jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I want to be straightforward here because I respect you: I don't find this line of discussion very interesting and it's unlikely you'll get much substantive conversation back from me, though I may try.

Mostly this is because I think this entire branch of conversation, as interesting it could otherwise be, seems orthogonal to the point and the claim. I don't want to get too far from the main claim and the discussions from the grandparents.

I would not argue that intelligence operations 'ended' the cold war - nor that it was just intelligence that won it. They had an important role in winning the war - by that I mean the cold war was an intelligence war as much as a diplomacy war and an arms war and a proxy war. It's like saying that the intelligence services had a role to play winning WWII. They did. The war wasn't won solely by intelligence. In any case, as you can tell, not an interesting conversation or point - it's mundane.

Factoring out whether someone thinks that Stratfor actually provides something of value to the US government or is mostly a place to couch retired generals who have too many secrets to let loose into the private sector it stands that independent of Stratfor, CANVAS was involved in starting colored revolutions and is today involved in trying to kindle revolution in Venezuela - in those same links for example are documents from 2012 providing analysis about how to do that that reflect very accurately the mobilization and activities happening today (getting students to protest, support for Leopoldo, etc).

What's more, there's far more than CANVAS that the US government uses to accomplish these things.

So if you'll allow me to exit what I'd like to leave while bowing out is that Stratfor's record of efficiency doesn't matter so much - we're only barely talking about Stratfor.
The reason people are arguing interminably about which poster is better, is that both are almost equally bad. They are a terrible illustration of the principles the author has read about, and they're not a good model to emulate. The trouble with design is that everyone has an opinion, informed or not, and everyone feels their opinion is equally valid, a priori, because they sense it is very hard to objectively prove anything in a discipline which is all about communication and intention.

With apologies to the author, this page itself is terrible design in almost every way that matters, starting from the top with the horrible typography, reinforced by overly literal illustration which bludgeons the reader over the head with the intended meaning (little bits of mess behind the word mess, a crying baby for 'you feel like a baby', really?) and distracting use of irrelevant graphic devices - huge script font which does not connect with meaning, pink sitting in the wrong place behind heads, another font 'Quicksand' which has the worst kerning I've ever seen, etc, etc. All that is practically shouting 'do not take graphic design advice from this writer' before you even begin reading.

If you want to learn from good design have a look at :

Paul Rand:

http://www.paul-rand.com/foundation/identity/#.VRcG0JPwYZw

El Lissitzky or other Constructivists:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=el%20lissitzky%20poster

Mies van der Rohe or other Bauhaus designers:

http://www.knoll.com/product/brno-chair-flat-bar

Paula Scher:

http://new.pentagram.com/2009/02/new-work-the-museum-of-mode...

Saul Bass

http://www.saulbassposterarchive.com/

Tufte on Minard and others:

https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/posters

You'll learn more from studying those designs than you would from reading or looking at this.
The script grabbed document.documentElement.innerHTML and resubmitted it as the new page contents. See my post above regarding CSRF.
Related: I signed up but saw all the web projects are dependent on Angular or React. I understand that these technologies are good to be familiar with for making a portfolio these days but they're not for me; not what I want to spend my time on.

I did join the waiting list for their yet-to-launch iOS projects though.
Pardon, where in the paper do you see that society should be reformed to favor consumption?

It is also hard to see how a blockchain technology would encourage faster consumption than an inflationary fiat system like that which we have with FRNs, but maybe I missed something in the OP.
That's very unlikely. The global population is probably going to peak mid-century and then go down.
As others have noted, they did try in a number of ways--including coming out with a (probably too early) product to allow consumers to view scanned photos on their TV. (Also healthcare, photocopiers, etc.) When the sales of your main product--which is a wonderful consumables business and basically owns the world market outside of Japan--drop 98 percent in about 10 years you've got a really tough problem however many business strategy books you read.
I thought the one on the right looked better, but honestly it's just a cosmetic preference. I didn't think the information was any harder to find or parse on the left-hand version... it just looked a bit less "professional."
This part I disagree with. They can (and should) lobby for laws that protect their privacy. Users don't want to give up convenience, but if the majority are using the services of BigCorp, and we push to force BigCorp to provide privacy through legislation, then society still wins.
You are taking chances regardless of your choice in accepting the AstraZeneca vaccine. If you get covid as a healthy young person you have about a 1 in 10,000 chance of dying. If you take the AstraZeneca vaccine you have about a 1 in 400,000 chance of getting blood clots, and a 1 in 1,000,000 chance of dying from them. You pick which chance you’ll take, but either way, you are taking a chance
Are specifically they blocking you, or are you stuck in general and they're the closest SWE?

In the first case, it does seem a lot more reasonable to interrupt and trade-off the productivity of the blocker in favor of the blockee. At worst, that's an even trade and at best it incentivizes not being a blocker.

In the second case, I'd rather not create a distributed denial of concentration scenario for SWEs who are rarely stuck to optimize for those who are more frequently stuck.
> Study finds that 34% of humans are strongly introverted.

Eh, I'm not so sure it's just an intro/extro kind of thing. I and most of those quizzes (for whatever those are worth!) label me as an ambivert (an extroverted introvert- I'm good with people and excel at socializing, but it wears me out) and I'd still love to be remote for the rest of my life.

Goodbye, open office plans.
Goodbye, coworkers that don't shower, play music without headphones, and eat tuna melts at their desks.
Goodbye, two hour daily commute.
Goodbye, wearing pants during meetings.

Okay, that last one was a poor attempt at humor, but I'd say the other three reasons are valid and not really related to introversion.
To what end? There is no award for Longest Suffering Person, just a life of wasted opportunities.
The repercussions and coping mechanisms are likely to only get more destructive the longer you put off dealing with misery. May you find your bliss, internet stranger.
Because if the company sucks, which most companies do, then probably almost no-one there actually cares except people who have a larger-than-salary financial investment in the company, people who have been there long enough that the company is part of their identity and social group, and people who drank the kool-aid of company propaganda. People who do not fall into a group such as one of the above but who nonetheless tell you that they care are quite likely just lying to you. The person who says that he doesn't care is at least being honest.
I've been using Streamlit for the past year and am consistently shocked with how quickly the team ships what the community asks for (everything from secrets, to themes, to making developing on top of Streamlit easier with components, etc). Good for them!
When I worked at Radio Shack in the late 90s, the entire POS was running as a main Xenix server and the terminals connecting to it. Backups were done on tape. Updates would come in over night and usually required a reboot at the worst times.

Fun times was one they sent a tape to do major upgrades.
The scheduling is a pain point now though. I'm blocked until I can get a slot in your diary, which could mean I'm blocked for hours. And that's if you even accept my invitation or don't get delayed by something else.

Maybe a drop-in thing could work, like Clubhouse. But then that's kinda invading your privacy if you have to stay on that.
Yes. But what does that have to do with investigation? Can't really fail to investigate until proven guilty.
>no pictures of me anywhere

Sure there are. You've had a picture taken for an ID at some point.
It's innocent until proven guilty isn't it?
Except the contract was against the guy who the cops threatened into being their informant. It was peaceful until the police showed up.
Trafficking would be decimated with legalization and money fighting it could be spent on programs to help users.

Yes, as Portugal has shown us.
The first of these games was released in February 2004, late in the GBA's product cycle. At that point, the Nintendo DS hardware would've already been pretty much finalized (it released in Nov 2004), so they already knew what things looked like for backwards compatibility (the DS includes the GBA's ARM7 processor).
Anecdote: I've got a daughter who is stuck at home since schools are closed. I've been trying to think of ways to entertain her. Some of these involve purchasing products.
“nor functional”

Why? Doesn’t it have a bigger bed, extra space, and a lot more than regular trucks? It even has an air compressor and outlets.
Dan Olson/Folding Ideas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuScIN4emyo

Upshot is that YouTube is pretending that they can't make good segmenting tools.
This is very difficult, to be sure. Betrayal is a very hard pill to swallow, and the death of a loved one likewise.

You mention Warsaw as a place where things might be better. It looks like you could fly there from NY for maybe $300 on a good day. Is this a plan you could shoot for?
The entire value proposition of an article such as this, is a summary in non-legalese for regular Joes, with a clear citation to the original case document, for those further interested.

Verbatim reproduction of large swaths, and oodles of unnecessary opinions forming the first few paragraphs drives readers away, not towards the article.
I got the email from YouTube a week or so ago, and it seemed clear to me that they were not asking "is your content OK for kids to watch?"

They were asking "is your content directed toward kids?" The FTC page confirms that and gives some examples.

To pull an example from memory, I used to watch Blue's Clues with my kids when they were little. Even though I also enjoyed the humor and creativity of the show, and the experience of watching it with them, it was clearly directed toward children.

OTOH, my dogs and cats have a YouTube channel where they show off their playtime adventures. It's completely child-friendly, but it's not specifically directed toward kids, it's just dogs and cats playing around. So I didn't mark the channel or any of the videos as being directed toward children.

I'm not familiar with all the videos you mentioned, but the ones I recognize would seem to be in the same category as my dog and cat videos: not directed toward children.
Yeah, this is an extreme case. I mean, he reportedly said:

> It’s 64 characters and why would I give that to you. We both know what’s on there. It’s only going to hurt me. No fucking way I’m going to give it to you.

It seems like a totally dumbass thing to say. The standard advice is politely declining to answer, and requesting an attorney.

But at least he didn't lie.

And yes, it's true that the content isn't likely his, in the sense that he generated it or that it's about him. But it would -- as he admitted -- incriminate him. And the court affirmed that he has the right to not incriminate himself.

What's especially interesting is that the court didn't agree that "We both know what’s on there." didn't moot protection against self-incrimination.
The GP comment was low-information, high-inflammation—that means flamebait, regardless of how correct it is or is not. I wouldn't say it even contains enough information to count as correct or incorrect, but YMMV.

A point being correct doesn't mean it isn't flamebait. Which correct points one makes, in which order, in what context, and with what extra baggage, all matter. People (especially internet trolls) often act like "but it's correct" is some sort of blank check—this is far from the case.

Sometimes the correctness of a point makes it even worse. An example I've used in the past is middle school kids pointing out the acne on another kid's face. An example pg has used is telling an old person "you will die soon".
"Two hundred years since the discovery of Antarctica, the frozen continent is known as a hotbed of scientific exploration and a place of adventure and icy peril. But who really discovered the new continent? That depends on how you define 'discovered.' The fateful spotting could be attributed to a Russian expedition on January 27, 1820—or a British one just three days later."
May need to test application that speed or latency etc. with 100k or more than so how do you set records that exception?
I don't understand the basis of this complaint. They knowingly went around the Shopify rev share by using their own payment gateway. Seems like Shopify called them out for misbehaving.

Anyhow: For larger shops, self-host and find a good payment gateway. SaaS that takes a percentage will bleed you dry.
Presumably there's a big difference in the level of inflation experienced based on income level as well: someone just scraping by is going to be much more exposed to food and rent inflation than a developer on $100k.
Boxes uses libvirt too. (It would be foolish not to.)
> would take offense to the same statement applied to black people or whatever identity you want to swap in

African Americans are not ignoring lockdown en masse. They are avoiding the vaccine, but that’s less problematic.
People wouldn't stop spending money on weapons in a Bitcoin world. If the global economy is dominated by a small number of people who got in on Bitcoin early, against a vast majority who are born with no Bitcoin and no way to get it except from those who already have it, strife can be expected.

To the extent that inequality, competition, and unfairness create tension, that tension doesn't go away just because there's a different set of people at the top.
And Chunlei does it again. I was an undergraduate when he arrived and helped set up the first UHV chamber for his initial tests. Let me just say that not only is he brilliant but he is also about as down to earth a person as you could ever meet. He seriously has no ego, is easy going and has an internal drive that's unbelievable.

If he ever wants to start a company, whomever he reaches out to, fund him.
Confirmed for architectural walkthroughs! The lab I worked at in college used VRML for some interactive building models on a rear projected 3-screen polarized 3D setup. Pretty fun stuff.
I use the stumptray module in stumpwm-contrib https://github.com/stumpwm/stumpwm-contrib
Looks like this may work for older generations where the pace of life is different and things are less spontaneous. I’m looking forward to see where it will go.
Happy to hear that :)
Going to get my copy as well.
>To some observers, the incident has amplified fears about the moral character of the generation that is now coming of age.

>The divide between the generations can be seen in Quinn's lecture to students after the cheating was discovered, and the response posted by a student in the YouTube caption.

I find it fascinating that previous generations have never cheated on a large scale, or when caught have never tried to justify it or weasel out of it. Well, I guess the YouTube part is true, at least.

>McCabe said the shifting norms that relate to cheating make it difficult to say whether the problem has grown worse over time. While acknowledging that his empirical data don't support the conclusion that the problem has worsened, he believes that it has.

Well, I guess handwaving about this generation without providing any solid data or points of comparison for previous generations is sufficient for this (and most "generation gap") articles.
It can be better for preventing RSI.

But mostly it comes down to a preference on how to do things.
Indeed, and now that she's got some free time perhaps she can help Conrad Black with his memoirs.
Yes, they could offer more but the choice of an easy 3k and then a quick stint of unemployment then versus the long stint of unemployment makes 3k a pittance. Having a job is so overwhelmingly important these days that even something as "large" as 3k pails in comparison.
I don't think it is fair to base your impression on GAE. GAE is a very particular platform.

I am not so familiar with testing for web applications, but nose on python certainly supports test runners, fixtures, etc... I am actually surprised you can get a testing framework without those
1. I think it goes to show how well the Rails and Merb teams were able to integrate. Things were a bit rocky in the early days of the merger though :) A big merger like that could easily have self destructed.

2. You should be able to do that in AR by adding to the class-level #columns collection yourself. I had a plugin for this years ago for validating contact models. I'd imagine it's even easier in 3.0 since ActiveModel requires attributes to be set.

3. I really like the work that Josh and the rest put into ActiveModel. It happened to materialize around the time various alternate datastores like Mongo started getting popular.
True. That's why I took care to separate out the clinical cases as carefully as I could. The reverse is also true: people who can be helped by cognitive reframings may not find medication useful. In fact, it can make things worse. A significant proportion of patients on depression and bipolar meds get worse, not better.

I have no problem admitting that I have been on medication a couple of times, for brief periods. It was a long time ago, and so ineffective/counterproductive for me that it was the kick in the pants I needed to decide to take control of my life at a more cognitive level. It convinced me that meds are vastly overprescribed for what might be called "existential" illnesses. That experience did inform my post.

But there is an aspect of this stuff that is perhaps even bigger than the mild/severe distinction and the pop-psych/clinical psych distinction.

This is the fact that professional or amateur, anybody who thinks they actually understand more than 10% of this sort of thing is a liar. I wouldn't trust any professional who refused to admit that we just don't understand 90% of what's going on, at either a cognitive or biochemical level. There is as much bs spouted by the supposed "professionals" about serotonin as there is by amateurs like me opining about how to climb out of slumps.

Not that I think my stuff is bs, but my kind of writing belongs in a category with more than its fair share of bs :)

Venkat
I think it he handled it pretty well, but I really hope he doesn't press charges.

I'm as against the ridiculous new regulations as anyone, but I'm surprised by the general lack of sympathy for the actual TSA agents on the ground, regardless of anything...just as a matter of course.

As far as I can tell the agent in question made an honest mistake, they didn't notify Penn. I have a hard time believing anyone who travels could be unaware of the new regulations. This doesn't excuse the mistake, but it's important to put it in context.

They definitely dropped the ball, and deserve some sort of chastisement... but is slapping them with an assault charge really fair?

It seems to me it would be taking it out on the little guy...

I don't envy these people...they're generally hated and I don't know if you've notice but the general American public is not largely composed of people I'd want to lay hands on.

They probably have to frisk 1000's of people a day, and as many in Penn's story confirm this is all so new and up in the air.

Everyone makes mistakes sometimes....it's unavoidable. Doctors sometimes make mistakes, and people die. Generally though, they are only punished if they really screwed up...and even then not with criminal charges.

It's also worth noting Doctors are generally well paid for the responsibilities their position entails.

TSA agents are probably not paid terribly well, but regardless are expected to be perfect machines.

The problem is all this stuff about sexual assault clouds the issue....there is a lot of potential for a (and I hesitate to use the term, but I'm not sure how else to phrase it) "real" sexual assault to occur...where a TSA agent is clearly and deliberately overstepping the bounds...and when that happens it may be lost in all the other stories of people who are shrieking "sexual assault" just because they (rightly) disagree with this stupid policy. I have a hard time believing Penn really felt as if he was assualted, except perhaps a metaphorical assault against his dignity and personal liberties. That is a serious assault...but this agent is not the one responsible for that.

The attitude some people have towards TSA agents strikes me as childish and incredibly entitled.

We should be holding individual agents accountable, but I can't help like feeling people are holding them to a higher standard than is really realistic, and are misdirecting their anger....it should be directed at the policy makers not the poor shmoes who it falls upon to enforce it...people just trying to make a living and get by.

I would say making a fuss, and even calling the Cops was a good idea as it really registers the outrage and puts a cost on keeping this stupid policy....ruining some poor shmoes life with actual assault charges? not so much...
A common thing I have heard is that Python people are obsessed with documentation and Ruby people are obsessed with testing. Not saying that one or the other is 'better', just that the culture around each of the languages has created these stereotypes.