skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably because it becomes design by committee at a certain point, and some functionality interrupts or excludes other design intents by nature.

For example, in the linked extension, it overlays (replaces?) the youtube recommended videos once you submit a search query - as part of the recommendation stuff seems to be driving high-traffic related vids to the viewer, many of which are ad-monetized, this has a marginal impact on some revenue figures. How much I wouldn't dare make a guess at, but I do not feel it's hard to imagine wanting to keep that space operating "as is" for Youtube's benefit.

Other bad UI changes probably stem just from apathy, a decision having been made somewhere when no one considered a better alternative, and the change would be considered too much work for whatever reason.

These aren't necessarily satisfactory answers as to why bad design sneaks through, but they are answers.
Why is this not a problem when the police does it?
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This helps, thanks a lot :)
http://hadoopilluminated.com/hadoop_illuminated/Hadoop_Use_C... a link for the unbelievers
Comparisons are intuitively boolean

Are comparisons in general boolean? I think specific operators are, but that's because they are asking a particular boolean question. A general "compare X and Y" doesn't seem like it should ever be "true" or "false" (because what would those mean? Different --- in what way, less, greater, or both --- or equal?)

As the sibling comment alludes to, comparisons are really a form of subtraction to the hardware, and C makes this fact very obvious.
Quantitatively evaluating them, yes. Qualitatively, they all tend to suck ;-) For art and music anyways.
The article isn't very well written, but it does raise an interesting question. However, this question requires a clear definition of what is meant by liberal, which is a non trivial matter: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/02/the-orig...

My to cents:
Let's start by defining "liberal" as those who hold the belief that the current Trend in social, economic or political developments will result in them having a better life. The opposite of that is the quintessential "conservative" adagio that "things are getting worse and worse". What exactly constitutes that trend is up for debate, but I think a precise definition isn't essential for this argument.

Since the percentage of the population that is highly educated is increasing (for whatever definition of "highly"), we can infer that access to education isn't only hereditary. That is, there are some of us who are now highly educated but who's parents were not (yes, it still is mostly hereditary, and almost for sure we will inherit that to our children). This, in turn, results in better standards of living for us than for our parents. So, locally, the trend, seems for us to be moving in the right direction. We vote for continuing this trend of more education for more people, of more access to healthcare for more people, and so on, because if it weren't for that trend we'd be struggling like our parents did.

Compound to that the rich-get-richer phenomena, and then our children will probably keep benefiting from this, so they will most likely also be "liberal". Only when a social revolution removes our now-hereditary privileges will we turn into "conservatives".
Not saying you're entirely wrong, but I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you yourself aren't in immediate danger of having your job eliminated. If you were, I'm guessing you'd see another side of the story.
Unsettle is one thing; fleeing without boots and not returning to pick them up is another thing.

This is practically uninhabited area and it is really huge and cold. Even of Soviet armed forces wanted, they could not "tell people to turn aroud".
Well it's possible that he is a talentless fool that got his position through family connections. It's probably more likely that he is genuinely top of the game, but just doesn't spend much time building his public profile. That's a good and all too rare thing.
> The common complaint I've seen against this (aside from general complaints against redistribution) is that it forces the general populace to pay for the poor health choices of smokers and other such bad habits.

If you want your 21st century healthcare, you also gotta let go of outdated notions such as that addiction is a "poor health choice" (seriously kind of makes me angry typing that).
> have lower empathy than the their non-member IQ peers, which certainly correlates with a libertarian outlook

I frequently hear this sentiment from the left, and it's terribly disheartening. It's something akin to "You don't want the government to provide everyone with a car? You must not like people having cars!" or "You don't want the government to arrest people for drinking soda? You must want everyone to die of obesity!". Libertarians aren't unemphatic, they simply have different solutions.
Because embedding Gecko is markedly more difficult than embedding Blink / WebKit, and now that we’re heading towards a WebKit / Blink monoculture there’s no incentive to choose against that.

Interestingly, Servo is basing itself on Chromium’s embedding framework, so that should hopefully be a valid choice when it reaches maturity.
Higher education both attracts and produces mindsets which solve problems through planning, engineering and designing.

There is a natural tendency to use your methodology of problem solving on all problems. So we tend to produce a greater collection of social engineering and central economic planning advocates. We want to design a greater society. We want to design a greater economy.

Even when you look at highly educated vs slightly more highly educated in the same field you see the same shift in mindset. The divergence between Fellow, Architect, Engineer is that at each higher level there is a greater degree if centralization mindset of design.

There is a potential fallacy that should be evident that you can not necessarily and simply equate more education with always producing the correct perspectives and therefore liberal view points are the correct positions. As in the above, we in engineering fields know the value higher levels of discipline, yet we also are fully aware of the problems resulting from high level engineers and architects who design their perfect systems which don't work in the real world.

Higher education produces problem solving disciplines that are very useful and powerful, yet these same disciplines also are subject to error as well as they typically can't quantify the numerous variables in large systems thinking

For more around this topic, this was a great talk working with systems greater than our human capacity to understand them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGaFcI2UNrI
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There are lots of people who support "liberalist" policies but don't accept opposing views. For example animal rights activists.
Experienced hikers, but still human beings sleeping in the dark. It wouldn't be normal or expected on a given night, but group panics do happen in such environments.
What's wrong with it, exactly? The video player gives me fewer problems than other players, and the site as a whole seems to have everything needed to watch videos.
When a new employee's salary directly comes out of your own compensation

Are you a limited company or a partnership? If you're an LLC, it's not your own pocket, it's the company's. This feels pedantic but is very important both legally and psychologically.

Remember it works the other way round for your employees. Their extra work goes into your pocket, not theirs (unless they're on commission!)

If you had 1,000 employees, would you see every last one as taking from your pocket? Come to think of it, maybe this is why so many business owners nickel-and-dime employees into misery.

you tend to become very particular about people pulling their weight

You're a founder. They're not. They are never, ever going to be as committed as you. They're going to do the 9-to-5 and then go home and think of other things. This is fine, because their compensation has a bounded upside and yours doesn't. Unless you're giving them a huge equity stake, which doesn't sound like the case. You have to reconcile yourself to this. Trying to make the whole company out of founder-level committed people is like the old joke about "you know the indestructable aircraft black boxes - why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?"
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Simple: "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski
> Interestingly, Servo is basing itself on Chromium’s embedding framework, so that should hopefully be a valid choice when it reaches maturity.

Rust introduces several new toolchain requirements, though.
> WORK is […] is the main mechanism through which spending power is allocated.

Is it now.
Ask HN: Shouldn't HN push more for open source?
Since this website is an important aggregator for the most various tech subjects, shouldn't it push more for open source sharing?
I mean, if a project is closed source then it would be very less likely that will be shared here, rather than an open source one.
Wouldn't this in the mid-long term incentivate developers to push for open source?
Your link is to an argument against the ides of using Ogg as a general purpose container format (for video in particular). This is about something different; Vorbis encoded audio which traditionally comes in an Ogg container. I have never heard the argument that the Ogg container format somehow makes Vorbis inferior to other codecs in practice.
> Okay, I have to question this. Why is a browser vendor spending precious time and money adding a mailbox to their browser?

Because Jon von Tetzchner (founder of Opera and Vivaldi) thinks having it in the browser is superior to having it as a separate app. It used to be like this in Opera as well. His goal is to provide an application with more value than just the stripped down browsers you see these days.
"A degree just gives you knowledge in a specific area, and does not make anyone more intelligent just by having it."

I've always felt the most beneficial part of higher education isn't the knowledge gained but the way you are taught to get it - Through research and critical thinking.

That isn't to say that people who don't have a higher education aren't capable of these things, but as a proportion of the population I think you'll find a greater competence in those with a higher education.
> I do find it rather unlikely that Soviet armed forces [...] would even let people enter the area

"What, that pass, in februari? Not like anybody will be stupid enough to be hiking there."
or
"No, if we tell people not to go, they'll want to know what we're doing over there. Best just keep quiet about it."
or a combination of both.
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Thanks. Turns out I was taught me something completely wrong about Mahler! I just spoke to my parents (who were responsible for much of my musical education) and told them this, too. It seems they knew it from their parents, too.
They should start using XMPP/Jabber. At the beginning with a Yahoo-Transport to be compatible with the people that are slower to switch:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP#Connecting_to_other_proto...
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The idea of this is way more interesting than the actual result. Unfortunately it just ends up looking like something run through content aware fill rather than anything interesting visually.
I have a blurry memory that at one point, the desktop youtube website (not mobile; not app; a long time ago) had continuous side search.
The Pebble Core is actually a very small screenless Android-running machine. It has more in common with your phone than your Pebble (assuming Android / Pebble owner ;)).
Sadly async/await, like so many ES6/ES7 features, adds needless complexity.

You can already achieve the exact same thing with generators. Check out the popular `co` module.

Before:

function getLikes () {
getUsers((err, users) => {
if (err) return fn(err);
filterUsersWithFriends((err, usersWithFriends) => {
if (err) return fn(err);
getUsersLikes(usersWithFriends, (err, likes) => {
if (err) return fn (err);
fn(null, likes);
});
});
});
}

After, with generators (already available today):

getLikes = co(function*() {
const users = yield getUsers();
const filtered = yield filterUsersWithFriends(users);
return getUsersLikes(filtered);
})

After, with async/await (ES7, coming soon):

function getLikes () {
const users = await getUsers();
const filtered = await filterUsersWithFriends(users);
return getUsersLikes(filtered);
}

---

The first example is terrible and the second two are good. Is that last one really worth adding yet another language feature and two more keywords?

This is the sad thing about big committees with lots of corporations on them: everyone "representative" wants to report back to HQ that they had "impact" on the future standard, they want their fingerprints in there in some way.

That's how standards grow warts and features and keywords and competing module systems until they're a hairball.

Here's what John Resig, creator of JQuery had to say about it. It's short and funny and sad

https://twitter.com/jeresig/status/707015494956621824
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For climate change it makes perfect sense. Who would wish their grandchildren dead?
I currently use Postbox but heard that the company behind it was experiencing financial difficulties and a low user base (not sure how much of this is true).

Given that, I was going to wait until PB4 is no longer officially supported and make a full switch over to Thunderbird.
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Very nice, love it! BTW is there any plugin that hides videos with over a certain amount of views? (I know I'm so edgy, right)
Liberal basically means the opposite of what it used to mean in the U.S.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism
You can afford to walk from Los Angeles to New York. Come on.
I find this comment to be borderline insulting

Why? Most of what the parent wrote is factual and descriptive, not prescriptive or disparaging. The post doesn't condemn anyone. I find your response just as unpleasant, because you seem to be suggesting that this line of discourse should be shunned, which frankly isn't going to help anyone.
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I think if the socialists are vexed then it is because they are part of the liberal 'elite' who basically don't understand the type of person who - according to their income - they patronisingly expect to always vote for them. The one dimensional politcal spectrum cannot hope to accommodate everyones views.

Apart from the fear that socialism could tank the economy and leave everyone worse off, there are a number of other reasons.

It used to be (in the Thatcher years) about one nation conservatism, though that supposedly died along time ago. A patriotic desire to put ones own country before oneself, which in recent years has been all about the strength of the economy. This is supposedly dead now, or certainly a smaller factor than it used to be.

Now I would argue it is because many poorer people are not bought into utopian/universalist agenda. The logical conclusion of this is helping the rest of the world before helping them. Many will view others, perhaps only slightly below themselves in economic terms as deserving of what they get, or even undeserving of the help they already receive. Immigration also plays into this (in a big way currently).

I would also argue that many believe state intervention is horribly uneven and unfair. Some people have the fortune to be heavily subsidised to live in pretty desirable places, or receive a lot of social care, whereas others struggle to get anything out of the system whatsoever.

Poorer people in the UK often face an effective marginal tax rate of 60-100%. i.e. It doesn't pay to work. More socialism would only serve to excacerbate this. In reality the figure could be considered even higher once wealth thresholds are accounted for. If you save any money above (is it >35,000 pounds?) then you have to pay for your own social care in old age. If you have > 8000 pounds then you are disentitled from a lot of things too.

One thing that is somewhat specific to the UK is that we have a needs based welfare system, as opposed to an entitlement based system (e.g. France). Being more needy jumps you to the front of the queue.

I think above a certain income threshhold it easy to feel removed from this conflict (below) and feel as if you are operating in a capitalist/meritocratic system, but at the bottom the incentives are really quite perverse.

Personally I think the most important political axis is honest/dishonest (or integrity vs corruption), and there is plenty of injustice at all levels of life. We should put the socialists in charge of (regulating) the banks and the conservitives in charge of administering wellfare.
Similarly to Opera, the startup time (even hot) is far behind Chrome. This is a deal breaker.
Just had a read... correct... you offer no evidence.
Gender gap is a myth.
Genuine question but what does something like Postbox has (for regular users) over the vanilla Thunderbird + addons to justify $20 ?
Do you mind sharing what you don't like about it? I'm honestly curious.
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it doesn't matter where are you from. If you are able to move to Barcelona - that's great
In 1989, I added streq(a,b), which was essentially !strcmp to my companies standard library because people kept making this error.
>nytimes.com

You might as well post from Pravda.
I think that's misrepresenting the article somewhat. It mentions video in several places, because a lot of the issues stem at least in part from the complexities introduced by trying to be a general purpose container, but there are many significant problems with use of it as an audio format besides these.
Now that Firefox (at least Dev Edition) is almost WebExtensions ready I wonder if... Does it work in Firefox 48?
http://arewewebextensionsyet.com/
It becomes incredibly difficult to fit new features into an interface that everybody knows without changing it and when you change something like this you alienate and non-power users which makes them watch less which means less advertising.
Though I allready read Jünger, I was quite surprised to found out, that he was not only into LSD, but he aparently also took it with Hoffman himself ... and yes, he was a interesting personality, so I will probably going to read his "Drogen und Rausch".

So thanks for the hint.
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How does that indicate corruption?
I attempted this a few months ago. I'm comfortable around the Linux CLI and can happily edit files in Nano (or Vim if need be). I wanted to do this to improvide my knowledge of the inner workings of Linux.

What I found out was, the LFS instructions are out of date, or in places simply wrong. A lot of the linked-to packages simply no longer exist in the locations referenced, resulting in the user having to google the package names, and hope that the archives they find are complete and correct. As such, there are many false starts getting even the basics compiled, and that's before you even get to the chroot stage. After several hours of scouting around, and compiling the dependencies, I hit a fatal compiler problem with one of the correct packages which, not being a Linux guru, I couldn't solve. This left me with the only option of starting over, which I didn't do. If I had infinate free-time I would have kept working on it, but I don't, so the VM just sits on my server, abandoned.

I like the idea of LFS, but if you are going to present a tutorial on anything that depends on external resources, then that tutorial should be maintained so that as long as the end user follows the instructions, it will always work, all the time.

I might come back to it at some point, but not anytime soon.
it was way better several builds ago
>> for me living ~30 hours flight from my nearest family,

Where in the world do you and your family live? I imagine you must be in Antarctica?
By being born under the iron curtain, then having your country liberated after the fall of the USSR.
Those are the iconic UFO stories. But one shouldn't discuss UFO-related phenomena without at least referencing Gulf Breeze. The story starts with pictures, but ends with an object found in an attic.

http://www.ufocasebook.com/gulfbreeze.html
it's open source. you cannot use the code or contribute, but still you can download the source code https://vivaldi.com/source/
It feels like they're trying to serve two competing goals with this:

1) Be a faster, lighter, more customizable competitor to Chrome

2) Be a full "Internet suite" with browser and email client

I'm sure how well you can accomplish #1 while pouring resources into #2.

Moreover, I'm not sure how much of an audience there even is for #2. The minority who want a desktop email client are very vocal about it, but most of us haven't used an email fat client in years (save for perhaps Outlook when forced to at work).

I was a huge fan of Opera back in the day, and still use it as the primary browser on my phone. But even in its heyday, Opera's mail client was pretty weak compared to Thunderbird or other options. Bolting-on a "meh" email client to a web browser is like a digital wristwatch that prominently display the current YEAR on the main screen... a largely unnecessary feature that just takes up room.

I toyed around with an earlier release of Vivaldi, and thought it looked promising. But at this point I wouldn't even consider a browser that doesn't sync bookmarks and other data across my devices. In terms of prioritizing resources, I care about that 1,000x more than re-implementing Opera features from the late 90's that most people won't use.
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Your browser stays open for 99% of the day, I don't see why a slow startup would be a deal breaker.
I have friends I care about, but I don't need to know what they are up to every day any more than they need to know about me, let alone every hour of every day.
the browser is RATHER fast, but ui is single threaded, one tab can freeze the whole ui. also try to press and keep ctrl+t - it will froze, try this with other browsers - they are fine
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If there were "more to the American liberal outlook than support for government programs", a thoughtful ("substantial"?) comment would have given us some examples of such, and then related those examples somehow to the proposition under discussion. Your comment, instead, amounts to "RTFA!"
The Android app isn't very good, especially with regards to commenting: notifications sometimes don't come through, the layout is inflexible, and it isn't possible to edit or vote on comments.
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