skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All boobacks are red.

Are all red things boobacks?

You see assholes, and you say they are probably people with Asperger's, even though of the two statements:

"this person is an asshole" and

"this person is an asshole, and also has Asperger's"

the first is more likely.

It's nice that you give people the benefit of the doubt. It's not nice that you slur people with Asperger's by saying that assholes are likely to be people with Asperger's.

EDIT: Specifically, there are many people with Asperger's who are appalled by the hateful idiots in GamerGate or the worst bits of 4chan, and who really dislike being associated with them.
Why is ovh so cheap compared to linode and DO, whats the catch?
Did you also run jsonip.org? I used that occasionally (not programmatically, just when I wanted to see my IP) and it started returning a 502 a few months ago.
Why do you assume GP is a dude?
React Router has been iterating towards better APIs for advanced use cases (server-side rendering, code splitting, relay (and other lib) integration, etc). Having used it in projects spanning the above use cases, the evolution of the API has been welcome change.

I'm also happy to see codemods and other AST manipulations (such as babel plugins) gaining popularity. Similar to eslint's --fix, codemods are making repetitive changes easier across large codebases.
If Markdown were around (and widely used) when MediaWiki was written, I imagine there would have been a push to use it as the markup language for MediaWiki.

I don't see MediaWiki markup as byzantine or archaic, except for whatever half-assed LaTeX processor they use. It seems to only recognize some random subset of features from various ams packages. Why they don't just use a fully-featured TeX distro is beyond me.

Wikipedia's talk page workflow (indenting to start a new comment, then inserting a special image to wrap around to the margin once too many indents have accumulated) is moronic.
Stopping them from directly hitting our routers has been the most difficult, because our routers have IPs on 1000+ /24's, which means RTBH can't work because no tier 1 will accept 1000+ null routes. The same is true when they attack our upstream provider's networks.

We've had a few false-starts, but we've finally gotten all of our datacenters dropping all traffic to these critical IPs at the edges. This should stop the most serious outages, so it's a big step.
For the curious, this page that complains about large pages is 989K.
I just looked at Fieldbook. The user-interface work you've done is fantastic. I'll save you from shamelessness. Here's a link to the promotional video for anyone who's interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw5f6Qptufc

Give me beta access! I want to play with this thing.

Wow! The developer tools are amazing too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stwlaJGeLoM
I do get that. I totally understand all OSes are very different. How often those differences surface really depends on a lot of things, mostly at what level of the OS you are working in. Node modules and apps tend to stay pretty high level. But again, I still stand by my original statement that Windows specific issues crop up more than any other OS. Just take a look at the README for node-gyp: https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp -- yup in OSX you have to get Xcode and a few other OSX specific steps to arrive at gcc and make, but compare that to the Windows section ...
You're definitely not mirroring your infrastructure any time soon :). Not to say that it's impossible because I don't believe in impossible, but that's quite a stack to replicate.

We have much the same stack at Reverb.com and I focus more on creating a disaster recovery plan than tackling a mirror of our infra. I'm focusing on bringing up our stack in another region of AWS if we would ever need to rather than mirroring everything.

Sometimes a mitigation plan is far more useful than building in excessively complicated redundancy.
Windows Vista has fewer users than XP, so if you're OK with the consequences of dropping support for XP to simplify your life, you should be ok dropping Vista too. Same thing with dropping IE7 at the same time as IE6.

Added: yes, you could use this argument to say you don't need to support Windows 10 either, but Windows 10 is probably going to get more users over time, as opposed to Vista. Windows 8.0 is also less than XP, but since 7 and 8.1 are big, it's probably not a great idea to leave a hole in your supported os chart.
No problem. Feel free to email me at hn@andreparames.com if you have any questions or problems, I can't say I have all the answers, but I might be able to help :)
Maybe MVP is being used as a calling card for the concept of iterating on a prototype in general?

Lean startup methodology was an inheritor of common wisdom such as "worse is better" and "best is the enemy of the good" but they're all in the same family tree.
>Protected speech

That's an american definition, all forms of speech should be protected even hate speech, when hate is being pushed to the sidelines it only festers and becomes worse, let it be in the open and let it be ridiculed.

>Someone in an organized community was being harassed

Some one claimed to be harassed (there's a very thick and really not one sided story behind all this), considering the authors day to day activities allot of the things she does are also harassment or is calling out some one all the time for their beliefs is only harassment if those beliefs are currently socially progressive?

>The price being paid is that someone harassing a community member isn't part of the community anymore. That's a high price?

Well the price in this case was that she wasn't in the community any more, mostly because of her doing I would guess but I really don't want to get into that.

Communities tend to cast out the ones that cause the most disturbance and disturbance is often not a person who aggravates some one but a person who gets aggravated allot, usually by many people and about many issues.

Most communities are self managing (and do it quite well) if you find your self out of place all the time and being constantly cast out and "harassed" even if you are in the right it might be worth the time to take a deep look at one self and understand how you can adapt better and what different actions you might be able to take to avoid that because clearly; dichotomy and my way or the high way doesn't work and even in cases when it does it won't work for long and at the end will might be your own undoing because there always will be a more progressive agenda that will just as easily hijack the current one as yours did before it.

I really miss the days when progressiveness was about open dialog, accepting others and most importantly being open to your own ideas being challenged as much as you challenge the ideas of others, today progressiveness especially in online communities boils down to some unholy checklist which gets updated every so often with the latest social fab being mandatory for maintaining membership privileges.
How are correlations between variables accounted for?
If you trust people to do the right thing, you're going to get burnt.

We need to evolve the internet past these types of attacks and build systems to protect everyone from this kind of terrorism, rather than just get angry at people who abuse well known about loopholes.

Your anger, while justified, is not helpful.
Where are we in the Python 3 transition?
As someone who has been diagnosed with aspergers syndrome before:

The problem with this line of thought is that it's quite possible for us to atomize and quantify the causes of assholery. That doesn't make the people involved any less jerky.

For any human flaw we can probably put the person in question under a microscope and diagnose the exact causes, but the behavior is still hurtful and offensive. I guess the point of your comment is that the people doing the hurting might be innocent in the mens rea sense, but I think that's a fairly high bar of charity towards people who use tactics like SWATing and obviously enjoy the pain of their victims.

Moreover if improvement is possible, you won't get it by not holding people accountable for the things they say and do.
Node has been upgrading quickly too. Counting io.js:

4.0.0 -> 5.0.0 - 7 weeks
3.0.0 -> 4.0.0 - 5 weeks
2.0.0 -> 3.0.0 - 3 months

Semver will do that :)
Belgium, man!

http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Belgium
> it enables you to programatically change/fix indentation, because the supposed levels can be recognized by the level of {}.

You only need to fix indentation if it doesn't match the block structure. Which modern languages solve by removing the unnecessary* {} tokens.

* If you can remove it, and it still works, it's unnecessary.
> On the other hand it would be harder to convince employers about new sponsorships because the "you will retain me for 10+ years" argument will not be valid anymore

But the "sponsor me or I'll leave for some place that will" argument now applies.

Also removes the issue of wanting a green card desperately but also wanting to move on from your current job.
> the lack of sources provided

Sources are: emails between myself, core, and the FreeBSD Foundation. I'm not providing those. A phone call with the FreeBSD Foundation, which I did not record and will not provide.

I could mention the names of the people I spoke with in FreeBSD, but why? I could provide the tweets of the guy I spoke about, but to what end?

I'm not going to name names. People can find a way to dig it all up if they really want to, but I don't want this to turn into a "this person is terrible" type thing. It's not about him, and I don't want a mob going after him or any individuals inside FreeBSD. That wouldn't be right, and it would detract from the point in writing about this at all.

Instead, I hope people talk about the issues of harassment and legal shadiness regarding trademark claims.
Yeah but justified so, it's 31 screen pages (for me) of content. No ads, no clutter, no junk. Only thing I have to complain is that the images don't have target=_blank set on their links. That sucks.

edit: The optimal solution would be to really compress (or sprite!) the small images and on a click, display a modal with the image in full size, limited to 100% height or width plus a bit of padding. You don't even need jQuery for this and only load the images you really want as fullsize.
Minimum viable product.

In this case, "hey we need a way for people to talk to each other", "sure, we should make a discussion tool, but to get it right now we could use a wiki page that users edit one after another to add their answers".

The fact that it started as such is not an issue per se, but after so many years wikipedia should have replaced it with something better and easier.
No they aren't - this is a false claim which is not substantiated by any of the citations.
It’s the journalists who go for the human interest angle instead of any petty details. It’s like when camera people at conferences exclusively show the presenter instead of the slides they are talking about (and/or pointing at), since it’s more interesting to show a person than some boring slides. The end result is that those who actually want to know any useful details won’t get any.
Wow. Best wishes to Scott in his new endeavors and a huge thank you. His books transitioned me from someone just playing around with C++ to an actual programmer. The breadth of topics covered, as well as detailed rationale behind every advice given, has profoundly impacted all my programming, regardless of language, and dare I say, even the more abstract engineering-thinking skills.

I still have paper copies of those books and lend them to people who are learning C++.
No. They are still liable for taxes on the cash horde. It is simply deferred.
"Chickenshit Minimalism: the illusion of simplicity backed by megabytes of cruft."

This is not restricted to websites - a lot of software has suffered from the same trend, where newer versions look simpler - and often have reduced functionality - while for some reason still requiring more resources than the previous version.
>Heuristics. Really complex heuristics that defy simple codification:

The whole point of a heuristic is that it's a simple rule that works reasonably well, one might even say admissibly as they do in undergrad AI classes, for dealing with an unsolvably complex problem.

Saying "humans use complex heuristics" amounts to just saying, "Humans use some algorithm I don't know."

>the feeling that a particular group of stones just isn't quite safe yet, the feeling that there is weakness in a structure on the other side of the board that can be exploited, the feeling that this corner is too hot right now, so you should definitely extend instead of the hane.

This mostly just sounds like probabilistic, bounded-rational prediction and evaluation of positions, which is what we currently think human cognition is anyway, but hey.
Interesting site. I think it could be more helpful if it also had a "wouldn't use" button that also asks for specific feedback. Sometimes its good to hear peoples concerns when you are still in the idea phase.
What metric are you using?

23 KB

http://seositecheckup.com/seo-audit/html-page-size-test/idle...

67 KB

http://smallseotools.com/website-page-size-checker/
Actually a kind of cool little article. However, a few little errors/improvements I think could improve it:

14. Time value of money: Its actually the opposite of whats stated. We value money today MORE than money tomorrow, not less. The discount rate is how much more money/return you'd need in the future to compensate.

21. Bikeshedding phenomenon is not really substituting an easy problem for a hard one: its more a comment on how people will focus on the problems that they are cognitively able to understand. Or more flippantly, the time spent on a problem is directly proportional to its triviality.

32. Hawthorne effect: This one is close to my heart, because my mother mis-stated this one when I was little. Its that people act different when they are AWARE they are being observed, not just that they act differently when observed.

34. Flynn effect: I feel its important to recognise the subtlety that the flynn effect is about the observed increase in INTELLIGENCE TEST SCORES over several decades. Indeed, the whole point of learning about the flynn effect is to learn about the ambiguity and controversy between tests, test scores, and general intelligence, and the general investigation into why this apparent increase is happening. I feel to simplify this to "IQ has been increasing" is to miss the entire point/controversy/investigation of the flynn effect.

46. Cognitive dissonance: Is i think a mis-statement/erroneous. Cognitive dissonance is indeed the uncomfortableness experienced by humans holding conflicting beliefs, but it does not imply that one of the conflicting beliefs have to be discarded. Rather, it is the interesting ways that human beings deal with conflicting beliefs that don't involve discarding them which I think the real-value/most interesting point of the concept of cognitive dissonance.

47. Coeffcient of determination: Just to save space in this comment, read the wikipedia article if you're into this kind of thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coefficient_of_determination. Personally, I'd barely call this a concept...its more of a model specific stats metric really, but i'm not really in the mood to argue it...
It shows the website from which it originates, which is good enough in this case, to know it is worth a look. =)
1017kb on my end.

IMO a large majority of those images would be better off replaced by the Taft image (or not included at all).
Cool idea but doesn't render into anything useful on my S5....
The answer is actually: We don't know. Some people suggest comllex visual pattern matching is at play, but this seems really unlikely when you get to know the space because:

1. Good Go players can often reconstruct an entire game just by looking at the board, if they have some idea how it started. Given that good go players can substantially alter the board in the course of play (called "playing under the stones" in many books), this suggests more than simple visual recognition.

2. Some go players can even play "one color go" which is pretty amazing to watch. Its basically a game of who can keep every move in their head. This isn't a silly stunt, some people really practice this.

Personally, I think that actually Go is more like a contextual NL problem than a vision definition problem. The existence of things like "joseki" and the fact that small board games play out in such a radically different way than big board games suggests that a variety of human cognitive shortcuts are at play.

It is absolutely the case that with just a few months of modest practice almost anyone can beat the pants off the best go playing computers.
That's what firebug told me. Using the built in inspector I get 1,356K.

Your tools are probably not loading images if they show such a small number.
You're going to love npm3 then. It installs different versions depending on the order you install them.

https://docs.npmjs.com/how-npm-works/npm3
Cool, thanks! Yeah, it was not obvious you could create new distribution types with random functions. I didn't look at functions too closely because I didn't expect distributions to be there. Makes sense, though, thanks!

Re the two-letter codes, I totally get doing the simple thing just to launch and get it out there. We face a similar problem in Fieldbook, by the way. Would be happy to explain how our solution works sometime.
You'd think that they could at least make the robot appear as though it was looking at the person it was talking to.
> Yeah but justified so

I wasn't making a judgment on the size, just posting it for the curious.
Including images. Chrome reports loading 1017 kB for me.
Guesstimate doesn't yet support correlations. Right now we assume everything is independent, though of course variables are often correlated with their outputs.
Nobody said anything about multimaster. You keep a hot standby in a different availability zone and stream your transactions to it. Failover when needed.

Unless you're a bank, you run asynchronous with watchdog scripts and accept the very very small risk that you lose a few transactions within the ~100ms window of async latency.

It's all risk analysis. For most of us, hours of downtime is riskier than losing a tiny sliver of data for a small number of customers.
Meaning the playbook: http://playbook.samaltman.com
Thanks! We were on Show HN not long ago, if you use the link there you can get beta access now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10752570
It's not that humans only _use_ heuristics, it's that humans _create_ heuristics, and seem to be able to optimize the speed of the heuristic with training and use. They're also introspectable to some level, and can be combined with rational observation and feedback.
If there is nobody worth voting for then where can I go?
...and buy BluRays instead of DVDs.
> So very soon, the threat carries no weight.

It does carry weight if you think of these people as law abiding resident aliens (probably hoping for permanent resident status) instead of potential illegal immigrants.
I'm not saying that assholes are "probably" people with Asperger's, or that assholes are "likely" to be people with Asperger's.

I'm just saying that, before we lash out at people we perceive as assholes, we should ask ourselves whether they are willfully being assholes, or simply can't help it.

edit: apparently this is a controversial statement. Consider this: our justice system distinguishes between criminals who commit crimes willfully, and those who do so due to a mental illness. The two are treated differently. I'm saying we need to do the same in our social interactions.
I was having a good time, reading the article with a grin on my face. Until I got to

> On top of it all, a whole mess of surveillance scripts

And I just lost my cool and laughed out loud. Well written, sir.
> Fuck websites with autoplay (or autoplay-on-hover) videos.

It's not just marketing. My personal favorite is how Twitter and (shudder) Facebook are doing this on their timelines now. At least they have the decency to mute the volume, but that doesn't help with data caps.
> "VestedContributors think the rules can be bent for them because they've been around so long and done so much good work."

But is that inherently a bad thing? The way you state it, I'm getting that you're implying that it's bad 100% of the time. If you're looking at it in terms of black and white, I guess just hearing "rules can be bent" is bad, but I don't think it's that simple.

I think there are times where the rules can be bent which creates an outcome that is beneficial to all. Times where the rules don't account for certain variables/situations and those incidents need to be handled differently (or with care). I think it's a complex problem and it may need a complex solution.

The best, and I mean absolute best volunteer teams I've been a part of have always had a leader at the top with absolute authority. However, he or she never abused their power, and rarely flexed their absolute authority, preferring to take up the mantle of "benevolent dictator". In those cases, some amazing things happened. We got our work done ahead of time, group moral was sky-high, and the projects were a massive success. Things "just worked".
Thanks man. The source is National Climatic Data Center (http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov) and the GHCN-Daily dataset.

The dataset probably contains data from weather stations from the cities your searched, however, the relationship between cities and weather stations is sometimes lacking. So, the case with the indian cities, I bet they are defined as weather stations, but has not been mapped to a city.

Cheers!
It is curious—however, I have a feeling that the offenders listed in the article aren't bumping up against the limitations of JPEG compression in their bloat. :-)
104 of 138 resources are images, over 97% of the weight. Spot checking, they're almost all thumbnails for the slides.

Not bloated in the least. Pure content.