skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure what specific incident(s) you're talking about, but are you saying that journalists who show bias in some way "lose any claim to seriousness"?

If so, I can point to many examples of bias on all major news and media outlets.
This is really neat! Great job!
You mean that 2-4% range with the Fed is legally mandated to keep it in, and has been wildly successful in doing so for the past 40 years?
Could it not be the other way around? Modern camera's surely are far more complicated than that Hasselblad, and offer a magnitude more options to fine-tune before taking a picture. To my knowledge though, they don't have fewer abilities for manual control. It is fair to say that the cognitive overhead of understanding what a modern camera will do when you take the picture is much greater than that of the old camera.

Perhaps you can take great pictures with that Hasselblad because you understand exactly what it does and how it does it?
Is it possible to opt in for cleanliness and freedom? Perhaps something like http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=swedish+subway ? (I understand that it is not a perfectly free country nor a perfectly clean country, but it looks good enough.)
It is explained in depth.
Hope some people write here some alternatives, i always watch for good tools too. Most of the documentation tools document the code itself (like JSDoc), but i did not found many for RESTful Api documentation, thats why i start the project :)
Indeed. Would be nice to see how they compare in completeness and performance.
I think the author of the article is reaching on some of these predictions:

The Secretary of Hygiene or Physical Culture will be far more important in the cabinet of the President of the United States who holds office in the year 2035 than the Secretary of War.

I have no idea how he interpreted that to predict the EPA. This is something closer to Health&Human Services or the Secretary of the Gym ("Physical Culture" referred to exercise in those days).
The USD is the global reserve - therefore it is needed in vastly greater quantities to lubricate global trade than would otherwise be needed internally. To buy oil, France needs to export to the US in order to obtain USD to purchase off oil off Saudi Arabia. The US gets to print off (and spend) a lot of currency that would have otherwise caused inflation domestically but instead is mopped up by the need for global trade lubrication. Central Banks also absorb USD for reserves - for now.
The USGovt is now addicted to its budget deficit that has been enabled by this reserve status but it gives the USA an exhorbitant privelige against other nations - this is starting to unwind - CB's no longer trust the debt of other sovereigns. There is a glut of USD in existence - vulnerable to a change in other nations willingness to hold them.
The military is powered by oil and goods and services bought on USD. The USD enables the military, not the other way around.
Can anyone(PG?) comment what's the point of non-disclosing e.g. how that search ordering is calculated?

Or any other aspect of this site (if there are any other)...

So far, it looks to me like the secrecy for the sake of secrecy.
Hey Aaron,

From your second article[1] introducing Factor

"Next time we’ll stick with a theme of “flow” and discuss control flow for your words and after that, the typical work flow when developing code with Factor. Hope you enjoyed this installment!"

I am still waiting for that article. Your introductions to Factor are awesome and more would be delightful.

[1] http://elasticdog.com/2008/12/beginning-factor-shufflers-and...
The problem goes deeper than that. "Healthcare industry" is an oxymoron. The incentives of pharmaceutical firms and patients are not aligned, and will not for the foreseeable future (not that I have a better model to offer :-/).
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if you can boot Linux in the browser, you can just run arm qemu or even bochs from it. 30 seconds from now you'll have an arm emulator in javascript.

use that i7 or i9 at 3 ghz, I say.
What are the implications of so few people producing MSM? Increased error, deceit? A large workforce with a range of personalities and beliefs would better provide checks and balances.
"Nobody could make a list since as you yourself said it changes day by day."

Not quite. I'm asking what the privileges/penalties are, which I believe can be listed. An additional second column for the accompanying thresholds, sure, they change so maybe not.
Maybe it is hidden deep in the source code (https://github.com/wting/hackernews), the problem is that Arc is basically unreadable if you're used to stuff like C/C++/Java/PHP/Assembler.
No way the admins will release that. It would be a goldmine for spammers. Just get their account up to X karma and it is worth twice as much for resale.
The problem will just be to get enough karma. Imagine 1000 karma as target, which 'd require to create quite a lot of different users to not trigger any automated spam filters; also the to-be-upvoted account would need to post good, relevant content so that those with enough karma don't flag or downvote it.
Hey PG, would you consider open sourcing your DMCA copy, kind of like Automattic's Privacy Policy and Terms of Service? I think there's definitely a need for an open source DMCA notice.
"Has the Senate authorized the creation of a clone army?"

- Obi Wan Kenobi broadcasting from planet Kamino

/s
hahaha, this comment is hilarious. The guy got an 8-bit tiny little 55 cent chip (8 bits means an isntruction is between 0-255) to slowly crawl its way through pretending to be a real mdoern CPU by pretending to execute a real modern desktop CPU instruction every few cycles.

He got it to starting up x in a day and you're like, "Cool project bro but I'm dsmayed by the choice of GNOME".

saying it, "detracts from usability." this is just hilarious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD69PAIqiYo
It's just a Green Troll :)
Excel do not seem to be the cause - poor knowledge of using the tool is. You can argue that excel needs to be simpler than it is to learn - but then until something better for ubiquitous use (not forgetting SPSS and other tools which are way more complex) comes along - excel literacy is what is needed. Excel has its own quirks, but it also is capable of doing powerful modelling if you are ready to get out of the novice levels - but you also need advanced levels mathematics and statistics knowledge to be able to use them. Programming is not a panacea - financial and statistical modelling is beyond average programmer's level of proficiency.
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I agree very impressive. What it resonated with me is its kind of the web 2.0 equivalent of what we called a "programmers console". Classic blinking lights.

IF you follow that analogy, WRT the "Understanding variables" common problem as you state etc, a pretty obvious addition from the front panel area was ways to look at internal state. And breakpoints...
Is that the latest source? I didn't realise it was available but when searching HN before posting the topic I did find https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=853964 ("Tell HN: How to find karma thresholds in the HN source code") so perhaps if things haven't changed much in the intervening 1298 days it'll still work.
The American people are resourceful, well armed and have a strong distrust of government, any attempted police state would last about five minutes and result in impeachment.
I showed it to my 12-yo son. He wants to learn programming. Right now he's able to create complex machines in Minecraft, which are similar to programs and to electronic circuits.

Anyway, he was thrilled by jsdares because of the gaming approach. He was excited to do the first 3 robots tutorials, and then he got tired but asked me to send him the link to the site. Those were the first programming lines he wrote.

So, the overall experience of jsdares is awesome. As a suggestion to Jan Paul and team, please make it translatable so kids from around the world can benefit of it. There's already a few good introductions to programming in JavaScript in English, but very few ones in Portuguese using this new approach.
It's hilarious when someone finds two actions that are opposites of each other and collect on both sides from people who want to take part in each.

I had a similar thought. I worked for a truly evil (management-wise; the engineers and PMs are fine) startup in the winter of 2011-12 and I've been debating whether to name-and-shame. The ethical problem I have with it is that, while I could easily kill the company (publicity-wise, but that would be enough) it would be low-level engineers who get fucked and the shitbag managers would probably bounce along fine. That's why I haven't done it. (After embarrassing a less-deserving company whose name starts with G, I'm more hesitant about public whistleblowing.)

However, if I ever end up in financial hardship I can't get out of, I'm going to start a Yes and a No project (maybe on Kickstarter, if they don't mind?) If "Yes" raises more money, then I name the evil startup that inspired my hatred of VC-istan, and out its scumbag executives in excruciating detail (including stuff about their families that I found later on). If "No" wins, then I keep it a secret. (Obviously, the losing side gets back their money.) I'd probably have to preclude the company itself, and its managers, from funding the "No", lest I get an extortion rap.

This could be a brilliant or fucked-up-evil startup idea. People who are cash-strapped and need to raise money take issues in their lives from the mundane ("should I sell my furniture?") to the important ("should I go back to school?") to the extreme ("should I out my scumbag ex-manager?") into the public and set up Yes/No races. On one hand, it would help a lot of people. On the other hand, it'd be hard to set it up so it doesn't become a vehicle for extortion.
I also have one for github and redmine.

https://github.com/stucchio/idli

Seems like a lot of people want a tool like this.
Mike McCaul cites Boston bombing as a reason why CISPA should be passed.
I don't think there is wide GWOT support on HN, certainly not TSA.

Sadly in the USA, yeah maybe 50% but they are very vocal about it so it sounds like more in the news.

What surprised me are the "don't do background checks on guns" enthusiasts around here but I suspect they are also just more vocal than the other half.
Who was more valuable, the tool maker or the tool user? The tool user created value, but the tool maker made it possible. And do we need to consider the parents of each, for their part? These are probably well discussed in philosophy. My answer is that the civilization that produced the tool maker and the tool user is more important, because of interdependencies, comparisons of great contributors is problematic.
My exact thought. R has great tools but the language is wonky. That's not a dig against them. It wasn't designed by language designers. However, its interactive nature is great for data scientists. So it seems like Clojure (possibly Scala) is a better fit than Java.
Why on earth would a site set webkit-text-size-adjust: none? Why does Chrome even support that? And on the <HTML> element of all places?!

It makes the site completely unreadable. The font is tiny and CTRL+ is ignored.

I'm not running the zoom accessibility tool just to read your site because you intentionally broke it for webkit browsers. I'm just going to skip your site/article entirely.

Does anyone know a Chrome mod so that Chrome ignores webkit-text-size-adjust?
The are certainly not taking the scanners down.

They are only changing the technological method of scanning.

If anything they are trying to get scanners in more places outside of airports.

If I remember reading correctly, the old scanners are still going to be in use at like courthouses.
Right. I feel we're talking past each other a bit here. The topic is titled "Ask HN: What are the HN karmic privileges/penalties?" - this question is reasonably answered by returning a list akin to the following:

"Comment Downvote, Poll Creation, Topbar Colour Choice, ..."

The topic as stated does not ask for the thresholds. I mention in the body "correspondingly definitive "price guide"", but that's a separate afterthought.
I also didn't find the actual tutorials below the fold at first. I thought we were supposed to start at the big game, which is rather complex for novices.

Consider placing the main/default path at the top of the page (start your first lesson, a la Codecademy) and below that (but still above the fold) 3 or 4 examples inside small squares of the kind of programs you can write (possibly starting points for more advanced students).
It has nothing to do with python being particularly intuitive and everything to do with it being very similar to every other imperative language you already know. If your first language was forth or PS you'd find factor intuitive too.
It might be the meat of it, but IIRC pg has said that he tweaks key algorithms like comment ranking on his own.
I just wish it featured some JS syntax highlighting, true to spec JS linting (drop a semicolon and the parser errors) and perhaps CoffeeScript support. Not sure what the implications would be with learning CS before JS or during, but I support its presence none the less.
Is iPhone turning into ad-Phone?
> "No way the admins will release that. It would be a goldmine for spammers."

Or microsoft sycophants - a growing problem on HN (just ask @cooldeal, @recoiledsnake and @fekberg).
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Cmd +/- works fine for me on Chrome 26.0.1410.65 on OS X on the article page. Maybe something else is going on?
Thanks for sharing that story. I read a lot of stories from Asimov before, but I didn't know that one. What I don't get, though, is that the people in the future see a benefit in having humans doing the computations that are made by the computers. It sure makes sens for the humans to gain as much understanding as they can of the computers, but multiplications are much faster done by computers. I am missing something here?
The detailed analysis including the company's CEO previous schemes - http://behindmlm.com/companies/rippln-review-mobile-app-recr...

>I’ve seen Rippln being marketed as a mobile app social network, which I’m assuming is based on Rippln affiliates being able to communicate with eachother via the app.

>Social networks and MLM are nothing new and as usual Rippln marketing material focuses heavily on Facebook, Twitter, Angry Birds and other succesful internet properties, asking the question “why aren’t users paid to promote them?”

>The key ingredient with each internet property mentioned however is the idea behind it. A key ingredient Rippln is missing.

[..]

>CEO Brian Underwood’s involvement in various MLM schemes of dubious reputation and legal status certainly don’t inspire any confidence on the subject. Nor do Rippln themselves when they constantly refer to their MLM opportunity as a “game” which affiliates “play” in their official marketing material.

>At the end of the day this isn’t the first time we’ve seen a social concept paired with MLM and to date every single one of them has failed to gain any traction. The last social network MLM that went high-profile (and also pulled a silly viral pre-launch campaign) was Wazzub.
As for "negatively impacting your ability to interact with the site", that refers to the practice of slowbanning and hellbanning. Slowbanning is what it sounds like - the site will be slower for you, sometimes just a little and sometimes a lot. The idea there is to subconsciously encourage you to visit the site less and to contribute less when you do. Hellbanning is more extreme. When you're hellbanned, nothing you contribute will be visible to anyone else, but it won't look like anything's wrong to you. (However, people with enough karma can elect to see your contributions regardless. This is why you'll sometimes see people kindly pointing out someone's hellbanned state.)
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You are wrong. At StartSSL, you can get an unlimited number once they validated your person, which costs 60$. That validation lasts for a year. During that year you can generate as many wildcard certificates as you want.

See https://www.startssl.com/?app=25#27

"The fees for Class 2 (60$) and higher are applied to the verification and not for the certificate(s), i.e. you pay for the validations we perform. Once validated there is no limit placed on the amount of certificates one can receive (This depends on other limitations such as uniqueness of the subject line for example)."

Edit: They cover exactly their costs. The cost is at validating your persona (they call you, you fax them scans of your passport/drivers license/etc, they need to check that etc.). Issuing a certificate is fully automatic so there are no costs associated with that, so they don't charge for that.
I'd offer a comparison to my behaviour on Yahoo! Answers, where they clearly laid out the permissions attached to the various levels (http://answers.yahoo.com/info/scoring_system), and as such I only actively engaged on the site until I achieved the level I wanted.

By not disclosing the values, we don't have goals to hit. And without those tangible goals, we're forced to focus on the journey rather than the destination.
Google won by trouncing the others in search, but Google has expanded into all the same kinds of services that Yahoo, AltaVista, et al were attempting to provide; there is Google Mail, Google News, Google Finance, etc., for the same reasons that Yahoo and others provided this -- because they live and die by page views.

Google simply attacked the problem from a more intelligent angle; first, they greatly focused on providing hugely, undoubtedly better search results, which, despite the "niceties" of Yahoo et al, was a game-changing deal. Secondly, they outsourced their ad network much more effectively than everyone else, so that most of the time when you followed a link outside of Google, you'd end up on a page that showed ads from Google anyway, so Google still made money. Thirdly, they started wrapping up as many services as possible under their umbrella, both to increase page views and to increase the intelligence and targeting of their ad delivery.

So Google really did end up following the same approach, they just did it in a cleaner, more subtle fashion, and I don't even think that's the main thing that allowed them to excel; the primary reason they killed Yahoo and friends is because their search results were ridiculously superior, so there was no way Yahoo could compete despite its "personalizations". If Yahoo was smart, they would have licensed the tech from Google early on and Google could've been an IP vendor to the extant search engines, licensing out its algorithm. Yahoo's dominance would have remained that way, because once a certain critical mass is reached, the inertia is difficult to overcome unless you have a very serious improvement over your competitor's product.

The secondary reason Google killed Yahoo is that they aggressively expanded AdSense so that when you followed a link off Google's site, they were still making money, and the tertiary reason is that they bundled as many services as they could under the Google umbrella, increasing data to mine for ad targeting and increasing ad views, expanding even to your cell phone (that is, they did the "portal" thing).

Yahoo et al neglected points 1 and 2 because they thought they had it locked up. Google came out of left field with a far superior search system, and that was really the killer app.
Or "Why Factor?": http://concatenative.org/wiki/view/Factor/FAQ/Why%3F
Careful with that. If the frontier of that subset is not far enough from the points, the problem will not be solvable.
"Slowbanning is what it sounds like - the site will be slower for you, sometimes just a little and sometimes a lot. The idea there is to subconsciously encourage you to visit the site less and to contribute less when you do."

That's hysterical. Hellbanning I'd heard of, but that...that's brilliant.

Thanks very much too for directly addressing that specific bit of my OP :)
I'm on chome on windows 7 and ctrl+ works for everything except the article body text...
Another factor in ranking of comments (apart from "average karma" of the poster, and of course the points it's received) is simply its length! The longer, the more it counts. I think it's there to promote deep and lengthy discourse, not one-line, "Stupid article. I stopped reading at [x]" kind of comment.

Source: experience.
Syntax highlighting would be great indeed, I didn't implement it because it didn't seem like the most important thing to do. The project is open source though, so if you would like to implement syntax highlighting or CS support, then that would be superb! :D
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Thanks! That's good to know! (But irrelevant to the discussion anyways.) Edited the info in the parent comment for further readers.
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> And until the shock, national currencies circulated at a fixed exchange with the USD - thereby his own currency was effectively gold backed?

Yes, "effectively gold-backed" until the first guy came along to openly demand an actual physical (rather than "potential") exchange of USD reserves for real ounces, in size, from the US. Bam, Nixon shock. Essentially "caused" by one "individual Frenchman" (de Gaulle) testing whether the system can in fact, in size and in physical actuality consistently deliver what it promised to the world.
Having done similar things, I agree.

1) Make sure that the UI fits with the order they have data on the bits of paper.
2) Let them data in any order they like, and give them a big "Validate" button they can press to check whether what they've entered is all coherent. (Don't check as they go along, or the validation markers will confuse and distract them.)
Thanks a lot, great to hear he liked it!

Unfortunately there are not many dares implemented yet, so he will not be able to follow a nice path from playing with robots to writing games. But anyone can create their own dares.

If you would like you could try to recreate the existing dares in Portugese. Better integration of different languages would be great at some point though!
it isn't the R syntax, as a language, it is rather the package ecosystem and the invested resources it encapsulates.
Did I hear "global military hegemon"? Try paying your soldiers far from home in a dying currency, go for it! ;D

(Not making a case for "collapse gonna happen", just saying "if, then your military's worth sinks with your currency"...)
It's not actually an atomic clock, it is an atomic frequency standard. The difference between the two is that an atomic clock outputs 'time' whereas an atomic frequency standard merely outputs a very regular square wave.

You can easily build an atomic clock once you have such a frequency standard. The confusion probably stems from the electronics term 'clock' for square wave used to clock other digital circuitry but the general public would definitely misinterpret the term atomic clock to mean something different.

That said, very nice find and very nice hack!
In general, you want any UI actions (like saving a form) to be as fast as possible and any feedback to be immediate.

While writing to a queue is fast, retrieving a response from a queued message requires waiting for the message to be processed, and waiting for the feedback message from another queue where the response gets queued.

As you can probably tell, this gets really complicated really fast. So queues are really good for one way, asynchronous communication, but pretty poor for synchronous communication.
It can be possible to make this all work very fast, but the added complexity for simple UI flow may not be worth it.

REST will be a better choice here, since response codes and status messages are easier to work with.
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