skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's imagine you and I play Roshambo - rock, paper, scissors. The game theory optimal solution here is easy - I randomly pick one. This means I will never score better than 50% (in the longrun), but I will also never score worse than 50%. Now if I actually tried to play and beat you then I could, in theory, win every single time if I somehow I just managed to really get into your head. But at the same time, I now open myself up to exploitation and you could end up beating me every single game.

So there are two ways we could approach this game. In the game theory optimal solution my goal is to minimize my worst possible outcome. In the exploitative solution my goal is to maximize my best possible outcome. This has an oddly direct analog to this conversation.

> "..who would’ve thought that putting short term self interest above everything else is not the best of ideas."

I fully agree with you. Elevating self interest to the highest assumption is an awful idea. But in practice it's the least awful of other even more awful ideas. By assuming the lowest common denominator (self interest > all) you create a scenario where the worst scenario, of people behaving in this way, is not catastrophic in any way. In fact it's wholly expected. You will probably never have a utopic outcome, but you'll also probably never have a catastrophic outcome.

Other systems have been trialed multiple times. These systems are phenomenal in theory. So long as every person agrees to cooperate and play their assigned role in a fair and equitable way we can have a utopia where no one ever need go without and everybody can live a comfortable life without fear of ever going without. The problem here is that these systems are extremely dependent upon good behavior. With good behavior, you get what some might call a utopia. But when bad behavior emerges, instead of a utopia you get starvation, oppression, and a general nightmare of existence.

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Maybe one of the coolest things about capitalism though is that you're free to try any system you want, even within it! For instance the Garden of Eden [1] has been a phenomenally successful fully self sufficient independent commune. By contrast, if you'd like to try out a capitalist (or even some sort of communal system) within an enforced social economic system, you can't. And trying to do so would generally be met with a rather aggressive response from the government. Because once again, the sustenance of such systems require everybody play their role. If people just start doing whatever they want, the whole system would collapse. With a half dozen ideologically aligned people on a few acres of land, this works out phenomenally well. With millions of diverse people on millions or billions of acres of land, it tends to be somewhat less successful.

[1] - https://www.intothegardenofeden.com/
Deer viruses also don't typically infect humans. But human viruses will readily infect other humans.
I actually built some ruby scripts that do that using the gmail gem :), got my account locked for one day after 500 emails :) (Google Apps domain)
That's why public pools really push showering /before/ you get into the pool.
This isn't exactly what you were talking about, but one of the best pieces of advice I've heard was this:

It's never worth promoting a potentially toxic manager into a managerial role, even if they're great in their current role. If you do, the whole team suffers. If you don't and they leave because you didn't promote them, they weren't going to let you keep them as an IC anyway. Best case is you reform them, but do that before and not after you promote them.

I've seen this pattern more than I'd like.
braces won't save you from

if (something); { do_something(); }
AdAway is, until today, the best option. All the other root-free alternatives requires the app to run on the background which may consume resources, battery or even crash and stop functioning.
> The constitution really clearly delineates between "persons" and "citizens."

It uses at least three different terms, citizens, persons, and “the people” (and the last is the most common where it concerns rights). The precise boundaries of the latter is fairly hotly contested, and the Courts to date haven't given precise guidance (it is clearly broader than citizens and narrower than persons, but the exact boundary is murky; the US DoJ has often advocated for a definition of citizens and some subset of lawfully admitted aliens, possibly only LPRs, but others have taken other positions.)
Thanks, and I agree with you too, css algorithms can be confusing for most of us and useful for some at the same time. ;) I’ll concede to order and dependency in an algorithm being important, you’re right, it doesn’t feel right to exclude.
This case was about criminal forfeiture, not civil forfeiture. The aggrieved was convicted of crime, and the forfeiture was a fine for that.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United_States#Civil_versus_criminal_forfeiture
Maybe OP just believes that writing PHP, Java, or C++ feels like walking on broken light bulbs. :)

I personally don't mind working with those languages, as long as I'm not working on a horribly written legacy codebase.
A rule that should be removed from every coding style doc for every c-like language on the planet.
Web Payments API Overview
From a technical standpoint, ICD codes are intended primarily for financial and reporting purposes. When you need more nuanced clinical data a different coding system such as SNOMED CT might be more appropriate. It allows for multiple post-coordinated qualifiers including severity and other dimensions.
Ask HN: What App or Service Do You Use for Journaling and Note Taking?
I'm already aware of the likes of notion, typora, pen and paper, Evernote, notable, boost, jrln.
Just wanted to know if there is something out there I am missing and need to give a spin
It wasn't legal; that's what this case is about.

The authorities sometimes break laws.
This article doesn't say anything.

I'm left to imagine what exactly is a "toxic worker", what it means for them to be "productive", and how that definition of productivity allows some metal shop in Pennsylvania to become more profitable ("value of shipments per labor hour jumping from $85-90 to $123) after losing these so-called productive employees.

No definitions of "toxic", or "productivity" are given, nor any concrete (or even vague) examples of behavior or work output from which these definitions could be deduced.
The lack of salt in tap water is likely the cause of eye irritation and redness. The concentration of salt in tap water about 2% of human tears. The concentration in chlorinated pool water is closer to 30% of human tears. Perfectly clean and balanced pool water should be less of an irritant than tap water.

https://www.aao.org/eye-health/ask-ophthalmologist-q/is-it-o...

https://blog.hayward-pool.com/maintenance/how-much-salt-do-y...
How Former Ref Tim Donaghy Conspired to Fix NBA Games
Wait until you find out you splash yourself with urine every time you use the toilet. Or that millions of bacteria are defecating on you as we speak. It's all in your head, these things are not harming you.
Very unusual expressions seem to me likely to be real, simply because the generated images are AFAIK in a sense statistical averages.
I tried letting Google complete that for me and it didn't offer a single completion. Go figure. A great general approach, though.

After sorting through a bunch of junk about making an Excel wish list, here are some pages about suggested Excel improvements:

https://www.thespreadsheetguru.com/blog/excel-weaknesses-a-w...

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/excel...
Leadership and management is probably the biggest differentiator between a successful, growing organization and an organization that is decaying or stagnant. They say people don't quit jobs they quit managers. I've found that the role of manager self selects for people with more ego than brain, or someone who desires to have power over other people. I really agree with that quote, "You show me a metric, and I'll show you a game." There's a book The Tyranny of Metrics by Jerry Muller that talks about this. Essentially metrics are the mapping of a complex high-dimensional system into (sometimes) a single number, so that some self-important manager can make an easier decision. Metrics are in my opinion an instrument of power (which could be used for good or ill). The book Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott also has some interesting examples on how metrics and measuring things in general is used to control groups of people, and simplify complex systems.
You know, Ford Edsel was a "product" as well.

I maintain that it is a non-sequitur, if not patronizing, to state the obvious facts about software language eco-systems. My perception remains that Go sufficiently delighted a critical mass of developers who then proceeded to create the said eco-system. Mere marketing can not engender a vibrant community.
i wish this were more common knowledge. narrowing lanes is among the best ways to slow cars down, if that's the goal.

but in many cases, that goal is missapplied to reduce accidents. accidents are typically not caused by speed, but rather distraction or anger. it hard to enforce attention and mindfulness, so we regulate speed as a (poor) proxy (partially for harm reduction, as speed increases severity of accidents), which directly leads people to wrongly associate speed as the cause of accidents.

it makes sense, for example, to reduce vehicle speeds around schools to reduce harm in case of accidents with small people. but rather than an artificial speed limit that depends on police enforcement, narrow the lanes to 8 feet and people will naturally drive 15-20 mph in those school zones without the added enforcement burden (and use the remaining road space for bike lanes).
A basic linter would save you from both problems, assuming they first remove the offending code-style rule.
It likely doesn't.

My assumption would be that those seizures would have already had to pass the constitutional muster because they were federal cases. This is simply the SC stating that they interpret the constitution as being the law of the land, and that the states can't be more punitive than the feds. That money will still be there.
I use Blokada and it blocks a lot of telemetry data. Saves my data usage as well.

I don't use any apps with ads, but Blokada has reported blocking ~100k requests a week on my phone.
Amtrak Plan to Expand Ridership Could Sidetrack Storied Trains
Being the smartest person in a room puts a lot of extra pressure and stress on you. Proving certain kinds of people wrong is hard. Doing it without upsetting them is even harder. After a while you just give up and either stop teaching people making you "toxic because he only cares about himself", or you give up trying to explain properly making you "toxic because he think we should just listen without proper explanations". Only solution is to leave and find smarter coworkers.
The word toxic is far too subjective to be meaningful. To a toxic boss, the employee who says "no I won't work 80 hours a week and lie on the reports" is being toxic (insubordination). If that employee tells other workers to stand up for themselves or act ethically, well know he's undermining his boss and sabotaging the company, and is considered really toxic.

When person A calls person B toxic, the only thing we can really conclude is that A really dislikes B. The study gets around this subjectivity by defining toxic to mean "harmful to an organization," but this definition make the study's conclusion a tautology: firing people who harm an organization is beneficial the organization.
Your own article tells you why:

> Using CryptProtectMemory and CryptUnprotectMemory for password encryption is not secure because the data exists as plaintext in memory before it is encrypted and at any time the caller decrypts it for use.

In order to benefit from CryptProtectMemory you have to carefully lifecycle strings in and out of secure storage as needed; this wouldn't mitigate some of the issues presented in the article.
This is impressive but I’m surprised he thinks it’s possible to build a personal legacy from an email tool like this. Almost all web software is transient and will be forgotten in a few years. Certainly not the stuff of “legacy after I’m gone.” Even mega apps like Facebook or Instagram will likely be long forgotten before their founders die.
I'd say so, yes, assuming that you can then execute arbitrary code with the elevated privileges.
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Inspecting the code in 4.20.11, I can confirm that the fix is NOT in there.

It's trivial to apply yourself, though from https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9060cb719e61b685ec0...

curl https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9060cb719e61b685ec0102574e10337fa5f445ea.patch | git am

(Or `| patch -p1` if you don't have a git checkout of the kernel tree.)
Could save (edit: not $3600) $1873 per month by using Linux instead of Windows. I see you are using SQL server, probably C# for the code, might be worth looking into running it with Mono.
Here [1] are the box office results from 2018. Looking over the top 20 highest grossing movies I count 13 sequels/franchise movies, 3 standalone adaptations of existing IP, 2 remakes, 1 movie based on a well known true story, and only a single completely original movie. A company like 20th Century Fox is trying to make money and not necessarily make art. It is clear the best way to make money is through sequels and existing IP. Blame your fellow moviegoer for the repetition.

[1] - https://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2018&p=.htm
You are correct. :)
> they believed mathematics is an exploration of the axioms, but also that the axioms must be true in some deep philosophical sense

That's a contradiction, and it's easy enough to show it: a mathematician can research the consequences of the axiom of choice, and can research the consequences of its negation. It would be silly to deny that such research is legitimate mathematics.

Brouwer's statement strikes me as circular. Beyond that, it seems to me that the law of excluded middle, is patently false. I already gave a counterexample: the axiom of choice. Neither the axiom, nor its negation, has a derivable truth value to settle upon.

Ah, I see I'm behind the times [0]

As to Russell, he of course turned out to be wrong. I refer of course to Gödel. I'm not sure I see your point in mentioning him, or for that matter Brouwer - do explain.

> our axioms must be consistent with it

They don't. We hope that we have the mathematics to advance physics, but we needn't hope that all mathematics is applicable to physics.

It's perfectly legitimate for a mathematician to explore the consequences of denying the axiom of choice. (I already linked to such.) Such work would presumably never have application in physics, but it's still legitimate mathematics.

> How do you ensure that that is the case?

As you later allude to, that isn't a question of mathematics, it's a question of how and why mathematical discoveries map onto observable realities like physics and statistics. This is a completely legitimate line of question. The canonical article about how remarkable this is: Wigner's "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences".

> such questions are not part of mathematics itself

Agreed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_excluded_middle#In_math...
Devil’s advocate here: tens of thausands of deaths in car accidents on roads all over the world - shame on Toyota, Ford, BMW and everyone else allowing people to use 5,000 pound of metal to kill each other. We should just stick to horse riding. Also - 100 deaths per year wordlwide related to children choking on bubble gum. Shame on Hubba Bubba for creating product that murders children!

Now to the definitions part: “True spammer” - someone who utilizes his services with only intent to maliciously message people. “Not true spammer” - someone with no spamming intention who for example lacks knowledge which keywords create spam alerts and hence his spam score goes up thru algorythms and ends up of flagging him a spamer.

Also extra knowledge for you, free of charge: emails posted publicly for example on someone websites are not directly protected so long as emailer can prove they got your email from public source. Further a large excemption was created by congress to for example exempt emergency services and politicians from being labeled spammers even if they do send unsolicited no opt-in messages.

Finally - so long as he doesnt advertise or encourage using his tool for spam, there is absolutely nothing morally wrong with the tool he wrote.

You welcome.
> I think you’re confusing it with Google.

Indeed!

> All of these motivations can be challenging to explain. So people tend to overfocus on “this”.

> I haven’t worked in many companies before, but I find my colleagues across the company to be very good UI engineers. Not sure where you got that impression.

It has its own section on the Introducing Hooks page :) https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-intro.html#classes-confuse-bo... .

I can't recall if I've seen it brought up in other "official" channels, but it does certainly get talked about a lot in discussions such as this and I believe that's because of information sources such as the link. I will defer to you on the real situation, but I think hearing about classes and "this" being confusing, coming from React, is where people might wonder what's going on. Mentioning it at all may have caused a large distraction as people latch onto it as you say, and find the situation a bit incredulous.
I follow the opposite rule. If any branch of a compounded `if/else` is braced, then so shall all of the others.
Of course, nobody will go to jail for it. I'm happy for the ruling, but it doesn't seem to do much to discourage future abuse, since nobody actually gets held accountable.
I think the parent comment is trying to make the point that nation state identity is equally as arbitrary and artificial as a continent identity.

People like identifying with a group. It seems like an innate craving of humanity. I think we should learn to be careful not to be exploited for this craving. Whether it is a nation, the EU, a religion or a soccer team, one should be very very careful.
Yeah but this link is better.
I found another recently that has DP on a tree:

https://open.kattis.com/problems/theescape
Fun stuff. There is an apocryphal story of an event at the annual Blackrock Amateur Rocketry fly off where the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms either confiscated (one version) or denied use of (another variation) a rocket that had been steerable fins and was designed to use orientation with the Sun as a means to keep it going straight up. The story goes that once a rocket can track a heat source and fly based on that track it becomes a "munition" and is no longer just a rocket.

That said, the information that you can make sophisticated weapons with off the shelf parts is not new nor necessarily rare. Everything from guns to armored machine gun platforms, drone bombers, to drone like cruise missiles seem to have not only been built but fielded in recent battles. It's hard to imagine that anyone can keep this sort of information "secret" by hitting individual web sites with cease and desist orders.
/pricing is a 404. There are lots of ways this can be interpreted:

>14 day free trial. Pricing scales with your team, not your data.

What are your future monetization plans?
Michael Phelps was fucking with whomever was interviewing him. I was a competitive swimmer and it's almost impossible to need to go pee while working out in a pool. Not only are you getting dehydrated by sweating profusely, you are getting dehydrated via osmosis.
This case wasn't about the legality of taking the car. It was simply about whether the 8th Amendment applies to states.
> What you're missing though is that without heavy policing a large city with very high income inequality like NYC would quickly turn into a dystopian shithole.

Citation needed.
You claim that "the dynamical process that produces luck-based wealth is inherently more constrained by practical dynamics". I don't see any argument in support of that assertion except a list of luck-based mechanisms that don't yield billions of dollars. Here are some luck-based mechanisms that do:

* Starting a business which succeeds owing to a lucky bet on what kind of product will sell well.

* Taking a lucky guess at which high-risk investments will pay off.
Utopianism is Perfectionism, as opposed to Progressivism. It's unsound to believe that's possible to elminiate all problems, and someone having a belief that utopis is possible is s strong signal of either deceit or stupidity.
Agreed it should, but that doesn't seem to have been the cause of the issue. Looks there there was originally only one statement after the if but a new one had been added, so the braces were also added.
He makes it sound like that is all handled client side though, no? It uses the users own gmail account to send the emails.
The Netherlands dealt with this decades ago with a "stop murdering our children" movement. It worked. It should be replicated.

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2013/02/20/the-origins-of-hollan...
>Utopias and Dystopias are only interesting as thought experiments to imagine what Humans could be possible about

They both have the property that progress has ended; that we have ceased learning about reality. An undesirable state to be in!

Yet ideas of utopias and dystopias have been used to advance the careers/interests/ambitions of the power-hungry, e.g. when they reluctantly accept power. they don't want power (allegedly) and will cede it when the utopia is achieved (it will never be achieved).
> Doesn't this violates Google TOC?

Users risk having their account locked if they send too many emails (mine was for 1 day)
Note that the problem was not missing curly braces, it was the missing line

sock->sk = NULL;

The curly braces were added as well because the single statement "if" turned into a two statement block.
(4) is solved by HSTS preloading. The request is upgraded to https before any traffic hits the network, even if you've never visited the domain before. The list of HSTS preloaded domains and TLDs is hard-coded into your browser. For more info: https://hstspreload.org/
Because you just touched your pelvic region which has tons more bacteria than urine itself does. Urine will have some, especially some from the urethra on the way out, so definitely shouldn't be considered sterile, but wash your hands if you're touching your pelvic region in general please.
This seems like a serious violation of gmail TOS and am surprised gmail isn't shutting down your customers and banning your extensions
Depends on sendgrid's perceived customer base.

To answer your analogy with another analogy: If you're gonna get in a shootout under questionable circumstances you'd be well advised not to pick the hundred dollar hi-point as your weapon of choice.
I cannot wrap my mind around why growth hacking/analytics tools make such profitable businesses. They don't add any actual value to society, so it doesn't make sense that they should be profitable at all. All they do is deceive people into thinking that a low quality product is actually good (and distract them away from better alternatives). Why is it that so many profitable businesses these days add 0 or negative value to society?

It seems that the best way to make money for yourself these days is by destroying value; by obfuscating facts, masquerading, deceiving, pretending, laundering, coercing, manipulating, diverting attention, saturating the media, manufacturing hype...
Here's the source code if anyone is interested in how it works:

https://referencesource.microsoft.com/#mscorlib/system/secur...