skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The implication here is that somehow Trump conned people into voting for him. The reality is that there are actual, real people who believe in some of the policies he's proposing.

Yeah, that sounds about right. I would be extremely surprised if Trump himself actually believes even half of the things he said during his campaign and in the time leading up to it. The rest is just pandering to the Id of his base.

Like you say, the literal proposals are ridiculous and he's already starting to back off on them. Saying one thing and then doing another - isn't that practically the definition of a con?
It's called rhetoric and I don't really care about degrading the discourse.
To anyone on HN (or elsewhere) who doesn't get Snapchat, revisit Justin Kan's explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10859860
Self-reported partners. So a correlation between altruism and exaggeration?
I'm not sure if you can call it "designed to taste like human meat" when it's actually human meat that just wasn't produced in a human, though that's another interesting breakdown.
I have this and have been dealing with a very similar effect to this for 4 months now. Depersonalization. It's a very odd type of depression and detachment from reality. It's very uncomfortable and can last indefinitely.

Mine was triggered roughly a year after I had been into VR and also a year after I moved away from home. It's hard to say which played a bigger role. It was triggered by my best friend coming to visit me.

It's fucking terrible. And I don't know what to do about it.
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I don't know of any measures of bias, and as you're kind of indicating, you kind of can't trust those either. Anybody more interested in being informed rather than supporting their ideological tribalism is in a really bad spot right now I think. If I'm being honest, I don't think there's a source that's really any good right now. I pointed at Breitbart, specifically because they link things and tend to include large sections of text for quotes. A lot of their other practices are really bad, but aren't at all unique to them. That's how low the bar has gotten though. I used to point to the New York Times, but they've shit the bed so badly recently that they went so far as to publish a half apology and reaffirm their commitment to radical notions like accurate reporting. If they can pull it together, then there's a chance they'll be worthwhile again. A paper I haven't checked in on in a long time that used to have a sterling reputation was the Christian Science Monitor, so I should probably look at that one again. I know it's got a weird name, but when I was a journalist, for that brief flash, it was regarded as being good.

If that wasn't bad enough, there are all kinds of psychological effects that make us inclined to prefer tribalism, confirmation bias and a sense of righteousness.

If I was going to write a general guide, off the cuff, I guess I'd say something like this:

1. Pick a source that opposes the current authority. Power needs to be held to account.
2. Pick a source that values integrity and transparency. This is why I emphasise their willingness to link to sources so much. If an article on say, The Washington Post, talks about the contents of a Trump or Hillary speech, but don't provide a video, or link to a video, that's unacceptable.
3. Wade out into the shit sometimes and see what counter narratives are out there and investigate some of the more interesting ones. Confirmation bias will cause you to reject them most of the time, but at least they'll be there, nibbling at the edges of your certainty.
4. Avoid editorial content as much as possible, particularly on television.
5. Be prepared to switch.

I could probably write a small book about this stuff. It's a tangled mess that hasn't been helped by the failing business models adopted in news agencies, and it's easy to feel informed without actually being informed. Gas lighting was a good choice of term, as it's probably what's happening. If you live in New England and want to have a tin foil hat arts and crafts session, I'm game.
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I've scanned through twitter, they have users driving hours to try to buy them. I'm confident people are super excited. Being in the consumer electronics space myself, it takes about 80% of expected sales as capital to get anything into commercialization. This is just throwing huge flags for me as an investor.
A Pattern for Continuously Deployed, Immutable and Stateful Applications on AWS
Reading this I felt reminded of my experiences playing for Liverpool Action Role Playing. Being in character for several days and totally escaping get the outside world - then shedding the costume and sitting in a car on the motorway back home.

Well talk about post adventure depression.

Then walking up to the door of your longtime girlfriend and knowing get what was awaiting me - talk about remedy.

Escapism in the former of a holiday from reality might be great - but reality has it's own perks.
I personally have been using this since March 2016. I want to thank you for making such a nice application. The main reason I used this is because it was the FIRST result on startpage search engine results. Big thanks to you again! Keep up the good work.
It's not totally unique, but I made a simple tool I call "watch" that runs terminal commands on file save. You specify a file glob and a command and it runs the command whenever a globed file changes. Also has a few handy flags. I use it ever day to automate my file save->compile->run workflow. It's amazing how much time you save by never having to up-arrow/enter a terminal after every save. Been meaning to update it to use file hooks instead of polling but it works.

https://github.com/kctess5/file_watcher
I think the best (or worst?) part is that CRISPR can be used with a 'gene drive' it keeps the changes active on on-going it's not a one shot thing.

GATTACA?
I started using Miranda relatively late - around 2008 or so - but I do recall that it was the best chat app back then. I think Pidgin started to become popular around this time.
At least you can't create news filter bubbles or troll with Snapchat.
There appear to be 2 versions of the external power supply, one at 135W and one at 200W: http://www.storagereview.com/hp_introduces_the_z2_industry_s...

The supported E3-1270, 1275, and 1280 are rated at 80W. I'm not sure about the M620 GPU, but since it's the successor to the 45W K620, that might be a good guess. If they need to offer the 200W version, I assume they will occasionally need to handle at least 135W of cooling inside the chassis.
What is the longest this effect has lasted on you?
Not paywalled:
http://earthsky.org/earth/chinas-new-feathered-mud-dragon-di...
Remember the articles about eye contact & 36 questions to fall in love a few years back? http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/fashion/no-37-big-wedding-... and similar?

Take the answers from the human participant, make appropriate "mmhmm" noises, vary randomly around the center of the human participant's statements (in a space generated from the answers of other participants), and play back with continued eye contact and the face and body of high status persons.

I guarantee you could have that face ask for $5 for a ticket for next time and get it.
If it doesn't qualify as entirely unrelated, I think it still qualifies as flamewar-style (“Here—fight!”). The story might be different if the commenter had something to say, as the guidelines ask when broaching these topics.
> I don't think this effect is specific to a medium.

Your assertions are going to be wrong if the medium is the current reality around us. The question then becomes where does that line begin and end?
Different areas, different media roll outs. DrStrange was barely mentioned on TV in my area. I think I saw one commercial. But Arrival seemed to have a spot during every break last night.
>What did Persians do to deserve this much hatred?

Not do as they were told and overthrew the western approved dictator (very basically).
IBM allegedly helped the US government run the camps where citizens of Japanese descent were imprisoned during WWII (and allegedly provided technology to the Nazis that was used for the Holocaust).

What will IBM do if the U.S. government tries to lock up masses of Latinos or Muslims? What will your company do?
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People ALWAYS worry about technology way more than they should. Jobs are always replaced by new technology but new problems are created along the way and we start dealing with higher order problems..
Especially once it starts getting cluttered with annoying ads.

Or when Mom and Dad discover it and try to move in.
How big filesystems have you queried with it?
> "Bakker suggests that flowering plants invented beaked dinosaurs."

I'd say it's quite possible that it's at least one of the factors. Hummingbirds became experts at reaching nectar in flowering plants and in turn, many flowers such as trumpet plants evolved down a path that invests heavily in hummingbirds visiting them.

I have seen some clever orioles circumvent the process of nectar in exchange for pollen by snipping a hole in the bottom of a trumpet plant flower and drinking the nectar it wouldn't be able to reach otherwise.
One of the HUGE advanatages of GCE/AWS is that they will gobble up 100% of the unused resources for their own computation. Nothing is wasted, and the machines basically pay for themselves.

Compare this was something like oracle, which simply can't consume the unused resources in order to discount the hardware effectively. They can't beat GCE/AWS at the cloud game until this changes.
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> In other words, at home you can use your own router; you can set the gateway as a computer that you control.

Yes.

> What if you had a portable gateway, one that could travel with you?

I can rent a VPS and connect through it using "Always-on VPN" option (I did it once and it worked). But then I have to pay for a server monthly in addition to the mobile plan. It is not that expensive but I would prefer just having access to iptables and being able to install my firewall on a phone.

I might be wrong but on Windows you can at least install a firewall. At least you could on earlier versions.
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What do you think is the purpose of this piece?

Seems like it came straight from PR land to me.
> ICQ has its own TCP/IP implementation which works in the user space;

Mind expanding a little bit why is that?
Umm... the only signal on that issue is that it got changed to "accepted" recently without any comment about ETA. I've seen issues sit in that state for quite some time, so that doesn't look all that encouraging or clear to me.

That said, thanks for the link; I've voted for it and will keep an eye out there for future updates.
CockroachDB performance is just awful. Most of the members in its Team are arrogant just like the Go community. They just keep defending their statements without any evidence.
Woah! Miranda was my first IRC+MSN client, back when MSN was a thing... I no longer use it, but let me be another person to thank you for creating it.
What's wrong with `firefox -P`?
As a teenager, it's almost constantly open on everyones phone - I wouldn't be surprised if I have it open/constantly checking it over 5 hours a day.
Before clicking: http://store.hp.com/wcsstore/hpusstore/Treatment/HP_Zmini_q1...

After clicking: http://store.hp.com/wcsstore/hpusstore/Treatment/HP_Zmini_q1...

No USB-C ports would be a total deal breaker for me.
To your point b... so it's all about bubbles? A race for eyeballs before they disappear to the next "new, cool" thing?

Because advertising isn't working for the people that sell "things." If social networks are supposed to create spending/buying in retail (both online and meatspace) they are not doing a very good job. Google: Retail sales 2016.
I must be even more uncharitable than I thought.
If VR experiences are surpassing your real life experiences you are leading a pretty shitty and boring life.
Is that netto amount?
Scott - Is this comment appropriate?:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12962658

I understand it's tricky. I certainly don't want to start a flamewar, but I do think that these issues are critically important and should not be ignored.

I'd appreciate your feedback if you think it could be improved somehow.
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If you actually enjoy that sort of writing, Theodore Judson's "Fitzpatrick's War" is one of my favorite "future histories".
If you're willing to try Firefox Nightly, check out the containers experiment: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Contextual_Identity_Projec...

While everything still happens within a single profile, sites in different containers get different storage (cookies, localStorage, IndexedDB, etc.) and cannot see each other.
Starting a Swiss-German language school in Zurich, Switzerland.
Most course materials and the world's biggest dictionary (Swiss-German) is provided online for free.

http://www.schweizerdeutsch-lernen.ch
oh boy, where to begin?

I am going to assume you're doing a lot of compiles? So something with good IPC (instructions per clock), so a CPU like the top end intel 6700 or the 6 core variant depending on cost.

Then as much ram as you can afford.

And then get the fastest SSD, preferably a NVMe one as I think it would help with many VMs running, many compiles, many tabs open, they benefit from high workloads. But given that consumer queue depths (high queue depths are better for SSDs) being so low you could save money on some solid SATA non-nvme drives like samsung's 850s or similar.

Case: find one that suits your aesthetic tastes and has good airflow.

Power-supply: Something 500W or better, modular ones make for better building experience (in my experience anyway) but you probably already knew that.

etc... hope that helps
Define "messenger."

All of the above (save perhaps write) allow two users to converse freely, over a network. Sounds like a messenger to me.
Politics in general has been historically fraught: go back a century and almost every player has taken some terribly unseemly positions or actions. It's pretty irrelevant to single out IBM mostly because they've happened to exist for that long, unlike the majority of other tech companies.
The article makes no reference to a possible strongly correlating factor, age. If research is to be done and claims made like this, they need to be along age intervals. It seems apparent that the older you get, the more sexual partners you have and PROBABLY the more altruistic, as you have the means too. This shouts Occam's razor to me.
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hmm, maybe this is why i can never finish a book... ;)
That isn't "old man" that is practical thinking. Kids don't have any money!!!!!!!!!!
This is what surprised me about the Wikipedia article - you would think they would have mentioned the simple yet clever way that the crew could ensure that they were at the correct release height over the water using spotlight beams.
> Better than someone knocking on your door or calling during supper though right?

Please don't pitch yourself as a lesser of two evils. And I can at least cuss out / slam the door on a solicitor. And they aren't going to wake me up in the middle of the night.

Follow up question: do you respect the 'Do not call' registry?
This proof is nearly equivalent to that proof, but uses the sine function to generate a contradiction. The crucial step involves the fact that:

1 + 2 * product(p', p')

must be divisible by some prime number, where

product(p', p')

is the product of all primes you were talking about.
Or just exaggeration and exaggeration? The article touched on it, but I think that's more of a confounded than they let on.
A crucial difference being that cooking is quite literally a matter of survival.
this totally blows my half assed idea out of the water!
http://coderte.es
I get that it will have a big effect, but I think that human interaction is so nuanced that that effect will play out slowly. Again, I think single digit years is possible, but not less than five.
It looks like an attempt to warp between the images, but it's not matching up the features correctly. It works a little better in the "around the world" examples. Some parts just fade or have the wonkywarp effect, but it produces a smooth transition in other parts. http://blog.mapillary.com/update/2016/11/15/around-the-world...
... which is a pretty good definition of "cooling". All cooling is "transferring the energy to another" something (interface, medium, location).
A search for "linux" in NVD returned over 4,500 entries. "firmware" has barely 900. So I'd say there's definitely a meaningful difference, and operating system kernels have been used in firmware (Linux and L4 have at least), so formally verifying kernels can eliminate firmware vulnerabilities too.
Additionally: More sexual partners can plainly be interpreted as either:

- Polyamory
- A long series of failed monogamous relationships

That's assuming age is constant.
This is one advantage of A Song of Ice and Fire (a.k.a. Game of Thrones). At the rate the books are being written the series will never finish in our lifetimes. I can only hope we perfect cyberbrain technology soon so George R. R. Martin can finish the work, typing out a single line per day or so.
http://www.a440.audio/ (Warning: plays audio) I wanted a dead-simple tuning fork; I saw the domain was available so I made it. One-click access to A440 from any bookmark.
Surely, if you been sucked in and chewed, and been left - you would proudly report this to a researcher.
Again, and with emphasis, GIVEN the spread of misinformation was a significant contributor to the election results... In other words, assuming Trump benefited from misinformation [more than Clinton], then the results are justifiably frustrating.

I'm not claiming whether or not Trump did or did not benefit more from misinformation. But if he did, I think my point is fair.
Figures here in free preview: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjop.12208/epdf?r...
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This sounds like a cool project - Similar claims to spanner? http://research.google.com/archive/spanner.html

I'll keep watching for jepsen tests!! :)
https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/diy-jepsen-testing-cockro...
The "gene drive" - the quine of the genetic world.
Yeah I just responded similarly to another comment. I think the worries are valid, but not exactly urgent.
This. I would love someone to do a realistic IKEA furnishing just to see how impossible and unpractical it would be.
Perhaps there is opportunity for someone to provide a service which fact checks news stories and provides an API that returns a simple score for a given article based on objective checkable facts.
In Defense of the Assumption Persona
https://packetsled.com/packetsled-response-to-matt-harrigan-...

>PacketSled takes recent comments made by our CEO, seriously. Once we were made aware of these comments, we immediately reported this information to the secret service and will cooperate fully with any inquiries.

That's got to be some awkward phone calls.
On Mac at least you can use Command Shift [ and ]. Which is the same as in the browsers.
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You may be gone, but not forgotten, never that, Jeff :)
Which ship sailed? The one with all the people cooking? or another one.

I wouldn't count cooking as 'out' just yet. Many people of all ages love to cook, but many of them love the creation of it. An oven that cooks for you is like paint by numbers, it 'might' get people interested in cooking to the point where they want to learn more.
What about autistic people?
Looking over the shots, it seems like ICQ over time morphed into Facebook...
Just to add to that, we know the increase in the atmosphere is mostly due to fossil fuels because that co2 source has unique isotope signatures compared to other sources like rotting plants and forest fires, and we know the basic plexiglass box scenario is actually playing out from satellite observations, which directly observe that it is co2 (and methane) spectra of heat specifically that is being blocked, not other wavelengths, and that the degree of change is in accordance with what would be expected given the amount of co2 we have added.

In other words everything is very clear, it all adds up, it has added up and been clear since the early 1990s.
People dont want to be tagged on snapchat, their audience likes exactly the opposite.
Come off it, there have been four generations of workers and leadership since then. If IBM isn't a responsible corporation, bring up modern examples.

Or maybe we should boycott Ford, Volkswagen, BMW, Mercedes, GM, Coke, Puma, Adidas, Bayer, Siemens, Zeiss...
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-8...

PSA: Please update immediately. One of these is critical.
It could be a long series of successful monogamous relationships. Not all good relationships last a lifetime.
I think you've put too much commercial info into this, and it's looks more like an ad. It's interesting what you do. Is it profitable?
Good man. Cleaning up after us snotnose teenage wannabe hackers. :D
Is it safe to put my 1Password's master-password into the message that is sent in case I'm dead?
At least it's all starting to make sense now.
Which is all very gung-ho and all that, until you consider the thousands [edited - hundreds] of German civilian men, women and children who drowned in the valley after the dam breach. [0]

[0] - http://www.abroadintheyard.com/german-survivors-of-dambuster...
Good point. But this was 15+ years ago, available to everybody, and was completely anonymous.
I saw "December 2016" in there somewhere...
IRC had the same problem. Jump onto a "social" channel with a feminine sounding nick and you would get the screen covered in ASL queries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Byzantine_inventions
No. VC's should pay to attend demo day.
Something I've noticed in many comments is its a mix of the game or story with perceptual warping.

My own perceptual warping story doesn't come with a game, but I assure you its super disorienting to spend a couple hours looking thru a low power binoc microscope to work on electronics and then just get up and walk around, your hand eye coordination is all messed up for awhile because what you see your hands do has been times 2 magnified and bent 90 degrees upward for some hours. Putting a key in a keyhole is a challenge for a couple minutes till reality snaps back. Its a form of sea sickness, after all. Your position sense doesn't match your optic sense and that makes some people puke although in low doses you just feel really weird.

Much like there is a difference between the taste of a beer in a relaxed setting vs after a long afternoon of yard work, your blood sugar or hormones or something distort your perception of the taste of the beer. Or DnD / pathfinder / rpg in general seems more fun when candle-lit. And a zillion observations in a hundred comments here about drugs or whatever.

I would think there are more technological opportunities to mix perception alteration with a story or game than just AI or what we've mentioned. Perhaps someone could scientifically calculate a formula to determine the correct music for a game. Maybe there is a type of food that naturally goes with social media use (probably something sugary). Maybe a certain hue of general room lighting is good for certain TV genres. Aside from VR technology, however cool it may be, I have this feeling narrative/game plus perception warping is a large mostly unexplored solution space.

I like to sail. I wonder if, along the lines of the theory above, liking sailing comes from ultra low dose perceptual warping due to subclinical sea sickness combined with the purely mechanical labor of sailing. Could you give me a small dose of anti-anti-sea sickness pills and I'd love basketweaving or something.