skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The web peaked in 1998?

That's an interesting claim to make on a forum that frequently discusses new web technology, the progress in browser engines, the interesting new stuff that's being made.

In 1998 there was no Gmail, no Github, no Slack, no Discourse, and so on and so on.

C2 may have been perfectly usable, and I think it should remain as an archive, but there was barely any contribution anymore.

When you imply that Ward's "Smallest Federated Wiki" embraces the "bankrupty of the Web 2.0 era," it sounds to me like your pet peeve against JavaScript makes you discount the whole project.

I mean, you're very free to have your own views and opinions, but as someone who's very interested in this project, I'm pretty baffled by all the negativity, and the lack of a more than superficial interest.

The idea of a federated wiki is, it seems to me, very cool, and the fact that it hasn't been done yet indicates that the web has not peaked. So where you see "the bankruptcy of the Web 2.0 era," I see a fascinating development of the wiki idea by its original creator.

Yeah, the JS app seems a little unpolished, but also pretty cool in many ways. I don't know whether it's the best move to replace the old C2 wiki right now. Maybe Ward sees it as a way to get more people interested in the new project. I don't know.

As for me, I'm going to see if there's any way I can contribute and help the project. It would be nice to see some more of that attitude here, instead of only (in my view) superficial complaints.
Well you gotta pinch your doctors nose while inserting a paper clip in his ear and wait thirty seconds. Factory reboot
Why are Artists and Creatives so afraid of new services that work for them?
Stammy's articles are always a great read. As a developer, I appreciate his perspectives on the intersection of programming and design. I recommend his three-part post on designing and developing a responsive, retina-friendly site.

http://paulstamatiou.com/responsive-retina-blog-design/
http://paulstamatiou.com/responsive-retina-blog-development-...
http://paulstamatiou.com/responsive-retina-blog-development-...
I believe that there's an option you can use to automatically erase every trace of your profile.
Yea, your probably not a polymath, I think now a days it isn't really possible. Back in the day leo da'vinci types had less to learn to "master" fields in those days.
Bay Area Infrastructure Vulnerable to Cyber Attack
This seems pretty much correct.
The last McDonalds hamburger in Iceland (made 1,921 days ago, live stream)
This can for a fact not be a complete truth, because some ferries have to wait to reach international waters before opening the tax free shops (back in the day when there were such things, I guess). If they were always held to the laws of their country, why would it matter where they were?
RadioShack in Talks to Sell Half Its Stores to Sprint, Shutter the Rest
No, it cannot, that is called the halting problem.
I agree that venting is probably about re-enacting the event, but with a particular purpose: to change the past. By addressing your complaints to an invisible mute adversary, you get to tell off the subject of your ire and feel confident that they can't fight back, and validate your own feelings.

The closest thing I could relate it to is domestic violence. When a man comes home from a frustrating day of work and beats his wife and kids, he's not just fulfilling a sadistic desire. He's projecting his work troubles on his family, and by assaulting them, righting the perceived wrongs he suffered. Venting is, imho, a version of this, but without the intent to harm.
The C1 has a ARM Mali GPU, which is just as close as the rest of the GPUs available on ARM SoCs. The RPi GPU is the most open in that market in that it has some documentation and source code available.
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Third Zero-day Vulnerability on Adobe Flash
There's too many other 'good enough' options out there. Time is a precious commodity and you'll never get anyone to make investment in your product if it's not so much better than anything else out there.
I agree! In fact, except for the case of rock-solid proven theories, nascent theories that make it to headlines are treated as truth and the ill-informed seem to exhibit fanatical faith in them, forgetting that they are still theories. Being skeptical to these could earn you the title of a fool nowadays!
I think a big problem is that science, by and large, doesn't control their message. News media does.

Come to think of it, science related stories about what food is/isn't good for you etc are the original clickbait. They're a headline, when the devil is actually in the details.

A great example is why you hear that horrible list of side effects during every prescription commercial. Once, during testing, someone got cancer. Therefore, it's in theory possible cancer was caused by that medication, however unlikely.
Your post is full of the science that people no longer trust. There is plenty of evidence that fat doesn't cause weight gain or heart attacks, and that exercise doesn't lead to weight loss because it makes you hungry. I don't know the correct answer, but I know there is a lot of uncertainty now, and there seemed to be no uncertainty in the food pyramid days.
Someone must have just read "The big fat lie".

I could have written the same article after reading the book. A real eye opener and I suspect a similar book will be written about climate science in 30 years.
While pretty good about science, Neil Degrasse Tyson has aided in perpetuating misunderstandings of history and philosophy that make me shy away from supporting his work.
I've wondered if GMO fear mongering isn't an attempt to brand certain foods as premium and therefore charge a lot more for them.

http://bitchmagazine.org/post/foodgentrification-and-culinar...
It makes more sense if you notice that the facts they're rebelling against are also things most people "don't actually believe ... but just say they do." Humans hold all sorts of crazy far-mode beliefs (especially about religion and morality) that completely fail to influence how they react to situations in their day-to-day lives.

Unless you're a member of the space program or know someone who is, whether the moon landing happened or didn't won't change your predictions about anything else. And precisely because of this, it's something that can be debated on either side to signal allegiance to some greater ideal.
In which case the fault shifts to media and schools for not explaining how things are.

In Linux distribution terms, OP and the public want the stable distribution while in fact due to the nature of the field you can only get rolling updates.
All of the suberbowl car commercials in one spot. Which one was the best?
They said they'll continue making the older models as long as people are buying them, so not anytime soon. The only model they have stopped making thus far is the original model A, which wasn't selling very well.
This seems to be a re-run of the story from June 2013: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2043847/advertisers-can-pay-a...
>and ironically it's the animal based fats that tend to be healthier

Got any sources to back up that claim?

The Yerushalmy and Hilleboe paper is usually the study that people quote when they try to debunk Ancel Keys. In that study, they show that there is a distinct correlation between fat as a percent of total calories and heart disease. And they show that animal fat is more highly correlated than other types of fat. (That paper said that Ancel Keys screwed up on methodology, and they re-did with proper methods and found essentially the same result)

Big thing to keep in mind is that the data showed (and still shows) a distinct correlation between animal fat and heart disease. One theory suggests that the true cause is simply how wealthy a given nation is. i.e., wealthier nations eat more animal fat, and wealthier nations have better health care which prevents other types of deaths.
So, this update enables the use of HTTPS - but since it's delivered OTA, does that mean patches (including this one) were previously delivered over just HTTP, i.e. an unauthenticated, unencrypted channel?
Doesn't this allow Facebook to abuse you and/or your patents, and if you try to fight them for doing so, they can revoke your permission to use React?
A source for this picture?
We shouldn't be trying to shoehorn entities into jobs that their incentives don't best align with. If the premise is that we want to allocate more capital into scientific infra but the Gov't doesn't have that funding, the solution is to give government the funding, not to somehow get companies to spend their cash the way we want it. Where would this extra money come from? Again, under the premise that we want to re-allocate money towards scientific spending, it would come from higher taxes.

Fundamentally the issue you're describing is "gov't can't perform one of its competencies (scientific investment) well enough due to cash constraints". The cash constraint is a fundamentally political problem, and companies' decision-making vis-a-vis scientific investment is just a red herring.
Funnily enough, some would argue that Shakespeare in modern English also isn't real Shakespeare!

Check out the original prenounciation: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gPlpphT7n9s
...wait a minute, I thought "the science was settled"...
I've picked up some basic Portuguese in 2014. One doesn't need to be anti-intellectual to think that my efforts might be better spent learning a new skill rather than a small variant on a skill I already have (speaking, reading and writing).

There are some benefits - Brazilian and Mozambican ladies are beautiful. But that's hardly an intellectual benefit.

So what does "good for me" mean in concrete terms? What am I missing here?
Santa Monica's Refusal to Grow Is Driving Out the Techies
Seems like he was replying to the post by Ted, which was in response to a comment on HN. So I don't think this is about the Rust community.
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I understand your point, and I agree that the biggest threats aren't physically nearby. In that scenario ("remote" attacks), of course, there are bigger problems than written/printed passwords.

However, at the enterprise level, physically visible passwords are a big problem. Imagine a less-than-happy worker, about to leave the company, having the opportunity to get coworkers passwords. In such scenario, less strict rules (let's say, rules that didn't make people writing the passwords down) would have been beneficial.

And there's another point: the "perception" about IT security rules. If they ask too much of people (think "non-IT people"), they might create a image of overzealousness/"overcomplication". I wonder if this doesn't make people less compliant, with security rules, on the long term.
I found out recently that Scott Adams doesn't believe in evolution, which rather colours my response to this headline.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Scott_Adams
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Well; as you point out, X-ray phase-contrast tomography and conventional X-ray photography are (nearly) totally different things, so their phrasing seems justifiable to me, if only on editorial grounds --think "the full name of the technique is too long, would cause viewers to get mixed up with conventional X-ray imaging, etc.".

Quibbles aside though, it's hard to overstate how significant this finding is: not only this is (apparently) the only extant library left from classical antiquity, but also these are freaking charred scrolls from a volcanic eruption that were considered beyond repair! I found ScienceDaily's article much more informative in this regard:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/01/150122114405.ht...
It's not news but sometimes people get lost. It's really easy to get caught up in gold plating or chasing fringe customers. I think it's good to have a reminder every now and again. Focus on what your company is good at and win your target market. Adjacent markets will come if your target focus is executed at a high enough level.
I see this delusion pop up all over and I can't help but just shake my head. Trying to tax a corporation is like trying to trap an octopus in a fishing net. They will always find a way to slide out.

You have the perfect collusion of incentives:

1) Pooled self interest in the form of shareholders owning value. When a corporation spends money on the shareholder's behalf on lobbying or fancy tax law specialists, in benefits every single shareholder, because stock returns are apportioned. With the personal income tax, it is not in the immediate self interest for someone in the lowest tax bracket to help lobby for lower taxes on the highest bracket. Pooled self interest makes for higher lobbying power.

2) The corporate tax is not a revenue tax (as is the personal income tax), but rather a revenue-minus-costs tax. And businesses are diverse enough in their business models that you couldn't feasibly enact a revenue tax without unfairly penalizing low margin industries like grocery stores or temp agencies. What this means is that anything that the corporation deems to be a cost is automatically tax deductible. This leads to ridiculous shenanigans like using corporate jets to drop off documents that happen to need to be delivered to the same city as the CEO's daughter's university campus. If you want to enforce rules on corporate taxation, you are going to have to scrutinize every single cost they have on their books. Is it any surprise that the corporate tax has the highest compliance and enforcement costs, and lowest effective-to-nominal ratios of any tax form in the US?

If you want corporations to pay their fair share of taxes, you have to have them distribute the money to their shareholders and then place the burden of taxation on them. Eliminate the corporate tax altogether, and tax capital gains and dividends as personal income.
Now we find out who has the deepest pockets.
Well, firstly, the researcher quoted extensively in this article is a Dutch-born scientist at the University of Edinburgh.

Secondly -- and from here on out I'll be derailing to rant at a more general 'you' than you specifically -- what is with you g-d global tourists and cultural dilettantes who think a cultural diet composed equally of small portions of everything is the only valid choice? And why does it always come back to Americans, specifically? (besides, you know, us all being assholes?) When you are off visiting a fishing village in Malaysia, do you tell the fishermen, "You should really visit New York sometime and try the pizza. It will really broaden your horizons!"?

There is an absurd amount of culture available, more than any one person could ever consume. Why is it so hurtful to you that someone might be content immersing themselves in their own culture, or -- worse! -- reading Proust in translation?
I had first seen async/await in traceur-compiler. I was using it with Node.js' fs module two years ago, I believe.
This was essentially the argument Bill Maher used to defend his anti-vaccination stance a few years ago: The government is heavily pushing vaccines, and heavily funding vaccines, and he doesn't trust the government. (Of course, one could counter that you don't need to trust the government to know that vaccines have demonstrable efficacy and a very low incidence of serious side effects.)

It's also the reason why I was, at first blush, rather suspicious when the Gardasil vaccine came out a few years ago. It was heavily, and extremely aggressively, marketed. And I know that vaccines don't tend to be moneymakers in the way that blockbuster drugs are, but it definitely raised my eyebrows that Gardasil was being marketed so aggressively, because of the reputation of Big Pharma, where money often comes before ethics and due diligence.
Texas School Overreaction
It's not (necessarily) dynamic, in the sense of DHTML, either. While I'm reading a page, I don't need to watch the page change. At best you could notify me that the page has changed, but I don't think I'll really get anything out of that.

There probably are environments where live collaborative (Etherpad/Google Docs/etc. style) editing of communal content is useful, but I suspect that you're looking at "documentation hackathon" or something. For a project that's had useful content for two decades, the changes made in the last two minutes are not why I'm there.

An analogy could be made to Hacker News (or Reddit, or...) comments. While you could pretty easily build a system that does live chat, given that live chat is pretty much everyone's first project in a real-time framework, I think it's important to the nature of the site that changing comments don't show up immediately, because it gets you longer-form comments and things that are more interesting to read for someone who comes later. The process of reading IRC scrollback, when you weren't involved in the conversation, is not particularly enjoyable.
You should be issuing an official blog post stating this in explicit, unambiguous terms, as there's a lot of confusion around just what exactly are RedditNotes.

EDIT: A new post, to reflect the fact that the current cryptography plans have been halted.
Further one doesn't need to look very hard to find "proof" that the "fat = bad" message is prevalent in society.

Go to the grocery store. Go to the dairy isle. Look at the various products. If you can't find "low fat" or "light" versions of most of things there, I would be dumbfounded.

If major corporations have picked up on the "low fat" movement then I think it's fairly safe to say that it's prevalent in society.
If true, any suggestions on alternatives that work just as well as this (used) to?
Oh please, pick up a newspaper sometimes instead of getting all your news from TechCrunch. If you honestly think that the extent of cutting-edge work going on in SV is social apps, that's just because you spend your time reading about venture funding rounds instead of the actual interesting R&D going on.
One of the earlier plans for the project called for a light rail line all the way up to Pontiac, or at least out to 8 Mile.

The current plan calls for a 3 mile out-and-back that barely gets out past downtown and serves a tiny percentage of the population[1]

http://detroitography.com/2014/12/05/map-will-the-m1-rail-st...
"Hemingway famously said that the best way for a writer to deal with the
movie business was to arrange a quick meeting at the California state line:
'You throw them your book, they throw you the money. Then you jump
into your car and drive like hell back the way you came.'
(quoted in: Hemingway Lives! by Clancy Sigal)
Isn't that always the case, though?
This is a very interesting comment. I won't work open office (have found a new job specifically to get out of that environment) and all the cube jobs I've had over the years have had very high ceilings. I wonder what it would be like to work in a 6ft cube with only 8 ft ceilings, perhaps in a very tall skyscraper. I have a window cube right now and can see the sky from my chair, pretty nice and that takes care of the 20 foot rule...
I too am glad this is being realised by some people

As an example with vaccines. Mercury containing substances have been phased out (thiomersal). Doctors and news outlets keep pumping information about the bad side of Mercury, etc, etc (which are true for the most part, but maybe exaggerated)

But thiomersal is still used in a lot of vaccines. So people get all the negative messages about Mercury but they're supposed to think "it's OK to be used in vaccines"?!?
It's seems easy, but reality is really difficult.
This begs the question of why we consider the science of evolution to be so trustworthy, while considering nutritional science untrustworthy. At least we can experiment on nutritional science. Evolution has all the same headline-grabbing power as nutrition.

Nutrition is actually what I think of when considering this. I am supposed to take their word for it on this complex topic, but we can't even decide if eggs are good or bad for us?
The exact same argument could apply to pages that take forever to load, because the web server sends you a chunk of bytes every two seconds. Would it be braindead for Google to apply an arbitrary timeout without standardization?
No, the question is neither of those. The question is how to define the cutoff in a portable way that enables interoperability and long-term stability. A document format where every implementation has its own secret cutoff that also probably changes all the time is just idiotic if your goal is interoperability.
If something can't be described very simply, it scares me away. There are a lot of decent individual ideas and concepts in this gist but from an overall perspective it is very concept-stage stuff which leads me to believe it is a lot farther from a well honed proposal then we are being lead to believe.

If they deliver something concrete and simple it could be great. But there are way too many questions at this point to even start to get excited.
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I get what they're trying to accomplish, we all want faster more reliable service, but as comparison is anyone 100% happy with their utility (power, water, etc)?

That's where this is headed.
I think I've fixed it [0]. Ran into the issue where gcc was kindly re-aligning the stack to 16-bytes on i386 for no good reason (stack was already aligned?!?!). But that's fixed. Just hope gcc on i386 doesn't stop doing `sub ESP, 0x1C` upon entry to _start.

[0] https://github.com/lpsantil/rt0/blob/master/lib/00_start.c