skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, look, did you read the article? I did. I read to the end. I thought, okay, I'll start using this.

But before I did I did one last thing. I asked myself, "Wait a minute - if this technique is so good, did the author use it?" I scrolled to the top of the page. This is the throwaway text that I thought I had completely ignored and was totally irrelevant:

>Today and every day we are the targets of salespeople, marketers, advertisers, fundraisers and (heaven knows) politicians trying to persuade us to buy something, do something or think a certain way. And they’re good at it.

When I was reading it I thought it was just throwaway stuff, like obviously you're telling me what I know!

But looking back - don't you think it pre-suaded me that certain people are really, really good at being persuasive? Which then "pre-suaded" me to agree with whatever the article would state about this, without knowing it?

I wonder if you did an A/B study on this article with the above lead sentence, versus an article that cuts out all of the first couple of sentences and just starts with "Research done in the last fifteen years shows that optimal persuasion is achieved through optimal pre-suasion: the practice of arranging for people to agree with a message before they know what’s in it...."

Do you think as many people would agree with the article under those conditions?

I don't! I think the pre-suasion technique of mentioning just how great experts are at persuasion, might have had a lot to do with why I - and likely others in this thread - agree with the article.

This stuff works.
so you're saying I should add achievements :)

"CONVERSATION CRUSHER - 5 Points
- create 5 conversations in one day"
Seems like they will stay a niche until they can replace phones entirely, and perhaps even past then. A lot of people just don't like having something strapped to their wrist and/or want a large screen.

As a watch guy (and most watch people are guys) the first smart watch I've been excited about is the upcoming gear S3:

http://www.samsung.com/global/galaxy/gear-s3/

Because it looks like a real watch and has the rotating bezel for input, but I recognize I'm a tiny market.

I hope it doesn't set my wrist on fire.
Dwarf Fortress Reddit.
You know instead of:

const getObj = (id, store) => { return { id } }

You could write:

const getObj = (id, store) => ({ id })
>This idea that an experience is less worthy of cultivation because its duration is short just seems bizarre to me.

The stay having an short deadline means the cultivation will be cut short too.

Heck, in 6 months most people haven't even fully unpacked their things or made new friends -- so it's not like they'll have grown roots in a year -- especially since they know that they'll be leaving in a year anyway.
it means that even from a biased perspective, the majority of startups do not consider themselves to be innovative, in the context of well established, truly innovative work.
PLL's have been around since the 1920's. They could easily divide by n. The actual value of n didn't matter (within some bounds).
Woah your renting experience sounds like home ownership to me. I've never heard of that in the US that is a lot to put into a place! The max lease allowed by my last complex was 13 months.
Given the issues the social sciences have with reproducible results, that Gwern is linking more science blogs than papers, and that we know rich people have conspired to hold poor people back via laws and other self serving maneuvers I'm still going to lean into "bullshit" category

When you have evidence that the supposedly smart and highly moral are guilty of oppressing an entire swath of people and you point at mostly economic markers without controlling for bad behavior by the "haves" you're just skewing your own results

That rich do better within our culture, which is rigged to give the rich an advantage, it doesn't say much to whether they are truly smarter
The WAD itself is pretty newsworthy. For someone that's never made a DooM level before, the author definitely read up on a few of the tricks that the engine could use because they did some neat things in the maps. If you watch the video, the switch tower (with all the Lost Souls) was especially cool as it uses a special trigger type to create the effect you see. As someone who is a huge DooM fan, this level wasn't the greatest, but it was pretty cool and noteworthy.
> We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12773066 and marked it off-topic.

You bet ;)

edit:

Shit, I totally missed the point. I see it now.
In the US, it is common to use a bank card to pay for a purchase using funds in your account using a credit card network.

So the card says "Visa", the transaction runs through Visa and the money comes directly out of the bank account. It's also common to use a different payment network (debit) and to have a card that pays for the purchase on credit. Annual rates are currently 13%-23%, so the monthly interest is 1%-2%.
Ok, I haven't read the study too closely but I can't imagine how having a more educated population would be beneficial for the society. Also note that you can't really measure poverty by just percentage of income alone. The pool people in US are probably doing better than in Somalia. If nothing else, I can't imagine more education not raising the general standard.
I have fairly strong control over how I use my gun, since it's a relatively simple device that doesn't make independent decisions. Less so for my car, especially more recent ones, and far less so for any IoT devices I own. Therefore, it makes sense for gun owners to have liability, although in the case of "smart" guns more liability should go to the manufacturer.
Does 2 factor prevent phishing though?

If I was going to do a Google Phishing page - I would take the username + password that the user supplied into MY fake page, and POST/CURL that to the Google login.

If Google returns asking for a 2factor to MY fake, I would display the 2 factor prompt to the user, and get them to type the 2-factor into my page, which I would pass back to Google.

Basically you can use a phishing page as a MITM attack.

When you auth against Google with 2-factor, there is a "remember this computer" option - giving the attacker at least 30 days of access to your email without needing a further 2-factor code.

So if the person is tricked enough to type their username+password into a fake google page, they are just as likely to follow through with their 2-factor code.
Is I understood it, for most it was neither: it was the AMA debacle that really set the fuse alight.
Reminds me of some of NJ's (and other's, I imagine) state laws:

> 39:4–128.4	Improper passing of frozen dessert truck

Your honor, those desserts weren't frozen! (Jury gasps)
Adding 2fa does not completely close the exploit window, but it does reduce it considerably. Even if the phishing page prompted for 2fa, those credentials would only be valid for the next ~60-120 seconds, so any attack would have to be staged very quickly.

In this example, they waited three days before trying to utilize the broken account; with 2fa they would not have that luxury.

And this (asking for 2fa in the phishing page) would entail a risk as well; if they prompted a user who did not have 2fa for their 2fa credentials, then they would immediately be (at best) confused, and possibly suspicious, so they would have to decide to take the risk as to whether to attempt to target 2fa'ed accounts. And if they don't offer a 2fa prompt, then the phishing attempt has fizzled, as even with the password, they only have one factor.

Any sort of re-ordering of the login process by the good guys is only effective if the customer is extremely suspicious of changes in the login process, which nobody will be. The phishing site is under no obligation to match their flow to that of the faked website unless not matching by itself would be suspicious.
I think it is smart.

As you mentioned, they don't have the full right for all of their shows. But they do have the full rights for many of them.

Proceeding the way they are planning to will allow them to penetrate the Chinese market using providers that already have experience serving the market. Assuming that the shows will still carry some Netflix branding, it allows them to build up their brand in China without having to do the huge amount of work that would be required to localize all of their applications.

I assume there will still need to be lots of work done to localize things like subtitles, but there's a good chance the providers they're teaming up with have expertise in that area already.
Why is this thread flagged?
They give away tons of free stuff. They've earned the right to ask for some $$$.
Why Prince’s archive is an act of defiance against pop industry capitalism
Hey folks,

As the Product Manager of LinkedIn’s contacts import products, I can confirm that the original explanation was erroneous. The article on thestack.com references a Quora thread that was inaccurate due to misinformation from our representative, which we've corrected. He's also since posted a correction in reply to his answer; see https://www.quora.com/Does-LinkedIn-access-your-email-or-con....

We apologize for any confusion this caused and are working with our reps to ensure we correct any misinformation like this in the future.

We never send invitations without an action from the member. When you add connections you see the following:

-- a description of what occurs when you import your contacts to LinkedIn

-- a page allowing members to unselect contacts from the connection request.

You must go into the address book import page and authenticate the import of your contacts from your email. It does not happen just by being logged into LinkedIn and your email on the same browser.

Moreover, you can view, manage, and delete your imported contacts at any time by going to https://www.linkedin.com/people/contacts.

Thanks,

Barry
Right. My marginal rate in the US is 29-35% (with Medicare tax/surtax) but my average rate is more like 21%.
When I'm not wearing my mechanical Seiko, I wear a Garmin GPS for running. Always-on is big for me. Are there any that have that feature these days?
Historically, plenty of projects have worked fine without 100% test coverage and lots of CI infrastructure. If you're saying that collective code ownership requires these things just to work at all, that sounds like a fairly powerful argument against collective code ownership.
There’s a distinct trend of YouTube commenters who believe that the Surface (tablet) is somehow a descendent of the Surface table, just because their names are the same. Interesting.

Funny video — thanks for sharing.
Yeah, this is why I went with the Pebble over the others - it gets the realtime notifications and the fancy sleep tracker and pedometer - and due to eink, can keep its screen on without the need to be charged every night.

That's all I wanted it for, that's all it does. And most importantly - it's priced like that's all it does.
Very tangentially related, I once tasted a experimental whiskey which was explicitly made to be just about as smokey as possible.

Which my brain - to my astonishment - interpreted as the smell of particular kind of very fine dry sand, on a varm day. It was hilariously wierd to drink a liquid and not get any taste sensation, or even any significant feeling of imbibing a liquid for that matter. Never has 1cl of liquor made me as giddy as that one time :)
That's 'high IQ'->'higher income'. You are implying 'higher income'->'high IQ', of which there are multitudes of counterexamples.
I think that android Casio smartwatch looks pretty cool... But I'm not paying more than $200 for a watch. When they can operate as a regular watch and a good notification device, I'll consider paying maybe $300. It's just a lot of money for a relatively useless object on your wrist.
Shakespeare's 'Henry VI': Christopher Marlowe Officially Credited as Co-Author
>In many cases people have a choice of ebook vs physical copy, which is what we're discussing here.

Well, then it's still no free competition, between those are two entirely different technologies, and the sole owner of the copyright sets the price of both.

To put it in another way, the prices of ebooks that are in public domain (e.g. 19th century books) are way lower (e.g. $1 per book for some publishers), whereas printed editions of said books are as high as they ever were.
I think the point here is that, even if you give away your password, the attacker won't be able to access your account, because you're protected by 2FA.

If 2FA was supposed to protect your password from being phished, then it would have to prompt you for your 2FA code every time you log in, which would be pretty annoying.
Switzerland's model is exactly what the UK has now: EU citizens are allowed to work in Switzerland. Switzerland isn't allowed to make special restrictions on some groups of people.

They want to because they had a referendum on it and it's legally binding to them, but the EU has told them that that means losing free market access (e.g., https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/03/eu-swiss-singl... ).
For how Attribution Engine uses neural networks to learn image aesthetics & give creators credit, checkout the open source repo on Github: https://github.com/mediachain/mediachain-indexer
Keep in mind that 20% is after executive salaries and bonuses as well, at best you are getting 75 cents on the dollar.
Conscientious here means 'diligent' more than 'moral'.
I have another reason that is less orwellian. Weight machines can be used by someone with no training other than the pictures on the side. Squatting (of whatever variety you prefer) requires coaching.

If a new gym member (NGM) comes in and has an initial training session with a trainer, imagine two scenarios:

1. The trainer explains that NGM will have to see them for extensive training for the next 3 months to really get a handle on the 6 exercises (and to work out/work around the mobility or injury issues that can arise).

2. The trainer shows NGM a dozen machines, walks through how to use them, and gives them a handout with two "workouts" on them, and tells them to come back in a month for a re-evaluation.

Which scenario is more likely to result in the NGM signing up for the gym, and continuing to see a trainer once a week to once a month? I'd argue that it's the latter, in most cases. People who even know what the normal weight training exercises are (except for bench press) are in the minority, and are unlikely to use a random gym trainer. If they do, they will come in laying out an agenda for training, and the trainer will probably adapt and train them as they wish to be trained (regardless of how skilled they are in basic barbell exercises).

There are a number of terrible disincentives for the trainer-NGM relationship, and I suspect that this is just one of them.

Shout out to /r/fitness and their faq. Kids today have no idea how hard it was to get good information when I was a kid.
Programming Posters
Well unlike the majority of C++ warts, JS is doing a very good job of "hiding" it's ugly parts with things like "use strict"

Things like `with` and a bunch of ugly parts were hidden with the introduction of "use strict", and i'm more than confident it will happen again in the future with something similar that can let you "opt in" to an even stricter JS that leaves behind the "current" warts of javascript in favor of much better ways.
I don't think it's such a stretch. From facebook's yarn announcement[1]:

> or example, updating a minor version of babel generated an 800,000-line commit that was difficult to land and triggered lint rules for invalid utf8 byte sequences, windows line endings, non png-crushed images, and more. Merging changes to node_modules would often take engineers an entire day.

I just did a fresh install in a new directory and ended up with 114M worth of dependencies, so I'm not entirely sure what the difference is.

My point is. 50MB, 114MB, or 500MB worth of javascript dependencies is a massive footprint. It works and I'm relatively happy with what it does, but I don't see this as a stable, long term thing.

[1]: https://code.facebook.com/posts/1840075619545360
And we could have used them to answer some important questions in physics, however, they got mined away:

https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/in-the-1970s-scien...
Wow, that level is _massive_. I wonder what the system requirements are on that. Doom played perfectly on a 486/66 with 4MB. Like how many linedefs are in that thing...
It's surprising that a dedicated phisher would go so blatantly overboard, knowing it would stand like a sore thumb. This wasn't spearphishing, it was regular phishing in a pond.
I saw that in the article, too, but it didn't make sense to me. One has units of area and the other has units of length. How can they possibly be equal? That's like saying a 700 foot wall is the same size as a 700 square foot apartment.
I live in two places in Germany: a city of one million people and a small town of 16,000.

In the city the apartment I live in as well as most buildings nearby are owned by a stock company that owns 42,000 apartments and is mostly (88%) owned by the city.

In the town the apartment is part of a building owned by an elderly couple living a few blocks away.

Compared with the company, dealing with the private landlord is a hassle. He's not very mobile, so every interaction basically takes place in his living room. He's also of course not doing this full-time, so he's not always up to date on all legal aspects or all of the necessary paperwork.

It's nice to see private individuals owning land and houses in principle, but from a pragmatic point of view the company is far easier to deal with. Their scale allows them to have offices with actual business hours and problems can be handled as routine whereas with an individual every little thing is of course special.

Because the company is mostly owned by the city, they also invest in long-term projects and community building -- which a private individual naturally can't do as easily.

So far I haven't had any problems with either of the two, but I'm fairly certain that having an actual conflict with the private couple would be a far greater issue than taking the company to court -- not in the least because in a small town everybody would hear about it and because they're private individuals it would be seen as personal.
I suspect people /want/ a smart watch so they can feel like Dick Tracy and Roger Smith (Anime, Big O).

The reality is that the smart watch is little more than a smaller screen attached by wireless personal area network to the real computer; which has a better (bigger, brighter, larger buttons) and more responsive screen.

I stopped wearing a normal watch once I had a decent pocket chronometer (a comparatively primitive simple pocket flip phone).

I think that's the marketing problem here; it isn't clear to the average consumer what the use case, if any, actually is.
No chance. The MacBook is a replacement for the MacBook Air and is here to stay.
recessions and depressions usually happen after federal gov decides to reduce deficit spending. I'm curious if there is any indication of this happening. Possibly after elections...

EDIT: Judging from this site it seems they plan to reduce deficit spending to about 500bln a year. So yes, I expect a recession if that turns out true. http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/federal_deficit_chart.ht...

You can see here that every time there was a slowdown in deficit spending or a surplus there was a recession or depression. Notice that before the great depression, there was a long period of surplus and following surplus during Clinton years there was huge issues.

Let's hope Hillary does not repeat Bill's mistake.

http://www.usgovernmentdebt.us/spending_chart_1900_2021USp_1...
Can you elaborate on this?

Every office I've ever worked in the continental U.S. was on a long term lease. The organizations I worked for spent large amounts of money to customize work spaces. It is very possible that software firms don't represent commercial tenants, so please give me more information so I can update my viewpoint.
Interestingly, I heard about that a couple of months ago going to a med conference and listening to Atul Butte. Here is the longer narrative of the taxonomic structure of death causes:

https://youtu.be/pY5_KSMlAUQ?t=105

(By the way, the rest of Atul's talk is also quite interesting, too, for people who are looking for building the next open-source bio/medical-informatics company in their garage.)
There are always lottery winners. It's not a perfect correlation.
Seems like a copy of the Dollar Shave Club commercial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUG9qYTJMsI

Though still well done.
The 2017 Wealthfront Career-Launching Companies List
The question was rhetorical to try to demonstrate that it might result in surprising behavior if const just manipulated its values to make them become immutable. If adding the `const y = x;` line made the object referenced in `x` be immutable, then the 3rd line would fail, which I don't is a consequence desired even by people who thought const made things immutable.

I guess one alternative idea for how const would work could be an implementation where `x.a = 5` worked but `y.a = 5` failed. But then what happens if you pass `y` into a function which then tries to assign the `a` property on it? Is the const-ness part of the value passed into the function, or is it a property on variable bindings, and you could only pass `y` to functions that accepted a const variable? That kind of function type checking isn't something usual to javascript currently. And then is the const-ness deep? Is `y.foo.a = 5;` blocked? Mutable DOM elements are a big part of javascript. If the object happened to contain a reference to an element that needed to be manipulated, then you won't be able to do something like `y.foo.element.textContent = "new foo content";`. Going down this road it's now getting to be a pretty big feature that doesn't cleanly fit with the rest of the language or common tasks.

Maybe the naming is a little unfortunate: Javascript's `const` has more in common with Java's `final` than C's `const`.
Who said anything about him being President? Look at what he did to the university system in California as Governor. That was the model for the disaster that followed.

Gotta love the kneejerk downvotes I'm getting from people who likely don't have a clue what happened.

http://www.newfoundations.com/Clabaugh/CuttingEdge/Reagan.ht...
http://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/28/science/california-weighs-...
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/from-master-plan-to-...
http://www.salon.com/2014/07/05/ronald_reagan_stuck_it_to_mi...
http://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/Ronald_Reagan_Education.htm
Man, I didn't expect Pebble to be down so much. My wife and I have 5 of them between us. The always-on screen and a week of battery life make them much more attractive than most other smartwatches.
The downvotes (for comments after the first) are more for the spamming and metacomplaints than anything else.
So basicly like a Bulletin Board or 'Discourse'. I think giving everything a Subject line is to much work, at least in some cases.
Probably because orcas are so much larger.
Until that person dies or is otherwise ruled incapacitated, it's their money to spend however they like.
Why Formatted Data Fields Always Need Input Masks
This is true but bear in mind that you can retain a view of the traffic with any of the web analytics plug-ins supported by AMP (all of the major analytics providers are supported).
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Have thought for awhile that fontawesome is excellent and was sucked in by the great kickstarter video - you get my first kickstarter backing!
Making a reasonable wage with a game is a lot of stress and luck. What if you approached it differently? A reasonable engineer could take a 50% pay cut and still have a living wage. Why not take a personal year now and then?