skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried once or twice to edit articles but was quickly rejected by editors that usually believe they sort of "own" the content.
I've quickly become demotivated as explained in the analysis and never contributed again. Another problem is that when you think you've made an important and useful update you're never sure when someone will roll it back.

Some are spending a very big chunk of their time to make sure articles stay as they wish to. Being a former or an active editor on an article is not always related to how much you know about the topic but Wikipedia favorites the biggest editors. There is very little chance to convince if you're new unless you commit to spend a lot of your valuable time contributing which is not possible for everyone and not a good idea for most.

A very hard problem to solve.

Wikipedia is still great though with no real better alternative.
To add to your second point, Andrew Gelman had some blog posts earlier this year detailing the challenges of doing online surveys, where he used simple questions that respondents "should" have been able to answer in a survey and found that a fair percentage >10% answered some of these simple questions wrong.
I am assuming there is no incentive for answering more questions correctly so it's possible that some respondents may have answered blindly to finish quickly leading to lower scores.
That's true, but an organization board can help those adoptions occur in a more orderly and/or less acrimonious manner in case there are any serious disputes.
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Won? What is winning defined as here?

They implemented the policies, but you don't normally define "success" as users getting extremely mad and your CEO quitting.
http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/why-can%E2%80%99t-pe... #emotivism
Yeah, my brother and sister-in-law are saving up for a new house. When their phones reached the end of their Next plan after two years, it was effortless to just keep using them at a now reduced cost, instead of shelling out $30/month more each just to get the shiny new phone.
I think this is it: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Vise,+Belgium/@50.8039738,...
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Vise,+Belgium/@50.8039738,...
Read the next-highest package.json file for whatever code is executing (dependencies copy their package.json file when they install), find the dependency listing in there, with the desired version constraint. If none exists (i.e. the dependency was installed manually), take wahtever is the highest version by default. If that's not what the developer wants, it's their own fault for not specifying the dependency in their package file.
Can you give me a recommendation?
X-Files: la série revient après 15 longues années
Decouvrez x files, la serie mythique des annees 90 qui revient sur la chaine fox le 24 janvier prochain. Une video du making of est disponible en ligne.
Isn't this a cognitive bias? How has bitcoin grown?

In 2015, Wordpress dropped support for it because there were too few transactions to warrant it.
I like to allude to the TSA's keys when talking about this. It took, what, a week for a TSA agent to post a closeup of their "secure" keys, and for someone to replicate them with a 3D printer?

It's absurd.
Fine, I see this as more a problem with Western Civilization than just America. America provides the most spectacular and clear example though.
XSS attack on Geeksforgeeks IDE
IMO, the internet has changed who speaks for the masses. It used to take real effort to speak out. So, you generally only hear from people who do stuff. Now days speaking is easy, it's getting people to pay attention that's hard. And what most speaks to people are simple messages about simple problems. Sadly, this means it's simple messages from whiners that drones out everyone else.

There are still plenty of builders, protesters, and politicians, but it's just the drone of first world problems silences them.

PS: As to learners, you don't need to speak to your professors if you want to learn something. So, professors are going to hear more from people about there grades than the actual subject.
I had been a lurker for ~2 years and a registered user for ~3 years, so about ~5 years in total. I don't believe that HN adequately represents either independent developers, non-corporate FOSS community or web developers ("JS hipsters").
In NYC, mere possession of less than 25g of marijuana is just a ticket (first offense, anyway). Displaying it in public can get you actually arrested versus just being issued a summons. While again, for a first offense, one can avoid any real long lasting consequences, the latter situation can be very expensive once you factor in lawyer fees. The former will cost you at most about $150.
i think you're misunderstanding me. i'm agreeing with you - network device vendors are universally terrible across the board, and that's why nobody should count on them unless they absolutely have to.

in other words, what i'm saying is to expect that kind of response is naive, and that you should seek alternatives.
The decline in number of editors seems to have started at 2007 given figure 1. I wouldn't tie the amount of negative press to the decline in editors.

The point about there being less new stuff to write about seems apt, what do you think about the counter points that the article had?

"First, as noted above, the vast majority of articles in Wikipedia are still below community standards for “good” articles. Second, underrepresented groups still find it challenging to join. For instance, one study found that only 9% of edits are made by female editors, and that articles of particular interest to women are shorter than articles of interest to men (Lam, 2011). Until editors are representative of the population of potential
contributors, it is difficult to argue that the socialization practices are sufficiently effective."
Can someone give them a standard LaTeX template please
I feel like you don't appreciate the way science works. If we found out tomorrow that the universe were, at its bottom, made of string cheese, that would not invalidate Newtonian Mechanics.

Newtonian / Classical Mechanics is an effective theory in the technical sense[0], which means that it is independent (up to some unspecified constants) of the finer underlying details.

Yes, we may be wrong about how we see the world. But wrong is relative. No amount of science or new discovery will make us see the Earth as flat. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_theory
[1] http://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.htm
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Most of this gotchas (and others not mentioned) can be avoided if you treat WebSocket for what it is: a low-level transport that can be swapped out. This is how we treat it in Socket.IO and Engine.IO.

Most people that implement WebSocket directly end up re-inventing a protocol on top of it. This is necessary because the "onmessage" handler of WS is not something you can really build an application on. And then you'll have to add reconnection and exponential delays after that.

If you just want to use HTTP polling, which as the author suggests is perfect for most applications (perhaps not games), you can simply do: `io('http://myhost', { transports: ['xhr-polling'] })`.
Just because you don't have cash doesn't mean you don't have an asset that has value. If I give you a house, you don't have cash, but you still have to pay taxes on the gift.

I do agree that there is some degree of ridiculosity and there should probably be some tax reform here, but that is the reasoning behind the current rules.
When people are desperate for something they don't have they'll accept any deal to get it, no matter how bad. It's not classist, it's necessary to have as many people as possible consider this deal for them since if it's as bad a deal as everyone who isn't facebook is saying it is, then it's just Facebook exploiting the desperation of a huge poor population for profit which obviously shouldn't be allowed to happen.

Elites in our country have decided slavery should be banned, no matter what. Who are they to say a starving poor man can't sell himself into slavery in exchange for food for his family? How classist.
It should make them aware that they should refrain from holding any position where they have to deal with people. I am sure you have never edited Wikipedia; the amount of users and admins that more than obviously suffer from autism spectrum disorders and OCDs is very, very high, and they are crippling the bureaucratic processes of the wiki.

I know these words are "ugly" or "not politically correct" but I think just looking the other way is not helping anybody.
My 2-year AT&T contract just ended (and I kept service), but my monthly price is still the same. Should my monthly price have gone down?
No it wouldn't. The statement "everything is relative" is in itself a contradiction.
Wikipedia is a hit and miss. After contributing, some things stick, but others can be removed without good reason, and wasting one's time on bureaucratic fights to restore that content is simply very tiring and after some point it becomes annoying enough, so I stopped trying to restore such things most of the time.
It's one of the tricks of any creative form to set down a lot of design rules and conventions - and not necessarily to make something more easily, but just to make it distinctive and cohesive. This is something I never had explained to me, but it encompasses so many different forms and aesthetics.
Politicians are subject to market forces just like everyone else. It just happens to be a market for votes, and the tools at their disposal include pandering to special interests, demagogy, class-warfare, and racial division. Taxes, subsidies, and regulations are driven at least as much by those as by any genuine concern for the people or the economy. And they always want to spend someone else's money instead of their own!

I agree that we need both. Basic research is a good example. I'm not familiar with the economics of electric cars, but you might be right about Tesla too. But beware the easy incrementalism of this all. Each step is logical and difficult to oppose on its own, but the collective result is a society drained of its dynamism and freedom. And then the real kicker is that the government programs that you sacrificed them to don't work. They become barriers to entry for competition, vehicles for political pork, permanent bureaucracies that lobby for their own existence, and more opportunity to waste other people's money.

As an aside, businesses do have a very good reason to continue to serve the public interest: they need to continue to create value for their customers, or they soon won't have any.
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I see. I guess you're more selfless than I can ever dream to be - as long as it seems that we're alone in the universe, I want humans to shape and rule it :).

What you say would be a good solution, if we could actually shape incentives like that (and avoid the issue of incentivized incentivizers - an example of which are companies influencing governments to make laws better for those companies). You said that you're working on a part of this problem, on "a system to measure righteousness". This is something I think we could really use, at the very least to express the concept of "a douchebag" within legal system[0]. Can you share some details about your work? I'm interested.

--

[0] - Our legal systems try to stick to objective facts and avoid the topic of intent. Understandably so - without a way to read people's minds it turns into walking through a minefield. We can handle quite a lot this way, but in recent times a big part of suffering in this world is being created legally, by people with obviously selfish and malicious intent. We would want to discourage and/or punish such behaviour, but we can't because technically they aren't breaking any laws, even though everyone knows they are douchebags.
Why was RabbitMQ not great as a backend?

I am curious because we use it for a not launched chat application (+websockets) currently and we are not sure if it will hold big amounts of users.
Believing that "making money is a good thing" can be OK.

It's all the other things she said, wrote, and even more so, practiced -- in other word her ethics and ideology -- that make her appalling as an author and as someone people aspire to be like.
Overall, I don't think Doom 2 is actually much more abstract than Doom 1. I suspect the real difference is that all of Romero's levels were clumped together in the shareware episode of Doom 1, which is what everyone remembers. Sandy Petersen (who does the really abstract weird stuff) did episodes 2 and 3, but his Doom 2 levels were strewn throughout the game, even in the Earth-like sections that you'd expect to be more realistic.
My understanding is that strike price can be virtually unboundedly below current valuation of the share, given particular circumstances of a company, which makes this calculation quite sensitive to the valuation.

A call option on a share of Google with a strike price of $50 is worth a heck of a lot more than a call option on "name any startup" with a strike price of a tenth of a penny.

There are, naturally, cash flow implications to this.
I have learned that in order to actually contribute to Wikipedia, you have to treat it less like a collaboration and more like a battle.

You can't just contribute and consider it done. You have to be prepare to fight your way through, engage in edit wars, learn about the battlefield (the bureaucracy, the article sourcing) and in the end, if you fight long enough, you usually win.

You have to repeatedly, over and over, show that the other person (who 'owns' the article) is wrong, he will revert it, so you do a little dance of reverting and back, then you have to try to dig up some rule from the ruleset, and as I said, you will usually win because the other person gives up. Or he doesn't, but then some higher editor stumps him.
should be titled "The rise and decline in Wikipedia editor counts".

Wikipedia may have its political issues, but to say it is "in decline" seems off. There is only so much that can be written and only so many new things can happen to document. Obviously no hard limit exists, but still.

If it was to be in general decline as the title conotates, I'd expect to see overall traffic lower over time and while I searched in earnest for 10 minutes, I couldn't find that data (alexa is pay service now, wtf?). But have a hard time seeing actual traffic declining.
Somewhat on topic, I wonder if Acorn makes even a penny from every smartphone made today (at least the non-intel ones).

Because that would be a lot of pennies. A true UK success story.
Blockstream Liquid makes them a middleman: https://blockstream.com/2015/10/12/introducing-liquid/

They also work on the lightning network, which creates middlemen.

In general, all Blockstream's products are solutions to the problems of (1) bitcoin being hard to change/fork, and (2) the block size being small. Blockstream's products are thus more relevant and useful if bitcoin is difficult to improve, and has limited capacity.

This is because all Blockstream's products are built on Sidechains: https://blockstream.com/sidechains.pdf Rather than change bitcoin itself, a sidechain lets you create an alternative set of rules for bitcoin, that re-uses the actual bitcoins from the main chain, so that users can put their bitcoins on either set of rules. Sidechains let users move coins between chains with different rulesets. Thus, Sidechains are useful only if it is difficult to add desired features to Bitcoin itself. All Blockstream products (like Liquid above) are implemented as Sidechains.

Thus, Blockstream's products will have no purpose unless Bitcoin is limited, and difficult to change, creating a need for a Sidechain.

Blockstream employees unanimously oppose every proposed hard fork to bitcoin.

At last October's Bitcoin Dev Workshop in San Francisco (ironically run by the Bitcoin Foundation), Blockstream CTO and Bitcoin Core Dev Greg Maxwell, who invented most of the Sidechains tech, said on stage (video recording is online somewhere) he was bummed that so few people use Sidechains, and that his biggest surprise was how much work it takes to get applications in the ecosystem (like wallets, blockchain.info, etc.) to support a Sidechain. He needs people to have a good reason to switch to a Sidechain. If Bitcoin keeps improving, there will be no good reason.

Blockstream employees unanimously oppose every proposed hard fork to bitcoin. They are making it hard to improve bitcoin.
Better is highly subjective.

In a technical sense, yes digital audio performance is on another level, when compared to vinyl. However, we did peak on analog capability in the 70s, and a good reel to reel, along with better tape used for master recordings does perform in a comparable way.

This isn't about the better sound technically.

This is all about sound we crave, and it turns out that humans often prefer less than perfect sound.

I was there too, and I have to tell you my vinyl and exotic oxide tapes sound great! I crave that sound, and I crave it because that sound made an impression on me.

I bought a stereo for the guys where I work. It was a spiff for a great year. I got them a late 70s era receiver, good speakers, and a nice turntable with a quality stylus.

There are now a couple hundred albums stored nearby, and that turntable gets as much use as the little audio cable I provided to work with phones, etc...

Interestingly, there is no interest in a CD! I mentioned one, and the receiver has the input, etc...

Nobody cares.

So, I came in last week during the end of year beer, pool and pizza party. They had it way up, nice full sound, with a Credence Clearwater Revival album on vinyl playing...

Perfect?

Technically, no way.

On a human satisfaction level?

Damn straight. Almost as good as it gets. Perfect would involve a sub. The speakers do fill the room, and are well matched to the receiver. But I did hear a bit of muddy bass that would clear right up at higher volume with a better speaker and a cross over to relieve the tower speakers a little. I'll be sure to get right on that. :)

That is why people persue audio gear like we see them so often do.

The guy I got the gear from runs a shop. Nothing newer than 1979 in that shop and he's been there for 30 years. Business has never been better. Secondly, the younger peeps in the building really appreciate the style and feel good, vintage audio gear can deliver.

When I got it all done, one guy said, "so that is a stereo... why don't they make 'em that way today?" Why indeed?

Interesting isn't it?
Spreadsheets definitely have a lot of downsides compared to full programming languages, but there are some strong upsides. I think Guesstimate is good for relatively simple models (compared to large programs) of specific things; these are intended to be very visual (so you can see how uncertainty propagates through a system) and collaborative (so people can disagree on specific estimates).
In the water with legs akimbo, it's going to be longer, wider, and taller than a small bus. http://www.animalstown.com/animals/s/squid/wallpapers/squid-...

Sure, there would be a lot of space between the legs and it's still fairly light. But, visually in the water a 40+' squid going to look huge.
> A conversation about the fairness of progressive taxation does not have to devolve into a conversation about communism or socialism.

Comparing different schools of economic thought absolutely relates to a discussion about rational choice and fairness.

> Communism is not relevant just because we're talking about progressive taxation and that you think is simply shows you're too biased to have an intelligent conversation.

Too biased? In what direction? Have you even been able to ascertain what my position is?

> Your arrogance is sickening. You're a kid, still in college, and you're acting like no one else has heard of history, grow up and learn to engage like an adult. Have some thoughts of your own.

Do you know me? Yet you decide to attack me. Here's a few fun facts about me: I'm not a kid, I'm 30 and have been married for 4 years, have already had a successful career and am changing pace for awhile, and I'm in university because I want to be.

What I know about you - most of your replies in this thread have been one or two liners about progressiveness, with the words 'marginal utility' occasionally thrown in.

> No one is here for a history lesson from a kid who screams communism and socialism every time tax policy is brought up.

Again, just 1 question: What do you think my opinion on taxes is?
>> Windows is very much an outlier in the world of software development. Unless you're specifically using Microsoft tech (ie .NET and all that)

I think you need to get out more. Or at least go to meetups that don't only meet at coffee shops. You're cutting out a huge chunk there, and there are still huge chunks that use Windows to do Java, C++, etc.

I mean, game development is a multi billion dollar industry that is almost exclusively Windows-but-not-.NET, outside of consoles, and even on consoles it's still Windows in a large number of cases.

>> I'm annoyed that Microsoft insists on going forward with a proprietary OS that does not conform to standards that pretty much every single other OS does.

This is different from Apple with OSX and iOS how? This is different from Google with Android how? This is different from Canonical with Unity how? This is different than RedHat and Debian and pretty much every other major Linux distro with systemd how?

And for crying out loud, file separator issues? That's not even a hard one.
The header takes up half of the page.
A good portion of the bandwidth that has been added so far has simply been consumed by more bandwidth intensive versions of existing products. The user behavior hasn't necessarily changed.

See Facebook's auto-playing videos as an example.
Not OP, but

1. Isn't this a moving target? In the beginning, all you had to do was throw up text; standards evolved (and probably continue to, I don't follow it), and now you have to cite references, adhere to standards, etc. As more articles are reviewed, more probably "become" substandard.

2. Is this really a decline issue? I guess it is if you are considering decline not as failure to maintain but failure to grow.
I read "A Tour of C++" and I found the book terse and the information too condensed. I honestly doubt that a programmer that doesn't know C++ could learn C++ from this book.
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> Even one rogue group with unlogged access to the collection tech could get enough dirt on key committees probably in weeks to months.

No power goes unused. I'm quite certain that the NSA is doing this now; no rogues required. As you point out, Hoover was the example. I'm quite sure the NSA has learned that bit of tradecraft.
I agree. I brought it up on Schneier's blog. Particularly, all the things that pass quickly and without a hint of discussion. So we need a strategy to counter that, too.
Modern 12.5 and 28 gigabit SerDes are around 15 to 20 picojoules per bit when being used for something like PCIe3 over your standard FR4 PCB traces, while longer distance (like the linked work) is in the 30pJ/bit range. 1.3 picojoules/bit is a hug advancement, as the only things that get that low are over very short distances (I am working with a brand new SerDes for multi chip module communication that has an amazing 1pJ/bit, but only up to ~24mm).
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There's Mobisol[0] which operates in that space. They provide solar powered batteries to households, and allow payments to happen over M-Pesa.

[0]: http://www.plugintheworld.com/mobisol/product/