skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's some few complications I would add to Kevin Simler concept of face and politeness.

The author talks a little bit about Aspies, and he also talks about a metaphor of squares and triangle faces. He implies the possibility of clans, but doesn't go further. I think Kevin thinks that Aspies are an edge case because he relegates this part to the end of his article with relatively less content than the surrounding sections.

I would think that while people diagnosed with autism may be proportionally rarer, the clanish strategy, which they represent, is very common. I would add that I think religious and political folk are a part of this clan strategy, and that callous (not prepared with expected mitigating introductions or hedge words) contradiction of their political or religious viewpoints could be thought of as a threat to their personhood. The interesting part here is that they are not as interested in the opinions of those outside to their clan. Also, they maintain at least two personhoods, one being the interface for their clan, which they value the most, the other being the interface for either a generalized or specific external group. A person can carry many faces depending on the degree of logistical separation between the groups they belong to.

Since face is related to clan or group, some drugs elevate standing based on group culture, and the unwillingness to intake some drugs like alcohol could be interpreted as a failure to conform to group expectations.
My first draft was actually more harsh, mostly because I do not consider this essay well written in several aspects. I did not insult the author; I just did not sugarcoat my criticism, as US American culture of insincere friendliness may demand.
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Martin Scorcese is making a new film on Frank Sinatra. Eagerly awaiting the movie.
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Ask HN: How do you manage server logs?
I'm at the "we should start to think about logging" phase of a new project, and the recent "How I store server logs in Google Spreadsheets" post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8317868) has me wondering:

How do you manage your server logs?

Which libraries or technologies work well? Which don't? Which techniques do you have experience with? What do you like about them? What scales well with multiple machines?

How long do you store your logs? Do you use server logs for performance and usability analytics, or do you record that information elsewhere?
> Psychedelics kill noone. Their LD50 is usually too high.

Perhaps, for pure 'traditional' psychedelics like LSD. (I'm not sure if there are any known direct toxicity-related deaths from it, including doses ~1000x typical). MDMA, on the other hand, can cause fatal hyperthermia or serotonin syndrome at ~10x typical dose.

Some of the 'novel psychoactive substances' gaining recent popularity due to their ambiguous legal status have much, much worse safety profiles. The 2C-x-NBOMe family is especially troublesome in that regard.

Also, consider exactly what the 50 in LD50 means.

And we won't even consider 'drug-related' fatalities, since it's even harder to find unbiased reporting on them as a class.

It might be a very small number (and I believe it is), but it ain't zero.
The Netherlands have a comparable prison population to Norway:

http://www.prisonstudies.org/country/netherlands 75/100,000

http://www.prisonstudies.org/country/norway 72/100,000

However, Norway has less prisons. That's why they want to "export people", not because there are so many prisoners on a world scale.

(The US is also on that site: http://www.prisonstudies.org/country/united-states-america )
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It does not say that 5 of them are in prison by their own choice. It says that 5 of them are in prison.

Further, the article is very confused. It talks about prison (fängelse) some places, and jail other places (häkte) without acknowledging the big difference (häkte would imply someone has been placed under arrest and put in jail pending a trial and sentencing, but most would be let out after the decision of whether or not to press charges have been made, possibly the next morning).

That some may seek to get arrested and put in a jail cell on particularly cold nights (häkte) without worrying about the risk of charges and prison, may be possible, especially for a drug addict who might be making a decision like that in an impaired state.

But it is very different from trying to guess and time a prison sentence.
Causing minor disturbances to get thrown in a cell overnight when it's as coldest, I might buy, but this sounds like an urban legend to me. Maybe a result of someone "getting lucky" that way and people jumping to conclusions.

In neither Norway or Sweden is it easy to time when you will get put into prison, as the time it takes before a case goes to court is highly variable, and the time it takes from a sentence is handed down until you are told to show up to serve that sentence is also very variable, and dependent on how crowded prison happens to be. If this was/is a common practice, then that itself would increase the odds of mis-timing the sentencing time by months.

In Norway there has been cases where the time from sentencing to being called in to serve the sentence have been multiple years. There is a system where you may ask to serve shorter sentences (3 months or shorter) immediately, but this is not at all guaranteed and would quickly be overwhelmed by any "increased demand" during the winter months.

(And remaining locked up pending trial and sentencing, as an alternative to "fix" the timing issue, is unusual unless you're suspected of something likely to result in far more than 4-6 months in prison)
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Daft Punk are the new kids on the block. Why should they be mentioned in this article, in particular? They use factory presets (canned sounds) and derivative riffs - in fact, its difficult to see, as a seasoned synthesist, just why anyone would care what Daft Punk have done with synthesizers of any merit. Anyone can use factory presets to sell millions of albums - and many, many have. Why mention Daft Punk in particular?
It's always strange to see "flat-screen TV" talked about as if it were some sort of luxury item and most people can only afford CRT TVs.
The functional version would chain these statements (either implicitly with temporary variables or explicitly with bind), so it became obvious which depends on which.

As it is now, you can't be sure if foo.setBar(bar) changes bar, and you can't be sure if dao.update(foo) changes bar. You also can't be sure if foo is the same before and after addBar.

Imagine coming back two years later to add some functionality here. You can either read all the other functions or you can rely on the choice of verbs to guess. In functional code, you won't have to guess (as much).
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Perhaps, for pure 'traditional' psychedelics like LSD. (I'm not sure if there are any known direct toxicity-related deaths from it, including doses ~1000x typical). MDMA, on the other hand, can cause fatal hyperthermia or serotonin syndrome at ~10x typical dose.

There is the elephant that died after a massive overdose of LSD. I'm mot sure if the LSD killed it or the exertion it went through after being given the LSD killed it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tusko#The_elephant_on_LSD
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So the reason the Netherlands has more prisoners is because in Oslo junkies live on the streets? I don't quite follow the reasoning.
I tried it myself. Most of the bugs that are there explained in that wiki page aren't really occurring (I guess they were fixed in the meantime), but I noticed creating and destroying new tabs was much much slower, and that made me disable it.
The Popcorn sound was as ubiquitous in 70's synth music as the DX Bass sound was in 80's music, as the Pizzo sound was in the 90's, and so on .. each generation has their favourite factory preset. ;)
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His initial article also noted that he was prepared to take on board any criticism. As you said, good on him for having that attitude and following through.
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Thanks, and thanks to mkal_tsr for the link to Mission Control, that sounds like fantastic music for work! Here is a list of my go-to music for work:

* (mandatory, already seen multiple times on HN) http://musicforprogramming.net/

* Kruder & Dorfmeister - The K+D Sessions. Fantastic mix.

* Apparat - The whole discography, but especially Silizium, and Krieg und Frieden. Both mix deliciously electronic and violin/cello.
> with the various "bind" patterns

Nvidia have been pushing for bindless graphics.

http://developer.download.nvidia.com/opengl/tutorials/bindle...
Norway lags even continental Europe by 20 years or more when it comes to the drug debate, I'm afraid. It's the "dark side" of Scandinavian culture that remnants of protestant piety have successfully dominated our attitudes to drugs and alcohol in a very damaging way, where, while on one hand "everyone" acknowledges drug abuse as an illness that people needs help to combat, there is still very much an air of judgement over attitudes to junkies that makes it very hard to get support for reform of drug laws.
It's been available in Chrome for a year and a half.. https://plus.google.com/u/0/+AddyOsmani/posts/PmTC5wwJVEc ..this is actually one of the things that's most annoying about web dev - each browser has some really cool stuff for debugging, but none of them has everything. The Firefox team are addressing that though - https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/09/firefox-tools-adapter/ - Firefox nightly can connect to Chrome's debugging interface so you can use Firefox's toolset to debug a page in Chrome. Which is insanely cool.
I don't see how any business except Google could rationalize using it. Maybe if a company hopes to someday be acquired by Google they might use it to impress some Google execs. Even if it could rapidly evolve, which it probably wont being an ivory tower project, Google won't put the same resources behind it that Microsoft did with visual studio, .net, and c#. It will become what Objective c is to developers, an annoying language they occasionally have to deal with.
In Bergen, Norway, they have just started handing out the nasal spray to heroin addicts. We have a huge overdose problem here and I hope this helps.
Audacious hackers my ass. That was clearly the job of some major foreign intelligence service. The triangle of tampered antennas included among other things the US embassy. Granted, we Greeks have a tendency for conspiracy theories, especially if they involve Americans, but this particular attack was way too sophisticated to be carried by individuals. And how on earth would an individual gain access to network infrastructure of one of the largest carrier providers in the country?

Not to mention the fact that everyone in the list of targets were in one way or the other directly connected with the government. Hackers usually don’t go for such high-profile targets unless there are some state actors involved.
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And he's also the master behind the (subjectively) most beautiful winamp visualizations
pipelines read better left to right
I generally play games as a way to self-actualize in an alternate reality. Trying on a character and a way of (excitement filled) living like it's a jacket.

Putting in some time and getting some reward is a poor bargain. In particular, it makes replays agonizingly painful. My time is actually valuable; I'd much rather put time into learning a skill or technique that I can start using immediately in a replay.
You have not demonstrated that the clang static analyser was able to detect this. You are going to have to do that before you start firing off accusations that the developers at Apple ignored the warnings.
That last line is just astounding:

The drug that had been “mislabeled” as MDMA and proven so horribly toxic that it had stopped Michael’s study cold; the drug that was far more toxic than actual MDMA, methamphetamine, already was a prescription medicine.
i'm not sure they live on the streets or not - but i think it's safe to say that the heroin problem is holland is being dealt with and in norway it's out of control - last figures i saw were 17k dutch addicts with 12k in treatment, no idea how norway stacks up though

that article says that the dutch want to close 19 prisons due to lack of prisoners, but there are not enough prisons in norway
Maybe it helps weed out the lesser engineers. Step one is trying to work out how to get the information you need.
Regarding encfs, here's the security review:

https://defuse.ca/audits/encfs.htm

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7384730

EncFS is probably safe as long as the adversary only gets one copy of
the ciphertext and nothing more. EncFS is not safe if the adversary
has the opportunity to see two or more snapshots of the ciphertext at
different times.
Consider that what most people are most surprised about is that they have TV's in the cells at all, which itself is highly uncommon most places.

Then "flat-screen" gets tacked on because we still are used to see flat-screen TV's as more of a sign of luxury than CRT's because people remember a few years back.
I tried posting a direct link to the offending eHow page but that was instantly a [DEAD] story (probably because of ehow being a cesspit). That is why I made a small blog post to link to it. I made sure I nofollowed the link to ehow though!

There is a Tweet that someone wants retweeting asking eHow to remove the article here: https://twitter.com/al45tair/status/513975163193663488
I feel like people stealth copy links from my comments sometimes.

Maybe I am just paranoid, lol

Anyway, I'll add this:

http://arewee10syet.com/
The war on drugs is still going on in Oslo, and the human cost is evident in the human misery on the streets (and filling up the prisons). The dutch have reached a more enlightened stage in the fight against drugs, and it shows.
I think you're missing the point - you've leapt to a trite conclusion that enables you to dismiss what the author is saying.

The economics of AAA games have changed. A lot of money is spent on creating a cinematic experience - creating content, voice acting, level design, etc. is way, way more expensive than it used to be, because our graphical fidelity, storage capacity, etc. has increased. That in turn means that if a player plays through the game and doesn't see much of the content, the money spent may have been wasted. So designers have responded to economic pressures by creating more linear paths that force players to experience more of the expensive content, and use more scripted sequences to ensure a consistent experience. But they stop being games, to my mind, because they remove player agency.

The lack of agency - the ability of players to make choices that matter, rather than being one-way ratchets for story advancement - is something that's killing way too many games for me.
The core idea is "The way it works is that the more you behave like a person, the more you'll be treated like one."

Is the author even living in the same world as the rest of us?

In almost every society, there are large (sometimes extremely large) groups people who are more or less completely denied the right to "earn" personhood like that, because no matter what they do they will be considered inferior and less trustworthy.
There's also a similar native app for iOS called La Vue – perfect for late night coding sessions. It's also an eerie experience to walk down the streets of your own city while listening to the sounds of another city on the other side of the globe/country.

[La Vue for iOS]
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/la-vue/id566957123?mt=8
I really think that the platform limitations were one of the best point of the games from this era. Where game developpers had to be more inventive with the constrains to build a sufficiently immersive world and rely a lot on the player imagination to fill the jagged pixed.
I do not deny that the technological advances had made game more beautiful, but they also seems to make the defects more visible, and force the designer vision on the player's imagination.
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Confirmed: I did find the wiki page through your comment and thought it would be a great submission.

You are not paranoid if they are really watching you :D
it was a huge problem in NL that brought about a change there - i'd say the solution was born out of need rather than being a moral thing

some more info:

http://amsterdamgang.wordpress.com/2011/02/18/drugs-on-the-h...
People hate lawyers because they don't like applying the same rules to people they don't like as to people they like. That's why lawyers fixate on categories. Those abstract definitions force people to take personal prejudices and interests out of the calculation.
The article advocates "building a game that's meant to be played rather than just reacted to." That sounds right, but, then, it's sufficiently general that I'm not sure who would disagree with it.

The last paragraph of the article seems to equate "a game that's meant to be played" with "real sandbox simulation, autonomous agents and language-capable AI", and that seems like a narrow idea of what "playing" means, one which equates interactivity (which is the distinguishing feature of games) with choice or nonlinearity. Providing players with lasting choices is one way in which you can use interactivity to structure an experience, but it's not the only one. There's some interesting comments on this in a review by Emily Short of the IF game "Howling Dogs": http://emshort.wordpress.com/2012/10/10/if-comp-2012-howling...

"Howling Dogs" is something of a masterclass in the different ways games can use interaction, and I'd recommend people check it out as a supplement to the vision of gaming put forward in this article.
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By doing this they acknowledge their problems, and have found a solutions to the problem. I personally think that this 'spin in' approach is admirable.
It is often used (in the UK at least) in reference to people on benefits, by certain publications. The implication being that some of those benefits we've paid our taxes to provide have been wasted as they have a new item instead of making do with a cheap hand-me-down.

No reference is made to if the subject being discussed owned the item before they were on unemployment (and related) benefit, and of course these days a hand-me-down is likely to be a flat screen unit anyway.
How is it that three of the best schools in the country churned out a computer crime lawyer that knows so little about computers? If you go around calling yourself an expert in computer law when you are clearly a layman in the subject of general computing, you should lose your fucking license to practice law.
Try creating a new accout and posting - all the guidelines are pretty heavily pushed at new users.
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Well, the jury is still out on whether this is sustainable, and, as the article points out, whether it produces the best outcome.

Also, reading between the lines, it means you're a sucker if you don't ride the merry-go-round.
Sorry, I shouldn't have used the term "forced". As I use APIs mostly for user acquisition, I integrated some APIs that didn't bring me any new user, so I took them off.
I could tell you but, to trust my information, then how might you determine if I actually know what Zero Knowledge Protocols are without knowing them yourself?
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Yeah don't feel bad, someone else did it to my Chrome runs Android apps submission the other day too.

I've got more useless points than I know what to do with so no problem with others having some.

ps. I think a better title that might not get mod-changed would be "Mozilla: Electrolysis"
I thought the article was more a complaint about how AAA gaming is turning to cinematics more and more to wow gamers, rather than gameplay.

From one point of view, gameplay is almost the entire point of gaming. But from another, it's the games with great storytelling that make up my absolute favourite games of all time (Planescape, Baldurs Gate, etc.)

I think there's a group of designers who realised that you could try and make a great story with minimal gameplay, hype it sky-high and it'll sell regardless. This seems to be the current AAA model. Just look at the steady dumbing down of the Mass Effect series from game to game, or the horrendous Dragon Age sequel. Mass Effect 2 had some amazing cinematic set pieces, great voice acting, but some of the most boring gameplay I've ever experienced. Linear cover shooter, tediously simple rock/paper/scissors mechanics, overly simple leveling system, etc.

Saying it's just nostalgia is trying to sweep all these concerns under the rug a bit too much. There are definite differences in emphasis in what designers are trying to do with the games, eg. whether it has a cinematic/storytelling focus or a gameplay focus. I think that a lot of older games got the balance right, simply because they didn't have the capability back then to make it "all style and no substance".

The issue is that the large publishers are making money by adopting the hollywood blockbuster model. But every dollar they spend on marketing a crappy cinematic game, is a dollar they could be spending on developing an actual decent game to play. If you had an actual decent game made, it would sell itself and generate enough reputation to sell all the sequels too - just look at how long the Call of Duty franchise has lasted off the back of COD4:MW.

This is why I generally avoid AAA titles nowadays, especially ones that have been advertised and hyped beyond belief (current example: Destiny). I just know that a couple of months after the launch, genuine reviews will be coming out about the game and it'll turn out to be disappointing.
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nowadays they often do? just run that install.sh!
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I don't think I could "try religion" like I can try a drug. I can't just make myself believe in things that I think are impossible and without true belief, religion is just social interaction.
> I'm surprised you're seeing c# for numerics on windows;

Bioinformatics
I'm not North American. Your post has a high insult/information ratio in any culture.
>This is somewhat incredible in its own right.

Not really. I'm from an average Eastern European country and the rate of prisoners per capita is about the same.
thats encouraging to hear - it seems like huge problems in the US are starting to force a change towards harm reduction, i think it's vermont where it's really out of control and they're changing laws a little bit, for example, if an addict calls an ambulance for someone who overdosed, then they won't be arrested or charged for drug offences
Is this similar technology to https://getclef.com/ ?
maybe less psychiatric help too..
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He's using 15 frames per seconds in most animations.
The guy made a reasoned argument and changed his mind on an important point after reading counterarguments.

Seems like the kind of person we need more of. Not going to weep!