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Ask HN: Improving the “Hacker News Frontpage” Algorithm
What do you think would be the appropriate algorithm/approach to ranking/vetting submissions for the Hacker News Frontpage?

What should be factored in?

Do you believe the items shown should be personalized to each user (through collaborative filtering (or something) based on their voting patterns)? And if so, then should everything be personalized, or just a subset of what makes it to the front page (for example, 10 global top submissions + 10 personalized recommendations + 10 "test submissions" (to allow new submissions the chance to be up or down voted), then have them all shown in whatever order is determined by the main HN algorithm)?
Meet the Physicist Searching for Dark Matter’s Hidden Light
So syslog supports structured logs via JSON natively now.
You only respond to external stimulus or sensations from your body.

Like in literally every non-biological context, everyone understands that similar systems in similar environments behave similarly. In my layman's understanding of biology, the only difference between human brains and other mammalian brains is neuronal density; all the structure is the same as far as I've read. If the structure is the same, and the behavior and neuronal activity matches what we'd expect from self aware organisms, why reach for a ghost?

If you have to keep believing humans are somehow special, then associate that specialness with being the only creature with highly dextrous appendages that evolved with access to trees and metal that also farms.
I bet someone will also complain that he "mansplained" one of his talks. Give me a break. Go solve a real problem. First-world morons who are so fed up with the comfort of their lives they have to actively go chase drama.
Because many in tech approach things with a very logical almost cold manner... They brush off emotional responses like offense, because being offended isn't a logical or useful response... Its emotion, it's random, and for many it's too much chaos to deal with.
I wonder how many people let random apps/sites access a microphone.
How many privately owned MiG-25s are there, and are their owners interested in using them for commercial satellite launching?

They may be using F-104s because there are several in private hands (Wikipedia claims that the FAA says that there are 10 in the US) with owners willing to do satellite work.
Play by Play of Linodes 'twelve day attack' over Christmas and New Year 2015

https://blog.linode.com/2016/01/29/christmas-ddos-retrospect...
> anyone dare mention nationalized medicine or price controls

Uh, the US medical system is full of price controls on pretty much everything that is a "service" and not a product.

> Somehow we manage to keep spending trillions on things like F-35

Yes, these are a horrible and unconscionable waste of resources and blight upon the world. But the American left is just as much in favor of military excess as the American right.
Official statement from Nodevember - http://nodevember.org/statement.html
Completely off the topic, but interesting to know nonetheless.
It always makes it worth the time spent going through comments on HN to find such buried gems.
Maybe focus on the actual meat of the argument rather than the plate it's served on and you'll enjoy your meal more.
We would need tools to vote negative content to be categorized as dissonant, circular reasoning, or speaking for other's feelings/blaming.
I think the hypothetical argument would be that "whore", in our current time period, is not only primarily used as an insult, but it's one that seems to be disproportionately directed against women. Not just today, but in our very recent history (on a sidenote, I wonder how easy the gender association of "whore" could be quantified by looking at Google's n-gram dataset).

Sure, you could argue that "whore" is used against men, e.g. "He's such a manwhore". Just like someone could persuadively argue that their habit of wearing Confederate flag t-shirts has nothing to do with 19th-century American thinking about slavery. But we make judgments based on a spectrum of pragmatism and likelihoods, and we can make our own decisions to attend or avoid events that invite or disinvite such folks.

In the case of Crockford, I fully support the right for Nodevember to have its own threshold for what makes someone too much of a jerk to be a fit for their audience. And I personally wouldn't be inclined to go to such a conference, because I think that that threshold would likely exclude too many people besides Crockford, such that the event doesn't seem worth my time or travel expenses
Particularly since nothing he said was sex-specific. Anyone who hears mention of promiscuity and assumes sexism are, in my opinion, the sexist ones. Some men are promiscuous too, probably in similar numbers.
As I recall, it's not only a US company but it was founded by a former Air Force F-104 pilot who passed away a couple of years ago. They fly those planes because it's what they are really good at.

The Air Force and NASA used the planes for high-altitude test missions, and so there is some comfort in outsourcing those missions to the company. I've always been under the impression that most of their business was government stuff, but I could be all wrong about that.
IF last_name == "Clinton"
GOTO out_of_jail
ELSE
GOTO pound_in_the_ass_prison
WPEngine & their customers.
How one company lost $44M through an email scam
Show HN: Dom-minimap – A simply lovely drop in minimap for the web
I don't think public evidence of sexism matters if other speakers were uncomfortable enough to withdraw from the conference. They're trying to run a conference where people feel comfortable, not hold a public tribunal.
I'm sure it is.

http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/hot-allostatic-load/
Too bad it leaves out Nord-du-Quebec. I've always been fascinated with remote and uninhabited regions. Without Northern Quebec there's still a good bit of that stuff covered by the trail.

Maybe it's a good thing the area is left untouched.
We were sort of in the same boat as you last year. We were already prepping our failover and it was about 95% ready to go when the DDOS started on our Christmas break (and our senior guy who did all of our deploys was out of communication). December 23rd was a difficult 10 hour, remote day but we got things finished up and could relax afterwards.
Your view is nowhere near a minority on HN and reddit.
Where should boundaries get drawn? And when should they change? In the past, gender and race were dividing lines for privilege. What about animals? Don't they have the right to not be murdered and be free? Are they not conscious pain feeling beings? Is it OK for me to constantly call everyone out on their meat eating murderous ways? Many people are offended when people talk about eating steak.
Disinviting Douglas Crockford – particularly in the way it was done – is not being kind. Doing so with no clear evidence is an insult to their audience. Therefore their actions are, in my estimation, entirely hypocritical.
Run the attack itself from a botnet of hacked computers, with the command and control server proxied behind TOR.
Using DAQ's properly eliminate process blocking when using TCP delivery and there are connectivity issues. You can do TLS encryption natively. Rsyslog action templates are complex but extremely powerful. After reading this post I just wonder if you have ever read the Rsyslog documentation or done any large scale deployments with it? Our network is handling over 50k log messages a second using Rsyslog and while it's not perfect I can't think of any other standards based system I could rely on.
I always thought the mirror test / mark test was a pretty well established test for self awareness, and several animals pass it. It's not particularly fringe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_test
Ok sure. In that case, I'll point out that being "a common practice going back hundreds of years" should lead you to question something, not accept it.

It reminds me of the time I recommended (to the Unix team at a major financial institution) that they use ssh rather than telnet, and being rebuffed with "that's the way we've always done it".

In this case, since you want to be specific, the practice of defaulting to "he" correlates with hundreds of years of treating women as chattels, with economic consequences and imbalances that persist today, and continue to be reinforced through structural, unconscious, and explicit biases, and that we'd all be better off without.

The notion that language should reflect thought is as old as Plato.
It looks like a lot of people here are arguing that this is happening or possible, with the rather limiting constraint that you're in or around West LA. It being an older neighborhood, has more density which doesn't exist in many of the post-World War II neighborhoods with Irvine being a good example of this. The Uber map for better wait times seems unsurprisingly biased to being around tourist areas like Santa Monica, Disneyland or Huntington Beach.

I suppose it depends on what you're definition of Los Angeles is, but if you argue that Thousand Oaks or Chino Hills is considered "Los Angeles", then this argument doesn't really hold water. The urban sprawl was built on the assumption of commuting and 2-3 hour commutes are not unusual around here. I realize LA might be a bit of an anomaly, but you can drive from Santa Monica to San Bernardino before you've really "left" the city and trying to argue that a carless life is really going to happen using this definition is a bit suspect.
Tough to drive-by shoot with a foot of snow on the ground?
> It was (and in many ways still is) an extremely sexist community

The Tech community is sexist? Extremely sexist?

How so?
A PWA which works in offline, add to home screen, push notifications and bg sync,
Iraq and pretty much everythink bad in the middle
East stems from ussr ivasion of Afghanistan. It's not the sole target for blame (plenty
Of that to go around for everybody) but it's what (re)started to dumpster fire.
Yeah, binary modules require a C build system and Python@~2.7, there's not much way around that... there could be tooling built with node that replaced the python bits, but V8 is a C interfaced implementation for binary modules, and without an in the box solution, options are limited... there's been some effort to get ffi in the box though.

Some binary modules will self-mount an already built version for common platforms/node versions. But that doesn't cover everyone, and may never do so. That said, build tools and python requirements are pretty well disclosed, and still generally smaller than Java. It's also a bit different to have a native module in C that interfaces with C libraries compared to needing Java to transpile a JavaScript project to JavaScript in a platform that has no other ties to that secondary language.

Again, The Java guys would never have accepted Maven if it required Mono/.Net runtimes.
I used to keep a box of eight-inch floppy disks in my office. Whenever a colleague would ask to borrow a blank disk (in the 3.5" era) I would give them one of these eight-inch disks. Many of my colleagues were so young they didn't even know what it was, not ever having used even a 5.25" floppy. It was always a great conversation starter.

Until the era of thumb drives came along...
Coral reefs: "the current global coral bleaching event is the longest ever recorded" http://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/satellite/analyses_guidance/g...

Arctic melt: "there is no precedent as far back as 1850 for the 21st century's minimum ice extent of sea ice on the pan-Arctic scale" http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1931-0846.2016....

Greenland: I haven't seen temperature numbers specifically for Greenland but it probably has to do with the medieval warm period, and we're warmer then that now. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globalwarming/medieval.html
Not all universities, apparently. [1]

My educational experience doesn't really jive with what you're suggesting, either. There was certainly a large and vocal neoliberal/SJW caste at my (large, Canadian) university, but I never saw the administration or faculty kowtow to them in any significant way. However, I'm prepared to believe the problem does exist at some schools.

1: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/08/25/u-chicago-war...
This is becoming increasingly concerning to me. The problem is that there is no way for the person affected to receive "justice", "fairness", or "a day in court".

You want to not invite somebody? Fine. You want to disinvite somebody? Okay, but be prepared to be called a jerk.

But assassinating someone's professional character publicly? You'd better be standing on REALLY solid ground for a REALLY good reason.

Crockford might just ignore this--it's probably the best course of action given his station. He's probably sufficiently more important than these people that he's good.

However, one day these people are going to get someone with financial means all fired up and they're going to be dragged through court for a LONG time--and probably lose because they won't be able to put up the money to mount an effective defense.

Until one of these accusers loses THEIR ability to work in the field, nobody will pay attention to the repercussions.
If you think eagle is good, you've never used KiCad.
Leave Douglas alone!! (on a more serious note, I guess we're done with Appelbaum's lynching, so the next target is Douglas Crockford?)
This whole story seems like a joke or a social experiment.
> I think it's easy to look past someone's personal preferences and outrageous comments when you're already part of the club. But respect that that isn't everyone's experience.

What specifically did Crockford say that was outrageous?
I don't think they insinuated anything beyond that he apparently made others uncomfortable.
I think where I disagree with you is that I don't think it's effective to "incentivise" someone to do a job that they fundamentally don't want to do.

First I want to find the right fit. Then I want to incentivise them. Is someone who wants a bit of "startup experience" before working for a VC firm the right fit?
> I figure it's probably a low-rent version of the reason that the Space Shuttle had to be landed by people: just like astronauts wanted to feel useful, so too do the rail engineers.

I assure you that is not the reason the Space Shuttle, Trains or Planes require a human operator. It is the same reason cars do -- automated control is not sufficient that anyone is willing to put lives at risk to the automation. Especially when something abnormal could happen (most likely in a landing).
Good thing you didn't murder him, he might not have known that wasn't cocaine, and going to jail for that would not have been something your daughter wanted.
The law is worded as "knowingly and willfully". This situation is a decent argument for incompetence, but in that case, she isn't criminal.
How about instead of crybullies we call them Corinthians.

> And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
happy wife happy life...
I guess I shouldn't pull examples from subjects I don't really know about :D
They switched to KVM.
If those aren't the actual reasons, perhaps the conference operators ought to provide the actual reasons? If they can't, they should issue an apology.
DUDE. WHY WOULD BANKS EXCHANGE $X IN ASSETS FOR $X IN CASH FROM THE FED. THAT WOULD BE POINTLESS. IT WOULD NOT CHANGE THEIR BALANCE SHEET MATERIALLY?

The reason they did it - is because they were exchanging $X in assets for NX$ in cash.

If they weren't getting 'better than market prices' - the transactions would not have occurred. The 'big red' area on the Fed's balance sheet would have no financial reason to exist.

It's very existence implies the banks were getting a 'better than market deal'.

Here is Forbes on exactly this transaction:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/lawrencehunter/2012/10/29/are-fe...

Forbes - not exactly a conspiracy outfit - refers to it as "MONEY LAUNDERING" and makes a direct comparison to organized crime.

From the article:

"After the Fed buys (at face value) and resells (at pennies on the dollar) the bad mortgage-backed securities with newly minted electronic digits that it places into the banks’ Federal Reserve accounts, it then sterilizes the entire operation to prevent the new money from transmitting the dread inflation virus. The Fed does so by, in effect, quarantining inside the banking system the new toxic money used to launder the dirty loans."

There have been $9 TRILLION dollars in off balance sheet* transactions that the Fed refuses to disclose. (!!!!).

You say: "Open Market Operations by definition are done at market prices"

Prove it! Where is your evidence these transactions are done at 'Market Value'??

-----> The burden of proof is on you <------

You can't prove it because those records are not available.

Ask yourself: WHY are those records not available? Because in every other country they are.

Have a read:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Term_Asset-Backed_Securities_L...

"The Fed refuses to provide any information on how it priced individual securities bought with TALF funds."

The Fed's primary objective is to keep the banks healthy.

'Would I rather see banks fail'

'Banks look to the Fed for leadership'.

It's all irrelevant. The banks shareholders should have been wiped out. Then we can see some degree of financial packages and stimulus with full transparency and accountability.

Dude - you are defending an opaque institution - that has issued 2.5 Trillion dollars - without Congressional approval or oversight - and without providing financial records!

You can't win this one.
I have no idea. The conference organizers said people privately voiced concerns and other speakers threatened to pull out over his presence.

I was addressing the parent comment's point about inclusiveness in general.
If you presume everything she told the FBI was true then she was woefully incompetent to be a Secretary of the state and should not be allowed near the oval office.

If some or all have proven to be lies then she should have been indicted.
Regarding oncoming traffic at night; my dad taught me to focus on the white line. It does what you're describing but in addition keeps you positioned in your lane and gives you something to focus on so your eyes aren't drawn to the headlights.
How he defines self awareness: "'other awareness' applied to yourself" is a self awareness we entertain as children but definitely not real self awareness or the self awareness we posses after reaching any level of even moderate development.

"Self-awareness is 'other awareness' applied to yourself where 'other awareness' is constructing meaningful models of other peoples minds in order to predict their behavior"
^ This is totally circular. You(others) have some way of guiding your(their) own behavior before being aware of others and using that to construct a model of behavior and self.

This essay is armchair philosophizing completely removed from any real experience. I'd go so far as to call it psychologically harmful to anyone that entertains the essay as true and attempts to apply the ideas presented in it to understand their self.
I don't see why your comment would be unpopular. These are valid questions.There is no easy answer to them tho without understanding the bigger picture.

When I was young joining the army in my country was an easy decision, the money was good and it was a safe job. Recruiters would tell you that you could make an impact on the world and make it a better place for everyone while making enough money to easily fund your kids future and live a good life if you do the job long enough and are willing to put blood, sweat, and tears in.

But within a few years, I realized that what I did had no impact whatsoever, and the money was only good if you went home in one piece or alive at all.So I quit and specialized in tracking down war criminals in the private sector.

It is a long way before you see some of these people in front of the International Criminal Court for example. Many don't even make it there.

You ask how I could continue the work I did?

I had the chance to talk to these people sometimes for an hour sometimes for days before handing them over and one question I always asked was "What do you think would have been necessary to keep you from doing what you did?" and most of the answers boiled down to "nothing, besides a bullet maybe".

And that is exactly the reason why people like me are necessary. You can't sit down at a table with these guys and talk them out of it. There is real evil in this world. And these people are the living proof.

They think they are invincible and above the law and when you see how long it takes to bring these people to justice you begin to understand why they think that way.

Now I'm retired. So no, I am pretty sure the cause of my death will be natural some day.

As far as I'm concerned I don't need to write a book about what or how I did what I did. And outside those trials, my name will never be mentioned anywhere.

But the families of all the people I worked with that died and all the families and mothers that suffered by losing their sons and daughters and husbands because of the war crimes that person ordered will get a little bit of peace, knowing that no matter how rich or powerful you are there are people coming for you willing to give their lives so you rot in jail for what you did.
> Risk of dying 1/100,000 http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/skydiving8.htm

Yeah, so this quite nicely highlights the problem with your argument. You, and this article are both clearly downplaying the risks. One single jump per year. One in a hundred thousand for a single jump actually seems like bad odds to me. Go ahead and call it safe if you want, but plenty of active skydivers are doing hundreds or thousands of jumps in a year. A thousand jumps a year puts your odds, according to these stats you just provided, at one in a hundred. Sounds pretty risky to me!

Now, on top of that, this article compares 10,000 miles of driving in a year - an entire year's worth of driving every single day - to one single jump, and then somehow concludes that driving is riskier. Sorry, but that's kinda horse shit, and I think you know it. To me, this smells like an agenda to show skydiving is safer than it really is, and far from an accurate analysis. If they had tried to compare days, or car trips vs jumps, or participation hours, you'd find out that surprise! skydiving is significantly riskier than driving.

My question is, what is the benefit to presenting skydiving as 'safe'? Does it make a difference to you if people think it's safe? Are you concerned about validating your choices? Do you want beginners who are unsure to feel like they should try it?

What are the risks to calling it dangerous? Does that prevent people from trying it? Does that say something about you? Why does it upset you to suggest that skydiving might hurt you?

Seems like the entire problem with wingsuit BASE is people thinking it's safer than it is, so calling it dangerous can only have a positive effect. In fact, that's exactly what happened with skydiving, and what the USPA is still doing. It used to be much more dangerous than it is now, and people calling it dangerous and raising awareness of the risks have increased the safety of the sport. But since we haven't eliminated the risks, why would we stop calling it risky?
They laws that us little people are more likely to come up against aren't worded that way...
Amazon also encourages dogs... they have a three strikes policy and lots of warnings. The dog has to be quiet and well behaved to come into the office. Lots of goldens, labs, corgis and bulldogs in the office.
I've made this argument before, and not surprisingly, it didn't go over well.