skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is a mistake to say that, because of this, language X has a "harder syntax"

Yeah, I mostly agree. But I believe there is some objective notion of readability and that syntax can be objectively more or less readable. However, that's only my belief, as we have no objective way to measure readability yet. (There's this wiki article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Readability but as far as I can tell nobody bothered to apply methods mentioned there to code)

So, as it's almost impossible to have a meaningful discussion on readability, I don't try to argue that Haskell is or isn't readable at all. However, the fact(? seems intuitive enough, but maybe it's wrong?) that it's easier to associate meaning to words than to abstract symbols and the frequent use of abstract symbols to name things in Haskell makes me argue that Haskell is harder to learn than for example J (btw, J and K use only ASCII characters). But that, too, is open to discussion - one can claim that names like <*> are easier to learn and more precise, because they come without any prior associations in the reader's mind.

In the end, the only thing I can say is that for me - probably because of a whole lot of factors and influences - word-based identifiers are easier to learn and use than symbol-based ones. It's entirely possible that a majority of Haskell programmers are different in this regard (and yes, they - as for all languages - are most certainly self-selecting).
Reddit admins could have garnered more sympathy and understanding if they framed their actions purely in terms of site reliability and manpower instead of any weights about the morals of various subreddits.

Two admin messages with vastly different theses:

First was the yishan post[1]. The TLDR of that one was, "we don't police subreddits/morals/etc." The problem with that post was that it was a ticking time bomb waiting for any inconsistency with the admins handling of subreddits to be scrutinized and vilified. The yishan post should have never been written. The reddit masses felt their intelligence was being insulted.

The second post by alienth[2] has a much better message. The TLDR of that one was "we're getting overwhelmed by DMCA takedowns". Reddit admins can then drive the point home that they know other subreddits such as /notfamousstolenphotos are questionable but at least those are not getting bombarded by DMCA notices. They can then go on to stress that they just don't have the manpower (technical team and legal team) to address (fight) all of the DMCA notices to keep /thefappening up.

Reddit was basically a victim of a DOS (Denial Of Service) attack by way of DMCAs instead of ip packets. It's great that reddit has some lofty ideals of being "hands off" but it also has to have the manpower to uphold those ideals. I suppose reddit could ask volunteers to work for $0 salary and review all the DMCA takedowns coming in but that would be a logistical nightmare.

Reddit could try to maintain a stance similar to Kevin Rose Digg AACS encryption keys[3] but I don't think they have the resources to do it. In any case, the yishan post has already poisoned the well and any subsequent message to clarify the admins' predicament is getting tainted by it.

[1]https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/2foivo/every_man_is_r...

[2]http://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/2fpdax/time_t...

[3]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controversy
An app promising keeping your notes and note data private doesnt necessarily need to avoid analytics. Analytics and aggregate user data cant be avoided if a developer wants to improve user experience. Keeping users and their experience at the center isnt a bad thing. Your note data isnt logged to any servers in this app.
I'm not trying to make a legal argument here. It's immoral and I fully support Reddit's decision to do what they want on their own site.

I'm just disgusted at the lengths (awarding/taking away imaginary internet points) people are going to to 'defend their right' to do something which is not even questionable - any sane person would agree in that the content on that subreddit is wrong.
Ask HN: Individual print/mail as a service offerings?
I am looking for a company that would make it easy for me to get letters printed, and mailed for me, rather than my having to buy envelopes, stamps, and write addresses, etc.. I'm looking for individual mails (to extended family) not bulk mailing or anything like that. Being able to easily support/print quality color photos in the letter (like I can do at home) is a must.

Any suggestions?
Where did you get those team logos from? They look very nice!
I share your sentiments. I'm more ambivalent about this process than I should be, as an admirer of the checks and balances in our constitution.

I would suspect that the vast majority of such hauls is drug money laundering related. "Normal" folks would be scared of losing such cash or having it stolen. I know I would be petrified at the thought.

However, there are probably a few folks who don't use banks (don't trust 'em or don't use 'em just because) and this is how they buy a house or buy a car or go from one state to another with their possessions.

Now, here's where my ambivalence comes from: do we let the money laundering go because a few of these are false positives? Or do we accept the false positives because it serves the greater good because it catches or causes attrition for money launderers?

I think electronic or check transfers are a rational solution to the problem at hand and so folks should use that.

But I'm still ambivalent. Constitution. Checks and balances.
I totally agree with you, this actually has happened to me, not once, but twice. It took me 7 years to get it off! I think there are a few recommendations for it.
A new foundation for mathematics
I have an explanation. I got the math wrong. I meant to do:

18 + (82 * .2) but I calculated 16.4 and then added 20 instead of 18.
Don't come here. It's terrible. Just terrible. Do not apply for a visa here. It's a TRAP!
If conventional bank instruments were right for all purposes, there would be no interest in alt-currency.

If your money is a number and only you know what it is, it is safe from these kinds of intrusions.
I don't understand your question, but I think the answer might be: yes, obviously, I found out about the book, bought it, read it, and liked it.
Thanks for the fast reply, kens! Those reasons make a lot of sense.

And thanks again for the article itself. Very much enjoyed it.
I hate to go for the obvious one[1] here but...

'At least a few people' have demand for child porn and enjoy it. Are you saying pedophilia is good?

[1] Please tell me which logical fallacy I'm using here
A-ha. That makes a lot of sense. Thank you!
I used advanced optimizations, and the problem went away.
It's SO much better there!
...which is actually not _terrible_ in its current guise, now that there are no comments.
You don't understand how DC works. On a given issue analysis and projections are produced by numerous agencies. For example a Country desk at State may deliver an accurate estimate, but another group at state may water it down, or it may be stuffed by a competing estimate from CIA. Since its politically safer to bury your head in the sand than it is to fight for an estimate, the process is ripe for manipulation. All this concept does is pass the buck without - apparently - any comparison to all the analysis produced.

Tl;dr - This solution speaks to the failings of the intel process and not the people.
Which part of which celebrity's body did you think needed "fixing"?
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The co-founder of reddit apparently also subscribes to the guilty victim ideology. It's not the job of reddit to understand the plight of the victims of any stolen content - it's their fault, after all...

From parent's linked thread:

"Anytime they take an image and put it in a digital format—whether it’s an email to one person, whether it’s in a tweet, whether it’s on Facebook, whether it’s an MMS—they should assume that it is now public content. They should assume it is everywhere. And that’s the warning that parents need to be giving their kids, and that’s the useful thing CNN could have reported on, instead of making up a bunch of jibber-jabber about reddit."

Edit: formatting.
> Reddit doesn't owe anyone imaginary "free speech" rights, they aren't a government entity but a privately held company.

This. They're doing themselves a disservice by taking the 'free speech' route.
As long as we rely on secret keys to validate identity, making this information public would be a mistake.

The objective of transparency is access to knowledge and truth. By making my private keys public, I give the world the power to claim to be me, which is fraud. This leads to the spreading of false information, which is against what is good.

I wish I could share this information with you, but society currently makes it impractical by relying on the expectation that private key identification is reliable. I wouldn't be surprised if it were illegal for me to share such private keys.
When I sign in I just get returned to the home page and invited to sign in again. Anyone know how to reach the good stuff?

Edit: from the JuliaBox README [0]:

- Not recommended to host on the public internet just yet.

- Security is mostly a TODO at this time.

- Docker itself is undergoing changes in its API. Since we pull in the latest docker, changes in the docker API may break JuliaBox at any time.

So it seems this is not really ready for demo yet - perhaps prematurely posted to HN. Look forward to seeing it when it's ready.

[0] https://github.com/JuliaLang/JuliaBox/blob/master/README.md
Question: Hacking function scope with stringifying/parsing JavaScript objects
I find the Privacy addresses a pain when it comes to managing traffic on my network. My (mostly Apple) devices will never use their DHCP provided v6 address to connect to a public service and this means that my gateway doesn't know what the hostname is for that connection.

I ended up writing a little script to scan the "ip -6 neigh" and correlate hosts together based on MAC, then write that to a hosts file for DNSMasq to use. Hack, but it works for me.
This is a dangerous precedent that obviously does not have enough oversight if they are willing to take $2,500 moving money that a son received from his father.
Jailbait was alive for a long time...
I clicked on the sign-in via google but then nothing else happened after authorizing identifying me..

No email, nothing. Maybe they are understandably experiencing some high loads or something. It'd be nice to quickly update web page to state that though if true.

UPDATE: Never mind, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8281116
I'm a cis developer and consider myself extremely lucky to have grown up with super-strong female role models in my family. When working for others and overtly treated in unpleasant ways due to my gender I was able to laugh. I started out in the mid-90s so by then it wasn't unheard of to have the odd women executive. But ultimately I had to quit as I felt excluded from all the things you comment on above. Now I run a team of devs myself, many of them young males, and I am really pleased that they don't see gender in relation to my role as boss/lead dev.

For me the issue still remains in sales and high-level corporate deals. Recently I had the decision-maker of a very large company call me after a boardroom meeting to apologize for being hard on me in regards to some questions they had. During the meeting I was actually impressed by their knowledge and interest and I had really enjoyed the meeting. So it was sad when he called to say, "sorry for possibly making you uncomfortable". I don't think this would ever happen to a man.
What is Juliabox? The landing page itself does not say anything about what the product actually is and what the benefits of signing up are.
(This was in response to a sentence that has now been edited out that claimed Ulbricht has never been charged for murder for hire.)
Heard the word "ephemerality" for the first time. Had to look it up.

Turns out it means almost the same as "temporary". Thanks for upping the vocab.
They banned it because it.
A. was eating major bandwidth, setting site records and breaking things.
B. Had underage images

The fact that the underage images were of a celeb were not part of the decision, except in so much that celebrity nudes were creating massive traffic.
I live in Reno, so with Burning Man recently I saw a disproportionate number of traffic stops off the freeway. The interesting thing about Burning Man, however, is that all vehicles are marked by the tell-tale dust from the Playa. Cops can easily identify which cars should be pulled over. I've seen cops rooting around in dust marked cars while concerned Burners watch.

I can't stress enough how important it is to know your rights [1]. Never, ever consent to a search. Never, ever "talk" to police (insofar as to assert your rights). They are not your friends. You are being pulled over because you are being accused of a crime. And all too often they will use word games and intimidation to get you to "cooperate" (forfeit your fifth amendment rights).

Even though Burners might be less likely to have large sums of money in their car (cash money is forbidden in trading at Burning Man), suspicion of drugs is a likely story for a stop and seizure.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkpOpLvBAr8
From the article:

'The attention prompted Congress to reform federal seizure laws in 2000, allowing owners to be reimbursed for their legal fees after successful lawsuits. But a key reform was cut. It would have removed what some lawmakers called the “perverse incentive” to target cash — the sharing of money between the feds and locals. It died after police and Justice waged a “voracious lobbying” campaign, according to former representative Barney Frank (D-Mass.).

“We didn’t have the votes,” said Frank, who is still an ardent critic of asset forfeiture. “There is this terrible unfairness. It is about as fundamental a denial of their constitutional rights as I can think of.”'
I clicked on "Sign in via Google" button. It asked me for permission to access some information. Then went back to the original homepage; the one that still asks me to sign in. Now, if I click on "Sign in via Google" nothing happens. Also, nothing else on the page is clickable. How do I try it out?
I don't see how they could admit it into evidence without the packet logs. The defense would have no opportunity to examine the same evidence.
Would love to see the results on this one. I'd still think HTML would be a better option to go, rather than JS. Java Scrip delivers alot of options but isn't that flexible as HTML
Money orders typically have limits of a few hundred dollars, far under $18k (the example in the article). Bank-certified checks suffer from forgery problems and take 1-3 days to clear at my local bank. Both of these cost money, sometimes significant amounts of money. For instance the money order fee on $18k, assuming you structured the transaction to get around the limit, would come out to ~$150 at the place I last used (not to mention the UX is terrible and time-consuming).
Scientists transmit thoughts from one brain to another
I was asked if X is "good for anyone". I did not make any statement about the objective value (good or bad) of pedophilia, but I do think it's subjectively (to some people) good.

Given an objective question instead of a subjective one, I would have answered differently.
Reddit has completely nose dived the past couple of years. Both from a administrative sense, and a content sense. When they first started the gold program, to quiet the uproar that some users would have more power than others, they said that everyone would get the features of gold, just after a little while. They did that the first couple of times but now they don't. They recently started an IAMA app (why?), which is essentially just a PR machine. They have very inconsistent admin policies, censoring some stuff not censoring other things.

A long time ago, there were users that would appear in the comments of every top post and they were almost always jokes. There were submitters that would reach the front page consistently. These people had essentially learned how to game Reddit, finding the right jokes and right material for their audience. And because of that, over the past couple of years it has became a race to the bottom in almost every subreddit and every comment. RES makes Reddit usable to some extent, but my filters filter out 75% of r/all, and what's left isn't very engaging.

The website has obviously outgrown me, and I have started spending most of my time on other sites now (sometimes even Digg). And it doesn't matter that Reddit lost me as a heavy user, cause I'm a nobody and Reddit will still get millions of views, just that Reddit meant a lot to me. It was the first website where I actually learned stuff. My Wikipedia usage went through the roof, reading up on things that people were talking about that I had no idea existed. Long articles and even handed discussions, occasional humor. I didn't comment or post a lot but I looked forward to getting lost in it. I miss it a little.
This is interesting. You given an interesting law about an European country and you get down voted. HN has become a close minded community.

You certainly added to the discussion with an interesting fact. Thank you.

http://www.europe-consommateurs.eu/fileadmin/user_upload/eu-...
First, our system is supposed to be protective of the innocent. Carrying cash is very very far from being a violent crime or any other type of police emergency. There is never a case based on safety for confiscation.

Second, there are, for example, antique fairs where sellers are not going to take a check from random unknown buyers rom all over the country. Also, some people, notably some immigrants, of which there are a historically large number now, do not trust banks or bank instruments, or simply do not know which bank instruments would be trusted for which types of deals.
So you're a hypocrite and a coward.

If you won't practice what you preach, don't expect anyone else to.
I don't think the kind of people who would be interested in this project really care about having to sign in to google.
I count eight different statements. No ones unsubstantiated opinion matters, but all are welcome to argue a position.
You realize what this sounds like to someone without access to enough cash on hand to smooth over the insanity of our banking process?

"Screw you, I've got mine."
Safely Creating Temporary Files in Shell Scripts (2005)
Obviously the employee made some mistakes, he even admits to this. Thats not the point. The point is that Unbabel acted horribly to its employee and acted in bad faith pretty much ever step along the way.

People keep thinking this situation should be about contracts and lawyers and staying silent to help his case in a lawsuit or something. The employee know full well that he is never going to get fully paid for the contract. So he decided to let other people know how bad this company is so others can know about it. This is the best way to punish a company that acts in bad faith.
Agree. Still vastly better than go.
DayOneLogger – Log anything you add to a folder to Day One
Raymond Chen: Tales of Application Compatibility (2006) [pdf]
Are you saying because you, shin_lao, doesn't prefer cash, that it's ok for the government to go around seizing cash from people who do prefer it? What of the seller only accepts cash? What if the buyer (someone other than you) prefers cash?
Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing => http://julialang.org/

From the front page => Run Julia from the Browser. No setup.

This means that you can run the programming language from the browser without having to install Julia and the various dependencies onto your system. You can just run it from the your browser.
A lot of money laundering operations is related to terrorist financing. Also, many terrorist organizations finance themselves via drug sales.
It's not Reddit's place to police their own site?
What needs "fixing" is the thing for which all the drama is a symptom.

Someone can tweet that [some celebrity] was at [some location] at [some time], and little or no drama will occur. We just accept that this knowledge can't remain secret, and that's alright.

We should react the same way for all knowledge/data/information, including these pictures.

I understand that people react this way because it's "new", but we quickly will get used to it, as these leaks will become the new normal. Transparency just accelerates this shift, which is unavoidable in the long run.
It's a bit shocking really. You'd think some one in power in the US would say this is wrong and stop it. I have to admit I don't understand US politics - I don't think this happens in any other developed countries.
I was chiming in on support of I suppose if the system you're reverse engineering made substantial use of GoF design patterns, familiarity with them would probably help, but that seems a little bit of a stretch and to clarify my opinion about the 'tptacek comment pointing out a common vulnerability (sql injection) and how GoF doesn't really addresss it.

And we could discuss I think Norvig's claim is often read (not sure if intended) slightly stronger than is merited quite a bit. I might go the other way, as I think Norvig is really quite gentle in making his points.

So not disagreeing with your comment, and perhaps I did hang my comment on the wrong post.
Social welfare can help entrapenours.
How much can you predict about the iPhone 6? [Game]
I guess you've never heard of Pick'Em leagues.
http://games.espn.go.com/champions-league-pickem/2014/en/

Here's someone's implementation from 2 years ago.
https://github.com/bobholt/soccer-pickem
I would not consider it private, at all, though. It's not privacy if every click you make is being monitored and analyzed.
I believe that cocaine should be legal. Does that mean I should snort a line in front of a policeman?
You are being down voted because there are people here who cannot conceive that there might be people here from other countries that have working, fair, justice systems built on different rules than the US justice system, and so that take different approaches to things, and so the US way of handling something might seem strange to such a person.
I don't think processors are as close to offsetting the rendering disadvantage as you think. Servers get more powerful at the same time, so I suspect the faster strategy will continue to be server-side.

Is there potential that clients will become 'close-enough'? Maybe, but I doubt the gap will ever be fully bridged.
Besides driving a lot of talent away, I think it's an insidious expectation that an employee makes a 'culture fit' where you have to regularly enjoy surfing and drinking with everyone.

Being friendly with coworkers is great, but when you push it further like it appears Unbabel does, you're in reality just asking employees to invest even more of their life, mind, and personal freedom laboring for your company.

Another possibly is it's important for the founders to use their startup to live out a lifestyle, i.e. have fun and party along the way. Those are not the type of founders I want to work for either.
Not to even remotely defend this but in other countries the government just seizes privately held corporations and says it is illegal for them to be privately held - they just wait until the corporation is actually worth something first.

Like Alibaba in China - it is illegal for them to be held by outside entities, yet somehow the government allows them to skirt that rule, but I wonder for how long.
No please, don't turn this into a "people with power" can do anything rant. Reddit removed the sub because they were overwhelmed with DMCA notices. If the other sub you mentioned was also flooded with DMCA notices then it would get removed too.