skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't follow his channel for the impression you had about him. I like the other gamers (Van--s, H-0, etc).

I think you nailed it that stress is so bad that many have lost appetite to release new videos on a regular basis, and I've seen this in many youtubers I was following for years. Some gamers I know just don't want to edit anymore and instead release most of the gameplay or switch to Twitch completely and depends on just donation.

While the top youtubers can make over a million a year, it can become a no-life job in the end. There's also an impression at least from my PoV that many YouTubers are now in LA making LA their "Silicon Valley" (yes, after all LA is the SV for entertainment industry) but since the living standard there is pricey and different some YTers might be under unhealthy stress. There was a YouTuber who committed suicide last year. We don't know exactly why, but it was very unexpected for fans and friends, and while I really don't want to speculate, I just can't help but think career might contributed to the cause regardless.
Previous discussion on the official program announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13941195
Whole-heartedly agree. D’Onofrio is a ridiculously good cast for Kingpin.
The Art of War. Honestly, I re-read it every year!
C has still huge market share. Seems that it occurs in 5% of all tech job offers:

https://jobsquery.it/stats/data.technologies/C

Stats also showing that average salary for C developers is above average for all tech job openings.
How to adapt your leadership style to different employee personalities
> people like you

Please don't do this. Personal attacks aren't allowed here and aren't necessary to make your point.
Node.js and PostgreSQL PaaS
This is a professional machine. See https://www.miele.de/professional/grossraum-reinigungs-und-d...

Having an API totally makes sense here to have monitoring and error reporting.
Callahan's Crosstime Saloon.

"Shared pain is lessened, shared joy increased." It's really that simple, folks.
I really don't spend more than 10 hours a year watching Youtube. 27yo.
Take fairly normal people doing fairly normal things and then expose them to millions of people who think they're great and who can directly comment to let them know they're great. Or that they suck. Or both.

Even the traditional distance-Holywood celebrity model makes people go crazy, but when you're letting people right into your life and they're encouraging you to do crazier and crazier stuff, you're either going to burn out or blow up.
I did not know about tiny elephants and hippos! Wow :)
The request for ID is certainly not standard across all accounts and situations. My guess: the account reactivation came from a different location than OP's home country/state, or OP themselves moved states/countries in the past 5 years. The account being reactivated from a different location would certainly be cause for alarm. This would be a reasonable check in my book, as it is the best way to fight against compromised credentials - you know, the exact situation OP finds themselves in for having reused their Facebook password on other (previously compromised?) sites.

What the OP doesn't seem to understand is that the attacker may have been able to technically "reactivate" the account, but they also probably can't actually gain access until they provide ID. This ID requirement has likely saved the OP's account from actually falling into the attacker's eager hands.

OP is complaining about the privacy implications of a compromised reactivation by an attacker, and sour they are being asked to prove that they are not the attacker. Take off the tin foil hat, stop crying foul, be grateful Facebook seems to have saved your password-reusing ass, send them the ID, and then delete the account instead of deactivating it.
How's that going to work if the mugger steals your phone?
I regularly watch YouTube (I'm 27). I usually watch videos about woodworking, blacksmithing, machining, engineering, astronomy, math, chemistry, farming, and off-the-grid living. I find all of those valuable in that I learn something new nearly every time I watch one of those videos. That said, I also watch video game montages when I want a good laugh and some mindless entertainment.

Here are some of my favorite channels that I find watching almost always a good use of my time:

Engineering
Practical Engineering: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMOqf8ab-42UUQIdVoKwjlQ

Physics
Sixty Symbols: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvBqzzvUBLCs8Y7Axb-jZew

Woodworking
Matthias Wandel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCckETVOT59aYw80B36aP9vw
Frank Howarth: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3_VCOJMaivgcGqPCTePLBA

Astronomy
DeepSkyVideos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo-3ThNQmPmQSQL_L6Lx1_w

Chemistry
Periodic Video: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtESv1e7ntJaLJYKIO1FoYw

Blacksmithing/Machining
Clickspring: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCworsKCR-Sx6R6-BnIjS2MA
Alec Steele: https://www.youtube.com/user/alectheblacksmith
Brian Oltrogge: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOywIdppbhn6hkgcEtDMatg

General Interest Science
Veritasium: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHnyfMqiRRG1u-2MsSQLbXA
Vsauce: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6nSFpj9HTCZ5t-N3Rm3-HA
Smarter Everyday: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6107grRI4m0o2-emgoDnAA
Tom Scott: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBa659QWEk1AI4Tg--mrJ2A

Cooking
Chef John: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRIZtPl9nb9RiXc9btSTQNw
Andrew Rea: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJHA_jMfCvEnv-3kRjTCQXw
Byron Talbott: https://www.youtube.com/user/ByronTalbott
Years ago I was going on a cross country road trip (solo), and needed something to listen to. I decided to download all of his speeches, sort them in chronological order, and listen to all of them.

His continual evolution was nothing short of amazing. While the book is awesome, I appreciated him more when I listened to him directly.

This is also a great book: https://www.amazon.com/Malcolm-X-Reinvention-Manning-Marable...

It essentially makes him more human, exposing his flaws which you rarely hear about.
Ask HN: Does Google TOS forbid android oauth?
https://developers.google.com/mobile/terms

The passage in question:

> You will not (and will not allow any third party to) use the Service to track, collect or upload any data that personally identifies an individual (such as a name, email address or billing information), or other data which can be reasonably linked to such information by Google.

That would seem to forbid collecting email address or any oauth token based on gmail.
It's also worth making the distinction between the movie and the impressive short story that the movie is based on, which the article completely fails to mention: Ted Chiang - Story of Your Life [1]

I've read Chiang's book about two years before the movie aired and it really is top-notch speculative fiction that I highly recommend to any Sci-Fi lover.

Even though Denis Villeneuve, Eric Heisserer and Ted Chiang himself did a wonderful job with the screenplay, while managing to convey the main ideas and emotion of the book, there are quite a few details about the process of translating Heptapod A and B that didn't make it into the movie, details which would have painted a more complete picture of the situation for the interviewed professor of linguistics that was interviewed in this article.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18626849-stories-of-your...
Not exactly the same, but what you describe is similar to the concept of components in Pragma (a project I'm working on).

I will write a more detailed post when it's ready for release. Meanwhile you can check the "How Pragma works" in the intro blog post http://www.laktek.com/2016/11/29/introducing-pragma/
I would like to know more about this. Do you have a source? I have suspected this for years.
Seems to me it's about someone literally paying a guy to hold up a sign that says "Death to Jews".
The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander.

He's an architect/philosopher who coined the term "design patterns". Beautiful book, got me thinking very hard about how to create artifacts and environments that make the people who interact with them happy.
Okay, so... occasionally it comes up that I experimented with being a gaming youtuber as a way to escape some of the difficulties I was having with the SV ecosystem. I worked hard, I connected with other famous Youtubers, and bam, I was profitable (sorta) and producing content.

Everything in this article about a capricious Youtube is true. Everything in this article about the underappreciated difficulty of producing this content is true. I produced a lot of media, but I easily put 5x hours into it (it doesn't help I play simulation and builder games). Everything about how expensive and difficult that job is is true.

And it's also true that the communities of Youtube and their related satellites (a lot of fandom on Tumblr, SA's leftovers, 4chan, Twitter, even obscure stuff like GaiaOnline) are... They're hateful. People will find a reason to hate you. Your fans will pick fights in your name. You'll frequently get criticism from both sides of an issue, and they're not always as cut-and-dry as the PewDiePie Nazi joke cards were. I was threatened doxing by a 15 year old, I called in to the SF police to warn them that I was expecting my workplace to be SWATed because people were mad I was "an ally of the feminazi gay community".

But... Folks, at the end of the day none of this really excuses humor about rape, violence, racism, etc. And if you do cross that line because you're desperate or exhausted you do get an out. You can say Mea Culpa, apologize profusely, donate some revenue to charity and people move on. The PDP's particular crisis keeps hovering (besides his degree of exposure) is that he's decided to ally with the unrepentant, openly racist parts of Youtube like Sargon.

There is an implication from this article, as I read it, that it's inevitable that people will break down or make mistakes. I agree with this part, but it also implies that we should forgive unrepentant bad actors who effectively say, "It's about the money. I thought I'd make more if I had people put up cards making light of antisemitism."

That's not a new thought, and these consequences are not new consequences.
The Artima book by Odersky is the bible, and so you need that one.

For reference, I like http://naildrivin5.com/scalatour although it's 2.8 rather than the current 2.12.

For style guide, I'd go with Li Hiayo's blog, notably the Strategic Style series: http://www.lihaoyi.com/post/StrategicScalaStylePracticalType...
The Inner Game of Tennis.

My tennis coach gave me his copy, from the mid 80s, which was tattered and had clearly been read many, many times.

It taught me so much about life, and how to be successful.

My tennis coach was also my life coach when I reflect back on those days. He grew up in south central LA, rode his bike to the closest tennis courts and sometimes as far as Beverly Hills. He'd wait outside the courts until someone came along and ask if he could play.

He turned that into a full ride scholarship for tennis, became a senior level member of a huge telecom and then left to coach tennis to give back to the sport that gave him so much. He credited this book for teaching him how to focus on the important elements in life and most of all, the grit required to succeed.

Anyways, it's a great read. I haven't read the revised edition but I'm sure it's just as compelling.
What you say you differ on doesn't seem to be incompatible with my assertion.
> JonTron isn't going to lose his subscriberbase from this though... I doubt most of them care.

I'm sure many of his casual viewers won't care (or even know), but spaces like his subreddit have a lot of people condemning him and saying they're done with his channel. That's the sort of thing that can eventually eat away at content quality by breaking your relationship with bigger fans - think of how Many A True Nerd depends on subreddit feedback to fix mistakes and guide playthroughs.
Neuromancer was the first book to get me really excited about the future and how computers would change our lives.
Which Taleb's book should I read first?
Sapiens - there's a section in there about how everything (well, most) in our world is essentially a figment of our collective imaginations that enough of us believe is true and as such it is reality. If enough people (like everybody) decided tomorrow that every company's articles of incorporation actually don't count then companies as we know them could simply cease to exist since the documents that make them exist only have meaning in our collective imaginations.

Once I accepted this everything became a lot more fun, arguments about politics/religion etc are enjoyable as you realise that no one is fundamentally right.

Also, the explanation of fractional reserve banking and how debt came to be a thing was like the matrix being revealed.

Good book, highly recommend it.
The Selfish Gene (Richard Dawkins)

tldr; our bodies are just a side effect of the gene's greater plan
Yes they are. Many famous economists have said they agree with George. I think he is most useful as a way of informing ourselves of the utter mess we have now. Read it and you will see the entire world in a new light. You just cannot "unsee" afterwards. Rentiers abound and it's truer now than ever.
Sounds like it would be ideal for situations where you want the layout itself to be as neutral and out-of-the-way as possible, since these are judgement biased by normalisation.
The WSJ may have sensationalized things, but PewDiePie legitimately made those incredibly tacky statements and "jokes" all by himself.

We don't need that type of tactless behavior in online gaming. What happens on 4chan should stay on 4chan.
I am a professional photo editor for a major magazine. Despite what the title sounds like, I spend much of my day sending photographers on assignment and sourcing images rather than manipulating files. I often wonder how my career will evolve in ten years; the writing is on the wall for my job, given the state of the media market.

Looking at this, I now see a future as a forensic imaging specialist. At some point, the algorithm will get pretty damn good, and it will be my job to look for tells -- cracks in the generated image where reality doesn't quite line up. The question will be whether I am seeking out these abnormalities to cover them up or to call them out.
An Introduction to Stock Market Data Analysis with R (Part 1)
Sherlock (BBC) series 1 was pretty good. Sherlock series 3 is an unwatchable self-referential mess.

(Mind you I have a low tolerance for TV drama; the last two things I really enjoyed were Foyle's War and Endeavour)
> That way you can pretend you were in touch with them thereby promoting you from unsolicited to solicited.

I noticed that you were getting downvoted and I am curious why.

Is it because people don't like what they think is the dishonesty of the idea?

Or because they don't think it will work?

Or?

I think it's a fine idea.

I have done similar things (not in pitching netflix) and it has worked. It's amazing how quick people are to criticize something that is foreign to how they operate or think idealistically the world should operate.
> it is not dangerous in knowledgeable hands

For crying out loud, this is patently false.

C isn't as dangerous if you really know what you're doing and you never make mistakes. I would bet fewer people know what they're doing than think they know what they're doing, and the set of people who never make mistakes is entirely empty.
Show HN: Snail Mail Congress – You write it. We print and mail it to your reps
I watch the people you mentioned plus I love movies so I also watch KaptainKristian, Every Frame A Painting, Lessons From A Screenplay, Channel Criswell.

Just in case you haven't heard of them In A Nutshell and Life Noggin are also awesome for well produced super high quality science stuff
Don't know, but it's presented as a Netflix branded "Netflix Original Series".
Key to Control in Silicon Valley Is Simple: Make Money
I don't see why this is an issue, whoever is arguing for a change can write rurl and be done, and see if anyone takes it up in their distributions.
Sure, but Jontron thinks it'll raise his revenue to ally with Sargon and have that tirade. He even said so. He's under the impression that the viewers who give him revenue are all white nationalists.
What was the previous domain name? Why did you decide to change it to sheep.horse?
GitScrum is a project to help developer team
Laravel GitScrum is a free application developed in Laravel 5.4. The aim is help the developer teams to use Git and Scrum on task management of the day-to-day.

Available in English, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian.

https://github.com/renatomarinho/gitscrum
What I've been curious to learn and haven't heard discussed is how this data will become available. Will I be able to call up Comcast and pay $X for a particular user's browsing history after this passes?
I know this is about Python for Android. I just wanted to say for all those iOS users who might read this and think "well this is of interest" you might want to check out Pythonista

http://omz-software.com/pythonista/

its not quite the same, but you can build apps (sorta, i guess?) right on iOS, you can run python, and with a package like stash you can even use pip!

https://github.com/ywangd/stash

this is cool for android though!
The atmosphere and water are both reasonably transparent to visible light but a lot less transparent to other parts of the spectrum.
Yeah, even I only put that in there as a way to handle cases (like Rust) where there is a single implementation of the language, which makes "implementation bugs" and "language bugs" one and the same.
Are you kidding me?

Are you claiming the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis isn't true on ycombinator?

This is a forum famous for talking about blub languages and lisp. And if it's true for artificial languages, that's a strong indicator that it's true for human ones.

But sadly there are very few studies comparing programming languages and I've never seen one comparing human languages qualitatively.
Cory Doctorow: Close Enough for Rock 'n' Roll (2010)
Recent Noteworthy Games Released on Linux in March 2017
The classic essay on this subject is by Clay Shirky: "Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality"

As he says:

"Freedom of Choice Makes Stars Inevitable

To see how freedom of choice could create such unequal distributions, consider a hypothetical population of a thousand people, each picking their 10 favorite blogs. One way to model such a system is simply to assume that each person has an equal chance of liking each blog. This distribution would be basically flat - most blogs will have the same number of people listing it as a favorite. A few blogs will be more popular than average and a few less, of course, but that will be statistical noise. The bulk of the blogs will be of average popularity, and the highs and lows will not be too far different from this average. In this model, neither the quality of the writing nor other people's choices have any effect; there are no shared tastes, no preferred genres, no effects from marketing or recommendations from friends.

But people's choices do affect one another. If we assume that any blog chosen by one user is more likely, by even a fractional amount, to be chosen by another user, the system changes dramatically. Alice, the first user, chooses her blogs unaffected by anyone else, but Bob has a slightly higher chance of liking Alice's blogs than the others. When Bob is done, any blog that both he and Alice like has a higher chance of being picked by Carmen, and so on, with a small number of blogs becoming increasingly likely to be chosen in the future because they were chosen in the past.

Think of this positive feedback as a preference premium. The system assumes that later users come into an environment shaped by earlier users; the thousand-and-first user will not be selecting blogs at random, but will rather be affected, even if unconsciously, by the preference premiums built up in the system previously.

Note that this model is absolutely mute as to why one blog might be preferred over another. Perhaps some writing is simply better than average (a preference for quality), perhaps people want the recommendations of others (a preference for marketing), perhaps there is value in reading the same blogs as your friends (a preference for "solidarity goods", things best enjoyed by a group). It could be all three, or some other effect entirely, and it could be different for different readers and different writers. What matters is that any tendency towards agreement in diverse and free systems, however small and for whatever reason, can create power law distributions.

Because it arises naturally, changing this distribution would mean forcing hundreds of thousands of bloggers to link to certain blogs and to de-link others, which would require both global oversight and the application of force. Reversing the star system would mean destroying the village in order to save it."

http://www.shirky.com/writings/herecomeseverybody/powerlaw_o...
email verification would have also stopped reactivation in this case.
I spend most of my 'entertainment' time on youtube these days, but I'm not looking for sitcoms and character development. I'm also older than you. I spend most of my time watching interviews (financial, political), podcasts, and special interest informative stuff. I don't like censorship, and even on popular (main)streaming sitcoms, only certain viewpoints are allowed to be expressed.
Obviously there are some really passionate freedom lovers here verging on fundalmentalists; will brook no alternative viewpoints from even being hypothesized.
Reducing shutter speed to reduce blur isn't new (https://www.dpreview.com/articles/1528656007/notimagestabili...), accumulating sensor exposure is how DSLRs work, and aligning frames is how image stabilization works. It might not be what we call "HDR", but there's nothing new here. The combination in a phone camera sounds nice.
New Hull Form Offers Better Handling at High Speed
I'd like to interject for a moment. Before using vanilla-js, have you tried Svelte, the magical disappearing UI framework? It compiles/transpiles your JavaScript to... vanilla JavaScript and it literally "solves the JavaScript bloat crisis".

Someone on hackernews said it would be the future!
The right way to think about privacy would be "is that privacy worthwhile to protect". There is no absolute in reality. Everything is a balance. And that balance is constantly shifting. We, human, are experts in handling shifting balance though. Do not be stupid (blindly trusting any party, including our government or google), but do not be paranoid either (worrying about potential crisis every day). Just live your life, and use common sense.
I sometimes question the startup herd mentality. "Why would I go to a company who have been managing product launches —amongst every other aspect of marketing— for decades, when I could find a small garage outfit that wants to do everything with NFC?"

Sometimes established industries aren't always bad. Nor does their age mean they're only doing what they did on day one. These companies only survive if their clients survive. Age denotes success.
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-hacked-in...
Forgot to state the disclaimer that I work for Snowflake.
Yes, board game demonstrations, Numberphile, and Primitive Technology. I am definitely not in my 20s.