skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you'll enjoy this lecture by linguistics professor George Lakoff: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5f9R9MtkpqM

Among other things he speaks of the think-tank-driven concerted effort to influence political support by using language invoking specific metaphors to frame important issues.

Like "Tax Relief" for dramatically reducing taxes for the rich etc.

Changed how I process political speech and pretty much any media-supported narrative.
It's always fucking awkward. My anticipatory cringe starts about 2 minutes into any interview.
Yeah, pretty much. I get real embarrassed when Atheists make fun of people for santa clause in the sky and such. Let people believe what they want, it's a hard universe.
Good writeup

I think 5 is solved by 2 as it blocks the Like buttons everywhere, no?
Stallman is my hero.

All social media is terrible, and all of it is impossible to profit from, and I bet all of it will eventually fail. Facebook doesn't make any money from social media, they make money from side businesses that are tacked onto their social media platform.

Anyone who is interested in social blogging should have their own website (wordpress.com is free) with RSS support so people who like what you write can follow your posts. RSS is not controlled by any corporation. That is the internet way of doing social media.

this is slightly off-topic but I read Zuckerberg's accounts got hacked because he used 'dadada' as a password on multiple services. People have called him a genius, he does not appear to be that exactly.
It would effectively be a dead giveaway. Exhaustively searching all combinations of three characters takes trivial time even in an excruciatingly slow hash.
OK, understood. Thank you.
Who here has frequently used facebook and then got off the platform? What's been the hardest part without it? Was it hard? Do you feel disconnected or has communication actually been affected with the people who matter to you?
You've been using HN primarily to comment on divisive political topics. That's not what this site is for. Please take a look at what we're looking for:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

This was a particularly good thread not to poison with polemic, because the only value of an article like this on Hacker News is what it might teach us about history. It's probably hopeless to imagine that we could have a substantive discussion about the history of homosexuality in Islam, but a first comment like yours squashes what faint hope there might have been.

It's extremely easy to link hot topic X back to whatever is sitting in L1 cache about hot politics Y, show up first in the thread and dump it out. Thoughtful reactions are invariably much slower. But it's the thoughtful reactions we want (and the cache dumps that we don't want). This is a big problem. Please don't use the site this way.
Actually it's a terrible interview because the interviewer won't shut up and is far less knowledgable than the person he's interviewing.

The "EQ settings" on the mic are actually to compensate for proximity effect. On the U87 it starts cutting at 1k -- way above what the interview states.

http://www.coutant.org/u87ai/u87.pdf

Another mic commonly seen in broadcast (and top podcasts) is the Shure SM7. Has similar switches, and even comes with a plate you can screw over the top of them so people don't futz with the settings.
> about this evergreen island

I'd say it is somewhat ever-yellow/red-ish :)
Are you trying to say that RMS is an irrational zealot? I agree with you wholeheartedly! But he changed the world with persistent application of irrational and at times childish zeal. Many would say the change was for the better.

The problem IMO is not that he uses dishonest rhetorical devices but that his recent proclamations sound old and boring and failing to confer sufficient emotional charge to the reader.
In Denmark in supetmarkets 25% of the price goes to advertising. I suspect in US this is similar if not worse. So I guess that a part of the reason for cheap vegetables is that in Chinatown they do not need to advertise.
Interesting that there's no mention of the normal amount of bear activity there.
With automatic location detection of many callers today, I wonder if the 911 services can play an automatic recording for callers identified calling from a hyper-specific location. Then many people calling from the same location about the same incident will hear a recording that tells them "X incident has been reported and is being responded to, press any key or hold if you are calling about another incident".
Look up the definition.

A perverse appeal or suck-up.

Trump or Fox News would both be examples of highly successful (and distasteful) pandering.
I agree with you. Watermarking hurts only pirates. Who would trust a watermarking remover ?
UX looks very slick.

What sets this apart from the plethora of similar tools?

EDIT: Also crate should be create on the homepage ;)
Beyond the price, I've been doing almost all of my produce shopping at smaller markets for years as a way to avoid excess packaging.

I browsed a Whole Foods last weekend and nearly everything had some form of label wrapped around the stem, was stored in a plastic mesh sack, etc.

Whole Foods promotes environmental awareness as part of its package, but a full shop there would create a significant amount of waste / recycling compared to shopping at a local farm with a basket.
> Not trying to be stereotypical but perhaps it's just because Chinese people simply value price more than other people?

That is a negative way of saying Chinese people are better at making stuff cheap.

Things are cheap because their raw costs are cheap to begin with. So it is not about "valuing price", but paying for the actual cost that is appropriate.
There seems to be some bizarre skepticism by some HNers of financial institutions' AML practices. But the thing is, AML is really difficult and expensive for banks, hiring floors of consultants dedicated to AML. This is a billion dollar problem (or more?). Whatever about training a CNN to classify images, an effective ML model/pipeline to tackle AML will break the back of a huge problem.
Would there be something wrong with a Trading block made up of countries that contain people who share a common culture? e.g. mostly but not exclusively white people in countries such as Australia, Canada, United States, Ireland, Scotland and so on. Nine out of ten of us have direct relations in these places. It could be called: The Anglo-sphere ex the Third World or Commonwealth 2.0.

If so, why is that?

Your answer must make sense in the context of the AU and ASEAN.

> I thought Brexit was intended as a nationalist policy to protect jobs

No. This is a misunderstanding perpetuated by media which is why they imagine babbling about currency fluctuations matters. It is true that people are (reasonably) angry about stagnant wages and a high cost of living but if they wanted handouts the Leave Campaign would have been largely about that, which it wasn't despite the press's noise making machine.

To explain fully I'll unfortunately need to break Godwin's law but it's for a good purpose, which is to use an historical comparison with knowledge you already know. When Hitler swept into power it is true that the middle classes were suffering from dire deprivation. It is however not true that he was voted in on economic grounds. When people get angry enough about circumstances they become political, and economic considerations become secondary. That's what you're seeing now. It's not like university students who are Marxists for a season, once you turn working class people political it is not easily undone.

This has a nasty implication that the establishment press is steadfastly refusing to acknowledge, which is that voiding the results of this referendum will almost certainly lead to violence. That's not an idle threat. One person has already been murdered as you know, and nearly 50% of those 52% of voters believed the government would tamper with the vote. Waving the idea of ignoring this result is like waving a red flag in front of a bull. If you think the police are going to protect students from working class rioters you are mistaken, which will mean unless they're willing to risk martial law the Remain camp must back down.
Facebook is also a "legal" spammer and it spams a lot. Had once registered with a fake account just to test some application and since then every day or so facebook sends me messages like "You might know these people" with some random guys or "You have received a notification". I haven't visited facebook maybe for a year but is still sends me messages daily.

Luckily I used a separate email account for registration so I just redirected all emails from facebook to a spam folder.
I hear people say that, but I keep seeing things that are cheaper at Whole Foods than they are at Safeway. Identical products, like Endangered Species brand 88% dark chocolate and Racer 5 IPA beer are cheaper at my local Whole Foods than they are at Safeway. $3.29 vs $3.99 and $4.99 vs $5.99, respectively. Their produce and meat may be more expensive, but appears to be of higher quality.

I'm not actually sure how much more expensive Whole Foods is compared to a place like Safeway.
For what it's worth, we are currently working on an actual UI as an alternative to the console interface. :-)
I complain because they used to offer unencumbered binaries, and now they don't. I complaing about the change of policy, not just the new policy.
What mechanical arms for holding laptops are available?
I would like a mechanical arm that I can use to hold a laptop in a variety of positions, allowing for example, typing while leaning back in a chair, or lying on my back in a horizontal position. I think this would be of use to many people, for example people with physical disabilities as well as people who want to work in a different body position for a while. What good solutions are available?
Whether you pay it directly, or thru property tax, how is there a difference?

The difference is, if the firemen are government employees, they can vote themselves rich.

http://www.publicsectorinc.org/2014/06/firefighter-pay-shows...
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On the flip side, whenever I go to local farms, I find the prices to be high. I am not sure why this happens. For example, a pound of tomatoes just the other day at a local farm was $5.99 and my local Whole Foods was selling organic tomatoes for $2.99. I also can never seem to find organic produce from local farms.
For a vocal/voiceover mic loud sounds are not a concern. (The U87 has a pad switch for those cases separate from the proximity/EQ switch.)

The things you mention (vibrations, LF rumble) are typically handled by the highpass on the mic preamp and are in the 75 or 80Hz range. In musical terms, that's 4+ octaves below the 1k proximity rolloff on the mic itself.
He refuses to use the commonly established language which distorts reality. It is a radical choice (given how well established the manipulative language is).

I can see how some may find this irritating. You may want to take a look at this lecture to see why language is so important and influential.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5f9R9MtkpqM
I don't work at Google so I don't know, but a common way to prevent/identify data theft is to "watermark" your data.

You create false records that you can identify, but someone else looking at the data could not. Then, if you find these false records in someone else's product, you know that they stole your data.

A good watermark is: provably false in a court (couldn't just be a "mistake" or typo), identifiable by you in the future, and part of the public value of the data.

You should also keep detailed records of your process for creating the fake data. Type it out, print it, and mail it to yourself. Don't open the envelope. If you need to prove that you've been using this watermark for years, you'll have that document (with the postmarked date) as evidence.
Asparagus is harvested in the winter!
Don't add people you know In real life and don't let people you know friend you.
Ye it is - but in case you want to block them on a router for other network clients that don't have uBlock or equiv. available
As is often the case with his writing I find his language and style (conspiracy theorist vibe works just as well) so grating that I couldn't complete the piece. He ends up, as in other pieces, sounding pompous purely for the sake of it.

So I'll never know what the underlying point was if it wasn't entirely in the first subsection.
I had a bad time recently with one of those when the IVR system tried to verify my security questions. I ended up making farty sounds at it to get it to give up.
It's good, but actually nobody uses-it ?
When you describe the natural sound of someone's voice as if it were pathological or the product of incompetent mic/broadcast technique, you're moving past "preference" and into something darker.
Also, any sound engineer who claims he has never eq'd a voice, an instrument, a venue to perfection listening to the subtle changes of the sound signature as he did so, only to find that the eq was in bypass the whole time is lying.

Don't ask me how I know.
>The USA keeps popping up as an example, but their homogeneity is the result of a civil war which was their bloodiest war to date.

This backs up my claim. Though our homogeneity wasn't the result of the war.

> And Europe is not that diverse.

I don't even. It's fairly white...But not diverse? Are you kidding?

> What's the problem in the single currency or in the unifying political body?

Disproportionate outcome of opportunity. Greece voted fat pensions and benefits for their citizenry (as did Spain and Italy) and in order to protect the currency and the political stability of the EU Germans are stuck footing the bill. Common currencies work when it is relatively easy for anyone (including lower classes) to up and move within the region of the common currency to get a new job. The diverse culture, language differences, and disparate sovereignties in the EU make this difficult. Hence the bailouts and the blowback.

>divided we'll be at their whims

United you're holding each other hostage. You guys look like the Microsoft org chart right now.
Cf
http://www.globalnerdy.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011...
Stanford (and also MIT, I believe) have open-sourced their intro to CS courses
You could build a chat bot that does that.
exFAT was supposed to be the new standard. But Microsoft went a little crazy with patents and license restrictions. As a result it's about as popular as JPEG2000.

It's actually a shame. A better file system for removable devices was a huge opportunity for an open standard.

Ideally they could have released a filesystem that was backwards (read at least) compatible. Large files could show up as multipart files when viewed as FAT32.
That's due to the person being close to the mic. A flat microphone, by definition, emphasizes nothing. Moreover it's other aspects of the signal chain (compression, distortion, broadcast filters) that accentuate sibilance.
I have two family members and one friend who are school teachers.

All use fake names[0] on Facebook because they don't want to be harrassed by parents or students online. Apparently, it is very common (both the harassment and teachers using aliases)

[0] Usually a real first name with an altered/shortened surname
Another question is "why shouldn't I create new houses and apartments and create more profit"? This is true whether or not that person/company already owns apartments in that place. The market is global.
Actually they have a point. When you're "young" (ie in you twenties), then you miss quite some social events not using facebook. It's sad, but it's true.

Nevertheless I don't use it, but sometimes I wish I did.
I think ORMs are a great tool to get something off the ground quickly. Like with most tools you will hit a point where they make things more difficult and then it's probably time to switch to SQL only or mix SQL with ORM especially for performance critical queries. In most applications I have seen the ORM provided a lot of value but there were cases where it needed to be augmented with raw SQL.

I never understand why people want one or the other exclusively. Both have their place.

I think stored procedures would be very useful if they integrated better with source control and the app code. Maybe we need an ORM for stored procedures that automatically creates stored procedures from the project code?
Yes sounds like it. Plus if the option is a geo coordinate then it's impractical to list them all. I don't see the problem with meta data or assumed knowledge.
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There is bass rolloff in the mic even when set flat. This is the proximity filter designed to correct for the way the mic responds when it is close to a source.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximity_effect_(audio)
The story behind Nikesh Arora's resignation at Softbank
> So what's stopping the mainstream supermarkets from doing the same thing, undercutting their competition while simultaneously increasing their profit margins?

you need to provide carrots/bananas/apples whole year while each is exactly the same as the other.
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And this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Fifths_Compromise
There may not be an incentive to recognize money laundering "too well" but there is incentive to get better. FinCEN will continue to raise the stakes of what is an acceptable AML program and staying ahead of the curve reduces the probability of a future fine.
Have you shopped at Whole Foods or Bristol Farms for seasonal products? Compared to the major grocery store chains their produce is leaps and bounds better. I don't believe in the organic marketing crap but their food, especially when it comes to fruit, is amazing, unlike anything you can find at Kroger, Publix, or Safeway.

Cherries, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, peaches, pears, apples, tomatoes, and countless of other produce taste much better than anything I can get at a normal grocery. Hell, I have very fond memories of eating fresh food from my grandparents dacha or picking wild berries in the forest behind my school and the high end grocers are the only place where they taste even remotely as good as what I had in Russia. Russia.

You get what you are willing to pay for, especially when it costs two to three times the lower end.
The article mentions very little of Greece, and what little it does sounds like the headline is wrong:

> Mr Juncker said; Greeks made plain [by the referendum on the third bailout] they wanted to remain Europeans.

> No such goodwill exists for Britain, now an ex-member.

That sounds like the EU will not treat Britain like Greece.
> ORMs are more detriment than benefit

The author mentions Hibernate and SQLAlchemy, which are both DataMapper ORMs. But what about Active Record? It's true that AR will provide even more abstraction and distance from the database, but it also provides a lot more convenience, which for me in small CRUD projects (as most are) has been worth the downsides.

And as another posted mentioned, you can always optimize by replacing slow AR queries with custom SQL ones, and restructuring your database as your project scales.
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There will never be a problem with that in Sweden. They're averaging 328 births per day. They'd need to increase their population from 10 million to the size of the United States to bump up against that limit.

Sweden has added two million people in the last half century. In net terms, essentially all of those two million have been immigrants rather than born in Sweden. They're de-populating when you exclude immigration, because their birth rate is so low.

10,000 people per day would be like Sweden adding 1/3 to its population in the next year. That's never going to happen. They're #166 when it comes to birth rate. Based on their population gain rate, they'll need to worry about the four digit limit in about 2,000 to 3,000 years give or take.
Shameless plug: If you want scripting and you are not an nginx expert, mitmproxy has a really powerful Python scripting interface as well:

http://docs.mitmproxy.org/en/latest/scripting/inlinescripts....
https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/tree/master/examples
In total agreement with RMS on this.
I wish more people shared your outlook. Judging by some of the other comments here, in addition to the reply you received, I think we could all learn something from you!
I don't see the word Brexit in the article or HN comments. The article was first published 2011.
Probably be better to get some of the highest frequency components and then filter those out.
What makes these devices (e.g. the microphones, monitor speakers, the mixing console...) so hideously expensive isn't even the sound quality (even if I wouldn't expect anything short of the technically achievable performance in mic-preams, dynamic range/noise, ...).

This equipment will have to run 24/7, be constantly worked on, be easy to service, will likely have redundant power-supplies, maybe redundant DSPs/Routing/I/O. And if anything breaks, you'd expect to get a 100% drop-in replacement (in terms of frequency response, gain, ...) delivered over-night, or by a courier/technician.

Regarding the mixing consoles: For live-sound (the only area I know a little about), only recently a wealth of very affordable mixing-consoles have flooded the market, but anything slightly larger still sets you back ~€10k for an entry system (Midas Pro, Yamaha CL, Soundcraft VI, Allen-Heath GLD). And there, I suspect the number of units shipped is one or two orders of magnitude larger than what Lawo sells for fixed installation in studios.

Generally, the equipment will work flawlessly, even when hauled around every weekend and not handled very gently.
This doesn't tell even half the story.

The "heart of Tech City" in London - Old Street - has several office buildings without any kind of proper internet. You would think that a dense cluster of companies who all absolutely depend on having good connectivity would encourage BT and Virgin to serve the neighbourhood. Think again.

But even that pales in comparison to the absurd crapshoot of trying to get real fiber internet installed. The office building we are in already had Colt's fiber running to the basement when we moved in. It took nearly three months, and the involvement of lawyers, to get the wayleaves negotiated so the fiber could be extended from the basement to our office at the top floor. Through existing risers.

It would be wrong to say that fiber internet in the City of London is a joke. That would be unjust - a joke has a proper punchline. What's in place is at best a mockery.

And those of us who do have FTTP (Fiber To The Premise) are quick to forget just how awful the situation is for the have-nots.
> [...] but given SF's reputation in the last few years I'm not sure what to think of it :/

It seems to be better since it's under new management[1].

[1] https://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-acquisition-and-fut...