skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or possibly confusing "var" and "dynamic"?
> and if you make them relaxed an innocent person might be more apt to say something stupid.

Huh? That's the exact opposite of what the article was conveying. Trying to intimidate or force people to talk gets them to just say whatever to make the intimidation stop.
The key point from the paper [1]:

>Decreased depressive symptoms were observed in all 19 patients at 1-week post-treatment and 47% met criteria for response at 5 weeks.

Small sample size, but definitely an interesting result. I was hoping they'd test again after a few months have passed, though.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-13282-7
> With payment, they can afford to have strong privacy rules and have others check their system integrity. But they'll only do so if there's demand for sanity.

I confess it's frustrating to me that I just defined 2 alternative models that involve customer paying, break customer faith, and do not involve ads. A post ignoring the examples I gave immediately appears. There is no set of behavior YOU can engage in to encourage a company to do the right thing. You may make gestures and they may move some companies, but most of the actors we're focusing on in these conversations have attained a scale or reach that insulates them from all but globally coordinated collective action.

Services cannot help but accrue data about the people who use their services. In many cases it can happen without any of us as customers ever knowing even if we read our customer agreements. We not only need to demand transparency but we need to find a way to extract and refund the value AND penalize those companies.

Consumer habits and opinion simply haven't provided an adequate counterbalance to these companies. Look at our current crop of credit agencies; you can't even opt out of them and the stock market is not penalizing them for their outrageously poor security practice (even post-breach).

Without a strong regulatory framework and advocacy for consumers, there is no set of habits or recommendations that can protect us. You can't even opt out now!
> Finally, an interesting list is the top 10 using statements that aren’t System, Microsoft or Windows namespaces:

> using System.Web.Mvc;

But... that is a System namespace.
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I've added a bitcoin address (but didn't integrate it into the automated checkout flow, so you'd have to email me to claim perks).
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The real question is why there's no way to disable it. Certainly, if it was only for out-of-band management then why can't a retail consumer disable? Saying that it's because it does "hardware initialisation" is a weak response, Intel could've designed it in a way that doesn't do that such as with the very first models of CPUs with ME.
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$100 billion, not $100 million.
All of those are insecure, so it's still a matter of staying ahead of attackers. And avoiding social engineering. And making certain the code that glues those libraries and frameworks together is secure. And making sure people don't accidentally leave an S3 bucket unsecured. And making sure every 3rd party contractor on-site doesn't take advantage of softer internal security. And making sure employees aren't bribed by competitors.

And making sure the business can still function while doing your best to limit functionality.
Voting for a 3/4th party candidate is still better than staying home. Voting Libertarian / Green / whatever is not going to change the results, but it is taken into consideration as 'available' voters in a way staying at home does not.
An anonymous Internet commenter telling us not to trust journalists. That is quite rich.
You can buy a better computer by waiting. Does that stop you from buying computers?

Considering how easily people invest cryptocurrencies into quite risky ICOs, you can see that people don't have any problem spending, as long as it's something they consider valuable.
Not looking :)
I wonder if many people have tested VO2 max like this. Anecdotally, I know that I have a very difficult time getting my heart rate over 150 if I don't consume carbs, while I can easily get it 160+ if I've consumed carbs. I don't notice a qualitative difference, except during HIIT exercise, but I believe there is a subtle one based on my heart rate.
That's predictable though, given the deflationary nature of the currency. If bitcoin is successful then it'll keep increasing in value. That means that there's very little incentive to ever spend your bitcoins if you can avoid it.
Avoiding the regulations on election spending and for those country's that have them the strict rules on political advertising eg in the UK all political adverts must have a named promoter who is registered
While I agree that we don't want legally mandated censorship, companies like Facebook are constantly making decisions about what sorts of ads and content to allow or disallow on their platforms. I don't think it's too much to ask that they extend these policies to material that is designed by spy agencies to function as divisive and destabilizing propaganda. This kind of stuff can even lead directly to physical violence in extreme cases (think Pizzagate), so there is clearly some sort of line that these companies need to enforce if they want to be viewed as responsible actors.

If they're smart, they'll self-police before it becomes a question of legal remedies.
How nice would it be if humanity united together and formed a non-profit organisation like ICANN that would run an IDentity+social network service with ability for people to plugin their extra features (like photo album, blog, things/services they sell etc)...
As a central body it can still retain the ability to shutdown ID of non-acceptable content like child porn and dangerous propaganda.
I’d happily donate to have such an unbiased body.
Agreed. I don't know why limiting the skepticism to for profit organizations makes sense.
Yeah, paint.net also crossed my mind. Would not even show up. Too "small".
recently? well folks look like this argument is going to be around forever. people were saying the same things in 2012.

bitcoin is functioning at the same standard of any existing currency, so no need to make a new higher standard for it. The M1 supply is a tiny fraction of the asset and used for buying things. The M2 and M3 supply is a larger stockpiled group which is also being used for investing in things inside of its own economy.

Thats not controversial.
The tech labor shortage seems to me to be essentially a fabrication invented by tech companies to encourage further oversaturation. I just cannot believe jobs are growing faster than the workforce when my experience has been this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15461080

The status quo is untenable because it's a bubble. There are far too many junior programmers.
They've not even started to feel the pain. They mostly read about it in media. That would be the next step.
LOL, yeah I completely missed that one!!

I've just updated the post, 'log4net' makes in into the top 10 now.
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I love CodeMirror and like very much the content of the Marijn's blog posts I've read, but I must say ProseMirror is a nightmare to work with. I guess the problem is that there is too much customization options, no sane defaults, no understandable tutorials, many different overlapping API and documentation versions.

I've tried a lot to get it working for https://github.com/fiatjaf/coisas and only managed to make it work by copying running code from one of the demos, ignoring all customization and working myself around the editor to provide the custom functions I needed.

I may be totally wrong here, but I'm trying to be sincere about my experience.
Ask HN: Just made Director, now what? | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14937290 (Aug 2017, only 38 comments)

Book recommendations:

>gtf21: Would recommend very highly: (1) Andrew Grove's "High Output Management" (controversial recommendation) https://amzn.com/dp/B015VACHOK/ $13.99 2015;4+stars;153 reviews

>killjoywashere: I like Lazlo Bock's book, Work Rules! https://amzn.com/dp/B00MEMMVB8/ $16.99 2015;4+stars;295 reviews

>helper: Maybe read "The Manager's Path" by Camille Fournier. https://amzn.com/dp/B06XP3GJ7F/ $16.19 2017;4+stars;30 reviews

>simonhamp: I'd highly recommend reading Radical Candor by Kim Scott. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KTIEFEE/ $12.99 2017;4+stars;138 reviews

Podcast recomendation:

>gtf21: Manager Tools "Basics" podcasts, especially on 1x1s and feedback https://www.manager-tools.com/manager-tools-basics
> Torture obviously works. It just also creates a lot of false information from people who don't know the answer and will say anything to make the torture stop. But that's much more nuanced and quite different from the refrain we constantly hear that "torture doesn't work."

How do you determine, ahead of time, when torture will work and when it will produced false information?
Seriously, this is the first thing I thought when I saw the title.

> Yes, tech giants are now widely viewed as threats, lots of attention is invested into having negative valence about technology companies. Why do you think that is, Journalist For The New York Times?
I am not worried about C#. It just lacks open source applications. There are tons of poster boy closed source applications :)
Yes don't forget that traditional newspapers bitterly resent their drop in power and status and have google or fb hacked into celebs email recently ?
> You can buy a better computer by waiting. Does that stop you from buying computers?

On the margin, yes. It doesn't stop me from ever doing it, but it does mean I put off upgrading as long as possible.
+1 to this. Like the news media haven't spent the last century abusing their influence on society.
Beaker and Dat are actually two different groups that work together. We discuss things all the time but decide on things separately.

Beaker uses Electron. We chose that because we're from the nodejs world and it allows us to move really quickly.
Ask HN: How do you research large appliances?
I'm in the market for a new washing machine and dryer but I've found that online research doesn't yield much insight.

I'm looking for appliances that work well, are reliable, and will last a long time.

How do you research large appliances?
I would rather own all Bitcoin, and sell a tiny fraction to people that want to transact in it, letting the market determine the price of that tiny float and slowly dilute based on demand.

I would also invest into $10B companies with the Bitcoin balance.

This is what you do with illiquid float you control, in any asset class. Whats the real question?
Is there an upside to having no social life?
> ...but we, at The New York Times, totally are.

That's a false dichotomy, but yeah, the NYTimes REALLY IS more like "my friend" than Facebook, Google, or other massive organizations that make money from using "me" as their product while pretending to serve my needs.
This is a fair point ... today.

An interesting question to ponder though is what is the potential in the future. What is the probability that GBP becomes used for something beyond a medium of exchange in the UK?

vs.

What is the probability that BTC becomes a unified international medium of exchange?
Well, it might also allow for the ultimate rootkit hack of x86 platforms...
> Simple rule: I buy it, I own it and it should not need an external service to operate. If it does then I'm not buying it.

I do for a few things. I pay T-Mobile so I can make phone calls with my cell phone. I also pay Netgear for some Arlo cameras.

I'm more willing to get devices that have external services if the company offering them will likely be around for the life of the device. For my phone, I'm happy if T-Mobile lasts two years and for Netgear, I'm counting on around 5 years.
How about the words "fully baked"?

I also don't agree that "finish your program" needs to be added to the unix philosophy because a tool that does one thing and does it well is finished by definition.
I guess it depends on what granularity you are viewing your project at. Your beep app could be complete and if you want calendar integration, that's a new project that takes input that is somehow piped into it from the beep app. The ios version is a new project that imports beep as a lib..

It's one way to look at things anyway.
Not realy I have always been told that beware of talking to hacks
this may be the dumbest most fud filled article I have ever read. I mean it's just a bunch of words that mean what exactly? what exactly does the author think those companies are doing that is evil ? I can't figure it out. Driverless cars are not a worthy goal? don't buy one once it's for sale.
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So you're allowed for browse for vibrators at your work place? Interesting.

He could've used any other image from the post as the featured one.
So what happens if/when the market crashes? Worse than subprime mortgages? Will it be 2007/8 all over again?
> “The last time the US government invested in studying interrogation was 1956,” Steven Kleinman, who works with the HIG, told me. “Great leaps forward in behaviour science have just passed us by,” he said. “Imagine using 1956 technology for signals intelligence!”

Seems odd the article doesn't mention the nazi interrogator Hanns Scharff[h], who was invited to talk in the US after ww2, at all - as the scientist seem to be rediscovering his approach.

Although doing some actual research to document what works is good, obviously....

[h] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanns_Scharff
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Ted Kaczynski is kind of in his own category.
Well, maybe the emphasis is on deserve here? ;)
I agree, but I'm also concerned that decentralization could increase the surface area exposed to attack.
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Haha, same on FB, tried to see how to change it, in the end just went for the vibrator image without any text around it (because it is cropped of). Living on the edge.
There are many better ways to manage front end state that don't actively encourage violating SOLID principles, SRP and OCP in particular. Obviously no one cares about SOLID anymore.
> I've heard many times that "torture doesn't work" but I never understood how or why

Imagine you're suspected of a crime or terrorist act, but you are innocent.

Your captors however are sure of your guilt and determined to find out what you know by torture.

The more you insist you know nothing and that you are innocent, they more they believe you are resistant to their torture methods and so they keep upping the ante.

Eventually you will reach a breaking point where you can't go on, and you will start making up stories and saying anything just to get them to stop.

And that's why torture doesn't work, because you can't trust the information that you gain from it.
I've been tempted to bring claims. The problem is it's your word against theirs

Plus, once your name gets out as a potential trouble maker then it's even harder to get a job.
You happily embrace violations of single responsibility?
Sure, but to somehow blame them for the stupidity of people that can be swayed by a ridiculous facebook ad is itself ridiculous. Facebook ads is not why Clinton lost to Trump and continuing to pretend like it is is just dumb.
- a lot of episodes have too many people.

100% agreed, its tough to follow who is saying what, and especially difficult to get what each part of differing views is really saying.
And is this different to news papers how - when the phone hacking scandal broke in the Uk it was obvious that even a liberal news paper like the gruniad had a substantial number of journalists who thought the end justifies the means, or maybe they wanted to keep the possibility of working for NI open.

Re neo feudal helscape isn't that the brexit the rich news paper owners want ?
If you're just there to browse working games do a ctrl+f for

<space>Playable

<space>Playable<space>Active

if you're after active playable repos
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Thank you. Is there an economics term or ratio or something that encapsulates this?

In my mind, it's conceptually similar to elastic/inelastic demand curves.
I dont consider Bitcoins as computers, you're not paying for visas or food with computers because computers aren't vehicles of value and they're not really liquid, you can't just go i'm buying a house with many computers as you can with Bitcoin.

As well as waiting for it, I only pointed this out after reading the fb comments about an article: https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://... where they basically did not want to pay because of Bitcoin's worth, again this could be because that they were asking for 60 bitcoins.
In other words, you buy computers when you need to. Seems healthy.
The disturbing aspect of depression treatments that "reset" things is the meaning of reset at a nervous system level. In a lot of cases, that basically means "memory smoothing" or "neuron unlearning". Imagine how great it would be if all your traumatic memories felt mild or you forgot them entirely? Consider the downside of that with respect to positive memories. Especially those nice feelings you get when you conquer something was previously impossible or very hard for you. SSRIs do this even more aggressively. Most of the time negative memories are easier to recall than positive ones. Unlearning negative memories can have really weird and bad consequences though in the context of learning. Presumably at least a percentage of negative learning is useful. That goes away when you "reset" your neurons in this manner.
> No one said anything about additional days of leave. If the company gives 5-10 days sick leave (or whatever their policy is) then it is perfectly fine to take said leave to take care of a sick child. If you don't want people taking it, don't give it. And if that is the policy, then it is up to the employee to decide. But purely amusing someone is going to ask for extra time off because they have a child is wrong.

If company policy allows, sure. But if you have two kids and only five sick days per year, you're budgeting for three people when others might not. And the employer could quite possibly be just fine with that! But it's not unreasonable for that to be discussed ahead of time. Not all company sick leave policies are written assuming however many sick days you need for all of your children, and it's the company that takes the hit if you unexpectedly need to be at home with your kid for an additional week during a critical time six months after you're hired.

> Be honest and say their schedule does not fit the company needs.

When not risking a lawsuit from unintended perception, absolutely honesty is better. If it might be spun into a claim of "age discrimination" (like this thread), then maybe not.
> I might be biased, but I realized in the few years I lived in the UK that the services, health care, and general quality of life are overall better down there than up here. I obviously have only anecdotal proof of that.

You said you live in Birmingham. It's not a city known for it's fantastic services, health care, and quality of life. The UK is a very varied place in all of these metrics. I've known and worked with many EU nationals who've come to the UK, lived and worked in one place for a few years, and formed a strong opinion on things. You might not have a complete perspective.
24 hour volume was $1.25 billion USD. Is that thin for a $250m dump?
I wasn't talking either way about the morality of torture (in that comment), or whether we should be torturing anyone.

I was simply saying that I find the "common knowledge" that torture doesn't work, to be unlikely. It just seems very convenient that things we find morally wrong end up also being bad for other reasons, making it unnecessary to deal with the morals. That sounds like motivated reasoning, not actual truth seeking.

"You don't think that maybe the burden of proof should lie on people to prove that torture does work before we even have a discussion about whether letting go of basic human rights is worth it in certain instances?"

That's a complicated question, and to be honest I have no idea. I actually think that practically speaking, no one should be routinely torturing anyone else. I just don't think it's a moral (or practical) slam-dunk - I think there are situations where it is morally justified, and that it would probably work.
What a waste! Here in the EU you have 8 days to sent it back without any reason. That is a nice rule for this type of nonsense.
I sort of wish Slack had a way to disable the preview image feature; I've run into this several times where a reasonable, work-safe article was processed into a picture not-so-suitable for Slack.

It mostly seems to be cases like this one, where the first image is concealed or contextualized in the article but treated like a normal header image by Slack. I think one that got me worst was a piece responding to someone else's content. Slack simply pulled the quoted text and picture at the top - which looked like sharing the original article, instead of a response to it.
sure, you can downvote, but those downvoting can you explain to me in a nutshell what is the specific point made by this article ?
I'm completely with you right until the phrase "and disproportionately affects a certain protected class". What's a protected class and how does it differ from any other class?
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I was pushed into the role due to an acquisition from the position of a technical contributor CTO.

My experience: It's brutally hard and utterly unrewarding. A good manager is evaluated by the performance of their team and the happiness of their team, but most companies do not even collect metrics on team satisfaction other than the mostly discarded of "peer evaluations". This tends to create a toxic environment where abusive managers who exploit their employees rise to the top and equitable and compassionate managers are forced out or given no real opportunity.

I've also never been offered, and in fact have been refused, any engineering management training. I asked, and folks say it's "too expensive." They offer some books (the wrong ones, usually), but I think they (subconsciously or consciously, idk) recognize that performance of the team is a lot more important.

The final thing is even if you do it for awhile and start to get better at it (as has been the case for me), it begins to infect people's expectations of you in the technical world. Everyone assumes you'll start to do it. In some part because you train yourself to adopt a manager's attitude of calm and promote the idea that "yes, this is fixable we don't need to panic."

Once you do it, it will follow you around.