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I kitesurf, there are some tricks that I find very scary, I both want to try them and find them too scary to do.

Sometimes its easier to hand off control to my monkey brain, I'm not sure who it is inside me, but they find it easier to ignore the fear that holds human me back.

I feel like there is Mr Low-level (maybe lizard brain?) who takes over when I'm super sleepy or driving or walking and listening to podcasts. There is monkey brain who is reckless and doesn't mind what happens to the physical self. Then there is me, I'm usually in charge.

The interactions are more complex and nuanced than I can write here.
Oh whoops. I stand corrected. It sounded a lot like the tone of a "Foreign Affairs" article.
A journalist is like a Lawyer, they think that they are good at everything but they should be specialized, for example, a business lawyer trying to act in a criminal case.

In this case, a game journalist should be specialized in some kind of games. Its not as simple as "i play xbox" or "playstation". For example Flight Simulation games or Wargaming. All of them are niche, and if you don't get it, you could considers it as a boring game, and yes, they are bore if you aren't part of the target market.

Cuphead is an example, a apparently good journalist trying to play a game where hes clueless. IT WAS PATHETIC.
Says the article with a "Facebook" share button front-and-center at the top of the page.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15779529
> Nobody wrote flash libraries that your JS code could use

This isn't precisely true. Before widespread availability of similar HTML 5 features, Flash was used for file upload (especially multiple files w/ progress bars), clipboard access, and pre-websockets network push. Client-side image processing, too, although you might consider that as part of the "big old <canvas>" usage. Your overall point is right on, of course.
>You're not some lost genius in a world full of idiots.

Ehhh..
The article clears this up:

> African-American students who started college in 2003-04 typically owed 113 percent of their student loan 12 years later, according to the most recent data from the US Department of Education analyzed by the Center for American Progress.

> By contrast, white borrowers had paid down their debt and owed only 65 percent of the original amount, and Hispanic borrowers had knocked down their debt to 83 percent of the initial loan.

But I don't think you care, because your comment history clearly demonstrates that you're here to conduct political warfare, rather than to consider submissions in good faith and contribute to meaningful discussion.
I've not read Jung, I will, thank you.
The fact that an extraneous law is removed doesn't make everything explicitly banned by it legal. There's already a litany of laws regarding unfair and anticompetitive business practices which have been and will continue to be illegal. I find most net neutrality advocates seem to ignore this entirely.

We have existing laws that, appropriately applied by regulations, already would prohibit an ISP from barring access to a competitor's content services.
Good video summing up "outrage" that occurred around Cuphead:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-P9_oUV9Gw
To your first question:
The list in question, has 50 items actually. [1]

To second one: we're avoiding having to get authorisation from users to read/write from their accounts.
Twitter also won't hesitate to revoke our API access when we start automatically blocking accounts on behalf of hundreds/thousands of users.
Also, imagine if the Russian botfare targets us, they're more sophisticated. We would have to keep users' tokens somewhere, in the wrong hands that's one propaganda machine. We think their time's coming, because our delinquent president is pushing through a nuclear deal that's going to cost our grandchildren dearly.

I use their API a lot, and would love to do that, but at this point it might not be the most practicable option for us. Perhaps @Twitter staff could advise us ...

[1] http://blocklistza.000webhostapp.com/
There's a simple answer to that, and it is before Trump, it wasn't obvious that social media of all kinds was dominated by propaganda. Now we are aware, now there's a reaction. You are missing the causality.

If there's a legitimate problem with society, why does it matter who points it out? I don't like the messenger was never a valid response to criticism.
I watched the talk, more time today, sorry the man died :(.
The average household in 1985 was watching 7 hours of television per day. I don't imagine that left much time for board games and bike rides.
The "two or many genders" debate really is just a debate on how society should integrate people whose behaviour doesn't conform to their physical sex. There's often an objective phenomenon (sex-nonconformity) that is interpreted subjectively by a given culture. The best way I can put it across is how different cultures have different "genders". All this means is that they interpret what's going on differently.

In foreign cultures like some Indian tribes or the Samoans, gender non-confirmity is typically regarded as a third category (two-spirit, fa'fafine). There's men, women, and then this "third gender" which is really just a third category for the relationship between expected roles and one's birth sex. Contrast to in the west, where until very recently, we denied gender non-conformity ever even happened. Then, we considered it a "disease" where you were "born in the wrong body". So people born male with this "disease" are "cured" with hormones and surgeries that will allow them to pass themselves as "female". It's the same underlying psychological phenonomon viewed through two different cultural lenses.

Those who claim there are more than two genders are really just trying to advocate for a model of gender that rejects the "disease" model that western medicine rather arbitrarily came up with some time in the 1940s. It resembles a western spin on how indigineous cultures handled this issue, placing it into a "third category", while at the same time respecting those who identify as women under the "disease" model.

The only reason this issue is so damn radioactive is there's a false notion that a specific model of gender should be pushed onto the population at large by legislative fiat (hate-crimes legislation, other regulations on private business). I suggest if you don't agree with a specific model of gender, then don't, because there's no single right way to classify something as long as you keep all the facts in mind (such as the reality that not all people born men are going to "act like men.") But the freedom to assess the facts and decide upon what model of gender works for both the individual in question and the people they voluntarily associate with will be paramount in maintaining the dignity of everyone involved.
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Solar could provide around half of our electricity without grid storage. Assuming you turn everything else off in the day time and shift demand a lit east / west to better fit the demand curve. Considering it's currently the cheapest source that seems like a reasonable ballpark prediction IMO.
>People have used assets like gold as money for thousands of years without long term inflation and it worked very well.

You think that the amount of gold in circulation has been constant for thousands of years?
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> While in good intentions, this project has the potential to concentrate large amounts of power.

Compare this concern with Google's "Safe Browsing" lists. Granted that's more for phishing, but it definitely could be troubling if used incorrectly. All we can ask is users be vigilant about abuses.
Most of the time, when I run InkScape to edit an existing .SVG, it's because I want to just select and drag a few vector endpoints a bit to one side or the other to make minor tweaks. I'd venture that's true for most users. However, it doesn't seem to be the default behavior. I always have to remember how to get into the right selection mode, because the authors seem to think I most likely want to drag the entire image around. Why I would want to do that, I can't imagine, but that's how it works.

That's a problem for many common actions -- for instance, I normally want to resize the view box to enclose the content tightly before saving an edited file, so why is that common action buried multiple layers deep in the UI? File->Document Properties->Page->Custom size->Resize page to content->Resize page to drawing or selection->Seriously? It's almost easier to do this in a text editor.

Finally, people who write apps that don't remember their previous desktop window size and position, but that instead auto-size themselves to cover the entire screen every time they're launched, should die in a grease fire. Unnecessarily-aggressive hyperbole aside, this kind of obvious forehead-slapping behavior is never good news because it means that the maintainers don't use their own app.

All that aside, InkScape is really a very powerful application that could be a lot harder to use. A great deal of hard work has clearly gone into it, and at the end of the day it is free software, so it's hard to complain without seeming ungracious. If it weren't such a great app, it wouldn't be worth criticizing at all.
If Tesla liquidated its PP&E, you would have no assets with which to make automobiles and it would go bankrupt.
It mainly involves replying to HN threads on the weekend.

More seriously, this slide deck gives an overview of all the areas in which CNCF is involved, from the Certified Kuberenetes program to providing marketing and other services to our projects to offering training and certification.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BoxFeENJcINgHbKfygXp...

We're also running KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in a week, with over 4,000 people expected.

http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubecon-and-cloudna...

As to how to get into it, you can take a look at my background and also look at opportunities with our parent, the Linux Foundation.

https://www.dankohn.com
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/careers/
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My point is that most people who aren’t politically motivated to say so don’t see this as a “legitimate problem”. I know I see no issue with social media. Is it really worse than TV or newspapers? I don’t think so.
> Why instead does my timeline have to be so precisely boring, mindless, impersonal, and yet addictive? Maybe because 1) incentive to post is largely motivated by lowest-common-denominator, broadest appeal rather than niche, 2) posting about specialized interests are therefore unincentivized, and 3) such posts from friends produces a positive feedback loop in the rest of the group?

Maybe some of the addictive effects you're feeling are out of habit. When's the last time you quit Facebook cold turkey, and for how long did you do it? I found that quitting for a few days -- by doing something as simple as changing my password to gibberish so that I could not login without going through the email verification process, thereby preventing me from "reflexively" checking FB -- could be enough to get me to forget about FB for weeks, even months.
Videogames use art but its not art. Or more specifically, its not created for their artistic value. Videogames are a amusement product over an artistic product.

For example, a stunning artistic videogame but boring versus a ugly game but funny.
This bubble has to bust. One bad news and everyone is going to rush to sell.
I don’t think that people would care that much that trump used social media to his advantage. The problem is that foreign governments are using it to do illegal electioneering activity. If you have some evidence that foreign governments were buying ads to support Obama, I’d love to see it.
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People working in tech have long known the dangers (or, at the very least, the fakeness) of social media...I wouldn't be surprised if tech workers are some of the least 'engaged' in social media relative to other demographics...
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You definitely see this for sure. I advise anyone (minorities in particular) who asks me about college to go to community college. I say this almost irrespective of their high school grades (I actually told someone on college confidential who was valedictorian to go to community college and transfer to USC, which ended up happening for them a couple years later, despite the fact that they were originally rejected).

The Pell grant alone will pay for almost two years of community college plus books. Add the fact that community college is inherently a commuter school and you also have the possibility of working as well.

The reason why I advise minorities in particular to take this path is because they're way more likely to qualify for the Pell grant.

As a final note, I'm very aware that many of these people won't actually transfer or graduate with an associates, which is sad, but at least failing the before mentioned path only results in wasted time and not five figures of debt.

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Unfortunately many of the factors that result in poverty for black students' families also rear their ugly head when said students are in school, preventing them from maximizing the ROI on college.
I dont think you care either, because the numbers you use relate to amount of money owed, not duration it is owed for.
How do you catch a regression without tests? Do you wait until it launches and crashes in production?
> before Trump, it wasn't obvious that social media of all kinds was dominated by propaganda

There were tons of articles written about this before Trump, they just didn't get any page views until afterwards. (E.g. check my submission history from before the election.) It was very very obvious, but people didn't start caring about the issue until after the election when it started getting promoted by Democrats for propaganda purposes.
Until bitcoin has real utility, it has to be a bubble. All the dark web stuff can't be a constant driver of price. Most people are gambling with no intent to participate in the dark web.
The simple way to say it is that once your code gets too complicated to keep all the execution paths in your head (sooner than you think), tests are what enable you to make sure you didn't forget an assumption you made about how it should work.

Do you like going back to manually verify things still worked after you make a foundational change? Or do you just trust yourself to know you've not impacted anything negatively? Do you honestly believe that's good use of your brain power even if true? Do you enjoy being married to that code? Because that's exactly what happens as nobody but you can work on it. That strategy works out well for employees to become key men and get big retention bonuses so there is some merit to your approach :-)

Not to mention the team impact to cowboy coding. It's a selfish approach to software development and is often undertaken by bully developers that say things like "use the source" as a way to make you feel dumb for not wanting to spend all day trying to untangle their likely insane code. All because they were too lazy to use a little empathy and be a good teammate.

To recap: Tests document and improve your design, verify functionality, provide leverage to accelerate development, and reduce "bus factor" risk. I don't care what a small sample data set says to the contrary there's really little debate that when wielded properly these tools and techniques do improve software on multiple dimensions that go beyond the software itself and heavily impact the business.

20+ years of product development experience in lots of teams/products inform this opinion. Let's see the data on how your business grinds to a halt when these tools aren't used and the code base gets increasingly larger and complex and people leave. Tell me about how you don't need those automated tests as you approach technical debt bankruptcy and all your key people have left. "Use the source" is a terrible response to that problem.

Rewrites can be fun though so maybe that's the answer. It sure worked out well for Netscape. ;-)
This is a great direction for research, but wake me when there's been any measurement of significance in the results. Trendlines are interesting but until we've proven that the variation we're seeing is actually statistically significant with regard to the sample size, these aren't actionable results.
Not sure why this post isn't upvoted to high heavens (HN is generally very anti crypto lately) but what you've made is absolute gold and something I will consider looking at for my future crypto investments.
> Maybe we could have afforded a national deployment of fiber.

Here's the fun part - you've already been paying for it. The 1996 Telecommunications Act set up a fund that every telecom user in the USA pays into which was supposed to build high-speed services in rural and disadvantaged areas.

> (3) ACCESS IN RURAL AND HIGH COST AREAS- Consumers in all regions of the Nation, including low-income consumers and those in rural, insular, and high cost areas, should have access to telecommunications and information services, including interexchange services and advanced telecommunications and information services, that are reasonably comparable to those services provided in urban areas and that are available at rates that are reasonably comparable to rates charged for similar services in urban areas

(PDF warning) https://transition.fcc.gov/Reports/tcom1996.pdf

What actually happened was the telcos used that money to buy their competitors and consolidate the market to where only a few large firms remain (no more "Baby Bells")
Several times a day, I spend 5-15 minutes writing a facebook post, and 9/10 times I don't post them. They all seem like too "look at me", or I think the person won't think it's funny or clever. It's a giant waste of time, but I feel better than if I post them(or less bad). Help?
Quite possibly. I will assert, though, from my experience, and the wisdom I've garnered from talking to people around unit testing, that as code assypmtotically approach 100% code coverage, the complexity of said code will tend to go up exponetially (or worse).

I don't have significant proof other than to say that things like DI and IoC start to get used in places that make little sense, which means complexity that wouldn't exist without tests. I also have anecdotes of defensive code I've written, with code branches that 'will never execute'. Branches that are there in case I missed something subtle, that simply log an error, or otherwise throw some exception. I can verify the code works before walling it off, but if you ask me to unit test those lines of code, now I need ways to set the internals of a function externally, or otherwise add code to allow variables to be set in a way that shouldn't be possible. This leads to complexity. And if you asked me to test it, I'd just quietly delete the defensive code rather than poison internal state variables.
Cryptocurrency yes. Bitcoin is questionable.
The root problem is that the government is insuring loans for low quality education in terms of college prestige/education and major choice.
> You realize that on x86_64, it probably compiles down to 1-2 instructions to write `diff != 0`, right?

But will the 1-2 instruction compare be constant time?
"People who complain about man pages tend not to understand man pages."

There could not be a more valid complaint. If the man pages aren't understandable, what program is supposed to explain them?
Before, MSM was able to tell people what to think and they were the gatekeepers of "the truth" and were able to set agenda. Now they matter less and less and people just don't pay much attention to them since there's so much choice now. And you can actually bypass them and go straight to the source of news. And that's a problem for them. So they're publishing all these kinds of anti-SV, anti-social media articles in hope of turning the tide.
The Bear Case for Crypto, Part II: The Great Bank Run
It's a bit more than a TPM, since it's running the Secure Enclave firmware on it. It's like a mix between a TPM and Intel ME.
I wish I could talk sense into people before they wasted money on college. If you do it right you can get everything paid for like I did through grants, scholarships, and your employer.
It causes unhappiness because it highlights that you are relatively worse off. And I wasn't talking about comparisons between yourself and some random celebrity, but moreso a comparison between yourself and a person you might have been at college with. If that person is doing exceptionally well, and you're doing just okay, there is a strong chance it will stir up jealously and negativity rather than admiration. This is also the topic of multiple sitcoms, which generally tend to zoom in on relatable facets of human nature ;)
It just sounds like a combination of old and entrenched thinking.

My experience of economics modelling (admittedly very limited) is that it can't help but be skewed towards the status quo. The only solid figures they can use are historical, which will only act as an anchor to the predictions of the potential future.

Additionally, economic modelling is often used as a risk analysis tool, and 'knowns' (with solid historical numbers and patterns) are always less risky than 'unknowns' with limited information.

'New' always faces an uphill battle on many fronts.
Yup people forget this point. If I were to bet, early enters will get out, leaving everyone high and dry.
Just think of them as defining functions that take s expressions in and spit s expressions out before “normal” runtime evaluation and which hence only see built in symbols.
Offhand thought, what happens if you have a express highways for autonomous cars where they can run 100-120 mph. AKA, no trucks[1], no slower vehicles.

One say next to I5 in California might drop the SF to LA drive time from 6 hours to 4. And it's door to door.

[1] When you ban heavy trucks the cost of roads drops dramatically.
Newer alarms often have cellular modems and enough battery to make the call even if you cut the power.
Yup very few people know this
For sure, Facebook allows you to keep up with distant family and friends. But my take is that devoting a lot of mental and emotional energy to distant relationships comes at the expense of time that could be spent developing local relationships, which can be more important.

I think a good metaphor is after you've broken up with someone, it can be healthier not to hold onto to a lot of photos, memorabilia, and so on associated with your ex. It's not that you are throwing your ex away; you're making room for a new person.

I've sometimes observed people are so caught up in the lives of old school friends, old colleagues, family and such that they don't have room for new, local relationships.

I think many people can use Facebook in a healthy way. The same can be said of alcohol, video games, reddit, and Internet news feeds. But, for many others, all of these can become damaging addictions. A lot depends on the individual at hand.
Absolutely. I'm sure they are realizing that Trump's social media powered victory means that the entire center of gravity has moved and that next election all parties and candidates will mostly campaign online. Traditional media will be an afterthought.

It's less about Trump per se and more about this larger shift.