skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You make a good point, identity based marketing is, I think, fundamentally manipulative, whether the purchased product is physical or not. The "problem" is that it's just so damn effective. There's a void for identity sources (which one might claim was caused on purpose) and so anything that fits will be used to fill it. Then it's just a matter of effective propagation.
> it's just that your point of sensitivity is the idea of people ever talking behind your back

Exactly, everyone has their own values. I value honesty. OP values dishonesty.
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When a new addictive thing happens - people aren't adapted to it at first. Both individuals, and whole civilizations have to learn how to use the thing responsibly. Sometimes state control may help to limit the damage until natural adaptation occurs.

As time pass, people learn to use the thing without too much harm, and then it may be OK to lift the ban: completely, or for adults only (like with alcohol - notice that it's still controlled, just not outright forbidden for everybody).

There's no reason we have to think in absolutes ("state control in one case was bad = all state control is bad", or "particular measure of state control was bad at one point, therefore it was bad since the beggining and will be bad forever"). It's possible that a good policy in one circumstances became bad policy later. I think war on drugs is the example of this. And consider the harm strong alcohol did among native Americans when it was introduced. I think prohibition for a few decades would be net positive for them, if they could enforce it.

Slippery slope arguments are tricky, they often lead you to overgeneralize.

As for particulary addictive games (like ogame etc) - I think it would be beneficial if they were regulated similary to gambling. I am open to arguments.
We generally only prosecute those who break those "rules of engagement" when they are not ourselves.
It's still a market if every product is free. And they're not even really free, you pay with potential advertising revenue, vendor lock-in and with data that you generate.
You should probably work out your contradictions before you froth like this. Consider:

> necessary for the vast majority of the citizenry to even know what is out there to purchase

and

> I block ads everywhere

So you are stumbling around unable to buy things you need, totally uninformed about what products and services are available? Poor kid. Want me to bring you a sandwich? If only you had access to some sort of information network that contained the collective opinions of a large and growing portion of humanity.

If we gradually banned advertising, nothing particularly bad would happen. Advertising is an arms race; most of it is done only because competitors do it too. We'd still find things to buy, and we might do it more easily if we weren't distracted by paid messages. As a bonus, we'd have half a trillion dollars of people's time and brainpower to spend on something that mattered.
Given Drupal's highly-modular architecture, React and a manager like Redux makes the most sense IMO.

Building the Drupal module frontend as React Components seems like it would be easy to add on as a toggleable layer. You push state into the global Drupal root and mimic the module tree in the state store, and then reduce based upon a dispatch from individual modules somewhere in the document tree.

It's a very clean fit into Drupal's legacy architecture and easy for a Drupal developer to wrap their head around, as it's all one-way.
At least at first, the most powerful entities will be enhanced humans aka transhumans aka human-AI hybrids. Indeed, we're already there, in the sense that we rely on machines so heavily, and in so many ways. Interfaces will improve, with greater integration, of course.

I've been reading Hannu Rajaniemi lately. He has in some ways a trippier take on this stuff than even Peter Watts does.
Word boundary detection in Thai is indeed a thorny problem.

With Chinese, though, it should be simple. Just allow users to make flashcards of any number of contiguous characters. Unbound morphemes aren't something you need to worry about and even a single character part of a larger word could reasonably be a vocabulary item.
First one was live & learn, the second was because employer demanded.

Another thing to bear in mind about patents: they can attach themselves to contracts in weird ways that can require you to do lots of unpaid work down the road, at random times, to defend them.
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Very nice. This is what I see http://imgur.com/PypgE2q

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The OPs point wasn't that fruit trees attract beggers. It was that in places with abundant fruit trees there are still beggers. The premise of the article is that the people doing this think it is a way to feed the homeless. People begging for money though often aren't doing it so they can buy food despite what their cardboard signs say.
That's hearsay and I highly doubt it happens on an institutional scale.
You can checkout openhybrid.org for some of these questions.
We do research in the Media Lab not product development. The Reality Editor is a projection in to the future.
But have a look at the costs of SoC's. It's going down so rapidly that in 2 years your question probably will be answered.

The moment real products will be in the marked that make use of the Reality Editor, you will power them up and just point your phone on them. It should not be more complicated.
It tickles me that there are people who don't have the burden of, I don't know the right word here, reality (?) to deal with when they code.

Sometimes people need to maintain systems that have generated millions in revenue even if they use APIs that suck, or languages that you might not find intuitive.
How does this compare to Logicblox?
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And why not?

There are cases over the world where advertising was banned with success.

http://www.worldwatch.org/node/5338

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/1125...

This is just the first step.
one from the devops/sre trenches...

> (devops guy) hi, im here for the lead devops role
> (CTO) awesome, you'd be a great fit here. can you write a sudoku solver in ruby real quick?
> (devops guy) [writes solver in ruby]
> (CTO) wow looks great... when can you start? do you have any questions for me?
> (devops guy) I do have a question: how do you shard your bigdata installations and what is it built on?
> (CTO) oh I wrote my own, we call it redisbigtable -- its the worlds first CAP compliant data store. oh, and we shard by customer.
> (devops guy) thank you for your time.
I wonder how much of the commands do this, do that, can be put in a batch file? Seems much easier to comment and distribute that than to follow a blog post over once every few months to rotate your key.
Would anyone know if and how much can be done in such a way? Is the bath-mode only capable of instructing the generation of a single key? Must we resort to other programmatic invocations of gpg?
Although he clearly didn't come up with the idea (there's the whole nuclear war thing, after all), perhaps it wasn't called "existential risk" before? Google ngram viewer show hits going back to the 1930's [1], but judging by the brief snippets, they seem to mostly be related to religion.

[1] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=existential+ri...
Submission of same article 490 days ago, with more than 100 comments in discussion thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8158510

Each time I reread this article from The Atlantic (I have read it before, and it has been submitted to Hacker News on other occasions), I am astounded that the author seems never to have heard about actual data on IQ score trends, which are upward for countries all over the world. The phenomenon, which surprised psychologists when it was discovered, is called the Flynn Effect by most psychologists these days, because James R. Flynn (NOT a psychologist, which is why he was open to discovering the phenomenon) has done the most to document and report on the worldwide trend of rising IQ scores throughout the last century.[1] Anyway, the article kindly submitted here shows altogether too much concern about speculative harms by an author who ought to know that there are better statistics on these issues than those he cites.[2]

[1] James R. Flynn, "Why Our IQ Levels Are Higher Than Our Grandparents'"

https://www.ted.com/talks/james_flynn_why_our_iq_levels_are_...

The Psychometrics Centre at the University of Cambridge "Beyond the Flynn Effect"

http://www.psychometrics.cam.ac.uk/about-us/directory/beyond...

[2] David Gorski, "The Food Babe’s war on 'chemicals' heats up again"

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-food-babes-war-on-c...
Classify micro-purchase games as gambling.

The whales aren't much different from the gambling addicts who are drawn in by the blinking lights, noise, and adrenaline shots from winning at chance.

The only difference with these Skinner-box games is that people are conditioned to repeatedly put money into a machine that isn't giving any monetary payout.
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Never heard of launch darkly either. Looks very nice for feature toggles.
The general public are not Taser's customers, so I don't think they really care what we think about his response. I know some police that would love that response, actually...
Your understanding is completely incorrect.

White collar crime is real, actual crime and violation of real, actual laws. It refers to non-violent, financially motivated crimes. But they're real crimes.
>I believe if Adobe actually gave users a choice they're data wold reflect mine

I checked out your site, and not sure if I agree with this. With your pricing a consumer using your product would only have to use it for 5 months before the self-hosted option becomes economically attractive.

To buy Photoshop CS6, alone, would cost $700. Adobe CC prices it at $9.99/mo - meaning you could use their CC option for 6 years before breaking even. In those 6 years, with CC you would get upgrades as well - OTOH even if you were to upgrade every 3 years, you wouldn't break even.

IIRC, Master Collection was $3,000, and is now $600/yr. Meaning if you bought Master Collection you would break even with CC if you only upgraded 5 times a year.

To make your analogy more apt, you should price your non-cloud offering at $600, and then compare how many people prefer it to cloud.

Personally, I think their decision to end their standalone offering had more to do with simplifying DRM than anything.
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We have simply got to remind our friends here on Hacker News that university press releases are almost never a good guide to what research shows, but rather are part of the science hype cycle that confuses the public about what research shows.[1]

[1] http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?n=1174
Disclosure, I work for data61, a major recipient of the gov't new innovation strategy. I'm also Canadian and have worked in technology in SF, LA, NYC, Vancouver and Santiago Chile.

I have a very different perspective on this. Australia has had more than just one Atlassian. They've also got Campaign Monitor, BigCommerce, Canva, Where 2 (became Google Maps), Envato. Australia is also growing Freelancer (I don't believe it was initially built here), and I'm sure many others.

Now, let's look at the comment regarding the newly announced innovation strategy does provide lots (probably too much) money to incubators, but so has every country. The incubator thing is just not successful outside a the few outliers YC, TechStars and maybe 1 or 2 others.

However, one of the large components of the plan is tax incentives to early stage investors. There are also bankruptcy law reform. There is also a new Entrepreneur Visa.

Now, Silicon Valley will almost always have an advantage to the history and network there. But that doesn't mean that Australia is "a crappy place" for tech business.

I find Australia a refreshing change from North America. There is a realistic view on revenue models, less money is 'wasted' on poorly thought out businesses. Australians are bright resourceful people.

I think this is a great place to be in tech. It punches above it's weight on the world stage.

If you look at regions with major technology successes, what do you end up with? A bunch in the US, a few in China, a few in India, a few in Canada, a few in Germany, a few in the UK. Where would Australia end up on a list of population vs. influence? I think pretty high.
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It's an interesting thought! Boredom can definitely lead to study fatigue, but the people in this example were medical students preparing for a high-stakes board exam at a top-10 institution. Boredom might be less of an issue at this level - it's more about efficiency and a tremendous feeling of stress and pressure. Indeed, several of these students who were in danger of failing were studying as much as 10-12 hours per day... essentially spinning their wheels in the mud.

That being said, combatting boredom is a really important thing to consider.
Hopefully the people building that stuff will have learned from Vancouver's leaky condo crisis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_condo_crisis

If your roof leaks badly enough, even steel is unsafe: http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/elliot-lake-how-could-so-...

Ideally you want a really good roofing system, tip-top windows installed with the best practices, good walls with vented cavities behind the siding and a good roof overhang to protect the walls and windows against the rain.
Or perhaps, from our CS perspective, a DAG analogy - human varieties from any instant in time could feed genetic material forward to any future ones.
> If your daily workflow includes a high volume of email, then it does.

Not necessarily. For example, if you have monitoring software sending you all email notifications, you could change that to just write records to a database instead.
He brings up a bunch of things, only one of which applies to Star Citizen: the "addictive" element of collecting things. Star Citizen is a game with genuinely exciting concepts and visuals exhibited in their marketing. The "addictive" thing that appears to have driven part of their $100M fundraise is prepurchasing cool-looking spaceships.

But how would you regulate that? And what would be the impact on Lego kits, Star Wars action figures, Beanie Babies, coins, stamps, and other real-world collectibles? They have the same issues with OCD. Wouldn't it be arbitrary to limit it to software?

If found it interesting that the author left the most potentially regulatable thing about Star Citizen untouched: consumer protections for crowdfunding investments.
OP is rolling two separate claims into one.

The first claim is that there is a problem.

Yes, I agree. There is.

The second claim is that the solution is prohibition.

The results of applying that solution to alcohol addiction and then drug addiction were... 'more harmful than beneficial' is much too mild a way to put it. 'Society-wrecking catastrophe' would be more accurate. Given those precedents, any argument that another round of prohibition is the right answer here requires far more justification than OP gives.
Yeah, this seemed like a clear line if ever one was needed. My company builds F2P games that are ad supported, but my god that is some disgusting crap right there.
"Sounds good, call me up when you get funding" click
It's a private codebase at this time. If you'd like to contribute, we're hiring full-time software engineers. (Python back-end).

https://www.memorangapp.com/jobs
How will this impact SEO? Have any other CMSes managed to take the SPA route successfully?
I'm quickly understanding that I need to learn to be more specific as to what the premise of my statement is before I comment here.

I agree with your point as to fixing all holes; I was making the point more toward people freaking out that these AV systems are inserting the certificates and inspecting the traffic in the first place. Sorry for the confusion.
I suppose I'm giving the person in question credit for being able to see the blindingly obvious.
I think both the original article's and your points are valid. Especially when you start to see games/virtual items as a "thing" (which probably started with UO/WoW) as opposed to a "fake thing". That said, as a thought experiment, I disagree with the fact that government and regulation have no place in the way a society consumes things like this.

If you accept that our knowledge of psychology, biochemistry, and neuroscience are improving and likely to continue doing so, and that calibrated external actions are capable of influencing our behavior, and that progress in the former begets progress in the latter, then either:

a) We will reach a point where we will stop making progress in those fields

b) We overturn the majority of our current social psychology knowledge and realize that yes, people actually do have absolute free will

c) We will develop techniques so sophisticated and reliable to influence behavior that it becomes unreasonable to expect an average person to resist them

As I (and the original article seems to) see it, the current free-for-all that is "freemium"/casual gaming basically targets all of capitalism's motivation and resources on arriving at (c) as quickly as possible. And... we're getting pretty damn good at it.

PS: Positech Games makes great stuff, btw! GSB had several free expansions just because Cliff Harris is cool [he == Positech]. He absolutely could have charged for the content if he'd felt like milking more money out of his users.
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There are so many other things that need fixing first. They should spend some time getting all the most used modules to use the same UX. Panels looks and acts totally differently to Views, both of which are totally different to Blocks.

We found a module the other day that had a Delete TAB, not a button, not a link but a TAB. Honestly. Who does that?

Sometimes the save button is at the bottom, sometimes the top, sometimes it saves via AJAX...

What they should do is like the module HOOK system, do the same for the user experience/GUI front end.

And Drupal is so slow. So painfully slow. Install a few modules and e-commerce and wow. Slow. Slow. Slow.

And as soon as you start debugging it, nearly all the code ends up being along the lines of:

$function($args);

due to the HOOKs. When you're five or six levels deep and the call stack is just full of $function() calls... what then?
As a former MtG player, I remember the gambler's high I'd get opening every booster pack. But while my cards are sitting in a dusty box somewhere, it sounds like there's a lot of recirculation that happens within the Valve community.
(Note that I am not the person you replied to.)

I do honestly feel that there should be a law against that in the society which I live in, since I find such actions taken by the restaurant owner to be manipulative and purposefully deceptive (excuse me for not coming up with better terms, I am not a native English speaker), knowing that many people -- not all of them, but many -- thus end up drinking far more than they would personally intend to.

I see no reason to promote such dishonesty, deception and misleading actions towards customers within a society, especially when the vulnerable ones are not vulnerable to it by choice, but by nature. It's the exact same thing which goes on with say gambling addicts or alcoholics. And no, I am not arguing for giving up the notion of personal responsibility, but I am arguing that these actions exploit vulnerabilities in people, which I see as no different from a ethical point of view than say committing a fraud against someone you know who has a psychological or neurological condition making them vulnerable for excess goodwill (or, someone suffering from e.g. dementia).
Does that mean the fundamental problem is the inability to resell in-game purchases?
Why the death of advertising could be a bad thing? Its usefulness is way overrated when it comes to the common good.
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Don't turn your nose up at sales & marketing. Don't prematurely optimize. Don't question everything.
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"These newer games do seem to have a different financial model that exploits addiction in potentially a much more dangerous fashion."

It's mostly that they're "casual" and, most importantly, primarily mobile. Which means they follow you everywhere as you conduct your life.
Why is the author so concerned about the laptop getting stolen? Even if you know nothing about GPG, your laptop should be encrypted. Even if you somehow can't use full-disk encryption, your private key should be protected with an equally strong passphrase. The thief gets nothing but a useless chunk of base64-encoded blob.

Now of course this doesn't mean that subkeys are unnecessary, but the author should probably find a more realistic threat model that readers who are already privacy-conscious can more easily sympathize with.
This is great that they are giving these people a chance to learn marketable skills so when they get out of prison they can stay out of prison.

At the same time the following passage makes we wonder if a big component of this might be tech companies looking to exploit these people for cheap labor, "starting next year, Code.7370 graduates will earn as much as $20 an hour writing code for businesses outside the prison walls through a new non-profit Turn2U Inc."
When you buy a boat or a Rolex, you own a boat or a Rolex. Now you can buy all Star Citizen's ship you will own nothing, if tomorrow they decide to close their servers you are pretty much screwed.
Thanks. That was a lot of fun, and hats off to your nice programs!

Something that I think is a problem with math, is that lots of us have ideas about math, but if it's not "school math," then they look at you like some kind of freak. And I think this is actually more prevalent among parents than teachers, but the demands of parents (including the demands of college entrance exams) do have a lot of impact.
Naked CLT sucks at impact damping, but so does naked concrete. You really need to think things through (methods of attachment for vents and pipes, flanking problems, etc), and to add some stuff to dampen the impact (on that same page they suggest adding a suspended ceiling with resilient mounts, giving an IIC of 62, which is pretty good).
> So these games usually have a bunch of people who hate the game (Griefers) yet keep playing to grief others with relatively better success.

Sounds eerily similar to a ponzi scheme.
>Why it’s time all African countries banned skin lightening creams

This will just increase the racial tension between Africans and white people, which will just make the racism worst.
>Look, this is just commerce at work.

And? Oil drilling and pharmaceutical production is just commerce at work. As is child labor, sex trafficking, drug trade, and slavery.
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The most expensive schools are research universities. That's where the money is going: research is getting more and more expensive. By definition, the only problems remaining are the most difficult ones.

You used to be able to make great progress against a problem with a pen, paper, and a good mind. Now, to do anything notable, you'll need an observatory, a particle collider, a supercomputer, a top-tier bio lab, a chemical synthesis plant, etc.

Also, good pamphlet material like beautiful dorms costs a lot, but I find this argument to be weak considering most of the really expensive schools don't have very amazing-looking facilities.