skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - No, we were talking about safety, not convenience.

If you don't want to compare programs written for the same effort, then what? Should we compare Haskell programs written with more effort to bash programs written with less effort? That's a confounding variable!

For the programmer there is always an opportunity cost: an hour spent satisfying a type-checker is an hour that could have been spent testing. Which use of that hour would provide the greatest safety? That is an empirical question.

> Stop shifting the subject.

No, you keep shifting the subject when you claim that Haskell programs are safer in practice but you then run away to your wonderland, where time stands still and the problem of opportunity cost has been solved, where you "prove" whatever you like while detached from reality, and then return to pretend that your "proofs" are valid in practice!

> - No, this is not a case of No True Scotsman.

So... if Angus writes fromMaybe "", which is accepted by the Haskell compiler but deletes all my files, is he a Haskell programmer?

> - No, a programming language with additional safeties is logically safer than one without, all else being equal (i.e. if no other safeties get removed instead).

Oh, "logically"! It's amazing what you can "prove" when you postulate a magical language that stops the clock while you satisfy the type-checker! Unfortunately, on this planet, time waits for no man, and you must choose how you spend it. Which approach provides the greatest safety, for the same effort? That is an empirical question, and you still have no empirical evidence for your position.

> - No, Haskell programmers aren't smug fools who believe that because their programs compile then they must be correct, and therefore no additional testing or QA is necessary.

No, you just believe you don't need empirical evidence for empirical claims! :-/

> A type-checker enforcing some constraints automatically makes your language practically safer than one without it.

Perhaps. But perhaps the time spent satisfying a type-checker would be better spent testing. Perhaps bash is safer than Haskell in practice!
The original Title II classification which included local loop bundling killed DSL investment and allowed cable broadband to take over the market. Ever wonder why America has cable broadband and the rest of the world uses some version of DSL or fiber provided by the telephone company? Title II.

As soon as it was deregulated, Verizon and AT&T began upgrades. But before then, they weren't going to build upgrades to networks that any competitor could borrow at wholesale value.

The title II being proposed is a lot lighter than the old kind applied to the DSL, so it won't necessarily destroy invesment. But the fear is reasonable.
I've purchased a Pebble and, more recently, a Moto 360. I love the idea of smart watches but I feel like they need to be as passive as possible for the best user experience. So far the Apple Watch looks like it needs a lot of interaction to do different things. I'm excited to see a real demo of the interface to see if that's really the case.
I like "news" articles like this. Harris takes a scientific publication, adds his own opinion while making the topic easier to understand, and cites his source.
5 Reasons Frank Underwood Would Be a Kick Ass Social Media Manager
WebRTC can also be used for fingerprinting (apparently Chrome only) in a similar way as cookies. [1] has an explanation and test of it, as well some other fingerprinting methods.

[1] https://www.browserleaks.com/webrtc#webrtc-device-id
Fascinating. Inefficiency, to me, is opportunity (even if it can't always be leveraged.) A fundamentally different ad network is an idea I've been kicking around for a while. Perhaps I should get more serious. Do you know any resources, or any technical information about how people get started in this space?

@ROFISH: Absolutely a hustle business, but the more experienced I get the more I think that applies to 99.99% of businesses.
according to this site, I'm the #1 developer in Mexico for a ton of languages.

in reality, I'm not in Mexico.

similar comments abound: "I live in Halifax, UK and it compared me with people in Halifax, Canada." "I'm only detected as having 34 Ruby stars when one of my Ruby projects has ~6,700 stars."

another comment: "[the site is] in breach of the Github name and branding usage guidelines."

this thing is a mess, and I'm about to get a ton of emails from recruiters who want to me to work in Mexico now.

on the bright side, at least I'll get to practice my Spanish.
I'm a programmer, and know very little about art (sadly).

The picture in the background here is very beautiful. Someone who makes that kind of thing, how do they do it? How do they chose colours, and how would they go about making the shapes actually appear on a screen?
Linkbait title is linkbait, but content is sound.
the point is you should be doing feature tests, not browser tests.
Back in college I was a weight lifter, and protein-sparing modified fasts weren't uncommon in the group I was in. Basically drink 1400 calories of protein and eat nothing else. Not low-carb, zero carb. You would do that until you cut your fat down enough to bulk again. It worked, and you lost weight quick. Let's not talk about the potential damage to your kidneys though...

I did know some women in the group who would do that as well, so I can't say it's exclusively men, but women were definitely a minority when it came to power lifting. Not sure if that's what's going on here or not. Maybe it's that mostly people who follow tech news know about the product, and the tech industry does tend to lean more towards men. Who knows?
“Microsoft stated that the merging of Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer was the result of innovation and competition, that the two were now the same product and were inextricably linked together and that consumers were now getting all the benefits of IE for free. Those who opposed Microsoft's position countered that the browser was still a distinct and separate product which did not need to be tied to the operating system, since a separate version of Internet Explorer was available for Mac OS.”

— from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp.
Magic.

Or Photoshop.
Very interesting as well. I had no idea this existed.
The p-value is the probability that you would observe an effect of this size if the hypothesis were not correct. So you want them to be small. In most fields, you want to get at least p < 0.05 or 95% certainty, which is about two standard deviations from the mean in a normal distribution. That means that your result is far enough away from what you would get by random chance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_deviation#mediaviewer...
That's correct and that's what I said:

"Unfortunately, they have no mobile market share, and this is where most people will be browsing the web."
What is net neutrality and what does it mean for me?
I'm torn.

On one hand, this means that there will be less flash overall polluting the net. A good thing.

On the other hand, it also means that the polluters have less incentive to actually remove their flash-crap. Someone else will transform their guano into form that is more widely deliverable. A bad thing. Flash will persist even longer.

And of course, flash blocker will now kill less ads than before. Damn.
> Perhaps what we need is a "ethical ads" network, with strict requirements on what could and could not be done

Personally I don't mind unintrusive (small) static image ads from quality advertisers tailored to the type of audience of the site. A List Apart I can remember having a worthwhile ad network whose ads I've actually been interested in several times in the past (which is very rare). Problem with most ads for me, and the reason I choose to block the majority, is the lack of high quality products being advertised and the fact that the click-through rate is so low the ads rely on other tactics to grab attention, fueling the desire to block them.
My thesis is that these accounts are not here for legitimate argument. They are here to spread FUD via talking points. I attempted to prove the futility of attacking the arguments by showing that they have been clearly countered before while failing to budge this account from their fixed talking points.
Very nice, especially the ProtectedAccess layer. Are you guys still using flight.js on your front end?
It's only pulling the first part - my profile says 'Van down by the river' and it put me in 'Van, Turkey'. Hilarious. Good to know I'm #1 Python guy of all the hobos down by the river!
The guy you're replying to is scare mongering. We're at the step now where the FCC is opening the regulations up for public comment. Obviously they aren't going to release their footnotes before they've iterated on the regulations internally. All of the negative comments on here are essentially "why haven't we seen this yet?!?!?!" on the day they decided its ready for people to see. It's all quite childish bickering bordering on obvious public opinion manipulation.
Mailtrap.io – Fake smtp testing server. Dummy smtp email testing
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What? The regulations will certainly be released in the next couple weeks. Yes, that's also when the lawsuits will start. But I was talking about the regulations being released (since that's what the comment I was replying to was talking about.)

Feel free to take your terrible attitude elsewhere.
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I just don't get this. The telecoms already started the censorship process when they decided to prioritize some types of traffic over others. The free market failed free speech the moment that happened, so yes, we the people decided to phone our government and tell them we don't want a bunch of $limeball$ deciding who gets to see what.

We've exchanged impending corporate censorship for possible, maybe, conjectured future government censorship.

I know which one I favor.
> "700 regulations and no one has even read it!"

Note the commenter said no one had "seen it". That's a meaningful difference worth accurately re-quoting.

Also, is it "700" or "70" or "70+" or what? [citation required]

> "No one — not one single member of Congress — has read the bill" Michael Steel was using in 2009

The concept of passing laws that few have read or understood is the very definition of "disconcerting".
I'm an European and it's the first time I hear about us being sent to gulags for making infrastructure that actually works.

BTW. In Poland, infrastructure was all fine until they started to privatize it. Now our trains barely work, and public transport companies like to compete with each other by showing which one sucks at doing their job more...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_8hPcnGeCI
Well, I don't think it's entirely uncommon for a complete set to command a premium.
//We have enough digits to print 1424978922 on a watch face - that is standard Unix time. Why humans can't just learn to read that simple number is beyond me

You really think people should be using 1424978922 instead of 5:30 or 9:30? That kind of thinking is what's beyond me..
There's no financial benefit there. But, for ads...
How does this contradict what I said? Enlighten me?

I said the theory -- by which I meant the non-null hypothesis -- is not endorsed by a low p value (indeed, this is a major point of the article). A low p-value says "hey they doesn't look like random data" not "your brilliant hypothesis is probably true". The data might not look random because of a methodological error, outright fraud, or a confound.

This is particularly important when you consider people looking at data over and over again trying to find "an effect". Theoretically, the tests are supposed to get tougher and tougher each time you examine the data (add one degree of freedom) but in practice this doesn't happen. It doesn't matter much with large data sets, but the social sciences often use datasets where n is roughly 100, and you might only have 20 subjects in a cell.
Flash can be blocked, or not installed. If you are running a modern Chrome or Firefox, there is no way to stop this from running. (edit: apparently you can now block WebRTC entirely in Firefox, but Chrome has to be recompiled)
"why maintain two logical address spaces? Why not have the file system directly manage the flash?"

Because managing flash is hard. For this to work, the amount of exceptions in the filesystem it's self would make it unmanageable.

an example is this: a Fusion-io card up until recently used low quality flash, yet managed to get stella performance. Much higher performance than the equivalent intel ssd card (who have access to much higher quality flash) some of that is down to layout, the rest firmware.

Then you have the flash that lives on a device like your phone, however the firmware of the SoC is tweaked to run that particular flash controller.

At its heart, flash/hdd is just a key:value database (presented with 4k value size) why would we want to complicate that (sure we need to indicate to the hardware that we've deleted a page, but to be honest not much else)
Pebble Releases SDK 3.0 for Pebble Time Smartwatch
It refers to setting the rate for monthly service. Title II was written to regulate phone companies, where for many years AT&T had a government-granted monopoly on phone service. In return for that monopoly, the government got the right to regulate phone rates.
HTML was the "universal standard", and what happened to that?
Is there a list of companies and the people they hired/sponsor to maintain FLOSS stuff?
I've always thought expecting direct revenue from web ads was looking at the problem upside-down.

Nobody purchases directly from mainstream TV ads. The purpose is brand awareness, and sidebar ads have always seemed infinitely more useful to build such awareness among the public.

Optimizing on CTR or impressions just seems like optimizing vanity metrics, because they're easy to measure.
Re: flatulence, I found that the Rosa Labs version (capital S Soylent) does that way worse than many of the DIY versions. I'm sure that some of the other commercial soylents are similarly not as bad for flatulence. I currently make:

http://diy.soylent.me/recipes/quidnycs-superfood-for-him (there's a "for her" version as well that my fiancee has had good luck with)

It accounts for 50-100% of my calories depending on the day. Fairly inexpensive, good nutrition, and very scalable for different calorie needs. Most importantly no farts.
The fact that the Obamacare bill probably contains an error that might shut down subsidies for federal exchanges sorta backs up Steel's criticism.
> Fair enough, see edit.

When you edit a comment, it would help others if you could explicitly mark what you changed with the annotation "Edit:".
I don't know how to code but I did teach myself to build a wordpress website to get an MVP up and get customers.
It depends on how technical the product is. If you are great at the business, customers and hustling, I would focus on building a basic version using existing technology and then you can build a technical team / find contractors.
Judge bans WhatsApp in Brazil
I upvoted this for sarcasm. But upon reflection I think maybe I missed the point.

I guess a lot of it hinges on your interpretation of the words "competitive" and "parity".

I'm hoping that it means the expression "IE issue" gradually becomes the exception rather than the norm.
I would strongly recommend slow cookers. You can leave it in the morning and get it in the evening. The recipes are straightforward and require little actual cooking knowledge.

Even better you can easily cook large quantities so you're not even cooking every day.

My healthy favorite is slow-cooked stew combined with rice-cooker brown rice/quinoa - both are set on timers so they finish just before we get home - so no reheating.
Someone tried to social engineer Kevin Mitnick
I don't quite follow your reasoning here. It's got a really bad reputation with devs and people "in the know," but for the average user turning on the computer, it's perfectly fine, and that has to count for something.
> As we all have seen in the past, the proposals they explain and the final rules that become law are usually different. We should be able to see these proposals.

It's not as though the game is totally over. Parties can (and will) petition for reconsideration, and then there will be challenges in court if people think that the Commission has overlooked important issues. End then there's always Congress...

> This just illuminates why this process needs to be changed. "counterintuitive" is a nice way of describing our lack of freedom and the lack of transparency in choices that will directly effect all of our lives.

Fair enough. But I don't know that this is a valid ground for criticizing the FCC.

Edit: While it's true that the Commission's decisions are often not exactly the same as its proposals, it is prohibited by law from making a rule on a subject not implicated by the issues raised by the Commission's proposals (the technical term is "logical outgrowth"). Why isn't this good enough? What is to be gained by circulating the actual rules before they are enacted that is not already accomplished by 1) extended period for public comment on the issues, with full knowledge of the regulatory options under consideration and 2) the possibility of a petition for reconsideration or court challenge after the rules are issued?
If Verizon hadn't been so hell-bent on disinvesting in wireline infrastructure it wouldn't have gone this far.
This is a good point. While I have my doubts that it will be an entirely new browser, by simply renaming it they might be able to offer a version for non-Windows OS-es without making earlier statements seem ridiculous. And they should.
‘Local search is broken': the rise and fall and rise of Foursquare
What's wrong with that? I consider myself one of those people.

Broadband companies have a government sponsored monopoly. There are good, fair reasons for that. One of the rules with being gifted a government sponsored monopoly should be that you aren't allowed to abuse that monopoly power. Very reasonable. People agree in principle.

Now we're adding some rules to prevent that abuse. However we don't know what they are! Just as the pendulum was much too far on one side it could easily swing much too far to the other. A great way to evaluate if it's swinging too far is by reading the rules. Which people asked to do. And they categorically refused! The only reason this vote came up is because of passionate public opinion. But now they won't let the public know what is actually being voted on? That's fucked up.

I would personally like to see telecommunication companies spend 1 trillion dollars in infrastructure over the next 20 years. I want wireless gigabit internet. I'd like 10 gigabit wired connections. Maybe more. Will these rules make that harder to do? Will that be more likely or less likely than before? NOBODY IN THE PUBLIC KNOWS. To celebrate the passing of laws when you don't actually know what was passed is insane.
CenturyLink expands Seattle gigabit Internet to five more neighborhoods
Just to be clear, taking inputs in pairs does not guarantee complete coverage, even when trying all permutations of those pairs. I mention this because it is what the OP of this thread asked about.
Outrage, followed by long lines of people at the stores trying to get one and flip it on eBay for a couple thousand in profit.
He also owns a large position in Netflix (at least 50k shares, but "a lot more" = ~$170m+???).

Don't know what AXS TV is worth

Src: http://www.cnbc.com/id/102097968
From what I know from people who buy AdWords ads, they manage to get a lower price-per-click and a bigger return by optimizing their campaigns

This has nothing to do with flashy ads, quite the contrary, so it's not only "inefficient ads that nobody clicks"
I meant more about what "reasonable people" agree upon.
>Anecdotally I find price has little to do with value in the App marketplace.

I think this is what they're getting at, or at least what took from it: Valuable apps are incorrectly priced.

I'm being a devils advocate by saying this, but the paid promotion could actually force apps to start charging relative to their value, rather than everyone charging at a flat $0.99. This would put pressure on and help sort out apps that are not very valuable, while giving valuable apps a mechanism to rise to the top.

Of course, this all breaks with apps that monetize through in-app purchases, and I honestly believe there needs to be a seperate marketplace for those Skinner boxes.
I've lived with many different people, and on a general guideline, women in general put more effort and attention to food (I don't live in US, though, so I speak for some other countries).

Soylent surely tickles the nerdy nerve of some people, but (fortunately) real food is still a pleasure for many; adding the fact that it's possible to prepare such food spending relatively little time, I can imagine that people who are already inclined to cook (as above) would not switch to substitute food.
Disqus relaunches to turn your comments into a Reddit-like social network
Exactly. Given the vast series of networks and data miners tracking and analyzing my online interests, why can't a site manage to show me ads that I actually find interesting?
I'll answer you because you're asking explicitly, but see warfangle's reply to my post making fun of me.

What warfangle etc don't understand is that was exactly the excuse for the FCC to get into the Radio business. Oh no, it wasn't to require licenses! It was to protect people from warfangle's "chaos" that he paints so vividly but that never happened in actual reality, you know, the one we live in. Maybe it happens inside the theoretical realities that warfangle makes up. Regardless.

So the FCC at first was all like "yeah we need to step in to protect the radio waves from jumbling". Even the president at the time said he saw no problem with just leaving it be. But the FCC got its way. But oh! We forgot. In order to protect the waves from jumbling we'll need to require that people get licenses, but you know, it's just to assign a name to a frequency. That's all! But you need a license.

The same will happen online. Not at first, but eventually. And the excuse will be the same. Netflix uses too much bandwidth? Well, they'll need a license. Suddenly all busy websites need a license, but they'll only get it if the FCC approves it. Netflix? Granted. Popcorn Time? Disallowed. Mainstream X? Granted. Controversial Y? Disallowed.
Will there be any useful privacy options in this new browser?

e.g. will the cookie options be something more than a global allow/disallow all cookies?

Will it offer a way to control/block/clear other client-side data, like flash cookies, local storage and so on?
Yes, sadly, Soylent is made from the world's most fragile ingredients. If you modify it in any way that you would normal food, it becomes useless, nutritionally inert goo that even Oliver Twist would reject.
Probably Inkscape or Illustrator. But mostly a good sense for color and design.
Are more tech professionals skipping grad school for tech vocational programs?
It looks like a small handful of semi-transparent shapes (they look like leaves to me) with different colors that are overlayed on each other. Since they're different semi-transparent colors, the colors blend to form a new shade where they have overlapped. Repeat this a few times with logic that rotates the leaf around the axis a little below the bottom center of the screen, and there you have it.
This really isn't helpful. If you'd read his comment, it would be clear that his last account was banned, which would all but necessitate that any new accounts would be, y'know, new.

Further, it shouldn't need to be pointed out, but the insightfulness of one's posts should not be judged against how long they've been members of a website.