skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I use software and there's a bug, I don't want to find out years later when the author decided to admit it, I want to find out right away so I can get it patched. Papers are equivalent to code, if I'm developing something based on one I want to know if the foundation is reliable or not.

> what if private disclosure was expected to backfire?

Well of course it could be expected to go badly. Look at all the "concern" spent over their methods already.

But yes, it would have been interesting if they had contacted authors quietly and without telling them their methods, simply to see who updated their paper and who tried to blame the messenger... Then publish that list and let the field really correct itself.
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Going by the GP's logic, the massive influx of women into the workforce in the 60's - 90's should have been a disaster.
It's just an idea I had. Maybe it would benefit consumers more than enterprise. Basically when I call company X for whatever reason, instead of having to give some robotic voice my full attention so it can slog through every possible option in a touch tone menu, I would just make a few selections on the phone's touch screen, get connected to a human, and get on with my life.
Sounds pretty heavy-handed to ban the whole account for alleged review vote stuffing. Even if there was actual review spam going on, couldn't this be solved by just removing all existing reviews and blocking further reviews, so the app could be downloaded by searching the app store (or via a direct itunes link)? Brutal.

It also opens up a massive blackmail opportunity. Pay up or we will review-spam your app with 10000 fake 5 stars so Apple kicks you out. It's reverse xrumer all over again. Nice.

Lots of speciality and companion apps don't make any revenue from app store sales and don't care about rankings. I'm sure there's a fairly big subset of app store developers that would be happy to run their apps unlisted and possibly unreviewed, since there is no other way to deploy an ios app to the general public.
What's your status on integrating with other platforms? any plans for integration with other platforms in the future (gitlab, gogs, other platforms...)
> I'm missing some fundamental pieces of your argument

Yes: economics.

We're more prosperous than we were 100 years ago, with far more people.
I write about food:

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You should totally check that out. It's brilliant. :-P
Non-mobile link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leidenfrost_effect
I think a case could be made based on the relatively straightforward syntax (very few gotchas).

I mean, most functions will look like:

f(X) when is_list(X) ->
firstExpression, % commas separate a sequence of expressions
secondExpression; % semicolons tell us an alternate sequence follows
f(X) when is_integer(X) ->
thirdExpression. % periods terminate the block

Case expressions (similar to switch/case in other languages, cond in various lisps):

case Expression of
Case1 when SomeGuard -> Expression1;
Case2 when SomeOtherGuard -> Expression2;
_ -> DefaultExpression
end.

Receive expressions:

receive
Case1 when SomeGuard -> Expression1;
Case2 when SomeOtherGuard -> Expression2;
Case 3 -> Expression3
after 1000
TimeoutExpression % handle timing out
end.

Note how they're all following the same form (this is also a selling point of python, its syntax is pretty consistent, especially for the features used by beginners).

The conflation of strings with lists and characters with integers can be problematic, as sometimes a list of integers will display as a string if they fall in the printable character range (and this isn't what you want). This creates confusion, but it's surmountable.

Variables don't vary in erlang, but if a new user isn't accustomed to doing:

x = y
x = x * x
x = x + 4
x = sqrt(x)

then they won't have too big a problem doing:

X1 = Y,
X2 = X1 * X1,
x3 = X2 + 4,
X4 = sqrt(X4).

It is more cumbersome, but it's also likely that those intermediate variables could have more descriptive names.

The concurrency model is fantastic, and will, IMO, be greatly beneficial to anyone new to programming. Not because it's available in every other language (without libraries it likely isn't), but because it gives a really good mental model for concurrency that can be mapped to other existent concurrency implementations in other languages. It also helps to encourage a design based on loose coupling and high cohesion, which many (most?) of us believe are good design principles.

Syntactic sugar around list comprehensions, maps, binary comprehensions make a lot of algorithms very concise (though perhaps not performant, but this is effective for a first pass implementation when you're aiming for correctness and not speed).

The library ecosystem was less comprehensive last I checked (several years ago now), which made integrating some useful libraries very challenging. But I believe this has changed, and the Elixir project has certainly helped a great deal here as well.

The performance of numerical code hasn't been good. And a lot of people mistake concurrency for parallelism expecting performance boosts that just won't happen. Concurrency is largely a design/communication principle, not a performance one (though it can and does aid performance). So those are areas for concern.

There's probably more pros and cons, but I've got to go now.
While I think bringing PySide back would be great, I use PyQt from day to day, and it works really well. Commercial PyQt licenses are reasonably priced, and it's dual-licensed GPL if you've got an open-source project or you just want to try something out.
The research on the so-called "Mariel boatlift" in the 80's was done back in 1990 and has since been disputed:

> Most recently this has centred on a dispute between two economists, David Card at the University of California, Berkeley, and George Borjas, at Harvard University, over the effect of an unexpected surge in Cuban migrants to Miami in 1980 (the so-called “Mariel boatlift”). In 1990 Mr Card found this influx had no effect on the wages of low-skilled workers in Miami; Mr Borjas has now revisited the analysis, and claims that wages of high-school dropouts in fact fell substantially.

Source: http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21705699-who-are...
Re: uBlock problem: you need to allow the nyt.com domain, then it works fine.
kentonv seems like one of those mythical "10x" engineers. An engaging read, and fun to see how he tracked this one down.

I'm a little surprised such a bug existed in meteor. Is sandstorm among the largest users of it? Shouldn't this have come up in other production deploys?
> California should consider itself lucky

I don't think any place experiencing the destruction of its landscape, the erosion of its environment, and the tragic loss of so many unique, beautiful and valuable places, should count itself lucky simply because it's not as bad as somewhere else.
OpenNTPD is an extremely easy to use time client that has been around for years.

And considering systemd's vs OpenBSD's track record I suppose it's also less likely to get you owned or set your time to Jan 1st 1970 because of some bullshit like "who could have predicted that in 2016 networks are still so bad that UDP can deliver packets out of order".

And, btw, why should an init system come bundled with a time client or a time client bundled with an init system? When can I expect systemd-solitaire?
‘Security Fatigue’ Can Cause Computer Users to Feel Hopeless and Act Recklessly
I had a rather long comment, but when I started deleting the fluff at the beginning I realised I had nothing to say.
Apes can guess what others are thinking – just like humans
stop rolling redux from scratch! use this! save time - smile :)
Compared to what that has the same functionality?

I think these changes are all commendable and I am greatly looking forward to them. However, as someone who spends a lot of time in Visual Studio every week, I generally will keep the same instance running for days and don’t even switch between projects too often. Load time doesn’t factor in too much, but I guess it's nice for demos. For quick one-off files, I’ve always used something light weight like Notepad++ and now more frequently VS Code.

What I am really looking forward to would be anything around speeding up install and patch times. These are excruciatingly slow in VS 2015.
The point about being too worried about writing something that isn't good is likely why I write about half of what I should be writing. Because every time I consider it done, I go back through the article, reword the intro, change a bunch of sentences that don't sound right this time around and still keep thinking "no, this is nowhere near as good as it could be".

I don't believe talent is innate or anything like that (which seems to be the main assumption in the article, that people who procrastinate believed skill is fixed). I believe full well anyone can become a better writer.

It's just my ambition is probably higher than my actual skill level, and I simply can't accept anything I don't see as 'perfect'. So I get stressed, take a break to do something else, get stressed even more and only get the determination to finish on some random day when I feel like finishing everything.

On another note, I wonder how much worse this 'imposter syndrome' and 'perfectionism' has become with the move to CMS systems like WordPress?

Because if you install certain plugins for those scripts (like Yoast), it grades everything you write according to a Flesch–Kincaid readability test. As a result, I find it's very easy to get distracted and worried by the giant warning saying 'improvement required' and end up focusing more on that than what you're actually supposed to be writing about.

Makes me wonder how many writers have been left paralysed with the fear their work isn't 'good enough' simply because of the script they use to write their work in...
Thanks for being so open with this information...makes me want to get my side projects back in gear.

Edit: Also, best of luck!
Exploring browser extension dev: sync'd storage, rich notifications and alarms
Money isn't created per se, but value is.

This is what people mean when they say economies aren't zero sum. The total value of the economy increases due to greater production (driven by an influx of labor and increased demand), leading to more potential jobs and higher wages.
Great metaphor for Twitter, actually. Nice.
Yeah, for a large company I would think the license would have been nothing compared to paying the lawyers to investigate the LGPL changes.
It picks up transmissions from 87.5 to 107.9 MHz.
> Capitalism's ultimate iteration

Good god...

Imagine you have a brand new Macbook Pro. It's awesome; you've become super productive because of it, your quality of life has increased. Then you piss all over it. Frustrated that your laptop no longer works as intended you bring it to the Apple store. "This is the Macbook Pro's ultimate iteration; covered in my piss. It works like crap! You made a shitty laptop!" Imagine the Apple Store employee's frustration.
Your account of the state of JavaScript in this decade reminds me of this post from a few days ago: https://hackernoon.com/how-it-feels-to-learn-javascript-in-2...
Drought makes the trees easier for the beetles to attack, and climate change keeps the beetles alive through the winter.
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No, the difficulty would rise but the number of "coins" created would be constant and they'd cost the same because the same dollar-value of electricity was spent generating them.
I would think, although possibly wrongly, that if this was drought induced the die off would be more uniform. The pictures look similar to what I saw in Wyoming a decade ago due to pine beetles.

Both are likely related, reduced water makes the trees more susceptible to the ravages of the pests?
I am talking in terms of much longer spans of time than 5 years.
It is dirty nationalism only if you are white. Otherwise it is empowerment and celebrating one's heritage.
Go for it :)

Edit: and thanks!
Safer branching
This answer on Math SE illustrates the concept of finite volume-infinite area quite nicely (http://math.stackexchange.com/a/14632/14643).

Note that the converse is proven only for surfaces of revolution and for differentiable functions. Finding a pathological counter example that violates these assumptions would be interesting.
> These illegal immigrants take jobs away from Americans.

Respectfully: that is simply not how labor works.

'Illegal immigrants' may flood the job market with workers that are willing (or forced) to take lower pay than most Americans, work longer hours than most Americans, or deal with more hardships than most Americans - but it is the employers role to decide whether they'd rather take on the risk of employing undocumented workers than fixing these conditions. If an employer says "eff it, I'm willing to turn a blind eye and break the law if it means slightly less money spent on wages" - they're the ones at fault.

I'm trying to point out what might seem obvious: focusing on the immigrants here may feel satisfying, but if the employers are not compelled to ameliorate their behavior, then deporting every last immigrant won't change the situation.
So we have 1,000 jobs filled by 1,000 people and they all have paychecks.

We add an extra 1,000 people so we have 2,000 people and 1,000 jobs. 1,000 of those people are unemployed and have no money.

Somehow this benefits our economy because those 1,000 unemployed people without jobs are going to buy things.

Sorry I don't understand "economics."
All these years I thought I was spreading wisdom, but it turns out I just don't know how to make pancakes. :|
Ditto here on a 40 inch 16:9 monitor at 3840x2160.
You make the list of organizational affiliations that can subject a US citizen to the indefinite detention provision of the 2012 NDAA and then decide for yourself how misleading my use of the term "Al Qaeda" was.

And, no, I do not agree with your second paragraph.

Finally: this has nothing to do with the comment I made upthread. Jose Padilla is literally the motivating example for the 2012 NDAA provision!
Interesting! I'll give this a read-through tonight, thanks for the link :)
How do people who are unemployed create tangible demand?
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I was the first engineer hire at a small startup, and have helped our CTO/Co-founder grow the company over the past 3 years.

All I can say, is that almost everything that was said here was the exact experience we had. Even down to the choice of Angular 1.X and rewriting all of the IIFEs in our codebase to use ES6 imports with babel.

I also need to acknowledge that PM is something that you do fine with 2 people, but your processes will fall apart, probably as soon as you even hit 4 or 5 people.
This is a correct summary.
I'm a fan of writing out queries using SQL. Here's a handy plugin to do that with Elasticsearch: https://github.com/NLPchina/elasticsearch-sql
>> We're talking about two different things here

> No we are not.

> Pagerank at its mathematical core was not that novel, basic undergrad stuff.

Whatever you say, Mr. Page. :)

> You dont get that just by tweaking CSS or for example knowing your Java platform well or by delegating. These kind of problems are not one off. You have to keep ahead of the competition constantly, innovate constantly, have to do stuff that your competition has not yet figured out how to do.

More false analogies here. The skills involved in solving technical problems are easily translatable from one technical domain to another. You make it seem like implementing an algorithm to scale servers is necessarily more complex than implementing an algorithm to stack shapes on a webpage in a space-efficient way. It's not.

> Their manager's ability to delegate did not seem to have helped them much there.

You're completely misunderstanding me. I'm not using the term "delegation" here as a managerial term. I would bet you that the team that scaled PageRank relied on countless open-source and freely available tools and tech that others wrote. This doesn't lessen their ingenuity at all, but it should be clear that even the most complex tech is built on the shoulders of others.
Do the trees get replaced? Or come back? I would think this is catastrophic from a global warming point of view.
But climate change and its horsemen — rising temperatures, drought and bark beetle — are accelerating this pace.

Maybe it is a different kind of beetle, but the article does mention beetles.
It can have a service manager. I have an OpenBSD machine where it has. A system manager is a little more difficult. The problems range from outright missing stuff to hurdles that could be overcome given a large amount of work.

* https://www.mail-archive.com/supervision@list.skarnet.org/ms...

* http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/nosh/openbsd-binary-packages.html...
Looks like this is a bunch of links to what's basically CSS4? (Not sure why all 4 links on the landing page go to the exact same page, but whatever.) If this really is the future of CSS, then I now hate CSS even more than I already did.
The sooner Twitter dies the better...
Thanks for replying! Good analogy!
>We should stop letting journalists make a big deal of companies that don't have infinite growth

Im not sure if thats the main audience pushing the narrative of growth. There is an industry that created the "growth hacker" position, and I dont think it was journalism.
I've never been a game developer, so I'd have to say the latter.

It'd certainly be fun to work as a game developer and learning about game design is fascinating (if mindblowingly complicated), and I might be open to working as a game dev on a team sometime in the future, but at that point, it's much like any other dev job. I like games, I can tell you that, and I want to see more games of the kind that I like, but I'm certainly not learned or developed enough to put those games together myself.
The amount of artificial sweetener in a can of diet soda is going to weigh an order of magnitude more than your one piece of gum (which is mostly made of an undisgestible polymer anyway, with very little in the way of actual flavorings). You might as well dissolve a packet of splenda in an eye dropper and take a few drops.
I think this is the fundamental misunderstanding about growth, one that is generally carried by post-growth and deep ecology people. The growth we're talking about here is growth of economic value, not growth of resource consumption. Yes, resources are finite (oil, total attention time of people), but economic value is not.

Entrepreneurs are in this game to create more and more economic value from the same finite resources. Take time: people have roughly the same time now than they had 40 years ago. Yet, we create way more economic value out of this time than 40 years ago, because our productivity has gone up.

Resources are finite, economic value is potentially infinite. Therefore, yes, you can have virtually infinite growth of economic value.
Is that the same Jane Austen who, quoting wiki, "Like many women writers, she chose to publish anonymously" and the same Mary Shelley who published the first edition of Frankenstein anonymously. (You also left out the Brontës, all of whom used male pen names, and, as mentioned elsewhere, Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, aka George Sand).

(Also which "Black Plague" are you referring to here? Your mention of "the 1700s" makes me think you mean the one of 1665, but that strikes me as extremely late in the 'there are lots of works written in English' game).
Discussions? With the Twitter character limit? You can't be serious..
> Sorry I don't understand "economics."

I would suggest reading this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-sum_game#Economics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy

Paul Graham also has a good article: http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html

There are number of good books on the subject. Tim Harford has some pretty approachable books that are aimed at a general audience. Perhaps others have further suggestions.

As a consideration to others, strongly arguing something you have little understanding of lowers the signal to noise ratio of this site, and might be avoided.
>months is a long time ago in Julia land.

Regarding minutiae such as these maybe. But I've been following Julia on and off for close to 5 years, and it's mostly crickets even among "major" versions (e.g 0.2 to 0.3. to 0.4 etc).

That said are little better/faster/picking up this year.