skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best variant of this idea that I've seen is - believe it or not - Slashdot. The key aspect of their system is that you don't get to choose which actions or users to metamoderate. You just get a random set, which breaks the endless downvote cycle you mention.

I don't think "they deserve what they get" is sufficient, because bilateral symmetric conflict is not the only scenario. It's easy enough for an ideologically aligned group to hammer an outspoken invididual with metavotes, just as they already do with votes. This can happen with or without explicit coordination, and carries almost no cost/risk for each individual in the lynch mob. There's also the scenario of a karma-rich individual continuing to reap the dividend of the "rich get richer" phenomenon common to all social networks (which this is, whether or not denizens like to admit it). Such a person can afford to spew out hundreds of undeserved downvotes a week. I've been targeted that way here many times, and I'll bet you have too. What SO prescribes is already one of the worst things about HN. Making it easier for those petty individuals to identify targets, and more ways to harass them, scarcely seems like it would help.

BTW, I'm not suggesting that the /. system is ideal. Their meta/moderation system has its flaws, as do other aspects of the site. I'm just saying that the random element specifically seems to avoid a lot of pathologies that are common to most such systems.
Over the past year I've grown my own software company from 0 - $1250/mo in revenue in a highly competitive space (lots of VC-funded startups).

It's not enough to do full-time yet, but there are distinct advantages I have that VC-funded startups don't. For example, I can serve SMBs/smaller companies, but for a VC-backed company these organizations aren't worth their time.

Clearly they have advantages I don't have either (time, headcount, etc), but the presence of a market is a great thing, because I don't have to guess if companies are willing to pay for it.
I think it shows who the author had in mind while writing the piece. If you use memes etc. then you are writing for an 'in crowd' that understands the same cultural references as you. That's OK, but you should be clearly aware of it.

The one thing I would have appreciated from the post is for the author to have written about the "Mor Better Ideas" that make Servo better than Gecko.

To me that particular phrase in this particular post is a little out of place and lowers the tone slightly. I expect that to others it will be seen as fun/human and indicating that the post isn't written by a corporate drone.

YMMV
I think the question of whether this is interesting is based on assuming the author is Chinese. This assumption isn't unwarranted, given information on the About page.[0] For example, he participated in the China National Olympiad in Informatics and he's attending Tsinghua University, in Beijing. Given how sensitive cultural assumptions can be, I'd like to make clear that I'm very clear that this is pure speculation based on circumstantial evidence and more than happy to learn more about this and be corrected as needed.

[0]: http://taichi.graphics/about/

From my reading, traditional characters are still in use in China (distinguished for the purposes of this discussion from Taiwan).

Traditional characters are used informally in regions in China primarily in handwriting and also used for inscriptions and religious text. They are often retained in logos or graphics to evoke yesteryear.

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

In trademarks and business signs, TC is common.

https://www.quora.com/How-do-people-in-mainland-China-feel-w...

An application name is not all that different from a business name or a logo. Given this, choosing to use traditional Chinese characters (in this case 太極 in contrast to the simplified 太极) is consistent and not necessarily unusual. Of course, this is all speculation without hearing from the author.
Good thing I always disable the newest Windows default themes in favor of the old 98 grey style. Unlikely they'd default to emulate that. But there's a lot of details from pixel gaps between the wifi popup to the wifi popup appearing automatically, etc etc that makes this very unfeasible for me at least knock on wood

There are plenty of other hacks I'd be susceptible to before this one. (Please black hats don't target me)

Edit:
Would it be feasible to instead just mimic the target AP with a WPA2 passphrase, listen to connection attempt by target user, and when the first attempt at login fails, set your AP to that passphrase and let him/her through? It's not completely transparent, but I feel typoing your password is more acceptable as "normal" than a lot of layers of emulated graphics that has to convince your target at every stage.
Numpy/Scipy are only relevant to a minor set of computer users, and even then, there are alternatives like LANPACK and BLAS.

Also Java and .NET ecosystems are just a little bigger than Python.
Well, by your standard most compilers used today are "broken". Possibly causing a segfault is not a side effect the compiler is required to respect.

If you want to force the compiler to not remove a memory operation in C, you need to define the pointer as "volatile"
Do they sell well?

Would you say it's harder or easier to sell on the Mac app store than on the iOs/Android app stores?
It's annoying and unprofessional. Stop trying to be cutesy and present the information in a way that people who are busy can consume quickly and make decisions on.

Is this the tone of the whole project? I'd love to contribute, but I don't want to wade through a reddit-comment-thread-level of forced references and memes to do that.

I get the reason for doing it, and I like that the internet isn't full of drab corporate-speak all the time, but this piece just missed the mark I think. The title doesn't really communicate the intent well and instead feels like its trying to be a little clever for the sake of being clever. It's really a two or three sentence press release that got fluffed up with some non-corporate language.
> What if, for example, it is functions all the way down?

What, an infinite hierarchy of functions? Since that's not very parsimonious, it's a very unlikely option.

> I think reasonableness is still in the eye of the beholder, or has Deutsch convinced everyone who counts?

Sure, there are other possibilities, but the point that there is plenty of evidence that makes many worlds a reasonable conclusion, so the original claim isn't accurate.
no ask yourself THIS:
would elon musk have done any of this if he were married?
Same reason most other people work: for the money.
Kudos for removing all 3rd party scripts, not only ad networks.

As builders of web systems, we need to be conscious of which 3rd parties are gaining access to private user data. There's no reason in hell any Google or Facebook widget should be embedded in my health care providers website, yet somehow that's a thing. Any other website is usually even worse.

I personally use NoScript with whitelisted scripts when I know I need them, else I am protected by default. This shouldn't be required, especially for users who have no idea about these scripts and what they actually do.

Fuck that.
1960's Female Astronaut Program: Mercury 13
Mmm, "faster than node.js" isn't a great benchmark out in the wide world. Although node.js being as fast as it is remains an astonishing thing.
I saw your site in the old thread, how would you compare it 3 years ago to now?
There should be more degrees of morality, most games make you choose "kill this person" vs "let them live", but there's more than murder to be a villainous character.
Wow, I think the comments section below was ugly.

I have been worried about Firefox and seriously questioned some of the decisions along the road but I think and hope I always respected the devs who volunteer for this.
If a website employs the use of HSTS all traffic will be redirected to HTTPS, rendering the support for HTTP redundant.
I have to agree - it is possible to know if someone really just doesn't have a clue.

Case in point, this morning I interviewed a 'senior' C# .NET developer with over 10 years' experience - and yet she didn't even know the syntax for using lambda expressions, was barely able to get started with linq, and was unable to tackle a basic string splitting problem. Oh, and she couldn't do fizz-buzz.
My initial thought follows this line. Even if a subject doesn't experience actual sleep deprivation, the constant external stimuli are still omni-present, regardless of how well the conscious mind tunes them out. Perhaps sub+consciously parts of the brain never get any rest, even while sleeping?

I know I feel less refreshed if I fall asleep and media or traffic outside is constant. A hotel room facing a freeway often leaves me waking unrefreshed, which can be partially mitigated if the room's fan blower is left on for continuous, monotonous white noise masking.
Would you care to elaborate? As someone who spends about half my free time on both websites, I am experiencing a mixture of hurt and intrigue.
Missing the authentic Pinterest experience of giant modals popping up as soon as you scroll down, trying to force you to log in.
Was working on making FB messenger bots around September, but got very poor results. The drop off from number of people who click " Send to Messenger" button to actual opening on chat is close to 50%. And this is in India where people I was targetting generally have messenger installed. Any updates coming on this issue?
I'm curious if some of those platforms allow to write custom code for processing of the raw message. Either to embed the code directly on their server or to expose a custom webhook.
For instance, if I were to write such a diagnostic chatbot as described in the article but would prefer to use a service such as those to take care of the integrations with various platforms, message queueing, tracking basic stats etc.
Locked down library only ereaders do exist - the Playaway Lock: http://playaway.com/lock/
I think these three should cover the story I want to know:

- Where did the idea come from?

- What was your ideal expectation after launch?

- What went wrong? (was it the product or wrong judgment of market demand)
> And to be clear, I said that good is real (Geach is a great read if you want to find out more about the discussion of 'good'), not that morals are real.

Doing that which is good is moral, so if good is real then morals are real, unless you're a non-cognitivist.

> Some people are evolutionary moralists (see Dawkins). I frankly just think most of that is nonsense.

It's not nonsense in the sense that evolution can explain our predilection for developing moral beliefs, but the idea that this fact then disproves moral realism is dubious.
All players play to marginally beat their opponent. Playing too aggressively when you're in the lead is "losing a won game" because it gives opportunities for your opponent to create turnarounds.

In the end of a well-played game the losing player will find that they perhaps get more points than they expect, but each time they win a tradeoff with a slight margin the position on the board becomes much more solid and fixed than it ought to be. A 10 point lead with a large variance consolidates toward an unfaltering 1/2 point lead.

Indeed, commentary on Master (P)s games seemed to suggest this was exactly how endgames went.

Early in the game, confidence in winning is usually correlated exactly with point margin... but at the same time, score in the early parts of the game is very hard to estimate. It's repeatedly noted that AlphaGo plays a very "influence oriented" game which means that it eschews confidently having many points for having lots of "power" on the board which will later translate to points.

So, all together I'd say that AlphaGo plays very well here and doesn't have too much of an obvious computational bias.

The one true oddity is once AlphaGo's internal win probability reaches 100% it starts playing idiotic moves. The reason is simple: it's just searching for moves which have the highest expected win rate and at this point nothing it can do is bad. It won't lose points or anything, but instead just plays moves that are obviously pointless.
Translate to english,slovak,hungarian. Profit ?
Does this actually count as a side effect?

I didn't think that dereferencing a variable could ever be the sole cause of a side effect. I thought that side effects were only relevant in the context of a store (except for maybe volatile variables in which there are some ordering/barrier constraints applied as well). I realize that in practice, deferencing NULL can definitely cause a crash, but I don't know if it counts as a "side effect" in the typical "C" sense of the phrase.

I know that modifying the value of a variable which is accessed by means of a reference passed as an argument could definitely have side effects (since another unrelated function might read that data) and thus a store can’t be completely optimized away (but still can be reordered), but I don’t see why “dead” can’t be optimized away in this case.

In this case “dead” is a local variable, thus it can never be accessed by anyone outside of the function. Therefore, if there are no reads of the variable after that single store, I don’t see why the store can’t be completely eliminated.

In fact, this is a common issue when dealing with microcontrollers where configuration registers are sometimes written by assigning a value to a dereferenced address constant. That's why they get casted as volatile.
Would be more viable having a stock of frozen sperm and a minimum requirement on female crew. Still, I don't think that is the primary function of these submarines.

Edit: seems that women have only recently begun serving on submarines: http://scoopdeck.navytimes.com/2012/05/29/first-all-female-s...
Everything is fun... once.
What We're Bringing Back from Grace Hopper
2017s resolutions of an Open Science company
The advertisement he refers to was a plain text bar at the top of the page with no tracking nor any distracting visuals. And when you scroll down into the article it disappears.

I dont see any problem with this kind of innocent unobtrusive level of advertising and frankly wish he kept it for his own financial gain and others used it as a model.
Standard Republican military Keynesianism. Too bad we are so against domestic Keynesianism. I'd rather have national high speed rail.
Good for customers but not for business. Competition tends to minimize margins and profits. While main business goal is to make money, competition is against business goals.
Enough to sustain my modest lifestyle and put some aside for the future. But people with Silicon Valley salaries would probably laugh at my income. I have no boss, no investors, no employees to worry about. Just me and my ideas, on my own schedule.

I don't develop for iOS/Android, but from reading about others' experiences with phone apps, I think it's easier to find a small but steady market on the Mac. People will pay for useful Mac apps. And the Mac user market is more passionate and engaged with 3rd party software than phone users are.

But conversely, you are never going to strike it rich on the Mac with an "Angry Birds" type megasuccess. Mac app aren't sexy like that. (It's good, because the more developers are attracted to the glitz of iOS, the more they leave the Mac market for people like me...)

Numbers-wise, consider that there are are 1.9million apps in the iPhone App Store and 31,000 on the Mac App Store.
Project Data, 0.4 released
It's not fair to compare them, plumbing requires physical strength, whereas tech jobs don't. Women have anywhere from 40-60% of the strength men do, and men have especially greater hand strength than women https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_human_physi... Given that you need really good hand strength to do plumbing, it's never something that will see sex diversity.
Design can be changed. Can you tell me what would be a right proportion for you? Wider screenshot ( so higher resolution so you get more context of the page ) but less height?
Actually on a retina ipad, the text is quite readable
Literally just received an unsolicited LinkedIn email as I was reading your comment :(
Intel packages CPUs, FPGAs as GO to target automated driving systems
I think calling Servo "experimental" is still somewhat confusing as it stands today. I think the initiatives to implement engine in Rust is no longer an experiment. The language has gained some serious production attractions in the last year or so as Rust reached 1.0. While Rust isn't as "popular" as Go, Rust community is strong.

I think however it is better off to interpret that Mozilla is getting more serious on replacing many parts of Firefox in Rust. Mozilla already started doing that last year [1].

[1]: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/07/shipping-rust-in-firefox/
Segfaults are an implementation detail of your hardware architecture. They are not a "thing" in the C standard. In the good old days before protected mode on x86 was a thing (if I recall correctly windows 95 was from this era) most of the time you would not segfault (unless you addressed RAM that wasn't there? I'm not sure anymore).

If the C standard did not allow pointer dereferences to be optimized out, many optimizations would become impossible, and people would switch to a language that did allow this.
Exactly. An idea is just that, an idea. It takes months and years of hard work to turn an idea into an income stream.
Awesome freelancer doing graphic design and animation
What you are seeing is inter-profession gender segregation. When a minority enters a profession, they tend to go into sub groups where they can be majority in a local context.

Its similar to male teachers. Teaching has similar to tech a about 80-20 gender split, but you don't find 20% of say English teachers to be male if you did a random poll. Instead men go into typical male teacher roles such as physical activity (sport), after school activity (sport again), and math. They still went to teaching school, have a title thats recognized as teacher, so statistics will still give a 20-80 ratio.

So the 20% women in CS is there, you just have to figure out what sub-group in CS which is designed as typical female CS.
Fair enough... but still weird I never saw it (and I end up reinstalling my system quite regularly) with the more than 8 mac machines I've own in the last few years (plus a couple from the wife)
You're welcome and have fun :)
Good one! I can add them if people request them, but i doubt :)
In contrast to using sites like Glassdoor which shows what people have been paid historically, I usually look at job sites & adverts to see what people are paying right now.

I draw a line on a page and put a marker in the middle which I label with my current salary. Then I find job adverts and plot them either side based on the salary with a note of company/location. You then end up with an nice range and it's clear if you are being paid market rate. If all similar jobs are plotted higher on the scale than you, you're being under paid.

You can then use this as evidence when discussing a raise with your current company.
Unclear on the audience for this post. All the "jet engine" stuff sounds like it's aimed at consumers, but this is of no interest to average consumers; instead, shouldn't this be of interest to devs who build web apps or embed rendering engines?
Ok, you have a sponsorship model that works because you're probably very famous. That doesn't solve anyone's problem, because almost no one is famous.

How can we replace ad networks with something better and saner?
He still has this sponsorship message (which I am also totally fine with), but it seems to be blocked by uBlock Origin, if you are using that?
Still around.
Did the comment section on this website look weird to anyone else?
i think that's https://builtwith.com/
Firefox gained users since October 2016
Me too. The best thing about it is: even if for whatever reason (Tynan seems like a dev from a different planet) the game would go in the wrong direction, we still have all the previous versions. For all major platforms. This is value you get for your money!
Great attitude, someone hire this guy. :)
Servo will still exist, so they'll always have the lion and the chimera.

Creating a new langauges to incrementally change and clean-slate rewrite is an orders-of-magnitude bigger investment than what either what Joel's criticizing or advocating. I don't think that article is very relevant here one way or the other.
Do you have a link for your product/service/offering? I'm very keen to learn more about the sorts of products that work out and also how you happened to work on that idea.
Can you identify a specific type of disaster which would destroy all bunkers around the world without evaporating the oceans?
I think three things attribute to a programming languages success or failure: tooling, documentation and standard library. Look at Go, great out of the box library, same with Python, but the tooling for Go isn't the greatest (debugger? a real IDE? etc) then you look at C#: tooling (Visual Studio, VS Code, debugger), documentation, and even out of the box the .NET Framework is a decent "standard library" with plenty included. If only D had at the very least a well dedicated IDE. I hope more people notice D so that the community around it builds solutions, it has a lot of great potential yet to be tapped, and plenty of groundwork has already been done with D.
As said in the conversation you linked (which is interesting, thank you), the obsolescence is for the attack submarines close to their target, whereas missile submarines, like the Columbia, has still the rest of the ocean to hide.
I was wondering lately why noise-cancelling technology is not used inside residential-buildings? Is there such a big difference between making this technology work inside my Bose-headphones vs an apartment? Street-noise seems pretty predictable and steady from afar.

edit: bad bad grammar
I have not heard of the FEI newsletters yet and cannot find them via Google. Would you mind sharing the link?
Ideas are cheap, execution is everything.
> Why does anyone work eight? Or ten? Or twelve? Did this 8 to 10 hour per day thing get sprung on people and forced upon them from nowhere? No. Of course not. It's something that achieved a "natural" balance over decades (centuries?). And the balance has hundreds of variables driving it. From personal happiness to international competitiveness and productivity with even more variables across varied industries and cultures.

People work 8 hour days because left wing labour movements, unions, and politicians argued for it. Much like some people in Sweden are doing now. Some companies / countries tried it and found it to be good, so it spread. Prior to that working days would be between 10 and 16 hours, six days a week. I'm sure many people argued as you are now, 'only the lazy want to work less than 16 hours a day', 'it won't work logically', 'it will be impossible to implement'.
Turns out they were wrong and you probably are too.
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Yes! 100 times yes! Great move.

I am not against ads. But I am against trackers. Wanna show an ad on your mysite.com ? then host the freaking file on mysite.com/assets/banner.{png,jpg,gif,whatever). but don't host it on ad networks. Those are blocked by my browser and I will not unblock.

Its for the ad networks to figure out a way to fix the way they see the numbers.

specially since the numbers are all wrong anyway. lets face it. you have no idea who visits your website nowadays. g analytics is a mess.
The third wake word is "Amazon".