skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) Stopped reading and watching the news.

I found myself growing angrier, frustrated and confused by world events and world events as they are portrayed by the media.

I realised so much of it simply did not concern me or was just outside my sphere of influence. So I tuned out completely. I have no idea what is happening around the world.

I know that wilful ignorance has it's drawbacks but I have never had as much peace of mind.

2) Setting several alarms every night.

I usually have 3-4 alarms that go off between 1h 30m - 2h intervals every night.

By breaking up my awareness of sleep into segments I find it so much easier to get up in the morning feeling that I've slept for a long time.

I hated that feeling of waking up after 7hrs sleep feeling as if I've been sleeping for no more than 10 minutes.

3) Brush my teeth whilst taking a 5 minute power walk in my bedroom.

Nice burst of exercise before going to bed and my teeth have never been whiter :)

This falls under a host of other habit stacking things I do to combine tedious everyday activities.
Why are people downvoting this? This is a honest question, they had multiple tiers with some pretty damn silly stretch goals, or at least it can be considered a stretch as far as the actual costs go.

Kickstarter backers are getting the game now, for the rest of us we can preorder it for 48 GBP in the UK[1], on average each backer payed 104$ into the campaign, non backers can get a copy of the game now for 63$ (only 4$ more than the cheapest get a copy of the game option on kickstarter).

It's not that surprising that some people question what the money is actually being spent on during those KS campaigns, and with how many of them fail all the time due to mismanagement not to mention being potentially fraud cases to begin with I think it's a question worth asking.

I also think it's about time that Kickstarter forces companies to be more open and transparent about how they spend the money, Kickstarter already takes power from consumers because they become effectively investors but without any of the perks that come with being a shareholder and it just might be the time we get some of that power back.

[1]https://www.theboardgamehut.co.uk/preorders/116-scythe-preor...
I stopped using RSS readers after the demise of Google Reader & my shift to Twitter. But I can't live without these sites which take me almost to all the placed on the net :)
HackerNews- Daily morning read, can't live without it.
Slashdot - News for nerds, stuff that matters :)
Techmeme - A river of news to read corporate tech news.
Kottke - I am not kidding, I read it daily to impress my 8 year old daughter - from Pixar to movies to planet discoveries.
Techdirt - Interesting debates on tech policies.
Edge.org - If you really have good supply of Coffee & very solid conversations.

Enjoy.
>Can the UK do something like that i.e. get the best terms possible from the EU and then put that to a vote?

They already did that. EU was (understandably) tired of UK wanting to get yet more special treatment, so didn't offer much to Cameron when he went round.
That's what you'd like to think, but the numerous terms & conditions that you've agreed to for your apps means that you're wrong, some data isn't yours.
>Gove was clearly talking about a very specific subset of all possible 'experts' here - the ones from various (mostly governmental) acronymed organisations

The question was about the following "experts" (it was Gove who defined them as experts not the interviewer):

>The leaders of the US, India, China, Australia, every single one of our allies, the Bank of England, the IFS, the IMF, the CBI, five former NATO secretary generals, the chief executive of the NHS and most of the leaders of the trade unions in Britain
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That removed the plus signs. Thanks! :)
As a french man, this makes me sad.
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Thanks for the reply. Hope I will have time to join the hangout.
The precautionary principle is about as scientific as Pascal's Wager and for the same reasons.

It is not clear to the public this is a political policy, not an instrument of scientific thinking.
Same kind of thing is happening in Switzerland.

The people voted to restrict the number of foreigners that can go in the country which is against the treaty of free movement that Switzerland signed with the EU which probably (it has been a while since I looked up the consequences) make lots if not all the other treaties that Switzerland and the EU signed invalid. For example the EU is threatening to cut research funding among other stuff like partnership in space exploration...

The people that were against the law didn't think it would pass and didn't really fight against it and now Switzerland and the EU have until the end of year to agree on something. I wonder how it will pan out... Maybe a revote ? You probably didn't understand the consequences of this law. Are you sure you want this ?
The interaction between players in Dominion is botg subtle and powerful at the high level.

It is all about pacing an the impression of pace. In some regards it is like Cycling sprint discipline.

Watching top level Dominion games can be like watchig a different game. It has crazy, crazy depth and replayability.
The losing side made many, many more lies, much more severe and important. Just a few:

David Cameron, "I will not resign even if the vote is out". He resigned immediately.

Osborne, "if you vote out there will be a 'punishment budget' of huge spending drops and tax rises". Reality: he was gone immediately.

"If out wins Boris will be Prime Minister". Reality: May is PM.

"You will go to the back of the queue", Obama. Reality: State Department immediately reversed the US position. "I think given what has happened, the president is going to try and do both [trade deals with the EU and UK] at the same time," Kerry said. "He knows how to multitask."

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/state-dept.-in-damage-cont...

Osborne again: "EU will cost every household £4300 a year". Reality: this claim was garbage and was quietly retired after focus groups showed that nobody believed it, not even pro-EU campaigners.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36073201

"Leaving the EU means migrant camps moving from Calais to Dover". Reality: Le Tocquet agreement is independent of the EU, exists for practical reasons and France has confirmed it will remain in place.

Economists in general: "here are some models. believe them". I posted about what Krugman thinks of this elsewhere in the thread, as he has shown the problems with the way economists have behaved better than I can:

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/06/30/the-macroeconomi...
Sorry, you are really deluding yourself here. Not even in Scandinavia or in the Netherlands - where literally everybody speaks good english - english alone is enough.

You will always feel alienated without the local language.
Here's a source that they don't profit from it: http://marketingland.com/report-youtube-roughly-break-even-e...
Maybe the EU needs to rethink that "free movement" part.
If we're recommending books, there's "Music, Food and Love: A Memoir" by Guo Yue (whose name means "Little leap forward"). He grew up in the hutongs of Beijing, when food and traditional music were pretty much the only subjects you could talk about freely, he therefore became a musician and chef.

In fact he requested the position of flautist when he was forced to join the Red Army, a remarkable request, only more remarkable because they made the position for him.

Every chapter of his life is defined by the smells and flavours of the food at that time, and so each chapter ends with those recipies so you can experience it yourself.

He now owns a restaurant in London where he hosts 16 course banquets of his food, serenading the diners with his flute music.

He's a lovely guy and his memoir, and food is the closest I'll ever get to having a real feel for that time.
The whole Brexit hoopla was filled with dishonesty and anti-intellectualism

Sadly, both official campaigns were the worst kind of politics, with a lot of negative campaigning, full of half-truths and sometimes outright lies, frequently trying to make voters fear consequences that were highly unlikely, and frequently more about personalities than policies. The same was true of many interventions by various foreign leaders, mostly advocating Remain but again often through negativity about Leave rather than a positive message; their rhetoric was also being walked back within moments of the actual result being known.

I've had a few interesting discussions with friends and friends-of-friends, before and since the referendum itself. I've heard views, often strong ones, for both decisions articulated based on reasonable principles and rational arguments. I've seen intelligent, well-informed people reach either conclusion. However, many of the issues that ultimately persuaded those people one way or the other were hardly mentioned by the official campaigns, both of which focussed on the short term and on the economy and immigration for the most part.

Something I've seen many people, voting either way, agree on is that we don't really know why people chose to vote the way they did, which was always going to put whoever was in government after the vote in a tricky position because they would have a mandate to do something but little other guidance on how to set out the details. For example, in my personal experience I've met plenty of people who value the collaborative arrangements with our European neighbours on issues like trade and freedom of movement and the scientific research we're talking about in this discussion, yet who strongly dislike the EU as an institution because of some other aspects of membership. So far, I'd say roughly half of those people voted each way in the actual referendum, based on which outcome they thought was most likely to achieve the middle of the road path they really wanted. However, I have no reliable way to determine whether this sentiment is just a small clique around my own social network, or whether actually most people who voted had similar views and the hardline pro-EU Remain and anti-immigrant Leave voters who are getting most of the press are small but vocal minorities.
I just thought.. It would be great to have a website where mathematical formulas are expressed as pseudocode.
I actually agree, I (maybe consciously, maybe subconsciously) choose to read the news from the left, since the United Kingdom doesn't really have balanced news. The BBC, for example, might as well be the official state outlet of the Conservatives and American news democrats, with their outright disdain for Corbyn, and their refusal (with late acceptance) to publish stories about DNC leaks – I'm forced to pay for the BBC, I'm not forced to pay for news from the left.
Fun fact: on one of the art pictures you can see bear with satchel on his side that says 'Wojtek'. It's a reference to real bear named Wojtek that served during WW2 in Polish army: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojtek_(bear)
You need to understand that intent matters.

You're pointing to C because you want people to xor it with A (and you're probably telling them that, too).

When I say "there are dealers on the corner", I don't want you to buy drugs.

When someone else says the exact same thing, he might want you to buy drugs.

He and I are treated differently by the law.

Ad the second point: no, it's not!
You've got it the wrong way around. I'm not talking about convicting someone wihtout proof. On the contrary, I'm saying that the fact that we cannot prove every murder does not mean that the murder statute is fatally flawed and must be repealed.
I would say area of "concern" but not necessarily "expertise".
So, where are all the companies that are building next-generation developer tools and direct manipulation document and simulation tools? It has been a while since this video got released.
Facebook Friends suggest is getting creepy
I met someone in the course of work this week. He didnt have a mobile phone with him and I use a dumb phone thats not even connected to the Internet. Surprise, I just logged into Facebook and saw his name on my Friends suggest list.
How is that even possible? This is not the first time something like this has happened to me.
Can anyone please enlighten my ignorance about how Facebook does this?
Should we link to this post here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12196525

"How the Berlin Startup Scene Is Wasting Its Potential"

http://www.thelocal.de/20160729/how-the-berlin-startup-scene...
Indeed and I missed this in his byline at the end. However my observation is still relevant here for someone so enthralled by the Swedish startup scene, complaining about Berlin's management culture strikes me as hypocritical.
It is nothing like Game of Thrones. The person who made the comparison was probably just thinking of how you can choose order tokens to place, but Scythe's choices are simpler and more dynamic, and in other aspects of the game, it is quite different.
I worried about the same thing. Modern versions of Charles use a per-user root CA that is generated in the client.
Mail me and I'll put you in touch with my friend who did this.
Should we link to this post here?

"Berlin Is Now Home to 2,500 Startups"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12196101
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> Germany have always been a stickler for dubbing things though, maybe they don't put as much effort into it.

There are hardly any countries that put more effort into dubbing foreign movies than Germany, but in this points Germans are perfectionists: If a dubbing doesn't use all the possible nuances that the German language allows for the best possible translation, people will complain. I've read (can't give source, it was many years ago) that among computer translations for pairs of "popular" Western language pairs, the pair "English -> German" is among the most difficult to handle. In my humble opinion this is because German is very exact in its wordings and allows to express lots of subtleties by its very free ordering of clauses. This makes it necessary to read additional things into the original text, which computers have difficulties with.

There are even people who say that the German dubbing of some American movies is yet better than the English original.
Uk had the best possible deal in the EU.
Now, as a best case, they will pay the same amount of money (like Norway and Switzerland), they will still have free circulation from EU people (like Norway and Switzerland) to have access to the EU market without all the benefits that they enjoyed earlier.
And this is the best case, I can't imagine UK cut off from Europe with all the jobs in the City of London and Canary Wharf that will migrate somewhere else, along with all the other industries that are heavily disinvesting as of now.
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Is it scalable to drive a Car?
You might want to think about the fact that you're contradicting someone about their own father. Do you really think you know better?
[badjoke mode on]
Indeed golang rules quote simple yet powerful
My old Nexus 7 (2012) had a similar feature called PRISM/SmartDimmer which was equally annoying, though it could be disabled via sysfs. Many people did not notice it though, so maybe it was a net win...
Are you talking about high-performance high-reliability server applications, or more about end-user front-end applications?

There's a bit of a difference when it comes to running servers with thousands of users where you want to squeeze every drop of performance out of your hardware and without ever losing data, as to developing an end-user POS interface or other GUI applications. FreeBSD might be picked more often for back-end applications and Windows more for user-facing applications. It's the difference between keeping one user happy versus keeping many as happy as possible.

It probably doesn't matter much what kind of car you drive in the city centre – the requirements and limits are very different than on a race track where every little detail matters in the performance equation.
No, we are all aware of that. What I intended to convey was that they are not worried. They have talked to their partners made a bunch of pre arrangements, and essentially decided that all is, and will be, well.
> Brexit is about a return to an imaginary past era half Victorian half 1950s all make believe.

You shouldn't be so dismissive of the general possibility. Why not have a Renaissance? It's happened at least twice in recent European history.

Consider the infatuation Britain had with the Roman Empire during the Industrial Revolution. Sometimes digging back into the past for inspiration is the right answer to tackling future problems. For politics I mean it in a quasi-mythological sense but it is clear that reaching back to reconnect to the past is partly responsible for every Golden Age.

As for whether this will occur or not, I am undecided but I suspect Brexit has more to do with avoiding an anti-renaissance.
Absolutely true. The biggest hindrance was when playing games, the screen would become washed out.

Another would be when switching between sublime and stackoverflow.

I found a fix though(For dell laptops only). If you disable this via the intel video settings screen and you're plugged in to a power source, just remove and reattach the power cable and your screen should be fine.
Doesn't SoundCloud count as a Berlin startup? I don't know if they are top-100 but they are pretty cool.
> Sadly, both official campaigns were the worst kind of politics

"they're both as bad as each other" in political discussion is a facile position, and usually an unhelpful one.
Yes, I'm sure I want this. Are you sure you want to get bribed with money for science to completely give up every single shred of independence and autonomy? The issue is much larger than science funding. The issue is that the EU bullies and pushes everyone in Europe around at its whim and people are incredibly fearful of taking back control of their own countries because of EU repercussions. Just think: The EU threatens to cancel student exchanges with Switzerland if the Swiss control their borders again. These are absolutely disgusting power plays: The student exchange has a longstanding tradition and existed way before the EU shat in its diapers, and during a time where border controls were very strict. And now it thinks it can just cancel that? Why isn't anyone calling the EU out on this? The Swiss people voted for something, it would be unconstitutional and even illegal not to do it now. If this does not happen, the Swiss direct democracy has been overruled by the EU, which would be an extremely dangerous and undemocratic precedent.
But is it really risk analysis if any negative eventuality, no matter how unlikely or infrequent, is a deal-breaker? Risk analysis is exactly that - figuring out what the risks are, their likelihoods and potential impacts, and then figuring out which ones are worth taking and which are not.

So the salient fact remains the same: deaths with autonomous driving are less than deaths without it. Isn't it unethical to prevent such a feature from going out into the world when it could be saving lives, due to concerns about some unlikely / infrequent eventuality or driver error? Is it sound risk analysis to allow hundreds, thousands of people to die when you have a feature that could save their lives?

Cars are inherently unsafe, and yet we let people drive them. Clearly we already (ethically) accept some risk in our products.
Of course, but you have to take into account the strength of feeling over this issue in the UK. The referendum was the most acrimonious vote in the UK in my lifetime. Turnout was very high. The majority of people who normally vote for May's Tory party supported Brexit. There is a staunchly anti-EU party (UKIP) waiting in the wings to pick up large numbers of votes if the Tories don't follow through. UKIP already got 13% of the popular vote at the last election, despite the first-past-the-post system (they only got 0.2% of the MPs).

It's not just general public sentiment that constrain's May. Many of May's own back bench MPs care far more about making Brexit happen than they do about keeping the Tories in government (the number of single-issue anti-eu diehard Tory MPs is greater than the Tories majority in parliament). They will bring down her government if she doesn't move towards Brexit.
Would have wished for more concrete arguments. For example saying the startups there live in the past but not explaining the sentiment or giving examples really does not help me understand the situation in Berlin.
> discovery of gravity, evolution, and deoxyribonucleic acid

Two of those happened quite a long time ago, when the world and UK's power was quite different, and the scientists and their students in question are long gone.
> Then how come an unfamiliar piece of source code is easier to follow than a mathematics paper using unfamiliar notation?

This is clearly subjective. I read lots of mathematics research that I find more accessible than even pretty mundane source code (and yes, I write software for a living and have done so for over ten years).
And what happens if the people who uploaded A and C are different people using different hosts?
My bad, I misunderstood the intent behind this project (and I mixed it up in my mind with Barliman, elsewhere on HN at the time).

This searches through a list of predefined (built-in?) functions and finds one that can match the given inputs and outputs. That sounds pretty cool and rather handy and although it's a form of machine learning (or function approximation in any case) it's not trying to sell itself off as anything it isn't, which was my initial concern. My bad for overreacting.
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"their competitor" looks like a typo but is correct. US financial regulation grants a duopoly to the two big ratings agencies: despite their utter failure in 2008 and despite the low barriers to entry, no new competitors have emerged to challenge them because of that.
An alternative with less typing:

$ whereis foo

This will return the path to the relevant port if it exists.
What incentives would lead a trained banker to rigorously and honestly enforce regulations?

A salary.

What incentives would lead to retaining trained, rigorous, honest people?

A bigger salary.

The difficulties the public sector has in implementing that is one of the reasons regulations so often go wrong.
Since the scene is booming, I guess nothing should stop you. If you are inside the EU, just buy a ticket and go.
Mussolini and Napoleon also liked to look back at the past.
Math notation is a language that evolved over centuries.

The English language isn't consistent but we all seem to be able to use it to communicate here.

Same thing with maths. Some notations are holdovers from earlier eras, but we still introduce them to students in case the run into it in an older book (dx/dy for example).

And maths isn't just about computation. It's also about expressing ideas, and sometimes that is easier when the notation isn't rigidly 'executable' as some posters here would have it.

This article also reminds me of: http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/582861-reaction-images
It's nice to see a logic programming subject on HN's first page- the second in two days.
I'm not saying there aren't people that think the ways they are suggesting. What I am saying is that the anecdotes they are giving are fabricated (and admit to being so).

An example of what I mean:

'well you can imagine poor Joe Racist living across the river is now worrying about whether his boss can afford the harvest. That's what happens when you're stupid'

They will invent false characters with flaws that support their argument. They never claim they are real, they aren't basing it off some real observance or any real account.

It's not a useful discussion point and serves to further isolate that community.