skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But surely you want some kind of filter bubble? Otherwise half (?) your webpages/content would be in Chinese, right? So surely you want an "English-language" filter bubble?
The network is what really matters: you go from someone who knows professors and peers to someone who knows Peter Thiel and his peers.

I'm sure there is some meritocracy involved too, but I'm willing to bet that as a Thiel Fellow, you would learn faster than a university would allow (school of hard knocks?), while still accomplishing less than a more experienced entrepreneur. Experience matters, and being a Thiel Fellow is just a riskier but potentially faster way of acquiring it.
The liquidity what if? Our alternative to employee options/equity grants
Brilliant technical minds denied the opportunity to gain awareness of the world through liberal arts exposure, are that much more easily pushed into working towards essentially sociopathic endeavors (like making it easier to sue media outlets wealthy people don't like out of existence).
Thanks! I'll add these to the list.
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I think the point is that Kickstarter is not a sustainable way to build a hardware business. Despite kickstarter's own statement that it isn't a store, it really is. Would the majority of people on the site really back projects if they didn't expect the rewards?
i would think that the author himself works from a laptop in 5 different part-time jobs , so he has no time to produce good articles , but no, he appears to be employed exclusively by bloomberg.
see: "only one way to do it"

Well, I'm not going to stop using Python or anything. I just think they're bad and ugly and I'm sad that more and more I'll open the source code of some library I'm using and find those "hints" littered everywhere.

I would plea that people reconsider their inclusion, but it seems like that ship set sail.
For me, it's Python 2: weird quirks (unicode support sucks, I have to do from future import for a lot of things, etc.). On the other hand, Python 3 fixes many of these things, and even others that I didn't realize could be better thought out (such as names of some stdlib functions, etc.)
I think he's addressing this line from the original article, which sparked this whole sub-thread way up-thread:

"Also, there are 2 old Debug commands, an unassigned variable warning message, and a hard-coded Employee ID that will all have to be fixed before this module can be moved to production."

Basically, it's the idea that if you touch a piece of code, you have to fix everything else wrong with it, even if that involves touching other areas of the code that you weren't looking at initially and may not even have familiarity with.

This is "the perfect is the enemy of the good", applied to code refactoring. If your policies put people on the hook for fixing mistakes that were made by other people a long time ago every time they touch code, there is a very strong incentive to never touch code. You get a bunch of hyperactive software wizards that shit out a working product (with a bunch of crap code), put it on their resume, and then move on to another employer. The people hired after them have a strong incentive to never do anything (because touching code will require that they touch a bunch of other stuff that they don't understand and have no interest in dealing with), and so they browse Reddit and Hacker News all day long. The code remains crappy, but its crappiness can't be blamed on anyone except folks who are no longer with the company.

Actually, this is a pretty accurate description of the software industry.
Ok, I see that.

But Oil shouldn't fluctuate too-too far between $50 and $120 a barrel. And that's just the raw costs. With all other components, which costs will be more fixed, the actual end price of fuel should not change more than 40% in either direction, max.

I'd argue that the greatly varying costs of wind installations, aggregate availability, huge one: supply and demand for electricity overall, specifically for renewable electricity - regulator changes, improvements in technology - definitely create a situation wherein the 'end cost' of renewable electricity is somewhere in the range of the variability for fuel produced by other means.
That's unlikely.

For clarification, only the breakdown of up/downs was hidden, not the overall score, and it was hidden because when people saw posts with tons of downvotes, it invited more downvotes.
One thing I never understood with Babel is which features are shimmed in the output JS and which features are re-implemented?

What I means is: I didn't know how to tell Babel which browsers I was targeting, and I'm pretty sure that some of their feature implementations do not feature test the platform before activating, since they were so compiled in. Is that the case?

Also, do you have to tell TypeScript your target runtime for it to it to use it's ES3 async/await logic vs. it's ES2015 (which uses generators), or does it automatically figure it out?
Right, you don't need much education to successfully run a company and make shitloads of money from it, but you do need education (a lot, in fact) if you want to truly advance science or society.
Umm, in my experience, you can almost always fit the standard cabin class bag under the seat in front of you. (55x40x25 cm, or 22x16x10 inches)

Of course, I still rather put the bag in the overhead compartment, because then there is more legroom. Or some legroom, to be precise. If the bag fills up the space in front of you, it's quite inconvenient.
Any plans to add C#-like extension methods to TypeScript? Or is there a way to achieve the same thing already? I know that a previous suggestion to add extension methods was closed as out of scope. But maybe it's time to revisit that, since TypeScript is now doing significant code transformations for downlevel await support.
Uhm.. I have a very low Slashdot ID number, so I saw that site develop from its start (19 years ago). Back then it was what HN is now. They have those things. It has become unreadable and unusable (has been for years now) - the most idiotic and trite one-sentence statement is tagged "insightful" if it the visiting crowds like it (which happens a lot). Go and see for yourself, if you dare: https://slashdot.org/

Example - and I clicked exactly once on a headline and selected the very first comment tagged "Insightful", so I made no attempt to find an example that fits my narrative:

Win 10 is good OS that would be quickly adopted if/when MS
decided to remove or make optional bolted-on telemetry
malware. Such "feature" is simply not acceptable on a non-free
product.

That's it, that's the entire statement. I have to add, for those who don't know the site, only a few people have mod points at any given time (you get 5 or 15, distributed randomly after an internal algorithm giving the active users more and more often), so they are precious. Less than 10% of articles are tagged at all for an average topic, so one would expect the ones marked "Insightful" or "Interesting" to actually be just that.

If you now think "They need meta-moderation, moderation of the moderators! This should improve quality!" - well, I'm sorry to tell you they've had just that for ages...

So simply implementing any mechanism in software is not sufficient. There is no magic algorithm or method, thus far anything someone tried eventually deteriorated. I must say reddit is actually doing surprisingly well, mostly because they managed to have "sites with in the site" with their individually managed subreddits.
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They are the first "legacy" carrier to do this. That's significant because it means that every other major airline will likely follow suit if this works for them.
I would probably make an exception for driver installs, which definitely get into that "actually broken" territory. I'm also ok with "detect my device settings automatically".

I was mostly thinking about the program installs where 'advanced' is a list of different things you might want to install. The worst case there is pretty much just "you didn't install the thing you wanted", versus the "good luck buddy" worst case of tools and drivers.
I don't think Thiel would disagree. He is talking about things that are not hard science/engineering.

Just because you need to educate yourself you don't need an education.
> Abraham dropped out of the University of Pennsylvania to run Milo, which sold to Amazon by the time he was 25.

Milo was sold to eBay, not Amazon.
Yeah that's kind of where I'm at with Reddit as well. It's not a place where I can browse anymore. I just can't bring myself to wade through /r/all, but there are certain subreddits where they just really have the community size that can't be found outside reddit.
Agreed, that said universities could do things a lot better in many ways.
If all of the auto transformations are defined Lexicons, that can be edited/removed, that would be fine.

I read the post I was replying to as some sort of undefined, built-in, set of intelligent transformations.

For example, 75F-> 75 Fahrenheit would require that you make a Lexicon entry for every value...1F, 2F, 3F, etc. That's not really intelligent :)
$Keys<> for keyof, $MapObj<> for mapped types. They are sorely missing lookup types though.
I can't help but think that maybe this is the manufacturing niche the US could fill... High quality, low run manufacturing that people are willing to pay a premium for.
An alternative view is: "If you're already successful, everything you could learn at a college you can also learn out of college (see: the internet)".
Wow that's the most annoying subscription popup I've seen in a while.
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Well thats just not true, the community managers and ellen pao understood the repercussions of it.

It destroys the legitimacy of all parts of the site and enflames conspiracies even more.

People are not stupid, my first thought was how many times did he do this without getting caught.
> simple solutions to complex problems

Too true. Messaging that is relevant to both technical people ("devops") and business (management, procurement, etc) is a hard problem to solve, though!

There seems to be a marketing tendency to either gloss over the technical ideas behind a product, or make technical details front-and-center and leave anyone less than 100% technical searching for a product that they can grok.

This is something we're struggling with right now: our basic messaging for Userify (ssh key management), which is actually a fairly simple and sane product, has gotten a bit out of hand as well: our support team is fielding frequent questions like, "what does each edition do." We've got to get on top of that and get some comparison matrices or something up. Applauding the OP for a nice, clean landing page that conveys most of the relevant details, but as you point out, the Github readme is far better. There's a lesson in there somewhere.
And not even all tech! I've actually started spending more time on Reddit because it's more interesting in general. When a post percolates up here about motorcycles or manufacturing or some cool analytics on an obscure topic, I have a great time. But they're not common, and there's always some StackOverflow-style "this doesn't belong on HackerNews". (But they also seem to pull people out of the woodwork like gangbusters - HN loves the occasional off-topic interesting post! But not constantly :)

Which is fine, I guess. That's why we have things like Reddit! Perhaps it's a variant of the Unix Way: have sites that provide a specific style of service, either in content management or filtering or whatnot. And appreciate them for that!
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Incredible release. Was definitely waiting for the spread/rest improvements as well as being curious about the async stuff.

TypeScript continues to be for me the clear winner of the alt.js languages.
I would argue that's a false analogy: they're much more like manor owners serving a particular liege. They could change allegience easily, they'd just rather benefit from the behaviors, because it benefits them personally. Lesser nobles have always been valid targets in combat.

No one is forced to use Amazon, they're choosing to.
Technically didn't buy them--just sent them offer letters for jobs if they want them.
Counterpoint:

> " I’ve had hundreds of people brought to me in the emergency room after getting CPR. Exactly one, a healthy man who’d had no heart troubles (for those who want specifics, he had a “tension pneumothorax”), walked out of the hospital."

Of course, the success rate (where success is defined as the patient going on to live a reasonably normal life) of CPR performed in the field might well be much higher than CPR performed in the hospital.
I did while 2.1 was an RC. It has worked flawlessly and I haven't looked back.

Build and minification is still a pain though...
This seems surprisingly high:

"60 percent of employers let workers telecommute, up threefold from 1996"

Edit: link to the SHRM survey -- anyone have member access to the PDF? https://www.shrm.org/hr-today/trends-and-forecasting/researc...
"Typing isn't a magic bullet, ..., but it sure makes development easier and your apps more stable."

That right there is the whole essence of typed programming :)
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"In what way did he alter comments?" really deflates the charge in my opinion.

He played a bad joke by swapping out his name for mods. Pretty tame stuff really. A stupid little regexp substituion prank of the kind programmers play all the time.

But yes, he did violate a trust. A sysadmin has a sacred duty and he violated it, but in a very mild way that is understandable and not a cause for future concern since he clearly realizes he made a big mistake.
So their first thing failed and then they got more people to gamble on them?!

Free Market at its finest
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I think their motto/slogan/whatever of "front page of the internet" is pretty straightforward.
The way I look at is that you need to educate yourself, you mostly don't need an education. All of those fellows are constantly educating themselves.

I am pretty sure Theil would agree that some things do require an education such as hard science, medical or engineering. (Although it's certainly possible without)
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It looks like now more of a YC for necessarily young and solo founders than any substitute for college.
Are you the same person who advocates switching to Go over Python 3 in every single Python thread? Not everyone prefers the minimal approach, particularly in a dynamic, higher level scripting language, where ease of use trumps other considerations.

Go and Python occupy different niches, for the most part. So the design considerations for Go are naturally different than those for Python.
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Weird. I read the New York Review of Books articles about Eugene Onegin last week, because I'm reading it (in a different translation) at the moment.

Douglas Hofstadter spends a chapter in Le Ton Beau De Marot, his book about translation, talking about and comparing various translations of Eugene Onegin, and he covers the Wilson/Nabokov feud described here. He is deeply antithetical to Nabokov's approach to translating it (I have to agree) and says that he finds some of Nabokov's remarks about Wilson unspeakably cruel.

He also says that his favourite translation is James Falen's; I can't comment on how it compares to the others, not having looked at them, but I can confirm that it seems excellent.
What does your research entail? Sounds tantalizing
Right, but variance doesn't matter if you just repeat the scam tomorrow.
It won't help with memory usage but you can nice a process to reduce its share of time in the process scheduler.
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I think you are missing the point by oversimplifying what Thiel actually says.

He isn't talking against all kinds of education. He is talking against large parts which is mostly things that could be taught via self study.
I see, good thing I don't use any of those then...
Reddit is a content management system for stupidity and spam. Let's not pretend it's some pristine, important institution. Trolling the_donald could only have been a step in the right direction.
Because they bought the assets? Why should they be able to only get the good stuff, and not the responsibility?
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I'd point out that night-vision and IR vision can (and even maybe should) be considered distinct, even though admittedly they are widely mixed up in common parlance. But especially in military night vision devices are usually based on the principle of image intensification, i.e. amplifying the light in visible spectrum, instead of IR imaging.
IntelliJ or maven can at least create a fat runnable jar that includes all dependencies. So once you have a JVM on the target machine that jar is all you need to deploy.

But I agree with you that an entirely static compilation target that includes the JVM and excludes everything that isn't necessary would be very desirable.
When I did Internet support at an ISP years ago, I would sometimes use a similar strategy and ask people to reverse the Ethernet cable.

If you ask directly, people will often just instantly tell you the cable is good, without even touching it.

Customers would sometimes question this, but I don't recall anyone refusing after I explained the reasoning.
Beyond that, as an outsider looking in I may be off base, but the rise of machine learning seems mostly fueled by the rise of GPGPU. So I would say it's not different, in that we experienced something similar with regular CPUs until about 2007. But it may be different depending upon how much, and how long, we can continue to cheaply speed up GPUs.
And because of this, I decided to visit the front page for the first time in several years. Looks great!
Then Open Source Software needs to get better.
Interesting. Where can I read more about this?
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I once had to raise a huge security risk to Comcast and resorted to a reddit post after very little luck raising it through official channels. It was a pretty sobering experience to how reddit users use downvotes for things they didn't understand or disagreed with. A lot of the downvotes came from folks who angrily commented that I was too vague. Giving specifics is just reckless, and if anything, I probably gave way too much information. Any less vague and it would have been out in the open.

Some official folk from Comcast eventually showed up and almost immediately got it fixed (!). Afterwords, there were posts about how "reddit saved the day again". The customer rep who helped out ended up getting more upvotes than any of my posts. I really don't get it.
> I can do the same using a wifi/eth enabled printer and my router plus maybe using a firewall to block the printer to go out on the internet and to be called from outside.

Gmail? I can do the same thing with a VPS, qmail, dspam, courier, and roundcube. Why does gmail even exist?

Congratulations - you're very smart. But you're not the target market.
Though Sydney is pretty damn good and I lived right near Brick Lane in London (with a Sri Lankan boss), the overseas subcontinental community I've most enjoyed culinarily is that of Bangkok. There are some absolutely amazing restaurants there, and you can take your pick of country of origin, north or south, state or region, religious variant (Muslim, Jain, Hindu, etc.), etc. Typical thali prices are ~100-200THB (~3-6USD). There are even free meals at some of the temples. Leaves Singapore in the dust.
I guess the problems come with the fame. As long as you are a small site, you can do pretty much whatever you want, but as you grow, you have to compromise in some way. You can bend to advertisers and lose some of freedom, or go down the chan way and get a name that reflects what you have to offer and probably have a revenue that is consistent with that.

On top of that , there's the fact that the average user, simply doesn't care about all this freedoms or number of upvotes and stuff like that. They just want content and reddit right now has enough for everyone.
Or go into the inspector and delete the offending node! I resort to that sometimes when the "loading" message obscures the (already loaded) content, but won't go away because no JS.
> it's the front page of the Internet, not my front page

It's your front page, but the method of filtering is a little different. It's gradually turned into an echo chamber filled with like-minded people, and everyone else has been driven off the site or forced to post in "fringe" subreddits that you'll never see unless you make a concerted effort to seek them out.

And that's one of the biggest problems with filter bubbles: You're so insulated from reality that you don't even realize you're in one.

Reddit is one of the worst filter bubbles on the internet. All of the top "informative" subreddits are (or have been) heavily censored by cliques of moderators who rule by opinion: Politics, News, WorldNews, etc. Even /r/Videos and gaming subreddits are heavily censored. Try talking about legacy WoW in /r/WoW and watch how fast all your posts are deleted. Most of them will be automatically filtered by AutoModerator keywords.

Or look at how much coverage all the WikiLeaks releases received during the election. Arguably one of the most important stories of the election cycle, yet without /r/The_Donald (which Reddit is now trying to suffocate and ban), there would've been zero sign of them on Reddit.

That's what happens when you let unpaid volunteers rule without rules.
> Sounds great, really, but it didn't work once when I tried to put up well-reasoned arguments.

I went through your comment list out of curiosity, and I have to say, your arguments weren't well-reasoned at all.

> Why would I follow guidelines any further when everyone seems to interpret them as they well damn please?

Why do you care about your karma?
So far the only curated list I've liked is Google Now's news feed and Quora is OK but lately the big discussions have been about simpler topics such as physical looks.
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have you met the trolls passing for educators in higher education these days? all idiots. just like you.

you're all idiots.
It's being downvoted because the comment attempted to show empathy for people with different viewpoints. This cannot be allowed.
Coming from Java land, TS is a life saver for front-end development.

Any plans for .NET Core / CLR backend ?

I think, this will be the silver bullet. TS types should be able to generate statically compiled bytecode => native binary ?
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I'll say it too.

Python 2: Stability

Python 3: Features -- Unicode, yield from, better HTTP, asyncio, more flexible destructuring, better concurrency libs, better SSL/TLS

Python 2 is still a good language because they backported a lot of the improvements that landed in Python 3. It's headed in a good direction.
The post did not mention anything about babel (or whether it is still needed). Any pointers?
I guess my inkling is the opposite. It's like video games, even if the hardware dies, you want the software to be able to run, then you can figure out what hardware you can acquire.

A good example of this is the raspberry pi's with all the NES/SNES/etc games. Withing needing to make sure cartridges and old NES's still work, we use a new piece of hardware to give a very similar experience.

Smart watches and other small worn devices will be changing a lot. I'd rather have hw builds posted to something like massdrop as they are iterated, once the software is mostly saved.
Would it have been better for Pebble to go bankrupt, shutdown their services now, and not refund anyone's orders?