skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm really just replying to this so that I can see my karma score go up and I can get a little endorphin hit, really.

But in all seriousness, it seems that the things that are most destructive are those things that have brains have been trained to drip feel-good chemicals - we distill the essence of that thing and make it easy and cheap to reproduce. Your brain likes it when you eat food because it keeps you alive? Well, it looks like a lot of that is coming from sugar/carbs. How about we put an absurd amount of sugar in water and call it "soda," adding a little caffeine for good measure, and sell it for $1/bottle? Your body reacts pleasantly (in the short-term) to fats? Here's a hamburger. Your body will eventually regret it, and overall the outcome will be negative, but the initial spike will be enough that you either never put the two together, or can't resist it.

Evolution has trained you to enjoy reproducing? Well really you just enjoy the act of sex. And actually not even sex per se, it looks like we can stimulate you with a few visuals and something touching you... porn becomes one of the biggest industries that exist.

Drugs are a much more literal version of that, distilling what makes your brain act certain ways in a literal sense. But in my mind whether or not something is a "drug" isn't binary; it's a continuum. I'd like to see someone try to take Diet Coke away from my cousin and then convince me it's not a drug.

So is candy crush an addiction? For some people, absolutely. They've moved themselves along that continuum.

The scary thing is if you have a consumer product, trying to make someone become addicted is pretty much the definition of what you do. Cigarettes are good business; would you start a cigarette company? Soda is good business, would you start a soda company? Brownies are good business, would you start a brownie company?

It seems to me that our minds haven't yet adapted to the reality that now the entire world of information is in our pockets, not to mention buzzing and sending us notifications. It's certainly no mystery why people are always so buried in their phones. It really concerns me personally, enough that I turn off all notifications and don't even allow myself to download certain apps, because I know I'd use them. My hosts file is full of sites that are addictive.

I don't know what the answer is, but it's something I think about a lot as the founder of a consumer product. I would love people to feel like they have to come back and use my site every day. I'm trying to create that feeling. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? I don't know.
I think you're coming from a place of a young adult. Anybody with kids will see it quite differently - there's a lot more to it than mate selection :)

As for kids being happy - they just have near infinite energy to spare. As your responsibilities increase and your infinite energy begins to whither, it's a different dynamic.
I am sorry, but I fail to see how this would be of any help.

It is known that piping unknown scripts to bash is a bad thing. So when somebody decides to pipe into bash, they are either (1) sure of the source or (2) completely clueless about what the hell they are doing. In case (1) there is no need for the tool, and in case (2) asking "do you really want to run this?" will not make any difference since they just typed 'curl <whatever> | sh' into their shell.
It absolutely should be. Also, it would be quite easy to help people self-regulate by creating a blacklist of credit card numbers which one could sign oneself up on and which all online casinos would have to use.
Which makes me feel I've spent the energy reading about the potential vaporware. Ugh.

The author writes:

http://kennykerr.ca/2014/08/29/a-modern-update/

"I have started using it myself and am really enjoying the experience but it has a few rough edges that I need to work on before I can make it more widely available"

So he has the site about it, writes the articles about it... and it works only for him.
Oh, this is super cool! Thank you.
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There are other ways to achieve the results basic income is trying to achieve. Subsidize their electricity,water,phone. Give free textbooks, subsidize education for their children. Teach them how to manage money. Reduce the government overhead with technology, get more efficient, invest the excess money in the programs. Those are not problems only for starving people. You can do it for people with under certain threshold of median income. People will be free to spend their money on things other than the bare necessities, thus increasing their quality of life.
Meditation is a way, it needs a bit of training but with some sound guidance and regular practice you can get some good results in a few weeks or so and they're really worth it.
Apart from that: Do something else. Have a walk. Eat some kale ice cream. And maybe you'll find Burroughs' word to be true: "Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer."
> One way to deals with this is to only recognise in one rule all identifiers including keywords (something like "[a-z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]+" and to use a hash table of keywords to check whether a match is a keyword or an identifier (and which one).

A lot of production parsers I've seen do this with two state machines. They'll have a top-level state machine (usually hand-implemented using a giant switch statement) that handles all of the main different token types—numbers, strings, punctuators, etc. That has a single type for all identifiers, including keywords.

Then, after it determines a token is a identifier, it runs another little tiny optimized state machine to see if it's a reserved word or not.
Vaguely related: http://datagenetics.com/blog/november12012/index.html

(Where is the 'best' place to stand to minimize the average distance required to answer three phones place on a wall).
Perhaps this is simplistic, but one question you might ask yourself is whether you're offering something of value or exploiting a psychological weaknesses inherent to humans.
It's a transitional phase :)

If you can find some people to do stuff with that you like, it's quite fun. A lot more fun frankly - as a child, you can only do so much. As an adult with a career in IT, you can do a looooot more. Plus you get to have sex, aw ye!

If you're bored, you haven't found the right people and it likely means you have trouble getting along with them to begin with, so work on that.
Wasn't the whole point of Go that everything was simple and "just works"? I've heard a lot of people here on HN say that they love go because you don't need to keep track of weird quirks or implementation details. This seems to fly in the face of that philosophy.
The richest man in town with all the guns, do you mean uncle Sam? The guy who tortures and murders innocent people without consequence, he's the guy you want to empower and trust with property rights, the guy who allows his cops to steal property without cause, that's the guy you want enforcing property rights?
The entire economic argument for making (illegal) immigrants citizens is that they do the work that Americans won't do and that they contribute to the economy already. If you don't have to work anymore if you're a citizen, it completely destroys that argument for immigration. Also, the part where if UBI existed, those horrible-paying jobs would have to raise their wages to get anybody to do them, which would price immigrants out of the market because natives would then be incentivized to do them.
People should only be hired on merit.

It should not be the job of human resources to resolve social issues.
Unless we discuss this issue in terms of cost/benefit analysis of various strategies I don't see a reason to continue this discussion.
While states dominate history, private law has proven successful. You could see the Law Merchant throughout Europe as one example or medieval Iceland, where civil order was maintained for longer than the US has existed so far, as another.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_mercatoria

https://mises.org/library/medieval-iceland-and-absence-gover...

Regarding your other concerns see points 8 & 6 here:

http://c4ss.org/content/13612

While I have some differences with this author, you could consider this video as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTYkdEU_B4o
Most wouldn't. And the vast majority of films certainly wouldn't be made if they had to depend on donations.

>I for one choose to believe that people mostly want to support the artists, hence the popularity of said services.

I think that's very optimistic of you. In a world where you had a Netflix and a "Cheapflix" that was a quarter the monthly price because it (legally) didn't pay for any of its content but was otherwise identical to the Netflix of that world, I'm pretty sure the vast majority of people would go with the less expensive option.
My view is that kids are exploring and loving the world. Adults are support mechanisms for kids (and elderly). But we have been stripped of community and if you happen to not have kids, you can be even more isolated. Being around (free) kids is a great way to feel meaning in life.

Adults are driven by our evolution to be useful to the community. Games are designed to allow humans (particularly kids) to master skills. Adults ideally should have already mastered much of the needed skills. Hence games cease to be interesting the more one gets older (in general -- there are always plenty of exceptions).
I'd probably be saying "Eureka!" if this were 1997. But it's 2015. This is super basic stuff. Do people these days just blindly assume a MSS of 1460 is going to work on the Internet? Or do they think that the Internet is comprised entirely of Ethernet links?

Or has the use of cloud providers and reliance on higher level programming languages produced a generation of ops people who don't understand the mechanics of how things work?
btw did you do a fresh install? I'd always just upgraded and had no problems; until Yosemite. It's a bit more time consuming but Yosemite has worked great for me since I did a fresh install.
Check out this addon: https://github.com/pangratz/ember-cli-htmlbars-inline-precom...

We've started using it for inline templates in tests, but it should work just great with inline templates for components.

The pods convention you described definitely helps though.
Each of those states has a large tech hub, that though smaller than Silicon Valley, is a much larger portion of the state's economy because those states are much smaller than California. E.g. the SF Bay Area holds 18% of California's population while 31% of VA's population is in the DC metro area.
> I do care how your lazy, careless, ignorant use of psychiatric language perpetuates stigma against a wide range of disenfranchised powerless people.

This does not seem fair. We're talking about people like Zuck and Spiegel who actually are screwing up people, who literally joke about peeing on women and literally brag about violating people's privacy purposely. We're talking about founders of companies whose primary means of income is duping people by advertising. Calling them psychopaths is not unfair by any stretch of the word. Personally I'm not a fan of michaelochurch's wild outbursts either, but it's clear he isn't the one attacking powerless people, the situation is actually quite the opposite of that.
An interesting fact that I have noticed, but I never see anyone mention, is that Tomb Raider has virtually the exact same controls as the older Prince of Persia (the original 2D platformer) game.
It's pretty obvious that the feds are using these incidents to discourage further security research on airplanes. Chris was interviewed on the Security Weekly podcast last week and gave a little more detail on his side of the story.

https://youtu.be/oo1sb0kYiJc?t=225
You can use Google Translate to convert the page into your language.
I'd argue that a slot machine is spiritually the same as "gamification" in general.
YouTube works really well for music, they have deals with the music industry. I haven't had song blocked on youtube in a long time, depends on where you live though.

Spotify still exists.

There are thousands of alternatives to Mega Video, for example popcorn time, which is pretty much as convinient as netflix itself.

Netflix still exists.

No, they aren't irrelevant in a copyright less world.
Disclaimer: I work as a teacher in a Further Education college in the UK (like a general education college) and I teach adult education classes.

Politicians here are fond of talking about 'raising standards', and ordinary people you talk to have started to echo this language. I've developed a strategy for dealing with this. I just ask 'what is a standard? what do you mean, what is it we are raising?'. The result is a stuttering fall-back on things that can be measured (pass rates on our national tests and external exams and so on). I suspect the bathwater is thick with babies - we are focussing on the scaffold/feedback at the cost of the underlying process we wanted feedback on. Exam results seem to replace the things the results were symptoms of.

Before I started teaching, I studied physics at a reasonably good UK university then tried a PhD at another good one. I didn't write up the PhD but had a good four years and learned lots.

What got me into physics?

Its 1963. It is raining. I'm dawdling which Mum doesn't like but I'm coming home by my self now. I have my yellow raincoat, wellies and souwester on. I like those because they look like the seamen on the tugs.

I'm watching the rain running down the gutter on the side of the road - the road cambers gently to the curb so the cross section of flow is wedge shaped with a slight curve - water running fast but there is a stable pattern of waves at an angle to the kerb that stays the same. The water is running through the structure of waves. How does the structure of waves stay there if the water is moving? I drop leaves in the water and watch them race down the hill under the waves that stay still. I stay for what seems a long time (probably about 2 minutes!) and listen to the rain on my hat - little rattling sound. Then carry on home.

Most of my work in physics was (in one way or another) to do with that question. I don't think you can schedule that kind of experience. In praise of dawdling.
Scott Alexander wrote this about Vegas:

>Las Vegas doesn’t exist because of some decision to hedonically optimize civilization, it exists because of a quirk in dopaminergic reward circuits, plus the microstructure of an uneven regulatory environment, plus Schelling points. A rational central planner with a god’s-eye-view, contemplating these facts, might have thought “Hm, dopaminergic reward circuits have a quirk where certain tasks with slightly negative risk-benefit ratios get an emotional valence associated with slightly positive risk-benefit ratios, let’s see if we can educate people to beware of that.” People within the system, following the incentives created by these facts, think: “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!” [http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/]

Moral qualms will be crushed by competitive dynamics. I'm pretty afraid of this addiction arms race, especially with the coming rise of VR.
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Sounds like you're asking abstract questions instead of concrete ones. The concrete questions will have concrete answers and you can go from there.

With abstract questions, you can sit around wondering for eternity. Unless you come to recognize that you're not getting anywhere (life will remind you soon enough) and do something concrete instead :)

If you replace wisdom with 'competence' it becomes much more down to earth. When somebody else is feeding, clothing, scheduling, teaching etc and all you have to do is use your base instincts, it's easy to be competent, you don't need to do anything.

When you have to feed, clothe, schedule, teach etc yourself AND others AND then some, it can be quite a challenge.

Children are not competent at much of anything, so there you go :)
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A lot of people praise Mithril for its small file size and speed, but one of its greatest and perhaps most overlooked advantages is its small learning curve. You only really need to understand two things to get started: what a component is (a plain JS object with controller and view), and when a redraw happens (once on m.mount, and once after every event handler).

Why is a low learning curve important? Several reasons. If you're a developer, it's not a huge investment to learn (how difficult was it to learn backbone / angular / ember?). If you're a startup / company, you don't need to look for X developers, where X is a difficult-to-pick-up JavaScript framework. You also save money by having a shorter on-boarding period for those non-X developers.

I've worked in a hackathon group that picked Mithril up and created amazing results with it right away. I teach at a coding school, and by far Mithril has been the easiest JS framework for my students to learn and work with. For being so powerful, Mithril is quite easy to get started with – and that means a lot.
> 1 - Many of black students admitted to Harvard aren't black Americans, they are Africans, with test scores and grades on par with Asian-American students.

i've heard of african immigrants doing better, economically. but never students, any sort of supporting link to this point?
That could certainly make sense.

One argument I see for making them file anyway is reducing disincentives to work; I'm not at all sure the magnitude of that disincentive is worth the extra paperwork, though.
Heads up for anyone trying to run the example code here: the syntax for importing modules changed in Elm 0.15.

https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-compiler/blob/master/changel...
> Without a PrintScreen key, I had to download some software to let me take a timed screenshot. One thing I miss from OS X is the Cmd+Shift+3 shortcut.

I believe the shortcut you're looking for is Cmd+Shift+S. Courtesy of OneNote, it's the equivalent of Cmd+Shift+4 on Mac OS.
I'm actually surprised they ended up getting a successful outcome, given the hostile tone they took with the support person. Being hostile is usually a great way to get a "sorry, can't help you" response.
How can I spend $10,000 in 1 day on Facebook?
I work at startup which is growing very fast. Our team does not have digital marketing expert, hence I am looking after it - still learning.

We have a big feature/campaign launch tomorrow. In order to reach a large audience, I have secured a budget of $10,000 for 1 day.

I have noticed, it is difficult to spend a lot of money on first days of the campaign. Need to help in this regard.

About the product:

It is an online grocery shopping mobile app. We also sell fruits & vegetables, bakery, flowers and cosmetics
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"that is in fact not true"

Wow... what a forest.. trees... head up arse... Sheldon Cooper moment.

What's more important, the story or the theory?
I use it for both. In that case it was 'example'.
This is a project I've been working on for the past couple of months, using the Project Tango tablet for a navigation system for people with visual disabilities.

It uses pose estimation and point cloud data to (1) build a chunk-based voxel environment of the user's surroundings, (2) render a set of depth maps surrounding the user, and (3) use the depth map and OpenAL to generate 3D audio that gives indications of where mapped obstacles are.

I don't have it at a state where folks can try it out, but I did do a writeup of my approach and wanted to share it.

Demonstration video (with quiet audio) here: https://youtu.be/EnNuDiJazBs
I'm not saying San Francisco should try that. But if they were to try it, they should coordinate their services. I also think the idea behind this housing is that the previously homeless people are encouraged to find new ways of living, and have it easier to stop drinking and get a job. Or start on medication, get treatment for PTSD etc.
and http://defonic.com
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Substantial discussion of the concept and technology happened 5 days ago over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9523877 (59 comments)

Then it was submitted and discussed again 11 hours ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9555293 (13 comments)

Both discussions have significant content and points.
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Isn't mind analytical by definition. Can we still call a mind, mind if its not analytical.
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> Besides occasionally having to kill explorer because it becomes non-responsive it's been an absolute pleasure to use.

Sigh.
try http://defonic.com
So where are we today?
I absolutely agree. It's gamification distilled to its essence in a sense. I was only making that point that we didn't even do research on color or sound or anything like that. We just had a very, very simple version of a buggy slots game and even that was enough.
In New York, for example, the property taxes for super rich are at less than 10% of the property taxes a middle-class person would pay for their house.

This is where the money comes from. It’s not just New York, but everywhere. And not just property taxes.
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Unfortunate, considering a lot of it is wrong. "Just so" stories (a term from Kipling) are appealing and yet historically incorrect.

For instance, /sbin and /usr/sbin/ did not exist in the 1970s at all, let alone in the early 1970s.

I'm not sure exactly which system it first appeared in, but on BSD, which originally was add-ons to the Bell Labs distribution, it was not present in the 1986 4.3 BSD but did appear in the 1993 4.4 BSD.

You can verify that, and search for it on other early Unixes, here, for instance:

http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl
> - See how people get to the privacy page from where they enter the site.

You don't need a 3rd party to learn the order of pages you served to any given client. That one is so simple you only need 'grep' and the server log. (aggregation into whatever statistics you want to learn is a trivial exercise left for the reader)

> - See how long people are staying on this page.

The entire point is that you do not have a right to that information, other than what you can infer from the client later loading another page. Applying technical methods to gain access to private information like this simply makes you the the spy invading people's privacy. Worse, as most people do not understand these technical details, you are a eavesdropper who is preying on ignorance.

> so that users come away with a better understanding of privacy.

...while you simultaneously violate the same user's privacy. Do you seriously not understand that you're making the "We had to destroy the village in order to save it" style of ends-justify-the means argument that ignores how you've started to act like that which you are supposedly fighting against.

> hovering over

Again, the entire point is that you don't get to know that information. That is a perfect example of the type of data the privacy-focused people are trying to protect. We really don't give a damn if that information is useful; if you're recording anything beyond the HTTP requests you receive (the explicit request from the client), then you are the spy and therefore the enemy. If you want to understand how effective your pages are, find another way to deduce that information. This is why traditional businesses pay people to participate in focus groups, to name one example.
History drift: Between Jacquard Looms and Hollerith-like machines was the homeoscope:

http://history-computer.com/ModernComputer/thinkers/Korsakov...
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