skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I think this is one of the biggest points: they were marketing to the wrong demographic. Dota players like to laugh at League players for having to buy heros, so even if a competitive deck is only $200 which is really good compared to other CCGs, that price is super high to a video game player steeped in the philosophy that "mtx should be cosmetic only, anything else is pay to win."
"And why memes?"

I find that memes are, in many popular social contexts within my demographic to be important to participate in basic conversation online.
IMHO there are some parallels to the MMO Wildstar here. Both are products aimed directly at the most hardcore fans, but architected such that you need a reasonably large playerbase to sustain the game. The developers refused to water down the game mechanics for the filthy casuals, and as a result made a game that was absolutely perfect for a niche of game players too tiny to maintain multiplayer critical mass. Shortly after release the game implodes.
Twitter says it unintentionally misused user data for advertising
As utility rates increase to offset grid defections as storage costs come down, a death spiral occurs (already occurring in Germany as you mention) [1]. I think it'll be politically untenable to attempt to rake people over the coals financially, but TBD at this time.

It's not necessary to oversize your system for peak load either; you can opt to instead shed large loads (AC), thereby reducing your capital costs for average system loads (lighting, refrigerator, etc).

[1] https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/this-is-what-th...
It's similar to English actually. It's commentary, rather than semantics.

! is good move.

? is dubious move.

If you want to carried away double/triple those.
Oh god, this is going straight from 1984 to Psycho-Pass
True. Gymnastics, for example, is very popular but it is a pure skill competition. The problem is that the world doesn't need a lot of new pure skill competitions because competitions for most natural skills already exist. And they often have big audiences. But the business of games is usually selling entertainment to participants.
Well, I for one didn't want to pay $20 to get a game i might not like where I have to pay ~~$100ish to test-out a deck I might end up not liking.

Seriously, when compared to Hearthstone (biggest, well establish competitor) free to try, can grind the cards, side modes, single player 'adventure' expansions etc. Valve throws Artifact as competition, unpolished product that wants your money upfront.

Valve needs to unstuck their head from the rearend, cuz they are no longer beloved internet darling.
Killing ‘Dead-End’ Jobs Blocks Career Opportunity
SVE-2019-15435 Critical Bug: 40M Samsung Users at Risk
It's a good idea. Inconveniently, it's also one that most consumers are unfamiliar with and not really prepared to implement.

This is not made easier by the hardware complexities. What if the user has a slightly dated PC (USB A), an iPhone pre-USB C, and a modern Mac?
The article is asking the wrong question. He’s asking “Why is Apple doing this to me?” when Apple is just the messenger. He should be asking “Why on earth are all these little 3rd party utilities running at startup and asking for all of this access?”

Personally, if I encountered this mess, I’d be shamed, inspired to meditate a bit on my own personal computing hygiene.
I love my Kobo Clara HD for its native epub support. I prefer the hardware and software over my Kindle Paperwhite too, tho I use the latter when epubs are’t available. I tried the whole Calibre conversion thing for a while, but just find it better/easier to have two ereaders.
I agree that the US has wasted immense money in foreign wars with not enough gained to economically justify it.

I also agree that part of China's rise is due to it's economic strengths and strategic investments.
In addition to that, they 1.5 billion people, of which there's bound to be a lot of amazing innovators.

The documentary American Factory is a great documentary that shows how the efficiency in China is also helping them out compete the US. (sidenote: produced by the obamas company)

On the note of the defense sector, DARPA has funded so much research (they invented the internet) that has helped innovation and defense companies help provide jobs for many engineers and high tech peoples, which helps the growth in that sector. Defense spending is also how we maintain our safety. But I do agree, that a lot of it is immensely wasteful. I think defense spending is important and useful, but like what you're getting at- the amount we spend stupidly instead of investing or strategically is too extreme
Libra Association loses product chief
That's not the situation the parent post was talking about "If the AEB has a false positive and suddenly slows the vehicle"

The case you're describing is exactly what AEB is designed to protect you from and if the car behind you couldn't react as fast as your AEB and he rear-ends you, then he was following you too closely.
I think most of the statement you posted were not strawmen, but summaries of actual arguments made, followed by a response.

Eg, you quoted "RMS started GNU so RMS decides what it is and what it can be", which is an argument I've heard, and which the author says "many (most?) GNU developers that still consider RMS to be GNU's rightful leader."

You replied "That would be in contradiction with the GNU principles."

The author seems to agree with you. So, what's the strawman?

You write "Did he pretend he "run things"?"

I believe that's what Stallman intended when he wrote "I am still the head of the GNU Project (the Chief GNUisance), and I intend to continue as such." at https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2019-09/msg00008... .
> Entire cities

And the modern police force.
I remember in middle school using "arena" as a password.

"No one will ever guess this!"
Well, from people who worked with him they said he was frequently absent and a bad leader. He is also blamed for much of their financial troubles for wanting to frequently change direction.

https://v1.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/130737-Updated-Red...

Additionally, the company took Chinese money 3 years prior to him being fired. Red 5 Studios was majority owned by The9 (a Chinese company) early 2010. Prior to being bought out they closed one office and fired about 30 people. So, I kinda doubt he was removed solely "for refusing to take an investment from china". Especially, when they were already owned by a Chinese company.
In all likelihood, Blizzard will probably increase in game moderation to eliminate this kind of messaging.
Papa Raises $10M
> have only managed to beat an S&P 500 index fund by 1-2% after fees

"Beating" the S&P500 doesn't necessarily mean earning higher returns. Earning the same returns with lower risk/volatility would also be widely accepted as "beating" it as most people are more afraid of losing their fortune than they're ambitious to increase it.

I'm curious whether taking that into account changes how many private equity firms beat the S&P 500.
> We better design these systems not to fail then

Too late, we're commenting on an article about them failing in common scenarios.
Happens to me! It's mostly the tube I think though - airborne brake residue etc, is what I've been told.
>> Or gimmicks. _Trainspotting_ is boring life stuff and the dude going on about how life sucks without heroin, but it's written in a Scottish accent, so it's interesting.

If all you got from Trainspotting is that it's 'boring life stuff' save for being written in multiple patios, you probably shouldn't be giving advice to fledgling authors.
Protestors in Hong Kong have got wearable projectors to avoid facial recognition
Looks like it's more than just a thought: "Last year, China severely punished Marriott after an employee in Omaha, Neb., “liked” a pro-Tibet tweet. Marriott profusely apologized and fired the employee." -- https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/07/nba-is-on...
Queen's pawn, so d4d5e4de
None of these are secret, asking for these things provides no security.
Pedestrian Bridges Make Cities Less Walkable. Why Do Cities Keep Building Them?
A nice quote from the article:

> Evolution doesn’t have meetings about the market, the environment, the customer base. Evolution doesn’t patent things or do focus groups. Evolution doesn’t spend millions of dollars lobbying Congress to ensure that its plans go unfettered.

Those making bold claims about a "natural evolution" of technology remind me of people who like to expound Adam Smith's "invisible hand" whilst ignoring Smith's warnings on the collusive nature of business and need for government oversight.

As we acquire more control over our bodies and environment, so we must have more considered discussion on the direction we want to take as a species.
Is Messaging the Next AR Ad Channel?
Or maybe it was just super persistent scammers dressed like FBI agents!
People have well-documented biases, besides reflecting biases of humans, AI systems will also have arbitrary biases that are hard to predict.
https://www.enhance.computer/ is a browser game where you get to live out your CSI dreams
Edward Snowden would agree.
Japan's fertility crisis even worse than before as births fall sharply
Apply to become a quantum computing intern at IBM
Can We Distinguish Machine Learning from Human Learning?
Twitter account security emails & phone numbers used for advertising purposes
VitaQuake 3 is being ported to libretro/RetroArch
What's an "early renewal" in this context? Mortgages aren't things I think of as requiring renewal at all.
For first time ever, US billionaires pay lower tax rate than workers
If you actually read what I wrote you would know that's not what I did.

I already gave you just some of the positive effects of using Diesel luckily everyone can read for themselves.
Is it? I mean, I'm not a chess expert, but can we actually call a chess game open or closed from only the first move?
Zoning explicitly allows you to have undervalued property. A sfh in the center of an economically bustling city is substantially more valuable than you suggest. You should expect to pay the price of housing multiple people, because that's the potential value of the property.
I think this is a little over the top. Vehicles being summoned have a top speed of 5 MPH, hardly a "torpedo".
Ugh, at least they owned up to it?
Nietzsche never truly had a war with Christianity. He was an optimist often mistaken as an nihilist. I’m skeptical why he never went into how free will is an illusion and otherwise his writing illustrates he thought people could make themselves have a good destiny or not. His eternal reoccurrence theory even is more understandable when thinking from a hard determinist mindset.
This Wikipedia article has a similar map for the United State: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inland_waterways_of_the_United...

Incidentally, the inland waterways of the US would probably have much more freight traffic if the Jones Act didn't make it illegal to use foreign-built vessels for traffic between US ports: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_Marine_Act_of_1920#Ca...
Probability Forecasts: 60% and 60% Is 60%, but Likely and Likely Is Likely
Or indoors, for that matter. It's very easy for a house to reach 50 to 100 on an AQM meter, which isn't going to be immediately noticeable, but which very well could have long-term consequences.

A good HEPA filter will take care of that. As a bonus, if you're allergic, you'll get rid of most of the pollen that way.
2 in 5 Canadians quit their jobs because of bad bosses
That's crazy -- nothing should be out of bounds when trying to understand security for the purpose of improving security. It would be like trying to reduce unplanned pregnancies while not sharing information about how women get pregnant.
Silicon Valley Is Trying Out a New Mantra: Make a Profit
I used to pure online banks were the future, but no I wouldn't touch a bank that doesn't have a physical branch somewhere close.
DOOH Reinforced by Programmatic: What’s the Power?
Fundamentals of Product Management
Some years ago I moved from northern Norway to central Dublin. By any reckoning that's a decrease in air quality -- though Dublin is still much better than most cities -- but it also came with a reduction in allergic reactions.

I suspect simply because there isn't as much nature in the vicinity, which I don't actually appreciate. Oh well.
Disclosure: macOS Privacy Protections Bypass
If you have any proof that someone would go to that massive effort of harvesting homeless people’s votes then I’m sure people would love to hear about it.

Given the fact that CA is also moving heavily towards vote by mail the ID issue is again entirely superfluous.

Reminds me of when my senator forgot his ID when he went to vote - so he submitted an absentee ballot the same day. Without an ID. Hysterical.
circa 1995:

Teacher had password written on the BACK of the clipboard they carried around everywhere.

Said teacher's password was 'qwerty'.

(Yes, it worked)
I expect them to not kick someone for supporting gay rights, but I do expect them to kick someone for doing a nazi salute on stage. So there's clearly a line drawn somewhere; it's not their job to act as a platform for every opinion.

"God hates gays" in particular, yes, I think they would be justified in dropping the banhammer on that. Blizzard has gone out of their way to promote inclusivity and diversity with Overwatch (which has two canonically gay main characters), even though it pissed off some of their more conservative fanbase. Having people on stream coming out against that runs pretty directly counter to the politics that Blizzard has already been promoting.

What it comes down to is that I expect Blizzard to have a system of values guiding their decision on this, and I want those values to line up with mine - everyone gets human rights, democracy is preferable to authoritarianism, freedom to protest a corrupt government is an essential right, etc.

Some people would probably call it a double standard to let players support pro-democracy protests, but not support anti-gay ones. I'd just call that having standards. It's 2019 and we're talking about a game studio based in southern California.

Maybe that's a self-centered view of mine, expecting a corporation to support western values just because they're based in the US and composed almost entirely of American employees. But that's where I'm coming from.
So, I agree that it is totally possible and maybe common for someone to ignore the business impact of their work. More engineers should read https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pr... and understand that ultimately their role in their organisation is to Cut Costs/Risks or Grow Revenue/Impact. But being having a commercial or UX mindset doesn't make your brain more effective at using any given tool.

Imagine a programmer who, when she studies Haskell, discovers that the way it resembles category theory provides really effective mental affordances to her memory. She feels that Haskell's formalism makes it easier for her to have a clear mental model. When she writes and reads Haskell, she can predict what that code does to data and her predictions are largely correct. She feels confident in her understanding. This means that if she has a business goal she needs to fulfil, she's confident she can estimate that task, communicate about with stakeholders its complexity. and execute it.

Imagine that this programmer, when she starts to study PHP, does not find similar affordances. She finds it difficult to build a conceptual structure of it in her head. She finds that she forgets things or overlooks things when she tries to write PHP. If she tries to predict how a piece of code she writes in it behaves, she frequently is wrong. She feels very nervous about it. Consequently, when asked to plan adding a feature to a PHP task, she doesn't feel she's got a good enough grasp of her tools to answer. She worries about the risk to the business of her blowing past estimates and leaving making errors in production.

She tells someone "I don't think I'm smart enough to write PHP".

1) Is this statement a lie?
2) Is this statement elitist?
3) Is she a person who could exist?

What if her positive feelings about Haskell lead her to evangelise it in a way that ignores the fact that another person's brain might work in a different way to hers. She claims to this other person that Haskell is easy.

4) Does that statement make her elitist?

-----

My answers: No, No, Yes, Kinda yea.
Surprising absolutely nobody.
Training data is an issue. Microsoft released some datasets of buildings in North America (125 million footprints). Later, they decided to use the same technology to generate building footprints in Uganda and Tanzania:

https://blogs.bing.com/maps/2019-09/microsoft-releases-18M-b...

They needed different training data to cope with the different landscapes.

Facebook has faced similar challenges trying to use ML to generate road centerlines for OpenStreetMap.
Terraforming Cloudflare: in quest of the optimal setup
How would that help? Winnie the Pooh could have had all the in-cartoon moderation it wanted and it's still mocking Xi.
nobody is saying that building side projects won't give you happiness - the point is that not everyone is the same and you cannot take a brush and paint the same expectations as everyone. is that so hard to acknowledge?
Yeah I prefer a single column while keeping the window at the full width of the display. It tends to shrink the window to fit it's preconceived notions of "vertical rhythm" as they call it in the text world I guess - or usually trying to keep the width to 70-80 characters. I don't like this though
Another alternative would be to upgrade xcode as part of the OS upgrade so all of my apps continue to work without me having to figure out this extra undocumented step. I'm not even using xcode. I just need the latest command-line tools for everything else to work.
I'm surprised the FISA court objected, given their rubber-stamp nature.
You should be careful even about doing that if you are on a landline. There is a landline scam where they don't let the call disconnect, so when you hangup and then think you are dialing the bank, you are actually still connected to the scammer.

Always use your mobile phone to make the call (although I'm sure its only a matter of time before even that is compromised).

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/etobicoke-couple-defrauded-of-mor...
I’m sort of curious what dmr’s was now (his hash is gfVwhuAMF0Trw) from the same dump...
Everything you do is directly or indirectly part of politics. Your action and inaction both.
The biggest mistake was offering any information. You never offer information, you only confirm or deny things that they tell you. If they insist on things like member id, or email, you hang up, and call the bank yourself.

We as a society need some form of standardized ISO 9001-level protocol where ALL companies handle security the same way. They all ask the same questions, they don't allow first-tier support access to passwords or changing password, only specialized tier-2 support has this power, etc.

If all companies like banks, Amazon, Facebook, etc standardize their procedures in a way that leaks no information, or engage customers in a way that leaks no information, then it will make it harder to phish people because phisher will be forced to ask weird questions that customers will detect as weird.

The problem right now is that some companies ask for last 4 digits of SSN, last 4 digits of credit card, some ask for email address, etc, etc. A phisher can put all those together so if you reduce the attack surface it makes it very very hard.
I've got one of those!

At risk of sounding like a commercial, you should get a Levoit HEPA purifier. It'll clear that right up.
Well it's 30MM on stake, and 3X more already in valves pocket. I don't think it's tolerable to see bugs in this event.
Not to rain on the parade but wasn’t it Yoshino’s anode work that reduced the liklihood of immolation?
Probably a dearth of chess passwords in their database. Try haveibeenpawnd.
> The poster I was replying to seems to think that gamers are useless, ie irrelevant.

Try "beneath contempt" and you might get closer to how I feel about the average gamer. From what I've seen, gamers don't have the nerve to bite the hand that feeds them poisoned meat, and have been happy to do little more than complain when they get shafted by a developer or publisher.

If they actually manage to use GDPR to carve a huge chunk out of Blizzard's profits, I might have to revise my opinion of gamers, and promote them to merely useless and irrelevant.
Big vessels perhaps.

I've seen some big ships in parts of the broads, and the Manchester shipping canal is for, well, ships.

And yes I was thinking of the Canal du Midi.
There's also a tool at https://coast.noaa.gov/inventory/

Not sure how it differs/overlaps with the National Map viewer.
The anti-government protestors in Hong Kong are terrorists, as defined by Hong Kong and International laws. Source: https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/30...

Ordinary Hong Kong people have lost freedom to work, travel in Hong Kong or even voice a different opinion because of their lawless actions. If you support freedom in Hong Kong, you should condemn the protesters.
Closed game is 1. d4 d5. There are quite a few opening lines that start with 1. d4, but do not continue into the closed game.
> Evolution is a terrible metaphor for technology

If you remove this assertion, the article is unnecessarily alarmist about all new tech.
A very small portion of PE is funds focused on either turning around poorly-run companies or growing small companies, mainly because this is very hard and requires specializing in a sector. Plus exit horizons are longer than 3-5 years.

Most PE activity is about finding a cash-rich company with steady returns, having said firm take out large loans to service the debt, and using fees/dividend recaps to transfer company wealth to the PE fund. PE acquired companies have a much higher bankruptcy rate than the benchmark
Also true of the most basic components that we take for granted now, e.g. screws. The concept was known to the ancients, but they weren't mass produced as fasteners until the 1760s [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screw
Point 3 is also covered in the study.
Applications can write files perfectly fine without the ‘can access the desktop’ permission. When you tell the application to open a file using the system dialogs, the system automatically grants the application access to read and write the file.

The permission is needed only when the application wants to go around the normal way of opening files.
Absolutely. You're in the middle of something else. Your "bank" calls you. You're thinking "What the hell do they want and how can I deal with this as quickly as possible?" Etc. I like to think that I'd never fall for any of these scams and I'm sure I'm more conscious of the possibility than I would have been at one point. But I can't really swear that distracted me whose mind is 75% focused on some other task is as security-aware as I like to think I am.
Where I live, and I believe many other European countries as well, diesel is about 5-10% cheaper than gasoline (due to less tax). OTOH there's a yearly fixed tax for diesel cars (some hundreds of EUR).

So the intent at least originally was to discourage the plebs from buying diesel cars, whereas those that used a lot like trucks, taxis etc. got cheaper fuel (for them the fixed yearly tax was a trivial cost compared to the advantage of cheaper fuel and a more efficient engine).

I agree this is a mistake that should be rectified, but it is of course politically very difficult.
This is a pity. It's sad that big oil won the ethanol/gasoline war, otherwise we could all be driving clean-burning high-revving cars.

Even bigger pity that electric didn't win in the 1910s.