jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The difficulty is going to be around definitions. There are claims that communism has killed X million people, where both the definition of communism and what constitutes cause are very loose. On the flip side you have people who advocate for communism who claim it's never been tried and everything that has ever called itself communism wasn't true communism. You'll face the same issue with capitalism.

The confounding factor I see here is what do we call China? They've experienced an incredible increase in wealth under their communist system but is what they have really communism? It certainly has lots of attributes of both theoretical capitalism and western capitalism as practiced mixed in with communist concepts. Whatever it is, China, for better and worse, is a very different country than it had been because in part due their hybrid economic system.
It's only an iOS app that is invite only, right?
The key question is: what would be the goal of use?

I mentioned in the linked thread that I'm not convinced argument maps are too helpful for finding answers to tough questions. I only played with them on Kialo, so it may be me being inexperienced, but for now, I've identified the following problems:

- They don't promote or facilitate expressing the most important things: facts, quantities and probabilities.

- The tree structure is a step up from linear arguments, but it's only an imprefect projection of the underlying graph-like "thoughtspace". A thing I've seen frequently on Kialo was the same argument showing up in several places in the tree, to support or weaken some other thought - and that same argument was supported or weakened by different things in each instance. In a more perfect representation, any argument would show up only once - but that means the representation needs to work with at least directed acyclic graphs.

Some HNers helpfully pointed out that argument maps work as input data (a way to serialize actual arguments people make), and output results (a projection generated from a larger, graph-like thing). This is worth exploring, IMO.

Assuming these two, or some other use cases, I think that yes, Argdown artifacts could be made by expert teams and shared for reuse.

As for unit testing, that's a tough one. What would you unit test against? We could run some sanity checks on the language to ensure that something listed as a "con" is actually a "con" and not a "pro". But going beyond that is, I think, entering the space covered by a bunch of specialty fields that I'll jointly refer to as "symbolic AI" - and IIRC, that hit some serious roadblocks few decades ago. I don't know what's that state of the art of machine-readable reasoning - but right now, I think that unless we can convince regular people to write their arguments as machine-provable theorems, there isn't much we can unit-test beyond superficial language features.

(Part of the reason I think the way forward may be modelling actual systems of interest, instead of arguments about them, is that it automatically forces you to work with artifacts that are concrete and understandable by machines. For instance, when I was implementing the dynamic system I mentioned above, I purposefully opted to use the "units of measure" feature of InsightMaker. This is akin to static typing in programming - suddenly, I had the computer prevent me from making invalid arguments by confusing amounts with flow rates, etc. But of course, nothing prevents one from building a structurally correct model that still has no relationship to reality.)
Square stock lives and dies with bitcoin - wouldn't use the stock as an indicator of this
So the answer is to keep the corrupt system going as long as possible?

I think a collapse of the USA could be the best thing for ordinary US citizens in 10 years.
Have to agree. I just got myself one and it has been a lot of fun so far
I'm really kind of floored that my simple little post seems to have been so contentious. People seem to have interpreted my comment as something to the effect that gun talk shouldn't be allowed. All I meant to say, however, was what I said--that a lot of people are simply not going to understand dense gun talk.

I don't think your comment is true, either. I'd be very surprised if most people here were ashamed, even slightly, of their ignorance on any given 'nerd' subject. Very often, the top comments in a story are either explanations or requests for explanations followed by explanations, maybe followed by more requests for clarification. I also bet I can find more people here proud of their ignorance about say, Haskell monads, than about guns, judging by how loud they are about it.

Finally, Justin Bieber is a subject of a different nature--his prominence in culture is disproportionately higher than his importance, so people usually don't want to hear about it. Not a fair comparison.
I give bonus points to CouchDB because there is no driver needed, just HTTP.
Rate reconciliations are required disclosure. See page 64 of the 2019 financial statements [1].

[1] https://s2.q4cdn.com/299287126/files/doc_financials/2020/ar/...
See also Relectrify (https://www.relectrify.com/) in Australia.
Same, I lived 6 blocks away and when my lease expired during the turmoil, I left.

People here who say chaz wasn't dangerous should really look at how they propped up their own militia/security force and executed minorities.
35 years of life expectancy was not reality. If you lived past childhood you usually lived until your 50s or 70s. There are tribal villages in africa today that barely have modern anything and have many people in their 90s. Human life expectancy decreased with the transition from hunter/gatherer/herder tribes into agriculture with a few crops, due to relative malnutrition. It's only recently in modern times that we have started matching hunter gatherer life expectancy with our knowledge of nutrition and 120 year old medical knowledge.
By the way, in the area of philosophy we ( http://philpapers.org/ ) cover much more ground - with crawling not only journal sites, but also personal web pages of researchers, books etc. We have also some automatic classification tool (into a very detailed taxonomy system: http://philpapers.org/categories.pl), discussion forums, tools for monitoring research (like following your favourite researchers, or articles published by your Facebook friends) and other cool stuff - and the system is Open Source: https://github.com/xPapers/xPapers (this is still a very early release).
This got me thinking - what would an equivalent demo today look like?

ie. what is the cutting edge today that will be the norm in 40 years.
Normal people aren't supposed to know OS internals, that's the whole point of UI abstractions! They have more important matters to deal with when they use a computer. OS X isn't any different from other OSs in this regard: your mom doesn't know what the registry is.
It's called "Banner Blindness". We probably all have it.
It looks really nice. I think that you should make it clear that Switch is a 'multi-user web browser', because the description on your website/app page is a bit confusing (at least for me). Also, the name 'Switch' is hardly mentioned on your site (and this HN submission).

My 2 cents.
Bubble sort is the fastest sort for sets of size two.

Now, arguably there isn't really much functional difference between sorts on sets of size two, but the simplicity of bubble sort gives it an advantage for this extreme case.
Who's doing the forcing? Is it a job? Is the religious practice safe? Then fine. It's part of the job. Quit if you don't like it. My atheism may prevent me from dressing up as Santa because, maybe, I don't want to lie to kids, or something like that. That doesn't mean that I get to take that job and then sit down amongst the elves at the mall in jeans and a FSM t-shirt while little kids sit on my lap to be told that Christmas was stolen from the Pagans and there's no Jesus. You're trying to call me out, but you're exactly right.
This works great. Also, I've found that at least for my cable company (Charter), a mere mention on Twitter will get them to contact you and solve the matter quickly over email rather than going through their call center nightmare.
Maybe I could help. I've been working on mobile dev last couple of years (iPhone/J2ME) remotely from Argentina.
Email me if you're interested.
Isn't refactoring much harder without static typing ?
I just spent an hour yesterday explaining to a coworker that correlation != causation, data and statistics can easily deceive, and that most published study findings are likely incorrect. It was a little soul-crushing, therefore, to run across this headline and simultaneously hear an uncritical summary of this study on NPR this morning...

Said coworker told me, after seeing that correlation != causation, that she was never taught that in school. I replied that likely she had but that the concept is easy to forget and almost never reinforced in daily life. Thinking about it today, it seems like nearly all marketing efforts try to convince the intended audience that correlation == causation.
Is it just me, or does the Skype setup sound an awful lot like Gnutella and it's Ultrapeers back in the day?
Those are religious issues, and there is no objective standard to what we will be horrified by. The only safe bet is that humans will be different in different cultures, and thus different people will find different things bad.
Neither are, and generally it's preferred to use another term. If you go to the CDC web page on variants for instance you'll see that it call sit B.1.1.7 not UK Variant
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/transmission/varia...
Yahoo’s problem is mainly that they don’t seem to know how to get paid and what to get paid for.

They run a popular service for free for years and then shut it down because they don’t make any money.
There are seaweed eating sheep in Scotland who do not produce methane (due to their diet) and live on beaches (so no land use). My point is that your statement "meat takes far more energy, land, and clean water" while more or less true for most meat today is not settled fact.
Probably implied that it extends to the ancestors of humans.
i don't know; i was inclined to agree just out of a knee-jerk "don't break standards" reflex, but it's a deliberate decision for which he makes a very compelling point:

Vigorously styled hyperlinks on a page tend to move to the foreground of a reader’s attention, like an HDTV in a hotel bar. (See also maxims of page layout.) The red circle is meant to be noticeable while you’re reading the sentence that contains the link. Otherwise it disappears, so as not to distract.

edit: though having internal links be completely invisible until you hover on them is a startlingly bad design decision
How is it not reasonable to give up some things for the environment? Your health isn’t going to be doing so well if you don’t have a livable environment
For the lolz: https://github.com/ioquatix/relaxo
Oh, sure, Erlang isn't going to save you from going multi-node...in fact, it shouldn't; just basic resiliency should mean you're starting multi-node.

But the actual number of concurrents per instance, and the effect on latency, is quite another thing.

And it also provides you a better story around shared state within the instance, and better controls around its access.
Even if this scenario is correct, and the private keys have been lost, there's no law of physics that says the coins can never be recovered.

The set of legal transactions on the blockchain is determined entirely by what the majority of miners will accept. So far that has always meant executing and verifying the transaction's script, but a currently-illegal script could be declared valid by persuading enough miners to treat it as an exception. In particular, suppose MtGox can produce an audit trail showing that a particular set of addresses corresponds to their inaccessible cold wallet, and nobody else challenges their claim by signing a message from one of those addresses. Then they could petition miners to grant an exception and have the coins transferred to a new address by fiat. (ha!)

It would certainly be an unprecedented intervention by the core Bitcoin community. But if it would restore public confidence in the protocol and economy, then it would be in enough people's interest that I think there's a slim chance it could be made to happen.

EDIT: it's not quite that simple; see the discussion below.
In major Chinese city like Beijing and Shanghai, it's even possible for "same day delivery" if you order before 11am (Jingdong -- jd.com -- delivers 3 times a day) and it's also possible to "pay when delivered" (i.e. give cash to the delivery man) since many people don't have credit card or web payment is too complicated/dangerous for them.
With inflation running so low in the U.S. for so many years, it's easy to try to extrapolate this trend as the new norm. And, yes, there are technology pressures that push costs down (i.e machines replacing workers, Moore's law, etc.)

However, there are two big factors that argue against long term deflation:

1) Employee wages: Built into the compensation system is a review process that rewards workers for their work. To date, this process includes a wage increase in the form of a "raise". In an era of full employment, periodic raises push costs up, which leads to increases in prices, which leads to inflation. To change this, the compensation system would need to be changed or employment severely reduced.

2) Central Banks: Most central bankers will use all their tools (in the form of monetary fiscal policy) to prevent long-term deflation. So, there will likely be a major counter-acting force from large governments over time.
I'm competent in QM but not a quantum optics expert. In particular homodyne detection is new-ish to me. There is a bit of a description of it here that might be useful: http://relativity.livingreviews.org/Articles/lrr-2012-5/arti... That said, this is my take, which is mostly me trying to wrap my head around the problem, so take it all with a grain of salt.

The idea is that Alice mixes the (weak) signal photon stream in her lab with a (strong) "local oscillator" of the same frequency (that is the "homo" in "homodyne") and uses the interference between them to perform measurements on the signal without doing photon counting on it, which when combined with Bob's measurements on the other part of the signal photon wavefunction can demonstrate non-local effects. It is important, as always in "spooky-actions-at-a-distance" experiments to emphasize that nothing Bob sees can be used to infer what Alice measures or vice versa: there is no possibility of faster-than-light communication, and it is only when the measurements are combined after the fact that the non-locality becomes manifest.

Homodyne measurement seems to be the key thing that makes measurements on single photons possible, and this may be one of those cases where the notion of "collapse" breaks down in favour of "entanglement": the part of the signal wavefunction in Alice's detector doesn't collapse, it just gets entangled with the local oscillator, and because everything is still coherent her results can still be combined with results from the wave function components in Bob's lab. Entanglement with a heat bath emulates collapse; entanglement with a coherent local oscillator does not. [I'm still agnostic on the claim "entanglement solves the measurement problem" because I don't think it properly answers the question "why is there a classical world at all?", but that may be just me.]

There are a number of loopholes in previous experiments that this closes. I'm pretty sure it closes all detection efficiency loopholes, and there is a subtle critique of Aspect's experiments regarding the timing of the two-photon cascade that this makes irrelevant. There is a small (and in my view fairly implausible) literature on timing and photon-pair-identification issues that goes after two-photon experiments, and this work is not subject to any of these criticisms. I'm not sure how Joy Christian's work on Clifford algebras would be applied to this experiment either, although I expect they will have something to say about it.
Because it would be just as handwaved as the article.
The Emacs community embraces starter kits to the extent it makes sense to embrace starter kits. That extent is the extent to which people are willing to expend the energy to develop and maintain those configurations. My impression is that few people have the energy and will to make such projects a successful ongoing enterprise because in the end, pretending that Emacs is notepad.exe comes crashing down to the reality that Emacs is a power tool and even newbies are drawn to it for that reason. The bill for its learning curve comes through.
What I think you did is great, and I love reading about these things, but if the initial implementation was in Perl or JavaScript you would have seen more like a 10-20x speedup.
/sarc
Fizzbuzz may seem natural to people with an inclination for numbers or formal schooling that forcibly crams lots of math you'll never use down your throat, but some people haven't been taught about modulus operations and some people may not be very good at division and would take a while to try to reinvent mod. Neither of those things are necessarily really big problems if that person is going to be writing business logic (though you might want to have someone check any code they write which involves money).

The idea of "fizzbuzz" is to show basic understanding of language control structures and flow. Better, more universal tests that actually use language constructs that are encountered in daily operation could definitely be devised to demonstrate the same fundamental concepts.
These things have become a joke -- I guess because they are so common in SF -- but damn, for a single person who doesn't like cooking or taking long lunches, and likes ping pong, these things are pretty damn cool.
I'm not sure if it's been edited, but the current post seems fine to me. It doesn't have a date on the post per se, but it's very clear up front when the data is from: the table is labeled "Failure Rates Through December 31, 2014" in bold in the table header, which leaves little room for confusion.
As I recall there was no expectation that the bombs themselves would cause any significant casualties. The intention was for them to start forest fires, which would hurt US civilian morale and require manpower to put out.
"But I'd be very curious to hear how others have overcome social inhibitions and learned to go for it."

Small steps. Your first event you know no one. Meet one person, and then next time you visit you have someone to at least say hello to, buy a drink for, or sit and talk/eat with.

It never gets easier for the socially awkward, but soon you build a network of people who "know you" and networking becomes a much more comfortable environment. You also find out, that others are just as anxiety ridden as you. You start to recognize "noobs" and see their anxiety... which is another good opportunity to help and network by initiating contact with this people.
It's not particularly misleading, it re-emphasizes a very strong - and well understood - point: the majority of smartphone users do not download very many apps.

The better criticism of this article, is that it's already well known that most smartphone users 1) don't download many apps and 2) don't use very many apps day to day.

Why is that? It's because most apps are not useful or valuable. If they were, people would use them.

The majority of people also do not visit a hundred Web sites each day. Rather, they stick to a very small number of sites, and tend to visit them frequently. No surprise app use is similar.
Not at least you :)

Those claims have been discussed here before and they don't change anything substantial.
Generics are like a power saw? ASM doesn't have generics.
"significant long term effect on the rise of modern Russia" probably doesn't mean positive effect. Just that it happened this way because of Mongol rule. I.E. destruction of Kiev, crazy internal Mongolian-facilitated infighting and the rise of Moscow.
http://openlibrary.org/

Looks like one of their projects and has a nice site.

What are your expectations for archive.org?

Any examples of resource heavy sites that have amazing UI?
It's a nice theory. But it doesn't work.
It's called an estate tax.

Gifts of property and money to people while you are alive, when they exceed certain totals per year and when they exceed certain totals on individual terms, these exchanges are taxed.

There is no reason why it should not also be so when you pass on.
I agree with both your points there, but disagree with the premise that insurance is a scam - the insurance companies provide a valuable service, and they charge what people will pay - the way any reasonable business is going to behave.

From there, it's up to you to determine whether it's worth it. I personally don't have health insurance (though I live in a country with universal healthcare), but I have 3rd-party car insurance in case I accidentally drive into someone's Lamborghini, and it was fortunate that my girlfriend's dad had life insurance so that her mum had some money after he passed away prematurely last year. Just because money is being made doesn't mean it's a scam.
Thanks for all of the work you've put into this, Steve! It's been really nice to see someone as dedicated as you are working on Hackety Hack.

I'm downloading it now, and I'm looking forward to checking it out later today if I get the chance.
it was 50bn last week :)
tax break, what else?

After officially announcing plans to build a data center in Prineville on Thursday, Facebook officials told The Bulletin that the tax incentive offered to the company through an enterprise zone was a key reason it came to Central Oregon. By locating its new data center in the zone, Facebook will be excused from paying as much as $2.8 million a year in local taxes.

http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100...

Seriously, 50bn SecondMarket cap company looking to save $2.8 million in taxes?
the thing I found most interesting in this article was the fact that facebook is now trading at a 67B valuation on the secondary market, making it almost 1/3rd of what google is today. Very impressive growth.
Really, really, nice design. Clear, clean, effective. I hope you started a trend and million of people will copy your style.

idea 1 :
Now, concerning the UX, Key traction user is the seller.

When you go to "seller", it directly ask for my adress. At beginning, I didn't want to give it. not now. but I have no other choice. SO I did it. and then, you did a great job with the house finder and market price.

But I think there might be some defects at that step. You should track and or test this step. Maybe you could say more at the beginning : "We're happy to offer you a free estimate of your property, please locate it and directly see a price estimate".

Idea 2 : Seller might not search for an online real estate at beginning but for sure, they want to know more about the market. Your site should give more at beginning and transform them after.

There is a French startup very successfull : http://www.meilleursagents.com/

, who has a business like this : They have the best tool ever to estimate your property for free (very big traction of qualified prospects), and then they transform them as seller and connect them to local real estate agency.

When you type a Parisian adress in google.fr, they are on the first results with the average estate price in the area.