skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is danger in creating artificial scarcity by cutting off gamblers after a threshold. It will likely result in an increase in desire and addiction. Consider Candy Crush, a game where players are cut off access to the game after a certain amount of plays. This has the result of increasing desire, habit formation, and decreasing burnout.

If there is a solution, I think it lies in educating the population and making access as inconvenient as possible.
Evidence? Isn't reasoning enough? Or do you think there's no limit to how much of other people's money governments can spend?
Yosemite was bad enough that I do not accept Apple updates until a few months have passed and I know what the fallout will be based on complaints on websites. List of broken things

a) Battery life on my macbook pro plummeted after the upgrade.

b) I get visual artifacts (black lines on screen and some flashing) when OSX auto switches between the intel gpu and the nvidia gpu.

c) Cannot get nfs transfers to work with acceptable speeds (they seem to top out at 2 MBPs)

d) Broke drag and drop in Qt because of some changes to the string supplied to the drop event.

e) Bottom of my macbook pro gets unacceptably warm. I dont recall it being this bad before the update.
Feds Say That Banned Security Researcher Commandeered a Plane
AWS Lambda as a back end for a single-page app
Definition of Gamergate: depends on who you ask, it's a heavily politicized movement. Best to research this yourself from a variety of sources and come to your own conclusion.

Definition of jumping the shark: A late episode of the TV program Happy Days involved a major character jumping over a shark on a pair of water skis. He had done previous stunts involving jumping over things on a motorcycle. Basically the writers ran out of ideas and resorted to things like this to keep viewers interested (not altogether successfully). So now we have the term "jumping the shark" to indicate a decline in quality.

edited to change jet ski to water skis
>“Let’s build a forty-story-high indoor replica of ancient Rome full of albino tigers in the middle of the desert, and so become slightly richer than people who didn’t!”

One could argue that the value added here is the environment. Otherwise most peoples' dopaminergic reward circuits will not erroneously evaluate slot machines in an empty desert positively.

What exactly is the difference between vegas and any other kinds of entertainment that could possibly be addictive then? (WoW or other MMORPGs, tetris, board games...)
the concept of "macros" in Mathematica doesn't really exist as its own concept because the whole system is based on rewriting structure. for example, the ReplaceAll function[1] which is commonly used in idiomatic code is basically an in-place macro definition and execution, yet it wouldn't occur to most people that it's anything special.

if you're trying to make a traditional macro, you would implement it as a function with the HoldFirst et al attribute.

an important thing to know is that ReplaceAll uses arbitrary structural patterns. it's not a simple "turn every a into b". you can say things like "turn every application of the symbol F on an even number into an application of G on that number divided by two".

expr /. F[n_?EvenQ] :> G[n/2]

[1] https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ReplaceAll.html
News to me. Cite, please?
A little bit like the anti-procrastination feature on hn.
One potential issue is that you don't know you'll get the same HTTP response next time.
Wikipedia isn't taking your money. Neither is Google. So, yeah. Difference in kind, not merely degree.
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"What if OP inspected the script and highlighted potential harmful commands?" OP doesn't. Look at the code.
Accent is not just the actual tones and sound of actual speech but also the sentence construction, word selection and style that influence the voice heard in a reader's mind.

As an example looking at your second sentence.

"Honest question, where did you FIND his accent in the text". It might have been better phrased as "where did you hear/read/see/detect the accent in his text?" Find isn't quite the right choice to my eye.

This was a minor error that could have been a simple typo but is also a typical error of a non-native english speaker. If you made mistakes like this repeatedly over a longer post it would influence the voice we heard as we read your post.

This is not a huge issue or something you should worry about beyond just noticing and self improving over time.

(I would not have particularly noticed or disapproved of your sentence if you hadn't asked.)

The blog post was missing several words in the first few paragraphs and had some awkward constructions. It was largely ok reading for a technical post but there was definitely an "accent" that emerged from reading it.
Almost half of Romania is still rural, so growing up is awesome (farms, animals, free range everything)

Adults don't have it that easy in the country side
The numbers in land based casinos won't be identical, but they are close enough. Having looked into this issue, the data (not just from these two sources) is rather conclusive that the vast majority of casino revenue comes from problem gamblers, despite the fact that only a small percentage of their customers fall into this category.
Perhaps it's because Google is not advertising on those websites?
If you're reading text written by an individual, it is certainly possible for the text to be written with an accent and/or interpreted with one. Maybe the mind tends to do this more when it knows the person or where they are from -- I do not know.

As a native English speaker who has spent a number of years learning Russian, I can only offer my interpretation of what parent meant. Most of the "accent" might be coming from the incorrect use of articles. The Russian language does not use articles like English does, and my teacher (among others) say this is the hardest part of English for native Russian speakers to learn because it is so foreign (much like an English speaker learning to decline every word in a Russian sentence). I live in NYC and spent a lot of time around English speaking Russians and once you hear what I'm referring to, you can't un-hear it.
Sorry, yes, I did misstate the basis for the statistic. However I think the point remains the same.
Your supposition is that the casino industry adheres somewhat to the Pareto principal. This is neither surprising nor dispositive of its dependence on addiction, a term that you neither define nor measure convincingly here.
I'm running Linux on a Dell XPS 13 (dev edition, FHD screen + i5 for power savings). Plenty of power for most of my laptop use, big "infinity" screen (thin bezel) making the machine small but screen big, and overall positive experience.

It's also driving a 34" screen right now, and not breaking a sweat. http://imgur.com/WvGwGo9
> IO is a library concern in Rust, not a language concern.

It often is a language concern: no async/await in the compiler or language-assisted yielding/scheduling means difficult or impossible concurrency model.

With Rust's borrow checker, IO (already unsafe C FFI) + callbacks are hard to write in a pleasing and safe way.
couple of years back, adwords suspended my account.

the only response i wrote back was, I have no intentions either, of paying my money to a company that has little to no respect to its customers.

I got back instant response and got my account reinstated, but, still I didn't agree, I asked him, I need written apology from the head manager, the support person apologized for this, and said the head manager is traveling overseas. So I accepted.

I never asked the reason why they did it in the first place. I was just furious, you don't say fuck off to your customers, without first talking to them.
Discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9554841
Ask HN: What's the right accounting solution for a fintech US based startup?
In the process of selecting a new accounting solution (using quickbooks now), with the thought that we do not want to change it again as we grow.

We are evaluating oracle cloud (their small business solution) and NetSuite. But would love to learn from your experience with the above or with other alternatives
Given that you are aware that you are basically exploiting the digital equivalent of an highly addictive substance that does lead to ruined lives/families/careers, does this weigh on your mind, and if not, why not? [1]

[1] Casino licenses in most countries are tied to paying for treatment of people with gambling addiction/compulsions - similar to how many countries approach decriminalisation of addictive substances. I assume you do not fund any such programs - is that correct?
Ask HN: Where to find discussions on CS papers?
Is there a place to discuss scientific papers (in general or computer science papers in specific)?
When you look at the bad bits of wikipedia you see people who are hooked into sub-optimal feedback mechanisms.

There used to be a problem with "Vandal Patrol" - people would use tools to auto-revert edits and apply templates. Some of those people saw more reverts as being better, and would very rapidly revert and template, often catching good faith edits and users. (As far as I know that got mostly sorted out.)

When people ran for admin there was sometimes a tendency to just count number of edits, rather than look at the quality of edits.

But still, Wikipedia didn't want that, and they didn't deliberately set out to addict people in order to extract as much money as possible from them.
It's not wikipedia's first controversy and it won't be the last. Whenever you have anything involving two "sides" ending up in wikipedia, wikipedia is faced with the challenge of remaining neutral and impartial to it. That conflicts with the very idea that "anybody can edit it".

It's kind of like when you have a jury trial, but anyone and everyone can get on the jury at any point, disguising themselves as anyone they are or are not, and there's no limit on how many jurors there should be.
Google/YouTube is making money from your addiction, so...no, not difference in kind.
"The nation’s crumbling infrastructure makes it hard for those living in poverty to access jobs, quality groceries, and good schools."

So true. So sad.
My point was that hiding a pointer in a struct does not magically make the aliasing go away.
Data races on an underlying array buffer due to simultaneous accesses from multiple threads do not have "a small chance" of occurring in virtually any language where it's allowed.

You can argue that a borrow checker isn't a good fit for Golang, and I'd even agree with you on that, but let's be candid about the frequency of data races in the wild.
or http://hipstersound.com
This should be possible by changing the coordinates of the UIImageView (or changing the constraints if using autolayout) and then calling UIImageView.layoutIfNeeded() within the animation block
Building a nation is hard, much like building a software stack; you have to stand on tons of infrastructure to be able to make it work, and the underpinnings often aren't pretty and/or efficient. Look at the mess that most TCP/IP stacks are, and at some of the more baroque forms of administration you find out there, like those old livestock rights they have in the City of London.
Does the cell height change during this animation?
Read and share content as a summary with the new Points app
.NET Native is compiled C#. You can think of it as pre-JITted platform -dependent C#. It is still managed, imposing memory safety through runtime bound checks (unless optimized out) and garbage collection. The project is preparing to be open sourced, it seems. For now you can read about it on MSDN.

The CoreFX project on github is part of the Common .NET implementation which includes Native, the new ASP.NET, etc.
26 hours in and we still have a big spike on this article. Crazy
Pittsburgh still has my favorite http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Pittsburgh
Build a way to backup our brain+body. Do backups daily/weekly/monthly and store them in various locations. If you die, tell your family to restore from backup.
The article isn't implying anything. It's reporting on a complaint, and the author isn't taking sides.
> Calling [founders of advertising businesses] psychopaths is not unfair by any stretch of the word

That's beyond unfair; it's absurd. But yes, of course calling individuals psychopaths with no substantive basis is a personal attack, and a nasty one. Many people enjoy that kind of thing. Many also enjoy the Jerry Springer Show. It doesn't belong on Hacker News. This is not a borderline call!

More generally: the problem with the comments we're objecting isn't that they're untrue. The odds of this type of thinking arriving at truth don't seem high, but I don't know, and neither do the commenters. The stuff isn't verifiable. What is verifiable is that the signal/noise ratio is low. Why? Because the excitement of indignation is noise, and when you take that out, and take out persuasive-sounding but empty rhetoric, there's nothing or almost nothing left.

I have no problem with critiques of VC as such and have made my own share of digs against suits. But shrill, vacuous rhetoric is outside what the HN guidelines call for, regardless of what it advocates. Repeating it often and loudly doesn't change that.
If you're concerned about the way the tech industry engineers addiction by exploiting bugs in our brains, check out Time Well Spent - http://TimeWellSpent.io

It's an (early-on) movement exploring ways to build products that respect our time and focus. (Watch the video for a good overview).
Personal thoughts on the shutdown of the myntra.com website
I am playing around with React and if you want to keep it JSscripty (being the only dev who actually likes JS) or you want to use coffee script then createElement isn't actually horrible to use.

Especially not if you make an alias to ce or something like that.
Looks like here is a place to start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Statistics
I totally agree. Pedestrians on foot are often guilty of this, too. As a motorist I also would like motorists to engage in the driving task so it is easier for me to avoid hitting them.
Secret Python Code in Ex Machina and What It Means
Wikipedia does a lot of things very well. But polarizing topics are very clearly not one of those things. I suspect that they're an example of something that--more or less inherently--is more of less incompatible with Wikipedia's fundamental model.
From within less, you can save to a file or pipe to a command, once you've inspected the payload to whatever degree you desire.
Downhill MTB ride VIA FERRATA will give you goosebumps
It's a good post. If you're interested, Nassim Taleb (shudders) wrote a counterpoint for Edge.org that seems to have disappeared. It exists on the Internet Archive, though: https://web.archive.org/web/20140606195420/http://edge.org/r...

Well, that's not quite accurate -- Taleb doesn't argue that we should do away with squared error, he says we should do away with the standard deviation in favour of expected deviation from the mean.

(Hrm, I'm going back and forth on whether there's a substantive difference between the concepts of variance/standard deviation as measures of a probability distribution and squared/RMS error measures... Obviously they coincide when the "prediction" is the mean of the data, but I don't think that's terribly convincing. I think it'd be perfectly reasonable to use squared error in your model fit and parametrise your Gaussian distributions by their average absolute deviation from the mean.)

Discussed on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7064435
My rebuttal is that an account ID picture is not necessarily a portrait photograph. Oh, sure, social data miners like Facebook want you to only use a photo of yourself for a profile picture. But many people -- such as on Twitter -- don't.

Profile pictures I've used are a photo of my computer, a still from a movie, an animated GIF of a flying pig (alas no one I know of supports animated profile pictures), and yes even a photo of myself every once in a while.

That said, complaining about the shape of the profile picture is pure bikeshedding. Big deal. How much time on your computer do you spend staring at your own picture? (Please don't answer that.) Although if given the choice I'd prefer rectangular. My computer screen is a rectangle. The area reserved to display the picture is a rectangle. Does a click in the invisible rectangle register as part of the picture? And most of all, it's easier to crop a photo to appear circular when displayed in a rectangle than it is to show a rectangle inside a circle. So the "safe" default should be a rectangle.
What version of glibc does your OS use? It may matter your fmri results
Disclaimer: I am affiliated with Curse, a popular games media network which has taken no part in the controversy.

I've remained neutral to Gamergate as much as possible, but kept myself informed. One of its core problems is that it kept the name "gamergate" for a lot of similar-but-unrelated issues which makes it encompass a lot more than is humanly digestable by anyone looking it up for the first time.

People get kind of crazy when they hear that "women are being attacked", and never really want to hear the full story.

The following blog post is one of the most descriptive of the actual issues and comes from someone who was on the side "against" gamergate. I recommend it:

http://geekswithwives.com/experiencing-gamergate-from-all-si...

Edit: As an aside... while I'm neutral, as a gamer and someone who has worked on the sides of the games industry for the past decade, I can't help but feel targeted whenever someone blames "gamergate, and by definition gamers" for whatever B.S. they endured from some random twitter troll under a hashtag anyone can use at any time they feel like.
In reasonably written message-passing Go code it's not likely. It's no different from any other situation where you've got a slice that isn't supposed to be modified anymore.

> let's be candid about the frequency of data races in the wild.

Wow.
They are. The first search result for "google chrome" is an AdWords ad that links directly to the download page.
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Yeah, it's just that I remember people saying the same thing about Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP, etc. (or each OS X release on the Mac side, since 10.1 or so – I think everyone agrees 10.0 was over the top).

Some people initially have strong negative reactions to something familiar changing but those tend go away quickly as the new version becomes familiar and then the same people will rant about the next version. Remember the “Fisher-Price My First OS” jokes when Windows XP came out? I'd bet you could find similar cracks at Windows 7 from some of the same people who are now saying the XP UI was the Platonic ideal of Windows.

ArsTechnica actually did the legwork looking through their forums when the now-staunchly-defended Windows XP was approaching EOL:

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04
/memory-lane-before-everyone-loved-windows-xp-they-hated-it/
I thought to come back to this thread and mention this as well because the more I think about it, the more it disturbs me. Why is the high-intensity SWAT raid so embedded in the FBI mindset that it's the first thing they go for, and even well-reasoned internal pressure isn't enough to stop it?

First, I haven't heard of any suspicions that Ross/DPR was in physical possession of any significant quantity of drugs or any weapons at all, or that he had any history of or inclination towards personally committing violence. So what's the point of the 5AM ninja raid? 4 agents in business clothes swinging by at noon would be perfectly adequate to take him into custody without hurting anybody, destroying anything, scaring the crap out of anybody, or scaring anybody into defending themselves with force against what looks an awful lot like criminal action.

Second, the cybercrime team, the guys who actually generated the evidence needed to find him in the first place, told the locals that they were very unlikely to get enough evidence to convict unless they literally snatched his work laptop out of his hands while he was working on Silk Road, without him even having a chance to press a single key. This was based on their experience in previous cybercrime investigations. They were completely ignored, and a SWAT raid was planned anyways, despite this and the first point above.

WTF FBI? Somebody needs to smack some sense into them over there, tell them that they exist to solve crimes and not play wannabe COD mall-ninjas.
It's probably not the future you expect.

The casinos are not raking in the money from slots and table games like they were in decades prior. What used to be free or loss leaders for the casinos (rooms, buffets, shows, nightclubs, even the pools) are now massive revenue generators for the resorts.

Aside from that, casinos are also experimenting with games of skill (aside from poker) as possible ways to attract players now.

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/04/24/402010841/the-f...
My advice, if you run into a courage problem, is to plan ahead of time what you'll do if things don't work out - and what things not working out looks like. For instance, whenever I go into any sort of business venture I know that I have a certain sum of money in reserve, and if the business looks likely to run into that money, then I end the business. I know roughly what my CV is going to look like if the business doesn't work out as well and what companies I'll hit up for jobs or what contracts I can run alongside my company to provide me with income coming out of it.

IME a need for courage is often indicative of a need for planning.

As for drive: My biggest drives come from a desire to be irrelevant to a problem. I get bored easily. The first six months at any job are almost invariably fantastic; learning new things. Then the new things are learned and it's time to apply what's essentially a skill to boring instances of a problem where you need just enough coms skill to get the relevant bits of info out of someone. You become a glorified parser. Which is a job for computers, not people.

I feel like the latter one is the sort of insight that is highly personal though. Not sure the answer for me is the same as the answer for you.
Well, thanks, but this memory has been re-remembered a lot (recent work on memory suggests that we tell ourselves stories and sort of retain the structure of the story), and is an important part of my identity as you can probably tell.

My point was: are we scheduling/measuring children a little too much? I have no answers. Just a gut feeling that the algorithm of 'measure - intervene - remeasure' is getting a bit out of hand in education. See the BBC News article below...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-32682280
> How do politicians regulate games without infringing on players' freedom?

You don't seem to understand that addicts aren't free.

If, as downandout suggests, the industry can't exist without the addicts, then the choice isn't one of freedom versus tyranny. It's a choice of which infringement on freedom we find worse: a predatory industry ruining people's lives or the state saying, "Sorry, you can only play games for fun, not money."
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Gamergate in a nutshell:

A: "Games journalism is being corrupted by woman-centered bias. Here's the damning proof: This guy says his ex-girlfriend repeatedly traded sex for positive reviews of her game."

B: "That is provably untrue."

A: "Yes, okay, that was a lie. Why are you so hung up on that when the real issue is that women are ruining games journalism?"