skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would add that while it's plausible, it's by no means obvious that Reddit is leaving business value on the table. Imagine that they seek to minimize the bounce-rate on any thread such that they maximize overall time on site for each user. In this case, the important part could be that the top comment is 'not wrong' rather than 'right'. If the first thing users see is too factually incorrect, controversial, or emotionally upsetting, people could be driven people away from the site. Essentially this is the same mechanism that helps cause the Facebook news bubble effect -- people leave if you tell them what they don't want to hear, so you write an algorithm that underweights anything that might do so.

To put it into economic terms, if users have high loss aversion (from being upset, etc.) relative to their thirst for knowledge gained from great comments, you would expect exploitation to be overweighted vs exploration. The business value maximizing solution would then be that once an appropriate top comment is found, the thread should tend to stay in that equilibrium.
Wikileaks is being unbiased by claiming to be entirely unbiased on what they choose to release (yes, they CHOOSE what they want to release, what to save for insurance, etc.) yet not acknowledging the dangerous false equivalency of saying that this system implies there is no possible way that the other party would do the same things. Until we have equal information about both sides, this is dangerous. Wikileaks gets to be the unfair arbiter of truth while claiming total transparency that we know doesn't exist.
I'm surprised too. I don't get it. iOS apps especially are not a fertile field for open source development because they can't be sideloaded. I don't understand how Objective C repos could be #1. I'd love to see a random sample of 100 projects identified as being of each language so I could compare them and see if they're all actually legitimate repos.

I don't think I've even once seen anyone linking to an Objective C repo. Other languages? All the time. Hell, this link goes to a Go repo. But Objective C? Never.
Rightly or wrongly I think a sizeable portion of the world is tired of the flavour of stability the U.S. provides.

I agree. However, I also think that a lot of the world, especially Europe, has a strange and unrealistic vision of what a multi-polar world would look like. A multi-polar world looks like 18th and 19th century Europe writ large, with nation states jockeying for power, and war being considered as a logical extension of economic and political policy. It isn't nations coming together and negotiating peacefully at the EU or UN or wherever.

It feels a bit like the U.S. thinks the rest of the world isn't capable of looking after itself.

Arguably because the rest of the world isn't. If you look at the "free world", who actually spends even 1% of their GDP on defense? Heck, half of Germany's air force can't even fly because they've pared their maintenance budgets back too far to buy spare parts for their planes. When France and Italy bombed Libya, they had to rely on the US to provide necessary logistical support, like tankers and reconnaissance, and even the smartbombs themselves. Taiwan explicitly relies on US carriers to guarantee its territorial sovereignty against Chinese aggression. Japan likewise.

A world in which the US is in full retreat is not a more liberal, peaceful world. It's a world in which even more autocratic powers, like China and Russia advance.

EDIT: By the way, I totally agree that the US is overstretched. But unilateral retreat, leaving our allies in the lurch to face hostile powers on their own is not the correct way of addressing that problem.
And if you are gay, and half of all Muslim's believe homosexuality should be illegal, what then?

Thats a tough pill to swallow.

Gays for Trump is the most rationale position to take. Re: Milo Yiannopolous.
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As a non-fish that can't climb trees I find this even more depressing.
Probably porn
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Why is outcry annoying just because it's about something old? And why do you assume people complaining about it are ignorant?

Sure, I don't think that it'll ever change. But that doesn't mean people can't complain.
The superior engineering talent is simply a result of a small educational lead we had in the US because we birthed the PC industry. The rest of the world is catching up, and software engineering work is shifting overseas.

If we continue with a shareholder only focus those jobs will go overseas as soon as the cost-benefit ratio flips. If this is a strategic industry where innovations can still potentially reshape the economic landscape, then we should make efforts to keep the talent onshore, so that we can mine the industry for those innovations ourselves.
Honestly, who better? He has a following, people who know and respect him as a Conservative leader. How else do you propose getting that message of unity out to a Conservative audience?

Besides that, if a person sees the error of their ways, is truly remorseful, and seeks to correct those errors, who are we to stand in their way? If Glenn Beck wants to start preaching respect, unity across ideological barriers, and social progress, then by all means I welcome him.

There's been a lot of hurt in this country lately, and if we can learn to forgive people instead of punishing them then we'll all be much better off.
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Completely inaccurate in terms of South Korean military power. S. Korea has a large, well trained and well equipped military with almost 7000 armored vehicles, thousands of artillery systems, a robust air force, and a navy perfectly suited for their requirements. It's even arguable that they could adequately defend themselves against North Korea without US help, as long as China doesn't intervene.
Indeed. We rail on Facebook for making a pro-Trump echo chamber, but the powerful elite and well-educated also live in an echo chamber. In our echo chamber, everyone is equal, and we want to work together, and we incorrectly assumed that that's what voters think. Nope. That KKK endorsement probably helped more than it hurt. It was a wake up call from believing that humanity is mostly decent. It's not.
One thing to keep in mind is that the "everything is a file" paradigm breaks down with newer hardware. For example, you can't use the file metaphor to eject a CD.

To get around this, we have the ioctl subsystem, which adds a whole lot of complexity. Modern I/O programming involves heavy use of ioctl and thus isn't nearly as simple as those drawings suggest. Per Wikipedia, "A kernel that provides several hundred system calls may provide several thousand ioctl calls."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ioctl
This is a fantastic resource; kudos to the author. But there is one thing in this reference that I found unexpected:

One further thing which is related to memory accesses and performance, is rarely observed on desktops (as it requires multi-socket machines – not to be confused with multi-core ones ... When multiple sockets are involved, modern CPUs tend to implement so-called NUMA architecture, with each processor (where “processor” = “that thing inserted into a socket”) having its own RAM

I thought that all Intel chips since Nehelem divided their SDRAM access into a NUMA-configuration based on cores? Am I wrong about that?
So is Wikileaks an organization interested in free information, or using "free information" for maximum political effect? If they are twisting the knife and trying to find out how to cause the maximum possible damage for one side only, then they are clearly not a neutral organization and obviously should be treated as such. If their goal is maximum political discourse, then they are obviously a political organization, not an information or "truth" organization.
That said, it's still biased. Years ago, HN admins/mods marked my account as "low-quality content" so now my comments always quickly fall down to the bottom of the parent, no matter how many points they have. They admitted it in an email recently, and refused to take it off my account, despite the quality of my comments no longer being trollish. When you have human intervention like this, there's danger if it heavily biasing the entire forum for the worse.
I think this analysis misses some subtlety of smaller subreddits by focusing on the huge mass subreddits. As such I don't know if the results are at all applicable for my experience when for example >80% of the threads currently on my frontpage have <30 comments total (and as such would be cut off from the analysis). And I don't think I'm such a total outlier here, the long tail of reddit is really long.
That certainly wasn't a vote against the global elite, since by any of the definitions above (in particular your 'pay less tax' one) he is a fully-fledged member of that elite. I'm sure he'll continue to talk about how he's taking on the global elite, or the main stream media, or muslims/terrorists or whatever other convenient group he can find to deflect blame.

That's what's dangerous about terms like global elite - they lead you away from specific problems and into vicious blaming of some dehumanised other who becomes the scapegoat for all the world's ills.
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Twitter shadowbanned me for posting details of child abuse I experienced that left me disabled. These details included the names of people involved and summaries of acts committed against me. Some of the principals in these acts and all of the accessories to them are employees of a school board, police department, city government, and political boards. I posted links to articles from local media showing that there's a culture of child abuse in the city and that it still pervades more than 25 years after I was abused. I identified a certain juvenile detention facility and explained how it was designed to be and operated as a wholesale child abuse factory. I posted a report from the Department of Justice calling out the state on the ways that it abuses children.

Twitter apparently thinks that trying to effect positive change, to-wit, ending the wide scale child abuse and holding the abusers accountable to law, is a bad thing.
...I feel like I need to keep adding a disclaimer that I'm not a Trump supporter...

Please don't, it does not add anything to the discourse. It does not matter whether you support him or not when pointing out facts (or fallacies, for that matter). Having to add disclaimers all the time is a damper on any discussion and as such should be avoided. Those who lack the wisdom to separate their personal opinion on people who support a certain policy or person from the merits of what those people say need to take a gander at the following rant:

President Trump: How & Why... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLG9g7BcjKs
Recently? I'll give you one: Clint Eastwood.

Yes, they control hashtags. It is a censorship issue. They lie about what's trending, every, single, day.

There's a global problem with Twitter censorship, to the point it has a Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Twitter
If we seceded and lost all of the benefits from being a part of the USA, we'd be quickly absorbed as a colony of China or Russia. That and we'd need a lot of desalination plants. And a fully loaded military.
For the last few months, I've been using this in a few personal scripts. One example would be to enter a specific folder, get page 1-2 of each PDF within folder, combine all these pages into a new PDF.

Just wanted to say thank you for developing this.
... the door even had a "FREE/ENGAGED" lock on it, taken from an airplane lavatory.

In the 40s? I'm betting it came from a train. Some phone booths from those days, the sort you might find in a hotel rather than on the street, also had similar mechanisms.
Happy user here :-) has been running smoothly for over 2 years already.
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I once wrote a project for a consulting client using a then obscure Python networking framework (Twisted). They had a hard time finding someone who could maintain the code after I left, and had to rewrite it.

In general if you're handing code off to someone else you want to use mainstream technologies.

You can hear the full story and other mistakes I've made over the years over at https://softwareclown.com.
"Feminism is the radical notion that women are people."

Do you agree with this basic sentiment? (I don't mean the definition of feminism, but the part where women are people)
They aren't. I just don't understand why people were convinced the US military is so weak and shitty and needs rebuilding.
Can confirm this is happening. Two of my friends that are actively commenting on FB are marked as dead. Weird.
Presumably "besides" porn.

Visualization is good, especially for people who don't naturally see things already in their mind's eye. For visually attuned thinkers I think its more a good way to achieve fidelity of a shared vision rather than to simply visualize something.

For example, someone is telling you a story that took place in a certain area in a certain orientation. You can quickly convey that in a virtual environment, harder to do verbally.

The other thing that I am hoping we'll get will be "unlimited resolution screens" which is to say that one will no longer be limited to what is on the one, two, or perhaps three screens in front of you, instead you can have screens above, around, even below you if you want with different bits of data on them. By freeing the organization of your windows from the frame of the monitor to being able to put them anywhere, you can achieve better data awareness.
Your explanation makes a lot of sense. Thanks for sharing.

I'd assume the situation would probably be roughly the same with comparable open source and commercial operating systems i.e. macOS/OS X, FreeBSD, iOS, Android(???) and implies the same for any piece of software...
Testing validates that the program is correct according to some base of assumptions. You run into this a whole lot in embedded systems, where mocking hardware is difficult. You can't feasibly unit test against real hardware (most of the time), so instead you unit test against your assumption of what the hardware does and verify you respond according to requirements.

Has the benefit of proving correctness of your assumptions, which makes it easier to debug once you insert it in system and things inevitably are not 100% right. It gives you a way to reason about what your code does, what might be different, and then allows you to revise your assumptions and get your new solution in place and tested without the often long wait times to do manual testing on deeply embedded hardware.

Sometimes traditional TDD is the answer, sometimes simulations are the answer, and sometimes you need to just get out of your chair and test it out. It is a tool!
Unless I misunderstood you, the government would know who I specifically voted for in your scheme? That would be a huge no-go!
Google specifically disallowed apps from doing this (though you could sidelide them I guess), and lots of people complained that it was a useless gesture.
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That'll be because that's what the press release said. Any seasoned journalist would have re-nosed this story to lead on the fact that it is a machine that manipulates a physical cube very quickly and poor old Infineon would not even have got a mention.
Don't do it - Australia is not looking much better right now, or in the foreseeable future.

I am an Australian.

If you want to move somewhere progressive, look at New Zealand.
Well it's an offline program, so two devices can't open the same file anyway.
The flat surface with waves that look a bit like ^ but wider and curvier. Seen close to major islands like Windfall and the Forsaken Fortress

Example: http://zeldawiki.org/File:Zeldawindwaker01.jpg
Just to be clear, I don't disagree with anything you've said here, and as such I prefaced my comment with "Rightly or wrongly".

And it seems likely to me that as Trump continues to receive intelligence briefings, economic and military advice, we will see a whole lot not change. That's my prediction. Probably.
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Standardising can be done by taking more reasonable IP laws over to usa instead of pushing usa's boneheaded IP bullying onto the rest of the world incrementally.
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Agree, but i hope some sense will be reinstated in europe. Merkel is the main culprit here and she is the one who will probably have to fix it.
That's a great talk, brings together a lot of different things I've seen in one place.
You are welcome. Absolutely thrilled to hear that you are using it :).
That would be awesome. There is already quite a community that sprung up around hyperterm.
It's definitely not an easy thing. Freedom of speech doesn't mean a freedom from consequence.

Your two points, the first seems like a fair comparison to me. There is a line in most people's minds between policy they disagree with and things that are morally wrong. Those lines are not in the same places, so it is hard to say what is 'reasonable' to stand up for in such a way.

As to your second point, I think it's a little dangerous to suggest that allowing the act is primary to allowing the speech. The latter may be necessary to ensuring the former - if you can't make a living while being pro-choice, a chilling effect will be applied, and the law eventually changed. In general, if your view is kept to yourself at work, doesn't affect your work, and you don't act on it or encourage people to, it's probably best to protect expressing it.

For me here, it comes down to what is effective. My understanding of the mindset of Trump voters is that they are scared, they have been sold this lie that rights for others come at their expense. Firing Trump supporters isn't going to change that.
> balanced by your desire to show the left the consequences of their free speech

There is no vengefulness here. We just wanted to be able to debate freely and openly without ad-hominem attacks all the time. Because we think that it is bad for the country.

If your freedom of speech is about shutting down the discussion by shaming people, then we will not reach a middle ground. So now we took complete power.

There are liberal policies I like, but now you get a mix of Republican policies I might not like.

The left polarised the country. The right is just trying to get by and talk about things.
That's kind of a silly question. Basically any reasonably-defined geographical and cultural region with more than about 10 million residents can survive as a separate country. California certainly qualifies.

The question with all separatist movements (Scottish, Quebecois, Catalan, etc) is whether the costs of the act of separating are going to be worth the immense hassle. Britain is trying to go through a something similar today and they're finding that the nitty-gritty of it seem to be more challenging and complex than the simple campaign promises.

Belgium may actually be, inadvertently, the model for how modern nation states do separation. Continuously devolve more and more power to local governments until the central government sort of atrophies and it hardly matters whether you're in or out.
Sort of like Luo Ji as the "Swordholder"? That's kind of scary, but actually it's less scary to imagine a single person making occasionally irrational decisions, than a slow inexorable buildup of media hype and intelligence service bullshit with no obvious cause but one possible result. Actually it feels like the election interrupted one of the latter, and I'm glad because I'd prefer we not go to war with Russia.
Trump was a massive supporter of going into Libya[1] and doing "something" about Gaddafi. These world leaders are stuck with the hard problem of satisfying dumb idiots at home who think that the US can wave a wand and stop people across the sea from killing each other because it sucks seeing the poor brown people kill each other, yet they are only doing so because we meddled in their affairs before, and yet we are proposing to solve it by meddling in their affairs more. The US, including Trump, asked for Libya, and now Clinton is on the hook because the US population is too misinformed to understand why Libya is on edge, why it was America's fault, and why there will be no easy solution because, again, until America stops doing this it won't stop.

This is the issue. Americans don't know what they want and are mad because they feel like they somehow have a special place in the world everyone else is "stealing" from them somehow. This attitude is "anti-American" because it is the unfortunate truth, and America just voted that the truth hurts but it would rather blame it on the immigrants and mexicans and muslims. This is scary. You cannot have the attitude that you somehow have a god-given "right" to jobs in your country, and that filthy immigrants are stealing them because they are bad people. Conservatives feel like the government is a credit card they can use to get more when they want it, no matter what the consequence for the rest of the world. This entitlement is a style of attitude and thinking that is guaranteed to cause global conflict, and is the inevitable end of a culture war between western thinking and other powers. Obama proposed to fix this by being basically an apologist and reparist for the rest of the world, but the rest of the world is so fucked up because of America's history of trying to decide what's best for it that it is starting to turn on America, and deciding it doesn't really need them any more. This stubborness is war-mongering and why it is better to have free trade and globalism rather than using literal direct conflict to solve perceived differences between countries.

[1]: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/sep/...
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I really don't like java, but you really can't tell that go has better tooling and it is more developer friendly.
it's an outright lie.
java tooling is very mature and has solutions that no other language that I know can use.
(Spock framework above all, it is written in groovy but it is perfectly integrated in java and still I haven't find anything nearly comparable in any other language).
show me some BDD framework in go, just as an example.
There is something you could do, liberalize building permits: if we can build housing, particularly tall buildings, the cost of apartments will remain low. But more importantly, liberalize rental leases.

Why would you sit on prime investment property and not rent it? Because when it comes time to sell, you may end up with a tenant who's not paying rent and whom you cannot evict. The cost may just be large enough to forego the income of having a renter. Laws meant to protect bad renters end up hurting everyone.

Or we could slap more bad laws on top of more bad laws.
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NUMA typically affects multi-socket machines only. An exception would be high end Xeon chips since Haswell when used in a cluster-on-die configuration, but you won't find that in a desktop PC. Each socket in a multi-socket system has its own memory, and when a remote CPU accesses the memory of another CPU, it pays a fairly hefty latency penalty compared to accessing its own memory.
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uMatrix is the best I have. I've accepted the inconvenience as minor in comparison; but previous whitelisting is a problem that I actually hadn't considered. I can't think of any reasonable way to prevent that - even catching changed/new scripts and requiring approval to run them won't help if all you can see are minimized scripts.
"non-determinism" implies unordered.
Rather, essential in any setup with more than one user.
"This comment box is too small to state it." Can you write it in the margin instead?
"feel unsafe" has been more subjective and ridiculous than ever.