skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a psychologist, but my understanding from people I've spoken to in various psych disciplines is that this is a fertile area of research and there are fairly regularly published papers on this topic. There appear to be deep connections between derivation of behavior based on principles and other-oriented empathy and punitively enforced or superficial behavior training and tendencies towards authoritarianism and various other negative tendencies. Apparently the theories coming out of this are making inroads into various therapeutic and treatment approaches for everything from children's therapy to prisoner rehabilitation.

> but nobody that was raised with completely unexplained rules so it's a bit of a strawman comparison.

That's your strawman creation. I never claimed people were raised with arbitrary and unexplained rules. Typically strict rules are given punitive reasons as motivation for following, not some intrinsic rationale within the rule -- and that's precisely the difference.

"Wash the dishes or you'll be sent to your room" doesn't teach why you should wash the dishes, only that you'll be punished for not doing so.

"I should wash the dishes so I have clean ones to eat off of later, eating off of clean dishes prevents sickness." Provides a complex rationale to drive the behavior.

The punitive approach requires no brainpower to follow, there's no specific reason why the effect (punishment) follows from cause (not washing the dishes) other than it was something imposed.

The principle based approach requires understanding logical cause and effect, chain of events, pre-planning and might drive the person to investigate why dirty dishes make one sick, opening up inquiry and forming connections into hygiene, medicine, pathogens, etc.

Given a different, but similar situation, why should the rules based person create a behavior?

"Wash the thermometer before and after use" is something the principle trained person would come up with naturally based on prior experience and reasoning, but unless some cause and punishment were set out for the rules trained person, it's likely they won't arrive at that behavior.

More sinister, and the context I'm familiar with this work in, is in advertising, building and forming habits. Advertisers are seeking to train consumers to logically arrive at buying their product rather having to be constantly reminded to. Especially since a company has much more trouble "punishing" a consumer for not buying their stuff than a parent might a child. If you can convince a consumer to derive the thought themselves to buy your product, then you own that consumer and no longer really need to advertise to reach them.
True enough, although I'd think that by the time such a huge overhaul were accomplished the shortage would be over.
I agree.

- Stackoverflow horizontally scrolls at 1024x768. Reaction: Growl at VCs, zoom site to 90%.

- "?" button on Q/A editing toolbar pops down a little explanation bar that is misaligned off-by-one to the right (when site zoom is at 90%). Reaction: fidget in chair and be sad :(

So it is the little things!

PS. I rehashed the 1024x768 thing recently, not much happened. https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/344521/request-for-...
Here is a cross-section drawing I did of the toroidal structure. This is for minor thirds instead of whole tones, meaning that there are three semitones per winding instead of two.

https://goo.gl/photos/U6gKHvRTUtM3p49z7
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Um, like, so is food production and uh air.

I'm not responsible for those either, last I checked.
While there is plenty to criticize about this article, knowing when not to intervene or help is one of the tougher and critical tasks of parenting.

As an anecdotal example my toddler was often the smallest kid in a given group of playing children. He was at the mall play area one day and he kept getting knocked down onto the foam floor. I kept thinking man I've got to step in and helicopter a bit. I almost did, but right as another kid was about to bump into him he did something new. He bowed at the legs, leaned and braced with his elbows causing the kid to bounce off harmlessly and they both ran on.

I'm often reminded of that moment now when I see him in safe but precarious situations. I'm always there for him if he needs me, but I have to wonder if I step in am I denying him a life lesson?
Please allow me to conjecture that you have an overly idealized view of the state of Japan's "microfarm" agricultural makeup. I encourage you to read my citations in the GP post.

some excerpts:

Losing Farmland That Is Essential to Food Security

Of the 2.5 million hectares of farmland that Japan has lost over the past 50 years-equivalent to the total area of rice paddies in Japan today-about half has been converted for residential or industrial use.

...

The end result of this situation is that town halls, pachinko parlors, and other buildings are constructed in the middle of rice fields, leaving Japan's farmland riddled with holes like a moth-eaten dress. Developments like this not only do nothing to lower costs by enabling farmers to consolidate; they even block the sun from surrounding farmland.

France has secured its farmland resources by clearly delineating urban areas from agricultural areas through zoning and by limiting the benefits of agricultural policies to full-time farmers who derive at least half of their income from farming and expend at least half of their labor in farming, thus actively concentrating farmland in the hands of these farmers. These policies have enabled France to raise its food self-sufficiency ratio from 99% to 122% and the average size of its farms from 17 hectares to 52 hectares (as of 2005).

(note: you can collect your farmer's subsidy by being a "part time" farmer and using your land very unproductively. Productivity doesn't matter to these people since they just want to hit the bare minimum requirement to get their handout. My own maternal grandfather was one such part time farmer -- though not as unproductive as some.)

The Issue of Corporate Involvement

Farmers' groups strongly oppose the acquisition of farmland by joint stock companies, claiming that it would encourage land speculation. It is not joint stock companies but farmers themselves, however, who have profited by converting half of the 2.5 million hectares of lost farmland to other uses-equivalent to the total area of rice paddies in Japan today.
Good grief. We went nearly 2 years without me ever seeing butter on the shelves. Shortages happen here.
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Huh, I greatly prefer the ergonomics of the Fuji XT-1/2 over the Pentax and Nikon DSLRs I've owned.

It may depend on the kind of photography you're doing too. For street photography and hiking I'd never go back to DSLR. They are simply bulky and (for street) do not look nearly as friendly.
I think it's "Andy [Grove] gives, Bill [Gates] takes away"
Gotta love how one day HN is for drugs, another day HN is against them. One day HN is for the "steve jobs" LSD hippy vibes, and the next day, HN is against them. HN has schizophrenia with regard to spirituality's duality with technicality.
As other people mention, you can't really do this effectively via contenteditable, as user-intent (make that line bold) isn't uniformly transformed into consistent DOM across browsers. Medium had a great post about all that a couple years back. They wouldn't go through the trouble of re-implementing contenteditable if it weren't absolutely necessary.

There are other problems with using contenteditable as well. Copy paste becomes very challenging (you're sanitizing an dom tree and actively snipping stuff you don't want, instead of converting only things you do want into the intermediate representation). As an exercise, look at what an older tinyMCE editbox actually looks like on the inside after you paste something from MSWord.

I have been using quill.js in production for a while now (since well before it was 1.0), and having an internal representation of the text state that gets turned into HTML on the fly as necessary is a good thing. Since rich text editors are by necessity generating user content, I feel less worried about exposing crappy content on the DOM to people who view what was edited - I have total control over what DOM nodes get emitted (the legacy system I replaced allowed for pasting raw HTML, so I'm a little sensitive to this).

Plus, having my content be in an intermediate JSON representation is quite useful. For example: It's trivially easy to wire the source of diffs from quill into a log server for playback, so you can handle concurrent editing without an impossible amount of work. Also, I actually transform the representation differently depending on context. In an email notification, an atMention custom element gets rendered as a boring href with some style, but internally to the site, an atMention gets some custom element stuff that allows a flyover to show the user. This would be a lot harder if I didn't have control over the json -> html transformation at render time.
You might not believe intelligence comes with any drawbacks, but when those neurons are wired well to perform one task, they're by definition wired poorly to perform other tasks. There is no universal neuron wiring that does a great job at everything. Barring things like malnutrition or lack of environmental enrichment, being bad at IQ tests just means your neurons wired differently. There is almost certainly something lower IQ people are better at. Take autistic savants for instance - their abilities arise because their brains are wired very differently from normal. They're not functional in a lot of ways, but there are some things they are freakishly good at.

As for your uber race, maybe you want to use the word "talent" instead. The only thing that connect these highly talented peopled is that they seem to excel at pretty much everything they put their minds to. If you tested them you'd find that their IQs have a fairly broad range. The median would certainly be above average but that isn't what makes them different. It is more about learning to focus and apply yourself than having a knack for manipulating symbols in your head.
Exactly. Chasing this illusive "ultimate design" is a rainbow whose end forever is just out of reach.

Most importantly, when all the flashy crap stops working, it needs to remain useable. A large percentage of the world still runs XP, with speeds less than dial up.

This site has a small file size and doesn't use JavaScript - then requires manipulation of complex SVGs? 3 seconds to load? Doesn't work properly in IE8? It's a nice site, but ultimately it's for modern devices only.
Japan didn't 70+ years ago.
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Nobody suggested such a life was wasted. But creative people are constantly bombarded with signals that they're too weird or different and need to be more like obvious easy-to-understand role models of diligent behavior.
That's what I thought, and why I was confused by the original comment. Scala.js doesn't seem to have any benefits over js_of_ocaml, unless you prefer the language itself.
For the love of God get rid of the glowy text.
Commercial television has been free to watch since the 1950s and was supported wholly by advertising. Before that there was commercial radio, again supported wholly by advertising. Free newspapers supported by advertising only have also existed for a long while. Is the author simply not aware of these facts or did he forget them when writing this?
Depends. Erlang's scheduler is clever: if the receiver is asleep waiting on its inbox, sending to it will switch the running process to the receiver and back, all without hitting the scheduler logic. This is a great benefit for "thread" (in Erlang it's a process) pools, which are very very widely used in Erlang programs. It's really the best of both worlds: no Erlang context switch and it's completely transparent to one's codebase.

This isn't possible if the receiving process's inbox is non-empty or it's running. Then the cost should be around the same, assuming your C++ implementation is at the same level of quality as the Erlang VM.
Yet nobody took this project seriously enough to update the screenshot (nor the ugly website) in 15 years by the looks of it.

I never really understood that. People do all this work on some software yet don't spend a minute making a half decent website, the first impression of all their work. It's a shame.
End of the day, do your best and don't sweat the advice that you'll get from anyone with a mouth.

Being there and giving a shit is 90% of the battle.
The first written mention is Kiev litopis that was way before the polish source, and it would be pretty pointless for Kievans to refer to themselves as borderland. I guess given the politicization of debate it's hard to find any objective info. From point of view of western neighbors it is possible that your interpretation makes sense but it does not explain why Kiev's litopys would use this name. On the translation some of words that have actual meaning are just transliterated which gave me the impression that it was google translation.
Interesting dilemma that.

The good his foundation does is much greater than the evils Microsoft have done, perhaps.
Yahoo also has yql, a sql-like language that can filter the Dom and return Json, XML or RSS.
That, and 3 in Three, were such unique puzzle games!

EDIT: A sequel came out a mere 25 years later called http://www.thefoolandhismoney.com/06-FM/index.htm
I tried this. Older workers are great if you have a stable problem (better than young workers on average), but are terrible if the job requires a lot of context shifting. Startups and stable problems are rarely found in the same room.
I take care on the titles. I even forget the exact title but I did put ^Dzhanibekov^ in there. There is an army of little helpers trying to make it easier. I'd prefer the ones I assign 'cause I take care to stay within the 80char limit, be technically descriptive and true to the article.
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I wonder how it has been going for BIZX so far.
At the time a number of us were arguing with FB that it was a vulnerability. How times have changed.
You still haven't explained how corporate ownership is a solution. The problem you describe is farmland being converted - OK, pass a law stating certain areas of farmland cannot be converted to any other use. That doesn't require corporate ownership, and corporate ownership doesn't fix the problem, it makes it worse.
Here's that Medium post: Why Content Editable is Terrible

https://medium.engineering/why-contenteditable-is-terrible-1...
I switched fully to mirrorless in 2013, long before they were really "ready" (or good enough to use). At first it was just for the fun of trying new tech and having a "more compact" that's still APS-C. The advantages were just too much and for hiking and street photography it felt much more comfortable to use a film-camera-sized (and lookalike).

I eventually sold off my nikon gear.

The XT-2: Dedicated aperture dial, ISO dial, shutter speed dial. Compact, looks more friendly to onlookers (can be important if you shoot street photography). I like the ergonomics of them a lot (esp compared to the Fuji E-series, which is not so good).

If you enjoy shooting film, it has a very similar feel.
I can't say I'm understanding why you got downvoted. A <=16KB contact page shouldn't be something to brag about--it should be pretty standard.

Sure, this page has some extra bells and whistles to look like a phone (very original), but the design is quite amateurish to be frank. Either make it simple and fast, or truly beautiful and unique.
I'm surprised IDM has been updated for so long... I paid for it many years ago and have been getting free updates for this whole time, all on the same license.
Climbing the wrong hill (2009)
" “Hurt my back at work, lost my job, got evicted, couldn’t get another job.” "

This is the key here. We need to create safety nets that allow people to get back on their feet and become productive members of society. Whether you are rich or poor, this is in your long-term best interest.
RegEx is a part of language so it is totally okay to use it. But, it might happen that you are using it in wrong way so other developers said that. Such as parsing HTML using RegEx is bad practice.
I think a lot of these "deaths of despair" are the result of America's racist mythology running up against the realities of wealth inequality in a Late Capitalist society. For a long time, the white working and middle classes have been duped into believing themselves in solidarity with the (predominantly white) wealthy elite, only a few steps way from achieving their rank and status.

But as the vicissitudes of our economy make this delusion more and more untenable, instead of freeing themselves from the racist mythology, they internalize the circumstances of their economic position as a failure to achieve what is "expected of them." This of course leads to all of the despairing acts described in the article.

The situation reminds me a lot of the arguments made by first wave male feminists, about how patriarchical structures are as oppressive to men as they are to women. Considering we haven't moved the needle very far in that domain, I'm not optimistic that we can shed the burden of our racist mythos any more easily.
TIL the author of Dark Castle went on to write Flash. (Didn't it start out as some Macromedia thing?)
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I have a feeling it would be a lot less interesting than you think, perhaps more entertaining.
There's interesting table on wikipedia's Category[0] page, listing group-like structures. It is easy to find useful example of Abel group and useful example of Group which is not Abel group (say, string concatenation with negation defined as ab - b = a), but while I clearly understand definition of monoid, I cannot think of any useful example of monoid which is not group.

Can somebody help with examples for the rest of structures? Additionally, it seems I don't really get concept of totality. I get what "total function" is, but what does this column really constraint in the context of different structures? I mean, what is a structure that lacks this "totality" thing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_(mathematics)
More cameras are great and all, but I'd be even more excited if we had more options for great, affordable, portable and resilient modifiers to use in the field.

At the end of the day I want the power to modify the light of any scene the way I see fit without having to hire a big crew and carry around dozens of boxes of gear. The shot will pretty much take itself once the right light is in place.

Super affordable speedlights with already built-in receivers were a great step in the right direction, we need more of that.
Theres also good article from Medium's engineering titled "Why ContentEditable is terrible":

https://medium.engineering/why-contenteditable-is-terrible-1...
What is App Store Optimization (ASO)?

App Store Optimization (ASO) is the process of optimizing mobile apps to rank higher in an app store’s search results. It also improves an app’s overall and category rankings by boosting app downloads and conversion rates. Because of its similarity with Search Engine Optimization (SEO), ASO is also referred as App Store SEO, App Search Optimization, or Mobile App SEO.

For more details of how to do ASO, check out this post:
https://www.meatti.com/blog/app-store-optimization-tips/
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But nothing in Japan is really ever temporary. Once it's in place, it takes something pretty major to move it out of place.

And for the record, I don't think it was ever intended to be a temporary measure. The whole reason a million people died of hunger after WWII was because there was no local production of food. And not only that, there was no centralised food distribution system, so even when food became available, there was no way to get it to people.

Nobody that I know of complains about about the agricultural system here (granted, I live in a farming community :-) ). The only people I see complaining are people with foreign interests who want to dump their produce in order to destroy production in other places in the world (as a Canadian, I will say that our country has historically been one of the worst in the world for this).

The biggest problem is really that all of the farmers are dying of old age and nobody in their families want to continue, so I suspect that the "pretty major" thing will probably happen sooner rather than later. I feel strangely thankful to Trump for killing TPP so that the solution is less likely to be selling out to foreign interests.
You wanted to use the app. The app makes the rules. Either use it or don't. I don't see how they had a gun to your head.
There is a 6% import tariff in the US and many other places on 'video cameras' which is classed as anything able to record more than 30 minutes.

Thus article says they were looking to renegotiate it in 2012, but I'm not sure what happened. https://www.dpreview.com/articles/0794343949/wto-looking-at-...
Ok, sure. But there is currently a shortage of lettuce going on in the supermarkets here despite a liberalized trade regime. It's not a panacea.
I know this is pedantic, but Nvidia isn't really a "microchip maker" as the article says so much as designer since they're fab-less.
No. I hate capitalism but this is not how economics works. Please, get a textbook or two (Barron's publishes some excellent revision guides that are well-written and cheap on a variety of business subjects, including economics), and study it for a year or two.
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Yes, and the culture of deriving (and judging of others) personal value through paid work needs to change. Not having a job shouldn't make you a bad or lesser person.
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>this is how alphabets came along... 3.Phoenician script.

No, not even close. Another myth like that of the "indoeuropeans" which has zero archeological support.
Artificial neural networks are much closer to neurons and brains than economic models are to markets, but we give economists a pass. Perhaps we should stop listening to them and revoke their publishing privileges?

Anyhow, the point wasn't to say Brains == ANN, rather it was to show how learning too quickly has consequences in other models of learning. This was mostly so people wouldn't just dismiss the idea out of hand as having no justification (which people seem to want to do regardless).
Really.

https://www.poynter.org/2016/how-buzzfeed-built-an-investiga...

Of course, that includes some irresponsible journalism too.

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/media/314042-buzzfeeds...
Jonathan Gay [1] and Charlie Jackson [2] founded FutureWave Software [3], and developed a drawing program called "SmartSketch", to which they added animation features and renamed "FutureSplash Animator" to challenge Macromedia Shockwave [4], which Macromedia (nee "Macromind") then bought and renamed "Macromedia Flash".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Gay

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Jackson_(software)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FutureWave_Software

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Shockwave
Wow, this brings back memories! I used Syplheed Claws when I was still running Mandrake - before it was merged and became Mandriva.
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