skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking of "wrong call" -- this reminds me of the poor folks stuck on the "no-fly" and "selectee" lists by accident:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/14/nyregion/14watchlist.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/14/business/jumping-through-h...
Quite frankly, reddit has way bigger problems than that. I mean, do what you want with your subreddit, no skin off my back. But it is borderline insane to me that this is what is turning people against it. Ignominious.
> More evenings with no sleep, coupled with a 4 hour commute (both ways) means she is exhausted.

This stood out to me - I cannot imagine the detrimental effect that 8 hours commuting per day has on one's mental health. I'm glad she was able to change jobs.
Introduction to Python for Computational Science and Engineering [pdf]
I ended up uninstalling ReSharper 2 years ago because of the amount of false positives it reported as well as having huge impedance mismatches with the performance requirements I had at the time.

One annoying moment was when it claimed a variable would always be false, and running in the debugger proved it could have both values. I also had to turn off a lot of rules because the refactoring suggestions I had would've made the code cleaner at the cost of adding indirections or allocations.

I was doing a 2D skeletal animation system for Unity3D at the time and wanted raw performance much more than anything else. We ended up pushing 10K sprites on mobile devices (thats about 200 dynamic meshes of 50 sprites each - the best existing solutions we could find had a performance cap of 10-20 meshes) but that was the least idiomatic C# I've ever written; structs and refs everywhere in tightly packed contiguous memory with components being dumb indices into these arrays.

Its a wonderful tool, but it requires some critical thinking to not naively apply everything it suggests, which in my case ended up being easier to work without ReSharper than with it.
"The evidence appears rather weak for that position."

Sure, and it's exactly not a scientifically backed site.
"Not obviously pathological" was the intended message from my part. I have no strong opinion on the matter. My weak belief is that it's non-pathological, and thus not worth chiding.

Any real world system that has enough degrees of freedom to function and not be too brittle and cumbersome is bound to have loopholes and such. Which are ok, as long as they are not grossly parasitical.
can you tell me why you want to punish users of your language - normal people - because politics? how that does make you better than u/spez? i'd argue this is worse.
Stripe has raised $150M more at a $9B valuation
Watching playback from session recording services (getjaco.com or similar) can be soul crushing, but educational.

I did this on one of my ecommerce sites and was surprised to see how many of my assumptions on how people use a website were wrong.
Don't watch broadcast cuz it is full of ads. I watch selectively :) it is also more productive.
"A four hour commute each way"?
I vouched for this article after having read it. Although the title is unnecessarily provocative, the article is not about current partisan politics but about the academic origins of the buzzword 'post-truth'. I think it falls on the right side of the 'no politics' rule on HN, and I hope it will raise interesting discussion rather than blood pressure.
> The CEO edited a comment and admitted he edited it

Well, it was an entire page of them, but an interesting thing I found while following a bit of this as it blew up was coming across a user that mentioned a comment that was seemingly also deleted by the admin [1]. It seems the CEO may have been doing more than just editing comments. Not that it changes the view of your post though.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5ekdy9/the_admi...
Since the golang community was originally independent, and then the golang owners took it over, instead of deleting it, they should return it to the community with a disclaimer it's not an official venue.
That was how it worked in Chicago. People with billing addresses for e.g. their parent's houses in the suburbs were not affected.
> It’s difficult to get an entrepreneur to understand something, when their valuation depends on them not understanding it.

Interesting (and unsurprising) that the comments here all focus on Facebook rather than the general problem. Cisco did the same thing by building the great firewall. Dubai has no shortage of western companies selling solutions to censor the Internet. When Wikileaks was raising money on Amazon it only took an angry statement from a Senator to get them banned.

Companies are happy to dump principles and take the money. The solution won't be complaining about Facebook. Trying to legislate companies bad actions is how we got here, so that might work with some issues in the past, but it isn't the solution we need now. Protesting and boycotting can get Apple to stop using child labor and suicide nets, but as a solution it's slow and reactionary.
How Europe’s Startup Is About to End the Project Planning Nightmare
Every time I try to use Resharper, it takes only a few days before I have to uninstall it. Last time, I couldn't find a way to turn off ctrl+click navigating to a definition.
The CEO of Google was busted by his emails for conspiring to suppress wages.

WikiLeaks recently released a 2014 email[1] from Eric where he appears to conspire with the Clinton campaign/dnc to have "low paid permanent employees".

[1] https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/37262

E: bots are out?
Lessig: The electoral college should choose Clinton
BlurKit – Android library aiming to bring blurring parallel to iOS
i'd be anxious too married to someone so willing to cut and run.

you're all idiots.
Really glad this article was posted.

I have anxiety. No idea what to do about it. I just sit here locked in my apartment all day, haven't seen anyone in weeks. Moved a friend in next door, he's extremely loud, now I haven't seen him in weeks either. I just can't. I'm just an asshole sitting here with headphones on 14 hours a day and then sleeping completely locked in a prison of my own making. To walk into the kitchen and potentially hear them fucking or watching TV really loudly in their bedroom - it feels like what you're feeling is unreasonable, so then you start feeling guilty, except I can't help any of it. In my head it's like 'good for him! get laid buddy!' but what I feel is pure adrenaline and anger.

Sometimes when I wake up just right after a perfect sleep, hit my routine properly, get everything done, then I feel great, and can go out, and do things. But I have to feel extremely great, and it takes so much work to get there. And it only ever works rarely.

My heart rate is almost constantly 1.5x what it should be, like a consistent and constant adrenaline rush that no amount of pushups will get rid of. Any excessive or intrusive sounds sends my adrenaline to the roof and now I have to focus my energy on calming down to be able to work instead of actually working.

Very rarely there are small patches of time where there is no anxiety. I liken those moments to the moments Dostoevsky describes when he's not suffering from seizures.

The one thing I'm trying to avoid is telling people about it, I don't ever want to put someone in the position of "listen, my life is harder than yours because of X condition, so you need to adjust to me". I think that's gross. Like my loud friend. It's totally his right to be loud, and it's unfair to him that someone like me lives next door. But now he has to feel neglected from my lack of contact, which just brings me more guilt. Then at some point we're going to have to talk about it, at which point I can either lie to make him feel better or tell him what's actually up and potentially lower his quality of life and instill in him a similar amount of anxiety. Then we both lose. Pity is one of the worst feelings ever and I really don't wish to invite it into my life.

>All of these things helped but we were not living — we were surviving in a world where anxiety had taken over.

Exactly, it's just surviving. Dead time, unenjoyed. I am very lucky to have recently met a girl that takes the time to ask questions and explore and talk without judgement and assumptions and it's been the most wonderful experience of my life so far. I've never had that, so initially it was very difficult to trust. The first few months it was a mental loop of "Why would this person ever talk to me much less try to help me?". I lucked out huge though.

edit: Wow is what I'm typing really that foreign to some of you? I should probably look into this more. Thank you everyone who replied and OP for the article.
I'd recommend hiring an immigration attorney. Options will almost certainly vary in individual cases.
I didnt read where FB employees quit over having to work on the project? Anyone have a source ?
I would argue that a moderator shutting down a community of 25,000 individuals because of their own personal opinions is just as much if not the greater abuse of power.
You argue that gendered pronouns are proper English? Sure, but non-gendered pronouns are also proper English.

Given both options why do you feel insistence of gendered pronouns is a positive thing?
But a depressed person often is a negative person, and moods can spread. Think about working for a boss who is miserable and passes that feeling down onto people who work for her. If that boss goes to to a psychiatrist/therapist because she is having trouble getting along with the people in her life, that psychiatrist/therapist will likely say she depressed, never diagnose her as being a "negative person" which is also a true assessment, and how people working with her would describe her.

I'm happy to be open about mental health issues. I have had enough negative experiences with, and read broadly enough about the theory behind psychotherapy to have come to my own conclusion that it makes about as sense as most dogmatic religions (very little).
Oh please don't start the subreddit drama here. What happened there had nothing to do with golang subreddit
[Data Science] Entity resolution algorithms
Somehow this reminds me of LeGuin's "The Dispossessed".
You're overreacting.

The CEO of reddit edited a few posts, after having been sent masses of hate mail, then backed it out and apologized. You cannot seriously think there's any chance he'd do the same to /r/golang; there's little chance he'll do it again at all.
The irony here is that eliminating net neutrality regulations are the opposite of security in most ways because without it, ISP's and whatnot are free to shape traffic however they see fit and in doing so introduce risk. Additionally, from a governance perspective the growing consensus, whether we feel good about it or not, is that we are going to need more regulations surrounding the Internet and devices which connect to it. Moving away from net neutrality rules "because regulation" doesn't bode well for getting control of what is by all measures an out of control market. Bruce Schneier covers this pretty well in his testimony to Congress:

http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/bruce-schneier-internet-of-th...
Can't wait to buy those "cheap" bundled Internet packages. Wow! Look at everything you'll get.

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1567010/original.jpg
If Larry Page or Sundar Pichai edited some of your emails, would you still want to use Gmail?

And before you say that it's "different" because emails are private, let's remember this:

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-26677607

Emails are not private. At least not Gmail/Outlook emails. ProtonMail or PGP email should be safer.
"Clean coal" isn't an oxymoron. Coal has (once sourced and delivered to a power plant ready to burn) two huge problems, one of which the stack of technologies known as "clean coal" does largely resolve:

1. Coal burning power plants produce particulate pollution that directly impacts human health. Modern coal plants pre-treat fuel to minimize pollutants and filter output to remove them from their emissions. The stack of technologies that does this is most of what the industry is referring to when they talk about "clean coal", and it does appear to work.

2. Burning coal releases large amounts of CO2 and contributes to global warming --- about a quarter of the US carbon footprint comes from coal. Supporters of "clean coal" allude to carbon capture and sequestration technology, but it's unclear how effective it is and unclear how widely deployed it will be.

My understanding is that it's reasonable to be skeptical of clean coal as an answer to (2), but not as much for (1). Problem (1) is enormously important: hundreds of people die every year because of PM10 pollution from dirty coal plants. So it's probably best not to adopt the rhetoric that "clean coal" is somehow fake.
Non-native English speaker here. I’m defaulting to “they” or “one” unless it’s someone whose gender is known and is one of the two widely recognized today. Does that actually fall under incorrect usage of English pronouns?
Honestly, if I had been opening thousands of issues on GitHub that called defunkt a pedophile, I would be wholly unsurprised if I got trolled back, and I certainly wouldn't expect unrelated organizations doing real code things to leave the platform in solidarity.

Not to say this was okay in any way, but certain subreddits are... pretty special places.
> Did they think Zuck was a people's champion?

You say that as if it was obvious. But actually he is successful, he is young, he is rich, he is known as tech-genius that changed the alone with his 2 bare hands, he is everything that we are supposed to aspire to be in the Western world.

As such, he is continuously spin as a good natured fellow tirelessly working for the good of mankind. So yes that will surprise a lot of people to learn he is not the White Knight they thought he was.
Good spot to land the Spacex's ITV.
> They’re calling it a utility, so it can be taxed like water and electricity.

Curious how it's not a utility when we start talking about regulating who provides Internet service and under what terms, but then it is one when they want to tax your use of it.
Ubuntu, OpenStack and the bursting private cloud bubble
You seem to believe "fascist" is the opposite of "democratic".

How would you call a Communist state? Democratic? Fascist?
Ask HN: Why do some companies not disclose the amount of funding they have?
No disrespect is meant to OP, but since I don't know anything about softwarecrew.com and the site looks sketchy as hell, I would offer: https://nightlies.videolan.org/
Not sure why you are being downvoted. It may seem crass, but it is true. In the last 6-7 years I seem to have mentally and physically aged twice as much if not more. WE are still together but honestly, I don't think I can handle this much more to the point I'm getting depressed as well (suicide thoughts)
Awesome.

Some concepts in math are so much easier to grasp with an interactive visual. I once made an entire game around matrix multiplication -- such that players didn't even know they learned how to do this.

And sometimes, visualizations can help cause discoveries. A lot of progress in theoretical physics came about because physicists 'guessed' what nature's equations should look like...and then got shocked when they discovered they were right.

Take James Clerk Maxwell, for instance:

"He had achieved his greatest success by relying on just one empirical fact known to every school boy. Yet now he tried to do without any empirical facts, by pure thinking. He believed in the power of reason to guess the laws according to which God has built the world."

http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath103/kmath103.htm
What does it mean that it is "presented by Pixel"? Will it be streamed from a Pixel phone?
I recently ordered a cheap product from a vendor in china. As I found out later this vendor has 99% negative reviews that all say the same: money taken, product not delivered, and this has been going on for months. At least I got my money back after a comlaint. I find it unbelievable that you can scam for months and still be a vendor on amazon.
I think it is time to sign comments, that way these will be tamper proof.

Regarding the subreddit, I would just leave it. It was hard work of the community to create content that exist there and it will not be nice to remove it just because of some immature CEO.

But once suitable alternative comes to the light, would be nice to disallow further posts and add a redirect to the new community.
Look, you can ramble all about your 'trust'. But the fact is that the community on Reddit still trust Reddit. They're not asking to shut down the subreddit. It's the moderators in power, who use google groups instead of Reddit, who want to shut the subreddit down.
> Bryan Cantrill stated in 2013 that Joyent will fire any employee who uses English pronouns correctly: https://www.joyent.com/blog/the-power-of-a-pronoun

He did not. He wrote, "to reject a pull request that eliminates a gendered pronoun on the principle that pronouns should in fact be gendered would constitute a fireable offense" (emphasis in original).

First, this is very different from "using English pronouns"; you're free to use whatever pronouns you like, but rejecting someone else's use on principle would be a fireable offence.

Second, use of gendered pronouns is not the correct way of using English pronouns, and so the principle in question is incorrect (and, according to Cantrill at least, suggests an ulterior motive that is at the core of his declaration). Use of singular "they" emerged in 14th century, and was in common until late 19th century (which, just as a reminder, suffered from a very polar view of gender roles) when use of the generic "he" was encouraged. Mandating the generic "he" is, therefore, the more recent change, and there's nothing to say this recommendation cannot be reversed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
I had a discussion yesterday at Thanksgiving with my brother-in-law, who is a closet Trump supporter. The reason I don't think Accord will NOT go well: when you discuss things with people for whom facts do not matter, you either get steamrolled or it turns into a yelling match/argument.

Very, very, very few people that hold untrue facts in their mind are open to re-evaluating those facts.

No thank you.

EDIT: added the word "NOT" above.
>The CEO edited a comment and admitted he edited it, and it was stupid, and he shouldn't have done it.

Only incident we know of. It's overwhelmingly likely that they both had tools built for this and had used them before.

And admitted he edited them? Yeah, after he was called out in front of the entire world.

>The sensible amongst us should be above childish drama like this.

Not sure if trying to rationalise massive fuckups by C-level execs like this is "sensible", nor is ignoring the fact that reddit in all likelihood has ready tools (unless you're saying that it's more likely he had direct access to prod db) for stealthily editing user comments.
Is this all just better quality of pattern matching or there is more to it ? I'm guessing that only progress being made in AI is in scale of data crunching speed and size of data availability. Is there any research to move AI towards self awareness or let's say story writing ?
We've gone full-circle: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12949986
Now would be an awesome time for reddit to add support for signed posts and comments.
> Data is being sent to Google everytime you do almost anything in almost all websites, using the same technology. So what?

not on browsers I control
Yes, I know, what is your point exactly? When I say 'list of ordered operations' I mean that if I were to apply the matrix to any object, you can imagine each transform in the list being applied one after another to the object visually, resulting in the final position.
This is the oddest consequence of the pizzagate thing I could have dreamed of.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/technology/fact-check-this...
From what I understand people on The_Donald subreddit were accusing him of being a shill, so he edited his name in those posts to be The_Donald's moderators instead.

If you had guessed stupid political garbage mixed with internet trolling, congratulations you get a cookie.
In the USA maybe, in the rest of the world Netflix is a joke.
Himawari is a Japanese weather satellite that is 8m long and weighs 3.5 tons.
Meanwhile, subtitle support hasn't been working for weeks. And it still takes 5-6 clicks to even download a subtitle, while on other players it's either automatic or 1 click away. Why does the VLC team care so little about subtitles? This could be trivial to fix with a small UI change, yet it would have a big impact on people who need subtitles.
Yeah? So what?

This site has an FAQ page. Read it.
No we don't. The heavy industrial corporations and some of the larger energy corps got together and formed a company called TVO. TVO got a few billion euros of loan and started to build nuclear plants (the current one under construction is Olkiluoto Unit 3). Only subsidy I know of is for the insurance in case of a nuclear accident. Though TVO already owns Olkiluoto 1 and 2. As I understand the third reactor on the same site doesn't have any effect on the insurance.

The nuclear plants in Finland are built for a real need (cheaper electricity) without any viable alternatives if we want to limit reliance to other countries (ask the east block countries how fun it is to rely on Russian gas for your electricity/heating during the winter). In some countries you would probably use coal or gas but as Finland doesn't have any of those (literally 0 natural gas, oil or coal reserves) we have had to rely on nuclear (for which we have fuels to burn in the bedrock). We have already built dams pretty much everywhere we can so hydro cannot be expanded in any meaningful way. Solar and wind just don't work as baseline power for heavy industry in Finland (at least not yet. The battery technology just isn't there). Solar is useless during the winter and wind has too much variance.

Also due to the delays in construction of the new reactor (thanks Areva and Siemens) we have been very close to actually running out of power (with the connections to Sweden and Russia maxed out) and have had to resort to reserve gas power plants with MWh prices in the hundreds of euros as most plans for the grid have included the new reactor being done in time.

In Finland the subsidies for wind power is just flat selling price into the grid. You can take subsidy on building too but then you cannot get the one for selling electricity (which is much better with the current prices)
Even if environments are immutable, the problem has to be solved somehow that the environments are hierarchical. Newly instantiated versions of a sub-environment share the same super-environment. For instance, a local tail call occurring in the scope of some stable outer bindings, capturing different versions of the tail call inner variables.
He replaced "fuck /u/his user ame/" by "fuck /u/the_donald mod/" in several comments in other poeple comments.
> Tegra X1

GPU I suppose is nice, but how does this Denver thing actually stack up against other ARMs?
> this is an industry in which a CTO would fire an employee for using proper English[0]

I disagree with this being a fireable offense, but I read the post and this wasn't about using "proper" English, since both pronouns were correctly used. It was about using unnecessary gendered pronouns when a neutral one would be more inclusive (i.e. it's wrong to consider the user a "he"). Again, firing would be an overreaction in my opinion, but the neutral pronoun is equally correct from an English language perspective, and should be the default in my opinion.
Singular they is just as much proper English as generic he. If both are correct why not use the one that minimizes offense?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they#Usage
E̶l̶l̶e̶n̶ ̶P̶a̶o̶ Spez should step down!
"Zuckerberg created Facebook in bad faith (as a hateful hot-or-not site)"

What made the original Facebook hateful when compared with other "hot-or-not" sites?