skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm working on a site: https://skimur.com

I plan on making like Twitter, but "followers" "vote" for "tweets" so that the collective community sees the best content. Reddit isn't really meant for personal usage. Subs are typically topic related there.
Or work safely, effectively, and productively when taught how to properly use the abstractions. They can optionally be taught how they work underneath for better results. Yet, I don't have to teach people caches to tell them to group variables closely for performance. I likewise can give very basic explanations of stacks and heaps plus heuristics for using them. People still get the job done.

Functional programming proves my point even more where they don't know how the hardware functions or even use the same model. Yet, with good compiler and language design, they can make robust, fast, and recently parallel programs staying totally within their model. Most problems we pick up outside the abstraction gaps can be fixed in the tooling or with interface checks.

So, I think the common perception of people doing crap code while working within an abstraction is unjustified and even disproven by good practices in that area. Much like I would be unjustified in accusing assembly coders of being "willfully ignorant" or working within foolish abstractions because they didn't know underlying microprogramming or RTL. They don't need it: just knowledge of how to effectively use the assembly. Actually, I saw one commenting so let me go try that real quickly. :)
18F Is Testing Micro-Purchase Auctions
Reddit's a neat idea, but I had to abandon it. Had just hit five years of daily participation on the site, too.

If we look past all the controversy and all the other reasons most people point at the site as a negative, it boils down to one thing in my mind:

Base cynicism.

There's cynicism when someone else reposts something.

There's cynicism over imaginary internet points.

There's cynicism by, from, and to the moderators and site owners.

There's cynicism every time something with a brand name gets mentioned (zOMG it's an ad!)

There's cynicism among communities.

It just goes on and on and on. Never-ending negativity. Everyone always assuming the worst of the other person (rather than trying to have an understanding discussion) and taking snarky potshots at them (and then hiding their comments by -1's in a fit of pique, rather than any kind of thoughtful analysis of quality).

I'm quite happier (and not a little bit more productive) not participating anymore. Reddit is, IMO, the world's greatest concentration of negative, irreverent, straight-up dickhead behavior in one convenient place.

(feh, word filter plugin went a little crazy there, sorry for the unreadable comment earlier)
I haven't been to Greece, but my friend who has (and reported its much much better) and I are coastal (SF, Boston, Nyc) and shop at whole foods "and higher."
Crystal Quest! You're killing me...so many hours of my youth. Gone. ;-)
I am currently toying with it again and none of those signals appear to be working on http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qml-qtquick-controls-textarea.html#sig...
Fantasy Sports
At least one level below. Hmm. That sounds more reasonable than full understanding. See my reply to nemo, though, for an alternative that I think is more reasonable. Basically, heuristics and simplified models.
MIT makes chip breakthrough that will allow for tunneling-transistor processors
Thanks for this post. It explains a lot.

Unfortunately, if the changes you propose are implemented then that means a lot of H1Bs will lose their jobs.

Like it or not, the value proposition for employers is that H1Bs are cheaper and more dependent. Remove those two factors and US companies will just hire currently unemployed US workers.

This is fine for everyone except the H1B workers, so while you plan is well-meaning in its intent not to blame H1Bs it would have the effect massive job losses for them!
Gun control. I'm actually largely against gun control, but the issue is we have almost no good research on what factors we can implement to curb violence in our country. What causes people to want to say, do a mass shooting? How do people acquire the guns they use in crimes? (Are new background check laws actually solving a problem, or should we be focused on preventing people from stealing others' guns?) Rather than scattershot regulations to impede gun owners, how can we scientifically target laws to reduce crime?

The CDC is forbidden from conducting research on this, allegedly, so it seems like a ripe opportunity for a private option.
PPC Checklist: From Zero to Profit Wielding Hero
H1-B is supposed to be used when there are no qualified candidates in the US. The US is overflowing with throngs of people capable of being Level 1 computer programmers and working at the bottom of the fashion industry.

No offense at all to those in the US for H1-B, but too many citizens are unemployed or underemployed right this very second.
The Twelve Days of Crisis – A Retrospective on Linode’s Holiday DDoS Attacks
Yeah I was being cheeky. I was a die-hard Google Reader fan until I started using Twitter, but that approach lacked social commentary. It was something I had to experience to understand. What do the people I respect recommend? What are they thinking?

That might be valuable to you, as it is to me, or it might not be. Beyond that, Twitter really is just a list of links.
Interesting idea, but right now this is just a self-hosted instance of Reddit, is it not? How do you plan to develop the idea further and (most importantly) attract actual visitors/users?
Twitter Request: Can we please get source code highlighting on Twitter?
I also have an acer c720; I totally de-chromed mine, and installed xubuntu 14.04, sounds like you may have done the same? I've been very happy with it, however the other day I was contemplating upgrading to 16.06 when it comes out, but the thought of going thru all the steps again (to reinstall the os) and the prospect of getting something wrong is a strong deterrent imo. Although most steps are documented, it's still a distraction from what I want to be doing, ie developing software.
As a model, user generated / sourced content blended with user sourced moderation under a private enterprise with "standards and expectations" will always have issues regarding the (occasional) desires of users to share and embrace things which are not welcome by the private enterprise. That's kind of the flaw in the model. The 'image' of community and ownership breaks down when there's a dispute, most frequently seen with respect to rules.
CoreOS Overview, Part One
"The new fabrication method could open the door to more powerful computing if it can be used to produce tunneling-transistor processors. Fundamentally, a transistor is a device that can be modulated to either allow a charge to cross a barrier or prohibit it from crossing. In a tunneling transistor, the charge crosses the barrier by means of a counterintuitive quantum-mechanical effect, in which an electron can be thought of as disappearing at one location and reappearing at another.

These effects are subtle, so they're more pronounced at extremely small scales, like the one- to three-atom thicknesses of the layers in the researchers' experimental chip. And, because electron tunneling is immune to the thermal phenomena that limit the efficiency of conventional transistors, tunneling transistors can operate at very low power and could achieve much higher speeds."

Read more at:

http://phys.org/news/2016-01-depositing-materials-chip-layer...

So it may enable decreasing the epower consumption of processors by maybe 100-1000(from another source). this could really help with 2 things:

In today's processors , we're really limits by heat , so we slow things down, leave a large part of the chip off, etc. Also the transistors themselves are faster.

Currently we cannot build 3D circuits , which may offer a way to continue moore's law for a few years , because of heat."

Taken from laclean on reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/438jm6/mit_make...
It's actually the exact definition of ad hominem tu quoque.
"It was at this meeting that L.& H. proposed shifting the $580 million deal from half stock and half cash to all stock. The Bakers, with their high-priced investment bankers M.I.A., agreed."

Case closed.
I'm more of the "edit it 30 times in the next 15 minutes" persuasion. Not because I post quickly, but because there's always something else I think I need to tweak.
From the FAQ:

>When you reach your travel destination, the shopper will come pick up the product from the Airport and we will pay you (the traveler) as soon as the shopper receives and confirms that they have the product.

This seems like it introduces a lot of risk for the traveler. What happens if the shopper receives an item, but doesn't confirm it with Shypmate?

Further, as somebody that travels internationally fairly often, I'm not sure I'd be willing to do this. How are import/customs duties and declaration of goods handled? I can't find any information on the site. Further, given that this more or less looks like a scheme to skirt normal channels for importation of goods, what's going to stop the local customs authorities in Ghana or Nigeria from detaining travelers for participating in (what appears to be, though may not actually be) an illegal imports business?
At 300k the O-1 visa should be doable. Peter Roberts, an immigration attorney for SV startups that did an AMA here a few weeks ago seems to be able to do them. Here is a blog of someone who went through the process as essentially a glorified programmer[0]

Either way I'd rather not keep a broken system just because it works some of the time. 80% of H-1B use the lower 2 pay tiers, so your 300k programmer is an outlier when it comes to H-1B.

[0] http://www.dirkdekok.com/2013/08/my-o1-visa-story-and-how-it...
Since you've read the site guidelines, you know that HN is for stories that gratify intellectual curiosity. The curiosity in this case is of another, more intense nature. And you also know that purely sensational stories are deprecated.

It's true that the moderation comments that I post are off-topic, but they're the only way we know of to really disseminate knowledge of how the guidelines work in practice, and there's a clear demand for that information by users. So the judgment call is that their benefit is greater than their cost, even though the cost is nontrivial.
TwitterEng Request: Can we please get source code highlighting for tweets? (RT)
Looks like the Mac client is written in ObjC, judging by the small size of the binary and the lack of any recognizable language runtime libraries. Is that correct? If so, I guess you'll have to write a new client from scratch for other platforms.
You tried to use their site to promote your site and they banned you? And then you threatened legal action to get them to take down an image that you yourself posted?
Innovation Will Take Its Toll
Might be a nice opportunity for Bitcoin here. Let's see if they take that step or prefer to go out of business
If the item being delivered is over a certain value we'd have the shoppers (in Ghana or Nigeria) cover duties and taxes.

We do hope to iterate and make the process more seamless but right now we package and seal the items in Shypmate packaging when we send it to the traveler. It is a very valid issue with preventing any contraband and making sure the traveler is safe. The couriers are also vetted before we allow them to carry packages for us. There is a certain amount of trust on both ends that is required for this to be a seamless process.
It's not as bad as ASN.1. But when you need a "strict mode" for a binary format, and otherwise allow ambiguous decoding, there's something wrong. Something that probably can be exploited. The RFC admits this.

How does the density compare with JSON run through GZIP compression?
Aside from what you're asking, I'm also wondering how a traveler/courier would avoid a shakedown/arrest by local authorities for participating in what appears to be a pretty overt scheme to bypass normal importing processes and restrictions.
Surprised to see (sass) selector nesting.
Some questionable processors will step in. Stuff will get shut down, money will be frozen in accounts.
This is online poker all over again.

I think DFS has better chances of survival because they have some strong deals with people that know how to move and shake in Washington (NFL says hi).
And of course this link (John Oliver) needs to be posted eventually when discussing anything DFS related:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq785nJ0FXQ
Yes, but you forget the protestant work ethic is strong in America. The more you suffer and the less money you make, the better of a person you are. Fucking-A hiring managers, no one is here to be "the salt of the earth", we're here for a paycheck and some mental stimulation.
Banking with the Mullahs
Crystal quest! I can hear the sound effects in my head right now.
I've seen numerous examples to the contrary, I'm willing to grant it isn't the best publishing tool out there (far from it) but if you get someone who's properly trained, you can get some very good looking documents out of it.

Also very useful for smaller mass mailers and the like, where you don't have the budget for a full feature publishing suite (or the need).
I don’t understand what you gain in replacing .* with (WR|DV|P8) in a second query. Could you elaborate on that?
Correction, Daily Fantasy Sports. Regular ol' fantasy sports, where you manage a team over the course of the season is specifically legal. The argument around DFS is that it's not the same as fantasy sports.
The “No Assholes” rule for software developers
Kalamazoo: the largest gathering of medievalists on earth
Now if someone could get around to open-sourcing Apache Strike. My weekend would be set.
HSBC online banking services offline due to a DDoS attack
You’re About to Start Giving Facebook a Lot More Personal Information
It does. Hit the Windows button and type "pen" and go to "pen settings" and you can change it there.
Gather ‘Online Stadiums’ with TrueConf Video Streaming
TrueConf has introduced a new feature allowing users to stream video conferences with the help of TrueConf Server. Live streaming is enabled via RTSP—the industry standard network control protocol—allowing customers to deliver content for an unlimited number of viewers.
Now TrueConf Server users can scale conference feeds using a streaming mechanism. The embedded module allows for simultaneous broadcasting of several HD video conferences at up to 720p@30fps quality. To join the stream, viewers can simply follow the link received from a streaming server or content delivery service (e.g. YouTube).
To start streaming the administrator needs to send a video conference stream to a special server or CDN cloud service which supports the RTSP protocol. A streaming server then clones the stream and delivers it via its web of servers, optimizing the channels for viewers. This means that the load arising from cloning and delivering the stream falls on an external server: the conference host can broadcast video to an unlimited number of viewers without worrying about network resources.
TrueConf supports two of the most popular forms of streaming, RTSP Push and RTSP Pull. RTSP Push allows users to pre-emptively set up an external content delivery server notification on all video conferences available for streaming via TrueConf Server. RTSP Pull allows users to receive an rtsp:// link to a specific scheduled conference and to manage it manually using a streaming platform.
TrueConf equips PCs, mobiles and meeting rooms with high quality video conferencing and collaboration solutions. TrueConf apps and solutions are easy to use and are fully compatible with legacy and SIP equipment, meaning that you save money on infrastructure while still utilizing state-of-the art technologies like scalable video coding (SVC) and intelligent stream manipulation.
Gather ‘Online Stadiums’ with TrueConf Video Streaming
An assembler elitist with a semi-fallacious argument. Let's rewrite that in view of a lower-level elitist to show it still looks true, shows love for assembler as foolish pride, and still fails to matter in face of good, high-level tools.

If the 0day in your familiar pastures dwindles, despair not! Rather, bestir yourself to where programmers are led astray from the sacred RTL/Transistor language, neither understanding what their assembly languages and microprograms compile to, nor asking to see how their data is stored or transmitted in the true bits of the CPU's network-on-a-chip and memory plus analog values and circuitry many run through at interfaces. For those who follow their computation through the layers shall gain 0day and pwn, and those who say “we trust in our assemblers, our C compilers, our APIs, in our proofs, and in our memory models and ISA models and need not burden ourselves with confusing engineering detail that has no scientific value anyhow” shall surely provide an abundance of 0day and pwnage sufficient for all of us.

Source: LISP, Forth, and Oberon communities who did hardware to microcode to language & OS all integrated & consistent. :P
And I ask, what does privilege have to do with this story?

How is a 50/50 split from a divorce some sign of "Fuck male privilege"? Based on the information given, what should the split have been to be equitable?

We know nothing of the circumstances for any other ratio to make sense. Was the seed money hers? Did they flip a coin to decide who was going to run the company and who was going to raise the kids? Was there a prenuptial agreement saying there would be a 50/50 split on a divorce?

Instead, you seem to be reading something in the story based not only on what appears to be pure conjecture, but counter to how the author apportions blame. You continue the conjecture by positing that had the author had more personal money to dump on the problem, then it would have been better. But we don't know that. Was he willing to fire his son? Was his business idea any good? Or would it simply have been more money down the drain?

Nor do we know what his wife has done with the money.
I believe sections of the Difference and Analytical engines were built. Not the complete project though.

I wonder if the designs could have been simplified a great deal if he had known of Turing machines or boolean math. A machine based on Turing's original idea, or something like boolfuck, probably wouldn't have too many moving parts, though it would be quite slow. I believe Boole even designed a binary calculator that just used marbles and wood seesaws.

The greatest expense with the Difference engine was the thousands of tiny mechanical parts required.
Your points are great and all, but what about the local folks that the engineers displaced? The people who has lived in SF for decades, contributed to its wonderful culture but failed to catch on to the tech boom. After being pushed out by the high living cost you cannot just expect they will seamlessly move right back when the prices/market calibrates to normal.
Because it's available off the shelf, is compatible with your gear, and raises the bar past "schmuck with C-band satellite dish".
Perfect! Click bait article that describes the current problems at twitter, the de facto standard vehicle for click bait articles!
> If the former is illegal and the latter is not just legal, but a business actually run by the state -- isn't this hypocritical?

Both are generally illegal in most states in the US. That some states operate one while generally prohibiting it is not particularly odd; states often reserve the right to do things themselves that are generally prohibited.
When you use pronouns for anaphora, would you use "es" for all countries, or is it plausible to imagine "er" or "sie", as with common nouns?

For example: Vor drei Monaten waren meine Mutter und ich in der Schweiz; wir haben _____ wirklich schön gefunden.

Would you accept "sie" here as a reference to Switzerland (because it was referred to as "die Schweiz"), or "es", or both? My intution is "es", but I'm not not a native speaker and non-native German speakers notoriously over-apply "es" to inanimate things.
Tesla Motors Confirms Developing Two 'Affordable' Electric Vehicles
Whenever I hear Chewbacca, I am all about the sounds - otherwise known as Shyriiwook. With enough effort, you can probably work in enough phrases into your presentation.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Shyriiwook/Legends

If all else fails - there is always chairbacca
I would argue she is much closer than 7 feet. She is likely 4 feet tall and it appears as if she laid down, she would be a few inches away.

Considering that when splitting wood you should at a minimum be wearing safety glasses, I'm pretty sure this can all be done much safer.
Wait, where did you get Apple Watch numbers? Apple hasn't released those.
Yes, correct that is wrong unless the linter is set for newline style. It's not https://github.com/18F/frontend/blob/18f-pages-staging/.scss...
Related to the basic income project -- questions about the societal impact of technology that the technology or business sector might be hesitant to investigate themselves.

For example, how do social networks, targeted advertising, etc. impact social dynamics and sense of self? Are these impacts positive or negative, and could technology improve them?
And actively lobby for their early release from prison.
The power struggle between C-Level and shareholders is up for debate. And keep in mind that an executive needs to fool the board just long enough to get what he wants. So even if they eventually wise up, it may be too late.

As for the relative power of consumers/employees versus shareholders/executives - the former are disparate and disorganized and can do little other than vote with their feet (a pretty severe, last-resort option). The latter are few in number, can concentrate their force and get their way more quickly and efficiently.

This is why there needs to be public policies that tilt the playing field back in favor of employees and customers.
A mobile app that isn't third party. If something happens with your data or your account through a third party app, Reddit isn't responsible. This hasn't been an issue with Reddit, but it's a risk the end-user accepts when the app isn't "official".
This resonates with me with regard to software projects.

Maybe the refactoring and/or innovation aversion I've seen in many software projects has to do mostly with this institutional knowledge the article talks about.

It doesn't matter how crappy a project is or how many defects the team agrees a project has... introducing a different solution is seen as prohibitively risky or costly, given the amount of time people has spent learning and putting in place workarounds.
What Will Apple Do with VR?
We do ask the shopper to confirm receipt of the item but we also do follow up with the traveler. In future we may have the traveler take a photo documenting delivery of the item so that a shopper who has received an item doesn't deny that that they have in fact received it.

That is a very valid question and one we are currently working on coming up with a good solution for. The fee for duties is something we'd include in the shopper's fee but there are many cases that we'd expect to have to take on that cost initially as we iterate and refine the process. There are many questions still to be answered but we are looking to work with local authorities in Ghana and Nigeria as well.
We would be ok without 90% of websites. Too much redundancy and junk content.
Great points. Also a "free" market in practice will always tend to lead to extremes. For example, monopolies naturally form when economic power start becoming concentrated. That's why government regulations were put in place.
I guess risk acceptance is different person to person. I know that when splitting wood, there is often pieces flying in random directions. I would at least have my kids wearing safety glasses. It doesn't take much to lose vision in an eye and all because you don't want to wear safety glasses?! Not for me.