skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely. And it has to do with the MMOfication of everything.

I'm playing Baldur's Gate 2, and the things you can do as a player in that game are just absurd. You can stop time. You can be permanently invisible and kill bosses without ever being detected. You can summon extremely overpowered monsters.

It's honestly so refreshing to have unique abilities. World of Warcraft ruined a generation of RPG design because devs believed that everything had to be "balanced", whatever that means. So we have a bunch of uninspired game mechanics in a pretty shell.

I'm glad to see there's people still acknowledging that games do not have to be fair or sane or balanced. Their beauty is in their madness.

And yes, a wizard who can cast Project Image, Spell Immunity: Abjuration, Spell Immunity: Divination, Improved Invisibility, Time Stop, Abi Dalzim's Horrid Wilting, Power Word: Stun and Power Word: Kill is not comparable to a Fighter with a big sword, and he shouldn't be. Attempts to make the two "balanced" just become absurd, as World of Warcraft has shown.
"outside the EU" which rules out the majority of Eastern Europe. nice slight of hand. Those countries had developed economies and education systems to begin with.

This leaves countries like Kazakhstan, Kyrgyztan and similars who are barely industrialized yet alone modern. The Soviet empire was all but a thin veil of progress over a third world expanse. This includes Russia, outside of a few metro areas it is as if time stood still.
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Incidentally, this goes a long way towards explaining Marx's popularity. His philosophy flatters certain people, especially intellectuals, and tells them what they want to hear. For this, much can apparently be forgiven, even such minor details as "total nonfuctionality of the rest of his theories" and "hundreds of millions of corpses". Such minor trifling details are not important next to the fact that he says what many of us deeply, profoundly want to hear.

And so the eternal and ever-desperate efforts by intellectuals to figure out how to separate the things they want to hear from the bits of the theory that are wrong. But, alas, I'm pretty sure they're inseparable.
Thanks for the feedback. We're the cheapest if you have 10,000 subscribers or more.

Good point in regards to saying account creation is free.
Thanks for the example. One of the motivations behind this article was to draw attention to the handedness of the mobile user and to the fact that the mobile user's attention is usually divided, the mobile user is usually 'multitasking' while using a smartphone. Under such circumstances, the user could easily miss a button that is not placed in the best location.
I've been through a few weird layoffs. At one company, the division director and a vice president started walking the halls and would stop at a person's office, go in for a private meeting and lay that person off. News spread faster than the layoffs and by the time they got about halfway down the halls, the office was vacant ("you can't fire me if you can't find me"). It "worked" because it took another week for the rest of the people to get laid off. I survived, but I remember it as being particularly traumatic, like slowly pulling a bandaid off. It would have just been better to get everybody together in an all-hands and do the deed, then follow up with personal meetings for severance payouts etc.

It only affected about 1/4th of the staff, but it was enough to send me out job hunting.

At another place, they felt they had overhired for a PM position. So they called up one of the PMs and let him go -- with 30 days notice. His job, for the rest of his time was to take the surviving PM around to his customers, tell them he had been fired and that this new PM would be inheriting the work. The PM that survived described it as "the roughest professional work he'd ever done, spending all day with a dead-man walking". The company felt they were being compassionate with the 30 days, but it was absolutely demoralizing for both employees. Based on that I decided to start looking for another place right after that.

There's not a lot of right ways to fire people, but there are definitely wrong ways.

One "right way", at a small startup I was with, we had struggled for a while and simply run out of money, the lead investor got everybody on the phone, and simply announced who was being let go and their severance packages, and who would be staying behind. I survived, but based on my previous experience, I immediately started looking for another job.

Layoffs are a bad sign for everybody, and I've found that the people who get laid off are usually the "lucky" ones. In every case, the people that survived the culling had it miserable and usually ended up getting laid off anyways just a bit later. It signals "the company is in trouble, our business plan is not working" and it's almost always time to just move on.
Bummer, but remote work should DOE and responsibilities, and everything else being equal, most hiring managers prefer the "pop-in" face to face updates.
I used to goof around on this at the place I worked, which had an SGI Indigo II with it install.

Just goofed around with it, never actually "used" it in any meaningful way.
Yandex may be neutral but Russian regulators probably aren't so it's a good moment to have a complaint about an American company.
Could you point out the passages in Capital where Marx defines class struggle as "essentially hate movement"?

He had this to say in the introduction though:

> “I do not by any means depict the capitalist and the landlord in rosy colours. But individuals are dealt with here only insofar as they are the personifications of economic categories, the bearers of particular class-relations and interests. My standpoint, from which the development of the economic formation of society is viewed as a process of natural history, can less than any other make the individual responsible for relations whose creature he remains, socially speaking, however much he may subjectively raise himself above them.” (Marx, Capital Vol. I, 92)

Marx clearly opposes the personification of the conflict between classes. The aim of his Capital project was precisely to demonstrate how people's actions are determined by social relations, and not by greed or evilness. And what he wanted to replace were these social relations themselves, not the individuals affected by them.

Also, the no true Scotsmen fallacy refers to universal claims, like "Scottish people don't put sugar in their tea". Saying that Lenin had a different view of the world than Marx, and very different ideas on what needs to change and how, can be easily backed with facts. That is not a fallacy.
Interesting, while reading the article (right from the title) I had an expectation of a strong argument against how Google handles things. No such a thing came, other than the lack of transparency. Is that a sign that whatever Google is doing is actually working, or just a writing failure?
I meant to remove offending profile, not just links. Impersonation with malicious intent is probably crime in most countries.
...Is this built by the same company behind SendOwl? https://www.sendowl.com
This is a lesson to me - if don't do your finishing touch properly, no one will notice.

I had submitted my similar open source app a long time back - http://oneclipboard.crushingboredom.com/. Sorry for the shameless plug :)
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> HTTP/2 is all 100% mandatory. Any compliant HTTP/2 implementation will support an EXACT set of known features.

But over the next couple of years, won't people come up with new ideas and add them as optional extensions? How is that handled?

I suspect some of these optional extensions will be really useful in special cases such as support for LZMA/LZHAM compression in addition to just gzip.
>If you install Google Chrome, you do it voluntarily.

Maybe you downloaded some software that also bundled Chrome by default: http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-chrome-bundled-with-real...
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"Be careful, that's a huge fallacy"

Interesting, Are there fallacies bigger than others?
True to your word. Nicely done. Thank you!
That is correct, the user is used to a platform's behavior, and, in my opinion respecting the native UX language will keep that specific platform's user happy.
Hard disks: More than just block devices
Salute the effort put into this, quite thought provoking
Firefox 38 should have &lt;image&gt;  and srcset activated by default
For less than $12 per hour you could be a babysister
Nothing new year, it has been here for years.(2011) they made it a bit after the job/flash backlash to show that Adobe cared about Open Techs. Well Adobe always cared about Open Tech, it was the main driving force pushing Ecmascript 4, ironically , Microsoft didn't want it,even though they had Jscript.net which was exactly ES4, and are now trying to push Typescript as an alternative to JS. We lost 8 years because Microsoft cared more about Silverlight than making Javascript better...
I think we should think how we we adjust the model for any scientific paper as you discuss that in the first point of idea.
If the source data will allow it, it'd be awesome to see the different speeds reflected in the color of the path (with white outline so it still stands out).

Awesome visualization, great job.

Edit: Really wanted to zoom in and find an outlier plane meandering around aimlessly, but evidently they're all professionals.
No this has nothing to do with sendowl
If she feels incomfortable about it, she shouldn't avoid them. Did she tell them it makes her unconfortable? Nerds aren't all good with asserting if someone is confortable with something.
>"hundreds of millions of corpses"

Except that those millions of corpses were not caused by Marx or his theories but by a flawed implementation of it by some power hungry dictators.

In terms of tech, don't blame the spec if you didn't implement it correctly.
You should reproduce the text in the body, and I'll delete mine. It's way too unassuming as it is, I didn't even think of clicking on it!
It's fascinating to see the words connected between men and women in this network analysis. At first glance a portion of it looks to be MRA buzzwords and / or the typical circlejerk reddit reaction to feminism.
Android is still an O/S built by a search engine company. If a phone manufacturer isn't making a build specific to their device and using the 'vanilla' version provided by Google then it is the device maker limiting free choice of search engine by using a limited O/S. Google should not be forced to cater for lazy manucfacturers.
Orlowski bollocks.
I think centralization is the problem here. "One central hub" just becomes susceptible to all the same problems that we face with Facebook et al. To truly create a solution to this, we need an open-source service so that people can go to spacebook.com or whatever for normal use, but properly motivated folks could run their own server too. Sort of like Diaspora, only with a centralized hosting option.
@cookiecaper, you've basically ignored the argument.

> whoever did or didn't do things that precipitated or mandated the firing, the fact is that it must happen

Oh, but you can't call that a fact, because it fails the verifiability test. I mean, firing is a decision made by management, the same management that placed the company in this position in the first place. And it amuses me that in big corporations, management almost never gets fired.

> not everyone reacts the same way or prefers the same style

This is not subjective, as having the common decency to look a person in the eyes before stabbing is something one should learn at home in order to pass for a human.

Truth be told, I would get pretty mad about such things, but fortunately such companies are usually ran by incompetents and so most of them either go out of business or become completely irrelevant and for me that's justice enough.
Hi bdunn,

No this is a new product altogether. We are unrelated.
The deliberate use of the word "observable" when referring to the Universe, is perhaps one of the most profound changes in human thinking the Hubble Space Telescope has contributed.

One falls silent contemplating the images this machine has produced.
Mine was for posting something factually false in an inflammatory manner, but YMMV.
What's the interaction between this and password managers, which use copy/paste to get your passwords in & out?
Someobe local with the talent to drive product, mentor technical teams and manage a remote client is probably going to be either very expensive or a hoy commodity or interested in founding their own company. The combination of these skill sets isn't exactly common.

So, if you finding someone like that, how are you going to convince them to work on your problem?
"It's a UNIX system. I know this."

"The linux build is currently broken"

oh, the irony.
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Lack of transparency is itself a problem, because it means when things fuck up in the future there's less ability to recover.
Tim Armstrong is a Category 5 fuckstain. He's one of the few people for whom I'd laugh if he got a serious, painful illness.

He singled out two female employees and their "distressed babies" as reasons for cutting the 401k match, in front of the whole company. He did not volunteer to reduce his salary instead.

http://www.businessinsider.com/what-aols-ceo-meant-blaming-a...
End user here. In general, I've found GOV.UK to be an improvement on what went before. There are still 'old' sites that I have to use - HMRC, for example - which are diabolical in their usability and function. I love that some stuff is more findable from a search engine than it used to be.

There are certainly aspects of the new sites which need improvement from my perspective. GDS seem to be weak on taxonomies/organising large amounts of information, for example: https://www.gov.uk/business-finance-support-finder/search - even their drop-down filters can be unwieldy.

Likewise, the users who are unhappy are the wonks, the experts, the niche users etc (certainly including a select few who have the advantage of their own platform to amplify their disdain) and they certainly need catering for. But there's nothing to indicate that their needs won't be satisfied. Are they the highest priority when the 'Digital by Default' policy is also borne in mind? Some of those users will be unnecessary casualties and care should have been taken to recognise their user needs, but it wouldn't be the first time in history that someone screwed up by not doing so.

I'm anticipating continuous improvement of these sites, rather than the "this is going to be the website for the next ten years" approach. There's a realistic chance that things will gradually improve. The piece seems to imply that the job is done on these sites, when the likelihood is that the job will never be 'done'.

Some points to bear in mind about the piece itself. One, it's Andrew Orlowski. I like him and I tend to go to his stuff when I want to read a divergent opinion, but I bear in mind that he's not much of a fan of things that occurred after the turn of the millennium. Two, it's not hard to find people in Whitehall and out in the country who have their own agendas and/or empires, and are well-connected with sympathetic hacks (who might also have their own agenda). Some of them might even live in glass houses.
Of course we could have also easily launched 5 redundant space telescopes for the cost of those servicing missions. So, the point still stands sexy engineering is rarely the ideal approach.

EX: Consider how much better the space shuttle would have worked without a cargo bay.
#AskTheIndie Show – A Candid Q/A about indie software development
It's not Yandex that wants the play store, it's the device manufacturers. Google is using it's position as the leading android store to prevent competition in other areas. I think it's bad for the market, bad for privacy, bad for other companies and ultimately bad for the consumers.
I didn't see the post you're referring to, but, even if it is invalid, it is ad hominem to try to get your point accross by doing this.

Also, the terms used in an article matter, whatever the argument. Would you appreciate an article calling an office full of women a titfest?
I'd love to invite other indie developers to participate and be guests on the show, etc.

:)
Yeah, especially Europe is really hard. We haven't found a solution yet for visualizing detailed information above very dense and scarce areas at the same time.
Showing the data above a single country in Europe works a lot better (for example: http://www.cs.rug.nl/svcg/uploads/SoftVis/trails_length_1.pn... and http://www.cs.rug.nl/svcg/uploads/SoftVis/trails_length_4.pn... ). We use an option to reduce the point size based on the zoom-level.

If someone is interested, here are 2 more videos of our visualization

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYfBvQGKE9Y (short pulse-trails with background context, colored by altitude, above France)

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oqxIhO69tU (medium pulse-trails, no background trails, colored by direction).

For more information and pictures: http://www.cs.rug.nl/~alext/PAPERS/MSc/klein14.pdf
Apparently music is maths, but despite being confortable in maths and reading the music notation, I'm terrible playing the piano.

Another thing that doesn't make sense to me is that my friend has a terrible memory: somebody says something to him today, tomorrow he will not remember (unless is something that he "feels" somehow). By the other hand, if it is music, he remembers/plays it after listening just once sometimes even years later.
It turns out ad block was blocking the form :)

I don't see an API method for depositing checks- is that something you plan to offer?

Also, no method for getting transaction history?
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If they had balls, they'd show it as belonging to Ukraine -- or at least as disputed -- on both maps.
Because it doesn't solve any problems except page loading speed. There are other things that people care about and the added complexity of implementing Layer 4 in Layer 7 make it even more of a monstrosity.

I put this in another comment in the above:

* Better authentication

* More secure caching

* Improved ability to download large files

* Better methods to find alternate downloads locations

* Making each request contain less information about the sender

* Improved Metadata

I brain-dump a bit here: https://github.com/jimktrains/http_ng
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> What does looking like Java have to do with being able to write huge codebases? Both Python and Ruby have libraries just as big as (or bigger than) Doctrine and Symfony.

which ones?you didn't name them.
There are so many ways to screw you, that your best protection is a management team you trust.
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May be it's just you eaten too much propaganda in so-called "news"?
I don't see so much of #3, but #4 is certainly rife, along with "I don't accept any of the solutions so the problem must not exist" (qv global warming).

The main reason for doing this would be to get good workable solution ideas into and out of the left in the 21st century. Greece is in a state of uneven collapse and there is a strong need to do something to improve its situation from that of debt-austerity. Varoufakis is one of the men on the spot trying to find something that can actually be delivered with a good chance of working. There are plenty of other places in the developed world where people are experiencing deteriorating standards of living and lacking the political capability to improve them. (Another idea worth incorporating is Sen's "capability", which is freedom to do a thing plus the economic ability to do it).

One should not overlook the amount of force deployed in the name of making capitalism work either.
How are you sure that what your experienced was solely based on gender?
> Why is it that there is not - nor never was - a single prosperous country build on Marxist principles?

China. China's leaders claim to be Marxists. If they are not Marxists, neither have they accepted Western liberal capitalism as the End of History. China still has a planned economy. So... What is China?
You can always ask.

If you want to do the math your self, for most companies the cost is predominantly determined by salaries. If you can figure out the number and positions of employees, you should be able to estimate it fairly accurate.

Figuring out how much they make on the top line is slightly harder, but you can usually estimate it if you can find out how many users they have (which is often not very secret) and if you can guess at how much they make per user (usually roughly the same figure across an industry - so again, not overly secret)

If you make your calculations up front, you will know which variables you are least confident about and can try to pry about them at an interview.
"the state didn't actually work"

If only my state didn't work as well as the average Scandinavian state.
I should have made my point slightly more clear. I think that the OP's post is actually a non-sequitur. Both statements are generally true, but neither necessarily follows from the other.
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Both my parents are/were (dad is retired now, mother still teaches) University German professors for over 40 years each. Both of them have claimed for years that they can spot the music majors in the first day of class just by noticing how much better at pronunciation they are than the other students. Neither of them have done anything serious with their observations beyond notice that their musician students are often far better in the language than the non-musicians. It's anecdotal for sure. But it's quite a lot of anecdotes, for whatever that's worth.

It's also worth pointing out that a better pronunciation from a set of students can skew the teacher's view of the students' actual abilities in the language. That is, two students could have roughly identical mechanics, vocabulary, etc., but the student with better pronunciation will be perceived as having a better grasp of the language. You can argue that the way the words sound is a part of the language, so this isn't really a skew. But you get my point. On paper, they are the same; in speech one comes across as better.
Why is that the default rather than, say, banning all coal burning until the danger can be quantified? If your position is that it's impossible to know the size of the impact, how do you choose one versus the other?
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You can add new authentication methods by defining the format of the authorization/authentication headers. OAuth 2 does it. The only thing you need is buy-in from application authors.
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I suffer pretty badly from eye fatigue due to computer use and in scenarios where there is overhead florescent lighting I'll go ahead and twist the bulbs so they turn off and then get a small desk lamp for when I need light (I prefer darker settings). Not sure if that is an option, but it's worked for me.
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On Android? That's where I experience this same infuriating problem.
Boy I wish this was up higher, thanks!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diehard_tests
http://isup.me/http://beta.theexpressiveweb.com/

" It's just you. http://beta.theexpressiveweb.com is up. "
Considering talent, you also must consider the culture of the region. Minnesotans are generally very understated and humble. I have met many people here who at first blush consider themselves average, but are amazingly talented.

There are truly amazing people here. They just aren't broadcasting it--and their not looking for work.
I still hear sounds from Doom in many modern movies. If I remember right id software was able to open source everything about Doom except the sound effects due to licensing.