skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Recommend' instead of 'Like' would probably work, yes. Hmm, people are used to 'Like' and it might sound a bit more friendly / less formal. — Also, 'Like' can be used as an 'I strongly agree' button (fewer buttons needed).

But perhaps 'Wrong' should be renamed to 'Disagree' (?). 'Disagree' might work also for factual errors. — If there were the buttons 'Like' and 'Disagree', I'm thinking this would be like the system you suggest, except that there was no 'Problematic' button, and that 'Agree' and 'Laudable' were merged into one single 'Like' button.

A sparkline graph would have been cool :-) I'm thinking it's hard to implement in comparison to how many people would understand it and find it really interesting though.

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One reason I like the idea with a 'Like' button is that it seems to work well: have a look at http://www.discourse.org — they have a Like button, and nothing else. I find it useful and interesting to know what other people like, even if I don't know if it's because the comment is high-quality or it's because people strongly agree (well, until I've read the comment). And instead of any 'Problematic' button, I think they want people to simply ignore, or possibly flag, low quality comments.

In addition to 'Like', I'm thinking it's good to have some way to inform people about bad/harmful advice. The downvotes work well at StackOverflow / StackExchange I think.

So that's roughly my motivation behind Like + Wrong/Disagree.
It's interesting that they include the FSF, Internet Archive, Creative Commons, and Open Courseware among their "computer science" contributions. These are more political than scientific, although some of them did end up contributing massively to the development of computer science.

Now let's talk about some ways in which MIT hindered the development of computer science, including political hindrances.

1. Complicity in the persecution of Aaron Swartz (2011)

2. Anyone else?
The "Sitcom Startup" Lives in China
Twitch is massive in the Eve Online community along with other MMOs precisely because it isn't Youtube and allows streamer to play whatever background music they chose.

I can a fairly substantial move away from it if Youtube begin applying the policy that removes all audio, if even a snippet of something copyrighted is detected.tracks for
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It’s not all about streaming. Or it can be all about streaming. YouTube and Twitch were very much direct competitors, even ignoring YouTube’s live streaming.
Modi win boosts Indian markets
Further to your point about treatment of animals, I imagine that our best and brightest would be at the forefront of any equivalent transport and communication. And I think they'd be more likely to carefully consider their treatment of animals than the average person amongst us.
This will be interesting given the recent Google Plus integration into YouTube. Will the same happen to Twitch?
Is anyone spending Bitcoin anymore, now that it is considered a taxable event by the IRS?
I expect the downvotes have little to do with true/untrue, but rather that the comment is off topic and doesn't advance the conversation.
> Shouldn't software optimally always use the newest version of all the libraries it depends on? It's a security issue if they don't.

Not necessarily. There's great value in having stable "long time support" versions of libraries, that are not the latest version, but often have backported security fixes.

New features introduce new bugs, some (most?) new bugs will be (new) security issues.

[ed: For a new application, tracking upstream is often the best way -- say you assume to have a stable(ish) release of your application in 6 months, you don't want to miss out on new features that'll be available in a supported release of some library you're using. But it doesn't follow that you should always migrate to the latest release of that library.]
WSJ confirms talks -- "early stage" "deal isn't imminent"

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230442270...
Right, but no one knows yet which will work (my hunch is a combination). My point was that the experiences he showed weren't Smalltalk experiences; we have finally got a lot of great ideas what to do post smalltalk.
Thank you for the references. I've seen some of these before, but connecting the dots can be difficult (meaning, I have to keep going back to them later). A lot of seems to have gone into Kay's new project @ VRPI.
Rust unfortunately has a dependency on LLVM, which is not yet available for some hardware and OS platforms. I realize that's improving, but it does make Rust adoption slower for systems programming where languages that only require a standard C or C++ compiler thrive.

Also, while I think it will likely prove a great alternative (especially for OS level systems programming), it's clearly early days and the language is still undergoing significant churn.
It's not necessary to be enrolled in a university in order to do that. It does help to be in a university town though.
If 20-30 year olds aren't paying for television, is it because they don't want to or that they can't afford it? Narrow the criteria to people under-40 who own a house and I'd expect a much larger subscription rate.
I'm so torn by all these comments about whether Detroit has 'bounced back' or not. On one hand, it certainly seems like salaries, wages, rents, and prices are rising in the Detroit metro area, on the other hand parts of the city are in really bad shape.

My own perspective is to not focus on how to classify Detroit's status in relation to other cities and metrics, but to focus on what Detroit is. It's an eclectic area where poverty, middle class, and affluence collide. There are creative communities that butt right up against dangerous areas. It's a great area to bike since certain times of day cars are few and far between, and there is an upbeat sense of happiness in some communities. There's not much more to it other than it's the people's town and the behavior of individuals will have a lot to do with how Detroit fares in the coming years.
Glad to see you're the leading authority on this matter. Tell me, from whence did you judge that Snapchat is "ephemeral"?

How did you manage to outplay the dozens of very smart, very experienced, and very successful VCs and investors that have spent dozens of man-hours thinking about whether they should or should not dump millions of dollars into Snapchat? You are aware, that, as of now, Snapchat has raised more than $100M total in funding, from initial seed to it's Series C, and that some of the biggest players in SV have offered to buy it for upwards of $4B? I'm quite shocked to see that your little quip regarding it's long-term potential has somehow out-qualified all of this money and time and thought that went into it's current state. Especially since investors value long term potential over everything else : the whole deal with economics is finding value before anyone else does, otherwise you're just a bandwagoner. Early bird gets the worm, so the most successful early birds are those that look the furthest for the worms with the highest long-term potential.

They berated Google for making a bad decision when they acquired YouTube and they called Facebook a trend that was just "MySpace for college kids". Maybe you're not in the right demographic for using Snapchat, so that's why you don't see it's long-term potential?
Call me cynical but I can imagine a golf-course deal where Comcast and AT&T agree to this. Theory being, AT&T+DirecTV will seem like a more-meaningful competitor for Comcast+TimeWarner.
The value and function of knowledge is changing
Rates are at a 300 year low apparently so I'd guess they are going to rise. Now, I have nothing to do with trading and don't own any property, so presumably I'm the shoeshine boy.
I believe that SICP should also be counted as one itself.
Who will employ these hipsters? Or do they just live off credit cards and their parents?
Clearly one of them is not writing click bait headlines:

50? Ain't nobody got time for that...
I guess there's a whole spectrum. Many men aren't interested in committing anymore. In general though men 21-40 are the chasers in the beginning and women are the chasers in the relationship.
Thanks, that's incredibly helpful and motivating. I'm going to proceed with this plan.
They would choose pleasing the users.

I suppose any company that works out how to increase revenue while upsetting and alienating it's users could possibly implement said ideas. But if you're smart enough to do that, I would guess you would also be pretty successful at the traditional approach of increasing revenue by pleasing your users?
I admit, I don't agree with him, and I think that farm-to-table will always be a niche market unless we effectively isolate ourselves from world food demand / markets. The United States is the per-eminent food exporter in the world by no small margin. In addition to the profit motives that provides, we also incentivize production. Some of that is cruft, but quite a bit is also so that excess food can be used as a negotiation or power weapon. Who cares about money, we're at the bottom of Maslow's hierarchy of needs for the world.

That said, I do like his rationale thought process for how to produce meaningful change in a direction you want. Its like an engineering breakdown of how to motivate social change from a top-down, demand driven approach, and exploring the logical linkages for what types of change are mostly likely to be beneficial. Admittedly, this movement is already so viral that its probably an epidemic. On no, everyone will have access to fresh grown local food, and we'll continue as the world's grocery store. Still, its nice seeing good analysis applied to public wellfare.
> Do Americans really have no vegetables in winter?

You're not going to find many local vegetables in Vermont in the winter. True, we're south of Paris, but the ground is frequently under 50 centimeters of snow and ice, with occasionally nighttime lows of -20°C or below during cold snaps.

Under these conditions, about the only winter vegetables that you can grow are mâche and maybe claytonia. Basically, you plant them in the fall, and allow them to overwinter in cold frames, or in hoop houses with row covers and a few degrees of artificial heat. You can't harvest the claytonia until the temperature goes above freezing, or it will wilt. The mâche can be harvested frozen and then thawed out. And it's a great salad green—tasty and attractive, without being bitter. I've grown both, and it was fun, but not terribly practical.

To read about some really epic winter farming in the northern US, check out Four Season Harvest: http://www.amazon.com/Four-Season-Harvest-Organic-Vegetables... Eliot Coleman has thought longer and deeper about this than just about anyone around here, and his book tends to suck geeks right in.

But even Eliot Coleman has given up on January farming in northern New England. He can do it, and he can make money, but he prefers selling tons of salad greens and sweet baby carrots for the December holidays, and then spending January vacationing someplace warm. Mâche is pretty awesome, but it's not enough by itself.
Thanks for the great feedback. Yes, the title should say "customizable shirts". I agree with you the "1 billion" number doesn't really matter because in reality only a fraction of the design combination will really look good on you. However, since this is a design focus app, we want to unleash people's imaginations that they can express themselves without boundaries. So the "1 billion" does that.

Compared to local store though where you only have 15-20 pre-made shirts to choose from, designing a shirt from over 200 different patterns is a great advancement in shopping experience. After you picked your base pattern, you can further customize other details to truly reflect your unique style and taste.

Then there is the fit issue. Say you found something you like off the rack but it doesn't fit. It is a frustrating, compromising experience. We totally solved this problem once and for all- you can get a good looking shirt that fits you well in a few clicks.
Congratulations to Class of 2014, Most Indebted Ever
Esports is far bigger now than it was 10 years ago. League Of Legends and Dota 2 are far bigger than the audeinces Starcraft or Counterstrike ever generated. Tournaments are now being held on sports stadiums in the US and EU. LoL world championships last year drew 35 million viewers, and filled the Staples Center in LA. The Dota 2 International tournament this year will likely top a $7 million prizepool, and sold out Key Arena in Seattle. Esports is just getting started.
The work demonstrated by Engelbart in his MOD was actually done at SRI, which then inspired XEROX.

When Alan Kay started his PhD at U of Utah, he was given Sutherland's dissertation to start off with (where Sutherland was a professor). That eventually led to his ground breaking Dynapad concept.

Anyways, back then, everyone knew everyone.
Google/YouTube Reportedly Set To Buy Twitch For Over $1 Billion
SF Traffic Sign Hacked To Warn Drivers Of ‘Godzilla Attack’
No, I don't, not to the extent they are now. We didn't send people to jail for life for simple possession of anything, and we didn't have a fucking "Drug Czar" either.
Another (old) example of how Flickr does (or quite possibly "did") this

http://code.flickr.net/2010/02/08/ticket-servers-distributed...
Some PR?

When I think MIT I think of Aaron Swartz.
I should clarify that I mean that the argument and facts that the article uses are OK. It starts:

>Are you thinking of becoming a scientist? Do you want to uncover the mysteries of nature, perform experiments or carry out calculations to learn how the world works? Forget it!

and ends

>What can be done? The first thing for any young person (which means anyone who does not have a permanent job in science) to do is to pursue another career.

But the very same argument would apply to: "Are you thinking of founding a company? Do you want to build value and change the lives of millions of people, getting rich in the process? Forget it!"

We could then go on to state why entrepreneurship has an even lower success rate than that talked about in the article. For every one hundred people who set out to change the world by founding a company, how many succeed?

The truth is that the average founder's prospects are, rationally, miserable.

That does not stop the best and brightest from going into entrepreneurship, building companies and actually changing the world.

In the exact same sense that Planck was not discouraged by his university's professor of physics stating that he should not study physics, and should concentrate on something else. Likewise Von Neuman's father insisted he study chemistry (which he did, along with mathematics.)

The facts presented in the article just don't matter to those who have a true passion for science, just as the statistics don't matter for those of us building companies. They will study mathematics, or physics, or start companies, regardless of the odds. It's not a rational decision so much as a passionate one.

If I've missed something please do tell me.
I love your feedback! Yes, we should create different models that resemble your body type so psychologically you can relate to what you are designing better.

Having said that, we actually offer 5 different fit types from Super Slim all the way to Big and Tall. It is just that the 3D models don't reflect that. Perhaps we should?

After you signed up you can tell the design app what type of shirts you want to design. In your case, simply choose "Design a Casual Shirt" and go from there. Plenty of bold, bright, floral patterns for you to express your unique taste!
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I didn't say "non-profit". I said "noncommercial". But thanks anyway.
Very impressive number. Source?
Because inaction in response to federal charges being brought against an unconnected individual outweighs more than 100 years of academic contribution.
This is a general question to the HN crowd. Is it wrong of me to want to downvote posts that attempt to portray Israel in a positive light or to add comments distracting from the post content and trying to shift it to Israels treatment of Palestinians or BDS etc.

I realise this comment is actually doing that but theres no point in making an Ask HN thread for such a minor question.
Google's Talks With Twitch at Early Stage
Reasonable line-of-sight. Radio waves _will_ bend around modest-sized obstacles, though remote or mountainous regions are clearly disadvantaged.

That said: most large population centers tend not to be remote and/or mountainous.
Zerocash
Windows in 3D games
Newbie question here. How can youtube acquire things? Wasn't youtube acquired by google? So isn't it google acquiring?
It was to fix stuttering. Specifically in Europe.
Breakdown of FCC's New Proposal for a Net Neutrality Framework
For me, it definitely affects the quality of the tests. Once I've written the production code, I know how it works, so its faults are harder for me to see. I also find it's easier to leave coverage gaps. I think I could get some of the same benefit by bringing in somebody else to review tests without looking at the production implementation, but I haven't tried.

The other thing I think TDD gets for me is cleaner API design, because my orientation begins (and mainly stays) outside the thing I'm working on. And cleaner design definitely makes refactoring easier.

Of course, if people have tried it both ways and feel they are getting the same results with some other technique, that's great. But one can only measure long-term maintainability by maintaining a code base for a while, so I think regardless my point on needing experience to judge appropriateness of TDD stands.
When has terrorism been an effective way to invoke change in a democratic society?
For NHL, I've heard Gamecenter has poor quality feeds. Ironically, there's a one man show who runs a better service - albeit unlicensed - at hockeystreams.com

$20 per month, all games streamed in HD plus your choice of broadcast options (ie- home / away feed on NBC or TSN, etc).
I've been a subscriber to NHL Gamecenter for two years. If you're very far from your home team, it can be a good deal.

In California, I can catch most of Detroit's games. In a major hockey market like Toronto, however, Detroit's games are often on TSN2 (think ESPN2), which means they are blacked out. Cable was the only way to see these, even though I would have guessed they were out of market.
We've done this in GoboLinux:

http://mwh.geek.nz/2009/07/23/an-overview-of-systemaliens/
Cryptoparty Handbook RSA Key has ASCII art in it
Switzerland's Minimum Wage Could Jump to $25 an Hour
Let me know when you're effectively prohibited from driving at all, because I pulled on to the road before you did.
The Frontline Interview: William Binney
Introducing Yakker: a secure and distributed alternative to WhatsApp
At what point is the language going to get serious adoption? It's mature, unbloated, elegant, and fun to write. The only thing I really think needs improvement is its multicore stuff.
>What it does is shift business models that depend on slave labor for their margins. It forces innovation and automation

Which is a euphemism for saying "they will lay people off and leave them unemployed." There will be some innovation and automation. More likely outsourcing, and the benefits of whatever innovation there is won't go to the unemployed workers.

>I don't understand why the government subsidizes margins made on the backs of labor by supplementing their wages with welfare payments.

They aren't. The employers are paying their employees the market worth of their labor. The government is providing assistance to those whose market worth isn't that much.
>So if Bing wants to rank Bing.com higher than Google.com on the keyword "Search Engine", all they need to do is to pay link farms to link to Google?

During this "crackdown campaign" Google has been on, I have sat in on meetings at large clients where they've pulled sites that are supposedly link farms (according to google) and put together an ad buy on behalf of competitors meant to cause these penalties to be levied and WMT messages to be sent.
Why you should use Rails over PHP
I've heard Google is working on "street view" for trails. It is a backpack. My guess is they've done this with Bike trails too.
I'd like to like ocaml but its not clear to me why I would choose it above anything else to write an application. I have the sense vaguely it might be a good thing. A little reading and examination of some example source hasn't thrown much light.

What's it good for? Why should I use it? Why is it a better choice than language X or Y?
Discovering new medicines is as much about culture as science
> Fuckers.

Interesting, do you have another provider in the area?

I think a lot of the negotiating power comes from the ability to threaten to switch to <competitor>. If they know there is nobody else (and in many places in US there isn't), they can often say "yeah sorry to see you leave", knowing that you can't really go anywhere.

I have for example been oscillating between two local providers. Both have equipment on "premises" installed and just have to switch it on and off. So as soon as one ends promotions, I switch to another and do so on. Sometimes they give me the promotion rates back without having to go the full switch around the circle.

Promotions usually run 6 month to a year.
Why I am [still] upset about FB buying Oculus
There have been a lot more, even recent ones... http://www.businessinsider.com/16-biggest-acquisitions-of-al...
xip.io doesn't tunnel anything, it just creates convenient DNS records.
Kind of interesting you'd put 'I hate gay people' on the same level as 'I hated the latest Godzilla'.
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Yeah, the one on OSX isn't compiled w/ readline. But I tried it on a ubuntu host and it works.
If you really think the idea won't work, ask him questions you think are critical for the idea to succeed. If he has all the answers--doesn't matter if they don't sound realistic to you--then leave him be. Most successful startup founders had plenty of people telling them the idea is stupid and will never work, but still succeeded. You may think it won't work based on your experience or knowledge but things change. For example a same idea can succeed or fail based on timing, execution, founder's network, etc.

Plus, failure is a part of the journey. Don't discourage someone from failing.
Go between the golang.org compiler and gccgo, Go runs on a pretty vast array of architectures. I think for a security related project, I would be happy to best serve the 99% and leave some minor architectures to find another solution if that meant being able to implement a SSL/TLS library in a fast memory safe language. After, one of the root problems of OpenSSL was it tried to be all things to all people.

As for Go's large dependencies are you talking about the Go runtime as build time dependency, because Go is notable for its pronounced lack of runtime dependencies?

In any case, I think you and I both have an understanding of the issues at hand, I just think we would be willing to make different trade-offs.
Dear Jill: From One Pushy Media Dame to Another
Azubu doesn't let the general public stream so there is nothing for them to "move" to. I also don't know what azubu's plan is once they run out of money to throw at popular streamers.