skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The highest-quality discussion that I've found on the Internet generally came from "phpBB"-based website forums, built around specific interests or communities.

Part of the reason for that is the common interest in a shared niche. However, I believe that most important factor by far is the lack of up or down "voting" buttons.

On any platform with voting, the "imaginary Internet points" tend to drive the user experience. Upvotes trigger reward behavior, just like the social aspect of Farmville-style mindless freemium games. Downvotes trigger social anxiety and drive behavior also. Trolls relish it, while normal users are often insecure about it. Even on an "elite" platform like Hacker News, how many comments basically boil down to, "Hey guys, why did some of you downvote my last comment???".

Basically, voting turns a discussion platform into an MMO video game for a large portion of the userbase. It leads to groupthink, "brigades" and manipulation, low-quality memes and running jokes, etc. I think its negative impact on high-quality discussion easily matches or exceeds its positive impact on self-moderation.

Ultimately, I think the ideal model of discussion platform governance is a "benevolent dictatorship" of active mods, without user voting. It doesn't scale very well, but it's the common denominator among the highest-quality communities I've ever seen. The problem is since a micro-generation of Internet users is now accustomed to the MMO model, online discussion without voting is just... well... boring. Going back to that is like trading processed corn syrup for organic vegetables. Most aren't going to do it.

Downvote if you disagree. :)
I actually haven't bought one yet because I was under the impression code rendering was still less than ideal (e.g., lines wrapping to fit the Kindle screen where they shouldn't in code). Is that still an issue?
I try and learn things bottom-up. I don't know if that's a good way or not, but that's how I've always done it. It has seemed pretty natural to me to sort of explode things into pieces and pick it up small bits at a time, gradually composing all of the knowledge that I need to be able to complete the thing I'm working on/learning about.

Is there a better way?
Originally, the top 2GB of the 32-bit address-space was reserved for the kernel, and the bottom 2GB available for each running program. This worked fairly well until programs started legitimately using 2GB of RAM, so Microsoft came up with a new scheme where only the top 1GB of address-space was reserved for the kernel, and the bottom 3GB was available for running programs.

Unfortunately, they couldn't turn it on universally; there were a lot of programs that "knew" that malloc() would never return a pointer with the top bit set, so they used it as a flag for their own purposes. Such programs would break horribly in 3GB mode when pointers could have the top bit set. Also, restricting kernel-space meant the kernel had less room to do stuff; if you were running an app that was heavy on kernel-resources but light on RAM usage, 3GB mode would be a downgrade[1].

So applications have to opt-in to 3GB mode by setting a special flag in the executable, and 32-bit versions of Windows had to be put into 3GB mode at startup to support it at all.

Of course, the real solution to "3GB mode at startup" is just to run a 64-bit OS, and the real solution to "2GB is not enough address-space" is to run 64-bit applications.

[1]: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askperf/2007/03/23/memor...
It doesn't even require a pull of Uber's data. Unless the driver is making less than $600/yr from Uber, Uber is required to file a 1099-MISC with the IRS for that driver.
Comanche's voxels is an elevation map.
So like Kite but built into the language?
You don't even need to be in protected mode to use 32-bit registers. You can sort of bounce in and out just enough to use them with the 66 prefix. I used to do that but it's been so long I forgot how.
There are several autopilots able to follow a route untethered with just waypoints. Apm (ardu pilot mega) and pixhawk come to mind.
From what I've read it is still highly recommendable by the RC community to have telemetry links and if range allows, manual control.
These modules are used mostly as flying aides but some companies are building RC planes with autopilot capabilities and market them towards the mapping and surveying industries, charging a hefty premium for it.
You need to pick something you can sink your teeth into but unfortunately that doesn't satisfy your first requirement (limited amounts of time). Learning things of value normally takes time and lots of dedication.
This does not discuss that living beyond the means could be a rational option. If money comes from a bank credit, then in the worst case one declares a personal bankruptcy. As banks are supposed to be nice and do not sent guys with baseball bats to talk about money, the only real consequence is a loss of current possessions and inability to get a new credit for some number of years.

So one could get a credit, party for few years and then live according to the means while having a memory of joyful times. Compared with that an alternative of always living to the means may sound rather dull.
I wouldn't be so sure this would not happen this millennium as you say. Maybe not this decade, but I certainly imagine sooner or later we will have I.e. a big satellite beaming power directly to a plane (laser or microwave, you choose). Once launch costs make this plausible and it's deemed safe and secure, why not?

Bonus, you now have an orbital death ray if you decide to go Bond villain.
Yeah OK :) HHVM is not the usual PHP runtime one expects to build the average web service upon.

Anyway, my point was that Node.js main core value was to let people script evented I/O over a lightweight runtime.

When Node came out, it was something new.
> In colloquial terms, think we'd find few who'd argue humans flying around in helicopters shooting elephants with high power rifles are not more evolved than said elephants.

You should try to understand what evolved actually means. What that shows is that we have gained a higher level of tool use than the elephants. Intelligence is not a sign of being more evolved, it is purely a sign of intelligence.

This is like a bird saying that they are more evolved than a human because they can fly without artificial aids.
https://www.google.com/search?q="I+think+you"+site:news.ycom...

It's a common pattern around here. :/ I'm probably guilty of it myself.
This is the problem with lots of companies making their own bots--it doesn't actually make people's lives easier, it just shifts the problem. We don't need a bot for each business and service we use, we need well architected, well maintained, well documented APIs for each. If you have a good API and good brand awareness, you don't need to follow the fads; the community will do that for you.
Wharton's Pete Fader would agree with you somewhat that big data-style methods are overblown: http://www.datanami.com/2012/05/03/wharton_professor_pokes_h...

he also has some very cool uses of dirichlet processes (modelling entire competitive industries)
I am doing a series called 52-technologies-in-2016 https://github.com/shekhargulati/52-technologies-in-2016 where in I learn a new technology, build a small app, and blog about it every week. I maintain an Evernote where I write down all the interesting topics or projects I find. I go through the list and randomly pick any topic that excites me that day and then work over the weekend to publish something. This helps me keep in continuous learning loop.
What is gender? What is race?
Eh, do we all really believe the judge on that one? Sure, if he had claimed ownership, then the unreasonable search objection wouldn't have fallen on that point. Except, she eventually would have found some other reason why all FBI activities constituted "reasonable" search. Conviction rate in federal court is over 90%, and for many of those cases only the prosecutor assigned even gives a shit. Everybody in the federal system, FBI, prosecutors, judges, etc. wanted this guy's head on their wall, so no legal argument was going to keep him out of FPMITAP. Ross was fucked from the moment the beast knew his name.

For future projects like Silk Road, a basic part of the security plan will be to set up Ross look-alikes to take the fall, because USA-Justice is not something you can just design around. Once the beast has a scent, it will be fed, by someone.
>An interesting parallel is baseball.

It's funny you choose baseball as the sporting example, as it's without a salary cap.

If you look at hockey and basketball, this has been a strategy for a long time because teams have to remain below the salary cap. As such, bad contracts are traded around all the time to make room for payroll. Stars sometimes change teams for essentially nothing but cap space.

I guess it interesting that a baseball team is doing it in a world where there are no spending caps.
Apple's organizational crossroads
Its reserved for the kernel, not the GPU specifically. Normally the top half of the 32 bit address space was reserved for kernel use, and the bottom half for application use, but there is a flag in the PE header that tells windows to only reserve 1 GB for the kernel (and 3 GB for the application)
This is one more ideal use case for an always-on VPN, so you can always reach the server privately, securely and potentially on the same IP address.

Are there any plans to integrate something like (Disclaimer: I made this) https://wormhole.network with it? Actually, you would just need to include SoftEther's VPN client (https://www.softether.org) by default :-)
Man who made a vague threat against FBI agent is disappeared for 14 months.
At most it must be? Have you ever heard the story of the fox and the grapes?
I would really recommend reading "How to Live: A Life of Montaigne" by Sarah Bakewell, "The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living" by the Dalai Lama, and "The Consolations of Philosophy" by Alain De Botton.

They're not about being a "powerful man." All three are about the philosophy of leading a life that makes you happy without compromising the way you live in order to fit in with the notions and judgements of others.
I decide based on what i need to build next, and that came from what i want to build, at some point in the past.

Also i have "This is interesting" moments, from time to time.
NASA's original mission was to put an American on the moon. Fifty years later, and it's still going strong, churning out projects to justify its existence. Perhaps it's time for the US government to let the likes of Milner and Hawking take the front of the stage.
Trading for cap space isn't using deep pockets as a weapon. It's just balancing the books.

When a team like the Marlins has a payroll of $80M and the Dodgers are at $300M, there's a much more predatory effect at play.
Discovery of 4,500-year-old female mummy sheds light on ancient Peru
Not sure if sarcasm.
My guess is that since "Moore's Law" is no longer in effect, some people perceive that they have to use the most efficient programming languages.

Yes, I know that Moore's Law refers to doubling of transistor count every 18 months, not doubling speed every 18 months, but it's the "slowing down" of speeding up that's the issue here.
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Guy was clearly unstable and in over his head. Not against the law mind you, but his mental health was deteriorating (by his own mothers admission) and he began threatening FBI agents.

The 14 months in prison without due process could have been expanded on more in the article, there was next to no info regarding that situation which leaves the reader with a fair few unanswered questions.
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Isn't this very similar to what they used to do with Opera Mini?

The purpose was of course different. Opera Mini added value by optimising the pages for your device (tiny screens, underpowered CPUs, insufficient RAM, small batteries), while the added value of the current proposal is actually defeated when it's offered only for free (meaning they get something out of it - not just marketing for a paid offering).

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Opera Mini requests web pages through Opera Software's servers, which process and compress them before sending them to the mobile phone, speeding up transfer by two to three times and dramatically reducing the amount of data transferred, chargeable on many mobile phone data plans. The pre-processing increases compatibility with web pages not designed for mobile phones. However, interactive sites which depend upon the device processing JavaScript do not work properly.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Mini
What is CloudFare?
Any suggestions for statistical analysis? I'd be like confidently do math, rather than just do math.
This is a great idea! Thanks!
Holy Moly.

> Without access to his records, prison psychologists assumed his tales of talking to Islamic State members were fiction, symptoms of a mental illness that made him incompetent to stand trial. Prosecutors sought a hearing to decide whether he should be forcibly medicated.
Well, that guy writes well, at least.
Hard to misconstrue this as an ad when it's not even possible to purchase the product right now.
I found the most surprising aspect of the article was the guy absolutely refusing to believe that his Skype contact was phony and trying to scam money from him, even when the very law enforcement he so trusted to help "save the hostages" 1/2 way across the world told him so.

I wonder what sort of physiological issues must be present, and why, that allows someone to be sucked so deeply into believing the fantasy of the situation, even in the face of overwhelming evidence, and how that very thing exists in so many other decisions that confront people.
Also known as the "cool-new-framework rabbit hole" or also the more common "Wikipedia rabbit hole".
He's a real crook in a system that's awful. It's not either-or in my book.

So I agree he's not the root cause. He just pushes the existing framework to its "logical" conclusion. But only if "Logical" means being as ruthlessly exploitative as possible. Even the other sleazebag drug CEOs don't go this far, so Shkreli is uniquely contemptible.

But yes, ideally anger should be directed to the pharma industry and health insurance as a whole, not to Shkreli the individual.
> For me, my very self has no gender. While obviously I can only testify to my own experience of being a person—to my knowledge, I’ve only been this one—I cannot imagine that I alone enjoy such a self-perception.

It may be anecdotal but the case of David Reimer certainly contradicts her theory.

Reimer was castrated as an infant and raised as a girl after a botched circumcision. He had surgery and hormone therapy. Nevertheless he identified as a boy and displayed many of the same symptoms that trans people do.

I would say his 'self' had a gender.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reimer
Politicians should serve the will of the people. Any successful lobbying that gets in the way of that should be seen as a failure, not something to be encouraged. Of course changing the system to hinder the ability of companies to lobby is the goal we should be aiming for, but in the meantime let's not give companies that do so carte blanche to continue.
Powers of 10: Time Scales in User Experience (2009)
As someone outside the US, I never understood the fixation on candidates, given that they can tell a lot but the ones who make policy are still the same think tanks, lobbyists and bureaucrats working in DC their whole life. Sure, Trump, may try to push through one or two bad things, but he doesn't control the direction of the ship at all. Without the crew of a sail ship on his side, as a metaphor, Trump can rant whatever he wants. It'll go down in the books just as the escapades of other POTUSes. What I'm getting at is that the important, life-changing stuff happens behind the curtains and POTUS is merely the pony to entertain the masses and sometimes represent the policy created by the large government body. There are thousands of things a POTUS was against but had to defend, because the POTUS was there to represent the whole in the form of someone approachable. To me this is all some weird psychological game used to manage the population, and I like to think humanity has enough experience/knowledge to aim for a reasonable world without stupidity and sentiment-based ruling. Every logician must be very sad at how the world is managed.

In summary, who cares of Trump is POTUS, he'll be just another show piece without real control in a much more complex game of power dynamics.

That said, if someone wants to filter trumpology, they can ignore or flag them in their personal SPAM filter and statistics will do the rest. If that doesn't work, I'm sure you can silence certain Facebook profiles for you personally, just like one doesn't attend certain social circles in the real life.
The quiet supersonic transport is potentially commercially viable, but without a demonstration that the technique actually works in flight, the size and risk of the investment necessary to try it have seemed to be too large for the private sector. (The concept has been out there for a while.)

Another motivation is a desire to understand the design principles and behavior of such concepts at a deep and general level. That's not usually something industry does—often industry's level of analysis and experimentation is just "good enough" to get a job done. If that gets repeated a few times, it leads to both wasted effort and a proliferation of mediocre designs. (As another example, that motivation also drove the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics—NASA's predecessor agency—to undertake an exhaustive study of airfoils. NASA still undertakes quite a bit of research from a similar perspective.)
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How much privacy should one expect to have when posting on a publicly accessible website?
someone please do this!
Impulse propulsion flown by Piccard? Checks out
This is incorrect in almost every way. When you have 2^m independent observations that you can use to cross validate (where m is very large), overfitting is exceptionally difficult almost regardless of the number of features you have. Overfitting typically occurs when the number of data points is small in magnitude overall and is small compared to the number of features and the observations are not iid.
DIVX
No portion of the detainee provisions of the NDAA were at play in this case:

* Lopez wasn't part of al Qaeda or involved in the 9/11 attacks.

* Lopez wasn't apprehended by the US military.

* Lopez wasn't detained "under the laws of war".

* Lopez wasn't held in military custody.
Thanks, you're right, I took a look on your recommendation, found the accounts were worth reading.
Interesting read, and I agree with a great deal of it. I've had quite a few interesting conversations with my hyper-PC eldest step daughter on the subject - all of whose female friends (aged 16-17) don't identify solely as female, and yet all of whom haven't had any significant relationships, and all seem to have succumbed to pressure to identify on a subject they haven't really had much experience of. And as time goes by, more of them are finding out that they are normal, and attracted to males.

We're all on a continuum of nearly every characteristic about us. I find the constant desire to have to self identify on every variable is becoming tiresome. Had I been at school today, I'm sure I would be diagnosed as on the autistic spectrum, but fortunately I was a child of the 1970s, and unless you were truly afflicted you were just considered "a bit odd". The kids who I teach now mostly find labels they are given as a reason for their behaviour, rather than a starting point for any change they may wish to undergo, and while it's well intentioned, my experience of it (in a school with about 75% with some firm of SEND requirement) is that it is viewed as an explanation of current behaviour, rather than anything constructive. Not in every case, but in the majority.
A Search Engine for Unix Man Pages
This could probably be solved if Javascript had map/filter/reduce functions for iterators (and hopefully dictionaries) as well as arrays.

And of course a range(start,stop,step) iterator similar to python's range.

it would then be a matter of:

next = range(1,40000).map(x => x * 2);

and because range would be an iterator, the only array created would be next.
Why Did Hundreds of Arctic Explorers Disappear Without a Trace? (2015)
How to know that a person unfollw me to piterest
everyday i lose my followers to pinterest, i don't know why.
Ahh, good catch! Luckily, I don't use SysV struct passing. :)
It can really be annoying.. They break so many simple static websites that I can only use my phone for a limited ammount of websites (I use orfox with orbot and noscript, as I'm a little paranoid phone-wise)
I wouldn't be surprised if it was total crap and it was little more than some outtakes and demos.
Relevant discussion :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11404770
There was a brief report of metadata being stored in the plain: https://myers.io/2015/10/22/1password-leaks-your-data/

There's a rebuttal from AgileBits: https://blog.agilebits.com/2015/10/19/when-a-leak-isnt-a-lea...
You look for validation, and not having enough makes you think that you're weak, and probably this is your natural behavior. You're not going to overcome it with tricks. But you probably took the first step admitting it.
That or a video game. Could easily be a mix of adventure / puzzle with some action thrown in (Places like the forest, the moon, the underdream and kadath)
Sure. I just happen to agree with the notion that node.js is mostly unique only in that it pushes you down that path.

Java has a fairly rich NIO path that you can choose to take or not, and predates node.js. I believe the Tornado package for Python predates it as well.

Certainly, there's some advantage there...fewer surprises with 3rd party libraries that aren't non-blocking. But, there's downsides as well.
Treehouse - for 9$ it's a very good bang for buck ratio.
Aka fsn: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn
A HitchHikers Guide to the Islamic State
The same way false precision creates false confidence. Ten vague, radically differing estimates off the top of ten people's heads? Rubbish. An average of those estimates taken out to 4 decimal places? Science.
WISP: Battery-free computer that can be reprogrammed wirelessly
NASA stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration. It was formed from a pre-existing agency, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), that did amazing work advancing the field, and that work never stopped within NASA.

Also, to be clear: between Milner's two (fantastic) projects, he has committed $200 M, to be spent over roughly a decade. NASA's budget is about $19,000 M annually. For fast, efficient progress we need both—large amounts of government resources as well as private-sector funding of ideas that NASA and NSF are overlooking or not prioritizing for whatever reason.
I think that's unfair. I won't start carrying cash. I guess I'll switch to whoever lets me tip through the app.
> He's a real crook in a system that's awful. It's not either-or in my book.

The "either-or" is figuring out which one to go after and where to change things. If you only go after the Shkrelis, it's all for show and probably is a waste of tax payer money as he'll get off the hook for not legally doing anything wrong. People need to wake up and go after the real problem and replace the healthcare system and corrupt officials that perpetuate it.
Not sure if using Reddit style "questioning" or "asking" is right thing to do on HN.