skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This "be yourself" line of speaking is garbage. It makes the speaker sound wise while doing nothing to help the person who is desperate for a romantic partner. About as useful as telling a depressive person to cheer up.

Imagine we flipped it around and said it to entrepreneurs: "Do you really want to live your life as CEO of a successful startup knowing you got there by faking confidence?"
I have to fanboy in here as well...this tool is exactly what I've been wanting for a long time. You've absolutely nailed the workflow for my use case. Thank you so much for building it.
"meaning" is always socially assigned (or god's design for those you believe it).

But there is a huge difference between natural boundaries and human boundaries: one can be measured and objectively represented. You can measure heights and make a map of the earth with different colors for mountains, oceans etc. It could all be done by a machine without any human intervention, and represents useful physical differences on Earth.

On the other hand nobody could draw a map of countries' borders without talking with human societies, and no map can be objective or exact. In addition, those borders often are not even visible on the field, and in most border you can just cross and not even realize you are in another country (on roads you have border control, but most borders are just rivers, forests, fields, mountains, deserts without any remarkable feature).
This is cool! The website works great.

One suggestion - It would be awesome if you could download an animated GIF rather than just a PNG file. The website lets me upload a GIF and it shows it animated in the mockup - but it only downloads a static PNG.
FVWM forever ^.^
If there would be no data point below/above 20/85, then it might be warranted to truncate it, but that's clearly not the case, in fact, by definition, there is 20% and 15% of the data respectively.

The bars starting from the median (50th percentile) are also a pretty meaningless visual indicator. E.g. the bars for competition visually indicate that men would be twice as competitive, but in the graph without the bar and including the 0th/100th percentile the difference is much less pronounced:

https://quanticfoundry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/hardco...

https://i.imgur.com/P9M7AnR.png

I find that especially damning as lots of these gamers are probably not familiar with statistics, so they might indeed draw extreme conclusions from these graphs merely due to the way it is represented.
The guy's apartment building isn't called Silver Lake Heights, what he did was start using the term "Silver Lake Heights" to describe an area previously known as "Silver Lake".

Realtors often drive the naming of new "neighborhoods", especially if it is lower class area that they want to gentrify. You know, branding.
We are trying to make a single application that covers the whole DevOps lifecycle, from planning your change up to monitoring its effect.

We're doing it because we believe there are emergent benefits to having the lifecycle in a single application https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/product/single-application...
They never said how they determined it was SMS intercept. Did a Reddit employee have their 2FA SMS's go to a Google Voice account that got comped? Working at a large corporation, I've seen people use Google Voice for their 2FA a couple times.
So this website is going to lose its raison d'être? Also his soft-grey on white background is hard to read.

Edit: It's just in my browser of choice that it appears as grey on white. It looks much better on Chrome.
I think the appeal is not so much for downvotes to be reversed but for sympathetic upvotes to compensate for the downvotes?
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Surprised they weren't banned already.
How can a teacher droning about valence levels possibly compete with instagram feeds, and much more so for younger kids.

Possibly even, aspects of smartphone use should be treated as a potential health risk, in the same ways as alcohol, tobacco, sugar, etc. (though not all of those are treated appropriately yet)
What was the issue? I installed it on lubuntu maybe 1.5yrs back and it's been zero hassle.
It's not so black and white.

He was erratic. Some things Jobs did were wonderful. In this situation I could see him detesting the way his relationships were poisoned with money and not wanting his daughter to rest on her laurels waiting for a payday.
Thank you, haveibeenpwned!
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> I suspect bitcoin is simply not a big deal (at this point), so this entire issue is concern trolling.

Or people actually care. The fact there are existing, worse ways to use energy doesn't mean we shouldn't care about Bitcoin. For the same reason I'm composting, even though the nearby supermarket throws out way more packaged food than I'd ever buy.
Google, Duo, who's next? Clinc?
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Yeah, the top half of the article is all-but-lying to you, strongly implying that Google just created the name out of mid-air. Which is typical newspaper/NYT behavior.
I wanted to be a programmer from the age of 8. I noodled around a bit in BASIC, and then taught myself C at around 15 or 16. I was easily into my 20s before I could even reasonably claim that I understood C.
I've turned 40 this year and even though I've written a lot of code in the last 30 years, I still don't really feel like I'm a good programmer, so I tend to always blame myself before the libraries or the compiler or the daemons or the hardware.
> “In reality, the ban has already been made. I don’t know a single teacher in this country that allows the use of phones in class.”

Not allowing kids to use smartphones during class is a huge difference than not allowing them at all in school. Cell phones are huge part of people's lives, whether they like it or not.
I honestly thought you were joking. Their data presentation wasn't good, who would pay this???
'Unhackable' Bitfi cryptowallet maker shocked to find fingernails exist
To be clear: phones have been banned in most French schools for years, but faculty had no legal authorization to actually touch the phone or look at it to ensure that it was off.

I haven't read the actual text of the law, but I believe that it gives faculty the authorization to do just that.
Simple: They don't. I get the sense (based on my family at least) that their audience is boomers that aren't really tech savvy looking for easy gifts. Once this existing audience base dies off, they'll struggle and ultimately be acquired.

Since they're based off mass-mailing of catalogs, they know their effective target is not a tech-savvy audience. They've run the numbers and they figure this demograph is a sufficient one to market to.
> I know that there are a many more languages in the World but none of them is as widespread as English.

You will be surprised.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of...

https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/the-10-most-spoken-langua...
Most computers are laptops today.
Indeed, it doesn't measure the same. The examples were meant more as an example how to ask questions that different people answer the same way (given the same situation).
> The measure prohibits the use of tablets, computers, and other internet-connected devices as well.

Ban phones, sure, but no computers? Bring back the typewriter?
Complaining, no not at all. Equally I didn't mean to direct those suggestions directly at you :-)
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Try again. strongSwan hasn't earned trust. It's had something like 30 vulnerabilities over the last 10 years, including 6 code execution vulnerabilities. And strongSwan is considered one of the better IPSEC implementations! What do I care whether it bought support for "tens of RFCs" with those vulnerabilities? I don't want "tens of RFCs". I want a working VPN and no vulnerabilities.

Bugs scale with C codebase size, full stop.
I'm really not sure how I feel about highschoolers having phones.

On the one hand, not having one seems like it could cause isolation and practical/logistical problems.

On the other hand, the whole point of most of the smartphone ecosystem is to manipulate people and these people are especially prone to that.

Highschoolers therefore should be only allowed to use completely free (as in freedom) community maintained software/OS/hardware devices.
Yep, load times of large merge requests was a big problem. In 11.1 we launched a refactor of merge requests to solve this https://about.gitlab.com/2018/07/22/gitlab-11-1-released/#me...

That got the time down for the worst case we measure from 15 seconds to 3 seconds, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17671300
Sounds like a naturist point of view, also known as nudism.
Now if only we could do this in America...
What does it actually mean? Is it a play on "Tenderloin", because it's like another cut of meat, but to the east?
There are 23 Democratic cosponsors, including
California's Senators Feinstein and Harris, and 22 Republican cosponsors.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/282...
TR plugs don't prevent the spades from being exposed when plugging in a cord. They simply prevent a someone from inserting something into one of the slots like a bobby pin.
The New Yorker article:

http://people.duke.edu/~hpgavin/cee421/citicorp1.htm
Nope, the oppressors destroyed the native culture, robbed them off their wealth, social structures, and (however) evolved systems of institutions while leaving no venue for the colonized people to prosper. Few who managed to survive and climb through the inevitable mixing of peoples learnt some of the tricks from their oppressors and fought back for independence.

I am afraid your comment sounds like it is trying to find some silver linings in the oppressors malevolence but please try to sympathize (if you cannot empathize) with those colonized.
The community around open source games (not counting assault cube) doesn't seem so bad but I'm not that active in it.
Weak IR LEDs aren't hot, but they aren't likely to be blinding either.
Brilliant, you win the thread. Your post is like a koan.

Also consider that young children are almost purely emotional. It would make sense that we should be hard-wired to trust, and build trust with, our children.
We say team members instead of employees because some are contractors. Why does it freak you out?

BTW We don't call it a family https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/leadership/#management-tea...
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> snowflakey

I'm not sure if you're making a subtle political point here, or if there is a use of "snowflakey" that I'm not aware of.
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yep it did...
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Typical prohibitionist mindset. Lots of people use X, we don't like X, we ban X instead of understanding how to properly and moderately integrate X into our lives. Smartphones and tablets are GREAT learning devices. If we keep blaming the ineptitude of teachers on devices the quality of education will never progress.

EDIT: part of the education process is to teach kids how to use and not abuse these devices and when it's appropriate to use them for entertainment. Telling them "you can play Fortnite for an hour after you finish this math challenge" is way better than "you can't play Fornite at school!". I remember having the same policy applied for when I was in school and we would play Pokemon TCG. When it was banned we would play in secrecy during class, when they gave up and allowed us to play during recess we stopped playing during class. It's just common sense.
"It’s degrading to the reputation of our area"

How so? I missed how or why this is upsetting to local residents.
An alternative is to use the GPGME library, which does all the ugly gpg output parsing for you. I realize, though, that a C library is not a solution for everything, especially not for a shell script that you want to keep a shell script. :)
I believe he plays down the utility people see in Facebook too much. And even if their core product is not growing: Instagram and Whatsapp are important parts of many people's lives.

The comparison to Apple and Samsung smart phones is especially strange. If they were outlawed, people would just switch to Huawei and Motorola phones -- there is much less of a network effect than with social network sites. Or is he saying that banning the whole product category of smartphones would affect people significantly more? Imagine banning all types of social network sites and messaging services.
Wikipedia internal solidarity politics are just messed up if you approach the inner circle. There is no fixing it. There is a lot of behind the scenes back scratching, horse trading, and manipulation via back channels between the members. Just stay away from them and avoid their gaze. It has also been like this, it isn't new nor does it mean there is impending doom for Wikipedia. It is just how it is. It is like the black whole at the center of the galaxy, you want to just stay away from it.
I see this is referred to as a deck, but I don't know what that means. What is the specific meaning of deck in this context? Where do I see more decks like this?
I wanted to play around with LUA so I used pico-8 as an excuse to dabble. I made this after a few days: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=28402

At launch screen, use arrow keys for level up/down, lives up/down (q to enable "rapid fire" cheat) ... start game with either "z" or "x" key.

Pico-8 uses 2 buttons primarily -- keys are mapped to "z" and "x" ... when playing, z will do fastest-sampling fire and x will do regular firing (this is most noticeable after using the q cheat.)

If you use the q cheat -- the score will not count toward the high score.

I stopped developing for pico-8 as I get it that some of the constraints are artificial, but I feel some are just too restrictive (like volume level on sounds). It's a fun little system with everything you need to use it built in. Some people have done some incredible things within the limitations of the system.
> it basically reminds me of middle school

Many bad actors in competitive online gaming are middle/high schoolers.
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Personally, I've never heard what university students do as "homework" -- that's what grade schoolers and high schoolers do and have to turn in. At least in my (public US university in the 1980s) experience, professors generally suggested problems sets to do, but they generally weren't required, although not doing them would make you unprepared for the exams which often had very similar problems as to the ones assigned.
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It isnt staying in sweeden.
Show HN: Note Keeper – Simple Note Taking on the Command Line
Hello HN,

Here's a tiny script I use for taking notes on the command line.

I spend most of my day working in a terminal, and have always looked for a way to rapidly write down notes, thoughts, TODOs, temporary keys, or have a good place to copy/paste multiple things.

Originally I had aliased the `note` command to simply create a new markdown file in a specific directory and then open it with vim. A co-worker saw me using it and asked me about it - so I decided to expand upon the idea.

Note Keeper is a tiny bash script that supports a few options for creating and editing simple text-based markdown notes, and it organizes them in a sane way (by date).

You can read about how I use it here: http://chambers.io/2018/08/01/note-keeper.html

Happy to answer any questions. Cheers!
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17645563
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We are building a fast, stable, GitHub alternative.

We have hired 3 times as many people in our security team for GitLab.com (not our product team for security) as are working on Meltano.

We have hired 3 times as many people in our SRE teams as are working on Meltano.

And we still have a lot of vacancies for both https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/
Think of it like this. Two men both have a condition where if they see flashing red lights, they go into a psychotic rage.

One man chooses to ignore the condition because going into a psychotic rage is bad, therefore he should pretend that he does not have the condition. He considers the condition impolite to talk about.

The other man chooses to acknowledge and confront the situation. He insists (sometimes rudely) that hosts and workplaces avoid flashing red lights at him.

Which of these is the path to civilization?
Perhaps I should have clarified; part of the reason that contractors can negotiate higher rates is because businesses are willing to pay more if they can avoid a long term commitment like keeping a person on as an employee.

If you are a contractor, then you are running a business and you will have to do things that an employee wouldn't. One of those things is negotiating enough to cover the time between contracts. If you aren't good at negotiating then your business will not do as well.
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How about educating kids on the proper use of such powerful tools, including the concepts of FLOSS (and, in general, how to question and think critically)? TV is not the problem, having more kids watching Jersey Shore rather than some good documentaries is.
The ban only concerns "students under the age of 15", who typically take notes on paper. The teacher can also make an exception for pedagogical purpose.

> There are exceptions in place for students with disabilities and for the educational use of devices in the classroom and in extra-curricular activities
Do you happen to have myopia or astigmatism?
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Indeed. It happens all the time that a homeowner does significant wiring projects in their own home. Everything you need is available at the local hardware store or Home Depot. Some do a good job. I've also seen things like lamp cord used in fixed wiring behind walls or in attics.
Fury at US environmental agency's effort to weaken fuel standards
I'll be honest: The first time I heard of Hammacher Schlemmer was when Dwight mentioned it in the Niagara Falls episode of The Office. It's pretty interesting to read more about them.
at this point all i can do is laugh.
Facebook launches a digital literacy library aimed at educators
The female logic I can follow here: Once you play hardcore, i.e. more intense, just having a story will get boring soon. So they add other competencies.

It's a little confusing for me, why just playing skill competition shouldn't get boring for men as well. Adding story based components for a more indepth experience would also sound reasonable for me.

So I wonder if self-assessment is really a good way to analyse the behaviour here. It might be that men don't mention that they care about community/story as much, while actually they do as well when they heavily invest time and energy into a single game.
Oh how the times have changed! I graduated from high school over 18 years ago and ANY cell phone was confiscated and you had to go see the principal to get it back.
Apple is worth over $1B,000
How does one plan a visit to the jp morgan library?
This is "the argument" against fuel efficient cars. Although I think we all know what this is really about:

"First, people who buy fuel-efficient vehicles will end up driving more, increasing the odds that they will get into a crash. Second, the fuel-efficient vehicles will themselves will be more expensive, slowing the rate at which people buy newer vehicles with advanced safety features. Third, automakers will have to make their cars lighter in response to rising standards, slightly hurting safety."
It's incredibly hard to stay calm and reasonable in a discussion if someone is actively moving the entirety of mankind to the brink of destruction.
Go and euthanise yourself.
> This creates a completely wacky incentive structure where, instead of incentivizing producers to only expend enough resources to satisfy market demand, and no more, they're instead incentivized to expend as much energy as possible, at all times.

This is not entirely correct. You pointed out that the reward rate is relatively constant which limits the income of all miners combined to 1.25 Bitcoin/minute. They really can't be spending more then that on mining. That includes Hardware + Energy + Salaries + Offices + Warehouse. Any single miner is also only going to get a fraction of that 1.25 Bitcoin/minute and anyone spending more then what they get will find themselves with a deficit.

That is also just until ~May 2020 when the next Halving is going to occur. They have until then to figure out to decrease their spending on mining to be lower then 0.625 Bitcoin/minute.
16% response rate is a solid number, well done!
By the way - if you are thinking of A/B testing, my article has some serious considerations to make before you do:

https://kolemcrae.com/testing-sucks-right/
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A 22m rod with a 7m notch is perfectly ok. You'd then be encoding 7/22. As others have pointed out, the rod could span the known universe and it would still not matter.

Say you found a great message in the representation of 1/7. Weird, since it is a rational so if its representation is infinite, its periodic (you can't write down 1/π or 1/e for example, as these are irrationals.)

Excited you found that message, you want to put your notch exactly at 1/7 on the rod to celebrate it.

But you can't. Your desired notch position will fall between two possible notches, spaced one planck distance apart, and you'll have to pick one of the two.

And when you do, you truncate your message to 15 bytes worth of information.
It's also not safe for line workers who think power is off to a main and get zapped by a small fleet of home solar in The neighborhood.
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ugh, i think it is time to scrap the internet. everything is being corrupted to the extend there is no point imo