skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does not work as well as it used to, and more to the point, it does not work as well as it would if it did not have to do double duty as an application-delivery platform.

On a very long web page, do you ever hold down the mouse button on the slider in the scroll bar so that you can scroll up and down rapidly? If you do that on the web page on which these words appear, it will (probably) work smoothly and well, but on certain Javascript-heavy pages, it is very jerky. The whole page blinks rapidly. It is tedious and difficult to see the text while the page is moving up or down.

That is just one of many examples where a particular functionality useful to people who read and who "browse" (which might be defined as deciding what to read next among many, many alternatives) does not work as well on the web of 2014 as it did in the past because of the need for the web of 2014 to support ever more complicated or sophisticated web applications.

(The many examples include tasks that are not strictly part of reading -- tasks like making a copy of part of a web page or making a copy of the page's URL in preparation for emailing the URL.)

Publishing static documents and reading and browsing static documents over the internet is an important enough function in our society that we should feel sad that it does not work as smoothly and as quickly as it could. The next Einstein and the next Charles Darwin will use the web to learn and to share their discoveries. What the next Einstein and the next Darwin need the most from the web is the ability to browse static web pages quickly and reliably without their having to devote a lot of their attention to the user interface or to getting a particular page to work with their browser.
Well...

It may be removed from Google Earth but I don't think Google Maps has gotten the memo.

Just now, it appeared as something like a suburb of Rockland in my search. 'Course it's possible it was re-inserted by Google when their news-searched automatically noted the interest in the place-name.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/agloe,+ny/@41.949979,-74.9...
Nowdays I mostly use languages that have no or very short compile times, e.g., Lisp, ruby. An embarrassing amount of my glue code is in bash.
Dude, this isn't a body building website. Words like "ripped" are not appropriate, bro.
Many signs point to the viral load not being highly infectious at the beginning. Duncan was sent back to his home by the hospital and lived with his fiance who was taking care of him for two days before being readmitted. She wore no PPE yet appears to be uninfected. If sitting next to someone infected on a bus or subway is enough to pass it on, there would be a million cases in West Africa by now, not 10K. It appears to be primarily caregivers at the later stages of the disease, and the custom of kissing corpses that appear to be spreading the disease because the viral load is extreme at that stage. This doesn't mean that the potential contacts of this person should not be traced or that it was good idea for him to go bowling, but the sky isn't falling just yet.
NYC Ebola Patient Attended CMJ
I'm not a native speaker. Is it a vulgar word? Didn't seem like that to me. And I didn't know people looking to lose weight wanted to do so specifically without gaining any muscle. My advice wasn't to become a body builder, just a healthy person.
What programming can learn from literature
I used Eclispe/Aptana/PyDev at a previous job and it was pretty nice, but PyCharm is superior in my opinion. In addition to great completion and code navigation, it also gets Vim emulation mostly right. PyCharm is also a mostly out-of-the-box experience, whereas it took a while for me to get Eclipse set up just right.
Really interesting article. I think we've only begun to scratch the surface of what's possible with crowdsourcing.

To me, the author's failure seems to be a straightforward one of design. The system allowed attackers to ruin everyone's work, and to do so in a much shorter time than the positive work took. It seems to me that it should be possible to design a system that doesn't have these properties. (Of course it's probably not trivial to do that without making it harder for honest people to participate. But that's a design challenge, not a fundamental flaw of crowdsourcing.)
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Yup.

In my experience with experts I'd say especially someone who "knows better" can end up thinking that the bad thing can't happen to them right up until they, in a fit of being human, have an oops and it does.
That all depends whether you're comfortable saying a contradiction is "consistent" with an unrelated proposition; I don't see much of a problem with it. Contradictions, being impossible, are logically consistent with everything else. I guess unprovable propositions would switch over to being provable, though.
well, he went to a bowling alley eight days after getting back to NY. What is more egregious is that the NYTimes is reporting he was feeling sluggish on Tuesday, why didn't he self-quarantine or contact someone earlier than today?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Kahn

Irving Kahn, still working on Wall Street at 108--and finding stocks to buy for the long run
A shorter version is "My work is engaging and fun, and I can choose my own pace".

If Allen was in a physical trade, his body might no longer be up to it. If he was in menial work, retirement would be more engaging - few factory workers or street cleaners would consider their work 'basket weaving'.
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I'm on T-Mobile and using http://httpbin.org/headers I did not get any headers I would not expect from Chrome.
If it helps, we work with startups/brands/agencies that primarily hire remote developers across a range of languages at FlexDevs:
http://FlexDevs.com
This shouldn't even be a question. Python has, just off the top of my head:

1. Numpy

2. Scipy

3. Pandas

4. Orange

5. Gensim

6. Scikit-Learn

7. NLTK

What does JavaScript have that even comes close?
How many comments in the past 1000 on https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments or in https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=sarciszewski are as mean as that one?
I don't really disagree with you, but.

These suggestions ignore the (soft) limitations of human agency. The degree of difficulty in (not) eating an additional (something) has never been really quantified in sufficiently broad spectrum of situations, to my knowledge.

A generally helpful and encouraging life can lead to many positive changes, weight loss not least among them.

Maybe instead of telling fat people to lose weight, we should be inviting them to parties, and when they get there, treating them like everyone else.

Just a thought.
It's different because they are forced to work AND not getting paid.

Under the proposed homeless people have two choices:
1) Live in the provided housing and work 20hrs a week for no pay.
2) Go to jail and possibly be forced to work anyway.
One kilobyte per tick seems quite generous. All of the EURUSD tick data for 2013 from histdata.com (the source mentioned in the article) is only 515MB (~20GB for 40 years, ~824GB for 40 pairs).
Thread derailed successfully, plus character assassination.

Congratulations, JTRIG! /half-s

BTW, I agree that this may look nutty, because what these people do is and has been quite normal for decades... it's called "globalization", and it's just the same thing people used to call "capitalist expansion"
Apple’s Porn Policy – Do as we say not as we do
I haven't actually quoted anything, so I find it hard to believe I've selectively quoted. :)

I think, in fact, you'll find that I didn't say that there was no difference, just that the differences weren't as large as I've seen claimed in various online discussions.

I also made very sure to make sure that I pointed out the second study was both unscientific and poorly calibrated. The fact that you noticed that there was no determination of severity was quite deliberate on my part.

My point, such as it is, is that online vitriol and harassment isn't particularly restrained by boundaries, be those based on sex, race, or sexuality. I'm not saying "women don't have it bad," I'm saying "everyone has it kinda bad." There's a subtle but significant difference between those two points that you seem to be confusing.

The most interesting part of your comment, as I read it, is this:

>If someone emails me cursing, saying he's a navy seal and is going to come to my house to kill me, we all know it's BS and won't happen. For girls it's a threat that's much more likely to happen as the pew study you linked to mentioned. 26% of young women have been stalked online.

If it happens to a man, brush it off. If it happens to a woman, it's a real threat. Is this position borne out by evidence, or is it a symptom of the pervasive sexist undertones of society that say things like "Men can handle tough situations, while women need to be protected from them"? That's not a claim, by the way, but a genuine question.
Don't undersell your experience. You might not realise it, but occasionally an insight to use a particular approach might shave days to weeks off the development timescale.

It's not all about how fast you can hammer out bits and bytes.
Basically, you're saying to just not create a business like Google. That's not a practical solution because... money. If there's an opportunity to make money, it will be taken. Even the illegal & immoral ones, not to even talk about perfectly legal avenues.

More tangible problems with your idea of never collecting huge amounts of userdata are:

- If Google didn't collect userdata, I suspect their search wouldn't be working even half as good as it does now.

- Gmail, or any email provider?

- Amazon's shopping history with your address and CC recorded?

- Youtube?

- cellphone service provider? (yeah, you could avoid logging conversations & SMS but you're still the kind of company the NSA would come to for spying on a person simply because you'd be a major hub of communication)
it was supposedly known by the other silk road admins.
I guess you haven't read the HN threads on hospital costs in the US. Here's a sample https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6838269
Just as an exercise in 20/20 hindsight, it seems to me that the easiest change to make is to not trust every player implicitly. In other words, you enforce some level of duplication in the work. If enough people agree that this piece goes there, then it goes there, and if not, then it doesn't. A single attacker is unlikely to be able to undo the work of dozens of supporters, even if it takes less time and effort to undermine the truth.

I believe Foursquare did something like this with regards to their recommendations. They'd ask questions about locations (e.g., pick a beautiful picture, is this place classy?, is it loud?, etc), and only when enough people agreed would they use the information in recommendations.
In bodybuilding terms, "cutting" is being under calorie deficit. It can wreak havoc with your mood systems and that's why people can't keep it up. Start small.
The impassioned hysteria over 'ethics in video game journalism' is the problematic part, not the issue itself.

And, to be frank, that ridiculous level of hysteria makes it clear that it's not really about ethics in video game journalism. No-one is dead or has been maimed by it. Lives aren't destroyed by it. Basically, it's a good example of dog whistle politics, using a term that is more palatable to push a less palatable agenda: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics
Before judging this man for going bowling etc., we should bear in mind that he caught Ebola working for Doctors without Borders in Guinea. I would guess that without workers like him, the risk to Americans and others outside Africa, would be much higher, since the disease would be spreading much faster within Africa. Hopefully he recovers and we can improve travel policies if necessary.
"The legitimately dystopian part of Brave New World are often technical in nature—effectively mind control through drugs and a caste system propped up by genetic engineering. "

"Caste system via selective breeding," actually. If you believe Charles Murray, that's what we have now. We also have some huge fraction of the population taking soma pills, and while the words "father and mother" are not yet considered dirty words, we're half way there. I submit the reason you don't consider BNW a dystopia would be the uncomfortable realization that this is more or less the world we live in, minus the enlightened caste of "alphas."
But...

> Finally, we nd some evidence in line with the view that involuntary early retirement has a negative
impact on health, but not necessarily voluntary early retirement.

So I guess I'll keep my early retirement plans.
No, man. It just means its time consuming for me to write more stuff.
Spas: Simple PHP Application Servers
I think I'm working on something somewhat unique in the PHP world.

https://github.com/cameronjacobson/Spas

Before I get too far I'd love to get some feedback from some expert PHP devs. Familiarity with Symfony2, Silex, and the Event package are ideal.

All examples/* seem to be working appropriately (with basic testing so far), and I'm definitely aware of and trying to be cautious in terms of the potential for leaky global application variables.
It's not vulgar, don't worry. The GP is just weird.
I probably sound like a bit of a dick

You sound reasonable on first blush but your words are aimed to harm and crush the weak. That you put your apologies for a regime for the policing of the poor in apparently plausible and benevolent terms simply makes your words more harmful.

I think you should be ashamed of yourself.

Edit: Your parent post is very eloquent (if deceptive imho) argument for "give up on helping your fellow human, instead trust the authorities". Are you happy with living in a world like that really?
This "town" is in no less than the USGS's Geographic Names Information System (GNIS):

http://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=gnispq:3:0::NO::P3_FID:274...

Added in 2014!

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Wide Open (or, Are You In?)
The US steel industry certainly has had no problem recovering
It took the MTA over three weeks to remove a used condom hanging from the pole of an F train. I'm guessing whatever trains he took haven't been scoured beyond the bare minimum.

http://gothamist.com/2014/10/14/used_condom_f_subway.php
The Naval Surface Warfare Lab funded my high school robotics team trip to Seattle. I must be really evil.
> objectively

So, what's the entity without agency (agenda?) that would be objective. There is no objectivity. I don't know how well documented it is, but I doubt I really want to know. If it is well known, why isn't it prevented regularly or is it?

> Why is it about mental illness that causes otherwise smart, empathetic, and scientifically literate people to start clutching their pearls?

It's treating the symptom, not the problem. Just a hunch.
You're right, you didn't 'quote' them. You merely summarized the articles inaccurately in order to make a point. I think that's actually far worse.

It seems that you're intent on quibbling semantics, selectively reading the data you've presented. For instance, even though I actually quantified that online threats are more tangible to women (from a study you actually linked to), by pointing to the far higher rates of stalking of women online, you continue to just claim it's too complicated to know.

I don't know about you, but if I were a woman, and 1 in 4 of women in my age group had been stalked online (or I had been, remember, 26% probability), I'd take EVERY threat much more seriously. That means there's actually a multiplier, every toothless threat has a much larger psychological impact when there's a certain % that is for real, and the real and fake threats can't be sorted from each other.
Agreed. He might have been silly for being out in public right after having come back from Africa, but I'm sure he did more good over there in preventing the spread of the disease (which helps us), than he might have done when coming home. Lets hope future doctors learn from this.
And? Do you think Google is going to build robot weapons for the defense department? Or, do you think this was an IP and talent Acquihire?

That's what I mean by guilt-by-association. Elon Musk tried to buy Russian ICBMs, was he trying to build intercontinental ballistic missiles for nuking, or was he trying to get to Mars?
My favourite examples are two woodworkers who I admire greatly, Sam Maloof and James Krenov. Maloof was still making his rockers at 94, maybe a bit slower but not much.

Krenov sadly lost much of his eyesight in his late 80s so stopped making cabinets. But he continued to make planes, because he could make them by feel.
Until a few centuries ago everyone in the western world was a catholic, so this doesn't mean much. It is not because of the church that great things were made, but in spite of it.
Uhh. "Are all calories equal? I don't know, but it'd be nice to know." Why is this even a blog post? It literally tells us nothing.
A spelling error in http request can cost more hours if using IDE.
Yeah, I've heard about Gamergate in a couple of wildly different contexts. What's the deal with it?
>I'm not clear why you think it would be illegal.

Consent matters. In Europe it would most certainly be illegal.
I don't think lifting weights to lose weight or fat is the answer. Weight is 80% mouth 20% gym. You'll have to wait a very long time to see reduced fat; much of initial strength gains are simply cns training; it's difficult to add muscle mass while cutting.
Yeah. I hate this 'holier than thou' attitude that some folks on this thread are displaying. We are all human, and we all do stupid things based on our psychology. The best we can do is create systems to help guard against our own mistakes.
people read youtube comments?
This is how the church does everything. They never use their resources (other than personnel) to do things, instead they rely on donations and keep their money in their own pockets.
Do location-based services work in the NYC subway? I suppose you could also infer locations and transfers based on train schedules and tower handoff times upon emerging from stations. I mean, if there is a 21-day gestation period between infection time and the ability to retransmit the disease, it seems like it would be worthwhile/possible to look into.

Apologies for the cliche 'use technology to solve all the problems' HN comment.
I simply suggested that it might also be helpful to include a link to github or a repository where some work/project examples would be contained. It seems pretty reasonable to suggest that it might be a good way to showcase some Mongo projects or other things he is working on while teaching himself a few new pieces of technology.

Most coders have a much larger github repo than Linked In page. Guess everyone disagrees with this...
I think that will depend on the country you are working on.

I work in Malaysia, and by that age, you will have hard time finding work as a developer, since people are expecting you to start manage other people after a certain age.

The economics are different, most jobs here are based on projects, there is not much product work. Even if you get infinitely better over time, there is not much economic on leveraging the knowledge, especially if you are the only one on the team that can be that good.

Companies tend not to keep people long and people are keep moving on companies once projects are done, unless new projects are on the line.

Since the turnover rate is high, it will only make sense to keep thing simple, hence there is not much use of much advanced knowledge of anyone.

Because of that, up to a certain age, you very much reached the plateau of the max knowledge expected at the market. Keeping your development skill better may help you with your job, but it may not bring much to the negotiation table. That also means, it make sense to hire cheaper, younger talent if both have reach past the plateau, no matter which one is better. I am guessing this is a reason that people are expecting you to move "up" to the management ladder past the age.
Not the underground tunnels. Some of the stations have service, but not most.
Gut bacteria are a big confounder among a bunch of other things. Different types can do a lot of things differently, like extract more calories from the same food.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-09/ci-gbi091012....

They can even mess with your mind to make you crave junk food.

http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2014/08/116526/do-gut-bacteria-rule...

Transplanting them from a thin human to an obese mice slimmed the mice down.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/health/gut-bacteria-from-t...

Jet lagged gut bacteria can contribute to obesity.

http://www.popsci.com/article/science/jet-lagged-gut-bacteri...

Diet soda can alter gut bacteria to make one gain weight.

http://www.prevention.com/health/diabetes/artificial-sweeten...

There are more gut bacteria than human cells in our body, and they actually release chemicals that affect the brain and have evolved to do that and there are a lot of other factors that influence gut bacteria, including what got passed on from your mother, what foods you ate during your life, what antibiotics you took etc. etc.

And gut bacteria is just one variable among things like activity levels, pollution levels, sleep amount and quality(not sleeping well can make you eat about 600 calories more the next day), peers(hanging out with obese people is likely to make you obese, obese people tend to have obese pets!), poverty, car ownership, smoking, tastebud sensitivity, commute time(people with longer commutes tend to be obese),genetics,water intake, muscle mass,stress levels, food additives, pregnancy, childbirth, menopause, time of the month for women, free time in a day(try cooking at home and exercise working 2 grueling jobs to make ends meet), drug side effects, emotional eating, type of exercise, micronutrients in food,portion sizes in restaurant, food advertising, food subsidies, vitamn level, thyroid function, insulin sensitivity, liver health, distribution of fat around body parts and inside organs,will power, processed foods, food availability and cost etc. etc.
Some of these variables affect the others in a chaotic state machine kind of way.

It's no wonder that all these low carb, low fat, paleo, etc. diets are not one-size-fits-all solutions and that such discussions descend into WORKED-FOR-ME!!! Y U NO DO IT?!! platitudes. A calorie = a calorie is as true and as useless as answering the question "Why are there so many people inside the Super Bowl stadium during the game?" by saying "Because more people entered it than who left, if only people didn't get in, it wouldn't be so crowded."
What I urge people in this thread to do is not to pick up a google search, or read a book, but to just go out and ask a few female friends what their thoughts are about being online, being safe, and being respected, and to listen with an open mind.

I see a lot of denial in here, people rooting around for reasons to think that there isn't a serious fucking problem with intimidation and psychological violence taking place on the net. I see a lot of cognitive dissonance, and that's sad, that's not a scientific mindset. You all need to get out of your comfort zone.

I'm a straight white male software developer, I don't need to care about this for any reason other than a life that doesn't have truth and fairness as a cause isn't worth living. I encourage you all to calm down, reach out, and really understand what it's like on the other side.