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Some concepts are controversial, but the resulting discussion hashed out from them can often be more insightful and meaningful than the original article.

Some concepts are odd on the first take, and it might take a child comment to flesh out what may be a very good but difficult to understand idea. And if most people do not understand the point right away, they may not endorse it.

Some people are creative with their use of language, or are non-native English speakers, and may not be able to effectively articulate what may well be a very interesting idea or important concept that adds to the conversation. Alone such a comment may not be useful, but child comments exploring it further may yield some excellent discussion.

Some comments may seem flippant, but solicitations for back-story reveal what the original commenter was really getting at.

One of the best things about HN is the comments, and it follows that one of the best things about any particular comment is a another comment reply.

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There's a problem you can peek at in academia, it doesn't have a name, but it's the reason that 125 Harvard students were caught cheating a few years ago. The problem isn't that the students were cheating - Harvard students are not dumb and I doubt they're particularly lazy. The problem was that grading had become such a low priority for a professor that the take-home final answers, that only a gradable subset of possible answers were really accepted for any question, so that grading could be done more on the number of citations than how effectively you communicated an answer. Implicitly and usually explicitly it's understood that you cannot just give an original answer, you must give an answer relating to something that was taught in the course. This does not optimize for interesting or insightful answers, it optimizes for regurgitation. Originality becomes dangerous, since it demand deviation.

I fear we will run into a similar issue here. People will tailor their comments to please the endorsers that be. We will be turning inward mentally, and we will never know how much.

And for what? It's true that sometimes there's a controversial comment and it ends in a 60-comment emotive goose-chase.

Is that such a bad price to pay?

> Indeed, the only way to figure out if pending comments will work at all is empirically.

We cannot know what interesting conversations and discussions might be lost. No comment is an island, and I think this concept ignores that.

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I do hope that if you turn it on it is as laser-focused as possible. The smaller the unit you damage though, the more you put the the ability to shut down/delay conversation in what might be an otherwise interesting thread into the hands of one/a few people.

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[1] There are probably other problems at play, such as Harvard students being pressed for time and giving low priority to an intro to government class. That Harvard has an intro to government class is also probably a (separate) issue.
I play Threes less often now too, but when I want to play something (eg waiting at the bus stop), I crack open Threes.

It's a super well polished game that you can play with 1 hand.
The sort of incivility we're worried about is the more explicit type where someone replies to a comment with "You are an idiot. Don't you realize that x y z?" when they could have simply said "x y z." I'm pretty sure if HN cuts down on that type of comment, people who are earnest but upset about something will be net ahead of people they might be arguing with who are merely thoughtless jerks.
There is no such thing as "no intervention". Any action or inaction will shape events. In democracies it is inevitable to have an opinion of these things and to voice them. Otherwise leaders like Putin or Assad step all over you, and then demand "deescalation".

Also, Assad left any shred of legitimacy when he started decimating his population with artillery, and I don't how care how many "legitimate targets" where among the hundreds of thousands of civilians that were targeted.

For me, the only tolerance a democracy can have towards the governments in Syria, North Korea and some other countries, is that nobody can or wants to depose them. Nothing more, nothing less. That does not mean regime change works all the time, it just means there cannot be any apologetics for mass these murderers any more.
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Porn site age-check law demanded by media regulator
Threes’ Creators Talk About How Frustrating It Is To Be Cloned
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I just looked at 1024 on Google Play, and I have to say it would really sting to work on Threes for a year then read that "If you played 2048 in Hacker News, That [sic] you should know this is the original one."
My instinct is the hidden scores are the bigger problem.

There are so many posts where the top comment seems relevant and interesting, and I up-vote it blindly, even though it already has like 50 up-votes, and the more interesting discussion is buried. As a 1000+ karma user, I'll make the same mistake, under the new system.

Hiding the scores was a popular change because comments that would normally generate +5, all the sudden were getting +60. It made everyone feel better. None complained, but the site got worse.

I really miss the old days, when I could check the comments page, and the top comment would be a new, interesting, nuanced, balanced, comprehensive, perspective on the issue. Now the top comment is the first popular opinion followed by a bunch of trolling.

Can we bring back showing scores for a week? Maybe as a april fools joke.
Instead of just talking about the dangers of a false positive, let's talk about the dangers of false negatives - of ignoring ADHD in children who do actually have it. ADHD is very treatable, but untreated, it can easily lead to other comorbidities that are much more difficult to treat (such as depression)

The most dangerous part of this is that it seems to imply ADHD is over-diagnosed in men (boys), when it's just as possible that ADHD is under-diagnosed in women (girls).

Girls diagnosed with 314.10 (Attention Deficit Disorder, predominantly hyperactive-impulsive) tend to exhibit fewer "traditional" symptoms of hyperactivity than boys with the same diagnosis. This isn't to say that the diagnosis is wrong - it's just that hyperactivity manifests in many ways - physical restlessness, "bouncing off the walls", etc. is only one.

> The interesting thing is I never asked any of these people whether ADHD is real. But their defensiveness is understandable. ADHD isn't strep throat—there's no culture, no test. To find out if you have it, or if your son has it, or if your daughter has it, you just need a human being to say so—a physician or a psychiatrist—and that makes some people skeptical

This describes the entire field of psychiatry. While there are certainly some people who are who would distrust the field, I would be very wary of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

And of all disorders, ADHD is actually significantly easier to test for systematically than most psychological/psychiatric disorders (such as depression). The main problem is that the tests to do so are very expensive (well into the thousands of dollars), and most insurance plans won't cover it.

> Ned Hallowell once famously said that stimulants were "safer than aspirin," a statement he has since backed off of. ("That's almost a preposterous statement for anyone to say," says Saltarelli.)

So, we have a complete lowbrow dismissal of what is actually a very reasonable statement. In the end, it's impossible to compare any two drugs for safety because there are so many factors that come into play, but to the extent that one can make a pairwise comparison, this is actually a very well-supported statement.
Is PubMed considered neutral?

"Nucleotide excision repair gene polymorphisms, meat intake and colon cancer risk."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24607854
MyHDL: use Python as a hardware description and verification language
Oddly enough I just checked and Safari is not passing the Acid2 right now. Happens on my iPhone too.

http://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html#top
I must say you fit the 'Ivy league' schools for one simple reason, you talk very vaguely which qualifies you to be a perfect professor.
Fancy[0] is one of the most mature languages on the VM other than Ruby I believe.

[0] https://github.com/bakkdoor/fancy
Why coders avoid salespeople
I think it is very important to not discount the emotional complexity of forcing someone into a position where their comments must be "endorsed" by a group of people they are perceiving as "hostile" to them.

Even if there are people who would endorse the comment, that is not what the person leaving the comment is likely going to be "feeling" in that moment: they are reading a bunch of comments that they are bothered by--ones which none of the other people around seem to be taking serious issue with (which is a key part of the original problem statement)--and those are the people they are going to perceive as being the ones who must endorse their comment: the ones to whom they are effectively submitting themselves for "endorsement".

(Which, frankly, I think is a separate reason why this endorsement system doesn't make sense as a solution to an endemic problem: most of those issuematic threads are filled with users--many of which have high karma--who are reinforcing the negative comments; it is unclear to me why the negative comments aren't going to have an easy time getting endorsements given that they currently don't have a difficult time getting upvotes.)

I thereby feel like even if this feature "worked" (and again, it isn't really clear to me why this would help, given that it isn't like these users are currently being downvoted or flagged out of the conversation) it still might not be an "appropriate" way to solve these underlying problems (which I would claim are inherently messy and emotional).
"You have the inverse story at the low end of the family: the lowest Mill has only five pipes, and no floating point at all. Not barn-burning performance, but much lower power even than existing non-OOO offerings."

Does the Mill even need an FP unit? Or rather, couldn't a VLIW architecture be able to emulate floating point in such a way that it's nearly as fast and/or more flexible as far as precision and/or might be more optimizable for certain values?

Minimally, if you break down the FP opp into it's constituent integer operations, you put all of those in flight at the same time or schedule them to hide latencies of other operations, I would think.
> Oh then there is the fact that there are large structural brain differences.

Are these structural differences used in diagnosis?
It's not news that official recommendations lag behind scientific discovery

Calling nutrition research "scientific" is kind of generous. But not as generous as calling the onerous government guidelines that reshaped the food production industry and drove obesity to epidemic proportions in the USA "recommendations".
Turkey bans YouTube as Syrian incursion plan is exposed
Hi, I'm an API engineer at Dropbox. Happy to field any questions you guys may have!
I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted. Because you eat solely meat?

I'm on keto, but I use DIY Soylent and vegan protein sources for it. Not because I don't like meat (I LOVE bacon), but because I'm lazy.

Keto is wonderful because it keeps your blood sugar level low, which helps burn fat and prevents your body from storing excess energy as fat. Don't overdue the red meat though; there is a body of evidence that shows that red meat can cause cancer through the digestive track.

Also, much love for /r/keto. It's a wonderful community. Keto on!
I'm not sure I actually saw an answer to a "why" question in this article. Did I just miss it?
I believe you're right. But I don't think this is a huge problem: you simply don't get the benefits of layout out that specific text in parallel, it'll render sequentially as browsers tend to do today anyways. You can still get parallelization in other flows outside of the container of the floating elements.
It seems like many/most sites with content issues use a "flag bad stuff" option rather than an "endorse good stuff" option-- which makes sense if most stuff is good. Why not give people with karma level of X (5000?) the ability to insta-kill anything that is rude? And perhaps people with lesser karma the ability to flag, where X flag points = comment death?
The cars are too clean. The pictures would look even more realistic if he sprayed them with dust.
who honestly gives a fuck what you think? waste of everybody's time. am I right, am I right?
The Age of Anonymity in Mobile.
I felt the same sentiment when 2048 first landed. I was shocked at how no one had really heard of Threes!

Then the developer put "Gameplay similar to Threes" or something like that on the page. I thought it was a nice gesture.

But, overall, I felt for the Threes developers. I'm glad to see this posted to HN.
That seems to say more that we need more studies. That is, lack of good evidence is not necessarily bad evidence. Right?
I already pay for it one way or another (credit card fees, bank fees, fractional reserve, etc), so yes, if its affordable. Bitcoin currently has a dearth of such services, but competent companies (I consider literally none of the Bitcoin service companies operating at this time competent, btw) offering them would get me to reconsider using it
which, like the FB employee said, is exactly, what a data-driven company should do to maximize profit. However, Dustin has a good point. CEO needs to make that very risky call if he vouched for the better design. The customer may or may not come. Short term loss is inevitable. One would need strong belief, again, needs to be backed by data, to make that call.
Probably a fire code violation if a power loss prevents you from opening the door to escape.
Here's the PDF. Science publishing sucks.

http://cl.ly/3F140E1t0p0j
Why Movie Streaming Sites So Fail to Satisfy
Chebychev inequality!
I'm not sure if it's that black and white. Roughly 25% of deaths in the US are due to heart disease. Should we not intervene because heart disease is part of the normal range?
Excellent points. Are there any examples of guidelines you think would be good starting points?
i've been reading Hacker News forever and just now created an account to share my project similar to this...

I built mine a couple years ago. I 3d printed most of the parts on a Makerbot Thing-o-matic. It uses 24 rare earth magnets built into the feet to attach to the door over the deadbolt. There is a 3d printed sleeve that slides over the deadbolt lever and turns with a servo.

A piezo sensor on the frame of the device detects knocks on the door. knock the correct pattern (shave and a hair cut, two bits, for example), and the servo turns the deadbolt.

It is easily modified with an ethernet sheild to be controlled with my phone when within range of wifi outside the house...

I still plan to do a proper write-up and share the source code and stl files for printing- i just havent gotten around to it yet. I've got a few other unique projects I'd like to share as well, I just need some time to organize some photos and info.

photo: http://now.oldman.ca/lib/img/bg/heimdall.jpg
video (early test): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zFRAlZB0Sw&list=UUl6Pnlqx1eh...
bit confused - you're asking for an API key? Wouldn't I be getting one from Dropbox?
> Who initiated the sharing with somebody else?

This is supported while someone is an in the invited state, but the initial version likely won't support full auditing to answer the question "How did user X become a member of this folder?", though this is in our plans. Could you explain your use case?

> Who updated something shared?

Yes. And each revision in the revision history will include information on who updated the file.
These pictures are fantastic as far as accomplishment is concerned, it seems that in models it is the same as 3D in that it is the lighting that makes things 'real'. That is not to overlook the model making it is just that lighting, including shadows, is what matters rather than detail to make a scene convincing.

I like people in a scene and I would like to see what could be done in this aspect, to 'comp' people dressed in period attire on the streets and behind those windscreens. As soon as you have people you have a story rather than a mere scene. Lighting matters again and one could take three pictures - the full picture with foreground set, picture minus the foreground set, picture minus foreground set and pedestrians. Pop the layers into Photoshop and, a few layer mask edits later a full scene with people in it.

I must say that a million plus likes on Facebook is extremely impressive.
For what it's worth, I disagree with pre-moderation. I'm not frequent enough to ever have hundreds of karma points, and it's very rare for me to see a "nasty comment".

What's wrong with reactive moderation? Or the existing system where unpopular comments fade away literally?

Pre-moderation kills the flow of conversation. It's a massive bottleneck, is more work for moderators, and for what benefit? Sanitation?

There's nothing wrong with a bit of grit. We're not all sensitive flowers, reduced to tears at the sight of a nasty spray by Mr X. I hardly see that anyway, I'm really suprised to see pending comments even being contemplated here.
By many features do you mean two eyes, nose, mouth?
Would you say the same if 1 in 5 boys were born deaf?
Maybe in the next 5 years, when Moore's law may run out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_nanometer (unless Intel et al. have some extraourdinary technology up their sleeves) we will finally see the advent of FPGA's?

Without the annual growth of transistor density, the second best avenue to gain performance will probably be specialization, and reconfigurable specialized hardware looks more attractive than fixed one.
Actionable Learning For Startup Founders [Collection on Medium]
They tried to, with Facebook Camera - https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/facebook-camera/id525898024?...
Just threw together something that works really quick for you: https://gist.github.com/yefim/9823281
I spent 8 nights in a US hospital, here are the charges for the first 3 days
Hey! I've watched some of the videos on all of dropbox's other apis and think I have a pretty good understanding about how developers would use them. I'm a little fuzzy on this one and was wondering if you could give an example or two of how a developer might leverage this.

Thanks!
Agreed, that it is outside the current scope of gcc. Given that gcc is able to handle a simulation, that would indicate that gcc's intermediate representation is able to capture the semantics of a VHDL netlist? That's where I'm starting from.

Assuming the above, I'm thinking of a project, independent of gcc, that takes gcc's intermediate representation and does all the FPGA specific tasks that you mention. Yes, it would be a huge project, comparable in scope to gcc itself, and even that might be an underestimate. It could start small, to make it realistic, then incrementally expand its scope, just like linux and gcc did. Eventually, the FPGA vendors might have to choose between participation or losing customers? It might be able to exploit some of gcc's backend infrastructure in the FPGA process, but who knows?

> It just isn't a realistic goal.

Or it's a red rag to a bull, to the right person. :-)
> Are these structural differences used in diagnosis?

Unfortunately testing costs money, I've rarely to never heard of it being used, but my sole experience is in helping people on ADHD support forums.
Yep. The only thing required for the form is an email so we can get in touch with more stuff. For folks who already have apps we are curious what they are. Also we'll eventually use the App Key to grant access to folks for the beta.
To be fair Threes! has been at the top of app store charts, so I wouldn't say it didn't succeed at returning on investment.
I am not sure if there's any take-away from this article. There are too many assumptions.
and where the sidewalk meets the road surface isn't quite right.
Ask HN: Unpaid job at a startup. What can be done to get the most out of the xp?
My friend has no professional experience but has been coding for several years. Through networking, he was able to land an unpaid job.<p>It's a dating startup, which means the competition is fierce. The founder has a programmer and a couple people in India on board.<p>They have not discussed anything like being paid in shares. What's the best strategy to maximize this?<p>Also what can he do to get the most out of the experience? We both thought he should stay at least 3 months.<p>Thanks!
Right. So we're on hackernews celebrating ripoffs and clones.
That's why this release is pretty awesome that it allows you to read documents for free. It's only editing that you need to pay for looks like.
As a CEO, this situation is more than complex. There are times when you are working with 'partners' or anyone in the same industry. And you can not avoid collaborating with each other. Apple needed Google, as much as Google needed Apple.

However then there is the ugly part, since your partners are in the same industry, they are ultimately your competitors too. It's not about laws or specific rules. It's about human nature, you will be less pissed if someone hooked up with your Ex, but things could be entirely different, if your Ex is hooked up with one of your friends.

This is perhaps not a smart analogy, but it's somewhat relevant, remember a time when Eric was on Apple board, and then they went on to launch Android? It certainly leaves a bad taste in the mouth and incites a war.
"I wonder how many universities make their engineers or developers actually build something for an outside or even internal customer."

Why would a university do any such thing?

University is the place and time to learn things that no business has the time or skills to teach you. Serving customers is exactly what you should learn at work.
Sir, your response is well-reasoned and satisfactory.

"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll
defend to the death your right to say it."

- Voltaire
Because it got slammed? Unlikely, but would be a nice surprise!
>I really hope that the fad dies out soon

I wouldn't hold my breath. I think a lot of the reasons we're moving to icons instead of text is because sometime in the next ten years, the majority of all internet traffic will originate on phones, and phones don't have nearly as much real estate to devote to labels as desktop screens do.
The big differences between Threes and the followers are nearly invisible at first by get more apparent as you get deeper into the system.

So, while they could probably make the game restarting interface more streamlined, the part where you're playing the game is something subtly deeper that unfortunately doesn't become apparent until you've put some time into it.
Very excited by this.
Isn't that what ADHD medication tries to do. If the root cause is a chemical imbalance, then treating is as a behavioural problem is only treating the symptoms.
I would love to see that kind of comment cut out too, but I am concerned that pending comments won't actually achieve that goal - that biases (unconscious and not) will sneak into the patterns of what gets approved.
How many home locks are not openable from the inside?
I expected this to be a joke of some sort.
I fully support making discourse more productive and agree the problem exists, but the idea of giving a small subgroup the power to determine whose voices can be heard is hardly "more democratic." I do agree it is less work for you.
Threes did pretty well too.