skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not quite correct.

We've tried:

- Real identities (Facebook comments)

- Voting and self moderation (Reddit, HN, etc.)

- Strong moderation (Reddit, HN)

All within the context of rampant financialisation, land policies returning us to feudalism and continuous lying about the banking bailout including removing the one candidate who was going to take on the banks (Bernie).

Maybe it's not "the internet" that's the problem. Maybe the dissemination of information as we slide into this rentier hellpit is causing people to be pretty pissed off?
Nobody. However, at this price even if only 3-5 of the books of useful to you then it's still a great deal. That subset will be different for everyone, so it makes sense to offer them all imo.
+1 for the Calearth approach.
The argument for multiple-worlds seems to be that if you take the most elegant possible formulation of the "equations of the universe", you find that some of constants in these equation have to be set to apparently arbitrary values to imply a universe like our own.

This seems to rest on an assumption that simple patterns tend to continue beyond our immediate perception, like if a person see a part of a sphere sticking out of the sand on a beach, they would tend to expect an entire sphere to buried beneath.

The two questions that appear would: is formulation really the simplest and does this kind of reasoning apply "outside the universe", given the universe is all that we use to make such judgments.
Sure, but I don't see that changing for me anytime soon. As second-best, I take an Omega 3 supplement.
I expect this niche will be filled by Matrix in the near future. Host a Matrix homeserver + Riot.im web UI, then employees can use Riot mobile apps and any Matrix-supporting client.

For the record, I don't like Slack very much. I just disagree that IRC or IRCCloud are acceptable alternatives.
not saying that he didn't defraud his investors - just pointing out that I was under the impression that his fraud did not economically harm his investors (which is rarely the case in these prosecutions) and puts his sentence in a different light to a certain extent...
I think there are definitely layers here. One of the things happening is that people who ultimately support all sorts of awful things like genocide and racial cleansing get upset when people are rude to them on the internet, as if that were the real problem. There are a lot of priorities out of whack.
The emacs client, ERC, is surprisingly great.

I use irssi, though. I honestly haven't thought about changing tools for IRC for at least ten years. It's basically perfect.
Keith Winstein (Stanford) et al's gg [1] is also fun. Sort of `make -j1000` for 10 cents. Create a deterministic-compilation model of a C build task, upload the source files, briefly run a lot of lambdas, download the resulting executable. (Though it's more general than that.)

For folks long despairing that our programming environments have been stuck in a rut for decades, we're about to be hit by both the opportunity to reimagine our compilation tooling, and the need to rewrite the world again (as for phones) for VR/AR. If only programming language and type systems research hadn't been underfunded for decades, we'd be golden.

[1] https://github.com/StanfordSNR/gg ; video of talk demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9qqSZAny3I&t=55m15s ; some slides (page 24): http://www.serverlesscomputing.org/wosc2/presentations/s2-wo...
There is an open-source DjVu library as well:

http://djvu.sourceforge.net/

Whether that makes the format "widespread" enough for your use case is of course your decision to make.
In the case of a torrent, the media companies generally are citing theft (rightly or wrongly) and damages. You can't just resolve theft legally by returning the thing stolen.

I don't see anybody citing theft. And, quite often, license compliance IS legally resolved by coming into compliance.

However, I still find it hard to sympathize. Don't want this problem--comply with the GPL or don't use GPL software. The GPL is functioning as written and intended.

There is a reason so many companies consider GPL-licensed software to be radioactive.
"I can only write this comment because I live in a universe that allows life."

Sure; but my point is, it's really quite unlikely that the one and only unplanned universe would have life, at all. Life then seems like evidence for something...

"It's like marveling about how come that those two [...] people are my parents"

By contrast, I'm not sure what that would be evidence about.
> Tooling improvements

For me that's the biggest issue currently with Rust. Type inference via "let" only makes it harder as I can't really know what type a certain variable or expression is without carefully tracking docs. I've tried two Rust plug-ins for VS Code and even though they installed required dependencies I still couldn't have proper list of members when pressing "dot" and without that I feel like programming in the 90's.
Linking to my comment downthread which addresses this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16569534#16569940
> structure does not come from "infinity", structure comes from rules

I can't say I understand this statement, but I'll venture this friendly amendment: explanations come from rules, or at least a method of description that allows us to say why result A obtained and not result B. (Or maybe an explanation that the process was random, and therefore that this part of the process cannot be explained.) So I think the problem--if there really is one--is with the word "arose" in your sentence, not "infinite." I can see no problem with invoking the infinite in a useful explanation (note that theists do this all the time!), but I can see a problem with having no account of why our universe "arose" and not some other one.

Of course, I think that just about every physicist would be happy to admit this! (Those that don't think they have an answer, that is--possibly involving the anthropic principle.) After all, answering questions is their job, so acknowledging an unknown is just the beginning of a research agenda, not an admission of defeat.
Its also impossible. You're not going to have a close conversation with a group of people when a little kid is jumping up and down and screaming for attention in public. Ignoring them doesn't work for either trolls or bullys. Either they run the show, or you do something about them, end of story.
The algorithm, which generates a set of discrete XY coordinates, is the interesting part of this page.

Changing the size and color of the dots yields no new information about the operation of the algorithm. The dots are just a way to visualize the coordinates on a plane.
Using the bash tool is a great solution, and is way less technical debt than adding code to an app. I would have the tool execute apps directly rather than export them to bash, though both are useful.
I believe the somethingawful forums involve a cost to participate, something like a one time $10 fee that was designed to remove low content or negative content participators. Might be an interesting case study of your hypothesis.
They're using Java instead of Clojure. Sigh.
> Apple seems to have lost interest in it

How so? Apple has updated it in every iOS release since it came out. In the most recent one they added a bunch of new features and even their own editorial section. What makes you believe Apple has lost interest in it?
The Tragic Story Behind the Man Who Helped Create Tetris
I've read mixed reviews about PacktPub- can anyone comment on the quality of these?
I’d Be an ‘A’ Student If I Could Just Read My Notes
Yes, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14125097

Does not explain chirality... I didn't watch the original video so closely, sorry.
One useful book from the bundle will make for the price of all.
They're still consuming more coal than the rest of the world combined. That's going to continue indefinitely with their current policies. The amount of other energy they're going to need to substantially dent their coal consumption, is truly enormous. It's going to take decades to bring their CO2 output down by a lot. Every time China so much as blinks about cleaning up their disastrous environmental policies, the NYTimes and others write a story about how they're winning. It's absurd.
That is such a nice idea. I am tempted to try this. I am very bad at pull ups. Like you said I have done exactly zero pullups.
Internally Google doesn't use Gradle at all (never did) so I have no idea what the author tried to tell with his paragraph.

The fact that iOS is successful without a comparable build system (everything is bound to Xcode projects and tooling based on that undocumented changing format), makes me think he's overestimating importance of the build system.
Only 20%? I'm pretty sure E-bikes are much more common than gasoline bikes, if only because the latter requires a driver's license and very expensive plates (13K RMB!). China has very aggressively pushed for e-bikes via regulations and periodic crackdowns on illegal gasoline bikes.
> ...the legal distinction between editing author and co-author seems very dangerous.

It seems entirely reasonable to me. A pure reviewer (as opposed to a code contributor) has no copyright claim to the work because the reviewer didn't write it. The court wants to see evidence that the plaintiff does indeed have a copyright claim over the works he claimed he does.

> This case seems to imply that we should abandon this practice...

I don't think so. It simply demonstrates that one cannot bring a claim for copyleft license violation without actually having a copyright interest in the work, which is something we already knew.
Single-dimensional "karma" numbers are part of the problem.

If you allow multi-dimensional karma then you have the problem that aggregation mechanisms are going to be site-specific (in karma systems, 1 + 1 is not necessarily equal to 2 even before considering multidimensionality) and you end up drawn back to the individual sites hosting the concept anyhow.
> 22. What’s the essence of your story? Most economical telling of it? If you know that, you can build out from there.

I find it interesting that "your story" can be interpreted ambiguously in the last rule. But I guess it's a coincidence.
So you're suggesting the Black Mirror Nose dive approach?
Aside from the degenerate cases like “kill all white men” or “liberalism is a mental disorder”, one man’s “toxic comment” is another man’s “common sense”. And as frustrating as it may be to SV digital overlords they don’t get to decide which is which, at least not without unpleasant repercussions down the line.

So there’s really no way to solve this. There is a way to contain it somewhat: create homogeneous bubbles. Which is what we’ve been observing over the past few years.
They couldn't make enough money with their current monetization model so they're copying the arguably most successful player in their market (FB). It'll be interesting to see how it plays out because of reddit's "anonymity", its lack of real social connections (friends, family, that cute person who sits next you you in econ), or any kind networked apps (whatsapp, instagram, messenger, ...).
Depends what it is? Detecting a cycle is something I learned about a long time ago in a Lisp context, but haven't used. It's simple enough once you know it, but I doubt I could have come up with it on my own without thinking about it for a few days; certainly not on the fly.

For many front-end developers, I don't think graph algorithms matter. I suspect they don't matter for machine learning (though I know little about that field). Would you pass up knowledgeable people in these fields?

This is why you need multiple people to ask a lot of different questions and judge people by what they can do, not what they can't do. And try not to entirely forget about hindsight bias.
Oh, I interpreted your comment half backward.

To add to the discussion, it takes time or innate brain sensitivity to actually seek regularity and long term process. It's so so so easy to use the brain area dealing with rapid satisfaction..
Python function decorator
US sets record for censoring, witholding government files
I think nextdoor does this model and it’s still notorious for trolling/internet fights.
> I guess I think it's a bit of a tragedy that the most successful game since Doom was a copycat.

Infiniminer is a class-based team FPS in a closed arena. The only thing Minecraft shares with it is the block mechanic.

There's a mental quirk that seems to happen with game mechanics. Do something first, you're a genius; do it for the 100th time, you're iterating on classic gameplay; but do it for the second time, and you're a thief. I don't think it has to be that way.

> It's also a shame that really creative game-makers, like ToadyOne or Zach, tend to not do that well - while Notch, who basically copied an entire game, presumably having even read the source code, is now made out of money.

Last I heard, Toady was making $100,000+ a year off of Dwarf Fortress donations. Zach Barth has been making games full-time since SpaceChem, cranking out successful titles once every year or two for most of the decade. Notch, meanwhile, appears to be miserable, bitter, and directionless.
Any way to upload a video to this?
Presumably you want to use the results (statistics) of your questionnaire as data to prove or disprove some hypothesis. How you choose your sample will determine whether your results reflect the actual population. You should consult a good statistics text to learn about selecting your sample. Self-selection is generally not a good strategy.

How you frame questions in your questionnaire will also have a significant impact on the answers you receive. If you expect to rely on the answers, you need to study and characterize the questions. Wording and grammar and question redundancy are important. Questionnaires need to be validated experimentally. There is, of course, a substantial literature on questionnaire formulation.

One more thing, p-value tests of significance, once the gold standard, are now controversial (at best) and discredited (in some circles). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-value
As much as I love a ribeye and as amazing as that sounds, I bet it got pretty boring pretty quickly. Not to mention expensive.
> So far as I know, you literally cannot implement a language with mutability on the VM.

You could do so, several different ways, e.g.:

(1) use the process dictionary,

(2) store data transparently to the new language’s user in ets (or, similarly, dets/mnesia),

(3) use separate (again, hidden from the language user) Erlang processes for mutable cells.

You can't get hig-performance mutability, but you can definitely implement a language with mutability on BEAM.
Do you think he cares about you the coherence of his statements when they provoke a strong emotional reaction from a dumb population addicted to emotionally reacting and addicted to signaling alliegence to some vague social grouping?

You're taking his bait superbly by thinking that the truth wins you the game of democracy. To call him "dumb" is to severely underestimate the strategies potential president have used in their rise to power. Or in other words, did calling him an idiot get your side any concessions, any retaken ground?

Instead of taking Trump's bait, I'd highly recommend reading Robert Caro's books on Lyndon B. Johnson. You'll never look at politics the same way again.
My current strategy is checking the first few characters visually, hoping the odds for a collision even on those are rather low.
> Give people proper title to the land they had already had possession of for decades and suddenly they can use it as collateral.

Makes you wonder how the municipality keeps track of titles and tax assessments. Without collecting proper taxes how can the local government provide water/sanitation/energy/education? Perhaps what these people need more than affordable housing is affordable yet sustainable government.

Give the people the tools they need to self organize, trade, set up courts and resolve disputes. With the basics in place it might be possible to attract capital via municipal bonds to invest in critical infrastructure. Having running water and electricity makes it easier to attract business which in return generates taxable revenue.
And the barrier to building Fauxbook(tm) is?

There is probably FAR more opportunity to building a Facebook competitor than a newspaper competitor nowadays.
While that would be a huge problem, also think about communities where RL anonymity is a necessity. The recent Twitter idea to verify every user only works when people are willing to put their full name out there, but as we've seen on facebook that doesn't really stop anything - these are not really CEOs of respected companies, they're nobodies playing with the little bit of power they have in their lives.
When I watched that, I thought of "Facebook Hell Universe". Because I think that's what Zuck would want - having a reputation system under his control and control of everyone under it.
You all downvoted my comment pretty heavily. If you're right and my point is in error, then out of the current YC batch, only a few startups would have Machine Learning (ML) or AI in their "core DNA" (pitch deck).

Is this the case?
My intuition screams that this is a bad idea. It's like an Internet credit rating / popularity contest combined.
Scabulous
Thanks for the feedback. As you can see from that thread, EnvKey started out with per-developer pricing.

The main issue is that we have some customers who use EnvKey with hundreds of servers and only one or two users. This, of course, doesn't work out very well for us in terms of unit economics and pricing based on the value the service provides.

That said, the usage caps are meant to be generous and not get in the way. If you're using EnvKey in a 'normal' way and not spinning up thousands of parallel processes or something along those lines, you'll be way, way under the limits on config requests. For connected servers, it's really just a question of how many server instances you're running that use EnvKey, which is something I would think you need to plan for anyway when it comes to hosting costs.

I'm very open to adjusting these based on feedback if they are getting in the way / not matching up correctly with value. But as much as I'd prefer otherwise, I'm afraid there do need to be some sort of usage-based limits to make it work.
You probably hunt big game then. AR-15s are very popular and fun for "varmint" hunting. It is open season on wild hogs in several southern states right now due to their invasion and subsequent overpopulation. And you really need a semi-auto if you are going to take down several of them quickly when they run in packs.

>humans are unpredictable, unreliable bags of irrational emotions

Ya, but not really. Death by mass shooting is so rare, like winning a big jackpot in the lottery rare. There are so many opportunities for humans to make mischief and commit violent acts day in and day out, yet they don't. The only reason mass shootings get so much attention is because it is so rare. Guns in America aren't going to go away anytime soon. 100 years in the future, maybe, but with the advent of cheap 3d printers that can create firearms, and the fact that there are simply so many firearms in the US already that will essentially last forever with minimum upkeep, the future may be just as full of guns as ever.

Not to mention there will likely always be a community of enthusiasts. Just like 100 years ago, some people predicted no one would ever need to use horses in the future, but today, millions of people have horses. As noted in another HN article, today, there are more available models of fountain pen and ink than ever before, even though fountain pens were obsoleted many years ago.

So yes, I think it is very likely that some people will drive themselves to a shooting range with their vintage non-self driving car and shoot off some rounds.
Which smart pen do you have?
True, anything non-standard will complicate things. But it shouldn't complicate much, since the core functionality is standardized. Accidentally alerting the user that he's now a channel owner instead of a muted user is a trivial issue.

EDIT: Also, there's work on getting modern irc server features added to the protocol, which could possibly standardize those additional modes. https://ircv3.net/
Are you saying this would create less of an echo chamber?
We've banned this site and associated accounts for what looks like serious abuse of HN's voting and flagging systems. That is not ok here.
Even if you can make that work, that will only lead to the tyranny of the majority. You're filtering for the most common denominator opinions. I wouldn't want to be a part of this kind of sterilized community.

And how will you solve brigading? All it takes is two large groups disagreeing on something, and your reputation goes down the drain if you're in the slightly smaller group.
Any chance they will continue to support non-Apple platforms?
I'd definitely read more about how to do it properly. For example I wonder how CAs (e.g. Let's Encrypt) secure their infrastructure.
intellij's rust plugin is pretty good at type interference.

Also sometimes I just let the compiler tell me by forcing the let variable to something that it is obviously not:

`let not_a_string: String = get_something_that_I_have_no_idea();`

error [4242]: expected type String, found type &*YouWouldNeverHaveGuessed
> everyone could get a 20% raise

So even the people in the 90th- to 99th percentiles would get a 20% raise?
To do TLS proxying properly, you need to verify the cert on 'trusted' domains. SNI is not verified.

Thus, a proxy using SNI to identify the host would be circumvented by using facebook.com or www.bankofamerica.com as the name in SNI and just ignoring SNI at the malicious endpoint.

As TLS 1.3 encrypts the certificate, you can't check the certificate without actually MitMing the connection. Thus, whitelisting isn't possible in TLS 1.3. Unless you trust the (attacker controlled) SNI, at which point, why even do TLS proxying.

Note that according to the article, many TLS 1.2 proxies don't actually verify the certificate by default, which means my masquerade as facebook.com ploy would also work against them. This can be done by simply using a false 'common name' field in the cert.
The defense against this is easy, it is the certificate validation all browsers do. Apparently, these middle boxes by default do not use this validation.

This is generally seen as a compelling argument against the deployment of TLS proxies. The argument being that they are 'security theater' as opposed to actual security, on account of them being easy to spoof.
Allow me to poke holes:

- You've just created opportunities for sites who don't participate to attract customers. "No reputation requirements, we don't judge you". Great for curated niches, bad for mass market.

- People with diverging but still main stream political views getting their reputation docked by those in the other camp who control the site. It can flow both ways. Reputation starts to get linked to the echo chamber, in that those who don't echo the same get docked.

- Someone hacks you and starts messing up your rep across multiple sites.
Hmm yes, good point. Have slightly adjusted the post.

Assuming you have fully read and understood the OAuth spec, I find that it can be a helpful resource to identify the more complex considerations that might be easily missed in a home-grown auth implementation.

That being said, in my company's case, I haven't entirely followed my own advice, and we did implement our own OAuth 2 server. But we do know the spec pretty comprehensively.

Edit: if anyone's interested in our particular flavour of the protocol, we have it documented at https://github.com/cuvva/docs/blob/master/apis/auth.md#send_...
Have you tried https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=rust-lan... ?
You will need the rls from nightly but its working very nicely for me.