skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm copy/pasting this response that I shared with someone else; I hope that's okay, but I wanted to explain what we meant. I completely agree that negative content has a place and is valuable. Not being able to disagree or only being able to say nice things defeats the purpose of conversation.

Our goal, and what we meant by using the word "positive" is that Imzy, and the communities on it, enrich people's lives in a positive way. That doesn't mean every comment, post, or discussion is positive. It means that I come away a better, more informed person from the discussions I have, or maybe I just enjoy my time there.

What that means is that extreme or sustained harassment that makes people unhappy, fear for their lives, or feel like they can't participate isn't okay. Communities that exist solely for hate aren't cool. But disagreement and even voicing opinions that are very unfavorable can still exist. Even saying mean things to people is okay, unless that's all you do all day following around a user or something. We all become better people when we can share our own perspectives and hear the perspectives of others, especially when they are different from our own. Otherwise you end up with an echo chamber.
dupe, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11556349
I totally agree with the sentiment of this comment (though I'm not sure how much marketing is involved.) Prince was very good at music and was, well, kind of a dick. I don't quite get the massive outpouring of grief that has ensued.
I think the bigger story with bots will be the aspect of a business that the user doesn't interact with, namely the backend.

As businesses seek to provide their services wherever users are (any platform that can take user input) we'll see businesses start to standardize interfaces between any bot/app/web app and their own fulfillment operations. Then businesses can take an incoming order from interface and send their product or service out to a user.

It's funny that Amazon started doing this with their own services many years ago.
This password manager is:

scrypt(
password=master_password,
salt=keyword,
r=1, p=1, N=2048, dkLen=32
).encode('hex')[:password_len]

https://github.com/libeclipse/visionary/blob/8c5f6e1c/vision...

https://github.com/ricmoo/pyscrypt#api

http://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt.html
http://www.bragi.com/ -- I think this company is trying to do something like this
Do releases receive security updates on packages? Looking at package list it seems all packages have dates going back to version release. I'm not sure superior mitigation technology and auditing necessarily outweigh 6 months hackers have on outdated version of a package.
I will admit. I have a hard time believing victorian ballooners achieved 37k feet without dying.
"Kind of a dick" I think could easily apply to Gates as well, no?
I think that if you attract movie fans your site might become big. I saw Star Wars group image on the dev page banner. The thing is there is another site that begins with the same two letters and is all about movies, but their community features are not that great. If you target your site to imdb regulars they would inadvertently also end up on Imzy when wanting to discuss something.
Hi!

A few things.

1. We're not trying to be "warmer and fuzzier"--those are the author's words.

2. We're not trying to be a children's site--we just wanted to make something that made us (and hopefully others) happy, and that included cute dinosaurs.

3. We're not based on Reddit, nor are we trying to replace them.

(As a note, the author of this article didn't talk to us, and they haven't actually seen any more of our site than you have.)

Here's what we ARE doing. We're building a community site based on issues we've seen in all different platforms--Reddit, sure, but also Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, Patreon, and more. We've tried to build a really broad, flexible platform that makes it so communities can do all the things they want to in one place, with a developer platform to make sure that's possible. We've built in a payments system. We've designed it to be more user and mobile friendly instead of an outdated forum style. Those are honestly the things that I care most about, and the possibilities they open are what I think will have the biggest impact on hopefully making Imzy a really viable community platform that I want to work on, not the things that we're trying to prevent.

Hope that helps explain our thinking. I'm happy to elaborate further if you have any questions.
Jon Kleinberg on procrastination (video, 58:37)
Product Management: Ongoing Inspiration
Jarvis [1] seemed pretty neat in 2014 when Intel announced it, but I've heard nothing of it since. It seems like a much better bet than Google's Glass.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/6/5282416/intel-unveils-jarvi...
I read somewhere that good practice for music specifically involves playing the piece through fast, ignoring your own errors, playing it through slowly enough that you don't make an error (and repeating this until you don't make an error), and then playing it at the intended tempo. So to someone this is a well-known idea. Is it not part of standard music instruction?
Surprising how many people don't know this. All those "everyone will be killing for gas" posts are ridiculous since gasoline will expire a few months after a global catastrophe.
Look into Sandboxie. It provides a similar (albeit more complicated) approach for modern version of Windows.
On AlphaGo, chemical synthesis and the rise of the intuition machines
The way I look at it is if you were to walk into a store or restaurant and all you see are immigrants, and you were to somehow get rid of them they wouldn't magically be replaced by citizens. The store or restaurant just wouldn't exist or it would just be mostly empty. I don't think we should be trying to make far fetched correlations between suicide rates and immigration...
They are provided by M:Tier. See https://stable.mtier.org/ and http://www.mtier.org/index.php/solutions/apps/openup/
> 10 cords in a single winter

what's the interior temperature at that rate? Surely you can do with less if you can live with a lower temperature...
This site clips the content on smaller screens with no way to scroll it into view.
If you're gonna buy a rifle to have "just in case" then spend $100-$150 on a Mosin Nagant and $100ish on a 400rd can of ammo...
Thanks, i need to look at when this changed, because previously it was a nightmare.
No, definitely not, and we're not trying to remove that. Our goal, and what we meant by using the word "positive" is that Imzy, and the communities on it, enrich people's lives in a positive way. That doesn't mean every comment, post, or discussion is positive. It means that I come away a better, more informed person from the discussions I have, or maybe I just enjoy my time there. Maybe we messed up using that word, and we'll need to change it. We're young, and we're learning how to describe and talk about who we are and what we're trying to do.

What that does mean is that extreme or sustained harassment that makes people unhappy, fear for their lives, or feel like they can't participate isn't okay. Communities that exist solely for hate aren't cool. But disagreement and even voicing opinions that are very unfavorable can still exist. Saying mean things to people is okay, unless that's all you do all day following around a user or something. We all become better people when we can share our own perspectives and hear the perspectives of others, especially when they are different from our own. Otherwise you end up with an echo chamber.

We're also okay with Imzy not being a platform for everyone—nothing is! And if HN and Reddit work for you, great. We're not trying to replace them.

What we are trying trying to do is build something for people for whom those aren't working. And most of the things we're doing different don't actually have anything to do with harassment or positivity. We've focused on creating really diverse tools so that communities can exist and share however makes most sense for them and do the things that they need to do all in one place. We've built in a payments system. We've tried to make things a lot more user and mobile friendly, as the places you referenced can be intimidating and not intuitive to a lot of people. Those are the things I'm most excited about--all the things we're adding to community functionality, not what we're taking away.
BTW neanderthals were humans, just not homo sapiens sapiens like us. But nit-pick aside your point is good.
during the set he performed purple rain, probably his most famous song, and it was pouring down rain. that's why the weather is notable.

a hundred million people in one venue is certainly an unbelievable number though.
I think there's a fundamental difference between man made catastrophes and natural disasters in people's minds.

If it's man made, they will want to blame someone, so people will be more aggressive towards anyone else.

If it's a natural disaster, everyone accepts that everyone else around is in the same situation and will help as much as they can right away...
Sadly (?) the only memories I have of Shakespeare are the forced readings in my sophomore (Julius Caesar) and junior (King Lear) years in high school, both of which I hated and for which Cliff's Notes were my crutch to get through.
>It is, thus, risible that so many young people are entering the IT industry via the JavaScript route.

What's actually risible is ignoring the fact that programming skills are hugely transferable between languages. I'm not much of a JS fan personally but JS encompasses a pretty good slice of programming paradigms : first class functions, callbacks/CPS, async, oop, etc. I'm struggling to see how having a bunch of young programmers familiar with these concepts entering the industry could be bad.

I recall similar tutting back in the 80s about a whole generation being brain damaged by learning BASIC on micros. That generation did pretty well out of it as it turned out.
Thanks for reaching out to answer my questions. I was really confused visiting the website after I read the article because barely anything matched up with the descriptions they gave.
For What It’s Worth: A Review of Wu-Tang Clan’s “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin”
Maybe I'm missing something but I can't seem to find the product being advertised in this article for sale anywhere.
Ask HN: Are there fewer companies selling software now?
If you look at the software technology landscape over the last 8-10 years, you find many innovations coming from companies that are using software to solve specific business problems: search, advertising, social networks, media and communication (I am talking of Google, Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, Uber and the like). The needs of these companies outgrew what commercially available software could do, and they were forced to develop in house solutions.

Since most of these companies do not sell their software per se (Microsoft being the prominent exception) and maintain their position in the market through other means (network effects mainly), they see no harm in open sourcing their work.

But if the bulk of software innovations are coming from such companies, what does it imply about the state of the industry then?

It has already led to a peculiar situation where programmers perceive the best jobs to be in companies that do not sell software at all!
Basically, it's a real desktop once it can be used for a limited set of day-to-day activities. By that definition, it's the year of FreeDOS and Atari desktops. Yay!

Edit to add: The Year of the Amstrad 8-bit desktop!

http://www.symbos.de/
NASA to begin historic new era of X-Planes
Average queue wait times with random arrivals
Yeah, I think it is an unfair characterization, because it's extremely narrow and oversimplified. And yeah, we're learning today that maybe we do need to rethink our presentation, and especially the use of the word "positive" on our home page. (Fwiw, we've never used the wording "safe space" or tried to claim to be that--those were the author's words.)

I'm going to do a little bit of copy/pasting from some of my other comments on this thread to help respond to this one, so I hope you'll forgive me, but here's why I don't really agree with that description.

Why I think it's oversimplified and not really representative:

Our goal, and what we meant by using the word "positive" is that Imzy, and the communities on it, enrich people's lives in a positive way. That doesn't mean every comment, post, or discussion is positive. It means that I come away a better, more informed person from the discussions I have, or maybe I just enjoy my time there. Maybe we messed up using that word, and we'll need to change it. We're young, and we're learning how to describe and talk about who we are and what we're trying to do. What that does mean is that extreme or sustained harassment that makes people unhappy, fear for their lives, or feel like they can't participate isn't okay. Communities that exist solely for hate aren't cool. But disagreement and even voicing opinions that are very unfavorable can still exist. Saying mean things to people is okay, unless that's all you do all day following around a user or something. We all become better people when we can share our own perspectives and hear the perspectives of others, especially when they are different from our own. Otherwise you end up with an echo chamber.

Why I think it's extremely narrow and offbase:

This is the tiniest bit of what we're actually doing. We've focused on creating really diverse tools so that communities can exist and share however makes most sense for them and do the things that they need to do all in one place. We've built in a payments system. We've tried to give leaders AWESOME tools for making their communities exactly what they want and managing them the way that makes sense for them. We've tried to make things a lot more user and mobile friendly, as the places you referenced can be intimidating and not intuitive to a lot of people. Those are the things I'm most excited about--all the things we're adding to community functionality, not what we're taking away.
Followed by "Perfect practice makes perfect."
On this particular behavior unlikely
"I think the biggest takeaway from this is the amount of poorly thought out software that exists there which assumes that Linux is the only unix."

That's true. The biggest takeaway, though, is the assumption that people will care to port mainstream software to OpenBSD when virtually nobody using that software runs OpenBSD & their community discourages amateur programmers. It's not a wise expectation. Instead, they should expect to have to port it all themselves to their particular OS of choice while being thankful when people do it for them with great portability.

In that case, you'd have a bunch of semi-functional desktops out there running OpenBSD with a ton of features and options on Linux desktops. (Pauses.) Exactly what happened.
Running Man, another Bachman book, is another dystopian favorite of mine.
Upwork’s CEO on How an Introverted Engineer Learned to Lead
Metasploit and Money [pdf]
Curious if you've cross-correlated aphantasia or imaginary visuals of people with empathy or EQ.
Well, I wasn't really responding to the Bill Gates part in particular. Gates was a bit of a megalomaniac with MS. But he's doing awesome stuff with the money now. As person I'm not aware of him ever being a jerk.
This is a wonderful idea! As a compiler person, I'm excited to see how well this works and wish you all the success in the world.

> QBE aims to be a pure C embeddable backend that provides 70% of the performance of advanced compilers in 10% of the code.

This philosophy is very similar to that of vis [1], a vim-like editor that aims to have 80% of vim's functionality in 1% of the code. I hope that more such project see the light of the day; I'm very interested in simpler programs and simpler ecosystems, even if that comes at the cost of features.

[1] https://github.com/martanne/vis
FreeBSD excels at giving you control over how the OS is packaged and built. The ports and packages system is great and makes it straightforward to compile or install packages, respectively. You can build the entire OS with 'make world', which is good if you want to build a stripped-down distro for special purpose use. The BSD license lets you roll a proprietary OS if you want to (Juniper uses FreeBSD in their routers IIRC). It also has a nice ZFS implementation that's supported as a first class citizen due to the BSD license.

Traditionally, it is also known to have a more scalable network stack than Linux, as well as super solid virtual memory and i/o systems.

I still like FreeBSD a lot and donate to the FreeBSD Foundation so they can keep doing what they do, since I think competition is great. But I'll say that in my opinion, the performance and stability differential between FreeBSD and Linux is mostly gone practically speaking. It's still much better organized than Linux distros, and the man pages are great, but I feel that unless you are looking for a BSD licensed OS, Linux is now "good enough" for heavy duty networking and i/o, where in the past you might have chosen FreeBSD for that role. There are some notable exceptions (Netflix uses FreeBSD for their CDN for example), but I do think that Linux has caught up in most areas where FreeBSD previously had a strong lead.

I still have a FreeBSD machine though, cause I love the OS to death. Happy user since 2.1.7.
> one of the world's most densely populated and polluted cities

Shenzhen is most polluted?
The problem I've always had with audio interfaces is that input is not private. Requests on public transportation are heard by many. Requests at home turn into a conversation with the roommate, spouse, or children. Requests walking down the street make others question the mental wellbeing of the person talking to him/herself.

I'm reminded of the Ender's Game sequels in which the protagonist wears a small earpiece with an AI named Jane. He communicates with Jane by "subvocalizing" -- mentally saying the words, physically barely uttering a sound. The AI understands.

A few years ago there was a TED talk (forgive me; unable to find the link) on which a technology was demoed to do something similar. Sensors placed around the throat, combined with EEG sensors around the temple, allowed a man to transmit text to a computer by following all the mental and muscle processes of speaking, stopping short of moving his lips in an obvious fashion or making sounds. The sensors allowed the computer to translate their input to actual words.

Perfecting and miniaturizing that technology, then combining it with an in-ear AI, would be a game changer.
Five internet powerbrokers who could shape the election
Really wish there was official channel for this. Has OpenBSD team said anything about M:Tier?
An interesting parallel is baseball.

The Yankees are infamous for using money as a tool, buying up as much talent as they could.

In recent years, the Dodgers have outspent everybody, but in an absolutely different way. 25% of the Dodgers payroll goes to players not playing for the Dodgers. Often, it's going to players playing against the Dodgers. Many commentators have described this in similar terms. They use their deep pockets a s a weapon. Instead of giving their players huge salaries, they on multiple occasions have found teams struggling with expensive contracts for underperforming players. They negotiate to take the player (and the bad contract) and then require some talented youngsters to be thrown in on the deal. They then trade away the underperforming player to another team, subsidizing the contract substantially, and keep the talented prospects. While some of these trades didn't pan out well, it was a pretty unique way to use deep pockets as a weapon.
In other articles I've read about deliberate practice, the other elements include:

1. Maintaining a difficulty level that is just barely out of your comfort zone: not so hard that you flail wildly, but not so easy that it's trivial. This is touched upon in the article, but presumably "deliberate" practice also deliberately adjusts the difficulty level in response to performance.

2. Mindfulness while you're practicing. The description of "purposeful" practice in the article mentions seeking out errors and correcting them after the fact. The descriptions of "deliberate" practice I've heard mentioned paying careful attention to your performance while you're practicing, so you can instantly correct or rehearse trouble spots. (And this requires a corresponding attention to the difficulty level so that you can spare this attention to avoiding & fixing mistakes.)
Thanks! :)

We're trying really hard to purposely grow things slowly to keep them at a scale we can manage both on the community and technology side. Dumping a whole bunch of people into one place all at once turns into a free-for-all, and we want to make sure we're able to moderate communities to have the kind of quality interactions we want rather than a bunch of circlejerking, and that our technology is able to evolve at the same rate our userbase grows.

Right now the only way to get in is if you get invited by another person who's already a member (there are usually people on Twitter sharing their invites if you search for them), or requesting to join a specific community, and then the leader of that community can let you in. Otherwise, we'll be slowly letting people into Imzy in the order they signed up in, and unfortunately that may take a while if you just signed up, since the list is pretty long right now. :/ We really want to do this right rather than explode quickly and die a week later.
Thanks for letting me know! What device are you using to view the content?
CHILD TALKS LIFE
Nope! This is recipe for disaster. We need people like Mandela to do what he did with his prison guard :)

Eye for an eye, makes the whole world blind.
We actually thought the same thing about downvotes, which is why we removed them in Imzy.

One of the things we've tried to do to decrease the groupthink/echochamber is get rid of any kind of "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.

I'm curious, because I came around to Slashdot after its peak had passed--what parts of their system did you think worked best, so I can make sure we try to do the best we can on our platform?
Sorry, but the parents post still has legs. Given a percentage of the population are in fact rapist assoholes and the fact that rural areas are naturally more private with more opportunity for occurrences, I will suggest there's good reason to believe there are very likely more occurrences of rapes that have a increased percentage of unreported incidents, which I will attribute to and increase in shame/fear (hard to be anonymous is a town of 600 people) and a lack of resources/convienance (multiple calls with no action and no rapekits on hand).

Seriously, from age 16 to 30 all I dreamed about was getting away from the city and moving into a rural cabin. Then I did and learned the truth. These days I'd sooner gouge my eyeballs out with a spoon.
It's very easy for someone on the Internet to tell you to run away from conditions like this. I'm not going to tell you that but consider this: the world is full of places like that but it is also full of seriously great places to work as well. Every minute you work at some crappy job is a minute you could be working at someplace nice instead. When you start interviewing for your next job, be sure to ask them about their development hardware. ;-)
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