skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was talking to my wife the other day about how League of Legends used to accept Subway gift cards as a form of payment. My theory was that it was to get at kids lunch money in case the parents wouldn't give them money for a game - that way they could target vulnerable kids with their systems.

I can't know if I was right or not, and its pretty cynical, but in this other case from the article we have Angry Birds with an average player age of 5 years old using deceptive in-game currencies and gambling/behaviourist inspired design practices to make thousands of dollars off of certain young high risk players.

Every year that goes by I'm shocked this sort of thing continues to be legal
> I find it difficult to accept that this kind of effect is entirely selfish and is based entirely in self-satisfaction.

I can't see it as anything but fundamentally egocentric, I'm afraid. What is wanting something of yourself to persist after you die except for a fundamentally self-serving goal? It speaks of a desire to have people remember you (hopefully even commend you) for what is basically the eternity after you live.

> It's "reductive" in a sense that it reduces a complex, interconnected system of personality to a basic matter of whether we feel good about something.

I agree that being reductive isn't always the best approach. But it does have it's place - with so many people doing what is essentially virtue signaling it can be valuable to remember what the primary driver for behavior like that is. Perhaps it really isn't like that for you, and that's great.

If the goal is not to convince me that that is the case, then why talk about it at all? Is it just so I can remember that this is also a thing that people say?

Your point on psychotherapy seems to be to be a bit of a tangent. To wit, most of the time the problems and the way you solve them are indeed fairly simple. It's just a matter of picking one of the choices you already know you have and sticking with it. Making choices can be difficult, but not because following through on them is necessarily very complicated. I am purposely excluding big outliers from this, because that's where it might actually be complex (and also because I don't know enough about them to really say anything useful).
Maybe if enough people cc the LA DA office they will investigate these complaints listed here and investigate. Just saying. It sounds like they’re violating a lot of laws.

https://twitter.com/p10q/status/1086188664563163136?s=21
Can't object to that. My point was more in response to the following sub-discussion which had become a blame-assigning process.
If the Witcher 3 team found they actually accessed just over 3GB of memory within a given stream window then yes while its true that it’s all about managing resources this isn’t an issue that requires compromise just yet.

Doom had a similar talk, resource management is a key factor in game development.

GPU compute is a completely different issue.
No, in a democratic soceity the state is a servant of the public.
Is it really smartwatch? I mean are you able to install some software there from Play Store for example?
Yup, blister pack = trading card. Where you can at least see what you are buying - think the individual proper Star Wars action figures from Kenner/Hasbro.

LEGO do have the 'blind bags/loot box' type minifigs, which run in 'Seasons', the last season was Harry Potter themed, so I skipped that. I'm currently waiting for the next Season to come out.
It’s an entry level Porsche, just like an entry level Quadro that may cost twice what a gaming card costs while being a 106 or even 107/8 die form NVIDIA is still a mainstream or low end card die.
I can't argue with an opinion, but this is just mind-blowing to me. Judging by everyone else's comments, it doesn't appear like yours is an isolated opinion either.

I'm just at a total loss for words. I had no idea so many people value animal life above human life.
> comparable to lose a human being

Of course it's comparable. The result of comparison is what matters - and among those people who downvoted these two comments, there's not a single one who thinks that these two are equal. However, it's reasonable to assume that while they differ significantly, they're on the same order of magnitude - say, a tenfold difference.
True. At the time, that was one of the things that worried me, as we were all fairly new (less than a year) to the company in question, and some of us had only been working together for a few months at most.

This situation was quite unique, in that our last companies contracts were being handed over to a new company. The new company had no need to take any of us on, and could've probably coped without hiring any of us, but we were at least given a chance. There was anger at the old company for the way the redundancies were handled, but ultimately I think the others would've handled the rejection fine, and while I still feel that way it'll always be a regret for me.
Let's say you have 2 people in front of you and they both design the same algorithm and come up with the same solution (sometimes that's really the case).

One writes code that cannot be compiled while the other does. Who scores higher?

Now, let's say you are a big company and have 100 applications for that position and do the math...
1. Get reasonable investors for a risky adventure.
2. Investors sense it's going to turn bad, they sell over to Softbank.
3. It takes a while, but Softbank realizes what they bought and sell it to an even dumbest last instance buyer - some Dubai state oil-funded venture fund.
4. The company finally crashes.
I also use VS Code. What would you say are the primary differences between VS Code and PHPStorm?
Does not necessarily means they're not good though.
If those several alternatives are federated through activitypub and part of the fediverse, as Mobilizon will be when released, then strength is in the number of alternatives.

Then again Metcalfe's law has a flipside relative to the cost of exclusion from the network to those included and society, and this costs grows bigger as the dominant network grows bigger. Among the effects of such exclusion is the existence of parallel networks such as the alternatives mentioned here, and what makes them very good is that they cater to some of those excluded from the dominant network. Dark side of Metcalfe's law in action.

Had facebook not been an antisocial closed network preying on its users but open and federated as the internet has been deisgned then things would have been different, right now the problem seems to be that facebook captured a majority of internet users in some geographical areas and does everything possible to keep them captive.
No, i was just presenting a counter argument. I never had to actually implement KMP outside of uni though.

Interviews that require extra knowledge outside of what the job actually asks for are definitely broken.
If the Chinese ran housing in SF, there would be housing for 5 million people there

...and enough water for about 900,000 of them.
> Enforcing someone to refrain is exactly what he's talking about

and is exactly the definition of negative rights. right there. that's the definition. that's it.

Now, you're saying that because "right to not be offended" is a bad idea, and you don't agree with it, that makes it a positive right. But your opinion of it does not matter to the definition.

The definition of "positive right" would be requiring someone else to, say, stand when you enter the room, or always address you as "sir" because you're knighted.

Let me also clarify that I very much dislike any "right to not be offended" and also that these definitions of "positive rights" and "negative rights" is clearly not very useful.
That is fair but then we also do not have multiple data points in a formal study to say that you will need manual renewals.

I personally find anecdotal information useful from people who work professionally on it when there is no other information available. I find the top comment in this thread interesting even if its just a single data point from a diesel engine mechanic.
Before that we had (and still have) Magic the Gathering. I remember spending a huge amount on money on "boosters": packs of random cards with a chance of containing a good or rare one.

Then you had (still have) Mac Donald and their monopoly game.

And you had (and still have) the TV games where you could send a text, and before that call, for a chance to win, with ads during kids show. And before that, you could send a letter.

In France we had a sweet called "mistral gagnant", which you bought because if the sweet was a winner, you'd get another one for free.

I'm pretty sure things existed way, way, before that, I'm just not aware of it.
Sequel Pro is the single app that makes me come back to OSX every now and then to work with my databases. This app for Linux would be so great. The official Oracle MySQL application for Linux is so unstable, it's mostly unusable for large databases. Never experienced such problems with Sequel.
I use it on multiple computers - jsut not at the same time.

"If you want to use TablePlus on multiple devices you need to add more seats to your license. The number of seats is the number of devices you can log in to at the same time"
https://tableplus.io/order/extend-seats

So I took that to mean that I can have it on multiple machines, I just can't use them at the same time - which is fine, I can use my laptop or desktop depending on where I am.
Same here.
Though I had not foreseen that email would be replace by mobile number among the younger generations who often now do not even have email or do not use it or do not expect email to be used for actual people to people communication.
Do you have anything that you can share that goes beyond the surface-level detail of the links, and gets a bit more in to the meat of things?
This all seems completely irrelevant when wireless ISPs have somehow trained users that they should be paying per gigabyte.

In fact: I don't want faster speeds. Give me much, much slower speeds so that instagram doesn't autoplay video and vampire all of my mobile data plan.
I like KDE 4 back when it looked like win 7. Now it looks like iOS, the plainness hurts my eyes.
So it's uhhh... wider, with distractions on the side. Often breaks my concentration when loading up GitHub to find an issue of a particular project. A net downgrade IMO.
I often see latency being touted as the game changer for 5G.
With compute being pushed out closer to customers "Mobile Edge Compute"

Could anyone enlighten me to what the use cases are? Because it's still dubious.
Up here in the frozen wastelands of the north, in a city with 100K people, I get 52Mbps down/11 Mbps up/33 ms latency on 4G.
League of Legends recently came out with a new shenanigan, a new skin that is not even particularly good but it exploits the "boxes" system and it's very rare. People calculated that it's could cost at least $150 to get it. It's clearly a tactic to squeeze people out of money more than give something worth.

I too am shocked that this sort of stuff is not looked at closer since I work in the adult video gaming industry and I can see how strict the laws in some countries are around how we CAN NOT ABSOLUTELY have any imagery that could appeal to children. I think it's fair and this sort of games should get regulated too.
In the same way that a smooth weather is equal to what you get when you use air conditioning in your house.
I feel I'll be fine, this is the stuff I love. I'm incredibly interested in understanding how things work, to the point that I've considered changing my degree to maths/physics/compsci. With zero revision I could explain the hash map, it's big-O, how to implement, use cases, etc. I figure that once you understand something it simply makes sense. I haven't looked into it but I'm sure there is some interesting statistics on the probability of collisions, optimisation, etc.
No, could it? If I ever noticed it I would make it a bit more complex.
Ask HN: Microeconomics of software
I‘m currently learning about microeconomics and find it really fascinating. But I believe that the microeconomics of software businesses behave a little bit different.

Are there any (easy to understand) resources that look at how classic microeconomic concepts can be translated to software businesses?
The best thing for me is that I have quicker access to my own repositories via the left sidebar and quick search.
I put up with mySQL workbench, its java based, clunky and unstable but very well featured.
Yes, but most of my code is written to be as portable as possible, if not outright cross-platform.
What if they value all animals' (that is, including humans') lives equally? Would you rather save someone close to you or a stranger?
Yup.

We're seeing quite a lot of episodes of deplatforming lately.

It seems as if payment processors are pressuring everyone down below to comply, but it start with them.
Logic Inbound
This article is using its terms in a specific way. By "tech sector," it sounds like he's talking about large technology companies that have been valued by the market at higher multiples than the older "blue chips," big stable companies.

By Malthusian, he means "large and mature enough to be limited by the size of the market."

The trigger for the thought seems to be that some newer "tech" companies are operationally more similar to traditional blue chips. Tesla is more like BMW and netflix is like hbo.

So, anyway idk....

Tech is valued so highly for a bunch of reasons. But, those aside, there are factors unrelated to sector.

Tesla, netflix and such are new companies. Coca Cola, GM & BMW are old. They run gradualist, conservative starters.

Netflix and Tesla are far more likely to pull a rabbit out of a hat. It's in their culture. The whole company was in the hat 5 minutes ago. Assuming that Tesla and BMW have similar future potential is (perhaps) academic, because they'd never pursue them anyway. Netflix might attempt a pivot to being a game company, if the opportunity was attractive. HBO probably couldn't.

Even IBM is a good example, the one tech company that's old-ish and has a "blue chip" persona. They managed to pivot into consulting. Would coca cola have successfully pivoted into fresh food delivery?

There's a flexibility in tech that doesn't exist elsewhere.

Also, I suspect, the way most large companies are growing is overly risk averse. Tech can't be derisked to that extent, so the companies pursue the higher value, higher risk strategies.

The best example to sum this up is Amazon and their 2nd act Aws twist. You might compare amazon of 2016 to other retailers. Walmart never had the potential to launch an Aws.

When tech is everywhere, the article thinks the tech sector doesn't exist. The opposite is possible too. When everything is tech, the tech sector owns everything.

Ultimately, coca cola is a legacy company.
You will notice it always coincides with when the techbros on the West Coast wake up.
This is not entirely true though. It took Wag's lawyers more than 15 minutes to draft that NDA. Even after submitting it, and the story being posted online, there is still a chance for them to turn around and admit they fucked up. This isn't a totally unresolvable situation for them, they just need to figure out when they are going to finally decide to do the right thing.
True! You're right, I was wrong. Thanks.
In the hipothetical case you're wrong, how would you be satisfied of having lost the bet?
What can neural networks learn?
>There has not been a single hijacking or terrorism related death on a commercial airliner in the US since the TSA was created.

I have an anti-tiger rock to sell you.
It seems that some Wag walkers do walk more than one dog at a time:

http://www.ktvu.com/news/wag-dog-walker-charged-with-animal-...
I thought they had released the new version... :( crashes on mojave are usual... I know they have fixed them in new builds, but I'm waiting for a stable release.

Such a great client!!!
Security doesn't exist in a vacuum. It's only one of multiple concerns. For instance:

> offload user authentication to third parties like Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Google, etc.

Have fun getting that through the GDPR compliance audit.
> Since 2015, the Fitz had lacked a quartermaster chief petty officer, a crucial leader who helps safely navigate a warship and trains its sailors — a shortcoming known to both the destroyer’s squadron and Navy officials in the United States, Fort wrote.

The accident took place on June 17, 2017. So for 2 - 3 years, they couldn't find a chief petty officer to accept the assignment?

I wonder, were potential chief petty officers avoiding the ship knowing it was a bad assignment, with crew that had low morale and not enough training?
Have you considered adding pro features on top of the free core that clinics could pay for? Similar to the redis model
I know Mythbusters isn't the most scientific, but when they tested this, although with a small sample size so it could be off, if you choose Tails every time you should hit well over 55% based on the weight distribution of the coin.
Sequel Pro is by far the best SQL client I've ever used. It's really sad that it's available only for Mac. It's the only app I miss after having moved to Linux.
I just want to say, the band 2 was incredible in terms of design, usability and tech. I absolutely loved showing it off to everyone and having reminders about sunscreen and checking UV rays. Texting was actually pretty decent on a small form factor too.

The biggest downfall for me was the durability. I had my band 2 replaced so many times because the rubber kept coming away. If they could have fixed that, then it would hands down be the best smartwatch on the market.
I have nearly that and put all media I can in the cloud, but it's still complaining about space because I have apps installed, a feature the phone apparently wasn't designed for.

Being able to stream an app would be nice.

Wait a second... we have those, they are called websites.

Maybe apps themselves are the problem.
Mailchimp is something I would stay from as it is a massive spam marketing company with privacy issues. Not something I want to use to stay in touch with friends and family.
Can you clarify why? Surely they are just normal batteries with a charging circuit? I'd have thought it was more a problem with "pass through charging" where the battery needs to discharge (RPi) and charge at the same time.
Did the interviews in Silicon Valley. MIT UCLA Stanford Berkley are some of the grads I interviewed.
is it not legal to charge fat people more for health insurance? If not, that's ridiculous.
Adults seem pretty susceptible to all of the above as well.
> Before that we had Magic the Gathering.

Similar to Pokemon, you at least got something tangible. Even if MtG or Pokemon shutdown tomorrow, you can still play with your cards until you die, and then your kids can play with them.

Or you can sell them to other kids or collectors.

> Then you have Mac Donald and their monopoly game.

Also, here you got a tangible benefit (you got fed).

This is the key difference versus paying for Ninja Wars, or even for non-pay2win-stuff like "skins". The second the game servers get shut down is also the second your collection becomes worthless. And if you're done with the game you can't even sell on your stuff to someone else.
Bug Bounty Programs Improve Companies’ Cybersecurity
You might want to tell the AI to ignore the 'handlebar' in iPhone X screenshots.
Maybe I've been jaded by SSMS and Mysql Management Studio heh. DBeaver actually has a better UI than most DB tools I've used, even though that's still not saying a lot.

Mouse over the buttons for an excessive amount of time and the tooltips will tell ya what they do.

Double click a table and go to "data" tab to see contents.

Schemas ->public is just a side effect of supporting a lot of different databases. Many support schemas

Ram is because default java heap size, you could probably change launch params to get it much lower though.

On all counts other DB tools I've used are just as obtuse and burn tons of resources. Most are written in Java or another high-level language because it's nigh impossible to get DB drivers for a ton of different databases working together in C. DBeaver is basically leveraging JDBC for what it was designed for
Yes. I have a Samsung Gear S2 Classic which I love. It has a round face with a rotating bezel which is a fabulous and intuitive user input device. (Just think of the functionality of the original classic iPod scrollwheel).

That wouldn't work with a square face, smooth rotation requires a round face.
Sequel Pro doesn't support PG though... Unless I have missed something? If you can tell me how to use it with PG I will be very happy :P
No, Mastercard won’t stop digital subscriptions from annoyingly auto-renewing
These companies spend a lot of money trying to optimise their profits. If the laws tightened up then they would simply try to exploit as much as possible within their legal limits. Mobile applications can make huge profits from exploiting human psychology and I don't see lawmakers being able to effectively curb this anytime soon.
Ah, we’re playing grief top trumps, are we?

How about losing a child? Have you done that? Well, I find it offensive that you can say you experienced grief over the loss of your mother. Until you’ve lost a child you can’t say you know grief...

What a daft stance. Grief is grief. What someone feels is entirely subjective.

I think you might want to consider counselling, as you seem to be harbouring some real anger over what was presumably a long time ago. I know it’s not easy to deal with the untimely death of a parent - been there - but lashing out at others and holding your grief above theirs isn’t a healthy mechanism.
BitMex Report: ICO Firms Made $24B Out of Thin Air
Could you maybe post some more specs / setup ?
To be fair, we know one side of the story. We don't know how many apologies they got before, during or after the settlement offer. Nor do we know what was offered as settlement. A settlement that includes non disparagement is not that unusual. We screwed up, or it happened on our watch but if you take the money consider it closed.

Wag has raised $300 Million (wikipedia,) so if they did it save a few thousand, they are dumb.
EdgeConnect: Generative Image Inpainting with Adversarial Edge Learning
Most folk say 'deleting Facebook' then come back a few weeks later. Usually attention seeking.
So they're publishing a Navy report on the issue, they withheld publishing until the Pentagon gave them the OK, and the report seems to place as much blame as possible on the sailors. But it's not blatant propaganda because the Navy really doesn't want this public!

If the Navy feels understaffed and overworked, they can stop illegally blockading countries.
Citation...

My understand of civil liability would be whom ever caused the harm is responsible for the actual damages done, not simply some raw actuarial table, so if I have vet bills, actual hard costs, then whom ever caused those costs would be responsible for them.

I have a hard time believing any jurisdiction would simply toss those costs as unreasonable because the dog is only worth X by some subjective analysis of dog bluebook
Mailchimp is a marketing company, their main product is sending massive spam and they have serious privacy concerns (collecting data and doing what they want with it).

Definitely not something to use for friends and family.
Jeez. If half the quotes from there are accurate, there should be actual jail sentences for those involved. This is exploiting kids for cash. Utterly reprehensible.

It's bad enough to exploit adults, but kids who literally do not understand the concept of money?! Or doing the internet equivalent of the "snacks display" right besides the supermarket cash register line - make the kids throw tantrums at their parents so that they put up cash. Vile!