skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unix isn't for end users, it's for developers to build on top of to give things to end users. Linux on desktop already happened years and years ago if you work for a tech company, and that's probably about as far as it needs to go.

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/04/lisp-is-not-acceptab...

This is Steve Yegge's understanding of the Lisp community, and I should clarify that I don't think the XML monstrosities we all work with are "all their fault", but that, on the whole, the Lisp community and enterprise coders were mutually antagonistic.

Javascript after ES3 really wasn't broken at all, just most people coding in it didn't know how to take advantage of it. No language can prevent someone dedicated to bad code architecture from writing bad code. A Lisp programmer would've found a lot of comfortable features and powerful patterns and been able to share them, but most of their efforts were wasted denouncing everyone outside of their tiny sect. The end result was that most people learning JavaScript were taught how to code like it was broken Java because most of the resources were written by Enterprise Java devs who didn't understand what a fundamentally impoverished language Java is.
1M per minute it is something. Could you name those frameworks?
I think it's because HN has a single theme. Like you said there are many annoying cases on HN too. Let's say your chance of coming across one is 1%. On Reddit you have many of these communities, so the chance of coming across annoying posts become N% (depending on how many subreddits you read)
What Makes a Good Paper?
> I don't really know what to say about your claims about meaninglessness, except that I think they're false.

Syntax has no meaning outside of the rules for manipulating it. If no rule applies to a particular expression, then it has no meaning whatsoever. And, in any sensible formal system, like typed lambda calculi with Church-style semantics, expressions only have meaning in contexts where their free variables are bound.
Timezones for programmers
That seems surprising. It's not like there's a discrete threshold between "able" and "too fast". I'm not a violin player, but just about anything I can play slowly on a bass or piano, I can also play quickly, given enough practice, even if it means I can only initially play it at quarter or third speed with a metronome. Aside from some virtuouso performances, I think any beginner/intermediate player with a decent ear and headphones/sheet can play any piece at quarter speed. It seems like muscle memory is one of those things you really can achieve through mindless repitition with good technique, while theory requires a lot more focused practice.

edit: Okay, disregard that, the above comment is completely different and I guess I agree now.
https://medium.com/@choxi/uber-s-dominant-fundraising-strate...
The article is a mess anyway since they are mixing both games up. They start talking about the franchise, then go on to Starcraft 2 and afterwards to Broodwar.
Mountains Love
Yes, I meant to say that the VCs are asserting it's a winner-take-all game. And, yes, Uber is playing a winner-take-all strategy, which I agree is questionable.
Same here. Makes writing actually quite difficult -- I tell people it's like trying to put a whirlwind down the end of a pen.
We thought the same about Obama and then he turned 180 on us.

Bernie has a history favoring weapon makers from his own state as well as going after people using his logo, so we can be pretty sure that given the opportunity it will not all be as wonderful as he promises.

And who knows what they have collected about him in the meantime. There must have been a reason why Obama turned 180 so suddenly, as soon as he was in office.
It helps that we have a rough model of the publication process that we can correct for. It's kinda like assessing the underlying distribution with only access to the tail of it, which isn't ideal, but can be done.
Nice to see an example of the CIA slush fund financing something other than sending arms to "freedom fighters".

This sort of thing is how they _should_ be spending that money.
That investment will yield a lot in loyalty. You'll have 100 people looking out for your interests, which are now their interests. "Winning hearts and minds." That seems a lot more valuable than trying to play Omega Man. In fact, start shooting people and you are going to generate nothing but vendettas, and eventually you'll have 100 people out to get you. Spoiler alert: The Omega Man dies at the end of the movie.

All of this is just blowing my mind today. Who knew the "apocalypse" was just another 1-percenter meme, and that the self-styled "free-thinkers" walking around believing it -- including me -- were actually engaging in the most craven, compliant subservience against their own interests!
This depends on the subreddit, if you look at the security groups (e.g. netsec, reverseengineering) they evolve to deep discussions.
I'm not blind, but I think like you do. My thoughts aren't linear and I feel that words only appear when they are already leaving my mouth or the tips of my fingers.

I can formulate sentences in my mind, but it feels really slow and cumbersome.
Having read many books/online courses, I strongly recommend this:
http://www.amazon.com/Doing-Bayesian-Data-Analysis-Second/dp...

It gives a gentle but through introduction from first principles; lots of good intuition and 'why'.

It works well with
"Probabilistic Programming & Bayesian Methods for Hackers"
also mentioned, but I'd start with this. It is much more accessible than many other introductory books, IMO.
Well, why should the US sell grain to nations whose established goal is to end our way of life? "We will hang the capitalists with the rope that they sell us." So let's not sell them rope. Or grain, in this case.
They mentioned 5M views within 24 hours of Michael Jackson's death. With over 3B Internet users out there, I am actually a little surprised how small the spike was. Did they only count English Wikipedia? Even so I am quite surprised. I would expect 10-20M at least. Similarly, many young people like myself have never heard of Prince, I had to look him up to find out who he truly was.
Really? It seems to me that downvotes are used very negatively, as they are put a strong incentive (for most people) not to express unpopular opinions, even if they are good comments. If they were used only to discourage low quality posts, it wouldn't change a lot, since the most upvoted comments would still be to the top.

He suggests to remove lives for spam/harassment, not for shitposting. So basically, positive loop+ draconian enforcement of essential rules, and no negative loop.
Comparing Reddit, a community where specialists can setup a little fiefdoms and generalists can cheery pick from whatever fiefdom they can find, with HackerNews, a singular monoculture that just happens to attract people with a huge diversity of interests, is a challenge unto itself.

Both deploy a wide variety of strategies to enforce quality content: crowd-vote mechanism and individual ignoring. These two mechanisms should be more than sufficient for even the most obsessively compulsive and curiously unaccountable of curators.

The question isn't comparing communities based on content or upon curator strategies. One should question should take aim at the unspoken epistemological assumptions every single curator engages in.

Suppose Poster 1 puts topic A into Community A. There are many overlapping relationships between topic A and community A.

Now lets suppose Poster 2 puts topic B into Community A. There are few overlapping relationships between topic B and community A.

"Overlapping relationships" is a very complex topic. Users might find topic B to be on-topic in an esoteric or meta way, and the moderators will find it off-topic. Users might find topic A to be off-topic because the topic is to frequently discussed, and the moderators remove it. However the dice roll, the concept of "overlapping relationships" between topic and community is not a guarantee of topic survival.

The selection mechanism of topic survivability is divided between the collective hands of the crowd-vote mechanism, individual ignoring, or moderation termination. And notice I say "divided" , and not "sequentially evaluated". Agents of topic survival operate in parallel. This means that posters have to appeal to not only just three different selection criteria in order to survive, but eight different scenarios that have different highly targeted payoffs.

Two rules of the topic lifecycle:

* The topic must pass/fail three moderation phases.

* The topic always has influence on the hardcore communtiy consumers (HCC), the average community consumers (ACC), and the moderators. (M)

How topic lifecycles can still influence a community even via multi-phase curation:

Case | CrowdVote? | Mass ignore | Deletion? | Outcome
1 | Pass | | | HCC get skeptical of ACC and M
2 | | Pass | | ACC get skeptical of HCC and M
3 | | | Pass | HCC and ACC think M is lazy
4 | Pass | Pass | | HCC and ACC think M is aggressive
5 | | Pass | Pass | HCC hostile to ACC and M, may fracture community
6 | Pass | | Pass | ACC get skeptical of HCC and M
7 | Pass | Pass | Pass | No effect
8 | | | | M gets skeptical of HCC and ACC

The point is that having topics curated epistemologically only appears to work because it fails the slowest. No outcome of topic enforcement actually bolsters or adds to community value over time because all topic consumption is a destructive process (destruction of time). Thus, entropy always wins.
24/40 - people are hard, weather is easy. I also have trouble associating names and faces.
Because I am curious. I love to read about what stack each company chooses to use and why. And even more so for brand new companies that start from scratch and have so many options.

For example, did they use RethinkDB for the real time features? Or something more conservative like RabbitMQ?

How about their primary data store? Postgres? MySQL? Or something more trendy?

What about the language? Python? Node.js? Something more adventurous, like go? Why?

No, I am not affiliated in anyway with them. If you google my username you will see my project, which has nothing to do with them, and is a bit too Xrated for HN.
HN doesn't have a single theme, and if people think it does, we're doing something wrong. On the front page right now are posts about elephant brains, Nazi propaganda, and aphantasia, for example. That seems like thematic pluralism to me.
Or an Amiga 2000.
Maybe this isn't enough data points, but I just tested this and the elephant with the human brain just lies there on the ground.
Really nice story. All the Bayesian stuff now gets swamped by big data method. There must be a time machine learning people will come back to the Bayesian womb. :-)

I'm currently using it to define priors on measure spaces. I think it's awesome to have so few abstractions in a discipline and be able to do inference anyway. I'd definitely recommend to look into Dirichlet Processes if you haven't before. It's a nice entry point.
Because that's a weapon to only use in a hot war?

Because it's a fungible commodity in plentiful world supply, and we're better off benefiting from that trade ourselves?

Because it most directly puts the lie to their claims their economic system is superior? "If it's so good, why can't you grow enough food for yourselves but have to buy it from us?"
He has a blog post about it - http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2620
I expect you're getting downvoted because you're pushing this too hard, making claims that exceed the evidence, and generally turning the thread into something less interesting.

We share your dislike of astroturfing, but people who feel this way need to guard against their own biases as well. Taking the accusatory impulse too far is also destructive.
I am not a native English speaker, so maybe I choose the wrong word here but I think it fits according to the dictionary. Revenge is a bad thing, especially in this situation, you do exactly what you condemn, you kill a lot of innocent people. You try to appear strong, you tell everyone that you will lunch retaliation strikes, but the leaders of this other country don't give a shit, they really hate you and launch a first strike. Then they hide in a bunker. And now? You really want to nuke the people of that country? You won't hit the leaders and the people didn't do anything to you. Chances are that they hate the leaders as much as you do. So why on earth would you do that?
but Python 3 is not really an upgrade is it ? it is a very different language and most people who are pushing (downvoting?) for Python 3 dont seem to understand that.

I have zero problems with Python 3 per se - but when the vast majority of the ecosystem is on Py2 and there is no difference in performance... then I see no reason to consider any breakages.
Wow that's a lot of code delegacy there: scala => scala.js => node.js => electron => desktop.
The Soviets attack our military establishment, and our moral response is to burn Soviet children to death in their beds?

Yeah, right. And the Soviets most certainly took advantage of this moral error, for as you note, they're hard pressed to do so with a straight face otherwise.
Opera VPN behind the curtains is just a proxy
Having an AI that plays like a human is less fun. 'Cheating' is simply how developers can easily balance things.

EX: Often there are units capable of infinite harassment with perfect micro. That's so far from being fun it's never part of actual game AI.

Large base, small waves. It's a simple formula that makes people feel great!

PS: Of course it goes deeper, units need to have basic AI because people can't micro manage large numbers.
16:49 UTC refers to when TMZ first reported Prince died. Prior to that, there had been plenty of reports that there were ambulances at Paisley Park. It is not strange that people would google either "paisley park" or "prince" and then follow the results to Prince's wiki page.
I wonder if the "easy money" period is over or just resetting. There still aren't very many ways to get "good" returns on cash at the moment.
RxJava on the Sign in Screen
How to Be More Organized While Designing UI
Erlquad: quadtrees for Erlang
> Hell, his own offspring doesn't want anything to do with him.

That is obviously not true. She even wrote blog post about him. That is a clear indication that, as a minimum, she cares a lot about him.

And Alex is proud of his daughter:

http://www.alexstjohn.com/WP/2016/04/21/i-apologize/

Daddy is very proud of her. She’s no millennial slacker that’s for sure.
This is not a Show HN post.
Just a note, G1 probably still isn't ready for rock-solid production usage. E.g. bugs like this are still cropping up: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8148175

That's a pretty scary bug. Who knows how stuff like that will trash your data if you aren't properly checksumming everything.

CMS and other GCs have the advantage of years of bug-squashing and tuning. G1 is exciting, but I wouldn't personally use it on anything important for quite some time.
You mean from /r/all? Personally I think it's quite strange that these submissions from highly polarizing subreddits often outperform stuff for general audience (like /r/pics), some normalization quirks perhaps (displayed scores are heavily normalized, real ones for top posts are 100 000+ [1]).

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/29j5uh/redd...
The only problem is if one uses UNIX instead of Windows to do development.

Fortunately there are still some people doing development on UNIX and sharing their software tools.

http://cr.yp.to/highspeed/fall2006.html
How about this? http://i0.wp.com/bitcast-a-sm.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/wp/wp...
38/40 . I always had a vivid, graphic imagination. My limits in drawing are lack of work, not imagination. I even at times had strongly visual mathematics intuitions.
There's part of the Right which is against free speech too. Has been for decades. All those campaigns against "immoral" literature, movies, music, television. The "Watch what you say" Bush Administration. The Republican-led state governments who prevent their own scientists from talking about climate change. The right-wing religious colleges which police not only what is said and done on campus, but also heavily regulate off-campus behavior as well. Even the heavy censorship and downvoting in online right wing communities and subreddits. Why these groups get a free pass from many people who yell at the left about free speech, I'll never understand.

Maybe the response will be something along the lines of "The Right is so big and covers so many people you can't blame all of them." But you could say the same about the Left. Covers many, many ideologies and sub-ideologies.
I'm not sure it's less confrontational than some of your own comments.

Also, it's hard to have one's baby criticized and the author is in a difficult position in this thread, so I'm inclined to cut him a bit of slack.
There definitely isn't sufficient contrast.
2m per second? These guys must have squeezed every ounce of performance out of Beam.
Am I missing something on mobile or is this article is extremely thin?
I think we should differ between using capatalists when it suited him and being a capitalist.

I'd say number of things links links him to the socialist side, -only he was a national socialist.
Yeah, I cannot see the red triangle either, although i can imagine seeing it :)
+1 for whoever named it the "Michael Jackson problem". I'm going to start using that if I ever encounter the same issue myself.
Why is it only a weapon to use in a hot war? We don't trade with North Korea, sanction Russia, and sanction many other countries. Why shouldn't we have refused to sell the Soviets grain?

That's possibly true.

That they need to by grain puts lie to it, the US selling grain to them was merely secondary.
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We've actually done a few things to try to deal with those issues. We don't have any "default" communities or a universal front page or anything like that, because we believe that does lead to a lot of low quality conversations and groupthink. Instead, you only join communities you specifically opt into, and hopefully that way each community only has people who are actually passionate about those topics and discussions become more in depth and informed.

(Cofounder here, btw, happy to answer any of your questions.)

Edit: I just converted over from being a lurker and created my account to respond here, and apparently I'm commenting too fast. I'll respond to other comments when I can, sorry. :/ Feel free to email me at kaela@imzy.com if you want to talk more though!
But you don't need the prevailing zeitgeist. The low quality content can live in /r/bikes with all the crap tha t a front-page sub endures, and the high quality content can be happily moderated in /r/pedalpower
China official says film 'The Martian' shows Americans want space cooperation
Yes. That is how you prevent nuclear war. By being prepared to do terrible things that you hope to never do. Only by being ready to commit atrocities can you hope to not have atrocities committed at all.

There is no moral error here, only moral reality.

Also, it's not like our military establishment is separate from our civilian population centers. The SF bay area, New York, San Diego, among others, would be devastated in a counter-force first strike, no matter how precise.
Ask HN: Is there a demand for volunteer Engineers abroad?
I'm interested in other peoples first hand experiences volunteering abroad as a software Engineer. Organizations like Engineers Without Boarders tend to be looking for Civil or power systems Engineers to help with construction projects while groups like the Peace Corps look for health or education experts. I imagine there must be a need for software Engineers to do data analysis, tech development for field work or software development to aid in disaster recovery. Any suggestions?
13/40 I'm an ENF(J/P) single founder, I used to mostly do programming but lean more to the sales/leadership side of things these days.

I never remember images but I do remember feelings/sensations pretty well, so I might not rememeber the sunset, but I do remember the hot feeling on my skin, the sounds and my state of mind.

I know my mom 'remembers' the same way I do.

I almost never dream in visuals.

Nice to finally 'meet' others who are like me.
Centennial isn't really a sandbox in the sense I think the poster above you meant - while processes have their reads/writes to certain filesystem/registry locations virtualized by default, this isn't a security boundary as they ultimately run at medium trust and can do anything the user can do.

AppContainer is the security sandbox used by modern apps (aka Metro/UWP). It can be used independently of other aspects of the modern app model - e.g., Chrome uses it to sandbox content processes - although this isn't documented very well (which I guess was what GP was complaining about?) and it seems like trying to sandbox apps that weren't designed to be sandboxed, as GP was wanting, would have inherent compatibility problems?
Building cross-platform apps with the same codebase is gonna be ugly one way or another. This particular method is interesting to me personally because I'd rather depend on node.js than Oracle's JVM.

It's worth mentioning that Scala might get a native backend soon, partly built on the same infrastructure as Scala.js – that could give you a migration path from node.js/Electron to a truly native app with a simple WebView for UI. See https://www.reddit.com/r/scala/comments/4ftcx4/scala_native_...
This is good and useful, but perhaps you would have wanted to use https://github.com/SBoudrias/Inquirer.js instead of writing your own? I don't know if you knew about this, but I always find myself writing things that already exist just because I couldn't find them. It is very frustrating.
This is like asking what basketball would be like if you weren't required to dribble. It might be interesting to think about, but would probably result in a different game.
Initial support of Android in DlangUI
Not to reduce this story to a meme, but actually to reduce this story to a meme:

http://i.imgur.com/wQc9RPi.gif
Wow, that example is really perfect -- I definitely think in a similar way, but I've had a really hard time explaining that to people. Hopefully this helps.

Do you ever get frustrated trying to explain this? I've had people refuse to believe me, and I end up feeling like I'm not thinking "as well" or "as rigorously" as I might be.
The article is not about serving, but about consuming. Not the same beast.
Did you read the article?

The article says "Satellite TV, however, has become common in even small villages, with as many as 70 percent of Iranian households owning a satellite dish."

Satellite dishes are not illegal because satellite TV is not illegal. (Edit1: I am wrong.)

Edit1: Satellite dishes have apparently been illegal since 1994; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_in_Iran
I actually think a lot of the comments here are pretty confrontational towards this site for absolutely no good reason.
The nostalgia hit hard with the phone SMS screens.
I don't like downvotes because people mostly downvote what they disagree, not spam and whatnot. Having some ideas and habits contrary to what's popular, I experience this first-hand here on HN. And probably this is a reflex, most often when one sees someone disagree him, he feels a spontaneous whim and thinks that his argument is not reasonable. And only after a bunch of seconds does he understand that the other one actually poses a sound argument, criticism, etc. The HN's upvote-downvote sytem lacks undo, so unfortunately when you regret a downvote, there's nothing to do.