skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Transitive, persistent reputation is key to solving this issue

Reddit/HN/etc make the username behind each comment as small and discreet as possible. As much as I dislike the low content/cruft ratio of BBForum, its design emphasizes each commenter's login, and registration date. This helps at least a bit, as even visitors can readily notice the correlation between certain avatars and the quality of their posts.

Whereas on Reddit and here, I even sometimes miss that the same account is just replying to a reply--i.e. just continuing the conversation. I think the aim is to judge comments by their content rather than the character who posts them, but context is always extremely relevant. It matters whether the poster is a Senator, a thought leader, or a habitual troll. And I often get too wrapped up in the content to dig for the source.
> Deloris Canflap

Not sure if authentic history or minor Harry Potter character
Basic Income combined with a Prebate seem like they would work rather well in consumption-tax land.
So they're basically DeBeers for doctors?
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In "The Expanse" TV show, Ceres is the birth place of the main character, police detective Josephus Miller.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Expanse_(TV_series)
One single cable or one single port? I thought the problem with the USB Type-C port was that there is a myriad of different USB C cables that "fit" into the port but each cable has different capabilities and thus your device may only work with a certain USB C cable.

http://blog.fosketts.net/2016/10/29/total-nightmare-usb-c-th...
From what I've read the coil whine is related to having the keyboard backlight on. Is that important enough to trade-off for the noise? I always turn off backlights when using a computer on battery anyway (it's not like I'll be looking at the keyboard much...).
> Kill advertising and you'll take the content with it

Good. Let it die.

There's enough better content available for free and without ads. Somehow, it so happens that people who have something interesting or meaningful to say tend to say it anyway, and either pay for it themselves or ask nicely for something in return.

I honestly do believe the content quality is inversely proportional to the amount and obtrusiveness of ads on the page.
Is this even possible with human drivers? I thought every ride was subsidized by Uber because at "market rate" the service is too expensive.
Zim wiki
Josh came in from the TellApart acquisition, an adtech/retargeting/data company, where he was ceo.

I can't understand how he was vp product on a social network.
This worldview has caused so much pain and suffering that I can't really believe you would write it with a straight face. You're basically describing the Cold War as the most stable and peaceful state of geopolitics. You're advocating for all people to define themselves primarily by race, never associate with other races, and violently defend their race when there's an infraction.

Oh come on. I clarified that people can be tribal in different ways -- by national identity, by religion, by polis, by clan, etc. You cannot get rid of people being tribal. You can change the type of tribalism (although that is not easy), but you cannot get rid of it. Since tribalism exists, you have peace when borders are clear, and you have war when borders between tribes are unclear, or when one tribe is actively preying upon another.

The Cold War was violent to the extent that boundaries were not clear. There were lots of fighting over third world countries that weren't clearly owned by either sphere (hence the very definition of the word "third world"). There was global conflict between the USSR and USA because both felt the other was predatory, both thought the other was trying to actively extend its territory. That is not a good equilibrium, that is not a good state of affairs.

Also, conversations are better when you make an effort to read with a little bit of charity. By "boundaries are clear" I do not mean that people should never associate with each other. The US and Canada have a clear boundary, with clear rules for coming across the boundary. That doesn't mean we never associate with Canadians. And if a Canadian commits a crime upon an American, they will be arrested by an armed American and suitably punished. And vice versa. That's a stable, good equilibrium.

Another huge problem with your article, demonstrated here, is that you never once acknowledge a time before 1977....Really, no big problems before desegregation? I know you know this isn't true, why write it?

If we just consider problems of racial animosity in Boston, on a scale of 1 to 10, they were maybe at 3 before forced integration and at 8 afterwards. That is my sense from reading the historical accounts. See the example of the black Southie school teacher who did not notice problems before the forced busing.

Obviously racial problems and disparities across the country go much further back. I intend to write more on that. Follow my blog if you are interested. But this post was already at 15,000 words so I just wanted to focus on the direct before and after impacts of busing in Boston.

Forced integration, while obviously not perfect, was necessary to start solving some big problems, even if it caused some new problems of its own.

No, in Boston, it failed in every single way. And there is no reason to think mass forced integration is necessary or even net helpful with regards to fixing problems of racial disparities.
I do not find this to be entirely accurate. I work as a penetration tester/run the offensive security practice at a small security firm, and I used to spend a fair amount of time performing malware forensics (and taught it a bit at a local University for graduating students who were interested in a two day crash course... free of course), and I can say with fair amount of certainty that the industry does recognize and sometimes require certificates. I am not saying a certificate will get you the job, or even that they are a good way to spend your time, but they can certainly get you an interview. For instance, I run a team of about 6 penetration testers, and my time is pretty limited because we always have so much on the go. When I am hiring, I usually ask that someone have the OSCP, OSCE, or GXPN if they are going to apply. In the case of the OSCP and OSCE, they are not cost prohibitive, even for someone covering the costs themselves, and they test one's ability to perform actual penetration testing and report writing. You have a certain amount of time (24 hours OSCP and 48 hours OSCE) to hack into some servers and show your technical chops, and then report on what you did and how you did it. In the case of the OSCE, I will know if you passed that you understand disassemblers, debuggers, exploit code writing, and assembly. That gets you in for the interview, and I can further check out your programming skills, security chops etc. I am not saying that if someone has a particularly interesting resume, I won't look at them. But when time is limited, and you aren't a fortune 500, its a good way to filter out some of the candidates. I will say that certs like the CEH and CISSP don't matter in the slightest bit to me. I could care less about how you do on a multiple choice exam, the only exception being the GXPN because that course is actually relatively grueling.
Gaming streamers on Twitch seem to get quite a bit of donations. Streamers are personalities that connect with their audience and have a following. Surprisingly, movies and music are now available through subscription services, after many years of sharing for free. These services are successful because they are polished, convenient and legal. People are paying a lot for ebooks, in-game items and other virtual goods.

So, no reason why other content couldn't make money.

Kill advertising and you'll take a lot of lame, average content with it. Or even desirable, culturally meaningful content that doesn't quite do enough. Sports news? Forget it, people may find their favourite vlog-commentator and pay for comedy, mash-ups and creativity. A decent article that makes you think for a bit? Not good enough, chances are they'll follow a popular author and his movement and put some money down for the cause they believe in.

(Ok that last thing is a bit scary but it's where things are going anyway...)
The medical system has billions of free cash flow. Big hospitals could fund lots more residency spots.
BlackBerry CEO John Chen confident shift toward software is working
Very cool. Thanks for creating and posting here on HN. Bookmarked to play with after work :-)
Will this offer stay free?
It's very very uneasy when doctors are too handwavey on your issues. You don't know if they're skipping beats because they don't want to explain 10 years of med school so you obey, or if they just don't want to investigate more than what the usual answer is.

I tried to nitpick on things that mattered for me, but you cannot easily claim "I'm more up to date than you on <xyz> illness" to a legal doctor without feeling a little ridiculous.

That's why I root for more non invasive monitoring and intervention. Many doctors told me the "based on these tests, you have nothing", bailing out when I asked for more because deeper tests would require potential ICU. So you end up floating in the unknown hoping for the best.
"Tech excellence" sounds like such a useless buzzword. There is no such thing, just incrementally better.
What's just bizarre is that they were seriously considering censoring Donald Trump's account at one point and even announced it. From a purely business standpoint, that was a dumb idea even to propose. It makes you wonder about the rationality of management and if they view the company as some sort of hipster San Francisco hobby paid for by VCs and not as a profit making enterprise.
r/The_Donald or /pol?

Really though, Trump would fit right in on 4chan.
I can't agree more. Wires are the best. Unfortunately we're in the rapidly shrinking minority. Most people would rather put up with regressions in reliability and debugability in the name of ease of use.

I lived in a house with several roomates for a year or so, and I never ever had a problem with the internet because I used an ethernet cable. My roomates went through 3 wireless routers and a wireless repeater and they were never able to completely solve the myriad of issues that comes with wireless technology on a congested spectrum.

It really boggles my mind that they'd allow themselves to be frustrated, waste many combined hours of their life troubleshooting, and spend hundreds of dollars on network hardware when the solution is SO SIMPLE and dates back to 1970s.
Please list a few of "our collective values"
Umap and Bismap: quantifying genome and methylome mappability
A huge part of the problem is that people think one system is better than the other when it's really a spectrum where both extremes are absurd. Suppose you want to have some roads, how do you do it?

a) Pure Communism. The state builds the roads. The state needs road workers and workers need food so the state grows food. The workers need steamrollers so the state manufactures steamrollers. The workers need asphalt so the state mines gravel. The entire economy is centrally planned and collapses like the USSR.

b) Pure Capitalism. A private company owns the road. You need their permission to leave your house, take deliveries, receive an ambulance, connect to the power grid, etc. They charge what the market will bear. Everyone becomes a serf of the road company.

c) Capitalist Social Democracy. The state collects taxes and takes bids for private contractors to build the roads, which the state then owns and allows all people to use at no charge.

Only one of those actually works.
"there's no point in trying to suggest changing the language to an indentation-based one"

Ok. Bit of a bummer though.
Unscrambling Africa
A road trip project to explore and visually document different cities across Africa, their people, sub-cultures and built environment.
Because it's not a social network? It's an advertising brokerage.
Just checked your option value calculator. I understand you're still building it out but wanted to say nice work so far!

Something like this that's easy and clear could be really useful. Like some of the "estimate tax refund" calculators online, while details of the US tax code can be information overload, going through guided steps on an estimate calculator a person can learn a ton of key info. Cheers and GL.
You could, but you have to be really careful with the motherboard socket, because Intel went a bit crazy with LGA2011:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7773/intels-three-versions-of-...
In finance, there is a rule-of-thumb called the rule of 72. Basically, 72/X = # of years to double, where X is the compounded rate of return.

Solving for your request, 72/X = 5, X = 14.4%.

So to double your investment in 5 years, you need to find something that will give you 14.4% return for 5 years in a row. That high of rate (in this climate) would require a fairly risky investment.
Actually, that makes total sense. There are multiple VPs at engineering firms. People always complain about how big Twitter is, how they can't believe how many employees Twitter has, but people don't realize Twitter has two "users": actual "users," and advertisers. Twitter has to dedicate a huge number of engineers, product managers, marketers, account managers, etc. to dealing with advertisers, setting up the ad auctions, analytics, dashboards, etc.
> Making the claim that you ad block because your attention is more valuable though is a joke.

It's not a joke. It's avoiding death by thousand cuts.

Time is literally the most valuable commodity we have. Anything you do to waste someone's time - like displaying obtrusive, annoying ads - is in my books an act of aggression.
my old team was largely mormon and my boss was their bishop. it was kinda weird.
I'm not off meds but since two weeks I had quite strange nightmares. A weird blend of terror and non daily event based (having nightmares after being mugged wouldn't scare me more than that). Waking up in sweat, heart racing and still not sure what reality I was in.
I know I might sound like a vim user, but tweetstorms are honestly one of my favourite parts of twitter. Maybe there could be a better UI for authoring and displaying them, but there's something I really enjoy about reading a story 140 characters at a time.
Why would you continue to hold shares in a company you believe has lost their way?
@henrikschroder - Would you mind giving a citation that links Utah's issue of depression with Mormonism? After all, there are a lot of non-Mormons living there too.

The last I read, scientists believed that the mountain states suffered from depression due to altitude and thin air (http://www.livescience.com/50813-low-oxygen-increase-depress...)

Also, I couldn't find any statistics on just teen suicides, but according to CBSNews, Utah ranks 15th in suicide rates in the U.S. Alaska is #1 (http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/suicide-20-states-with-highe...). If you have better citations, could you please provide them?

Finally, I have several extended family members who are gay, and two of my best friends are gay (and active Mormons). My wife is Japanese. Several of my cousins are black, and I have two cousins who were adopted from India. I also have other relatives who are hispanic. In spite of all this non-white, non-straight, and non-male stuff going on in my life, I've never witnessed this "terrible environment" that you're talking about. Could you offer citations for that as well?
Twitter's Github:
https://github.com/twitter

Apache Aurora, Bootstrap, Storm, Heron, Pants, ThriftMux, DistributedLog, Apache Cotton, Iago, just to name a few.
I come at this as an active Mormon, but I see a consistent effort on the part of the leadership to make it clear that shunning shouldn't happen. I definitely see individuals with issues on this, but I haven't seen it as institutional, even though I've had a number of family members leave the church.
Can somebody comment on how good/bad is the driver support in the BSD land? I'm interested specifically in wireless and graphics.
Naked accounting fraud on the level of Enron is exceedingly rare though. But all the other reasons a company can go belly-up (bad product, bad customer base, no roadmap, stopped doing R&D, etc.) are usually much more visible to an employee than an external investor.
> Apple basically played by the rules. Nothing they did was illegal until the EU change their laws 25 years retroactively.

No law has been changed, the article cited in the ruling has its beginning in the Treaty of Rome of 1957
What will Apple do in 2017? Only the iPhone 8 is for sure
AnyCable: Action Cable on steroids
Ask HN: Help me gather data for a quick machine learning project
I had this terrible experience before I was publicly out about my gender that sent me into a very suicidal train of thought. I had a moment clarity to get myself to a doctor (my partner was pregnant at the time, or I probably won't be here writing this now).

The doctor gave me citalopram (brand name is Celexa, I think?) I had to stop taking it. I'll list the side effects I had, but not before I point out: It saved my life. Yes, I had bad side effects. But it also helped me overcome the anxiety and rage I was suffering from and resolve to come out about my status.

Ultimately I had to taper off of it, which was hard. My doctor advised reducing my dose by 1/4 the original value every 9 days until I was done. The end of it was quite rough, I confess.

But while on it, I gained nearly all the weight I lost in a year of physical training back (just 4 months of treatment), my heart palpitations were nauseatingly bad, and I suddenly had to sleep a lot longer to get even a modicum of rest.

When people say, "You should consider medication" it is to help normalize the idea that in trauma situations medication can help people with some types of MI. It is not because they're fun, side-effect free, or not a "real" course of treatment. It's important to remember that when considering these stories and your own mental health.
I naively presumed mods and meta mods would dampen the impact of voting rings and disagreement votes. One additional tool might be requiring a "reason" for the downvote as /. used (still does?) to do (off-topic, irrelevant, inflammatory, etc.) and for people whose downvotes massively stray from the reason, revoke downvoting privs.
I always wondered why the public puts up with it. Aviation is always provided as a contrast to the medical community: pilots have legally-mandated sleep requirements.

My hunch is that when a plane crashes, everyone freaks because planes aren't supposed to crash. When someone dies at a hospital nobody notices because people die at hospitals all the time.
On hiring:

I'm currently 35 and spent many years in biochemistry, and did a lot of coding on my own personal time (and am doing contract work currently). One of the frustrations is that going through the hiring process, I get a lot of accolades from the interviewers, and seem to do well to extraordinary on coding challenges - but there's something that I'm not "matching right". In several cases, I've been told that they were seeking "senior devs" even though I've been referred via an agency that should have filtered out all but "junior dev" positions.

I suggest getting insight into the "unwritten rules" of hiring, which is what I'm going to start to ask about. There is a myth that the valley (or indeed the world) is a meritocracy, but in reality, you have to 'figure out the game'. Good luck!
Twitter is a business model that will be studied for years IMHO. No clear path to revenue, viral adoption, and very little product development away from its core competencies. I use Twitter often, but it has always seemed like a platform most useful if you have something to promote. One big flaw has been trying to find value to ordinary users who want to do something beyond typing into an echo chamber. If Twitter goes away it would be interested to figure out what would take its place.
They moved oil prices a few percent. If they managed to move it much more, the US and other non OPEC countries are going to increase production, because more resources become economical.

On top of that, we now have a wide range of viable plug-in cars. If oil were to get up to $100/barrel again, lots of people would switch to a car that can cover 90%+ of their driving on electricity. $4/gallon gas really hurt our SUV market, but now we can make it a 20 kWh hybrid and avoid the pain at the pump.
In the US alone, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) estimates a shortage of 91,500 physicians by 2020 and up to 130,600 by the year 2025. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physician_supply#Global_View
They say it silently clicks all the ads in the background - doesn't that just help them? They want clicks right? Obviously the customer wants legitimate leads but the advertiser the guy we hate doesn't care if the clicks are legit or not. For him the more clicks the better, no?
I believe an area that goes unnoticed by new security analysts looking to work in penetration testing and exploit authoring is that of OpenVMS and VMS-based systems hacking. I've worked on these systems for years and the word floating around out there is that they are "unhackable". While some have arguments against why this would matter in this day and age, why it really does matter can't be discounted. [1] Finding OpenVMS vulnerabilities and discovering ways to own boxes running the system is not only important but a great resume bullet.

[1] https://www.defcon.org/images/defcon-16/dc16.../defcon-16-ob...
I'll admit the touchpad on the new 15" seemed comically large at first. I actually laughed a bit when I first saw it.

Now I'm used to it though and really appreciate the extra size. Granted, I use BetterTouchTool a lot with lots of custom gestures.
I remember reading on Slashdot at the time that iPod users -- betrayed by the signature white earphones -- were getting mugged, and that this was evidence that the iPod was seen as a status symbol by people far outside the tech bubble.

If pros hadn't considered Apple good technology…

Was it a good product because the pros said so, or do you think perhaps that the pros said it was a good product because it actually was?

And why do you think that only pros are capable of judging if a tech product is good? Can't non-techies judge if a product is delightful or frustrating to use? Do they only know if they like it if someone who is an engineer tells them it's ok? In my personal experience, tech people give the worst advice when it comes to gadgets, because they often have bo empathy for the fact, that normal people don't have the time or the inclination to deal with stuff that might ostensibly have great tech, but is difficult to set up and finnicky to use. Non-techies want stuff that easy to use and just works, and don't care about specs or acronyms.

There is a massive difference between the tone of the press this year, and previous years.

Your original point was that pro users' influence was apparent in the fact that the press is writing negatively about Apple. To which I replied that the press always has written negatively about Apple with the implied point that the influence excerted thusfar, does't seem to have hindered Apple's success in the slightest. But you're telling me that because the tone has changed, this time for sure the opinions of the tech press will suddenly become relevant to Apples customers, even though most of them are not interested in tech and don't follow the tech press at all?
Whoa--was unaware of this gem. Thx
Weather prediction is an unsolvable task to begin with.