skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say it's one of few that could not break as soon you get on :)

It really looks like as a history bicycle, where you used foots to push.

http://i.livescience.com/images/i/000/064/812/iFF/hobby-hors...
>bombed-out Detroit-style factory town.

Yeah, it sure is annoying when people mindlessly insult your city....
Atlanta actually scored better than Detroit in this regard, but is still asphalt hellscape.

http://usa.streetsblog.org/2014/03/20/parking-madness-matchu...

Of course, the bay is no exception. Here's the "city" of San Jose, and an explanation of how it might be fixed.

http://usa.streetsblog.org/category/special-reports/parking-...

Streetsblog's Parking Madness is an interesting tournament they run discussing cities that have been destroyed by parking craters. I know a lot of people disagree with me but I really think that when you have these levels of parking the city itself is gone, destroyed and replaced by suburb, or maybe some other human/auto organizational structure we need a new word for.
> Did those "scientists" even know what they were testing ?

They thought they did. Check out the original paper. They found that many animals needed higher (relative) dosages to get affected, administered up to 1mg/kg to macaques (no death), and found that 6.5mg/kg was necessary to kill a cat.

"Lysergic Acid Diethylamide: Its Effects on a Male Asiatic Elephant" http://www.psych.ufl.edu/~steh/PSB3002/LSDelephant.pdf
SPICE is even older, and still used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPICE
> "There are far, far, far too many advice articles on this site. It’s one thing to say ‘I lost my job and this is how it affected/changed me,’ that’s personal experience. But advice articles always contain the same implied subtext: you’re doing it wrong and I’m the genius who is going to show you how to do it the right way. Hence, how to fix your relationship, how to manage your spare time, ten things your boss does that you haven’t figured out, etc. etc."

I've seen this attitude in so many different situations IRL and online. It's so refreshing to read it so clearly and fearlessly stated like that.

It's unfortunate that Medium have attracted all the seagulls (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-3e0EkvIEM), because they've done so much awesome technical work on the platform, for example with editing (https://medium.com/medium-eng/why-contenteditable-is-terribl...).

How can platforms like Medium cultivate a culture that deprioritizes and devalues the types of spam content the article author is referring to?

EDIT: Accidentally pasted the quote twice, fixed (thanks yxlx)
I like it. On python-ideas the idea of a curated list of pypi packages comes up from time-to-time. The most recent incarnation was started just last month and you can read it here: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2016-March/03...

Such discussions usually die out after some people give their opinions on what such a package curation/voting system should be like, whilst others state why we should not have such a system.

For my money, most of the objections are really just people pointing out that it is a very difficult to design problem. Rather than objecting to the actual idea.

So anyway, it's really nice to see some actual working code.

A few of comments:

1. You describe this as the "go-to Python Toolbox", but I'm not sure that really describes what it is well. It's really a summary of github statistics. Even forgetting how the packages are rated, you have a package rating system rather than a single toolbox. I think what you have is more interesting than a single python toolbox.

2. You have not quite solved the major complaint that usually comes up in discussions of such package voting systems. That is, that a package is not generally just "good" or "bad", but appropriate or not appropriate for given uses. Furthermore, I think the 'Popularity' metric is not quite obvious from a first look at, say, a package category. In other words, it's not quite obvious that this is a measure of how the github repository is starred. At least then the user can decide themselves whether or not this is a useful metric.

3. Github stars is not a bad measure. A better one would include the ability to downvote.

4. Pretty much all repulation/voting systems have the problem that for any "votes", or even full-blown reviews, it's not clear which version of the library they are about. This is really difficult to solve. Since you only have positive votes the problem is not so pronounced as it is in other systems (or proposed systems). But the basic problem is that a bunch of users downvote a library because it is difficult to use, or doesn't have tests, or they cannot install it etc. The developer takes that into consideration and produces a new version of the library, what should the reputation system do? It's really not a trivial question. You still have that issue in that a bunch of users may have decided not to star a library because of an earlier version. They may even star a library which later becomes less useful, for example because it is superceded by a better library, or because the code degrades. I understand users can unstar a repository, or flock to a new one, but still, the general problem is not entirely solved. That said, using GitHub stars probably suffers from this problem less than other measures.

5. I really like the look of it. I think the colour scheme for Python is the best of the three so far.
>Nobody would sell themselves into slavery if they had a choice.

It actually used to be common in the Roman empire. It was effectively how you declared bankruptcy.

This is something to bear in mind any time anybody advocates strengthening creditors' rights (e.g. removing bankruptcy protections or making them more onerous). The logical end point of this process is actual, literal slavery.
Vim's codebase is known to be one of the most unclean collections of C code out there. It's one of the reasons why Neovim came into existence.
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That looks useful. If you can help cut down on the task-switching pain involved in setup and moving from one project to another, I know I would be grateful - and more productive. I'll try it when the Linux version comes out. Thanks for hopping on my radar. :-)
For comparison, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_bicycle#1817_... also has bicycle defining parts missing, but we call it an early bicycle, anyways.
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It's not.

He means that using one editor he loves (vim/st3), then switching to a replacement (neovim/atom), and then learning that the format editor gets better (vim gets async, st3 goes open source), brings "confusion" on the choices made.
It's hypothetical.
Competition makes everything better :)
>It all seems to suffer a bit from the "Dummies guide" syndrome - it's easy to simplify the first few lessons on a subject, but you pretty soon hit a wall when you reach the parts that actually require a bit of mental legwork.

And yet Dummies Guides are often the first book I'll look for as an introduction to a subject. I know they'll be light reading, easily consumable, and convey information that is simple and considered "mainstream". The wall you speak of likley means you've leveled up your understanding, and now have a better idea of where to go next.
The point is that you could deploy this device without having a queue, just a door to slam in the face of a positive detection. Worst case, you need to space people out a bit.
I totally agree with him.

When I first heard of Medium, it seemed to have some well written articles. Then it turned into exactly what he's complaining about. Anyone can throw anything up there and wind up linked to on reddit, as if it was handed down from a mountain top.

I don't trust most articles there anymore.
Because the experience is so much better. The power of command line is intoxicating, and going to GUI tools files like programming with hands tied behind your back and being blindfolded.
Can someone explain what MS bash will do (or potentially do) better than mingw/msys?
1. How hard is to create a process to fully clean terrorists and their equipment from residue ?

2. Is it possible to create a way to make many people catch this residue ?
I've never seen his blog or a crow cartoon before. But I knew when I clicked that since it was hosted on medium.com, it was going to be at least mildly interesting because lots of good articles hosted there get linked on HN. This was the crappiest medium.com blog post I can remember reading this year. He sounds like an angry asshole! How's that for irony. But I'm merely an outsider, so I have no clue if the site is actually going down the shitter. If Medium is indeed swimming in trash, they still have time to fix that, because someone like me doesn't see it yet. So this one angry exit might be a martyr that gets the rest of the community motivated to change the problem, if it exists at all.
Although he's coming across as throwing his toys out of the pram, he's completely right.

This was obvious from the beginning when Medium opened the floodgates.

There is definitely room for a writing application that brings together original good articles from both professional and non-professional writers, a bit like Blendle[1] but more open.

1: https://launch.blendle.com/
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I agree with you on the conflict of interest that the mercenaries have, but I think that it extends to regular armies also.

An army that doesn't fight is a budget that is claiming to be cut, and you can see that discussion taking place in several european countries. In the United States, however, they have wars to fight, and so the army and its space is a huge industry, with one client, the US government; and if there are no wars to fight, it will quickly collapse.

There are in fact a lot of accusations that the military industry in the United States instigates action for that specific purpose. So they don't only keep alive the fire, as the mercenaries - they also push to start new ones! And I can tell you, the Army has more political force than mercenaries to do this.
Autonomous vehicles might have to be test-driven years to demo their safety
"I wouldn't associate "red state culture" and a particular city in that state together"

You might not, but many of the people you're trying to recruit will. I realize it may not be accurate but there's a perception that Texas is universally horrible except for Austin, at least if you're left of center or want urban living. It doesn't matter if that perception's wrong if it means you never even talk to your potential candidate to say how great Dallas is.

Also, having the most track is a dubious distinction, just as having the most miles of road would be; that makes it sounds like commutes are long too. Interestingly a lot of the earliest suburbs weren't enabled by the car but by rail; San Diego and Los Angeles both have neighborhoods (now considered pretty close-in) whose construction was really enabled by rail.
A medium post about leaving medium.

Nothing more to say
When did being a war profiteer become acceptable?

And I know most of you don't think it as a necessary war. All I remember from Blackwater is open expense accounts, jet skis, the best hotels, the best of everything. Why--because they were getting paid a huge amounts, with weird accounting. 'Drive the cost up boys--the government will pay.' I might be confusing Blackwater with Halliburton? Again--too angry to go over that history again.

Yea--I know their were other players, and ultimately the government was at fault.

(Don't have the stomach this morning to provide any factoids.)
I agree. Medium is riddled with advice articles written by "Motivational Speaker and Coach living in San Francisco" types who have never done anything consequential. It's also turned into a speaking podium for womens' rights activists who I frankly don't care about. Not to mention 50% of the articles there usually starts with "You're all missing the point of X".

Rather read a real book about people who have actually done great feats. Elon Musk's biography, and Pixar's Creativity Inc have had much better advice than the fluffy articles I see on medium.

Props to this guy for having the balls to speak honestly about Medium.
Ah, so you are that one guy on the internet that has so many other things to do, nice to meet you!

It is not about time. We have 24 hours every day, everyone has lots of things to do.

If I could read just one or two sentences describing what your code does, I had at least some basic information to consider if it is worth spending some time on this.

As there is nothing and you think it is a waste of time to document that code, why should I spend my time with some code that you think is a waste of time to document?

Anyway, have a nice day!
What is your objection to CLAs? I generally think they're nice but don't know much about them.
It's an interesting article but I feel like the investor/entrepreneur relationship isn't quite as simple. I'd be really interested in a meaningful analysis of why investors cluster in SV. The obvious explanation is because that's where the talent is. However I feel there are a lot of social factors at play, too. It's cool to be in SV, people start companies there and change career path from selling their company to becoming investors etc.
[lifestyle wise the city of SF doesn't sound all that great and Cali seems to be full of strange regulations and the like]

What if investor seeding would be hugely beneficial for a hub to become "the next SV". Imagine this thought experiment...pg overcome with nostalgia convinces YC to permanently move to Pittsburgh and change the standard recommendation to "stay 3 month in Pittsburgh". I'm not convinced YC would implode..there'd be some difficulties sure. But I'd also expect (some of) the money to follow YC.

A "Pittsburgh batch" (to go along with the regular one) might actually be an interesting experiment to run.
Emacs is free software developed by a worldwide community. It's a culture, an ecosystem, a way of life. The same with Vim, but I'm into Emacs. I love Lisp deeply, and I think Emacs is a truly amazing piece of technology.

I had to use Xcode for a project and it gave me real anxiety. Weird things would go wrong and I had no idea how to fix them. The only sources of information were these horrible unanswered support threads on Apple's website.

Since Emacs is free, portable, and extensible, I can use it for lots of different things. And I know I have the freedom to change it any way I want. Of your examples, only Qt Creator has an open license.

Emacs is also a flagship of GNU. Xcode and Visual Studio are made for developing software in closed systems...
Why does it take an acquihire for google to add meaningful new features to a product that hasn't changed substantially in years?

Also, the implementation of the "appointments" feature that they just rolled out in google calendar is broken; it doesn't respect existing events in the same calendar, which is just half assed.
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Correct. ZF is anything but realistic. It is just nice for creating mathematical theories, which can indeed be wonderful and also very useful for our world.
Well, I am fairly certain that Amazon S3 will handle multi-terabyte backups, mostly because their pricing tiers are for 1 TB, 50TB, 500 TB, 1 Petabyte, 4 Petabytes, and 10 Petabytes - and they make more money the more you store. Performance (at least in Singapore) is also pretty awesome if you have a gigabit connection.

I'll be interested in hearing of any experiences (particularly around performance) of someone attempting to backup on the order of 10 TBytes on the Amazon Cloud Drive. My guess is that if more than very few people do this, then either (A) Amazon puts an end to "unlimited" (and yes, I appreciated the scare quotes), or, (B) They rate limit uploads after a certain size to the point at which it just frustrates people.

For some of us, dealing with a vendor who finds greater usage on your part to be a desirable behavior, such that they actually give you price breaks the more you use, creates a business relationship that is worth more than the several hundred dollars/year you'll end up saving. (Of course, this is coming from the guy who has a $36/year AWS bill, $24 of which is S3 storage)

(Side note - When talking about Storage, it's very rare to use GiB/TiB - Data rates and Storage are almost always GB or TB).
I think this guy shows good insight and great instinct. In my view, he's completely right about Medium. It was quite clear to me early on that Medium would go that way and I'm sorry to see me proven right.
I wonder, if using something like QT Toolkit, we would already had a Linux/OSX version?

Maybe the author can give us some technical background of the application.
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I don't think that intelligence is in any way correlated to having worldviews of most of modern terrorists. Just compare their methods to Unabomber, for example.
I mean medium no worse than any other blogging platform. Who cares if there is crap content on there? The internet is a sea of crap. You just use your brain when reading to see if something sounds like bullshit, and take everything you read with a grain of salt, just like you would anywhere on the internet.

It's not like many people actually browse medium.com, we all just get linked there from HN and reddit, which could happen on any platform. Any crap is really the fault of a the community linking to it.

And in my honest opinion, I haven't really seen that many genuinely awful posts to medium. Perhaps some of you could link to some of the terrible posts this guy is referencing?
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> It reads to me more like an attempt to brush over the fact that the student doesn't actually know any calculus yet.
... - don't teach how you can phrase your question to get a computer to solve them.

No, he's not showing WolframAlpha as a mental shortcut to cover up deficiencies of not knowing calculus.

The point is to utilize it as a diagnostic tool to check the student's understanding of previous Ch 1 - 4. If the student understands the previous chapters' vocabulary and concepts, he "doublechecks" that understanding by seeing if he can "describe" problems to WolframAlpha. Again, the idea is to create a feedback loop for the self-directed learner.

Instead of using WolframAlpha, one could be shown how to use the TI-83 graphing calculator for the same purpose. However, since the student is likely reading Betterexplained on the web, he can just conveniently click over to wolframalpha.com and "check his calculus knowledge" there. As a bonus, WolframAlpha is easier to use, draws prettier graphs, and doesn't cost $100.
Check out Lytro Cinema:

http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/11/lytro-cinema-is-giving-film...

https://www.lytro.com/cinema
You've had your medium experience curated by HN if you're clicking through from here.

There will be others who are getting their medium experience curated through reddit, tumblr, facebook, other forums etc.

And HN doesn't tend to go in for "outrage linking", elsewhere people will link to blogs for the sake of "look how awful this opinion is" which may also affect their perception of the platform.

Medium is an open blogging platform, it seems unfair to blame an open platform for the authors on it, but part of the problem here is that medium used to be invite only, so perhaps people are still judging it based on the authors on there, this article's author for one.
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You've proven my point. If you had money on a tree, you'd do it, but as you don't (as far as I know!) you won't.

I would love to have a basic income, or an endless supply or money and be able to work on what I want, when I want. At the moment I'm not quite there, so have to find the odd day or two per week to work on more interesting 'stuff' than paying bills.
So fix it permanently or stop complaining?
Micro-payments for publishing. Medium (and other quality essay sites) should charge per essay. Nothing too big, have a scaled system that is affordable to all. Even a small payment of 1GBP/USD/EUR per post is enough to keep the spammers away. It might not deter the paid for corporate shilling, but it would be a good start.

I've not thought this through in depth - feel free to pick holes in it, but I firmly believe that the mess we're suffering on the self-published areas of the internet are because it's free-to-post. So to maintain a level of quality there needs to be some sort of barrier to entry.
JIT spraying
There's a difference between "letting down your guard" and being selective about the policies you're willing to adopt to effectively fight terrorism. Unless you're willing to defend the patriot act, wars on terror, the parts of the TSA that are obviously just security theater, police militarization, etc as reasonable, then you have to accept that we overreacted. Those parts of our reaction are emphatically not part of our "guard," and getting rid of them is not in any way lowering our guard. Quite the opposite due to their propensity for misuse.
I noticed that too... I get around it by using "set alarm for 7 hours and 50 minutes" instead.

Awkward, but works.
As a Scala quant, it sounded like the guy was thinking about the problem analytically rather than emotionally. Then, the phrase "the public caused X" would be more like how a software developer would interpret "this buffer overflow caused the attacker to gain a foothold in this 10-stage attack on some server". The determination of an appropriate scapegoat is more of a politician or PR guys' job, not a quant.

Here's another one: You're a software developer. Software developers caused Heartbleed. Why do most software developers "live in a reality distortion field where it wasn't their fault"? Probably because they don't work on SSL libraries. Should I blame you for not taking responsibility next time Cloudflare goes down, even though you might have an outside opinion on what caused it?

The user in question works at an online advertising company, not at a credit rating agency. Why do they think it 'was not their fault'? Probably because it wasn't his fault.
A couple counter points:

> America's use of PMCs is as old, actually older, than the country itself.

Yes, but the use of PMCs back in those days was largely because the colonies and the early nation couldn't muster a large enough military on its own. There's absolutely no reason the U.S. needs to use PMCs (at many times the cost). If there's a need for long-term need for specific skill-sets, the military can always add more MOSs that fill those needs -- or use any of the available official paramilitary organizations that it has at its command. That government run units weren't selected to fulfill those essential security functions implies a great deal about the function the State Department wished the PMCs to fulfill.

> Erik Prince is not some crazy Christian zealot out to wage a holy war;

The problem is that Erik Prince is those things, and his company (among many, or given the official available organizations at the government's disposal) was selected and continued to be selected is important.
Yes, they have certainly focused on what seem like the most negative parts to accentuate their point.
Actually I don't believe there will be never a winner between the vim-way and the emacs-way.

Are both great tools but with a completely different mentality and people will prefer one to the other depending on so many factor that the quality of such tools is not even so influencing.

On the other hand there is not so much distinction between Firefox and Chrome and there is going to be a winner as long as the browser are so similar to each other.