skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You probably won't get anyone to engage you in earnest.

I have a genetic disorder. I'm significantly impacted by it. I spend part of every single day wishing I were dead and I'm actually pro Right to Die.

But your sweeping pronouncements are hard to engage because your first one isn't about your personal preference to die if faced with certain things. It's a pronouncement about not supporting others.

I fully support your right to choose to die rather than live with certain things, but it's much more complicated when we start talking about making general policies. At that point, you really need to provide some support for people who have had something unfortunate happen because society just works better when you do.

Trying to decide who, what, when, where and how much gets tricky. But a society that throws people to the wolves if they are even temporarily impaired winds up actively creating more problems than it solves.

You are lumping together your personal preference to die rather than live with X into your desire to not do shit all for other people and that makes it really hard to have a meaningful discussion here.
The first one is interesting - if I heard it on the radio I wouldn't think twice about it, but seeing a video is different. Watching the guy play the guitar gives me a sense of how difficult it must be to play - which means I appreciate the music because I appreciate the technical skill of the person playing it.

The second one does nothing for me - it's just dull.

Can you explain how you feel when you listen to those songs?
hate speech and racism absolutely are political, they are only outside of the overton window. i despise racists as much as anyone but i don’t trust anyone with the authority to police permissible opinions, and i think anybody who does is naive and short-sighted. if you construct these frameworks for suppression, they will be used against you by your enemies the second they have the opportunity.
Almost overnight following the acquisition, security at my local Whole Foods turned from the usual couple people wandering the store with walkie talkies to a team of "tacticool" guys in sunglasses staring down the aisles and muttering to each other with earpieces and lapel mics. It's creepy.
Perl is very tricky. Its syntax is undecidable, so unless you run the program it's not possible to construct a syntax tree given input (in the general case, it's possible to make heuristics that will cover 99%) so it requires more brain power compared to easy-to-parse languages like python.
The Periscope video was the last straw. Jones was angry and ranting, because that journalist had claimed that his campaigning/efforts lead to Jones' ban on social networks.

> Important to note that tech platforms did not enforce their own rules and take action against Alex Jones / InfoWars on their own accord.

> It took media outlets to point out for weeks that InfoWars was skirting the rules on these tech platforms for them to enforce own standards.

Previous offenses include: "dehumanizing trans people". That looks very bad on paper, so you search for the video, and you see him discussing an over-the-top drag queen reading a book for children in a public library. To me, with the long nails and the thick make-up and the wig, the drag queen really looks demonic/ridiculous/freaky and he remarks on that. You should have the right to call that abnormal and refuse to want to see that normalized.

Look at what happened with Pewdiepie when a media company goes on a crusade with an agenda, it is very similar.

The bottom line for this decision is not harassment or abuse, it is the political preference of Twitter's employees. Maybe it is not a good idea to have a left-leaning workforce police online debate, even if it is their platform. For all the talk about diversity, SF companies sure could do with some more political diversity.

They should have banned Alex Jones from public discourse when he had this crazy conspiracy theory that high-ranking politicians and businessmen workship Moloch and child sacrifice. They should have banned Alex Jones when had the crazy conspiracy theory that chemicals and pesticides in the water change the sex of frogs. They should have banned Alex Jones for saying that Lady Gaga turns satanism into a performance and flirts with illuminati symbology. They should have banned Alex Jones for stating that weather manipulation is still a thing after the Environmental Modification Convention.
Thanks, I couldn't get my search query just right. No need to be snarky, though.
With "only" 46.5% of all domains being ".com" I guess you are technically correct. When the next highest TDL (.org) rings in at only 5.1%, I think we can agree the the overwhelming majority of sites are based on .com.

Of the TDL you mention the top one is .jp at less than 2%. If you remove the qualifier under the .uk TLD you get an additional 2%. The rest don't make the chart.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/265677/number-of-interne...
You're missing the point. Books don't require maintenance, but the vast majority of software does. It's a poor analogy.
Are you using modern Firefox (v57+)?
Presumably the difference is that Amazon is much more likely to punish you for it. I worked at a grocery store in college (Roundy's) and I was never "terrified" about failing to push memberships.
How does this compare to an orgasm?
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Yeah ours looks dingy now. It looks to me like either the employees have stoooed caring, management has changed their priorities, or the overall quality of goods has dropped in a short amount of time.
It only happens when you don't factor in split prizes. When you include the odds of having to share the prize it never goes over 1.
Can't see how is this better than using sweave
http://archive.is/H640P
I'm not a fan of Alex Jones. I think Alex Jones was at his worst during Sandy Hook when he accused the victims families of being crisis actors. I think if social media platforms had banned him then, I would have understood the decision and applauded them.

What I can't understand is the decision of major social media platforms to ban him now. His content now isn't any more out of the ordinary or abusive than at any other point in his broadcasting history. So it just seems strange that facebook, twitter, youtube, apple and spotify all come together and ban him at the same time. And it seems even stranger that none of these companies can give even a vague hint at the specific content he was banned for. I'm not saying they have to broadcast the actual content but something along the lines of "harmful, defamatory and malicious speech directed against Sandy Hook victims" could work.

Silicon valley is starting to look more and more like a tech oligopoly. It seems like these huge corporations are having discussions behind closed doors and making decisions that have a major impact on the public discourse.
I always assumed the reason was to generate $XXX million in donations for a tax deduction for the grocery store chain.
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Ugh I hate that. I don't donate money so that I can stand around saying "Hey, Look what I did!"
Elon Musk goes on Joe Rogan's podcast tonight
http://www3.www.audi.ch/
The foundation of keynsianism is the fact that an idle worker's lost productivity is waste, and putting that worker to work generates something of value. Obviously doing useless work is useless, but making a market so that the worker can be connected with a consumer is a net win. Fiscal keynsianism, aka printing money and handing it out, creates that market by giving consumers buying power to buy things they want, motivating the worker to do work creating value instead of sitting idle wasting their labor. It's a catalyst to activate the real economy.
I wasn't being snarky.
The real question is (and I think this is why they commissioned the study) "how much code should they have not written in the first place?" Stripes answer is "well, definitely not the payment processing portion"

The report is basically leads one to conclude that with well developed API, the world would be more productive if we can outsource common business logic (like payment processing) to we'll encapsulated and designed services. Why? So you can spend more time building new stuff instead of fixing stuff that many other people are also fixing in their own implementations.

Basically, I see this as a "code is a liability, so use a SASS; we aren't biased in our framing of it"
> As someone who gets a significant amount of his daily joy from listening to music...

I, in turn, find this somewhat astonishing. Not only is it so different from my own experience, it's difficult to understand.

When you're enjoying a piece of music, you can at least imagine what it would be like not to feel anything. For me, though, when I see people enjoying music, it's so confusing. What am I "supposed" to be feeling?
No, one gained notoriety by making incredible food. Incidentally, he was also an abusive asshole boss, but that was not how he made his fame. Eventually Gordon was so famous for his skills that people would volunteer to be abused by him on TV just to stand near his light.

The other is just a liar, blowhard, asshole. Alex Jones has never done anything else of note besides the aforementioned.
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This seems to have been corrected at out local Whole Foods (Maui), but the upside is that the prices are much more reasonable, for still good quality. We used to just go there for "special" items, but are doing more general purpose shopping there now, and the tie-in with Amazon Prime is nice too.
Have "most users" been measured?

Perhaps they should be taught.

Otherwise let's move on to making nuclear reactors less confusing.
rest of the US

Most of the world doesn’t have the bizarre forced scripted friendliness in customer service that the US has. People are allowed to be polite or friendly in their own personal way.
And the actual article are behind a paywall charging 9 bucks to read a single article. Splendid.
>eat anything but rice and beans ...

This reads like a descent into satire.
Essentially from the definition of the derivative you can write

f(x+h) = f(x) + h f'(x) + O(h^2).

If you use this to solve differential equations its called the Euler method.
What is the lesson?

If something even slightly goes wrong with my software I don't want it to survive at all. This is the equivalent of putting dynamite on all the load bearing points of a structure, rigged to explode if they move out of place!

Software doesn't bend, it's digital.
Talk to child exploitation workers who have nervous breakdowns over the images they see.

Images do cause mental health issues.
GEGL was mostly done in 2.10.
A 28-year-old MIT graduate has created a water leak-detecting robot
the beat!
I enjoy music but I realizes that the ROI of listening to music is on uplifting my mood. I rather listen to a podcast or NPR now cause I get something to ponder on or form an opinion about on my commute. I rather listen to music socially with people in the car though.

From the field of neuroscience, we know that music affects the brain like a drug of sorts. I believe Steven Pinker said in a book of his that music releases a "cocktail of neurotransmitters."
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You really ought to try acid sometime.
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What is your basis for this bizarre and personal statement? Code often does take on a life of its own when it's not expected. And it seems trivially obvious that a bestseller will see lots of use...
"Move fast and repeatedly betray your users' trust" isn't a good strategy, long-term.
See Eckert's work at Columbia University.[1] In the early 1930s, IBM came out with punched card equipment that could multiply. Eckert managed to kludge several IBM tabulating machines into a sort of programmable computer. "The control box had settings that told the different machines what they should be doing at a given time and these gave the broad mechanical programming of the problem. The punches on the cards were used to program the specific details." This was all electromechanical, with relays, gears, and clutches, not vacuum tubes. IBM eventually turned that mess into the IBM Card Programmed Calculator. Still not enough memory for programs. Eckert went on to design many more computing machines, including the ENIAC. Finally, no moving parts, but still mostly plugboard-wired programs.

Eckert is credited with inventing delay line memory.[2] That was the first useful computer memory technology. Suddenly, everybody in number-crunching was building delay line computers - EDVAC, EDSAC, LEO, IAS, UNIVAC I...
All were stored program machines. As soon as there was memory, people started putting programs in it. That's when computing took off.

[1] http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/brennan/index.ht...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_line_memory
I think it's the wording that's being commented on. Maybe it's just semantics. I think the word 'disappointed' implies that there was an honest effort that didn't end up panning out (say, if the company ran out of money, or misunderstood product/market fit and fizzled, or got out-competed). I am not sure what a more appropriate phrasing would be for a fantastical idea that never existed in any form and never could have.
In Utah, because everything is pretty much off the I-15, we often measure distance in time, too, as that the speed limit is ~75 most of the way.
We should enforce clarity in thought through the UI. Muddling up ten different concepts because 'that's how people think' is a quick way to (1) wide adoption and (2) generalized confusion.
The charity donation thing has been around for a while. South Park even had an episode 3 years ago about Whole Foods and the pushy donations.
Any reason for Mozilla to not have this disabled by default?
I meant it was a bit of a stretch to call error checking redundancy.
Something that I was struggling with just today. Of all the days to update Chrome... At first I thought my redirect was broken.
Yes quite frankly I do think they are drooling morons that provide lower quality service instead of focusing on making their customer happy.
Try this:

Grandma: I'm typing domain.com into my browse on [random device] and it doesn't work.

Nerd grandchild: well that's because it doesn't exist.

Grandma: But it works on my other computer.

Nerd grandchild: that's because the browser tries lots of domains like www.domain, domain.org and so on when you enter domain.

Grandma: yes, I noticed that. When I enter www.domain.com, it automatically corrects it to domain.com. So that's must be the right one, surely?

Nerd grandchild: Nope. domain.com is the correct domain. It's just trying not to confuse you.

Grandma: ?
Is using your credit card number for this purpose ethical? Is it legal? Is it desirable?
Security warning for MEGA Chrome extension users
Funny, I just quit <redacted-Bezos-company> stating I would not participate in a culture of fear.
> Unions should quite obviously have formed by now.

Including the eng team. But the problem with unions is that over time they are corrupted, and quickly become inefficient bureaucratic institutions. I agree with your sentiment, but the reality is far murkier than that.
sign of d/dx e^(discretionary income) perhaps
>What is the better alternative?

This is a bit complicated to do by hand, but this is probably the best way. I would suggest using existing software to handle this though

Create a file that just has "2" with no quotes in it. Create a directory called 1. Create a symlink that points to that directory. Have the webserver use the symlink instead of the actual code directory.

When you want to update code lock the file that has the number in it. Read in the contents of the file. Replace the contents of the file with the next number. Unlock the file. Create a directory with whatever number you read in. Git clone in that new directory. Do whatever else you need to do (compilation or whatever). If all goes well then change a symlink to point to the new directory.

If you need to revert then change the symlink to the old directory. You could also delete old directories as well to save some space.
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Care to elaborate on any of them?
Just the continuous directed stream of invective. For 1 minute you can keep watching, but it keeps on going as Alex Jones invents new insult after new insult. I actually started to feel nauseated.

In previous centuries, one could have credibly challenged him to a duel after just a few seconds of this. I wonder if we can find some other similar escape valve in the modern age.
Small differences? A subdomain or an entire protocol is a small difference? And what about any web site that uses a "m." subdomain that doesn't intend it for mobile? I don't think that calling these things "small differences" is reasonable. And really, it makes perfect sense to not serve the same content over an insecure connection than over a secure one, but thankfully that change hasn't happened!
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This may have something to do with: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-news-conspiracy-... I think the Russia investigation has unearthed links between conspiracy theorists and efforts to divide and undermine US politics and these companies were warned behind the scenes to stop being complicit (or perhaps they had a inter-company meeting, Bilderberg-style). Also there was a concerted effort by media companies to have Jones banned. They kept him in the news cycle for weeks. Finally, the left united to have him banned, made him an issue and visible to employees of these companies.
Partly this is due to lower transport costs.
Anyone know which of the donation options respects privacy, and isn't paypal? Haha.
At some point it wasn't widely known that you could do NN training with fp16. Now it's common knowledge, but what is the next thing?
How are labor unions institutions of robbery?
You're worried that we haven't discussed the results of something that you admit is not effectively modelable?
I really wish that all people who get paid $15/hr and are said to be not worth it would go on strike. I'd guess things would crumble pretty quickly. Probably much quicker than if the people who make $100+/hr stopped working.
This plan worked for this dude, worth a shot :P

https://np.reddit.com/r/casualiama/comments/2lbqym/traveled_...
> And MacOS is generally considered the easiest to use and most secure desktop OS.

Yup, that's why most non-technical users and also system administrators prefer it! (Oh wait, that's Windows and Linux)
I wholeheartedly agree with this. There are two sides of the debate now. One side says that the machines should be clever enough to guess the user's intention and go around of their mistakes, while the other side says that the machines should stay as dumb and square. The question is about who is handling the complexity of this world, and in my opinion it should be often left to the human, not to the machines.
Fixing Facebook isn't a hard problem. Fixing it while keeping advertisers happy is pretty much impossible. If you try to be more vigilant on privacy settings then you give advertisers less choices to target people. And with Amazon moving into the ad market aggressively, and Google being the behemoth that they are the last thing you want is to hurt your advertising platform.
That is a naive perspective that betrays a deep misunderstanding of both the stock market and operation of a business.
Qanon is a Russian psyop and a bunch of unwitting agents.
Currently site seems to have errors:

Error – this._lib is undefined

Error – HTTP request error. JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data
I vote Portland, Boston or Swastica, Ontario
When you read about the Atlantic Slave Trade, do you say:

> I'm not sure this shows things got quickly worse. It may just show enslaved Africans lost control they used to have.
It's not about knowing how many spark plugs are in their car. It's more about buying a car that comes with a custom power adapter plugged into the cigarette lighter, never realizing that you can plug your own accessories into the cigarette lighter instead of buying your phone charger or GPS from the car company, and then not caring when they just take away the cigarette lighter and replace it with their own custom port.
This is completely backwards, because Google just made this decision _now_!
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Ultimately it has nothing to do with being able to afford but rather people are increasingly bad with their finances. The high majority of America today is in debt at will and much rather use a card over hard cash. Savings? Ha..nope. It’s all the rage to have a nicer house, car, possessions than to be financially safe. It’s not work that has failed people, it’s the parents that failed to teach their children how to conduct themselves in a fiscally responsible way.
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As a heads-up if you hadn't already seen it 3.7 added fork callbacks for stuff like this - https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html#os.register_at_for... - much nicer than patching-and-praying.
I feel like I'm the only one that ever asks this, but especially with the engineering team (and software engineers in general) why haven't robo-unions become a thing yet?

While politics will be hard as always, instantly verifiable direct democracy is achievable with a distributed ledger + PGP...

In addition to that I personally think that jobs that require you to be on pager duty at all should be paying way more than they are, but everyone accepts it without batting an eye.
There's actually a bunch of sites that are similarly broken; if any script fails to load (including, yes, analytics) nothing works.

That was why I originally started using uBlock origin… it had a thing to shim in that, as opposed to uMatrix which didn't.
Who in their right mind would buy 100 tickets chosen at random _with replacement_ in your scenario?
Very few crypto exchanges support fiat withdrawals. Most are crypto-in, crypto-out, only.
Firefox is my primary browser, so it doesn't affect me, however this has already caused confusion within the web agency world I work in, both with technical staff and clients.
Awesome job - I’m about to cry from the memories this brings back. I really appreciate the effort put into porting a proper MIDI player to the browser while keeping page optimization in mind.

Dragging and dropping to play a midi is a great touch!
The author is employed by the President and can be fired at any time. It's not our job to second guess the duly elected President's choice of advisers.
Added hormones in chicken are illegal in the USA

(and as far as I know only chicken)
How to accomplish this without exacerbating continued asset & fixed cost inflation?
DOJ Charges North Korean Hacker for Sony, WannaCry, and More
It was. Then at some point it became about building a business. Remember the Lily drone?
Any statistics on patient usage, non-payment, and free clinics?
That is something that is very context dependent. It is fine if it is essentially 'free' and of low criticality.
But if you are dealing with an application where doing so would prove very expensive or cost lives it is clear that it isn't the ideal.