skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is frightening, but I wonder about the previous generations. A hundred years ago, how did an individual self-medicate their problems? Was there more crime, suicide, etc. as a result? People don't usually "change" all that much from generation to generation, and I don't want to get into some trap of thinking about "golden days" or any of that nonsense; people have always been fitful and worried, depressive even. How did they cope?

I look at people in my parent's generation who have no hobbies, no outlets, nothing... They are bored individuals who watch the news and maybe do some gardening. I would love to breach the age gap and introduce a great uncle to a video game, or my great grandmother to scrabble online. I feel like the last generation that will ever go lonely unless by decision, and I owe it in part to these fantastical video games.
If your power at home has gone out, then very likely one of these two items is also "off":

1) your internet connection endpoint
2) your wireless router

At which point you could not read any of the emails that an external "service" might receive for you anyway.

Plus, as another poster already stated, email servers retry several times to deliver a message (as required by the spec), so the email just waits in the senders queue until your power is back, and then arrives, a few hours late.
I am indifferent that he died and I hate to say this, but it should have been better to literature if he never existed as writer.
There are a bunch of errors here:

* QEMU calls itself an emulator because emulation was its original intent; that it was possible to relatively easily modify it to use hardware virtualization rather than emulating the CPU was a happy accident some time later

* for the CPU the "virtualization"/"emulation" distinction is huge -- if you can use the CPU's hardware assist to directly run guest code things will be fast; if you're emulating the guest CPU things will be very much slower

* the process being run isn't "kvm-qemu" unless your distro
is providing back-compatibility wrappers (which in turn are only there because the changes to QEMU to make it work with KVM were for some years maintained out of tree)

* KVM is absolutely a hypervisor; libvirt is not, it is a management layer that can configure and control a hypervisor

* you can't use Xen with KVM, because they're both hypervisors
> On the other hand, try selling that to voters...

Aint that the rub?

Solyndra cost taxpayers ~$550 million in 2011. It was an attempt to develop a domestic manufacturing capacity for a next-gen solar panel technology. It failed due to shitty management, but also to the massive subsidies on Chinese panels that dropped PV prices dramatically.

Their bankruptcy is still in the news on a regular basis.

For comparison's sake; US Military-related spending in 2011 was $1.2 trillion. Solyndra's failure cost the same as four hours of 2011's military budget.

[1] - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/Inflation... (2011 Dollars)
I do that too as far as Reddit, but I agree w/ OP. Reddit-style collapsing is useful for reading & skimming but it doesn't persist across browsing sessions. On the other hand, the 4chan UI will hide a thread and all its updates forever. Sort of like if you could collapse/downvote reddit headlines off the front page. (is there a plugin for that?)
I'm Icelandic and we use yava-script, I find it hard to figure out how yay-va sounds.
Treating folding as a downvote-like signal is interesting, but I would like the ability to collapse without it being treated similar to a downvote. Collapsing a branch would be useful in long threads even for branches about which I could not justify sending a negative signal.
"Chronicle of a Death Foretold" (Crónica de una muerte anunciada) is a beautiful piece of fiction, and hugely influential. When I first read it, suddenly a number of other books and films seemed to spring from this single point of inspiration.
Agreed, folding shouldn't count as a down vote. However, in aggregate, if 100 users all folded a thread around the same half-way point, it's telling you something.
Just like with any language, as long as you read the docs of the stuff you use, you don't get this problem (you might get others with automatic type conversion and missing arguments like the speaker says, but not this)... this is just stupid.

Try this:

int subtract(int b, int a) {
return a - b;
}

int test = subtract(5, 3); // != 2, just read the damn docs

Oh, C sucks now !

The talk is quite fun and interesting to watch though.

And the end is pretty cool.
3-D Printer for Candy
I plan a mini 2-3 day holiday every year just to play the latest civilization. Apart from that I play very little but I feel that it's nice to plan ahead so that I can waste time without feeling guilty.
This is more of a wishlist item in my professional life. I'm not trying to dispute the choice you made which is to add an additional type of critical cluster for persistence purposes, since that is how all of such services I've seen so far are designed.

I just wish I could avoid having to maintain Cluster Type A for service discovery and Cluster Type B for data storage.
As someone who doesn't build a lot of SPA's, it's a godsend. Keeps the UI structured and decoupled, but doesn't get in the way. I wonder if it really classifies as a "framework"? I feel like it does, since if I'm using it I'm not using a more traditional "framework" like Backbone or Angular; but at the same time, it doesn't come with all the usual restrictions of traditional frameworks (nor does it provide everything they do, but that's kinda the point).
So you too have been nerd sniped?

At least that is less time than the aeons that can be spent on other games, including 2048. But you do have to wonder how much time people do waste on these things. A weekend of coding for one for the original 2048 and many, many man and child years collectively wasted by the rest of humanity.

Perhaps I will just stick to the occasional spin of 'Desert Bus'...
That same innovation could be funded without also funding weapons development and other destructive wastes of resources. How much more innovation would there be if 100% of the funds went to R&D of non-military applications?

Yes some good does come of it, but at what cost? The whole point of MAD was that it was no longer necessary to develop better killing tools, because any war should be unthinkable. Yet we continue to waste valuable resources, 100s of billions of dollars that could be used for education or humanitarian efforts, on shit like this: http://www.wired.com/2012/03/f35-budget-disaster/

What's the point, other than making a small number of people rich?
Simplest solution: buy a static IP for home

Or, as others have stated, use one of the dynamic dns mapping services.
The problem is that doesn't distinguish the positive time direction, since flipping the direction and running it back past zero would produce the same evenly spread gas.

The resolution that Gary Drescher gives in Good and Real is to stop thinking in terms of a positive and negative time direction, but instead define an away-from-order direction. This is the same direction in which memories (like "wakes" that follow a moving object in the ocean) form, so we will only have memories of things in a pastward, higher-order state. This holds true whether you record the memory in a brain, wake, hard drive, film, or notches on a log: they are all entropy increasing processes, and so all observations will align with the increase in entropy.

It's very similar to the resolution linked in this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7605595

However, I agree that you don't need quantum-specific effects for the explanation; the same thing happens in a classical world. The article and the one linked in the above comment, are wrong in this respect, as you say. Even so, decoherence can be regarded as a special case of entropy increasing.
(> (karma user) downvote-threshold*)

Right you are.
It used to be the case but there are powerful groups having good success in changing it (and making great profits as a result). See http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexmorrell/2014/03/26/can-this-... for one story.

Controlling the germplasm for staple crops like soybeans and corn is hugely profitable. As a percentage of crop inputs, the cost of quality seed has been rising at a crazy rate. Allowing patents of genes is one way of directing money to plant breeding. However, I think long term it is a bad policy, much like allowing extremely long copyright terms on creative works. Society will suffer when the available public domain material shrinks.
This is possible in second tier cities in the states. My wife and I bought a house in oakland at the end of 2012 and do exactly what you say. We're building a permaculture garden in our yard (which is only 40'x50' in back, 50'x20' in front), we can bike to almost anything we need or want, public transit is good, and the area is filled with people in the 25-45 age range (I'm 35). We bought so it was pretty expensive up front (though our mortgage payment is only $1900 a month + $650 in taxes), but there are plenty of rental opportunities as well. Total commute time to my job in SF is 35 minutes (10 bike, 25 bart).

Most second tier cities aren't as close to a major city as oakland is to SF, but you can find what you are looking for if you are willing to live the slightly less cosmopolitan life of SF/LA/Chi/NYC/DC/etc.

Of course, I have no idea how this translate to the UK!
Benchmarks at this point would be pointless, Servo doesn't do so many thing Gecko does that any benchmarks is pointless.

E.g. Gecko renders every element on the page according to spec and spends 10seconds, while Servo renders like two in a millisecond (because it stubs the others).

To make stuff worse, Gecko will be super-optimized for browser benchmarks (like storing previous values of used functions to speed things like sin(x) ) that Servo will look way slower than Gecko, or maybe even Firefox 6.
And I'm sure something to be said for transitional friction.

To me dropbox is very simple: a folder you stick your things in and it syncs. I'm sure Google/SugarSync/Box/Drive etc do that just fine. I rarely if ever go on the dropbox site.

Why haven't I switched to a cheaper option? Too much friction to move things over.
C:\TAD\Text\2CITIES.TXT

ain to her as the sun.
Confide in Madame Defarge. It would be easier for the weakest poltroon
that lives, to erase himself from existence, than to erase one letter
of his name or crimes from the knitted register of Madame Defarge."

There was a murmur of confidence and approval, and then the man who
hungered, asked: "Is this rustic to be sent back soon? I hope so.
He is very simple; is he not a little dangerous?"

"He knows nothing," said Defarge; "at least nothing more than would
easily eleva

----

Unclutered uncultured bitter hateful nigger bitch. God said she was lazy. That's God's assessment of your life.

God says...

rocket_science peace naughty run_away nut_job pride piety
yeah look_on_the_brightside be_quiet_bird humongous stoked
not_the_sharpest_knife_in_the_drawer stunning lifes_like_chocolates
"The government" does not exist. It's just individual people, manipulated by psychological tricks into identifying with a certain tribe.

It's a lot like "the company", actually.

Those two metanymic illusions should probably be compared more on the basis of how efficiently they allocate resources to productive people than their absolute number of successes.

Given only $100 apiece, which could make more--"the company" or "the government"? Remember also that the same $100 cannot be given to both at the same time.
> why would any (self-interested) researcher or institution choose to work for the government vs. private industry

For the same reason researchers choose to do so now: the government pays for a lot more fundamental research than private industry does.
United States v. Microsoft: Deposition by Bill Gates
The William Tell Overture as performed by an Epson Equity I+ Computer
In my opinion,just like SO, downvotes should actually cost Karma. Yes sometimes some messages are just bad and trolling but sometimes people get downvoted just because they dont "go with the flow",and they have unpopular ideas. So if a downvote cost 2 , the downvoter should lose 1 for instance. And please dont downvote me just because you disagree.

EDIT: just proved my point,why am I being downvoted? it was a simple suggestion yet,someone downvoted me,just because he can and it's free. I was not trolling or anything... I just wanted to participate the debate.
I've thought about this a little bit lately, and I've started to believe that it may be difficult to have both; if you let "funny" start to be valued, then it quickly overtakes the other values.

Having spent quite a bit of time on both Reddit comment threads and HN threads, sometimes on the same topics, I find the earnestness and thoughfulness of HN extremely refreshing. At reddit, I feel momentarily amused but then I'm left empty from the total flippancy and lack of substance.
(You mention they exist, but here's an open source plugin that does comment folding and nothing else: https://github.com/andrewheins/HN-Comment-Hider)
I think in his usage final = definitive. As in there may be more, but that signal was the 'were in danger' moment. Not that I agree, just clarifying for him.
It would be interesting if you published stats for each user: how often they upvote and downvote compared to the average for starters.

It would also be useful to know how often other people upvote (downvote) the comments I upvote (downvote).

These stats should only be privately viewable.
If you wrote OpenSSL in Rust, it would avoid bugs like Heartbleed.

If you called OpenSSL from Rust, it would be the same as calling C from Java.

Gist of issue, Rust's static type checker would prevent bugs that caused HeartBleed.
The grammar in this makes it nigh unreadable...
That's harsh. It's supposed to be for fun. Surely you've had more than 4 hours of fun in your life? Not that you have to do it playing Civ V of course.
Snowden Self-Incriminates
>I think it's not quite that simple...

I'm not sure where you are disagreeing with me. I wasn't really trying to simplify anything. I was just saying that genetic clones already exist.

Identical twins are clones. They are genetically identical barring mutation. That's basically a catch-all for copying errors, environmental mutations, fetal environment, etc.

> Artificial cloning methods as I understand them are distinct from the way natural identical twins form.

Correct, artificial cloning is commonly divided into therapeutic cloning and reproductive cloning. The pop culture idea of cloning is closest to reproductive cloning. You mentioned that we were close to creating a 'human clone'. I was just pointing out that there already are clones. We might be talking past each other, I was not saying that we have reproductively cloned (or that the two methods are the same). I was just trying to highlight the fact that twins are essentially genetically the same as what reproductive clones would be, as in the outcome isn't that much different.

People do take issue with reproductive cloning. Reproductive cloning in humans is still hypothetical at this point, but it is theoretically possible and could yield people that are 'identical' in the same way that identical twins are 'identical.'

> 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 didn't really say it was simple or currently possible, I said people take issue with it.

> I don't think something having a natural analog makes it any less unsettling.

Suppose, that whether we like it or not, for better or worse, somewhere cloning occurs. Through no choice of their own, these clones exist. They are exactly the same as the natural analog. They are people that would deserve the same treatment and consideration as you or I. The thought of these people being oppressed is unsettling.
Is grokking Lisp's parenthesized s-expressions actually difficult though? I think that the real problem is that developers believe that they will find it difficult before they try it, rather than actually finding it difficult when they eventually do try it. I don't think I've ever picked up another class of languages faster; even python took more effort from me.

Basically, I think it's a marketing problem.
Originally as a learning exercise (but that was about 15 years ago now). Now just because it is not hard, and I don't have to put up with any arbitrary "rules" from a provider.
On reddit, I collapse conversations to show myself that I've read as much of that thread as I want to, not that I have any particular problem with it. I'll do it for a variety of reasons, the conversation strays into a topic I'm not interested in, or gets too technical. For me, collapsing is a positive, it means I read the thread instead of just passing it by.

While I support introducing collapsible threads, I don't think they should have any weight on the ranking.
LocalBitcoins Names Malware As Cause of Wallet Issues
For example, threading macros in Racket:
https://github.com/greghendershott/rackjure/blob/master/rack...
This product is meant for a very different user base than a library like sklearn. In fact, much of our functionality leverages projects like sklearn, skimage, etc...

Basically what we're trying to do is extend a series of pre-trained models on common problems that don't require any training data from the user.

The drawback of this is that these api endpoints are less flexible than a true library, but the plus is that the user never has to deal with encoding features, or even finding, let alone cleaning raw data sets.
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc (after this, therefore because of this).
But a lot of times "literally" literally means "literally".

Why would you get all arrogant and superior over other people's use of language, then implement such an obviously broken concept? Literally the dumbest thing I've seen all day.
Point taken. In downtown Chicago, I can get an extremely nice 2000sqft+ 2 bed/2bath luxury condo with 2 parking spaces, and still have money left over at $4K/month.

I still believe SFBA real estate to be insane.
The Dropbox 'platform' is razor-thin, and their core offering is fast becoming a commodity.

At the moment, their business model doesn't extend much beyond brokering storage space. They are simply a middle-man between end users and Amazon S3, whose value add is some software that makes the process of storing and sharing files relatively pain-free.

They're good at what they do, and their software is nice, but in the long-run, there isn't much money in what they do.

Diversification is the obvious course of action, but it pits them against major players like Apple, Google, and Microsoft. All of these could probably afford to offer unlimited storage to all their users tomorrow, and if they got the software right, could render Dropbox redundant.
I suspect that your average score had nothing to do with the action taken against you. Rather, it was the accumulation of a certain number of "bad" comments. I also suspect that there was a human-in-the-loop.
Check out the source here: https://github.com/sagnew/2048AgainstCancer
It's pretty fun, one complaint is that it sometimes drops moves or uses ghost votes to put us somewhere we didn't vote for... still cool for a weekender!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7481111

Here's one of them. I could spit through dozens of comments and put a whole list of comments here to satisfy your request further - but would it make a difference? It's well known (and probably verified research can confirm) that vote-systems adhere to common denominator circle-jerking.
Maybe this is a dumb question, but why couldn't they have found another location for the new church? Why did it have to be on the same plot as the Citicorp building?
The problem is monetizing real-time editing of documents. Ideas welcome.
I am seeing some of these issues as well. Also seeing the clock do some weird things. I am going to reset the host in a game or two and hopefully things will get back in sync. The game will probably be way out of sync for a few seconds while I do the reset.
Collapsible comments, please!

I've been using the Hacker News Enhancement Suite extension for Chrome with pretty good success.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...
I appreciate the changes. But while we're on the topic, could I throw out a thought?

It should be easier for a late-arriver on a post to add a useful comment, and have it be promoted. Have you considered using randomization to adjust the score of certain comments?

HN comments seem to exhibit a rich-get-richer phenomenon. One early comment that is highly rated can dominate the top of the thread. (I will note that, qualitatively, this doesn't seem as bad as a few months ago.)

The problem with this approach is that late commenters are less likely to be able to meaningfully contribute to a discussion, because their comment is likely to be buried.

One thing interesting about the way FB feed appears to work is that they use randomization to test the signal strength of new posts.

Have you considered using randomization in where to display a comment? By adding variation, you should be able to capture more information from voters about the proper eventual location for a comment. It also means more variation is presented to people who are monitoring a post's comments.
Meta-comments do reduce quality—no question. They're almost always off-topic, and they have an insidious fascination that can easily take a thread into the weeds. All other things being equal, they're bad.

These feedback comments are a special case, though. First, it's an experiment that we've always intended to be temporary. Second, there's reason to believe that what they destroy in local quality they more than make up for in systemic improvement. Third, I've noticed that—except when I've made a mistake—they almost always get no (or very few) replies.
Why exploiting the flaws in your computer system to get access to things you intended to keep out of reach is bad?

The point of having taxes is for government to extract money from companies that collect lots of money from their clients. If you are using technicalities of the system to go against this goal you are only as bad as a hacker that uses technicalities of system you built and maintain to get access to things that were supposed to be protected.

Don't get me wrong. I don't see nothing intrinsically wrong in using law or any other system to full extent. What makes it wrong or not are additional circumstances. Evading taxes in badly managed country to fund basic research or education is much less bad than putting this money right in the pockets of various wealthy people so they can buy yahts.
In my experience, up/down votes correlate more closely to agreement/disagreement than to whether they are good or meaningful. Knowing the audience of HN is often more important than adding to the discussion. That doesn't mean that good or meaningful comments are useless. But if you do present a good and meaningful argument that goes against the majority, you will often be silenced. This frequently results in that person deleting their comment as the downvotes accumulate. I'm not sure how this is accounted for in the statistics of the site.
Prefacing pedantry with "not to be pedantic" doesn't make what you're about to say not pedantic.
Why the down-votes? It is actually pretty easy to get some tissue from pretty much everyone. And knowing there are perverted, rich individuals out there it's quite conceivable this will happen.