skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a problem with giving moderation powers to entrenched individuals who are not experts.

I've seen this on the English language stack exchange, the Japanese language stack exchange, the Physics stack exchange, and on stack overflow. The people who are there on the site gathering points and up and down voting aren't necessarily experts, and in many cases they're amateurs or people who know something about one thing, yet have moderation powers over things they really don't know about.

The same applies to the dustier corners of Wikipedia, where entrenched non-experts often reduce articles to the level of their own ignorance. Since nobody is getting paid for their participation in these sites, it's hardly surprising that these people end up predominating.
OT: Ohai, byuu. The link for beat v03 404s. Is there some other tool I should use for bps?
>And I think the question we should ask as a society is, is this how things should work?

Civil society has no say in this. It is a politically created system and if you ask those with political power if this is the way it's supposed to work they would of course answer Yes.
This is indeed a humorous juxtaposition, but they wouldn't make crap like that if our society didn't gobble it up.
> That sounds petty and spiteful in a way I wouldn't expect from him, especially so publicly.

He was pretty notorious for blocking anyone with an opposing viewpoint on Twitter, so this seems in line with that.
Put you money where your mouth is. Find someone else that can build it and put them on contract for 6-months, or less given this was only going to be built in spare time.
Agreed. Once we build a clanking replicator, or it's biological/nano counterpart, we'll be approaching a state where thought manifests reality.

As a thought experiment, if every one has a replication device like in Star Trek or Drexler's universal assembler, how will the materials and energy to run such a device be distributed? Presumably we would allocate some to everyone, which would function as a basic income.

If we continue on the current path where resources are consolidated into the hands of the few, and these few have no need for the labor of the masses...
I liked that pmarca always retweeted @pmarca tweets that were positive and negative towards him. Basically unfiltered viewpoints from opposite angles.

I've heard that he has a large ego, but behaviour like that, plus the fact that he routinely 'likes' and retweets messages from people outside the tech elite circle (myself included) seems to disprove that... or is that just MY ego now kicking into conformance rationalisation mode?!?!? ;-)
I spent several years in my mid-twenties working like the author, pretty much non-stop. At the lowest point, I fell into a weird sleep pattern: I'd crash as soon as I got home around 6:00 in the evening, then wake up around midnight and be back at work by 1:00 am.

It took an old friend's suicide to jolt me out of it. I saw a lot of my old buddies at the funeral and started reestablishing those friendships. We played a lot of video games. Xbox Live probably saved my life. The worst thing about overwork is that it becomes difficult to imagine yourself doing anything else when you're in the thick of it, like it doesn't even occur to you that you should be spending your time elsewhere; I wonder if any of you have experienced this. Thankfully, even something as inconsequential as Halo was enough to help me rearrange my priorities.
Why would mastering modern C++ be a waste of time?
It's rather ideological and hilarious for you to use the United States Armed Forces non-democratic and non-civilian justice system to criticize the American democracy.

In one tiny post you demonstrate sad ignorance to the subject (anyone with even a -passing- knowledge of civilian vs military justice is laughing at you) as well as the sad bias which empowers your triumphant ignorance, so bravo.

Out of curiosity, which nations Military Justice System do you prefer?
It's unprofessional for a company to refer to its users like this. Calling people names is childish and helps nothing.

> Do you expect them to have a positive impact that would increase if moderation were decreased?

My theory is that the cost of this behavior is near zero but "fighting" it is being used as cover for abusive mod behavior and a culture of intolerance that's chasing away high value users. I for one don't contribute to the site anymore and I know I'm not alone.
>The money could pay for ICANN or whatever. //

ICANN seemingly just keeps a very simple database of domain owners. Reportedly their revenue last year was > $200 million. I'm sure they produce lots of interesting documents too but they appear to be minting it already.
You forgot option 3), which I use myself: Write in a high-performance language that also has high-level features, and write 90% of your code without concern for the language's cool optimization features.

That's what I do and it's great. I don't use move semantics or think about them, I avoid heavy templates, and I focus a lot of my work on the functional tools in C++ now and the more elegant ways of doing stuff at a high level. For when I need those extra optimizations, no need to change languages, I'm already there.
What does "a little bit harder" mean? Any reputation requirement is out of the window because it would alienate far too many people from ever contributing. A screening process wouldn't work well because SO already puts too much burden on moderators (which is largely why people end up making rushed moderation decisions).
I don't know about the Bay Area but it seems to me that most places already have this. My property tax includes a component that is based on the land value. Also a component based on the value of the improvements.
It still sears my mind that someone could be locked in a cage by our own government for exposing this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0 (Collateral Murder video)

People actually died in that example. I am unaware of anything but hypotheticals regarding anyone killed as result of Manning's "leaks".
It's significant that he says "Cruel and inhuman" but not "Cruel and unusual". In fact, punishing suicidal people with terrifying prison sentences is what always happens. Sometimes they disguise the prison as a hospital but it's all the same to the victim.

What follows is that the suicidal person learns to hide their plans better. And then they kill themselves.

The people responsible for creating this system of torture will burn in whatever hell can be created. If there is any such thing as good and evil at all, I guarantee this will be.

What I find strange is their lack of foresight to recognize that without being told.
This article is a bit like a graduate student's deconstruction of the feminist themes in Breaking Bad. At first glace it sounds tedious and misguided, but the more you dig into it the more you realize the author is just desperate to please his department heads so that he can get his degree and find employment at another institution where he can finally force other people to pull their hair out trying to invent new and unique forms of utter bullshit to please his whims.
Yes exactly. Sorry for failing to include the link in my earlier comment.
Like most things it is a bit nuanced. San Francisco is a bit over 40 miles north of "Silicon Valley[1]". The "big" companies often have large campuses closer to Silicon Valley than San Francisco as it is generally possible to build on larger lots and less expensively (outward rather than upward). The big new Apple campus? In Cupertino which is further south than Sunnyvale. The big new Google campus? Near Moffett field and Mountain View, a bit north of Sunnyvale. The Facebook campus, Menlo Park (north of Sunnyvale, about 1/4 of the way to San Francisco).

However, there are a bunch of startups actually in San Francisco, Uber and AirBnB being ones that get a lot of airtime, and Twitter (which is no longer a startup). There are lots and lots of pre-revenue 2 - 15 employee companies there as well. YCombinator is in Mountain View which is right next to Sunnyvale, and about 36 miles from San Francisco.

San Francisco is urban and hip and all of that, and a lot of people want to live there. Then they take bespoke busses and ride down the peninsula to places in the "south bay" (the collective term for the communities at the southern end of San Francisco bay). That is part of the issue that SF residents have, which is people who live in SF but work somewhere else, they are able to pay higher prices and the bus eliminates the commute disincentive.

On either side of the bay between these two loci are a number of vibrant and interesting places as well, on the west side you have the peninsula cities of Burlingame, San Mateo, Redwood City, San Carlos, and on the eastern side you have Oakland, Hayward, Berkeley, and Richmond.

Somewhat remarkably they have their own micro-climates so you get different weather depending on where you are.

Cities in the north and on the east of the bay have BART service, cities on the south and west of the bay have CalTrain service. There are three major airports one east (Oakland), one south (San Jose), and one west (SFO). Efforts to turn Hamilton Air Force base in Marin county into a northern airport have been rebuffed several times.

If you are not working at a company that is actually located in San Francisco you will have a shorter/easier commute if you live outside of San Francisco (typically on the east or west side of the bay that your company is on). You will also pay less for an apartment/house.

[1] Which is nominally the Santa Clara Valley where all of the semiconductor companies were located.
Should countries let military prisoners kill themselves?
Can't wait for Flatpak or Snappy to make end-user binary distribution a breeze
To be fair, the premise of losing your rights as an American (or as a human) because you decided to serve your country is a fucking joke.
Is this browser expecting me to use TOR? Welcome and extensions pages on new tab pages wants me to go to http://www.9oo91e.qjz9zk/ domain.

I'm not finding anything about that in repo readme page. This looks odd and suspicious. Because it's even blocks requests there -> http://imgur.com/a/UnMu8
this particular treatment of suicidal people is not American or limited to America.
There is a burden in that the $5 million lowers your estate tax exemption. Whereas you can give $14k a year with no tax impact.
Because, for better or for worse, every second spent mastering a language is time not spent delivering value.

EDIT:

How many dollars have you been paid for template metaprogramming? How many contracts have you won because you used the proper const-correctness?

Folks, nobody gives two shits about how pretty your CPP (or any code for that matter!) is if it isn't solving their problem right now.

More value has been created by decent developers using the boring language features they know well than by people becoming master craftsman.
Has nothing to do with my comment.
Today I was thinking in the idea that LISP and Smalltalk are probably at the top on instant feedback for development. And Smalltalk dev tools might rank even higher because you can dig any instance to any dept and evaluate code "talking to it" and getting instant answers right there.
>every maintained addon will update to work with current Firefox

Those that can be will be, but I imagine entire categories, scores and scores of addons will be abandoned. So much of what people expect from Firefox addons is going away with no replacement in favor of basically light javascript web apps.

Which is the point of the switch: dramatically reduce addon functionality in the interest of safety / security.
Mayor Landrieu to Give Welcome Remarks at WEFTEC 2016
To be fair, 32 mins of walking every day is significantly more enjoyable than 32 minutes of car driving. In general given a similar duration, walking > biking == transit > driving.
I asked you to define what you mean by "true relationship". And you did not.
That isn't a tor URL. I assume it's simply a lazy way of stopping requests to google services by replacing the domains with invalid ones.

Edit: see https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/blob/8dd86477d...
> Replace many web domains in the source code with non-existent alternatives ending in qjz9zk (known as domain substitution)

How does this play with the HSTS preload list? That'd be quite the baby to throw out with the bathwater.

edit: well, I don't see anything like "transport_security_state_static.json" in this list here, so maybe it's fine: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/re...

edit2: The preload list seems to be excluded from domain substitution explicitly. Yay! https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/blob/4bbfff447...
SPARC and OpenRISC are mentioned in passing. IIRC, the main issue with SPARC is that there's no general patent grant and no reference implementation under a permissive license (the implications of integrating a GPL core into a larger chip are apparently an open question). As for OpenRISC, the developers of RISC-V disagreed with some design decisions that made it less flexible, and said that fixing them would have resulted in an incompatible architecture anyway [1].

[1] https://riscv.org/2014/10/why-not-build-on-openrisc/
If it were just that Manning would probably be free.
If only it was a reliability/robustness/simplicity beast instead. Instead, it's evolved to be this atrocity of unspeakable proportions that continues to wreak havoc (security bugs, technical debt, complexity) pretty much everywhere it's used. When the best C++ developers on the planet can not do better than that, you know we have a problem.

It remains to be seen if the alternatives that are now slowly emerging will replace it. My personal estimation based on all the expert C++ programmers I know is that this will not happen through people abandoning C++ since it sits so high on the abstract ladder of complexity that for one to even begin to question its foundations (and all the time/years/decades one has sank into becoming an expert C++ programmer) will be a Tower-of-Babel moment. On top of that you have the (quite illusionary) tremendous feeling of empowerment one gets when using something that required such an investment to master.

JWZ once wrote (on an unrelated topic):

“No matter how hard you try, you can’t make a racehorse out of a pig. You can, however, make a faster pig.”

This seems fitting to the way C++ is evolving.
This was my experience, the small house my wife and I bought originally, then after a few years we were vested in our options and had some equity in our house, the combination let up step up to a larger house with essentially the same payment (rates had come down, our down payment was bigger).
By conventional standards a couple making 300k should have a loan of about 3x that income. So 900k. Perhaps that is the case coming in with an existing property but do they really think they will have 30 years of prosperity and one parent won't take some time off to raise their kids? I can't help but assume many people are going to lose their everything come the next recession...
> We're fine with this in many cases. Oil discovered on your land, and you hold the mineral rights? Yes, you get a big chunk of the profit.

We're fine with that, I think, because assigning the rights to the landowner (and not taxing away essentially all of the value of those rights) helps ensure that the well gets developed. As a city grows in population because of the economic opportunities it presents, no corresponding incentive is necessary. (At least in the case of Silicon Valley, people are moving here despite a massive disincentive in the form of property values.)

> If I understand the LVT, applied to this scenario, instead the residents are forced out because they cannot pay the LVT.

Well, again, my proposal for modifying Prop. 13 could also apply to the LVT: to limit the payments due while someone is living in the house, and allow the balance of the tax owed to be collected when it is sold. That's a modification to the LVT as it is usually considered, but would allow us to make it easier for homeowners to ride out periods of rapid price appreciation. (The poor dears. [0])

I think part of the point of taxing only land value, as the LVT does, rather than taxing improvements as well, is to encourage density. It's true that the modification I propose works somewhat against that; but I'm also inclined to agree with those here saying that a complete repeal of Prop. 13 is not in the cards.

[0] I couldn't resist this crack once I wrote the previous sentence. I think it's often forgotten by Prop. 13 proponents that, prior to Prop. 13, the people with big property tax increases also had big paper gains that could, in principle, cover those taxes. What Prop. 13 really is is a massive wealth transfer from newcomers to people already here. That's understandably popular with existing residents.
I find it at odds that a nation that has such ardour and pride for their servicemen and servicewomen would basically condone human rights abuse by and unto those same personnel ?!
Yes, I would recommend Floating IPS by Alcaro: http://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=11474

He also implemented a much faster delta patch creation algorithm (polynomial time instead of quadratic), so it's definitely the superior option at present.
This benefit is often overestated (especially in discussions focused on the parts of the country with the highest housing costs (which is to say, places unlike Texas)).

This guy was paying $800/mo for rent, so presumably he'd be looking at mortgages near that cost. If so, he'd almost certainly just take the standard deduction.
Well, technically, since this device contains a clock, it should go through FCC Part 15 Verification before being sold. However, the FCC doesn't really have the budget to go after every board produced, you have to REALLY mess up to get on their radar...

Since it is USB based, it should technically go through USB-IF interoperability testing, if he wants to use the USB logo. Though actually it looks like he has a VID/PID allocated from SiLabs for this, which is already way better than a lot of inexpensive USB products.
Now that he has quickly found another safe harbor, this attack may well have a sort of Streisand effect and give Brian Krebs more prominence than he already had. Would be nice to see something good come out of this and maybe even cause future attacks to be seen as counterproductive by potential perpetrators.
> "If you move to <city> with half the CoL, we'll pay you 90% of your current salary".

It's an interesting proposition and one that I suspect many would take seriously. But as an eternal pessimist, I would immediately ask what would happen if I were to lose my job after 6 months living in <city> where my alternatives would be to work for Regional Bank A or Third-Tier Manufacturing Co. B who would not be offering 90% of my previous salary but rather 40%?

We stay in the Valley because if, as has happened to me twice already, I wake up and find the company I worked for is now insolvent, I send two emails and find myself another job before lunchtime.
Such a depressing series
Solitary confinement probably doesn't prevent death by suicide.

Solitary confinement and 24 hour arm's length supervision might, while it's happening. But it doesn't do anything to prevent the desire and probably makes the thought worse.
Show HN: WebGL visualization of DNA sequences
So much this. While on Firefox, Google only pulls that on you once, they constantly reoffer it to Edge users on a nearly weekly basis. And recently, they actually made the bar bigger and more obtrusive.

I filed an issue on the Chromium bug tracker, they assigned someone to look into it, and of course, nothing has been said since.
iGAN – Deep learning software that generates images with a few brushstrokes
There's an app call scanmem (in Ubuntu repos) that does this. I used it to win at CandyCrush a few years back. Doing an `apt search` I see there's a GUI for it too. Seemingly works just as you describe.
A) You don't lose your rights by being a soldier, but you do face military based restrictions and fall under the jurisdiction of the Uniform Code of Military justice.

B) The premise of operating a successful military is more important than operating a, uih, civilian military.
Slightly tangential, but on the topic of browser extensions: the Chrome extension API served as the basis for Mozilla's somewhat recent Web Extension API [0]. Many, if not most, Chrome extensions can run in Firefox out of the box right now (there's even a Firefox extension that lets you install these from the Chrome Store [1]). This has been an incredible development for anybody doing cross browser extension development (which has otherwise been a fair bit more complicated than simply including "CSS prefixes besides -webkit").

Having different browsers compete on things like this and then having the better technology become standardized and implemented in multiple browsers seems like a fairly positive outcome.

[0] https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-store-...
No No No. There are probably ~100K of ISPs, many of them in judicially-weak countries. This will never work. ISPs are not the problem. Its fundamental oversight in routing architecture of internet.

BCP38 is Best Current Practice. Not a protocol requirement. Once it becomes a requirement this will be solved in a week.

The 5 RIRs[1] are the non-profit organizations that allocates IPs and regulates ASNs. I dont know how but we (or the big internet boys) should petition them to force ASNs to fix their routers.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Internet_registry
I would love to. But as a recent and former Firefox user, the performance just wasn't there. Both Edge and Chrome are significantly faster. I'm hoping electrolysis helps greatly in this regard. I'll be happy to switch back.
> the top of the knowledge economy. The only economy that isn't demonstrably under threat.

The knowledge economy? At one point in the past, this used to be accounting, law and medicine. Maybe engineering. Accounting has been largely automated. Law is under siege. Digital discovery has laid waste to huge swaths of paralegal demand. And the assault on the medical practitioner ("don't you know how long I went to school? I don't need a computer to tell me what I already know") is coming soon (modulo manual procedures and the people-centric bits)

If you mean we computer programmers - by and large, from what I can tell, we're the new factory worker. Some of us even rise up to start our own factory. And usually (by the numbers) we fail.

I spent years doing semiconductor in Japan and then a couple of decades doing software in (mostly) the US. My Japanese wife wants our kids to be lawyers or doctors or engineers. I'm not sure that becoming welders or air-conditioner techs wouldn't be a safer (and less globalize-able) choice.
This is exactly right, but the conclusion to draw is that a lot of regular people would be better off leaving San Francisco for the same reason that they should drive a Honda and not a Tesla.
> I suspect part of the reason they're not interested in answering is because a difficult question requires a lot more work to likely get less points as a result.

I have to admit I have fallen into this myself on both sides.

The (now) rare times I browse the site to find questions I can answer, when I run across one like this, its usually by a low rep user, so I think "hmm, I'll spend fifteen or twenty minutes sharing this, get maybe one or two upvotes, and if I'm lucky the original person will accept the answer" and usually deem it not worthwhile. Partly this is because the correct answer is often "don't do it that way, you should do x then you can do z and completely avoid your problem instead" which understandably people don't like to hear.