skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is, I don't disagree. It_is_ possible to be too polite. But that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about people who, generally speaking, rub their workmates the wrong way. People who would rub just about _anyone_ the wrong way.
grml's zsh config is so good that I never wanted to change anything in it (it's default in Arch liveusb)

Oh-my-zsh is for aliens
My suggestion is to highlight the tactic so others can see it for what it is.
> What is the benefit of not using their DNS?

You stop informing them about the domains you visit.
Most of the country is not a part of the absolute boom and resulting cornucopia of wealth that tech is experiencing. When you go out to the smaller cities and away from the high powered tech areas you really do see the massive disparity of opportunity that exists currently. You aren't seeing a bad area you are seeing the normal state of most of the country and I know personally I have become accustomed to my environment so I really do feel upset or sad seeing areas where people just plain do not have access to the same things we do. Not sure how to fix it, if you look at it from a financial perspective if you take the majority of the wealth from the upper middle and upper class and distribute it wouldn't make any difference.
Interesting argument. Usually when people make this sort of "virtue signaling," they don't provide much analysis of the history and ramifications, as this article does.

Democratically accountable decision makers, uniformly enforced policies and standards, and making these systems actually function like our legal systems, rather than shallowly mimicking them sounds like a huge improvement over the status quo.
I guess I like to advertise that I specifically use DuckDuckGo when I'm searching, so I purposefully say "I DuckDuckGo'd it" but it sounds terribly awkward :/
NPM staffer forks Node again
It also strongly suggests that the evidence was of something a lot more serious than a mere accident.
I'd imagine sports are a field where a fear of failure can definitely help, because fear narrows your focus considerably, and allows you to concentrate on the pretty narrow aspects that lead to success in sports.

I benefited from something very similar in college where a fear of doing poorly helped me focus right before exams, allowing me to do really well in most classes (especially the ones where the grades were heavily weighted towards assignments and exams).

OTOH, this left me completely unprepared for work life after college, where a lot of my work is dependent on collaborating with others, and in general requires a much broader way of engaging my tasks (sometimes the best way to solve a problem is to solve the "real" problem without ever having to tackle the problem you were supposed to be working on at all). And fear certainly doesn't help with that.

I think a combination of working for positive reasons (especially when considering the longer term) and working because of negative reasons (more beneficial on specific tasks in the short term) is probably what works best in most endeavors.
I agree.

I think it is fair to say that Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg have more economical power than other states, and one would be churlish not to recognize that. But those other metrics he cites are chosen arbitrarily:

- School Rankings. If you look for different criteria, e.g. the teacher-pupil ratio in elementary schools, it looks totally different. [1] And if you look at universities, different again [2]. If you look at the school quality (defined by ability to read and STEM subjects) the, east and north looks really good. [3]

- Life expectancy: Come on... Men: Between the 4th and 11th place is just 1 year. Women: Between the 4th and 15th place is one year. [4]

Furthermore I think the combination of this states is chosen rather poorly. Ask anyone in Leipzig or Kassel if they consider themselves to be from the south of Germany. No one would does that.

[1]: http://www.insm-bildungsmonitor.de/2017_best_i_schueler-lehr...

[2]: http://www.insm-bildungsmonitor.de/2017_best_i_betreuungsrel...

[3]: http://www.insm-bildungsmonitor.de/2017_best_i_iqb-lesen-201...

[4]: http://www.lebenserwartung.info/index-Dateien/regdiff.htm
Those things have nothing to do with each other. Common carrier rules and net neutrality are attributes of companies enjoying a natural monopoly: that of often being the only one running a cable to your door.

Besides, Facebook, Twitter etc. crossed that particular rubicon long ago when they started deleting, for examples, images of nudity.
I know everyone is going to say "but Nazis", but I think this incident should really drive home just how quickly dissenting opinion can effectively be purged from the Internet and just how much power tech companies truly wield over us. Yeah yeah I know, it's great because they stood up to Nazis but next time it won't just be them. It's very easy to label just about anything as "hate speech".

And yeah yeah, "private companies can't censor, only the government can", but has anyone stopped to consider that Google et al have very obvious political affiliations and can exert their control over the Internet in order to further their agendas? If you're not concerned with the implications of this you're not paying attention.
So I'm guessing anyone employing it gets waterboarded?

This was never a technical problem to start with.

(kidding about the waterboarding ofc...that only applies if you meet the criteria for random searches)
Golfing for Cats
PushRadar: Realtime Notifications API Service
Are you trolling? Did I miss a scarcasm tag? I am no fan of Trump, but writing off anything pro trump as fake news is beyond ignorant. Take a miniute and replace everytime you say 'trump' with 'obama' and see if you would still want to be your own friend.
he British humorist Alan Coren was told the books that sold best were those about golfing, cats and Nazis. The result was a book of short stories entitled Golfing for Cats. You can see from the cover picture how he fitted in the Third Reich.

My favorite story from the collection is ‘Owing to circumstances beyond our control, 1984 has been unavoidably detained’. The idea is that a British totalitarian state would never work. How could it, when nothing else does?
Can you point me to the relevant info? This is news to me (and sounds exciting).

No doubt we've seen it coming for awhile. But I'm still sad to see it finally come to this, at least ideologically. iOS is a closed ecosystem that's been opening up. Android was an open ecosystem that's becoming more locked down.
The reason is they simply cannot do it. It's very different shipping a high end phone in units of 100 million vs shipping a high end phone in units of 500,000.

This is why most android high end devices are really tiny market share.

They can't compete with Apple-- AT VOLUME. Apple's supply chain is where they are hugely competitive. This goes for Samsung etc.

So on android, genuinely high end phones are prestige items to make android look good, but the mass of android phones are low end cheap phones that can easily be mass produced.

Apple has been known to buy 10,000 prototype modeling machines and put them into production because they were the only ones on the market that could do a particularly manufacturing step that was needed for that model... google is never going to do that.

In fact, I don't think google has ever made any phones (excluding Motorola) themselves-- all the Pixels are rebrands of other makers devices.
> For Apple, updates often mean some subset of the full operating system updates, or a crippled version.
Whereas Google updates tend to be all of nothing - meaning if your phone does get the update, it gets all of the features of that particular version.

Eh?
Aren't you swapping something here?
On Apple you get OS updates with nearly all features for at least 5 years, of course they can't create a NFC device into a phone that doesn't ship with one...
I would love to see _any_ Android phone with support for 5 years, that does not come from google directly.
it would be a no brainer if something exists in the 200-300€ range. because I don't care which phone I have, it just needs to be long liveable and have a price below 400€. currently I use used iPhones, which I get relativly cheap.
Is ProtonMail your only active email account?
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I'm surprised you'd not get culturally ousted for that? I know nothing about Google's internal culture, but I'd assume everyone would be against using someone else's product.
> Will they clean those up as people stop watching? Or did they 'do somethinrg' so now they're good?

If companies were honest in their EULA (or employment agreements), they would simply say that you will be removed if you cause the company to receive bad press.
This would be a stable matching (after allowing these changes). Since Nash is guaranteed here, there would be no reason to lie on the original form, unless there's some weird mixed equilibrium (that's not pure). It'd be interesting to see what conditions we must have on it (if it even exists! I'm not sure to be honest), but the only pure equilibrium is certainly a stable matching.
Window Managers like KDE and Gnome have workspaces and window pinning (shown as "Show on all workspaces") for decades.

Windows 3.1 was able to have two windows side by side before Android even existed.
> That's what Bayer thought about Aspirin.

Bayer lost the Aspirin trademark in the US (along with everything else) to wartime seizure of enemy property.

Sterling, who got the US assets of Bayer, lost the US trademark to genericization.
Not a chance a body would lose all limbs and the head in such a short time.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/news-blog/how-long-do-d...

That could only be deliberate, so if it is Kim Wall's body then Madsen will have a lot more explaining to do.
Just to reemphasize my first comment, sugar is an obvious contributing factor to obesity. As to the diseases (type 2 diabetes and fatty liver) in children, there may be other contributing factors but ask any pediatrician, remove the sugar from the diet and these diseases can be prevented in 100% of cases.

So someone such as yourself who ate a ton of sugar in the 70's, you primed your body for obesity, whether or not you were ever obese or simply overweight. What does that mean? Well when you consume glucose and it enters the blood your body releases insulin, insulin enlarges all the cells in the body but especially fat cells, and that significantly alters how your body stores and burns fat. All things being equal if you don't have a caloric surplus your body won't store the excess fat. A caloric surplus that leads to fat storage is about 30 calories per day or about 2 peanut m&ms, so it's not much. That said not knowing anything more about your childhood diet, I do know if your sugar consumption was the same but you were a child today on average you would be consuming 500-600 more calories today than in the 70's. Therefore, you would be more likely to be overweight or even obese today than in the 70's. You don't need to be obese to have fatty liver or type 2 diabetes, but statistically you would be more likely to have those diseases if you were obese. I am not suggesting sugar is the sole factor of obesity or these disease, rather sugar removal would prevent 100% of these diseases in children, otherwise I can't argue against your anecdotal evidence of eating a ton of sugar but only highlight the reality kids today are consuming significantly more sugar on average and significantly more calories on average.

See: http://www.cleveland.com/fighting-fat/index.ssf/2010/04/amer...
This and some of the tweets where he seems overly zealous make me suspicious. E.g.:

Here[1] He is suggesting he was blocked for Probability work on Hilary's election odds.

Here[2] he is implying they are doing it in connection with him being a math educator, and tweeting at all kinds of famous accounts with maximum sensationalism (though in his defense, the only way to get support from google is to make a massive stir).

None of that means anything on its own, and this would be far from the first time Google have closed an account by mistake (though Id be very surprised if the ban was of a political nature).

1. https://twitter.com/salilstatistics/status/89890618596913971...
2. https://twitter.com/salilstatistics/status/89873001303747788...
A good part of it is that regular people don't want to deal with them. They don't want to hear from them, and they definitely don't want to be harassed by them.

Look at the "free speech" platforms, the *Chans. They may not have started out as bastions for neo-nazis and racists, but they became that because, as hate speech and such was not really policed on there, normal people stopped going altogether, leaving only those people behind.
Win-win swaps could be done automatically by the lottery system. This eliminates the non-fairness objection (as this optional upgrade can happen to anyone). It does theoretically create room for strategizing though: If there is a very popular school that I don't want to go to, it makes sense to put in down as option #3 or #4 because if I get it, I might slingshot back into my #1-#3 options.
> and doesn’t do any more than using the wrong finger repeatedly in previous versions.

pressing home 5x instead of triggering the wrong fingerprint lockout is probably 20x faster, and can be done in the pocket/blind much more easily.
I do get that. And perhaps you're discreet enough online that your Google account will never attract scrutiny. But it's something that every Google user ought to keep in mind, I think. I'm guessing that Salil Mehta never even considered it.
Can someone give me an overview of the different systems in price and quality?

My impression was that Oculus was a bit better but pricier, but with everyone cutting prices and Oculus filling out their system-- is one a far better offer than the other now at this new price for Vive?

Or would I be better off going the playstation route?

Just curious-- have never owned a VR headset (or actually even used one!) and I'm interested, but been waiting for things to settle.
Are you suggesting that YC rejects applicants because they are black or hispanic? Why would they do that?

You seem to also say that they want to brag about accepting these ethnicities, so why then they discriminate _against_ them?
It's been part sad and part fun to watch. Usually they use pedophiles to convince us to give up our freedoms but nazis are working just as well this time around.
"...but has anyone stopped to consider that Google et al have very obvious political affiliations and can exert their control over the Internet in order to further their agendas?..."

Have you, yourself, stopped to consider the possibility that large corporations have had very obvious political affiliations, and have been exerting their control to further their agendas since long before Google existed?
I believe it is related to this:

https://twitter.com/maybekatz/status/899744619784577025
They forced a movie to change its name.[1] It's a skater movie, but not an inline skater movie.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089930/
That sounds rather difficult, given that Google manages that TLD. It's no more plausible than Google registering http://google.bing.

And no, they are not alone as far as brand-based TLDs go:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_dom...
What exactly is the file format that one downloads?
> The red flag, pictures of Mao, Stalin

Where do you live that you see people marching in the street waving flags of communist dictatorships and ranting against immigrants and... whatever the leftist version of anti-Semitism is... maybe... anti-vaccination? (that's sorta equally irrational)
> What's the left-wing equivalent of the hundreds of armed militias in the US?

Maybe Berkeley? The Portland riots? That was frightening behavior.
If emoji are in Unicode, why can't I choose how to represent then? Isn't that the job of the font?

If you want total control over what the recipient sees, send an image.

It would be like if a webpage requested Helvetica and you are using Linux the text simply wouldn't render.
And the story continues -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_algebra
The T-series (at least from T2x to T6x) had titanium lids. I don't know what they use nowadays as I am in the habit of using older machines (currently using a T42p with 1600x1200 4:3 screen). The T21 I'm using as a mobile terminal to access headless servers has been used as a seat cushion more than once, the screen hasn't budged...

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkPad_series
The VST SDK is dual-licensed with GPL so the black room implementation is now moot.
I've never understood why they'd want to associate the brand with cheap candy.

Ice Cream Sandwich used to evoke thoughts of sticky fingers and an over indulgence of sugar.
Back in the 70's my high school library installed a magnetic anti-theft system. I don't remember all of the details, but it involved a small metal strip in each book that was demagnetized when books were checked out and remagnetized when they were returned and reshelved.

It was possible to return a book from within the stacks. This made a neat hack possible: find a book with multiple copies, check one out (demagnetizing it), bring it back into the shelves, reshelve it with the library card from its mate, and then return the mate from within the stacks. There would then be a demagnetized copy sitting on the shelves.

We were good kids, so we didn't steal anything, but it sure was fun to demonstrate to the staff that one could walk into the stacks, grab a book, and walk out right past the magnetic alarm without setting it off.
I'm afraid the beginning of your comment contradicts your earlier statements. Earlier you agreed that in that restricted situation, it is in fact a Pareto improvement. However, now you are saying it is a zero-sum game. There are no Pareto improvements in a zero-sum game!

The rest of your comment just returns to the claim that the whole thing is unfair even though nobody is harmed. But that's not the part I'm claiming is wrong! The part I'm pointing out as a "straight-up error" is the part where it denies that (in the restricted context of a single year where people didn't know that trading would be possible) is indeed a Pareto-improvement. I'm not making any argument as to the broader fairness.

I'm not sure we really disagree on much here.
My first exposure was American History X like two decades ago. They were a joke then and they are a joke now. One thing is for sure. They are LOVING all this free exposure for their cause.

Also when did we stop calling them neo nazis? I'm sure they love it when you call them Nazis.
Have you considered that Google, Facebook, etc. can control public discourse and what information people can see in ways never before thought possible?
>I just cannot see the difference between banning those 'far right' groups while allowing 'far left' which are basically the same.

Can I ask what websites/pages you are speaking of specifically? I think any group promoting genocide should be removed and haven't seen any liberal equivalents of the daily stormer.
You're describing small pockets of wealth that are scattered all over, surrounded by poverty.

Look at the surface area and the percentages of the population. That's what the article is about.

It's pretty clear that it's hard to live on even 100K as a family in the Bay Area, and if you look at the median incomes for most of the cities around the Bay Area they're nowhere near that.

I don't see how you counter that by naming off a few more rich microclimates.

--

Also, I wrote the article, and I'm born and raised here. I didn't drive down a street and come up with this. I've been here for four decades, watching it change, and this is what I'm seeing. Sorry you didn't like it. :)
I can refute that. I would definitely sell drugs if I wasn't making more than enough money as an engineer to make the risk not worth it.
"Virtue signalling" is the most tired cliché of an argument. It's cynicism is best demonstrated by the simple fact that it works against anything someone says, as long as it is somehow not completely offensive.

It's also a great example of assuming bad faith, and failing Occam's razor: instead of the obvious conclusion that most people tend to emphasise with victims of injustice, it constructs a complicated mechanism to explain how someone can be a bad person using their words and actions that say the opposite.
what's "/usr/games/fortune"?
Oculus Summer of VR totally shattered their expectations. Sets were back-ordered for a while. Vive saw their market & new platform developers running away from them.

Having tried both in multiple capacities, the tracking and field of view are better of the Vive. But the Oculus has a better developer network & content, is easier to use, and seems to deliver a better final resolution.

Also $400 vs $600 is compelling, although if you can afford VR you are probably not exclusively price sensitive.
> Oculus was a bit better but pricier

It was the other way round; Vive was considered better but significantly more expensive.
My biggest issue with fish is that it has no way of letting me kludge the last command like bash does. I have muscle memory for bash shorthands like !$ For last word of the last command I executed or !! For the whole line.

It still catches me out with its sub shells too sometimes. ( () is equiv to $() in bash )

Also. No control+R

Otherwise I think it's a beautiful shell and I keep using it.
Economic growth despite pop. decline (Japan)
They are Danish
> How does "search" not convey searching the internet using any search engine?

Because 'search' could also be you looking for the second sock to make a pair in 'the real world', search is not internet specific, google is.
> leaving only those people behind.

If you think only neo-nazis and racists hang out on the Chans, you definitely don't hang out there.

"The strategy [of people who consider themselves the protectors of decency] is weaponized stereotype campaigns. If a site tolerates witches, describe it as a witch site about witchcraft populated entirely by witches. It’s super easy." - http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/07/22/freedom-on-the-centrali...
Anyone who has used touch ID with wet fingers (happens all the time when I'm cooking) can attest to why this probably needs to be a tiny bit more than 3. 5 feels about right to me for this feature.

As an aside, if you are so paranoid that 5 is too much, or if this limitation exposes you to legitimate risk, you shouldn't be using Touch ID at all. Much harder to extract long password from your head than it is to force your finger on the sensor.
The only reason I root my phone any more is for an adblocker. Which the iPhone conveniently has built in... It will probably be my next phone.
And in an alternate universe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfHuZ5qrYX4
Sites have been doing this for ages for things like terrorist materials and other forms of extremism, but as soon as white people get censored everyone suddenly gets up in arms.
... where is $1000/month livable?? At that kind of wage, you can't save for the future nor can you afford anything nice.
Seriously, using Google search trends isn't the best way to analyze usage or popularity. GitHub stats (assuming they are publicly available), would be much better.
>What's the left-wing equivalent of the hundreds of armed militias in the US?

Only a fool tries to draw a distinction between hooded thugs that advocate violence against people they disagree with. Unfortunately there are people openly calling (and committing) violence from all across the political spectrum.

https://www.halseynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/antifa...