skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dig this comment. I think it speaks to the idea that when it comes to improving one's decision-making skills it's important to share your opinions / decisions with others when possible and also unabashedly share how you reached your opinion

Unabashed openness in how and why you think something appears to be the hardest part for people. Maybe because it includes saying things like "I don't know" or saying to a group of people a sentence like "My opinion on xyz is based on intuition, I apologize I can't point to a more scientific reason for my opinion right now but just because something is a gut feeling doesn't mean it is incorrect". This kind of talk is especially difficult in corporate environments where, in general, managers or aspiring leaders saying something like "I don't know" is verboten.

Q: You mentioned you are an investor. It wasn't clear what type of investing you do or if you do this professionally or if you're a one-man shop. But you also said something about getting feedback on decisions on the internet? (I also saw you said it is horrible :). I'm just curious where on the internet could you even have tried this getting feedback as an investor? While I don't know of a professional investment firm that would allow employees to discuss live investment decisions on the internet assuming it happens anyway; is there a website or something where professional investors discuss investment decisions and their theses online?

I work in finance and invest professionally (I don't call myself an investor though maybe because most of the money belongs to other people). Anyway my experience has been (both at my current fund and previous fund) the PM decision-making processes and managing risks like bias or miscalculation are taken so so seriously now: There is a formal internal procedure for decisions that lead to investment portfolio changes and an external company/consulting firm is hired specifically to evaluate and improve decision making by humans and machines. Decision making has fallen into the "risk management" category and it is not taken lightly.
Most used online forum? Is there data to back that up?
project on HN apparently don't watch movie or search superhero crap and other sophisticated stuff, otherwise it's hard to understand why would anyone agree with shutting boards where movie fans discuss movies, especially those less known and especially since there is ZERO alternative to easily find discussion board for some obscure movie you just watched where would anyone head
Never looked into Classloader until now. Very interesting. Can a loaded class also be an extension of a view or an activity?
Not at a Unix machine right, now, but this might work:

rm \BKSP where the BKSP represents the backspace key. If it worked, it did because the backslash escapes the usual meaning of the backspace key, which is to erase the preceding character.

Also, related (though may not work for above case), to delete other files with funny characters in the name (like a leading dash):

rm -- -filename

where the -- means (end of the options), so even a leading dash after -- is not treated it as an option.

Best to use the -i option too, with such cases, for interactive confirmation of the remove.
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Yes, and many European countries tax diesel less than gasoline. I think when these sorts of policies were enacted only heavy vehicles like trucks, buses and cars that were driven a lot (taxis, mostly) used diesel, and there was an extra yearly per-vehicle "diesel tax" that made buying a diesel car economically unfavorable unless you drove a lot.

I think this sort-of ties into the political ideology where "luxury consumption" is bad. I.e. truckers transport Important Stuff(TM) and thus deserve a tax rebate on fuel, whereas a private person driving their own vehicle is bad, and should be discouraged.

But, the world changed (or, lets say the balance between the different taxes, incomes etc.) and at some point it started to make economic sense for the average Joe to buy a diesel car instead of a gasoline one.

But of course, changing the tax policy by getting rid of the diesel tax rebate runs into fierce opposition by the trucking/taxi/etc. lobby. So here we are.
UNINFORMED OPINION by a side-watcher: I don't feel there's any AI revolution at all. We simply have slightly more efficient deep learning networks due to better hardware.

Most of the time it feels like the people who are somewhat successful in those branches simply got lucky by randomly mixing elements A, B and C in an unexpected manner and boom -- magic.

In other words, things progress painfully slow and almost always it's due to intuitive shower/sleep revelations than anything else.
I've battled spam at another film site. If my experience is anything to go by, even mentioning the word "spam" is enough to make smoke come out of the operators' ears. They tried to delete the spam and abuse when it was posted, but some slipped through and leads to new support requests and new complaints even now.

Sorry if that sounded exasperated.
My answer to Ao7bei3s is also for you. Try to make a better design. You will (very likely) fail.
This is an awesome post. I just sat my Technician license test yesterday and even with prior practice I'm still nervous about cutting my teeth using morse in a real-world environment when my callsign gets assigned. This seems like it is a great piece of material to read.
LOL! They couldn't print paper as fast as the Fed is creating currency electronically! What do you think all those "Quantitative Easing" are?

paper currency is much less than one percent of the total currency dealt with by banksters.
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Chrome - uBlock Origin

FF - uBlock Origin, Decentraleyes, Random Agent Spoofer, Self-Destructing Cookies
same here, been user for 14 years. since there was no alternative everyone headed to IMDb boards to discuss movie so you could always find someone, now after destroying the boards not sure where to go, since everyone will try to find some place to discuss movies, though there is none really with critical mass of users

i am thinking about trakt.tv though it's just threaded comments, but better than nothing since rotten tomatoes have read only forums and tmdb and metacritic doesn't have even that. my movie watching experience will be severely affected by lack of discussion after finishing movie, might as well watch less movies because of lack of place to discuss them
Autonomous vehicles and the end of privacy
But that undoubtedly cost IMDb money. Litigation on its own can be enough to sway the risk/benefit scale, even if the civil complaint is entirely baseless.
In my company we work using computers for real world applications, in the physical world:

Regenerative medicine: understanding DNA code and restoring cells and organs, making eternal youth possible. It will take decades of hard work.

Ending cancer: We are studding virus mutations, so we could attack them without invasive techniques.

Nuclear fusion: We are simulating plasma physics. This is going to be enormous in ten years or so imho.
> Graham’s understanding of economics is woefully pedestrian, un-researched conjecture. His conceptualization of the economics of exchange relies on a stubborn insistence and blind naive trust that the free market is the ultimate solution to which his audience must subscribe. It is distressing that one could allow arrogance to so cloud his judgment that he would embarrass himself by making such claims in an area of study he is clearly lacking any authority on which to speak.

The author sounds rather more arrogant than Paul Graham did. And free markets are the ultimate solution.

EDIT: The more I read, the more ridiculous it gets. The author takes something that Paul Graham said, throws away all of the context, and attacks it as a strawman. The article seems more keen on attacking Paul Graham than making any actual point.

It is also written in a very verbose style that makes it hard to follow whatever argument might be present.
Yeah I just don't see it
Would you be up to pointing us at open-source tools with which people can do these things? And a few examples?
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> there is a deterministic formula for converting monotonic clock time to wall clock time

I think "deterministic" is not really right here, since you can only convert monotonic times in the past, not the future, and only after you have been given the (completely arbitrary) leap second data. If you call that "deterministic", then what isn't?

> The proposed solution here is to treat them as completely separate

Did you read the proposal? Because the Go folks are essentially trying to present a single, unified API for both, whereas lots of comments here on HN are suggesting the separate-API approach instead. Also, the Go folks specifically call out Google's efforts to eliminate the leap second problem from their systems and how/why it hasn't caught on outside of the big players. Can you compare your proposal to Google's time handling solution? Does it suffer the same problems mentioned in the the post?
I don't know how Chess is classified, but isn't it possible that the men's side of the tourney just starts with more points due to historical imbalances?

For example, if we assumed that the current state had men having twice as many points as women of equivalent skill, it might take a while for people to climb up right?

More generally, it's not like people's skill are well ordered. If so, what would be the point of the tournaments! It seems like having a bit of mixing of levels in the beginning of the tournament would be more interesting. Especially if it's not single elimination
The difference is that I get something out of using Facebook, while giving it to you gives me nothing.
I'm much more comfortable speaking openly in person than online. Online I don't have control over context or the audience. I don't have direct emotional feedback nor I myself can use emotion to properly convey my idea to someone. This puts me in position of extreme vulnerability, since my message can be distorted and put out of context.

Social media are useless for any serious discussion unless you have pseudonymity (HN, reddit) or full anonymity (4chan).
I didn't even know IMDB had a message board.
They did choose the right abstractions. It was a great success.

You can't separate concerns that you can't clearly define.

What cat does is what you tell it to do. If you need escaping -- well, do it (base64 or whatever).
A few references I've found suggest that is RS(9,5) and might not actually be using GF(32); although you have 18 "symbols" of 90 bits total, with 50 bits of data and 40 parity, I doubt those are the actual RS symbols.

In fact, those parameters line up with 9 * 10-bit symbols in each block, 5 10-bit data and 4 10-bit ECC. I would try a shortened RS(1023,1019) in GF(1023), taking pairs of the 5-bit "symbols".

Here is the code I originally used. I was bruteforcing a non-shortened RS(511,503) in GF(511) which had a somewhat complex transformation between bytes and symbols, fortunately partly documented at the time:

http://pastebin.com/6nK2GSBh (partly anonymised. public domain.)
Random Agent Spoofer seems like a good one. Trying it out on FF now.
As in, how the people who already experienced the 'chilling effect' online, had this projected on their offline life. I've also seen many people doing and saying all kinds of weird stuff online, but I'd expect the study not to be concerned with those.
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I've used RR to debug some tricky crashes, and it's an absolute joy to use. Being able to work backwards from a crash to the underlying problem can vastly reduce debugging time for some of the trickiest bugs.
I'm not suggesting changing that -- just that when all those programs eventually output, the shell/TTY store each program's output in a separate stream, rather than just multiplex them all together in a giant pile.
This research really does not provide significant evidence for that idea. I realize your preconceived ideas align with this idea, but there is no evidence of harm from this study!

It also does show evidence of heath benefit for women. It's likely that men also benifit though to a lesser degree, which is to small to show in this data. Remember westerners had daily alcohol intake for a very long time. Much like Milk it's negative effects on that population are likely reduced.

PS: This is also analyzing 3rd party data for heath effects which is a very low order of evidence. https://xkcd.com/882/
Had to follow a few links to get a better idea of what "Rr" does: http://rr-project.org/
> someone out there has made assumptions which will now be invalid

I was thinking about this as well, but I think the key is that they guarantee only the semantics that are _documented_. If you make assumptions beyond the documentation, then no, of course they can't guarantee compatibility, otherwise it would essentially forbid any changes whatsoever. Still, it is a good thing the Go team takes the extra step to ensure that even changes that fall inside their compatibility promise are _still_ vetted against a vast body of real-world code, and to check that common (non-documented) assumptions won't be violated if they can help it.
the thing is it must have already big database of movies and enough users, only other sites meeting this are rotten tomatoes (disabled read only forums so apparently not interested), TMDb (nothing, seem they are not interested in this opportunity judging by discussion in their forum), Metacritic (nothing), Letterboxd (nothing and too few users) and trakt.tv (has threaded comments for specific movies, but also not that many users)

i talked with my friend running one of the biggest subtitles website who had obviously enough database of movies and TV shows, but he ain't interested because of legal responsibility for content of comments and need of expensive moderation, though i would think this could be outsourced to Disqus and legally comments would be stored on their servers
Funny you mention the phone bill; I remember my mom asking me if it cost more to send emails abroad, when I was at university in the early nineties.
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Proper fucking scrolling?

Less terminal behavior that needs to be multiplexed by tmux?

More integration with other iTerm features (instead of tmux panes being agnostic to them)?
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can't edit my comment in my HN client
Very interesting and well explained. I like the style with the code/tabs. Link to that code: https://github.com/anders94/blockchain-demo
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You don't even need a special option, just do rm ./-filename
You sometimes need more control over the actual HTML document than that; for instance to work around browser bugs or for efficiency. But if you are only interested in the semantics, then it's still not an adequate representation of the document. How would you, for instance, add an attribute to the body element? If you're dealing with a semantic representation like a DOM library would give you, then this would be trivial, because the body element would be part of the model you are working with. But the body element doesn't exist in that S-expression. You'll have to manually insert it, which involves further domain-specific knowledge embedded in your code.

Basically, it's stuck in-between two states doing neither correctly. It doesn't represent the actual HTML document, and it doesn't represent the parsed document structure. It's an alternative model of the HTML document that serialises to something that would be parsed in an equivalent way. I'm sure that's useful in a whole bunch of different situations, but it's not as simple as "S-expressions can do everything HTML can, in a convenient way".

S-expressions are great, and very useful. But they aren't the right tool for every situation. HTML is an odd markup language that only appears simple superficially, with all kids of irregular corner cases creeping in when you dig into the details. S-expressions would be a great fit if HTML were as simple as it appears on the surface, but it's not.
Unfortunately it didn't explain this correctly, and this is the most important part of Bitcoin, as well as its biggest innovation.

The longest chain always wins. And since valid block hashes are very hard to find, the longest chain is the one that has the most mining effort behind it. This is why mining is essential to securing the blockchain. In order to make a fake chain of any appreciable length, you would need to have >50% of the total hashing power of the blockchain. And if you have that much power, then whatever you say is the right chain is the right chain, because you can mine more blocks than anyone else and so yours is right by virtue of being longest.

The video incorrectly implies that there is some sort of voting mechanism going on wherein the version of the chain with the most copies is correct, but this is incorrect, and would be horribly broken. The P2P network exists only to communicate transactions and blocks; it does not factor in to which version of a chain is considered valid (the longest one always wins). If the P2P network were used for this, then it would be trivial to take over Bitcoin using a Sybil attack, by e.g. hiring a botnet to run millions of fake nodes with your preferred version of the chain. With mining and validity determination by longest length, that doesn't even put a dent in Bitcoin, as even a million general purpose commodity computers can't get anywhere close to matching a small percentage of the overall hashing power of the miners.
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There is a comment on Reddit saying that the ArchiveTeam is working on archiving them:

https://www.reddit.com/r/scifi/comments/5s0iiv/slug/ddbugy5
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It stands to reason that people participating in social networks and being aware of how a silly thing might get blown out of proportions will limit their offline behavior to reduce the possibility that someone will publish that and paint a target on their backs.

I think It's not so much use of the social networks that makes people more careful. Just awareness how much of a WMD gossip machine they are.
So this might be statistically true, but it doesn't mean that men are inherently better. Just like people born rich aren't inherently better at being rich later on.

I think people talk a lot about the gender gap in these things. But there's a decent amount of proof from other domains that these differences are more likely to be caused by environmental differences than otherwise.

Remember, programming used to be a lady's job!
When a block is found, the miner who found it is rewarded with newly minted bitcoins.

As a miner, you create your own block from the transactions you see. Every miner makes its own blocks.

This means sometimes two miners will find a block at about the same time, and they'll be different. Other miners will have to choose one or the other as the predecessor for their own blocks, and before long one of the candidate blocks will have another block on top of it.

Everybody considers the fork with the most accumulated difficulty to be the valid fork.
I'd be surprised if you could commute 100km in one hour on ordinary rural roads. I have a colleague who commutes from Åmot to Drammen and he takes about an hour and its only about 60km and that's pretty good roads most of the way. I know Swedish roads are often better than Norwegian ones but are they really that much better? Or do Swedes just drive a lot faster?
For a certain definition of "nice", possibly. It's a little bit of a depressing thought that some future culture might find only our online comments and study our culture through that.
Maybe handy in that case ;):

http://www.funnymotivationalposters.info/wp-content/uploads/...
It would be interesting to built a minesweeper implementation that calculates mine positions dynamically. That way, you could resolve "unsolvable" situations like this by always favouring the player (or the opposite, if you're feeling evil).
their boards are pretty much only unique feature they offered, if i wanna information about movie, rate something or create my watchlist i have plenty of options

if i wanna discuss ANY movie i watched, i have ONE option which is being shut down in two weeks

which also means after shutting down boards i have no more reason to use their site and not switch to competition which i am already doing since i learned this news (deciding between TMDb and Trakt.tv at the moment, the latter one has even thread comments for each movie or TV show)
A different approach...not automatic, but the form factor is much nicer: https://www.eyejusters.com/technology/
> In a perfectly libertarian society, the bullies would not only take your lunch money, they would murder your family, burn your house, and leave you for dead by the side of the road.

What brand of libertarianism is the author talking about here?

That sounds like anarchy, not libertarianism.
What else should they find of our current culture? Our books are written on very cheap paper which will not survive the next 100 years.
I did verify that, and yes it was scary in the beginning. When I asked customer care, I was told that is how it is :/
3. You might have external dependencies that are difficult or impossible to duplicate in your testing environment. Yes, stuff like this exists -- e.g. a medium-size retail bank will have at least a dozen, typically multiple-dozens of external contractors, each with their own APIs and testing environments.
Heh .. my fav book in the discworld series is Going Postal, and its sequel. I highly recommend them.
ioctls are terrible. I've never used the "Windows NT design" but how would they implement e.g. tunnelling through SSH or a serial connection?
Your logic is faulty, but it's hard to explain why. I think this might be variation of the Monty Hall Problem:

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

Or more likely, just the Gambler's fallacy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler's_fallacy
WASM looks like the most exciting development for the web.
The paper describes an effect called "context collapse" which the authors claim is observed in people who use social networks. The effect is described as people self-censoring their posts on social media because their audience is potentially represented by a multitude of groups (parents, friends, colleagues). So people self-edit their content in order to satisfy a lowest common denominator.

The authors proceed to measure if this self-censoring behaviour extends into real life for people who are thinking about social networks versus people who are not. The method surveyed the participants about either a trip to an adult night club, or a theme park. Half the participants were "primed" with Facebook — meaning they were shown photos of the trips they could take as a mocked-up Facebook event, and they were told they would need to add the trip representative to their Facebook so their photos could be tagged for promotional reasons.

The measure they used to determine self-censoring behaviour is called Negatively Directed Impression Management (NDIM). Online this means removing yourself from tagged photos, deleting social media content that may be offensive, or other forms of removal.

To measure it offline they asked participants how much they would need to be paid to take part in the trip, and whether they would be interested in a follow up trip (the payment stuff was worked into their cover story).

The Facebook-primed group showed significantly higher offline NDIM for the adult night club trip. The theme park trip showed no significant difference.

The participants were composed of 80 male Facebook users at a UK university, about 20 years old.