skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> we all miraculously managed to live our lives without having constant access to a telephone.

Well, except for the people who actually, literally died because the doctor who could have saved them couldn't be reached in time.

Doctors on call had pagers before anyone else had even heard of them, much less cellphones. Are you actually taking the position that barring surgeons and other emergency personnel from, not just entering, but coming anywhere near a movie theater is a reasonable solution to the problem of the occasional jerk disrupting your entertainment?
Genuinely curious, what kind of metrics do you use to measure the effectiveness of a change like this?
On the docs: there's a good project underway at learnosm.org to write proper beginners' docs. As soon as they're ready for primetime they'll be linked from osm.org (I believe there's a current issue for that), though they're not quite there yet.

On the "b2b" thing: I think that's a mischaracterisation. It's not "to business" specifically, it's to anyone who wants to make use of the data. There are already OSM-powered consumer-grade mapping sites for particular verticals (I run one for UK cyclists, http://cycle.travel/map) and more are on the way.

But it's not true that osm.org goes out of its way to avoid being a consumer service. It may not be the prime focus (and nor should it be) but there's a lot happening on the user-facing side of OSM: a significant redesign last year, lots of stylesheet improvements underway, and routing going live in the next couple of months, for example.
For some reason, that happens occasionally. Seems to be a CodePen bug, but it does fix if you refresh, as you mentioned.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Humans, a Lemmings-style game
I don't think robustness has much to do with the need for manual configuration. Configuration is needed not (only) because users need to do troubleshooting, but also because they want to adjust and tweak their cars/computers/gadgets to their needs. The current trend is less configuration, less control in the hands of the consumer, more lock-down.

I believe hiding implementation details is part of this trend to reduce complexity (which is good) but also to wrestle control away from the user (which is bad).
The Path->bucket analogy is pretty interesting. Where else are more comfortable buckets being built instead of plumbing?
But how observant are most people? www.halifaxbank.com vs www.halfaxbank.com for instance is a very minor difference. Remember that people misread things all the time, and the more comfortable they are with a string the less likely they are to actually read it.
For this thread I have one thing. To the negative mentions of Taleb, I ask for you to judge FOR YOURSELF in his entirety the man's character for it is misrepresented a lot. Just like Graham in valleywag.

tl;dr A lot of his work is dismissed by high-tier to the bottom to middle of the top tier intellectuals, but if you note his contact with top top tier, it is well received. The bottom to middle of the top tier being people Less Wrong type people who read Kahneman, whereas Taleb actually knows and is friends with Kahneman, knew Mandrelbrot etc etc.

"It's weird. Just last night, actually, in bed, Jessica was saying, "Why does everybody hate us so much? Why is everyone trying to attack us?" I explained that reputation is potential energy." - Graham's essay response to women in tech incident.

It's like the people of the online community want only one personality type, passive, ultra-kind etc etc. Taleb just isn't like that.

You can disagree with him/some of the things he says and still appreciate his place in the intellectual sphere of today and history. It's like at a family wedding where two brothers just get mad at each other, but it's not 'hate'. It's just 'oh you guys'.

If you had to say modern intellectual discourse as Light side vs Dark side. Taleb is the "Thug side", but don't let the contrarian-chic of HN let you be fooled, he actually has legitimate substance and IS relevant.

http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/mandelbrotandhudson.pdf , an essay by him dedicated to Mandrelbrot.

http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/DerivTBS.htm >- Technical work dedicated to his ideas.

If he's good enough for Kahneman, his idea's relevant enough for Terrence Tao. How come the oh contraire crowd here dismisses him so lightly(?)

http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/notebook.htm , there's a lot to him. The way I see randoms talk about Graham & Taleb really colored the way I see public individuals. If you're public, they'll try to character assassinate you as best as possible.
When was the last time you thought about IRQ settings?
So if you get someone killed by blocking their 911 access, it's not your fault if you weren't serious.
SlideREPL
Is there a reason to use that though? From some quick Googling, I can't find any references to it. Also, there is already a term for a piece of a UI that you can click on to do something, one that doesn't have over a dozen other overloaded meanings (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chip ), and one that users would be far more familiar with: "button".
Intuitive/easy to learn does not imply useful. Some times the most useful things are the ones that have a high learning curve. It seems the tech industry has decided that making things easy is more important than making them useful.
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Microsoft has __based pointers - e.g. pointers that are based on others - not sure whether gcc/clang has something like it - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/57a97k4e.aspx
Please. I expect better from you of all people. It sucks being young and seeing two opposing intellectual heroes or sides at each other, yeah sure he is not on the side(or my side in the end) of the LW/OB crowd of AI/Modification etc etc, but it's not true, he's not like that.

What's worse is that at times I actually wondered "I wonder what gwern thinks of Taleb's xyz, or Hanson of Nassim's abc." Your post only further contributes to my melancholy.
And for the purists among us, the GNU Mailutils package.

http://mailutils.org/
I think literacy generally is a very good example to study to clear up some widely held misconceptions about "usability". Usability should not be about making things effortless for idiots, but about improving the overall economics of using something - and literacy is far more economical than illiteracy even though an enormous up-front investment is necessary (learning to read and write is a lot of work).

Luckily, society (mostly) seems to have recognized that in the case of literacy and essentially forces everyone through it, instead of assuming that people are morons that can not be taught anything. Unfortunately, the same can not be said about a lot of recent technological development.
I've used React on Node on the server side to pre-render the initial HTML. It works great and integrated pretty seamlessly.
I haven't done CSS in a while & my site is pretty lame, but:

There's a CSS clip property? And a collapse toggle? holy shit.

This is really cool, thanks!
The point is that unless you are in a specific domain where complexity is an unavoidable necessity (let's take 3D modelling as an example for arguments sake) learning a UI, especially when it is a upgrade of a familiar product, should be a simple task of augmenting existing knowledge with a relatively small amount of discovery. I would argue the ribbon menu largely achieved this, Win8 in my opinion absolutely does not. So much so companies are preinstalling 3rd party addons just to get it to a state where people know how to achieve the simplest of goals.
I guess there is some relationship (albeit tangential) to startups but is this really HN worthy? Seems a bit tabloidy.
Thanks! I've never heard that expression before. I'd be curious to know where it's usage comes from. It sounds like vague, new-school slang.
I'm curious as well, specifically how would you go about tailoring those metrics to different features as they're released. Seems like that could be a pretty awesome/multi-faceted question to see the raw data behind.

That said, I sincerely hope that this particular anti-pattern's efficacy in converting people from typing in URL's to searching for websites isn't the most important metric.
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It's funny that people say not relying on URLs would be anti-web. IMHO this causation is made only on a selection of empirical observations. In fact I think, you could also draw other conclusions from empirical observations.

Let's look at REST. Everybody is using it for HTTP APIs, or to be precise: everybody pretends to use it. Because, as many know, a REST API is only a true REST API, if it follows the HATEOAS paradigm. A paradigm which is in fact really cool. But why do we think it's cool? Because Roy Fielding found in his thesis that the (human) web is basically HATEOAS. He says the web is so successfully because of that.

But in reality... Hardly any HTTP API uses HATEOAS. In fact many popular APIs hide the HTTP stuff completely from the API consumers. (If everybody was using HATEOAS, we would never have to update the client libs, right?) Something similar goes for normal websites. Most URLs are not human readable, even HN is an example. The URLs are just numbers, there was even a post discussing that recently... Most News websites have even more complicated URLs, they are not made for humans and thus to me something like memory addresses. The GMail URLs (the webs most successful mail client) are also very funny looking, I wonder if there are users who manipulate the URLs by hand, or who bookmark their outbox.

I somehow like looking at URLs but am I supposed to edit them as an end user or draw conclusions from their look? (And is Google? ;))

BTW: URLs were interesting in the 90s for identification because only Geo Cities and friends had domains. Now everybody owns a domain.
> Every day large chunks of the world's population are able to drive safely to their destinations. We have illustrated an ability to do this year after year

Yes and no. The accident rate would I think be viewed as completely unacceptable in almost any other activity.
> but Android also allows any app to handle any url, so multiple apps can attempt to handle a domain (like facebook.com), whereas app links allows you to direct the link to a single app (or a suite of apps).

So Applinks suddenly removes the ability of 3rd party apps to say "we can handle this content". I can see why big players like FB would want it - I think this is a bad thing for small players and hence the open ecosystem.
Ben Way is probably best known for being in Bravo's Start-Ups: Silicon Valley with his sister Hermione Way
It's true that the world doesn't end if Dr. Jones isn't allowed to go the movies, or if Mr. and Mrs. Smith get to watch the end credits before finding out that their baby's in an ambulance. But the world also doesn't end if you have to suffer through a rude teenager on the phone for a minute and a half. You talk like your leisure experience is an absolute moral imperative, but everyone else's is just frivolous goofing off and easily sacrificed. Why is that?
What register allocation algorithm did you used?
Reading this very interesting article, I had another thought, completely unrelated to design. What if the average consumer can't or just doesn't want to reimagine so many things at once? What if we can't have so many revolutions?

Consumer apps are already competing with one another -- even if they are addressing completely different domains -- for mindshare, simply because there are just so many things we can get our heads around. What if products that seek to revolutionize something make the problem worse, because we can only revolutionize a very small number of things at once?

Maybe Silicon Valley should come to terms with the idea that changing the world takes a great many tiny, tiny steps, and change does come but at an infuriatingly slow pace, because that's how we're built?
Hopefully everyone feels free to leave their comments about this one, I really enjoy reading it, thanks.
So much cynicism! My experience is that people do have an open mind, especially if encouraged to learn. With the trend towards turning computers into purely consumer appliances, the danger is that maybe most people won't even know there is something to learn.
Rather a lot of people actually live near roads.
> Is it that you prefer to hear both sides of stranger's conversations?

Yes. Hearing just one half is irritating, I think because I can't help expending brainpower on filling in the other side. A speakerphone conversation is much less annoying.
You can still type a URL in when you want, just as easily as you ever could. You can still see the URL, presumably, by clicking the button. The only thing you can't do as easily is edit the current URL, which I rarely ever do.

Calls that this will 'break the web' are hyperbolic. You can still click hyperlinks. That's what makes the web the web.

URLs are untidy, even for technical users, and hiding them when not being entered won't hurt anyone.
I love a lot about R, and I totally acknowledge the benefits. I don't think I would ever stop using it for data exploration and ad hoc analysis.

But after trying really hard over the past 3 years I'm sort of giving up ever being able to use it in a productive reliable fashion for building more complex software. It's a failing on my own part in many ways, but the loose typing and poor support for structuring code interact very badly with my personal style. When I'm working in R I literally spend 80% of my time fighting with the type system, debugging weird and wonderful features of R. I'm at the point where whenever I write an R function the first 50 lines of the code are type checks to make sure the data coming in is what I expect. I came to this point after I started systematically tracking why I was wasting so much time, and nearly every time it would come back to the type of my data being something other than what I had expected or assumed.

So I'm sort of figuring if I'm at the point where I'm writing manually statically typed code in R ... I should look around for a language that's just like R but has at least slightly stronger data types built in.
So is wearing ties.
I think I prefer this one, although I'd put the return at the bottom for convention's sake. A lot of people don't know - or want or need to know - about the specifics of hoisting and what-have-you, and will consider this counter-intuitive.
What people did was be miserable.
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The ISO is undocumented as it is still being tweaked, but you can try i t out if you'd like: http://storage.core-os.net/coreos/amd64-usr/alpha/coreos_pro.... You'll have to use config-drive to provide cloud-config. Report back to the coreos-dev mailing list with any issues.
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Ah. You're actually just trolling, aren't you.

Too obvious, man. The idea is to pretend to be obtuse, not too dumb to breathe. It gives the game away.
Generally correct, though as they expand their offices and their headcount sometimes people have to double/triple up until new space opens up. Sometimes they also get stuck in temporary cubicles but the general goal is an office for every full time salaried (non-hourly) employee.
Reminds me a bit of this classic:
http://armorgames.com/play/6252/timemu
hope the movie is not as one sided as the long version trailer.

aaron knew about the current laws.
aaron decided to break the law, absolutely no grey area there. trespassed, hooked his machine physically up where it did not belong.
aaron tried to be a hero, just like ghandi or mandela.
when he faced similar consequences like those - his weakened state of mind kicked in and he ended his life.

a little bit like a little kid touching a hot plate and then being surprised about the massive consequences and overwhelming pain. where were all his friends and peers during those actions? did nobody notice he was playing with fire? nobody told him to back off?
I think the relevance is in the pattern. A societal pattern. There was a post a while ago about 'how we are embedded in hostile AI'. I think this is very appropriate here.

Feminism isn't what it says it is. The Men's Rights Movement does have some very good points. Women have always been biologically more valuable than men. Feminism just perverted this even more, while denying it.

And I think feminism is finally coming crashing down. Really. Fast. Now.
The only problem I see with this is the confusion between the search box and urls for most users.

I noticed my 10 year old brother trying to find a song the other day in a peculiar fashion. He simply typed in youtube and "genre name." He click on the 2nd link of the search results. Then clicking on the 3rd item of a side bar linking to a playlist. He was navigating the web through links provided by google like we use the directory system.

In this case, knowing the specific url would be mind numbing and utterly useless. However, the distinction between google and the web is just too blurred for so many people.

However, I think drgath's point is ultimately correct. For some people, there really is no internet besides Facebook. For some no internet without Google. Even crazier: I've met someone who does not know the internet without Siri.

If we hold onto things like the directory structure, then we couldn't have "advancements" in user interface design like iOS. Could we eventually get a web without urls like iOS is an operating system without a visible directory structure to end users? I think it would be a big win. The directory structure was replaced by single purposed apps. What will url's be replaced by?
We are working on that, but it will not be ready until Pharo 4.0 (being native and multiplatform is not the easiest task to accomplish, sadly)
Spoiler alert: Unrelated comment... don't they sound like STDs? :-)
For small to medium clusters cloud providers work great. As deployments of CoreOS get larger, PXE booting will probably become the most popular way to add capacity. Plug in 10/100/1000 servers, turn them on and instant capacity added. The upper end of the target scale for CoreOS consists of companies that own their own datacenters or have many points of presence.
Paul's words are pretty mild and don't reflect anywhere near as badly on those involved as the actual decision they made.
No risk of losing traffic to youtube and branding.
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The nautical origin of the 'cat out of the bag' definitely refers to taking the cat o'9 tails out of the bag it was kept in. Whether that, in itself, was linked to hiding a cat in a bag to pass off in a market isn't clear. As always, there is dispute about the origins of terms.
It's actually worse in some ways. The example I'm thinking of is Google Docs, which seems to be a very effective vector for phishing.

With this change, all you'd see is "google.com" which totally seems legit for providing your username and password, without the additional form URL.
Congratulations! This game looks amazing and kudos for the 2 years of hard work and perseverance! It must be really hard to keep motivated as a team for such a long time.

The art and game play looks really good and your composer did a very good job!

I will definitely get a copy of the game!
It reminds me of one of the best platformers in my opinion - Earthworm Jim (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthworm_Jim)
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I found your terrible formatting far more bothersome than the parent comments name.
And i thought i hated chrome enough from ridiculing me every time i tried to copy only the hostname

Click url, it highlights the whole field, click again to remove undesired select all, now finally highlight the hostname, copy, paste on your ssh client and look like an ass for not noticing http was added to your clipboard out of freaking nowhere!
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I cannot speak for zmmmmm but I can think of two reasons (i) performance, not that R cant be fast but you have to pull out heavy machinery such as parallelization much earlier and (ii) its inconsistent and confusing language semantics, and silent and unexpected type promotion/demotions that make it very error prone to develop and debug code in. To me the one redeeming quality about R is ggplot and, ok, availability of push button libraries

I am not so sure about the scope of the 'bleeding edge' part. It is popular among old school, statisticians. Another population (no pun intended) that R is popular in is one where one knows neither statistics nor machine learning but just wants to try out a laundry list of canned methods without a need to understand: pretty plot goes up, yay awesome; pretty plot goes down, ok try the next algorithm (or the other way round). Here I think R is pretty unbeatable in its breadth.

It is not that popular among machine learners. Part of it is cultural, a typical machine learning person will be coming from a CS background and then R grates more.

It has been claimed that R is lisp meets stats, I think that would be Julia now and Lush then. http://lush.sourceforge.net/. To quote Yann LeCun:

"Lush combines three languages in one: a very simple to use, loosely-typed interpreted language, a strongly-typed compiled language with the same syntax, and the C language, which can be freely mixed with the other languages within a single source file, and even within a single function."
The quickest way to create an A/B test?
The source is linked int he beginning of his comment: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia . He was quoting it.
How's the weather over Googleplex today?

while you're at it you might uninstall chrome and install ... don't even remember how the AOL browser was called... But it obviously was superior to any modern browsers with their lowly urls instead of AOL keywords.
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You've talked around my core point a lot, but you haven't addressed it directly at all. What do you do about bugs on the interfaces and interaction of the heavily modularized and unit-tested components?
If you're at the point where you think it's ready, you should consider posting your language to HN. Seems like it might interest people here.

One note: it is indeed possible to create a list of "objects that implement Show" in Haskell, but it's a bit clunky. Look into existential types.
> "thanks to its baked-in gold-bug monetary policy"

The biggest problem with bitcoin that no one wants to talk about, except to say "the means (ridiculous monetary policy) justify the ends of it becoming popular." I thoroughly do not believe it.

Economists have been studying monetary policy for a long time, and I'm no economist, but I know they are pretty convinced that having flexible monetary policy is a very good thing, and having inflation be not too high, and not too low is also very good and important. Bitcoin is overall deflationary, with no monetary policy flexibility. If it did grow enough to be a serious factor in the global economy, I'm convinced it would have a horrible impact.

The distributed network truly does have potential to overcome inefficiencies, but I hope to god there is a bitcoin 2.0 or perhaps several currencies which are more sensible.

They compare it to the internet. Using that analogy, we had ipv4 limits and domain name limits. We changed that. But bitcoin is built for people to be invested in it not changing and not improving in very important aspects. For the technology to have a big positive impact on society, we are going to have to move on and improve the gold-like policy set in stone on its very first day of existence.