skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) it's already the case. PR firms have created many credible user accounts in most social media, maintain them for a long time, and now use them to influence it on day to day basis. I bet even HN has some of those.

2) already the case. it's called world of mouth. we just use technology to propagate it now. We never had so many chat apps, social networks, content sharing services, etc.

3) this I want to happen, but every attempt is not only hard to use, but also used for very illegal/immoral stuff that makes it the target of regulations, preventing it from becoming popular. And even if it ever reach popularity, it can cross a threshold making it full of trash like the previous medium, and we would have to restart again. Maybe we should create a system that is hard to get it, to prevent people that are not interested enough to come and trash it.
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For S and I: use 'normal' wood, or if using metal mandate expanding spray-foam insulation (to dampen vibrations). I MUST be insulated (should be fire code, as well as noise and common sense code).

The brackets are 'dry wall' but mandate the higher quality stuff that won't support mold growth.

Yes, there's an inner gap between the outer walls, and the floor/ceiling have a bit of extra padding of some structured engineering product that dampens vibrations.

The outer walls have studding to allow for cords and in-wall plumbing.

Do NOT run plumbing or put any shelving/fixtures on walls adjacent to another unit.

I haven't seen, or figured out my self, how to make the vertical noise isolation equally effective. I suspect a dedicated between floor crawlspace would be effective (but raise costs notably).

The core-wall approach CAN lower costs since it allows for a structural core with studs as dense as desired and no cut-outs.
Why are people still so obsessed by C? There are better alternatives for almost any usecase. Where there are none, there portability is a non-issue (eg. embedded stuff. although C is also not especially suitable for that use, yet still prevails, because of the existing tooling.)
They cant make fake news disappear because they are going about it the wrong way.

As soon as you try to crack down or limit "fake news" you play right into psychology of reinforcing the fake news "media" and "they out to get us".

Also lol at the concept of google and facebook knowing whats fake news and what isnt and trusting them to do so.
the new thing is how people are consuming information and news, we are getting mainstream news pumped into our facebook feeds or via twitter and it accumulates all these different people pushing various views as part of the narrative in the commentary. News seems to encourage it by engineering story headlines / content to generate as much activity as they can while still trying to appear legit.
They should have had commentary during launch from that guy who made comments during the unveiling of the Mars mission last year. The one who went to Burning Man.
> stateless

Game development is kind of different, in that it's rendering the state of a simulation; so aiming for completely stateless solutions ends up making code quite convoluted -- you're hiding state rather than getting rid of it, in my experience.

Now, stateless functions are still well worth it, at least up until it's time to get it optimised for performance ;)

Game development is a fascinating world where a lot of the things I would normally reach for don't apply quite as well. It's quite likely you know all of this already, but I found learning this myself absolutely fascinating, and one of the reasons I still like to tinker with game development in my spare time :)
Is this not common in America?
>Yes, it's a paradox, but it's not something that hasn't been addressed.

It's quite the paradox, as you'll see:

>You can make the argument solely on the grounds of the anti-muslim rhetoric, not to mention his running mate's public views on gay rights.

"One incredible Gallup report from 2009 found that 0 percent of British Muslims viewed homosexual acts as morally acceptable."

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/28/magazine/can-a-former-isl...

A lot of Trump voters probably don't want more Muslims immigrating into the US. Are you saying that can't even be discussed, despite the fact that Muslims don't approve of homosexuality, even in Britain?

Or what about the Muslims in the US who hold Sharia law above US law and don't want free speech? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfmywzjdtRM

Are Americans intolerant for questioning if we should have more of that intolerance?

Should we not let Muslims into this country "solely on the grounds of" their "public views on gay rights"? I mean my god, should a Muslim be allowed to work at Facebook's London office based on their homophobic beliefs?

Please be more open minded in the future.
I kind of wish apartment buildings in the country, just outside of town were a thing. I don't love living in an apartment, but to live in one surrounded by a couple acres of lawn/trees/whatever and maybe some actual fields seems like it would be a lot nicer.

(My current apartment happens to overlook a field in the middle of a city. It's great when they plant clover in the spring and the whole thing is bright red for a couple of weeks.)
Bicycles don't slow drivers down. Removal of parking infrastructure, with the intention of getting people to switch from cars to bicycles, slows people down.

I have a 6 mile/10 minute freeway haul to the last suburban train station on the way to work, then 20 minutes on the train. They've announced a plan to demolish the parking lot at that station and build offices, with the intention that people like me switch to bicycles. There are good reasons to do this, but I think it's absurd to suggest that we'll be equally happy with ~40 minutes added to our daily roundtrip.

There are some good arguments. BART will make money from those offices, meaning it needs to ask for less from the taxpayer. There will be fewer traffic accidents near the station, and less polluted air (though the real air pollution problem there is urine). I merely argue that the happiness of the reluctant bicyclists isn't one of them.
Keep in mind though that that max effort pull is a tangible measure of what you can accomplish and your progress toward goals.

Your training, and time-in-gym particularly, is only partially related to that. Train on a stupid program (squat-rack curls, sets of 100 reps), and you're not going to progress.

Use a properly periodised training schedule, with complementary and auxiliary lifts that work toward your goal, mind your time between lifts, avoid overtraining, etc., and you can make rapid progress.

Powerlifting's easy, from a measurement perspective, because the end result is so tangible and measureable: legal lift, known weight, success or fail. Speed events, whether sprint or endurance, likewise. Direct contests, whether competition (tennis, darts, rugby), or fighting sports (MMA, wrestling, boxing) largely the same, though some subjectivity of scoring may come into play.

Determining who is the better programmer or systems administrator from a 15 minute assessment is all but impossible if the contestents are even remotely evenly matched: the criteria for drawing judgements are much more complex, and may not become apparent for months or years.
Yeah, it's a serious problem. If you left 20 years ago, I've got bad new for you: it's worse than you remember. Most of the economy now consists of ticket clippers and rent seekers. It's a shame we lack the structural support for new ventures in Australia, as Australians have historically had some good ideas.

But when you look at stuff like this (http://i.imgur.com/g7a9QDL.png), it makes you realise that there's no chance of generating a start-up culture in Australia (except maybe in the financial sector, especially if the business has something to do with property loans).
Those aren't really quality of life metrics though. They are things you think might lead to quality of life, but the isn't the same thing. Walkability might not be the important thing, but ease of commute might be and separate cars might win out on that (convince a majority of LA natives to give up theirs cars in exchange for the subway and see how far you get).

Your most likely scenario is going to be a simulation that optimizes the preferences of the person seeing it up.

This is a problem and we haven't even come to the part about knowing how goals and actions interact with each other.

This would literally win you a Nobel prize and change the world.
Completely agree about Cmake. The language may be quirky, but it has solved all the hard problems. Often the build files will be trivially short as well.
10 years here. It's nice to move to San Francisco and think, wow this is cheap as!
The article downplays a little bit the value of the autotools. It's not just about building for 30-year ago hosts, it's also about providing a lot of convenient tools and providing the user with a known interface. If you write your own configure, people may expect to be able to pass additional CFLAGS (not overriding the existing one), setting the path to various elements, installing in a different root, having certain targets for the generated makefiles (like dist, clean, install, uninstall), having cross-compilation work (including crosscompiling to Windows with mingw64 which solves the toolchain problem of releasing binaries for Windows), ... It's a tedious task and easy to get wrong.

On the other hand, using the autotools in a modern way is dead easy. You don't need to add many many tests if you don't intend to support old stuff. You get access to automake which is a fantastic tool on its own.

Don't read old tutorials, don't look at how big established projects are doing, look at the Autotools Mythbuster instead (autotools.io) and start with a minimal configure.ac.
Heads up, the difference between 200ft and 300ft is huge. I'm all for small living in the middle of cities, but I think 200 would be too small for me. Wish you the best of luck of course, but I think going for 300ft would be good for next time :)
Is Al Jazeera real news?
https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/847593365189173248
Except, you could build out said algorithm, in theory, put it into use, and an election cycle later the community is polarized in some new direction and everything changes. Urban planning is as much prediction as it is response to changing circumstance.
Octaspire Dern – programming language
Very much a work in progress, but still usable. Written in standard C99 and released under Apache 2.0 license. For a usage example (a simple game written with it, also WIP) see https://gitlab.com/octaspire/maze

No other dependencies than C99 compiler + stdlib and https://gitlab.com/octaspire/core
But it also means that what you're writing right now isn't that bad.

If you accept that your best is your best, then your best is good enough. The effort is what matters.
I've lived in all sorts of tiny apartments in Japan and think they are very useful but only for very specific groups of people (students and single people). The great thing about them is you can rent extremely cheap (I paid $450/month in a guest house where it was only the room and shared bathroom/kitchen/laundry etc). For a tiny 2 bedroom apartment I rented for $600/month but far away from the station. These are great for students and single people because you can meet others, it's very safe (generally), and very affordable. I don't know the new apartments going up in SF but if they made them extremely small units I'm sure they could fit a lot of people and be very reasonably priced (relatively).
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I believe that, generally, immunity deals are constructed to require complete candor and truthfulness. It may have come up in the Lewis Libby trial. IANAL.
Speed alone is a useless factor if you don't take in consideration the conditions of the drive.

Taking hours in a comfortable train, with my laptop, a power socket and 4G is not the same as in the sub suck standing between to a fat sweating smelling dude and a crying baby.

It's not the same if I have an appointment or if I'm going to my holiday.

It's not the same if it's cold and raining or sunny with birds singing.

People don't just go fast for the sake of speed. It has a purpose.

So yeah, slowing down in life is a good advice. Chew and taste the food, exercice, take the time to read, stop to talk to your kids, etc.

But all lifes happen in a context.

The context is not the same when you have a shitty underpaid job with heavy commute in terrible conditions and 2 kids to drive to school, or, if you are like me, in the sunny south of france driving your cool-ass motorbike. Yeah I take my time, there. But I guaranty you, when I'm in the US traffic, I really don't want to take my time.
Oh, here is the link: https://gitlab.com/octaspire/dern
It used to be and there's been a push to get back to it. I think City Journal, major conservative/libertarian group, has been writing about it.

It basically went away with modern zoning laws.
Obsessed? I don't think so.

It's just that C has been around for 40 years, it'll stay around for at least another 40 years. You can still compile source code from 20-30 years ago with little or no modifications.

C gets the job done fast and efficient.

That said, I'm waiting for a good excuse to learn Rust. Prior to that there have been very few alternatives to C.
Former Canadian PM Harper gave an interesting talk earlier this year[1] where he touched on this. In short, Canada is incredibly lucky to be geographically protected from immigration. Its only land neighbour has a comparable quality of life, similar culture, and is vast enough to act as a natural buffer. This means that Canada can implement its immigration policies quite well because the gap between policy and reality is quite low.

Contrast this to places like continental Europe and the US where geography has not provided natural barriers and the gap between immigration policy and reality can be considerable. This gap leads to a high degree of immigration cynicism from the local populace because they perceive the government to be unable to control it. He considers this unaddressed cynicism to be a contributing factor to the wave of nationalism that's going around.

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvOqeaVWYe4
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There is no kind when reviewing - there is only feedback, so here it is.

Negatives:

1. Website is really slow.
2. You've used Wordpress, Wordpress is a blog not a property portal, not to mention it's not exactly secure!

Positives:
1. Looks clean.
2. Mobile responsive.
And what in the world makes you think that a company run by a russian nationalist[1] offering a free service with a million dollar bill will stick by their word (which, in this case is literally a single word)? The naivety of people in this post Snowden world is striking to me.

[1] https://www.instagram.com/p/-MrPWGr7aL/
Just watched a short video by one of my favorite podcasters, Doug Lain, on Althusser's concept of ideology [0]. To Althusser, there are two ways to make a society think a certain way: via repression (military force, economic force, etc) or ideology (why a pine tree in your house during Christmas, anyway?). What you're saying seems to me like using dismissal as a repressive force (by forfeit of social accord/klout/capital) for the sustenance of ideology (in this case, that things are as they seem without need of intricate/conspiracy theories)

[0] What is an ideology? (or Althusser was crazy?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4NNDZ4X63I
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You're incredibly stupid.
The original post was listing the "consolidated" figures. Marketing of consumer products was not broken out separately from the consolidated figures.

The information in the pdf does not support the narrative of the original article, because of the use of consolidated figures.
Here in the UK in most cities the amount of empty commercial property is astonishing. You can get space on really good terms eg first 6 months free, next 18 months heavily discounted, and a 5 year lease. A decade ago that would have been nothing free or discounted and a 10 year lease. The reason being that high street shopping is dying. Shopping centres have occupancy rates as low as 80% and are gradually being converted in to complexes of restaurants and bars instead.

Store fronts are an anachronism. Building new commercial property in places where you can't put a service business like a bar is pointless. And very few people want to live above a bar.
OTOH, it is perfectly possible you were a victim of mind control:

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2017/mar/23/dia-worri...
100 percent agree with this although I doubt many will see the reality of what you said.

Facebook and google played a huge part in spreading clickbait and fake news titles and and now all of a sudden they are trying to "stop" it lofnl.
However you shouldn't release a training prototype. Artists do not release sketches. Architects do not sell concept drawings.
The article is not talking about the size per unit, but rather the number of units per apartment complex.
Yes, I've been using CMake again after a few years of something else. I came back to CMake because it seems to be the build system that sucks the least.

I use CMake with Ninja, which is faster and nicer than plain old Make.

CMake completely falls apart if you're trying to do anything else than normal user space applications that link with commonly used libraries. Some years ago I tried building a bare metal project with CMake and the job got done but the experience was atrocious.

But CMake really shines in building "normal" applications and in particular cross compiling them.
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I've seen C used for safety critical software. I've used it for that. I've seen the insane amount of tooling and support and processes and rules to make it suitable for the task it is utterly not suitable for.

It does not get the job done fast and efficient, if you consider the develpment costs. The fast code the compiler generates could be genrated from other sources just as well, it's not especially the merit of that language.
It might seem that way. But lulz always seeks to be taken seriously. And the fact that some people take it seriously, or at least seriously enough to get upset about it, is what makes it so lulzy. To those who get that, it's just lulz.

What's new is that Twitter brought lulz to defenseless masses.
"News at 11: Humanities professor shocked to discover many people disagree with mainstream academic & globalist groupthink"

(and no, I don't think social science is a real science)

You don't need to study this stuff professionally to see what's going on here.

1) Trust in institutions has been falling steadily for a long time. That's because modern institutions are not trustworthy. Vast conspiracies were posited, laughed off as tin-foil-hattery, and later exposed as true (Snowden being the canonical example). Large federal governments like the US Federal Govt and the EU became more and more opaque, with ever larger and more byzantine bureaucracies and regulatory frameworks that seemed to create a game of tails we win, heads you lose. Judges interpret the law to suit their political preferences, not what a plain reading or common sense would seem to imply. And so on.

2) Whilst trust in institutions has been falling steadily for a long time, trust in the mainstream media has collapsed dramatically in relatively recent times. This too is fully deserved: people don't trust the traditional news outlets (in the USA) because they lie a lot and are nakedly biased. The difficulty of finding any national newspapers that supported Trump and the practice of outlets that had never declared before in their history declaring for the 100% globalist/liberal-elite-style Clinton, summed this phenomenon up. The subsequent artificial mass hysteria over Russia and the (dubious at best) Russian "hacking" of the election reinforced this idea: the media is as locked in a form of groupthink as Washington itself is.

You can't repeatedly teach people that there are no reliable sources of information, and that conspiracy theories are sometimes real, and then act surprised when large numbers of people start seeking out alternative sources of information that more frequently support conspiracy theories.
The whole topic of global state is very interesting and one I approach cautiously. I'd love to hear what more experienced programmers have to saw.

1. Quake 3 relied heavily on global state. It was good design, and the engine produced billions in revenue.

2. Emacs relies heavily on global state. A global variable is a first-class citizen. When a package declares a global variable, it's a contract between the package author and the user that "You may configure the behavior of this package by binding this variable to a new value, then invoking one of my functions." Emacs lisp has language constructs which makes this easier: `(let* ((foo-state 42)) (foo-bar))` will update the global variable `foo-state` to 42, call the global function `foo-bar`, and ensures that `foo-state` is returned to its previous value even if an error occurs and an exception is propagated. In other words, global variables are the interface to a module, just like a module's functions, and global variables are almost never left in an unexpected or invalid state due to errors.

This system works shockingly well in practice. Emacs is basically a gigantic state simulation, and it parallels a game engine quite strongly.

The Emacs Lisp language itself is cumbersome, which has led many to dismiss it as ancient. The true power of emacs has little to do with lisp and almost everything to do with excellent design decisions.

3. The history of programming informs us that those who hold to dogma are quickly made obsolete. Every tool and pattern has its place. A technique that simplifies X in a certain domain will make X far more complicated in a different domain. Context matters.