skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm familiar with holocaust as a reason for Israel's existence, I just don't accept it as the primary reason. There are simply to many occasions where American Jews and Israelis celebrate Jewish culture and identity for its own sake, and not merely as a reaction to being singled out by other Whites.

Even the narrative of the holocaust suggests that Jewish identity and culture is valued for its own sake. The concept of genocide implies that wiping an entire group of people is worse than simply killing the same number of randomly selected people. If this is true, then it follows that there was some inherent value in that group's identity, beyond their worth, and right to exist, as individuals.
That's because Microsoft has now become IBM and what they say or plan to do is now irrelevant. He is the perfect CEO for this stage in Microsoft's journey.
Oh man. This is such a cool example of how open software platforms have made the world more accessible. Imagine how hard it would have been to rig up that modulation system from scratch 30 years ago.

Also, this article made me realize how you can do frequency addition/multiplication on arbitrary signals via complex multiplication/exponentiation! That part of the flow graph really confused me for a bit. So cool!
Pretty cool, just signed up. Like everyone else said, I'd probably change the link to direct to your normal landing page. Also, the animations are pretty jarring on the landing page, especially if I try to jump to a section before I've been there. This is one of those times that I think just removing all the animations would be a big help.
They've got a problem with the propellent system, but they think it's a clog from some nitrogen bubbles, not that it's out of hydrazine. They're hoping to fix the problem this week.
> though what limited research there is suggests false rape accusations are rare (2-8%).

Incorrect. You're quoting the FBI statistics, but there have been several studies done over the years, later reviewed by Philip N.S. Rumney: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_accusation_of_rape#Rumney...

Rumney took together all the data he could find about false accusations, and studies of false accusations. He researched the information used in the studies, the methods used to obtain said information, and their findings. The result: a varyance of between 1% and 90% in terms of what was considered a false accusation, with a mean/median of about 20% over the findings in all the studies.

His conclusion, however, was that these studies varied so much (and their information and means of retrieval so inconclusive) that it is impossible to know what an accurate rate of false accusations is.

So the numbers you're quoting are, statistically speaking, worthless. I suggest reading the studies and their sources before merely repeating the numbers that validate your point.
I really like what I've seen of the product so far. One suggestion: the home page is a bit violent (for lack of a better word), the way the content swings into place very non-subtly. I would dump all of that effect, it doesn't appear to actually serve any purpose - other than to be flashy - and makes it much harder to just read about TrackReddit.
I agree with you, but just to add some information for the parent (from the perspective of a relatively recent EE grad with even more recent experience in product development):

a) Experience in product development is almost entirely unrelated to experience gained in school (hackers will say it shouldn't be that way but it's just a reality of the amount of information involved).

b) Experience in supply chain and product manufacturing is also unrelated to all of that, and often by some distance. ie. It's more of a business-person problem (er, for lack of a better term--it obviously requires technical knowledge as well).

In other words, you're extremely unlikely to find that combination of knowledge in a junior EE, and depending on their career trajectory it is entirely possible for an EE to spend their entire career without amassing that particular assortment of product development knowledge on top of their EE knowledge. So while it's true that any EE should have questions about (for example) battery/power issues right away, it's not true that any EE would immediately flag those issues as problems (ie. over a beer, I'd probably trust the guy telling me he thought he could do it, even as I told him I wasn't convinced).

Note that I'm not suggesting any of that knowledge is rare or hard to find, just that you might not find it all in the same person easily, especially not a junior EE.
Accuser/Victim Responds to Cards Against Humanity Co-Founder's Post
Classic book:

http://books.google.com/books/about/The_High_Cost_of_Free_Pa...
Active worlds!

Apparently it got overrun with terrible people before it went away. It used to be so fun just building things. :(
I'm halfway through the book right now and I share your same thoughts on this. Most of the dramatizations on the marketing side of things are just cringeworthy. If you haven't already, you'd probably rather read http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20523933-service-games and definitely http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68571.The_Ultimate_Histor... if you want to know the history of the entire industry from the very beginning.
The accuser/victim has responded to Max's post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8029353
Perhaps this was why Steve was so exciting. :) Of course, it caught up to the company in courts, but ...
time spent looking for parking is waste, aka deadweigt lost. Better to transfer money (zero sum) than waste time (negative sum)
So now you're getting very Stormfronty.

> There are simply to many occasions where American Jews and Israelis celebrate Jewish culture and identity for its own sake, and not merely as a reaction to being singled out by other Whites.

What is wrong with that? Do the Jewish people somehow not deserve existence? Why should we not celebrate our culture and religion the same way Christians, Croats, and Italians do? (for example.)

Also, celebrating our culture is not mutually exclusive with celebrating diversity of cultures.

> The concept of genocide implies that wiping an entire group of people is worse than simply killing the same number of randomly selected people.

Do you dispute that? Generally racism is frowned upon.

Hating because you don't like their personality is acceptable. Hating them for their race isn't.

Killing someone is unacceptable. Killing someone for their race is even less acceptable.

That I have to explain this to you makes me think I might be dealing with anti-semitism.
Forcing people to waste time is just wasteful. Everyone should pay, and certain desrving people (however that is decided) can get financial support or nontransferable credits (bit these have practical challenges)
What's a good review article on the topic? What kind of underlying studies contribute to metaanalysis on this issue, in vitro studies of direct application of the antioxidants, or carefully controlled in vivo studies of consumption of different kinds of foodstuffs? (I did the expected Google Scholar search back when this thread was more active, and I'm not seeing many citations to reliable secondary sources even now in this thread.)
#worldcup:Germany's Winning Moments captured on Twitter
There's a significant difference between those two scenarios. You'll find Americans are far more willing to intercede if speech was at stake here.

The right to speech and free expression is protected in the U.S. (for the most part) whereas the right to affordable parking is an arguable point. The primary issue San Francisco had in this whole episode is that they didn't come up with it first. This was all about revenue.
Two guys aren't a "mature product development company." Also, it's pretty common for a big company to take a few years to develop a new product and produce it at scale.
Looks like plex. I don't get the big deal.
Target security officer fired after reporting shoplifting... by Sheriff's Deputy
I'm curious if Lockitron is still in use at the YC offices, 649 days later: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4602821
When I was eleven years old, I discovered a star wars themed lpmud. Mudding led to creating, which led to mudlib hacking, which led to software development.

I still get goosebumps when I think about the impact that community had on my life.

MUDs tended to be free to play and were run by unix hippies. The line between playing and coders was thin and easily crossed; playing the game led almost inevitably to understanding the mechanics and becoming a coder. I feel sorry for today's generation of gamers, since there is a much larger wall between playing and creating these days. CodeCombat and others are trying to bring that link between gaming and programming back - good for them.
Strange coincidence, I just finished reading "The Private Life of Chairman Mao", which also describes the mango incident. It's an incredible book.
Complexity, ‘fog and moonlight’, prediction, and politics I
The important distinction is congestion. Users should pay auction prices for contested resources (how much someone else would have to pay to get access). Windfall gains should then be used for general welfare spending for the community (maybe building more of the scarce resources). This is how shared infrastructure can finance its development, in a way that incentivize efficient use age patterns (smoothing/flattening the demand across time)

Marginal cost of a non-fully -occupied library is approximately zero.
> I see a future where hyper-low-volume printers paired with warehousing and delivery logistics providers (Amazon) and crowd-funded _investing_ for advances replace and eliminate the rent extraction of the big publishers in film, print, and music.

By silicon valley computer-nerd salary standards, advances are... very small amounts of money. Like not even a nice car amounts of money.

the same goes for printing a few thousand copies of a book. And amazon will ship for you, if that's what you want.

Advertising is hard - and getting it into stores that aren't online-only is also hard

but discounting those two aspects? your average silicon-valley computer nerd could drive an older ford rather than a new car that is more appropriate to his or her station and use the difference to publish a book. It's not something that requires a huge amount of money.

My point, though, is that if you really feel strongly that the publishing houses aren't adding value, you can do this right now. If you are a silicon valley computer nerd, you don't even need investors or other people's permission. Hell, you don't even have to come up with more than the advance until the book is done.
I joined SL late in 2008, the author should have been there in 2009-2010, that’s when you could have seen the empty Sims of IBM, Best Buy (Geek squad headquarters was in a volcano)and others. Most of those have been closed or reclaimed for other purposes.

The indications of abandonment is usually its grandeur and emptiness along with the signs advertising events long past.
Worth noting: developer tools companies don't sell primarily to startups, who represent a tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of the software developer market, frequently are averse to spending meaningful amounts of money, and have business turnover which is higher than the churn rates for many of these tools.
I wonder how they are getting around the Reddit API limit of 1 call every 2 seconds. I guess if they pull enough data back each 2 seconds they might be able to parse all of it...?
That is basically what this article (recently on HN) does: http://yager.io/programming/go.html
What makes code hard to understand [pdf]
...things that won't burn though, like soups.

If you can't burn soup you're not trying hard enough! b^)
>So instead of various diverse races you prefer a single mass of people with no distinct race?

I personally wouldn't mind. Society gains nothing from distinct physical characteristics, except the ability to visually identify individuals.
There are some neat hybrids of GC and RC as well. This is probably state of the art in this area: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&ei=xkTDU-GU...

Conceptually, the key insight is that both GC and RC involve tracing. In GC you trace from live roots to find survivors. In RC, you trace from newly dead objects to find others that should also become dead. This has interesting implications when you combine the algorithms in a generational collector.

Imagine the following steady state situation. You're allocating at X MB/sec, with a young-generation survival rate of 0.1X. Consequently, this is the allocation rate into the old generation. Since we're in a steady state, this is also the death rate in the old generation. If you use GC in the young generation and RC in the old generation, you'll trace 0.2X MB per second. This holds true even for an extremely large old generation live size. You'll never have to trace the whole heap during an old-generation collection, just the objects that die during that interval. And if you're in a steady-state, this will be proportional to your allocation rate, not your heap size.

Now, ideally, in a tracing GC you can get your work down to being proportional to your allocation rate, but this requires, even ideally, a heap sized at 2x the maximum live size. With an RC old generation, you can get away with a heap not much bigger than your live size.

There are also certain advantages in terms of concurrent collection. The nice thing about tracing dead objects is that they are never mutated. So you do it concurrently with the application without worrying about mutations of the object graph, like a concurrent mark-sweep collector has to. The downside is that the write barrier is more complicated. See: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&ei=wEnDU_23...
Here are a few I just found:

http://thenextchallenge.org/primus-eta-cooking-pots-review/

http://www.lasvegasequipment.com/index.php?route=product/pro...
Brandon Kennington: Inventions – From Idea to Market
Show HN: Pinewood Derby race manager app
Relevant: One of my favorite pg quotes, from http://www.paulgraham.com/word.html:

"Like real world resourcefulness, conversational resourcefulness often means doing things you don't want to. Chasing down all the implications of what's said to you can sometimes lead to uncomfortable conclusions. The best word to describe the failure to do so is probably "denial," though that seems a bit too narrow. A better way to describe the situation would be to say that the unsuccessful founders had the sort of conservatism that comes from weakness. They traversed idea space as gingerly as a very old person traverses the physical world."

Since reading that, I've loved the idea of traversing idea space the way you might look for easter eggs in video games- click all the things, flip over all the stones!
This is actually really awesome. I know telegram received a lot of flak for their bold security claims, but it really is a fantastic messenger. It's the best I've used that's available in the app store aside from Facebook's.
https://pay.reddit.com/r/gamedev is probably a better place for you to look for help.
I did my best not to editorialize the headline. Editors, please feel free to change to something more appropriate. I posted this because Max's original post had so much interest here.
And this is a non-issue in areas using nuclear, hydro, solar and wind.
This triggers a memory- I was watching a documentary about the internal combustion engine, and how everybody who drove a car in the early days needed to understand how it worked, because they'd inevitably have to troubleshoot it. Same for old TVs that had to get their tubes replaced from time to time. It's all really interesting.
Billionaire Elon Musk: How I Became The Real 'Iron Man'
The MUD featured in this article, Achaea, I used to play as well way back in the day. I moved on to its sister game, Lusternia, where I met quite a few friends which I still remain in contact with to this day.

It's a shame how modern games don't even come close to the amount of immersion simple text-based games offer. Even popular MMOs don't even scratch the surface on the amount of connection I felt towards these universes. It's a she that they're not as popular.
The plan according to whom?
And here I'm still at $0 spent on in-app purchases.
The short-sightedness of the current crop of the upper class is a problem.
Possibly, but it could also be much faster with all the cruft gone. Dynamic linking has a small overhead, so would love to see an apples to apples comparison.
More importantly, where does you data go when business die? To anyone that is willing to pay for it?
Power drops as R^2, coverage area is R^2 so cutting output by N reduces your coverage area by N.
>What is wrong with that? Do the Jewish people somehow not deserve existence? Why should we not celebrate our culture and religion the same way Christians, Croats, and Italians do? (for example.)

If Jewish people deserve existence (as a group, not individuals), then White people deserve existence as a group.

You say that White people are allowed to celebrate their culture and religion, and yet these are precisely the actions that are demonized as racism or at best ignorant provincialism, by the same liberals Jews I am describing.

You simply cannot have it both ways. My first post described how supporting Israel's existence as a Jewish nation was contradictory to liberal Jew's attitude towards White identity. You now concede that Jewish identity is in fact very similar to White identity. But now you are trying to change the argument, as if I was the one saying that Jewish identity was unacceptable. I'm not. I'm saying it is no more or less acceptable that White identity.

>Killing someone is unacceptable. Killing someone for their race is even less acceptable.

I disagree, but that isn't the point here. The argument against genocide I'm referring to is that it is more wrong because it wipes out a particular race or ethnicity, not because of the mindset of the perpetrator.

>So now you're getting very Stormfronty.

>That I have to explain this to you makes me think I might be dealing with anti-semitism.

You are clutching at straws.
They actually are doing the knock to wake. BLE works and is an instant lock/unlock. Sending a command via wifi will let you know (on the phone) that the lockitron is in a power save mode and the command will be executed in 20 minutes (or whatever the actual time) or when you knock on the door. So if you leave the house and forgot to lock the door, you could lock it remotely and know it'll lock itself eventually. Knocking does work consistently to wake the device up.

It's definitely not the same experience though. I live in a condo and have the lockitron on my unit's door. I have the choice between opening the lockitron app in the elevator and send the unlock signal via wifi, but that means I'll need to knock for sure. Or I could wait until the elevator gets there and try to unlock, and if i'm really lucky it will be via BLE and unlock instantly, but generally the BLE hasn't managed to connect yet and I get no indicator, so I send the command to early and I need to knock anyway.

Speed is such a critical factor here. It doesn't take that long to pull your keys out, and it feels more awkward to stand and wait at your own front door than it does to fumble with the keys for a while. If I'm carrying groceries or a baby, then Lockitron has the potential to make things easier, but currently I still need to fiddle with my phone for a while (maybe in the elevator, but still) and knock so it doesn't really feel easier than using a key.
The company intentionally targeted the San Francisco market. It's making payments to and contracting with San Francisco residents. That's usually enough to trigger jurisdiction. This isn't a uniquely American position to take. The EU goes after American companies all the time for violations of EU law.

The real issue is whether a judgment in another country can be enforced. If MonkeyParking has any physical U.S. presence (bank accounts, servers, etc.), San Francisco could try going after those items. They're an iPhone app, so SF could certainly go after Apple. Assuming none of those options are available to SF though, SF would have to go to an Italian court and ask that court to enforce the U.S. judgment. At that point, whether the decision is enforceable would hinge on international treaties and Italian law.

In your Iran hypothetical, Iran could certainly claim jurisdiction over an American software company for intentionally violating Iranian law. But the American First Amendment prohibits American courts from helping Iran enforce that judgment.
With today's win Microsoft perfectly predicted the World Cup knockout round
I spent far more time in the computer lab playing muds than actually working on homework. Funny that so much of my sophomore year was spent in a particular mud, but I can't even remember its name now (to be fair, this was 20 years ago). I still remember the general location of my guild, and the stupid forest you had to go through to get to it.

At that time (shortly before the internet became known and the eternal September started), muds were this magical place where the NPCs I'd imagined in all the text adventures I played suddenly became real people, connected from some other computer lab somewhere. That was the point that I had no doubt the internet was going to be huge.

My experience with Second Life was very different. I worked for a company providing software for libraries. When libraries were build SL versions, something felt wrong about it. Why would somebody want to escape the real world to find...the real world?
I think you meant to say "Lisp OS" in the headline. Nice post otherwise. Thanks!
A different way to put it is that they used the data to explain why Germany was the favorite. Which seems pretty cool to me!
I can't say how deeply sad it makes me that we have this perception about creating languages -- that it's something you do if you want to have silly wacky fun in your fantasy book or movie.

I agree, but not for the same reasons. Artificial auxiliary languages just Don't Work. You just can't reasonably expect to do any better at that than Esperanto did, and Esperanto can hardly be seen as "successful" as far as its original goals are concerned. It has essentially simply developed into yet another language of a specific cultural-linguistic group- made up of people from lots of different source cultures and languages, but a distinct cultural entity nonetheless.

No, the real tragedy of the public perception of artificial languages as nothing more than props for books and movies is that it blinds them to the fact that language creation can be fulfilling in many other ways. People create languages as experiments in psychology or logic, as a hands-on learning experience to better understand linguistics, or (and this is what I lean towards most strongly) as independent artistic creations that have aesthetic value in their own right.