skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a system known as the Roomba ( https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/92006 ) that will automatically delete questions. A question has a negative score, and has no answers will be deleted in 30 days. A question that is at 0 or less, has no answers, has a low view count, and has at most 1 comment will be deleted after a year. A question that is closed, negatively scored, no accepted answer, and no answers with a positive score will be deleted in 9 days.

So that does exist, but it takes a LONG time for it to get cleaned up in some cases. And if people jump in with a "this might answer your question, hope it helps", it will likely never get deleted.

Its not that these questions hurt the site - bits are cheap. Its that they hurt the search results and the perception of the site. Admittedly a single reddit data point: https://www.reddit.com/r/stackoverflow/comments/8d15h4/10000...

> The toxicity is in all the unanswered questions.

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> What I see is questions which are not phrased well but you can actually work out what they're asking being closed.

Consider fixing the question with an edit before writing the answer so that it won't be closed when you get around to writing an answer. This way its a good question from an earlier point in the life of the question. Furthermore, it makes it easier for other people to provide answers too. Leaving the question in a poor state with an answer makes it harder for the google only user to find the question and understand what is being asked.

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Doing the right thing in review takes time. Many of the first post or triage reviews are done by people who haven't... fully bought into the philosophy of answers for people who haven't asked the question yet. They look ok to the standards of a 500 rep user who doesn't see what Jeff and Joel were trying for with Stack Overflow ( https://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges/access-review-queu... ).

There's no instruction for people for how to help in the review queues. As such, everyone is doing their own thing with their own "this is the quality that I'd write at, it looks ok." The only way to correct this currently is with review bans... and that has its own problems with negativity and the perception of Stack Overflow as elitist.
Definitely. As the number of sequenced individuals grows, it'll become that much harder to hide from a familial genetic search.
In Germany we have a system called 'giropay', which is basically instant wire transfer via your online banking. With this system the merchant gets a guarantee from the consumer's bank (as it seems, but I am not sure who in the pipeline eats the cost, as the contracts are ask-only), so that even if there was fraud, he will not loose the money.
This does limit it to 10k EUR per transaction, which should be enough.
The merchant receives the money within 2 bank days in his account, and the max fees for the merchant are 0.89% with a minimum of 33ct, but volume discounts seem likely.

What I don't understand, is why the US was not able to set such a system up, but I assume it's related to the general distaste for chip+pin, as well as any sensible security mechanisms for online banking. Yes, pushTan and mobileTan are usable, but they only work if you have a phone you trust with the deductible applicable in case of pishing, or, if you have actual reason to not trust it, the daily online banking limit.
Through the implication of samples collected from others, at locations you have never been to.
> "erasing history" means the thing it means in standard vernacular English

I'm a native speaker of English and I'm not sure what that means.
Wow it must be bad.
You have to wonder if Instagram turns a purposeful blind eye on this behavior, as it makes small-time creators feel like there is at least some opportunity to game the system and grow a following. Otherwise, they'd be totally locked out of the elite, already established accounts and give up.
It really depends what you are looking for but a short list of western cities which are superior outdoor destinations to Seattle at least in some ways (and are much cheaper) is Bozeman, Missoula, Salt Lake City, Rapid City, Reno, Boise, St George. If a city is not a requirement, the list is a lot longer.

Your mileage may vary depending on much or little you value things like remoteness, lack of traffic, mountains vs desert vs forest. Yes, if you're a hardcore mountaineer it might be tough to beat the north Cascades but for the rest of us there are a lot of good options.
> Nvidia's stock has gone up 17x in 4 years while google only 3x

Not sure the market cap or the P/E are apples to apples there.

Also:

> https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/23/secretive-chinese-bitcoin-mi...
And ranting about Millennials like a hack elderly comedian doesn't do anything for your point except make people disregard it.
> All that matters for money is "who accepted the risk". In a lot of contracts [...]

Right. I'm asking what is the case here.
"Incandescent light bulbs are nowhere near full spectrum."

If you're considering microwave, radio, X-ray, and UV-C as part of full spectrum, sure. Otherwise, incandescents emit across the entire visible spectrum as a result of being a blackbody radiator.

I'm even working with Scripps Institution of Oceanography on an experiment regarding exactly this right now.
Being available with a correction allows anyone who has seen it that shares it to another person, so long as the person told cares about authenticity, to go online and find out that in reality XYZ were incorrect about the story. Removing it from history either allows the prior person to spread misinformation to those that will not research it, preventing them from correcting the person telling the story or learning the truth on their own.
IBM turnover shrinks $28bn in 6 years but execs laugh all the way to the bank
I mean, what problem are you trying to solve?

If the concern is that it takes roughly $60k/household just to live in Seattle, the answer is higher wages. Even if that acts as a drag on King county GDP, the King county housing market is north of 100% of GDP; better to endanger the smaller value. And personally, I don't think higher minimum wages will be a net negative in the long run-- but I could be wrong. If I was, we could fix it later though.

If you're trying to solve the problem of not being able to rent a place you like independent of not being able to afford a baseline place, the only answers are market distortions in your favor. The proposals I've heard for that are sort of a "fair, cheap, effective-- pick two" deal.

Personally I think the best approach is more and better transit, since that raises the utility (and therefore underlying value independent of market value) of homes both close and far from the urban core. But it is definitely on the fair, effective, not cheap side of that triangle.
I think the idea is that, early on, men tended to be more interested in the electronics aspect of computers, and the job of programming itself was considered to be in general less interesting to men and more suitable for women.
Every inch of this is true, good tests are our success meter. /s
He was a very wealthy person who worked for Microsoft, but thanks for assuming.
It's because you need to not just get to space, you need to be in orbit.

If you just take a magic balloon up to a certain height, once you're up there and let go fo the balloon - you just start falling back down.

You need to have a lot of sideways velocity in order to actually get into orbit, to be revolving around whatever body you're trying to get off of.

(It didn't used to make sense to me, either.)
> What prevents you from posting "Exactly like North Korea!" whenever Belgium or UK or Canada or US are mentioned?

Nothing, but much of the time, it's as irrelevant as soviet-era "And are you lynching blacks" responses. I don't think it's good for every thread that mentions a country by name to turn into this.

If we're talking about incarceration, or political freedom, sure. If we're talking about detente between two countries at war, it's less relevant. If we're talking about roll-out of 10 GW of solar power capacity in China, mentioning its human rights record[1] is a complete non-sequitor...

I feel that this case is closer to the latter then the former.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16933883
No way! I did not expect it to do that. Do they use some sort of open subtitle format that chrome can understand and manipulate?
Scott Manley has a pretty accessible Kerbal Space Program video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amjuJJwI3iM
Ask HN: Would you pay 5$/mo for a predictive health dashboard?
The idea is it would use genetics, sleep, diet, and fitness to give you actionable suggestions and a very detailed, usable health dashboard.
"However, it recently began offering a plan that comes with a three-month trial of iHeartRadio premium but limits users to just four movies per month"

I think it's still 1-per-day for regular members
In theory, shouldn't we be able to deflect the plasma generated during reentry with an EM field? I get that active generation would have all sorts of complexity/power/weight costs. But could it be possible to engineer some type of material which can passively convert thermal energy to a powerful enough EM field that would envelop the spacecraft and work as a "deflector dish"? I just feel like there has to be a better solution to reentry than ablation. It's the main thing that sticks out in my mind which kills true reusability.
Kim and Trump are similar enough psychologically that they can have a comfortable dialogue. Kim looked at Obama and saw someone entirely alien. Vice versa, of course. That sort of disconnect existed between past administrations as well. The bluster and insult that is the native tongue of blessed creatures like K and T is a foreign language to most urbane cosmopolitan educated politicians. They recoiled at "Rocket Man". Kim thought to himself, "What an asshole! Finally someone is speaking my language!"
Maybe it's not so slow with a better compiler, like the one from Chez Scheme - or is the implementation the problem?
That's damn fascinating. Thanks!
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013) and the 'E' key has stopped functioning altogether.

I've been quoted between 15-250 to replace the keyboard. I haven't been able to leave the notebook at a shop yet but my workaround is to use it stationed connected to a Bluetooth keyboard.

I wonder if this issue is common with my model as well (not the butterfly mechanics i beleive)
Por La Tarde
Lots of things that help other customers besides you are priced into the product you pay for. In some cases (like if a company auto-rejected strange email addresses), I don't think it's fair to expect other customers or the company to cater only to how you purchase.

Of course, just being "flagged" as is the case here instead of rejected is fine. It's larger companies that use these heuristics as their final answer that are the problem, and we shouldn't blame/punish legitimate customers.
Also Slack
For me and everyone else it seems given the popularity of photoshop.
I had to use my old 2012 MBP the other day after using the 2016 MBP since it was released, and the 2012 keyboard was a stunning improvement over the 2016.

Which is strange because I never thought the 2012 keyboard was exceptional.

Do any of you prefer the new keyboard?
It happened to me. They had to replace the whole top case under warranty because a crumb got into the keyboard. And since I got it back I have been pretty careful but still it seems like one of the keys is starting to go. Thank goodness for AppleCare. Hope Apple fixes this in the next release.
/etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com

127.0.0.1 hckrnews.com
One of my shift keys doesn't work reliably. I'm just waiting for the day when the other key and the caps lock also go dark and I won't be able to log in to my computer.
Yes; A redis cluster with 10 'nodes' can easily fit on a single machine. When comparing redis performance, benchmarking apples-to-apples in per-core performance is important.
I'm just a hobbyist but I think nginx might be something you could look into for making a load ballencing reverse proxy server.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/understandi...
True. I mean in the general case.
Haha, well you at least have to give them credit for trying.

> We hope this will encourage you to see new movies and enjoy something different!
Sony Files Patent for Digital Rights Storage on a Blockchain
I think it's nortable and worth linking to the Gruber article, because he's usually a reliable apologist for any Apple screwups. When even he's saying it's bad, it's real fuckin' bad.
Sure. I presume you're asking about why FP is easier, though if you're wondering about my language there's more info at https::/darklang.com.

I think the quote about the gorilla and the banana and the jungle is a really important piece. It's just hard to compose things in OO languages unless they're designed to be used together. Whereas in an FP language, you focus on simpler primitives (arrays, hashtables, nullable types, and errors values typically, depending on the language), and you have a ton of functions that know how to work with those, so you kinda use them for everything.

A second reason is static typing (doesn't apply to the lisp family of FP). Good static typing makes it very easy to understand what's happening, and makes it hard(er) to make errors. For example, in OCaml, Elm and Haskell, it's impossible to have a NullPointerException, which is the biggest bug class in Java. Similarly, the biggest problem in a python/ruby codebase is "what exactly is this thing I have", a problem eliminated by the type system as well.

Of course, these features have a cost. It can sometimes be trickier to do things that are easy in dynamic OO languages like Python (and of course Haskell has layers of complexity so I don't recommend going near it), esp the learning curve if you're not familiar with FP. But being in deep in a functional codebase is much much easier than being in a deep in a java, ruby, python, js, etc, codebase.

If you're looking to check FP out, I recommend Elm, ReasonML, or Clojure.
You know the MacBook Pro situation is bad when even the biggest cheerleaders of all-things-Apple say it's bad.

The now three year old 2015 model remains the best Mac laptop available, it's an upgrade in every way; a wonderful working keyboard, a hardware escape key, hardware function keys, no annoying Touch Bar, ports, MagSafe, no dongles needed, did I mention ports?

I genuinely hope Apple scraps the current models entirely and starts anew with the MacBook Pro, with the professional user actually in mind. They already have two consumer focused laptops, why did they screw up the pro?
This is update is incredible, it looks like a massive jump into modern relevancy. Excited to try it this weekend.

One thing I might have to raise in the GIMP community is what's the deal with sliders on brush-like tools? Very cumbersome to use by default, and I don't know if there's any way to change their behavior. Anyone have thoughts here?
Just in time for Avengers... was surely going to see that more than once
The same stuff happened to me. I had stupidity to try to clean it myself and all this resulted in pricey repair and having to cope with a temporary laptop for a week.

My next laptop probably will be Dell.

P.S. For now, I use MacBook Pro 2015 but it getting more and more out of date. Especially after release of hex-core processors.
that's what /r/cpp says it is
If you can imagine a single dish containing more than 1 teaspoon of pure MSG, then either you haven't used it or your tastebuds are challenged. 1Tsp of MSG is more than enough to flavor a several pounds of ground meat, or a quart of tomato sauce. You're not getting 1tsp of MSG in a single dish that tastes anywhere near edible.
While I do agree on the social harm of censorship, unfortunately your approach is susceptible to asymmetric info-attacks under adversarial conditions.

Specifically, under the condition where the debate actually matters, your compulsion can be exploited by putting out any number of variedly wrong ideas, for which you pay an asymmetrically higher cost to refute, and an opportunity cost of not being able to present ideas of your own.

The debate can this way be framed to either never reach "consensus", or to do so at the counterparty's favored position.

The widespread use of this strategy is a reason why society is falling back on censorship as opposed to reason.
It rusts out the metal and isn’t great for the beekeeper either. It’s seeming like a good alternative in the face of mite resistance to the synthetic treatments though. The Randy Oliver Method is with OA doused strips is gaining traction. http://scientificbeekeeping.com/tag/maqs-strips/
More details on Stripe's rate limiter(s): https://stripe.com/blog/rate-limiters.
An awesome gist is given at the bottom too, which has implementations of the different rate limiters, And also the `EVAL` part this post talks about.
> Is the intellectual asymmetry between creating a design and analyzing it so large that a small teardown team can reliably analyze trade-offs in a design created by a large engineering group?

I don't understand this. So you are saying the reviewer's small team doesn't understand the expertise which might have gone in the car.

But isn't that true for every product review and article out there? Take for example a phone. If a reviewer doubts the CPU benchmark on a phone, are we going to talk about how a single reviewer cannot understand the trade-off a bigger team at Apple/Samsung/Google has put?

Or if a journalist talking about FB's decision on data sharing has the capacity to know the trade-offs made by a much larger technical and business group at FB.

We can only look at the past work. If HN is voting this up then we know these guys have done some good work in the past.

Unless of course we think everyone who doubts Tesla's expertise doesn't understand their genius.
As someone who likes Lisp but who also likes my editors to stay focused primarily on just editing text and letting me type, I think the minimal editor support for a happy enough Lisp editing time is visually matched parens. (rlwrap'ing a terminal REPL counts.) Everything on top of that is gravy, up to the point where you've had enough, and I'll readily admit such a minimalistic setup is probably not the maximal happiness for anyone but at least puts you about at the same level as other language users when those users are outside of a do-everything IDE too...

Lots of people like the auto-typing paredit intellisense style of tooling, I can't stand it personally (with the exception of megalithic Java projects where they seem like a necessary evil and both eclipse and intellij are utterly slow at it but that's another rant...), but I do appreciate vim's "%" command to jump between matching delimiters and combine that with other text editing forms, plus rainbow parens so everything is matched without having to highlight.

Anyway sometimes I wonder if a lot of newbies get turned off by the parens (in one of the various ways) then get turned off again when "use emacs with all these things!" is the only suggested way to manage that.
Of course "being noticed" is evidence, if only a small amount.
It's also worth pointing out that if your tests don't fail occasionally you may be over-engineering or being too cautious in your design and planning.
The idea that USA diplomats and bureaucrats didn't sanction enough simply does not compute. No one in Washington ever heard of a sanction she didn't like.
Moved out here last year. I actually commute from down south...I want so badly to feel comfortable planting roots here but staring down the barrel of this housing market makes me feel like a tourist simply enjoying the high pay and natural beauty until I decide I want to buy a home back east. I am glad I am here but there is definitely an internal conflict I have to tolerate to do so.
No, it's not pointless. It just studies one aspect of the problem. Yes, this is insufficient on its own, but more studies can be done, which can be designed particularly to examine the other questions that need to be answered.

A test for lead is usefully classified as a water quality test, even though you need to test for other compounds as well before you know if the water is safe.
Imagine a higher culture formed in a super-earth, keeping peaceful with the earth and not leaving their home without a sufficiently eco-friendly technology being discovered.

They are used to their gravity.

It is hard to leave so they find value in sustainability earlier on.

They only leave with super-advanced form of green technologies.
They do. I used to work on that, and while I don't have access to the list right now, I remember there were differences (not that big though).
> Is removing content the same as disallowing it in a robots.txt?

No.

> Because they have an interesting article [1] disallowed in their robots.txt that was added a while after it was published.

Oddly, it's a different seemingly benign story for me:

Disallow: /sections/health-shots/2013/03/11/173816690/new-voices-for-the-voiceless-synthetic-speech-gets-an-upgrade

IDK why they include a seemingly random story in their robots.txt. I don't think the intention is to hide the story, though.
> The phrase "affordable housing" has come to mean "cheap housing for poor people."

I like to call it what it really is: "lottery housing." It is only affordable to the lucky few who win the jackpot.
> Do any of you prefer the new keyboard?

I actually love the way it _feels_. If they could get the same feel with normal reliability, it'd be the best keyboard ever IMO. But no key feel, no matter how good, is worth this ludicrous failure rate.
DomTerm (https://domterm.org) can "embed" HTML in the output. So to "print" hello.md in an existing DomTerm window you can do:

pandoc hello.md | domterm hcat

This does a much better job than mdcat, because it can use variable width fonts, bigger fonts for headings, and can handle raw html.
Google Fi is not heavily used by fraudsters, but can't be differentiated against GV.
If you want to play a numbers game, that's fine, but you don't provide any sources for your numbers, anyway.

The slave trade was far from American-only. It began and continued through European support when those places were European colonies. It lasted well into the 19th century through Arab slave trading along the African coasts, and the Belgian Congo as of 1918 was as despotic a place as any. The Germans, British, and Dutch maimed, raped, tortured, and enslaved natives up until at least 1900 in southern Africa. The Dutch were notorious for their actions in the East. The Russians had defactos slavery and pogroms against minorities until at least 1850.

You're being myopic about history.

was far and beyond the most brutal act ever committed against a race of people

This is a contest nobody wants to win, but I'm not sure how you can say that with such confidence when we had actions like the Holocaust, Japan's attacks on China in WW2, Turkish atrocities against Armenians, etc.

This is the real world. Humans have historically been horrific to each other. If you really believe the US is some outlier, you are wrong.
Ways the World Is Getting Better
Maybe I'm really misremembering or didn't pay attention to this UI redesign. I was a somewhat regular eclipse user 10+ years ago, wrote a plugin as part of my thesis (in late 2009) and used newer versions in the last 5-6 years, it never felt really different?

On the other hand I've never been a big fan either. Developing plugins wasn't fun - getting various plugins to work together wasn't fun either. It was an OK IDE for Java and some other languages...
For me the frontpage view is working only for today and does not work for previous days (and again only for 6.4.2018). :(
No one is forcing you to use their "services." Stop using their app?
Keys stopping to work is one thing, but for me the Touch Bar and the screwed arrow keys are similarly disappointing. Apple should've seen this coming. What were they thinking?