skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd rather not.

There are enough nagging notifications in my day as it is. When I want to see whether I have any active conversations, I click on "threads."

HN has one of the best comment sections on the web, in my opinion, because it's focused on thoughtful discussions that add to the main article as opposed to long Reddit-style conversations that bob and weave and become almost a separate entity of their own.

I think a notification feature in HN would encourage a more Reddit-style comment section, and take away from the slightly more laconic, thoughtful, and ultimately valuable comments that appear here now. The great and valuable comments would still appear, but they'd stand a chance of being immersed in a larger sea of back-and-forth noise, making them less prominent.
[video] Discover Flask, Part 16 – Database Downgrades with Flask-Migrate/Alembic
Researchers Hack into Michigan’s Traffic Lights
Short-Lived Science Line from Lego for Girls
More ocean.
‘Alien thigh bone’ on Mars
I think by "efficiency" the author meant developer efficiency, as in writing more code in less time. I may be wrong though. You're definitely right that vanilla JS is often times more efficient than jQuery.
Apple suspends Secret downloads in Brazil under anonymity injunction
Part of me says yeah, that would be kind of nice... but what I really like about HN since I started using it, is the simplicity. I like the flat no frills interface and design and it's one of the things that keeps me here.

Too many buttons, features and widgets and I'll enjoy this place a lot less. I'm sure many feel this way.
If they just store secret without anything else, that would be pretty hard to get back to the original author though. I don't know a lot about security, but if they remove the whole "linked friends" part, I would qualify it as safe.

On the other hand I guess the whole point is knowing your friends secrets, not just people secrets.
Questions with the CEO of Thumbtack
I back up this recommendation whole-heartedly. Sqitch is a fantastic database tool. I stopped using Rails-type migrations because of it (I write PL/pgSQL functions and wanted a migration tool to handle that well, amongst other reasons.)
You just have to remember #points in the upper right. When you didn't get up or down votes, checking out threads isn't worth it anyways. ;)
I don't have experience with DigitalOcean but I can say that Linode's stability is quite remarkable. I only had one brief issue in 6 years and they were very responsive and communicated well.
This was a major part of Daniel Suarez's book the daemon really good read highly recommend. Automated motorcycles with blades doesn't get much better than that.
I use android and don't have an iOS device, so I can't see your app. But even if you made it an android app, I wouldn't use it because I don't see any reason why I would install an app for this.

I think a website would reach the broadest audience, and I would actually try it out.
yes, I agree. This would be very helpful. Then, maybe when you click threads it will show you the updates in bold.
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Downvote away, but if you've got to load 90kb to alias $, damn.
The whole part about japanese is completely wrong. Dont talk pretending you have any clue.
Of course the theory can be disproven. Burn all of the coal and all of the oil and then see what happens. If we are right, we drown and if we are wrong, we die of smoke inhalation.

I think that given the physics, global warming is probably true. That said, one of the things I find annoying about it is that there are many good reasons not to burn stuff and global warming has all the focus.

How about building stuff like solar based electric transportation, just because our city atmospheres are killing people right now, never mind in several decades.
I figured I would ask that question as someone ultimately will :) Thanks for the feedback.
This.

I struggle without kids to get myself organised. Trying to do a side project in my spare time (what spare time?). Its difficult.
Firefox's SVG handling for feDiffuseLighting has the same problem. They calculate the Phong-model in the sRGB space but it should be calculated in a linear colorspace.

Reference rendering and SVG:
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/Test/20061213/htmlEmbedHarnes...

You can see that in Firefox the SVG has much darker colors.
Is any subset of the "derived knowledge" from public websites and data contributed back to a public dataset like Dbpedia?

There are bots [1] making Wikipedia contributions, Google could also make automated contributions to Wikipedia/Wikidata.

[1] http://wikipedia-edits.herokuapp.com/
Is there really a hiatus, then, regardless of cause? How does that square with every new year being the "hottest on record"?

Edit: I ask because as a casual observer, I had always thought this "hiatus" was denier-speak. But now it seems to be being taken seriously in the articles I see.
Has anybody ever had a good experience with Thumbtack (or Homeadvisor)? Every time I've tried it, I've only gotten vague bids (since they can't see my house until I connect through the platform), and it seems all of their contractors are desperate for work. They seem to be the types of handymen that are doing this as a side gig.
That would be interesting. I think it's what the likes of Narrative are trying to do with the Clip device, but they just take a shot at regular intervals rather than trying to be clever about working out what's good algorithmically.

It probably wouldn't be that hard to do based on motion rather than vision if you can make a few assumptions, like 'people still relatively still to look at interesting things' and 'when people are facing each other they want to remember that scene'.
> The point here is that things that are io-bound (esp. memory bound) in python may be cpu-bound in C++ or D, simply because you avoid doing all the indirections that higher level languages do.

I think you mean the reverse: "things that are cpu-bound (esp. memory bound) in python may be io-bound in C++ or D".
5 Principles of Creating a Task That Will Bring You a Desirable Outcome
I just received one of these through the post:

http://pi.gate.ac.uk/pages/mopi.html

Lets you use a battery pack with a handful of AA batteries as a UPS. You can even detect when one power source disappears and then safely shutdown. Amongst various other useful power related things.
Meet the New TempoIQ – Real-Time Monitoring
Playing devil's advocate for a second, I'm wondering whether HN's somewhat kludgy method of following someone's responses to your comments has the unexpected benefit of allowing conversations to die a natural death. The dark side of non-dying conversations is never ending back-and-forth or flame wars that rage on longer than they might otherwise. I agree that HN isn't an ideal forum for conversation, but perhaps that's not such a bad thing?
Possibly the largest contribution to Ruby ever?  +84k libraries
>They are saying that the models that predict a global warming catastrophe can't be wrong

Who said that?

The incompleteness of climate models isn't something that has just come up recently - they have always been incomplete (they can't be anything but - 'all models are wrong') and that is well understood by anybody who develops or uses them. There are large sub-systems that global circulation models don't even really attempt to model at this stage. Others where they are widely recognised to do a very bad job (e.g. ice sheets). Others that are just modelled stochastically because we don't know how to predict those processes on a year to year basis (e.g. ENSO).

Finding inconsistencies between the models and reality is one of the ways that they are improved.

I don't know where you are getting these ideas about how climate modellers think, but they don't bare any relation to how climate models are actually developed.
Just my opinion but, HN isn’t Reddit. That's a good thing. There are extensions/etc. that handle notifications. Perhaps in the spirit of HN wullwong should 'hack' it. Make a plugin or service to do this and show us what they created to make notifications easier.
Where is the money for K-12 in Washington? Just ask Microsoft
Yes, but we have technology available that wasn't in the days of Roman Empire, or even the USSR. Politicians keep telling us we have had growth, yet everyone seems to be working more and more just to make ends meets.
A deep dive into the breaking Node.js C++ APIs in v0.12
For the people that are saying they don't want it, couldn't they just not use the feature if it was there? I'm not following how it would make anything more complicated for them.
I hope everyone realizes that Asperger Syndrome has been abandoned for cause -- that as far as psychiatrists are concerned, the name refers to a cultural meme, not a mental illness, and it was a mistake to put it in DSM-IV as a diagnosis. It's been removed from the new DSM-5, and those who removed it discourage its use, a use that can only stigmatize people who may be placed at an advantage by possessing its described traits.

Among those who were "diagnosed" with Asperger Syndrome at the height of its popularity included Albert Einstein, Thomas Jefferson and Bill Gates. That was when mental health professionals realized their mistake.

From a practical standpoint, what we call Asperger Syndrome, and foolishly tried to stigmatize and treat, may in fact be an advantageous evolutionary trait that's being selected for in our technically advanced culture.

Not unlike homosexuality and many other traits that were once thought to be treatable mental illnesses, Asperger Syndrome has been recategorized as normal behavior by those who had the most to lose -- mental health clinicians who were able to read the handwriting on the wall.
I did read documentation but couldn't find it. I'm still not sure how did you find it other than going into their GitHub repository.

Great find though. Thanks.
Harnessing User Research
Still working on the data layer, but I think I'm going to use Reflux. One of the things I was initially skeptical of React about is its lack of support for custom event bubbling (which is the technique I like to use to keep my components decoupled).

Flux lets you cheat around that: Since you're using require statements, you can make an action and `require()` it in both the component it's dispatched from and the one that's listening to it.

// Traditional event bubbling
child.dispatchEvent(...) ----> parent.addEventListener(...)

// Reflux
child:action() ----> store.listenTo(action) ----> store.trigger(data) ----> parent.listenTo(store)

The store is an extra layer of abstraction, so you can assimilate data from different sources (user interaction, server events, etc) into one format before passing them into your datastream. Facebook's Flux has yet another layer of abstraction called the Dispatcher.

Honestly, I'm murky on the utility of the Store and even less confident in the utility of the Dispatcher. That's why I'm using Reflux instead of FBFlux, and I'm still tempted to skip the store and just listen to my actions from the parent component.
No, telling someone to seek qualified help is the responsible thing to do whe one is unqualified to help. Providing untrained, unqualified, and anonymous help is both unethical and dangerous.

If Secret staffed trained professionals to provide anonymous help, that would e different. They don't.
The linked article only proves, once again, that not all content labeled "science" is actually science.
Secret should consider changing their algorithm. How about the following:

You need at least 7 contacts that use Secret, but approximately half (or 1/3 or 1/4, whatever gives the best experience) of your messages will come from people NOT on your contact list. That is, most of the posts will be from people you don't know. But enough will be from your contacts to keep it personal...
Odd, I upload a file and it doesn't seem to give me any sort of link.

http://imgur.com/LpwJ3Nn

Running Chrome 36.0.1985.143 on OS X
What's there to say? Just start chugging away. Do some research when you hit a wall.
Quick example on the playground, if this is what you were asking about: http://play.golang.org/p/zShJKp0t3n
For context, the entire essay: http://www.emersoncentral.com/selfreliance.htm

as I went Googling. Excellent quote!
> the cycle of repeated war and subjugation by foreign tribes, kept China from making more significant advances in technology or stabilizing internally enough to focus on expanding their reach outward

Very like medieval Europe, isn't it? What did break that cycle in Europe?

(I remember from my school's history classes the explanation that nations and empires grew over the entire territory - what clearly didn't happen; and that the more war-liking population were conquered - quite a contradiction. Also, it happened before Europe got rich, not after, thus that argument is invalid.)
Thanks for give your hand on this thread!
Falsifiability is just a lot harder at a macro scale like the planet. It's more like astrophysics than classical physics. Perhaps even harder because you don't have discrete bodies and large spaces, you just have one heavily intertwined body of interactions.

I don't think that makes it strictly non-falsifiable, it just makes it a little fuzzier where you have to accept that there are too many variables to isolate, and you need to take clues and relative changes to be worth something even if there isn't a controlled scenario that science would prefer.

The worst part of climate change science isn't the uncertainty, it's the fact that any uncertainty will be grasped upon by the oligarchy to create FUD in favor of the status quo that generated their fortunes. That systemic bias could well be the end of the species as we are collectively unable to pull our heads out of our asses.
A Google Analytics tracking of the events would be just fine for this goal.
No, definitely not. This UI is about as simple as it gets and it should stay that way quirks and all.
The general HN feature philosophy: HN is a simple site with a simple purpose.

Its worked just fine this way for 10 years. Is it actually broken now and worth fixing, and further, why devote the energy when it continues to work fine? And really, the last thing HN needs are giant tangent comment trees. These rarely remain professional and on-topic.
It wouldn't be any easier, because losing money & gaining money are actually the same thing- if you can predict which stocks will decrease, then you can short those equities (essentially buying negative amounts of the stocks), and then make a profit equal to the amount of the decrease.
The article makes a giant leap right from the get-go:

"As China becomes, again, the world's largest economy, it wants the respect it enjoyed in centuries past. But it does not know how to achieve or deserve it"

In 1990 we would have been talking about Japan becoming the largest economy instead.

Turns out there are a lot of problems between here and there. For example, China is at a point where they're unable to grow their economy without taking on ever increasing amounts of debt. That has resulted in one of the greatest debt binges in world history in the last six years.

I'd argue it's far more likely China will see stagnation, and extremely challenging growth, over the next 30 years as a consequence of what they're doing to fake growth now, rather than see continual boom. Wherever China stops in their vast debt accumulation, the bill that will go along with it is going to be historical in scale. That will drag on their growth in a dramatic way for decades.

The Chinese boom ended in 2007/08. In the next few decades it will be very difficult for them to achieve even 3% to 4% real GDP growth. What is basically going to happen, is normalization. It seems to be a perpetual cycle of analysts and economists making terribly poor extrapolations for future outcomes based on temporary boom periods that originate from extreme lows.
That blog post is from 2009. Five years later, there has been no temperature spike. In fact, there has been no increment.

But what is interesting is not anyones definition of pause or hiatus or whatever. It's the comparison between predictions of climate models and real temperatures. And the models are really, really bad at predicting reality:

http://www.drroyspencer.com/2014/02/95-of-climate-models-agr...

If this trend continues, real temperatures will fall below the error range of all models.
yah sure. If free market was a zero sum game it would be pointless. However, I see absolutely NO reason I should applaud them for it, not when then are people making real sacrifices for open source software.
I'd prefer HN to stay simple, the way it is now. I don't need extra features.
Yes I agree. I do find the obsession with plotting linear regressions of temperature data fairly strange, since surely even the most ardent climate skeptic accepts the existence of solar cycles (and volcanism etc). Once you accept that there are external drivers of the climate system, I don't know why you would ignore what they have been doing.

Anyway, I'm not the one trying to claim that there is suddenly no longer an energy imbalance in the climate system because of a decade of (incomplete) surface temperature data. I do think it's worth pointing out how cherry picked the 'pause' argument is though, even on its own terms.
Interesting, I did not know that. I thought most of the problems with dyslexia came from actually being able to read series of letters and numbers - I've heard it described as letters coming together in a jumble, and not in actual order that they appear in a word
Even though this thread is tangential to the OP, I second your sentiment and apologize for furthering the thread hijack.

Obviously, I am of the opinion that automatic media playback is a "no no" and I personally dislike the practice. The use of automatic media playback is a red flag in my mind that tells me, "This website is not primarily user-preference driven and is likely something that is about to show me a marketing pitch. The owners of the website do not have a problem with surprising me and/or others nearby due to an oversight or marketing interests."

This thread deserves to be at the top as a reminder to web services and design staff. I realize that decisions for auto-playback likely come from above. If I were in a position of subservience and the directive came from above, I would offer my advice that this behavior is pushy and may turn away users.
No. If somehow it get's implemented please have it disabled by default.

What I'd really like to see from HN is a responsive website.
I'm not saying there must be a compromise between lack of freedom and material suffering. I'm just saying you can't easily and objectively compare these two problems.
Your making a sweeping statement there, they don't all hate each other only a select few feel the need to discriminate against other religions.
Laziness is one thing, but jQuery covers so many browser-specific issues and differences that it would be insane to cover it all by yourself. Sure, if you have a simple script with several lines of code than you can go without jQuery, but anything more complex - no way, you will produce 10x more code with 10x more bugs. The only argument against using jQuery could be its size, but let's be honest - nowadays, unless you do something targeted at users with very low connections, it doesn't matter, even on the mobile.
Smokers consume same amount of cigarettes regardless of nicotine levels
My experience tends to be that distro packaged software is not always what one ends up using in production. Except for some base packages when you start doing more sophisticated deployments. Distros may backport bug fixes and specifically security fixes but they tend to be several versions behind.
Some people have said that they think it will degrade the quality of the discussion by encouraging shorter and quicker replies at the expense of longer and more thoughtful ones. So it wouldn't make things more complicated for people not using it; it would just make the site worse. :)
In English, it's correct grammar to include an article ("the" or "a") before a singular common noun. "iPhone" is a singular common noun, because it's not a discrete entity like Jupiter or Bill Gates, it's a consumer product - there are many, many iPhones. It's also -- despite Apple's marketing to the contrary -- not a singular or distinct concept, at least not in the context of your post. If you prefer to drop the article because it conveys your idea better, you can pluralize the noun. "iPhones" is a completely valid drop-in replacement.

No spite/sarcasm intended - I am genuinely trying to be helpful.
So more clicks/effort to get back to your comments means you're more willing to put in an effort when making comments? And therefore leads to better comments in general?
We actually do have a google group (actually more than one) - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kivy-users is the most active, and works well. Maybe we need to make that clearer as well!
We set it up so https://TrackIf.com can track if a HackerNews story gets a new comment (or if a comment gets a new comment, etc. etc.) It was 100% for selfish reasons and once we did it we recognized we don't actually use it that often.

As awesome as HN is, there's never a reason* that you need to immediately come back and respond unless you're getting your flamewar on...

* Or if you're wearing your PR hat and there's a story about your company, but we really don't want to make things easy for those people unless we want to see the forums overrun.
If you kick a football it will accelerate away from you, but only while you are kicking it and it does that in both cases. And if you have got as far as F=ma then you will presumably be bright enough to apply it to gravity and the shape and material of any hill as well as the action of your foot.

Besides, the people who are saying that the system is too complex to make a prediction are not saying that there will be no effect. There is an increase in the energy going into this system and saying that things are so complex that we should bet on there being no effect is not saying that there is no global effect, but that there is a global effect that more or less exactly counterbalances the initial effect and that to me sounds like wishful thinking from the viewpoint that nature is somehow magically in balance.
Isn't it fair to say that the behaviors would now be described as part of the autistic spectrum?

(Let's say we are talking about the words used by a careful clinician to communicate something, not what some rando on the internet said once about Bill Gates)
Would "responded" include only actual replies, or also no-reply downvotes?

I ask because lately I'm experiencing an increasing proportion of the latter. Apparently pg has endorsed these on the grounds that they are the pure logical inverse of no-reply upvotes. Although I disagree, that's the official stance, and if it is to continue to be the reality here, I think any new notification feature ought to include those, too.

Because that way, if a comment is being downvoted, then I'd know sooner. I'd have the option of adding clarification -- just like if someone took the time to reply with an actual comment and I were to get notified.
John von Neumann was an absolutely amazing human and scientist. truly a genius, a polymath, and evidently quite an interesting party guest. the book Prisoner's Dilemma is ostensibly about game theory but it's set within the context of von Neumann's life. really quite fascinating, one of my favorite people to study.

http://www.amazon.com/Prisoners-Dilemma-William-Poundstone/d...
Well there are two separate streams, people outside your circle, and people in/around your circle.

So that would kind of defeat the purpose of the "friends" stream entirely.
Look a UFO, take a picture quick...damn all I have is this Layer cam. :(