skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This paper and other interesting topics are covered in an introductory form here: http://book.mixu.net/distsys/single-page.html . There are also great references to seminal papers and other interesting research.
> "Others are skeptical of the premise of testing without people."

The quotes following that are what annoy me about journalism today. No one is saying "never test around humans!". It's that wouldn't it be nice to put, say, 50 autonomous vehicles in a controlled city-scape and see how they behave? Run them 24/7 and see how long it is until an accident occurs. Now add in 10, 20, 30, etc human driven cars and repeat the experiment.
The more I look around their site, the more convinced I am that it's legitimate.

And I don't feel that it's outside of the realm of plausibility that these products would exist at these prices. Minimalists tend to take minimalism pretty seriously and are, paradoxically, generally wealthier than non-minimalists.

If any of these products don't actually exist, they probably should. I'm sure there's a market for them.
So?

That is an excellent argument for not including those subreddits in the default home page (for users who are not logged in) or /r/all.

But you can find offensive things, or things you don't want your children to see, on just about any site (also, yes, your teens know about redtube).
>Reddit has a bad reputation for being a repository for hate speech. Because for all of the world’s-largest-secret-Santa programs and for every lonely teen able to find friends on Reddit, there is a small and vocal minority of bad actors trying to ruin it for everyone. And let’s face it, you’re much more likely to come into conflict with them if you are not a wealthy white man.

What a garbage article. Reddit's full of horrible content, but it's mostly on /r/atheism and /r/politics. the hate speech is there, but it's more hidden than it's ever been. And wow, it's the internet, where people can say anything they want. Where's the hitpiece on Berners-Lee?
You still need a credit card attached to the account. A car rental company will give you a $30k vehicle for under $100 on just a credit card.
Reddit still way way better than Fückêr News in terms of free speech and open communication.
Why portrait format? It is obviously meant for a presentation, since there are overlays. Does djb turn his beamer over?
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So what about yesterday when all the unrelated Microsoft stories were bundled together?

It was not only extremely confusing, but it also effectively destroyed the discussion on topics like the Hololense that I was keen to see discussed.
If you serve JavaScript with a 404 status does it still get executed?
Depends on what kind of impact you want your work to have.

(Not saying that Bezos's style is the reason for his impact, though it might be.)
I think it's entirely possible it may shift in naming slowly after released. To do so beforehand would be to doom it to obscurity through even more confusion. People might start referring to it by the implementation (Rakudo), which I would be fine with. Maybe a year or two after release it would be possible to do officially do something like this. Prior to that and I think there's far more downsides than upsides (and even after that time who knows what would happen if the name actually changed?)
There is nothing "high cognitive load" about having different operators for addition and concatenation.

I think it's simpler.
If founders want to control their company they shouldn't sell their equity. It's 100% in their control.
Those minorities can and do spill out into other subreddits, degrading their quality.
Jet is losing in the game they thought they would win at. They were screaming discounts and pay less for everything, and now saying that they don't want to be perceived as a discount site. This is mostly due to pressure from brands/manufacturers, so Jet underestimated and miscalculated its strategy from the beginning. There goes the tech media's darling 'Amazon killer'
If you're displaying text, then you don't need JavaScript. If you're displaying images, then you don't need JavaScript. If you're displaying short animations, then in theory you don't need JavaScript (I don't know how widely support APNG is though).

If you're displaying movies, maybe you need JavaScript? I don't know if HTML5 video can work without JavaScript (it ought to be able to, but lots of things which ought to be aren't).

If you're accepting user comments, you don't need JavaScript. Forms work just fine without it.

If you're accepting user votes, then you don't technically need JavaScript (but the experience will probably be better with it, unless you're smart).

Really, it's hard to see what one truly needs JavaScript for. Slowing down pages, sure. Destroying your readers' privacy, certainly. Getting root on your readers' computers, no doubt.
This is a very good point. For what Reddit has traditionally aspired to be, versus how it works, e.g. as an ebb and flow of community standards, it's a rock and a hard place in my opinion.

Somewhere I've seen the perspective put forth that Reddit is essentially the gateway for things from 4Chan (etc) to make it into the mainstream, and I kind of buy into that.
This disappoints me a bit... TicketFly is who Burning Man uses to handle their ticket sales... This news makes me hope they find someone else now. As having such a large company like Pandora behind it kind of goes against its Principles...
That's an excellent example of loss aversion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion
We invited andor to repost it. This is an experiment we've been running to give good stories that fell through the cracks a second chance at getting attention on HN.

Allowing a small number of reposts if (but only if) a story hasn't had significant attention yet is the principal thing we can do to mitigate the problem that /newest moves so fast, most stories don't get seen.
> Double check me on this, but Perl 6 doesn't yet have a goto statement, nor does it have globals.

AFAIK, Perl 6 has a goto statement in the spec (one big change is that Perl 6 is a spec), it just isn't yet implemented in any of the implementations. But presumably the target is to have the whole spec implemented for the release this Christmas. (EDIT: Actually, no, goto won't be in "6.Christmas" [0])

For globals, its has global scope ("our") but variables with global scope are still namespaced based on where they are declared, so while they are globally visible, they lack some of the more problematic features associated with globals.

[0] https://gist.github.com/jnthn/040f4502899d39b2cbb4
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The article confuses epistemology with ontology. Many-Universes theories are not primarily concerned with the nature of human knowledge, but with the nature of existence.
I wish more fresh grads and folks new to startups understood these concepts, particularly around how preferences work and that you can't just multiply # of shares by strike price given all of these considerations.

Great job on elucidating these concepts!
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I would have greatly preferred those threads to not be merged.

It's not a particularly good user experience to have a bunch of different unrelated products being discussed under the same article. It's a lot easier for me to just click 'next' and go to page 2 if I'm interested in reading more articles than it is to keep track of what everyone is talking about in a comment section with hundreds of posts and dozens of threads.
You're absolutely right but that doesn't mean those small subreddits didn't have an impact, /r/fatpeoplehate and /r/imgoingtohellforthis were increasingly showing up on the frontpage.
Yes, this one exactly - thanks!
That still sounds like "lack of specific emotions" and "acting mainly on response to irritation or loneliness", not "lack of emotional altogether".

The have an extra-rational pull towards doing one thing rather than some other thing. There's no real way to "carve reality at the joints" in a way that excludes what this person is feeling/doing vs someone with "real" emotions.
It's almost literally a black box. That means that they can have all manner of location tracking directly in the box. Perhaps couple that with some type of auto-destruct of the hardware inside if someone tries to temper with it, and it becomes very unappealing to try to steal this thing.
Is it possible to build an entire app with them using Redux?
Here in NYC it's similar, actually. A lot of restaurants (not most but a good amount) that aren't really "cheap" take cash only.
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If you make it easier for people to find the sub reddits then you get those people who are making the comments in the sub reddits now. It's a catch 22.
I wonder how often fallen-out relationships between cofounders get reconciled. It seems like the force driving change needs to be pretty compelling... something much larger than the two individuals.
One thing I've always found interesting with Reddit related news is users will say things like "You (Reddit) never told us..." or other similar statement. It just always came across as an odd sense of entitlement as if Reddit should run every idea, change or whatever by their users for approval.
This article says it's not e-ink but just a Kindle strapped to the side.

>It has a Kindle on the side, which functions as an automatic shipping label.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/07/amazon-launches-snowball-a-...
I don't necessarily disagree with your reasoning, but I vaguely recall there was quite a bit of debate about the naming of these methods when they changed, and I don't recall the arguments. I have a feeling it's too late to change them now, so it may just have to live on as a quirk of the language.
Sounds like the original plan for EPCOT (Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPCOT_(concept)

Well, minus the residents :)
On the one hand, you're totally right about the annoucements. On the other hand, the names they give their AWS products are pretty mystifying. AWS Snowball?
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I recommend this documentary film about the 1% made by an heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune.

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If people and businesses become enabled to streamline and tap into the possibilities of data query and analysis it could prove to be more monetary compensation than oil. The filtering and restructuring of data may take a bit of time to figure out however since data for the sake of information can come in forms foreign to the analyst.
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Building your business around carefully constructed employee ignorance is a dangerous strategy. It basically assumes that they won't do any useful thinking. That was fine circa 1930, where treating people as dumb pairs of hands was an effective strategy because there was so much manual work to do. But the more we turn rote work over to machines and software, the less this will work.
yep. As a Perl 5 dev, it always frustrated me that Perl 6 was around. It made it real easy for people to throw rocks at. "Oh look, Perl is dead because Perl 6 is not released." Never mind the fact that Perl 5 continued to be updated, has features some languages only wish they had (superior Unicode support, CPAN, etc.), and is probably the most stable language we have ever seen, thanks to a decade of mostly maintenance releases.

Turbo Pascal/Object Pascal was able to become "Delphi". Delphi was still Pascal, as Perl 6 is still a "Perl". Maybe it's still possible to rename it? It will be a hell of a PR battle now.
It may cost that much to buy that capacity, but it costs a lot more than that to run the large scale organizations (CAPEX/OPEX) that build and buy these services. You're not just paying for a pipe, you're paying for the corporation.
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Shuttle by Vektor Grafix felt quite realistic back in its time (1992), although I don't know how much of the experience can be attributed to proper orbital mechanics calculations.

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You’ll excuse me if i believe the text of the RFC over some unsubstantiated claim from some person on the Internet. Expecially regarding a security issue, where the RFC explicitly says it’s not secure, and you go “naah it’s fine”. The RFC could easily have said “only use UUID version 4 as secure identifiers”, but it didn’t; I choose to believe that it does this for a reason.
Great news. I just upgraded our app to 0.14-rc1 last week and particularly enjoy "refs" being direct references to the DOM nodes. Can't wait to move some of our stateless components to functional.
never typed music... but i can't bring myself to believe there is no easy way to enter a note with 104 keys keyboard right in front of you... is it really that bad?

i would imagine one keystroke per note. maybe one modifier for things like several octaves out.
I am neither shouting, nor being shouted at, but I use reddit a lot, and the large default subs are rampant with racism and sexism, and people defending the same. And when people from marginalized groups say hey, this is not cool, and you ignore them or call them rabble-rousers, that is exactly what you are doing.
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this is a rather strange aqcuisition. Yes, it might help customers buy tickets on the spot while you are listening to Pandora radio, but this does not seem like a logical fit. TicketFly is in direct competition with TicketMaster, so it will not do any good for Pandora, who gives us free radio service, to buy a company that sells Tickets.
Most of the sub reddits I hangout in don't have those tones or maybe I'm used to ignoring those types of comments online. I think any community starts to have those problems as they grow. HN isn't immune but it's still a small enough niche that we tend to still get higher quality comments than your average site. If you're in r/funny you're going to get comments from the lowest of the low just like youtube. I don't see it as a reddit issue it's more of a human nature problem. When you get enough of people in one area you're going to find the assholes.
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The cause is good, but AMP are overcomplicated. They rely heavily on JS, Web Components, Custom Elements. They need a polyfill for other browsers which don't support Web Components natively. They add too much bloat to HTML: custom attributes, weird <style>body {opacity: 0}</style><noscript><style>body { opacity: 1}</style></noscript>, etc.

Instead, content providers should stick to plain old HTML with a small CSS script and no JS, just like RSS feeds. That would be blazing fast and backwards compatible.
Ah OK. I saw that it kept state so I thought it was like Storm. I don't fully understand Storm. However, Kafka can not keep state (and neither can Flume). So Kinesis is a queue that has some state?
What you are saying only holds up until about 40 years ago. The 2500 years before that contradicts what you are saying.

> bad money drives out good money

It does not. More ideal money drives out less ideal money. If you knew that one form of money would inflate and another would not, would you transfer to the non-inflationary money or would you spend every last cent of your current money?

You don't have to look far to see that what you are saying is ridiculous. Argentina, Venezuela, Zimbabwe etc. are recent examples of national currencies being less than ideal. The only thing preventing Argentina and Venezuela from using US dollars is violence. Zimbabwe eventually converted to US dollars.

At the same time, if you took a long view and were going to put away $100,000 in US dollars or $100,000 in gold and you would come back in 100 years to get it, which would you do?
Spending the last 6 weeks in East Africa has completely changed my perspective on web performance. And it's not just performance, it's reliability. Every request a page can't work without is another chance to fail.

React/Flux and the node ecosystem are more verbose than I'd like, but they might be onto something by rendering the initial content server-side.
Some users seem to feel like they are the true owners of the site, and that the corporation exists to serve them and fulfill their needs. This is another example of the corporation's failure to manage expectations. They seem to have lost control over the site they created.
But there are sexists and racists both in real life and online. Reddit is like a giant building with many halls for discussions. You don't have to enter or participate in the ones that racism is welcome but you don't need to avoid the building. I don't see it as hanging out together, but using the same tools. Yes the analogy is a bit of a stretch but I hope you get my point.

In short, IMHO, reddit is a tool and tools don't have political statements to make.
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Not to discredit what you are saying or how amazing the success of human ingenuity has been, FDR might not have had polio. Modern research seems to imply that he actually had Guillian-Barre Syndrome. The Roosevelt family wouldn't let them exhume his body, so we probably will never know. Either way, there was no cure in FDR's life and his treatment would largely have been the same. Just food for thought!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt%27s_para...
Is this really what you want to strive for? To be surrounded by hatred, and shrug your shoulders and say, well, there's nothing to be done? Do you have no ambition?

There's a lot of hatred all over the internet. There doesn't have to be.
That is the issue for a (vocal) 1% of users who think that a bastion of free speech means a bastion of threats, shaming and bullying. The issue for 99% of users -- and therefore the actual issue for Reddit -- is that other 1%, that has made Reddit creepy, off-putting and downright scary.

99% of users couldn't care less about an unclear content policy or its heavy-handed enforcement because they've just never wanted to bully or shame anyone on Reddit.
Also, how likely is it that two websites use exactly the same CDN and version of e.g. jQuery or Angular?
For the vast majority of the population, pings were just nice to know. For a small minority it was a contributor to toxicity. I think it's just one of those things where a minority of (ab)users was able to ruin it for everyone. Unfortunately I don't feel like this is an isolated case within the League of Legends ecosystem.
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You should try shooting film and printing in a darkroom. Every print I create absolutely is unique.
Perl++?

I don't think this is just a naming problem, and the implications can be significant--Python 3 has been around for almost a decade at this point and is still struggling to gain share against Python 2, and it is a less radical syntactic departure (IMO) than Perl 5 to Perl 6. If Perl 6 saps energy from Perl 5 but can't actually take off on its own the whole ecosystem will suffer.
I don't fault Wall for wanting to fix some of the enduring pain points in Perl but I think C to C++, where C++ was a superset, and could thus use existing C code, and the JavaScript ES5 to ES6 transition where almost every change is pure sugar are much better examples of how to do this sort of thing.
When your users quite literally run the site by adding and commenting on content - the user has all the power by design. Without the users, you have no content and without content you have no visitors and without visitors you have no advertisers.

Do something your user base disagrees with? They'll go elsewhere. The site then dies out into obscurity like Digg and a new site will take over.
No, it's insane to sit back and let the market force people to disfigure and destroy themselves for the profits of wealthy capitalists: to destroy humanity in order to sacrifice it at the altar of capitalism
I can't really fault Reddit for trying to figure out how to monetize the site and I'm certainly not in favor of pervasive hate speech, but I can't help but feel annoyed at all the gimmicks they're introducing like upvoted.com or the not-so-subtly promoted casual celebrity drop-ins to askreddit threads.

I haven't visited in a few days and that trend is likely to continue. And honestly, there's no tangible reason for my loss of interest. I certainly don't have any better ideas as to how to solve these very real problems. All I know is I just want to forget about it.
Google has provided PageSpeed Service for a long time.
According to the spec, AMP developers are prohibited from adding their own JS, yet they are mandated to include a <script src="https://cdn.ampproject.org/v0.js" async></script> tag as the last element in the <head>. I find it amusing that the JavaScript library itself is 137KB big (38KB gzipped).
That sounds awesome... looking forward to checking it out!
Is there a Perl 5 EOL being discussed?

Or, if Perl 5 and Perl 6 really are two completely separate languages separated by a similar syntax, then what comes after Perl 5 in the Perl 5 language? Will it forever be 5.N, 5.N+1, ...? (And, I guess, will there forever be 6.N, 6.N+1, ...?)
On the contrary, I think there is a higher cognitive load in having to reason about the behavior that results from using the + operator between two types when their types may differ. e.g., the Wat talk[1].

To be clear, there is a cognitive load to both. One is based on keeping correct type of the variables you are using with the + operator, the other is knowing that numeric addition and string concatenation are not the same thing, and have different operators. Since string concatenation and numeric addition really aren't the same thing, and don't share the same properties, I prefer the different operators.

1: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat