skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never said it could. It's just something that has to be very well controlled for and this article showed nothing to suggest it was in the studies it sort of cited.

It's entirely possible that the results in those studies you provided are solid. I don't know, I don't have the expertise or the access to go through them thoroughly, let alone run a replication. I would just urge everyone here to keep in mind that, as pointed out very well in aestra's comment above (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7213317), this kind of research is subject to heavy cultural biases, both through the parents and experiments and through poor science reporting in the media.

And, even if it weren't, this Live Science linkbait blog post, the one rapidly climbing the front page of Hacker News with the sensationalist headline, is still uncited bollocks.
Well if it's not, then how exactly is it "evil"?
Do you audit install scripts and source code before using software?
Well, they're not talking about leaving a million on the table, they're talking about leaving a million and a half on the table every single day ("if only they'd use our product!"). The figure they come up with is a half a billion dollars, which is a much larger number than you're giving credit to here.
Where are you looking? I see "ivansafrin authored 6 months ago"

edit: just realised you were talking about one of the branches, attention to detail fail
Yeah, you're right. A lot of people are turned off by it and a lot of the old-guard just say "deal with it!!" After getting used to a lot of the symbols (`car`, `cadr`, etc) you kind of stop being too annoyed and don't even notice them anymore. It's like learning another language, there's not always a 1:1 mapping of words. That said, it's much better to recognize a problem and try to fix it that say "It has worked fine for 50 years!! Leave it!"

That definitely seems to be one of the goals of this project: to give CL a face that makes a bit more sense.
Are you kidding? WP8 fits much better on low-end hardware. Just look at the Lumia 520.
I see you are a proponent of the third way.

http://xkcd.com/1285/
link ?

EDIT: NVM (http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1xj56q/hello_reddit_im...)
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In an ideal world the additional citations that public source code created would counter some of these problems I guess.
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Good video except for the love everything, mono your voice track. Every-time the speaker turns his head, the audio pans to the right. Its annoying with headphones.
Reddit is pseudonymous; the difference is important, as if it were truly anonymous Gates would not be able to do an AMA
The functions are basically inconsistent in both name and argument order. I think that's one of the problems they're working on correcting (a generic elt/getf), and more obvious ways of creating and using non-list data structures.
Heh. combat.js comments - he's using stats from the D&D Player's Handbook for the algo. Nice.
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On such an important AMA, a mod should be able to cut off some of the child comments (just hide them under the [-] button), especially on the top answer. It would be like a haircut on a tree of comments, but it would look better than ruffled.
Holy shit. Please stop seeing demons everywhere. And work on improving your view of reality. It’s severely distorted and makes little sense.

Also, deliberate obtuseness is not very cool.
I think the difference is that Google really tries to kill the click farms as apposed to the social media companies.
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But what if we mostly just want to feel smug?
I went with the Japanese pronunciation "DOH-GEY"
Ah, a cold fusion developer. Cool..no wonder you couldn't grasp it..lol, not sure what snide comments you're referring to.
Or maybe he wants the largest possible audience and the comment is aimed at getting him that.
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While there is a lot of fraud, if you actually track from ad click to sale, you'll see SOME amount of results.

In most cases they will be underwhelming, but if the numbers make sense, why not?

example: 2$ per click for a $500 dollar product (assume no other costs_

if you can turn 1 out of 100 clicks into a sale, then it might still be worth it, despite 99 fake, uninterested, botted, clickfarmed or otherwise undesirable clicks.
I don't understand. If I only advertise in the U.S., why would click farms in Egypt see my ads (and subsequently like my page to avoid detection)?
It's always sad to witness this need to flatten things on a space of two extrema. Often it's a complex combination that can't be pinned down neither in space nor time.
While it's true that they didn't drop support for Skype when they acquired it, and even continued to update it, what are the chances they'd have said "Hey, let's port skype to qt and put it on linux!" on their own?
Here's a link to Simon's book for those who are interested:

http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000929/index.ht...
I think the hash table syntax is a huge step in the right direction. Almost every modernly-used language ever has hash table syntax. In lisp, I have to do

(let ((myhash (make-hash-table :test 'equal)))
(setf (gethash "name" myhash) "andrew"
(gethash "location" myhash) "sf"))

Instead of `#{"name" "andrew" "location" "sf"}`.
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doge -> dog-e -> doggy

At least that's how I pronounce it, Not sure about others.
Well, technically, I trust the Debian developers to do that for me. And I verified that they have approved of the software automatically, by checking their signatures on the Release file, which contains the hashes of the packages.
look, someone just discovered the concept of click fraud.

getting ROI on FB is hard but not impossible. driving mobile app installs with good targeting at a reasonable price can be done. i can't speak to likes but i have to imagine with good targeting and a reasonable understanding of the dynamics of click fraud that for the right domain you can get your money's worth.
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What's so horrible about a "sexist" view that manifests as buying different toys for boys and girls?
So sorry to hear. Prayers.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reimer

I'm learning about this now. Shocking. This could pass as some story about medical experiments during nazy germany.
If you don't need specific features of Github but want a fantastic place to keep Git stuff, Bitbucket is brilliant. Unlimited free private repositories for up to 5 collaborators, and add+confirm any educational email address to make that unlimited collaborators. http://blog.bitbucket.org/2012/08/20/bitbucket-academic/
I was happy to see that my university decided to self-host a Gitlab server for CS students instead of using proprietary options like GitHub or Bitbucket. The students that set up the server learned from the experience, the instructors got around the problems they were having with Bitbucket's account limitations, and the new undergrads have a great platform on which to learn Git.

I would encourage other educational institutions to do the same. Proprietary software like GitHub is anti-educational.
My conversation with the great Nathan Marz
it was mentioned in the video, doing this creates a negative effect.

the video mentioned how real/useful engagement didn't change before and after he got all those fake likes
i wonder if promoting posts also lead to fake/false exposure
Doje "Doe-hey"

As in, "doje deer, a female deer"
Can someone who knows this guy set up a Crowdtilt page for him? Charitable campaigns do really well there.
Man I love AdBlock.

I used it today to block "Hot Network Questions" on StackOverflow. The click-bait trivia was driving me nuts. I'm there to work and hated being distracted by that crap. Two clicks and ahhhh, much better.
Yes. When writing on the paper, I feel more focused about the note's content and handwriting is normally slower then typing so it stays on top of my mind for longer. And, well, paper doesn't have notifications and etc.

So I am taking the most important notes on a small whiteboard (about 20 inches wide), so I can put it on my knees and etc and it acts like a large reusable sheet of paper which won't get lost :)
I find that mildly annoying as well, though since I came to Lisp after Unix/C, it didn't make a huge impression on me. It's possibly more grating in CL just because it doesn't fit the rest of the aesthetic: in user-written code it's idiomatic to write functions with names like sort-database, not like srtdb. While with Unix + C you don't really expect utilities or functions to have anything but cryptic names. I think some of it may relate to Lisp coalescing over many years: some of those old cryptically named functions were named in the 1950s or 1960s, when every language of the time, from ALGOL to FORTRAN to LISP (not to mention assemblers), used identifiers like that— in all caps, of course.
As a comparison, that's half of Twitter's current annual revenue.
Anonymity, and the effectiveness of anonymity has a lot to do with how the site, or product is structured. With secret, you have the app directly plugged into your friends-list, and while the content is 'anonymous', it's a watered down version of true anonymity. All apps like this serve to do is breed insecurity and malcontent amongst our peers.

Now imagine another version of Secret, where you truly anonymize message sends. Instead of seeing content from your friends lists, you see content from the world-over. Instead of some sort of petty, mean-girls-esque hate journal, it could be a modern, 21'st century version of the confessional (not that I'm a fan of the confessional, but you gotta admit there's something rather tantalizing in the concept).

SV seems to be stuck in a mire where product has to revolve around one's social group. What happened to the days of good old voyeurism?
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This is the way science should be funded.

Imagine if the pace of medical research moved at the pace of javascript frameworks.

We would all be fucking immortal. There would probably be some mutants though. But you gotta crack some eggs.
I have ads in snapchat right now and it isn't very intrusive.
Yes, the superficial structure is similar, the content is not at all, plus your summary fits neither Pascal's wager nor my argument for empiricism, I think.

Pascal's wager assumes that there either is no god or a god that has particular values, and then deduces from that that you should follow those particular values, because, if no god exists, it won't cost you anything to have done so, while you get a big payoff if that god actually does exist. There are two big flaws in that reasoning: First, it simply ignores the possibility that a god exists, but its values differ from what you assumed them to be, in which case you presumably would lose the game, and secondly, it's kinda obvious that following certain religious doctrine can have major costs.

My argument, on the other hand, does not assume any values (except perhaps that it's advantageous to be able to influence your future - find me anyone who seriously disagrees with that and also thinks that it matters whether you believe in some god or not (if you can't influence it anyhow, why should it matter?) ...). It simply shows that as a matter of fact, almost by definition, your only chance of gaining control over you future is empiricism. Possibly, it's impossible, but if it is possible at all, then empiricism is the only way that could possibly work - just assuming some randomly made-up laws of nature instead of extrapolating from past observations can not be a more reliable way to predict the future, in the worst case your extrapolations are also completely unreliable, in which case they are no worse than randomly made-up laws.
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Similiarly to Aaron I am doing the same program (with a smaller project, PouchDB).

I also did it last year, its a huge learning exercise for me as well as hopefully the students, would be contributors who find your project hard to contribute to usually give up silently, with this I get to sit down and see the fustrations first hand.

Several of last years students have stayed on to be integral parts of the project which is one of the I have been really happy with.
The majority of everything in software was discovered by the 70s. Since then we have been reinventing the wheel every 5-10 years on better hardware.
Proprietary software like GitHub is anti-educational.

I have nothing against GitHub, and I use it myself, though I resent its becoming of an official requirement and be-all-end-all holy grail among hipster circles. However, he's right. Proprietary software and education simply do not mix, they're antithetical.

Not to mention GitHub doesn't expose the entire Git functionality (such as options like reflog, the lack of which in client side led to the whole Jenkins gaffe).
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I think the newer generations who grew up online tend to be oblivious to Ads. It's just an instinct to ignore them.
You can answer with order of magnitude approximations (days, months, years, might be impossible).

The order of magnitude approximation is good enough, and for ones in which you can't make an order of magnitude approximation you should be able to back it up.

e.g. c.a. 2002 a PMM said "All we need for this idea to work is speaker-independent voice recognition in a noisy environment; how long will that take?"

The correct answer to that question isn't a time estimate, or "I don't know" it's saying that doing so is an R&D problem, not an engineering problem.
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I have completely hidden my news feed. Since I consider FB only to be valuable as a utility, i.e. a means of communication or a repository of information such as where someone lives, the newsfeed is a complete waste of time and useless.

My solution is to use custom CSS to hide the newsfeed, but keep everything else. As a result, I spent 1/10th the time on Facebook, and only use it when I need to get information from it.

https://medium.com/productivity-efficiency/631ed8f466e1
Anyone interested in gender studies and the current understanding of gender ought to read "Delusions of Gender" by Cordelia Fine. It is a fantastically interesting book.

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I've read their white paper, it too is short on details. Right now, their experimental design and data collection aren't public. I go to meetings - I saw nothing about them at the largest infectious disease conference of the year this year.

I'm really not conflating anything. I'm very skeptical of any project getting this much attention that doesn't have some papers published. It's not the only step, but it's a step, and one that hasn't been done yet.

But, as an infectious disease epidemiologist, I'd be thrilled if I were wrong, and they were somehow paragons of vaccine research operating in stealth mode.
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This difference has nothing to do with real names or anonymity. It has to do with the fact that your FB friends have something to lose in that context: namely, their personal connections to mutual friends.
This makes me hate the web.

I like the internet, but facebook infested so many websites with those widgets...

If facebook keeps living, I'll say "meeeh".

If it goes down, I'll say "GREAT. Now's the chance for reddit and twitter and G+ and others".
I'm interested why they use "seq"? [seq can take a single value too apparently, perhaps they did half width rulers with "seq 2 $(tputs cols)"?]

Why doesn't

!/bin/bash
j=$(tput cols); for i in {1..$j}; do echo -n "#";done

work, presumably there's some escape that needs doing?

The alternative:

!/bin/bash
for (( c=1 ; c<=$COLUMNS; c++ )); do echo -n "#";done

seems fine?

Also BASH has $COLUMNS builtin FWIW, though portability explains use of tput.

I like it, should be a standard command, including options to specify width as a proportion and to add whitespace lines. Code for this must be in almost every shell script.
A good example of this behavior recently has been Walmarts big push on groceries. I saw it first hand when they did it in a small community I lived in. I also worked at Walmart as one of my first jobs so I had an inside look at things including their anti-union programs and pricing strategies.

Google "Walmart predatory pricing", it's a well-documented issue.
Businesses never had the stomach for basic research. It's why progress is traditionally done in one form or another of a governmentally sanctioned monopoly.
The collective belief that the limited-life feature of snapchat is worth billions of dollars represents what I think is a massive dilution.

Snapchat does nothing email doesn't, and email is free. I don't own and don't want to own any device which can guarantee any message has a limited life, that's all artificial.
Yep! It's necessary to modify slime (or light table? I've been interested in making a CL plugin for it) to take advantage of this syntax, but the absense of sane reader macros in the spec has always driven me nuts.
Developer here. Ain't a biggy, though our first released app to both AppStore and Play market.

Got really into the LUA language while developing it.
True - I missed the donation button the right on the first pass as well. Sent. Take care bud..
It'd be nice if there was a way to make it easier for all noobs (not just CS students at prestigious unis) to learn how to work with an older code base. It's very intimidating to wade through Rails source code.
+1 for PostgreSQL but only if you learn relational database design (it's not that hard).

Else you're better off with NoSQL (I found CouchDB amazingly easy).
>What is Windows Phone lacking? Apps.

What is the current perceived gap in the Windows Phone app store?
I think diets are just a poor metaphor here.

A big part of the lack of success of most diets is that the diets themselves change your emotional state. Not to mention that most actually encourage less healthy eating habits.

The American Heart Association for years recommended a low fat diet for heart health, when the studies they were using to justify this decision showed a higher overall mortality for people on low fat diets; they just died of fewer heart-related problems. (If I'm remembering correctly, there were a LOT more suicides in the low-fat group.)

The people who say "just eat less and exercise more!" are also completely full of it. It simply doesn't always work -- handled wrong it can lead to really bad emotional states brought on by the lack of food. Like the above example, you could end up with a lot more suicides, which are pretty bad for your health, no matter how you slice it. Presumably most people who make this claim are not fat or have never tried it, but it's frustrating to see it repeated over and over by people who exercise less than and eat more than a lot of "fat" people.

On the other hand, maybe the metaphor does work: We're recommending or enforcing practices when we really have no clue as to their efficacy. We don't always know what is healthy and what is unhealthy; we have guesses, but then we latch onto them like religion.
Sorry to read about that.

I am Not in good $ituation now but as someone who had similar problems in the past(medical bills and no money) I do feel it.

Life sometimes sucks but we can make it a little better.

Donate if you feel like it is ok to donate even small amounts.
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My account will probably soon be killed on HN - like many before them. They all die around the 30 karma mark, presumably because of the many downvotes by feminists. I tend to be outspoken on feminist topics, which have become rather frequent on HN.

My point is: nasty things are not the only things you can only say in anonymity. It's also required for opinions that are not aligned with the mainstream. I come from Germany - we have learned here that the mainstream is not always right.

I keep considering to write about feminism in my blog, but I am actually worried about crazy people on the internet targeting me. I don't really hide - I've voiced my opinion with my real name as well. But I don't feel very confident about it.

Real names are perhaps fine for tech bloggers, but there are too many subjects where they really hamper honest discussion.
Honestly, how is GitHub anti-educational once you get past the fact that several students set up a Gitlab server and learned from it. That's a one time benefit.
Hardly cause to fork a project - surely it would make more sense as an option to the original?
Zuckerberg isn't a con, he's an entrepreneur and a successful one at that. He even created jobs in third world countries :)
You're doing a great thing, Aaron. From the community, thank you for exposing new developers to the codebase and helping them to improve it for all of us.
Beats me. But I have every confidence that you'll figure it out. You're smart, that's why they put you in charge.
This definitely deserves a little more visibility than HN alone.
That's assuming not-wildly-optimistic assumptions within a self-serving analysis. Dial that back to $100M rather than half a billion, and it's no longer a tremendously appealing option.

Facebook's per-user revenue for US users was $4.19 as of last October (with far smaller amounts for non-US users). And that's with years of experience, rich targeting based on multi-year social data mining, and the ability to embed several ad impressions per pageview. Is Snapchat likely to hit that high mark? Not in the short term, for sure.
Looks like a great editor. Easy to collaborate. Next best thing to having someone over your shoulder.
The problem you're describing - detail overload - is a problem that should be solved by the IDE, not by removing comments.

The comments are most likely used to generate documentation, which can be very handy later.
And Twitter is unprofitable.
But aren't compiler warnings also a form of static analysis?
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There may be interesting implications if Nokia ever ships Bionic and Dalvik, both, IIRC, under an Apache license with explicit patent clauses. Every Nokia patent infringed by Android risks being excluded of future litigation by whoever acquires Nokia.

Elop must be very pissed with the Nadella thing...
I thought you were sarcastic. Then I have checked if this function actually exists.