skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe this can relate to the other story in HN about building boring systems that just work... If you are in-charge of keeping the app running, maybe you wont want to mess around with cutting-edge technologies.
It's bad because it's unfair.

If everyone, including small businesses, got to pay 0% tax, then you might have a good argument. But as it stands, we have a 35% corporate tax rate for everyone except large multi-national companies who have the means to take advantage of the loopholes. Regular Joe Business does not have those means.

And of course, these same large companies are spending millions lobbying the government to not reform the code.
I find it odd that the only moral issue people seem to find with procedures like this is whether it is okay to kill an egg cell, or an early stage embryo.

These egg cells don't grow on trees. They must be harvested from human beings. Egg cell harvesting is a complex process, requiring the donors (young women) to take experimental drugs with possibly harmful long term sideeffects.

If we are using human egg cells for experiments, or at some point in the future, for curing old people, aren't we exploiting the young woman we take those egg cells from?
I've seen a clone described as a "twin born at a different time." I don't see it as inherently raising any ethical dilemmas.

But since by definition we would need to perform experiments on non-consenting humans to perfect the technique, there isn't any ethical way to get to there.
That was really funny. First time I've laughed all day. Thanks for sharing.
I wish some of those talks were available for purchase on their own and not in the season packets. Definitely a few I'd buy since I liked this talk and the demo on the site.

Guy has good vim skills for sure.
> xs = ['10', '10', '10']

> xs.map(parseInt)

[10, NaN, 2]

Javascript is beautiful.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who's seeing glitches. I've had instances of the right squares being lit up in green, but then a square on another board, which shouldn't be permissible, actually get selected.
somatic cell nuclear transfer isn't really cloning because it doesn't include the mitochondria.
That's very good to hear! :)

That's enough to encourage a change to my commenting habits, anyways.
Ah — I'd presumed since you detected cycles that it was in the GC'd JS heap, as opposed to having a separate cycle collector.
As someone who loves window-manager designer solipsism as much as the stark minimalism of terminals, Gnome has improved quite a bit recently and I've come to much prefer it over Unity (and a suitable replacement for OSX). I'd normally lean towards something lightweight such as XFCE, but proper Gnome 3 support is necessary.
I wish there were multiple kinds of downvotes. "This is actually bad" (spam, etc.) vs. merely useless, vs. factually incorrect but reasonably presented.

I mostly only downvote spam or abuse; I try to ignore "no-op" comments, and would rather reply to someone with information about why they might be wrong vs. downvote, but I'm not sure if this is universal.
The ones near the tracks are, the ones in the original development (across from Macys and Target and the store to be built later) are allegedly going to be more affordable. Of course the original builder went bankrupt in the mortgage crisis.
Dang and friends, any chance of tweaking the layout so that it's not so easy to accidentally click the downvote button when using a mobile browser? This is commonly reported. Thanks!
Apache 2 or Nginx as a highly secure (PFS) SSL encrypting reverse proxy
High-level overview of all improvements in Scala 2.11
I've similar feelings about ZFSGuru. Never heard of it before; might download it and give it a whirl.
Decentralizing sounds a lot like a peer-to-peer based web. Doesn't this already exist through the tor network and the onion browser?
Could you share what tools you view as essential, please?
I don't understand this: with open-source, it doesn't matter that your CSS compiler has been abandoned: as long as you are satisfied with the current feature set, the code isn't going to disappear.

Stylus is only about 3.5 years old. But if all development were to stop now, I'll still be able to use it 5 years down the road. It probably helps that npm dependencies are pinned to a specific version.

C has been around for dozens of years, but you can consider its feature-set pretty much frozen. That's about the same thing as being satisfied with (CSS compiler X)'s feature set and sticking with it.

DSLs like the ones for CSS compilers are feature-complete fast enough. You don't need to wait 10 years for it.
Can someone provide a quick summary of what was it that made Marquez so prominent? I had not know much about him at all.

FYI, if like me, you have trouble accessing the article, and using Chrome, right-click and open in an incognito window.
Do you actively avoid legal tax breaks because you feel the need to pay your "fair share"? I would bet not. Why should Apple act any differently? They don't evade taxes... They actively seek to pay as little as legally obligated. Anything else would be a disservice to every Apple employee, consumer and financial backer (the only people that should matter to Apple). They're a for profit organization, not a charity...
Passing cloud savings on to customers
Printoo, Printed Arduino Boards for 3D Printed Objects
It is sometimes a bit disheartening to see so much development effort go toward the virtualization/KVM/Xen side rather than seeing improvements in TCG. I realize that Redhat (and maybe others?) funds a lot of development in that area, so it's natural that that's where most of the improvements are. I mostly use QEMU as a CPU emulator, though, and it's frustrating to see so little activity on the TCG side, especially when it comes to things like bugfixes (Win7 x64 bluescreens under TCG, mipsel loadvm broken, to name two issues that have bitten me).

Still, kudos to the developers for making some things better (TCG actually does seem noticeably faster in 2.0.0) and congratulations on the 2.0.0 release!
I'd love to able to fold a nested conversation once I think that particular branch is going nowhere. HN should treat the folding as a signal similar to a down vote on that particular sub-thread. I often don't think any particular comment warrants a down vote, so I have no way to tell HN that the thread should be pushed back.

Plus everyone has been asking for a way to collapse sub-comments (and many plugins do it already).
Should you get a game over if you still have radioactive elements on the board? I think you should still be allowed to keep going, especially since you have less tiles and you are moving around with the assumption that things are going to start disappearing.
Thanks for doing your 'open source gardening'¹ so exuberantly!

I didn't see any contact info on your profile to let you know that the proportion of folks here using Ghostery² or Disconnect³ is probably higher than normal. Installing one will reveal how things break when JavaScript libraries [usually orthogonal to page functionality] are blocked.

--

¹https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7593242

²https://www.ghostery.com/

³https://disconnect.me/
> The Internet. Government served only to set some basic standards and fund initial military & research networking.

The internet was highly developed and had been for decades by the time commercial industry got their hands on it. Government-funded research did all the "hard parts" (reliable communications over lossy protocols, etc). The private sector figured out how to make money off it with advertising and entertainment.

> Factory farming. Food costs have been driven down tremendously, and productivity increased hugely, by private farming.

Agriculture is the single industry in which the government has most and for the longest time intervened with subsidies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_policy_of_the_Unit.... See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution.
Lessons Learnt after getting robbed off $11,000 in 17 days
I did 7 runs of your test and the average time is: 0.424795s. Example run:

$ dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=512 count=1500 oflag=dsync
1500+0 records in
1500+0 records out
768000 bytes (768 kB) copied, 0.427272 s, 1.8 MB/s
To not discourage commenting in low-view threads, should we divide each comment's score by the number of views of the thread? Or probably by some nonlinear function that estimates comment voting activity as a function of views.
As much as I agree (the central point is very obvious), the author does something pretty common which I think might be a mistake: defending current government-sponsored projects as having a low bankruptcy rate. Right now that's true, but it's also an indication that they might be doing it wrong rather than an indication of that spending's correctness.

Government money would best be spent on things that might have an outsized impact but are too risky, expensive or unfashionable for private enterprise to fund alone. If government is taking the same amount of risk as private funds, they should probably be looking a little harder. On the other hand, try selling that to voters...
"We believe this has made the comment scores and rankings better reflect the community."

It would be interesting to see how you could actually change the community via comment filtering.

For example, if some individuals are always posting negative comments and were previously not silenced. I wonder if now that they are being silenced if they would leave the community entirely, just keep posting and ignoring the results, or change their comments to fit the community.
Immortality is always the goal. You can't have a goal without having time with which to achieve it. Assuming you never stop wanting to have goals, you should never want to die. Given that death is something people tend to accept rather than wish for, almost everyone wants to be immortal.
The industrial revolution in the Great Britain. All technological development in the The US and UK prior to WWI.

One other thing I might add, is that your last statement would be better phrased "It was the military that built the Roman road network, the military that split the atom, and the military that sent man to the moon."
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I used to do that, but my clear impression was that pandering to Silicon Valley trope was a more consistent way to have votes. I repeatedly got bad scores when pointing at problematic misuses of statistics, and unhelpful US-centric focus. I hesitated to keep on, but I stopped both when I learned my score affected my ability to contribute.
Don't take your cyber security for granted!
Thanks Eric for this post ( https://plus.google.com/u/0/+EricTaiebWalch / https://twitter.com/teknologism ), you are an amazing community member!
> specifically, they don’t silence minority groups—we’ve looked into this

I would love to have more details about that: what do you define as minority, and how do you measure ‘silencing’.
I've recently built http://cycle.travel/map which does indeed take elevation into account when planning a route.
At least there was nothing unethical in this one unlike the later OS/2 2.x fiasco.
I know! If nothing else, it's REALLY BAD PR. No other company has ever done this to me. Leave it to some manager at Microsoft to OK this.
You can't both claim not to have received the unsubscribe order and write "Did you know your current contact settings have cancelled all Microsoft email communications to your inbox?"

So, at he very least, that is impolite. I think the way to act is to send out a conformation message that includes an invitation to return: "you are now unsubscribed from all our email messages. If you want to change that in the future, do..."

But of course, you should only do that very shortly after the unsubscribe, not weeks later and certainly not months later (I don't know how much time elapsed in this case, so I might just be a poorly worded confirmation/reinvitation)
After Google and AWS prices cut, it would make sense that SaaS vendor also cut their prices ...
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On the weekend of May 24th and 25th, 2014
It's due to parseInt having an optional second parameter, the radix, and map passing the index as the second paramater, hence:

xs = [
parseInt('10', 0),
parseInt('10', 1),
parseInt('10', 2)
]
Being on both sides of the table is always instructive. I'm sure voting has made me more thoughtful. Hours spent considering comments that combine a useful insight with snarkiness and deciding whether to up- or down-vote them has made me lastingly less snarky on the internet.
With the bad press Mozilla has had the past few weeks it is easy for people to forget about some of the awesome things Mozilla are working on such as Rust and Servo. I really like the look of Rust and feel it might be the future native language for high performance applications. It is very exciting!
Government investment got us the internet. Private investors and rent-seeking gave us GEnie, CompuServe, and AOL.

Perhaps your binary thinking is not adequate for explaining the complexities of the modern economy.
He is the maximum exponent (and arguably the creator) of the genre "Magic Realism" and quoting wikipedia:

"where magic elements are a natural part in an otherwise mundane, realistic environment" [0]

He got most of his fame from "One hundred years of solitude".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_realism
The government screws up the tax laws because they have been captured by the lobbying arms of large multi-national corporations, including Apple. It's no surprise then that those same corporations are the ones who get to pay 0% taxes while your average startup or mom & pop business has to pay the 35% corporate tax rate because they don't have a dozen tax lawyers on retainer to get them through the loopholes.

Why give the corporations who spend millions lobbying against tax reform a pass, just because they're "technically" lawful?
You can get 500gb for <100 EUR/year on those cheap OVH dedicated servers.
Private industry tends to innovate in different ways from governments, and it has been crowded out of innovation in many areas, in most Western countries, making this comparison difficult. You could look at industries which have low levels of government regulation and intervention, and try to compare them to government-run industries, to find the comparative innovativeness of the industries. This analysis will give you a mixed bag, with some government-related fields having historically high levels of innovation (aerospace), and others having low levels (education and healthcare). The private sector has many innovative sectors (retail, software, semiconductors, IT) and probably some low achieving industries, though none come to mind.

Those arguing for the positive role of government in disruptive innovation should also avoid allowing the government to 'take credit' for anything in any field which it has ever been involved in, as the private sector is not given the same deference; (McDonnell built Mercury and Apollo, Grumman made the moon lander, and Rockwell designed the space shuttle; Rocketdyne and P&W designed, tested, and built the engines).
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His best known work is "One Hundred Years of Solitude", which sold 20 million copies.

Or, as the OP describes it:

> The Chilean poet Pablo Neruda called it “the greatest revelation in the Spanish language since ‘Don Quixote.’ ” The novelist William Kennedy hailed it as “the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race.”

It's an excellent book, and he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. That said, I'm kind of surprised (but pleased) to see that his passing was noted by HN readers.
Oh I didn't mean to imply it was exclusive, just that I'd feel like I was out of my league. Like I've built a few things with D3 but I still find myself getting confused sometimes, and I've gone through some of David Nolen's clojurescript posts / tutorials and I'm still not 100% clear on the advantages of core.async...but then again I don't use them all that often either.
It's actually 501.

(I spent a few days at exactly 500 wondering why I couldn't downvote yet...)
Agreed. Something along these lines is very likely.
Figures! I installed my first Ubuntu in years, 12.04.4 LTS, literally yesterday.
Very cool way of thinking about it! Thanks for that elaboration.

Re: SoftwareMaven's "why is the 'player character' so important?", I don't think the player character we follow is necessarily any more important than the other player characters. You can say every individual character (or particle in the real-world side of the analogy) has an importance only within its own reference frame and I think it still works.

Just like you can have many players playing the MMO game and "collapsing the state" of different things from their own reference frames at different times, you can have the same be true for the particles in the real-world analogy. No one player of the game is more "important" than any others. The only requirement is that it all stays self-consistent in the backend and across everyone's individual points of view at all times.

But (for better or worse) I don't think what we're talking about now is science, really, unless there's some way to test it.

Maybe you could try to detect a "lag" by doing something that causes an especially large number of states to collapse across an especially large number of frames of references all at once, but I'm not sure if you could do anything that would detect this lag because all of our ways of detecting would be lagging too. (This goes along the same lines as trying to tell if the computer you're using is running within a VM or running natively.)

Any ideas?
I'm not so sure you can really sketch thing out like that.

AIDS was a virus-born epidemic and it is normal for such things to experience exponential growth and decline.

Dementia is part of the process of degeneration resulting from aging, from people basically wearing-out. Like with heart disease or cancer, it seems likely we can only really expect halting and expensive progress in this field.

The most problematic thing is that extending the life of a cancer victim ten years without an actual cure would be seen as a modest gain. Similarly extending the life of an Alzheimer's victim wouldn't be so seen.
I agree that you have to pay more for top talet, but I don't understand how it's not vested. He is not aligned in getting results beyond a year this way. The moment the stock rises he can make himself fired and cashout.

Could you please explain a bit what do they say about Marissa?
You can try using virt-tools (e.g. libvirt, virt-v2v). I think virt-v2v may do what you want: https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_E...
> you don't get to break the law because you disagree with it.

So I guess MLK should have just accepted the current state of affairs, and Anne Frank should have just turned herself in?

The law is not some ultimate moral authority.

>these regulations are arbitrary and exist only to benefit existing taxi companies (which, of course, disagrees with your former claim...),

"Arbitrary" doesn't just mean "random". It also means "based on whim". There is no contradiction.
He probably avoids paying as much tax as he can, but he also probably doesn't spend millions lobbying politicians. The same can't be said for Apple.
> posting feedback in the threads about what's good and bad for HN comments.

Am I the only one who thinks that posting more meta-discussion directly in comments reduces the overall quality rather than increases it?

Maybe a downvote should come with a chance to add an explanation that can be seen on a user's page or on a "meta" page, but not dilute the discussion itself.
Not only that, the email provides me no incentive to resubscribe. It's just like, "Hey! wanna get emails from us again?!!" If they gave me some good reason I might have been interested, but the way it's written it's almost insulting to my intelligence.
Find a comment that was well articulated and didn’t match what you consider the hive-mind; find as many as you can, really: show how those got more downvotes than similar comments matching the majority opinion, and less visibility as a consequence.
> "make some downvotes more powerful."

> Any comment that has [xyz] should allow downvotes to be more powerful.

Hmm, that's an interesting interpretation of that phrase. I assumed that "make some downvotes more powerful" meant that more weight would be carried by some (algorithmically identified, probably based on how they voted on some manually analyzed comments) users' downvotes, or possibly by downvotes made in certain (algorithmically identified) circumstances. The following paragraph ("The majority of HN users [...] reliably downvote jerks and trolls") makes me pretty sure it's the first interpretation. Still, your comment makes me think.

For an HN change to do anything to comments identified by the fact that they contain "personal attacks, abusive language, [...]", it would have to rely on either manual tagging or algorithmic analysis of comments, and the latter would inevitably be rife with false positives. However, your comment makes me realize another option: have an algorithm somewhat-clumsily tag comments based on their content, and give the tag no direct effect, but make it cause downvotes to that comment to be more heavily weighted. It's still sort of algorithmic censorship, but it has no effect except insofar as humans manually express their intent. ... Maybe useful.
> The first is posting feedback in the threads about what's good and bad for HN comments. Right now, dang is the only one doing this, but other moderators may in the future.

I've seen dang do this and I think it's actually quite effective. I'd love to see more of this.
It may be. Hacker News was created to combat the "Eternal September" problem, and if you're a relatively new user who moves against the consensus, you may be the problem it's trying to solve. Although, I suspect the intent is to encourage civility more than groupthink (even with the new group moderation feature, I think real censorship would be impossible without a large scale purge of new users - the diversity of opinion is just too great.)
That is because "Google Patents" simply refers to everything as a "patent", which is incorrect in this instance.
Judging by the Subway example which spent "5 millions $" to upgrade its "cyber security systems" (what?), almost any direct or indirect loss or cost incurred during or after the hacker attack can be imputed to the perpetrator. It's like if I have a weak entrance door and some thief enters and steals something then I can say that he caused me loses of millions because I had to upgrade all the doors in the house and hire detectives and a security company to guard me better from now on.
"Chronicle of a Death Foretold" also appears in a lot of US advanced (IB/AP) high school English classes, which I suspect many HN users took.
I think it's not quite that simple. We're more than just our chromosomes. How much more is a matter of philosophy, but even restricting ourselves to just what we know by science, we know that the fetal environment, mitochondria, etc. play a role. Artificial cloning methods as I understand them are distinct from the way natural identical twins form. If it were so simple to reproduce "natural cloning", it would already done and commonplace. In reality, it seems to require quite a bit of hacking.

I don't think something having a natural analog makes it any less unsettling. I also have not specifically advocated anything, although it's probably clear that I have reservations.