skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The problem is that the abstractions for working out what gets attention/promotion on social media favour the lowest common denominator.

IMHO you've identified the root problem. it's simply very easy to optimize a feed around quick interaction signals as a way of surfacing what's important, and still get the quality wrong.

> we are effectively trying to automate an editorial process for deciding what is currently the most important thing in the world, in the meantime separating what is poor content from what is merely controversial, and ranking an image macro against a 10,000 word essay. This is a herculean task, and the methods we are using are manifestly not up to the job.

what's needed IMO are user satisfaction signals. I wonder if social networks could invite users to report content that makes them mad or they find useless. not for abuse, simply to identify what different users like and start understanding what groups of people prefer
Expect VCs to be unfiltered because they are in the position of power.
Uganda's Electoral Commission Is Deliberately Weakening Opposition Strongholds?
I don't know, maybe I'm not representative of most developers as I do devops for my side businesses, but I feel like I don't understand a technology well enough until I can handle both the development and the ops side and the ops side often feels like a prerequisite for properly handling the dev side.
newsletters ... http://importpython.com/newsletter . Planet Python, follow twitter accounts.
I think earlier versions had an x264 module supporting QSV but which was never included in the official windows build. I wonder if that changed.
You might find this article by Chris Harris a few years ago interesting. It describes the journalism environment of Ferrari back then. I believe he was banned from driving their cars for three years due to this article.

http://jalopnik.com/5760248/how-ferrari-spins
WTF? Blindly concatenating strings... hello XSS..
I find OS X's package/dependency management system to be as cobbled together as Windows'.

Linux got it right:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package_manager

It drives me crazy that Apple removed one the most amazing features of *nix systems: a unified software repository. Brew/brew cask doesn't come close to AUR.
Last version was named Feynman.
This 3.0 is released on 15th feb - Death of Feynman.

Coincidence?
Well, they did release this official blog post -> http://blogs.adobe.com/adobecare/2016/02/12/creative-cloud-d...
This makes sense, but isn't really about PHP at all. You're comparing node.js, with it's built-in event driven web server to ANY language running in a fastcgi or mod_xxx fashion. Python, perl, etc, running under fastcgi would all have the same downsides you are citing.

You can, for example, use Facebook's HHVM+Proxygen to serve up event driven PHP. That would be a more direct comparison to node.
Technically shouldn't you say "at least half of all people are at or below median"?

(Sorry, I just couldn't resist. It seemed apropos to the overall conversion. :)
A Pamplet Against R
So you would prefer to build tools to mask society's problems instead of uncovering them so that we can stare them in the face and have some type of discussion about them?

(Just playing devil's advocate here)
Damnit, I always forget he came back after S10. IIRC there was a break for a while.

Watch all 14 then.
Super unpopular opinion incoming.

The guy was taken out of context and clearly said he was trying to explain why the number of female founders was less. His thoughts had to do with not many of them applying because they prefer to be mothers. Does not matter if thats true or not, what matters is less apply.

Also, the affirmative action think irks me. Statistically 99% of pitches dont get funded. If there is 19 male pitches for every female pitch, does that mean that the female should get funding because its less common?

I would feel disgusted as a woman to know I got funded just to have a quota filled and a box checked. When a woman pitches with a great idea, it should be seen as a success, not as a VC giving out charity. This stuff really takes away from the accomplishments of women and I hate it. The fact that you think that more women should have been funded just because they are women lets your bias shine through. Newsflash, Women and minorities can have, and usually do, just as shitty business ideas as CIS white men.
I agree with your view.
I think you misunderstand what GraphQL is. It's not direct access to the database. It is a view model abstraction on top of your database which includes permissions checks for each node and edge, so in many ways it's actually more secure than the alternative of securing each endpoint adhoc.
Whether or not Seneca behaved consistently with the ideals of stoicism doesn't really say anything about how well stoicism "works" [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
>>> We’re just scratching the surface of what the next wave of innovations in data science can do for large enterprises. Our business is dedicated to helping clients realize that potential.

Whenever I see this level of execuspeak I have only one advice: run. This is not the pitch of an efficient outside contractor. This is the pitch of a resource-sucking nightmare of a project that will survive for years generating nothing much beyond powerpoints.
I have taken to adding the corollary response ", but if you can only explain it simply, you also don't understand it well enough."
http://skimfeed.com/ !
Ask HN: Junk around the house derivatives market
I get that this would probably never work, but imagine a market were you sell part of a piece of junk around the house(like old toys or clothes) and if someone buys it the people that bought the right to the item get the profits, if it sells.
This is a very interesting question: when does a community become an echo chamber? To use the hunting example: I imagine sometimes the hunters talk about stuff to do with hunting itself; the merits of different rifles, or where to find game, or whatever. And this is a reasonable community discussion for them to have, and it wouldn't help to have activists shouting "hunting is evil" over conversations such as that.

But sometimes the hunters will talk about the politics of hunting: one will say, "those activists are wrong to complain about animals suffering, because <reasons here>", and then another will say "yes, it's so obvious they're wrong, because <reasons> are so obviously right", and the echo chamber is ringing - this is the situation where people ideally would be brought into contact with the opposing view.

Can an online community promote the first type of conversation while challenging the other? How would we set about that?
"Sense when ..."

I believe you wanted "Since when..."
I wouldn't want to invest in or work for someone who was so quick to play the victim card.
Whoops, thanks for the heads up! Should be fixed now.
Well, maybe. I would instead say that the rapid churn of social networks is a "reincarnation"-type solution to the problem. Fry's leaving of Twitter is precisely the answer to the problem.

To see why, let's focus on what the problem actually is: we're social animals who crave authentic connection with others, not just to hear but to be heard. We can't just be passive consumers of news but wish to comment on it and be heard and replied to and have meaningful discussion. The problem is that a voting bloc systematically muffles some peoples' speech, ostracising them from the community due to their disagreement -- but then the community becomes an echochamber and fails to satisfy our needs for diversity.

One solution to this has been randomization -- think Omegle etc. -- which works but encourages a different sort of inauthenticity due to anonymity. Another has been the Reddit/LiveJournal model: make it easy to spawn new communities when old ones die out. It's a lot less clear why, say, LiveJournal has mostly died, but probably it was a little too egotistical and people therefore as they grew up got bored with just sharing their own viewpoints without some sort of cohesive blogging narrative, and it just died.

Somewhere there's some room for a solution which batches together communities of 50 people more-or-less randomly with some form of self-selection, and encourages them to talk about some sort of topic-of-the-day that would be relevant to all of their interests. In the meantime our solution is to join a social network and have fun until our community gets too large and we cannot get the attention we crave, at which point we'll swap to another and repeat the process again.
Automatic Security Updates for CentOS
But at the same time, if you can ONLY explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Yes, I understand why it would be nice to have arbitrary lifelike synthesizable voice. But hiring a voice actor currently gets you 90% of the way "there" (wherever "there" is) at a tiny, tiny, minuscule fraction of the cost of personally developing the entire future of speech synthesis.
> In Washington, for example, that means we'd have to get used to rising around noon and eating dinner at 1 in the morning.

I think "noon" would continue in common usage to mean the approximate time when the Sun is at its highest point locally, and "morning" would continue to mean the time locally between the end of darkness and noon (or the time between between midnight and noon, with "midnight" continuing to refer to a local time, not a global time).
That honor still goes to Flickr.
EC2 + SQS + ffmpeg is 1/5 the cost of elastic transcoding for me, and that's not even using all the ec2 capacity.
What do you think I'm trying to say?

If you don't want to be in a position where someone can hold power over you and judge you, then don't put yourself in a position where someone can hold power over you and judge you.

It's that simple.
I've used parts of boost extensively on embedded platforms and cross-platform projects without ever encountering painful runtime bugs. What issues did you have?
Show HN: Dynaconf – Let your Python settings to be Dynamic
Let's say it was strong empiric evidence (e.g. on event invites, I always saw this, SV event invitation emails had the lowest open/clicks vs. other parts of the country) Same email, different regions. Same result. I also get the regular 'I hate emails, I don't click or read them' from a lot of coworkers, despite being the main revenue channel. Yeah, it's fun to be right. I'm bragging about it.
It depends a lot on particulars of your product and what you think "starting my own business" means.

The laws are about creating legal entities not actual work.

Do you have a product? Is it a website of software application? Ship it and keep improving it based on feedback. Working on software in your spare time is not prohibited and even good products take time to become successful.

Do you want to charge for the product?

That becomes a bit more complicated because for accepting payments you might need some legal entity (i.e. a company). First try to setup payments (using PayPal or Stripe) simply in your name, without creating a company. If not possible, try setting up a company in your own country and use that.

The things that you cannot do is to register one of the legal entities that we call companies (llc etc.) in US and work for that company. This also blocks you from doing things that require such entity (like getting funding or hiring people).

Legal entity is not required to have a successful, income generating product or needed to work on such product.

In context of the law "work" is "work for recognized legal entity and being paid for it". You can't work as a cook for a restaurant but you can cook a dinner for your friend, even though both require the same kind of "work". Similarly, the law doesn't allow you to work for a startup in US and being paid for it but doesn't prohibit you from working on an open-source project or on your own project.
That's awesome, I didn't know about that. I'll update the post with your tip. Thank you!
Nobody really cares about their performance. They're just fine with their simple interpreters. Web is different, there is no choice, no fallback to C.

And no, thank you kind sir, but I've got a very good idea of what compilers are doing wrt. C deficiencies, I was writing OpenCL compilers for 6 years at least. Besides aliasing stupidity and byte-addressing there is nothing really bad to compensate for.
Where is she playing the victim, exactly?
Admittedly I've never raised capital, but I'd expect that if this is your attitude toward raising money or toward investing, you won't do well. Asking for investment isn't begging for money. It's a sales pitch. Likewise, investing isn't charity, it's a purchase of equity with the expectation of a profitable return. Your comparison belittles the author and offers no real insight into the discussion.
But it sounds like she is completely fine with walking away from these VCs. That she will just go to another VC that she likes and that she isn't "begging" at all.
I don't know the author, or her life circumstances, but to believe that 'Because in my head, I can’t imagine a scenario where you trust someone with millions of dollars to run a business but think that they don’t know how to deal with childcare.' Is just sexism is idiotic.

It isn't the childcare itself, is the pregnancy and the 1st year that is the 'problem'. Women can and are as good entrepreneurs as men, but if for a second you think (exceptions excluded) women, during pregnancy and first months of a newborn can run a business without sacrificing something you must never been around that scenario. And if I was going to put a million dollars in your business and there is even a 5% chance you may end up pregnant, it will indeed be a minus in my book (as an investment though)

You either sacrifice the health of your baby with long nights, long working hours, stress, etc, or you sacrifice the company when you take those 2-3 days because morning sickness or tiredness don't allow you to be on your best.

Is it unfair? Yes, very, but pregnancy and breastfeeding is something that takes a toll on women and no matter what a partner tries to do to help, he can't really carry the baby in is belly or start producing milk. Think of it this way, if the entrepreneur was a man, it would be akin to asking how he would expect to keep focusing on their sports career (5+ hours practise a day) and running a VC-based startup.
This is not a twitter problem. If you're a famous celebrity with a gigantic megaphone you have to accept the fact that the masses are going to react to what you put out there. I think it's funny when celebrities get all wrinkled over internet outrage but take for granted the fact that they are leveraging the masses (via twitter and other platforms) to boost their own careers. Woops, you said something that some people on the internet disagree with, suddenly you have a deluge of hate mail instead of doting adoration. Well, what did you expect? The masses are not autonomous eye-balls, they are people with disparate ideas and opinions and if you say things that piss some people off, this is the reaction you get.

So, in the face of internet controversy, what does a celebrity do? Retreat to a convenient forum where they explicitly control the discourse so they can publicly broadcast their disdain for the fickle judgment of masses without having to actually listen to them. I suppose the so-called SJWs aren't the only ones that need a "safe space" to speak their minds without fear of criticism.
Through the Ars Lens: Looking at Justice Scalia’s Opinions, Dissents
Maybe because something like this comes up a lot.
I think that's mostly accurate, in the sense that we wouldn't have done this if it was only motivated by specializing for JavaScript semantics. We had gotten pretty good at having our high-level compiler (DFG) burn away the JavaScript crazy and leave behind fairly tight code for LLVM to optimize.

But as soon as we realized that we had such a huge compile time opportunity, of course we optimized the heck out of the new compiler for the kinds of things that we always wished LLVM could do - like very lightweight patchpoints and some opcodes that are an obvious nod for what dynamic languages want (ChillDiv, ChillMod, CheckAdd, CheckSub, CheckMul, etc).
On Coders and Programmers
Could you explain to me how that statement is "offensive"?
Rust is actually quite easy to compile. Ada is easy to compile. ML-like languages are easy to compile. Oberon is trivial to compile.
Yes. Thanks for your great work on this site.Keep up the good work.
Much like confessing a dark secret, breaking-up, asking someone out, etc, my policy has never been to initiate or allow any serious, longwinded conversation over mobile/phone text.
Your comment brought to mind my favourite story about a long-lived online community (which was definitely not aiming for growth):

http://www.metafilter.com/98848/The-Post-That-Cannot-Possibl...
> but at its core HN users actually welcome new points of view.

No. Try posting anything here that opposes the groupthink. You'll get the downvote hammer used against you very quickly.
> Think how much energy could have been saved if Ruby, Python, and PHP

I would think we'd see even better improvements if developers would move towards statically typed languages as well.
>Perhaps if Twitter had a real name policy it would level the playing field

Didn't work at all with youtube comments.
Note that usually being "as fast as" a production JSVM means also proving that you can start up as fast as JSVMs do. Have you done this?
Andy Rubin's New Playground
Lessons Learned in SaaS Startups
a lot of the content they surface seems to be targeted to people's inner-13-year-old-boy. Grandiose fantasies of world domination.

1. how do i make a million dollars in a week?

2. who in history made $1 billion in the easiest way?

3. who is smarter Terrance Tso or Leibniz?

4. what's faster Ferrari or Lamborghini?

and finally:

5. who would win: Boxer vs. Ninja?!?!?!
Entrepreneurs - and we are a totally different breed of human being than just about anyone else.

Anyone else cringe at this part?
If Ruby, Python and PHP would suddenly disappear, even more effort and energy would have been saved.
I wrote a collection of posts on lessons I've learned from 8+ years in SaaS. Hope it helps.
Growth is a system, not a tactic
I understand what GraphQL is: it's a step towards full datastore access on the client side. It exposes some security issues (what if you don't want a user to have access to some data and miss a security constraint, as you will, and they modify your GraphQL language to see it?) but it isn't the full security clusterfuck.

Yet.

Again, the tradeoff is touching your API (or security model) every time UX needs change, or exposing more and more security issues client side.
I really need to reread those guidelines.
Thanks! :-) Looking forward to more write-ups about TurboFan!
I'm wondering how many similarities your comment also has to do with capitalism...

Some areas of business make a good local idea, regional idea, but VC firms want you to expand and swallow the world. Maybe that's also the wrong way to think about it: maybe coexisting in the local economy is a better, more stable, and amicable way to go.

Just a thought that your post had on me.
Ask HN: Why was the Kotlin 1.0 release removed from the frontpage?
It actually garnered 80pts in 2 hours but then just fell off the frontpage. I understand that product news get buried, but the 1.0 release of an OSS language that seems to get quite a bit of traction?
Isn't GraphQL/Relay (or similar tools) the solution here? Has the best of custom endpoints (can be conceptualized as a single, infinitely customizable custom endpoint) without the drawbacks (there's only one endpoint, and backend engineers just need to expose a schema).

It was kinda disappointing to see him fail to properly address tools that were designed to resolve his original concern. He basically decides that GraphQL forces you to "shape your models to your views" (which is false, GraphQL/Relay just collates and trims your models before delivering them to your views). In a sense, it allows him to continue to say "yes" to his frontend developers (which is good from a product standpoint) without adding a ton of custom endpoints.
IMHO the best contractors are the best that try to actively make themselves redundant and no longer needed. Sure, you might get called again later down the line, but anythings else feels parasitic
Which is why money being speech is absolutely bullshit and anti-democratic, because only the very loudest (read: richest) voices are heard.

Incidentally, an American can praise Al Qaeda all they want (free speech), but they can't send money to them.

You see, money isn't speech when it comes to funding terrorism. Money is only speech when it suits the 1% who own and run the corps that pay the legislature to enact law.
Norway is near the high end with cost of production at $36.10 / barrel.

http://money.cnn.com/interactive/economy/the-cost-to-produce...
> It drives me crazy that Apple removed one the most amazing features of *nix systems: a unified software repository.

It's not a feature of unices, it's a feature of _Linux_ (Ian Murdoch called it "the single biggest advancement Linux has brought to the industry"[0]).

The vast majority of unices never had a "unified software repository", and BSDs (probably the least indirect ancestor of OSX) have port trees, which at the time OSX was born (ignoring the NeXTSTEP ancestry which predates "modern" BSDs and builds directly from 4.3BSD) were a very different beast and not something suitable proprietary unices (because Apple wasn't going to give the OSX commit bit to randos).

And hell, both apt and rpm were busy _being born_, the premier package managers at the time were raw dpkg and pms(1). And pkgtool[1] I guess?

[0] http://ianmurdock.com/solaris/how-package-management-changed...

[1] http://www.slackware.com/config/packages.php
Did you just call Javascript a "highly expressive" language? Really?!?
Just making sure this isn't misinterpreted as saying that people run PHP (or really anything) on the old, traditional CGI model that forks a new process for each invocation of a script.

Most php installations are either mod_php, running within the Apache process itself, or via fastcgi.

In either case, the processes are pre-started and pooled.
Is the built-in aac encoder better or as good as fdk-aac? I've been using fdk-aac because it gives lower bitrates and better/same sound.
Get the out and take a piss outside of the pool, assholes.
If it's not ready, it shouldn't have been published.....
I think this (and Dear GH) has been a reminder of how hard UX is, because many of these complaints have never fazed me.

Of course that says nothing about the quality of this project, and I'm glad people are pursuing their own solutions! I think most of my complaints require back-end changes unfortunately...
The conversation that made her post the rant was obviously she asked the guy why there is less women entrepreneurs, the guy made clear he was uncomfortable with the questions and replied with a reply that is common sense ( ie: most women aren't entrepreneurs, thus there is less women wanting vc money) and she took offense at the reply.