skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They used to say that exact thing about the struggle for civil rights.

How many men cared about women having the vote?

How many American citizens cared about freeing the slaves?

How many people cared about the rights of black Americans in the 1950s?

How many people care about kneeling during the anthem now?

---

It's always "Nobody except for a few ideologues and some virtue signalling leftists..." Until it isn't. Meanwhile, some people just keep plugging away at it. Perseverance, aided and abetted by other social factors, aided and abetted by a few unpredictable notorious events, over time...

That's what creates change.
I've never seen it be in someone's control, in the sense that they were able to say "this isn't working for me, I'd like to leave now" and then were allowed to leave.

I've also never seen it go all the way to court; rather, there's a statutory period of time after a voluntary admission where you have to either be released or taken to court, and that period is something on the order of an entire business week.

The pattern I've seen is (even at the nicer facilities) one of facilities staffed by nurses and counselors but with very overbooked psychiatrists, and all decisions about care are ultimately delegated to those psychiatrists. It can take days to make a decision happen just because of round-trip and scheduling delays.

The (call it) 5-day clock only starts ticking when you're formally acknowledged to have made a request to leave, too, so those same round-trip delays can keep you confined for longer than the statutory window.

When things go wrong, it's a frightening experience. Psychiatric hospitals carefully control your access to the outside world. Visitors are allowed only during limited visiting hours. Phone calls are allowed only during specific phone hours. You reside in a room with one or more strangers also suffering from psychiatric conditions, often significantly worse than your own. You're required to take medication, and the medications issued are rarely the same as a careful psychiatrist you had a preexisting relationship would issue. There's not just a loss of personal freedom but also of body integrity.

Like I said: however suboptimal it is, this can all be for the greater good, if a crisis situation has spun out of control and what's really needed is some kind of circuit breaker to arrest the crisis and ensure that someone ends up with access to professional psychiatric care. I'm not saying people shouldn't go to the hospital! I'm saying that people encouraging others to go to the hospital should be aware of what they're saying.

I also think you could stand to be a little bit less strident and a little more specific. I think it's likely that you have a set of experiences with acute psych care that differ from other people in this community. I've seen good acute psych care too --- in a university system --- but it was acute outpatient, not inpatient.
If someone is on a windows machine, using the pre-installed IE11 or Edge browser, I tend to assume it's a 70 year old these days. Or possibly someone at a firm with some dated internal ActiveX page that needs IE.

That kind of association is extremely difficult to break. Car manufacturers have struggled with similar impressions. You can make the greatest, and cheapest, car in the world, and people won't buy it if it has that kind of negative association.
One of my favorite examples of public speaking is Mr. Rogers testifying before a Senate subcommittee in support of funding for national public television. He is calm, thoughtful and thorough through the entire process, speaking simply and without grandeur. It's a small wonder he found such success, and a great example of the importance of clear communication.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKy7ljRr0AA
This is fascinating! I'm absolutely floored whenever I see anyone who has such a meticulous and detailed mastery of their craft.
I'm uncomfortable with the idea that someone who is in agony must be kept alive at all costs.
Things are being revealed, because people are now looking at Facebook's actions.
For the DailyWTF fodder
> Although the FDA advisory committee recognized that the expenses would go up, Hendeles says, it also believed that the companies would help defray the added costs for individuals.

If that's the naïveté of the officials who police the health industry, I'm not surprised that healthcare costs have exploded. Why bother competing when you can have your competition ruled illegal and the ensuing oligopoly allowed with a pinky-swear to not fuck over patients?
I’d rather talk to a chatbot than send an email or shudder make a phone call. I’ve found my interactions with them to be good and they always hand me off to a real person if it gets too complicated. It seems to save me a lot of time when I use them usually.
Agreed. I love being able to say "this is the data I want and the shape I want it in" and being able to get exactly that back.
"Aggressive" validation seems to be a part of most libraries for helping people implement GraphQL, so I don't think this is a real issue. I'm assuming you mean stuff like max nodes, max depth, max page size, etc.
I'm sort of hoping there is more of an effect this time around than there was from Snowden... what does "E2E" mean in this context?
IdeasBox: Libraries Without Borders
I totally agree, but it's not like this data is hidden. It would be relatively straight forward to monitor how many Airbnb units operate at any given time just by looking at the site repeatedly, and you could approximate how many rentals exist using tax data and corporate data.
> It took me 4 tries

In other words: less than 25% of them are right. About the same experience here.

My personal gripe: Most psychologists are feminists. If you explain them a problem you have, they’ll percieve it in a gynocentric way. They are in denial that men can be on the receiving end of a problem or injustice, so much that one of them posited to me that male and female suicide rates were the same. Which tells a lot about the state of science on men’s problems.
Probably a modification to the 14-point test the IRS uses to determine whether or not someone is an employee vs a contractor. You'd have to modify the questions to inquire about whether or not the person in question was either downgraded to contract status from a full job or was hired as a contractor even though the job posting implied full time W2 work.
This, a million times this.

This is how chatbot functionality should be implemented. Like those "chat with us" links you see on a website that drops you into a window and you get put in someone's queue. It doesn't actually wake them up until the chatbot frontend can't handle the users' request using NLP/decision trees/regex (depending on your level of sophistication of user), and then the whole log is sent to the tech support guy when they get free of the last chat and can read through it and take control.
The parenthetical is not a reason but just something added by the writer or editor.
To be fair the boundary between academic and industry research is quite gray now - lots of collaboration, many PhDs doing internships, etc. Still, it's true MS is not given enough credit.
I thought the parent was taking it seriously, and I also think that part of taking that seriously is recognizing that someone who is that despondent might attempt suicide-by-cop.
With decent alternatives I meant alternatives to ads+tracking, which obviously isn't working out despite ruining the internet.

Few people would accept ads if they could pay the pennies that could ever be hoped to be extracted from ad exposure.
The cost to the user are substantially worse than the gains at the other end.
That's good context. We can be sure the omission in the review's title was deliberate.
Here's video of current emirates virtual windows. Initially I didn't realize they were virtual. Guessing a lot more obvious in person, but still impressive:

https://twitter.com/ZachHonig/status/936584456755929089
I am an Australian. You must NOT take your loved one to an ED if they mention they have had suicidal thoughts. You simply cannot trust that they will be treated with respect and dignity.

Two and a bit years ago I was having suicidal thoughts. I had an episode and left the house in distress, but eventually arrived back home where my wife comforted me and my suicidal thoughts went away, and yet I was ripped from my bed and taken to hospital where I was thrown into a seclusion room for five and a half hours. There is no clinical documentation, I’m not in the seclusion register, there was no explanation given, I wasn’t assessed until hours later someone turned up, said I was fine and not only did I leave the room - I left the hospital!

The authorities do not care, they leave you powerless, stripped of your dignity and autonomy and in some cases your life can be at risk. The following review was done last year by the NSW Chief Psychiatrist and it is absolutely damning:

http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/patients/mentalhealth/Documents...

I have been trying to get justice and answers for two and a half years. I went to the body who is meant to investigate these matters after the health service denied I was even in seclusion, they did nothing.

The Hospital has now acknowledged I was in seclusion. They have literally just now started to find out about my lack of clinical records it’s, but they don’t think they’ll ever find out who threw me in that room.

I now have severe PTSD, completely distrust the medical profession and will never speak of suicide to any medical professional ever again, and I strongly believe that anyone who does so takes a grave risk of being abused or mistreated by uncaring “professionals” who act more like jailers than carers. Certainly an ED is the very last place you want to go to - they simply do not care about depressed or suicidal people and you will almost certainly be thrown into a psych ward. Your rights will be servely curtailed, your decision making ignored and removed and it can be very hard to get out of such places.
> we need to both move to a carbon-free economy and remove carbon

We need to move to a net negative carbon economy (not carbon free, net negative), or find ways to reduce input heat (reflecting sunlight basically).
Sadly, the counterexamples we see to DanielBMarkham's point is our neighbors cruelly assassinating each other's character, people "defriending" one another, and so on - and doing so in the name of goodness and peace.

Thanks, but I'll take DBM's world, where I can listen and make up my own mind.
There's a theory that creatives are much more sensitive (which is why they are so good at their work) and thus more vulnerable to crazy highs and lows.

One book on the subject is, Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament.
What, no Charniak? Tut tut:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/statistical-language-learning
I need this for crypto
It’s a lot easier to escape surveillance in the suburbs and rural areas. That being said, the ratio of McDonalds franchise density to population density goes higher the further out you go (at least in the US).
Don't kid yourself, all those historical events happened because they helped business by increasing the number of potential customers. A very recent example is how the media pushes women to work, and LGBT issues so hard: those demographics are the ones that consume the most, so they need to make them work and appeal to them.

How is killing Facebook going to help business?
Somebody's violating the prime directive...
I really wanted to ask the people who worked there about their employment contracts. Surely the CEO was contingent, right? Their coders were all at-whim employees, living in the New Style, pushing code for $$ when they wanted to.

Right?
What does PH stand for?
The shelf here was a key part of the NeXTstep manager. Drives me nuts that Apple removed it.
Unreal Speedflying downhill
A lot of the "rules" you learn in school are treated like Rules when they are often more like "It Depends". Take DRY for example: It's all well and good to share code but you need to balance that against having to rebuild (possibly breaking) multiple projects that depend on the library.

That said, the Single Responsibility Principle and Separation of Concerns (the "S" in SOLID) are things that I find important to adhere to. The trick with many CS ideas is to apply from them from first principles.

Example: Instead of some rule like "Your functions should never be more than N lines long." you should instead, ask yourself if the function is trying to do too many things i.e. deviating from the Single Responsibility principle.
I haven't forgotten what it's like to know that dying is better than any other available option, and yet undoable.

We equate openly suicidal people to attention seekers because they talk about it without doing it. Facing that disbelief was one of the things that scarred me the most.
>Anyone who actually thought the gig economy was helping anyone but business owners was either deluded or a shill.

Sometimes you just need a quick gig to make ends meet between jobs. Something you can pick up in a day or two and leave just as quickly.

Full-time, long-term? No, it's not a great idea. But it's a good safety net when things get tough.
Only partially, with bits and pieces being re-automated as kinks get worked out.

They’ve postponed full on automation until the Model Y.
> C doesn't have types.

I'll just stop you there to consider why foo->bar()->baz() works and how does compiler know "baz" can be referenced. It may not have type hierarchy, but it sure has types.

I wrote type inference like that and yeah, in pathological cases it take some time. But if you spend dev-visible time on a mixed type dictionary, that's just bad implementation.
> To that end, this demonstration requires you to transfer your offering using some other means, like an email or instant message.

While I appreciate the effort that went involved, the effort is identical to serving the app over S3. Without solving this problem with something like IPFS pubsub, there's nothing IPFS-specific about this. It's the hosting for a webapp and a use of browser-based code.

In short, this isn't WebRTC over IPFS.
Same here. It was the touch bar that did it for me. Didn’t mind the ports. Dell XPS with fedora 28 is so much faster, quieter and comfortable than any MacBook I had before (3 in total).

Last MacBook I had bricked on me while I was trying to shut it down while at the library. It didn’t shutdown but started heating up in my bagpack. I noticed the smell and was able to take it out and open the lid and let it die naturally.

Best thing about Apple though is still their ethical and generous customer service. Dell customer service is truly disgusting. At least in Germany. Would probably not buy a new Dell laptop but look for something else.
Surely you realize you adopt a more anarcho-libertarian stance than most people?

Also how do you weigh the risk that a criminal will do physical harm to you (or their next victim) versus the risk that the police do physical harm to them?
​Mark Shuttleworth on where Canonical and Ubuntu Linux are going next
Google points a gun at everyone's head.

"But this is defensive!", an astroturfer claims.

Google won't shoot you. But she could. She won't. But she could. She might. Maybe.
"After everyone else"? Well, there was the Mac. And there was TopView. And there was... who, exactly, is "everyone else"? There were workstations like Silicon Graphics, but they didn't even pretend to be available (affordable) for the average user. They weren't competition for the PC. On commodity hardware, it was Windows and TopView, and TopView was... not very useful, to put it charitably.

The PS/2 was a technically better product. It was also IBM's attempt to put the genie back in the bottle, so that it could sell hardware at prices considerably above the commodity level. Technically better? Cool. Not having to pay several hundred dollars more for your hardware? The market thought that was even more cool.
As a person who has been badly affected by the police and the health system because of suicidal thoughts, I think you should think “fucking seriously” before you give advise to people with suicidal thoughts.

You may not like it, but the system utterly sucks and you can be easily, even casually, abused. In fact the likelihood is high this will happen. And the kicker? No one gives a damn if you do get abused, and if you die then your mental illness will be used against you for the reason that some cop killed you.
From the source:

<img src="loading.gif">
False equivalence. HN makes no claims, explicit nor implied, that any of that information is in any way private. They never have.

The same is not true of FB, not at all.
Healthy and marginally beneficial aren't really synonymous. People value things other than just their health.

Now, that isn't to say that it wouldn't be better if people consumed less HFCS. (But, isn't the ubiquity of HFCS partially due to corn subsidies? I think I heard that.)

So, uh, when people purchase foods with HFCF I think it makes sense that this aligns with their marginal preferences. Does this mean it is to thei benefit? Hmm.
It sounds like you do not know much about the topic, but still felt compelled to contradict the most common suicide prevention advice in a public forum while offering no evidence.

Maybe not a great thing to do on a high-traffic website on the day of a high-profile suicide.
> he broke his neck in a swimming pool

This seems to be an understated danger. Whenever I hear about a young person confined to a wheelchair, it seems as likely as not that their mistake was diving headfirst into unexpectedly shallow water.
Well there are short term coping mechanisms (talking, friendships, leisure, rest, work...); there are antidepressant drugs; and there’s finding a goal in life that transcends most problems on the way. I’ve been 12 years depressed since graduation, and things are piecing up together now, so I don’t know if psys were directly helpful, but at least they helped my wait until I found a greater goal.
To do a Rust GUI
Whistleblower about Cancer Cause Was Thrown in Jail to Shut Her Up
A combination of the "hostile environment" and AML has probably ended this by now.
This has definitely been the case for me over at breachinsider.com too – the ShowHN brought our first handful of customers, which have been a real delight to work with and completely fit the description outlined above... they understand the position we are in, and are happy to report issues or bugs they find (and are happy when we fix them in hours rather than weeks).

Generally speaking (and not in anyway a comment directed at the lovely people behind EnvKey), it can be a double edged sword, as if you are seen to only plug your business, even if you do add to the conversation, it can come across as a little disingenuous or pushy. So if you do take this route, don’t forget to be human and post normally sometimes.
These rules might not always apply well to discourse between adults. On the other hand, if you are an adult who is speaking to - and leading - children, Mr. Rogers still provides a positive example of how to approach the subject. Distilling challenging subjects into simple, factual, statements without negative emotional attachments can be extremely difficult. When it works well, you provide an invaluable level of education. If it doesn't, at least you've done your best - and in general children will respond positively to the attempt.
Don't be evil : Part Deux?

Don't be evil 2.0?

Don't be evil : Reimagined?

Don't be evil : The Reboot?

Don't be evil : The Prequel?

I should work at Google's marketing department. I've a lot of ideas.
Thanks for the tip. I hadn't heard about docker-gen. Looks like something that could be very useful.
Donald Trump got elected with the help of a foreign government utilizing Facebook and is now openly helping that government and spurning Western allies.

Up until that point Facebook was a place people could share cat videos and connect with okd friends, now that it has been revealed it can influence a democracy, it is getting more scrutiny.
The headline is misleading. It is an opinion piece trying to promote a book. Your attempts to skim through it to find information about the new company will fail.
Totally, you are 100% correct w.r.t. public disclosures and patent filings -- that you want to get the latter done before the former so as to preserve foreign rights outside of the US. Also, more broadly, so as to preserve any rights at all -- following the America Invents Act (AIA) the US is now in a first to file system (like the majority of the rest of the world), not a first to invent system [0,1].

In this case of Google that we are discussing, however, the patents have already been filed but not yet published -- thus, the public did not/could not know what the patents were. Patents publish some time after filing, often times 18mo after the filing date for the USPTO [1] but this timeline can vary for a number a reasons, e.g. an earlier priority date, etc [2].

That all said, much of the work here by Google has likely been disclosed already, but the existence of the patents and what was in them is generally new info for the public and industry.

The referenced AI principles post by Google discussed more about "values" and less about any given tech. That said, my original comment was aimed toward the possible notion of strategic PR (e.g., saying we are going to do 'good' with not just this tech, but also these patents which you are just learning about), not strategic IP (e.g., preserving defensibility for any specific tech).

[0] AIA via USPTO - https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/aia_implementation...

[1] TLDR of AIA - http://www.aipla.org/advocacy/congress/aia/Pages/summary.asp...

[2] USPTO on 18mo - https://www.uspto.gov/about-us/news-updates/uspto-will-begin...

[3] WIPO on PCTs - http://www.wipo.int/pct/en/faqs/faqs.html
Money makes the world go 'round, but it's not primarily why there's a big push for equality for all.
So businesses suddenly realized they could make more money with former slaves as free citizens, or with women having the vote?

And they started to say "yes" to marriage equality in the 1990s, but "no" to marriage equality before that because it was profitable in the 1990s but unprofitable before that?

I'm sorry, but when you look at history and at current events, it is quite clear that although many "progressive" causes are actually good for the economy and yes, businesses make more money from a more equitable distribution of freedom and power...

The overall profit motive simply doesn't work create the change, otherwise these issues would have been settled fifty years ago when people pointed that out. Instead, businesses will talk about how they must have the freedom not to hire gay sales clerks because customers won't like being served by homosexuals...

Until society changes, and then suddenly businesses are sponsoring floats in the Pride Parade.

---

Ok, I think I am going to go this way, and you are going to go that way. You have said what you wanted to say, I have listened, and I have said what I wanted to say.

Let's check back in twenty years instead of arguing with each other now.
I used to think like this, but not any more.

The agony is temporary. The not being alive is permanent. It's an irrational suboptimal decision that they would regret 2 years later. It makes sense to help them.

It's like helping your friend quit smoking. They will be agonized for a few months, but eventually will get out of the addiction and be thankful.
Could you share your actual dot files and literate org file examples? Some examples of org files that are more complicated might be interesting.

Also you have some dead links, like the fsem link on your pages, which links to http://doc.rix.si/cce/fsem.html.
On http://doc.rix.si/projects/fsem.html#orgheadline2, you point to cce.org and cce.html, both are dead links.