skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are two separate thoughts here:

1. I'm not saying the sem web concept is useless but that poor quality and unnecessarily high costs make it a worse deal. More practical focus on specs and solid software engineering would avoid making that trade-off worse unnecessarily.

2. Many topics which are of interest to academics either aren't generally useful and too many academics are dismissive of mundane concerns like software engineering. My first point falls solidly into that latter case. The former case isn't proven – it's entirely possible that we'll eventually see something interesting develop with more time, although as another commenter pointed out, it's likely that we'll see something different which uses the good parts but doesn't give up as much for theoretical purity. Of course, it's also possible that they'll spend more time having academic debates over HTTP range-14 and what will actually be adopted will come from outside the current semweb community entirely – after all, the “Web” in SemanticWeb refers to a technology which saw rapid growth due to ease of adoption, even though the academic hypertext community wasn't impressed because it was too simple.

In every case, more attention to building useful tools would massively increase the number of people working with semweb technology and lower the cost for everyone doing research. Everyone who wants that class of technologies to succeed should be focused on lowering that barrier to entry.
I always loved the SomethingAwful "Leper Colony" page. It was a list of who was put on probation, banned, or permabanned, and a link to what they did to do this. It had a quick explanation of why it happened.

It was a great way, as a lurker, to get an understanding of the rules via watching others fail to follow them.

This is a different beast here, as no one is paying to be a member, but I wonder if there isn't something to learn from how that page operated.
I'm waiting for Mastering Dogecoin.
See also remake. It's a bit simpler, I think.

https://github.com/rocky/remake
Well the size of the respective countries also has an impact... It's easier to localize once in english to target all the north american market compared to trying to localize for all the different EU countries, so targeting the US market makes sense.
That sounds like an interesting twist on the concept of "security through obscurity," and is equally misguided. If the moderators are doing things the community doesn't like, exposing a log of moderator actions will hasten course correction.

Of course, that presumes that the moderators care what the community thinks and are willing to change their behavior accordingly. I do presume that's the case.
I wonder if ranking is domain specific or maybe too many from a specific site. There was a time where a whole slew of medium.com articles were being submitted, it was a little old.

I would hope sites that are just link aggregators are given less weight while sites (like medium) that are prone to having interesting content but get over submitted have an adaptive factor.
Another point I haven't seen raised: when it comes to VR hardware and software, anyone who doesn't get in bed with a Titan will end up mired in one bullshit patent suit after another.
Not surprising. If you had the billions that Microsoft does, you'd invest in patents too. At this point it's the software equivalent of buying out the supply chain like Apple famously does with hardware components.
I give talks at development conferences where I mostly blow people's minds by showing how easy it is to pull information out of binaries (both statically and dynamically); there are always tons of questions from the audience afterwards about "but we do X? doesn't that make us safe?", so I have to sit there shooting down a ton of silly ways of obfuscating their data, showing how each one could be defeated, but it "clicks" for everyone that there is no safe way to do this.
That, however, will do nothing to help HN get stories that it's missing completely, since there won't be any such thread to comment in. You seem to be saying we're missing most of those. How can we fix that?

One idea is to change the rules so that users are allowed to resubmit stories that received fewer than four upvotes after 24 hours. Right now you risk getting banned for doing that.

It might be a bad idea since the resubmissions will push more legitimate stories out of the new submission queue more quickly, though.

Another idea is to increase the number of stories displayed on https://news.ycombinator.com/newest from 30 to 120. At this point, if your submission drops off the first page of /newest then it's pretty hopeless that it'll be seen by anyone. Showing 120 stories at once will give good content more time to get onto the front page where more people will see it.
The point is that these keys do not let you control the account: they only let you inject potentially-fake data; if these keys also let you register new applications, delete data, download data, or send information to third-parties, then that would be a serious problem. (In the case of Urban Airship, as opposed to Flurry, I don't know as much about the specific use case, but it would surprise me if the scenario were drastically different.
Good lord, speaking of nonsense....

There's no need for a bizarre conspiracy theory in which people are elitist assholes. It's simple: a lot of people think that the Facebook acquisition means that the product is dead, because it will either be transformed into something terrible (VR Farmville!) or the project will be mismanaged until it dies.

You don't have to agree with that assessment, but that is the fear, not some ridiculous idea that people are upset because they don't want "normal" people to have access to cool tech.
What's interesting to me, and we've seen this with WhatsApp only a few weeks ago, is that being acquired by Facebook seems to destroy the public image of a product.

Positive public perception has value, and can (at least in theory) be measured in dollars. In accounting terminology, it's part of what's usually called a company's "goodwill".

If Facebook continues to so negatively effect the public's opinion of every company it acquires, this means that Facebook might get a lot less out of those acquisitions than they might have hoped.
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Carmack had this to say earlier, in a 3-part Tweet:

"Everyone has had some time to digest the FB deal now. I think it is going to be positive, but clearly many disagree. Much of the ranting has been emotional or tribal, but I am interested in reading coherent viewpoints about objective outcomes. What are the hazards? What should be done to guard against them? What are the tests for failure? Blog and I'll read."

Also, this:

"I would expect Facebook to not exert any overt control over Oculus unless Oculus fumbles badly a few times, at which point they SHOULD."

~~~~

My personal take: At the end of the day, it takes more than vision and hard work to drive a dream into existence... it takes investment. It takes capital. This is what the deal brings to the table.

Not only that, as you probably know by now, Michael Abrash has joined the team. I mean, read Michael's blog and note all of the technical challenges and issues with implementing VR. Read Carmack's technical writings on latency issues. There are a lot of problems to solve, on top of building and delivering a solid, commercial-quality hardware and software experience. For example, there is tracking head position and orientation, rendering without shearing and judder, latency issues, etc... everything must be perfect in order to deliver the perfect experience.

Facebook brings the needed investment, plus the scaling infrastructure experience to the table. John has said, "I have a deep respect for the technical scale that FB operates at. The cyberspace we want for VR will be at this scale."

I have a lot of confidence in Oculus VR and their extremely capable team. These good people are experienced and they know the technical and business challenges that are ahead. This is why the acquisition occurred.

The passion is still there. I mean, watch this video again [1]. John hasn't changed. After the acquisition, he said, "For the record, I am coding right now, just like I was last week. I expect the FB deal will avoid several embarrassing scaling crisis for VR."

And with Michael coming on board, it's a veritable VR Dream Team with the already talent-heavy team of Palmer Luckey, Tom Forsyth [2], Atman Binstock [3], et al.

As Michael said, "That worry is now gone. Facebook's acquisition of Oculus means that VR is going to happen in all its glory."

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYa8kirsUfg

[2] http://www.oculusvr.com/blog/category/tom-forsyth

[3] http://www.oculusvr.com/blog/welcome-atman-binstock-chief-ar...
> Wayland and *BSD

I believe Mesa does not even support EGL on BSD. Now I know the Nvidia driver doesn't use Mesa, but this indicates how little effort is being put into Wayland on BSD.

I can't say I blame them. BSD is primarily used on servers with no GUI, so the BSD community uses their limited resources to support that use case. It's the same reason BSD has poor support for WiFi and suspend/resume. But I don't think we're going to see Wayland on BSD for a very long time.
Not necessarily. Variance is a powerful force. 100+ samples may sound like a lot, but it's often insufficient. My favorite book on this topic is http://www.statisticsdonewrong.com/index.html, in particular the sections on statistical power.
"The daily grind" doesn't mean it's unpleasant, it simply means that you have to do it in order to e.g. continue eating.
> Mediocre stories with immediate or simple appeal do seem to be doing a better job

Do you have some criteria by which you classify stories as mediocre other than your own personal preferences? If there was a decision procedure for this, we could just implement it and have it scrape the web for objectively great stories. Lacking that, we can build a site that aggregates the opinions of its users.
Drone vs. Balloons I choose cables. It's the most reliable, and cheapest to produce.
HN is my #1 source of information on the internet. Without HN (an HN ALGOLIA!) I'd be lost.
OnStar by GM has many of these features (app, location, unlock, customer service representative can unlock etc.). I don't think there is a recorded hijack/hack there too.
> I wasn't personally involved in any of the negotiations -- I spent an afternoon talking technology with Mark Zuckerberg, and the next week I find out that he bought Oculus.

He's a CTO and he finds it out like that? There's something I don't understand.
NSA reportedly targeted as many as 122 world leaders for surveillance
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You left out the previous paragraph, which explains why Carmack feels the need to partner with a Titan, rather than go at it alone.

Not sure that I agree this move was necessary at this point in time, but I definitely see his fear of the potential consequences of refusing to strike such a partnership.
Strangecoin transactions can be nonzero sum. A Strangecoin transaction might result in both parties having more Strangecoin.
Strangecoin transactions can be one-sided and can be conducted entirely by only one party to the transaction.

If I'm reading that correctly, could I give myself infinite StrangeCoin?
The human piano
If you just need a bigger propeller to work that altitude, just make it out of rigid inflatable Kevlar or something.

Aside from that, with a large enough wing surface area, you get enough resistance to falling downward that you don't need much power to stay aloft (think about how a parachute works--with rigid wings there is resistence to altitude changes as long as you stay parallel to the ground).

It might be hard to climb to the altitude, but you can just airdrop from another plane and also forgoe landing gear.
I'm happy to answer, but I don't understand your question. Maybe email info@ycombinator with it so we don't dilute the thread.
I don't think in a digital market, size and language of a country matters. We see a lot of excellently successful Israeli start ups for instance. Small country, Hebrew language and different alphabet too.

The fact of the matter is, bright young French people are leaving their country behind. I see many of them in London, and most of them are very successful here. France is no longer an enterprise centre where cool things happen and innovation is celebrated. Hopefully that will one day change.
I guess I missed the destruction of WhatsApp's public image after the Facebook acquisition. Can you point me to the numbers?
This post is to clarify Mozilla’s official support of equality and inclusion for LGBT people, and to outline a series of actions we are taking to reaffirm this position.

I read the whole post several times and did not find a single concrete action, let alone a series. On the other hand, I am aware of one concrete action undertaken by Brendan Eich that is directly counter to all the feel-good rhetoric spouted off by this post.
You're fooling yourself if you don't think they could've done better. There's no reason they had to start from scratch. Bridgman constantly stated the the free drivers were intended for basic functionality and free software development purposes only, and that AMD would continue to provide proprietary drivers for people who needed performance.

ATi started the free drivers in a last-ditch move of desperation to inflate sales in whatever small way possible when they were on the ropes. They'd hoped that this would get some of the *nix geeks to make significant buys. They only sponsored 2 developers if I remember right.

I don't mean to look a gift horse in the mouth, but I don't think they really deserve all that much credit. Seven years is far too long to start skirting Windows performance parity, and please note that most newer hardware is still way behind. The open-source AMD drivers primarily remain of interest to people who want to develop free software or whose cards stopped working on the proprietary drivers. When I tried last September, you still couldn't reasonably play games with open-source radeon drivers on newish hardware.
Thank you both. My wife and I love this site.
So is it maybe that Python is a language with much smaller surface area and (most likely) much more consistent design, so we simply don't need a cheat sheet like this? By rough estimate, my Mac came with over 1000 commands - no structure, namespacing.

I love that xkcd. I really hope someone will take up the task of replacing the UI of *nix with something better. For me, it's like Windows 8: it was a nice idea to combine touch and traditional user interface - it just turns out to be inferior to either being done well. Writing shell scripts is just, let's face it, horrible, and the command line interface far from ideal. It works, it has for decades. But it's not like there has been a lot of competition to compare with.

Sibling is complaining about academia and universities - but again, apart from sys admins, who don't teach, none of the academics know this stuff. Learning and teaching Python (Java) is in some respect easier but more importantly interesting - it just doesn't make sense to learn all these commands without actually needing them (whoever comes up with an exercise to use them all together gets a medal).
Go and Android
since his duties have to be handed off to three people it makes clear, at minimum after the fact, how much work he was doing
May I ask, what are some examples of the security mistakes?
This is a perfect specimen of what I spend my day clearing off the front page: a knockoff story that has been covered much better by a primary source—in this case our own front page.

Normally I'd kill this, but I'll bury it instead, in case anyone wants to comment. We're not going to come down as hard on meta-stuff for a few days, while all this moderation business sinks in.
And most Lisps.
> "Honestly, I wasn't expecting Facebook (or this soon). I have zero personal background with them, and I could think of other companies that would have more obvious synergies."

This is the heart of the controversy. Facebook could have easily written an application / demo to integrate with Facebook, but instead they bought the whole company.
I don't use this platform. Where is the response from Carmack?
Users cannot engage in transactions with themselves. Updated the doc to reflect this.
The first paragraph makes it sound like Eich's appointment as CEO stirred some controversy around LGBT inclusion. Did I miss something? I haven't seen anything about this yet. Barring some event like this, I think it's stupid for Mozilla to make a politically charged statement just for the heck of it.
I stopped reading at "venti non-fat 180 degrees vanilla latte with two equals, extra squirt of vanilla, and whipped cream".

That is not coffee.
Brendan Eich donated $1,000 in support of Prop 8, which made gay marriage illegal in California.
The purpose of patents isn't to incentivize innovation. Its to protect capital intensive R&D from the free rider effect and to allow the fruits of R&D to be the subject of transactions. Crowd funding in this context is a joke. Wake me up when someone crowd funds a blockbuster anti-cancer drug or disease resistant crop. We're talking capital investments that start with a 'b'. Nobody is going to fund that if the results can be easily copied (eliminating ROI), whether we're talking about traditional investors or crowd funders.

A great example is the Spaceship One patents. The arrangement there was that Scaled Composites would do the R&D, and Paul Allen would invest, and companies like Virgin would commercialize. Having a property right that can be the subject of transactions is tremendously valuable for these sorts of arrangements.
I now pronounce you Nation and 21st Century.
This sort of thing is why we had free lunch for employees, ordered via Seamless out of a spreadsheet of your regular order per restaurant. It wasn't a benefit - it was just a way to save the company time. It was costing more to pay for people's time spent coordinating what to do for lunch on their own than it did to just buy everyone lunch.
the average for good schools is around 35kEUR, I think. Maybe slightly more if you're in Paris.
My only gripe with the sale to Facebook is that it was originally funded by contributions on Kickstarter, and those "funders" will get nothing in return. I just don't see gamers and developers supporting Facebook as much as they supported Oculus... which makes it seem like they did something sleazy by selling to FB.
Modesty is generally a good trait, but I'll say that to me, HN seems to be unique among all other discussion board I've been a part of as far as having a lot of highly accomplished and knowledgeable software people from all walks of life, from startup founders to big-company cogs to freelance contractors. There's lots of places to find jokes, memes, puns, and discussion of the latest TV shows, but I haven't found anywhere on the internet as good as HN is now for this kind of discussion.
Or it would be a progression, depending on your perspective.
They left people's wallets with "aliases" open to be cracked by anybody who found them for years, messed up their RNG and revealed some users private keys, a few XSS mishaps, and their support reset 2FA keys for hackers with social engineering.
I imagine what remains of the Mozilla board are having many unscheduled meetings right now.
How would one enforce this?

(Answer, you cannot. So this is not a valid solution to this problem.)
Am I the only one who saw the UPGRADE NOW banner ? despite Adblock?
Very different from security through obscurity. The problem here is that a vocal minority can sway opinions and make it seem like lots of people are behind something. One lengthy disagreeing rant might seem like a one off. Ten lengthy rants will likely cause a moderator to pause and listen and maybe even respond.

In the end, the mods will need to decide how to handle shit and while input from mere mortals is a good thing, it is not required for them to do their jobs. We already have very democratic tools here and lots of power: more so than inmost other societies. If you really disagree with something, by all means speak up. But mods are not elected officials representing your interests. They are not here to enact the will of the people. They are here to maintain civility and ensure that the rules are followed.
That's because there is no need for concrete actions. Mozilla as a foundation/corporation never discriminated anyone, and they already have guidelines that promote equality.
While I do support LGBT people, I fail to see how my browser's CEO should take a stance on this. You may call me short sighted if you want, but I fail to see how caring about the employee's personal values have anything to do with Mozilla's products.

There are plenty other fields where personal values can be reflected on your work, but Mozilla? I can't even find sarcasm on how they could make a prejudice.

I know that people called him out on twitter, but this whole story is going nowhere.
You're talking about it here, aren't you?

Since link aggregators exist, and most discussion of blog posts occurs on them, the only thing adding commenting to your own blog does is invite people to hijack your blog as their own soapbox, reusing the blog's audience as their own.

You can run an "open" nonprofit, and still not want people handing out pamphlets on your front lawn.
Mean.io – the opinionated fullstack JavaScript framework
cool.. anybody have experience using this?
There seems to be a disconnect between the the way those in the SV startup community see FaceBook and those outside do.

My view of Carmack is positive and I think he does want to understand the FaceBook revulsion, but to quote Sinclair

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it"
It doesn't seem like many people visit the news feed at all.

Yes, and thus the rare souls that venture there have a ridiculously disproportionate impact on what gets the front page. Almost makes you wonder if it would make sense to keep access to the 'new' page as a special privilege for experienced and trusted users. Or at least hide it behind some tiny text link so those newbies don't ruin the party!
What would you do if I created another address?
And then there's the part where they made someone who is absolutely, positively against the concept of gay people having the same rights as everybody else the figurehead of the organization.
If the best candidate for the head leadership role of your company is a divisive figure because of documented bigotry, then the entire board has failed the rest of the company.
Instead of the split-sharding of servers for people who enjoy different themes, I always thought a company should explore how much theme could be changed on the fly depending on the specific individual present in the environment.

Example: I design a castle which really just amounts to walls + ornaments. For someone else with "space theme enabled" the castle appears as a floating ship which is just walls + ornaments at the same scale. Costumes are obviously easy to deal with. I know it's not without it's limits but it always seemed like Minecraft's texture packs were a good conceptual start since they can be server-forced or client-forced.
One man's feature creep is another man's Agile iterative development. Started with an MVP and iterated onwards :P
Not trying to be nitpicky, but the HN title is not correct.
The laws are only in effect in England and Wales. Scotland will only come in later this year. All three are part of Britain.

Great news nonetheless. It's amazing it took this long.

No news on when Northern Ireland will do the same as the rest of the UK though.
They even use pkill, so it would make sense to use pgrep as well.