skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for sharing - but what do you do if you're in a long distance relationship and just way too precious not to say goodnight before you go to bed?
Thanks -- good essay -- I just lost an hour or so reading it and following links.
New Blog: The Hunt Is Over Engagement Ideas
Is there some sort of React component repository or something?
In fairness, all systems are broken, academia isn't much more broken than anything else involving large numbers of mortals.

The basic problem is that we need to rank one researcher's merit against everyone else's, and there's no perfect way to do this because nobody can familiarise themselves with every individual's research. Rely on peers' opinions to measure merit and you just reward back-scratching. Rely on objective measures like citation counts and h-index and you incentivise people to focus on these instead of research quality.

The thing is that macro-scale works pretty well. As an overall system, academic science produces new knowledge at an astounding rate, and in terms of dollars in to research produced I'd say it works pretty efficiently. The measures we use are correlated with research quality even if they don't measure it perfectly.

It's only at the detailed scale where it looks badly flawed.

edit: and of course whenever I spend a long time writing a thoughtful comment I get the "you're submitting too fast, please slow down" message. Time to leave this comment to sit for an hour before pressing reply again...
I'm disgusted that this is the top comment.

codeulike was my generous themself. How far up your ass is your head. "tits or gtfo" is sent back because it's a forum of immature bratty dudes who assume that every other person is a straight white male and like act like assholes when that assumption is found to be false.

your head is so far up your rear, it's amazing.
My definition of actively waiting is that you keep building something.

Initially me and my co- started building our version of Amazon dash. We helped each other. This allowed me to learn his character and he learned mine.

Then we came up with an idea. While he was taking care of tech, I would simply work on business administration stuff. Also just apply for grants, you dont have to submit it, but you will know how to do it.
So it's 23 years passed and are there any practical implementations that mathematicians would use?

Since this work can be applied only to proofs that were recorded in machine-readable format (like Mizar), I suppose it's much harder _to record_ a proof in machine-readable format, than to really go ahead and check all the pages manually.
I was at SOSP until earlier today. During the Q&A of the Chaos graph processing system, there was discussion of a previous exchange between Frank McSherry and the authors of the work ... what was REALLY cool was that parts of the original exchange happened on Twitter and via blog posts and we were hearing about it at the conference some time later :)
Original source from a few weeks ago: http://www.wsj.com/articles/an-unlikely-debate-prison-vs-har...
This sounds like a great idea, and I can't help but think of this as a very "Valley" take on Renaissance-style patronage.

Here's hoping this effort has similarly transformative results!
Job market liquidity is certainly one of the benefits of density. Its not just an assertion - your experience seems to prove it to be true. As well as the experience of millions of people moving to cities for better jobs.
If anything - it revelaed very clearly the force of power and corruption that governments have -- just like OWS in the US.

Man, OWS was a truly eye-opening event that really showed the power of the Oligarchy (The Fed) in the US.

So, while not much change actually happened from wither the Arab Spring or the OWS movements -- at least we know now where the common man stands. That information will really gel over time in the minds of all men and I think changes the world-view of most people in such a way that people now know what institutions are against humanity.
Why is this website being tricky about letting me select text? Some invisible overlay it seems. I'll just have Firebug delete a few elements and be happy.

> GNU Make 3.81

My god. What kind of ancient system is that? I didn't even Debian was that outdated.

Why is it a surprise that make is good for controlling file transformations? Other than that it reads like a good introduction to make.
The Trial of Matthew Keys, the Journalist Who Allegedly Aided Anonymous, Begins
I don't understand how this is getting so many votes... It's all clearly fake and the website isn't any good. Solid spam.
True story happened to my friend. His partner walked away, he kept working on his business. Then his partner came back and took piece of the business. He won, but all the headache he had to go through!
KWC was an utterly dreadful place to live, but I suspect that has more to do with its lawlessness than its density.
I think there's a significantly different question at play between the choice of whether to live in a town of 40,000 people or 120,000 people, and the choice of whether to live in a city with 18k/sqmi density or 60k/sqmi density.

At less than 50,000 people, you're talking about wanting to live in a place smaller than Ann Arbor, MI. Effectively, you want to live out in the country. That's fine! But you're having a different discussion than the people in this article and in the rest of the thread, who are debating how the character of major cities changes as density changes.

Density doesn't really enter into the equation when you're talking about places smaller than Auburn, Alabama.
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Dhaka is three times denser than Hong Kong.

Though poverty is part of it--Dhaka is actually less dense than Manhattan. That said, Manhattan is gross too, despite being one of the richest places in the world.
One of the big ones is that funding has not grown with the number of researchers, so researchers must spend a larger and larger portion of their work time on competing to get the work funded (or a longer portion of their professional life waiting for their chance at actual research-focused employment).
Custom elements are a thing in HTML. Using them doesn't make it a superset. http://w3c.github.io/webcomponents/spec/custom/
Corporate media’s lack of vision threatens photojournalism’s future
How Do the Yellow Pages Still Make Money?
> It's not a moral imperative to process all data, it's a moral imperative to pay others for the product of their labor that you're benefiting from.

There's a very reliable method of ensuring that one who labors and posts to The Internet gets paid: refuse to deliver the fruits of the labor to others prior to payment.

If camp #2 actually thought as you claim they do, they would advise all Internet-publishing laborers to eliminate the ad-blocking worry -and keep the dishonest among us honest- by putting their creations behind a paywall.
Is this a contribution to the discussion, or the lyrics of a Laibach song?
I was surprised the author didn't highlight the pressure that the stock market exerts on companies to produce short term gains. Isn't that what's discouraging long term focused R&D? Seems there has been a shift from in house R&D to acquiring companies.
On #1 we agree.

We don't agree on #2. Inline::Perl5 is better than I would expect, but there is still an issue. For example, Perl 6 uses garbage collection instead of reference counting so modules like http://search.cpan.org/dist/ReleaseAction/lib/ReleaseAction.... no longer work like they did in Perl 5. (Yes, that module is used in production code. And I happen to know of several independent re-creations of the same functionality that are used in the same ways in other production code.) I am sure there are other examples.

Granted, this a module that depends on a quirk of Perl 5 behavior. But even if only 5% of CPAN modules hit such a nasty quirk, dependency chains are long enough that most non-trivial applications will have some dependency that breaks somewhere. If I have a library that uses DBIx::Class, Moose, and Catalyst with some interesting plugins, would you care to bet money that it will work with no issues under Inline::Perl5?

On #3, what backwards compatibility means is "compatible with what you already have". Perl 6 immediately loses on that to Perl 5 because nobody has Perl 6 legacy code bases. Ideally this wouldn't be an important fact. But it is an important use case. Many organizations today are only staying on Perl because they do not want to rewrite their code. If they hit the point where they would be willing to do a Perl 5 to Perl 6 migration, there is no reason why they wouldn't consider a Perl 5 to Python 3 migration instead.
My journey to sales
I started a company and I don't know how to do sales!

I always been a tech guy, since I am the CEO I have to do the dirty work. I decided to document everything. Talking about my failures and success.

http://boniface316.tumblr.com/
Maybe, maybe not. I debated bringing it up, and honestly YCR is likely to have a large, up-front facilities cost (regulations, certifications, etc.). It would make sense to start easy - don't start off with infectious diseases of humans - and build from there. But still, I'd wager that YCR will run far more efficiently than your average university. Someone above brought up the UC system: management-level positions have grown over 200% the last few decades (http://universityprobe.org/2011/03/new-data-on-management-gr...). Even if we limit the scope to department administrators and staff, YCR won't need nearly the same sort of personnel infrastructure.
> denser design is more expensive to construct AND maintain

Really? Surely economies of scale would mean that building 10 flats is cheaper than building 10 individual houses?
This is old news (April this year) but it got picked up again because one of our politicians posted it as a guide to how the law is about to affect companies that have servers in Australia, vs those (like us) without infrastructure on-shore. It's a strange law!
While I think the short/medium term solution is training people on how to use email as much as the software improvements itself, id love to see some smaller time saving features added like;

- A 'do you need to reply all' pop-up when people do a short thanks message. Kinda like the check for attachments.

- A 'drop me from this thread' button so the next reply-all person see a note that these people have been removed. Then they can add them back if needed.

- More personal statistics on email to chart how many you are getting and time spent etc. Seeing this might encourage people to be more efficient.

- Improve threading of emails to more like SMS. Outlook and Gmail ate both horrible on this. Opera M2 used to have quite good threading so perhaps the new Vivaldi team will improve this when they re-make the mail client.
AMP is two things: Technology and a strategy to adoption. The latter was missing so far or load times wouldn't have been as bad as they were.
>This is why anonymity is important.

It's been a while since I've messed about on here: http://turing.gatech.edu/ (I don't even remember if it's the same thing I was involved in)

People are pretty good at guessing whether someone is telling the truth about their identity on the internet. Anonymity adds unnecessary obfuscation, makes for a game of trying to guess the other person's perspective. Non-anonymity should be a choice, and I believe that it adds value to a person's perspective.

We need to be comfortable with the differences between persons, we do not need some cosmic blur sweeping across our identities.
Meetup...I think thats the only way.
Doesn't Elon Musk encouraging other people to use Tesla's battery IP help drive the electric vehicle market to maturity faster, creating more opportunity for Tesla to succeed?

The market is still the market. Not sure we should look this gift horse in the mouth. George R. Price figured out altruism can be reduced a math equation decades ago, it doesn't mean we can't embrace the good that comes out of decisions like this. :)
The Article on Diversity in Tech That Forbes Took Down
The post is from April, I'm reposting this because it's even more relevant now, with Australia's data retention due to take effect next week.

As a founder of an Australian startup that facilitates communication it's interesting to hear that using international hosting seems to bypass the requirements. IANAL etc. As the post mentions this is a pretty good way to discourage investment in local tech infrastructure.

Previous discussion : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9345935
Research != Business idea
> First of all, a script tag will block DOM construction, but in any sane modern browser will not block loading of subresources like stylesheets, because browsers speculatively parse the HTML and kick off those loads even while they're waiting for the script.

And some don't just preload resources from the speculative parsing—unless invalidated, the speculative parse is the tokenizer stage (into things like start tags, end tags, comments, characters, etc.) of the parser, and they're fed directly into the DOM construction once unblocked.

> > This isn't even that much JavaScript in web terms - 37kb gzipped.

> Just send less script. A lot less. The less script you're sending, the less likely it is that your script is doing something dumb to make things slow.

This. Seriously this. The amount of bloat in JS is insane—it's almost always the case that a lot less could be sent without any loss of functionality nowadays, and that's really, really sad.
OK "just web technologies". I stopped seeing HTML as just the markup language, but I'm fine with people liking that distinction!
gotcha thanks for clarifying!
Not sure, but with the promo code 10BUCKSNOW and no membership fee/free ship/free returns all the sudden it looks very enticing.

Not affiliated or any of that jibber jabber.
I don't live in SF and haven't for a long time, but this seems essentially correct to me. My experience of SF is of a lot of small, low-slung buildings; the Mission seems like it consists almost entirely of wood-frame 2-flats.
Yes, I'm looking forward to it! It will still be a little ways off before we can use it with Compose, however.
>Why are people, or do people feel the need to link their identity to their thoughts online.

Because a person's identity informs their thoughts. Knowing who someone is allows a reader to evaluate the validity of what they're saying. This is a primary component of information analaysis: source evaluation.
Wow, please do make that argument. I'm dying to see it.
Advance-fee loan scammers [video]
I thought the point of the analysis was to think of a city as a whole (I.e., MSA) and not just a downtown with surrounding neighborhoods... Chicago, for example, is very low density compared to CA cities despite having a downtown that could swallow all of CA cities' downtowns. And yet, it has miles of single-story homes, empty lots and abandoned factories. Comparing a city like Chicago using only the city and not the entire MSA to any CA city like SF and it still loses (if the game is density). I really appreciated the analysis because th baby boomer generation and their "I got mine..." attitude is keeping most urban places down: literally. Thank you prop 13, if you live in CA, for destroying affordability.
For #2 it's also worthwhile to remember that stylesheets block scripts, so it's not just scripts blocking other scripts.
bad.horse

bad.horse

bad.horse

he-s.bad

the.evil.league.of.evil

is.watching.so.beware

the.grade.that.you.receive

will.be.your.last.we.swear

so.make.the.bad.horse.gleeful

or.he-ll.make.you.his.mare

o_o

you-re.saddled.up

there-s.no.recourse

it-s.hi-ho.silver

signed.bad.horse

EDIT: that's what I get for cp'ing out of Emacs. :/
Part 2:
https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2015/06/eugenics-ready-part...
Matthew Keys found guilty
He wants to rent something temporarily, so that he can copy stuff off the drives, take them out of the nas, format them in the new nas so it's compatible, copy stuff off the rented appliance to the new nas, ship the rented thing back off.

He wants to avoid having to have to buy enough drives, etc, to hold all of the data at once
At this point I think it might be reasonable to simply pay people in that area to be vaccinated. We stopped vaccinating most of the world so the risks of an outbreak and in the long term existing vaccinations stop being as useful due to the disease mutating.
What if a startup worked with upcoming artists to book venues that aren't your typical music venues? The venue gets traffic it wouldn't have otherwise gotten, the artist keeps ticket prices lower (which promotes more exposure with their fans, and increases the profitability of touring).
Don’t Send a Human to Do a Machine’s Job: A Note to Sales Teams
To add to silvamerica's comment, this process is specific to running containers in development. When building images for deployment the dependencies are installed as a RUN step in the Dockerfile.
afaik the two main reasons are 1) the expense of porting from 2.* to 3.* and 2) some libraries do not yet support 3 http://python3wos.appspot.com/
HN is going to provide the ability to counter-flag as well as moderator intervention in cases of abuse. If your power users are abusing their flagging privilege they lose it.
More efficiently, I'm sure.

For starters, I'm prejudiced to think any smaller org will run more efficiently than a larger one (even though I realize this is literally the opposite of conventional/mainstream assumptions!).

But TWICE as efficient?

Also, I think all those administrator salaries are probably being funded by tuition (that is, by government subsidized student loans that the students will be paying back for most of the rest of their lives), rather than research grants. :)

Or actually you didn't even suggest twice as efficient, you suggested virtually ZERO costs other than direct research costs -- would we call that INFINITELY more efficient with a zero in the denominator? :) (Not even including salaries? Aren't those also funded in part by the 'overhead'?)
Paris, as they say, is a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there. Come to think of it, I'm not even that fond of visiting.

I am very grateful that my parents brought me up in a decent-size house with a nice biggish backyard. I can't imagine growing up in an apartment. Particularly in today's world where kids don't play in the park unsupervised. It must be even worse for the parents, who can't say "go play outside!" whenever the kids get rowdy and annoying. I don't think indoor living is good for kids.

For people without children apartments are fine of course, which is why I think the ideal city consists of a combination of a higher-density centre with surrounding low density areas.

People need to quit it with the desire to make everyone else live like a single twenty-something professional.
Well, nobody likes them, of course, it's 2015 and we still have to deal with touch tones and waiting endless amounts of time on the phone. Last week I just spent over 3 hours waiting for IRS to talk to me, which costs them, well, "us" essentially, at least a penny per minute. But sometimes your customers are low-tech. For example, I am trying to build an automated system for a church and most people there don't use Facebook or smartphones, so, the IVR system is a viable option for now.
I coded this, didn't think it would be so popular! Just added more robust spam blocking to reign it in during the stampede!
JS Optimization killers
> WebKit (and consequently Chrome) have a "preload scanner" (you can Google for those words to find posts about it) that attempt to parallelize the former in all cases.

Everyone does, as far as I'm aware. (And I'm pretty sure this is a case where one can invoke the Opera-did-it-first meme[0].)

[0]: http://w3cmemes.tumblr.com/post/62942106027/if-you-can-think...
An Amazon Rival, Jet.com, Eliminates Its Membership Fee
I think we found the fatty here.
Why not just go look this up? Economists and other social scientists study this by, among other things, taking surveys. Sprawl cities have, apparently, lower reported quality of life than dense metropolises.

It's probably not, as you seemingly imply, that economists have simply modeled this up out of thin air.
Harper says marijuana is ‘infinitely worse’ than tobacco. Is it?
Former Reuters Journalist Matthew Keys Found Guilty of Hacking, Faces 25 Years
In the majority of cases, load time dominates over execution time.
In aggregate is not what we're talking about in this instance. "In aggregate", crime is down worldwide, people are living longer than ever. That does not mean focus gets shifted away from individual criminals and diseases.

People being cut off from any medium based on, not because someone was hurt in any tangible way, but because they were offended, is a crying shame, and that goes double when the medium plays at being precisely against that sort of thing.

Source on "anti-social behavior growing by leaps and bounds", and a definition would be nice, too. It seems to me words like "harassment" and "bulling" are being used as stand-ins for things as innocuous as simple incivility.
Oh, I certainly do see how it's a problem; but it will be a problem with anything trying to compete with, or replace, Reddit just as much. I'm not too concerned with whether Reddit lives or dies; that's up to their PR department.

I'm concerned, instead, with the user attitude of attempting to move on to the "next big community" to avoid the problems with the last. If Reddit dies, and the thing after it dies, and the thing after that dies—I hope we eventually stop and look at what we're doing and realize that there's no point in this "grass is greener" pursuit of a utopian community, when these problems eventually face every community at scale. At some point, I hope we just sit down and try to maintain the community we've got (turning it into a society), rather than thinking that rebuilding it with slightly different rules but the same microcosm of people will help.
Same with me and programming. I'm fine just browsing HN every other day and checking out slow small community boards like Lainchan.
An MSA is not simply a city as a whole. It's the city and the surrounding area. For instance, the statistical area this article uses for San Francisco includes San Jose, a wildly different and in fact larger city than San Francisco. Worse, it includes all the little towns between SF and SJ, from San Mateo to Atherton.
That will probably work on Hacker News. That will almost certainly not work on Reddit. The scales involved are just not even in the same universe as each other, and that's before any discussion of the corruption or other problems on the latter site.
We need more Bort license plates in the gift shop. Repeat, we are sold out of Bort license plates.
People keep focusing on Pao's gender, but IMHO the main reason Pao was not liked in reddit is not her gender or race, but rather that she was too old for the role. Plus her business background was not really exciting. She could barely inspire the rebelious youngsters that frequent reddit. I believe a younger asian hipster girl would be a much easier sell for the changes she wanted to bring about.
Or, I could just play on chess.com and not have to deal with it.
What do you mean by search your bookmarks? Does it index the content and search through it?
But if you're going to live somewhere lawless you'd prefer low density.