skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Polarizing statements are ones deliberately calculated to reduce someone else's view or accusing the other side of something to advance your own views.

But that's exactly what he did. He wanted to reduce the power of racism. He deliberately targeted a receptive audience -- children too young to have internalized the racist worldview. His goal was to advance his own views on tolerance and racial equality.

I think you've been blinded by that "calm, measured and reasoned manner" you mention. Yes he was calm and measured and reasoned and, of course, morally right. But that's just the surface. Look underneath, at what he did, at what he said and how he said it, and you'll find he was using the same tricks of persuasion that underlie all political discourse, from Pol Pot to Abraham Lincoln.
I don't think it is possible to specifically name anyone who actually died because of the leaks.

It's similar to lung cancer deaths caused by smoking cigarettes. No one has ever been able to specifically name someone who died from lung cancer caused by smoking. In every single case, it is possible that the named person is one of the many people each year who die from lung cancers caused by things such radon exposure, asbestos, an unlucky mutation, or air pollution.

We do know that when the Taliban would find out that someone was aiding those who opposed the Taliban, they would go after that person (and often their family, too). So we know that the leaks would have made some people targets who would not have otherwise been targets at the time.

The best we can do is, as with lung cancer, is think about it statistically. Compare the people exposed in the leaks to similarly situated people who were not mentioned, and see if the former had a statistically significant higher death rate from Taliban attacks for themselves or their families.

I don't know if the data is available to carry out that analysis.
As soon as I saw the screenshot from Empire with the unit actions menu ("Fortify", "Wait", "Sentry", "Disband") I was blown away. I had no idea the idea of this combat system was that old!
Thank you! Those are all helpful tips. Yup, I have sort of a script written. Instead of "you know", I'll just try pausing. I might actually reference this thread in the presentation just to show my human side. :)
To be fair we ban people with felony convictions from huge swathes of jobs, formally or informally, even if the crime happened decades ago. Also, good luck finding a place to live legally if you've been convicted of a sex crime.
While what you say is certainly true in specific cases (ie. the Facebook mob example), there is nothing in the West at an institutional level that compares to the ambitions of the Chinese Social Credit system.

Also, how come every time an article is posted about something Orwellian the PRC is doing, the comments are packed with whataboutism fallacies? "Yea, but look at what's happening here in the West!" It happens so frequently and consistently that it must be a quirk of the HN audience...or something more suspiciously intentional.
Seconded Gateron Clears (though I've heard the activation force is more like 35g than 30g). I use them on a Noppoo Choc Mini.

I'm a fast typist (around 130wpm) and use these switches just to try to improve speed, rather than anything relating to health. They're also great for gaming for me, playing Starcraft 2.

Another option around 35g is non-mechanical electro capacitive switches in the style of Topre, e.g. https://www.nizkeyboard.com/product/plum-84-ec-mechanical-ke...
The caste system to me means to put people in the position of a caste on purpose. Just like the younger brothers in feudal europe were second class ... so a prince might just kill his older brother. Or literally enslaving countries wholesale as untouchables (the name being an improvement over beatables, I guess). I have a hunch that caste is cognate with castrate, but it's inexplicably "uncertain" as many such terrible topics are, and indeed it's more nuanced: e.g. castrum is linked in the wiki (think casa). It makes sense via separate<enclosure<cover<layer ... it's much more complicated then that though :/
I can't find any reference to him saying he created Fate X. The Magus handle is most likely purely coincidental.
> in less populated areas when a Wal-Mart opens if there's any local competition it's generally decimated.

Or never really existed to begin with.

I have lived in towns where, before Walmart came in, there was nowhere in town to get certain things. You had to drive over an hour to the next largest town to find a store, and that's hard in bad weather.
That's not really true. Progress and upward economic development increase the faith of the public and the Communist Party rank-and-file in the Communist Party leadership. The Communist Party leadership has a strong incentive to promote growth.
Monetizing adds on HN?
I had this title appear in the headline feed for new.ycombinator.com:

Head of Marketing at SketchDeck – Work from Anywhere in the US (workable.com)

You cannot comment on the story, nor upvote it.

Is this HN attempting to monetize their viewership?
I was going to write the same thing before even reading this.

The human brain is hardware-accelerated for encoding and decoding spoken language. That's why alphabets often just represent sounds, why it's so easy for even an educated adult to right homophones, and why professional writers still take into consideration sonic properties like rhythm. It's because, like the article says, even while reading silently, you still hear it.

Speech is primary, writing secondary. So sit back, relax, and enjoy it.
You subscribe to notifications about security updates, but never blindly accept them.
They are

> The number of annual protests has grown steadily since the early 1990s, from approximately 8700 “mass group incidents” in 1993[1] to over 87,000 in 2005.[2] In 2006, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences estimated the number of annual mass incidents to exceed 90,000, and Chinese sociology professor Sun Liping estimated 180,000 incidents in 2010.[3][4] Mass incidents are defined broadly as "planned or impromptu gathering that forms because of internal contradictions", and can include public speeches or demonstrations, physical clashes, public airings of grievances, and other group behaviors that are seen as disrupting social stability.[5]

However

> Despite the increase in protests, some scholars have argued that they may not pose an existential threat to Communist Party rule because they lack “connective tissue;” the preponderance of protests in China are aimed at local-level officials, and only a select few dissident movements seek systemic change.

Who knows how it will play out in the long run, especially with the looming demographic problems of their aging population.
You really can't go wrong with any of them, depending on your tolerance for older game engines and older gameplay styles. The newer releases incorporate newer gameplay styles and graphical styles. I love classic CRPGs but I know a lot of people who cut their teeth on Dragon's Age who despise the clunkiness and outdated graphics. To each their own.

Some vocal long-time users of things tend to dislike newer versions of that thing, no matter what it is. Personally I started with Civ 3 until I tried Civ 4, and then it just felt outdated. I liked Civ 4 until I tried Civ 5, and then it felt outdated. I liked Civ 5 until I tried Civ 6, and then it felt outdated.

If you started with Civ 5 or Civ 6, I don't think you'd be missing out or disappointed with anything.
You can also bring up japan as a counter-example. It's even safer and cleaner & it's still a democracy!
This is very, very bad.

Now, what can we do about it? What should we do about it?
The regexp syntax was devised for write-only programming at the terminal (at a time when a terminal was a physical object, not a window in your GUI).

The regular formalism is pretty neat though. There are alternative syntaxes (e.g. multiline regexps in Python) that are better suited for complex matchers.
You know, that's a good question. I read a lot, and I pay attention a lot, so for me dots get connected rather naturally. There isn't much out there talking about russian spamming taking place during the primary. I found this though: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/congress...

That being said, my family is loaded with died-in-the-wool republicans, and I remember them all blown away by the fact that trump was winning the primary. None of them could believe it, and they all hated him during the primary!

After trump won, and it was him vs clinton, then the narrative switched. They loved trump at that point.

It was very chilling. It became clear to me that these folks were heavily influenced by some sort of propaganda because their minds changed like the wind!
Missed opportunity to headline this 'l'esprit de l'escalier'
Of course it does?

They're doing a whole KYC thing.
179 fatalities, specifically related to street racing? ~10 a year? How many other accidents and just dangerous crap is happening on an ongoing basis for that many fatalities to occur?

What would you expect to be 'much of a problem'? 10,000?
Basically already a done deal, there was just an article here about exactly that with other major retailers the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16576461
YC startups (and only YC startups) can place job ads on HN.

This has been the case on HN since forever.
It was my impression that any coin could be listed on certain exchanges if you pay the fee to do so. Depending on the exchange it could range from 50k to 1 million USD just to be added.
Actually, quite a lot is free. I have a free tier in my saas product. I don't monetize it in any way. I simply use it as a gateway to paying customers. I think there is probably a great deal of this going on.
If random idiots can internet lynch mob you, so does the state. And so will the state, if the need arises.
I wonder if the underlying reason for this emotional response is guilt which goes hand-in-hand with altruism. In the case of the Santa and the homeless man, the Santa didn't want to give the man $5, but did so presumably out of guilt, then felt angry. In the case of the author getting angry about low-value questions, I wonder if that's because of a guilty feeling that they must answer. Personally, I can't really empathise with the author's anger, yet I'm arguably less generous than them; I don't feel much drive to spend my free time on Stack Overflow et al. answering stangers' questions.
I wonder - can't they remaster the movie? It wouldn't be an issue for modern audience given the cloud and Siri/Alexa becoming household notions.
Heh, I get the impression you spend a lot of time in Corvallis? ;)

Really though - as a beginner, I started with the 2003 data, and had a really hard time with it. Had to deal with file conversions rerun ground classifications and thin and do all sorts of cleanup to sorta get where I was trying to go.
So what's the current exchange rate between social credit and Yen?
Hello HN,

I wrote a longer post here, https://hackernoon.com/cameras-as-traffic-cops-99a85513e1e0

I also called in to Ask the Mayor this morning to discuss. He was not happy

https://soundcloud.com/alex-bell-103/askthemayor-bill-deblas...
Yes, money determines the direction of modern science. (This isn't 1900 any more!) And a huge chunk of the funding money (in America anyway) comes from the military. You're right on: if it (whatever it is) looks like it might have a military application, then it's much more likely to get military funding, which for some researchers, means it's more likely to get funding period.
Shenzhen gov are using facial recognition to detect pedestrians running through the red light[0]. Their even release high quality pictures without mosaic in the first version, just a few days ago.

[0]https://www.stc.gov.cn/facei/
I've been playing since Civ2 ~97-98, and I actually enjoyed Civ5 and 6. I kind of like having new constraints and styles to learn, but I know the change to hexes rubbed a lot of people raw, as well as no more stacks of doom! My only complaint is that it's really easy to lose a day or two in a single session.
BitGov – General purpose blockchain-based fiscal framework
It isn't the beginning of a new caste system.

It is more like a modern iteration of very old Confucian ideals. (Not that I agree with Confucian philosophy)

Confucian philosophy had influenced Chinese culture for several millennial, and the oral tradition was that Confucius (Kong Tzu) himself distilled what went into the Analects from much older rites and cultures.

The basic idea here is that humans don't start out as humans, and require socialization to uplift them and refine their spirit to that of "human". To accomplish this as a society, there is an emphasis on education and behavioral control.

This has permeated many levels of the Chinese culture. What is novel here is the use of Big Data and AI to enforce these.

Confucious's philosophy and its descendent philosophies, though pervasive, are not the only streams that have influenced Chinese culture. If you are looking for echoes of classical liberalism, you'd find it more at home with the Lao-tzu, and the ethos of "let's improve our society with technology" would find an echo with Mo-tzu.

> Everyone's children are going to make mistakes. The wealthy are going to be able to cover up their children's mistakes, the poor are going to be put on 'the list' and become 'restricted.'

This already happens before Big Data, both in China and in Taiwan. It happened with other cultures that were influenced by ancient Chinese Confucian thought -- Korea and Japan.
People have been hoping for this link between freedom and economic development for years about China. It turns out that it's just wishful thinking. China is much richer and no more free than it was decades ago.
Maybe. But instead of dedicated points. Why not just have a market set the price of parking. So no free parking. And the price of parking is set so that we are at 75% capacity by day/hour or something like that. So that way there are always spots available and everyone pays their due.
From https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/13/business/economy/labor-ma...

"A rapidly tightening labor market is forcing companies across the country to consider workers they once would have turned away. That is providing opportunities to people who have long faced barriers to employment, such as criminal records, disabilities or prolonged bouts of joblessness."
It was hell. To buy one item I would have to go to a physical store and search through a bunch of crappy options with little to no information about which was better. It could easily take an hour if I didn’t rush or traffic sucked.

Now, I could just wake up in the morning and get the same thing done in 5 minutes AND select a product I feel confident about based on reviews. Instead of wasting an hour of my life I could actually go live my life.

As a result, pretty much everything I buy comes through Amazon. Only things I don’t buy there are things that simply aren’t on Amazon, and getting those things is usually a pain in the ass because I have to search other websites or possibly an open store that may stock that item.

Using Amazon has made me time-rich. If I somehow couldn’t use it, I’d become something of a pauper: Unable to buy good items accurately, and spending a lot of time to find and purchase them. I do not want to return to those days.
Yes, but in this case we’re talking about the government punishing the same practices that the polity will harass and bully a person over, rather than just practices that are against the state’s own interests, in addition to the state suppressing things it actually derives benefit to itself by suppressing.

Or, to put that another way: if there’s a lynch-mob after you, does it matter how many of its members are in uniform?
> The main negative point of the newer versions is how slow turns get toward the end on large maps with lots of civilizations.

That's not exactly new; it's just if you're playing Civ I or II today, turn processing takes maybe a hundredth of the time it did at the time of release.
I can't use half the ebook readers because they come jam packed with ads for their app store, browser for distraction, frequent updates and attempt to push other apps on you.

I will stick with my paperback books for retention.
;-) yep.
For 100% adoption sure, but for 95% or even 99% adoption, I doubt that long is necessary.
In the bottom left of the dark web map there is another puzzle that says to "visit when the :imer (sic) runs out" with a countdown that is at like -2600 days or so. Could be related as a previous or future step of the same puzzle.

It looks less ominous and more of a web-based puzzle to me. I've done something similar for 4chan's /g/ board back in the day setting up a simple puzzle with the "prize" being a bruteforced tripcode that was to Serial Experiments Lain. It was fun for the day and promptly ruined by the 4th or so solver who leaked the tripcode to ruin the little circlejerk that had formed over having solved the puzzle.

It also made me respect people who make complex puzzles. I had to recreate the puzzle several times because I had to create the puzzle in reverse and test that the solutions would work. It took me several attempts to get everything right and in the end the most difficult part of the puzzle was that the font I had used did not differentiate between a capital I ("eye)" and lowercase l ("el") well enough.

E: Here is the timer I was talking about and another page.

https://vgy.me/album/99CCIbMS
It's especially nicer in Ruby (which got it from Perl) where you can use whatever delimiters you like for regexes, with /abc/, %r"abc", %r{abc}, %r#abc# and so on all being equivalent, so you can just about always pick something that won't clash with the characters in your pattern (You can even use spaces as the delimiters, which looks terrible).
That does happen but not from buying groceries, yet.
In the same vein, just imagine how much money we could save if we get to say "300 people this year? More people died this month in car accidents. There's no need to do anything." every time a plane crashes.
This is of interest:

https://thewire.in/science/hopes-for-new-physics-pave-the-ro...
Yea that episode the "credit" was objective based on random people's opinions. According to the article, they claim that you have to not pay fines, or smoke on a train to ruin your social credit.
Ask HN: Could you ever hear a core dump?
Were there computers for which core dumps were a physical process?
Yes, that's usually about right for most exchanges. But if your coin isn't popular enough, they usually will not add it.

However, there is a protocol for decentralized exchanged called 0x. Any tokens on Ethereum can be traded on this protocol, using websites like Radar Relay.
I tried suing UPS directly. https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20151002/central-harlem/har... its still ongoing. There are over 1000 UPS trucks on NYC streets so the shaming force would have to be huge.
There is a subreddit where you can request free logos. Not sure which it was
That's a good idea. Thanks for pointing it out.

Url changed from https://www.facebook.com/groups/majordomo/permalink/10156204....

Edit: We'll try turning off the flags and seeing if the discussion can do better.
This sounds horrible, but the "Real Name" movement for online services (such as Facebook) is an equally insidious American version. When a "real name" service becomes a financial services company, we have a merging of social metadata and a conventional credit score.

It does not start out as a dystopian vision. Why should Facebook charge advertisers money to show ads to people with a 400 credit score? The yield of many ads is improved when you have hard demographic and behavioral data as an additional filter.

What's the difference between an Uber Pool rider getting a ride with other similarly-rated riders? Why should I with a near 5 star rating have to risk sitting in a pool with someone who has a 3.2 star rating? I certainly don't want to.
A suggestion for Audiobook: I'd really like to have a start/stop button on UI by pressing which the app automatically captures a note in text format and stores in the cloud under the same Audiobook. I hate to always take manual notes and in process miss out what narrator said during the time I was taking the notes.
He was alarmed that the indiscriminate leaking could provide dangerous to people's lives (which by some accounts, it was)
I didn't say whatabout the west despite your accusation that I did. I said it seems like they are part of an overarching trend I've noticed which is a puritanical and unforgiving approach to policing behavior in modern society. That is all.
Bought books at Borders, toys at Toys R Us, electronics at Circuit City, sporting goods at Sports Authority.
Inside the Dying Days of Tibet’s Caterpillar Fungus ‘Gold Rush’
I've listened to a lot of audiobooks over the last several years. I've switched probably 80% of my "reading" time to audio so I can get more content (while driving, cleaning, laundry, etc.).

In my case, retention is much lower for listened content compared to read content. So much so that I now only listen to things which I consider entertainment. For anything technical, or that I'd want to retain longer than a few weeks I read with an actual book.

I hesitate to speak for everyone on this, but I will say that a few friends I've spoken to about it have said they see the same lesser retention in audio content.
> It is more like a modern iteration of very old Confucian ideals

Confucious also said "those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass.”
Life can be a Red Queen Race, where each innovation keeps you barely above the rising water. Just because people survived* before [X] doesn't mean they can survive after having [X] withdrawn.

*For certain values of "survived;" e.g. if someone had a bad accident in an isolated area before cellphones, they usually died.
This is awesome thanks for sharing
I agree that cities need to allocate street space for very short term parking for deliveries, cab/ubers, etc. We shouldn't be forcing drivers to break the law to do things that are part of the normal routine of the city and endanger pedestrians and bikers. Every metro city should be planning for all types of traffic.
Cool mini project. I looked briefly at the extension.

Maybe consider looking into <iframe> and <embed> elements also instead of just <video>.
Anthony Bourdain’s Comic ‘Hungry Ghosts’ Is Gruesome and Thrilling
What a joyful connection across generations: I did the same with Civilization III & a Compaq.
Sadly, its sequels still have that same pull. Bought Civ VI on the iPad around Christmas, and have lost countless weekends since...
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/767/

Be sure to read the alt-text.
"most people entering CS today are not geeks or nerds or whatever--they're more and more the high IQ people who just want to make money. "

Hey, that's what we said in the 90's as well ;-)
Well, tbh, we left out the 'high IQ' part.
> Yes, "Out of Control" seems a bit exaggerated in this context.

it's also a 'catchy' title when talking about losing control of a car..
It seems that it is the same problem that plagues Google as a whole.
Are you affiliated with cointracker? I only ask because you've linked to it three times in the comments here, and if you are you should disclose that fact. If you just love the service, no worries!
> the Communist Party leadership has a strong incentive to promote growth

But Xi Jinping does not.
Treating black people as human beings counts as suppressing racists now? How could he have been less polarizing? Should he have started each conversation with "some people think that your skin color makes you subhuman and that's fine too"? Or should he just never have had a black person on the show?
Yes, the genie gives you exactly what you ask for but misinterpretes what you wish for.
> Overwriting tags should honestly not be possible, ever.

How do you propose to withdraw a release if it’s broken/contains secret keys/etc.? Delete the image itself and leave the tag dangling?