skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just an anecdote that may be relevant: I was banned at one point. I thought it was unfair, and emailed HN explaining why I made the comment that I did and that it wasn't meant as meanspirited or snarky as it may have come across. They re-instated me very quickly. My experience tells me that if you're trying to be a reasonable member of the community, you'll do fine.
The inside story of MIT and Aaron Swartz
You'd think there would be a bitcoin pay option, but I guess they don't have the option since it's published through o'reilly
I totally agree , as an Algerian who is studying in France , I find that there is a general feeling of frustration and gloom,that is being powered by the media, and the political parties.
http://peterberkman.tumblr.com/post/80827337212/wrong-and-ri...
Maybe I'm noticing a trend that doesn't exist, but it seems to me that the web industry is slowly realizing how much the original designers of the web got right.

RESTFUL services bring back the focus on URLs and HTTP methods. For a while there was a craze of embedding content in awful Flash and Java applets, but that died out because of convenience, better browsers, and SEO. I wonder if the future of the web is going to look a lot more like its history than we thought.
I compiled mini-guides for the most common destinations: http://longerpath.com (it was mostly made for my own curiosity, but I'm sure others will find it somewhat useful)
Building a JVM is harder than building an RVM. I was asking from the perspective of user code. Shared memory requires mutexes in both threaded and forked code - this is not an advantage of multiple processes. In fact, multiprocess shared memory is generally harder to work with than threaded shared memory.
This was immediately what I thought of. It would take a very short amount of time for a client to show up which automatically manages and balances your accounts.
I don't see why not. When I clock out of work, it all stops. I don't get work email on my personal phone, I sign off IM, etc. I am completely unreachable (except for calls, which nobody ever really does). No matter how stressful the day was, or how much stress is coming up, there's a clear delineation between work and life, and one doesn't bleed into the other.

It has kept me pretty happy with my job for more than a year now, even though I've taken almost no vacation (which is not as bad as it sounds, I work remotely).
Ask HN: How much would you pay monthly for an unlimited tier to a task mgmt s/w?
How much would you pay per month for an Unlimited Projects tier to a task management software?

The basis of the s/w will be a to-do web application. Users can create categories of projects and add individual tasks to them. Each projects will have a start and end date, and a progress bar will indicate based on the checked off list of tasks. All projects will have an unique url as well.

Please share you thoughts via http://polltip.com/jm0mS
I think, also, somebody has to be first to bring this technology to the market before it even occurs to others they'd want to compete.

Oculus under Facebook might not bring the finished product most of us were looking for, but having a device that's solved the technological challenges of consumer VR is the heavy lifting. And it puts Facebook in the position of being The Name in consumer VR.

Are they going to alienate that right off the bat by building a walled garden, putting heavy content locks on it, watching everything you do? Or will they do the soft touch of making their helmet the easiest (and perhaps only) way to tie your VR into the Facebook network when you wish, get special savings on new software, offer perks to developers that find Facebook-friendly features for their VR software?

I think if they squeeze too hard people will upgrade right out of them into the competition. Which is sure to follow shortly if the hardware is a massive success and the implementation is driving people away. So, cautiously optimistic.
Here's a suggestion for the "how" by Titanous: a public moderator log https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7493990
To be honest, I suspect Brendan Eich probably has some pretty fucking stupid opinions about homosexuality. But what does that have to do with software? And shouldn't he have the right to hold those opinions, offensive as they may be, without worrying about their effect on his career?

On one hand, corporate "position statements" (which declare opinions like cells declare osmotic pressure) like this are pretty sickening. On the other hand, I think it's a bit silly that the tech community has required Mozilla to make this one.
I'm not sure what that part of the blogpost refers to, but one relevant act is mentioning and re-affirming the Mozilla code of conduct, as done here, which guarantees fair treatment for everyone.

Another relevant act is

http://lukasblakk.com/ascend-project-kickoff/

a hacker school-type thing for LGBT and other underrepresented minorities in tech.
Likely the deliberation happened in board meetings.
Let Them Eat Cake: Statistical Bootstrapping and Delivering Business Certainty
I'm not saying that was a right move - But this is Brendan private view on the matter, which don't reflect the view of Mozilla, as stated by that post (and their guidelines). And Brendan already said that his private views won't get in the way of the views of Mozilla.

I understand that some people want Brendan to step down from his position (and I'm going to guess he probably will soon-ish), but he was elected because he was considered the right guy for the job, and I don't see Mozilla firing him anytime soon, at least without giving him a chance.
(it's the official blog, which AFAIK always has comments disabled.)

edit: shortened since the parent deleted the comment i was replying to
I'd expect that Facebook will do for Oculus as much as Zenimax did for id.

The best that could happen is that the Zuckster just sends bigger checks to Oculus to expand operations, turning this purchase into more of a round of VC funding than anything else.

The worst case scenario is that it's a purchase like we see in the business world. How many products do better when the company that makes them is bought by IBM or Oracle?
Nope, this is not an ISP. Turk Telekom is stated-owned broadband internet (infrastructure) company. All of the ISPs are having the same peering. I checked your link through TTNet. We also have Superonline and Smile as main ISPs.
OK, thanks for the information. If there's a link to an HN thread or two about that discovery/controversy, I'd be happy to see it.

Not sure why I'm getting downvoted for asking for more information, but such is HN I guess.
I feel like if you want a good introductory theory text you need to focus less on everything up to (and including) decidability and get as quickly as you can to complexity theory. There are certainly a few central milestones, but to spend 200 pages and only get to P/NP seems like a crime. There are so many other topics to whet one's appetite for theoretical computer science!

Then again, this text appears to have been written for the kind of readers who have never written a proof before. So I expect this would fill a semester of puzzling over the minute details of the pumping lemma and various closure properties (but again, to what end?).
'Basic income' which is not coupled to any expenditure (e.g. by mining) will have a tragedy of the commons problem in a pseudonymous system.

In a pseudonymous system, I can make as many addresses / accounts as I like (since a pseudonym is, by definition, not tied to any real identity).

Therefore, to maximise income, someone can create duplicate addresses, causing the basic income to be distributed according to the number of addresses a person has.
I'm saying that, while that might fly as CTO or any other role of the organization, CEO is a role analagous to President. The personal views of the chief executive very much influence the entire organization, and therefore it should not be surprising that their personal life becomes part of their professional one.
always has comments disabled

You're right, so I've deleted my comment.
he has the right, but his job is to foster cooperation and in many cases to have people work for him and if the community doesn't accept his leadership, that pretty much means any period of time that he's in charge is a waste of time at best and a regression at worst.
CS master of Nantes is a really high level diploma comparing to some other universities , I will get mine from the same university this year (hopefully)
I have to admit that this whole episode had given a small doubt on if my company can have an inclusive environment.

I have very conservative religious and political views - but I recognize that people have good and amazing attributes regardless of my opinion on their personal lives.

I enjoy being working (and friendships) with diverse people who challenge my beliefs, and who I can help in meaningful ways despite our differences.

My pause comes from my wondering if the company develops a significant group of people who won't let my own personal beliefs remain separate from the work environment.

I'll hopefully forget this sad episode in a few short weeks, so I doubt anything will change in my heart for the worse.
Opinion, yes, but that is not what this is. We know with absolute certainty that he donated a non-trivial amount of money to block gay marriage legislation in California. That is an action solely intended to deprive a people of the rights granted to everyone else, not merely an opinion.
I would love for that one to be kept as-is, and for HN moderators to actually follow their own guidelines on that.

When submitters change titles for clarity, and moderators revert it to an obscure original title that no longer has context, HN loses value.
It's not just the gloom, there's an age old and very prominent anti-capitalistic mentality.
Thanks. I couldn't see any comments from the mobile interface.
I feel like the author is making a hopeless attempt to get the (apparently young) reader to conform, not to current societal standards, but to those several generations removed.

How is it in anyone's interest to do that? They won't get any of the benefits of conformity with their peers, nor any of the freedom of self-determination.

>They have learned to reconcile faith and reason, yes, but beyond that, they persuasively convey ways of knowing that transcend intellectual understanding.

This part is a joke right?

Based on this article, I'm guessing that "The Curmudgeon's Guide to Getting Ahead: Dos and Don'ts of Right Behavior, Tough Thinking, Clear Writing, and Living a Good Life," is going to be trite, even for a self help book.
yeah, my comparison is a bit loose, I'm linking "unlicensed" and "unregulated" to each other.
Thanks! This is just what I was hoping to hear and presages very well for the future of HN!

Here's an example that I've observed a few times... And I'd love to know what is actually going on in these cases...

I often submit articles with a slightly tweaked title. Eventually, a mod (you, I guess!) gets a'fixing and the title is fixed to be exactly the one on swombat.com (the rationale for that is slightly dubious seeing as I'm both the writer and the submitter in some of those cases, but let's pass on that!). What I've noticed several times is that at the same time as the title being fixed, the article suddenly dropped 10 or sometimes many more places...

It's easy to interpret that as "moderator didn't like my article!"... But what is it really?
https://brendaneich.com/2014/03/inclusiveness-at-mozilla/

I know some will be skeptical about this, and that words alone will not change anything. I can only ask for your support to have the time to “show, not tell”; and in the meantime express my sorrow at having caused pain.
> If I'm reading that correctly, could I give myself infinite StrangeCoin?

I don't think it will work with just a single strangecoin, but instead have one strangecoin per user (or more, but at least one strangecoin asset type per user on the network). Then when you issue new shares you're only inflating the supply or your reputation, which might cause a market reaction. Mind you that I am not saying the reaction would be a good or bad thing.
Having personal beliefs is fine. Taking away the freedom of others is not. You don't have to back proposition 8 to believe homosexuality is immoral, just like you don't have to outlaw pork in order to keep kosher.
Well first we need everyone to speak the same language. Esperanto, here we come !
Interesting POC, surely there should be a lot more stories though. i can only see 7 stories and a few are about the same thing.
It might be interesting to expose the algorithm more (not saying the entire thing, but if auto penalties are applied which ones).
This statement is incompatible with the actions of the CEO. If the CEO doesn't believe in the mission, this can never be more than lip service.
Excuse me, but is this a settled issue? One opinion is OK, a different one deserves being ostracized, losing one's job? When did this happen? I don't think I got the memo.
> The limited search I did of the primary literature does not seem to give the same conclusion as what you have stated. While I don't know the literature, nor the field, I will be so bold as to suggest that things you believe to be true about ADHD are actually not so well understood as you believe them to be.

Again I'd encourage you to watch the linked to video. ADHD has many subtypes, co-morbidity differs based on subtype. There are some important genetic links as well.
The solution might be to limit protection to machine code and the improvements in semiconductor design and conclude that higher level programming is routine experimentation (call it if a pimple faced teen can develop it in a hackathon it is per se obvious).
$1k is a pretty trivial amount of money to anyone with a career in tech as long as Brendan's.
From my G+ reshare, in the context of a question about account caps:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+DanielEstrada/posts/hQfNmirDfsm

> I suppose one way around the cap would be for users to maintain multiple accounts. I have no objection to this in principle, although it has an impact on the networks they can develop on any one account. If I have 20 Strangecoin accounts all coupled to and supporting each other, but are only receiving income through one account connected to the external network, then my subnet isn't going to grow larger as a whole than the one node connected externally. So I can't use multiple accounts to inflate just my identity. If I'm using multiple accounts, it's because I want to maintain multiple identities. Again I have no objection to this, or at least the protocol I've described doesn't rule it out. ﻿
I asked PG to add "slightly" :)

I'm not sure whether arbitrary user renaming is a good feature to have. It depends on what one means by "renaming", and there are subtleties. In general, HN strives not to delete history. One option might be for people to create a new account while disabling the old one, and bring over the account age and karma but not its submission history. Our functional programming friends would perhaps approve! But I'm just thinking out loud here.
Considering Gay Marriage and Programming are about as far away as 2 issues can get, I really doubt it will be a problem.

They don't want to alienate anyone against gay marriage or anyone gay. Since this isn't possible because of how sensitive everyone is, they just chose the best person for the job.
> And shouldn't he have the right to hold those opinions, offensive as they may be, without worrying about their effect on his career?

Since you are bringing this to the table, let's turn the question around: Should he? Why? I agree that he should have the right to hold an opinion, but what earns him the right not to have his public exhibition of it affect his career?
Found an HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3793012
Telling someone that they can hold views that differ from yours as long as they never show those views or act in support of them seems like one of the very arguments that the equal rights movements are fighting against.
I liked redoing my machine learning homework in J.
$100k is a pretty trivial amount of money to anyone whose career made them a billionaire.

The amount, as a donation to deprive people of the rights that others have, is non-trivial to me, although it may very well be trivial to many others. Now that is an opinion.
You're probably getting downvoted because this has been the "hot" topic of the week, and so your comment appear as trollish.

Those are probably the "big" two threads about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7459529 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7475627

For more, you can just search his name on hn.angoia.com and sort by date: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=brendan#!/story/sort_by_date/0/bre...
Different countries view college degrees differently. In some, if you do not have a college degree, you will not even get considered for the job, no matter what you've done.

May I ask, what are some countries in which this is the case?
Still not seeing a comment from Carmack. Can someone cut&paste?
So true! I know when I don't get a decent night's sleep for more than two or three nights in a row, I get a LOT less productive. I lock myself out of my car, forget important things I had to do. It's terrible. An occasional melatonin supplement has been a lifesaver when I just can't turn my brain off, obsessing over my startup.
What is the motivation for this?

The big advantage of money is as a communication mechanism: An increase of demand of pencils, though price chnges, can increase the demand for burgers in a town where the wood for said pencils is made, even though the purchasers have absolutely no idea, and no control, over the results of their actions.

Sending positive and negative feedback to transactions has the opposite effect: It avoids the information hiding that is the key to making the economy tractable, and makes what are simple decisions much more complicated, but I suddenly have to care about what people think about the suppliers of my suppliers.

I suspect a economy running on this strangecoin would be less effective than one running on a regular currency, just like it's much harder to be gay in a tiny homophobic town than in a large, relatively anonymous big city.
I agree with your sentiment but if you find the CLI to be a lack luster interface the only thing I can think is that you've not spent enough time using it correctly. I was a Windows guy, then an OS X guy, then a Linux guy. I found that I preferred CLI more than GUI's so I moved to Linux full time when I started getting frustrated with GUI tools and Darwin ports and the like.

Now days it annoys me if a library doesn't have a CLI. Even on my personal machines I run the least amount of GUI possible for resource and usability purposes. I don't want a new GUI or a better CLI (zsh, csh, bash, ksh, etc. do just fine). I just want tools that utilize it properly to support it's most powerful functionality (pipes, output redirect, proper exit codes, etc.)

A lack of familiarity with it is no institutes fault, it's a personal fault, if you find your self looking at a CLI interface, and then resorting to searching Google for a GUI wrapper for that interface, the ignorance isn't due to a failure of the CLI, it's a failure of the user being intimidated or ignorant.

Also I have no issues writing shell scripts, I use them all the time to save me tons of work. If you're a programmer then you really get to know your system and you really get to customize it to your liking.

An example would be switching to i3 from Gnome/KDE. I was a long time KDE/Gnome/XFCE user and my laptops track pad settings would never stick after a reboot when I used the GUI tools for disabling the touchpad tap to click or just disabling it in general (thinkpad nipples ftw). After moving to i3 and really getting more access to the core of the system I ended writing a couple little shell scripts for enabling disabling my touchpad for when I need/want it. What used to be a 5 step operation (open gui > click tab > uncheck box > click save) has now become (super+space, type disa[tab](autocomplete disable.touchpad), enter). I have a second script to enable it again, the contents of which are small.

#!/bin/bash

exec synclient TouchpadOff=1
It's been days since Oculus was acquired, and weeks since WhatsApp.

I don't think public perception has evened out enough to be measured, let alone predicted.

Besides, look at Instagram. It was acquired right around the first major Facebook privacy scare (early 2012ish), and it's doing perfectly okay.
"Used message queue as replacement for RPC service without actually implementing RPC pattern." Key learned from inevitable failure? Message queues are BAD! Except for the part where you weren't actually testing an MQ, you were trying to use an MQ as an RPC service without actually solving the problem and instead insisted on building an RPC service with none of the failure-tolerance of a persistent broker.

I don't disagree with the OP that this is a common mistake, but the solution offered is more of a "we also made this mistake, so clearly it is a problem with MQs and not us!" which isn't actually true.

Additionally, MQs are really (IMO) a better fit for systems that either have a measurable level of complexity on writes or are lightly written but heavily read. You see the same general pattern failure with people who insist that RDBMS is The Answer(tm) even though the data they write/read isn't relational and often read-heavy.
I never heard of a maximum compensation for internships...
I bought an Oculus Rift.

I'm not going to be buying a Facebook device.

Facebook is creepy.

It doesn't matter how cool the technology is or what it can do, more and more people are becoming disturbed at the now common concept of consumer-as-product for Facebook, Google, et al. Even if they seemed open and friendly at first, I personally wouldn't trust that kind of technology in the hands of Google, Microsoft, or Facebook; end of story.
While it might be incompatible with an action he once took, (1) that was many years ago, and (2) on the other hand in this statement and on his personal blog he voiced support for inclusiveness and fair treatment of everyone, and to follow that up with actions.
Congrats, Dang! It's a little ironic that you won't even see this message.