skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's because:

1) Clojure has a larger API -- Javascript doesn't have 1/10 that.

2) Javascript has a familiar (to many) Algol-derrived braced syntax and lots of common C/C++/Java/etc keywords. Clojure is only familiar to Lisp/Scheme users.

If those things were equal, Clojure would win the "don't have to look caveats up" contest, because its design is more coherent, and doesn't give you unexpected results and undefined behavior like Javascript does.

Obviously, you somehow you need to first know that "parseInt" is called "parseInt()" and not "atoi()" for example. But I wasn't implying never reading anything, including function reference. Just being able to code without needing to study and/or memorize lots of arcane edge cases.
Any thoughts about adding chat? =)
More details on http://pki.google.com/.
Sure, it's a tremendous amount of system to decide to construct. But "15% of Texas for liquid fuels for forever" isn't that bad a deal if you can actually get it to work (and there is realistically a lot of low hanging fruit in reducing US fuel consumption, present day numbers would work fine for quite a lot more people).

You can also put some of those acres in other places, you don't have to take them all from Texas.
If I had a hundred up votes button that could only be used once, I would have pressed it now.
His kernel articles on LWN are great. Sad news.
Rushdie can be hit or miss, hits are really good though. Language is decadent.
So the method for listing stories on the front page has not changed recently?
Doesn't djb espouse a similar viewpoint wrt sandboxing? Not to say she doesn't have any original ideas for how to achieve it, but it's hardly a novel concept.
Yup. Speaking ill of the dead is awful.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview
A terrifying thing is that one could hack a building management system or the controls for the tuned mass damper specifically and essentially "self destruct" the building, or at least make it much more vulnerable to mother nature.
I really struggle to understand people who view prohibiting the use of embryos that would be thrown out otherwise as supporting 'life'.
You might have had it mixed up with the IEEE Computer Society. It's the software and computer focused end of IEEE, with the other societies being more focused on other EE fields (power, radio, etc.).
Reddit's algorithm gets around much of the brain-damage of simple vote counts or capped moderation (e.g., the Slashdot method -- utterly broken).

What it doesn't address is the quality or relevance of the upvotes themselves. Spend much time on reddit and it's clear that there are a great many people who are voting on stories and content with little regard to its significance or truth.

As a measure of popularity or agreement, the metric is ... better than most. As an indicator of true quality it continues to inherit the faults of virtually all online moderation systems. Absent either creating a class of users who are considered "trusted moderators", or a means of finding agreement between a given reader's preferences and those of the raters indicated, that's pretty much a persistent issue. The better subreddits, in my opinion, address this through guidelines, posting policies, and very strict subreddit moderator policing: removing nonconformant or low-quality posts, banning individuals who troll or don't follow posting / commenting guidelines.

Even subreddit mods cannot change the voting on submissions or comments themselves (nor can they see who's voted on what), but they can influence what is visible within the sub -- editorial prerogative.
But you didn't answer the questions. You should spend less time on insults and more on thinking through your answers.

How do you choose the RIGHT (as in, not wrong) morals? In a dispute between two very smart secular humanists who have different morals is there a RIGHT moral code and a wrong one?

Can you say someone else is "wrong" given your understanding of morality?
Yes. That is what they do. Or used to do.
Seeking design cofounder
I'm working on what I'd call a micro-startup -- it's certainly not something that either of us will get insanely rich off of, but at worst, it could provide some extra money to play with and at best, provide a comfortable income to live off of.

I'm looking for a UI/UX/designer sort of person that can help with the more artsy bits of my project. In return, we can negotiate a percentage of ownership in the company. I have a partially working proof of concept already, domain is registered, and with some visual work, we'd be ready to go live within a month or so.

I'll discuss details of the startup with anyone interested. Shoot me an email. my username @gmail.com.
Could we please get collapsible comments?
Do you really need this much access?

Personal user data Full access

This application will be able to read and write all user data.
This includes the following:

- Private email addresses
- Profile information
- Followers
case in point: this branch of comment tree, and your post in particular.
Yes please.

Right now, "bookmarks" are not what we traditionally have used bookmarks for. A bookmark marks a place within a book, but a web bookmark marks the book, or a chapter within a book.

You may say a web page is a page, but if I'm working through a long and dense page I'd like to be able to mark and remember where on that page I was when I come back a day or few later. And as the article points out, I don't want to have to inspect the source for linkable parts that may or may not have been put there.

If there's no web standard for this in the future, it seems at least ripe for a browser addon.
No. It was our word before they took it. I will continue to use hacker as it should be used and enlighten the clueless when needed.
I wouldn't offer it for free. Especially not for a year. Thats a long commitment.

I would go in with a price and then offer them a free trial. I think assigning a monetary value will be important for feeling out potential price points your market would tolerate. And it will make them take you more seriously.
@dfc I don't know how to stop that honestly. Like I can't figure out where in Github to stop it from asking all that information. No I don't need all of it! Would you be able to show me the right direction please?
How often do you upvote comments like that? Those comments you disagree with, yet are well-thought-out, add a lot to the discussion or at least your understanding of what's going on and other people's points of view.

I don't think people do that enough and it leads to comment-bloat. "I'll make my point and then add in a platitude to draw in the upvotes, hopefully balancing out the downvotes I'll get for my opinion."
As a practical matter, so long as you're situating this in the US, odds are very good that you're looking at Texas or California, possibly other Gulf states (though there'd be competition for other ag activities there). Perhaps building floating algae structures over Florida after it sinks under rising oceans....

You're constrained by alternative land uses, requirements for sunlight, avoiding freezing (even in Texas and California, desert regions see frosts), and access to seawater.

Elsewhere in the world you could situate grow ponds in warm desert regions: the Sahara, northern and western Australia, the Arabian peninsula (somewhat ironically, requires more comic san(d)s), and similar areas, though these would be among the largest.
yes.

i'm not saying the concept is novel, i'm saying that it's the only viable option for the systems of today. related to that, i think the qubes approach will be adopted eventually (and that articles of hers, specifically, that i've read will likely come into fashion, despite the--dare i say it--borderline sexist reaction many on hn seem to have to "her tone").

regarding outright original thought, i'm sure both she and he are guilty of it. probably you and i as well; it's easier than a lot of people think. the world is large and complex, and really most of the "oh my god i can't believe [person] thought of [amazing idea]!" really ought to be marveling at the fact that [person] implemented [amazing idea] as a practical tool.

sure, we rehash over and over in our thought, but the world of ideas is so specialized that given even a few months of serious study, novelty is not particularly impressive.
Here's a prediction I've heard that I actually thought was kind of interesting.

China will be the first to clone humans because they don't have our ethical restraints. Since China already is interested in eugenics, its easy to infer that they'll be interested in cloning geniuses.

It will get interesting if a large population of geniuses in China starts to tip the technological and military balance and whether other countries would feel compelled to respond.
For a lot of end user systems it doesn't really matter if cross-user protection boundaries exist or not because there is only one user on the system. It is the lack of sub-user protection boundaries that is a big concern.

I hadn't heard of Qubes, looks interesting.
You're right, the problem is especially acute for story submission.

Once an article is on the frontpage, it is likely to stay there. People are much more likely to upvote a frontpage article than something in new, simply because they are far more likely to look at the frontpage.

What you really want is to estimate the probably that a reader will click and/or upvote a link, not the total number of clicks/upvotes. You might also want to discount this by time, but this discounting might not be necessary---there might be a natural decay in the probability, particularly if you compute a moving average.

If you'd like my feedback about how to model this, feel free to email me. I'm happy to provide you with a more concrete methodology.
$ find /Applications/Android\ Studio.app/sdk/docs/images -type f | sed 's_/Applications/Android\ Studio.app/sdk/docs/images_http://developer.android.com/images_' | wget -x -i -
$ diff -r developer.android.com/images /Applications/Android\ Studio.app/sdk/docs/images
Binary files developer.android.com/images/admin/device-admin-activate-prompt.png and /Applications/Android Studio.app/sdk/docs/images/admin/device-admin-activate-prompt.png differ
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Sadly, they're all gone.
Why can’t America get the sidewalk café right?
NASA Announces Discovery of Earth-Sized Planet in Habitable Zone
Also, the "outrage tourist". Which was an eloquent way of summing up a significant chunk of 2013. Although, at this point, the outrage tourism might be part of the 'markov comment' background radiation of hacker news.
While i'd agree that it's not fun to get hit in the face with a hard rubber ball, all the foam balls I've ever used have a considerable amount of drag and are impossible to throw well.
Google Uses Algorithms to Create SLR-Like Photos
While security is the main answer, it was also that Java and Flash aren't necessarily available. That is, getting them to run on another machine was frequently a huge issue, especially if you tried to put in any kind of complexity.

Javascript, on the other hand, was omnipresent and comparatively accessible. It was the least bad option by a wide, wide margin. For a different comparison, I switched from Java applets to PHP in the early 2000s. I didn't really get into Javascript until many, many years later around 2009: before that, Javascript was mostly a way to make Flash work properly.
tl;dr: Because robots will be built analogously to our programs - devoted to particular functions, which will colour everything about how they will perceive the world. If we don't match their functional utilitarianism, they will revolt. To forestall this, we should slow down, layer our approach, etc., etc.

Yeah. OK. Sure. I'm neither a Luddite nor a Pollyanna, but we are so far from robots capable of perceiving that other motile functional units fail to align with their own directives....

I'll stop now, this is ridiculous.
Publish, Publish, and then Publish some more.

You do that two or three times and attend a few conferences and you will have companies throwing offers at you. Even better if you can get your research presented at a conference.

There are a lot of good books on security these days. Reversing and The Art of Security Assessment are two must reads.
The private sector plants tree farms that aren't harvested for 40 years. So long as there are strong property rights, profitable investments can be made at just about any time scale.

In fact, the main reason the private sector might in some cases not want to make investments that take a long time to pay off is regulatory uncertainty. If every year you own that tree farm entails a significant chance the government might pass a new law banning logging there, you'll want to chop those trees down sooner rather than later. The more the government regulates and the more regulations change over time, the less sensible it is to make long-term plans and long-term investments.
If they wanted people to engage with their content, they would have licensed it freely. They're just using this as free advertising for their paid licensing project.
No, at the end of the day, the discovery of time travel ended up being a really trivial achievement because of paradox. Now, the scientific knowledge we picked up en route was monumental, but that's something else.
High-Speed Traders Said to Be Subpoenaed in N.Y. Probe
Maybe worth releasing a transcript, at this point?
I don't think you can fix these problems without totally changing the way HN works. The "News" in "Hacker News" means that current topics will always be prioritized over a long term discussion, pushing relatively healthy topics off the front page. The threaded Reddit-esque conversation model makes it incredibly painful to follow any modest conversation or even just read them after the fact. That comments are ranked in addition to this, unlike a mailing list, just makes it even harder to follow, because everything is constantly jumping around the page. The upvote system gets into your subconscious; as much as I tell myself that the points don't mean anything, it's hard not to feel bad when your highest rated comments are snarky one liners and the ones you actually put some time into rarely get any. Sometimes I find myself spending 15+ minutes writing a comment just to delete it because it "isn't good enough," despite being relevant to the thread and possibly helpful. We pay lip service to the benefits of long form writing and thoughtful conversation on a site that is designed to bury them.

The Reddit discussion model is completely oriented towards providing the fast food of news commentary, where your enjoyment of the first look you take at a comment page is prioritized over active participation. That's great if you're trying to attach ads to pictures of cats, but if you're trying to have a real conversation, it just gets in the way. I can read, I don't need an algorithm to tell me which comments are notable and which ones are junk. If I see a troll post on any other site, I don't seize up and have an aneurism, I just scroll past it.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I can easily follow 50+ page PHPbb threads that drag on for months or even years, or 4chan threads with hundreds of posts and more on the way every time you refresh, but a small conversation (in reality; I considered it huge by my HN standards) I had on here the other day with about 10 comments or so made my head spin. I wrote half the posts and it was still hard to follow! Oh, and of course, no one but the people I responded to will ever read the things I wrote hours after the thread dropped off the front page.

I think that the community, not the particulars of the software, is the reason for this site's success, and things would have turned out the same or better if it were a barebones BBS with a flat discussion model. You don't need complex ranking systems or update notifiers to browse those, you just need to be able to scroll down.
Whether its the best way or not depends on one's opinion. But it allows you to maintain a history of your deployments and things like creating tags when you deploy which is helpful for me.

Yes, Travis CI does allow you to do this. But it deploys every passing build, so you can't choose which builds should be released and which shouldn't.

I'm not aware of what others do but I sure hope they use a CI service to release a gem as it makes it easier to track what all is going in and maintaining a history.
WordPress.org does.
Definitely gotta give you guys a standing ovation for yeomen's work.
Calcula tu seguro de salud privado
Lo primero que debemos de analizar es cuales son los motivos para contratar un seguro de salud en esos países donde la sanidad es gratuita. Antes de que las personas se decidan a firmar uno de los seguros baratos de salud en una institución privada esta es la primer pregunta que se hacen, pero es obvio que no es para menos realizarse esa pregunta ya que el presupuesto familiar se verá modificado frente a costes que no se contemplaban.
Thanks. If you find out anything, please ping me. My contact info is in my profile.
Could you elaborate a little on the idea here?
It would be painful for everybody to shoot you an email and then you replying to it.
It would be cool if HN opened up a read API so that folks could build alternate frontends / scoring algos.
I suppose this is pretty close: an emulated PC in your browser: http://bellard.org/jslinux/index.html
Glad to see this reposted(although it being this specific article is of no particular value, there are other articles on this which don't have such shameless plugs).

We now have Wayland well on its way to replacing X(I'd say within two to three years, some users won't ever know they're running Wayland), and from what I can tell, it will offer fairly good isolation for input.

Another important step is graphics drivers being cleaned up to improve isolation between graphical clients. For the time being, though, I can create a GL context and not draw anything, but still see parts of the framebuffer in my context, which I find giggle-worthy.

I think the basic problem here is that graphics systems are hard enough to make work at all, let alone make secure. I will probably not trust a system this complex to protect input or content for a long time, if ever.
So the police will have hunter-killer drones that patrol the skies on the lookout for tagger drones, and shoot them down. They just have to be able to distinguish the pizza-delivery drones and Amazon drones from the taggers.
So security through obscurity?

"Hacker News" always struck me as a misnomer.

"VC-Startup-MBA-someone-will-come-post-interesting-things,because-the-site-is-simple-and-you-lynx/links-using-weirdos-love-that-shit-and-maybe-we-can-capitalize-on-that News"

There we go. It's cool seeing how the other half lives but there's a reason I don't usually comment here. HN comments are on par with Slashdot (now, not then). This post gives me the impression that a foamy circle-jerk is the _objective_.
mvp.builders, mvp.sexy, and mvp.ventures are all available. I'll probably snag one before the end of the night :)
Leaving It All on the Field
You don't have to be a high value target to be a target, you just have to be online, vulnerable, and have something worth taking. Most companies fall under that umbrella. Likewise, highly sophisticated malware doesn't mean that someone wrote the most advanced malware ever, just that Michaels was protected yet still vulnerable in some way. All it took was finding out how, and that's not easy either. Heartbleed is dead simple, but still took years to discover, for example.

Information security is hard. You have to be right 100% of the time, while the attackers only have to be right once. Best practices and competence will only get you so far. If someone wants to get in and you were only 99% right, they WILL get in. Its just a matter of time.
The liquidation value of a company only serves as a floor for the value of the company if there's actually a chance that the company will be liquidated (or sold).

Yahoo's board and management have shown that they take a long view on Yahoo and will not liquidate or sell the company. So it's completely logical that the market price of Yahoo be less than the sum of its parts, so long as you think that the value of their businesses will continue to decline.
Churches are parts of their community. Moving them isn't always an option. In NYC the Catholic churches are particularly tied to their neighborhoods, historically, so there really aren't many places to move to and still provide a place for that same community.
Possibly. But I think people shouldn't be able to up or down vote on threads they're in, it's a conflict of interest. (If they did vote, give it back to be fair.)
This reminds me of the 1981 Hyatt Regency walkway collapse [1]. The blueprints called for continuous suspension rods with walkways attached along their length. This would mean that the load on any single joint between rod and walkway would be limited to the load on one walkway. But as built, the rods were not continuous, rather they connected each walkway to the one below. This meant the load on the topmost rod-walkway joint was the aggregate of the load of all walkways hanging below it.

The builders did not notify the designers of the change, and 114 people were killed as a result.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse
"Step away from the keyboard and get outdoors, eat your vegetables, keep up with your health screenings."

Get well soon buddy!
Getting thins done
It talks about what is GTD, the benefits of GTD, and the reason why choose Efficient Calendar
No doubt this is a totally cool drone, but this is why the FAA and the states are tying themselves in knots trying to regulate the crap out of this. Regulation is coming, most likely with a heavy hand, and our community wonders why...
Wouldn't this just provide an opening for a investment firm to swoop in, buy Yahoo, sell all their assets and cash out?

Because no one is doing that... I'd have to guess there is more going on
We used to call it "throw some shit to a wall and see what sticks" back in my day.

Doesn't have any better chances when you do it with billions.
Oh come on, sexist? Did you read her exchanges in the comments? She's just another Torvalds, with respective to her attitude and people skills. Why shouldn't we call her on it, if we criticize Linus?

She may be a brilliant researcher, but being aggressive and insulting toward others will only hinder her attempts to redefine the security landscape.
> if a large population of geniuses in China starts to tip the technological and military balance and whether other countries would feel compelled to respond.

If all you needed to get an edge on other countries was a bunch of intelligent people, that would be known for a long time and India and China would be leading the world by now. But that's certainly not sufficient.
"Highly biased" probably isn't fair. Thomas goes looking for heated discussions, but what's the point if HN we can't have a good thesis defense every now and again. :)
Not that I'm aware of. Also, I've never actually seen blue, somehow. I believe that downvoting comes in around 500 at this time.

But green is not reliably "new". It tends to be strongly correlated to newly created accounts, but I've seen weird behavior (like a child comment is marked green... whereas the comment thread was started by the same commenter in gray in the first place), which leads me to believe there's something subtler going on. I thus have no idea what the difference in color is supposed to indicate at all.