skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tension between overanalyzing everything and trying to focus on the 'small things' and 'little truths' is by far my favorite DFW 'theme', because I feel that tension in myself constantly. The only other writer I've come across who does this as well (if not better) is Dostoevski.

And to make it all a bit meta, I can't help but wonder how much good it does me to read too much of this type of hyper-aware stuff.
I have grown to really love Pocket because it makes reading online articles so much easier and more enjoyable. And bumping up font sizes on unreadable sites is such a common habit of mine now.
I have no idea what is the context of this or who this woman is, but narcissism is a mental disorder as well so I'm not sure why anyone would try to belittle someone for being narcissistic.

This whole "my disorder is better than your disorder" doesn't impress me, neither does the universal adoration of DFW.
If a set-up question can be simply answered, it's clickbait. I don't care who the hell's written it.

I hear the same complaints from an 84 year old friend with greatly diminished eyesight who gripes about this all the time in newspaper headlines. Teasing titles which reveal nothing and force the reader into the story. He's among the few subscribers the paper has left, and is about all out of fricks to give for their shoot.

This is clickbait.

The fundamental problem with clickbait, and the reason it draws so much rightful ire, is that it is deliberately contemptuous of its reader.

HN should fix the title or flag the post. Fixing the title wins my vote. Particularly as you've already troubled to write an excuse not to.
You can start building casual games in any 2D platform. Both https://love2d.org/ and https://coronalabs.com/ are free (Corona SDK has a enterprise version as well) and both use Lua. There are decent tutorials on the web and you can build a small casual game in a couple of days. There are tons of HTML5 game libraries as well but with Love2d and Corona SDK, you can build native games.
It's absolutely stunning how many testers I've worked with didn't understand the "Preconditions/Actions/Expected/Actual" as a bare minimum for a bug report.

What I've never understood is how testers with multiple years of experience continue to get away with this. To me it's like checking in code that doesn't compile: you can't even do the bare minimum required by your job.

On the rare occasions I've had folks like that on my team, I've emphasized the importance of easy-to-replicate bug reports by pointing out that dev has to repro it in order to fix it, PM might have to repro in order to triage, another tester might have to repro in order to close the bug when you're on vacation, etc. Now, because of your shitty bug report, how much time has been wasted because your steps-to-repro are poor or non-existent? Me, I'm personally embarrassed when a bug comes back "no repro" because I half-assed the bug report.

Let alone getting into things like, copy-and-paste the damned call stack that's staring you in the face. And if you're a professional tester to whom we pay good money, and your "observed" includes "broken" or "doesn't work" with no further description, your future with this company might be in jeopardy.
I am so thankful for my employees of our small company:

I'm a very religious Christian man, and I have two employees that are very left of center and another employee that is gay.

That we can work together, learn from each other, and respect each other despite our sincerely held convictions means a lot to me especially during these witch-hunting times.

I hope that I show them the same respect and consideration they have shown me.
Yup, you'll see this if you've worked with datacenters too, you can get a 100mbit connection on a gigabit link on which you mostly get gigabit connectivity, but only 100mbit of it is guaranteed for much, much cheaper than you can get a guaranteed gigabit link. And in my experience (for personal and small business purposes at least) that guarantee is rarely worth its name.
I have a 5th and a 6th grader. I'm going to buy them an educational copy of Maple soon, so they can have a beautiful platform to plot 2-D and 3-D graphs, solve equations, do derivatives and integrals, and factor algebraic expressions.

I want them to do all this in high school, whether or not they take Calculus, so they can get an intuition for it. Then they can memorize the trig rules in college.
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Well, it depends on the strategy you use, but yes, you're right that it's hard to share strict/objects. But if the API boundary between the two is kept simple and small, then it's simple.

Take a look at the rust ffi omnibus that I posted in this thread. It's object examples show some decent strategies.
You don't even need a wholly public-only solution. Licensing out state-owned towers to third parties, in addition to providing baseline public service, would be adequate to allow third party companies to compete too.

You don't need to try to artificially restrict spectrum use, just make intentional obstruction illegal just like blocking a road is. Then if state technology calls too far behind due to budget cuts people move back to private solutions until the state can get its act together again.

Of course, the problems with US infrastructure run a lot deeper than that. I imagine in a more democratic country you would see the maintenance and upkeep of such infrastructure much easier to maintain.
You can write your own rules. According to the docs you can only really inspect the current charge, you can't inspect anything about the customer[1]. The ability to look through to the attached customer object at metadata would make a great feature request.

[1]: https://stripe.com/docs/radar/rules/reference
thanks... i knew of maxmind, but only the geo stuff.
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> And then T-Mobile's deceptive marketing led everyone to follow suit.

Yes. Legere has a cult following which T-Mobile has leveraged these last few years to distract from some anti-consumer and anti-social maneuvers.
> There should be some vetting process for the students who want to take AP classes.

Is this not usually the case? My high school used to make you fill out a short form and make the case for why you should be allowed in the AP class, and my senior year I had to go in and speak with a counselor who was concerned that I was taking too many. Sure, it was a pointless hurdle for me personally, but I can see how it would be a good idea for students who don't realize what they're getting into, or who are trying to take the course because their parents want them to.
Some of us don't have a local option. I live in the countryside and it's a 30 minute drive in to town, which I only do twice a month. I do probably 2 or 3 Amazon orders per week. They give me a $1 off a digital movie rental if I opt for slow shipping so I usually rack up a free movie by Friday night. But it's nice to do 2 days if it happens to be something that I really need. I would go way over $8/mo if I had to pay for shipping.
What would Electron get you other than an additional 400 MB of memory consumption?
This is a theme I've often noticed with "socially liberal" etc. people having different political beliefs--their perception of the "other side" is based in the far-left society they inhabit, and their positions are based more on criticizing that society than supporting their own vision. It's precisely because Scott Adams is from liberal, high-education circles that he sees opposition to Trump as being based around irrational fear of Trump as Hitler, when people with those beliefs are tremendously dwarfed by people who simply don't like him. (I don't think Trump as a lunatic and a fascist; I think he's unqualified and a jerk.)

It's a weird rollover effect, in which a society can get pushed so far into an echo chamber, it becomes easy to criticize every aspect of that society, and people ride the zeal of the convert all the way around to the other end of the political spectrum. A lot of the younger generation of the so-called "alt-right" grew up in very liberal, progressive societies, and once they realized most of that society was based on social pressure and oversimplification, see no reason to tilt full-on into racism and autocracy. All societies are built on social pressure; every creed we teach our kids is inherently oversimplified and flawed. But you don't get points just for pointing out those flaws. Adams has been on this kick for a while now that sounds like the beginning of every Moldbug piece: point out some incorrect belief among members of a culture you were raised in, and so think represents everyone (high-educated social liberals) and say "See? This is bullshit! It's all bullshit! The whole thing is a mass hallucination!"
Sure, which is what the rules always say, and is fairly straightforward. The hard part is actually using it because it usually looks so out of place to me. It's a chicken and egg problem, where semicolons are hard to comfortably use because they are so rare they look out of place when I try, and I assume part of the reason for their rarity is other people feel the same way.
This. It's just UI churn, and it's miserable. My wife /hates/ it when I do an OS update, because she has to re-learn how to do the same stuff.
I will admit I don't really know much about MGTOW or its community. My inferences on MGTOW is based on a pretty limited reading about it. If there's really such a heavy focus on victimization and placing blame then yeah, that's shitty.

My reading is about Red Pill, which is all about being independent and taking responsibility for your own life. Everything good or bad in life is your own fault. There's nothing wrong with women today, there's something wrong with men (or at least, something wrong with the men who are unhappy about their relationships with women). I think it would be rare to find anyone who's read about Red Pill to disagree with any of these, and I don't think any of these concepts (as applied to straight, white men) would be offensive to even the most extreme feminist.
Yeah I heard from one YouTuber (over email) that only ~1000 worldwide are currently making a living solely from their YouTube career. And that includes certain successful channels that employ 20+ people.
Hi Jach,

I'm glad you find the Cardinal's thoughts stimulating. Yes, I pulled that quote from a Google result without sourcing it correctly, but perhaps you would agree they convey the spirit of the discourses? I'd love to hear your remarks on Cardinal's distinction between liberal and servile education[0], or, indeed, your impressions of the essay as a whole.

Addressing your point, it seems that these things are not that different (being able to fit knowledge within a universal system and understanding how to learn), or that in achieving the stated end (being able to fit knowledge within a universal system), one would need to 'learn how to learn.'

If you'd like to continue the discussion offthread, I'm available at myusername at geemayl dawt com

[0] http://www.newmanreader.org/works/idea/discourse5.html
There's obvious limits.

1 month multiplied by the maximum speed of the technology, the actual capacity of the network, the fact that they throttle heavy users, etc.
it's remarkable to me how this "point" is brought up every time someone mentions diversity. diversity is not about equality. diversity is about balancing the current inequalities that people who are not rich, not the right gender, not the right race, or not the right sexual orientation are forced to deal with every single day. it is not about giving every side an equal viewpoint because one side has had an unfair advantage for as far back as anyone can remember.

and it's pretty hypocritical of thiel to be mad at gawker for outing him as gay due to his fear of repercussions since he now supports a candidate who would gladly keep the status quo in making homosexuality something you have to worry about being "leaked" to the public.

this is why there is outrage over thiel giving/supporting a candidate like trump. and further outrage against zuck and sam altman for advocating "diversity" while allowing thiel to support someone who is completely against that idea.

so no, it really shouldn't be that remarkable that people who support "diversity" would not support people who are against those ideals.
I believe there's decent support for the idea that you could just teach them nothing until they reached the age of understanding, and theyd pick it up pretty much just as quick without the years of rote.
Conceptual background is so important for understanding something. I was lucky to have a great teacher for BC calc, and I got an easy 5 on the exam. The concepts make sense, they are consistent, and they build on each other, so with the right progression of ideas students can get a lot farther than they would otherwise.
DSL sucks. I'm sure our local ATT has lost the vast majority of it's DSL users in the past few years because of rollout problems. Their fast connection is around 20mbit/s download and around 2mbit/s up. Our cable company is offering 50mbit/s down 5mbit/s up for the same price. The cable company is also offering 100mbit, 200mbit, 500mbit, and 1gbit connections too. On top of that they offer phone service at half the price.

I think ATT is trying to go out of business here.
> under estimate the amount of work a polished product takes

I agree in general. On the other hand, Youtube shows that less polished can be enjoyable as well. This provides more and smoother ways for amateurs to level up in skill and/or professionalism. Those who survive Youtube criticism probably have a thick skin.
I remember once when when driving I was pleased when it occurred to me that I should be seeking to minimise the third derivative of distance with respect to time for the comfort of my passengers. That was the sum total of calculus's contribution to my adult life. Not sure it was worth it.
That font is really thin and weird looking here on OSX too. I can read it, just not sure I want to.
Ask HN: Would you live in a city built from scratch? Why? What'd it be like?
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Teach them to reset the damn thing themselves
Caps are a broken form of metering. For various reasons the market doesn't accept metering as a pricing model for retail connectivity.
I am not sure how much of this is specific to the American education system, as I am Canadian, and have not experienced it, but my own take after going through high school to my current graduate studies is that

1) We teach algebra, geometry, and their relationship wrong in many ways

2) We don't teach enough calculus at lower levels of mathematics, instead opting to prefer a "poor man's" algebra.

I'm sure there's too much to write on for one HN comment, but a lot of 1) comes down to how we teach "solve for x" type problems which are more interested in re-ordering and simplifying equations than we are about giving people a fundamental understanding of what our relations and equations actually mean. Often I notice that many students couldn't graph or draw or even begin to reason about what they're trying to solve for. If you give someone a graph and ask them to find the maximum point of a line on a graph, they can very easily point it out. The next step is doing it numerically, but a lot of times the relationship between what we can determine visually and what we can determine computationally is lost.

Which is sort of what prompts 2). You can't learn Calculus without learning limits, and Calculus places explicit meanings to relations that we can graph, and how those relations change according to specific variables or unknowns. Finding the maximum of a relation using Calculus is much easier than strictly using algebra for this reason, because we can make the relationships between a curve and it's derivative explicit. Most students cringe at the thought of Calculus because we place it on a pedestal and students just assume Calculus is the peak of mathematics, but we really need to introduce Calculus as more "normal" math earlier on, IMO. I'm talking basic tasks like derivatives finding the equation of a line tangent to a curve, or finding the limit as we approach a point on a curve, or even just (re)factoring equations so that we can plot them easier and / or take their derivative easier.

In almost every example I can think of where I learned Calculus, it was easier than building intuition for Algebra because there is less robotic crunching and more reasoning about what specific problems mean. What does it mean to take the derivative? Why are volume and area and perimeter related? I know in many ways it seems like I'm just advocating for thinking spatially or visually about mathematical problems, but that's part of what (I think) makes Calculus more approachable. You can get a lot farther with a basic understanding of Algebra and a very small amount of Calculus than you can with just Algebra alone. Should our curriculum be entirely Calculus? No, that's ridiculous; however we should ease up on the systems-of-equations type problems and obtuse word problems that require students to produce or remember all manner of expressions and formulae, and instead focus on building that first intuition of how we can use Calculus as a tool for problems that are much, much harder without. I expect that it would give Calculus a more realistic reputation, and would probably put off less students who are already giving up on math.
It is about immutability. No Mercurial command (histedit, rebase, uncommit, amend) will allow you to change an immutable (public) commit unless you first force it back into the draft phase.

You can say that because you can always force public commits into drafts that they're not really immutable, but that's a bit of a perversion of what Mercurial's phase system is intended to do.
I'm not a designer but I'm pretty decent at both, frontend and backend. I use PHP,Laravel on the backend and React/Angular/Backbone on the frontend. Hit me up at mail@vivekgupta.com and we can talk further.
His first example doesn't seem like a place where this is a good plan.

The person who takes joy in hurting others will not treat you well for letting him hurt you. They will only try harder to get a reaction.

More to the point, they will try hard on the next person. That person might be worse off than you. Less able to defend themselves.

So, no. Being nice is not the right thing in all cases. The best response to a bully is still to hit them where it hurts.
I'm the OP.

I would live in a city built from scratch at two conditions: it would represent an acceptable compromise, compared to an existing city like SF or London, and it would include a lot of innovation in how it's built, operated, how transportation works, its environmental impact, etc.
> they've never supported 3-D Secure

That's a feature. It's a horrible system which I wish nobody ever used. I've literally never been able to successfully complete a transaction.
NVIDIA has made it possible to run the Jetson TK1 under Nouveau with hardware accelerated graphics (Weston/Wayland or X).

https://github.com/NVIDIA/tegra-nouveau-rootfs

Using a completely open stack on the TK1, from u-boot to kernel (except for the USB firmware), I can run ARM virtual machines with QEMU/KVM.
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Exactly. I can confirm this is the case in Singapore too. An HSPA+ network is labeled as 3G on the iPhone. In the US, when I see 4G on my phone I know it's going to be slow.
You're right -- we scrape a good deal of startups, but sometimes we get duplicates, and although we try to de-duplicate via a lot of different methods, sometimes they sneak through.

This one should be fixed now, but there's probably some other examples people will find as well, and we catch and fix them when we see them.
I don't pay them a premium, I pay them a very fair rate to provide an amazing service in addition to paying my taxes.

Unfortunately, there's a lot of inequity. Most suburban districts get 30% more state funding to do things like build olympic swimming pools and buy iPads. The local taxpayers in urban districts like the one I live in get glorified daycare with classes of 30-35 kindergarteners, and we get to fund a parallel charter school system that enriches the bondholders who built the schools.

I'm not the governor, don't serve in the legislature and have limited ability to influence our school board, whose hands are largely tied. My options are: go private, move, or have my child get an inferior education. I have the good fortune to make the choice that I made. If that makes me a poor christian, so be it.
>BUT people are always afraid of anything past 4th grade math!

Then the solution is simple! We teach calculus to 3rd graders, then no one will be afraid of it!

But seriously, I agree that calculus is taught way to late. I wasn't introduce to calculus until college, and if I had been even by senior year of high school, I would probably be a mathematician right now.
> you will face the wrath of social media

Bring it on.
This is pretty neat. It feels a little like a distilled version of Trello.

I think you did a great job of using the space that I have. I made my browser full screen on a 4k monitor and I was happy to see it use all the space without sacrificing space or readability. I restored my window size and everything repositioned itself perfectly. Really nice work.
iSideWith is hosting a live streaming debate discussion tonight with the third party presidential candidates (http://www.isidewith.com/debate-stream/20161019)
Curves in freeways are designed that way as well - they don't just start turning suddenly, but gradually transition into and out of the curvature.
Reference of last statement? Most at top of the Forbes list have kids. Still, quoting someone else's sarcasm, "I don't know what the meaning of life is, but if it's not 'increasing shareholder value', we're all screwed".
I have no idea why calculus gets such exalted status in the annals of highschool nightmares. No I am not bragging, humble or otherwise. I found calculus to be simple neat and logical, and not so mind bending. Linear algebra on the other hand was far less trivial; not the mechanics, the aha moment bit. Geometry.. that for me was genuine mind bending pleasure pain.
Turns out a relative of his who he paid account setup for, and shared some devices with, had the fraud.

Now Phil Schiller (by name) wants to force Kapeli to post a blog saying Apple was right in banning him: https://blog.kapeli.com/dash-and-apple-my-side-of-the-story/

I bitch about it here: https://plus.google.com/+NickRichards/posts/H7iuMTcYLSn essentially saying Apple is not bold ("courageous") enough to notify _him_ about the upcoming fraud ban, only the guilt-by-association Niece's account.
New England was never a “slave society”—where slaves
performed the bulk of labor—but it depended heavily on
slavery nonetheless, due to its economic entanglement
with the Caribbean. As a crucial supplier of provisions
to the sugar islands, New England, one captain
observed, was truly “the key of the Indies without
w[hi]ch Jamaica, Barbados & the Caribee Islands are not
able to subsist.”

Something that, we should note, still occurs to a degree today. At the end of the last century it was an outcry over sweatshops in, particularly, impoverished countries. These past several years over where and how our electronic products are produced. Deliberately or not, wealthier nations and people are still exploiting poorer nations and people by a similar dynamic as New England and the Indies.
Maybe windows update kicked in?
Ironically, the more urban, working class, and "rough" an area is, the more kids you see outside playing by themselves or being home alone without their parents.