skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks like a mix of some real suicides with a fake urban myth. It's similar to the burundanga stories or the LSD tattoos stories, but in this case they mix some sad cases to make it more credible.

These stories used to circulate as email chains, until some school or police department take it seriously and make some official warnings.

http://www.snopes.com/blue-whale-game-suicides-russia/

http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/burundanga.asp

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/drugs/bluestar.asp
Haha, uh, that would be… one bizarre way to go about things.

Nah, I'd rather have the truth, yet work to nonetheless have people be good. Many heroes are flawed; let's emulate their positive qualities, and avoid their negative ones, without failing to acknowledge them or outright covering them up.
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I can't go past this comment without mentioning that I'm currently using a ThinkPad T43 while my i3 box is on indefinite loan to a friend... and despite being 11 years old the T43 loads the site just fine. The video's a bit much (youtube-dl for that) but yeah.

FWIW, easily 85-90% of what I try and open on my old Kindle (the super-basic version from a few years ago) makes the browser - and sometimes the whole UI - completely seize up. I'm guessing (based on how everything gets super sluggish) they didn't enable swapping - which does make total sense, but then the device only has 256MB(?) of RAM......

Now I'm curious what the iPad's virtual memory settings are like. And whether swap on Flash (of the caliber that goes in an iPad) is a good idea!
Show HN: Bad and highly biased “journalism”
Nice work! What's the best way to get in touch with you? I'm the creator of Pragma (https://pragma.build) - and we have a pretty similar setup. Wonder if there's an opportunity to collaborate.
Everything 'it sounds like you were suggesting' is in your paranoid head. I was linking to an article. I am not Hitler hiding under your bed. This is Hacker News - where people post links.
Asking "Why is the holocaust taught with such a focus on one ethnic group of victims" is different than asking "why did my education not discuss victims of the Holocaust other than Jews".

The latter is an interesting question and could potentially lead you to a better understanding of subjects you've missed. The former implies a systematic bias in the education about WWII history and assumes it based on a data point of one that goes against other data points (for instance my own).

Another thing you may not be well versed on, implication of a systematic bias in teaching the Holocaust is a standard part of the bag of dirty tricks that many neo-Nazi, white nationalist and other anti-semitic groups employ to paper over the Holocaust. They trot it out in venues where more extreme versions of Holocaust denialism or outright Holocaust justification won't fly.
Aaaah, this makes so much sense. Thanks for the reminder. Here's the para in question:

"Hackworth was a forger, Dr. X was a honer. The distinction was at least as old as the digital computer. Forgers created a new technology and then forged on to the next project, having explored only the outlines of its potential. Honers got less respect because they appeared to sit still technologically, playing around with systems that were no longer start, hacking them for all they were worth, getting them to do things the forgers had never envisioned."
Maybe I'm just jaded, but are 15-16 year olds really not cognizant enough to avoid stuff like this? Either something is missing from the story, or there's some heavy fabrication here.
> I may be getting a better than average deal in Canada.

Yes you are.

There's nothing like Freedom Mobile where I live (Montreal). I'm paying $60/month for 2GB.
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He said the same thing in his book "Courage to Act". I genuinely believed it until I read "The Short". You didn't have to have tons of data to predict the bubble, you just had to take the time to read the loans. Everyone saw this bubble long before Bernanke did.
It has spoken in a changing but relevant way to me each decade that I have read it.
These looks like they could just as well be stats for movement in non-remote work offers.

It might be useful to do a comparison.
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I guess it's my personality type too which is INTP, the classical deconstructionist. What does this do? How does it do it? Why isn't it working?
You are right about "punishing or threatening to punish".

However, the goal of genocide or ethnic cleansings were not to punish, it was to make said people go away from you. To make them physically disappear.

Turks has no problems with Armenian tribal attachment because there are no longer any Armenians in Turkey (They however still have the problem with Kurds). The same thing with Croatia and Serbs. We have to admit that the plan worked.
So what, 6 years to get through the FDA?
Thank you! Looks very interesting.
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Are all emojis just unicode?
My big reason for eating fruit is more the micronutrients, since I treat multivitamins (and pills in general) with suspicion. That trite adage of "stuff your grandmother would recognise" has been enormously beneficial to me.

Would you say that modern fruits lack these micronutrients as well? Anecdotally, I cannot report any excessive shortages in my nutrition.
It is sensitive subject, BBC should use different wording.
Good show. In response to something Bram mentions offhand I do have to retort that when Bram suggested changing the MN architecture to be more like what was eventually to become BitTorrent the response, which in hindsight I will admit was short-sighted and incredibly dumb, was due to having too little runway left to completely rewrite an already over-engineered codebase and not any sort of crypto-libertarian ideals. (And yes, I keep a copy of his email message suggesting this change to our internal list posted above my desk as a constant reminder...)
It's impossible for economic policy to not be politicized. Look around the world, all political parties are distinctly grouped by their economic beliefs. If anything, the US political landscape needs to be more far more political on the economy. Differentiating republicans and democrats on their economic policies is almost impossible. Especially compared to literally every other country (excluding dictatorships). This almost identical belief about the economy has made an incredibly toxic and arbitrary system where people misplace their anger at each other because they have not been educated on what the true source of their anger is or what their alternatives are! It's made an ugly tribal political system where it's us vs them.
Not an expert -- would this be a result of training data doing a much better job isolating the subject vs a real world photo that may have other plants in the scene? Not that this is a solution in all cases, but is it possible your results would have improved with better real world pictures?
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> It is another to try to actively undermine the competition, and not because your service is simply better.

I am curious where the line would be drawn here. Does it also undermine competitors when companies "poach" workers from competitors by offering a higher salary?
I assume there referencing the fake news craze issue hitting the internet. This is where people create websites just to post one fake news story that is completely false.

Annoying people now use it for anything published on a website or anything a newspaper prints they disagree with.
> I get 9GB for $60/month, so that works out to 150MB/$ if I am at full usage.

But that $60 isn't just for the data, is it ? The same plan without data but with voice/text isn't $0.
It won't even load for me, I just get an infinite spinner gif. Tried turning my browser extensions off, still no luck.
6 and a half horsepower.
Interesting, just finished reading John Allspaws 2015 paper from some debugging/problem solving at Etsy: http://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordO... (really slow.. sorry Sweden!)

While it focuses on time tradeoffs and such during resolving outages, one of the major themes is that engineers/developers tend to use heuristics and past experiences to drive problem solving.
I think as developers we tend to do the same, we look for common patterns for types of problems we've encountered. The debugger is just a representation of log analysis.

So how do you teach those experiences? I think a lab-based approach with examples is probably the right course.

Sun Microsystems used to have a Fault Analysis class they taught for Solaris.. It was essentially just a lab of 50 broken systems/scenarios that you had to diagnose and fix. I think more of that sort of thing earlier on would be helpful.
Bernanke made the choice to resolve bad housing loans by handing out trillions (through the purchase of mortgage-backed securities) to the lenders instead of the borrowers. I think his analysis would be improved if he recognized that was a political decision, not just an economic one.
China bans religious names for Muslim babies
Marginal utility is from the perspective of a consumer not a producer, so cost doesn't come into it. The analogy that stuck with me was eating bars of chocolate from the initial one which tastes delicious, and thus has high MU, until the one where you puke, by which point the MU has become negative. Cost is pretty much constant throughout.
But I can't get them to integrate well with my dev tools. If, for example, I'm using something like babel/webpack/Typescript there is no easy way that I've found to for example just set breakpoint on a line of code in my editor/IDE and have the web browser debugger break when it gets there.
Today is the 10-year anniversary of the “Shoes” video
Economy has always been political, since thr discipline was founded as political economy, the part which modern economists have excised from their expertise. Good books on political economy include those by Ricardo, Smith, the excellent critique of political economy Capital by Marx and those books by Proudhon.
Looks like your site just costs less than a cent everywhere. Rejoice!
I have unlimited text and unlimited calling to Canada and the US and when I am in the US I get 1GB of data, and 2400 calling minutes.
I genuinely believed it until I read "The Short"

You mean Michael Lewis' "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine"? [1]

[1]
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26889576-the-big-short
I was exactly here yesterday after a discussion with a friend of mine about the meaning of "Face With Steam From Nose" [1].

I work in an academic institute with many nationalities and almost all people (of different cultural backgrounds) describe this emoticon as an emoticon showing anger and frustration. Yet the official description in Unicode 6.0 [2] is "face with look of triumph" . Was it simply bad design?

[1] http://emojipedia.org/face-with-look-of-triumph/
[2] http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-6.0/U60-1F600.pdf

I am curious, have you found other similar examples?
Hi, thanks for your answer. Yes, of course I use it my self for learning languages. Its good to get you used to the pronunciation of a foreign language. Some vocabularies will really stick with you when they are part of the song, then it is really difficult to forget. What I like most is that it is a fun and entertaining time - not like Duolingo, which is a great product, but feels boring after two minutes. - of course Linguician needs improvement - and I hope we can deliever on this in the next months!
>we would accomplish more than by telling people that their heroes are evil.

Not to mention that being sexist is not evil, just bad manners (or that there's no such thing as "evil", it's a theological concept).
So what was your intention, other than to link a barely-related tabloid article?
How Yahoo Killed Flickr (2012)
The bans sparked criticism from technology experts, who said the new rules appeared to be at odds with basic computer science.

Nicholas Weaver, researcher at the International Computer Science Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, said last month: “It doesn’t match a conventional threat model. If you assume the attacker is interested in turning a laptop into a bomb, it would work just as well in the cargo hold.”

I'm not sure what this has to do with computer science, unless computer science includes "the science of things shaped like computers", or why you need Nicholas Weaver to tell you about how bombs in cargo holds work.
I agree. The economic policies of Democrats and Republicans is really indistinguishable from Goldman Sachs economic policy.
If you believe 2 years of CS are required to achieve this.. Anybody with a brain can exploit this classic, basic flaw, without any CS studies but just some curiosity. Sorry to put it blundly like this though.
Pretty cool. Also nice to see that http://taoofmac.com is confirmed to weigh in at only 0.33MB - I do progressive image loads and strip everything I can precisely to cater to mobile users...

https://whatdoesmysitecost.com/test/170425_QK_0642ee2ef13f49...
Npm / Node.js surpassed 440k packages
Yeah. And then iterate for better solution. Sometimes, after a long time, the bugs bite back at you real hard. But at least you didn't miss the deadline.
First be comfortable with it, introvert and proud. Be comfortable Not talking to people,its ok. If you are at some gathering learn to be completely comfy sitting alone and chillin. No one there is more important than you, so who cares what they think. People are drawn to people who are comfortable with themselves even if not outgoing.

Be quick to smile and look people in the eye.

Practice by simply giving someone a compliment (that you mean). "nice tie" "I dig your hair" whatever.

I find large gatherings tedious and people draining but oddly at this point I am really well received, mostly because "I dont care" and a smile goes a long way.
Who Owns All These Car Brands?
Computer chaos as antivirus IDs Windows as threat, shuts down systems
I trained my kids, first for mushrooms, then for flowers and trees. They are better then any app :). But definitely would love to have an app to confirm our findings sometimes.
I feel like no one here has read the article, and is just having their fun doing some character assassination.

> “The election result completely reversed people’s views
> of the state of the economy. Republicans who thought that
> we were in a dystopia now think things look great, and
> Democrats, the opposite. And it shows that it isn’t all
> based on an objective assessment of the economy.”

Seems a pretty salient and uncontroversial observation.
Yours is rather a naive point of view. You can do a lot with a little bit of information - it doesn't necessarily need to be blackmail. Just knowing what your political opponents are investing in, for example, can be enough to exert un-seen control over them in such a way as to weaken their ability to usurp your current power status. Its not all just blackmail and Hollywood-style intrigue...
People abuse debuggers (I see this esp with windows programmers). It's better to write test drivers and simulations to force the breakage. If this is how debugging is done you'll enhance your test drivers and simulations. Just running interactive debuggers on a main application you lose much of this. Honestl I spend less than 1% of my time in a debugger and all of that time as post mortem crash analysis. I also work with heavily threaded code where runing a debugger tends to make the code run without exhibiting the bug.
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My apologies, from the description and the title (forgetting the "holocaust") it seemed like a denier video. I was on my mobile and could not watch more than a few seconds. It was wrong to call it trash if the content is as you describe.
I've noticed Warren Buffett who is often logical about things speed walks when he goes from A to B which gives exercise and also saves time.
He is correct in a way. As long as the government is trying to "control" the economy, it will be "politicized". The only way to not "politicize" the U.S. economy is to get rid of the Federal Reserve, etc.
I asked for honest feedback for my app https://everydaycheck.com on a couple of subreddits where people are trying to get disciplined and improve themselves. Since it was my personal goal too I could easily relate and that brought a lot of signups, great feedback and most importantly, engaged users!
Seems to only have one piece of artwork.
Point of order. A real power fist also has a power field emanating from it.
Something something combinatorial explosion.
There is no way I would ever stow a macbook pro in my luggage, only to see someone from baggage handling throw it around and be damaged or arrive at the destination and find it missing.

With everything else that is happening in the industry. I'm now starting to seriously consider JetSmarter.

I'm genuinely interested to know of experiences traveling from outside the US to the US using them. Were you subject to the same security screenings, would this ban be subject to JetSmarter as well and finally, are you able to board your own luggage?

Thanks.
My problem with your previous comment is that you claim that polish losses were mostly to "genocidal military operations, such as large scale bombing of cities".

See, the thing is, since Polish Jews were part of the country, were scientists, doctors, blacksmiths, or just regular farmers they were also killed by these bombings, and other forms of killings. The other side of the equation is that these people who died in the concentration camps were mostly Polish citizens. They count towards "polish losses". It's unfair to separate people simply because of their religion, and make it look like being killed by Zyklon B is so much worse than being torn apart by a bomb.

It's just sad that we even have discussion on this and that some people still think that one for of killing is "better" or "worse" than the other (and I'm not saying that you think that, but other commenters in this whole thread did.)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dda-0Q_XUhk
Must of just hung for me. Works now.
The testimony of a guy under oath no less. And a testimony consistent with a pattern of illegal behavior that surely warrants a deep (criminal?) investigation with discovery.
Speculation: maybe it involves hiding bomb components in multiple passengers' laptops, then combining them in-flight?
When I worked on jailbreaking tools for iOS devices, we routinely held onto multiple 0-days, waiting for a major iOS release to ensure compatibility.

While I know there may be reasons to disagree with that practice, I think it would be a major stretch to say that it meant iOS suddenly had a backdoor.
This depends on if you are learning a new programming language, or a new paradigm. Many languages share paradigms (the core concepts of OOP are the same in all major high level languages, for example) and only differ in syntax. It's easy to bounce between those languages.

But some languages require totally new ways of thinking, and you're not going to learn that in a day if you haven't been exposed to it before. In fact, I would even say this line of thinking -- "I can learn it in a day" -- can be dangerous by causing you to ignore the idiosyncrasies of the new language, causing bugs you don't understand the root cause of. This is a problem you commonly see when experienced programmers start coding Javascript without reading about prototypes, closures, etc.
Not to mention one engineer can spin up and operate a big horizontally scaling cluster.
I'm fascinated by people who think emoji could someday be a more universal way of communication given all of its inherent ambiguity. My off-the-top-of-my-head example was the prayer emoji, which has popularly been said to be a mistranslation of a purported "high five": http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865606309/This-emoji-may-...

But as Emojipedia points out, the Unicode definition is "person with folded hands". As a Westerner, I'm inclined to associate this with "prayer". But since we have the Japanese to largely thank for emoji in the first place, shouldn't this emoji be seen as "please" or "thank you"?

http://emojipedia.org/person-with-folded-hands/

And if you look at that Emojipedia entry, you start to appreciate the cluaterfuck of things lost in translation. Not only is the gesture of folded hands of varied meanings across cultures, but each software vendor adds their own interpretation.

Compare Samsung's rendering:

http://emojipedia-us.s3.amazonaws.com/cache/f7/f4/f7f45466d6...

With HTCs: http://emojipedia-us.s3.amazonaws.com/cache/97/d6/97d6ea79e4...

Admittedly, emojis are more immediately expressive than, say, learning a whole other written language. But the amount of ambiguity and confusion ultimately remains the same IMO
Why does it make you angry?
I agree with you about the war. But I see it a bit differently when it comes to the Holocaust, not least because many of the victims were also Germans, Jewish or otherwise.
Salary shouldn't be dependent on (desired) living conditions, but on experience and value added. Likewise, living conditions shouldn't depend on salary - as in, you should be able to afford a decent apartment on minimum income anywhere in the country.
Spotify has an API. I'm not sure if you can get your friends' public playlists without them authorizing the application, though.

You could probably squeeze this into a < 50 line python program. Just make an API call for all the playlists you want, toss their songs into sets, and intersect them.

Agreed it would be cool to see! You should build it. :)
I have a better idea - ban the passengers.

Or, we could go one step further: ban the passengers and ban all dollar - pound exchange.

Keep the British on their island, with their laptops and their central bank.

The reality is that neither NATO nor the UK has a terrorism policy consistent with USA interests. Both NATO and the UK want the USA to do their dirty work. Banning British citizens from USA territory saves the lives of American citizens. Why? Because a USA that bans British citizens will not put up with being ordered to carry out the decisions of British imperialists.

This is quite serious - either the USA will protect itself from British imperialists or it will refuse to do so. The British imperialists will hunt people down and kill them in 2017 just as they did in the 1700s. These are people who are loyal to the crown. They do not live in America. They killed Americans hundreds of years ago and they will do it again because British imperialism is based on crisis mentality and terrorism.

The British want to keep Americans signing up to die. They come here and laugh about it

> "I can't believe how STUIPD the Americans are!!! They keep signing up to die for our wars, and we just order them around!!! MADNESS!!! :D :D :D"

Remember: the British are smiling all the way to the bank.
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Have you got any other example companies that have behaved like this? (case studies etc)
Cut from the designers paycheck...

Most of the size in modern sites is due to developers building out the design they've been given.
My original post has been downvoted. I consider the topic well and truly closed until at least another 50 years have passed. I feel mostly safe bringing it up in an anonymous setting where only my fake internet points will suffer, but I would absolutely never bring it up in real life.
Until you've actually done that ;)
In the startup culture of sidestepping rules this is the definition of hustle. You do whatever it takes to get info on your ex, politicians and especially Beyonce. /s

By the way I am pretty sure every startup is this way. At the very least this romantic idea of startups is getting shattered and Uber is taking the fall for it.