skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a perfect echo chamber because people who cross the line are downvoted and or banned on the account of being "trolls" quite often without any real justification for that, and the most common reply is you should go to /r/yourowntribe and stop "spamming" our sub Reddit.

I truly miss the open forums (and even IRC, although that tended to be more focused) of the late 90's early 2000's yeah they could get vile some times but that's a bargain price for getting a public forum in which anyone can express their mind no matter how "wrong" or "offensive" some one can perceive that opinion to be.
Today we get people claiming getting PTSD over twitter and every online community adopting a COC which often leaves no room for discourse that would make some one uncomfortable all and all forgetting that ideas that make some one uncomfortable are the ideas most worth discussing.
60 years ago it was "uncomfortable" for way to many people people to hear that blacks should be allowed to use the same bathroom as they are and thank cthulhu we didn't had Twitter and Reddit back then.
> Reddit seems perfectly capable of quality within its structure - AskScience and AskHistorians seen like good examples.

I've seen people point to specific subreddits as quality before, but I've never found it to be true.

To verify, I just did a quick peruse through /r/AskScience. While the questions themselves are generally good and the SNR is definitely higher than Reddit overall, I hardly think it's an emblem of quality. There are plenty of drive-by comments with low substantive value and the combination of Reddits norms and algorithms don't seem to do a good job of burying those—even on the "best" subreddits.
>Anyone else barely sees the light of day, and get downvoted to smithereens.

Hey look, you're down-voted.

I agree. Look at some of the "top-posters" on the HN scoreboard. Much of their commentary is tepid oatmeal that panders to the "easy" things that HN likes.

>HN = most elitist comment

I'm not sure I agree with "elitist", but there's definitely a thing, which is well defined by things like "Shit HN says".
Did they run speed benchmarks against older versions of V8?

I'm wondering about the performance cost of these new features (hopefully zero).
Details on how to play with 100% client-side Photo compression
Wait for the 2 Photos to download, and then move the slider up/down to vary compression-level.
If you want, you can even disconnect your wifi/Internet connection to confirm that such cool, high quality compression is 100% client-side and run on your browser.
Mini Object Lesson: The Pleasure of the Text Editor
Yes, especially if you don't have a senior colleague where you work and there are no other developers who could review your code like in my case (sole Frontend-Dev amongst Java-EE-Devs).
On the big rewrite and Bezos as a technical leader
Doesn't it? I was under the impression that certificates were a TLS thing and nothing to do with HTTP.
America’s flyers can’t expect both cheaper fares and more legroom
This has a small benefit of protecting information routed to Opera's proxy (on your LAN, ISP or whatever there is till the Opera's proxy), even when trying to reach HTTP-only website. Though it is still not secure as HTTP-only website will have data delivered to it in non-encrypted form.

"Browser VPN" is another misleading made-up term.
Most universities teach computer science when most employers want software engineering.

Additionally, working a full time position for 5 years isn't the same as purposefully practicing for 5 years (cross-ref another HN story today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11554151)
The BlackList
Maybe because it's not the best time to nitpick about that?
What's your experience of art like (especially paintings and other visual art)? Does it ever evoke strong feelings? Is there some art you like more than others for reasons you can't articulate with words? Ditto for UI design.

Thanks for writing this, by the way. This is totally mind-blowing.
Hm, you intrigued me, I need to read it.
I second for PyMC3 - a great library. And just recently I went through https://github.com/markdregan/Bayesian-Modelling-in-Python.
There's something to this: reddit is a place where you can write things about things. Why does it need to be controlled, moderated, or anything really?

The argument against this mindset is usually along the lines of, "Well, we don't want the KKK organizing rallies on our boards!" Which, is true; you don't want that. But banning them from reddit moves them from a public forum to their own, more private, areas of the internet. You can't censor shit.
Made 900$. I was probably the only one dumbest to have AMD stock, but when you have a feeling you have a feeling
These are the externalities of the housing regulations in the SF bay area. But instead of blaming their rigid regulations and Nimbyism they blame businesses which bring jobs (and people who fill those jobs) and progress to the area --as if they'd prefer decline like in Buffalo, or something similar.

So while we don't want unbridled growth like Shenzhen, we do need the market to meet demand while being mindful of ecological impact.
Fine to me. Better to "err" on that side, as a signal to hate groups who fester on reddit. Furthermore, you can take it as self-mocking irony, if you prefer...
I upvoted you because for a moment I thought you were talking about the political censorship that happens on reddit. Which I agree is awful and I hate that. Mods censor opposing political opinions all the time and get away with it.

But just standard moderation of content? That's absolutely necessary. Without moderations subreddits degrade into memes and low effort comments. You only need to look at web archive to see the quality of many subreddits vastly decline as they got big.

As a mod of a default subreddit, we remove joke comments and image posts. And it's not like it's a new thing, we have always done that. And the quality is still far from perfect, but it's much better than other subs.

Sometimes I click on the comments of a reddit post looking to see more discussion about it. And instead it's just a bunch of jokes. Often by a handful of people that lurk in the rising posts, and make sure they get their comments there first, and so beat all the other comments (reddit's comment sorting algorithm is god awful and easily exploited like that.) Even if they don't have anything to say, or any insight into the subject.

Another problem is there are two different types of users. "Serious" users, for lack of a better name, and "entertainment" users. The users there for entertainment upvote images, jokes, etc. Serious users are looking for discussion and debate and whatever. These two categories aren't easily separated and often mix. The users looking for entertainment often take over subs about serious subjects, e.g. worldnews.

The top posts become whatever pleases the lowest common denominator, or requires the least effort to read. Short articles are easier read the long articles, and images are even easier, and provocative headlines even easier. So image posts and headlines like "mildly important official says something politically unpopular" take over entirely.
I chuckled when I read your ask. Here I have people who say "Ted Talks??" and that is followed with me now memorized elevator speech describing Ted Talks. It's refreshing to not have to explain.

The talk I watched a couple of times as I thought through bringing its message here is "This computer will grow your Food in the future." https://www.ted.com/talks/caleb_harper_this_computer_will_gr...

Very, very cool stuff. I want to get that into the K-12 school here (170 students) and recently renovated to the tune of $11 million, interestingly enough.

I also got a connection going with some start-up folks in Utah who are creating rural hubs to train and employ locals for remote opps in urban settings. They've got a 4-man team going that seems to be gathering steam. At least, they pant a lot when talking with them. :-)

And I also have been digging into 3D material advancements beyond plastic (thankfully happening) and robotic combines. One guy converted a John Deere combine using $6k into a driverless combine used in wheat fields.

The Ted Talk was particularly cool, though, because it demo'd how people in many aspects of tech had "become" farmers -- integrating their tech prowess with growing plants that feed.

I watched on C-span not long ago a panel talk on how Obama brought in private sector, highly skilled tech folks into a temporary program that is aimed at vastly overhauling/improving the tech aspects of the federal government. One of the leads said that after being at it awhile, he concluded that the biggest challenge was changing the culture.

That's hitting it on the nail head for me...same thing I have here.

My crazy ass vision is that when I see the congestion on highways, lack of neighborliness, poor air quality, lack of connection to nature (so important to me) versus the opposite features here that I believe people would be far happier, less stressed, kinder if they could live more rural -- despite present day shuffle to live urban. Now the vision is that if we could use tech and fiber to connect people with great paying jobs and up their skills at online marketing -- growth hacking, so to speak -- then maybe we could spread the burgeoning population out and over the land, rather than having it so concentrated in cities. I know that not everyone will find this lifestyle cool but there are those who do.

I can work all day and head down to a huge river 15 minutes away and fish all evening, think on what has happened during the day.. dream... and imagine.

I have been envisioning a tech center here where I would be able to mingle with people who talk my language and who are innovative. I want to have rural kids learning to code and to see how it can impact their rural farm lives...and that everyone need not leave for the city.

I live in this great place.. take a look at southviewliving.com to get a glimpse.

So...I know..I know.. I'm a crazy older woman. But ah well.. I still have way too much thrust and energy to waste it with things like retirement. :-)

Whatcha think?
I agree 100% with this, but I have always wondered if this was the translation or not (I don't speak or read German). If you were a translator is this the sort of book you would want to make a good read?
Another open source Bayesian book/course all in python:
http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkbayes/t
I also downvote accusations of shilling. As I understand it people should send those to the email address, and not dump them in the thread.

I don't know if accusations of shilling are the kind of thing I should be flagging though.
We're building a similar type of experience over at baqqer for organic communities to exist for people to talk about the things they love. We could use some feedback from the community if you have some time. https://baqqer.com/explore/tags/startups

This url might move to https://baqqer.com/groups/startups or https://baqqer.com/communities/startups because I'm currently actively working on the codebase.
> "I'm using it for just a web API, and I've had several scala developers tell me to use akka-http instead because it is simpler"

Have you tried Spray? It still uses akka for actors, but I consider it easier to use than akka-http.

http://spray.io/
> I don't understand what you mean by "fully pruned programs". Maybe you want to refer to pruned SSA form.

The mem2reg pass in LLVM is the recommended method of constructing pruned SSA form. It just implements the standard algorithm.

> QBE does not really "alternate" SSA/non-SSA, SSA form is built once at the beginning of the compilation pipeline and preserved later.

The QBE IL presented to the user is not in SSA form, but internally within your compiler, an SSA representation is kept. I prefer to not have syntactic sugar in my IL.
Is it okay to ban a book which contains the written and complete text to assemble an atomic bomb?
Interesting. Do you have a link to more information?
"Statistical Rethinking" by Richard McElreath is really nice, light on maths but heavy on insights. He uses the book in a course and there are recordings of the lectures available on youtube.

http://xcelab.net/rm/statistical-rethinking/

Edit: neither this book nor Kruschke's are going to help you with time series in particular. Bayesian time series methods are based on state space models and are relatively complex (http://www.eurasip.org/Seminars/Tutorials/EUSIPCO2014%20Tuto...). You might want to read some introductory text on time series covering state space models first.

Edit again: The full text of "Bayesian Filtering and Smoothing" by Simo Sarkka is available online: http://users.aalto.fi/~ssarkka/pub/cup_book_online_20131111....
Downvotes aren't punishment. Up/down votes indicate "this comment ought to be more/less prominent on the page". The sentence was somewhat ambiguous and your misunderstanding is understandable. But your comment is not useful to the discussion because most people understood and in any case it's tangential.
And people thought Google's self-driving car was ugly. It's actually beautiful compared to this.
Surprising 600-Mile-Long Coral Reef Discovered in Amazon River
Easy solution to that problem: Solicit a tip, get 1 star. Uber is far more likely to keep me around as a passenger who pays the published rates and uses them frequently than a driver who continues to generate complaints from users due to tip solicitation. They can easily replace drivers with ones who won't do that.
This book is extremely practical - I would definitely recommend it for doing actual time series analysis. That said, it's not a learn time series book. It's a do basic time series in R book.
Perhaps humans also face extinction at the hands of human brains ...
> If you believe governments are ligitimate non-corrupt institutions that are representative of the people and have the citizens - and all the citizens - best interests at heart, then you will likely think banning "bad" ideologies is a good idea.

I believe governments are legitimate non-corrupt institutions that are representative of the people.

But your conclusion doesn't follow.

I don't want people telling other people what ideas to have.
I know Inquirer.js, but my experience writing a plugin for it hasn't been nice. Also, the Inquirer.js autocompletion prompt feels quite slow.

The major reason is that I want really tiny modules to keep them focused on a specific thing and avoid mainteance overhead. I wanted one module for each kind of prompt and since I wrote my own helper modules (https://github.com/derhuerst/prompt-skeleton and https://github.com/derhuerst/cli-styles), it really felt like a breeze.
Flip side of that is a friend of mine who we could make pass out by having a conversation about needles. I would go for the finger, personally, but the least painful/anxiety inducing method would probably be the best choice.

I don't know what they're screening for, exactly, but there are people who live remote without immediate access to medical care. If they could do this prior to an office visit that may help. It opens possibilities that aren't already, and that's just in the context of the US. Think aid workers around the world, that would have to be easier than maintaining needle hygiene.
Yet my post on the story about that said basically "do not want until open sourced" got downvoted into oblivion with no response...
Really odd critique. You might get a lot of confusion from people seeing it as an underlined URL and mentally think "bagger" initially. Especially since the a and the first q kind of continue where the next letter's curl ends. Part of the problem might just be that two Qs in a row don't really mentally parse well when read - for me, at least.
K. To be honest, this was pretty obvious to me. Did people really think it was a full VPN?
They do have a rather large collection of actual employees. Their drivers, however, are not.
Hi you! it can be more frustrating than isolating. What's hard is always having to define everything and to find ways to explain why I love my world in a way that causes them to go "ahh, I get it." That's rough. But one success was a 93 year old woman who told me if she was 10 years younger, she'd be joining me in my efforts here. She's sharp as can be, zero health issues, handles a 2/3 acre lot nearly alone and is up at dawn to be on her feet, working all day at something. Amazing.

I feel the same as you re talking to folks with deep t. experience as it provides something different than what I have here. But hey, I landed in this town quite by accident rather than choice some 5 years ago and maybe I was planted here to create some disruption. hee hee..
INTJ here too, but I can vividly recall memories and imagine things in my full spectrum of senses. My memory is pretty good too.

Although visual imagination is slightly weaker / less tangible in my mind than the rest - as if recall of audio was at whisper strength and easily drowned out in stronger IRL stimulus, but I don't forget the things I imagined, I just have to focus and re-imagine them when they fade.

Thinking about it now, it might be that my visual short term memory is the limiting factor. Incrementally building visual scenes isn't hard to me, but I have to "paint it out".
Oh, cynical me...

All this time I assumed that it wasn't SpaceX to the rescue because The Martian was financed by Chinese interests.
Wikipedia is the posterchild for sites that have toxic environments - that's why wikimedia foundation spends so much time and money researching ways to stop the editor decline.

The fact that wikipedia is good is a miracle when you see the awful behaviour of many editors / admins.
I too was left disappointed and wondering the same thing when I came to the end of an otherwise great article.

My best guess is that anyone can do purposeful practicing simply by changing things up and staying out of one's "comfort zone", whereas deliberate practice is more or less the same thing, with the difference being that you have an experienced mentor guiding you through the process in a more structured manner with a tight feedback loop.
I think the author is using "arbitrage" a bit loosely/metaphorically, as "a new opportunity that seems low-risk that has only just appeared, and, being such a great opportunity, will thus likely only exist briefly till the first few actors exploit it till it's not really an available opportunity anymore"

The looseness comes from the fact that traditionally an arbitrage opportunity really is theoretically nearly zero-risk while I think the author is using it here in cases where it's a bit more complex. But the analogy at least works in highlighting the aspect of these opportunities being temporary in their existence, like the joke about an economics professor and student seeing a twenty dollar bill on the ground and the professor ignoring it, quipping "If that was a real twenty dollar bill, someone else would already have picked it up off the ground"
Most casts have zero performance cost and will not interfere with alias analysis. The exception for alias analysis is that inttoptr/ptrtoint is discouraged for address calculation, but the analysis can reason about that. Performance wise, I can see casts between float/int to not be free since they may appear in the final output.
Fossils of North America's First Monkey, Panamacebus Transitus, Uncovered
It's more than just precision, it's making sure that the same value comes out that went in, and that things haven't been subtly altered via unintended conversions between decimal and binary floating-point representations. Obviously this is quite important when you've got both text and binary formats.

Some applications really need decimal values, and some really need IEEE floats. Ion can accurately and precisely denote both types of data, making it easier to ensure that the data is handled properly by both reader and writer.
Okay? I'm not sure.

Effective? Definitely not. If someone wants to share information they have, they will find a way to share it.
This is exactly what I though "bagger? Is that a low rider website?
Skepticism is healthy, but there is an overwhelming body of evidence that visual imagination is real. Even if you don't take people's testimony as proof, MRI scans demonstrate that areas of the brain associated with visual processing engage when people imagine visually. Disbelieving all of this simply because it doesn't match with your own personal experience of mind is bordering on arrogance.

I do think visual imagination varies greatly, even amongst those who have it. Mine is not particularly strong — everything I imagine is very "shadowy" and ill-defined, but nonetheless it is there. It is hard to describe such an intangible phenomenon, but imagining/remembering visually feels qualitatively different from imagining/remembering facts, sounds, words, etc.

For example, I can imagine the painting The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh, and when I do, I "see" the painting in my mind. This imagined image is far from clear or sharp, more like a fuzzy ghost of the original. Also, the imagined image is separate from the sensory input I'm receiving from my eyes. I don't see the van Gogh painting plastered over whatever I'm looking at. Instead, it's as if the two images coexist in my conscious awareness, although it takes a deliberate effort to maintain the imagined one, and the image from my eyes is much stronger and clearer. Closing my eyes can help me focus more easily on the imagined image.

My dreams are similarly lo-fi, visually speaking. The best way I can describe is that everything in my dreams is very poorly lit. It's like being in a darkened room, where you can see objects, but can't make out their details. This tends to frustrate me, and I often spend a lot of my time in dreams trying to address the problem by reaching some more brightly lit environment, and then getting confused as to why I still cannot see properly.
I really enjoyed Stephen King's The Long Walk in addition to a few others already mentioned.
Yet persistent data do not imply functional programming. For example, one can work with persistent data structures in Java using global variables to pass references to data structures. One can also implement algorithms from the article using explicit stack to avoid recursion. Yet such atrocities will not change the conclusion of the article that the code will be cache-efficient as long as the runtime is sufficiently smart.

So my assumption (which could be wrong) is that by using the word "functional" that article unnecessary restricts its auditory. For example, a Java programmer would not even bother to open it assuming this is something relevant at best to Haskell or F#. I definitely had such expectation.