skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Betteridge's law of headlines : "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

This is why I canceled my subscription to the NYTimes and stop following the news so much. Everything is an epidemic. Everything is going to end the world.

Are there people with problems of loneliness? Sure. Is it an epidemic? Of course not.

Just like the tide pod epidemic last month. Next come, it'll be another epidemic.

And the easiest way to spot lazy media is see if the title is a headline.

"Will your kids' candy be safe this halloween?"

"Did aliens build the pyramids?"

In my opinion, the only real epidemic in modern times is people wasting time reading useless media.
Some general pieces of advice that I think apply to all writing:

- Write like you would speak. Think of your writing as an extended conversation with other developers.

- Use the active voice wherever possible.

- Strive for clarity and simplicity over overly-complicated industry babble. The smarter you try to sound, the harder you will fail. Of course, there will be some amount of jargon you will rely on, which is fine considering your audience, but even with technical writing the Mark Twain axiom holds: don't use a $5 word where a $0.50 word will do.

- The best writing doesn't feel like writing. Take what you've written and read it out loud (to yourself or a friend). Rewrite until there's a natural rhythm and flow to your words.

- Don't be afraid of shitty first drafts. Dump out all your ideas without fear of judgment (no one's going to look!). Then go back and re-shape, re-word, cut, etc. I think of it like a sculptor and clay - your first draft is just a gathering of all the clay. The following revisions are about molding and shaping it for your intended audience.

- Finally, read good writing. Whether it be well-communicated emails or your favorite SF novel, pay attention to what other good writers are doing and try to emulate that.
If you write part of it in C, then you can reuse that code on another platform.
I, Daniel Blake has absolutely nothing to do with technology and people being left behind.

It's entirely about the fucking awful mess caused by the Conservative government introducing Universal Credit and a punitive benefits regime.

Being fully tech proficient won't prevent a Universal Credit claimant from being sanctioned.

Daniel Blake has heart problems and is advised by his doctor not to work. But he fails his independent medical.

Here's a real life example: A man with heart problems was told not to work. He has the medical. He has a heart attack during the medical, and the independent assessor has to call an ambo.

To you or me this is proof he's not faking and he really is ill.

To the government he didn't complete the medical, which is a sanctionable failing.

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmhansrd/cm13...

> Again, I support the principle of a sanctions regime. If somebody consistently fails to turn up for work experience or a Work programme scheme, sanctions should be applied. However, I believe that sanctions are being applied indiscriminately. For example, one of my constituents was a beneficiary of employment and support allowance after they had retired on grounds of ill health as a result of a heart problem. He was required to attend a work capability assessment with Atos. During

> 19 Mar 2013 : Column 840

> the assessment, he was told that he was having a heart attack and the nurse said that she had to stop the assessment. He got a letter a couple of weeks later saying that he had withdrawn from the assessment and, as such, was being sanctioned. That beggars belief. I have other examples, as I am sure do colleagues.
Haha, no, I just made that yesterday as a quick test of the redirection functionality (it uses bootstrap), although I did also find my actual old website from when I was 16:

https://anonymoussoftware.stavros.io/

Ahh, iframes and tables, so cutting edge :)
The church may be looking for those things; the churchgoers, however, not so much.
I don't think any of the main characters in Breaking Bad lived in poverty; even the secondary ones didn't for the most part. If WW had died w/o becoming a drug kingpin, he would have left his family in poverty, but they didn't live in poverty before.
I think your first course of action is improving your attitude. You start out with a cry for help about your problems, depression, and loneliness. People respond, offering help, and you have a negative response to it. It may not seem like much, but people are more willing to help you, if you're willing to be helped. Stop feeling sorry for yourself, be positive, and take advantage of what others are offering.
Yeah I get that, but then the application state isn't serialized in a usable form. If you re-load that state, you have half-open, "pending" operations.

If an idea of Redux is that serializable state is a good thing, then redux-thunk seems inimical to that.
Few people already could "enter the market" given the enormous resource requirements to compete with Facebook on it's own. That's not a regulatory thing; that's just a reflection of the reality that these large companies have massive amounts of resources, and similar amounts are needed to effectively compete.
Fundamentally, both Google and Facebook live by questionable morals: Google is a surveillance company trying to branch out, while Facebook is a surveillance and behavioral manipulation company doubling down. Google has some smart engineers, who could maybe make a viable version of the 60s mainframe business when the ad bubble pops. Facebook... I'd pay a couple bucks a month to keep up with acquaintances in a way that's easier than an email list or private Usenet group. But I see them taking the dark path and e.g. selling "consumer profiles" that aren't "credit reports," because "credit reports" are governed by laws.
I saw mentioned here that men are quick to give up friends, with work & family & wife's social calendar there really isn't much time for anything else. I need to make an effort to make friends cause really all I ever see is work colleagues and other parents of our children's friends.
Seems Google is banking on SpaceX and Starlink. I think this is a better outcome than continuing to invest in the last mile to homes.
I've done it recently using Hammerspoon, if anyone interested
https://github.com/agzam/spacehammer
So you want to limit my freedom of owning a car without a steering wheel so that you can protect your freedom of owning one with a steering wheel? That doesn’t make much sense to me. Just because one company makes a better mouse trap doesn’t mean that everyone is subjected to only buying the new mouse trap. Welcome to free market capitalism.
Much better. "we are prone to hide our mental health and true feelings/emotions" sounds like it's nature rather than nurture.

[EDIT: why the downvotes, again?]
Open-sourcing a 10x reduction in Apache Cassandra tail latency
It is indeed pretty amazing in CV. In a field nearly as old as CS itself, I'd say at least 75% of the existing techniques were made obsolete in a span of only a few years.

You could have started your PhD in 2006, made professor in 2012, and nearly everything you had learned would have been _completely_ different.
Either make that count as a forfeit or hire specialized diagnosticians who make the prognosis and rate the surgeons on how well they do relative to the prognosis.
Yeah, I'm more sceptical about fully autonomous vehicles than most people, but the arguments presented in this article are bad

Even if fully autonomous cars remain impractical for real world commercial use cases because it can't match human capability to handle edge cases the investment in a programme pay off in terms of driver aids. And the fun of hands on a wheel can always be had on a racetrack.

But the goal of autonomous driving isn't "zero deaths" it's "sell cars", and convenience gets mentioned as least as often as safety as a selling point by its promoters. Since the errors autonomous vehicles make are different from those made by humans (and there's no reason to believe they will ever be zero), there's a strong argument that accidents can be further reduced by retaining an alert, responsible human driver, even if that driver's slightly less alert and responsible than they otherwise would be. That's been the case for Waymo's programmes so far (there's certainly no safety argument for making their backup drivers remote at this stage; that's all about a public show of confidence). The safety/convenience tradeoff isn't straightforward, because perfectly convenient fully autonomous vehicles means a safety benefit from fewer miles with inadequate or even drunk drivers having access to controls, but you probably wouldn't shoot for full autonomy and no controls if safety was the real goal. Frankly, even if the responsible human driver did absolutely nothing useful they'd probably net reduce road deaths simply by ensuring self driving technology doesn't massively inflate the number of miles driven per capita
Very good, thanks for the link.
People should have to give a reason when they flag.
Tastes like old eggs, mostly. Can't stand kala namak.
Peerweb¹ will be much more user-accessible since it works with normal browsers and retains your current URL structure (even for user-generated content). Additionally, our optional resource sharing permission manager app (which supports Windows, macOS, and Linux) enables fully decentralized websites with far superior performance than IPFS.

ETA later this year

1. https://peerweb.net
Enforcement of the Hays Code was responsible for weird trends in the movie industry for a long time, starting in the 1930's - American movie makers actually made successful movies about darker subjects and had more women in leading roles until that point. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=933011...
Thanks. I know my email was there in the profile, even if cryptically in the info bit as others have written me. Maybe I changed a privacy setting inadvertently and will check. I dont want you to get spammed posting your email in the open here as they seem to even vacuum up attempts at ciphering them like that, so if you care about that or want to delete yours in the above post I have saved it.
As a man in his 30's who has dealt with loneliness and mild depression on a fairly Two things that I have found to be extremely helpful are:

1) See a therapist (when needed). Therapists have helped me to get out of some of my roughest patches. Even in our society, there can be a lot of shame associated with seeing a therapist, and I'll admit that I've avoided seeing one in the past due to that shame. But it has definitely helped when I felt stuck.

2) Join a men's group (if you're male). There are some great organizations that have regular men's groups. It's powerful to meet regularly with a group of men and having the chance to share your feelings and emotions and work through issues. I found one through The Mankind Project, but there are a number of groups out there that offer them.
It's so hard to tell, honestly. I'm a programmer - I sit in front of a computer and sling code all day long. Around 3 PM or so, after about 6 hours of reading technical documentation, stepping through breakpoints, mocking up proposed designs and figuring out which data structures go with which problems, I start to feel so worn down that I just can't concentrate any more. I take a mental "rest" (and go on here, for example), but I don't know if that makes me a lazy slacker, or just a normal human being who's been trying to concentrate (in a ridiculously noisy open bullpen) for longer than humans were meant to. There's an interesting blog written by a practicing psychiatrist (which, as blogs go, is interesting because it's interesting but also because it's one of the few blogs not written by a computer programmer or angsty teenager) where he talks about his role as the "gatekeeper of Adderall": http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/12/28/adderall-risks-much-mor... he says that professionals like computer programmers and accountants come to him seeking Adderall so that they can concentrate enough to get their jobs done the way we normally associate opioid addicts looking for pain medication. Do I drop off after a few hours because I'm wrong in the head, or because I'm just human?
There's no real difference between 'fancy' salt and the cheap stuff - crystal size is the only factor that has much impact on the perception of saltiness[1], though that can be counter intuitive (kosher salt crystals are big and taste very salty on your tongue, but they don't pack down, so you tend to use less than the finer crystals of table salt). Not to mention that all sea salt now is full of microplastic particles...[2]

1: https://www.seriouseats.com/2013/03/ask-the-food-lab-do-i-ne...

2: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/08/sea-salt...
Where's the impunity? The described actions can and will be prosecuted as libel; USA libel laws are comparably quite generous to facilitate free speech, but what's describe above is not protected.
Personally I'm not too fond of Pony's take on the actor model. I believe it is in the models core that every actor is in total control of their own behavior, and the only interaction is via messages that can be interpreted as the receiver pleases. In Pony, it is the sender that directly commands the receiver what it will do next (via function calls/behaviors).
Google brings search and sharing to iMessage in iOS, Safari updates, and more
Im firmly against these "X minutes to read" estimates because the amount of time it takes to read something is highly dependent on many variables (on both the reader side and article side). I would much rather have a "Short, Medium, Long, Novel" kind of scale which is simply a scaled word count of some kind.
This is a project that seems like it needs to be funded, but we wouldn’t even be having this conversation if it didn’t cost over 10 billion dollars to dig a 1.3 mile tunnel. If it cost a billion, New York and New Jersey could just pay for it themselves. To put this in perspective, this is $12,000 per daily rider, just for the tunnel. If we can’t get infrastructure costs under control in this country, we aren’t going to even be able to maintain what we’ve got.
Open Recent, Inodes, and Bookmarks: How MacOS Remembers Files
Relating Pony to some of the languages mentioned, two that seem immediately comparable are Akka and Erlang.

"Akka’s receive operation defines a global message handler which doesn’t block on the receipt of no matching messages, and is instead only triggered when a matching message can be processed. It also will not leave a message in an actor’s mailbox if there is no matching pattern to handle the message. The message will simply be discarded and an event will be published to the system."

"[In Erlang,] receive statements have some notion of defining acceptable messages, usually based on patterns, conditionals or types. If a message is matched, corresponding code is evaluated, but otherwise the actor simply blocks until it gets a message that it knows how to handle."

Pony's message passing is syntactically similar to its methods, with a "be" (for "behavior") keyword introducing a handler rather than "fun". As a result, the message receive operation is global, like Akka, but the type system ensures that an actor cannot be sent a message it does not recognize. These are both different from Erlang, which has a local receive operation. An Erlang process, upon receiving an A message, can call another receive statement and block only looking for B messages. At that point, any incoming A messages will queue up. That has always seemed to me to be a good way to write deadlocks without realizing it.

Pony is otherwise similar to a typed Erlang that compiles to machine code and doesn't (currently) have process monitoring. [:-(]

There was some discussion about distributed Pony, but it has rather strong semantics for message passing, which would require a rather complex underlying protocol. [I'd rather have simple distributed messages and handle failures at the program level.]

[I only have experience with Erlang and Pony; I'm hoping my description of Akka is true from the discussion in the post.]
You've been posting a lot of trollish, unsubstantive comments. Could you please take a look at the guidelines and start commenting civilly and substantively?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Why does the EU still have the same gross and absurd copyright terms and laws the US does?

Uh... you do realize the EU had them first?
Does "organic" include GMO-free? I thought it just meant pesticide-free, and I don't take any issue with GMO foods.
I remember having read about Gun a few years ago [1] and there was a lot of (apparently) valid criticism. Do you know how much of that is still valid today?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9076558
>, from what I see, it doesn't seem like a school in 1950 would be that much different than a school today.

Maybe it's what we don't see? Enforced truancy laws may be a possibility. If you were a 'problematic' child back in the day, it's very likely you would be kicked out and not get any education. Now schools wanting to maximize their federal payments use law enforcement to punish truant students.
I'm glad that you've mentioned Kaissa, the famous chess program from Soviet Union.

Kaissa was developed in 1972. Before that, in 1963, there was ITEP (ИТЭФ) chess program and in 1965 this program won in the international computer chess match. See details here: https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/ITEP+Chess+Program#S...

By the way, the first computer game in USSR was made in 1957 on computer Strela-1, the author is Yuri Pervin. It was a variant of Dominoes board game in the player vs computer mode. The game was described in "Problemi Kibernetiki", issue 3, pages 171-180.
Robert Heinlein, in one of his novels (don't remember which one), had a scale of how emotionally loaded individual words were, and regulations that prohibited news organizations from using the more loaded words.

Of course, nobody's going to agree which words have what rating on the scale...
Thanks! It's just surprising when the articles are decently styled.
The Price of Wonderland: Homeless Disney Worker Dies in Car
This is not 1977 unfortunately. Try ISIS in Germany or in social media, if you are confident enough about the division between sympathizer and supporter.

http://www.dw.com/en/europol-probes-islamic-state-created-so...
I agree. The guy had a quarrel with someone over something. Maybe he was wrong. Maybe he was right. Maybe it's just not that simple. I don't see the importance of it one way or another.

But this seems to be a trend right now. Our tolerance for any sort of moral ambiguity or uncertainty has sunk to such low levels that we can no longer appreciate someone's work or insight without establishing that this person is flawless in every respect.
The Cocoa implementation of SDL 2 uses plain Objective-C to access Apple's APIs: https://github.com/spurious/SDL-mirror/tree/master/src/video...

I couldn't find a call to objc_msgSend in other (.c) files using GitHub's code search. Objective-C and C/C++ are perfectly interoperable, there's rarely a reason to use the verbose and error-prone C API to call into Objective-C.

The .m file extension is not related to Mach: https://stackoverflow.com/a/652266
This is actually a hosted version of this GH: https://github.com/heathermiller/dist-prog-book

They highlight that the hosted site is far from polished but you can always host it yourself ;)
See my reply to OP but here is the GH: https://github.com/heathermiller/dist-prog-book
>Infowars has more often than not been right on important matters.

Would you mind providing a list of those things it's been right on?
How does that sort of migration work, at a high level? Will Google run Zagat for you until you can operate it without depending on Google-internal components? Or do you have early-access to the system so you can build your port before the sale completes?
> I'm in the wrong every time I pack a bowl of weed.

Just come to seattle.

Also, it's a false equivalency, stealing IP is far more sinister than smoking weed.
> We" (the government) didn't build it or pay for it.

This is not and has not ever been true.

Here [1] is an open auction with ~$2 billion in federal aid attached - "a total of $1.98 billion for 10 years." This was last updated just over a week ago. I would dig further back for other subsidies, but it is not necessary. Through tax breaks and subsidies we (the government, tax payers, etc) have certainly aided infrastructure build out for telecom cos.

[1] https://www.fcc.gov/caf2-auction
Won't the mirror collect dew?
I'd be surprised, if it hasn't yet had an impact. As you say, there's been a lot of losses for Facebook recently. I think, we're now up to 4 rulings of Facebook's data use being illegal in the past two weeks.

People considering to buy stock and people owning stock should hopefully be informed enough that noticed this.

There's also the GDPR upcoming in May. I cannot imagine that Facebook won't make losses when that hits. They might be able to defer the impact by mostly ignoring the law until they get sued, but ultimately it really just seems like it's going to be downhill from here on, which is not what anyone looking to buy stock is after.
I know. I'm rooting for Kotlin for the same reason but Pony does look super promising.
>It only shows beautiful companies/people. You don't need to found a space exploration company to be happy just like you don't need to be with a model.

We certainly don't hear much about efforts or successes in anyone's effort to "disrupt" the toilet paper industry, yet it's something most people use daily. It's not sexy, but we all care a lot when it sucks.
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You misunderstand me, I disagree, and I don't know how to change that. I have heard the "people are willing to help IF you do X,Y,Z" thing so often and have seen that even when I change and extend myself and expend great and limited energy to their requirements it doesn't work like you imagine and I find it really simplifies the complex set of issues I deal with and is victim blaming in the end. Sorry if I have offended you...I am explaining my position not trying to fight. I believe your intent is good and I do appreciate that intent. I just hope you can accept and believe me when I say I have "been there/done that" and would never choose to be defiant or screw my own life out of pride or attitude.
> Where are this generation's "Mr Smith goes to Washington"? "Gone with the Wind"? "Apocalypse Now"?

Films like this stood out as original or thought provoking when released, but now films that emulate those classics are everywhere. They have become commercialised to the point of formula. The courtroom drama movie, the period drama set against the backdrop of conflict, the war is hell story. There's one out every other week. It's because they've become so commonplace that they're no longer thought provoking.
Roxy is replacing the hotel phone
I definitely wouldn't call it worse than nuclear, because you're right. I'd rather be near depleted uranium than a nuclear blast, especially with current nuclear weapons. And not to mention the side effects of nuclear attacks.
Q: Would you like to become a member?

A: No thank you. I'm an atheist who is just here for the social interaction and community.

How does this end well?
What’s the difference between this and the plethora of AR games and apps that ‘trick your mind to believing there’s a whole world beyond the screen’

Using face positioning vs the accelerometer is interesting, but without seeing it in action, is it that much more compelling?
The significance of the engineers is they seem to be the group that reliably and exclusively notices. I'm not attacking the salt, I keep buying it. Not a big deal - it's a funny anecdote that apparently deeply bothers some people.
The undertone of the article is that people need to be exposed to poverty through cinema. Hence, shoving down people's throats.
Thanks for the idea. Should make a fun series of posts for my blog assuming there isn't prior art on the subject.