skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How long would it take for the world to come back from that without access to our current electronic tools and online repo of limitless knowledge?

In the initial post-collapse scenario there'd be a massive die-off. Cities would be impossible to live in, only those with access to water supplies and crop packages would get to live. Those in the third world would, ironically, be much better placed than those in developed countries from the perspective of not noticing things going sideways.

The common theme, regression to more local form of government, i.e. feudalism, would probably play out.

To build back up from there would take hundreds of years. You'd have to be in a position to re-establish supply chains. Which would require both the ability to organise on a significant level and the ability to have a crop surplus to support non farming specialists.

The saving grace would be the existence of certain select bits of knowledge; the idea of levers, basic mathematics entrenched in a very efficient number system, simple bits of tech like heliographs and one time pads, the printing press. Stuff that, if you're aware it's possible, you can make with relatively little effort. And social themes, like the idea of loans and relatively free trade that allow innovation to happen, the scientific methods - stuff like that.

I don't think that having books about how to make a machine shop would honestly make that much difference. We could work that stuff out for ourselves by the time we were in a position to operationalise it.

Hundreds of years, most of which would be things like getting agriculture in place, waiting for the population to grow to a decent size - things like that - rather than reinventing stuff.
I read this carefully. Thanks for posting. Applying to YC this time around, with a lot of glee and enthusiasm.
Looks cool! Just signed up. Completely out of my field of expertise, but something I've been fascinated by. Hoping the simulation is as cool as I expect it to be!
I lost flagging privileges, it's not binary. You can lose some ability without getting (shadow)banned.

How do you know your upvotes don't count? Who knows, maybe there's a karma threshold for that too now.
I can't see any comments on this thread from ressaid1 at the time of this comment.
Yes, I just have to see whether I could gather the same kind of information on these other websites. But I definitely want to compare the results I have with other crowdfunding websites.
In markets where handsets are subsidized, it's no cheaper than an iPhone...

And around here, no one has cheap Android handsets - it's all Galaxy S4s, HTC Ones, and Note 2/3s...
I'd love to see an example of that - I agree that you might have to do some data transformation to use ggplot2, but I think the net effect is still fewer lines of code than with base graphics (except for v. simple graphics).

Some clarification about what you mean regarding efficiency would be useful - do you prefer arrays?
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You only need one way; evolution has provided plenty of ways for reverse communication.
Twitter now allows any follower to send you a direct message
The future is what? Nothing's been proposed so far.
It is correct: on average, failed projects ask for more money than successful ones, except for projects in the Video Games category. There, it is the opposite. I'll add a "Stats" page to the website as soon as possible to show these results.
The Confederate States of America too.
I would like to keep the hardware with a company that I can trust. (Perhaps someone local)
What does a humble leader do?
Given the small size (and IMHO good quality) of the lua source code wouldn't it be more straightforward to fork it and make an implementation with a different syntax? I think it would probably make debugging easier...
Your comments page - https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ressaid1 - shows no comments posted in the past 39 days. If you were 'dead' I'd see them but as dead so it seems something unusual is going on here if you have posted a comment in the past 39 days.
That's a very interesting site. Thanks for the link.
Could it be related to yesterday's announcement, and a confirmation that they were talking about Bitcoin?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6550068
I tossed a coin and upvoted/downvoted you and your children depending on the toss.
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Twitter now lets any follower send you a DM
Google philosophies is worth reading,it will give a good sharp to your startup
Let me guess: 1) Add as much items to a list as possible?
I think they are referring to the possibility of reaching ALL markets including Africa, South-east Asia, etc. NES was a big hit, but only in Japan, North America and Europe.
> You know, back then, iPhone has always had a smooth UI.

Guess you never experienced an iPhone 2G or 3G on iOS 4. You'd press an icon and 5 seconds later something would happen. Was a complete disaster...

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/mobile-gadgeteer/apple-should-advi...
TLDR;

"In a blog post in late August, vBulletin maker Jelsoft Internet Brands Inc. warned users that failing to remove the “/install” and “/core/install” directories on sites running 4.x and 5.x versions of the forum software could render them easily hackable"
Expanding a Cassandra cluster
D-Link to padlock router backdoor by Halloween
Happened with me too. Thanks for asking this.
FPDetective - websites are using font-based fingerprinting
I got free money too, well need based aid in the form of lower tuition.

This was 10 years ago though.

My younger sister went to a more expensive school on paper, but got substantially more aid and paid much less than me.
Done and done. This system is /really/ weird.
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Bay Area transit strike averted, for now
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I'd say more that it's approaching "domain-specific language". (I think R's syntax is just horrendous; love the libraries, though! ggplot2 included. Thanks Hadley!)
I think it means "#1 son". Bender and Flexo follow the same numbering pattern. Makes sense if you assume all bending units' serial numbers are expressible as sums of two cubes.
Second the reading of Cryptonomicon, great book. My idea was originally inspired by reading his Diamond Age many moons ago. I loved the idea of the primer, especially as it started from scratch and worked up to more complex ideas.

The bitcoin idea is great, may have to add that
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I agree with everything you've said but ... there are certain skills that can't be automated. And many of these skills require practice so that your hands are making precisely the right movements. You can't be good at playing the piano without practice, and there are still certain hand-crafting skills that are the same.
Is it just me or does this sound pretty much like Robot Turtles on a computer? Personally, I prefer the offline (human to human) approach of teaching/learning, but this might be a good complement.
Someone testing automated trading systems with that title? Or, why would anyone enter the Nasdaq-ticker so prominently?
> too

Do you mean there if a karma threshold on something else? Is it new? I have noticed a marked improvement in HN content in the last two weeks.
The rate of inputting information to the computer has never been the limiting factor for me. Displaying the information in more helpful format could be useful though.
Higher education is incorrect. I'd love to cite the census, but the servers are shut down as part of the Washington Monument strategy. So here are news reports instead:

http://www.popecenter.org/commentaries/article.html?id=2511

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2009/10/29/college-enrollment...

Health care is also incorrect: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/search?st=personal+cons...

As for "healthy" food, unfortunately I don't know where to get good stats on that. Even if I did it would probably be shut down.
Vacuum tube audio is the very picture of a solved problem. You can look it up in a textbook or copy the schematic of old equipment.

Vacuum device engineering is alive and well. It's just that a top radio power designer or particle accelerator designer won't throw away his career to become a handbook engineer designing antique reproductions at a what amounts to a toy company.
> I lost flagging privileges, it's not binary. You can lose some ability without getting (shadow)banned.

How do you find out about that? Doesn't the 'flag' link show up anymore?
It is not about technical details but how a deal with such inflated valuation that it is obvious even for a layman could occur in principle.

I am most probably wrong about how exactly they did raise money, but this, it seems tome, is of second importance.
Should you use CoreData?
People still use Yahoo Mail?
I guessed I missed the solution to millions of starving people hanging about with no job prospects.
I think Orson Scott Card also writes something similar in the book 'Hot Sleep'. Long story short, some people wanted to recreate society by starting a primitive colony where there was know to be iron ore under the surface. They didn't fare too well...
What it is that makes Finland to produce these start-ups like Supercell or Rovio?
You probably posted something slightly critical of startups, or a YC company at some point in the past.
Diagrams look like a mess to me: virtually everything is connected to anything in unknown way (no method names or arguments specified). Text at the left is much clearer.
My upvote doesn't work either.
Never did (tried a few times) -> I just don't upvote.
I have fond memories of ISRO. I did my internship there working on wavelets and remote sensing data. ISRO is a shining diamond compared to all other government agencies here in India. Go ISRO.
Comparing the crime rate of a city with 130 000 inhabitants with New York is a bit unfair : ) Compare it with a town of similar size, and put some actual statistics upfront
To be fair, text is merely a special case of graphical programming where the output is limited to a handful of characters and is completely linear. Is it impossible to improve upon that? Syntax highlighting and indentation were good improvements for example.
My financial aid grant was approximately 75% of tuition (before considering any federal loans).

They are just practicing price discrimination. They look through all your finances and consider exactly how much you can possibly bear to afford.

All that theater about giving you a 75% discount? It was just theater.
Well that answers my question.
Hmm, I guess that 1 upvote does not always equal 1.0 karma. Maybe you could find out more about that by reading through the HN source code ...

Also maybe your voting behavior tripped off some heuristic. If I was trying to prevent spam I'd probably disable voting privileges for accounts that regularly upvote submissions that get flagged/banned.
Cold dark winters with nothing else to do than play or make computer games.
I don't see "swarms of support". I see informed debate and discussion, which is a breath of fresh air compared to the knee-jerk reactionism usually associated with the topic.

And it's the same kind of reactionism that you're illustrating all too perfectly.
Does not work for that article.
I was privileged to take a course with David Hughes at Penn State on parasites taking over hosts, primarily ants (think zombie ants) and can say without hesitation it was one of the most interesting courses I've taken to date.

http://ento.psu.edu/directory/dhughes
NES had some fierce competition from SEGA's Master System in developing markets, but it still sold incredibly well (one reason for it being the ease of producing pirate cartridges, which flooded these markets).
Weird or in need of some updating? (Mobile-fist, mail if someone responds and stuff). I know there are third pary's to do this but still...
I do not see why there couldn't be a Roadside Picnic - Stalker like encounter:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadside_Picnic

True we would not be important, but at least we would know we are not alone.
Full-blown mass extinction? How? As I understand it it's mainly coastal regions slowly flooding and weather changing. That's not collapsing civilization.

I'm saying we have 30-40 years until super-human AI. Though short of that there are still many other advances in technology we could make in that time that would change things completely.
I would call that special.
Their students are old enough to drive, vote, and go off to fight in war.
I have three minor disagreements.

Yes $8 GF cupcakes with weird taste and texture are ridiculous but when all the other kids are having tasty $0.50 cupcakes at the birthday party my son wants one anyway, so on rare occasion we buy one of the mostly awful and expensive substitute products.

The other is that X% of the celiacs are asymptomatic. Till they bleed out of an ulcer, or die at a ridiculously high and young rate from stomach cancer. If your allergen blood test measures off the charts, and the gastroenterologist does a biopsy and its all inflamed, even if you claim to "feel fine" it would be dumb to keep eating wheat. With my son it was a little more obvious as wheat products made him explode out both ends, eventually resulting in the two medical tests above. As advice its along the lines of, if you feel OK, then no need to take your blood pressure meds, or if you feel OK then no need to take your psych meds that day, or if you feel OK then no need to finish your course of antibiotics. I wouldn't really go there, even as satire.

Farmers use grains to fatten mammal livestock, about 2/3 the human mammal population in the USA could stand to lose a bit of weight, and wheat is a grain, so cutting grains is a truly great idea for about 2/3 the population regardless of allergy. I'm perfectly fine with gluten but I lost some excess weight anyway when we went mostly GF at home.

Gluten is not an essential nutrient. You'll be perfectly healthy without it. Now I suppose some flake out there could propose a diet where you consume zero vitamin C until you're admitted into a hospital with scurvy... Although that kind of flakiness does exist in other situations, its perfectly safe not to eat gluten containing foods. The only real danger is wasting lots of money on expense artificially GF foods, which I advise against doing other than for social situations, and the danger of losing some weight.

One point where I agree totally with you in fact, but not in outlook, is the infantilizing subject. Infants are going to be infants. Can't be bothered to take chemistry because you'd like someone else to do your thinking for you, thats called being an infant. Can't be bothered to learn anything about nutrition other than directly or indirectly paid advertisements, thats called infantile behavior. Babies are going to be babies, thats just what they do. No point blaming the messenger or the topic, a moron is quite capable of finding another way to do something moronic without anyone's encouragement. So getting nutritional advice from Hollywood stars is just what infants naturally do; after all they learned about vaccines and autism from the same folks. Normal behavior is not a problem. That behavior being normal for lazy/dumb people is the problem.
Same here. Yep, there's no flag link anymore.
Nokia.

Plus some very enlightened Finnish policies designed to answer the question, "Where is our next Nokia going to come from?" Policies that go well beyond offering tax breaks in some government-designated "technology and biosciences hub".
I guess that makes game companies the new rock bands.
Don't forget GungHo & Supercell collaboration in Puzzle & Dragons, which is very big in Japan. That must have helped also Softbank's decision.

"An extremely popular and super addictive freemium game with over 19 million downloads in Japan and ranked as one of the top grossing apps"
http://www.gunghoonline.com/games/puzzle-dragons/

"Puzzle & Dragons developer GungHo Online pulled it $763 million in sales in the first half of 2013, representing a colossal year on year rise of more than 945 percent.

As a result, the company has posted an operating profit of $460 million – up more than 4,331 percent – and net income of $287 million, up 2,609 percent."
http://www.pocketgamer.biz/r/PG.Biz/GungHo+Online+news/news....
"Many delicious foods make you sick."

One example is alcohol is a food!
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Yes, thank you.

I didn't mean to put down the article. Quite the opposite. It's truly an amazing application and a well thought through execution of the machine learning methods.

I have been wondering for some time, what the supervised learning could be useful for, which could benefit the broader audience (beyond computer vision, gaming, medicine and all the much popular and repeated applications). That You nailed perfectly.
Animals have a surprising degree of intelligence, I don't deny that. But it's nothing compared to a human. There is no abstract reasoning. They aren't limited simply because of a lack of hands.
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There's a rule of thumb amongst CEOs that "The best way to get a CEO position is to come from one." To pull a highly paid person off of the CEO track suggests they were willing to pay top dollar for her. (Probably much more than the 10 million dollar Twitter engineer) If they're paying that much money for her, it's not just to tweak the iPhone coloring scheme.
Receiving, Decoding and Decrypting GSM Signals with the RTL-SDR
If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys."
You're supposed to pay to a bitcoin address included in their press release, and then notify them about this. For a major NASDAQ-listed company, this approach seems startlingly half hearted.
"Is that how you justify pumping 50 billion in olympics that they shouldn't have in the first place?"

Well, it's not that it didn't happened before. Greece was the olympics host a few years ago, and spent for that billions of euros. Greece!
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> Do you mean there if a karma threshold on something else?

There's a karma threshold for downvoting and flagging. Those are not new but I ventured a guess that there may now be a similar threshold for upvoting.
This happens to me with posts that are at least a year old, but new posts have no problem.
If Cook ever provides us with his memoirs, this will be one of the things I'll be most interested in. I've never been in a Dixons but it seemed like everyone who had howled in protest when Browett was hired. At the time, I assumed Cook knew something everybody else didn't… apparently not. Props for moving on quickly when it didn't work out, I suppose.

Anyway, Ms. Ahrendts seems like a pretty much perfect person for the role. I'm excited to see what Apple Retail does under her guidance.

And it might go without saying, but it'll be very nice to finally see a bit more diversity on http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/.
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So your argument is you can't compare levels of environmental damage. OK then by that argument there is no way to compare the environmental damage of $4 worth of bratwurst vs $10 worth of quinoa. So I may as well eat what tastes better and is healthier and eat the brat.
How can you tell? I click upvote, the buttons disappear, and I have to move on with my life.
One of my older accounts comments stopped showing up for everyone else. Only I could see them. So I made a new account.
If you wonder what an RTL-SDR is: It's bascially a cheap USB TV tuner stick (usually around $30) that can be used as a software defined radio receiver.
Education outcomes, not debt fueled enrollments:

http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2013/06/13-facts-h... (in particular check the graducation rates based on income quartile).

Access to health care:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1483879/

Food is a harder thing to pin down. There is no doubt that americans of most any income level have access to sufficient calories, but trying to purchase healthy fresh fruits and vegetables takes up a significant portion of my monthly income (family of 5, a long distance from the bottom income levels), but I could buy huge quantities of bread and rice for much less :-)
Upvotes on comments, or on submissions? How do you know they don't count? What tests have you done? With no more information than just "my votes don't work" it's like a user saying "the internet is broken."

HN has lots of features to help protect itself against spam, sock puppets, voting rings, and more. Maybe you inadvertently tripped something, maybe you've fallen foul of some detector, but there's no chance of working it out when all you say is "It's broken."
>> Are you aware of how many homophobes there are in the older generations compared to the millennials? Or ignorance in general? It doesn't even compare.

Judging older generations by today's standards isn't really any different then them judging you by their standards.

I'd say Thomas Jefferson was wrong for having slaves. Granted, that was bad. But if he had a time machine, he'd probably point out all kinds of moral blind spots in my generation.
A lot of American universities are more like what you describe that what is described in the OP. I remember my first day of CS class the prof said something like look to your left look to your right by the end of the year statistically speaking one of you won't be in this major any more.

They didn't say that to discourage people or to imply that they had some failure quota but to let people know that they couldn't expect to just show up and slide though any more like a lot of kids do in high school.
Baidu[1] is a giant search engine like Google, with a market cap of 50bn, so it's not like this is a pump and dump. I suspect the poster is just a bit 'like that'. They probably put citations in their comments.

Take a look at the services list in that article - they are like Google, Wikipedia, and Yahoo all rolled into one, and dominate the Chinese market.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu
Sounds like an up to date version of logowriter to me. I think anything that teaches kids to program early is a good thing.
ditto. "flag" is gone. thought they might have changed something...
I'm a neutral party, neither American nor Russian. To me it was very clearly a very well produced and written story about life along a 12-hour train ride between two cities. I concede that my views might have been different had I been Russian.

It is the second part of your comment that I disagree with more strongly.

> We rely on journalists to sift through information and give us a balanced story based on their perception of the truth. That means we need journalists to step outside the view of the world that their country, culture and government gives them and try to see it afresh, without preconceptions.

I'm afraid this is a dated and soon to be extinct definition of journalism. Instead of an artificially inserted "balance" (which too is subjective), its better to look for truth, transparency & engaging storytelling. As a reader I'd prefer Glenn Greenwald's biased but fierce, well-researched & take-no-prisoners style stories than, say, the BBC's articles. As readers we have our own biases, and so do journalists (and their publications).

> I do find the lack of balance and parochial worldview of the NYT and US press disturbing at times. The temptation is to see the world through a US prism without taking into account other viewpoints.

This one is easy. The NYT's key market is the USA. Most of its journalists are from the US. Naturally, their writing will tend to have that bias. As readers we just need to be aware of that and calibrate their versions of the truth accordingly.