skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A good reason to subscribe to a publication is that it may serve to prevent tyranny. I subscribe to NYT and WaPo, but I never even log in. I just want those publications to succeed, to support truthful journalism, and to maintain their editorial firewalls.

If you feel that WSJ and The Economist serve a similar purpose for you or your country, that would be a great reason to continue to subscribe (despite the subscription having no effect on what you read).
I'll start backing things again when the products I back actually start to ship/get finished. Hell I'll settle for some sort of guarantee that they'll ship what they promised ON TIME, and if they don't I get my money back.

Until then, I'll stick to buying things that actually exist.
Doesn't matter. Read this: http://time.com/4310607/china-press-freedom-media-xi-jinping...

Also, are you really trying to say that press in China has unfettered rights to publish anything? This is a country which has a giant firewall to prevent users from reading news/articles critical of it published outside China.
I couldn't translate the middle left vertical sentence on the first diagram because it's a bit too faded. (It said something about the corner...) There's also references about 'this layer/level' all over the place that make me think there may be some paper folding involve but it could simply mean 'this layer is solid yellow' and so on.
Of course you don't just say that. Recall from OP how mirroring works: you listen, repeat, label/distill. Odds are there is some part of what they said that you'd sincerely be curious to learn more about, that you think you might be able to relate to. (If it was a brief "I'm a ___" response, ask questions about the field to get to that point, etc.) And at some point you spin things positive like "But X part of the job is probably exciting, right?" Which is a segue into what you're passionate about yourself after they answer.

The key is to be genuinely curious and show it in body language. For the first part, approach every conversation as if it was a 100-upvote HN posting "Why X is more complicated than you might think." Right? Don't be fake, just rationally hold back the impulse to be cynical. The second part takes practice, but nodding, mirroring their body language, shoulders back open stance, etc. are a good start, and you can feel good about doing that if you are genuine, which shows. It all comes down to empathy and knowing how to show it.
For sure, but wouldn't it be nice if the interviewer at least challenged the assumption that such measures do protect people overall? Leaving aside the question of whether there would be any benefit in the case of attacks like the one we saw last week, which is debatable in itself, there's also the question of whether the reduced security would do more harm than good.

The interviewer could explore the impact of online fraud or identity theft or cyber-bullying, and look at how fast these problems have been growing in recent years. Then challenge the advocate of weakened encryption or mass surveillance over why they want to require security vulnerabilities or create huge databases that will make great targets for criminals. If they claim everything would be securely held and strictly for police use or similar, go with Snowden and Wikileaks.

If the advocate brings up their other favourite argument about protecting children, the interviewer could ask whether it's really a good idea to make it easier to intercept private picture messages between teenagers.

They could ask why the government wants measures that would inevitably undermine investigative journalism that holds the government and the police and the security services to account. Then start listing past controversies relating to the behaviour of those groups to demonstrate why that public interest reporting matters.

It's not as if privacy and security advocates only think these things are important because they don't like the government or something. There are real, serious consequences in play several different ways here.
I used to play an MMO called The Realm Online from ~2003-2007.
It had a player-run economy, so I offered millions of the in-game currency for someone's Starcraft CD key, as all I had was a burnt CD. I was itching to play online with a friend of mine.

Eventually I got that key and enjoyed many, many hours of online play with a good friend. I never did get to play the expansion, although I'm well aware it's considered the definitive experience.

Counter-Strike is similarly something else I had to miss out on, I just didn't have a way to purchase games digitally. Steam was around as well as services like Direct2Drive but my Mom didn't have a bank account, so I just accepted that I'd be missing out on these multiplayer experiences as a teenager.

I did manage to keep up my subscription to The Realm for a long time, but that was thanks to the wonderful concept of money in birthday cards. Once WoW launched it basically killed The Realm anyway, I could have spent that money more wisely in retrospect.

Starcraft was a rare multiplayer exception for me, along with Jedi Academy, and UT. It'll always have a place in my heart because of that.

Later in life, I ended up putting over 800 hours into CS:GO and now own over 300 games on Steam, so I lived my multiplayer dreams eventually.

I've shelled out enough for Hearthstone packs by now that I don't feel guilty about trading that now worthless huge chunk of The Realm Online gold for that valuable Starcraft CD key.
I remember the competition between Starcraft vs Total Annihilation. I was very much into TA at the time, which was a beautifully crafted game. I could play against my friend across the country on 33.6kbps modem with 500 units each without crashing. Sure, each frame would take a second or so, but we would set up our attacks and just sit there and watch without worrying it would crash, it was amazing.

Obviously Starcraft ended up winning, but boy was TA an amazing game.
Does anyone know or been part of any other company that has run like this (maybe instead of CEO, it's the VP of Product or some other position that is democratically elected)? Thought this was fascinating and prompts the question of why aren't companies more democratic in nature (note, this is for late-stage companies where business risk has been reduced, not your early-stage startup).

I wasn't in love with the one-year term limit and think it should be a lot longer (like 3-5 years). There is also the risk of losing a very long vision (think 10+ years) because of this process, but perhaps you can mitigate that by having candidates address it explicitly while "campaigning". I would even introduce elements such as having debates and town halls.

Interesting to think about regardless!
> you need to start with your own acceptance

true dat.

self confidence = a form of charisma
Blizzard can shut down any televised tournament that doesn't have authorization from them.

So they could theoretically force league's hands and move them off original SCBW, like how they've pressured Kespa in the past.
Only if those 10000 people do something else in that 200ms and also if they multitask it does not matter. Except in some HFT or other specific use cases, i dont think even 100000 will matter 200ms fix.
I've heard that TA had really great and fun mods. Any anecdotes of that you might be familiar with?
I should add that I am blessed to have a housewife for a partner, though I realize I may get thrown under the PC bus for acknowledging that. Also, I'm not wealthy enough that money is not a priority (i.e. my debt exceeds my income), but I do not consider money to be the pinnacle of my wealth, either.

If I were a single parent, or primary care giver, my solution to interruptions while working from home would be considerably different, but all I can offer an opinion on is my own personal circumstance.

P.S. I have found great joy in stoicism, and avoided even greater strife :)
In regards to the SPAs, what exactly is the alternative?

In my mind you have two possibilities:

1. The most ideal is to "pick the right solution for the problem." Meaning, you will analyze the problem and do the right thing, e.g. content mainly? server side rendering. web application? SPA.

2. Do what you know, consistently. In many cases, this means using an SPA basically all of the time, whether or not it's necessary. This also might mean server side rendering all of the time, adding javascript only when absolutely necessary.

In regards to SPAs, I feel there must be a solution. Ember tries to do this with fastboot, allowing you to essentially have the flexibility of an SPA with the SEO and other advantages of serve side rendering, but I'll ignore that for now.

Is there a paradigm/language that allows you to write the same templates for both the server side and SPA view? I guess this would mean the view is the same, and the model and controller would be your choice.

I think it's natural to just do what you know, which is why you're probably seeing what you are.
Does SC2 even do this? It might just not be within their design aesthetic.
Listen people. My first response was that of ambivalence.

Those who died should be remembered. I think of the apollo missions and I think of Gus Grissom, this man was a hero and there are few. This was a man who was not afraid to stand up and speak the truth.

We are in an era right now in which, we have more information available to us than ever, yet, standing up and questioning what we have been told to be truth, is met with significant resistance. We are taught things in school that are, without question, incorrect. We must remember those for sure, we must listen to them, follow in their footsteps of bravery.

Neil Armstrong made an amazing speech on the 25th anniversary of Apollo:

"There are great ideas undiscovered, breakthroughs available to those who can remove one of truth’s protective layers. "
Clearly advertising must work - otherwise companies wouldn't have endeavored to make Google and Facebook multi-billion dollar companies. As for ROI, I've heard mostly that internet ads aren't so good. Lots of ad buy is for brand awareness, and there's no way to quantify ROI.
Because you can write more complex systems with it. E.g. asynchrony is much easier, therefore you can use it more frequently. Like you can write pretty complex kernel code without worrying about anything.

Similarly, some of the errors that are commonly handled by the OS are made impossible to express in Rust. Your OS can me made much leaner without loosing anything.
I happily disabled my ad blocker for the LA Times when they requested it, but I eventually closed the page when they decided to load enough ad content to make my Chrome tab unresponsive on my Xeon workstation. I won't be back.

I'm not even really adverse to ads, or to paying for content. (I subscribe to three newspapers, two of them in print.) I just want a browsing experience that isn't terrible.
Basically, yes. Classical stoicism applied to modern life, with concessions made where needed to adapt to reality.

Thankfully, ancient stoics were quite avant garde in many of their social norms, so it doesn't have be modified as much you might thing. Musionus Rufus makes a damn good argument for the intellectual equality of men and women, in the first century after the purported birth of Christ.
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calling something over http vs calling functions or class methods does not make much difference. So in your example how does it make it easier to add vs monolith? Monolith can have well defined modules and interfaces and microservices could be an entangled mess.
It is rather absurd how large California is compared to many other states. There should be a general process to split large states rather than doing this as a one-off though. For example, after the 10-year census, the largest state gets divided in half.
oh nss modules wouldn't either. Perhaps intercepting and rewriting every dns request would be needed.
I agree with your content, but not your tone. I'd like to add that one often hears "round brackets" as an unambiguous terms for the first category. And where's love for angle brackets <chevrons>?
I remember attending an interview where Barry Marshall jokingly claimed that he was the only person who'd ever earned a Nobel prize with a study size of n=1. At the time it seemed like a reasonable claim, not just a joke, and it's now interesting to me to see how wrong he was with that joke.
What exactly would be the advantage of Calexit?

1. Republicans would win every national election for the foreseeable future. This is bad, republican or not, as it essentially undermines democracy.

2. The chance of a civil war would grow significantly as other states consider following California. I believe this to be true because let's face it, there are certain states that subsidize others. This has to be true, given the discrepancies of wealth between them.

3. Arguably much of the success of the United States comes from the cohesion between the states, hence the name. To leave the United States undermines its very existence.

Am I missing something?

EDIT: Also, more practically, would California even afford to maintain its current existence without the many subsidies it presumably receives as part of its membership of the US?
AnotherKafkaMonitor is an app which used to monitor kafka producer and consumer progress inspried by KafkaOffsetMonitor. It aims to help you figure out what's going on in your kafka cluster, that's to say, to understand how fast the producer send message to the kafka or whether the consumer is far behind the producer or not, if lag exceeds threshold, you will be noticed through alarm email or sms.
In my experience, 30-35 hours a week of "real" programming (not meetings/ water cooler chat etc.) is about what I can do sustainability without getting squirrely.

I've done a whole lot more for periods of course but pay for it later and can't keep pace week after week without it really taking a toll. My mental state and relationships and personal life suffer. I become generally unhappy. Not to mention my hands and wrists. Burnout is the end and I've discovered in sum it's a loss to push more.

If more is expected over time I see it as a company that has no problem eating it's capital and it isn't for me. Other people might be tougher, IDK. But all I can keep is a solid 30-35 hours over the long haul without burning out.
What a nice problem to have!
This article is so unusually biased that it's twisting the truth to the point of presenting a false story.

The persisting idea that this was to protect children is such a lie, this was absolutely to protect Youtube from the backlash they've been receiving from advertisers who don't want their advert for toothpaste showing up next to a video discussing the best uses for anal beads or any US political opinion which doesn't firmly conform to being hard left (before I'm down-voted for saying that, as a British leftist, my personal brand of over-the-top semi-communism would make even the left-est of Americans feel a bit sick).

"It’s tried to enlist users to flag problem videos, and that backfired when trolls heard about the plan." - This is discussing how Youtube wanted to give users the ability to mass-flag groups of videos, as in flag multiple videos at once instead of individually. Trolls? This only effects content creators.

"But despite YouTube’s efforts, it didn’t notice YouTube megastar PewDiePie going rogue." - Almost straight away after the story broke, they canceled Felix's "Scare Pewdiepie" Youtube series contract before he had even had a chance to publicly respond to the (frankly ridiculous) claims that he was a Nazi sympathiser.
amazon.com. The Whole Internet Catalog. But I get what you mean - it's not very fun or informative to browse Amazon. I'd say the closest thing are the good product-focused blogs. But they are narrowly focused.
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Interestingly, that's apparently because they're keeping the old gameplay code. That's great to hear because units like the Reaver and Dragoons are only balanced because of their issues.
That's a specious argument. Most gasoline powered cars today will be performing as good as new at 100k miles with minimal attention beyond regular oil changes and a new set of spark plugs -- certainly, you don't need a complete motor replacement that early in. Likewise, any car with 100k miles, EV or not, will have a pretty worn interior, need a new suspension, be showing wear on its paint, have very out of date electronics and safety features, and be out of fashion style-wise (and yes, that matters when it comes to price. Just ask the designers of the Pontiac Aztek).
never heard the term "blogspam" but that is a very good description of it. When I click a link and then notice it is just a short blog post from some company trying to "content market", I leave the page.
"For example, contract janitors no longer receive the benefits or pay premium tied to a job at a big company. Their wages have been squeezed as their employers routinely bid to retain outsourcing contracts, a process ensuring that labor costs remain low or go ever lower."

I think possibly the most effective change that could be done along these lines is to change the laws to where hiring as few actual employees as possible is the only responsible business decision. One big part of this would be decoupling health care and possibly other benefits from place of employment, if not universal health care then just put everybody into the individual market by law.

Or close the 'contractor' loophole entirely, but that could be messy.
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For the uninitiated, StarCraft Brood War is perhaps the most mechanically demanding game there is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQRIxq_cJDE
Gcam, the computational photography project that powers the Google Pixel camera
Can you please cite some examples of this accidental complexity? I'm very curious to hear, if for nothing else than to avoid it if I agree that it's indeed accidental.

I do agree that because of the "GitHub resume" phenomenon, lots of devs are engaging in the type of engineering you describe.
What? Care to elaborate how the rest of my comment contradicts the statement?
What is a better one? A patent pool has formed around DASH and you need to buy a license to use it:

http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/MPEG-DASH/Pages/Intro.as...
Haven't we done this before...? (getting deja vu)
Browsing the source code, I was not able to find an openings database. Is it so strong in openings theory that it is able to compute it on the fly?
I was only addressing the your comments regarding the study addressing certain criticisms. I didn't read the article, and I don't really care about it.

Yes, them using the mean wage at those companies is inaccurate. They should probably be using median instead.
I'd encourage any burglar who wants to cut my mains with bolt cutters to do so at any time.
> Neither Chrome or Firefox support HLS on the desktop

Both work well with JavaScript based implementations of HLS, such as VideoJS's HLS plugin:

http://videojs.github.io/videojs-contrib-hls/
Google may distrust a third of the web's SSL certificates
really? It's been a while since I've programmed in Haskell, but something like this is about right:

data Data = Data { thing :: Int, that :: Boolean }}

addToThing :: Int -> State Data Int
addToThing n = do
x <- get thing
modify (data -> data {thing: x + n})
return x

It corresponds to this Typescript code:

class Data {
constructor(
private thing: number,
private that: Number
) {}

addToThing(n: number) {
const old = this.thing
this.thing = old + n
return old
}
}

Except for the fact that you only need to see mutation if you want to, and you certainly can't use the mutation unless you want it.

To me it doesn't really look like jumping through hoops, but we're up front about the mutation so no-one's ever going to get a surprise.

There's no silver bullet, sure. But I don't think pure FP is really all that complex. It's mostly just different.
Briefly, what's your point?
This could lead to CEOs that make decisions to make people happy and get elected, rather than for the good of the company. These are sometimes two different things.
No one owns the whole stack. You pick your "main" software, and customize it with third-party services. None of it runs on your premises. No party is willing to expose much more than an API.
Gameplay is exactly like SC1 so no to both those questions.
What's the worst thing that could happen from someone exploiting this vulnerability?
They support your worldview moreso than preventing tyranny. I think civilization needs a paradigm shift or we are in for a bleak future, there are many signs that show our republic (speaking to the entire developed world) is declining and around the world fanaticism is growing in momentum. If you look at economic growth and technological progress as the only viable metrics of growth, then that would prove that hubris is preventing us from evolving further. The news is actually part of the problem in my humble opinion.

I may be wrong but what if I am right?
I've played countless hours of this game on 56k when I was a kid. Needless to say, I was ridiculously excited after hearing about this. But seeing the before and after footage in the video on StarCraft.com has left me pretty disappointed. The maps nearly look identical and that's where I hoped the biggest improvement would lie. A little more detail than the original in the environments would go a long way towards me wanting to shell out some cash. What I've seen looks like a new skin on the old engine and literally nothing else in terms of aesthetics.
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You probably meant to say "cannot be overstated". "Cannot be understated" would mean that Stack Overflow is irrelevant.
The challenge can be non-technical. The tech can be trivial, the business know-how, key.
I don't think the point is to use them in an a real debate, that doesn't seem to go well, it's more to help yourself analyze arguments.

Great comic though
Boy am I optimistic for this game. I fondly remember UMS Sunken Defense, tower defense originators and of course Big Game Hunters maps. I'm really hoping a robust map editor is included.

Mac friendly would be nice too, especially considering Overwatch(?!) is Windows only.
Linus has a temper but it is greatly exaggerated.
Total Annihilation was great. The big difference for me that made Starcraft superior was the uniquely balanced set of races to choose from. The two factions in TA were essentially mirror images of each other. Starcraft always felt like it had another layer of depth to strategy as a result of the various matchups between races.
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I don't understand how it would undermine democracy. Can you explain please? Surely it would just redraw the lines and democracy would continue.
Nope. Those are my thoughts exactly. The obvious implication of CalExit to me is civil war. Like you I definitely think a state leaving undermines the very nature of the United States. Political motivations aside, the idea of California leaving bears many similarities to South Carolina during the 1800s, and we know how quickly that turned into war.

For me it's an amusing thought to entertain as a form of escapism but I really hope people aren't taking this seriously. It'd be disastrous for both the country and California.
If this phenomenon keeps successfully manifesting itself across the world's democracies, we can only conclude one of 3 things:

1. Democracy, in our current world state (i.e. in the modern mass media, social media, et cetera landscape), does not work and needs to be replaced;

2. Western democracy is corrupted to the point of needing to be rebooted (despite the necessary fact that this will result in a likely annihilation of much of the West's population and factors of production); or

3. The British and Trump cases cannot be generalized to all Western democracies.

I'm betting on 3, but I don't feel great about it.