skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LOL. Comments are not a part of the code. Good comments adds to readability, bad commenting style (e.g. enterprise style comments for everything) affects readability. Comments cannot add bugs to code.

What you think about spaces?
>You need to scroll down at least 5 load-more's to see regular people tweets.

I personally don't find much added value in those tweets, "regular people" or not. They're basically YouTube comment level at this point.
It feels like this is a path they foresaw long ago and therefore worked out the cable TV infrastructure. Which may have flaws and got bloated but also has a lot of benefits compared to streaming.
All people who write bad code write bad comments = / = All people who write good code write good comments/don't need them.
When you have large numbers of people claiming to be dead against things that they were previously in favor of, it might be that they're being hypocritical and obstructive. Obvious examples that come to mind are Obamacare (modeled on a plan originated by Mitt romney as governor of Massachusetts), Syria (where the Congress refused to authorize US military action in Syria and then spent the next several years blaming Obama for being soft on ISIS in Syria), Merrick Garland (who everyone agreed to be a great judge until Obama nominated him to the Supreme Court, at which point the Senate abrogated it's Constitutional duty to advice the President by refusing to even hold a hearing for his nominee).

Republicans have repeatedly gone on record in public statements about the totality of their opposition to Obama regardless of policy considerations. Allow me to refer you to the paper cited here for some objective demonstration of the increasing polarization of US politics and its acceleration in recent years:

http://www.realclearscience.com/journal_club/2015/04/24/poli...
I just got myself a Dell precision 5510 with Ubuntu out of the box. A lot more capable than the most power full current macbook pro, weighs slightly less then the macbook pro from 2009 I am typing this on (moving files across to the new dell)

After 16 years of Mac use I don't regret the switch.
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Basic honesty has never been lower in politics, and it's teetering on scary levels.

A lot of us feel this, but out of interest, is there any evidence this is true, historically? We've always had lies and liars in politics, we just covered for them better.

William Randolph Hearst got the US involved in a war in Cuba through fake news reports that the Maine had been blown up by a mine. The public was lied to about Cleveland's operation, Wilson's stroke, FDR and Kennedy's health and affairs. Reagan or his administration lied about Iran-Contra. Hastert did a pretty good job of lying about himself for decades. Then there are all the small lies.

Maybe all Trump has done is brought the ugliness of politics out into the open and that makes us uncomfortable. Or is there really a reason to believe that political discourse is at a low in terms of honesty?

In regards to the article: if this means more use of actual science in politics, good! I hope this includes not only support for science but also a scientific approach for politics (which Eisen says as much) and also that science isn't used falsely as a justification for nonscientific positions. I know it's a soft science, but the Bush administration's adoption of Democratic Peace Theory as not just a theory but as policy is part of the reason we are in the mess we are now.

Be careful what you wish for. Eisen might have honest intentions, but as soon as politicians figure out you can win by supporting science, they'll invoke it as often as they do god now.
Marker? No, you need that. Eraser? Kleenex is a good add to any bag – but you could also figure out some way of having a removable plastic overlay to preserve the diagram...

But, ultimately, your point about pen & paper was my thought too... And then I decided that ~$16 after shipping was cheap enough to try, even if I later decided paper was indeed better – so I ordered it.
Am I the only one that has issues with the Macbook's WIFI and bluetooth drivers? Granted I am sure the price versus specs differential that keeps expanding my have something to do with. With that said, I am a creature of habit, and stuck in my ways and keep using unix and iOS.
What about comments that actually help and are accurate, is there no value to that?
The smallest whiteboard combined with the dirtiest laptop? No thanks!
The surface book trackpad is indistinguishable outside some of the gestures. Those could probably be custom configured if I cared enough to find an app to do so.
Hey there! This sounds awesome! Would love to learn more. Shoot me an email sometime at jonathan@voodoomfg.com
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I messaged the author about finding an example of the attributed enthusiasm or removing it entirely, since I'm not sure I believe it. Though others have pointed out that not aggressively attacking it is almost endorsement from Linus...
That is a better comparison, yes. Thanks!
Can we get more followers than Trump for this account
Online marketing is completely dominated by this type of activity. I tried to market through legitimate means only (paid ads, word of mouth, fair, legitimately-earned reviews and press coverage). A competitor showed up and exceeded our 1 year+ head start in two months with spammy tactics, including fake social media reviews.

It's impossible to win a competitive SEO game without a PBN for link manufacturing, a bunch of lackeys and bots posting on astroturfed accounts, and so forth. I learned that if I'm going to do another business that depends on traffic, there will be no option but to spam and turf aggressively.

Google's dirty secret is that it's been completely and thoroughly gamed for a long time now. People are just used to sorting through the crap.
A good friend of mine, who is a real, dyed-in-the-wool, oldschool Microsoft fanatic (it's an amusing quirk to me) still has and uses his.

That said, swarms of Windows Phones does smell funny.
Ditto on the official trolls, so I've quit too. One troll had a degree, at least, but he wasn't reading current research. Participation continues to decline. If your interest is very narrow and you are IRC-wise and persistent, I don't doubt that you can eventually intimidate the trolls in that narrow topic and not have a problem thereafter. But this isn't my case or the common case, I suspect.
Sigh. There's no reason to be be a condescending prick (ad hominem).

Simply asking somebody who works in the industry why it's impractical to segment the market by making slower chips. Maybe it's not possible or they cost the same, but I'm just speculating. Hence wanting to find out and understand.

> I'm not sure if you understand the economics, but no sane for-profit company will trade margins for high volume.

Business don't always get a choice, or do make that choice (based on game theory). In the case of SSD vendors it's a decently competitive market with many vendors (Samsung, Intel, Toshiba, Sandisk, ...). In fact it looks like Samsung is going this route: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/236260-samsung-plants-... . Which they might as well do because they one of the largest producers so it makes sense to put pressure on your competitors if (if you can sustain it).
It's worth remembering that the fundamental premise of that position is that the government might be able to field a better security team to protect the most sensitive email in the world than could Google.

Not many security people in the world would sign on to that position.
I often work with code bases developed in academic circles. I.e. written by non-c.s. students. Of course they are not experienced programmers, how can they be, it's often their first real software work.
There is no professional code review, the code is sometimes beyond ugly, fragile. Bugs get fixed by the next generation... I just ignore all comments.
Again, it's not their fault, it is a given just from the situation. But in this situation, it's much better to teach them to write readable code first. And not to trust any comment already in the code.
What Happens When Doctors Only Take Cash
An IP address alone isn't really that good of an indicator. With carrier grade NAT one address could be used by thousands of people.
"If you want to write yesterday's software, use a laptop" - me / paraphrase of Alan Kay I think?

I get why people are still blacksmiths making door handles and I think that's great. But I'd rather be in a giant machine shop making aircraft carriers.
MAUs affect their stock price. MAUs are in their 10k IIRC, does the SEC look into this? i'm not sure.
You may as well have just reported that the sky is blue or that there is a lot of trash in the ocean.

You haven't found a massive network of fake accounts. You found a script kiddy or two who didn't know enough to mask their activity or didn't care.
> Max Buddha would mean sitting until death, with no dissatisfaction for lack of nutrients or air or self actualization.

If "Max Buddha" is meant to be "non-reactivity taken it's logical extreme," then that's not a fair representation of what the Buddha taught :) You probably just meant it as a turn-of-phrase of course, but I thought it would useful to comment since this is actually a pretty common view given the popularity of mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR; as described by Jon Kabat-Zinn referenced in the article) which promotes a non-reactive and non-judging awareness of the present as its core principle.

But how is the goal and its effects described in the earliest Buddhist texts? In the religious frame of an orthodox Buddhist cosmology, the Pali Canon [1] offers the best insight on this question in my opinion. Thanissaro Bhikku describes it [2]:

> Thus the image underlying nibbana is one of freedom. The Pali commentaries support this point by tracing the word nibbana to its verbal root, which means "unbinding." What kind of unbinding? The texts describe two levels. One is the unbinding in this lifetime, symbolized by a fire that has gone out but whose embers are still warm. This stands for the enlightened arahant, who is conscious of sights and sounds, sensitive to pleasure and pain, but freed from passion, aversion, and delusion. The second level of unbinding, symbolized by a fire so totally out that its embers have grown cold, is what the arahant experiences after this life. All input from the senses cools away and he/she is totally freed from even the subtlest stresses and limitations of existence in space and time.

> The Buddha insists that this level is indescribable, even in terms of existence or nonexistence, because words work only for things that have limits. All he really says about it — apart from images and metaphors — is that one can have foretastes of the experience in this lifetime, and that it's the ultimate happiness, something truly worth knowing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81li_Canon

[2] http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/nibban...
Wow, I don't even have a facebook account and that works. That feels like some XSS waiting to happen :/
"Second: There's no evidence that content creators are actually leaving the Mac. "

I don't think this is true. It's hard to say but there is a lot of noise about it.

Consider this: most 'creatives' are poor. Or kind of. My landlords wife is a 'photographer'. She doesn't make a lot of money. She - like many others - are 'money sensitive'. She uses a PC to do all her high-end work. I don't know why, or if she used Mac before, but I don't see any reason why creatives, in 2016 'need' to be on Mac.

If developers and creators can do their jobs well on a machine 1/2 the cost, that will affect outcomes.

"Apple's Mac sales are not, in _any_ way, propped up by professionals." - again this is false. Almost all consumer markets have 'category leaders' that drive the rest of consumption.

98% of Lululemon attire is worn outside of the Yoga studio - but if Lulu ever stopped making good yoga gear (and trust me, it's really good) - they'd be out of business.
The jury has been out on Tim Cook's performance as Apple CEO since he took over about 7 years ago. I think this new line of Macs is evidence that he's just too focussed on operations to the point where it's ruining their products.

I'm guessing the move to consolidate the ports and kill the audio jack may make total sense internally at Apple when it comes to their 10-year manufacturing operations plan and really maximizing their profitability, but to the outside world it's just bad product development.
Eh, that depends totally on the development culture. I do it all the time. Getting the history over time for a specific region is extremely nice when a piece of code is to be understood.

For the emacs users: vc-region-history is the best part of emacs 25. I totally consider it nice enough to motivate people to compile 25 by yourself if your distro doesn't provide it yet.
I saw an amazing presentation at a ruby meetup about database indexes for developers (for example). Will see if I can dig it up.
I have the touchbar on my work laptop. As a developer I would say that it is a gimmick. I leave it on control strip mode rather than mix of app controls with control strip so that the keys do not change as I change applications.

Applications in *nix and by JetBrains still utilise function keys for shortcuts. If default touch-bar preferences allowed for showing function keys at all times with control strip triggered on fn, that would be my preferred default mode.
I find watching the Netflix back-library to be slightly depressing. Generally watching older movies is great but when nearly every 'you might be interested in' has a cast that's 50% deceased it gets depressing
Semi-related aside, but fun:

Every April Fool's Day I love to mess with family members. A (hypothetically) good effort:effect ratio I have found is Craigslist: Go into some large city's section (NYC, Austin, Sf, etc) and put up a listing for a 'free xbone' or a 'free PSS1', or something similarly typo'd. Explain that you are giving your kids' Xbone away because of a failing grade, you are moving overseas, your boyfriend cheated on you, etc. Then put down the number of the person to be pranked as the contact info. Now, here is the magic part: Specify that the callers for the free stuff must open the call with a Wookie sound, must text back in only haikus about salmon, must only refer to the xbox-one as a sausage, etc. It'll take the prank-ee a few hours to clear that mess up. This works wonders for April 1st day jokes, is fairly harmless, and generates a lot of fun stories.

The thing I am trying to say to the dear NYT reporter, is that you don't necessarily need bots to do this work for you, and not really even money either, just the promise of something for the low price of the time it takes to make a phone call is usually enough. Greed, I guess, works for a very low commission.
Maybe a better slant on this – there has never been a wider gulf between what is represented as fact or truth in politics and what we are capable of supporting as truth through data and science.

So, it's not so much that politics has changed, but rather, the expectations we have of it are higher because we know it can be better.
If comments in code are worthless.. then why aren't we all using some language that has no comment system built in?
> 2 GB memory sounds like a lot until you realize that a large part of it is already being used for, you know, graphics.

That's strange? Got a screenshot or something showing that?

I have a GTX 750 ti SC (which I think is close to the 750M?) with 2 GB - I use it on my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS box. nvidia-smi reports that only about 200 MB of the 2 GB is used for for the graphics sub-system (I have a dual-head setup, too).

Maybe the MBP uses more of the memory? I dunno (my MBP here has Intel unfortunately)...

I know that training models on it is much faster than using the quad-core AMD chip (can't remember which one it is - but nothing recent); still, I have hit up against the memory limits, and at that point batching or other methods are needed to get larger stuff thru it, at a penalty of speed.

I really need to drop something better in there...
Which shows do you guys like?
Oh, believe me, there is sway - there is a hidden hierarchy. If you think you are equal in an edit war, and only need to be persistent, you're wrong. Can you lock an article or part of one?
I still have my old white Macbook. It has never discolored for me and it's still running pretty fast.
I don't own one, but I've seen them in stores and I honestly cannot understand the hate for the touchbar. When I ask people about it they end up saying something like "they took away the Esc key" but every model I saw in the Apple store had an Esc key prominently displayed on the touchbar. Every single one of them. I imagine it ships stock like that.

So they switched it to a touch sensitive key instead of a physical key, but it's still there, right? It's still in exactly the same location. I honestly don't understand the outrage.
Yeah, «why you need comments? just read the code» (c) Brainfuck developers.
Actually that's not what makes it expensive. It leads to too many people making very poor health choices and becoming obese or engaging in palliative care to eek out 2 more miserable weeks of existence at enormous costs to healthcare providers.

Young people, and especially young, healthy people are the ones subsidizing the elderly and the unhealthy, including most of those who are unhealthy by choice through poor decisions.

> The point of insurance is to distribute risk

Perverse incentives. Insurance needs to be structured in such a way as to incentivize people to take part in preventive care, which costs a fraction of treatment and palliative care.
But it does. It depends on the organization, but there are groups where chugging coffee, talking a lot, and pumping out dozens of half-working features by coding like a drunk cowboy will get you promoted and recognized as a team player, while pushing back to take time and do things right will have you reprimanded. Many such cases out there.
I've bought fake followers before. It's actually fun. You'd be surprised how much of the "chattering class" will check your follower count before they decide if they should read and respond to your comments.

If you enjoy chiming in on national conversations then it's a cheap way to appear prestigious. Of course, you need to be able to argue well enough to not out yourself as some random joe.
Correct. For more detail: the only mandated "signaling" for a signaling NaN is that it sets the sticky Invalid bit in the floating-point status register (aka Invalid exception). It is up to the host processor as to whether it is possible to get a signal on changes to the floating-point exception bits. Some CPU's don't have the ability at all.
But... many, many movies have deceased cast. Do you only watch movies released after 1960..?
Immutability probably does simplify a lot of things; but it isn't actually required to get Erlang's model, since Erlang isolates the state of processes from each other. Each process could have its own isolated mutable state as opposed to an immutable one and it wouldn't change the "let it crash" philosophy.
What a family! George Boole, Herself (Ethel?), then Geoff Hinton. I wouldn't be surprised if history remembers Hinton more than his illustrious ancestors.
I have no idea where this analogy is going.

I'd rather be on a mountain making sleds?
For the hockey fans in the room, this feels similar to the New Jersey Devils' infamous 'offside trap' strategy that made them so successful in the 90s and early 2000s. It's been called everything from 'boring' to 'a crime against the sport,' but it was effective.
That's not really an issue. The government is perfectly free to use Google Apps for clearnet email.

Do you mean to suggest that Gmail is more secure than government classified networks?
Well, the point is that people who write good, clean code don't need to comment their code extensively. They don't need to continuously explain why they did some horrible hack or some trivialities because their code is well structured and very easy to understand based on other good software development practices. They don't write the requirements of their functions as code comments, rather they write unit tests that document the requirements etc.
All the cool kids attach the power LED to the speaker headers, to stop your bell script :P
Vine shutting down strikes a particular chord with me, given they were responsible for shutting down the microvideo startup I helped build, Keek. Twitter getting into the game sucked all the financing out of the environment and we essentially starved to death before reaching monetization, since we were focused on massive growth.

We realized at the end that there was no way to make money in the space - and Vine shutting down basically proves that point.
I'd say that you should also remove distractions as part of the process. Silence alerts from monitoring systems because you already know its down. Close your email because you don't need to get distracted by angry customers.

I always thought "duress" meant someone holding a gun to your head, but I guess it kinda makes sense here too.
With apple's recent behavior, the updates may not be upgrades, but trade-offs.
I doubt you remember, but you responded very briefly to a YC application about nearly the exact idea complete with prototype work a couple years back. Didn't get any real interest or feedback from you though.

Has the game changed to make webrtc P2P platforms more palatable to VC (cough Trump = end of net neutrality cough) or did these guys just feel like better "founder material" to y'all? I mean, we weren't ever going to propose selling other's people bandwidth as a profit method for our tech, so maybe that's the problem.

FWIW, we've since moved on to something better. Realized that VC shouldn't be involved with every piece of tech, and that peer-distributed networks is probably one of those. I'm sure you'll see it show up on HN before too much longer though.
Ask HN: What insight was key to growth of your career or startup?
Insight can be from technical / sales / marketing / interpersonal / other aspects.
Actually, this just gave me a crazy idea... what if laptop manufacturers included something low powered like a boogie board device on the outside of the screen, which could write / save directly to some small internal storage of the laptop, and then the resulting notes could be accessible via the laptop when turned on? Kind of like.. a poor man's tablet on the outside of a laptop? I wonder the cost of that vs. touch screens / digital pens.
Keep up the good fight, NY Times, and I hope you get a lot closer to the truth soon

e.g.: http://freebeacon.com/politics/trumps-twitter-followed-milli...
I bought my Macbook Air for $1,629 in June of 2012. It's still my main computer and I've spent <$300 (new battery, charger, etc) since the initial purchase.

I'm not easy on computers. I travel a lot and this think has put up with very poor treatment. I can't think of a better computer for me. After this one dies I'll definitely buy another Mac (not thinking about which one because I'm expecting this to last at least another year). I hope I'm not disappointed because this computer exceeded my expectations for a laptop.
"The biggest benefit of the Macbook 12" is that if software runs well on your computer, you know it's guaranteed to run extra buttery-smooth on other computers, which all have beefier CPUs and GPUs."

Really? Apple really has a great business model.

The software I'm developing is not the compiler I'm using. It's not a mobile device emulator I'm using. It's not a web browser I'm using. It's not an email client or a photo editing app I'm using. It's not the IDE I'm using.