skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with your logic is that not every URL has a meaningful title.

There are a lot of times websites that are not optimized and use titles that sometimes are as self-explanatory as "home".
I have discovered news websites that don't have a title for each of their articles, even larger sites like pehub.com didn't have titles until they fixed it only some weeks ago.

So this is going to be more horrible than editorialized headlines.

After thinking about it, here is a easy solution:

In addition to discussions, allow titles to be flagged by the community. Example below:

submission X by kdzsb 22 minutes ago | flag title | flag discussion | 9 comments

Moderators would simply edit the few flagged bad titles. Rather than having them to watch all titles (old rules) or no titles at all (new rules).
Awesome, I've been waiting for a library exactly like this :)
While this format may not work for everyone, for a UI person, I think this is an awesome way to apply. Great Job!

How difficult would it be for you to allow printing in a resume format (hidden div with info, activated using the CSS print layout option???) At least then there is the option of printing your resume from this page directly. You might even be able to provide a link in the corner of the page to activate printing. Just an idea. Good Luck!
One wonders what the self-referential feedback loop will become when the scientific study of practical sociopathy becomes widely understood and adopted.

Although perhaps I'm naive to think it could be widely understood.
How A Company Gets Away With Stealing Independent Designers' Work
Pascal, my childhood love. I spent so many days in TP 7.1 coding games with the graph library!

At some point I made a GUI for DOS, similar to Windows Explorer (with a desktop, icons, start menu, context menus and obligatory clock! :) ).

I called it Winnie. Then my 386 died and I lost the code :/

Thanks for the memories!
Will Li-Fi replace Wi-Fi in China?
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Also, in the UK, the term "Sorry" is a rather common replacement for "Excuse me", in fact, some might consider it more polite.

Aside from the non-apology weather control group, they could have introduced another control that used different construction on the apology: "Apologize for the dreadful weather", etc.
"Bitmessage is a P2P communications protocol used to send encrypted messages to another person or to many subscribers. It is decentralized and trustless, meaning that you need-not inherently trust any entities like root certificate authorities. It uses strong authentication which means that the sender of a message cannot be spoofed, and it aims to hide "non-content" data, like the sender and receiver of messages, from passive eavesdroppers like those running warrantless wiretapping programs."

https://bitmessage.org/wiki/Main_Page

tldr: It's like encrypted IRC (without an IRC server).
Well, submit a FOIA request for it and see what happens.
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I don’t think so? I mean that’s how his question started out but his real question was in the last two paragraphs.
Another example of the media stuffing the mythology of Elon until it's as fat as a Thanksgiving turkey.

Then, when he falls out of favour with the press, they'll eat him alive.

All these bogus stories of Elon the superhuman mega genius aren't good for him in the long run. He can't live up to it and he shouldn't play up to it. He's being set up.

EDIT: Paradoxically, I think it's about time an Engineer gets treated like a star. He's a great role model for kids.
I agree completely. Sometimes it's possible to great things without attacking an existing market from the bottom.
Prototype of Language Packages for Firefox OS
>When a buying intent is detected the 'shopping' bar activates which only shows shopping results from people who advertise on Google

From the end user side this one is particularly frustrating. Google Shopping has gone from being an incredibly valuable tool when I was looking to make a purchase to being practically worthless. I don't even bother with it anymore.
Pascal is a safer language overall, which I would argue is a good thing. C eskewed many safety features for slightly (but not significantly) more power.
We need more hackers.
Hacking can mean, making something better, faster, or stronger, but at school we are taught that hard work is the key element for success...
What you are trying to avoid is the "house of mirrors", with HN being the fun-house. PR work done through a publisher is not astroturfing, its "normal PR work". PRs disguising their paid work as "grass roots" support, though, is planting "fake grass". The latter is the definition of Astroturf. If you have PRs overwriting PRs, you just get a house of mirrors effect and start increasing noise/signal.
did a lead gen email capture page with zero content really just make it to the front page?
I don't want to jump to conclusions as that is a glaringly obvious control and I find it hard to believe a researcher worth their salt would leave out such a control group.

Does anyone have a link to the full paper?

edit: grammar
I really like your idea. I suggest that HN shows the original title first and in a second "sub-headline" in italic letters the "commentary" headline by the submitter. Like:

A new beginning

*PHP elects new leader*

After thinking about it, here is a even better solution:

Let titles allow to be flagged by the community. Example below:

submission X by kdzsb 22 minutes ago | flag title | flag discussion | 9 comments

Moderators would simply edit flagged bad titles. Rather than having them to watch all titles (old rules) or no titles at all (new rules).
Newbie here. How and where can you 'buy these calls'?
Irregardless is a crowd-sourced writing style guide
Learn to Create (my theory as a 15 year old)
You show me yours, I show you mine ;) https://github.com/reginaldl/librinoo

Just to comment on your post, as using blocking calls in coroutine might be a nice feature I think it defeats the whole concept of coroutine. I might be missing the point but this kind of library is absolutely great for asynchronous network calls and in this specific case the library provides a whole set of functions like read/write/connect/accept etc...

I like the idea of being able to schedule coroutines on multiple threads though. In librinoo, I have the concept of 'scheduler'. A scheduler handles a set of coroutines and you can one scheduler per thread (that I called 'spawning').

Those libs are just awesome to quickly create scalable network programs. Well done.
My biggest pet peeve with HN 2013 vs. HN <2012 is the article titles. There used to be a strong culture of never editorializing and always letting people know what they are clicking. Lately I have no idea what the article is about by it's title. Many are even link baity. It makes it much harder to skim through the list of titles for something I may find interesting.
Although the study is flawed as pointed out by the author itself, it's good to see such studies and results coming out of a good test base rather than mere spewing of opinions as seen in many articles lately.

Even if there is a minute chance that this study exhibits anything concrete, it can't hurt to apologize to expect a positive outcome.
From the paper:

"""

When they meet the seller, the
seller greets them in one of the following three ways: ‘‘Hi there.
Oh, I’m so sorry it’s raining.’’ (superfluous apology), ‘‘Hi there.
Oh, it’s raining.’’ (acknowledgment), or ‘‘Hi there.’’ (neutral)

"""
On my 26" display I have almost never seen ads taking up all the space. In fact most of the time, there is one or two ads at the top and rest 80% of the space if organic search results. People cherry pick examples to show how bad ads are but in general it's not true. So, no, ranking is still critical, well and alive with good algorithms.

Current revenue increase is because of YouTube's contribution that's finally happening. YouTube had been time bomb in terms of revenue explosion that has been ticking for a long while. YouTube probably generates more views then most popular TV channels but there were hardly any ads until recently. My guess is that YouTube might come close to revenues eventually to web search itself.
You remember correctly (at least your memories jive with mine). UCSD Pascal was, at best, 'functional'.
I suspect not. To do so would imply that cats are self-aware, which no one has been able to demonstrate.
If you ever wondered where the tax payers' money is going, it is going to fund Alison Brooks' "research".
Direct link to the original paper on the author's webpage (8pg, PDF): http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/Brooks%20Dai%...
DockerDNA == Dockerfile + Ansible Playbook (local)
You may be better off asking them to solve problems you've already solved. It works around the ethical issue, and you have an excellent point of comparison--what you already chose to do.
They do overlap less and less, and the big package model starts to seem less and less tenable.

That being said, it's still not fungible. I want to watch what my friends are watching - it's not at all the case that "any content will do". Maybe my group of friends watches Game of Thrones, maybe they only watch How I Met Your Mother, it doesn't matter.

Though one interesting thing that happened was the Netflix release of Breaking Bad saw a significant group of my friends suddenly watching it. If none of my friends have cable and everybody waits for the Netflix release, I will too.
took a look on mobile chrome. pretty awful experience, tbh. looks pretty, but i was expecting a swipe to take you to the next step automatically. unfortunately once you get to movement, each swipe is like one tick on the scroll wheel... i couldn't get past the first gate after like 20 swipes, got fed up, and left.
This makes a lot of sense to me - it's not even because the apology is logical, but because it's a gesture that shows the speaker is thinking of the other's welfare.

I recommend the book "Everything Is Obvious(^1): How Common Sense Fails Us"

^1 Once you know the answer.

It talks about the human tendency of arranging observations and beliefs to fit what we're told, solidifying our belief that this is just common sense. I had just read it so apologies if I shoehorn off of your post to reference it.

It also paints a very negative brush about most sociology/behavior type experiments, making me immediately skeptical of this one. I wonder if it's reproducible, and what specific regional cultural issues play into it.

As a personal note, I get very wary of anyone who apologies for things outside of their control.
Allow the title field to be blank, in which case the title is auto-fetched. (I just tried leaving the title blank and it barfed at me).

If a custom title is submitted, require an explanation. Possibly display both the custom title and the original title.
BRKB is only $117 though.
Might I ask, how would you implement a ternary function that should retain the lazy evaluation quality of the syntactic ternary operator?
I deal(t) with the same thing. I made it so my web server would try to stream a page that never ends, and some bots would stay connected for hours and hours. But over time they seem to have adapted.

I've also noticed some of them used to make requests synchronously (waiting for the previous to finish before making another), but they have adapted to make requests in parallel and add timeouts so they don't have their time wasted quite as long.

I created a log of the ones who stayed connected the longest.

https://gist.github.com/scryptonite/5324724

I don't bother to maintain it anymore, but it was pretty interesting watching them change tactics over time.
I agree with you completely regarding computer support and customer service - put your hands up and apologise to the customer/client for whatever the hold-up/mistake/bug is, then to get on with the matter in hand and fix things.

However, management types can discourage you from doing this as it is an acceptance that there is some liability for whatever it is that has gone wrong. There is a fear of unintended consequences from the instinctive apology.

The same applies with a road traffic accident - to apologise to the other party might be what you want to do (even if you were not entirely at fault) however the insurance company will not be best pleased.

As a consequence we are conditioned to only apologise under duress or for things that are inconsequential. Maybe it is this that affects how we react when someone randomly apologises - it is quite an unusual gift worthy of reciprocation.
Because the ocean is big and we want to be able to dominate all the key areas of it.
> Regulations? How about just not shopping there?

Because we've tried that, and it doesn't work. Look at the Gilded Age.
Fair enough. What about interpolation?
I'm sorry about that. Can I have an upvote?
Unfortunately in many disciplines, bold conclusions are favored over careful interpretation.
> GP was not simply describing - they were excusing.

That's not what I read.

> Actually by calling out and disagreeing with this behavior we can change it.

I agree. Disagree with the behavior, not the people describing it.

> The most effective way is through strong regulations

I also agree with this.
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/Brooks%20Dai%...
> Oh, and if you thought $1000 is annoying to trade, check out Berkshire Hathaway:

If you want to trade Berkshire Hathaway, you're supposed to trade the B shares -- not the A shares.

Berkshire A usually trades under a thousand shares per day. Even on a market-value basis, this is still much lower than the B shares.
Dijit collaborates with 11 TV networks to remind you to watch their shows
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Getting Work Done Anywhere, Every Day
I agree with you because (afterall) they aren't a charity. They makes money by investing early in these start-ups, so they need to focus on bringing people through their program that have a higher chance of success.
Nvidia's G-Sync: Attempting to Revolutionize Gaming via Smoothness
I should mention that if you are thinking about this, check your coverage first: http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=29

Note that the best place to get signals is high up, on top stories or roofs. Sorry basement dwellers.
I find it weird when they use percentages for groups that are smaller than 100. 9% of a group of 32 people makes it feel like 2 people and a torso handed over their phone without the rain apology. (I'm aware this is my poor math skill, and it's something I'm working on.)

I don't know if the sub has been edited, but it mentions lack of controls:

> How trustworthy are these results? The accumulated findings from several experiments help build a convincing case, but unfortunately the field study - which had the potential to provide the most persuasive evidence - is seriously flawed. The actor apologised for the rain then asked to borrow a phone, or in the comparison condition he just asked to borrow the phone. There was no proper control condition. This means we don't know if the impact of the apology was specific to making an apology or merely an effect of uttering any kind of ice-breaker.

It doesn't seem to mention randomization either.

EDIT:

> This is significant because past research shows how mindlessly we often act in social situations. For example, back in the late 70s, Ellen Langer and her colleagues found that people were just as likely to give way at a photo-copier if a queue-jumper uttered the nonsensical excuse "because I need to make copies" as when he uttered "because I'm in a rush."

Compare this to situations in the UK where if a shopkeeper returns nearly all your change, but keeps a penny, the customer will often wail until they get it, and make a fuss about it.
> There is a reason why upvote exists. It pushes good discussion top.

And downvoting helps push bad comments down, which is by design.

> If you are worrying about space complexity: good news! HN is using a modern database, not flat file. You can store 10k comments.

This is irrelevant to having a good discussion.
> Polish high school students indeed know more and are better at problem solving than most US high school students, * that said, there are high schools (public!) in the US that offer university-level courses and are excellent, * and university-level education seems to be much better in the US

I'm curious how you compare students in different educational systems. Like what is "high school" and "university" in Poland. I ask, because every time I read something about the American education system I have quite some trouble assessing the statements because of the foreign categorizations.

For example "school" in Germany comprises the first 12 or 13 years of education, with the first change of school happening after 4 or 6 years in primary school (with school starting at the age of 6). The following 13th till 18th year of education is held at a "university" where you earn a Bachelor and a Master degree. A PHD would be 3 to 5 further years in university.

I've pieced together that the American Bachelor seems to be more broad than the German one. My Bachelor degree was in Mathematics and it did not contain some mandatory stuff in humanities for example. Yet it seems we learned that stuff in the first 12 (/13) years already and thus the German Bachelor starts later than the American one? But that would also mean that German students would spend more time overall in education (the current average (of people with higher education) might be about 18 years) and I also find that implausible.

Basically I'm asking: Does someone know of a good comparative introduction to the American education system?
It's for the hyperloop.
Ending a list of one-of-a-kind things with 'etc.' somewhat undermines your point.
As someone who has done DOD work (though not on anything "pointy") I've never felt the need to justify myself in this way. Throughout history, countries have lived and died by the strength of their military.[1] America's global supremacy would not be possible without its military domination, and our standard of living would not be possible if we had to worry about falling under some other power's thumb. Also, while we're at it, we subsidize defense for nearly all the liberal democracies in the world. I feel quite positively about my contributions to all these things.

[1] The study of history is, to a first approximation, the study of war. I am not conceited enough to believe that my generation is the first one that is living outside of history.
I've been learning Rust officially for about a week. I wish this had made it on hacker news last Friday!

I'm learning by making a little MVC framework with cgi-bin (eventually it'll be portable to rust-http and elsewhere..). The best part about Rust is that in 99% of cases, if your "logic" is right, and your code compiles, everything will just work and run properly. Unlike in C where your logic may be right, but your pointers wrong, or in C# where your logic is right, but that threw a null reference exception, etc.

The hard part was that I tried writing Rust like I do C#. Using garbage collection elsewhere. The biggest hurdle is that when you're designing your structures you must not think just about what they need to access. You must also think about the ownership of what they access, and the ownership of what will be using it.

After finally refactoring and figuring out my ownership model, turns out I didn't even need garbage collection or reference counting. Everything could go onto the stack save for some vectors and mutable strings
I used the scroll wheel all the way through, the whole page shakes when you do that.
Do you want to ever show up in search results when people google your company name? If yes, then yeah, you should change it. I wouldn't even worry about trademark issues or brand confusion, just visibility.
I am teaching a class for 4th graders to learn to code. We will definitely be trying out CodeCombat!
'Shutting-down as a Service'?

And when Shutting-down as a Service inevitably shuts down, they can tell the world via their own Shutting-down as a Service page...

O_o

IT'S TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN!

:-)
If you have a startup idea AND some money, let's do this.
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Why Is There No Male Birth Control Pill?
HI GOAT
That and Linux has actually been used by the US Navy for over a decade now. I guess "The Navy's Still Using Linux" isn't quite as catchy a title.
Reminds me of the Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality quote: "Of course it was my fault. There's no one else here who could be responsible for anything."

Which is to say, if I hear someone apologizing for the weather, one likely presumption would be that they're just assuming fault as a matter of etiquette, or some latent self-hating tendency... but another, more interesting, possibility is that they're apologizing for not having gotten around to the step in their world domination plans where they build a global climate-regulation system yet. Because they would if they could, they will as soon as they can, and it's only their own laziness and ignorance of proper power/wealth/intelligence-bootstrapping methods preventing them from being there already. That, in my opinion, is precisely the type of person you should trust to Get Things Done, even when those things would seem, to most people, to be currently "out of their hands."

In other words, feeling responsibility for everything around you is a necessary prerequisite for agency. You see this a lot in company owners. Why is the founder mopping the floor while everyone else is working? Because nobody else is doing it, it has to get done, and the buck stops with him. He's responsible for everything, even the weather.
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Thanks. To add to your quote above, from the paper:

> In Study 2, we extend our investigation by considering
alternative explanations. In Study 1, it is possible that our con-
trol condition decreased benevolence-based trust. In the control
condition in Study 1, the confederate sent no message. This
might have seemed impolite. To investigate this alternative
explanation, we include two different comparison conditions
in Study 2. We include a traditional apology (‘‘I’m sorry to
interrupt.’’) and neutral greeting (‘‘How are you?’’).

> In addition, we extend our investigation by exploring
superfluous apologies in a new domain. In Study 1, both the
unfortunate circumstance (the random action of the computer)
and the outcome (behavioral measure of trust) were related to
the trust game. In Study 2, the apology (for a flight delay) is
unrelated to our measure of trust (lending a cell phone). We
expect that an apology for a flight delay will increase trust even
when the subsequent interaction is unrelated to the flight.
Getting the government to do the right things and do them well is itself a public goods problem, and one that as far as I know is as-yet unsolved. All of those "numerous issues" apply to public provision of goods at least as well as they apply to private provision. Your list of objections to private action ("free rider problems, collective action problems, problems involving positive and negative externalities, problems involving information asymmetries") would only constitute evidence supporting government action IF we had access to bureaucrat-gods - government workers who have perfect information, are perfectly benevolent, are motivated to do the right thing, never do anything that produces unanticipated negative consequences.

Since bureaucrat-gods don't exist, you need to at least argue that the problems of externalities and such will be lessened by public action. But I don't believe that argument has been made - it's usually just assumed away.