skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
so first? go read what Paul Graham wrote about this[1] It does a good job of explaining US school culture. but Graham was far more functional than many.

I mean, in general terms, 'nerds' often don't have the social skills expected of others their age. Sometimes, it's like Graham says; it's just a matter of practice. Other times it's that we just don't have the same background or aptitude for navigating emotions; we didn't have that same ability to conform. I mean, usually it's a combination of those things; conforming in the way the other students do is harder than it is for most people, so you rebel from them the way you rebel against your parents, only your peers don't have the depth of understanding, the patience, and the duty of care your parents have.

And it was more brutal than Graham makes it out to be, because as a teen, it feels like that is just how the world is. For me, my escape was that I got an IT job in high school... it was like heaven. For two hours a day after school, I was treated like a human being with valuable skills, and people put up with my minor social transgressions because they expected a little bit of acting out from a kid.

Really, I think that's most of the difference between a 'nerd' and a regular troubled child; the nerd has an outlet, a haven, and a future. A nerd can withdraw into books rather than just snowballing the behavioral problems. (though, to other students, reading books is seen as a behavioral problem. Still, at least in my school career, if you just wanted to read during recess hours, there was almost always a friendly teacher who would let you eat lunch and read in their class, if you were quiet.)

But, my point, I guess, is just that there are plenty of American children who are smart and study and do sports and are popular.... people like what TangoTrotFox describes further up this thread. People who are socially skilled enough that they know, for example, that you don't read in front of other people. Those people aren't properly 'nerds' - they're just smart. Most of us would have been those people if we could have... but we lacked the social aptitude.

But I'm still not being terribly specific. I guess a lot of that is that it's embarrassing and painful... but I think my peers would have described me as mean and arrogant.

[1]http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html
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I'm not sure asking here is going to get useful advice.

I fucking hate it. But then I look at a bunch of other stuff that I fucking hate and I see how popular it is, and I see how far away we are from what I prefer (simple HTML and CSS, with minimum Javascript as needed) and I realise that maybe I'm just wrong about a lot of this stuff.

I'd be interested to know how accessible it is. Does it work for people with low IQ? Does it work for people with visual impairment? Does it work for people with problems with motor skills?
A typical scenario: Your friends and acquaintances have your contact info stored on their mobile phones. Your phone number, an email address or two, maybe a photo and a birth-date so they don't forget to wish you happy birthday. They install Facebook/WhatsApp/Twitter, etc, all of which upload your personal data from the phones to their own servers without your knowledge or consent.

It's more complicated than deciding not to have a Facebook account, though that's a great first step.
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And for what reach?
3-4 people a day. My extensions are development tools so I’d imagine people get their companies to pay for it.
Most countries are signatories to the WIPO treaty that enshrines a global "standard" on copyright laws. However, each individual country's legislation is different -- though generally most countries have similar or looser copyright laws than America (since America was the source of the current insane variant of copyright we are experiencing, rather than the previously-sane British copyright system defined by the Statute of Anne).

However, Europe has some really strange copyright directives that go even further than the US. For instance, architecture is copyrightable, and so taking and distributing photos of the outside of a building is not technically allowed without permission from the owner. So taking tourist photos within an EU country and posting them online could be seen as copyright infringement.

Of course, this is just a general guideline, if you actually want to do business you need to ask lawyers familiar with the laws of all the countries you wish to do business with (though this is prohibitively expensive for volunteer efforts, which explains why they didn't do it).
How do you do this for services where functionality is reliant on tracking etc? E.g. some of Google's services.
> I think the implication is more, "why are you only paying attention to us?"

I read that as: why are you only paying attention now? (i.e. after allowing the industry to reach its current, pathological state)
Basically, on OpenBSD, audio functionality was partially moved from kernel to user space, it was extended and called sndio. From this standpoint it's the OpenBSD native audio API. The remaining kernel audio(4) and midi(4) APIs are internal interfaces used by sndio to get access to the bare hardware; they are too limited to be useful to typical programs.
He also says that he wrote an email to the Product Manager -

"I also wrote an email to the Product Manager highlighting the security flaws. I was met with a deafening silence.

So, Social media team gives a canned response and the Product Manager doesn't bother to even respond to an email just goes on to show that Data security is not their priority.
> So why do people still fawn over him when it seems like his ethics are dubious?

> Why does he get a free pass on this?

Because many people draw a distinction between something being "unethical" vs being "illegal". What exactly do you think is the problem with his ethics? How serious do you think it is?
The internet existed before ads, people created content and hosted websites without invasive tracking.

And let's be honest, most ads are total garbage.
Google "trump is a nazi" and take your pick of any number of Overton window nudging. It's a steady drumbeat of contortions to make the consumer of these outlets see Nazis everywhere.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sfgate.com/news/amp/Trump-H...

https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/25/donald...

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/17/donald-trump-is-a-nazi-s...

http://www.newsweek.com/how-trump-nazis-stole-christmas-prom...
But how many Elon Musks did we miss because some people didn't get the opportunity to try their ideas due to lack of ressources ?
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I guess you completely missed the paragraph titled "Reporting it to Emirates:"

I will write it here for you - "In the wake of responsible behaviour, on discovering these serious security flaws that violate user-data privacy, I decided to flag them to Emirates through Twitter DM in October 2017. Please note that I could not find a dedicated channel for reporting security bugs on Emirates website.

The Social Media Team immediately responded to my Twitter DM with a canned response but I was not ready to give up hope. I also wrote an email to the Product Manager highlighting the security flaws. I was met with a deafening silence."
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Sorry but, who in politics is not a populist?
I remember the prevailing attitude at the time in message boards being that Google had no real intention of taking this serious and was instead just trying to bluff the entrenched interests to upgrade.

It worked in the markets Google rolled out in...and that was it. These companies stubbornly refused to preempt Googles expansion anywhere.

Maybe they called Googles bluff, maybe they were never nimble enough to even think about getting ahead of Google let alone execute it, and maybe Google was just never that serious in the first place.
A modern reason for being interested, wildly over-simplifying[0] ...

Consider an equation of the form y^2=ax^3+bx+c, and consider the points (x,y) where x and y are rational. There may be none, there may be finitely many, there may be infinitely many.

Take a huge, structureless[1] prime p. Any rational r/s can be thought of as r times s^{-1} modulo p, so rationals are roughly the same as integers when you work modulo a prime.

So the rational solutions to the equation above (which, by the way, is an elliptic curve) give us integer solutions when we work modulo p.

And now by using the geometry of the curve we get a group where the elements are pairs of integers. That's because we found rational solutions. Suddenly everywhere we use groups - such as in cryptography - we can use these numbers that have arisen as rational solutions to an equation.

So being able to find rational solutions to equations is useful.

[0] With any luck someone more knowledgeable can fix the worst of the errors in this.

[1] So not of any particular form, such as 3^k+1 or similar
As I've said before, ultimately we have to pick one:

- single Internet jurisdiction, overriding national sovereignty; in practice this means letting America run the Internet

- National Internet jurisdictions, which potentially come with some sort of virtual border policing; Great Firewall(s)

- lawlessness, which libertarians will like but produces outcomes increasingly unacceptable to the public
Fascinating how a topic like this is so 'controversial' that 8chan and Voat are the last places they can find a refuge while on the other hand it is such a highly impacting development for society.
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> It turns out that people in general buy airline tickets based almost exclusively on price

> They are a trusted counterparty

This is interesting, and I agree. But while I'm a big fan of quality and think there's many cases where not buying the cheapest is a good more in general, I find it hard to justify with airlines.

The quality varies wildly now, and reward programs are getting more and more meaningless - often they're even pointless because you simply can't fly to that airport with a carrier in your airline alliance, or they offer a way more inconvenient flight.

Sometimes, business class is only marginally better than economy (same seats, more legroom), but you couldn't tell from the cost. There are only very few airlines where business class is consistent. Why do I need to know what type of plane it is to know what business class seating is going to look like? The difference between business and first class is similarly vague. Sometimes it's worlds apart, others it's a slightly larger screen.

So why take the chance for airlines that aren't Singapore/Thai/ANA (to name my favourites)? Just buy the cheapest flight, brave it, and take some unpaid vacation and maybe a massage with the money you saved to make up for the horrible experience.

The only constant is flying sucks, and will suck a lot more if you can't avoid the USA. (Although the major US airports are such a shitshow that paying more to arrive/depart at a smaller airport could be worth it time-wise.)
Would you mind giving me a brief overview on what those aspects are?

To put it less obliquely, how do you distinguish "true randomness" from perfectly-deterministic physical phenomena that are just determined by a "rabbit hole of different aspects"? Is a die roll truly random, or is it just a theoretically-predictable product of factors like air circulation patterns and friction?
I don't think that's the case. Google certainly has more disposable cash available at less bureaucratic cost than many country's governments. They just lack the interest.

If there's a single company with a forever long track record of half-assing products and never finishing them, only to cancel them later with disregard to current customers, that's Google.

They make so much money that nothing really matters for them.
Yes, and I would add some (hopefully) "common sense" consideration.

IF you were a captain, responsible for a several millions dollar aircraft and for hundreds of lives, AND IF there was a teeny-tiny, extremely low probability that using a phone (or computer or other electronic device) could cause a disaster, including the possibility of a suicide act of sabotage, how would you implement in practice the Federal Rule you cited?

1) Kindly ask the passengers to have the devices switched off.

2) Seize each and every such device before boarding, and X-ray/scan each and every passengers to be 100% sure that they don't carry with them one (hidden).
That looks super fun, thank you for the recommendation :)
My understanding is that homeowners in the bay area have some next level NIMBY ism that even Google can't overcome. Those fiber huts have to go somewhere...
On all sides, your side will always seem more innocent and correct despite evidence. We live in a very messy and dirty world.
For any important document, the signing is almost always witnessed by someone else. My understanding is that the act of signing is primarily the legal act of accepting the document, not a security mechanism. The signature provides a quick reassurance that a document has been accepted, but if there were a real dispute, the witness could be asked to testify.
There have been more of these fake video stories recently. Without wanting to get bogged down in politics, I have wondered if these stories are being ramped up to provide some plausible defence to possible 'tapes' mentioned in the Steele dossier? Not necessarily a legal defence, but enough to cast some doubt as to the legitimacy in the media
So is any blog engine with syntax highlighting, or even a simple HTML document with something like prism-js[^1].

[^1]: http://prismjs.com/
Yes, that is what happens, but the whole language was like virus that turned people into p-zombies.
Great idea, just still looking for a brick color for 'stacking lego bricks as a distraction'?
Why the focus on Netflix? Just because it's popular right now?

This blog post honestly just comes across as "I'm better than you because I claim to use my time more productively, and I'm telling you how to live your life."

Speaking of a waste of time, I'd like my 5 minutes back after reading that.
To really get a nice 3D effect you also need distance of the eyes from the phone.
Based on the video in the article, this demo actually uses this depth information.
You can't get this depth info easily from a camera. I can certainly see how the more advanced optics in the iPhone X really help here.
Can you point to an actual example? Telling people to go google something feels like a very wimpy way of dodging requests for citations. Like saying "Go read a book".

Edit: Thanks for the edited links. I don't see how discussions about the actions and discourse of the president of the United States support your suggestion that fake Nazi-accusing videos will be used to destroy Silicon Valley careers though.
Also, how do you decide which products are the products that rich people buy and which are the products for "the poor"?

Congress did that by price - specifically, by imposing a 10% Luxury Tax cars over $30k.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxury_tax#Luxury_tax_in_the_U...
Thanks. Your proof works, I could follow it.

Yours does use some elementary algebra[1], which wasn't used in the Chinese geometric proof. I wonder if ancient Chinese mathematicians could simplify (a+b)^2 symbolically, or even did symbolic algebra this way?

(When I referred to "ancient Chinese visual proof" I wasn't bullshitting, but I didn't find a source with the exact 2-part picture, though this makes same claim using same pictures:
http://www.researchhistory.org/2012/10/24/earliest-evidence-... )

I'm sure they knew that the area of triangles, which you also use, is (ab/2) - but the purely visual proof needs nothing more than the knowledge that the area of a square is the square of the length of its sides. (And I guess some obvious facts like that no matter how you divide an area the sum of the areas of its parts will be same - the reason I mention tiny slivers is in some fake geometric proofs this intuitive knowledge is abused.

For example, see this excellent description:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_square_puzzle

Before you open the solution, you can look at the trick for as long as you want, you won't figure it out.)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOIL_method
It's a tax haven with more bureaucratic secrecy than taxes: https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/060516/why-bahamas-...
They'll get better.

And some people will believe even the most blatant photoshops because they want to.

Just look at the pizzgate incident. Some fool entered a pizza restaurant and fired is his gun because he beleived people on the internet that claimed it had a secret pedophile den in its basement.
Consequences?
Les Misérables Co-occurrence
I need this co-occurrence matrix to implement 300x300 matrix. How do I get the source code for this particular?
With the same fumctionality as in URl.
https://bost.ocks.org/mike/miserables/
Or other CSS facilities if you have to support sucky browsers.

I spent the first five years of my career advocating for replacing table layouts with CSS, and finding ways to do just that.

My point is simply that we seem to have gone overboard.

Part of that movement was towards what we called "semantic" markup. Wrapping your content in HTML tags that describes what the content is for (a heading, a list, etc) instead of how it should look (bold, larger font).

One of the reasons that tables were terrible for layout was that with tables you had to use markup that meant different things than what you were trying to accomplish. Among other things, this badly screwed with screenreaders and other software parsers (crawlers, including those of the major search engines; and scrapers).

But for actual tabular data, HTML tables are the semantically correct markup. They work well and can be parsed correctly. The point of the semantic markup movement was never to completely remove tables from our vocabulary. It was to return them to their proper use case.

While we did manage to come up with CSS alternatives for nearly all the table based layout features, CSS Grid is the first option that gives you the full power that tables offered (and more) for the grid-based layouts that have been a staple of graphic design since the creation of the first coffee table book.

But this package reminds me of the straw man argument that some old school developers used to bring up when we encouraged them to learn CSS for layout: "if we get rid of tables, we'll have to come up with insane workarounds for displaying tabular data".

Well, someone just did.
This is neat.

I think what would be even neater is to use the head tracking from the notch to compute a transformation of the back-side camera to simulate that you can see through the iPhone. Of course this wouldn't work when the iPhone is too close, or if the angle is too wide, but in other cases, this would make AR really good.
>Are there _any_ apps actually taking advantage of this yet

Yes, apple is harvesting your high-quality biometrics using this. 5 years down the line someone will leak the data and your face will end up on some weird porno series.
TL;DR:

the week of the '86 APS April meeting found the gaming floor almost completely empty, leaving the casino with its record-low take by staying at a gambling hotel but obstinately refusing to gamble
The 5-star movement is, to me, one of the biggest mysteries of contemporary politics. I've read plenty about it, but I recognize nearly nothing. It's Euro-sceptic, but also left-wing. Anti-nationalist and anti-migrant. Anti-authoritarian, but has ties to Putin. It's internet-driven, but it's technical infrastructure is old-school, centralized, and under one (mysterious) entity's control. And it's really popular.

Maybe I'm just getting rigid with age and failing to see past an outdated left/right divide. Anyone care to enlighten?
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But is wireless seriously an alternative to fiber? I mean with 4k streaming spreading, what will happen on a super bowl night? There is only one shared bandwidth.
This is very similar to Johnny Lee's initial exploration with Wii... http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/
The problem here is not the `var` keyword but the `getList()` method that is leaking implementation details by having a concrete class return type instead of an interface.
Handy, this should help resolve a few annoying parts of making releases.
This reminds of the head tracking demo using a Wii remote made by Johnny Lee years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw
Although I completely agree with the article, I think it's putting the bar a bit too low to expect individual privacy from a UAE based company, when they have little regard for even the basics of Human Rights[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_the_United_Ara...
... with the speed of search engine providers confining users into small worlds. For certain areas of interest Google made the Internet the size of a village.
I'm sorry, but every time I read shit like this I have to wonder if I'm reading from some big pharma social media bot.

Concerta doesn't magically give you attention abilities you didn't have before. It's a nervous system stimulant. It makes you neurotic, trapped in your own head. Maybe this makes it easier for some people to focus, but I have enough experience with it to explain why. It forces your attention from the world around you to your own mind. You will be more physically still and "studious", only because you are mentally struggling more. It makes you feel sick. Food seems abhorrent. You will eat a small fraction of what other kids your age eat, you will be below the 99th percentile in height and weight for your age and you will stay that way for the rest of your life. You will be paranoid and anxious, more than ever before the meds. When things are illogical, when you see other people make bad decisions that seem so simple to you, you will be ANGRY. You will be inhumanly smart, but you will be inhuman.
Policing is always about setting an example.

The entire tech industry can now consider themselves warned. Not even giant American corporations with direct links to the White House are above the law.
Also mentioned in Folklore:
https://www.folklore.org/ProjectView.py?project=Macintosh&to...
> Not that I think low taxation would be a net transfer to the poor, but many disagree with how the government spends tax money.

Pretty sure a worker at Mercedes or at VW will oppose free of cost public transit in Germany. I have met old people whose only income is their Social Security check advocate for "small government" that does away with all the safety nets in the US.

Of course, we disagree with how governments spend money. If we all agreed, we wouldn't need a government. All in all, a charity cannot replace government safety net.
For Pulseaudio please file bugreports. Could be that it's transcoding things (44.1kHz to 48kHz conversion, etc).

I have a pretty slow CPU (NUC5PPYH) and Pulseaudio has been working fine for loads of years.
I've tried 3 times in the past to run JACK on Ubuntu. Each time I had bricked audio after installing, tried to fix for around 1-2 hours and gave up. My experience with JACK has been horrible.
Ok, how about Paypal?

https://twitter.com/Adys/status/943346017608585216
There's a "clean" version at /r/GifFakes.
I’m not disagreeing (or agreeing) with you, but your comment did make me wonder if Google truly is less bureaucratic than (all / some) governments. For example back in NZ where I grew up sure there’s bureaucracy throughout the government - but it does seem like they deliver a _lot_ more than Google is capable of and across a far more diverse product range (e.g. from fibre to the home to universal healthcare etc...), interesting thing to think about and if nothing else it highlights to me just how poorly run most google products must be given their flop rate despite their enormous wealth, amount of data on people and their reach.