skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
shrugs

Sorry for not fully elaborating on the subject as it is convoluted and mostly easily searchable with the keywords I've already listed.

To further discussion, what did you find insightful in context to this parent thread's topic? I can only begin to imagine the possibilities to access what is moderated and what is not. What is your opinions?

edit: How is consonants doing? I am a bit down at seeing the same actors in the news again doing their same shifty acts. I have always assumed headlines like NSA/Snowden would have a damper on the will to start-up business or innovate a new industry but never considered the change in tone it would have on HN users in general.
Yes. 90% of mass surveillance is worthless and mundane. If only the 10% of people who think and say things that are interesting were to conceal their communications, the NSA would be left with analyzing the content of inanities.
The biggest impact is probably test stress. So, a psychological edge more than a "real" one, but nonetheless one that results in significant performance gains for some students.
Apparently you have never tried to "rent while black."
The difference in criminal activity between blacks and other American subgroups is so large that it is hard to imagine any regressions making much of a difference. Black males are 6% of the population and commit 53% of the murders, more than the other 94% of the population combined. Keep in mind that there are more poor whites than total blacks in the country, but the black crime numbers are higher than the total white crime numbers.

Finding the root causes of the disparity would be a fascinating sociological challenge, if we had the courage to pursue it.
> which really makes no difference other than to be a slight annoying having to go to php.net/function_name and just make sure it's right.

I can't tell if this is a joke or not
We don't need encrypted email so much, we need decentralized email servers with TLS enabled. I have half a mind to launch a service that will take a root password of a newly-created cloud server you own, set up a properly-configured IMAP and SMTP server and hand you the keys.

I am of the opinion that that will do more about email privacy than GPG (as long as you trust your hosting provider, at least).
The US has a much higher tolerance for what in Europe would be considered pretty blatant racism.

Maybe in some spheres but not all. Look at sports, for example. Outright racism by fans against athletes is unheard of in North America whereas it seems pretty common in Europe. Perhaps my perception is biased by the media reporting on it?
Any chance it can get rid of the dollar sign?
My LTD is 60% of my income, tax free (very important, always pay for any disability post-tax, if you don't your income from it is taxable), until I am able to make over 80% of my pre disability income.

It provides me benefits from 6 months after my disability (I decided not to pay for short term which starts at 2 weeks until 6), and will keep going until I am ~65 years old.
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Potentially stupid question, but wouldn't they be covered under their new employers insurance?
His response is a little bit trite when you read his previous post where he more or less taunts Google about how he reverse engineered the protocol to avoid the whitelist. In some way it almost feels like a setup - perhaps this is all a strategy by Koush to flush Google out on this issue, and I suspect they've been forced to confront it now before they were really ready.
But if it actually does correlate with the truth, if it actually makes predictions more accurate on average, why shouldn't it be used?

Because statistics.

Correlation applies to populations of data points, not individual data points. Even if 99% of the data points have a certain feature (an extremely strong correlation), the 1% of outliers should not be penalized for being similar to the rest of the group in other ways.
Mmmmmm, sweet condescension. Nothing floats my boat higher than expressing superiority to PHP developers. They actually consider themselves to be real programmers, aren't they just the cutest?
I don't know about "very expensive" unless you're in the market for a bargain bin computer. A Mac Mini costs $599, an feature equivalent Dell is maybe $399 to $499, so there is a price premium but it's not outrageous. Plus, you do get significantly better support from the retailer, cheaper upgrade options on the operating system, and a lot of bundled apps that, for some people, are more than worth the extra dollars.

It's not that people are not afraid to learn new things, they just have priorities, and often "learn a new OS" is not on their list.

Remember, Linux has succeeded on Android, so don't think it's impossible for people to use it.
Makes sense, and I think most people understand this. That said, I think the name "the Sunday test" and the description "If this person were alone at the office on a Sunday..." is far from ideal.

(Off the top of my head, "the Drink test" with the description "If this person were alone at the bar/cafe on a Sunday..." is better.)
I think a good sense of humor is an advantage at every company. I'm a Scum Master, been at it 7 years, and I shudder to think what my experience would be like if I didn't have a sense of humor. (Some say over active, but let's not quibble)
Not enough in my opinion.
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GP's phrasing aside, it does make the article read as though the author has never used any other closure implementation (and, by extension, any other programming language).
Oh no, I forgot the variable placement in a function, this language sucks! ಠ_ಠ
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I can see ethnic origin not being biological, but how can racial origin and biological race be different things?
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What is wrong with using data to make more accurate predictions? Why does it matter where the data came from? That's their job, to make accurate predictions about how likely people are to pay back a loan. This benefits everyone. Interest rates will be lower and more accurately reflect the risk.

If I had a time machine and could go to the future and see who would pay back their loans and who wouldn't, that would be ideal. But we don't have that, we can only make predictions by looking at data that happened to correlate with that in the past.
I'd say people in Eastern Europe are quite used to despising Jews. Also, if you are black or Hindu or Pakistani in Czech or Poland, you will notice.

Homophobes, well, not sure how it's in Czech Republic, but say Poland makes Bible Belt look like a bunch of agnostic wusses.
Great! I looking forward for a Ruby version!
Php still sucks, but the community is trying to build tools around it to make it better. But it doesnt make the language itself good. To make it good the first things to do would be to remove 90% of its silly "features".
Apologies to anyone who got nabbed by this. Bootstrap 3's changes, while fantastic, made it much harder to optimize the previewer on this version, since I couldn't just load everything in asynchronously on top of the basic Bootstrap stuff.
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Especially given the types of firearms available to conquistadors of the age. They weren't crew-served weapons, or machine guns, or even breech-loaded rifles. If you were lucky it was a flintlock, and even with that you're not going to be firing very frequently or accurately.
Variable declaration is pretty core to the language. Remember register_globals? That was only a problem because so much code relied on having undeclared variables act like empty strings.

I suppose they could have made it work differently just for nested functions, but that's a major inconsistency, it's not clear how it would interact with globals, etc.
coincidentally …. this is how we pooled the buffers on Vine for Android to make Camera initializations efficiently.
It's this dead horse again. Let's beat it!
..and Russians are just putting what you are lacking into a law.
>MySQL is a high performing, highly scalable, ACID compliant relational database, when configured correctly.

You forgot the "with tons of brokenness, misfeatures, mistakes, problems and otherwise NOTABUG bugs that will never be fixed and cause immense amounts of pain". Literally every other RDBMS is a better option, thus there is no reason to use mysql.
Indeed, "if you care enough" was exactly my point!
To give a serious answer to this: While you are right that php bashing isn't always rooted in informed objectivity, the point you're making is missing something deeper.

It's sort of like when that person with a crush on you who you just don't like but who insists that if you really got to know them everything would be different. It's just not true.

Even if could prove a 1 to 1 correspondence between features of ruby and php, php would still be... ugly. It would still lack grace. The feeling of looking at a page of php code just wouldn't be as pleasing. I believe it is this raw, irrational difference, this visceral reaction to the physicality of the code, and not a misunderstanding of features (even if they are misunderstood) that accounts for the most of the hate you allude to.
Nobody needs to move on from COBOL. It's here to stay and isn't going to disappear anytime soon. It runs a large portion of all financial operations. If you don't like it, don't use it. Nobody is forcing you to.
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(disclaimer: I'm a developer on the Image Packaging System project: https://java.net/projects/ips/)

I think there's been some editorialising of the title as I don't see that the author of OSTree claims that it's a "robust" solution (alone).

With that caveat, without filesystem snapshot support, OSTree really isn't a complete solution (as the original author points out).

On Solaris 11+, there are generally two update scenarios for package upgrades:

1) pkg update [name1 name2 ...]

no packages have new or updated items tagged with
reboot-needed=true
pkg will create a zfs snapshot
pkg will create a backup boot environment
perform update in place on live root
if update fails, will exit and tell admin name
of snapshot so they can revert to it if desired;
will also print name of backup BE
if update succeeds, will destroy snapshot and exit

2) pkg update [name1 name2 ...]

one or more packages have new or updated items tagged
with reboot-needed=true
pkg will create a zfs snapshot
pkg will clone the live boot environment
pkg will perform update on clone
if update fails, will tell admin name
of clone BE so they can inspect it and exit
if update succeeds, will activate clone BE,
destroy snapshot, and exit telling admin name
of new clone

Put another way, on Solaris 11+, the "default practice is the best practice." This is the advantage of integrating the package system with the native features the OS itself supports.
Agreed. I would thing that regional jets would become more prevalent on more routes if air travel were to decline.
Discussion on this from 11 months ago - enjoy
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Getting access to top-notch professors and research experiences are important too.

(networking with smart people is of perhaps maximal importance).
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I'm not even kidding, the ZTE Open is being sold semi-officially through there.
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What I find the most ridiculous about this, is the comments on the original discussion that claim "this is such an apple move" - and completely miss the fact the functionality Google never provided, and is now explicitly blocking, has been provided out of the box by AppleTV from the start.
PHP is maturing but large user base and projects may slow the diffusion of idioms based on the new additions. Or maybe the next major releases of say joomla, wordpress and such have redesigned their core to leverage that. Maybe they'll follow the eclipse ecosystem-wide synchronisation of projects.
But this is an argument against making any kind of predictions at all, as it could negatively affect some individuals. I don't see why that should be so, especially if it positively benefits everyone else a lot more and is a net benefit. For every person that loses one dollar, 500 people gain 50 cents.

To look at it another way, by not taking that data into account, you are making those 500 worse off. I don't see how that is preferable.

If we had a time machine to go into the future and see what loans would be paid back and which ones wouldn't, that would be ideal. But we can only guess. If our guesses aren't 100% accurate, are we saying we shouldn't try at all?
I see the times square trend in Myrtle Beach, in a slightly different way: poorly run (which includes bad food) restaurants can be open only seasonal, get sufficient 'incidental' business to survive and then shut down during the off season due to low property costs. I suspect eventually property valuations will make it too attractive to sell out to more profitable business, whether thats due to being better run or all-year.
Seems to me that moving things more often than that is rare enough to be niche. But I could very well have a skewed view of the world.

Last time I needed a truck was when I moved this winter. Before that... can't think of when it would have been, but it was years prior. I just don't buy furniture that often.
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Right, this is a pretty good summary (that docker is 1 level above).

One fundamental difference is that OSTree has a custom serialization format for trees (inspired by git), whereas from what I can tell from the code, docker is just tar (I assume whatever the host /usr/bin/tar serializes to). For example, OSTree explicitly supports extended attributes, so it can support SELinux (and SMACK). Fedora ships a patched tar but...the tar format is a really serious mess.

I would further add though that OSTree does, providing the OS is compatible with it, allow booting a separate "deployment" as a container. So for example if you have Debian in /ostree/deploy/debian/90cd266 while you're booted into /ostree/deploy/fedora/562d0a, you can easily just systemd-nspawn /ostree/deploy/debian/90cd266 and boot the same OS as a container.

But the emphasis right now of OSTree is indeed on bare metal deployments, and I'd like to push hard to integrate with package systems.
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Good. I'm glad you're catching on. Next step is to learn that all languages have their strengths and weaknesses and your personal preference means nothing to anyone but you.
Laravel doesn't come close to CI in terms of trash. It is very well architectured to the point where everything is modular, testable, properly documented and done with a reason. Static methods are actually facades as pointed out and are key in having proper testable applications.

* Forms? It has support for forms in more way than one. Read the docs! :-)
I bet you are absolutely right that it's too late to get adoption, and I'm relieved to think so.

Here's an example of an increasingly-popular idiom on the web where embedded video doesn't quite do as good a job as animated GIFs.

I'm sorry for sharing this, but it is both timely (it's about some music award event yesterday evening) and relevant:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/lyapalater/the-weirdest-and-craziest...

If anything, though, this makes a case for not creating yet another tool for this kind of expression.
Great mission statement but did I miss it? How will CodePath make money? I assume it is intended to be a sustainable ongoing organization, right?
I personally think if you have raw, irrational, visceral reaction to programming languages, there's some priorities problem here. Those are tools. You're supposed to use them, not fall in deep emotional love (or hate) with them, that's what you do with people, not tools. I know this opinion may be unpopular and I know people do fall in love with tools (and use people) but I think they're doing it all wrong.
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Heh, good catch! :P

I've been lazy about writing a good filter to weed out the nasty ones. I considered quite a few approaches - ranging from an NLTK-based algo to basic brute-force list-search with word-stemming. Then I realized, it would take me a lot more time to develop that, than the rest of the project.

So, I chose the easy way out. Turn out it saved me quite a bit of effort, too. :)
You and lmkg both allude to stress, which is something I hadn't considered. Still, if reduced time-based stress is creating accounting for a significant difference, I am almost inclined to say that perhaps that is a legitimate thing to diagnose and accommodate. I think that is pretty close to the intended use of 'infinite test time'.

I never had much success with checking my answers before turning in a test, though I suppose other people very likely do.
PHP 5.5 may be great but a lot of people in the real world still don't use namespaces and other things introduced in 5.3.

That is why people are always calling out PHP because most of the language and most of its developers appear to be in suspended animation.

Developers who use modern tools like Composer, Behat, frameworks other than Codeigniter etc. just aren't that many unfortunately. They're definitely not the majority, like they are over in the Ruby/Python camp.
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Well, perhaps he hasn't used any other closure implementation... why would that merit mockery? I doubt the same tone would be taken if he were a Ruby novice adulating over block syntax. It's just hip to condescend to PHP developers.
"Her parents were working late, as they always did, and other than the staff, we were alone in the house."

aaaaaaaaand your daughter's a stripper.
yes, segregation-by-law doesn't exist anymore in the USA (personal preferences of police officers in LA aside), yet there is a phenomenon of poor black and hispanic kids in Oakland going to school which is predominantly attended only by other poor black and hispanic kids. Segregation-by-de-facto-conditions-of-life?
Eventually everybody simply shares the same credit score.
oh I see now that she didn't take the actual picture but Jason Madara did that -
You mean, for you to like PHP it must cease to be PHP, die and be reborn as your favorite whatever. Sorry, not gonna happen. I guess for you it will suck forever.
Already mentioned in previous threads, but Tim Sweeney (Epic Games), who made a long presentations about the benefits of FP around 2006, is presenting a paper about a formalism related to dependent typing http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4791
All sensationalism, little substance. Particularly regarding the topic of the link-baity title.

> "One such company, Lenddo, determines if you're friends on Facebook (FB) with someone who was late paying back a loan to Lenddo....

No explanation of the what the mechanism for collecting this is. Likely it's a matter of opting in to share your data through a Facebook app, an act whose culpability lies with the consumer.

> "Lenddo has about 250,000 members, but it only operates in the Philippines, Columbia and Mexico."

Um. Ok. Three sem-developed nations. It's journalistically incompetent not to explain what the relevance of those nations are to the operation of Lenddo, and why any of that is relevant to the American general public.

The only thing I learned from this was that CNN Money articles can be remarkably content-farmy and AOL-like, and HN readers can subdue their analytical spirit when it comes to piling on the criticism of an already-hated company (e.g. Facebook).
That's a bit much, don't you think? FWIW, I'm also black and I agree with JPKab more than I do with Anechoic probably because his experiences (second-hand or otherwise) are closer to mine. Where does that get us?

They both make valid points, likely because they're coming at the issue from different directions. Listen to them both and balance your viewpoint but try to be a bit less snarky.
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That has to be one of the strangest syntax's I've seen for closures ever. I get why it has to be that way sort of. (backwards compatibility) but it only serves to illustrate how PHP has hamstrung itself in the past.

Comparing PHP's evolution to C++ isn't exactly flattering either.
I was thinking about a system that combined these three properties:

+ Anonymous
+ Distributed
+ Encrypted

For anonymous, I was thinking that the service would be accessible only through Tor or i2p, so that neither the sender nor the receiver can be found out by tracing the message.

For distributed, I was thinking that the mail system would essentially be a freesites-style distributed hash table where the mail address (or a hash thereof) would act as the key. The mail or parts of the mail would be stored multiple times across many clients to eliminate single points of failure. Perhaps a TTL system would prevent old mails from filling up everyone's space.

Finally, the encrypted would be achieved by having the mail address act as the public key (or at least, the mail address is a key to a distributed KV store that contains the public key). This way, before anonymously sending the message to the various distributed hash table buckets, it gets encrypted so only the desired recipient can read it.

It seems like it should be possible to build this from already existing technologies without thaaaat much trouble, though I haven't actually done anything about it.

Of course, getting people to use this would be another story ;-) and I guess people would want contacts lists, archives and so on.
Nice work on this. It's always good to see people giving more visibility to MediaWiki's capabilities.

To engineers who would like to use this library, I would give a caveat that there are way more API actions than the ones enumerated here. So if you're looking to make some contributions to a project, this one is rife with possible pull requests.

In terms of article access and analysis, I'd recommend looking at Pattern (https://github.com/clips/pattern) before starting with this library. Not only do you get access to the rest of Pattern's IR/text analysis capabilities, but the approach in Pattern is written to support any site built off of MediaWiki, and not just English Wikipedia. This means not only foreign-language Wikipedia instances, but all 350k wikis on Wikia, and Project Gutenberg (which, interestingly enough, runs MW 1.13).
Hello, author here. You're not the first to scoff at my hammer description, but perhaps you can explain to me what kind of nail puller looks exactly like a hammer but with two claws, or why it would be useful to have the exact same tool on both sides of the handle. (This is still a PHP analogy.)

I don't see how to solve most of the issues, either. That sucks, and I genuinely sympathize with Zend on this, but it doesn't make them not-issues. As I think I said, they'd be acceptable if they were reasonable tradeoffs, but many of them are not.

Your == counterargument seems apologetic and trivially applied to anything: whenever a program is wrong because the language violated expectations, it's the programmer's fault for not having memorized some matrix of arcane rules. Languages aren't perfect and human beings have wildly differing expectations, but ultimately we only have programming languages to make it easier to express ourselves—no one's stopping you from writing the next big web 2.0 thing in x86 machine code. So yes, when it's difficult to reliably ask a language "are these things the same" without learning paragraphs of gotchas, that's bad.

Glad you enjoyed the article!