skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was research? I saw a romanticizing of celebrity musicians as cute little kittens, where it went on and on about, "Aww, look how adorably sensitive they are."

For one thing, anyone who trains in music develops a heightened awareness to subtleties in sound. It is not surprising at all for a musician to report an awareness of richness in sound that others don't bother with. Just like a carpenter probably would report a deep awareness of grain in wood and how it affects the structural integrity or something similar.

Performance art is where people put their emotional extremes on showcase. Obviously the ones with the most extremeness are going to get the most attention from people who want to see that sort of thing. People who are "highly sensitive" are an extreme, and their display of emotions are going to appear more intense, and thus more exciting for performance art consumers.

How about doing research on the types of people who would be so obsessive about watching other people's pain and joy? Why do they get so wrapped up in the "charisma" of a performer, and needing to see something private put on display in an artificial way?
Nope..Cork sandals will produce the same effect. It's not highly individual, it is highly reported many times by many people, but usually cast off as irrelevant or unimportant to people's daily life...
It actually goes beyond just making you more frustrated. Venting, or catharsis, makes you feel better in the short term, creating a positive feedback loop in which you seek it out and engage in it more often, making you more aggressive and worsening the situation. (http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/08/11/catharsis/)
Ask HN: 1 hour/same day services statistics
Dear HN,

I'm exploring some ideas with 1 hour services, however I'm struggling to find any data on this - growth, revenue, customer satisfaction, retention, cohort analysis... anything that shows which direction this market is shifting in.

Has anyone seen any data or analysis regarding services like Prime Now, Postmates, Shyp, or other similar ones?
Mmm. There's a connotation with shields that they are just as you say, protective in nature. There's consequently a negative association with their removal. However, the person's still being protected from undesired input while they're looking for a job: The criteria for desirable/acceptable have changed. Their 'shields,' using those criteria, are still up.

It's a tricky analogy that, as you note, is easy to misunderstand. The writer may not have meant it in the sense that it was received.
> It's funny to see LGBT-right advocates side with radical islamists.

After talking to these people, I've repeatedly heard arguments like "well, they have been born in Ramallah, not Florida". Which is the worst kind of racism: thinking that certain groups of people just don't have to adhere to the same standards, essentially, treating them as kids and not responsible adults.

Kids that attach people to trucks and drag them through the streets for being gay. But hey, they're oppressed themselves, so it's not really their fault.
What's the website?
I've wanted to play this on iOS for so long! Very frustrating to see it Windows only still :-( If anyone from MS is here, please please please consider compiling this for iOS, I know a lot of people who would buy it.

I believe OpenAge is cross platform, but sadly most friends all use the version they purchased on Steam.
And even more specifically, I do believe the problems stem most from American teenage behavior, because while kids are kids the world around, American culture does have a much higher degree of judgemental behavior. I'm an American and my eyes were opened to how different it really is in the U.S. compared to other countries when I moved abroad several years ago.
What is the different compared to bootstrap, foundation and semantic-ui?
I was surprised to see it downvoted so much, there was nothing bad about the comment, I found it rather charming.
Give crochet a try. I've used it recently to build a FreeBSD 11 image for RPi B+ recently and it just works.
Because things can get so fucking annoying to the point that you feel the need to drop f-bombs everywhere. What's so wrong with the word fuck? It is so versatile.
This model only has 512MB, minus 16MB for the video system.
Well, they overlap a lot but in general, we have added a lot more functionalities in terms of components and styling. You will have lot more freedom in terms of customization.
Well...

Let's say that there's certain political movement A. And that certain _other_ political forces B are seeing that this political movement can be beneficial to them, so they infiltrate it and help it.

Does it really mean that everyone who supports A is really covertly working for B? Don't you allow the possibility that a lot of people supporting A don't even think about B and are sincere in their support of the issue?
I got it going a few days ago, have been meaning to update the guide and post some images so people can skip the compilation. Star the repo for updates.

You're probably thinking of the opensolaris module. There's a small patch to apply and some KERNCONF to trigger the module build but otherwise its straightforward -- once you know where to look!
From the article:

> Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi identified openness and sensitivity as oppositional personality elements that not only coexist in creative performers, but form the core of their personalities.
This article is actually far less helpful an overview then the earlier article mentioned at the top "Google is tracking students as it sells more products to schools, privacy advocates warn"[0]. It is really only introducing one new angle to the debate which is interesting enough, but I recommend reading the earlier one first.

It raises the far more interesting point that Google's Apps For Education policies are very granular and services such as Google Search and YouTube are allegedly not covered under the primary agreement - they carry completely different T&C's and may be used for advertising and data harvesting. It is highly likely that students logged in to GMail or Google Docs and doing schoolwork will be doing searches and watching (hopefully) educational videos to learn more about a subject. Those activities may not be covered by the educational use privacy policy.

What percentage of parents know this, even among those that bothered to check the T&C's? Did they notice the exception? What percentage of teachers or school administrators take the initiative and disable all non-core Google Apps For Education services like Google Search (which are enabled by default)? This is the conversation parents and school administrators need to be having.

I don't begrudge a advertising giant like Google from relentlessly collecting and data mining users to manipulate them, that's what ad companies do after all. Savvy users and regulators know this and can take appropriate action to guide the less-technical with safe defaults. I do think the defaults here are not safe from a privacy perspective, and I wonder if the time has come to re-examine whether the non-core services not covered by the educational privacy terms should be disabled by default.

[0]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/12/28...
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xargs doesn't pass its arguments to the shell, it directly invokes exec:

$ echo 'test $(foo bar) test' | xargs echo
test $(foo bar) test
$ echo 'test $(foo bar) test' | xargs python -c 'print(len(__import__("sys").argv))'
5

the $ and ( are nothing special to xargs, nor to echo (or wget).

Not to say yay xargs is always great, just that this specific counter example doesn't hold up.
The actual framework is st http://rs-uikit.kodhus.com
Hi there, I think you've read too much into what I was trying to say (which was my concern before I started answering you).

I'm not saying the research isn't useful, but rather that the way it was described in this article raised doubt about just how far the findings go in answering the deepest questions about consciousness (at least compared to what was implied in the headline).

I agree with you that I'm in no position to refute the countless hours of work by people far more more educated on the topic than me.

And I'm not saying we have no way of understanding consciousness, just that there's a limit to how deeply we can ultimately understand it, as at some point you'd have to step outside of your own consciousness. But if your position is that the same may be true for matter because fundamentally matter and consciousness may be inseparable, well I'm very open to that.

The comment of mine that you responded to was just answering someone else's question on the issue of whether the brain generates consciousness, or carries it in some other form.

I have no strong opinion on the matter; I take great interest in reading various hypotheses and philosophies and research studies, and the outcome is that just as you say, I don't have any idea what consciousness really is, because nobody else seems to either (though Roger Penrose's hypothesis about "quantum microtubules" is kinda cool, and seems to have some evidence to support it [1]).

Also, I'm with you on the uncertainty principle and the inability to observe matter with complete objectivity. But I resisted going there in the comment because, like I said, it's a rabbit hole.

But I really do look forward to more being discovered and debated about it.

[1] http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140116085105.ht...
What you are asking is not what the article is saying.
So...?
I think the ultimate problem with emulation is the disk image: how do you image a disk with these subtle timing errors? The default behavior of the software operating the drive isn't aware of half tracks; every vendor uses different tricks so you don't know which 'timing errors' to activate; etc.
Here's another copy of the essay with a little more context: http://archive.cspo.org/projects/plausibility/files/read_Pol...
> At the lowest level of income in a society, you're poor, as everyone else is making more than you do.

That doesn't sound like the correct definition of being poor. To me - poverty isn't relative but absolute: if you live on less than $X amount a day, you're poor. The amount may vary, depending on who you ask (and where), and this amount depends on the cost of living rather than income percentiles.

If most people makes more than you, you are poorer than them - but not necessarily in poverty (or poor). I can safely say there are no poor Apple engineers, regardless of the existance of someone being the least paid Apple engineer.
> You do not have to compete on number of features to make your product saleable. Most customers do not buy most products because they have more features than competitors.

Although it seems logical that people would be willing to pay for something that provides value but won't they (at least try) to see similar alternative before they start paying? I listened to a podcast by Rob Walling, in which he speaks how there was considerable churn because people weren't able to differentiate his product (Drip) from Mailchimp.

Surely, I can't put myself in the shoes of a non-technical buyer, but first thought seems to suggest me that if you start building a A/B testing software for a niche segment, first question you will have to answer to potential customers is how is it different from VWO or Optimizely.
Interesting that all of the discussion is rambling about IntelliJ in general (e.g. Is it slow? Is it better than this other IDE? Ermagherd, Java sucks! Etc).

Nothing about the actual specific topic, which is that one of the most prominent development tools in the Java ecosystem now expects the current Java version to be installed.

Expecting the current version might sound mundane to a Rubyist or Node person (and it might sound like a pipe dream to a wistful Pythonist!). However, it's a pretty big change in the Java world. Backwards compatibility is highly prized...and tool or library authors have always been reluctant to use current language features, for fear of excluding users stuck on old versions.

Back when I was working in "the enterprise world", it wasn't unheard to see shops still stuck on 1.4 long after Java 7 had been released. Up until a few years ago, it was sometimes still a big deal for libraries to start incorporating generics (introduced with Java 5 in 2004).

Java 8 was SUPPOSED to an even bigger shift than Java 5, with an even slower adoption rate. However, for some reason it feels like the opposite is proving true. I'm seeing tools and libraries move to Java 8 shockingly soon compared to past experience.

I wonder why this is. Perhaps after the rocky Java 5 migration, large companies embraced the practice of updating their deployed versions more frequently? Maybe it's Oracle releasing new Java versions every two years now, and being more aggressive about end-of-life'ing the prior versions? Or perhaps it's just that I've been out of the enterprise environment and working for startups instead these past several years, and the situation in large companies is still as conservative and outdated as ever?
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> I'll give you an example: from what I understand, Larry Ellison doesn't actually sell his stock in order to buy islands. He uses it as collateral to secure a loan. Those loans (something like 10 billion dollars worth at this point) can be spent/invested/leveraged, but it's not directly taxable because it's a loan.

Right, but if he converts money into land, the land does get taxed. Additionally, he pays a sales tax when he purchases the land.

> That's the kind of thing that you can do when you have a few billion. You don't even have to spend your own money. The net increase in the value of his real estate holdings is more than enough to pay the interest.

False. He is spending his own money, because he still pays back the loan. He borrows money, buys some land, then pays the loan back.
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> "only" got 15 likes.... and were considering deleting it!

> I deleted it because it had about -5 points.

I wonder if you're the one more concerned with the feedback and likes than your niece, and you're what caused her to delete it. Why are you worrying about the negative comments they receive and bothering them about your worries, which they then respond to by deleting what worries you? I can see an alternative view where from their perspective it was more like, "Gah, my uncle is stalking my IG and freaking out on me; deleting to make this drama go away!"
Well ... With all due respect. The primary incentive for a man in nightlife is girls. The guy on the right most likely didn't get much of a chance in that area. The guy on the left might enjoy sober nightlife quite a lot. Girls prefer sober men.
Occasional slowness is probably not caused by Java, but by background code inspections and indexing. Try setting IntelliJ (and RubyMine, etc.) on mobile/energy saving mode and you will have a faster experience, but with less functionality.
You have to get to cockroach-level-drunk before it might happen.
This would be a powerful argument against turning over ICANN's responsibilities to an international agency (i.e. an agency dominated by authoritarian governments like China). I hope the EFF and other advocates of a free, borderless Internet will take notice.

Who knows, maybe Microsoft did this on purpose as a not-so-subtle hint of what's to come.
I earned a 4 year degree in fine arts, have exhibited my work, and make a point to try to create at least one new work each week. I have never made it my career, but art is certainly one of my larger hobbies. By your definition, though, because I actively pursue it and call myself an artist, even though society has not noticed it or given me positive reviews... that means I am not a "true artist".

So I must disagree - one is an artist if you make art that is meaningful to yourself. I have known many artists over the years, and most of us just quietly do our own work for our own reasons. I will not go so far to accuse people who do it for society's reviews and recognition to not be artists - that would be dismissive of their own goals. But artists have varying reasons for doing their work, and trying to define a "true artist" is going to invalidate someone unfairly.
Oh yeah absolutely. I remember Occupy Wall street had the right idea until it got filled with AFA-filth and other shit.

I still think Occupy Wall street had/has a point.
There have been a number of informal polls over the years. Here's a link to an aggregation thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4397332
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This is an accumulation over the 4 month period, not a total issue count on the tracker. So... there were already many issues in the backlog before the measurement window started, and 500 new issues were opened during the period. :-/
> people horrified that someone they disagree with might be allowed to have a voice on the national stage.

You haven't been paying attention to events of the past few years.

The SJWs have been very clear that the only permitted voice is theirs. That anyone who questions them deserves to be shunned, censored, shut down, vilified, and attacked.

> As it is I find it kind of frightening how much anger seems to be building up around what appears to be a fabricated danger.

You're out of touch with events.

In the 1940's we had 18-20 year-olds go "over the top" in France. D Day, Iwo Jima, etc. Now, we have 18-20 year-olds hug pillows in "safe spaces" because someone who disagrees with them is giving a presentation in another building.

I submit that exchanging bravery for cowardice is a net loss for society.

You're getting downvoted because your comments are at odds to most peoples experiences.

See the witch-hunting that went on with the University of Virginia rape accusation. Or the Duke Lacrosse team. In both case, self-proclaimed SJWs found the groups guilty. And demanded sanctions, bans, "forced education", public shaming, etc.

Later, of course, the accusations turned out to be false. The prosecutor in the Duke Lacrosse case was disbarred for his activities in what can only be called a witch hunt.

I submit that the rule of law is better than public lynchings. That careful analysis of events is better than knee-jerk reactions.

Try joining an SJW group and asking questions, or raising a dissenting opinion. You'll see group-think enforced with a speed and efficiency that rivals communist party meetings.

And see the public statements by people who've left SJW groups. Olivia Benson led the charge against "double plus ungood" thinkers. No tactic, no matter how slimy was beneath her. After she left, she publicly said that the SJW attacks on her were worse by far than the attacks from the people she opposed.

When the "evil" groups act nicer than the "good" groups, I submit that you have your labels reversed.

And lastly:

> I've yet to see anyone imprisoned for their speech by SJWs.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guthrie_vs._Elliott

He's on trial for "criminal harassment". An examination of the public facts shows that no such thing occurred. He publicly disagreed with SJWs. They then worked together to find ways to get him charged.

His bail restrictions have destroyed his life. The judge could have forbid him from using twitter, or having contact with his accusers, or making public statements about the trial. Instead, as a self-employed graphical designer, he was banned from using the Internet for until the trial was over.

Whatever the result of the trial, the SJWs have succeeded in using the criminal justice system to destroy an opponent.

I submit that such behavior is unethical, reprehensible, and fundamentally opposed to anything resembling "justice".

That's why you're getting downvoted. You're saying such behavior isn't that bad, and that the anti-SJWs are terrible people.

No, no, they're not. The SJWs have a long track record of evil behavior. And of shaming, shunning, lying, and attacking anyone who disagrees with them.
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Are you saying all older engineers are raging egomaniacs? Because that sounds pretty ageist to me.
The original PNG of that PBF comic is 671,012 bytes.
ZopfliPNG crunches it down to 585,117 bytes.

Not bad, but if you use newer image formats, you can do better.

Lossless WebP brings it down to 429,696 bytes (using -lossless -m 6 -q 100)

FLIF with default options (which means interlaced for progressive decoding) takes it down to 322,858 bytes.
Non-interlaced FLIF reduces it further to 302,551 bytes.
I know a bunch of companies who make money with old ideas.

Most of them just appeal to special kind of customers.

Some only target small businesses, some only consumers, some only big corps. This alone is often enough to differentiate from others.
HN != Reddit.
And Netflix is the only source of UHD, at least in my parts of the world. Which made me pay them even more for that subscription now when I bought a UHD TV last week. Oh, and I just ended my good old regular cable subscription one month ago.
This article is also on Ted Dziuba's current site, where you don't need to go way back to see it:

http://widgetsandshit.com/teddziuba/2010/10/taco-bell-progra...
What do you believe communism is and how do you believe it goes counter to human nature? It's an impossible thing to discuss without nailing down exactly what it is you are talking about as most people haver wildly diverging ideas of what it implies.

But most people seem to tend to think that communism requires some kind of pure altruism to work (and to be fair, there have been socialist and communists that also believed that), but a central aspect of Marxism is the opposite:

The working class must learn to value its own work and not buy into the subjective moralism of the capitalist classes (that tend to ascribe virtue to wealth: if you're rich, it is generally assumed to be an indicator you have worked hard, while poverty equally is suspect), but be willing to grab the proceeds of their labour. Marx spent a considerable amount of time ripping to shreds early "utopian socialism" (Fourier, Owens et. al) for failing to understand this amongst other failings.

The very insistence of revolution as the mechanism for social upheaval in Marxism is explicitly that Marx did not believe that the ruling classes would be willing to give up privileges willingly even in the face of election defeats, and so once a sufficient working class majority comes into being, sooner or later there would be conflict.

An egalitarian system according to Marx is a desirable, advanced stage of society, but it will come into being, he argues, not because it is the right thing, but because it is the only possible next step: the working classes can only overcome the power of the capitalist classes through sheer numbers, and can unite only because capitalism eventually creates a situation where carving up the pie equally becomes a net improvement for a rapidly growing majority: The rational choice for most of us to maximize our own wealth is an equal distribution the moment the majority of wealth is health by a minority of people, because most of us will otherwise be in the majority that receives less (and for this reason he was insistent that a socialist revolution would fail if attempted somewhere not advanced enough to allow redistribution to eradicate poverty - if it instead merely spread poverty out, class struggles would resume).
Great advice! I need to exclude large data-only folders in my project directories and if I sometimes forget to do this then the IDE is not as performant.
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Athenians and Romans were definitely on the left.