skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I built up 1k in 6 months. Why do you only have 46 rep?...
My best guess is that the questionable legality of Uber discourages them from pursuing it more directly.
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Well, the more the merrier. Apart from the web interface, it doesn't seem to be quite as full-featured (eg, no typed metadata), but I may try out one of these days.

I'd like to note that ledger's manual is second to none. More documentation like this, please.
I think it's equally strong when removing the racial dimension: http://mailp.in/ya7tN221

This is simply good advice, and race/class/gender should have nothing to do with it.
That's only talking about the Alibaba site itself. They own several gigantic websites that in the consumer business (taobao, t-mall, etc).
Seem like good ideas but none of the explain the decline of new business formation.

1. Despite EBay and freelancing self-employment has steadily declined from at least the 1970s[1]. I read somewhere once this has been go inning on for more than 100 years.

2. As shown in the main graph of the original post this has been going on since themid-1970s. So it's secular not cyclical.

3. The graph in the original post shows business "less than a year old" so they don't need to make it to the one year anniversary. So this is not caused by survivorship bias.

I also have a very technology focused worldview but we need to keep in mind while awesome and very important it is only a tiny fraction of US employment and GDP.

[1] http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/02/where-are-all-the-self-employed...
The history and evolution of Hello World, a program that I have taken for granted, was just as fascinating as the evolution of go.

Those little pieces of boilerplate that become invisible to the experienced coder--the main function, the placement of parentheses--have years of careful consideration behind them, as Rob Pike demonstrated.

An excellent and illuminating keynote.
I've wondered what the story was on Go's dependency management, so I'm glad someone brought it up at the end of the keynote. Pike said that it was up to the community to develop tools to deal with that. This is what happened in the Clojure community when Leiningen became the de facto standard, but its dependency management builds on a pre-existing system (Maven). I am curious if this is on anyone's radar, or if it isn't considered a problem.
Perhaps, after all this time, there are fewer questions left to ask.
I think So is being overrun with "Help Vampires" ( http://slash7.com/2006/12/22/vampires/ )

However, the twist with SO is that people looking to inflate their rep actually like help vampires to a certain extent because their questions are usually quick and easy to answer which increases speed at which they can buff their scores.

Combine these two and you get a community where posting hard, reaching, questions with in-depth answers becomes the exception rather than the norm.
I think you've inadvertently explained part of the problem here.

The people who have the most influence on SO are not the ones most interested in using it for questions, but the ones most interested in improving their "score". It should be obvious that this outcome is both perverse and extremely difficult to avoid.
The root cause is the same as this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7650799 "Why is Stack Overflow so negative of late?"

SO has become the go-to site for everyone who thinks they might want to solve a problem using a computer, and really lame, poorly researched questions get asked by people with few incentives to ask good ones.
Still trying to find a suitable "python to js compiler written in js that runs in the browser" project.PyPy.js is unfortunatly too big and all the other projects i found are either written in python or dont pass the browserify step.I need a transpiler that runs in the browser.
What a completely vacuous crock of shit. There are important differences to understand in cross-cultural communication, but none are inherently superior. Something inane in one culture could be awkward and insulting in another, no matter what it is.

For example if a date or someone I was out with said to me, “Whatever oil well you own, I hope it keeps pumping!”, my cultural background would lead me to believe this was implying I was spending outside my means, as I'm clearly not an oil-tycoon and shouldn't be spending like one. I would then be forced into the situation of trying to downplay my financial situation, the opposite of what the comment intended.

In the case of someone asking me what I do when I'm unemployed, I'd give the answer I've heard many people from my similar background give, "I'm between jobs.", which often results in polite condolences and moving on. “So how do you spend your time?” would be somewhat off-putting as well, as it could imply that you assume I don't work, which would be insulting in my culture.

Cross-cultural communication doesn't have some one-size-fits-all correct answer. It requires effort on the part of all parties.
Does Portable-VirtualBox itself only run under MS Windows?
Just wondering, are race and culture really almost 100% correlated in the US? The article seems to imply so pretty directly (conflating the words "race" and "culture" like they're interchangeable).
Based on some of the performance issues with Android 4.4 phones, I would strongly recommend that you port your code over to the Game Closure devkit: www.gameclosure.com and www.github.com/gameclosure/devkit

It's MPL licensed, super easy to get started with, and very fast. It's pure javascript/canvas however, and doesn't support CSS or DOM-based UI.
Seems like instead of rate limiting users ability to ask bad questions, you should rate limit the viewing of bad questions by good answerers. In order to keep up the effort of answering questions, maybe some automation is in order to do best-effort auto answering or collapsing of questions into related ones.
In a manner of speaking what you say is true, because we've classed all forms of crash as being equally bad (infinitely so). And our vehicles were empty of humans, so we deemed their destruction as insignificant compared to harming anything else. I do still think the approach of treating it as an energy minimisation problem was appropriate for our situation, but the differences in the scenarios certainly alter the approach.
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I thought it was just me. The good news is it's an ebb and flow. It comes and goes a few days apart. When I first noticed it I freaked out because that's how it happened at Digg and Reddit. It began with the politicization of topics then the over-politicization of topics and before you know it the moderates left and the fanatics ruled. On hacker news there's enough variety to balance it all out. For now. And hopefully for a long time. Older members should know what I'm talking about.
Upfront I'd like to state that I'm the first employee at famo.us and I've been on Hacker News for 3 years and 10 months, and have a karma of almost 6000. I deeply care about this community, as its one of my primary outlets for intellectual expression and stimulation.

If you look at any of my past posts that involve discussion of famo.us you will see that I've attempted to remain as neutral as possible and always a disclaimer of my affiliation whenever I've stated an opinion that merits one.

Like you I've also been one to point out conflicts or interest or even go as far as to investigate suspicious comments on hacker news to see if there may be a conflict of interest someone should disclose. I too am a vociferous defender of the culture on HN.

If anyone can understand your concerns and suspicions, it's me. However I will vouch on the honor of all the karma I've earned as a member of this community that there was no payola involved involved in the writing of this post. Even if someone at the company were plotting to do a payola for a blog post, I would question it. At previous jobs I have prevented any several attempts to make edits to Wikipedia articles about the organization for which I worked because of the clear conflict of interest.

Lastly, if my word is not sufficient, and you are the type to require some sort of proof. I will present the following evidence that demonstrates that Byron Matto (bmatto) on HN is the kind of developer to be self motivated to promote an open-source project he believes in. On April 19, I saw that Byron was giving a lightning talk in Boston at a Javascript meetup (I check reddit, HN, meetup.com and google crawl results from the last 24hrs about once a day). I reached out to him via twitter, to see if we could be of any help [0]. To my knowledge this is the only interaction between bmatto and the company, except for may IRC conversations. I believe he might be one of the people that idle on #famous on freenode. Obviously, you may interpret this piece of evidence as proof of relation, but I hope that between my word and the acknowledgment that bmatto has, of his own volition, given back to the JS community at least once prior to any contact with the company as sufficient to suggest that your top-most voted comment may be the kind of dismissive post the likes of which PG is concerned about on HN.

Think what you will about famous after this, I just hope you can find it in you to give bmattos here a little respect as the kind of developer that maintains a blog and shares his experiences. I know I'm indebted to him and hundreds of other developers like him that take the initiative to contribute.

[0] https://twitter.com/andrewdeandrade/status/45763790543586918...
I have my gripes with SO but I can't imagine a day without it. The number of views on trivial questions says that finding an answer on SO is easier than the way we document code. If there's supplementary documentation done in a Q&A or FAQ fashion, with the right tweaks to rank up in Google, people would not use SO to ask things like ' how to iterate through a list'.
You'll never know. There could be some little girl who played it, loved it, picked it apart and ended up getting into programming herself, and she might be the cofounder of something that improves the lives of billions. You'll never know.
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Yes, those who run SO need to tune the scoring so that good answers get good scores. But it is hard to beat those who game the system.
I hadn't either and thank you very much for that link!
That's my thought.

People who care to do the research probably can find the answer in most cases because it has been asked before.

Leaving the new questions to (generally) be asked by people too lazy to do basic research.
The one thing more frustrating than "woo i'm changing the world" arrogance is "woo, i'm making a difference by helping the 'woo i'm changing the world' people get some perspective."

If you don't like their arrogance, put them in their place by doing better.
There is so much potential in open source hardware design.

Right now, we are held back by (at best) mediocre tools. We need better HDL software, better synthesis software, better EDA software before we have any hope of widespread use of open source hardware.

Imagine if the only compilers available were proprietary compilers locked behind hundreds of pages of licensing requirements and legal bullshit. Open source software would still be in the dark ages.

I applaud any effort to advance the open source hardware design toolset.
I second this, would love to learn what you thought worked and what didn't. Your product was beautiful and useful, was it mostly about market fit, business model or something unexpected.
Don't be a LOSER
An anti bullying and anti racism initiative
"You email client is your editor"

Should be "Your email client...."?
I think Stack Overflow needs to enter a curation phase. There's still lots of gems popping up ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13134825/how-do-functors-... ), but they're so drowned out in the noise. A weekly "best of" for tags I subscribe to - perhaps with bonus points for being featured - would do a bit to boost quality. How would it work though? Have a "curator" role you could gain after a certain point threshold, which allows you to vote for best ofs. . and gain points for consistently accurately suggesting best ofs? If you suggest too much which is never voted for, that counts against you... but if you constantly suggest answers / questions which are featured that counts towards your rep.

Perhaps have a separate "exchange" to achieve this?
SO aims at a simple Q&A format. I wonder why people expect it to yield "great" questions. A lot of actually fruitful topics are closed for provoking discussion.

"... as they tend to attract opinionated answers and spam. Instead, describe the problem and what has been done so far to solve it."

Stackoverflow is not an intellectual forum, its a simple question-and-answer database with debate being discouraged, and a very limited space for the kind of questions allowed. This is by design and its great, because finally when asking a question on XML, you are NOT bothered with people starting to discuss whether XML is actually a thing worth considering. But its the same _beneficial_ rules, that in the long run lead to a plattform where people just paste in their error messages and expect other people to dive through those.
The reasons why I tried and failed with ledger:

- I never quite understood how to 'start' the ledger balance. Should I start on the first of the year when my account was at $56 or today when it's at $76 ... where does this $ come from?

but probably more this:

- I found it super laborious to enter transactions. I guess I grew up post-checkbook but when I'm not near my computer for a few days and have a pocketful (or not) of transactions to enter, I would get behind and then just give up. Even with logging into my bank account to cheat.

- Investments man. How does one track dividends, buy/selling in a text file. I probably need to take a finance class... :)
Interesting. In CommonJS modules, a file can only export one thing. You could namespace multiple things into one exported object, though I find that granular dependencies can lead to insights about how reusable your modules really are.
"What do you do for a living?"

"I'm unemployed"

"What do you want to be doing?"

If you take an interest in people, it's not hard to continue a conversation.

Instead the author decided

> Hurr I heard a black person say they didn't have a job, better stop talking to him then write an article about not being too inquisitive lest you uncover people fitting into stereotypes!!

Which is racist because it implies the stereotype is true and that you should change your behavior so that you do not upset people over it. Instead of treating the person like a person and continuing the conversation.
I got barbwi.re not long ago :D
Welp, I see Glyph stole Guido's time machine.
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Crowdsourcing a fudge flavor
yep i can and i did, still, I'll like it far more if it `just works` without me having to open the terminal and install node, npm, make link of nodejs...
Obviously they don't walk in damaging environments, but you should be able to repair the sole if it gets used.

Another thing to consider aside from price and looks is that the design (how it is supposed to react on your walk) is fundamentally different from "cheap" snickers. For instance it's way more rigid and doesn't twist. For some it helps their walking, for others it's an hinderance.
Unfortunately, that would often break. We've put a lot of effort into URL normalization (ie, http://smile.amazon.com/TP-Link-TL-WA701ND-150Mbps-Wireless-... is the same as http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002YETVVE/). When we can do "good enough" on the client so we can provide the same benefits, we'll do it. Or: provide a setting that forces URLs to exactly match, and we can use a bloom filter to keep traffic down.
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Yup. No need to imagine at all.
MyHDL has been and is being used for production designs.

For parametrizability, you have the full Python power at your disposal. This is also true for conversion, because conversion happens after elaboration of the design.
Thanks!

I imagine that eventually there's not going to be much difference feature wise between ST and atom.

This then leaves the key differentiators as price and support.
Atom wins the first, and if the community grows with it then it'll soon win the second.

edit. Oh yes, the speed thing. ST wins that.
1. If you are developer, i recommend you to earn more reputation.

2. Once you gain some reputation, you will understand why `points` are an important factor to use functionality. It is a good step.

3. Not to forget, since the quality of the question is degrading it also means that it is easy to answer questions on these days since the questions are asked in a different way but usually have same answer.
It's really just a geometric growth problem. I've been a member for 5 years and I feel like it hit it's "Eternal September" a couple years ago. And I'm sure the people who have been a member since the beginning feel like it went to hell around about the time I joined! I've often wished they had an option to filter questions by asker's rep score.
This is fantastic. Thank you Jekyll team!
Human opinion dynamics: An inspiration to solve complex optimization problems
Thanks for all the kind words! I'll take you up on that awesome offer. I'm sending a message through Gandi's contact form as I write this.
My theory is that the help vampires have a certain geographic distribution, and they come from cultures where this kind of behavior is accepted.
Even between states. What many people define as "black" culture and language in the US has its roots in southern culture, regardless of race. Cultural and linguistics strategies between people from Washington and Mississippi are pretty stark, regardless of race.

I even remember the main character in Ralph Ellison's "King of the Bingo Game" complain about how "cold and unfriendly" he found other black people from the North compared to where he was from in the South.
I don't recall it being pitched as Twitter, or even Alpha at the time.

I had read a lot about what Dalton believed and agreed with him. My $29 seemed paltry in the long view if he would succeed.

I'm saddened by the current state of affairs. But I am glad I helped give him a shot at something I was unable or otherwise unwilling to attempt.
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I really enjoyed the keynote.

The joke about the profound error of using whitespace just shows how partisan these discussions are. In go, with the semi-colon insertion rules and with gofmt, there is an implicit whitespace rule all over again.

Personally, I like whitespace because its how my mind reads code. Its nice in Python, mostly because of how concise Python is to read. Its a bit of a bind in Java, where you don't trust tools to roll-up functions but on the other hand they all seem so long and full of boilerplate. With gofmt, the go world lives in a significant whitespace world they just don't want to admit it :)
More like Slowaris, har har har.
I agree with your first sentence for sure. Another way to implement it would be to avoid showing new questions with no upvotes to many users--only show them to a small sample of users and see if in the first ten minutes the question gets voted up or down to gauge its quality. That way we'd limit the "shotgun" effect of sending crappy questions to thousands of people all at once (we sometimes see 6 or 8 downvotes on a single question before it gets closed or deleted, which implies a ton of people saw it despite that it was crap).
I found this concept quite neat: An "always on" debugger (for javascript)
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4945
I'm in the same boat. Been a member for years but can't really figure out how to contribute.

All of a sudden I find myself having something of value to add, and I want to post a comment, and it says I can't. So I have to wonder, how do I even get rep if it won't let me add value?

Why not let EVERYONE comment but it hides comments from people with low rep by default. Anyone can view those comments, but people with enough rep can also add points to us low-reppers who just wanted to add a comment.

Just a thought.
Indeed, and IBM are a collection of people who made, and still make, decisions about the uses to which their technology will be put. Technology does not amorally have the German census department -- or the Apollo program -- on speed dial.
> - I never quite understood how to 'start' the ledger balance. Should I start on the first of the year when my account was at $56 or today when it's at $76 ... where does this $ come from?

That's not ledger-related, that's double-bookkeeping related. What you want to do is something like:

2014-07-05 Opening balance
Assets:Checking $ 56.00
Equity:OpeningBalance $-56.00

Actually, there is, in the wonderful ledger manual, something about that. Of course, Equity:Opening balance will remain forever at -56.00, but that's not a problem.

Wrt to investments, I haven't really explored that part yet, but there is a description of how you're supposed to track your portfolio.
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> I never quite understood how to 'start' the ledger balance. Should I start on the first of the year when my account was at $56 or today when it's at $76 ... where does this $ come from?

Whenever, it doesn't matter. Its just an opening balance. [1]

> I found it super laborious to enter transactions. I guess I grew up post-checkbook but when I'm not near my computer for a few days and have a pocketful (or not) of transactions to enter, I would get behind and then just give up. Even with logging into my bank account to cheat.

Yeah, the hard part of tracking finances, regardless of system, is the discipline of actually keeping up with it.

> Investments man. How does one track dividends, buy/selling in a text file. I probably need to take a finance class... :)

The ledger manual actually covers tracking investments in some detail.

[1] http://ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Starting-up
Yeah, it's written in AutoHotKey, of all things.
Amazon's retailer sued user for submiting honest review
THIS IS AMAZING

https://twitter.com/TheKaranGoel/status/463920252615548928/p...
I hate that they and you use Pepsi Crystal as an example. I loved it!!!
Well, how many "good" questions are there really?

I asked several "good" questions a couple years ago, but it's now been probably 1.5+ years since I've even needed to post a question at all because everything I've needed to know is there (and sometimes in 3 different variations).
It's not new, but I wasn't aware of it until a few days ago, after rage-quitting gnucash in frustration, and I figured some HN folks would appreciate reading about it. It's the first accounting app which doesn't trigger homicidal tendencies when I use it.
If ICANN only charges $0.18 per domain name, why am I paying $10?
There is an interesting comment thread below the article.

http://www.economist.com/comment/2369619#comment-2369619

I'd say that in addition to learning from failures, having the energy, resourcefulness, and courage to try enough times to gain the necessary lessons is also important.
Well written article. Reminds us to live life like there's no tomorrow, love your loved ones like they'll be gone the next minute. Will be holding my wife closer and tighter tonight.
morons who downvoted you are probably just very poor souls who have missed in their lives on the great happiness of having non-human members of family. I sorry for them and sorry for you loss.
High-fidelity socializing

Advertsising works on TV because the latter is a passive medium. It's the story-teller and you are the listener. VR is more like gaming-- there is product placement-- but the decisionmaker is using the SW to make decisions. Decisioning and being receptive to stories are different cognitive phases, especially with respect to T+1 buying intent. High-fidelity socializing, however, is the last place you want someone trying to manipulate you.