skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> On the one hand, it's sort of scary.

I can see both sides of this, at once, like I'm looking at an ambiguous image: duck, or rabbit?

On one hand, it's absurd: "Electrochemical system is changed by electricity! Shocker! Be afeared'n'affrighted!" The brain is a physical system, your personality is a result of the behavior of that system, so changing the physical system is going to change the personality. It's a more controlled version of Phineas Gage and the railroad spike.

(Plus, dirty little secret: Electroconvulsive therapy works. It has nasty side-effects, but it makes depression go away rather quickly. So the basic idea of chasing away mental problems by shocking brain tissue is not new, despite a decades-long effort on the part of artists to make people think ECT is simply meaningless torture.)

On the other hand, I can see how this would be challenging to someone who finds emotional states deeply meaningful, especially if they (as most people who look for "meaningful emotional states" seem to) find sad states more meaningful than happy ones.

It's the myth of the happy pill, by which I mean the myth that depression is this wonderful, meaningful Long, Dark Night Of The Soul and that taking something to fight it is "making you feel better" in a coercive sense, and depriving you of that meaning, and, possibly, preventing you from getting to the root of the problem, which must needs be done through talk therapy.

My conclusion is this: Emotions in and of themselves aren't meaningful, treating symptoms doesn't mean you can't also look for root causes, and, sometimes, an organic dysfunction is the root cause, as opposed to something you can talk out.
To be fair, jokes are frequently downvoted here, at least initially. Some people on HN seem to have a big "thing" about it not "turning into Reddit." But I appreciated it. Thanks :-D
> And how often does that actually happen anymore, really

Pretty often, especially if you open an app that decides to allocate a lot of memory very quickly (Xcode, VirtualBox) or when you switch to an app that causes a lot of memory to be swapped in.
380 million Americans, 2 million members of the military.

Unless the US were to nuke itself, given the geography, a motivated citizenry could easily take on the US military. Not a scenario I want to imagine, but the US military has troubles in Afghanistan and Iraq — imagine that kind of conflict in the US. Just look at rebels in Syria to see this on a smaller scale.
No man is an island and neither is any decentralized crypto-'coin'.

I think Mailchimp should have done this more tactfully, with a promise to deliver every legit coin newsletter email if the coin is actually in use for something other than speculation, a real use case, adopted and helping the world go round.

Where is the blockchain solution for spam, anyways? I have heard about some land registry in Africa that has moved onto the blockchain and I am ready to get my Kodak coins, fully bought in, expecting my Lamborghini to moon soon. But really, I am stumped when it comes to practical application for blockchain coin things. If I owned Mailchimp and was the benevolent dictator chimp in chief then I would freely deliver every legit coin email three times over if it could be proven to be legit rather than barely believable if you are on the Koolaid.
$0.40 per secret per month is outrageous.
It's kinda surprising to find comments in Russian in code :) https://github.com/iliasam/OpenSimpleLidar/blob/master/Firmw...
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In this situation, google, since that's the search engine under discussion. Feel free to hold them accountable if you like. China did.
Interesting - you describe most of the public bogs in Britain when describing those in the US.
You could put up a website.
I receive cryptocurrency & ICO spam sent via mailchimp several times a week and usually report it right away. Few weeks ago I called out the CEO of a blockchain company and demanded to know how they got my email since clearly I had no relation with them before. They admitted to have bought a list of addresses from another party where my email was part of the dump. After reporting this I still kept getting spam though. This morning another firm spammed me via MailChimp and despite Mailchimp's claims that they've cracked down on it no statement or apology from them, and I even got the impression that they were looking at me like I'm somehow overly pedantic ... (I was pretty pissed so my reply wasn't as friendly as it could have been): https://twitter.com/ValbonneConsult/status/98149715690437427...

The basic problem seems to me MailChimp's assumption that people only upload address lists from users they have consent from, when in reality everyone just uploads their LinkedIn address books and hopes not too many will press the "report" button. I am seriously fed up with Mailchimp not taking any actual action against these users after I already told them that I don't consent to receiving any messages about any topic from anybody via their platform. MailChimp should add a feature IMO where if somebody uploads an email address of people opting out that this person will be blacklisted from further using MailChimp.
I can live with all of the half-baked features of the latest MBPs (I have one for work, my home one is much older) but the false recognition of the overly large touchpad drives me crazy.

It's bad enough that I have to disable tap-to-click (which I greatly preferred - much more elegant) and it still mis-clicks if I rest my hands on it.

I used to think the MBP trackpads were a cut above everything else - now they're too big and the palm rejection is not good enough.
If anything it should be build into the trackpad/expand the track bad the full width?

I've seen some fan renders where the trackpad is being used with the apple pencil, definitely something I could see apple doing.
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Multiple times a week. And yes, Chrome and the Chrome-devilspawn (Slack) are frequently to blame, but are not the only bad actors.

I use iStat Menus for that stuff. Working without various monitors seems to me a lot like doing without speedometers and gas gauges.
I think framing this as a technology problem, as quite a few folks tend to do, is the wrong approach. There are plenty of nuggets of memetic knowledge that are simply false, but still passed around by word of mouth (or, in some extreme cases, by more systemic methods).

I hope a non-controversial example of this is the idea that vaccines cause autism: patently false, spread through a million different mediums, easy to disprove (if you look in the right places, as recommended in the article), yet still a pervasive thought.

> This is a serious problem that we need to face online - a culture of fact checking needs to be pushed, even for small things like this.

It needs to happen everywhere, and it's not going to be a technological answer.
You're absolutely right! We could search for funding models, plural, to support a network of federated and distributed platforms! We could even couple it with ways we know that enable distributed and federated platforms to interoperate and keep at bay the problem that come from that.

Of course, it's possible that this may be a sufficiently non-trivial problem where the best answer anyone's found to date is a centralized business. But hey, we won't know until we try! Also, email as a federated system and its history doesn't count, because that runs directly against the basic thesis that nobody has seriously tried.
You don't have to know what "SEO" means in order to fend off a smear campaign or simply bad journalism. You may not have to know what SEO means in order to get your defense sorted higher in search engine results than the slander, but you have to do it because you set SEO as your goal yourself.
Which is why Apple tends to put non-required controls in the Touch Bar. It's a nice thing to have, but not every Mac has one, so they have to put shortcuts there rather than new features.
Eh some motors i needed for building an r2 droid came from such a site.

But yes on the whole i concur
Different metrics. I think you're referring to crime rates and health, but OP is referring to political instability.
You know they sell a version without touchbar right?
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Especially for septic systems. In related news, it is very expensive to have a plumber come fish "flushable" wipes from your septic system when they are blocking the tank and backing the "water" back up into the house.
Wow. Look at These Astounding Photos of Abandoned Dockless Vehicles in America
Or just install bettertouchtool and use any gesture to lock screen - my fave is the five-finger click (I use CTRL-Shift-Eject if in clamshell mode).
As someone who has managed multiple email servers I can assure you that this is not the case. You can do everything "correctly" and still be marked as spam on GMail for no apparent reason.
They honestly didn't have to abandon that. They should have told the complainers to just suck it up, and this is how editing works.

Editing means people are going to be unhappy. You are taking a certain viewpoint, and are literally filtering out incompatible expressions. The people that get edited out, they'll get mad, but they'll have to deal with it, like the millions of other people that get edited out by various editors around the world and deal with it appropriately.

Facebook tried to have it all, but advertisers only want something specific.
Fermi estimate or guessing randomly: Pick one. They are mutually exclusive.
> Press the power button.

Where is this power button? I've been searching for it since I got this laptop.

Edit: Wow thanks, don't know how I missed that.
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Yes. I recently went to Azerbaijan and was amazing at how barbaric we are in the USA with our hard, dry toilet paper :-)
> 80,945 against and 75 in favor

Life in a democracy?
No, likelihood ("probabilistic thinking") is very relevant, and is a crucial element of effective search management.

No search operation has unlimited resources. If you had unlimited resources available, then sure, you can run down every imaginable possibility. But, real-world, it's not like that: you've got a few groups of people, maybe, who can devote some time to one case, and then they've gotta move on to the next one.

Your scenario is also essentially impossible to disprove. A detective might examine a home computer and find no evidence, but what if he used his phone? What if he used some other workstation? What if he knew someone? There are an infinite number of what-ifs, and striking each one off the list -- which is time-consuming and expensive -- only leads to another one.

There are few certainties in cases like this. All you get is the evidence and your ability to put the pieces together. After that, it's all probabilities.
I remember when newspapers banned ads for penny stocks, timeshares and other junk too. The newspapers are mostly doing fine. How are the penny stocks getting on?
Cloudflare it is then!
He's founded and managed Google Brain. That doesn't compare with someone who's more focussed on management, but I think only a handful of people in AI have both technical and managerial experience, and Jeff is one of them.
For reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16680280
Other comments have already addressed the fact that you don't have to tap twice to control your volume, but:

> Not related to the TouchBar, but I don’t understand why Apple won’t improve on the Spaces feature. Why does it force me to use one space for an app.

Uhh, it doesn't? You can put multiple apps in a space.
Go through their trash. It's what industrial spies do.
And honestly, while it's my favorite, JS and Python are probably more practical at this point. Ruby doesn't have as strong of a use case outside of Rails, sadly.
It's merely an estimate of order of magnitude.
No mobile support? I couldn't click anywhere to upload an image
I believe OP was talking about trade throughout the world.
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Because a company that sells transparent materials like plexiglass can see the use of an innovative formula for a new transparent material.

It seems logical to me - it just had nothing directly to do with their whale-transporting plans.
Because guaranteed right to gun ownership enables the unstable to cause that harm in the first place.

Gun owners and their families are so much more likely to be harmed by a gun they own than be protected by it that it’s apaling. How can you possibly justify promoting that, knowing the balance of risks you are advocating people expose themselves and their families to?
They may just be there to take my stuff. They may be there to do far worse. Why should I risk my life, and the life of my family, on the restraint and kindness of burglars?

I don't even agree that I should have to let burglars take my things. If I want to stop them why should their greed put my well-being at risk?

Gun owners do believe they can overthrow the government, or at the very least that guns would be useful if that had to happen. A lot of anti-gun folks like to use this like of argument, but I don't think they are really thinking clearly. If I had to violently overthrow the government it would not look like getting together with a group of like minded friends and marching on Washington to be killed by all manner of military hardware. It would look like taking potshots at patrolling soldiers to demoralize them, attacking mid level government bureaucrats when they are at home or unprotected in order to damage the government internally and dissuade people from working for it, or luring police into ambushes to make them hesitate to enforce the law. Imagine what harm a few motivated people with rifles might do. Now multiply that by a thousand. Now multiply that by a thousand.

The government would break under the strain. That doesn't mean that revolutionaries would take DC and occupy the Whitehouse, though they might after years or decades, but it does mean the government would give up tyranny.

An armed populace ensures the government has the consent of the people. Anything else is tyranny, even if your tyrants are treating you alright now.
@dang

I'd suggest changing the name of this submission to:

Instagram abruptly deprecates a majority of its API before plan

As this is the real story. The current title is a bit misleading. Good discussion none the less.
I did that for a little while after I'd discovered a bidet but didn't have my own. But this one [1] is only about $25 and is really worth it. And I bring this [2] with me when I go out.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003TPGPUW/ref=oh_aui_sear...
[2] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008CSDKSQ/ref=oh_aui_sear...
> a purely touchscreen keyboard that doesn't suck

Many people would consider an iPhone keyboard to be this…
Per https://www.peteruhnak.com/blog/2016/07/25/how-to-use-git-an... as of 2 years ago Pharo did not have an established convenient way to integrate with git. Per https://github.com/pharo-vcs/iceberg the current best solution for that is still an experimental tool, so you have to be careful. Being able to integrate with other version control systems is still off in the future.

Integrating with general tools may be a design goal. Yet it clearly isn't fully there. A filesystem based language does better without even trying.
Haha, do they?
It also doesn't include any Instagram data
Have crack users ever successfully mounted a strike to lower the dealer's price?
Regulated does not imply a command structure, look up the 18th century definition of that word please. Also, to be clear, the National Guard IS the government. The purpose of the 2nd A was to provide a check against the government— it wasn’t a protection for the states — it was a protection for individuals — the Bill of Rights was a declaration of individual liberties not protections for the states. The tenth amendment is an outlier, but even that was part of a coordinated effort to limit the size, scope and power of government.
so you love conferences they sponsor. would you ever pay some minimal amount to go to a conference? If so isn't an adword (in your gmail or in your search results) an appropriate place to see you, in the clearly labelled advertising section? Wouldn't you be quite likely to click it, and also be happy that it was served to you?
We Americans like to claim we live in a republic and not a democracy, but we live in a broken republic too.
The Touch-ID pad is also the power button when pressed down.
One defense contractor pulled all the keyboards over lunch break. Employees return from lunch with a pink slip in place of the keyboard.
It's really not the same as a line pressurized bidet, but I bring this [1] with me when I go out.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008CSDKSQ/ref=oh_aui_sear...
> I keep my own 'cloud', have my own (meta-)search engine, my own mail/web/etc server, etc.

What software do you use for this, and how much time does it take for you to keep it running?
> People understand this is a joke right? Is it just not funny to you?

This comment is perhaps a bit harsh, but explains things well. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609289

> I agree with what people have already said, but I think there's one more point to add: people usually over-estimate how funny their own comments are. We have a tendency to think, "This idea of mine is hilarious! And different! Surely this witticism is the exception." And we are usually wrong. When you have N people all doing that, there's a lot of noise.

> I try to gently point this out to people who complain when their attempt at humor has been downvoted by the community. It's not that we don't like humor. We just don't like banal attempts at humor, which becomes noise. Or, put in a less charitable fashion, "You're not as funny as you think you are."
You're right - this isn't just an online problem though it is likely the Internet speeds it up by a massive amount. A small false fact would be shared in the past and with time become a meme (in the traditional sense) but online it can happen in seconds.
You can call a clod a cake, right? We don’t live in a democracy, we live in an indirectly federated republic. I’m this case a very badly corrupt one, run by plutocrats for longer than any of us have been alive.

We have killer propaganda though.
They don't need to be purchased(http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1404). Some people still read physical books, though, which generally requires purchasing if they wish to keep the book.
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Swagger is great for both documentation and the client code generation. I use it to generate clients for inter-service communication as well as for SPAs (best with TypeScript).

It's really best when your backend framework typically generates the Swagger definition from your API code, though. Spring, APIStar, and others will do this.
Unless you have a particular interest, as a default you could keep it practical.

Learn enough X to use it in your current project. Repeat for other projects.
The TouchID sensor is the power button.
Which was exactly what the parent had said. i.e.

> This is why rights are codified in laws and agreements.

Which is what the US Constitution is. (Just because the say "We hold these truths to be self-evident" doesn't mean that they are)

Mind blown huh?
AFAIK there isn't a modern word to describe the common architecture that you describe.

About a decade ago, the phrase "hub-and-spokes network" was thrown around to describe an architecture with a central server that acted as the mediator. The term "p2p" became popular in this context. (

Napster, bittorrent, tox are all "p2p" because they don't connect to single server. Skype is not "p2p" because all packets go through the skype servers.
No, I'm saying what the boycotts you cited weren't a problem. The NRA's right to free speech was not meaningfully harmed because it had many, many other members willing to stand up and continue paying dues (and ironically, it was Delta who was punished by legislators for backing out of its partnership with the NRA).

Laura Ingraham is being boycotted because she decided to tweet a childish insult against one of the Parkland shooting victims. You realize that dozens of prominent media personalities have pushed back against the Parkland survivors, right? Why haven't they been boycotted too if boycotting was as simple and easy as you suggest?

I'm arguing against your position because it seems to lack knowledge of how complicated real world discourse is. The First Amendment bars the government from banning speech; this gives citizens the responsibility to police themselves and corporations. But you're arguing for that to be taken away so that there is basically citizens have no legal recourse against speech they dislike? So how are any boycotts justifiable?

If you were more aware of how things actually worked, you would easily be able to cite boycotts that have gone against left-leaning people. I'll help you: Remember Kathy Griffin? [0]

[0] http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/the-conversation...

Numerous left-leaning celebrities, as well as personalities on CNN, have ripped into Trump. If what you fear was actually the reality, you would have no problem citing successful boycotts against left-leaning celebrities.
Reading through Section 2.7 of that report was a treat, thank you! (https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/...)
Did you mean: you're holding the post wrong?
> What else do we have? Ubuntu? To use Photoshop in Wine? To watch Plasma crashes like in good old days? No, thanks.

The best experience I've had is Fedora with Gnome. Red Hat employs many developers working on desktop Linux, and most of them are working on Fedora.

That being said, you'll have a better time with macOS if Photoshop is one of your requirements.
Even if the root of someone's depression were something that could be talked out, what depressed person wouldn't want to work that out while not depressed?
You should be able to press the Touch ID button.
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You're right. I messed up WWI vs WWII for a second there. The rest of the comment stands though that the US provides major aid to the Allied powers.