skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Organizations allowed in included Breitbart News, the One America News Network and The Washington Times, all with conservative leanings. Journalists from ABC, CBS, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and Fox News also attended.

I wonder if the message conveyed would be different if we rephrase it another way:

> Organizations allowed in included ABC, CBS, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg. Journalists from Breitbart News, the One America News Network, The Washington Times and Fox News, all with conservative leanings, also attended.

Also, I think NYT is playing with the word "allow" here. By saying "Organizations allowed in included X, Y, Z. ... A, B, C also attended", this gives the false impression that A, B, C are somewhat "not allowed" by separating the list into "allowed" and "also attended". This is obviously false since they attended it.
Cryptanalytic research is the fundamental thing that broke SHA-1, not simply the increase in available computing power. So that's not really a 'reasonable assumption', if it was, we could 'reasonably' assume SHA-512 will never be broken.
> It's just irrational nastiness

Can you point out any significant press coverage of Trump's nastiness that qualifies as "irrational"?

If the press reports on Trump's nastiness, does that make the press nasty?
Can anyone answer why exactly this makes Git vulnerable?

I was under the impression the use of SHA1 was only for hashing and not for a security signature. And what would be the benefit of intentionally causing a collision? Would it cause some sort of DoS like someone else here mentioned?
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> They used a filibuster to block a moderate Supreme Court nominee

If you are talking about Garland then no they didn't. They just didn't vote for months. They just refused to do their jobs.
What's LTT?
Better to get the information from leaks anyway. Likely more accurate.
I asked this in another thread a few days ago, but why are edge servers and CDNs not a violation of "net neutrality"? If you've got an edge server on an ISP, and are paying extra for a leased line from your main data center to that server, you are effectively paying the ISP an additional fee for priority over other traffic on their hardware.
I'm sure there are many who agree with your comment, we are simply less common. Too many keep quiet.

In response to both the topic in hand and HN users down-voting w/e they disagree:

"They have shut up all their fools in a house apart, to make sure that they are wise men themselves." - Dostoyevsky
Have you watched his press conferences and speeches? Just watched the live feed - no commentary?

He really does call the press an enemy of the people. He really does repeat factually incorrect statements over and over even after he was corrected. I've talked to a lot of people who have espoused the "It can't really be this bad - the media must be exaggerating". Trumps own words quickly casts away that delusion. Seriously go watch the live feeds at the next press conference.
I am a broken human, so suicide?
It's the annihilation of truth and its terrifying.
I just finished it last week, there were a lot of 'holy shit' moments along the way.
The net neutrality battle is over shaping traffic to maximize profits, not shaping traffic to maximize throughput/usability.

In a dollar-shaped traffic paradigm, you might slow down traffic even when your link is 3/4 empty, in order to maximize profits.
Thanks for posting this, it definitely synthesizes something I've been struggling with. I did have a question on your method though:

Do you count radio, music audio books and podcasts as social media / something to stay away from, even during your commute?

I have found podcasts and audio books to be very interesting and draining so I can see those probably need to be eliminated for sure. But for music I'd be very interested in your take. My commute would be quite dry without it (although maybe that's the point haha)
This. I used to have that setup (Prezto + Powerlevel9k) but in the end I didn't want all sorts of needless config, and it still felt really heavy. Plus, you actually rarely use anything in the framework.

Now I just use zsh + zplug (vim-plug like plugin manager) + pure zsh theme + tiny zshrc. Fast as hell, tailor-made and no-nonsense.
You can check it out over here if you're interested:
https://github.com/jorvi/dotfiles
What is the next move?
Anyone whose model depends on selling the goods is probably not a good source of unbiased reviews.
This is a lot more serious than most people think. And a lot farther along technologically. Most of what has been exposed in the wild so far just falls under Level 0 Character.

If you asked me how we could potentially combat this coming information implosion? I would say you fight fire with fire.

http://wiki.project-pm.org/wiki/Persona_Development#Persona_...
This is what oppressive totalitarian regimes do.
120K distributed consistent writes per second with Calvin
and then paint them all as crazy left wing idiots who want to censor everything.

Then they whine that democrats are jerks when dems call them anything.
But they never presented it as factual. What was "true" was that they reported on a 35 page dossier created by a former British intelligence official.

In fact, they never even released the dossier -- they only reported that the classified documents were presented to Obama and Trump. Your post is some serious disinformation.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13726886

It was #1 on the homepage then was instantly buried to #20. I'm not sure how that happened, tbh. This one is also being buried.

Edit: now basically killed.
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13726886, also on the front page
Same experience here. Dealing with Amazon about this issue has been the worst experience dealing with any company ever.
Virtual reality startup Bigscreen raises $3M led by Andreessen Horowitz
There's only so many times you can put out misleading content and get away with it.
I'm not complaining about downvotes because I don't care but the downvotes on this post are pretty clear evidence of exactly what I'm talking about.

Nastiness and lack of good manners isn't my preferred response to lack of good manners. Because if it keeps escalating it winds up in a very bad place.

There was a time people were close enough to a natural state they knew this. They bowed. They chose their words carefully and respectfully. They treated others, even strangers, by custom with a measure of consideration. And there likely were good evolutionary reasons for this which we have apparently forgotten. Now we figure with a credit card and a laptop we can do whatever and civilization will protect us. But this is just an artificial (albeit important) construct.
That's true for some categories, but the HN headline says electronics rates were cut in half, which I don't see when I'm comparing the two tables. Electronics were already excluded from volume pricing, and had a flat 4% rate under the existing fee structure. The only electronics subcategory in which I see fees being cut in half is for televisions, which were previously under the general electronics category (4%) and are now in their own category (2%). Most other electronics stayed the same, e.g. PC parts were already at 2.5% (and stayed there), videogame consoles were at 1% (and stayed there), and miscellaneous/other electronics were at 4% (and stayed there).
Gentoos emerge and FreeBSD port are package managers that preferably build from source. At least emerge also accepts git sources, with tags and commit specifiers. I haven't used bsd in a while on a prod system, but I'd not be surprised if port gained the same functionality - after all whether you're pulling a tarball and use a checksum for integrity checking or hand the task off to git makes exactly no difference at all.

And I have yet to hear that port and emerge are incapable of doing dependency resolution. They're battle tested systems that work well in production environments.
Eisenach wrote some papers on using existing antitrust laws rather than NN laws to punish anticompetitive behavior, which I think is reasonable. Apply the laws we already have, don't make new laws that prevent reasonable behavior.
Is this actually by Google? I couldn't easily figure that out.
There is another potential strategy: attack the concept of honesty. If we get to a point where a significant portion of the population believes everyone, media and Trump, are lying then Trump has much more reign to do what he wants because any reporting on it will instinctively be branded as a lie. So will Trump's defense, but the net result is still a win over believed reporting on <bad thing>.
> the network structure contains information (in the Shannon sense) about the environment

... the way a map represents a territory instead of how a guide book does ;)

Or the way a 3D structure made out of the same 20 joined amino-acids could represent either an enzyme (the code) or a protein (the data) and that there is no distinction between code and data (which is the great insight realized in the original Lisp. It is not a coincidence that Lisp was the language or the classic AI. Sorry for the reminiscence - just love this part).
It's worth reading about why these things exist [1]. The ability to ask questions is powerful whether or not they are answered [2].

[1] https://www.whitehousehistory.org/the-president-the-press-an...
[2] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/water...
"Can you point out any significant press coverage of Trump's nastiness that qualifies as "irrational"?"

Sure but I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader.
Fair enough - but the S1 is filed. The IPO is set for Wednesday.

As soon as the shares are sold Wednesday morning, it's champagne time. Granted there is a lockup period for company insiders, but unless they sink the ship in 6 months, they are going to be racing their new yachts by thanksgiving.
> But at the same time, maybe I'm being biased against him.

You're exhibiting the classic -- "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."

But you really need to avoid being paralyzed by indecisiveness.

There are mountains of evidence that Trump and his cronies lie all the time. There are videos of them saying contradicting things -- straight from the horses mouth as the saying goes. No need to `struggle`.
Do you also argue strenuously against optimizing software CPU and memory consumption?

> It's the FUCKING PURPOSE of AWS to run my code! Why don't they just buy more hardware to make it run faster?
The arms merchants are always the ones who come out ahead, whether they're selling pickaxes to miners or (apparently) get rich quick courses to would-be Amazon FBA businesses.
If you don't want ludicrous news reports, don't do ludicrous things. The press is going to report what happens and what's said, colored by each outlet's direction and strength of bias. But if there's something to report, it's going to be reported.

Similar for leaks, which are always going to happen. You can't stop leaks, but you can prevent bad things from leaking by not doing bad things.
Can you show me the site that you built in 15 minutes and that Amazon approved?
HN has ~a decade of history of manipulation in the past and more traffic than ever so naturally it will be targeted more too. If you see anything you think is manipulated this is the person to contact -

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dang

He's got all the data to confirm suspicions and can be reached via hn@ycombinator.com, doesn't matter how many times you're wrong either lol.
FWIW, if you enjoy this kind of stuff, you might like Daniel Russell's (Google research scientist, creator of A Google A Day) blog on using Google Search for research (and research on how people use search):

http://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/

He regularly posts quirky challenges (What kind of cow is in this picture? Can you see the Farallon Islands from San Francisco, and where should you stand at what time of year to best see them?). Also contains lots of useful information about the state of the query and engine, such as which search operators have been deprecated, or which obscure search operators no one seems to know about.
Perhaps it was flagged because this doesn't fit the news guidelines, and as interesting as it is, it's still just politics.
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>I'd like to think this is the wrong side of history, and that smart people should put their self-worth in acting in ways that optimize the benefit for all stakeholders. However, many political science theories predict just the opposite in large political organizations where selfish actors aggregating power end up at the top.

I'd be interested in reading more about this. Do you have any links, papers, or books you could point people to?
It's just an expression some of the doctors have used when talking with me, the costs haven't actually approached a million dollars. Basically, I've gone through all the tests and investigations the physicians can think of that might explain my neuropathy.

In terms of actual costs, it's totaled several thousand. This includes lab work, MRIs, seeing specialists, nerve tests, etc.
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> > Presumably if Uber wins, it'd have a solid case against the supplier.

> Can they really claim that the supplier damaged them by leaking trade secrets if the trade secrets aren't theirs?

If Uber wins, they are Uber's secrets.
I have a feeling this is How Things Work in societies. Similar theories exist about time traveling to the past to kill Hitler: the nationalist population of Germany will then elect the same personality in a different person and we'll still get the same atrocious WWII.

You have to make changes in The Little Guys, The Average People to actually effect change. This is where community comes in: get to know people, hang out with them, openly discuss your opinions on basic rights.

I feel like once in my life I was able to do exactly this, but I don't want to hijack the thread for that story.
I find them useful and interesting despite their flaws.
I was getting confused by the "FBA" term, so for those curious this almost certainly means "Fulfilled By Amazon" which is the program where you ship your product to Amazon, list it there, and they pull it from their warehouse and ship it - basically using Amazon as a drop shipper.

That's almost certainly a hard business to make money on - if you're doing common off-the-shelf items of any value, Amazon can simply add those themselves, and they're probably getting a better price on them with bulk purchases than anyone doing FBA can get. If it's direct sales of items you produce yourself then there are drawbacks if your items don't sell (high charges to ship them back to you apparently mean a lot of them end up being destroyed) or if you get targeted by scammers (e.g. NPR's Planet Money #724 "Cat Scam"[1], IIRC the "scam" part comes in with returns).

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/09/14/493810206/episo... and the Entrepreneur article it's based on https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/278622 in which people sell on eBay for 5-15% above the Amazon price, then simply order through Amazon and send as a gift. Returns go to Amazon and cost everyone except the drop shipper money.
Vote brigading?

I was about to dismiss your post about it being "buried" when it is still on the front page, but it is dropping like a rock suspiciously fast.
One addictive aspect of gaming that the author doesn't mention is how immersive and perhaps addicting a good gaming scene can be. There are people that live and breathe competitive sports, with most people following a few teams, and it strikes me that videogames have way more addictive potential. First of all, the barriers to entry don't include winning a genetic lottery and/or having high level coaching from a young age, so there's a democratized element. More importantly, with e-sports, you can watch insanely high level play (often with engaging/entertaining personalities) 24/7 for free on your phone, without any of the annoying content protection and walls of most sports. I suspect I would have given up on Street Fighter a while ago without the burgeoning streaming scene keeping me hooked and Reddit offering a lively venue for discussion/learning.

So in a sense, it's not "just a game" like grinding away at an RPG or whatever in the 90's in my parent's basement was - at times it can feel just as social as experiences I've had in music scenes.
See 1984, Ministry of Truth. Sadly the novel seems to be a how to manual instead of a warning.
This raises the limit on the number of subscribers a provider can have before regulation kicks in. In other words, a larger number of smaller providers have one less regulation to worry about.

Isn't more competition among providers what we want? Shouldn't we be doing everything we can – even if it's saving 6.8 hours per year in regulatory compliance – to help these smaller guys be able to take on these horrible behemoths like AT&T and Comcast?
> I'm not sure I agree with this. "Finding" the best strategy rewards you for a week at most, until the community absorbs the strategy. Then you're no farther than the people you were beating last week.

In most cases I experienced, exploitative strategies are only slightly improved, and require a fair amount of skill (usually games hotpatch outrageous exploits quickly). The people who find it worse train to use it first, and keep their advantage.

I mean... You said it yourself:

> Most games have co-opted the word "metagame" to describe this phenomenon. Someone discovers an effective strategy, it becomes the metagame, and competitive play revolves around polishing understanding and execution as it pertains to the metagame.

The "shifting meta" is exactly what game designers of big competitive games want, because it requires ongoing engagement to maintain mastery. A chess player may be rusty after a year off, but the game doesn't fundamentally change. Someone playing League or Overwatch cannot say the same as balance has substantially changed.

> Imbalanced games tend to self-balance at higher levels - all the crap that doesn't work just disappears from high-level players' playbooks (except occasionally as surprise gimmicks).

I've been part of the "highest levels" of two competitive gaming communities now, and I can tell you they do NOT self-balance in my experience. And it was incredibly frustrating to watch the rules change deliberately to break up our strategies, even though what we were doing was simply a function of understanding and practice.

Very few pvp games ever "balance out." That's why they have "shifting metas." Indeed, many gamers claim prefer this because they claim it makes it easier for new players to enter into the higher brackets against more experienced players. But really what it does is create a treadmill you can reach the front or back of.

Maybe some people want that treadmill. I am not sure I do.
Totally. So, next time the whole team with 6% of women in it will get female t-shirts. To be even more equal, they will be all designed to hold breasts size D.

Otherwise said, guys went to fitting and got just right size of jacket. Nothing sexist about buying women just right size of jacket too.
They really need to make a proper sequel to Rise of Nations. That game was great. Also loved its single-player metagame mode.
Here are some examples:

https://medium.com/@alexey__kovalev/message-to-american-medi...

https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/you-thought-this-was-roc...
From what I understand, zram results in LRU cache inversion whereas zswap does not (as it intercepts calls to the kernel frontswap API). Although, if you have a workload that would benefit from MRU then I guess this is just a bonus :)

Zswap maintains default kernel memory allocation behaviour, with the tradeoff that it needs a backing swap device to push old pages out to (which is why zram tends to be used more often in embedded devices that only have a single volatile memory store, of devices with limited non-volatile storage).
Politics isn't banned.
This is most likely not going to happen and if it did probably going to end badly: What if nobody showed up for these briefings and press conferences anymore?
Magics: no new DSLs. The JSON to SQL thing seems more on the level of a convenience mapping than a DSL. And it can be skipped.

Transparency: I felt like it wouldn't be hard to figure out what was going on behind each step. First guess easy vs black box not-so-fun.

Overall easy to grok created app plus Hasura meta data associations and transformation points.
Nothing exceptional, mainly mobile CCGs or card-based games that exercise my math processing.

Games like Hearthstone, Ascension, Sword & Poker, Carcasonne along with a bit of SF4 Volt. Turns need to be done in at most 1m or games should be done in 2-3m max.
I'll take a look. Does the ubuntu subsystem make it work like a real computer for programming tasks?
> China is learning how to beat them at their own game.

Awesome, I hope that works out.

I've been super concerned when I've seen friends buy products off Amazon for 2-4x the cost I find the same product on AliExpress for. It's ridiculously common to find identical hardware with a huge markup and a random logo stamped on it on Amazon.

Some of the stuff is total junk, other things are actually quite good - but you may as well just buy it from the source and not pay a middleman several times the cost.
I feel lucky that in my high school days of excessive gaming, my game of choice was Garry's Mod, and I was really into modding it and creating new gamemodes for it. This meant that beyond the social connections that multiplayer gaming provides, I also had a "portfolio" of sorts, of all the things I learned and created. I definitely don't regret those hours.
That could very well be true. wink wink

"I know it's hard to believe, Travis, but while I worked for a company doing the exact the same thing as this company, at nights, I singlehandedly created this trove of patentable technology that will revolutionize the automobile industry, which coincidently, really, my former employer is spending billions to do. You have to trust me."
Then why are Republicans against net neutrality? I suspect the answer is "money" and that the wrong people are greasing the right palms to get this done. If that really is the truth then why aren't companies in tech doing more of the same to protect their interests? How the hell is it that companies like Comcast have the upper hand here?
Because free speech?
TRUMP: Wait. Let's see. Who's -- I want to find a friendly reporter.

QUESTION: Mr....

TRUMP: Are you a friendly reporter? Watch how friendly he is. Wait. Wait. Watch how friendly he is. Go ahead.

a few minutes later, with a different reporter:

TRUMP: Now, that's what I call a nice question. That is very -- who are you with?

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/16/politics/donald-trump-news-con...
"Diabetic and former Diabetes genetic researcher here."

Thank you for commenting here. As you are a diabetic who was also a diabetes researcher, I think it would be helpful to have you describe your exercise regimens (both cardio and resistance training) as well as your own experience with fasting and/or intermittent fasting ?

Thanks.