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Why is > Why did the tomato turn red? Because it saw the salad dressing!

the most popular joke between jokes? Is this the epitome of all humor?

I believe the moral of the story is to run your opening line by literally any human ("Modern software engineering is rotten. I should know — it's been my livelihood since I graduated from college in late 2019." - literally laugh out loud funny) before submitting it to one of the main discussion boards on modern software engineering - sometimes you reap what you sow

I learned photoshop for the first time to make signatures for my forum buddies, little did I know I was setting the path of my entire life...

ah, my favorite type of hacker news post: "smart" western person finds a thing he doesn't understand, begins to understand 25% of it, and then decides to "fix it" like it doesn't have centuries of history and learnings around it

dork finds a thing he doesn't understand, begins to understand 25% of it, and then decides to "fix it" like it doesn't have centuries of history and learnings around it that impacted the decision, write your own metaphor

Does it work on people of color? Seems like a potentially deadly oversight considering what we know about existing failures in object-detection.

> The Navy email to Navy Times contained hidden computer coding designed to extract the IP address of the Navy Times computer network and to send that information back to a server located in San Diego. Under U.S. criminal law, authorities normally have to obtain a subpoena or court order to acquire IP addresses or other metadata. Not using one could be a violation of existing privacy laws, including the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.

They lay it out pretty clearly in the article. What you are describing might be true for a private company, but that same behavior from a military branch of our government is very different.

This is a really interesting area of law that I don't think has been settled.

One could argue that attaching this tracking pixel to an email is similar to attaching a GPS tracker to a vehicle. In United States v Jones in 2012, the supreme court ruled that placing a GPS device on violated the 4th amendment.

> "the Government's installation of a GPS device on a target's vehicle, and its use of that device to monitor the vehicle's movements, constitutes a 'search'"

Regardless of whether it was "well within normal usage of email" or not is kind of irrelevant.

It is also very different coming from the government as opposed to a private institution.

It is also very different to be targeting a news outlet (especially one that has been critical of you!).

I would absolutely challenge you on both points - this is ABSOLUTELY suspicious, and as they pointed out in the article, likely illegal – and I haven't gone crazy mad with paranoia.

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I have had exactly the opposite reaction to the "frat boy monoculture"- self-taught and self-motivated, maybe, but I have run into more people than I can count who came into the industry for the money.

10 years ago they would have been on Wall St.

You are saying some very out-there things without citation.

"The justice system is far more sexist than racist" - what evidence do you have for this statement?

"a black man that is unjustly shot by police is more likely to be shot because he is a man than because he is black" What about this one?

I love that nowhere in this post do they explain what Ghost is or who their customers are or any of that. At first I thought, I guess, IA Writer competitor? Then, maybe, 2017 Wordpress alternative? Super unclear.

I am really curious to hear your responses to the questions I raised

What is the difference between creation and generation?

What is the difference between me selecting the specific frame made by a generative algorithm and photographer picking a specific moment in time to capture a frame?

What's the difference between me using a generative algorithm and Michelangelo using assistants to paint the Sistine Chapel?

Art- and in fact, most creative endeavors often DO involve creating many things until you discover something "cool".

With my personal experiments with generative art, I think of the machine almost as a work assistant. I have a rough idea of what I'm going for, and the ways to attempt it, and I teach that to my computer using code. But then I go away from the computer and out into the world and drink coffee, sketch in my notebook, and in the meantime my computerized assistant is back home working on draft after draft of my latest piece of art.

I come home and I see what he's done, and most of it isn't great, but occasionally there is a gem! I look at what he did for that gem and then encourage him to do more of that, and then go back out into the world. I highly disagree that machine learning is the opposite of art.

If you go to any traditional artist's studio you will often find notebooks filled with discarded sketches and ideas. Paintings with color combinations or techniques that weren't ideal. This is almost exactly the same process. And I would argue that process is exactly what art is.

Personally, I'd prefer a 14-day trial with all functionality that stops working after the allotted period.

That sounds really great. I think that the day-to-day "breaking news" style reporting on this subject is common, but longer more visual pieces that get into the nitty-gritty are rare.

I'm a designer and journalist very interested in similar areas. I just started releasing a podcast focusing on similar subject matter: http://metaverse.audio

If you end up moving forward I'd love to chat. ejfox@ejfox.com

Okay, real talk, where do I get / buy / make one?

tl;dr - talk like a human and not an MBA and people might actually communicate with you.

This is advice for sadness, not depression. This is the opening quote in the article: "Sadness is when you feel down because things aren’t going your way. Depression is when you feel down even when all is going well."

Depression may be affected by real life problems but it is more life-enveloping than that. I've been the most depressed at times in my life when things were going objectively great. The people who asked "what's making you sad?" or tried to "fix" my "problems" were the least helpful.

Would love a setting to select the number of objects to drop on click, and the spread for them ie (20 objects, 50px radius) and also for objects to gain the mass of objects that hit them, so that if a bunch of huge objects collide, they create a super-object

> Better dumping it on Deputy Joe than letting it rot.

This is a central assumption the DoD/Government has been making, that is turning out to be misguided if not flat-out wrong. The police in this country are not properly trained as to when to deploy this equipment, and when it's deployed, how to use it.

Just as spreading weapons of war to all parts of the middle east hasn't exactly lead to peace there, spreading weapons of war all across America will hardly lead to an orderly society. It seems like if you give men weapons, they itch to use them, or the power it gives them.

I was unschooled, and I think that it really depends on what passion your kid has (which you can't predict, but can impact). If your child becomes really interested in the law, he will have unlimited time to pursue that goal. If your child is really interested in math, he will be able to study that in a much deeper way than someone similarly into math attending public or private school. He can learn not only at his own pace, but his own depth.

My younger brother, also unschooled, quickly began reading so he could use the computer and google things (like funny YouTube videos) but later things like free drawing applications (independently finding and installing Inkscape) and emulators (learning on his own how to install, find, and download, and play emulations of old NES and N64 games, around age 8) - which in my mind requires not only reading and literacy but deep comprehension. My point is, their passions will drive their knowledge. I think if you have a passion for technology, math, etcetera it will inevitably rub off on your children. You need to convey to them a passion for the subject, and a hunger for knowledge.

I scrolled through this whole thread looking for a mention of Swell who have been my go-to app for this purpose for the past couple of months (feels like it's been forever though, can't imagine life without it).

I pretty much get NPR hourly news updates, Fresh Air, interspersed with episodes of Marc Maron's WTF and some random stuff like A16Z and stuff from the BBC. It's pretty much ideal.

I love NPR, and before Swell would just have the local station on all day, but I find that NPR doesn't make enough content to fill up a whole day of straight listening (at least not enough content that I like) - I wonder if the NPR One app would automatically find shows from their archive that I might be interested in to fill the time.

I'd be curious if other users of Swell will be switching to this app, or if they, like me, see it as a slightly different and improved model to tie together content from a variety of different sources.

This is a feature of Swell: http://www.swell.am/

I always felt a donation to Newark with Oakland in your backyard was bizarre.

CMD-F for Oakland in this article... nothing.

If you had the option to tap a Bitcoin card and have the same experience, but save 3% on the transaction, would you?

What channel? What server?

This is interesting. Thank you for sharing. Still not sure I see your point (you will have to forgive me for not reading through this in it's entirety).

As someone who talked to him on a daily basis, I truly have no idea what the fuck you're talking about. This sort of libel is really poor taste at a time like this.

You can actually see that Bostock is "only" responsible for 698: http://christopheviau.com/d3list/gallery.html#author=all

It's important to factor in the importance of reusability. When someone makes a D3 visualization, it is infinitely reusable and hackable. So next time you want to make a map of killings in Chicago, you have it ready to go, and you just plug in the data, rather than having someone re-make it by hand. When you're a news organization, where speed is obviously of the essence, this investment has to be a no-brainer.

As Bostock's incredible skill is deployed on a variety of visualization problems, the New York Times builds a library of visualizations and templates that they can use for the foreseeable future, as long as the data is in the same format. That is incredibly valuable.