skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The downloads page is a bit too deemphasized; the big, bright Download button in the old page was a good call to action. However, I am really glad to see that the downloads page no longer recommends the Haskell Platform for OS X or Linux.

I wish there were better free book recommendations on the Documentation page. LYAH's style is obnoxious, and RWH has gotten quite long in the tooth.
I've seen a couple of redesigns of HN in my time and I have to say, your redesign is by far the best I've seen of any HN redesign. You've obviously put a lot of thought and effort into this, the complexity of the Y meter is just crazy. Great job on the design thinking, I think regarding the use of the Y meter in some places is confusing and contradictory to how you've used it elsewhere. With exception of that, I can't fault your redesign, nice and clear.

And can I just say, the inclusion of the search bar at the top pleases me. I hope one day HN has a search bar because sometimes I like to search for content on HN, but have to use third party sites.
I believe the "skip university" trope is sad. I also believe "everyone has to go to college" is sad. There is a huge disparity between universities -- I went to an average state university, and in most aspects I firmly believe it was more damaging to my being than helpful (it has been over 5 years since I graduated and I am still realizing and overcoming personal problems that I believe were partly inculcated in me from college and K-12).

My sisters went to decent liberal arts universities and, through observation, believe theirs to much more worthwhile. Of course each person is different, so others may not have had as worthless of an experience as I did.

Point being that (although I can't back this up) I'm pretty sure no university is better than 50%+ of universities out there, and so the endless expectation bias is often harmful.
I'll second that. I am teaching a workshop to 10 year olds in Processing and it is working out well so far.
Alarm sounding isn't totally reliable. One rocket hit a northern city, Hadera, 60 miles outside of Gaza today. No alarm that instance, I'm told.
Yes - the practical reason is to focus on the newcomer's experience. Information overload is actively harmful to someone coming to haskell.org to learn about the language from scratch.

Omitting content that is primarily valuable to experienced Haskellers is a feature, not a bug.
Well of course, "someone" has to post the propaganda, otherwise the public might find out the truth.

Which photos are the BBC referring to? They don't reference them so that calls into question the veracity of their claims.
He is just trying to do whatever he can on the side of the conflict he can help out.

It's a war, and collateral damage is, unfortunately, inevitable.
As someone who was influenced by Peter Thiel to drop out of college and do a startup with my room mate, I can say it was a mistake in hindsight. Even though I was able to land on my feet (I'm now 25 and making 6 figures), I had to go through a lot of extra hurdles, stress, and doubt to prove my worth to the world and employers when starting out my career.

The odds were greatly against it working out favorably in my circumstances (I went to a tier 3 school, didn't get my startup funded, etc) and I had to possess serious hustle and grit to make it to where I am. I see people who simply studied hard, followed a plan, and graduated from an Ivy or similar college coasting by much easier - that's the path I would take if I could do it over again.

Because Peter Thiel was a big influence on my decision 4-5 years ago to drop out, I look back in hindsight on my experience and think he is wrong to advocate a path he didn't take. He went to Stanford, then got a JD, worked at a hedge fund (try getting that job as a college dropout), and then became a monstrous success at PayPal & Founders Fund after building credibility & success. To think he could have replicated his career path as a college dropout is incredulous. The odds are 10x more against you, and many more doors are closed than open (finance, grad school, etc).

If you want to be successful there is a very easy path if you're mature enough to work hard during high school: goto the best school you can, study a science, engineering, or finance major, and you will have >50% chance of becoming rich enough to live comfortably and retire if you continue to work hard and hustle after you graduate.
The Oldest Song in the World: A Sumerian Hymn Written 3,400 Years Ago
There would be less people killed on the Palestinian side if Hamas' strategy didn't include purposefully putting civilians in harms way, such as by using them (including children) for human shields when Israel gives advance notice that a particular building is going to be bombed [1] [2].

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/09/world/middleeast/by-phone-...

[2] http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/08/world/meast/mideast-tensions/i...
a very low-intensity conflict compared to just about any other violent conflict, anywhere else in the world.

It's more medium-intensity than low-intensity. Yes, it's not open war. But neither is it as low-key as IRA bombings or Basque separatism. The Israeli-Arab conflict not only has a ton of money flowing in from other sources, it's also something of a proxy war from bigger players. The same can't be said of things like the Second Congo War - the most deadly war since WWII, but was geopolitically unimportant, and holds no benefit or kudos for the major players if they did get involved. The Israeli-Arab conflict also affects a lot of people and politics outside the Levant - both sides have a lot of prominent political and financial agitators. Compare to Cambodia's killing fields, an internal event with over a million dead... that had very little effect outside the country, and little in the way of agitators to draw attention.

So why do people harp on about the Israeli-Arab conflict? Because Israelis and Arabs keep on demanding the world's attention over the conflict, really.
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Three Israeli teenagers were murdered.
That's precisely my point. You tried it, it wasn't for you. It isn't for everyone. But trying it out is important.

I mean, the OP said he learns best being surrounded by books and smart people; that's college in a nutshell. You're unlikely to ever find a better library.
I'm not talking about the subjectivity of value at all, though I can see how that might be unclear. I'm talking about the assumption of perfect information that is inherent in your statement.
My experience with http://builditwith.me has been very poor: a handful of contacts in 3+ years, almost all "ideas" people seeking designers/ developers to build their app for free or paltry sweat equity.

There's also no way to remove your account or update it to reflect you're no longer available or interested in collaborating. I've emailed Drew numerous times asking to de-activate or de-register my profile but I've yet to receive a response.
Those rockets have long range, not precision.
"pluck disadvantaged youths from the ghetto, trailer park, or whatever" ... "see if they can become productive citizens"

Wow, just wow.
Nice. The util-linux (not "-ng" now) on ftp.kernel.org has prlimit, in case you were wondering.
....where is this option? That kind of thing is invaluable in cities like Baltimore, Detroit, Miami, Philly, etc
I think almost everyone who can should go to college. But I also think that a lot of people go to college before they really have any significant life experiences to inform their academic decisions. Consequently, college for many is just deferred adulthood, instead of something that actually facilitates ones' career goals. I'm all for alternative experiences that might help focus young people, whether they be fellowships like this, service programs, apprenticeships, or otherwise.
I agree that the first formulation is a bit incomprehensible, though two-liner breadth-first search is understandable if a bit amazing.

Some of the latter versions (and perhaps ultimately the very last version) are easier to walk through for a beginner, though, and are calculated from properties expressed in the first.
What's "unappealing" about the existing design?

The existing design seems to do a good job of using the space available to convey a large amount of important and relevant information, with very little effort required from the viewer.

For example, a viewer of the existing site can quickly get to various types of documentation right away, without having to click on a link to visit a dedicated "Documentation" page, like with the new design. The same goes for news and community details, as well. An inefficient, unnecessary extra link click or press is now needed to get to very core information.

It isn't worth making an informational website look "pretty" if that means ruining its ability to effectively convey information.
Why I Moved from Dropbox to Google Drive
You picked an extremely loaded way to express something that's presumably meant to be uplifting.
Thanks Jon, I appreciate the advice. I am re-installing from haskell.org right now.
I had similar issues with the first expression, sometimes when executing a new expression I also had to type it twice to get the answer.
They need real time. 5 minutes is not "real time". Twitter is real time.

They need to meet their audience where their audience can meet them. Just about every phone nowadays can access Twitter in an immediate and obvious way. Twitter will meet their audience where their audience needs to be met.
Check your historical figures. There's no possible definition X of the major Allies (hint: USSR) for which you can support your claim that "Germany lost far more soldiers [or] civilians" than X. You're smoking crack by like an order of magnitude.
Hacking the home: security and the Internet-of-things
The way the crow::black_magic::get_parameter_tag works is very impressive. I don't think I ever would have thought to do this with a recursive constexpr like that. I'm a huge fan of providing compiler errors whenever possible, so I'm glad to be able to add this trick to my toolbox.
Works with Chrome 35 on Linux (displays a card overlay).
And yet they still bombed the building?
>Perhaps they've spent most of their life studying

Most of their life studying? How much relevant experience do you think one obtains in years 0 to 16? Up to that point school is a complete and utter joke, especially if you're even modestly intelligent.

A 16-19 year old, no matter how intelligent, doesn't have much wisdom.
Maybe doesn't have to be involved at all. The point where the exception is raised is the point when the relevant thunk is forced. It is certainly the case that this can be problematic. This is an artifact of the intersection of laziness and IO, and there are methodological approaches (helped very much by libraries) to it, but it is a similar problem to nulls. Note that there are plenty of languages that are strict and provide an optional type - including Idris, I think, which is Haskell-like, dependently typed, and strictly evaluated.
> Germany lost far more soldiers and civilians in the Second World War

Not more than the Russians...
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"They were freeze-dried, intact and sealed, forgotten and packed away in a cardboard box, officials said."

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-smallpox...
Last time it was brought up, there appeared to be some lingering confusion and issues with how the compiler and runtime was and is licensed.

The latest version of Ada is available for a (large) fee from Adacore and for free under the GPL. There is also a version published as part of gcc, that trails the upstream version a little in terms of features -- but like the rest of gcc, the relevant parts are under LGPL, so not all binaries distributed to third parties need be distributed under the GPL, but can be under any licence one choose[1] -- without the need for a commercial licence from Adacore.

It would appear the lack of an up-to-date, gratis, version of Ada was a real problem for adoption at some point -- and the impression of Ada being difficult to get access to outside of large contractors put a damper on its popularity (justified or not).

[1] The "problem" with a compiler under GPL is that most compilers will have some kind of library code or language runtime that needs to be distributed with resulting binaries, thus forcing all projects to adopt GPL, rather than just the projects that build directly on the compiler.
A separate incident that was also not in Gaza and not related to Hamas. Somehow no one cares about those facts and Israel can use it for further aggression against a people, most likely hoping to spark further retaliation so they can escalate further.
I think it's only loaded if you want it to be. People from economically depressed areas are... economically depressed. People from ghettoes and trailer parks are typically underprivileged and tend not to do economically as well as others. If doing economically well were not important or a measure of success, well, we would not be worrying about economic success...
Shameful that you're being downvoted. FTA:

> Official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that six were killed. Those killed were forming a "human shield" on the roof of a home belonging to members of Hamas' militant wing, Palestinian sources said. Two were children, WAFA and Palestinian medical sources said.
This sounds like a dangerous trade off to be making. It's reminiscent of what we saw with GNOME 3, or even Windows 8. The experience is made much worse for existing users, in a vain attempt to "simplify" the design to allegedly appeal to new users who may not even really exist in practice. It's obvious now that it didn't work well in those cases, and I don't see why this case would be any different.

As an occasional Haskell user, I'm served much, much better by the existing site than by this new design. The existing one lets me get to the information I'm looking for with minimal effort. This new site denies me that accessibility, I'm afraid to say.

I don't see the point in trying to attract new users if doing so also means harming the experiences of established users. Drawing in new users becomes pointless if retention starts to suffer.
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I agree about the download page being too subtle: I _really_ love this new redesign - the old site was impossible to figure out what I was supposed to do or what was going on or what the hell "cabal" was. This new site is clean and clear: but still missing a nice big call to action (besides the live coding part).

Once you've looked at the live coding, the next thing is "community" which is great for docs, but not so great for "getting up and running" - which was also hard to figure out on the old site. I'd prefer to be lead from the live coding to clear instructions how to get Haskell running on my system.

But, again - I love this redesign... great work!
To be quite blunt, most of their life is not a very long time.

I, too, had a good idea of my learning style and aptitude going into college. It has not changed all that much since.

What did change was my ability to use that learning style to link together fields, knowledge, information, and people that appear extremely complex and disparate on their own.

The world needs specialists, for sure, and perhaps you can level up your knowledge in the field of your interest by using books and web research. That's valuable.

If you really want to be valuable, do what no one else seems to be able to do right now: put everything together. Everything. Not just different parts of your own field, but throw chemistry and poetry and literature in there. How about music? How does that affect your work? What about history and philosophy or shoot, most importantly, psychology? How will you not only create great products, but also know how they affect people, and exactly what ways other people will think about them? How will you discover what people really need if you don't understand them on a basic level?

What about theology and philosophy? If you just rejected the possibility of their importance to your work, then you're not the kind of person I want to work with. Rejection of knowledge is already failure.

College, above all, gives you breadth and the tools to deal with it. Use that and you'll be ten times more valuable than even the best specialist.

Can you get that elsewhere? Maybe. Does everyone need it? Probably not. But I've never seen anything that kicks you out of your own head more swiftly or effectively than a good university—and that alone makes you better in my book.
Facts regarding social mobility in the US will back up my claim.
it would probably be a good idea to make some mention of 1/n-1 record splitting, lest confusion arise regarding the apparent "new line" between G and ET in the HTTP requests
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Nothing to see here, these aren't the droids you're looking for..

Seriously how does this prove the program is a failure? Because some people want to go to school and others want to do stuff right out of the gate.

This is link bait, pure and simple and it looks like it's working almost as well as declaring some random computer language dead or another one the winner.
You spelled "Israel" wrong.
Yea, wtf, why would people live with their families?

And why don't they have fancy bomb shelters like Israel!

The leaflets are practically taunts. Where are the people of Gaza to go? How are they to get out?

http://www.juancole.com/2014/07/numbers-people-there.html
note: I work in freelance, so my view might be a bit different than what you are looking for.

I basically work whenever I feel like it. Obviously if I'm on a tight deadline, I just work till I'm done (putting your phone in airplane mode helps). While I try to work on a regular schedule, I've only found it to be counter-productive. Let me give you a recent example.

I was working on creating an email template for a local startup and wasn't really in to it. I opened up Hacker News and read a couple posts and saw the Vinod Khosla interview with Sergey Brin and Larry Page. I watched the longish (45 minutes) video and went back to work.

About half an hour later, I got into a really nice flow and finished my two day project in about 3 hours.
Urban Airship CEO takes 'leave of absence' following sexual assault allegations
And condescending remarks from the tech sector will only perpetuate the stereotype that we're out of touch and condescending assholes to those that aren't "one of us"
Right, this particular subthread was started by my saying that the laziness of Haskel could trip you up on the conversion from a Maybe x to an x. Which seems to be true, from what we are saying now.

Now, rereading the beginning, the reference was to a "Haskel like" type. So, I think I was definitely off the rails on this. I do feel I learned something going down this particular rabbit hole, though. Thanks!
The case against software patents, in 9 charts
I'm an engineer married to an RN and I never thought the bay area could work for us until I started looking up RN salaries in the region. $122K is double what RNs make in many parts of the country and almost triple the salary in our current location - and this doesn't seem to be restricted to RNs - a lot of healthcare positions in the bay area seem to pay incredibly well.

Of course this may not all be attributable to high cost of living, taking a look at the BLS page on RN wages across the country, high RN salaries and states with strong union laws seem to run hand in hand.
> not related to Hamas

Huh? Take your propaganda elsewhere.
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I didn't find the graphs particularly expressive or clear. It took me a while to figure out what was going on, and even now I'm not 100% sure I understand exactly what they're supposed to be showing me or why it's relevant.

I do agree that data visualization is important, I'm just not sure this is the best example of great data visualization.
Put Down The Smart Drugs: Cognitive Enhancement Is Ethically Risky Business
If you ever wanted to know what a typical Haskell programmer sounds like, ^^this is it to a T.
Okay, but is it designed by you and your team or did you buy it off Themeforest/Wrapboostrap?
it's encoded, decode it :)
This case is different because it's an introductory page rather than a tool intended for heavy daily use, like GNOME or Windows.

Newbies are going to head to haskell.org when they want to learn about the language, and it's sensible for them to be greeted by a pleasant introduction to the language.

As "an occasional Haskell user," you aren't the target audience for the haskell.org landing page. :) If you're visiting on a regular basis, there's no reason your needs couldn't be met by some page other than the landing page.
I really like the simplicity of the demo page: http://www.physicsandbox.com/projects/double-pendulum-sim.ht...

Hint: a big Mass1 and Phi1 makes for a nice wobbly configuration.
As an established user, I navigate directly to hackage or the wiki. I don't remember the last time I hit the homepage.
You are correct, the comment pages are a disaster on the phone. The main page does wrap as expected for me.
The Skeptics: A Tribute to Bold Bitcoin Assertions
'Conventional maps that represent this world as it appears from space signally fail to capture the severe environmental constraints that governed the flows of people, goods and information. Cost, rather than distance, is the principal determinant of connectivity.

For the first time, ORBIS allows us to express Roman communication costs in terms of both time and expense. By simulating movement along the principal routes of the Roman road network, the main navigable rivers, and hundreds of sea routes in the Mediterranean, Black Sea and coastal Atlantic, this interactive model reconstructs the duration and financial cost of travel in antiquity.'
A bug with bter.com broke my heart today
Professor Anderson,

You should go back to teaching Distributed Systems in Go next semester. Pretty please.
I don't recall that. I do remember an article recently about recreating Spanish Flu in the laboratory. It's very controversial because it spread quickly and killed millions of people in a really short time span.

For smallpox, some believe it's possible it may still exist somewhere cold frozen in ice. I don't know how credible that threat is though.
Want to play with it? Here's a fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/GBQ44/
That wasn't my central claim. You picked up on a fairly irrelevant aside. My claim was:
'My point being, it's not as clear cut when there's 'crony capitalism' and other market distortions.'

I don't believe the Austrian school has any such formal models.
Ooh, you're in for a treat. Elite: Dangerous will most likely be released this year. You can already pay to beta test if you can't wait.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE8B4KptyVI
Just the opposite, and you get a "hinky" kind of motion.
A predictable consequence of reducing government spending is that the population becomes dependent on, and concentrates power in the hands of, a few wealthy citizens.

It's worth noting in this context that the current system of government-funded science, which seems normal, in fact was invented more or less single-handedly by Vannevar Bush shortly after World War II. [1] The scenario that worries you was the norm for approximately the previous history of humanity. (This isn't to say governments never funded science, just that they didn't dominate it as the US Government does today.)

Will these patrons support academic freedom? An organization that challenges the social order? What if your research upsets someone; is your career/organization at risk? Will their ideas and whims serve the nation and world?

Every one of these questions applies with equal or greater force to government-funded science. Anyone worried that a private patron of science might, e.g., put his career at risk, should be a thousand times more afraid of the Feds.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar_Bush