years.
I think you've misread that. They don't use the layer 2 of EWZ, but they do use the fibers (layer 1).
The process was reasonably random - the survey was distributed to the global Java User Groups & I'd say over 2000 responses is something worth paying attention to statistically (yeah, I know - out of x Million Java developers it's still a tiny sample set).
Exactly. This seems a bit propagandist.

Something along the lines of "See, the pro-Russian Ukrainian separatist movement is only one building..."
If people had a problem with this comment:
1. This was removed from the homepage shortly after I posted this comment.
2. An answer explaining to me why this is appropriate would have probably been more helpful.
The tech is awesome. I just don't trust Facebook, that's all. And it's not the same as scrobbling because it will match TV shows or music that other people around you are playing.

Also, I don't "scrobble" because I was never comfortable sharing that data.
Millions die from preventable disease each year. It is this status quo mentality that leads to preventable deaths, the two leaders being Heart Disease and Cancer. I'm not sure who you're trying to convince of your argument by insulting me personally but it is clear you would rather ignore the evidence I've provided than supply a valid counter-argument. Especially when the CDC claims ingredients in vaccines are cancer causing. This is indicative of whose viewpoint is actually based on science (see sources) and whose is faith based.

Insinuating that Aluminum, Formaldehyde, Monosodium glutamate (MSG) and Thimerosal (a mercury-containing preservative) are safe, or actually beneficial, for consumption especially after reviewing the evidence I've given you is folly.

You can keep lying to yourself but to lie to others to promote falsehoods based on such ignorance is even worse. Stop trolling please.
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I don't think it will crush the alternatives, but it may stop them from becoming one of the top mainstream languages (latest RedMonk analysis had Scala at the top of the chasing pack for example).
If you're building a static site from markdown files, and your site consists of thousands of pages, speed will definitely be a concern.
I agree. I'm not a Facebook user, so I probably won't run into this feature myself, but it sounds really impressive to me.

If I read it right, it can detect the TV show down to episode? I'm guessing it functions just like Shazam style music detection, but I still find the idea of it incredibly cool.
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Ups sorry thought it was eastern Texas.
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The speed of pdf.js on older computers is abysmal compared to native applications like okular.
Thank you for that explanation! LaTeX docs constitute the vast majority of PDFs that I view, and I've wondered for ages why PDF.js seemed to be so laggy so much of the time.
I second this. I knew facebook filtered the feed pretty heavily but I had no idea how bad it was until recently.

A few weeks ago I met up with some old friends and learned that a mutual friend was getting married. We're friends on facebook and she has been posting about her wedding day regularly and yet I had absolutely no idea it was happening because facebook decided for me that she was unimportant.

They really need a way to turn this aggressive filtering off. I use facebook specifically to keep in touch with wayward friends, I don't need a feed full of BS updates from people I speak with regularly.
My point was not that we shouldn't work to produce even small efficiencies (which, yes, cascade into larger aggregate ones).

It was more wondering whether speed in markdown parsing is such a concern that this would merit a marquee 'selling' point.
Unless your fear is that Facebook wants to record your conversations on the sly, then yes, that is a completely insane thing to be worried about, and I'd ask for proof.

Facebook doing what Shazam does doesn't somehow make it more skeevy.
What was your beef with the syntax?
Trying to think how you could build this. Unless there's some fancy new feature in the browsers, I think you'd have to do something complicated like run WebKit.JS and capture from the canvas output.
They weren't comparing Tokyo to a rack. They were using it as the next logical progression for improving your network speed.
It is fairly ironic that you use iPhone in your example considering that with side loading and permission over reach any talented hacker can access an Android phone to the level you describe while you would almost have to be a nation state to pull it off on a non-jailbroken iPhone.
"generating revenue isn't the same thing as providing a valuable service"

Well, from the cited stats, it's not enough of a valuable service to generate sustainable revenue.
You can set the feed (on the phone or the website) to "most recent" as opposed to "top stories"; doing this supposedly undoes the EdgeRank filtering and gives you a reverse chronological feed of what your friends are posting. But I find it also throws in random posts from people or pages that your friends comment on, and also keeps bumping your friends posts that are getting comments from your other friends further up in the feed, so it becomes unnavigable in its own way.
Pretty much any math and physics paper I tried was rendered with broken fonts and incorrect layout. It is horribly slow and renders a lot of pdfs incorrectly.
As a small business owner, I applied for a patent that could protect my startup's key innovation. I am actually glad that the patent "reform" as shelved. IMO, it is a far bigger threat to small business patent holders that a tech industry giant would ignore / steal their IP, than to fall victim to a patent troll. If the proposed legislation goes through, simply trying to protect your own property could end up destroying you if you are forced to pay for the legal costs of the deep-pocketed industry player.
> tounge-in-cheek

“tounge”, typo or some play-on-word I don't understand?
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I was thinking of Stanislaw Lem's Memoirs Found in a Bathtub

...I couldn't seem to find the right room. None of them had
the number designated on my pass. First I wound up at the
Department of Verification, then the Department of
Misinformation, then some clerk from the Pressure Section advised
me to try level eight, but on level eight they ignored me,
and later I got stuck in a crowd of military personnel -- the
corridors rang with their vigorous marching back and forth,
the slamming of doors, the clicking of heels
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That works great with Stylish on Firefox, thanks !

I remember a time when the content of the news feed was almost relevant and interesting...
GAE looks interesting, but the main downside is that there is no free plan for SQL database (SQL Cloud service).
I don't know if I'd call what libcap does "compiler theory" it appears to be a darker art that has extra knowledge about a lot of different things. It's remarkably sophisticated though. I implemented a BFF jit engine for a popular ips and spent a lot of time trying to work out a good way to replace libcap before we just went with it. Optimized libcap output will routinely make you scratch your head and wonder how it can work.
I'm sure we could just ask the NSA to identify all that fluff for us. And while they're at it, they could do our backups, too.
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I saw a Steam (Valve) graph for Dota 2 download speeds. Roughly 8 million players, spread across the world, quite evenly.

The "fastest" countries were South Korea, Sweden, the Netherlands and Romania.

We might be lacking quite a few things, but Internet speed is not one of them :)
Is the story about the Laufenburg bridge accurate? I would never have thought that bridge builders would have used altitude above sea level as a basis for building, instead of some local, direct measurement.
I find short URLs with mixed case characters worse than a regular URL on mobile
It's got a couple of 'outside research' uses, the one I think is least trivial is as a tool for Alzheimer's suffers to review their short-term memory. It makes a real difference to their quality of life, improves their recall and gives them more confidence around their memory.
They also have the annoying characteristic of lasting longer than the content they link to more often than not!
It is exciting to think that everything is collapsing and the world is changing and now is different than the past. And in a lot of ways it is. But there is no technological singularity that is going to make human beings irrelevant. We need to do something about the various crises of our time, but the guy you responded to is right. My first reaction on reading the article in the OP was "Wow, isn't it funny how bad things looked only a couple of years ago!" The whining 'democracy is a lie' part made me particularly nostalgic for a kinder, simpler time, a time when I could hate George Bush with all of my hate and could say stuff like "the system is totally broken, man" with a straight face.

While you can't trust governments and powerful individuals to reliably act in your interest (and never could), we need to take a step back here. There's a lot of nonsense and science fiction dystopia going around itt, a lot of people who think that 90% of humanity is worthless now that we don't need them for physical labor. That's ridiculous. Things are basically fine and while there are going to be some serious repercussions among tech people things will remain basically fine for the vast majority of westerners.
Shazam doesn't try to run itself passively and report back to HQ when I don't need it to run.

Shazam also isn't the same level of data mining/profiling.
All the jumps are only forward, which guarantees that there aren't any loops in the BPF program.

In other words, BPF programs can be thought of as encoding a DAG that represents a decision tree.
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I don't mind the news feed, though I do not like whatever algorithms decide what to show me.

The main reason I rarely use Facebook is because it's so bloated. On the left side I've got a bunch of "games" that I've never played, or have no recollection of playing, but Facebook thinks they're important enough to dedicate part of the front page to them.

And I'm really sick of seeing updates in my news feed about other people playing games. The top post in my news feed right now is "Friend X and Friend Y gave a life in Candy Crush Saga." It actually takes up a fair amount of space because it's got a big picture of a heart with the flavor text "A life to be used in the sweetest facebook game ever."
This is going to be a theme I will come back to a lot over the next fortnight. I am on the beautiful island of Kefalonia for a holiday and wondering why it is not a lifetime.

We work in a very fortunate society - rich enough now, connected enough now, to contemplate the almost impossible - having people far-flung work as well together as people in the same rooms.

We need to focus on the feelings of safety, of duty and comraderie, on the measurement of achievement and on the collegiate nature of lifting the less educated to par.

I can only achieve this dream if I throw out the nicieties of society and out reach others - or I can achieve this dream in the company of others - a harder task, but not impossible.
I'm busy combing through /usr/bin for other trivial utilities that I can turn into a web site for residual income. I was tempted to create a parody site that would execute 'ls' for you, all you'd do is add the site's public ssh key to your system.
I expect to gather quite a few downvotes for this viewpoint but here it goes.

There is no way I would have intervened. I am a male and I can't see my involvement in the situation working out for me at all. Now you might say I'm wrong for putting my self-preservation above that on Kristen's but this isn't just about preventing physical harm to myself. In fact if I knew that I would only be cut (non-fatal) then I wouldn't have this stance. Instead I am worried about the ramifications of "attacking" a women in public like this.

We have seen countless times in the media where someone coming to the aid of someone in danger (not in an attack situation) has been sued for helping (just google "rescuer sued"). So if trying to help someone alone can get you screwed just think about what can happen when there are two people involved. What assurances do I have that I won't inadvertently hurt Kristen in the process and that she won't decide to sue me? Or that the attacker in this situation won't sue me for "attacking her" while trying to prevent her from stabbing Kristen (google "attacker sues victim")? I'll tell you: NONE. For all we know the attacker will sue Kristen for throwing hot coffee on her, this story isn't over yet.

Let's examine an example:

I intervene, I kick the attacker in the head to get her off Kristen. Let's ignore for now the chance that a bystander only see's me kick this women in the head and assumes it was unprovoked and then attacks me. Then Kristen gets up, shakily thanks me and the disappears into the crowd. I am left standing over the body of a women that I just physically assaulted. A bystander had pulled out their phone to film what was happening but only caught me kicking the women. If I leave the scene then there is a chance I will be hunted down and if I stay at the very least I am going to spend the rest of the day at the police station. The attacker stuffers brain damage from the kick and the family sues me for all I'm worth and I spend the rest of my life paying off the debt while waking up daily to the thought of "No good deed...".

I understand this is a worst case outcome but there is no way in hell I am going to risk my life AND if I survive the remainder of my life over a $600 phone and the contents of her bag, it simply is not worth it. I'd cover those costs with my first meeting with an attorney. If the attacker was actually stabbing Kristen then it would be a different story but that's not what happened. I've talked to people trained in various martial arts and the vast majority of them say that if they were mugged they would hand over their belongings. Mind you these are people trained to fight (whereas I can assure you I have no such training) but they know their lives are not worth their possessions.

TL;DR: A phone and purse are not worth the victims or a potential rescuers life (both immediate and long term)
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I still remember the first time I "beat" Defender. Makes me feel both old and young.
That is orthogonal to my point. With the current system you get Cathy Ashton and Barroso and the farce that is the Ukraine. If people in positions of significant power are not elected directly by the people then said people have no way to remove them from power. That is not democratic.

The very fact that the EU is designed in this way speaks to the mindset of those in Brussels and while it might not concern you, it concerns me.
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