skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've used both daily for some years. They are different. Reddit is far larger and often more fun. Yet it can rapidly become silly, and in some cases quite violent. HN is always poilte, fresher, and serious. I come here to get discussion about things that matter, and go to Reddit for distraction. HN can be hostile too, yet the mob here rarely uses outright "why don't you kill yourself?" violence.
Charlie Hebdo Italy earthquake cartoon sparks anger
There is some time I spend procrastinating, but during my year with Ubuntu at work I was really annoyed by everyday things, enough to suspend my task and fix my configuration, so I wouldn't describe it as procrastination. I didn't fix things I could work with (e.g. when I switched on, I would execute some commands in the shell to fix the mouse...).

Anyway we can discuss for long, but in the end I believe if Linux OSes had the amount of money that Apple has to hire UX designers, marketers and devs who don't mind doing mundane bugfixing, at least one version on Linux would become perfect. It was supposed to be Ubuntu, but let's hope it's the next one.
I agree, the Karma and voting here are harsh. It's really hard to get upvotes, especially on sensitive topics.
The US has sales taxes in most places, and there's a bewildering number of them, e.g. in my home town that I've retired to, I could be paying the state sales tax, I'm sure some states allow counties to do it, the city sales tax (and my city spans two counties), and a special tax for the shopping area, each of decreasing size.

There's also exemptions or lower rates for things like food, and even sales tax "holidays" when certain classes of items are free of sales tax for a few days. All of this complexity is one reason Internet companies don't want to collect it.

If we have a VAT, no one's told me about it (a general one, anyway)! The concept does get mooted every once in a while.
Because of us. Seriously. You are doing a fantastic job of staying on topic and moderating/down voting away disruptive elements while still allowing the "other side" to have their say.

It's frankly amazing how often a short comment on HN will get me to delve into a subject I didn't even realize I was interested in.
Elpars Antalya minibüs kiralama
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Elpars Antalya minibüs kiralama nın (kiralık) hizmetlerini özet olarak şu başlıklar altında sıralayabiliriz. Antalyada Ailenizle bir tatile, akraba veya memleket ziyaretine gideceğiniz anda günübirlik dahi olsa güvenilir hizmet vermekte olan Antalya Elpars rent a car, aile tipine uygun araçlara sahip geniş bir araç filosuna sahiptir.

Ayrıca şehir içi ulaşım istekleriniz dahilinde firma size istediğiniz durumunda şoförlü araç kiralama hizmeti de sunmaktadır. Bunun dışında yapacağınız gezi veya turlar için özel araç tahsil etmenin yolu yine Antalya Elpars rent a car dan geçiyor. Son model kiralık araçlarımız ile turlarınızın tadını arttıracak olan Elpars Araç Kiralama Antalya, müşteri ilişkilerinde sürekli kendini geliştiren personelleri ile daima müşteri odaklı hizmet vermektedir.

Antalya Oto Kiralama da firmanızı araç filosu satın alma masraflarından da kurtarabilirsiniz. Uzun vadeli araç kiralama fırsatı ile firmanızın filosunu oluşturabilir, araç için yapacağınız masrafları firma bünyesinde başka şekillerde değerlendirme fırsatı yakalayabilirsiniz. Daha geniş hizmet yelpazesi için Antalya Elpars Oto Kiralama web sayfasını ziyaret ediniz.
I don't like these SpaceX-Tesla-Solarcity cross links one bit. If one of them falls it could cause the rest to go with it.

Solar City 'power walls' are a shaky proposition at best, if that becomes a key element in Tesla succeeding then they have a problem.
People have mentioned really generic things but something concrete is that the voting system is different on HN, with limits on downvotes in different situations. That helps limit "I don't like this" downvotes, even if it doesn't eliminate them, since people new to the community cannot downvote.
Tesla was down 12% upon announcement of the deal. I guess if your crystal ball didn't tell you this value-destructive deal was coming, you got screwed.
If I remember correctly you start with a karma of 1 on a fresh account, so I guess it makes sense if the goal is to allow downvoting after gaining 500 - have another one, by the way :-)
I agree, but I'd go further and say commenting here is largely a waste of time. If you make a comment on r/programming, others will respond and you can have a reasoned discussion, with trolls getting downvoted. If you disagree with someone, you can state your position and others will jump in and state theirs. Responses on HN are generally few in number, and if you challenge a high karma user, he and a few of his friends will downvote you with no intelligent discussion.

I'd say the comment system here has resulted in a pissing contest where the goal is to say something really cute so that you get upvotes. There are good discussions, but they happen in spite of the comment system, not because of it.
I'm always super happy that I stumbled in to taking topology before real analysis.

It meant that I understood the topological idea of limits before I had to do proofs using just the epsilon (for sequence) or epsilon-delta (for functions) definition, and so could translate the logic of showing things about neighborhoods in to the terminology of (real analysis) limits.

Limits, in the abstract, are a fairly simple concept: in the case of sequences, for any neighborhood of the limit, the entire tail of the sequence (past some point) is contained in the neighborhood; in the case of functions, for any neighborhood of the limit at f(x), there's a neighborhood around x, such that every point in that neighborhood maps to the neighborhood around the limit.
JavaScript D3 Concept Map Inspired from Findtheconversation.com/concept-map
As someone who agrees with the OP I am definitely not a fan of the no-fly list and other centralized registration databases.
>This was flagged and dead and should be again.

Strange. It almost sounds like you're afraid of this article for some reason?

And I'm saying that as someone who abhors Trump and is trying to get everyone I know to vote for Hillary. I just hate double standards is all.
Honestly don't think they should allow apps like hide Hillary or punch trump. They're low value and only promote hate towards the person.
1) The progress meters is important. The scenarios in which this progress meter would matter, would lead to users thinking something strange went wrong and their push did not succeed because of the lack of the progress meters. Besides that, it's a UI manifestation of a bug that would have led to pushes in certain scenarios not working.

2) As long as GIT diff exists, making it more usable should certainly be a core part of changes to GIT diff. There are many utilities you can use for GIT diffs easily enough instead of the base diff. But I like the fact that if I'm at a machine where my preferred utilities are not setup, I still have a very usable diff built into GIT.
Maybe the categorization algorithm is used to de-penis the results?
I fear the day I have to call upon my experience birthing livestock to help deliver a human baby.
> Microsoft's $150 stock investment was the result of a settlement of a lawsuit.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/stop-the-lies-the-day-that-micr...
You're 100% correct, the article is uninformed about normal app review processes. However, the point about Apple rejecting a satirical anti-Hillary app while approving a number of apps depicting and encouraging physical violence towards Trump stands.

IMHO, the article is flawed, and clearly from a biased perspective, but there's enough of a valid point in there for it to stand.
Being acqui-hired doesn't spell well for its future.
I didn't attribute anything.

Only pointing how easy is to create the appearance of causality.

Is Brazil broken? I didn't realize, let's check those graphs again.

And, are not trying to attribute the current problems in the economy of Brazil to a party instead of the current world economy. But, I bet, you think that the previous boom have nothing to do with that party. That was only the world economy.
But the stalls work in pairs. They all can't deliver 80kw simultaneously. Ever wondered why sometimes you only get 100A? Because your neighbor, who got their first, gets first dibs on the power, and you get the leftovers.
Yes it is very political, but I disagree that it isn't rational. The stance is that registration leads to confiscation. This has been proven time and time again. And no we don't want to be like some countries that have registrations and you have to store your weapons in some offsite facility and can only access them for certain times of the year with approved ammunition.
Ah, so I guess he'd approve of the way I stumbled through university :)

I get what he's saying, but I can't imagine adhering strictly to this would be healthy. I've waited until the last minute to finish enough projects to know how stressful and anxiety-inducing it can be, and have enough experience to know that my time estimates are never accurate.
If someone in power is so stupid to do it, companies will stop operating on their country

It depends, for we have a state level test of this, Washington State and Boeing, which has a very boom and bust pattern of profitability. Of course, political muscle was used on them when they last tried to expand outside of the state, but I'm sure that initially, when the gross receipts tax was imposed, it just cost too much for them to move their factories elsewhere.

Of course, this tax does nothing good for other companies that it hits (there's a lower threshold as I recall, otherwise few would ever start up a company in the state), that aren't so profitable.
The problem (if you could call it that) is that there are multiple people reviewing apps. While there are rules, each person has a different interpretation of them, which results in issues like this.
What I was getting at in the article is that:

1. TOC and TOP ask different questions.

2. The disparity of the computational complexity involved in the two classes of models is so great, that it is objective proof that they represent two distinctly different things, and therefore comparing them directly is meaningless. That a jet and a bicycle require vastly different amounts of energy to power is conclusive and objective proof that completely different tradeoffs must be involved in choosing them.
Learn some math
B&N serve full Starbucks menus in most of the states, not just Starbucks coffees, but everything else...they are effectively franchised Starbucks. Marriott franchises a lot of Starbucks in airports but also some hotels. In other China, Starbucks in tier one cities are mostly JV-owned, while in tier 2 cities they were able to convince the CCP to let them do fully owned stores.
Yeah, I'm of two minds on it. On the one hand, it reflects the current climate and allowing both would be the more "free speechy" way to go. But on the other, I think apps that target an individual person - any individual not just a political leader - I think are exactly as you said - really low value and promoting hate. Either way they go, they should clearly stick to one policy for both sides.
> There is certainly very little evidence to the claim of the article

Little evidence? The claim is that this app was rejected and Trump satire apps are allowed - what evidence are you expecting other than the existence of the Punch Trump style apps on the App Store? Do you want a letter signed by Tim Cook saying that the App Store policies are intentionally biased?
They quoted the FBI statement directly, and ended with the point that all charges had been dropped.

Calling that a "hit piece" does not, to me, seem particularly reasonable.
so far about an hour every 6 months. But I am working on a new look and major features so this will take considerable time.
I use it mainly through http://hackernewsroom.com/ which is awesome, because it lets you see a preview of an article without leaving the site or even read it right there. I only go to the original site when I want to add a comment or favorite an article.
Early Product Lessons
I want to stop taking my pain meds
Funny, I'd say the exact same thing with the variables reversed.

Commenting on reddit is a waste of time. Here however, fresh comments actually get promoted to the top very regularly, which gives them a chance to be seen. I much prefer the ranking here than on Reddit.
I confess my ignorance. Maybe in a DSP context saturating arithmetic makes sense.
1. there's nothing useless about it

2. the Python 3 CSV library supports arbitrary codepoints as delimiter, quote character and escape character (if applicable)
It is the community.

Everything else described in the other comments is a function of one of the communities.

This is a worthwhile question and an important point for anyone who participates in the community. It's most likely relevant to your professional life, whether you are working on a startup, at one, or you are just interested.

The better, question, or perhaps, just the follow up, is, "How does HN cultivate its community and how does it engineer for desired results."

For me, I learned about Y Combinator through the "How to Start a Startup" podcast. I listened while I was developing. I learned about Hacker News through applying to Y Combinator. I later learned about Office Hours through Hacker News. Through participating in Office Hours I received AWS credits to help support my startup.

The point is that I received a significant value from Hacker News before I ever extended myself. I now have a real commitment to the Hacker News community. I'm also a little embarrassed it took me so long to become a worthwhile participant.

Demonstrating that value, and inspiring that commitment, is at least part of how they cultivate the community, and engineer for desired results, which results in the success you are pondering.
Never attribute to malice that which can equally be explained by carelessness.

My experience with completely nonpolitical apps strongly suggests the app approval process is very arbitrary and inconsistent across the board.
"In 2002, at an event held to celebrate the Times's 20th anniversary, Moon said: 'The Washington Times is responsible to let the American people know about God' and 'The Washington Times will become the instrument in spreading the truth about God to the world.'" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Times]
Not born without amniotic sac, but rather born with the amniotic sac intact.
It seems that Twitter execs believe the magic of Twitter resides in the 140 character limit. I strongly disagree. To me the magic of Twitter resides in the ability to connect with people with whom I have a professional relationship or interest, but not necessarily a personal one. (Personal relationships belong on Facebook or perhaps Instagram.) The 140 character limit is an archaic relic that I believe is harmful to Twitter.

The 140 character limit arose in a world that doesn't exist anymore. In 2006, SMS was a sensible way to transmit data, phones were mostly dumb, blogs were the way to get your thoughts into the world (but experiencing a backlash, which helped bring Twitter to prominence), and most people interacted with the Internet via a desktop.

Facebook et al have shown that given a blank canvas the majority of people do not suddenly pen 10'000 word screeds. Lifting the 140 character limit will not suddenly lead to an explosion of novellas on Twitter, especially now that most people interact via a mobile (I went to my laptop to write this comment, having read the comments on my mobile.)

The 140 character limit is actively harmful to meaningful discussion, and I believe it fuels much of the anger and abuse that Twitter is known for generating.

Drop the 140 character limit and let me have meaningful conversations with the social network on Twitter. That is, to me, an extremely compelling proposition.

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Microsoft Bing Translates ISIS as Saudi Arabia
These buys aren't straight revenue buys. For Google, it would be buying an enormous database of personal information, and only Google could tell you if that would be valuable to them or not.
My model S has been in the shop after a collision since a June 10. The repair shop has been waiting for parts. The last thing we're waiting for is some kind of spring related to the airbag assemblY. Originally tesla said they would pull one off the production line since I waited so long, but now they are backing off that. It's going to be at least another 3 weeks.

Be aware if you are buying a car from tesla, that you are at their mercy in terms of parts. There are no third party parts available, and tesla is using all the parts for new cars.
Ah, yes, I read 'sans' rather than 'dans'. Thanks!
One of the things I value about HN is that it operates with a global set of rules and impartial moderators, rather than giving a handful of arbitrary users near total control over specific areas of discussion simply because one of them registered the name of a subreddit first.

It seems like it works well here, there's a different "vibe" to the community, perhaps due to a typically more narrow focus, with some exceptions, and a set of users who have more in common with each other than a general site like Reddit.

The delegated authority system on Reddit does have some advantages, for example the /r/science moderators choose to impose strict rules on discussion, preventing the mob from turning every thread in to long chains of jokes and memes. They also tightly regulate "flair", allowing people who really do have expertise in a specific field to prove it to the moderators, and then have all of their comments tagged with that information.

Certain areas are far more permissive for the same reason, which also has its place on such a large site.

The downside can be easily seen on some subreddits, where again allowing arbitrary users to have near total control has a much more negative effect. A small number of moderators can prevent specific topics from being discussed on their subreddit at all. That effect is even worse when the subreddit in question is one of the very large defaults, like /r/news. There are also subreddits that will completely ban someone from participating simply for having participated in another completely unrelated subreddit.
> Again, you're talking about engineering.

No, I'm not. I'm talking about math. (If you read my comment history, my distaste for “engineering” should be obvious, at least if by “engineering” we mean “software engineering”.)

> but theoretically a building would be just as strong if it were somehow built from the top down.

The amount of mental gymnastics required to produce this statement (not to mention expect someone else to believe it) completely baffles me.

> Computational processes in a living cell, for example, also have to ensure correctness -- and therefore spend computational resources on "verification" -- yet they don't use symbolic logic for that task.

Nature doesn't do “verification”, because there's no specification in the first place. Nature just evolves a variety of systems, and those that aren't fit enough to survive, well, just die. Also, the evolution of biological systems happens way too slowly to use it as inspiration for how to design computational systems for our own purposes.
One suspects that the underlying story here is: "Of the dozens of political apps submitted recently, some have been accepted and some have been rejected, with no apparent rhyme or reason. Here are two."
Not sure I'd put the two apps in the same category other than the fact that they're both political. I haven't played them, but one is appears to be raising awareness about very controversial (and possibly corrupt) behaviour, the other is inciting violence against a presidential candidate. If Apple wants to say "no politics allowed" that's fine by me, they can do what they want. But I think they should follow through with that, and not take sides. At the same time, they should be free to operate however they please within the confines of the law. So to me the only thing wrong with what they're doing is that it just looks bad.
Well something is better than nothing.
How does "Hide it Hillary" promote hate? It's satirizing something she actually did in real life. "Punch Trump", on the other hand, has violence in it, but even that is not sufficient to claim that it promotes violence.
If it were just a matter of creating two political apps, one anti-red and one anti-blue, and observing that the anti-blue one is banned, I'd agree. The article cites 3 different games focussed on simulating violence against Trump, though, which to me is enough to suggest a trend.
> The Fed is a bank (and privately owned) - not an apparatus designed to manage the state.

Not true: https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/about_14986.htm

"The Federal Reserve System is not "owned" by anyone. Although parts of the Federal Reserve System share some characteristics with private-sector entities, the Federal Reserve was established to serve the public interest."

and also

"The Reserve Banks are not operated for profit, and ownership of a certain amount of stock is, by law, a condition of membership in the System. In fact, the Reserve Banks are required by law to transfer net earnings to the U.S. Treasury, after providing for all necessary expenses of the Reserve Banks, legally required dividend payments, and maintaining a limited balance in a surplus fund."
You got it! The categorization algorithm can detect pornographic submissions. Users can also report images they receive. However, instead of simply blocking dick pics, I'll re-route them to other dick pic senders.
Are you by any chance talking about Chinese restaurants in the u.s.? Most of the time when I had fish in China at restaurants it was whole. With head and everything. So, even if covered with any sauce, you could easily distinguish the fish.
Yeah, it's not hard to believe that the decisions were made by two different low level employees, one who knows the rules and the other who doesn't. It's not as if these all get kicked up to Tim Cook's desk at the end of the day (though this one will be, thanks to press coverage)
I believe Software Engineers should be conservatives. Because when anything is doing wrong, the first we can think of is rollback.
How would the best workflow for game balancing look like (SQLite database)?
A friend and I have created a little iPad game in our spare time. Because we needed help, we also hired a freelancer to assist us with the programming.

The game has been developed in Xcode and Unity 3D and is based on an SQLite database.

The problem that we now have is the complexity of creating new levels and doing the game balancing. We just could not figure out a nice workflow - given how complex the database has become.

I come from a business background - so what I did is I recreated the database in MS Access and created many, many interactive forms, automated most of the stuff in VBA to help us create new games and do some of the game balancing. I spent weeks after weeks on this - and I am still far from done. Also, I didn't even check if I can export my database and import it into SQlite.

How would you organise the workflow to manage your complex game database?
Would you use a Web interface? Would you use Access or Excel (probably not)? What is the best way to manage your SQlite database for a game - without having to write SQL queries for each change?
Why should they appear to be unbiased?
Actually, I don't think people are educated enough about the horrors of that time.

I'm not a revisionist, I don't think we should change what was, but we should be careful about holding too strongly to historical terms in our present speech.
> But you're OK with the car registration system? And the cell phone IMEI database? And the no-fly list?

uh, did he say he was?

i'm sorry, did i neglect to read half the article, or half his comment, where these things are mentioned?