skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you use a service like netlify, you can host a static site for free on a CDN. It's actually really convenient because it can build the site automatically whenever you push to a Github repo, and it can automatically setup HTTPS for you with a Let's Encrypt cert. It's a lot easier (and cheaper [free]) than setting up S3 and CloudFront yourself.

Github pages can do the same thing - it just has fewer features.
Here's our motivation for that wording: We know how important verification is and we spent a ton of time building an automated verification system (still in Beta) that provides transparency into common issues with CAD models. It can uncover and display defects, such as the centroid not being at 0,0 which will cause issues with pick-and-place machines, eventually pin mapping issues as well. We were trying to find a way to succinctly communicate this focus & investment into verification technology which differentiates us from any other library in the market. Apparently that was not communicated well and we'll re-word to make this more clear. :-)
Look at how families in the US were raised historically in big cities or even in the suburbs. People were happy with much less space than is considered "untenable" today.
Tldr: A human driver ran a red light and hit the Google car.
Agreed. LuaJIT is a lovely piece of code and very rewarding to read.

The situation is fantastically luxurious compared with CMCUL where the new maintainers needed to acquire a dusty old DEC Alpha to run a non-reproducible binary image with which to write a cross-compiler to x86...
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As the article points out, Houston is proactive about urban planning, when it comes to cars. The city requires, by law, parking (and huge roads). Miles and miles and miles of parking. Veritable oceans of parking lots. All mandated by the city. That's intervention and that's urban planning. It is bad urban planning, but it is urban planning nonetheless.

So...yeah. I agree it's unlikely to happen any time soon. But, that's true of every city I've lived in: The things that most need to change have the most political pressure not to change, and so they won't, and that aspect of the city will continue to suck. SF won't change the things it needs to change to resolve its housing crisis; Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles, won't do anything to change their car addiction; etc.

So, I probably agree with you. I wish for a better Houston, because there's a lot of like about it, but I don't have high hopes of it actually becoming a better Houston.
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This doesn't even bother me, but the fake reviews are driving me nuts.

You have the influx of Chinese sellers that "bribe" top reviewers into writing "unbiased" reviews (lol!). I am a Top Reviewer, and I get about 3-5 emails a day asking for reviews in exchange for free items.

Not only that, sorting by Best Rating no longer sorts by a weighting of the number of reviews and the average rating, so items with 3 reviews all 5-stars beat items with 1000 reviews average 4.9 in the search results.

No wonder people play this game now.
Interestingly, I have noticed a tendency for positive stories and statements about SpaceX (and, if I wanted to be contentious, I could even call them 'fanboy' originated) to refer to him as 'Elon', whereas negative or neutral commentary uses the less familiar 'Musk' instead. I'm not quite sure what conclusion to draw from this, though. As for the 'ElongatedMuskrat' user on Reddit, I have no idea...
Democracy isn't separate groups of individuals having —here— total power to take a website, datacentre, even CDN offline. What's actually happened is the consumerisation of weapons of mass destruction.

Glamourising stuff like this isn't useful. Everybody involved is doing something wrong. We should be doing more at network level to remove botnets by removing (reporting then blocking) infected computers and servers. Continuing to ignore them isn't working.
and reading a book that teaches you something new.

I can attest to this. I've noticed I sleep MUCH better when I watch the next episode of "The Mechanical Universe" on my phone in my bed right before I sleep.
I'm apparently in the top 0.54% for this year. Whoever says SO hates new user have never used the moderation tools and read the stuff new users write on this page.
I thought this was interesting from bullshit jobs:

"what does it say about our society that it seems to generate an extremely limited demand for talented poet-musicians, but an apparently infinite demand for specialists in corporate law? (Answer: if 1% of the population controls most of the disposable wealth, what we call “the market” reflects what they think is useful or important, not anybody else.)"

Same idea echoed in Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus by Douglas Rushkoff
https://www.amazon.com/Throwing-Rocks-Google-Bus-Prosperity/...
Unfortunately, loss of jobs in American doesn't come with free “adapt, retrain” like it does in many European countries. It's still very third-world in terms of that. If you lose your job, and haven't saved much (and many Americans don't, because of all the advertising that encourages overconsumption), you'll be out on the street or in a homeless shelter if you are unable to pay for your house.

If a 35-year old coal miner has bought a house with a middle-class income and suddenly gets laid off, he could be in that shelter within a year. That is why people are so concerned with holding on to jobs.
Do you really think this is a persuasive argument for raising a family in a shared 2-bedroom apartment?
You're dumbfounded that people would be interested in their own survival?

Automation eventually leads to a rise in productivity and living standards for future generations. The typical truck driver won't get to reap any of the benefits from the transition.

Sympathy for the Luddites[1] lays out a convincing argument for what actually happens when these jobs disappear.

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/14/opinion/krugman-sympathy-f...
"Manu Prakash is a physical biologist.. His most lauded invention is a $1 foldable, paper microscope. He wants every child in resource-poor settings or elsewhere to own one."

Have you ever noticed how famous writers often talk about how important reading and writing are, and how both are unfairly marginalized in schools?

Or how mathematicians lament the poor state of mathematical education, and how more focus should be placed on it in school?

Or computer scientists or programmers talk about how more kids should learn programming in school?

Artists and musicians are in the same boat as the writers, as the humanities are pushed aside in favor of STEM.

I'm not disagreeing with any of them. Education all around should and could be improved. I'm also not begrudging the leaders of any discipline for trying to get more interest in or more funding for the field they're most interested in and made a career in themselves (though there is a bit of a conflict of interest there). But it does make it difficult to decide just from these endorsements, which all tend to be very persuasive, as to which field to fund and prioritize.

Since the US is overall a very practical and business/career-focused country, it's not surprising that it would favor STEM over the humanities, but I do think it's kind of sad and that the country is losing something of great value. Life is not all about careers and technology, as much as those are the drivers of the US economy and the things that put bread on the table.
The curation is far and away the worst part of SO. So many interesting threads killed for being off topic. I've never seen moderation add a thing to that site. Its success is in its structure and voting. They've done everything in their power to kill that from a moderation angle.
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Move on, adapt, re-train.

I used to make this argument, but I don't really agree with it anymore. In the past, there was significantly more on-the-job training and even people with a high school education could get fairly good jobs with the possibility of meaningful career advancement. That doesn't seem to be the case anymore, and it seems like most of the jobs that are lost due to free trade and automation result in workers that, at best, have primarily service jobs available to them that offer little possibility for advancement. Economists predicted that those displaced workers would increase their educational level and retrain, but in practice that did not happen either because people are unable or unwilling. At least part of this must be because in the past, on-the-job training was much more common than today.

See this article in the Economist: http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21695855-america...

Here are some relevant paragraphs:
Until recently, most economists assumed that displaced workers could find new work relatively easily. After all, in June 2007, on the eve of the financial crisis, unemployment was 4.6%—lower than it was before the recession of the early 1990s. Between 2000 and 2007 Americans left 5m jobs a month and started 5.1m new ones. A million or so jobs lost to trade with China over more than a decade seems tiny by comparison.

But many workers displaced by Chinese imports did not simply find another job. Mr Autor and his colleagues have shown that, at local level, employment falls at least one-for-one with jobs lost to trade, and that displaced workers are unlikely to move to seek new work. The lowest-skilled who do find new jobs tend to move to similar, and thus similarly vulnerable, employment. One reason for this immobility could be that the economy is now an unwelcoming place for jobseekers without a university degree. The housing collapse of the late 2000s, which left many Americans trapped in negative equity, may have made things worse. This new strain of research has lent support to the claim of Dani Rodrik, a globalisation sceptic, that “If you are of low skill, have little education, and are not very mobile, international trade has been bad news for you pretty much throughout your entire life.”

While that article is focused on trade, automation should have a similar impact on the kinds of jobs displaced, e.g., level of education and skill required.
The c2.com wiki is a nice alternative in this space. It's not quite what you're describing, but I think it's worth checking out of your after a general-software-stuff wiki.
Protein folding games. Path finding.

Image recognition and other dataset-labelling tasks that can be used to train better AI models.

Natural language translation. Duolingo doesn't look much like a typical video game, but it does have gamifying elements.
I asked that once on Meta, my question got downvoted to an horrifying level (-17 or something) and I ended up deleting it.

I learned afterward Meta downvote don't actually impact your rep but still.
Not sure which Feynman biography you are alluding to, but if you're talking of his anecdotes - "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman", I don't think those are really honest bio. They dont talk about the incredibly hard work that Feynman did in order to become a genius. He worked incredibly hard, for incredibly long. His anecdotes cultivated a profile of a joker and a genius. He was probably both, but he got to the genius part by working extremely hard.
> "generous welfare payments"

Welfare programs in the past may be relatively generous compared to today, but I'd be interested to know when this golden era of welfare payments was, which era did you have in mind?

Also, it takes more than money alone to make people happy. It's possible to be financially comfortable but still live in a ugly, uninspiring place with very little that's enjoyable to do. I'd much rather be poor in an interesting/beautiful place like Venice than comfortably well off in a cultural wasteland.
Couldn't agree more! The way SO is being moderated, soon it's gonna be next Expert Exchange. IYKWIM
Every time I hear arguments about basic incomes, I think of universe 25.

http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2015/03/the-amazing-rise-and-f...

Fundamentally, we're all animals and due to physics and material constraints, there's scarcity involved. By giving a basic income, we're pretty much ignoring the fact that eventually we will run out of water and food and manufactured goods.
A nitpick, but "average" can refer to any sort of central tendency, whether it's the arithmetic mean, the harmonic mean, the median, the trimean or anything else.
And I'm sure you'll have the same experience elsewhere. Once a site like SO gets large enough to be really useful to a lot of people you're going to also have to deal with an influx of the type of users you don't like. I don't know how you solve that problem.
I don't really agree with this article's assessment.

If your question isn't clear, it's not possible to get good answers. If your question is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the technology you're using, the best possible answer is "You're fundamentally misunderstanding the technology you're using."

Stack Overflow encourages users to edit other people's questions for clarity and formatting, which I think is helpful for a lot of new users that don't know how the site works yet. And my experience has been that when there isn't enough information in a question, you tend to get comments asking for more, which is productive.

I do agree that Stack Overflow can be a bit daunting for new users, especially because you're not allowed to comment right off the bat. I believe the threshold is 50 reputation, which can be hard to get early on, because questions get answered so quickly on Stack Overflow that it's hard to find questions that still need an answer.
> Do we reduce moderation? Help vampires take over.

Every moderator on every site will tell you this; without this narrative they wouldn't exist.

Is there any proof that this is the case though? To me SO is super useful with ~20% of great threads killed for being off topic. Voting puts good topic on top, no need for administrator intervention.
That's not a 'biography' it's an 'autobiography'.

Hey Zeus.

Also - you don't read a 'biography' without grasping there will be some bias, and as far as the article's position goes - most people don't read bios to learn how to 'be as successful' as the person in the book. Reading about interesting people is , well, interesting, and it's insight into history.
I don't think we're anywhere near doctors and lawyers losing their jobs to automation. It's mostly lower class jobs.
> However, a 2013 study has found that 77% of users only ask one question, 65% only answer one question, and only 8% of users answer more than 5 questions.

Is this actually a problem?

I've always viewed Stack Overflow as a "write once, read many" community. For top questions, it looks kind of like Quora.

Checking my own stats: I've been a member for 7 years, asked 4 questions, and given 45 answers while reaching ~86k people [1]. My karma is not super high at 936. However, I've gleaned so much value from the SO community (and saved so much time), that these numbers only begin to scratch the surface.

Using these numbers as metrics doesn't reflect the value of SO's knowledge base. I don't think Stack Overflow is on the decline at all.

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/users/149428/tedmiston?tab=profile
If transport companies don't lower prices, won't new companies enter the market and undercut the incumbents?
Not really, but I did eventually get upvoted.
Some people are trying to fix it: http://www.sfyimby.org/
->similar difficulty to breaking NIST P-256

which takes our comp sci lab 35 seconds on a cluster of 8 machines.

so still no.
You can estimate the impact.

Take the fraction of truck drivers that will become pirates

Multiply by the number of trucks that an average pirate can hijack, deliver the merchandise to a reseller of stolen goods, get paid, and launder the money before getting caught.

Divide by how many shipments a truck driver currently makes per year.

And that's an estimate of the fraction of merchandise that will be pirated.

I suspect the answer is no more than 1%, in which case it is absorbable along with other kinds of lossage.
A shame finger died out :-)

To be fair, it never had much of a life to begin with. I bet I can count on one finger (sorry) the number of folks who ever saw the cute ASCII art in my .plan.

Carmack may well have been the only person in history to have put finger to good use. Even back in those days, using your .plan for actual status updates was virtually unheard-of.
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"lmost 1 million people were under surveillance (out of approximately 7 million), between 1900 and 1990."

It's probably all of them now -- if not by their own government, then by the US spy agencies, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, the various cell phone providers, credit card providers, stores, cameras, etc.

It's very hard not to be under surveillance these days, unless you're willing to completely unplug, move to a remote area, and become self-sufficient.
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Ironically, Larkin Street Youth Services satisfies both extremes. If you educate yourself, you'll find that LSYS is not a "private charity," it receives 2/3 of its budget from government agencies, and was founded by people in the neighborhood to fill a void not being handled by SF government.

So, in LSYS you have a charity that was begun in the neighborhood outside of government programs, which one extreme says shouldn't handle it anyway, which is in turn majority funded by government agencies, which helps the charity to do its work effectively. I'm not sure how this could be a problem for anybody outside of Kristol-Norquistian ghouls.
It's not about how much you make, it's about how much you save and the cost of living. An article could also be published about how the average US wage is 5x the wages in another country.

What would that mean? Nothing by itself. What matters is this, after your expenses how much do you have saved? How long will what you save a month last you if you were out of work? How long will you be able to find a replacement job? What options do you have in moving to a cheaper place? What lifestyle do you get to experience by being in a particular environment? All that matters.

I get Silicon Valley envy from time to time, spoke to my buddy who moved and use to have a 5-10minute commute. Now he has a 2hr one way commute since he's trying to save money. Yet his rent is 50% more. I doubt he's saving more. He keeps trying to serenade me to move. I run the numbers, and I would have to make a whole lotta money for SV to be worth it. :-(
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What I learned from LuaJIT
I also think art can include things like being a chef, barista, baker, barber, and brewer, distiller, wine maker; not just the things we typically call art. Things that are in more demand than paintings.
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No, but many people who want kids seem to think that they need so much space. Someone upthread lamented how small the housing stock in SFBay was at "only" an average of 1500 sq ft. That was the normal sized house 50 yrs ago regardless of how many kids there were.
What do you mean by "vampires"?

I have an interest in forums, but I'm not familiar with that "category".
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> move to a remote area, and become self-sufficient

this behavior may even be considered 'radical' enough to warrant more
direct surveillance.
Thanks for making IndieHackers! I visit it all the time for inspiration!
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Not exactly. I think it could be a good business, just not one I'd be interested in running.
I worship SO like the all-knowing deity it is, but I don't love it. It's a cruel god, like that of the Old Testament. I've never contributed to the site, though I've used it for years, and I never will -- simply because it's too arcane and silly and I don't wish to play the reputation game just to leave a simple comment or whatever. When a new god appears, I'll surrender completely.
None of the Stack Overflow moderation irritations matter to me in the end.

All that really matters to me is that SO has employed a reputation system that provides a strong quality signal for answers to questions that I have. This allows me to quickly assess the quality of any given answer based upon the reputation of the answerer and the upvotes that the answer has received.

All other SO problems, including any aggravations encountered while trying to give back to that community, are relatively insignificant.
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I'm not so sure I agree. I've answered a few Python questions this year. Most of which have gotten several answers pretty quickly. If they didn't get answers, it was often a question that was a poor fit for Stack Overflow (e.g., very specific to a framework, something readily available in the docs).
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You should probably check Lenny out: https://www.reddit.com/r/itslenny/
I think the crusade against duplicates worsens this problem. If duplicates were more accepted, it would both make it more welcoming for newcomers to ask questions, and encourage people to update the answers to old questions (by answering the new questions).
This is a good point. I hadn't thought of doing it bare bones and trying to sell it right away.
"In general, my thing is, again, in keeping with Dropbox’s conservative culture, if you can use languages and tools and databases and frameworks that are 10 years old or older, you’re probably doing pretty good."

That's a level of understanding I have trouble getting from very experienced developers and system admins, let alone a fresh college grad. I wish more people would realize that.
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"People keep saying that and I keep wondering if we either never visited the same forums or if I'm somewhat blind to all the vile bullying that must have been going on."

It wasn't bullying so much as low-quality content. It is quite likely you didn't have this problem, as I didn't very often either. If you know where to go, help has always been available for many languages/runtimes/environments/etc., and generally that help still is available today. If you know the right IRC channels, the right forums, the right mailing lists, the right other resources, you can get great, high-quality help.

However, prior to SO if you just poked your query into Google you ran a decent risk of getting something really crappy, laden with ads, locked behind obtaining accounts (to get your email for spam) if not outright paywalls, or expertsexchange. And this was more true for beginners; I didn't encounter this stuff while looking up an error message resulting from an obscure combination of hardware under Linux, I encountered this stuff while trying to refresh my memory about some particular Javascript intricacy.

Yes, it really was bad for a lot of people. SO is still an improvement inasmuch as while the community may rub some people the wrong way, at least the answers are still there for free, uncluttered, and generally of high quality for the most-commonly searched things.
The one for phones has been on HN before. This one for spam is nice, but not yet smart enough. With more smarts and some understanding of the messages, it could keep spammers going forever. It doesn't need to be very intelligent; it just needs to get up to the Eliza level.

If it detects a spam related to search engine optimization, it should have a list of about a hundred plausible questions it can ask on that subject, for example. There aren't that many spammed subjects.

Most email spam, though, is promoting a link, and can't handle an email reply. You'd need something smart enough to go to a web site and sign up with fake credentials.