skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We try to support the newer things that are generalizations of the older things. One example of this doing all your list styling with a user agent stylesheet using generated content, instead of hardcoding how list bullets and things work. Also, in some sense, we are doing what you want simply because we don't have a lot of features yet and we prioritize things that are important and things which would have some affect on parallelism or architecture.
No one should care about those.
Maybe if people stopped supporting old crusty systems, the owners would realize they should upgrade.
“Many years later, in front of the firing squad, colonel Aureliano Buendía would remember that distant afternoon his father took him to see ice."

Best opening line of a book ever. RIP.
His books were part of my adolescence, but "One Hundred Years of Solitude" was the essence of my formal education, I am sad he died but I am utterly glad he's lived.
This has been posted several times. The first was rightly killed by user flags. We're killing (or burying) the reposts, first as dupes and also as inappropriate for HN. The story is (a) off-topic, (b) designed for outrage, (c) if it isn't propaganda, would require careful sourcing to show it—something that HN is the wrong place for.
> All technological development in the The US and UK prior to WWI.

Like the transcontinental railroad? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Railroad_Acts.
I think I unsubscribed years ago actually.
"suburb"

Yeah, it turns out there's a lot more space in suburbs than urban centers.
I wish there were multiple kinds of downvotes. "This is actually bad" (spam, etc.) vs. merely useless, vs. factually incorrect but reasonably presented.

There's arguments for and against that.

On the one hand, we do want to minimize the mental effort put into making a valid vote by a good community member. Up/Down is the simplest, and it is mentally the easiest. When you ask someone to put that vote into a category, that person may or may not then choose to vote at all, and we've missed the opportunity to capture a bit of information.

On the other hand, requiring a little bit more thinking effort may yield more information on average, and help better quality comments rise.

We do kind of have a two-tier vote system now anyway. You can downvote a comment that is just crap. And you can flag a comment that is awful (spam, etc.).
That sounds pretty arbitrary to me. What is "a standard of vehicle"? Who defines that? What if I don't mind riding around in a shitty car if I have to pay less?

Über also avoids the need for regulation of vehicle quality by having a rating system. There are better, more efficient ways to solve problems like this than by legislating against them.
If you're not allergic to Java, there's Flying Saucer:

http://code.google.com/p/flying-saucer/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Saucer_(library)
Once in a while I post a comment that starts out in negative number territory before those smarter readers come along. :) But I think most of those cases are cases I encountered before the most recent algorithm change.
It's a case where your short-term choice leads to long-term pain if you actually succeed in your start up.

Should you really be making short-term decisions like that if you're not planning to fail?
Scala 2.11 is out – release notes
And since 0 is falsy we get 10 for base 0.
It's really not that bad with today's computer algebra packages. Here's a simple example in Sage that works most of the time:

p = random_prime(2**512)
q = random_prime(2**512)
n = p*q

P.<x> = PolynomialRing(Zmod(n))

partialp = p - p % 2**224 # most significant 288 bits
f = x + partialp
root = f.small_roots(X=2**(224), beta=0.5, epsilon=2**-5)
assert(root[0] + partialp == p)

partialp = p % 2**288 # least significant 288 bits
f = x + partialp * inverse_mod(2**288, n)
root = f.small_roots(X=2**(224), beta=0.5, epsilon=2**-5)
assert( root[0]*2**288 + partialp == p )
This is what I see when I run Acid2 in Servo. Perhaps they haven't merged the changes in to the public repo yet.

http://cl.ly/image/1b123r220P3u
> somatic cell nuclear transfer isn't really cloning because it doesn't include the mitochondria.

That really depends on how you define "cloning". It absolutely can be considered therapeutic cloning, and it would serve as an initial step in reproductive cloning.
This is certainly part of the intent, and it has already started to happen in some limited ways. For example, Bobby Holley noticed that certain document.domain changes could make implementing parallelism hard and worked to address this in the spec.
Yes, I think Richard Henderson put in some effort in optimising TCG, which has helped.

My take on the KVM vs TCG split is simply that in the end open source projects are driven by the people who put in the work, and inevitably if there's a set of people whose day job is to work on the project then it's going to tend to improve in the areas those people and companies need. And in general the people working on the emulation side of things seem to be happy enough with the performance levels we currently have: I see plenty of patches to add new ARM boards or fix issues with devices, or to fix bugs in the linux-user emulation code. In comparison, there doesn't really seem to be much interest in TCG performance (and serious improvements in performance, though possible, would be a six month or longer project to achieve).

The particular bugs you note are even further out in the cold since x86 guest TCG in particular is pretty much orphaned and MIPS is not a great deal better (though I have been heartened to see recent contributions from Imagination).
There are so many good WTFs in JS, but this is not one. parseInt expects 2 arguments and Array.prototype.map provides 3 to the callback it is given. Both of these facts are very well documented and known.

var mappableParseInt = function(str){
return parseInt(str, 10);
};

['10', '10', '10'].map(mappableParseInt);

I'd suspect this snippet is more a snipe at people who don't know JS very well and expect parseInt to be base-10 only.
This does not appear to be any kind of official action but some kind of agent provocateur simply passing out leaflets.

The leaflets bore the name of Denis Pushilin, who identified himself as chairman of "Donetsk's temporary government," and were distributed near the Donetsk synagogue and other areas, according to the reports.

Pushilin acknowledged that fliers were distributed under his organization's name in Donetsk but denied any connection to them, Ynet reported in Hebrew."
Slashdot tried this, without much success. All the -1 mods were treated pretty interchangeably (can you distinguish between "-1, Flamebait" and "-1, Troll"? Is your distinction going to be the same as the next modder? And much of the time they were really being used as "-1, I Disagree" anyway).

As were the +1 mods, for that matter, save "+1, Funny".
Thanks, guys - didn't come to say anything more
"One Hundred Years of Solitude" was the only book that everyone in my family ever read, me, my wife and my three kids.

"Mr. García Márquez, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, wrote fiction rooted in a mythical Latin American landscape of his own creation, but his appeal was universal. His books were translated into dozens of languages. He was among a select roster of canonical writers — Dickens, Tolstoy and Hemingway among them — who were embraced both by critics and by a mass audience." from the article.

But the article doesnt begin to do the book justice. The mythology is Colombian but it all is real to the reader. It is very worthwnile to read One Hundred Years along with a literary biography of Marquez. It was a wonderful experience for me. BTW my taste is purely science fiction.
By "theirs" do you mean a clone of themself? That's a pretty weird prospect to me. I don't see how cloning could be used to create an embryo that shares only one set of chromosomes. If the woman's eggs are still viable, it seems like regular IVF could be used. Or am I misunderstanding your point?
Check out northern Colorado. Between Denver, Fort Collins, and Boulder there is a fair bit of tech, cost of living is decently low(outside of Boulder), and you can live right next to a national forest.
The key is that you are only presented with one captcha per request. But if you fail too many, you get labelled a spammer.
I've always thought of upvote/downvote as a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" - do I like your comment?

Sounds like the new algorithm penalizes disrespectful/spammy comments, rather than the "difference in opinion" comments (which is good). Could a 3rd option be added to differentiate this, though? Have option for upvote, downvote, and mark as spam (I'm thinking a "no" symbol).
I've only seen HackPad and my impression is it was built upon Etherpad. Someone confirm that? I don't want to sign up a new account just to find out.
Upvoting should be lightweight, but I'm ok with downvoting requiring slightly more effort (picking a reason).

I probably upvote 20x more than I downvote, if not more. (this would be an interesting statistic to show the user on his own profile page, or even to make globally visible).
I'm glad to hear that these changes seem to be working. One thing I am (slightly) concerned about is the occasional funny/witty/hilarious comment that will get downvoted into oblivion rapidly. It isn't necessarily that it is a troll posting, but maybe someone injecting a bit of humor.

That said, I do understand if the mods/community do not feel that witticisms have as great an importance on HN - yes, seriously - so this is not a criticism, just an observation.
Collapsible comments would be awesome, but having them count as a downvote wouldn't make sense to me. There are other reasons to want to fold a thread.
Personally, I fold almost everything once I've finished reading it. I don't think it's a a very strong signal about the quality of the comments.
First and foremost: I apologize for making a comment that came across as hostile.

Perhaps my intent would have been clearer if I had said, "I don't think it WOULD BE fair to say...". I did not mean to suggest that you personally believed this to be true. That said, you were clearly suggesting that it is a possibility should be taken seriously, perhaps more seriously than biomedical experts have done to date.

And my addition of italics was entirely to emphasize which part of that suggestion I was responding to. In retrospect, a more careful post of mine ought to have said "[emphasis added]", though that still feels a bit like overkill to me. I think in the context of a threaded discussion I unthinkingly assumed that readers would have your original words and context freshly in mind when they saw my response.

It's disappointing to me that, given our evident agreement on much of the more substantive part of my comment, you took my initial words to be a hostile and deceptive attack.
Which is odd. I wonder why they checked for falsiness and not the argument being undefined.
I don't see much difference between giving science team a grant and giving research company money to develop cool robot. Either way it's giving money to the people that free market doesn't want to fund so they can do the stuff that free markets deems too risky to undertake.
Assuming this was a smart acquisition by Dropbox, they'll be able to create more value now than they were before the acquisition. Unless you're arguing that the acquisition is actually wealth-destroying, it seems pretty selfish to oppose it.
Out of interest, what are the reasons you don't want to be able to 'render everything we've ever seen'?
This is interesting, but I have no idea if it is true or not. Would love to seem some data on this.
Avg is very important, i had an account a few years ago that was a few years old. I made one to many "bad" comments without thinking, and I got shadow banned.
How do you beat it? I always assumed the new pieces appears at random points and it's impossible to beat it other way than by coincidence?
The first class should be flagged. If you click through to the permalink for the comment, you should see a flag option.
I think he's agreeing with the absence of low value comments near the top but suggesting that comments that may add value are being forced from the top.
Yes, the restrictions are interesting -- I've personally noticed (corrections/additions welcome):

- Cannot downvote comments in threads older than 24 hours

- Cannot downvote comments in response to you
Will there ever be the ability to upvote a story without it going into your "Saved stories" section? 99% of the time I upvote a story it's because I want to save it for future reference. I'd like the ability to upvote (and downvote) stories based on whether they're HN-worthy without it impacting the "Saved stories" section.
okay, now that is beautiful!
Totally this. I've normally been well received but believing state discrimination is bad regardless of what ones personal beliefs are saw a wave of down votes rain down (re: eich- don't even try to reply to that point, I've given up arguing about that here).

Hopefully the algos take into account that sometimes one just holds views which go against the community but aren't malicious.
I think slashdot intentionally(?) picked silly voting reasons.

Spam, Mean/Abusive/Rude, Incorrect would cover the vast majority of reasonable downvotes, I think, and are fairly distinct and intuitive. There are some gray areas about downvoting (something which is interesting but offtopic: is that spam?), but I don't think those gray areas usually are between two of these categories.
I read six of Garcia Márquez's stories in school - my favorite was "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World"[0] ("El Ahogado más Hermoso del Mundo"). If you're looking to get a taste of his writing but don't have time to read an entire book, this short story captures his style very well.

In a similar vein is "An Old Man with Very Enormous Wings" [1] ("Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes"), which was referenced in R.E.M's music video for "Losing My Religion[2]

[0] https://hutchinson-page.wikispaces.com/file/view/The_Most_Ha...

[1] http://www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/~cinichol/CreativeWriting/323/Mar...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if-UzXIQ5vw
OwnCloud's plugin architecture allows for all of these things mentioned. But plugin authoring for OwnCloud is opaque and tedious. There's a Hello World and a few examples, but the environment isn't fun to work around.
Jcabi-http 1.4 can filter HTML through Jsoup
> If you are stuck behind NAT at home then you can't without paying for server resource externally

Actually, no. I run NAT on my firewall/router, and still host the services. It just takes tweaking the Linux iptables rules to run externally visible services, while still running NAT in general. Again, a "knowledge" and/or "convenience" issue, but not a technical issue.

> What do you do for secondary DNS?

I use Afraid.org for secondary DNS, but if my home link is down (hasn't happened yet...) then the service (email/web) is also down so I'm just "offline" until the link comes back up.
A War for Founders is Underway Worldwide
Well, yeah.

I think the popularity of lisp comes down to the hostility the mit ai lab had towards noam chomsky who in the 1960s spoke out about the vietnam war and thus bit the hand that funds cs research.

All other computer languages (except for forth) embraced formal grammar concepts but mit rejected them out of spite.

If mit had stopped burning the dragon book and embraced algol syntax we might have been spared the horrors of c, c++ and java but no, they just gave us 1 more reason rt 128 is a boulevard ofbroken dreams.
Yes, the fix (a submodule update for rust-layers) is blocked on a Rust upgrade which is currently in progress.
Facebook’s New Twist on Location Sharing Puts Users in Control
The original source is at http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/structural-integrity/
The abstract syntax was intended to be used writing programs until designers could get around to creating a concrete syntax with human-readable punctuation (instead of Lots of Irritating Silly Parentheses), but programmers soon got used to programming directly in abstract syntax.

That's some programmers who got used to the syntax. It may be absolutely true that once you get used to LISP's syntax, it is better than any other. The problem is that since one is dealing with human beings, and with human beings you have the power of first impression and the tendency to make snap decisions based on these, people initial difficulty in grokking LISP's syntax is always going to be a hurdle for the language.
The numbers on the top left don't have any correlation with the elements, right?
Why give the corporations who spend millions lobbying against tax reform a pass

Because unfair taxation is just a symptom of the core problem of too much trust in an institutionally corrupt government.
Your point is well taken. It is up to each user to decide whether or not this is a disincentive to commenting in a particular thread.

I use fluctuations in my comment karma average as a reality check on how I am doing recently in making constructive, helpful comments. But I burn average karma sometimes in

a) mentioning duplicate submissions (this kind of comment rarely gets an upvote, although I try to upvote most of Colin Wright's comments of the same kind)

or

b) answering direct follow-up questions someone asks me (which often aren't even upvoted by the person who asked the question).

You can tell I care (at least a little) by the examples I'm providing here, but I try not to worry about it too much. The single best thing to do for average comment karma score (for whatever that's worth) appears to be to make consistently good comments.
Pyro Board: 2D Ruben's Tube
On reddit, I often collapse long threads of comments if I'm bored of reading them (I have neither the time nor the attention span). It has no bearing on their quality.
The Golden Gate Bridge might be a well studied form of this (it's a fairly common suicide location, and a visible landmark across much of SF). i.e. do people commit suicide more frequently if they have a view of the GG Bridge vs. a view of something else?
A list of tips and tricks in client/server API design (presentation)
And now we may never know why Mario Vargas Llosa punched him in the face.
What I built when I stopped experiencing fun
Not to be pedantic, but the Rabassa translation reads:
"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."
He's “a man terribly pleased to have hobnobbed with so many Presidents and Archbishops”

He opened the flood gates of saccharine magic realism which haunts Latin America literature to this day.
And many years after reading that book, I have that line memorized in my head.

I also regret not learning Spanish well enough to read his books untranslated as I understand his writing is gorgeous in Spanish. I'm thankful that his books translated well enough into English for me to appreciate his genius. Farewell, Gabo.
I wish we would treat prison rape like rape which is wrong, period, with no exceptions. I also wish we would treat the mental problems that lead to depression and suicide with the same seriousness as that which leads to drug addiction, prison, and AIDS.

We've greatly reduced death by cigarette related diseases. That was mostly a behavioral problem, so is AIDS. The rest of the items on this site seem to be scientific problems.

Not to get too political but we want to do our best to eliminate all these causes of death. Black males with AIDS seems like low hanging fruit disguised as a real problem with our society.
My gut feeling is that my average karma at any given moment has far less influence on the rate at which I accumulate karma than the quality of what I write, where I write it, and how I edit it.

It's not that I think page placement doesn't have an effect, it's that writing a ten point comment when my average was two still tended earn ten points. Likewise my three point comments when my average is four tend to earn three points.

That said, the habit of deleting my more or less useless comments is a practice that became more permanent at a time when I was attempting to stay above four. But the idea that I was not helping people because I was worried about average internet points, became too strange...my worrying about accumulating internet points turned out to be absurd enough for me. So that's the absurdity I stick with.

Anyway, I understand where you are coming from and I suspect that you'll let yourself fully enjoy HN again.
I bought it and played it. I logged 14 hours on it over three days, and then I put it down. It's a game that sucks you in. Fantastic game, though!
I think you'll find that the python ecosystem is very large and varied.
In my experience, this is a semi-truthful account of how karma on HN is awarded.

I say semi-true in the sense that it's not wholly inaccurate. Valuable and thoughtful posts are rewarded and up-voted.

However, if my goal were to game the system for maximum karma per unit of time & post, I would contribute comments to hot-button issues that were in line with the prevailing mentality.

This is not to be facetious at all. I'm sure the moderators are well aware of this, but it's quite astounding how many up-votes are thrown around in discussions on polarizing topics (e.g. gender issues, NSA surveillance, etc.).
Oh my. A paragon of magical realism and my second favorite author. Rest in peace.

Liking storytelling alone is sometimes not enough to like Marquez, you have to love language too. He uses (some might say abuses) language to impact his storytelling, often using incredibly long, convoluted sentences to weave his narrative. It can be hard to follow, sometimes intentionally, but I find it enormously satisfying to read and follow along with his brain. Like slowly drinking a maple syrup of words.

One of the best examples is the first 15 or so[1] pages of Autumn of the Patriarch[2], where the narrator winds this thread of what has happened slowly, using sentences that span pages, until you realize a shift from what has happened to a sort of what is about to happen. Then a fist slams on the table and the realization strikes you that the first part of the description was a kind of set up, this beautiful ruse. I wish I could be more descriptive but it would give away the delight. It's a great book about terror and despotism.

Marquez is not the kind of thing you can read in a noisy environment. At least I can't. I adore him so much. I could write a eulogy for days.

If you've never read him, please take a moment to read one of my favorite short stories, A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings

http://simonsarris.com/lit/a-very-old-man-with-enormous-wing...

(I've hosted a copy of it (and many more short stories) for ages because most of the copies on the web are plagued with ads and miserable formatting)

If One Hundred Years of Solitude seems too long for you, I urge you to look into some of his very excellent shorter books, such as Autumn but also Of Love and Other Demons[3] and Love in the Time of Cholera.[4]

(Chronicle of a Death Foretold is even shorter, but I do not recommend it as the first Marquez book you read!)

[1] It could be the first 10 or 30 pages, it's been several years, but I am certain it's one of the better (and shorter) examples of his style.

[2] http://www.amazon.com/dp/0060882867

[3] http://www.amazon.com/dp/1400034922

[4] http://www.amazon.com/dp/0307389731
"preventing advancement" is a pretty bold assumption.
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