skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest lesson to take away from this is probably that they thought they knew how to test a SSD, but were quite obviously clueless:

> we run a fairly comprehensive set of block-level tests using fio, consisting of both sequential and random asynchronous reads and writes straight to the disk. Then we throw a few timed runs of the venerable dd program at it.

Running dd as a benchmark is a major red flag. It show that they didn't know what they were doing with fio, and didn't trust its results. They later started using IOzone and a custom-written tool to accomplish stuff they should have done with fio in their initial testing.

They also did not mention pre-conditioning the drives or ensuring that their tests run long enough to reach a steady state. This is one of the most important aspects of enterprise SSD testing and they would have known that if they'd consulted any outside resources on the subject instead of making up their own testing guidelines from a position of extreme ignorance about the fundamentals of the hardware they were using and the details of their own workload.

They really should stop calling any of their tests "comprehensive".
Wether it is easier to read or not is entirely subjective. There is no quantifiable measure to state either way. Both have their use-case; one now more than the other.
I wouldn't say Idris is "production ready" in terms of libraries and tooling. Unless dependent types is a must, I would choose Purescript instead if I wanted something Haskell'ish but strict and with nice JavaScript support.
They are only on old kernels because of proprietary kernel module blobs. Open source those and a thousand developers will line up to mainline them for device support.
I took it as a reference to this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Got_His_Gun
Add elm docs and I'll come along.
I thought that tethering fees only applied to unlimited plans now? At least with Verizon, there is no such fee for the normal data-capped plans.
I mean to evolve the product screenshots as you ship more features or make cosmetic changes to the app. I assume it's PITA to keep the screenshots consistent with the actual app UI.
this is quite an achievement that it plays accurately. Does this have implementations for Strategy? No two games are alike, yet we are able to learn from our experience. Human's players be somehow comparing local positions from various games and deciding (sometimes wrongly) that they can be played similarly. Can it recommend not just individual positions, but general modes of play for classes of positions?
I mention it because the article says shadowbanning is rare. It’s not that rare if they’ve got some kind of stored procedure that just goes around doing it.
Yes. That's why I said until USB-C. Which came out after Apple had already obsoleted the 30-pin connector. At the launch of the iPod it was not possible to do analog audio over USB2.
KRACK attack – true threat or just a hoax?
Because the rest of them watched and learned from Microsoft's mistake. When the antitrust campaign started, Microsoft was giving a paltry $10K to political campaigns. By the time it ended, they were giving $1M a year to BOTH sides, and wound up with a hand-slap. The rest have cozied up to the federal government since the start, and have no fear of antitrust efforts. What they really need now is to be categorized as public services so that they can enjoy some of that sweet, sweet regulatory capture that Verizon, AT&T, and Comcast benefit from.
I think HN is factoring in that transparency can also be a weakness too.

When google released its page-rank algorithm it became a target for manipulation and entire forums got wrecked (until nofollow) with the wave of consequences it created.

I think the threat of user manipulation will always outweigh that of mod manipulation. Worth considering.
Notice how subjective those descriptors are. It's been very clear in the past that moderator intervention is rampant for articles / posts that merely strike a raw nerve.
Facebook did, last year, before also reversing that decision. Figuring out the context can take s bit of time.
> hardcore capitalism

crony capitalism
If you don't trust the moderators' word, why would you trust their logs?
I was going to mention Pixelbug in the comments as a possible alternative.

Disclosure: I know the parent commenter. And the creator. :)
Facebook doesn't wasn't dongs in people's feeds. Scroll, scroll, penis.
Interesting. Does this have a built-in speaker or speakers? What about a headphone jack?
I think faiths and ideologies are group identities that pass me by since I'm a perpetual outsider.

There are books and sayings and thoughts that I really appreciate and like to think about... And I definitely have some personal biases, motivations, desires... But I don't have a worldview that I could write down, and my views on many things are marked by confusion, doubt, or pluralistic appreciation.

Here's one quote I like, by Paul Goodman:

Behavior is more graceful, forceful, and discriminating without the intervention of the state, wardens, corporation executives, central planners, and university presidents. These tend to create a chronic emergency that makes them necessary. In most cases, the use of power to do a job is inefficient in the fairly short run. Extrinsic power inhibits intrinsic function. "Soul is self-moving," says Aristotle.

I tend to agree with that based on experience, but then, I'd also have to add that it's a biased statement. Of course sometimes the state improves things, the executive inspires, the planner gets things done, and the university president has courage and wisdom...

Of all the spiritual traditions, Zen is the one I've been most interested in, but as soon as you find some dogma in Zen, someone comes and slaps you.

Basically my worldview is that of a cosmic know-it-all without any concrete suggestions. And then I just try to do whatever's in front of my nose to do, as Henry Miller once said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYL3mB3rAfU

I also like imaginative, powerful, crazy manifestos, like Hakim Bey's "Temporary Autonomous Zone".

http://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/taz.htm

And rather than join some political party, I'd rather be at home reading Spinoza, Simone Weil, Huangbo, Van Gogh's letters, anthropology, McLuhan...

Sometimes I try to figure out, like, is private property good or evil? I just don't know, man. There's so many ins and outs.
Ok, my feed is blooming with posts and opinions on this recent KRACK vulnerability. What do you guys thinks of all this fuss? Is it a real threat?
These guys, of course, are telling that one should use a VPN and update everything I can as soon as patches are available. Is it so?
The big thing is that the US government needs to recognize how vertical integration harms consumers. While Apple and Google and Amazon may all compete with each other in multiple venues, very little of that is cross-compatible. People with one product or service from a company often has little option but to use the rest of that company's products and services. The ecosystem effect means that even if there is a handful of "competitors", those services on an individual level often aren't available to consumers. If you have your stuff purchased in iTunes, you have massive monetary cost preventing you from switching to Android, for example.

One of the stories I hadn't heard of until recently when discussing the AIM closure, is that the FTC ordered AOL once to make AIM cross-compatible with their two largest competitors or face antitrust action. Had someone like Google been subjected to the same, we'd have had Gmail, YouTube, etc. on Windows Phone, and it wouldn't have died from the lack of Google apps support.

I'd be more than in favor of ordering vertically integrated companies to support at least two competitors' platforms in every way they support their own.
One huge deep-water offshore wind farm could potentially power the entire world
I have a Thinkpad from 2011 so i know what you mean. However i would argue 2013 and 2014 are not old enough to worry yet. Most better laptops already were > Sandy Bridge and had 8 or 16GB of RAM. Most also already equipped with a SSD.

If you look at my 2011 Thinkpad however, it was shipped with 4GB of RAM and a 512 GB analog disc. Spending only like $200 extra it turned into a 512GB SSD + 16GB RAM + new battery beast which outperformed my 2014 MBP for nearly all of my development tasks.

So i guess it depends on how you look at products. I tend to buy things i know i wont have to replace anytime soon.
He seems to have posted a response claiming it wasn't him who sent the emails: https://blog.pingpad.net/what-happened-5675fd00e744
GNURoot Debian might be a solution for you: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gnuroot.de...

It runs X, using the XServer XDSL app previously mentioned in this thread. I found some things rather quirky, but certainly fun to play with. My older Nexus 5 could do HDMI out with a dongle, add in BT keyboard and mouse, and it's mostly usable.

Doesn't run on Android 8.0 yet, and no HDMI out on my newer Pixel, so it's Termux + keyboard for on-the-go hacking.

Linux Deploy (also on Google Play) for those who have rooted their devices looks to be another choice.
> There's a practical difference between optimizing for content quality with honest and well-known criteria. And, optimization to prevent people to subject the party-line to criticism.

Well, yes. I really appreciate what dang & the rest of the moderators do in order to remove spam & optimise for quality — yet at the same time I really dislike a large number of the instances I've seen where they've exercised control to protect the party line from criticism (e.g. detaching subthreads or posting 'please don't argue X; we don't accept that here'). My perception (which of course is subjective, subject to confirmation bias & could be wrong) is that the vast majority of those instances I've seen have been egregiously wrong.

I've noticed fewer instances recently, perhaps because the moderators have been silently moderating or perhaps because they've actually refrained from exercising so heavy a hand.

Like I said, I approve of the good they do with respect to quality, but I actively disapprove of the censorship they have committed. Instances of the former greatly outweigh instances of the latter, but one instance of censorship is too many (it is, of course, Y Combinator's site to do with as they will).
"It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds."

With the weakening of the Google workaround that's baked into the HN header, more and more submissions are going to run afoul of that condition.
Those farmers don't need any network around them then? Just farms and more farms? Who does all the non-farming stuff in your vision of rural areas? Noone needs a plumber or a dentist or a schoolteacher?
Burned out at 21? Too your for that. Most engineers burn out in 30s/40s.

I'd suggest one of:

1) Stop working for startups. Get a job at some boring enterprise company. This might give you a) pay rise (big boring corps pay more than startups) and b) better work life balance

2) college - no reason not to go to college, you are still very young so this is ideal time, it will get harder and harder the older you get

3) travel - I assume you have saved some cash before you have burned out. Take few months off, go travel to some interesting countries, explore the world.

Or any combination of these three would probably work out well for you. Probably best order would be 3), then 2), then 1).
Recently, flippant one-line comments have been upvoted instead of downvoted. This is a startling change.
BBC published a technical (but really PR) article written by amateurs posing as pros, instead of consulting reputable experts?
Tencent Cloud
Humanities major is "traumatized" by getting temporarily banned from Facebook for posting artsy dick pics.
Yes that is indeed what I was thinking of - it's a very interesting project.

Imagine if that device was a fully functional, standalone phone ...
This site doesn’t seem to have many mods, and they seem pretty desperate to me. I think a lot of the objectionable behavior on their part is desperate, not deliberate, such as throttling. They dont have the time to be editors or curators, and this is a site full of people who know how trivial it is to bypass moderation.
Yep, I'm working there ;) Please send us the details via contact form https://ckeditor.com/contact/ or feel free to PM me directly at ["w.walc", ["cksource", "com"].join(".")].join("@")
> You really have one email account?

No, I have 5, but I only have one HN account. Why would I need more?

I was thinking more that he might have been identified as being the same person posting from multiple accounts, and activating some kind of spam/abuse protection.
Sorry, just saw this. I need to split audio to mix and level it for stuff like live-streamed podcasts. So, on top of that, I need to pull video.

Honestly, the best answer is probably to continue using multiple Skype instances. Which is gross. But, y'know.
The algorithm could flag it for human review instead of deleting it automatically, though.
Did that money come into their hands completely voluntarily?

Likely not. When you buy something you need to survive, can that be said to be a "voluntary" purchase? So when that money ends up in the hands of the owners of the productive machines, they get rich, but are they doing so because of purely "voluntary" participation in the economy?

So then why do I have to pay private individuals for things I need to live, and they don't have to pay back into the system that gave them the infrastructure to earn this money in the first place?
And also, I wonder what if some people just use proxies to register a bunch of HN accounts and use them to promote their items.

It seems not very hard to register an HN account.
Personally, I would love to learn a language by watching movies/videos with 3 subtitle tracks:

(1) What they are speaking - IN their script (this is called SLS: Same-Language-Subtitling and has been quite successful for literacy programs for one's own language)

(2) What they are speaking - IN my script

(3) What they MEAN - IN my language (i.e. translation)

Data for (1) is easy to find. (2) could theoretically be generated from (1). It's (3) which requires a lot of deliberate manual effort.
You pay for the software but it’s not a subscription. Just to clarify.

For what it’s worth on Linux the open source alternative is Zeal

https://zealdocs.org/
Canada's 'secret spy agency' is releasing a malware-fighting tool to the public
If they were objective they could be automated. The whole reason for manual moderation is that this is not possible.
Perhaps, but bear in mind, instead of a multitude of potential hosts, that hosting tax must go to the Big Five. Which means the Big Five will always have a financial advantage entering any market.
I spend enough time slacking off with just one account. I can't imagine getting anything done at all with two or three.

Perhaps that is done to avoid the rate limiter?

I can usually only make five posts in one 8-hour span, and then the sixth attempt says, "You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks. Also, don't count the number of posts tptacek can make in one thread in one hour and compare it to your total for the entire week, or it might raise your blood pressure."

I am barred from having more than half a conversation in one day, while it seems that [some] others can post as often as they can hit "[reply]". So yes, I do feel censored on HN. The article didn't even mention the post-rate limits.
Yes, I wish Nvidia was a bit more generous with the open source community, but for some situations, they are the best choice, if not the only choice.
Yep you'll get an email like this:

> We thought you might like to know that we put https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14522178
in the second-chance pool, so it will get a random placement on the front page sometime in the next 24 hours.

> This is part of an experiment in giving good HN submissions multiple chances at the front page. If you're curious, you can read about it at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 and other links there. And if you don't want these emails, sorry! Tell us and we won't do it again.
We are all on HN right now, so yes. We are all basically wasting time reading ultimately irrelevant news. Fun and interesting sure, but a waste of time.
There is computer go program (maybe Crazy Stone?) that analyzes a game record and annotates it with the winning percentage for every move.

Knowing that the opponent's winning probability changed from 52 to 57 was interesting only because it hints at a mistake. In case of such a large change the program suggests the move it would have played.

I saw an annotated game record and there were no variations: I remember a suggested move that made me wonder "why!?".

Another benefit of seeing the value of the winning probability is an assessment of who's ahead. However that's already possible with the score estimation that programs and go servers provide. Sometimes is crude, sometimes is good, but it's the score, not the winning probability that humans can estimate when playing. The best probability estimate I can make is: if the score is close and the game is still complicated, it's 50-50; if the score is close but the game is almost over, it's 95-5 for who's ahead. If the score is not close, the player with more points will probably win.
The government is at least equally incompetent if not more so, at least if a private entity screws up you can sue.
It's actually often slower. Depending on how much functionality is written in JS and how many API calls you are making. Some single page apps out there can bring my MacBook Pro to a halt with their bloated spaghetti JavaScript and tons of AJAX calls everywhere. Rendering dynamic HTML on the server is often faster.
Runners using social media to cheat in marathons
If you live inside emacs, https://github.com/areina/helm-dash/ will use dash documentation and use emacs for the search and display of the docs.

Also, works on GNU/Linux and Windows. Also, free software. Also, I'm the co-author.
If you don't like the way this site is edited, stand up an m1.large, hook Rails up to an sqlite database, and build your own. You'll be two generations of technology ahead of HN.

The freedom to take other people's private belongings and repurpose them to your own ends is no real kind of freedom at all. But that's ultimately what you're yearning for when you allude to the Empire of Napoleon.
The problem isn't that the amateurs wrote the article, it's that the amateurs made the purchasing decisions that created the story in the first place.
> "It seems clear that easy money (anyone can get student loans)"

This is not true. I was unable to get any grants or even loans as an undergrad and I am an American citizen. The financial aid formulas are flawed in that they determine how much of a contribution your parents should pay as opposed to how much one actually receives from their parents.

I paid for my undergrad education by programming computers beginning in high school.
it seems relatively recent to me, as if to drum up political support for regulation

Bing-O!
Photobucket was for link sharing to other sites.
, no?
While flicker was a destination for publishing albums and browsing, with much higher quality photos.
The company I work for has a big portion of it's land devoted to nature meadow, and it is amazing how much more insects you see and hear, and I find it 9000x prettier than grass. We're letting most of our lawn at home get overtaken by a clover-like plant called Germander. People call it "lawn cancer", but I like it better than grass. More life in it, it gets pretty purple flowers in the spring, and it is hardy as hell.

My wife hates spiders in the house, but I love them - they take care of all the other critters I hate more, and they are interesting little buggers, especially the jumping spiders and wolf spiders.
No. They were duped by their own IT department. The reporters thought they were talking to experts on all things IT-related. The reality was that their team, while no doubt experts on many things, knew little about testing SSDs. This wasn't PR but a simple mistake in journalism. They should have talked to outside experts before publishing.
Using machine learning to understand genome function
Centre-Stage Effect: “eye-level” is “buy-level”
Thanks! Your donation is very much appreciated.

Don't feel like you have to donate, though. The app is cheap to host (one of the benefits of an offline-enabled, no-accounts-required, optimized-to-the-max web app is that the backend doesn't do much :P), and I'm lucky that MaxCDN & others are providing free service to the app.

What keeps me going is seeing the impact that DevDocs is having (people using and liking it). So the best way to "give back" is to spread the word, send a thank you note, and contribute (one thing in particular that would be great to see is more/better extensions & integrations with code editors).

(I'm the creator/maintainer of DevDocs)
Ah, now I remember.

I think the actual argument against Py3-compatibility is exactly that: Fabric needs to support 2.6 because it is the default in RHEL/SLES versions which are still quite popular in enterprise environments and maintaining compatibility with both Py 2.6 and Py 3 is quite difficult, as you said.
Some of this stuff is handled by the government, such as your driving record (which includes accidents and tickets). You can obtains a copy of yours from your state's DMV.

They aren't totally unaccountable, there is some regulation, notably the Fair Credit Reporting Act, as well as other laws that regulate data brokers.

Americans, in general, are much more comfortable with private for-profit industries handling these sorts of matters over governments.

Anyways, there's absolutely no laws that salaries should be kept secret, your employer can post that information anywhere it wants. In fact, government employees salaries are expressly public information. The reason why employers limit access to salary data is because it keeps salaries lower, it gives them an upper hand in salary negotiations due to information asymmetry. That's why the salaries of professional athletes are public information, they have unions who make sure this information is available.

For me it's a good thing this information is available. I pay lower interest rates, lower insurance premiums, have more access to credit, have no trouble renting before I bought a house.
Those are indeed tricky things, but surely they are much easier than actually getting users to care about your product in this attention economy? Unless the product is in an underserved niche, in which case scaling up will prove near impossible.

I would argue it's actually easier to start up in many European countries, due to social safety nets, free health care and universities etc. Eric Ries has made the same case. However getting traction in the US without being there physically is really hard!
Some Tips for Hacktoberfest
"So you can go throw a Debian Arm image in place of a system partition on many Android phones... it just won't boot."

Won't even boot ?

I would expect that peripherals and radios and so on would be out of reach due to hardware/drivers but my expectation was that you could boot and get serial comms somehow ... as unusable as that would be ...
Actually I didn’t say that. The phenomenon in question has nothing to do with where the account was registered. The accounts get banned if I just browse to HN from that cafe. The first account that got banned that way was years old and had 5000+ karma. It took me a while to figure out that it was banned because you can still post and you can see your posts and vote and whatnot but nobody else can see your posts at all. It’s pretty evil.