skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most of What We Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People

Source: reddit.com

A postulation and the supporting evidence in one line. That's all I need to read here.
Yep, and thinking that everyone is judging you is often not a rational thought (it is probably the most common thought within a general social anxiety). The other person doesn't have to disclose anything...you just say "I don't drink"...feeling like you "have" to tell someone anything is not a thing. If someone has your testicles hooked up to a car battery then consider it but no-one is forcing her to say anything, she is forcing herself.

I come from the UK, I went to uni at a time when the drinking culture was still big...I never had a problem...at uni...in a country where it is fairly normal to get destroyed every weekend. Not once, out of (probably) hundreds of times (I did study theology briefly, the only time I remember it getting weird was with devout people thinking they had found someone with similar views).

Perhaps more to the point though: assume that someone did have a huge problem with me drinking, why do I care? Someone else thinking that I have to drink seems like an irrational belief on their part. It is never about someone saying they have a problem with someone not drinking, it is about people who don't drink thinking they can read minds.

What you are saying is that everyone else should be forced to change their behaviour so that one or two people stop making themselves feel uncomfortable. As someone who has been in this position: this doesn't work. If you feel uncomfortable and drinking is banned, you will start attributing those feelings to something else.

The reason I came to that conclusion (that banning alcohol is the solution) is that, based on the beliefs in the article, banning alcohol is the only actual solution. Presumably if something else was attempted like banning people asking each other for drinks, then they would worry about people looking at their drink.
The way I see it, there can definitely be abuses. But there is certainly a place for helping non-abusers, too. Robert Frost said "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in." Well, family are the people who, when they genuinely need help, you have to try to give it.
Ended before it even launched. https://theintercept.com/2018/12/17/google-china-censored-se...

Compare to Apple, which actually handed over the iCloud keys of all its Chinese customers to the Chinese government.

We should continue to pressure Google to make fewer mistakes like these, but let's not pretend they're in the same league as truly bad actors like Apple and Facebook when it comes to privacy.
If a machinist never wanted to go out to drink, but just wanted to get home to the family, would that person get harassed?
You're not going to be able to uniquely target someone in a radius, since the minimum is 1km (and I guess Google would artificially widen the radius to prevent uniquely identifying people in sparsely populated areas). You've also got to entice them to click, and that's notoriously difficult.I mean it might work occasionally but it's never going to be the shortest path to surveiling an individual. I would guess that ~nobody is successfully using ads to determine individual people's locations.

https://www.en.advertisercommunity.com/t5/Advanced-Features/...

Disclosure: I work at big G, not on ads.
Emphasis on 8. If you are writing code that directly controls hardware, then your software is the abstraction.

Hardware is physical and can be quirky. Signals take real clock time to settle down and your CPU is probably much faster than the transition time. Hardware can and does have bugs just like software. A bad ground pin can make your hardware do “impossible” things.

You need to have much more awareness of the context your code runs in the further down the stack you go.
It's the difference between a tolerant atmosphere vs a welcoming one. A simple example is that when i'm with mixed company, I speak in English even if everyone i'm currently talking to can speak another language that i'm familiar with. This allows others to listen in and maybe join in the conversation. This is tossed out of the window when i'm speaking to the same folks but in private. Being welcoming means taking the extra step to make others comfortable, even if it means you end up inconveniencing yourself. Having no alcohol is more "welcoming" as it takes into account folks who might be recovering from alcoholism, while inconveniencing folks who casually drink.
This is a phenomenon that's been noted by others regarding weightloss during fasting, so it's probably the fasting itself, rather than the BCAAs.
Clion still has lots of catchup to do in mixed language debugging, GPGPU, multi-threaded debugging, DirectX debugging, COM/UWP development.

From what I see on online discussions, clang still isn't as good as VC++ in incremental compilation and linking support.

Then lets also see who gets modules first.

Interestingly we had Energize C++, Visual Age for C++ v4 (earlier versions were different) and C++ Builder. Had they managed to win a sizeable marketshare and such C++ nice productivity tooling would have been a thing much sooner.
after logging in with facebook, there is a in-game sign-in if you don't want to use the facebook login. Due to ALTs we can't really allow non-fb signups.
Why were they unlisted?
To look at this a different way, a far larger percentage of people are generating content now than at any other time in the history of modern media. As others have pointed out, anyone creating content is an "outlier" in a sense, since the vast majority of people don't create content ever. But more do today than ever before, and when I think back to the 80's and 90's when content creation had such powerful gatekeepers, I'm think the trajectory we're on is a massive improvement.
Yeah, people don't like being corrected when they are wrong. I've bumped into that a lot when discussing things on social media. I find that if you can manage to spare someone's ego when correcting them, it helps a lot. Rather than sending a link and saying something like "You're wrong!" If I can give them the opportunity to decide for themselves that they are wrong, by saying something like "Are you sure about that, this guy is saying something different," I often get a better response.
I don't drink alcohol, and I also belong to one of the religions where alcohol is explicitly and strongly forbidden. As such, I avoid, as much as possible, where alcohol is served, which is challenging at times, but I make do.

However, I never asked someone not to drink on account of me (though I've definitely given advice to avoid it to people as I would advise anyone to avoid something that is harmful, which I believe alcohol generally to be). My way of dealing with this is to avoid places expressly for the purpose of drinking alcohol (e.g., bars) and to avoid, as much as possible, being the presence of it when it's being drunk.

But those are actions I impose on myself, and not others. I fail to see how this is conflicting with the accepted ideals of liberal democracy (which you ascribe to my entire faith, apparently) and how that is a judgment on people, or how what I do or believe concludes that people are unclean/mad/whatever.

Having said all of that, if the accommodation were made to offer an alcohol-free alternative to something that otherwise is not, I would overwhelmingly welcome that, as I imagine anyone in the world would overwhelmingly welcome any accommodation to their own choice in beliefs, practices, limitations, or other factors that everyone has to some degree, as long as it were not cause to exclude anyone.

One of the differences here is that, by choice, I cannot drink and prefer not to be around alcohol, but I fail to see how a lack of alcohol is an equally discriminating thing. I would argue keeping alcohol out, while maybe less enjoyable for some, would make the environment overall better for most due to the lack of people getting drunk and doing things they otherwise would not do, cost would be significantly reduced, and once again, allowing more people to attend than could otherwise due to the reasons outlined throughout this conversation.
Ah, interesting
> The thing in common among everyone I know who is overweight is that they don't even work out at all

Exercise does not help people lose weight, and it may make it harder for people to lose weight.

Exercise is important, and we need to help more people exercise, but we should avoid suggesting that exercise helps weight loss. It does not.
I don't blame you. At a work holiday party a few weeks ago I ordered a cider and some got some rude comments because I ordered something with low alcohol content (what?)
OSGB36, most likely (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey_National_Grid).

You can use https://epsg.io/map#srs=27700&x=262540.000553&y=778255.00082... to plot the listed coordinates.
The article speaks about feeling judged, not actually being judged. I am quite certain that no one at these conferences (or at social networking events of any kind which involved alcohol) cares if someone is abstaining from alcohol.
Considering that there are many Americans in poverty that get little to no time off, Swedes would be around 30-something additional days off.

How many days off per year do you think people in retail get? Not just time off they get on paper either, but time off they can take without being shamed. Hell, look at the 'unlimited pto' scam some software companies employ in order to reduce the amount of time off a developer can take.

Have you ever worked retail? Or do you know anyone that has?
Are you saying there's no way Improbable could have partnered with Unity? I get the impression it was simply a disagreement about who got what share of the bounty.
I was in Faraos Cigarer in Copenhagen two months ago and they had a copy for sale.

Might be cheaper.
Yes, including today's merge of property types:

class A {
public int $id = 0;
public ?Foo $somefoo;
}

The language has evolved slowly but surely, and it's now much harder to make obvious mistakes thanks to a bunch of good-quality static analysis tools (one of which I authored).
There are other tech companies doing related work in China. Are you saying that the employees of those companies are all complicit with genocidal actions?
I have spent countless hours searching for the perfect programming font, and once I found Go Mono, I never went back.
What is a problem: people pressuring you to drink, people drinking during "official" functions (outside of some function specifically designated for networking/socializing), people getting obnoxiously drunk

What is not a problem: other people drinking during a social event. Just get a non-alcoholic drink to sip on, nobody will care
Comments are copyrighted works uploaded by the users of HN. HN organizes and promotes comments. There are certainly a large amount of these comments. Profit motive of HN is uncertain, but it may receive payment for jobs ads? And it certainly operates as part of a for-profit organization.
Could try a free demo of Azure or turnkey linux domain controller:
https://www.turnkeylinux.org/domain-controller
Anime.js v3.0.0
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18885333

And, again, this is about industry networking opportunities. It's not just social awkwardness at stake.
To further clarify, even if you only had 1 host behind a proxy, you can create multiple listeners for that application on different ports or IP's. I do this for a few of my servers to avoid fin-wait / time-wait assassination attacks.

i.e. have apache listen on 127.0.0.* and set up ifcfg-lo-range with

IPADDR_START=127.0.0.10
IPADDR_END=127.0.0.99
PREFIX=8
CLONENUM_START=10

Or have the server behind haproxy listen on a few hundred ports.
This comment is pretty bizarre when taken into account with the link you referenced. Unless I'm completely misreading what Cantrill is saying in that blog, I don't think he agrees with you.

>And while they’re at it, it would be great if they could please stop making outlandish threats about the demise of open source

>Adam’s fundamental optimism serves to remind us, too, that any perceived “danger” to open source is overblown: open source is going to endure

>and in the end, open source will survive its midlife questioning just as people in midlife get through theirs: by returning to its core values and by finding rejuvenation in its communities
I was planning to implement automated gameplay video/stream production from recorded server-side player data. However, I was planning on using a Javascript game engine running in Chrome for this, not Unity. I'll keep the terms email address in mind.
Cross your hands in your back and never use them!

One common error is to show how things are done, and type and use the mouse while the students looks at you. It's much better if you explain what the student must do, while s/he uses the mouse and keyboard.

(Sometimes you will not remember how to do something and explore, or try your muscle memory. In this case do the task until it's almost finished, and then undo it quickly. Then Cross your hands in your back and give the student the instructions. (They will scream at you. Ignore them.))

What are the topics she is interested? People learn much more when they can do something interesting (for them).
I work on the IT/infrastructure of one of the larger coalitions. We have a team of roughly 10 people who support alliance services which have been maintained for just under 10 years now. There's also a spattering of third party developers who develop against our alliance API endpoints.

Feel free to ask questions, there's a ton of interesting technical problems I've been meaning to write about, but I wasn't sure if people would find them interesting
The first point sounds like a defeatist mentality (of course assuming we share the ideal of our location data not being sold and if possible even stored) - at what point would we be able to push companies away from using location data if we are afraid it will make the others more powerful?

Sure "unmask" their motives, but it's also worth considering if their actions are a net good or not.
Everyone is doing this. Not selling all your users' data is just leaving money on the table. The only holdouts are companies who've built their reputations on privacy. And probably not even all of them.
@chaostheory

> Unless you're a summary bot, most people inject their opinion when summarizing an article.

That's not the purpose of a summary. My opinion is that it was "interesting" and wanted to move the conversation back on track, away from Jackie Chan's martial abilities and back on the subject of the submitted article.

> ok, let's pretend you didn't agree with article. It doesn't take away from the fact that my comments just strongly disagreed with the idea of Jackie "paying too high a price for success"

I've no problem with that. I can understand your disagreement. As I said, I agreed with parts of the article, disagreed with others, found other parts irrelevant, and found some interesting -- as in "meriting further discussion".

Do you see that I'm upset not about whether we disagree on Jackie Chan's life (why would that bother me?) but because you built a nice strawman, lumping my opinion with that of the author as if we were of a single mind, and proceeded to attack that? It's offensive and it's usually an underhanded debate tactic.

Had you answered "I disagree with the author because <reasons>", I wouldn't have had any problem. Instead, you wrote "I'm not sure what point you and the author are trying to make". I'm willing to believe that was a mistake, if you'll simply say "ok, I made a mistake. I was in disagreement with the author."
This is pretty neat! Super interesting package of information.
There is location leakage but it's clearly not the same because:

- they don't get your location if you don't click on the ad. Since people don't click on ads very often, only rarely does an advertisers get a person's location, and without a name attached.

- Mobile phone companies were letting people query a user's location based on their real name. How would you do that with advertising?

We need to move beyond one-bit thinking. Location-revealing services aren't all the same.
Its immutable, so painless upgrades without worrying about a borked package that systems tend to have after you've been running across major releases. It also grabs most desktop apps through Flatpak, so in theory more frequent releases of desktop software.

It's a trade-off. I like it because I want a system that always works and updates silently, and I don't make heavy customizations. It's probably not for you.
Media is dominated by news, and news is unavoidably carrying a bias. The things that matter are long term and commonplace, the news is novel and unusual. Major long term trends are not something that gets reported on because they’re not news. What gets reported are outliers and contrarian views.

That’s why if you want to be informed about the world you shouldn’t watch the news and just read books.
Yes and no.

General ARM programming--yes.

Specific peripherals--no.

General peripheral knowledge--yes.

An ARM is an ARM withing certain limits so your knowledge transfers. Sadly, every chip has a different way of programming the periperhals. However, every chip has roughly the same core peripherals (I2C, SPI, UART, etc.), and those electrical specifications and how you use them for protocols doesn't change.
Raising with new YC post-money SAFEs? Know how they will convert at Series A
They don't sell your location data, they sell targeting options for specific geographic locations. These are quite different. I'm okay with seeing an ad targeted at anyone within walking distance of a cafe. I'm not okay with my personal location getting sold to whoever thinks they have a valuable enough use for it.
I see it that way too. We never know what we're going to get. And that kid I'm taking care of? Could cure cancer or something. You never know. In any case they're going to care for us when we're old, so we might as well be decent people about it on the way there.
This idea forms the basis of a crackpot theory I have about business and economics which is that value accrues to firms that find new ways to “alter the constraints of the game. “

To steal an example from Ben Thompson, the internet enabled Netflix to change television in a highly nonlinear way. Instead of Starz offering their 11,000 title catalog in a linear fashion (whatever was on the channel at the time), Netflix offered their whole catalog at all times to all users. This is a shift in constraints that fundamentally changes the nature of personal entertainment which allows the sector to reach a higher state of ‘entropy’. The market subsequently ‘rewards’ Netflix for the change.

These nonlinear shifts are enabled via changes in technology, law, finance, and social norms. Of course this is all crackpottery, and there are probably tons of counter examples to be had, but these are fun ideas to play with nonetheless.
> I'm saying that at this point I think Fortnite is effectively a fluke, Minecraft-style, the right game at the right time.

I mean, that literally describes every innovation. Luck is always part of the equation, you're just assuming luck was a bigger part of the equation than most people do, and I'd argue you have little evidence to support that position.
I suspect JumpCrisscross is referring to the data leak scandals via the API that have been in the news in the last year. Of course, this was also not Facebook selling information. Rather, it was Facebook allowing users to share information about their friends automatically and without the friends' consent via the API. Not great, but not selling user information either.
Scores become more equal when you make the first hidden layer size 10 instead of 100 (both methods use an X of 784 dimensions).

Instead of PCA on all features, they could subsample 10 random features to partition, and bag the results of multiple runs. Basically, Totally Random Trees with an arbitrarily handicapped Random Subspaces method. Scales well, can beat Logistic Regression, but not any of the more developed tree methods.

Another difference with established literature is that this algorithm does not use any kind of knowledge transfer from previously learned classes. In most one-shot methods, including those used by humans, the model is already trained on other classes, and uses this information to adapt to unseen classes. Instead, the authors interpret it solely as deep learning under a small training data setting (which -- my code shows -- does not require jumping through hoops).
And this is a company I’m entrusting with access to my money? (2017)
>Or they are exceedingly cynical about the arbiters and paranoid about abuses - not a bad tradition when defending rights.

I agree, but that's a matter of opinion. What's factual is that the parent post builds an argument on a false premise.
The catch here, in many ways, is Google owns the advertiser marketplace. Literally, if you want to sell ads on common android settings based on a user's location, you have to do it with Google's data.

So, in many ways they don't sell a person's data to advertisers, per se. However, they do control access to people located in a given area. Not sure there is much of a meaningful difference, for most people.
But that's a deal a VC wouldn't make in the first place.
> Should I be able to spark up a joint, too? That’s just as legal as alcohol here.

Considering it's almost certainly illegal to spark up a cigarette in that same context, since there are laws against smoke indoors almost everywhere, I question whether it actually is "just as legal" for you to spark up a joint.

But what I can tell you from my experience in Seattle, if you failed to be discrete about eating a brownie, you'd find yourself hounded by people who wanted some too.
How can you prove that it came from a movie? You can not copyright words else no one would be able to say anything. That's what trademarks are for.
> to have their own national nabbed in China

Poland obviously.
While I agree with you, the complaint of the particular critic you're replying to isn't even about the contents of the site. It's that some of Gab's staff have, individually, said bigoted things.

Even assuming that's true (and I don't know or care if it is), it's unclear to me why it should reflect on the community. If tomorrow somebody were to leak a tape of Paul Graham or Joel Spolsky ranting about their hatred of some race, it wouldn't somehow reflect poorly on the character of anyone with a Hacker News or Stack Overflow account.
Metro.co.uk modifying your copy/paste behind the scenes
Just found out that trying to copy text from an article at metro.co.uk will automatically be appended by a bunch of links to facebook and twitter.

Anyone seen this kind og anti-user behaviour in the wild before?

https://metro.co.uk/2019/01/10/grand-tours-jeremy-clarkson-horrified-findings-detroit-season-3-episode-one-details-revealed-8328678/
I've seen it surprisingly easy. I went on a deer hunt in Texas and the ranch owner had all these automatic feeders that ring a bell when they drop the feed. So the deer just show up on cue and they had blinds all over the property.

More like target practice than hunting in my opinion. They did get a ton of game management tags and they were really targeting the non-typical deer (ones with messed up racks).

So it was a sad kind of "hunting" but did seem to serve a purpose.
Regarding your comments about subsidizing the parents, again we don't need to be that shitty. Things happened to well meaning people just as much as things happen to people who aren't thinking about things very much. If we require people to think about things to the degree were talking about in this thread, and we hold them very firmly accountable, we're going to live in a much more shitty world than we need to. I'm not down for that.
https://metro.co.uk/2019/01/10/grand-tours-jeremy-clarkson-h...
> Backend in C++

Why? Is that simply because you are more familiar with the language or does the project actually require the raw power of Cpp?