jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
We're having two discussions in parallel: on the objective value of Reddit given its circumstances, and on our own personal taste for using it. You're probably much better off in many ways for not visiting.

I would like to know how informed abstainers see Reddit. I feel like given some contrived option to identify themselves with the heritage of their birth culture or nationality, or by their careers, or by where they would fit into traditional subcultures, very many Redditors would identify as Redditors, by interests and attitudes in common with a sufficient critical mass, even with dissent. The Colbert/Stewart rally, more than the individual acts of kindness, has fed a zeitgeist within Reddit that they are a community awakening to their own political power. Momentum is currently building to a campaign in protest against the TSA (which will probably fizzle, with much disillusionment for all). But I think 4chan has showed online subcultures with some chaotic convergence of will can increasingly effect the world outside their own community. And I can't conceive of any way a community, online or off, could come to be sufficiently large to find political feet, and turn out any better than Reddit has.

Regarding HN:

HN still has a higher signal-noise ratio, but as HN gets more popular (with many coming from Reddit, I presume -- and going the other way, as I did), I find that the difference between HN and applicable sub-reddits is dissolving. In particular, I feel like there was some suppression of humour on HN that has weakened since I arrived, which as lame as it seems was a not insignificant differentiating factor.
yeah. the algorithm I built takes a little training per topic/vertical, but after the initial training, it just starts learning.

I have a long list of potential topics that the algorithm would be good at. pretty much any sports topic it would kick butt on.

My brother keeps telling me I need to split up sports too. Basically, the initial verticals were to stress out the algorithm to make sure it would work on various concepts and still keep things interesting.

Basically, you could imagine every concept http://alltop.com/ tracks running through my algorithms.

Thanks for the feedback though. That's the kind of information that really helps a hacker getting started.
Wow, way to fall for the trollbait. I wonder which side will prove Godwin's law first?
Here's an idea, don't optimize your site for my iPhone in 10 minutes.

1) user-scalable=no: I'm so tired of going to sites that are 'optimized' for my tiny little screen on the iphone. Lots of people don't have very good vision. I prefer sites where I can double-tap and pinch to zoom in and out so I can read text. If you are going to disable user-scalable, make sure your font sizes are BIGGER than what they would normally be on the web.

2) Guess what, I'm using a device that has a fully capable browser. Know what that means? I can view your site exactly as intended on a bigger browser! Really, its no trouble for me to double-tap on the column containing your article. The iPhone zooms quite nicely.

3) If you are really going to make an iPhone version of your site, put some thought and time into. Slapping some dude's css into your page is going to piss off your mobile visitors more than make them love you. Look around at other iPhone optimized sites and see what's being done well and being done badly. e.g. msnbc, your iPhone version of your site is piss poor. Lots of badly thought-through polish, little practical interface usability.
This reminds me of "wars" kids in my neighborhood would have when I was about ten years old. Each group of kids would think up highly elaborate plans of subterfuge, sophisticated camouflage, and spying, that, when executed, basically consisted of throwing some moldy walnuts over a fence at the other groups of kids.

What they both have in common are groups of children with too much time on their hands.
More information URL: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/main/index.html
>These social morays have applied to everyone, everywhere, forever.

Any claim that any particular social more is eternal or universal is ahistorical. This is the clearest finding of the fields of anthropology and history. Everything about human life varies throughout time and space.
So how did he platform them? All the article offers is that he linked to the blog of a person that neoreactionaries also like. If that person has said or done anything controversial, the Times should say so. Instead, they just try to tar by the fact that bad people like him (something he has no control over).

Note how far removed this is from Scott Alexander himself.
The Economist is good because they are a centrist publication with a liberal economics bent and they don't hide it. It's refreshing because their "bias" ends up feeling more like "here is a centrist perspective" unlike some other publications where you're left questioning their agenda.
If that's the angle we're taking, then fine. But I want to be in the club, I don't want to pass the interview ezpz and then actually have a hard time delivering my tickets.
They are clearly not suggesting that.
When salaries haven't kept up with inflation for something like 30 years, it's perfectly understandable for people to buy the cheaper option. For many families it's not really about choice, but survival.

In fact buying everything bio/organic, free-range, artisanal, etc is sometimes just used for wealth-signalling.
You can do all of this without getting a board seat.

It seems we are all OK with allowing this to happen, but we shall see.
I can't get over that either. The girl was not some redneck racist, she was an active BLM protester, but they still framed her hometown as

"Leesburg, Va., a town named for an ancestor of the Confederate general Robert E. Lee and whose school system had fought an order to desegregate for more than a decade after the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling."

like it has anything to do with the girl.
I'm not really sure what's the point you're trying to make. Bone marrow transplants are not some unproven treatment. Stem cell research generally seems troubling to some politicians; this specific application is probably not approved but I don't see any reason why it shouldn't be in the near future.
That's one possible reason, but if that is in fact the case, there are a number of dummy text languages (even ones that use real English) available that would be relatively easy for the developer to add.

Take a look at http://www.blindtextgenerator.com/lorem-ipsum for them.
Wow, works great. Now I can follow people without having to actually listen to them.
I think what he means to say is there was food here before honey bees, there can be food here after honey bees.
It's interesting hearing about people from other groups. You're definitely right in that there are very different cultures depending on division. I was asigned relatively important tasks within a month or so of joining my team as I showed relatively high promise. Just a year after joining I'm essentially leading my own feature for the 12g release (a feature I proposed, no less).

My biggest surprise is that there is still really interesting (at least to me) work to be done in the 30 year old RDBMS kernel. There's always places to innovate and my manager has always been encouraging of thinking of new ways to do it.

But then again, I've never had the itch to work for a startup, so maybe I'm just suited for a rank-and-file job :)
Given the past behaviour of Gizmodo they don't evoke great sympathy. You don't need to be a jerk to wish failure upon an unethical company.

That said there are other members of the Gawker family I enjoy from time to time and wish no ill-will - Lifehacker and io9 for example.
The most important factor is that number 3: music and video uploads. You just didn't present it as it is. Facebook also has an option to upload video. But the real difference is that VK became practically the alternative for torrents: all the movies and all the music is there. On their servers. Free to search, watch and enjoy. Facebook doesn't have and will never have it.

So if you have all your friend on VK AND you have all the entertainment stuff there - why switch?
Unless Facebook comes with some interesting strategies to pull the users, the status quo will remain as is. And from what I hear and see, FB is putting a significant effort into this. It'll be interesting to watch in the nearest 1-2 years.
For those who aren't aware or didn't pick it up, Dave Thomas is one of the handful of originators of the "Agile Manifesto".

Other than the obvious (profit motive in selling snake oil) there are some common problems that make evaluating and applying process difficult. One of the biggest problems is actually the effect of highly talented teams. If you have a team of skilled folks then they will often succeed independent of process. If they are burdened with unworkable processes they will quite often work around them, bend them, or ignore them and get shit done regardless. Which makes it difficult to tell when you've got a good process in place as well.

Another major problem, alluded to in the video, is the desire for brain death in management. People want silver bullets, they want universal advice, they want policies that don't require effort or thought to achieve results. You see something similar in tech security, everyone wants to hire a unicorn/jesus who swoops in and fixes everything, like a landscaper who comes in on the weekends to do yard work or something. The reality is that development, and security, requires effort at every level. It requires conscientious application of skill and judgment to get good work done, and that's true at every level. You can't simply apply one or another process and then switch your brain off and hope for the best.
But it's not a cashew anymore. It's a hamburger!

The article says "it drives tweakers nuts because it’s the one unchanging thing on the desktop. There have been heavy debates on how to hide it, but for the interim it’s here to stay." Really? You get the same thing by right-clicking (or long press on a touchscreen, I imagine) on the desktop. Having an omnipresent widget is redundant and annoys people who don't need it.

Except many inexperienced users (and some experienced yet lazy users who never take the time to learn their computer, I've noticed) don't know or often forget about right-clicking. So when you throw a bunch of random people who have never seen KDE before and test their proficiency with the desktop, of course they're going to overlook right-click menu and whine about needing a special widget for customization. But that's how UI design is these days: conceding to the lowest common denominator. Designers are striving for a utopian interface that can be used without any training or adjustment period. Yet it's a myth. It's impossible to make a computer that can be used without instruction. Maybe if half as much time was spent writing documentation as is spent twiddling with icon colors users would have a resource where they could learn how to use KDE. Then you could build a desktop that doesn't feel like it's in novice mode all the time.

Except documentation isn't as sexy as screenshots and Google-ripoff icons.

Addendum: "Authors note: My testing machine had an issue with activities, so I was unable to fully test activities: this section may have minor inaccuracies."

How much better off would KDE be if they just stopped foolishly hanging on to the idea of Activities? No one uses it. It's a solution in search of a problem.

Also, I told my non-techie brother that the three-line menu was called a "hamburger". He looked at me like I had a carrot growing out of my nose. Please someone come up with a better name for that thing.
I'm late to this one, but you broke the site guidelines egregiously here. "Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stop posting flamebait and/or unsubstantive comments to HN, so we don't have to ban you again?
How does Insomnia compare to Paw [1]?

[1] https://paw.cloud/
Not really, they're pretty diferents languages. What you really need is to develop the logic for programming, that's what's important!
"Numerical Recipes in C"

This was the first programming book that actually made me laugh at times. The writer's style is wry and very accessible. His strong opinions and commentary kept me glued. Admittedly I didn't read every word but IMHO this is one of the classics.

Ditto for Sedgewick's "Algorithms" book.
>That's about right. Another slightly better example is this site: http://www.stc.com.sa/cws/portal/en/?favouritLang=en

>If you click the text in Arabic at the top right, it shifts to the Arabic view, and all the text and navigation bars move to a position that's more appropriate for right to left reading.

The Aljazeera site does that (in reverse) for the English language version. They change the colour scheme too to orange (blues complement, don't know if that is significant). The English version looks more image intensive to me as well - perhaps their English language users have more bandwidth (or lower literacy? or ...).
I believe prgmr have IPv6 - run by a fellow HNer (lsc).
> The consensus in the field is that there's somewhere between a thousand and a million technologically advanced civilizations just in our own galaxy.

Wait, what?

Admittedly I am no expert on the subject, but I'm pretty sure there is absolutely no consensus in the number —or even the mere existence— of other advanced civilizations at all. Is there?
You're right but there is a subtle difference.

iPads and iPods require the use of iTunes which pretty much requires an account. You have to do this in order to use the devices. Apple pretty much has a system that once you are using their devices you've got an account. So when a user is searching for apps they've already got an account. There is no extra hurdle at that stage.
It’s literally the opposite. “Opposed to moral consensus” is immoral. “Grey area” is definitionally amoral.

You’re complaining because “amoral” still sounds like a bad thing to call someone. And it is, exactly because history doesn’t tend to see that “it seemed like a grey area at the time” defense very charitably.
Interesting. Honda did the same thing with their late entry into the pickup market, the Ridgeline. The first generation (2006-2014) was a polarizing design. (But I liked it.) The second gen (2017-present) looks more mainstream and is a bit more functional but lacks the disruptive panache of gen 1. I like it less, but actually bought one. So who knows what will happen with Tesla. Maybe its weirdness will soften into something more sustainable given time.
the focus is more that I dont have the time or energy to form personal beliefs on everything talked about on TV (or by news authorities in general). It's easier to adopt someone else's beliefs and entertain that position than talk out of my ass or not be able to talk at all. If that belief is successfully challenged, I change it. It is also easier to change my belief on something if I did not form it myself.

Most people lack strong beliefs on most things. news authorities exist because people are looking for them to help fill that gap and relieve the responsibility of forming beliefs on all the things relevant to the community each person is a part of
Agreed. Layer 8 error.
3rd paragraph, although parent may have a typo - rather than 300 - 800 it says 300 - 500

In practice, most strategic nuclear warheads today are in the 300-500 kT range, with tactical weapons being smaller. If we take the American W88 (455 kT) as representative of this range
The first few times I flew, SkyMall had awesome comedic value. Some of the items were just incredibly obnoxious. But that loses it's appeal quickly when you fly a lot.

I could never believe that people actually ordered stuff from there!
Well the worse effect is the current comments in this thread, they are discussing liabilities, possible endangering others!

Not about the simple idea that I have to be free to buy a car and make it an airplane.
DO u not see whats wrong here, he created a github repo changed the name on the license to make it look like he created this open source project. This is called FRAUDE. Down Vote me if u hate me for speaking the truth.
I remember when hacker news used to be about hacking, programming, startups etc.

What the hell has this political article got to do with any of the above?
The judgment revealed that the NSA was collecting up to
56,000 wholly US internet communications per year in the
three years until the court intervened. Bates also
rebuked the agency for misrepresenting the true scope of
a major collection program for the third time in three
years.

This "judgement" showed they were only collecting 56,000 emails per year? Give me a break. Even if their system for collecting foreigners' emails was actually trying to only collect foreigners' emails, I would whole-heartedly expect them to nab more than 56k/year accidentally.

I think if you dig in, you'll find it's a few orders of magnitude higher.
I think the bad pat about windows 7 is that they put out Windows 8 way too quickly.

There are a lot of people that would be OK with being dragged into upgrading if Windows 7 was an easily available option. Bu now, MS is pushing manufacturers into pre-installing 8, which is NOT a good transition path from XP as Windows 7 was.
Negatives must also include Microsoft Mediaroom, the much yelled at[1] IPTV platform which was recently handed over to Ericsson for an undisclosed sum which I can't imagine yielded a good ROI for MS.

[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/03/bt_vision_upgrade/
I think that's one of Microsoft's main failings.

"Google are making baked beans? Why aren't we in the baked bean market? Let's make beans!"

"What? Now Facebook are making Facebook Soda? We need to make Microsoft Soda!"

Every time a tech company produces something new MS have to muscle in on the market, despite having a) no prior experience, b) no aptitude, c) existing products that could use their attention.
MSDN is a different beast. They give you a lot of licenses for development. In our company we have hundreds of VMs that are created and thrashed all the time so having issues with licenses is a problem for QA.
I disagree. I think you're taking a narrow-scope on this story. The lesson here is that you can teach kids about any facet of the computing landscape, and they can catch on quickly and learn a valuable skill.

Just because you're not getting into low-level hardware interrupts or vector tables or memory addresses, does not mean you "don't know how to use" a computer. I'm glad you have that knowledge, I enjoy stuff like that too.

But a lot of kids are "really good at facebook" and use that as inspiration to get into web dev. They want to create the next social network, or the next cool website. Maybe it sparks their interest in big data, or databases, or the math behind social networks.

This is just one example. I don't particularly care about or use facebook personally. But there are a million different facets to computing.

Maybe they end up as a graphic designer for a video game.

Maybe they learn they enjoy the machines themselves and build one some day.

Maybe they learn they don't quite care about computers, and just learn to become literate in an essential tool of the Information Economy. That's good too. shrugs
Cloud market? You mean Azure, which I last heard held 20% of the market. Is that what you mean?
I would like haskell without exceptions. Haskell has Maybe, Either, etc and a useful standard library to make the Monad instances of those useful. Which allows for libraries like this: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/errors
yes, it would almost seem so, if you had presented sources to back the claim :)
the salaries for staffing a coordinated multinational police investigation and possible computer forensics contractors?

All of the following need to be paid:

Police agency in country where DDoS target resides, police agency in country where criminal resides, police agency in countries where dummy computers reside, etc?

200k was a random number but i doubt it's necessarily cheap to find any random DDoS-starter
Me too; I had my first NIH R01 turned down without a score and left for industry (which has allowed me to do more scientific work than academia ever did). I only realized later that most PIs don't get their first NIH R01 approved until ~10 years older than I was at the time.

What's ridiculous is the amounts of these basic grants that beginning scientists are trying to get are tiny- basically 1 person-year salary.
Not an argument!
Whoever submitted it might just be trying to do a decent and responsible thing (the URLs aren't filtered by HN). I'd rather that than the whole front page filled with expletive laden titles every day.

Not the submitter through so this is all speculation and conjecture and not particularly relevant to the joke anyway.
I guess we'll see. It will be hard to tease out the effects of what is public funding vs what is due to other factors.

I think that Chinese science will advance far more rapidly because the Western ethical schools have converged on the Do Nothing school of trolley problem solvers and rampant safetyism is ruining our ability to study immediately important dangers, that Western society is organizing towards protecting its power structures (overwhelmingly elderly over the young), and that the infantilization of Western populations leads to the inability to study interventions since no volunteer can be said to understand any risk.

On the other hand, while Chinese R&D spending is hockey sticking (see Red Moon Rising issue of The Economist for lots of info on this), I am 50-50 on whether they'll manage to solve their fakery problem faster than ours. Theirs is far bigger but they know it is a problem and it is smaller than we think. Ours is smaller but we don't think it exists and it is bigger than our governments think.

But pouring more money into a device that exists simply to extract money is clearly insufficient.
I don't want to guess at how this connects to the question I asked, so can you be more specific about what you think it was Alexander was asking of the New York Times? I think he was asking them not to disclose his identity. Do you think he was asking for something else?
>China will lie to the WHO and the WHO will protect it.

Do you have any reason to believe that this is true?
vert.x has unfortunately reduced the support of JVM languages to Java, Kotlin and Groovy. No longer any Scala support, also no support of Javascript.
Are we now pretending anyone pursues the concept of 'profanity' or defines it as broadly as Puritanical christians? Seems a weird fight to pick, but ok.
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Oh, I misread that completely.
Shouldn't the pyramid be reversed?
Surely "readable" come first, then you can review the correctness
> It's a matter of who controls the logistics. Until governments figure out how to enforce toll roads in space

Well, the government could just blockade / close the launch sites on Earth.
If you don't have a degree, but have a decent amount of experience, Germany will generally still happily take you (but not all EU countries - depends how desperate they are for devs). You need to go through the standard German skilled migrant process though, rather than the simplified Blue Card one.
you need a university degree for that
You are not forced to call anyone anything. You have no right to compel anyone to say anything. You can ask, that's about it. They can say no.
1b) apply for Visa at the embassy