skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hardly. You haven't contributed much with your comment. Why don't you refute it? Now that would be substantive, unlike the rather useless non-rebuttal you've just posted. Why post what you just posted on HN?

Incidentally, I'm quite allowed to post my biased opinion on HN. I'm not being abusive, but I'm giving my viewpoint. You might not like it, but you can equally give your own biased counterpoint.

As for it being useless, what part do you dispute?

a. That Labor listened to Treasury and managed to prevent the worst effects of the GFC from hitting Australia?

b. The fact that the instant that Abbott got in he and Hockey attempted to start stripping funding in the budget?

c. Or perhaps you don't like the fact that our debt level in 2012 was A$233.968 billion and it is now, just over 3 years into a Coalition government, that the national debt is A$405.988 billion? Read it and weep - that's double what the ALP had when they lost power. And the Coalition aren't dealing with the GFC!

I seem to recall that certain Coalition members said that the grownups were now leading the country. These are the same people whose first budget was so disastrous - with a leader so dreadful! - that they got rid of a sitting PM even faster than the ALP dumped Rudd!

I mean, of all the ironies - Abbott and pretty much every LNP member were positively crowing when Rudd was taken out by Gillard. And they installed Turnbull after only just over 2 years of government and the Treasurer left parliament altogether because he couldn't pass any legislation?

A Treasurer, I might point out, who made a valedictory speech that showed such an utter lack of insight into his complete failure in performing this important role that he called his "debt and deficit" and "lifters and leaners" speech one of the greatest speeches to be made in the last several decades. The same guy who literally said that poor people don't drive cars, smoked a cigar openly before one of the harshest budgets in Australia's history and who couldn't even guarantee that he would abolish the GST on tampons, even though he said it on the highest rating political media forums in the country, on our national broadcaster no less!

If it wasn't screwing up our country, it would be very funny indeed.
New Details on HP's “The Machine” (Linux.conf Presentation)
Getting the link through Google is supposed to make it readable.

You can also read this: https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2015/09/14/hacker-news-faq-1-ho...
It's funny to see in that video how drastically different work environment is at "gunfire games" studio and twitch. Looks like day and night.
Interesting PPC numbers. If they don't like the figures they were seeing

> Whether it is “project management” (€ 6.00 per click), “social collaboration” (€ 4.40 per click) or other similar keywords, the costs are in high ranges.

They would absolutely hate my industry. HR software, the number one keyword for people looking for our app http://www.staffsquared.com, is currently about £30 per click! It's symptomatic of this particular niche being occupied by incumbents who can afford not to optimise their Adwords campaign.

I should probably write a blog post at some point about how we got around using Adwords to grow.
so the end result will be when servers get powerful enough they will simply bake the ads into the article so at least the visual representation is there and rotation continues.

As for the content charges, a micro transaction system really needs to take root for the web. I really don't want to be driven to the poor house with a dearth of monthlies. Its bad enough with cable, tv, netflix, etc/etc, and now every damn website. Worse are magazine based companies trying to charge print subscribers for web content that used to be free.

A dollar a week might not sound like much but if I am not using the site each week its too much. Set me up an article bank so that my one dollar gets me a set number of articles and it tracks which I read so I can reread content I paid for
I'm not talking about puberty, but mental maturity. An 11 year old boy back then would likely be working to support his family.

Thanks for the info though.
Show HN: The Deadlock Empire – Slay dragons, master concurrency
In recent years the quotas for Minke whale has rarely even been met, so there's very little incentive for someone to risk illegal whaling. I think most of it basically goes to tourists now, with a small proportion to people nostalgic about the old days.

I don't quite get how someone would find it amazing - to me, as I've mentioned elsewhere, it basically used to be an acceptable cheap beef substitute.
Ask HN: Best Time for Show HN on HackerNews?
I want to submit SHOW HN" on Hackernews, What is The best time?
Did you think they were giving the game engine away out of altruism? They obviously want to have someone create the next World of Warcraft tied to AWS.
Exactly. When people see "free, with source code included", they may tend to think that it is open-source. I hope this answer from their FAQ section clears it:

Q. Is Lumberyard “open source”?
No. We make the source code available to enable
you to fully customize your game, but your rights
are limited by the Lumberyard Service Terms. For
example, you may not publicly release the
Lumberyard engine source code, or use it to
release your own game engine.
You nailed it. I've been banging this drum for a decade. There is currently no feasible career that involves advancing humanity forward. Only different forms of plumbing the digital infrastructure which pay well.

Everyone I know wants to do research. No one wants to do it in academia, and no one wants to live below poverty levels.

The Star Trek economy is here, and it's here now. Basic income, flat-tax and publicly funded research infrastructure (e.g. Bell Labs) is the way forward. Asset bubbles, financial crookery, and trickle up economics are the way of the past.

Time to choose now. Sadly, as a scientist, I know this decision has already been made. Human greed is insatiable, and the top 0.1% won't be satisfied till they're the top 0.01%, and then the 0.001%, and then...
Show HN: I've decided to sell my side-project
Finally some math to back up the painfully obvious.
Zucker is not the victim of misguided activism. He was fired because, simply, he wasn't doing his job, which is to provide (evidence-based) medical treatment for trans people, not peddle pseudo-scientific conversion therapy. If he'd done to adults what he did to kids, maybe he'd have been gone sooner.
Hi HN

I decided that I want to hand over the reins of my project as I'm no longer actively contributing to it and I think that someone would easily be able to pick this up and grow/monetize it.

I've never raise funds so I've never created a pitch deck, never mind a sales pitch deck. Feedback around the messaging and content here would be appreciated. Nitpicks about the styling of this page not so much.

I know that companies are bought not sold, but this isn't a company. It's a self-standing project. Any advice on where I can find interested parties outside of marketplaces like Flippa would be hugely welcomed.

Of course if you're interested or know someone that might be, my email address is in my bio.
Swift even does this officially: ALL lambdas are called closures, even though there's nothing being closed over.

Similarly, people refer to constructor functions that always return objects of the same class/prototype as factories, despite both the GoF patterns that popularised the term showing dynamic output. IIRC Angular JS misuses the term this way too.

AFAICT it's either genuine ignorance of how/why these words describe or some kind of weird demonstration of cleverness by using a particular term, regardless of whether it's applicable or not.
Nevada’s $1.3B gamble on Tesla
Kind of, quantum key exchange is based on the uncertainty principle. By encoding the key exchange in quantum properties of particles, any mitm observer will change those properties, thus breaking the exchange. You don't need a quantum computer to do QKE, just the right kind of detector. There's already a bunch of people that do this without quantum computers.
SimpleDB is the only service I can think of that they've shut down since I've used the service
Not being snarky, but you really need a copywriter to review the wording on your site.

dayly (should be daily)

the data are encrypted

Over 10.000 companies joined Stackfield

Keep your information, that are not intended for the public,
ow! my eyes!
I scrolled through the podcast episodes and can't find it.

I stand by the 2nd paragraph though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_dysphoria_in_children

Gender identity disorder in children is more heavily linked with adult homosexuality than adult transsexualism. According to limited studies, the majority of children diagnosed with GID cease to desire to be the other sex by puberty, with most growing up to identify as gay or lesbian with or without therapeutic intervention.[5][6]
Other news: Will Bond - the author of Package Control (and few other awesome plugins) - joined Sublime HQ.

Also, the blog post: http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-3-buil...

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So this means that sublime isn't dead afterall?
Gate to Nuclear EK Uses Fake CloudFlare DDoS Check
frankly. This is sick. this sickens me like nothing before. it is a new form of circumcision, sicks parents butchering the minds and the bodies of their children. drugs? making them wear clothes of girls while they are boys? JUST like for Religion we should leave the kids being kids and deal with the sexuality and "gender" issues when they will be able to articulate a self thought after their adolescence and when they have enough awareness of the world to rebel against their sick parents.
There is also TS related body of knowledge about causal impact using the notion of counterfactuals. Google has sponsored research in the field [1] and also released an R package [2].

[1] http://research.google.com/pubs/pub41854.html

[2] https://google.github.io/CausalImpact/CausalImpact.html
> All the stuff about the adolescent he may or may not have mocked is a red herring - I've followed this issue, and literally the only place I've heard it mentioned is articles defending Zucker.

The article brings up many more flaws with the external review than the use of that anecdote. For example, the misreporting of statistics (70% vs 30% of patients meeting the criteria for gender dysphoria); the low number of interviews with actual patients of the GIC (9 or 11), of whom even so only 2 had complaints; misreporting the nature of the use of play therapy (for assessment vs treatment); and so forth.

If the GIC is to be condemned (as perhaps it should) for conversion therapy, it should at least be done on the basis of a thorough, fact-checked independent review; the article's thesis is that the external review conducted by Zinck and Pignatiello does not suffice. It's not just one anecdote they take issue with.

> His approach involved telling parents to prevent their kids from playing with toys of the "wrong" gender [...]
> His position - what he told parents coming to his clinic for help [...]
> I've followed this issue, [...]

Do you have any links you think are particularly informative about the practices of the GIC in this regard?
Ask HN: Building an e-commerce site in 2016
A friend is starting a fashion business and has asked for advice about setting up an online store.

Do you recommend a particular framework (e.g. Magento)? Is it worth building something from scratch?
I'm not disputing that she's incompetent.

I deal with incompetence on a daily basis. Everyone from banks to airlines have incompetent employees, and we're not demanding that all customer support agents undergo licensing requirements. We live in a free market and the best way to deal with incompetence is the market. (Ex. I switched my bank after getting frustrated with incompetent tellers.)

Once again: the worst that an insurance salesperson can do is sell you bad insurance. They're not actually involved in medical procedures, so any harm they can do is financial. And if that harm is due to fraud (misrepresenting a product to you), you have legal remedies. Bank customer support people have just as much potential to cause financial harm, but we don't require them to be licensed.

Even more to the point: I can personally sign up for insurance directly on the internet, without talking to any licensed salesperson. If licenses salespeople are so essential to insurance, why can I buy insurance without interacting with one?

As far as I'm concerned, the only professions which should require government licensing are those where tort is insufficient to correct wrongs. (ie. someone can die: doctors, civil engineers, etc.)
Everytime I see something like this I ask "why was this system connected to the internet in the first place".

Sure an intranet only computer can be compromised as well, usb drive, social engineering, etc. but it is exponentially harder.

Really hoping ICBM systems are not on the internet because some general wanted to monitor them from his smartphone.
The Pi-Hole script uses that same list as part of a consolidated list: https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/blob/master/adlists.defau...

It then installs an updater via cron to check for updated lists every week.

As to your experience with speed, I'm kind of surprised. The only time I noticed a speed difference is when I blackholed domains in the hosts file that didn't resolve to a valid web server (i.e. resolving to 127.0.0.1 without having a web server running), and that's the opposite of what you describe. The pi-hole script also installs lighttpd to serve up a placeholder page, and uses some tricks like mod_expire to improve performance.
Apple under pressure as lawyers pledge action over 'Error 53' codes
As another commenter observed, debt in and of itself isn't a bad thing - but it rather depends on what the nature and purpose of that debt is.

Monetary debt is one thing, but technical debt is what is actually killing us, in my view.

I think there's something else going on that hasn't really been considered or identified, and it's that cycles of adoption and innovation now overlap so tightly with ever increasing levels of technical prerequisites to adopt that we are now in a state that by the point a new technology or new means of efficiency is adopted, it is obsolete.

I've been thinking more about this over the last months as a result of watching governmental IT projects where they are adopting unsupported software, as when they started their projects a decade or more ago, it was new.

That doesn't seem so bad on the surface of things, but it leads to a few outcomes:

Incumbent organisations tend to be the ones funding R&D, producing innovation. Massive incumbent organisations can take advantage of their own innovations as they have sufficient mass to sustain a lengthy adoption cycle, and can afford the capital outlay. This builds vast multi-sector monopolies which self-sustain and block out competition through sheer inertia. As time progresses the incentives to innovate decrease for these guys, as they own the entire market, so need not compete on utility, nor even price.

Smaller incumbent organisations, however, end up saddled with technical debt, and the only way out for them is tabula rasa - i.e. to write off sunk costs, and start with new tech - or go bust.

New organisations start with a blank slate, and can thrive for a while - but unless they have a strong strategy for stemming technical debt, they end up as a "smaller incumbent organisation".

This boom-bust cycle of profitability followed by obsolescence accelerates as the evolution of new technology accelerates, and the overheads and complexity of adoption increase. Complexity increases as the sum total of moving parts in society and technology always grows, and overheads increase as more advanced technologies tend to require a larger capital outlay to implement.

Where this leads is ultimately to a deadlock type situation, where innovation ceases to be profitable as adoption is too slow to allow a new tech to flourish before it is superseded, and ultimately stagnation, and collapse.

So... if I had to point to one thing that could make a big difference to how the global economy functions, it would be a complete revamp of patent law around the globe. I'd love to also think that we could move away from the idea that Everyone Must Work, and actually start to realise the benefits of the vastly increased efficiencies of the last several centuries, but the ideology is so entrenched at this point that the only thing likely to allow a change will be outright collapse of our current system of the world.
>This is what government's services gets you

Why are you assuming that the only alternative to walled garden internet connectivity is government services?
SimpleDB is still operating. In fact, I imagine it'll get way more popular alongside Lambda.
Thanks for the plugin recommendations, I think I could use some of them.
That's sort of the vibe I'm getting too - they're dipping their toes in, but not investing too much until they've gauged developer interest. If they'd been really committed to this, they'd have outright bought Crytek instead of just keeping them alive by licensing their engine.
A cloning factory that creates 500 new animals a day
The last paragraph is gold. It's easy to forget to make acceptance conditional on seeing the contract in the excitement of getting hired.
I would use everything but Magento. Actually, if i want something simple for someone who is not IT person themself i would probably use Shopify. For something personal, where i know i am going to hack some functionality into i really like Woocommerce because its so simple and comes with so many free plugins. Nice to get started.
World’s biggest democracy stands up for net neutrality
Introducing Airskul
> It is grey, always grey.

Check out Decorative Concrete:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decorative_concrete

https://www.pinterest.com/explore/decorative-concrete/

Bonus 1) Translucent Concrete:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translucent_concrete

http://google.com/search?tbm=isch&gws_rd=cr&q=translucent+co...

Bonus 2) White Concrete, using Titanium Dioxide admixture, also cleans itself and its environment:

http://google.com/search?tbm=isch&gws_rd=cr&q=concrete+tio2

Bonus 3) Nanomaterials add a lot of new potential for strength, possibly color, as well as completely new applications. For instance, carbon nanotubes make concrete slightly electrically conductive, which makes it possible to do easy integrity testing, visible from low voltage current fluctuations near stresses, strains, cracks, etc. I wish I had more info on a prospective range of applications here.

Aside A) Clays (of possibly many colors) can also provide an even cheaper, more readily available, and similarly strong building material. Sindhi researchers pre-stressed and baked some test beams, and they were just about as strong as comparable concrete. See Emergence of New Era for Reinforced Baked Clay Construction (Memon, Bhatti, & Ansari): http://www.quest.edu.pk/rjournals/julydec2013/julydec2013_1.... I sincerely wonder how this ongoing wealth of research on concrete plus many generations old, likely undocumented, skill we have with clay construction could come together.
I'm sure you've heard of Google classroom, Well Airskul is a classroom management system that is sort of like Google classroom but with more features and awesomeness..
I was an active visitor from 2006 to 2013. For years it was THE gaming/video site for me.

I remember thinking back in early 2012 how GT is just throwing their success away. The site was super stagnant for years it felt like, tech-wise. No new features, no bugs getting fixed, spam starting to get out of control in the comments. They failed to jump on the HD bandwagon with their video player - their supposed core competency! Yes they had direct link HD video downloads earlier than most and that's how I originally found the site. However in 2013 their video player still couldn't even play 720p, while other sites including YouTube had easy HD playback without having to download any files. [1]

In the summer of 2012 they launched a rather major redesign of their site. I guess this is the reason why the site wasn't maintained technically for years before, the developers were focusing on their secret hidden branch. Unfortunately while the new design had better aesthetics, it was far worse feature-wise. First of all, they completely cut a ton of major features from the site, including user uploaded videos, which had been a major community feature. Plenty of features they didn't remove got seriously downgraded. One of the primary reasons I stopped visiting was because they completely ruined discovery. Previously it was possible to easily see new videos sorted by date uploaded, with the possibility of additional filters like platforms. With the new redesign, there were only like four editor picks in a carousel wheel and some other random videos in a list, but no sort-by-date options. [2]

The real canary in the coal mine event happened in January of 2013, when their editor in chief Shane Satterfield left, stating that he didn't agree with the direction the company was being taken to. [3] Things started going downhill fast after this, content-wise. While before it was mostly technical problems and the content was great, this didn't last long without Shane.

Later on in 2014 GT got sold and 2/3 of their staff was fired, including important veteran employees. I had already stopped visiting by this moment, and I guess plenty of others had well, hence the layoffs. 2015 brought even more firings, and it seems 2016 now finally brought closure.

In conclusion, I feel like GT died mostly because of incompetent top management, failing to properly adapt to changes.

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[1] Looking at the site today, it seems they finally added 720p playback sometime between 2014 and 2016.

[2] Looking at the site today, it seems they've improved the discovery after I left at the end of 2013.

[3] Shane has since started his own gaming site, SIFTD. He has even managed to snatch some key shows from GT, like Pachter Factor. http://siftd.net/
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I'm currently hosting more and more services myself. I have my own chat service (a matrix.org HomeServer), my own website (a simple static website served by nginx) and my own git hosting (gitlab). I'm using a nixos box to host it all.

Up until now, the maintenance overhead has been very, very low. The hardest bit is figuring out the configuration at first. Once the initial configuration is set up, I haven't had anything needing my time, other than the occasional systemwide update (takes about a minute, and can be automated if I'm not too lazy. This is nixos, rolling back is easy if something fails. Which it hasn't until now anyway).

Obviously, hosting everything this way isn't a solution for many. I don't expect your average joe to be able to fiddle with configurations file, using the command line, or setting up a VPS. But I believe the problem is simply in tooling, and by making or improving some graphical, easy to use tools, the "federated dream" where everyone could simply host its own service and join a network isn't so impossible anymore.
This software and discussion miss the reason you can't descentralized a twitter clone: analytics. One of the advantages of centralized services is the capability to quickly analyze what's going on from the content of the messages but you can't do that with a descentralized service.
Nothing like what they have been. And that is the point the only way to scale up at the rate zbenefits did was via dubious means.

Then the day comes when you need to become above board and someone has to be the fall guy. The important question here is not what the press release says but the money being paid....
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