skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except that the argument has never been about the effectiveness of waterboarding or torture in general. The argument there it is that torture is a wrong thing to do, no matter the method.

In this case, violence is being perpetrated, and the proper authorities to moderate it are either unable or unwilling. As pointed out in mikeash's excellent comment [0], there is an advocacy of "violence abstinence" being delivered to the victims. This abstinence is what the comment your responding to is addressing.

And yes, violence is a wrong thing to do, just like torture. But if violence is being done and there's no authority to moderate it, then abstinence is not necessarily a good answer to the victim.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12498743

EDIT: I stand corrected on the effectiveness of waterboarding. I just removed the portion, since it was irrelevant to my point anyway.
>and then hopefully, just maybe XCode will allow you to run what you wrote?

Yeah, it's so difficult that App Store only has about 1.5 million apps -- merely the largest in the world...

Either those belong to a REALLY determined million of devs, or it's not that hard really...
I too am annoyed by the lack of search history in Maps if you don't enable "Web & App Activity" tracking for your entire Google account.

Local search history caching is not a difficult feature to have. They omit it for a reason, so that you will be encouraged to link a Google account and enable search history tracking.
20% of appreciation for 10% of assets [0]. Seems like decent leverage on your risk.

From the point of view of a prospective homebuyer, at first this seems attractive as an avenue toward mortgage reduction. However, as you point out, it's hard to identify where this service adds any value to the asset. I fear that it ultimately results in another large pool of money pumping up the demand side at the expense of new buyers.

[0] https://point.com/calculator
That's James Long, lead engineer for the project. He gives a great demo of the debugger.html integration with Emacs. :)
There's also http://zen.co.uk

Only know of those two free of shaping, blocking and bad support beloved of all the other UK ISPs.

Their blog is consistently anti surveillance.
That's perfectly in line with patenting inventions, but not discoveries, and implementations, but not ideas.

So in order for me to accept a patent on a molecule, it would have to be found nowhere else in nature or in prior art, and the applicant must have synthesized a measurable quantity of it.

In practice, this means patentable molecules have to be rather complex, because there are a ridiculous number of compounds that have been created once, for someone's dissertation, or to create catalog entries for boiling points, freezing points, dissociation constants, and such, and then never looked at again.

Quite a lot of "new" drugs were actually first described decades ago and then shelved. There are just too many possibilities in organic chemistry to examine each in detail without a specific application already in mind.
I don't know you at all, but from your recount of the situation it sounds like the other guy was not the bully.
I am solidly in the third wave camp. I like the origin flavors that I get in a lighter third wave roast that I simply don't get in an Italian shot. I do agree that a bit of milk tones down the acid a bit, and I feel that the origin flavors can through come through even in something like a cortado.

Another note, isn't the ratio for espresso in the States different than in Italy. When I was a barista in Chicago we did 1:2 coffee to water. I thought I heard that in Italy 1:3 or 1:4 was more popular. I may be wrong
That's not really true. Though i'm in favor of pardoning him on balance, it would definitely embolden other leakers. I'm quite sure that if I was someone considering leaking classified documents and I saw him get pardoned after spending 3 years in Russia, it'd embolden me.

Spending three years in exile is not great, but it's a far cry from a long prison sentence for leaking classified documents.
As someone who bought the original dot at twice the price, I wondered the same thing.

They are cutting us a break, though:

"Something just for you
As a customer who purchased the previous–generation Echo Dot, you can get a $10 Alexa Shopping credit when you order the All-New Echo Dot using Alexa Shopping. Order today through October 20 and a $10 Alexa Shopping credit will be applied to your account within one week after your new Echo Dot has shipped."
We have that double standard because physical assaults in schools are normal, and physical assaults in workplaces are unusual. Same kind of reason tobacco is legal and MDMA isn't.
Indeed, and that's what I mean. If you've never seen the world outside, you'd happily conclude that you're awesome.
Ya I uninstalled spotify and my idle battery charge time went from 1/2 day to 2 days. (s4 on lolipop) Did not seem to be a "don't fucking turn on or do anything when I'm not using you" setting in the app anywhere. Oh well I did like the service.

Any spotify peeps reading this wtf?
Don't forget turning out the pockets of all kids clothes. You don't want that 1/2 pack of bubble gum going through the wash :(
That's odd, I just tested and it seems to be working? Sorry about that
Invasion of the pizza-making robots
I'm OK with not really doing anything, but I try to draw a line between totally squandering time (e.g. scrolling endlessly through facebook, or watching a show you don't enjoy, purely to kill time) and calm, idle time reading a book or watching nature. I haven't figured out how to describe it well yet.
This is great news for conspiracy theorists.
AirPod volume control by Siri only
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana
It is a bad idea if you grossly underestimate the operational competence and general cognitive fortitude of your adversaries, as the CIA appears to have done in this case. (Apparently the alterations were easy to spot, and it turns out the Iranians weren't so dumb as to blindly go out and execute them, as the operation's planners had hoped).
Yeah, the more I think of it, I tend to agree. Just because it's an unsolicited recommendation that influences your purchasing decision doesn't make it an ad.

I'm not quite sure how to categorize their affinity analysis in general. Perhaps it could be thought of as a cross-sell / upsell / impulse buy, depending on the item recommended.
At least with regards to the original question, your point isn't a rebuttal. That we can make an abstraction of the game and then operate on that abstraction just means the meaningful/informative portions of the game (within the context of playing the game) are contained in the abstraction. In fact, that just is what an abstraction is: taking only the necessary features for some particular context.
It's funny how they say "these disclosures put lives at risk", and put him into prison. Because prison is itself risky and torturous.
It can be. More likely, it's mainly that once you have the plate spinning on the stick, it takes intense focus to keep it there.
That's exactly what they want you to think! :tinfoilhat:
They have talent. More importantly, they have UNRIVALED work ethic.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6_Days_to_Air
Inexorable is absolutely the right word here. Give people a way to live beyond their means and they will take it pretty much every time.
Thank you for your input, the website has been updated so that you don't need to login to try it. (and a temporary user is created so as long as you keep your cookies, it will be saved). If you decide to create a user afterward, your data will be transfered to the real user.
i.e. only if you have an internet connection
Ask HN: How to get computer tech support clients?
Are there any popular websites for offering freelance tech support? I have a couple clients who I help over the phone with computer / phone related issues, and I would love to have my schedule booked with clients. I'm just not sure where to find more. I've posted ads on Craigslist, but I've never had success. The irony is that many of the people who need my help don't know how to or can't get to CL.

I could also go door to door giving out a business card, but it'd be nice if there was a site where I could offer my services and get clients quickly.
This might be a cool concept for somebody who knows they will stay and want to rent out one place for at least 3 - 5 years.

Even then, I'm not so sure. Because when renting, yes, you pay a premium, but if the house needs repairs, it's not on you. If something happens, you walk away free and clear, etc. For a "lower monthly payment", you are taking on a much larger amount of risk that is Home Ownership and giving away the upside of that risk to someone else who has no obligations for maintenance/home improvements.

This isn't "Reinventing Home Financing", it's buying a home with somebody else who isn't responsible for most of the costs of home ownership yet gets all the benefit. If you can only put 10% down on a home and are that desperate to have a 80% LTV mortgage, sure, this would do it. But there are MANY lenders who do a conventional home mortgage with 5% down. Using Point isn't worth the savings on the Mortgage Insurance. Maybe if you bought new construction, maybe. I'd still say on new construction you're better off taking the chance and not selling the equity in your home.
I hope you change your mind one day.
Still waiting for Guile Emacs.
Great innovation but at the same time amazon.in proudly sells a Chetan Bhagat book on their home page.
I've checked out Apple Music but the only draw would be Taylor Swift and immediate access to exclusive releases, like The 1975's new album which was released on Apple Music first then released on Spotify two weeks later.

I really like two things about Spotify:

* Curated Playlists: Their mood/genre playlists have a human touch (and very good taste) and I can also follow playlists created by some of my favorite artists

* Social/Sharing: I like seeing what my friends are listening to in the sidebar and I know enough people on Spotify that I can reliably send Spotify links to my friends and know they'll be able to listen to a song/album. I would reconsider if that network effect shifted and more people were on Apple.
Just so I'm clear here, you're expecting us to trust the NSA? An agency that is publicly on officially on the record as lying to Congress?
If there's anyone from Lyft here answering questions, I have a few.

#1: cost. Doesn't it basically cost double to move the request from the client application to the proxy, and then from the proxy to the backend?

#2: upgrades. What happens to the clients when the proxy is being rolled out?

#3: head-of-line blocking. If an application has two streams to the same backend, one stream which is low priority and one which is higher, how does the proxy handle that?
I'll do the £ bit later. Thanks
Weren't GCHQ caught illegally spying on pretty much everyone at a similar level to the NSA?

Trustworthy guys to put in charge of something like this.
It works on several different levels. You're talking about what competitive players call 'micro', which could be considered the implementation of the strategy.

I haven't played for a while, but usually there are a few basic 'builds', which are essentially memorized openings-- and there are 3 types of openings -- Macro builds where you focus on building an economy, while sacrificing military resources for a long-game, 'all-in' builds, which sacrifice your economy to build an early military advantage and win within the first few minutes, and various mid-range builds that try to do a little bit of both.

An all in is largely just down to micro and execution and it either wins or it doesn't, but the other two types of builds have a large strategic element-- for example, you need to scout to check if your opponent is all-in-ing, you can do harassment to distract your opponent from implementing his strategy by interrupting his economy, and then there's planning for the end game, building defenses, and the whole question of what you do if your original plan fails for one reason or another. There's a lot of thinking involved on multiple levels simultaneously, both spacial and temporal.
Glug glug glug. The sound of Koolaid being drunk..
"Your PHD has..."

closes tab
>It's the job of the government

In a democracy the government's job is to do what the people want. Claiming it's the job of the government to prevent people from making decisions is antithetical to that.
Thanks for your input, the website is now usable without signing up.
And this is a problem how?
"The deployment target setting specifies the lowest operating system version that your app can run on. For example, the lowest available setting for iPad apps is iOS 4.3."

from

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/ID...
No, you're limited to the choices the app developer presents to you, and Google Photos presents Always, which you can reject to get Never. I hadn't even known it was an option previously, as they're the only app I have (had in the past) that requests permanent ongoing location. And I didn't even notice what I'd agreed to until my location services indicator wouldn't turn off, and I had to track down what was triggering it.
Until they are so far redshifted that they fade into background noise. And the expansion of the universe is accelerating. We have a bit time to watch this spectacle, but the fate seems it is just our local cluster that will matter, for most of the time while stars generate heat. That is why I am not so keen on emphasising the billions and billions of galaxies. It's only a nice good-bye firework.

Edit: I still think there are much more galaxies in our universe than stars in our milky way: The universe must be bigger than our observable part and there is no reason to believe that it is much different there (read less or no galaxies) than where we happen to be. So the "eternal redshift" already happened for many galaxies (from mutual perspective).
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I don't know what to make of this. We lose if Snowden is "pardoned", because that would mean he did something morally wrong. Snowden loses his life in the US if he's not pardoned.

I'm not American, but the issue cuts across all countries and Snowden is a representative.
This kind of reminds me of something Louis CK said during this talk about George Carlin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R37zkizucPU

He talks about how he got good at standup after 15 years of doing the same thing. He threw away all his material (material he'd been working on for 15 years) and just started trying different things. Then he started throwing away his material every year and creating new material. He noticed that he got better and better by doing this.

This also reminded me of another anecdote I'd heard somewhere where you have a pottery class with 20 students.

The class was split: 10 students would make a new sculpture every day while the other 10 would have to produce only 1 sculpture for the class (which of course would represent all the extra planning and execution that went into the solo sculpture). At the end of the quarter, the 10 people who made something new every day and then threw it away were far better at sculpting, while everyone in the other group made something kind of shitty and spent a lot of time doing it.

So maybe it's not "lack of planning" quite so much as willingness to kill your darlings, again and again.
We will fix the docs, apologies. FYI, your README still says that "HTTP/2 support is in progress".
>According to the source you posted Spotify has been given favourable license terms

I can see why that report's statement is confusing.

To clarify, that sentence was only comparing Spotify's "better" licensing terms to Rdio. It's about the licensing costs relative to a competitor.

However, in absolute numbers, it's a licensing cost percentage that's still too expensive. Spotify wants to renegotiate the percentage to be less than 50%. Spotify's "better" rate of 55% compared to Rdio 60% did not meet this more favorable threshold to turn a profit.

The "favorable licensing terms" I was talking about was in absolute terms (company profitability) and not relative terms (compared to another competitor).
I don't, I'm afraid. I wouldn't be surprised to find the C++ pretty-printers were written in it, but I have no evidence for that.
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This is pretty cool, although I think MOBAs (Dota, LoL) would be an even better test of AI skills than StarCraft. They also have imperfect information, but place more importance on strategy and less on micro than StarCraft; require some game theory and bluffing in the draft, and would need multiple agents to cooperate (assuming you set it up so that you had 5 AIs play the game, with well-defined communication channels, rather than one controlling the five players, which I think is the right way to go).

Seems like there's more potential for useful AGI techniques in that direction.
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Interrupted by a huge pop-up after a few seconds of reading.
Building bigger roads actually makes traffic worse
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Well respected? Robert Epstein is the idiot who served malware through his website and when Google displayed a warning about it, Epstein didn't try to fix the problem, he instead went legal and news nuclear claiming Google was trying to censor him.
> This is a good point. But Google's services make a person a more powerful agent compared to others: one can navigate quicker, find better services and access information faster and more accurately.

Google could provide most of those services without tracking individuals.
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almost 20 years old GSM market in Poland confirms that. Up to the moment we had 3 telcos, prices were stagnant. Introduction of fourth one (major three were prohibited to own/acquire it) driven prices down really fast. Market literally entered not-yet-ended downward trend (in terms of prices).

BTW, exactly 14 USD gives you today nolimit voice/text/inet plan. Dodge that AT&T ;)
Thanks for pointing out, will fix that on our side!
Slighty off-topic, I'm surprised/amazed that top-level await is permitted at all.

This looks like it would allow some interesting new patterns in web programming, though at the expense of wreaking havoc with traditional execution models.

For example, await in event handlers:

<button onclick="await doOneThing(); doAnotherThing()">

Is the event object still valid when doAnotherThing is called?

Or await in script blocks:

<p>Welcome back,
<script>
document.write(await fetchUsername());
</script>
</p>

Look ma, I stalled the page load with no synchronous XHR!
I hate this sort of thing!

Not only are "normal people" - non HN-readers, that is - going to see through this anyway, but even if not, what's wrong with:

1 FREE Dot for every 5 you buy!

How is that not a better UX?

It seems so obvious, and yet this happens repeatedly - even from a company like Amazon, which I imagine has this tagline run past a fair number of people before it goes live.
Reviews aren't an exclusive feature of Airbnb.
Nominal income growth means nothing. Real income is not growing.
Has Apple made any moves suggesting it will get into this category? A Siri-enabled Beats speaker would be a decent start. Call it a "hobby" if concerned about low volume.
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I can understand this - I've been there, and I know plenty of people who are still there. I think you've got your answer in what you've said, though. Your room matches your mind. But it's not just an input/output thing, there's a feedback loop that makes both worse, as either gets worse. Start by making your environment match what you want your mental state to be. Just hold on to that idea for a while. Say, a couple weeks of keeping everything orderly. Then reevaluate your mental state, and see if there's anything that feels like the next natural step. Don't worry about what that will be right now. You might find it's buying an agenda book, and scheduling everything, or you might find that you need to fix your sleep schedule. You may even find that you need to treat your free time as extremely high value, and only do things that you feel genuine ecstatic desire to do. What works for you might be different from any of these things, and you can look at what others do, but what comes next will usually arise naturally from doing what's right now.
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If doing so proves beyond a shadow of doubt that our government officers are lying both to the people of the United States and to their representatives in Congress, as Director of National Intelligence did, isn't that a good thing?
How has the free offering gotten worse?
If people are emboldened to blow the whistle on outrageous, secret, unconstitutional, anti-democratic activities of the US or state governments, then this is the best possible outcome.
Could have fooled me
To be fair to yourself, kids often disappoint their parents, but this is more on the parents.

This is true, yes!

But I am concerned about what this does to them as a person. Life will kick them down (and then in the head for good measure), and a time will come when they are truly standing alone. If they are lacking the inner self, will they have the fortitude and the wherewithal to navigate themselves back up, even without any immediate payoff? Or will this constant need to feed be so ingrained they won’t know how to push through a hard time with little hope and almost zero positive gain, and instead gravitate towards what feels good for the moment?

But, your anecdote offers hope anyway. Thanks for sharing.
... if you've just gotten your Ph.D., know how to get some specific grants, have no interest in remaining in academia, and consider it against only one alternative: becoming a professor.
What are you breaking today?
I don't disagree, but the flip side would be a high level athlete who suffers, for example, an injury. They can continue competing at the same level only with medication. For me, this is analogous to someone with ADHD taking medication to perform closer to their level without ADHD (impossible to prove, per your point), but I would prefer to give them the opportunity rather than broadly disqualify such people from competing.
This would just increase the surface area of a bad side effect, though. Barely anyone uses sync XHR and the API is being phased out to the Fetch API - why would we encourage re-adding baggage like that?
Your are both right for the orders (till august). That is the number of planes in operation that is still increasing.
In almost every discussion of bullying on the internet we get these two contrasting comments: "I was bullied until I hit back" and "I was bullied until I ignored them".

Maybe, just maybe, the best response depends on the situation and the bullies?

It's great that you found a solution that works, and obviously you want to help other children achieve the same, but I don't think this implied "if everyone just did what I did, bullying would be solved" attitude is very helpful.
Such a neatly elucidated article Neha! We have been building an event sourced architecture for our app, using kafka streams, since a month. This article has validated everything we planned out for our app. Thanks!
Read his comment history. It's fascinating in a sick and terrifying way.