skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All great points!

- We've long since moved past the dorm-room stage =) and P&G have interests outside of making the best product possible. Concentrated detergent is relatively simple to do, and much easier to use. So why haven't they pushed this out? Very much might be because consumer waste allows them to sell more detergent! (Why are there 6 fill lines on the cap, when line 4 is XL? What are lines 5 and 6 for?)

- Absolutely not AXE for laundry, that's brutal =( we're super pro-gender equality, very focused on philanthropy and the environment, and generally just trying to be a great company

- Appreciate all the feedback, genuinely. Not being disingenuous, the vast majority of our customers enjoy doing laundry more when using FREY. Seems like a "better way to do laundry" then, at least by some measure =)
I'm curious- what makes him predisposed to ruling against Trump?
> I've seen a million times in UX testing where ordinary people go click... wait... click click click click click because they didn't receive any feedback to an action.

Not just ordinary people. I see the same behavior daily on older tech people, who fail to notice the (ever shrinking) browser loading indicator.

Honestly, it seems like Safari is the only browser that still cares to show a visible loading indicator, that takes up the whole address bar in a bright blue color, last time I checked.

Chrome and Firefox seem bent on a war to see who can infuriate their users the most, by removing one of the most important pieces of feedback on which the web experience is based.

As a result, we (the devs) need to add a ton of server-side checks to discard the multiple clicks that users invariably make, because they can't see that their first click went through.

Some times I'd like to know what the browser people smoke.
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Wow, what an asshole. There are so many ways to teach that lesson without being abusive.

Sounds like the CEO liked the sound of his own voice a bit too much as well.
In the first place, it was an awful business decision to take the route of trusting a SaaS provider with such an important task.

It is extremely irresponsible to forward sensitive user data and site interactions to a third party, even if it is in the name of spam/abuse/scam filtering. That its implementation brings down production websites in the case of service failure only adds insult to injury, originally caused by plain-awful product design.

If there's one thing that you should be doing in-house when you run a large online community of privacy-conscious users, it's the kind of service that Smyte provided. If sound business reasoning had prevailed, npm would have suffered no downtime.
I love the optimism. Really.

However, while IRC is a great collaboration tool, and one I also grew up using, I find that though users are anonymous and no one can see each other, there are still plenty of trolls who have many ways of getting under one's skin.

This utopia of IRC simply doesn't exist. It is still comprised of humans. Anonymous humans. And anonymity tends to bring out the worst in people.
Amazing, thank you for the offer! We are always looking for ways to optimize all aspects of our business :)
There are degrees of success, though. That's what I was trying to convey.

There are many times over the last 30+ years that I've thought if I did X, I would have a lot more money (personally) than I do now, but I never even considered X because I wouldn't have been able to sleep at night.

My Mr. X clearly had no such restriction.
You're wrongly assuming that the military is the only organization that could have implemented GPS, when in fact any organization (e.g. NASA) could have if they had the same ridiculously high funding as the US military.
The US has slid away from a free and fair market too. By moving to completely unregulated markets, they have given control to the biggest companies. In a totally unregulated market, inequality grows.

That’s bad for a society. Most free market economists (before “free market” was taken over by billionaires and plutocrats trying to increase their wealth) understood that regulations (anti-trust, anti-price fixing, anti-dumping etc) were needed to give small players and workers a fair shake.

When the US emerges from this national emergency, will it restore balance to markets as it did in the 1930s and 40s in reaction to the 1920s plutocrats? To me that is totally unclear. Let’s hope so. Let’s hope Europe joins it.
I just launched https://superthread.net the other day. It basically replaces IRC with a modern tech stack. Sorry for self promotion, but it’s a bit strange that someone else is having the same idea at the same time.
But in Slacks case, that would all be there. With IRC.

But that's in the past. Slack is now a company with a single purpose (chat) and they can't even do that right. Just look at the bloated "application" (browser).
Right, and you make a good point that it does not make sense for all types of law.

I think that these studies are a good thing and I would never want to discourage anything of the sort, but what is missing is a way to ensure consistency of test coverage. What I mean is that one study might record a particular measurement but a subsequent study may ignore that measurement all-together.

Maybe what I'm thinking about exists in the form of discussions on sites like law.stackexchange.com or as articles in legal journals read by the experts.
Slack is today's version of a modern accessible IRC client.

It doesn't preclude from the issues of slack being solved by another group.

edit: For the IRC uninitiated who enjoy drive-by downvoting: Slack is IRC-inspired - the concept of channels, usernames, private messaging and bots.... in slack is almost all directly inherited from IRC.
That usually applies to things that are totally new or a complete reinvention. They start out expensive and incremental progress or application of knowledge/progress from other fields makes them cheap and common. This detergent does not represent a fundamental shift from other detergents.
I don't expect anything good to come out of this for the current IRC users. Hopefully they aren't going to play the embrace-extend-extinguish game in the long run to steal the name for their own proprietary protocol.
London Trust Media recently hired Mt. Gox (yes that Mt. Gox) ex-CEO Mark Karpeles as CTO. https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/22/mt-gox-chief-returns-as-...
Is this sarcasm? You do know that babies (human or animal) exercise their muscles and gain body awareness during gestation, right?
Shockwave Rider is interesting because of how early it was and how unique at the time. That doesn't establish a subgenre though.

Cyberpunk wasn't coined as a term until right around the same time as Neuromancer came out and Neuromancer swept the big sci-fi awards, making it a fair thing to say that it 'helped to establish'.
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How does his opinion undermine Roe, specifically?
Absolutely! We put a lot of effort into our formulation and the science behind it. Most "main-stream" detergents use chemicals like OBAs & FBAs (brighteners and whiteners), along with overly-harsh surfactants (soaps) and enzymes. These are all created to give the initial appearance of a better clean, but quickly deteriorate the fibers of your clothing, lead to color fading, and are literally designed to leave layers of chemicals on your clothing. We scrapped all of that, use natural, gentler surfactants and enzymes, all designed to give a great clean and help lengthen your garment's lifespan =)
Mu. There is no "HN" as a single mind.
How did this thing even survive in the wild long enough for humans to discover it?
Agreed - although visionary, Gibson's writing was not yet mature. I find his more recent Blue Ant series much more enjoyable, and while less technologically visionary, more insightful into human nature and interactions.
Reading the comments on this thread and comparing to my own first reaction on reading this is how I know I'm not a millennial.
IP and knowledge was much less valuable in the 19th C industrial economy than it is today. Back then execution and raw materials and access to semiskilled labor was most important.

The Chinese (NK, Iranian, Russian) corporate hacks we have seen recently could have a MUCH larger economic effect.
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Agreed. Hopefully they will add this. I'm currently betting on the fact that Slack is small and it's less likely that the NSA has a direct backdoor into their systems. I would bet a lot of money that the NSA has a backdoor directly into MS Skype servers. I even hypothesized that they paid MS to purchase Skype from Ebay, because right after the sale MS changed from peer-to-peer to client-server.

Didn't the Snowden leaks say that Skype had been used to track terrorists?
Why not just take photographs of the kids and the potential parents and let them identify each other? 2300 children are not that much to parse for loving parents. Then, if identified, show the kid(s) about 10 pictures and let them identify their parents.
Yes! I find that button clicks feel slow because (it appears that) the action does not start until the ripple animation completes.
CapitalOne 360 allows you to instantly open savings accounts and you can have many of them (not sure what the maximum is--it's high, I've had about 8 at once). That said I liked the bank a lot better when it was ING Direct before they got acquired.
Remove “proprietary” and that’s what IRCv3 did.
In decimal:

10 / 4 = 2.5

2.5 can be represented exactly in decimal. As opposed to:

10 / 3 = 3.33333333333...

which cannot.

In duodecimal (10=dozen, A=ten):
10 / 3 = 4
A / 3 = 3.4
In college, I noticed that my roommate counted things in chunks of three. I had only ever counted items either individually or in chunks of two, but for most physical items I count, there are fewer than 50 of them, and counting by 3s up to that number is about as easy as counting even numbers. I was surprised to see that visually identifying three of an item was not harder than going by twos. Of course, it's also faster to count by 3 than by 2.

I'd be interested to know if others count by 1, 2, 3, or something else. (Another trick I learned working retail is to count out X coins, stack them vertically, and then make more stacks of the same height. Much faster than counting them all out individually!)
Just close them. I feel the pain, but you have to, it's like drug.
It was routinely criticized as not being true to IT when it came out.
The current title refers to the algorithm as "Sniper", but the name appears to actually be "SNIPER". According to the paper [1] linked in the repo, that stands for "Scale Normalization for Image Pyramids with Efficient Resampling."

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.09300
That describes the weaknesses of existing academic attempts not the theory in any way. I could say the same things of machine learning actually.
Interesting. Maybe you should consider 'diluting' similar to Tide, to present a more accurate comparison? Most of us just look at ounces.

Additionally, I'd find using a new detergent to be an easier experience if I was supposed to place a similar amount to what I'm already accustomed to.

Just some thoughts; I love the design by the way!
I didn't know what it meant until I read blog posts about it, and I'm technical. Now I do know, and I regret it. This usage of "serverless" is like something from The Book (the one in Anathem, not Erdős's book). A piece of wrong data that's wrong but you nevertheless have to hold onto it, throwing everything else in your brain somewhat out of alignment. Like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad...
It reminds me of a class I took in B-School called "Organizational Theory" which was a essentially a long pointless discussion on whether the top level of the corporate hierarchy should be split by product (you make 3 widgets, each is a top level of the hierarchy) or function (i.e. sales, marketing, finance, engineering).

As a company grows, people in authority often have few levers they can actually manipulate, so they endlessly obsess over them. Especially if its an engineering-centric company, and the person doesn't have any engineering knowledge.
I think it would be better to just use new words. Using decimal digits for another base gets a little ambiguous anyway.
They've done no such thing. Blocking online play with the signatures from dumped and pirated carts, maybe. But they haven't actually bricked any systems or carts - "banned from network services" is nowhere near "bricking".
You're right, this report serves as an input to the total calculation.: https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf - and my point should simply have been made made directly about this input (original thoughts around this data point remain) and not the calculation as a whole. My bad.
I'm part of LTM and starting to build up irc.com, along with founding kiwiirc.com.

I can say that London Trust Media does not impact freenode in any way - they purely fund it to keep it running so that they can focus on other areas.

As for the issues with IRC - I agree. Major improvements has happened already but it has a long way to go and that's why were putting money into it to boost these efforts. We have open source projects and fund open source projects, each one focussing on what the project communities and developers believe in.

What really is needed IMO is a place that can work on these things full time, prove that IRC can in fact work at scale and solve these problems, then others may hopefully follow. We fully intend on growing the IRC community as a whole - not just ourselves.
Is there a good guide to the go compiler anywhere, that outlines all the stages from source code to assembler to binary?
> the language used to describe drug states and events in cyberspace (such as the Kuang virus) was just so colorful and enticing.

If you like this, you may enjoy Jeff Noon.
I know you’re joking, but look at Chisel or Clash.
HackerRank [0] is one option. I can’t vouch for it personally - in fact, I only discovered that it exists yesterday via YC’s podcast - but it seems like exactly what you’re looking for.

[0] https://www.hackerrank.com/work
I imagine either way they wouldn't want to bloat shipping costs, that would be rough.
Not really. Britain banned textile technicians from leaving the country because textile machinery knowledge was overwhelmingly valuable. Semiconductor IP is not nearly that important.
2 weeks is a long time to be detained, but the problem is that she was traveling with no ID, no passport, and wasn't a citizen of either the US or Canada. She couldn't be discharged back into Canada immediately, because they had to confirm she was allowed to be there.

I have a feeling if she was a Canadian citizen, this would have been a slap on the wrist, and she would've been let back into Canada within hours, if not immediately.
These companies are massive and meaningful because they've had time on their side...who's to say that Frey isn't the next Tide? Is that a small market? Not a user of Frey, but your examples are really poor:

--Twitch started with Justin Kan strapping a video camera onto his head and live streaming it. He did this for over a year iirc. They've spent the last 11 years going from that livestream to what Twitch is today.

--Reddit was such an early flop it was comical. Alexis and Steve talk about sitting around and making fake comments for the first year of the site because no one was using it.

--Um...do you remember Dropbox's launch on HN? Not so great.

--Airbnb had to re-launch something like five times because literally no one gave a shit about "another couchsurfing.com"
They only had to note what zone (local, local long distance, or long distance) or what country you were connecting to and the duration of the call. The number you dialed was not recorded.

So if you called Germany for 33 minutes they could charge you the correct international rate, but without the pen register they would have no idea what number you actually dialed.

By the late 80s they were logging numbers electronically. This applies only before that time.
Maybe that is because it's very easy to visualize triangulations.
I like this approach a lot and used it myself for years. But I found it kind of falls apart as soon as you want to start using credit though. It's great if you only use cash and debit cards.
It’s good if you find the right family.
But this is exactly what Tolkien was saying in Lord of the Rkngs with the ring metaphor (Tolkien’s work was a big allegory on European World Wars and politics).

Tolkien said Gandalf couldn’t take the ring because he would be corrupted by power and become an evil autocrat.

There are few rulers who can assume dictatoral power and not use it for ill. And once a family has autocratic power, it is difficult and bloody for the people to take power back.
Then replace "IRC" with "IRC culture"
I don't know about trascended... But it definitely has gone backwards since.

But irc in its heyday had far higher quality and duration of connection than much that followed it. Maybe it was truly the first generation of the internet. I still have many of those teenage irc connections in my life years later.

It's not hard to imagine IRC surviving if it had a natural path to instant messaging when Icq/aim/yahoo arrived.

I welcome a return of a modern IRC.
Why post articles from wsj, it doesn't show the full story.
Those all probably seemed like smaller things when they first launched
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If you have 1/2 your code in C and want a Python VM for one reason.

But keep in mind that even MicroPy recommends 256k ROM, which is before your program at all, that excludes nearly all Cortex M series and 16 and 8 bit micros. So that’s what brought me to Pi in the first place.
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There was a book called Nudge that takes up this topic to some extent, basically hacking people's decisions in "beneficial" ways, like making healthy foods more prominent in grocery stores, or changing organ donation from opt in to opt out. (Not sure those examples are entirely representative of the book, but they're the main ones I remember.) I was ambivalent. It was interesting what could be done to subconsciously influence people, but I bristle at the idea of being manipulated without my awareness, even if it's already prevalent, because usually it's done to benefit other-than-me.
Slack banned a community for having open signups
Are there any open source Discord clients?

So far, I've refused to try it because the only client Gentoo has is a binary blob.
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BWAHAHA! A conspiracy theory involving me! What a great ending for the week.

Let me compliment you on your English. I speak three languages other than my native English, to different levels of proficiency. Even in my most proficient, I could not come close to constructing a sentence like "Without trivializing institutionalized sexism, the author's highly submissive (almost grovelling) attitude".

I did more than nitpick. I questioned the strength of your basis for second guessing the author, and presented why I disagreed with your assessment.

I asked "what scenario do you propose which is more reasonable than institutional sexism?"

Now I'm pointing out that you have deflected the topic from my on-point question to an ad hominem attack.

My account is 11 months old. There's plenty of my personal background in my comments. You'll see that it isn't aligned with Kuhn. For example, in https://hn.algolia.com/?query=eesmith%20florida&sort=byPopul... you'll see several places where I mention that I grew up in Florida.

Kuhn grew up in the north east, says his Wikipedia entry.

In https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16638601#16651376 I say I lived in Santa Fe, NM. As far as I can tell, Kuhn has never lived there.

I'm obviously not Sander. I don't know who else works in the Conservancy, but it's laughable to think I'm one of them.

11 months is an awful long time to establish a cover story in the hopes that some day it might be used as astroturf.

Whatever happened to calling people an SJW?

Your account is 3 days old. How do I know that you are not the exec involved trying to defend yourself?

You know HN has a reputation of being full of libertarian techbros, right?

Yes, I have an emotional attachment towards comments which are based in the facts given, and not fantasy. You'll easily see that in my comment history. Got a problem with that?
You're no better than those that shouts 'but slavery!' for whataboutism. if anything, more insidious.

These events happened a couple of hundred years ago. before international laws, before trade organizations, before, well, civility.

China broke all the rules TODAY. and is still breaking them.
I found it a very hard read and a very disjointed plot. The literary color in the book is really good as described already.
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This is hilarious :)
Mesa/Cedar was developed at Xerox PARC in 1981 and is cited as one of Java's influences.

One of its descendants, Modula-3 designed around 1986, is equally cited as yet another Java reference.

Both of them, had value types and compiled ahead of time into native code. Although Mesa/Cedar was native in the Lisp Machine sense, given the Xerox PARC microcoded CPU architectures.

There are some old posts from Gosling where he discusses about Eiffel/Sather features.

So the knowledge was there, it was just a bit disappointing not getting them, because as you say technical considerations were not the only factor.
What do you think our most pressing problems are?

And what to you think the problem is when it comes to climate change issues?

I'm interested in your opinions and ideas since you seem to have given this a lot of thought.
It doesn't feel like you're asking a question so much as seeking an argument, but let me try to explain. It's the combination of shallowness, snark, and politics. That's a ticket to flamewar hell, and we need users not to go there if HN is to remain viable for anything other than flamewars.

Sorry about the broken link. It's fixed now, so if you'd (re-)read the site guidelines and follow them when commenting here, we'd appreciate it.
My experience with hacker news is that comments with China mentioned in a not so positive way will result in a flood of initial downvotes. As to the the why, I haven't a clue
My experience with the FreeNode IRC network has been pretty troll-free.

They could do even better by requiring everyone to register.

In my experience, trolling on IRC is mostly a thing of the past.
Thank you, the article is fascinating indeed. But your explanation is not very accessible for a layman. I will tell you the questions a typical programmer will be asking:
Main question: suppose we have to build a heart from scratch. It has certain shape, at every point inside it, there's a specific type of cell (they are all certainly different). E.g., there's a complicated network of blood vessels inside, and what not. There's a process that builds the heart. Question: who tells this process that at point (x,y,z), it should add a cell of type T, and connect it to neighbors in a certain way? Is it something like cellular automation, where the property of cell at (x,y) is determined by properties of neighbors only? All neighbors? And how this function is calculated? And what is the CODE for calculation? Where is it stored? And where something that was formerly called "JUNK", and now looks like a master program, fits into this picture?

To explain it to a programmer, it's better to avoid the terminology and specifics, but focus only on functional relations - e.g. type of cell at point (x,y) is a FUNCTION of types (or something) of cells (x-1,y), (x+1, y) and maybe something else. I can't find it anywhere.

BTW, I am not a believer in cellular automation stuff a la Wolfram, just trying to frame the question in a way I could understand.

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