skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're being down voted for the shaming part but I thought I'd expand on your other points. Speaking as someone who is interested in vintage computing, I find it futile to try to justify that interest to others. Hell, my friends think I'm a bit off-kilter for even trying to run my website on Internet Explorer 4 [1]. That doesn't bother me. People find me weird already, so if I'm not going to conform I should embrace the weird instead of trying to convert "the mainstream".

The norms around computers are funny. While we accept the enthusiast who might show off a 1959 El Camino or vintage Les Paul guitar, we needlessly question one who cherishes an Amiga 3000 [2]. Rather than espouse the technical merits of a piece of vintage computing (which will inevitably be obsolete), we should be able to articulate our appreciation for the aesthetic and historical qualities of that technology as well. As computers are judged almost entirely by utilitarian value, this is not easy to do without sounding pretentious.

[1] https://github.com/supernintendo/supernintendo.github.io

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXrM97yhbM8
I think you can start in a lean way and build a landing page for your SaaS idea as if it is an actual product and start to post it to some websites that features beta or demo apps like... betalist.com... for example and may be drive some targeted traffic by paid Google or Facebook ads.
I usually think of this sort of thing in terms of cached thoughts: http://lesswrong.com/lw/k5/cached_thoughts/

Once you get over the smug thought of "ha! all those people and their cached thoughts!", you have to stop to think, which of your own principles have you actually really thought about?

I don't think it's so much about considering "The Other Side", instead it's about having clarity by knowing why you believe what you believe. Generally speaking, if it's "us vs them", you're being played anyway. Some tribe has a vested interest in playing you against another tribe.
yep. Chance of becoming president for 99.99999% of American is exactly 0.
> I really wish I had something in EXACTLY the same form factor that had a modern screen.

Yeah, totally. It's a chunky device, but that's really not a problem... And you could have one hell of a device in that form factor now. Multi-day battery life, a pair of PCIe card slots, a nice screen, and lots of RAM and storage. That would be neat!
15 Seconds of Logic
It's SIGUSR1 on Linux, however there is no signal bound to ^T in Linux, nor is it apparently possible to bind new ones.

`killall -USR1 dd` works like a charm, or for the impatient: watch killall -USR1 dd
Acquiring the belief because it's popular in your ingroup, along with a strawman-based view of the outgroup(s). No real effort spent on thinking the belief through; lack of any real argument against the beliefs of the outgroup(s).
I thought much of the point of fashion was that older people disapprove. You're ruining it for them.
There's also a subtle problem of mistrust in all this.

Ad creatives have evolved from just simple banner images to more rich media but those files are relatively safe. The biggest problem is the explosion of javascript tags used for verification and analysis because a lack of trust and politics has led agencies/advertisers to require layers of external tracking.

This requirement has forced ad networks to support 3rd party javascript tags - which is basically impossible to verify for security. If you can run javascript on a page, you can control that page.

Fundamentally there needs to be more regulation, standards and actual enforcement to fix this.
I'd recommend to take a look at Seastar: http://www.seastar-project.org/

Briefly: "Seastar is event-driven and supports writing non-blocking, asynchronous server code in a straightforward manner that facilitates debugging and reasoning about performance." -- http://www.scylladb.com/2015/02/20/seastar/

Concurrency model: "Seastar futures/promises/continuations (f-p-c) are a subset of reactive programming.

Seastar performance derives from the sharded, cooperative, non-blocking, micro-task scheduled design, and f-p-c are a friendlier way of feeding tasks to the scheduler.

Seastar’s f-p-c do have some optimizations relative to other f-p-c designs. They trade off thread safety, which is unneeded due to the sharded design, for scheduling efficiency, and have a very low memory footprint." -- http://www.seastar-project.org/faq/

If you'd like to find out more, here are a few links with more information (including examples and tutorials):

- https://github.com/scylladb/seastar/wiki

- https://github.com/scylladb/seastar/blob/master/doc/tutorial...

- http://www.seastar-project.org/futures-promises/

- http://blog.cloudius-systems.com/2015/04/29/seastar-tutorial...

- http://www.slideshare.net/TzachLivyatan/seastar-sayeret-lamb...

In terms of practical applications, ScyllaDB (fully compatible--and significantly faster--drop-in replacement of Apache Cassandra) relies on Seastar: http://www.scylladb.com/

ScyllaDB has been discussed here before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10262719
> Say, on the other hand, that we'd have confirmed reports about zombies (or evil commie nazi aliens)

seriously? so you read a piece whose thesis is "talk rationally and empathetically with people that hold different points of views" and your next thought was "okay, zombies and evil commie nazi aliens, yeah"

anyway:

> I'm young and relatively healthy

great for you, I'm not. daily survival is contingent on remaining employed. yippee! the opposition to ACA sees a reminder of why they should oppose this issue every two weeks when they look at their income tax deduction and wonder how much they would get back if a few people that they didn't really know suffered some more. what is more immediate than money missing from your own pocket?

> when have you last seen people shooting each other on the streets in real life?

growing up, guns were a part of every day life. they were tools that you used to accomplish concrete goals. sometimes those goals were defending yourself from wildlife, sometimes they were getting dinner. sometimes, they were for ending your own life. people that are for gun control have seen one too many accident, suicide, or homicide. people that are against gun control see an immediate threat to a utilitarian tool or a way of life. it's very visceral and you're deluding yourself if you think otherwise.

> Gay marriage is something that naturally affects only LGBT people

I guess you don't know or care about any LGBT people in your life, which is okay, but totally overlooks anyone for whom this is the case. in the south, if you walk around in the wrong town with the person you love, you're liable to have someone yell "FAGGOT!" or "DYKES!" at you just for being you. to the people doing the yelling, they are on the front line of a culture war and they see an insult to their moral fiber every time they encounter someone that loves another of their own gender. they get a reminder of why to keep fighting every week or so.

these aren't abstract concepts, these are issues where the parties involved have real skin in the game. the abstract issues you're thinking about are probably things like "foreign policy" or "defense spending" but even there the reason to support them is visceral - every time a redneck sees someone on the street that isn't white, they get reminded of the "other" and are filled with a desire to keep them out. every time a family living near a base hears about BRAC they develop an immediate fear for the vortex of pain that is about to fill their lives, require their relocation, and destroy the property value of their home.

you are a fool if you think the people involved in these debates consider the issues abstract. they're quite concrete.
I can see where the author is coming from and it is all well expressed, but I can't see how this is anything but "a romanticised vision"; contrary to what he claims.

If I had to choose between going hungry and living in a shelter but with food to eat, I'd most certainly choose the latter. If you aren't in that exact situation though, it would seem bad enough.

Sante also laments how security leads to a decline of liberal lifestyle. Well that's true and it might seem like a (terrible) loss, but only for men. Women are able to experience the world better today, thanks to somewhat better security.
Crimes against women have gone down significantly in the last 40 years. Comparing rape incidents per 1000 people in the US, it went down from 2.5 to 0.5 between 1970 and 2000.

So, the author is only seeing one side. It could well be that the situation has improved overall.
Well they are both rather unlikely, but at least the lizard thing is testable. Poke the guy with a stick and see. Question answered. The other theories cannot be so easily disproved.
Put there a little button that lets the user select the format/resolution/implementation.
What are the big Android custom ROMs around these days?
I remember AOKP, slimroms, CM, and others all working to create great custom roms.

OAKP is dead. slimrom is dead, omnirom has about 10 devices.

Is CM all that's left these days?
> No, the "defunding Planned Parenthood" amendment would have simply removed their status as a preferred (and overpaid) provider of abortion services. Overall funding of family planning (including abortion)...

Are you saying that the federal government is funding abortion services in violation of the Hyde Amendment?
> Most people making arguments for "the other side" haven't actually had to defend them against real criticism.

If you go into a conversation with a condescending viewpoint like that, don't be surprised if you don't get anything out of it.

Even if the person you're arguing isn't an expert on the issue you're talking about, they are an expert on why they feel that way. And understanding that can be helpful.

I'm reminded of a conversation I had with a right winger in rural Indiana. We somehow ended up talking about global warming and he told how me how he didn't believe in it. I probed a bit further. He told me when he was younger people were talking about a food crisis and then he saw wheat yields increase by a factor of 3 or something. His main point was that we've heard stuff like this before and somehow it all turned out okay, so we'll probably be okay this time too. And this viewpoint is a lot more reasonable than he's just a fool who is repeating what Trump and his cronies are feeding him.
"(Sec. 3) This bill prohibits, for a one-year period, the availability of federal funds for any purpose to Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., or any of its affiliates or clinics, unless they certify that the affiliates and clinics will not perform, and will not provide any funds to any other entity that performs, an abortion during such period." [0]

Additionally, Planned Parenthood already does not receive any federal funding for abortion services, because, under the Hyde amendment, no federal funding goes to abortion (excluding rape and incest).

"No funds authorized or appropriated by Federal law, and none of the funds in any trust fund to which funds are authorized or appropriated by Federal law, shall be expended for any abortion." [1]

[0] https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/3134...

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/142...
There are purposes that one doesn't believe in. Like I don't give a shit about ride sharing. Then there are places that I don't feel good about such as malware creators. So those are two separate things. BTW, engineers should job hop every 6-18 months as engineers have done for decades every year since engineering was a thing.
Aside from carefully constructed surveys, the best indicator of US box office success that I have found is Wikipedia page views http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

Outside the US it's a harder problem http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.5924
Probably because very little innovation happens to any long-standing protocol until it becomes a primary business concern.

Almost every business relies on OpenSSL or some equivalent, but how many actually learn enough about SSL to contribute back to the codebase? Not many, because despite the need there's little acclaim or funding to be had pursuing things that won't make direct revenues, regardless of their importance.

Protocols like this generally don't get updated until it becomes a matter of necessity -- either by public awareness (we're far from that point) or someone designing the "next big thing" needs an un-implemented feature and contributes.
YouTube's compatibility hacks are against buggy versions of browsers. Regardless of whether a bug is eventually fixed, once it is released, there is some segment of the user base that has it. If that segment is large enough, and the bug easy enough to hack around, then YouTube will provide a workaround rather than lose revenue.
Agree, they have been at it for about 5 years, since March, 2011 according to Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Appstore

To whoever changed the title of this: I hope Amazon is paying you a lot of money (under the theory that it's somehow better to be willfully corrupt than just stupid).
The `PRIuMAX` et al macros are specified by ISO C (starting with the 1999 standard), not (just) by POSIX.
Kind of, but it's a chain. It works by shifting bits through all flip-flops until they've all "dropped out" of an I/O pin. So you don't need any expensive muxes or crossbars.

It's actually one of the largest and most realistic real-world application of TSP and related problems.
I'm no fan of spam, but this seems to tie in to net neutrality. I'm not sure I want verizon deciding who is good or bad on the internet.
0th world problem, to the extreme. The bug would be fixed before at least 99.99% of users noticed and tested an alternative.
I missed the AMA, but glad to see it here and it looks like there are some team members monitoring this thread so I'll throw some questions out there.

I did my MS in AGI at the National Intelligence University with Ben Goertzel as my outside research advisor. My thesis was to determine what were defense implications of an AGI and who was making the best progress toward actually building one.

Since then the DoD has started to take an interest in AGI, and in fact today, during my one weekend a month drill at the Pentagon, I had a great long conversation with Maj. General Seng [1] who is heading up efforts around implementing ISR systems with more autonomous capabilities and exploring how an AGI would be utilized in defense.

One of our big open questions is what's the "stack" for AGI, conceptually? I didn't come to any conclusion on this and had to make a lot of assumptions to close out the research. I would be curious to hear the OpenAI team's thoughts on it.

Will you all be coming to AGI 16 this year in New York?

[1] http://www.af.mil/AboutUs/Biographies/Display/tabid/225/Arti...
A video site that doesn't serve watchable video isn't much of a video site. My reaction to getting 360p (or 240p...) video from Youtube is to close the tab.
Manned flight was a new technology. The proposal to build a new SMTP with [...] requires abandoning SMTP as it is now and convincing everyone to switch.

If the Wright Brothers wanted to eliminate auto accidents by flying, anyone at the time could have told them they were doomed to failure, and history would have proven them right, even though air travel is safer than road travel. That's because getting people to stop using cars isn't simply a matter of inventing an airplane.
Are there no other decent supermarkets around? I certainly wouldn't stand in a line for the supermarket on a regular basis no matter how good they are.
You're right, it isn't a union, it's a cartel!
I have a friend who would probably be dead if it wasn't for the ACA's expansion of dependent health care coverage. I had another friend who might still be alive today if guns had been harder to acquire.

The fact that my gay and lesbian friends can get married is important to me, as is the fact that they are protected from workplace discrimination (in my state). As a result, it's important to me that gay, lesbian, and trans people in other states don't have the same protection.

For a cisgender straight white high-SES male to disregard things that don't directly affect him isn't rational, it's solipsistic.
It'd be a cool idea to sell warehouse storage with drone delivery of individual items if needed, that way you dont need to care as much about how much you can fit into your apartment at any one time
> No way a company making billions of dollars can logically have negative market value.

"Efficient Market" is only a hypothesis.
The `PRIuMAX` macro in particular is not necessary. It expands to a format usable for `uintmax_t`, but you can also use `"%ju"`. Both were introduced in ISO C99.

(Unless your `printf` implementation doesn't recognize `"%ju"`, and the `PRIuMAX` macro and friends are defined in some non-standard system-specific manner.)
Benefit's obvious - getting rid of legacy cruft. It has to be done someday, or by 2030 we'll end up with few kilobyte-long UA strings.

Cost: bajillion man-hours of CEOs, companies and committees trying to negotiate that they all do this at once, then about 10 minutes of developer time to actually code this into reality.

Then some sites would be broken, but old stuff eventually rotting and dying is nothing new on the web. Unfortunately, no idea about the numbers, but I suppose it would be low. If someone has the actual statistics on how much sites become practically unusable without a legacy User-Agent header, that'd be great.
I have heard that that is an Augustinian trait or method.
But I have not been able to find any reference to St Augustus advocating this.

Can anyone help me out? Perhaps I have the wrong saint or philosopher.
If all you're saying is that tax increases will be less than they might be, if we repurpose money currently spent on other programs, I certainly agree. The repurposed money is still presumably funded through taxation, though, so this doesn't conflict at all with what I'd said.

If you were saying more, then I'm still not clear on what it is.
One can get 15 free accounts in Zoho (10 de-facto + 5 extra), if you can refer another business. Both parties get 5 extra users. Helpful for info@, jobs@, privacy@ etc.
The longer she can ride the gravy train the better for her.

So she probably will do whatever the board decides that week.

(The Board):"Let's have more cuts" (Her):"Ok". (The Board):"We should buy a startup" (Her):"Ok."

I can't believe she doesn't know or nobody told her the ship is sinking (or the gravy train is headed to a dead end). She knows it. But yeah as you said, at this point she is just playing the game of "let's see how long I can hang on here".

In the end she can point fingers to "the board", "internal naysayers", "it wasn't much that could be done", etc, etc. The board can point to her. Employees and customers will point to both and so on.
This is explained in Thank You For Smoking, and illustrated every day on C-SPAN
New iOS game using 3D touch for gameplay [free]
If your ultimate actions were anti-competitive, even if it was a legitimate mistake, then you can't and shouldn't let it slide. If people started following that philosophy, companies like Microsoft will start causing "innocent little mistakes" every day.

This absolutely, positively, would never, ever, happen in Chrome. Never. Yet here we are. "oops!"

I absolutely believe it was an accident, but I don't believe it should be fully treated like one.
> Yes but what if the other side doesn't extend you the same courtesy?

Extend it anyway. It's the only way not to make things worse, and neutral readers will respect you more.
Updating dd to continuously dump text to the screen by default would probably break a lot of existing scripts.
I thought my manager was great, and I still left a troubled company.

Granted, our 1:1s were like "Yeah, so what other horrible thing happened to you this week and when are you leaving?" They were also looking for an exit, and left a few months later.
I also wear gray shirts and occasionally listen to ska.

Nothing makes people quite so alien as differing moral codes. I'm "showing my hand" as regards something that simply does not matter to the majority of people on this website. Trying to make a big deal out of it simply makes you look strange.
Networking seems to be the hardest for me and I imagine others as well. I've been out of college for two years now and I have no idea how to meet new people.
I found that answers from https://officehours.io are quite thoroughly researched.
This could work... if there is absolutely nothing behind the bullet's flightpath... all the way past Earth orbit.

Otherwise, you're as likely to vaporize a bystander as you are the bullet and nothing else.
I haven't heard yet that babies are boring, but I can imagine it's the grind that is the worst part.

Unrelated:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzvwTyESiR0
For non-gaming, non-video-editing tasks, I partially see it as just the core tasks aren't changing that much. An operating system isn't doing that much more than it was 5-7 years ago.

I'm using my 2011 Macbook Pro for Protools, and it feels just as fast as my 2014 model does for the rather paltry tasks I throw at it (I use outboard hardware for almost everything, mixing 16 tracks of audio was something a G3 Mac could handle easily). I don't see any reason I'll realistically need to upgrade it anytime soon (loaded with memory, SSD, etc)
Hyundai’s augmented reality manual: A simple but extremely good idea
"They are suggesting that women should receive funds on the condition that they are women."

This is not the case. Did you read the article?

It is calling for a universal basic income, not one contingent on gender. It says: "It’s an odd kind of reparations, you may object, that goes to fathers as well as mothers, the unattached as well as those with family responsibilities. But entertain this radical proposition: The universal basic income is a necessary condition for a just society, for it recognizes the fact that most of us — men, women, parents and nonparents — do a great deal of unpaid work to sustain the general well-being."
What percentage of YouTube users could define the word "format"?
While you're right that it's up to the browser to fix, that can be a very time consuming process (especially for something as tricky as video). YouTube doesn't want to wait around for browser vendors to fix things, so they work around it themselves (just like happened in the opposite direction for this bug).

Finding workarounds for browser bugs is a common theme for the work that web developers do. Yes, browser vendors should fix the bugs, but in the meantime, there's no reason to have a bad user experience.
No, a cartel is a group of competing firms in the same industry that form an alliance.

The best analogy for the AMA would be something like a guild.
The incentives aren't aligned right. Every business will still need SMTP to receive email from outsiders, and through that SMTP will come spam. Even if two businesses decide to switch to a better protocol between them, they're still running SMTP to reach anyone else.

And unless you permit sending a single message to both SMTP and better-than-SMTP recipients without any UI awareness, you've built a product that's strictly worse than SMTP for end users.

You could add features to email to make a more compelling product, and then kill seamless integration with other SMTP users and still have a better product. (See e.g. Slack. Or Facebook, for personal email.) And then maybe in many many years nobody will want email any more. But that won't be quick.
What's more remarkable is the number of services and integrations that are necessary to keep a SaaS product running. Even on a shoestring budget, that's a lot of complexity to manage.
Why do people like those things so much, anyway?
Create Excel’s Built-In Styles and Load Only Visible Worksheets in Java Apps
This sounds like a problem where transparency is the solution.

Post the formula for grading and let the public draw their own conclusions.