skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, the reasoning for removing the average karma per comment metric, which was about 2 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8264220

> It's based on comment scores only. My sense is that it's an irrelevant distraction and we should get rid of it. For example, we caught a bunch of users who were gaming it by deleting any comments that brought their average down. We fixed that by treating deleted comments as comments of score 0 for average-computing purposes. It's an example of how, once you publish a metric, people start to care about it and do things based on it, regardless of how meaningful it is. Comment average used to be used by a few algorithms (like comment ranking) but we turned that off as an experiment a while ago and nothing seemed to get worse. If anything, I think it may have helped a little.
Something like this? You could just package this as an extension or something.

var likedUsers = ['pcwalton', 'patio11', 'jblow', 'WalterBright'];

var users = document.getElementsByClassName("hnuser");

for (var i = 0; i < users.length; i++) {

if (likedUsers.indexOf(users[i].innerHTML) != -1) {

users[i].setAttribute("style", "font-weight: bold;"); //Or whatever

}

}
To add a bit more for people who haven't been involved in an IRB:

The strictness varies by university. Ultimately the IRB is there to ensure safety of the participants and minimize the chance of negative consequences. A couple examples I've heard from around my university include...

A study was taking place outside. There was a chance of a bee sting occurring to the participant. The IRB required that the researcher have an epi-pen ready just in case along with any required training.

A paper used in a study had the wrong stamp on it (not the most recent IRB stamp). The document had not changed from the last time, but the rule was simple. Every document presented to the participant had to have the most recent stamp.

On a study in which it was expected that 1/2 of the participants would feel nauseous, they had to provide a place to sit, water, and small snacks.

And perhaps most importantly, you can quit any study you're participating in at any time, for any reason. Compensation is figured out ahead of time, and you're going to get lots of questions from IRB if you want to do anything to reduce the compensation for leaving part way through the experiment.
There are sometimes ethics rules on how long data is stored for. If there's a commitment to destroy the raw data after a period, eg. five years, often it can't be publicly released (even anonymised) or there'd be no way of ensuring it's been destroyed when the time is up.
One of the things that initially excited me was being able to write code like Python for parsing and automating office tasks and then dropping down to RedSystem for numerical work like matrices and various algorithms and perhaps some embedded work like talking to an arduino. If it could truly do that, I'd give up needing to know 9 languages depending on what I'm doing.
I hope you're being sarcastic. I'm a bit hesitant to provide examples, but a lot of top results in computer science are sold as being much more far reaching than what they really are.
Designing and developing Outta – an AR app
I'm using the HackerTagger extension in Chrome for extra context on the users. You could probably use that to some extent to highlight their posts/comments. (It will not show they commented on somebody else's post though)
I feel like there was a smile that turned into a frown between those two statements as they realized what it meant
While it's true that most of us have more than 80 character width displays most of the time, reducing the strength of that argument ... I dislike having to turn my head to read a long line. Personal preference of me.

I also think that code that has been constrained to 80 columns reads better. Personal opinion of me.
Cool idea. Not to start a flame war, but wish there was a non-Emacs (vi?) version. Or notes on how it was started, so I could look into doing my own.
I found it interesting that systemd actually requires this behaviour:

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/CODING_STYLE#...

I once found a particularly confusing use of this style here:

https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/master/erts/epmd/src/epmd...
Especially the cynical practice of filing known-baseless patent suits as described in the article. That behavior should get the company heavily fined, and land the responsible corporate actors in prison.
I am the parent you are talking about. I've made this argument many times with people: Unicode is crazy complicated in any programming language. People think that widening the char width will help - well you seem to be somebody who knows Unicode so you probably know the horrors of surrogates, combining characters vs. pre-composed diacritics, zero-width joiners, Han unification, variation selectors, BiDi... This is in no way just a C thing to deal with all that nonsense. I've not seen any language or library that I'd say does it "well" and saves individual programmers from considering the above. They all punt the issue to the programmer.

I've heard (mostly here) that Swift does something different and treats glyphs as the basic unit. I haven't had a chance to look at precisely what that does. Given all the issues I've seen elsewhere I'm skeptical that someone, anyone can pull that off correctly.

UTF-8 at least has one elegance (there's that word again) in the design in that you can do some "dumb" ASCII things and if your code does not know what to do with fancy unicode, you can check the high bit of any given octet and "safely" skip over it and any adjacent nonascii sequence if you don't know what it means. This may or may not be applicable to a task at hand.
I would have appreciated some more information about these patents. Like instead of telling me the lawsuit is all hot air, show me? I feel they deliberately omitted any facts which might allow me to form any opinion other than the one I'm supposed to have. (I'm happy to believe the lawsuit is bullshit, but not based on nothing but say so.)
The point is that bringing your own mining rig to steal electricity is not that much better.
Facebook's Town Hall is probably the best thing the social network has ever done
iOS 10.3 and macOS Sierra 10.12.4 are huge Safari releases for web developers
A sidenote:

Using a snappy XKCD is not a valid logical argument even though the poster might think it makes one look hip and cool. I wish researchers were not this lazy.

There are at least a handful of valid arguments that one could use rather than an XKCD cartoon.
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How a baby learn to find number 1 in easy way
I don’t care what tools a developer uses.
And not ignoring it for a moment, it's very clearly not a legitimate threat of violence.
The Hacker News community deals with those behaviors the same way it deals with them when exhibited by other members of the community. Likewise, Davis' work is recognized as intellectually interesting just like other intellectually interesting work.
> David Dawsey, a golf intellectual-property expert

Talk about carving a niche for yourself.
Tobacco companies said the opposite of what their studies showed--so they lied.

Claiming that marijuana is typically smoked orders of magnitude less than cigarettes is not at all a lie but is truly one of the main reasons marijuana doesn't lead to the same lung cancer rates as cigarettes.

Back of the napkin math:
Imagine the average smoker smokes a pack of cigarettes a day. 20 cigarettes in a pack and 15 drags per cigarette = 300 drags of smoke per day.

A moderate (or even heavy) marijuana user smokes a bowl or two per day and takes ~4 hits per bowl = 8 drags a day.

Plus marijuana is not addictive like cigarettes so the number of casual marijuana users who can remain once-in-a-while partakers is much higher than with cigarettes. And if funds are tight it's easier for people to stop spending their money on marijuana than on cigarettes. Marijuana's cost on society is overall a lot lower than the societal cost of cigarettes.
That's not right. Dignity is "the state or quality of being worthy of honor or respect". Someone has (or doesn't have) dignity irrespective of how they are treated.
Squadifying our company
> I wouldn't be certain. A lot of researchers really are clueless about anything to do with statistics.

This is definitely true. I once saw a book with a title similar to "Statistics for Dummies" in a professors office. He had plenty of access to staticians at the university too. Unfortunately if a given field involves many people with ignorance of statistics, these problems may not be called out during the peer review process.
No, unions are basically filled with assholes. Growing up, my dad was in the Boilermakers. I know firsthand what a bunch of drunken, miserable, violent, and wholly ignorant people they are. My dad made the mistake of crossing them over their crappy nepotism and broken ethics and so we ended up having death threats called in and idiots in a van driving by our house with guns sticking out the windows. Know what the cops did? Jack and shit. Know what the FBI did? Nothing. Zero.

Also, NYC is a den of misery for most of those who inhabit it and a good number of those miserable SOBs belong to unions. Honestly, if the whole place got taken out by an asteroid, we'd be better off.

Unions can fck right off. Miserable communist cnts.
This video from Austin Meyer (creator of X-Plane) is pretty eye-opening:

https://youtu.be/sG9UMMq2dz4

Apparently there are TWO judges in the district, BOTH of whose own sons are lawyers in the same district. And BOTH sons handle a lot of the patent litigation, in front of their own fathers, the judges. Pretty incredible. Watch the video starting at about 5 minutes to see it.
That's what happens when you use mturk instead of computer vision.
Off-topic: I love reading articles that use 2-column format. I think it should be done more often. Although I wished the font would have been a "seriffed" one.
This type of technology sounds way too invasive. Are there no other ways of empowering people through technology without having to create such a ridiculous vulnerability and dependency on technology?
Seems like someone could do the same thing to the union jobs.
Don't think of it as legalising another drug; think of it as expanding the rights of a person to own their own body. What right does the State have to legalise and promote one drug but put another in jail for a different drug. Do we own our own bodies or not? These morality laws are from a different era and need to be removed. Drugs are here to stay so lets be sensible about their use.

As for schizophrenia... it's funny that people think that cannabis use is a recent thing. Do you realise that cannabis has been used for centuries and if there was a solid causation between cannabis and schizophrenia you would see the effects now. Also no one has disproved the theory that schizophrenics and other mental health sufferers naturally gravitate to cannabis to ease their symptoms.
My main point was: Alan Watts explicitly said that concepts don't go away once you realise they exist in your head not in the world, and concepts are useful - 'skill' is being able to see both interpretations simultaneously. Well we have concepts of life and death. The parent post saying "you can't put off death if you were never alive" is like saying "you can't take colour photos after you realise the colours exist only in your heads". But you can. It sounds connected, but it's unconnected, it's crossing over two worldviews in one sentence. In one worldview you are alive and can die and can apply medical intervention to try and live longer, in the other view a rippling part of the universe that you call 'medical intervention' connects with a rippling part of the universe that feels like 'you' and the consequence is that the ripple ripples for longer.

And it's .. the same thing. You can't really use that view to argue that it can't happen, or that it shouldn't happen.

(Intermixed with meanderings about how that worldview seems pretty dismal in some respects, and I don't really get it).
I think there's a general popular misunderstanding of the process of science as it is generally practiced.

A single paper isn't as meaningful as you might think. It's more like an interesting blog post. You might use it as a starting point for your own investigation.

A single paper does not represent "the truth" as we currently understand it. For that you need to have a broad scientific consensus.

You might be able to get a better understanding of that from review papers citing recent advances in the field. Or from attending conferences/reading a broad range of papers yourself.
Wait, not like this?

document.documentElement.innerHTML =
document.documentElement.innerHTML.replace(
new RegExp('(?:' + ['pcwalton', 'patio11', 'jblow', 'WalterBright'].join('|') + ')', 'g'),
'<B>$&</B>'
);

DHTML!
> Companies with deep pockets lock down the market by making it too expensive for competitors to operate and to offer lower-priced yet quality products. It is a legitimate tactic; even those who succumb to it don’t really begrudge the approach.

Who the hell wrote this article, the CEO of Acushnet?

"Don't get the wrong idea, small businesses love being sued over frivolous patents they never infringed upon!"
I second that, and want to add that scanning a shorter line is easier on the eyes, too. There's a reason typography conventions limit line width to 60-70 characters.
They should all be shot, hung from their toes, and left to rot in the sun so that nobody else get any ideas, just like they used to do to buccaneers.
Doing so would be publishing non-representative data.

Imagine an identified versus anonymous survey about cocaine usage in America. People will likely answer honestly if it is anonymous.

If it is identified, most people would be fine with it being identified and would mark no usage. People who do use cocaine would be more likely to not participate or lie on the answer.
The following patent numbers cited in this[1]:
6994638
8123632
8444507
9320944
8025593
8257201
7331878
6358161
7887439
7641572
7163472

[1] http://golf-patents.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/20170317-...
Costco sued J&J Vision Care a few years ago over anti-consumer behavior in the contact lenses industry (I characterize it as anti-consumer. The Vision Care industry characterizes it as pro-consumer). They dropped the lawsuit in 2016, probably because Johnson and Johnson discontinued the practice: https://www.law360.com/articles/800034/costco-drops-antitrus...

Costco did support a different lawsuit by state of Utah against Contact Lens Manufacturers. The Manufacturers lost their first appeal in December 2016: http://www.sltrib.com/news/4731439-155/contact-lens-makers-l...

Hopefully this will begin reducing the prices of contact lenses. Kudos to Costco for sticking up for its customers.

Here is one manufacturer's opinion on this matter: https://www.alcon.com/content/unilateral-pricing-policy
He might think a false positive is better than a false negative.
This article is very sparse on details. For one, the factory that makes the Costco balls primarily makes Taylor Made balls. The manufacturer is a Korean company that used its excess capacity to make Costco's balls. Taylor Made sells premium balls so they're pressuring the manufacturer to not do this in the future.

Also i haven't seen any details about Costco having a golf ball design team. Where did this design come from? Did they contract it out to one of the small manufacturers that he article refers to? That's mainly the thing I want to know, since if it's truly their design that they own, then they'll be able to find someone to make it for them.

Also Aschunet isn't that deep pocketed. Their annual revenues are $1.5B with ~$70M shares outstanding and an EPS of about 6, so about $400M in profit, and operating income is in the range of $150M. https://forum.mygolfspy.com/topic/14841-acushnet-losing-sale...

Unlike the small ball companies they sued, Costco is a much bigger company than Acushnet and can afford to fight them off, especially since Costco has the distribution scale, hype, and demographic fit perfectly suited to really move the needle with this product (The upper middle class family with disposable income that is budget conscious, which is Costco's main market, is perfect for a budget high performance golf ball, which is a perishable sporting good that you need to buy hundreds of if you play regularly).

(Fwiw it is very common in the sport to have small upstart club makers. Basically all you need is a milling machine to make a perfectly reasonable iron or putter, and every now and then you'll see a random small manufacturers club in a tour player's bag - ex: the Yes! Golf putter when Retief Goosen won both his US Opens)
I'll bite.

Why did you paste a paragraph from the Wikipedia article?
A fintech startup risks quick loans to salaried folks that banks overlook
Writing an operating system is hard:

http://jvns.ca/blog/2013/12/04/day-37-how-a-keyboard-works/
I watched that video on that page earlier, but now that I saw your description, I'm wondering how they get it down again at the end!
A Direct-Democracy Healthcare Bill
People deserve to be treated with dignity regardless. Not doing so says something about me.
My thought: ridiculous false equivalency.

Conservatives don't distrust science carte blanc. Many of them will chuck money at asinine bullshit as long as it's billed as a way to kill the other team. Check out some of the more ridiculous stuff to come out of DoD.

They distrust climate science. And they don't distrust the actual science, just the conclusions. And increasingly not even the most basic conclusion, just the most obvious causal theory behind that conclusion.

Let's not throw the baby out with the bath water.
<Black Mirror spoiler>

This is just like that one episode of Black Mirror where they implant that game AI into the guys head!!
American courts should have a "Loser pays" rule, and stricter standards for determining what is a frivolous lawsuit warranting additional penalties for the filer.

American jurisprudence has always favored making sure "everyone gets their day in Court" to the point where trolls and professional litigants are ruining things.
You cannot use harm as an argument unless you also include tobacco, alcohol, and opiates. These are the drugs that kill directly and indirectly. We know this, we've known this for decades, and yet they are still legal.

And if it is harmful to smoke, so what? The State allows me to drink 10 bourbon bottles a night, or 10 packs of cigs, or 10 large pizzas now. Do we own our bodies or not?
Nature has programmed us to die. When we reach old age, it's not scary anymore.
1917 was a lot like today in the most developed areas. The New York City subway system was running. Electric lights, telephones, and telegraphs were available. Running water. Indoor plumbing. Movies, even. Cars were being driven around, and airplanes were flying. Railroads were everywhere. NYC had skyscrapers with elevators. IBM was already in business.

Compare 1817. No useful railroads. A few steam engines here and there. No electricity. Running water and indoor plumbing were rare. Steel was as rare as titanium is now. Nothing moved faster than a horse.
the author probably understands it's just a quick google away for anyone interested.
> Unlike the small ball companies they sued

Maybe I'm mis-reading, but I think the article said that Acushnet was the first one to send a threatening letter claiming IP infringement.
80. Seems about right.
whitehouse.gov was a Drupal site for a time. Not sure if it still is.

<edit> yep, builtwith says it still is.
I don't agree with the decision. But, he was not ejected for S&M hobbies. He was ejected because he was perceived to believe that women are subservient to men (evidently this was part of some of his online writing).

Here's a timeline of blog posts:

1. Larry's (the ejectee) initial blog post: https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/tmi-outing

2. Dries' (founder of Drupal) following blog post: http://buytaert.net/living-our-values

3. Statement from the Drupal Association's Exec Director: https://www.drupal.org/association/blog/a-statement-from-the...

4. Another blog post from Larry where he clears up misconceptions and answers questions: https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/tmi-part-2

More Info:

* Drupal community discussion on /r/Drupal: https://www.reddit.com/r/drupal/comments/60y9mq/larry_garfie...

* A great non-partial tldr; blogpost from Drupal developer Mike Ryan: http://virtuoso-performance.com/blog/mikeryan/thoughts-drupa...
I think at some point in your life, if you're creating or performing, you'll reach a point where your critics have a significant audience. At that point, you can give yourself a small pat on the back, you've managed to make a splash in the status quo.
This reminds me of one diamond-in-the-rough of Erlang's syntax: rather than a module block, you just have a module-name attribute at the top of each file (where the entire file is then related to that module.) Your functions are just right there against the left of your screen!
My email is in my profile. I'd love to exchange tips and encouragement as we progress on this project.
If you are under 40 I don't think the prospect of a fair amount of additional healthy years as a result of this research is a particularly delusional one. Actual immortality seems unlikely to me, however.
All FUD aside, "developers looking for an alternative to the new MBP" is a pretty decent market to capture. I have no doubt that Microsoft are directing their efforts to try and take advantage of them.
DVDFab DRM Removal
Apple Increasing Focus on Augmented Reality Eyewear
Linus Torvalds announces 4th RC development release of Linux 4.11 kernel
Automate regression testing and take it to the cloud
I agree, this ain't just tech's problem.
I've had this same conversation with colleagues. I think there's a mixture of things going on.

There's a lot more of this going on in a lot of fields, especially the biomedical and social sciences, but probably everywhere.

I think conservatives are correct to pick up on this general phenomenon. They know there's a lot of systemic problems with research and academics, and approach things from that perspective.

The problem, to me, is that they then overstep and use that to justify an equally pernicious position, which is to denounce or dismiss science in general, rather than to encourage fixes or constructive change. Of course, depending on the conservative, they're more likely denounce scientific research on certain topics and areas of research than others.

It's throwing baby out with bathwater, basically.

The scientific community then reacts poorly, in my opinion, by denying the kernel of truth there is to their concerns, and not addressing them.

You can see this playing out in some conservative blogs. They're aware of the replication crisis, discuss it, and point to things like the email leaks by climate scientists, which in my memory were scientifically sort of moot, but did reveal how much scientists are very much human with human flaws and motivations.

Maybe I'm wrong, though, and the typical response from the scientific community is best, though: maybe it's better to treat the problems with science separate from the conservative attacks, to tackle one problem at a time.

I guess I see two problems, one being problems with academics and science, the other being the involvement of politicians in science. I think the second thing only makes the first problem worse. It's not like the politicians aren't serving their own unholy masters.
Just dispute it with your credit card company and let them try to prove they are right and get their money back.
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