skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I take it as a design question. Do we want a society designed for people who like to interact or do we want to design it after the desire for limiting interaction as much as possible?

One time, on a crowded train, an elderly lady just started talking about her visit to her lovely grandchildren and what they had been up to since her last visit. It wasn't a short story and to her it was the most fascinating experience in the world. While telling it she turned her head towards anyone who wasn't looking at her. She had quite the powerful gaze. She wasn't screaming but had a loud voice.

Eventually someone rudely interrupted her to ask her if she could stop talking. She just bluntly told him to go sit some place else. "The train is full of people silently gazing out of the window, people who forgot how to talk with others. What are you waiting for? Off you go?"

At that point the laughter made it apparent that people sitting really far away were also listening to her. She kept staring at him and kept telling him to just go away, go be miserable some place else, don't expect us to share your misery. Being made the center of attention everyone else was also looking at him. Eventually he just got up and left (producing even more laughter)

The moment he got up she continued her story exactly where she left of with a tone of voice as if the entire incident never happened.

The most interesting thing I took from the experience was how confident she was that a person who doesn't like to talk with strangers also doesn't talk back when ordered to piss off. Her involving 30 random strangers in her monologue also ruled out any physical retaliation.

After the story about her visit to the grandchildren she told us she always talked to strangers, she did this her entire life and wasn't about to stop. She got to know many nice people. She didn't like how the last few decades this made her the center of attention but felt obligated to remind us things weren't always like this.

We shouldn't let people like the guy who just left force us to stop talking. They are overstepping the bounds. It isn't for them to decide who you can or cant talk to. "Who does he think he is being so disrespectful to an elderly lady?" When she grew up one would listen to what older people had to say. They've been around, you might learn something.

It was a hilarious experience. I've been talking to random strangers ever since. At times you run into introvert people who obviously didn't talk with anyone for years. Without saying anything they reinforce the idea we should keep doing this.

Trust me, you can PM anyone you like on irc. If they say you can't do that you just tell them you just did.

The funniest resolve for the protesters you inevitably run into when doing this has to be....

https://memecrunch.com/meme/20XL1/come-at-me-bro-bruce-lee
Racism is not a binary thing. There are always low levels of racism, and they exist in urban centers most certainly in large numbers. I would say the vast majority of people are racist to some degree, in that they hold inescapable prejudice inside. It’s in our society and almost impossible to have it not at least subtlety enter ones consciousness.
People are lazy.
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It's paywalled. Care to summarize
Check out Astral Dynamics by Robert Bruce. Even if you think out of body experiences aren't real, well, they're experiences. That book explains how to enter the hypnogogic state (mind awake, body asleep) which I think can also lead to what you experienced.
> Is there sufficient evidence of the benefit of CGM over fingerprick tests to believe that this caution could cause actual harm?

This is a question you could only ask if you were looking only at the data without understanding the problem at hand.

To answer your question: as a user I'm not sweating Zone B. That doesn't even register as a problem. Zone C is the only zone I care about, and Zone C situations can happen quite easily with fingersticks too. The entire game is imprecise -- every single day I make decisions based on incomplete data. You're going to have a very hard time convincing me that 11 hours of moderately imprecise data is more dangerous than having 11 hours of no data.
The market should correct that though. Those companies will (should) quickly run out of money to invest. While those who pick the ones with the right 10 year plan will (should) have the returns to continue investing.
It's unfortunate that Coinhive has given this type of monetization a bad reputation; at least their shady practices make it that much easier for a competitor to enter this space. I hope that someone can come along with a transparent mining script that has an expidient abuse resolution process, and no tracking. Hopefully that's enough to overcome the stigma now associated with this type of monetization. I would certainly prefer that to regular ads.
"That pins down an interesting characteristic of the situation. If we manage to self-treat ourselves into passable normality, few people believe we ever had a serious problem in the first place!"

Yes, and this is true of any mental issue. Hell, it's also true of physical ailments that don't leave obvious visible markers. Depressed? You don't seem depressed. Anxiety? You talk with people all the time. People don't always understand that this functioning is the result of a lot of invisible effort.

I'm sure that their are people out there that like to play the victim, but that doesn't mean that people's struggles aren't real.
Do you deny the phenomenon?
Welcome to IT as a career.

Having started in the 90s, I have been through these same conversations regarding Adobe, Oracle (oh lawd Oracle) MS, Dell, Apple to a lesser extent.

“Vendor the industry currently relies on heavily is changing things or yanking the rug again?”

The free market works by big players yanking every one else around. Guh.
Canadian engineering culture is a little different from American engineering culture. In Canada, you can't legally call yourself an engineer unless you are certified as such by a professional association. All students graduating from engineering programs are given an "Iron Ring" (stainless steel) to wear on the little finger of the working hand. The steel in the ring symbolizes the steel in a fallen bridge. The message is simple: if you fuck up, people can die. This extends to purely financial matters too; if you waste 2M of capital, you've wasted the productivity of an average person's life (average in Canada and the US).

If you lie to people to get your hands on their money and misrepresent your work, you shouldn't be lionized as some kind of entrepreneuring maverick; you're a danger to the public interest. This is worse than making a calculation error that results in harm; it is willful and deliberate harm at the scale of a mass murder.
Shareholders aren't debtholders.
Step one is crucial if you can’t take rejections lightly. However, a lot of people are shy and they tend to look away. I’d say just man up and skip it. But do know when to stop if the other party isn’t reciprocating either through lack of interest or body language.
There's one other aspect to the damage calculation. It's admittedly even more subjective than the others in use, but in my opinion even more important.

It's the subjective devaluation in the market of the content. If goods with zero marginal costs tend towards being priced at zero content creators need to raise the marginal cost of their goods to be above zero. With digital goods, the only ways to do that is to attach risk to the act of copying or distributing and increasing the difficulty of finding the content.

Getting back to unauthorized copying of digital media, the cost could be calculated as the net reduction in perceived value of the good as a result of its easy availability.

In hard terms, rampant copying might mean that pricing sweet spot for DVDs or legal streaming is depressed and that reduction then becomes the "cost" of the piracy to creators.
This, for me, was the money quote (pun not intended)

There is no value in learning that someone would gladly use your product for free.
It's far from a solved problem.

Many ecosystems haven't gotten past the "single dependency file and lock file" system where an entire project has to use a single version of each dependency. There are people splitting their project into a thousand "microservices" and making them interoperate over HTTP instead of regular function calls so that each part of their project can have its own dependencies.
> As much as states don't want you to think about it, the Constitutional issues were settled back in the 1800s. If you do business with a company from another state, that is interstate commerce and only the Federal government can make laws about it. So, very importantly, your state government can't.

That's because this leads to incredibly absurd conclusions, such as Amazon 'not doing business' in a state, despite selling billions of dollars worth of merchandise to it. I don't understand how people can claim this to be the case, with a straight face.

In fact, I would daresay say that Amazon.com selling things to residents of Montana means that it has a presence in the state, for the purposes of that transaction, moreso then it does for having an Montana office that employs 8 people who code for AWS.
what is servicy about this? how many times do i need to make endcredits per month?
Feds pushing new plan for encrypted mobile device unlocks via court order
Colors do exist as named segments of the visual spectrum. The internal experience of each color in our minds, is something separate and different from that external stimulus.

What did I get wrong?
The war is over. Py3 doesn't allow mixed spaces and tabs in the same file. You choose your side and never get to skirmish with the other one.
I believe that at least for me, one of the causes of my symptoms was extreme focus on certain aspects of my reality while being completely blind to other parts.

Hallucinogens and empathogens showed me these blind spots, making me a more rounded and open person. It was sometimes extremely pleasant and sometimes so hellish I wished to leave this world. But the hellish experiences were maybe the most effective at getting me to let go of old obsessions and compulsions. I liken it to the difficult coming of age rituals that many tribal cultures subject their teenage boys to to transition them to adulthood.
I shared this because another public data portal that I don't think has changed in years ended up at the top of HN. Kaggle Datasets has grown by over an order of magnitude in the past year, and jumps in scale fundamentally changes the utility of community products like this
Emacs autoindent to the rescue:

void MyLongMethodName(SomeLongParamType param1, SomeOtherLongParamType param2,
YetAnotherLongParamType param3) {
if (longContrivedVariableName1 == longContrivedVariableName2 &&
longContrivedVariableName1 != longContrivedVariableName3) {
// do stuff
}
}
This is the viewpoint most similar to mine. Sometimes I relate strongly to the complaints of people identifying with ASD, and sometimes not. I have some of the traits to an extreme, and am utterly lacking in other traits deemed central to diagnosis. I didn't have any developmental problems besides socializing - in fact I was precocious about everything. My father is textbook ASD, but nobody else in the family is. We're just all introverted, geeky, oversensitive, and both over-empathetic and a little misanthropic. What to do? I consider the traits by themselves instead of labeled clusters of traits.
Thanks for your ideas. 1) would be a really cool feature, but also technically quite challenging.

2) Could potentially also be helpful as email alerts, so that an app maker gets notified when someone wishes for his app so that he can reach out on Twitter. Commenting on Wishminer itself will probably not be seen by the 'wisher'.
> like FTC on Facebook

the irony
Ask HN: Why are verification questions everywhere?
I just got locked out of an important banking account because I couldn't remember the answer to my verification questions...

I have mental issues that cause me to have a VERY bad memory.

Generally I use a password manager so I can still have unique and strong passwords for everything and I even use 2-factor when I can.

Verifications questions on the other hand: usually I am forced to have a unique answer to each one AND there are like 5 for each company that uses them and each company uses different questions.

I can't use a password manager and I can't reliably know the answers. Even something as simple as "what's your favourite movie"... I don't know. I like lots of movies? Did I pick a classic one from my childhood? A modern one that's pretty cool?

Where was your first date? I have absolutely no idea.

first dogs name? I don't know. I remember he was black. That's about it.

Do they even add any security at all?
This combined with the cloud act? Won't be long before we are living in 1984.
It's a Hacker News bug apparently. There was no reply link under your name, and now there is. But there is no reply link under the reply to which I'm now replying (now that's confusing)

https://imgur.com/a/5kMTA
And yet, the worlds biggest sites have this problem constantly? Why?
Isn't this an Android issue? I mean, Facebook is collecting the data, but they're asking for it like every other Android app does.

As an example, iOS used to just show a dialog that mentions an app wants to use your location, and it was later changed to:

1. a dialog that asks if it's ok to use your location while "you use the App" with,

2. a required blurb by the app that specifies how it's used, and

3. a separate dialog for when the usage of your location also applies "even when you are not using the app", with a clear option to instead grant the permission only if the app is running in the foreground.

iOS also warns you when you use a custom keyboard if the keyboard would wants "full access". And clearly explains this means it would "transmit anything you type, including things you have previously typed with this keyboard", including "sensitive information such as your credit card numbers or street address".

I quoted directly from the dialog boxes because I think the wording is well crafted to make it very clear for non-savvy users. Android on the other hand literally just asks you if you want to use Messenger as your "SMS app". This tells nothing to the user, doesn't inform them what data can be accessed, what can be done with it (can it leave the phone?), nor gives the user any further options.

I know Facebook privacy is the hot-topic right now, but my problem with this is there's lots of other apps who can and probably have used these permissions too, and are probably storing this information. This is the opportunity to put Google under fire for their terrible Android permission system, which extends to random games asking for full phone access and a myriad of other sketchy things, but by focusing on Facebook this opportunity is being lost.
I am going to speculate because quite frankly I am too lazy to do the research, but this seems to be fairly common? Is it an attempt reduce liability? Or are they just terribly run businesses?
What is the single biggest bottleneck your team has in terms of delivering new features?

If you could spend a month fixing/refactoring/changing any component of the system, what would it be?

What % of time is spent on planning/estimating/ vs. implementing, is this the right ratio for the team?
Google starts blocking “uncertified” Android devices from logging in
How to Invest in the Infrastructure of Your Relationships
Not to mention, I now have to call in - using your company resources on a call, wasting time with a call rep and not to mention pissing me off so I might switch.
Note: I have previously developed a combo product (device + drug) and have made submissions to and appeared before the FDA on both the pharma and device sides.

> Making medical devices that give fake results usually isn’t even a crime, let alone a felony.

It very much is a felony and people go to jail. The FDA even can and does make armed (!) raids on facilities when they believe there is fraud.

> Otherwise almost all of the makers of home glucose monitors would be in prison.

Home glucose monitors in the US only need an accuracy of 20% and the manufacturers have to prove it. And their labeling is regulated just like any other medical product. I don't know why you think that their results are fake. A distal finger stick of capillary blood will not give the same results as a venous draw analyzed with GLP, but nobody is claiming that it should.

> Or walk into your local supermarket and see how accurate the cheapest food thermometers are, if you want an even more basic example.

These are not regulated products, unless you are using them for commerce (in which case they are regulated by your State, not the FDA).
>The engineer in me finds this kind of accuracy in a mechanical device just a hair short of black magic.

I'm curious where you get this intuition. As an engineer with a background fully in electronics/software my intuition is that multiple-seconds per day of error is horrible. I never got into mechanical watches because of this. There are so many great quartz based watches that keep time so well that I've never seen the allure of the mechanical. I'm now curious from this discussion how big of a feat it is anyway but have no intuition for it.
If you had a ton of nickels you would have about $9071.85.
Not had the problems you mentioned in ~20 years of usage (Netscape communicator), just brainstormed a few possible solutions. It has always been instantaneous for me.
I've read all your comments on here OP, and it seems like you know what the correct answer is: stay on the East Coast. Even if you do move back to the Bay, then you're going to feel discouraged in your dating efforts and that will probably be reflective in how your dates go.
The difficulty is that your emailing strategy, the content, etc... change over time. So you don't want to tie it to much with your product code. Decoupled is better. That allows A/B testing without touching your code.

A marketing automation tool allows you to centralize marketing emails as well as transactional emails in one thing, decoupled. Your product emits events with some attributes, and the tool react to it.

Examples with "user_registered" and "user_ordered" events:

- confirmation of order (at "user_ordered")

- ask for a review (at "user_ordered" + 3 days)

- welcome process (drip emails starting at "user_registered")

- wake up campaigns (no "user_ordered" events since 1 month)

- sending a notice for a new product Z to users having bought product X or product Y (segment on users having "user_ordered" for product_id IN (product X id or product Y id))

- ... there is no limit to imagination, I love that!

Shameless plug if I may, I'd like to know your interests in such a tool: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc5J5BuP_dEfXPEtXV0...
That's reasonable. But it isn't reasonable to let your personal choices be dictated by where you work. I'm not saying use LibreOffice for work. I'm more saying that you shouldn't let your work define your opinions.
“Illegally converting rooms..”

You mean two consenting adults agreeing for a price to exchange a service such as a room or a ride in a car?

Completely different than stealing the production of a movie company and giving it to others for free. Hotels don’t own Airbnb rooms and taxi companies don’t own Uber cars which means they only derive their right to a oligopoly via regulation— regulation that historically is as the result of mobsters or other similarly situated constituencies attempting to create artificial barriers to entry.

Why do people like you seem to love the nanny state? Why do taxis need “regulating?” Why can’t grown ups decide who they want to ride with? Why can’t owners of properties rent to people? How is renting to someone any different than having non-paid houseguests? On a practical level, it isn’t. If the concern is increased traffic in residential areas, then why aren’t houseguests regulated? If the concern is security, then why aren’t residents and owners required to undergo background screenings as a condition of buying property?

America is supposed to be about freedom, but it more closely resembles some totalitarian regulatory wet dream.

Taxi regulation is just a money grab. Health and safety is a ridiculous argument. Me driving my neighbor to the doctor is zero different than me driving a stranger to the post office.

“Hacker News..” LOL. Seems instead more like a bunch of old spinsters lamenting the failure of the temperance movement whilst clutching pearls over those youngsters playing jazz records and dancing the Lindy Hop without appropriate chaperones.

Dammit, we should be encouraging the pushing of limits, of testing boundaries and kicking dents in the status quo. We damned sure ought not be actually defending the status quo. Disrupt!
Most wanted hackernews feature: auto hide all stories from certain domains
Aren't they still doing that? At least I have the impression.
Probably automated tools doing things like golding an enormous number of requests drives up the average.
I love Python but as a long time C programmer I can't understand the preference for spaces in PEP 8.

Tabs are semantic and only take one key press for movement back and forth and to delete.

If you see 1 tab you know it meant one indentation level. With spaces you have to think.

Plus with spaces you are stuck with 2/4/8 spacing(unless you reformat), with tabs you can configure your editor to your preferences.
> But the fact that they used those dark ux patterns to request that permission should not be forgotten.

I posted this in another thread, but it's relevant here too:

Isn't this an Android issue? I mean, Facebook is collecting the data, but they're asking for it like every other Android app does.

As an example, iOS used to just show a dialog that mentions an app wants to use your location, and it was later changed to:

1. a dialog that asks if it's ok to use your location while "you use the App" with,

2. a required blurb by the app that specifies how it's used, and

3. a separate dialog for when the usage of your location also applies "even when you are not using the app", with a clear option to instead grant the permission only if the app is running in the foreground.

iOS also warns you when you use a custom keyboard if the keyboard wants "full access". And clearly explains this means it can "transmit anything you type, including things you have previously typed with this keyboard", including "sensitive information such as your credit card numbers or street address".

I quoted directly from the dialog boxes because I think the wording is well crafted to make it very clear for non-savvy users. Android on the other hand literally just asks you if you want to use Messenger as your "SMS app". This tells nothing to the user, doesn't inform them what data can be accessed, what can be done with it (can it leave the phone?), nor gives the user any further options.

I know Facebook privacy is the hot-topic right now, but my problem with this is there's lots of other apps that can and probably have used these permissions too, and are probably storing this information. This is the opportunity to put Google under fire for their terrible Android permission system, which extends to random games asking for full phone access and a myriad of other sketchy things, but by focusing on Facebook this opportunity is being lost.
> But, and maybe someone can clarify, every single intelligence agency has come out and said that there was some interaction between Russia and Trump

No, they say (in the public assessment) that Russia intervened to favor Trump, not that there was interaction between Russia and the Trump campaign.

Now, there's been at least one guilty plea from the Mueller investigation specifically referencing interaction, but that's a separate thing from the public intelligence assessment.