skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lately I have had a sad feeling that r/nfl has reached an inflection point where it is quickly degrading into just another large subreddit. The firestorm surrounding the NFL's domestic violence issues this season seems to have had permanent effects on r/nfl.
Of course, he might just be pushed out the airlock as soon as he annoys "the labor pool". Idealists who create remote colonies are in for disappointment. It were ever thus.
You know you play too much Destiny when...

But seriously. It's so difficult to realize how much of a game changer a great package manager can be. I've never tried Haskell, but is this really THAT much of a problem? I hear so much praise and worship about Haskell...
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What's the internal version number going to be? 6.3, or are they jumping to 7.0?
There are ways of discussing and holding viewpoints that--in the strictest sense of the term--are racist or sexist. Talking about how best to accomodate maternity leave and schedule work is inherently sexist: it is an issue that does not apply to both men and women. Talking about how to handle racial profiling in targeted advertising is inherently racist: it is an issue that is tuned to your views about what messaging works best for a particular race.

One can have these viewpoints and maintain civil discourse. One can even have viewpoints that are less pragmatic; e.g., violent crimes clearly committed more frequently by one race over others. In such a case, somebody can civilly point out numbers and studies that refute that viewpoint, and at the point one can either accede or agree to disagree.

Being civil doesn't have anything to do with agreeing with people, or even being right.
They already do I think? At least the default subreddit list (or whatever it calls - the subreddits shown top of screen) includes swedish subreddits when I'm not logged on.
Agreed about monetization. Ideally, this should be a community thing like Wikipedia but that’s probably unrealistic.

I really think it would be an amazing resource. There would be so much great content that the site would potentially rank really high on Google for a variety of search terms, too (again, like Wikipedia).
Thanks for the link! I was actually surprised how hard it was to find a good description of NaN tagging yesterday.
It's not really a gamble when you're forced to do something. You simply have no choice but to do what the government tells you to or lose your business.
My main competitors are Facebook events and MeetUp. But as I said Google has bought my startup in a dream:)
I don't, but people seem to actually use stuff like Siri, which tells me some amount of automated audio processing is currently feasible.
I think it just comes down to better placement of subreddit suggestions somewhere in the UI. Reddit is a very word heavy UI (which I like) but sometimes features (no matter how awesome at the core) get lost in the text or the pics/vids that standout so much on the front page.
Economists explain why they love Uber so much
Land, and especially coast, which is a lot of the areas most suitable for human habitation. Earth's surface is already 70% water; the ideal is probably 50%, so we should be looking to lower the water level rather than raise it.

Parasites and diseases, much more common in warmer, wetter places. You'll notice that on the whole tropical civilizations have been less successful than those in colder climes; there's a wide variety of possible reasons for that, but the effects of parasite load on health and general intelligence are real. Our technology/economy/etc. has so far been much better at helping us live in inhospitable cold places (Norway) than at dealing with tropical parasites and diseases.

Not to mention that a climatic shift on this timescale, in either direction, has historically meant about 20% of extant species going extinct. How lucky do you feel?
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Inside Pastec, the images are represented using the visual word paradigm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Word
During indexing, each image feature is assigned to the nearest visual word among a pre-trained set of 1 million.
About 1000 visual words are extracted per image.
HN users don't share one mind, each has their own.

These minds don't always agree.
Sometimes a photo tells you all you need to know about a person: e.g., http://i.imgur.com/4CIFpFe.jpg . Modern American law enforcement: a gang of wannabe tinpot dictators with weapons they have no business with, and that they probably have no idea how to use.

Finger off the trigger, Sheriff.
What the f. This argument has no merit.

Why would an investor care where the code is hosted? GitHub to their credit is pretty respected and handles private repos with great care.

I personally use BitBucket because of the pricing scheme, but I don't think the investor even needs to know where the code is hosted.
https://web.archive.org/web/20140930180146/http://blogs.wind...
I intend to. But my initial position is that it's far more likely that Apple will fail to be perfect than that they are intentionally orchestrating a coverup.

That said, I think all this syncing and cloud stuff - in its early days, at least - is way overcomplicated and more error-prone both in its features and its security than it needs to be. I expect mistakes from all implementations for quite some time to come.
After attending a session with James Pearce at DevNation earlier this year (April), I was really impressed with the open source efforts Facebook is pursuing. It's pretty cool to see how far they've come so fast and the ToDo initiative looks exciting.
Hi there. Your sr is one of the better ones I have come across. Keep up the good work.

I hope the cleaning and injections don't change reddit too much.
We have a real desire to make a dent in the universe around the way email works, so the plan is not for this to be a fly-by-night initiative or to sell out.

There is plenty wrong with email and a lot of opportunity to change it with a completely new email app. However we decided to integrate with Gmail as a matter of practicality, having realised that for the most part people don't want to change to a new email client if they don't have to.

Re the architecture - Sortd is built as a Chrome Extension so it runs on the client, and in all honesty we don't want masses of email data going through our servers, it's just an unnecessary overhead. That said, there is a need for some server side stuff because we need to keep all the data in sync for things like a mobile experience. But we don't store any email - just references to emails so that if you click on an email on one of your priority lists we can tell Gmail to open it.

Integrating with Gmail is risky because they can change things underneath you, so we have built it in a way that it runs in an almost independent workspace. There are one or two Gmail buttons that we place inside Gmail itself, but the real meat runs in an iFrame.

Hope that answers your questions. I'm happy to elaborate if anything is not clear?
Speaking of which, there's a decent article about this here:

http://www.phonecruncher.com/news/2576225/apple_bans_german_...
What Erdos worked on will outlast us all. Your great grandkids will be studying his theorems. OTOH, getting an iPhone to last beyond the annual upgrade cycle is a monumental achievement.
I agree with most of your post, but I don't find the idea of Japan not attacking Pearl Harbor very plausible/useful. It had been clear for years that, given Japan's imperial ambitions and the US's desire to maintain their own influence over the region, that the two would come into conflict eventually. Japan at the time would not accept kowtowing to US power and influence without a fight. Exactly how and when that fight would start could have varied any number of ways, but I think the fight was inevitable.

Arguably, Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor was the best move they could have made, considering their position. They did succeed in limiting US naval power in the Pacific for the 6 months that Yamamoto estimated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoroku_Yamamoto#Attack_on_Pear...
The only innovation I need right now is improved battery life. If I could last a week of normal use without needing to recharge I'd be quite happy.
The Power of Swift
I think one of the major sources of eBay's troubles is their decision to slowly abandon their P2P focus, in favor of the "shopping mall of the internet" model that Amazon uses. Rather than pursuing this model and doing it better than the competition, they chose to ape them, and badly.

Like CrazyCatDog said, eBay is the textbook example of what happens when a tech company is run by consultants who don't understand the users.
Using tty2gif, I've made it work at my mac. Only need to find some time to upload the changes to the repo.

http://z24.github.io/tty2gif/
Wasn't it a SendGrid developer evangelist who got a programmer fired from his job because he had the bad luck to sit in the row behind her at a Python conference?

She overheard and misunderstood some dumb joke he made about "forking code", took his photo, used Twitter to "out" him for sexism and he got fired.

I don't know what their "evangelist strategy" is, but I always remember that incident when someone suggests SendGrid, it revealed a pretty nasty attitude towards developers, so, I deploy Mandrill instead.
Very cool. It's like turning reddit into a bit of a communal property.
If an investor has problem trusting Github, they will probably won't trust anyone with their money anyway.
"When will Earth die? A million years? A billion years?"

Did the words "tomorrow", "next week", "next year" not suit your argument? It's wilderness from the centre of the Earth all the way out - myriad accidents waiting to happen.

"I don't really think that worrying about the Earth dying anytime soon is much of problem"

You've not based that on anything. It's also ignoring the word "ensure", the longer we sit idly by, the less sure we can be.

"If we can't in a million years develop technology to survive we won't be able to do it in the next 50 years."

Obviously, but what's a million years got to do with anything?
As a mod of /r/javascript (for about 6 months now), I'm flattered. The sub really is easy to mod though; yes, we get a couple off-topic & spammy posts every once in awhile, but by-and-large, the JS community there runs itself really well.
That article says that they're still owned by Advance Publications, though (the Conde Nast parent).

I'm confused as well. Is Advance Publications retaining a stake? Are they spinning it off? ???
Those are vary similar boards, but I don't think there identical. On the bottom right of the Arduino there are 4 holes that line up with six others on the left side of the board. Note how there not parrellel with the bottom. Now compare that with the windows show it's got a line on the left bit it's not continued on the right side.

My guess is it's a different Arduino board or an x86 board that's trying to fit the same form factor which uses similar chips in similar places.
I often do this and found that I often forget about it and it turns into a big mess of outdated file, so I periodically run a script in crontab that kills files older than a certain age. Works great for me.
This phenomenon has been proven already repeatedly, not sure why people would get labeled as liars about it. A german site even made a 'bend' comparison between it and the Galaxy Note:

http://www.phonecruncher.com/news/2576225/apple_bans_german_...
My money is on SageBump.

Ofcourse I built it, so I am biased.

http://www.sagebump.com/?view=technocrat&intro
It's not like LE hasn't had its own fair share of power abuse.

But regardless, I think you're missing that for LE to obtain those keys with a warrant, we must entrust them to two private multinationals without any court order. And by trusting those two companies, it's not only included trusting their board but also their protection from hackers and rogue employees. For example, Google already had an incident of an employee tapping a minor's account and getting personal information: http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/14/google-engineer-spying-fire...

(This is, of course, assuming the encryption actually works as announced. Personally, I don't trust it)
I find your post ironic.

You are excited (presumably) about Reddit and about the possibility that the community may be given the opportunity to own a piece of Reddit.

Yet, you find the actions of the majority of the Reddit community "detrimental" to the site's image.

Reddit is what it is. A bunch of people on the Internet. You are either excited about the community or you don't like most of them, which is it?
My neighbor when I lived in the Mission worked at Apple. We're engineers of similar seniority and he worked longer hours than I did, worked more weekends than I did, and earned less than I did. To say nothing of the perks (I work at Google). Small sample size, but I was taken aback.
When they subpoena Apple, they will get cloud data which will not be decrypted. The issue is whether they would be able to give Apple a device and say 'decrypt plz'.
That's why keeping the default subs as light hearted funny content helps. They act as a sponge to soak up impulsive low quality comments.
Not sure if that'll happen, but you can at least slap the founder if you pay $1,250
The article (in contrast to your links) doesn't mention or suggest life as the source of the changes in the photos.
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"It will if anything be more bountiful and teeming with life."

In the near term, it's going to cause tremendous dislocation of human civilizations. In poorer areas, climate change will cause millions to die and tens of millions to suffer. That's the undeniable moral component.

Ecologically, climate change will hasten the mass extinction of species. A world covered in kudzo, algae, and roaches is technically "teeming with life", but I'm not sure it's the aesthetic vision you have in mind.
Of course the anti-privacy crusaders lead with "think of the children!"
This is a misuse of the text submission feature on HN, which will probably result in your link getting less exposure on HN. You'd be better off just posting a link to "www.father.io" directly.
Monetization: you could sell the service to professional podcasters as it would increase content on their site, and possibly serve as another place to put ads for their sponsors.

If you focused on a core set of popular podcasts you could package it as a monthly ebook or similar product. While overall people don't like paying for content like that I think it's possible to find a niche market that would.
Earth is not intelligent. Species can and will drive themselves to extinction via evolution.

The destruction of Earth may be the only way to make humanity successful in the long term - that was the view given in some of Asimov's stories. Or it may just be a way to kill ourselves. The ecosystem as a whole is not an optimized complex system like a vine; it has not been subject to evolutionary pressure. There is no plan; the outcome will be down entirely to luck and our own decisions.
Yes, one thing I would like see in moderator tools is: edit the headlines. That's a commonly-used tool on HN and it would help subreddits, too.
so "Thinking about" == "plans to"? Nice journalism.
Then they better have perfect security so there are no leaks proving that, or they're gonna lose their business anyway. I don't buy it, they'd fight that and they'd leak that they're fighting it.
>Having said that, I don't think any business has to do anything special for being inclusive to sex/race/gender etc.

That's nice.

The guy in charge of Y Combinator disagrees with you. Which is the whole point of the post.

http://blog.ycombinator.com/diversity-and-startups
Good points. Supposing you're referring to setrlimit/ulimit syscalls for example, do those apply per thread or per process? My understanding is they're per process. Then the math comes down to how many user processes per remote machine can the service run? A few hundred? That's a hard limit on the scalability of the service. Is process really the ideal level of isolation?
I show my side of the debate by making technology that could have been developed 100 years ago, and was desperately needed then as now.
Well, I think I agree with you, but that wasn't the GP's point. The point was not that developing on Windows was bad, but that Haskell package management was bad on Windows. The GP was not yet running into the problems that you're referring to.
i think it's great to see ppl being skeptical of security claims from phone manufacturers. trying to secure a normal cellphone is pretty much impossible and if you're storing sensitive information on one, you are just waiting to get fucked.

i think all this "sound and fury" is likely a ruse to entice ios and android users into a false sense of safety post snowden disclosure. being able to encrypt your drive doesn't matter if your OS and its applications are exploitable. last time i checked, there is almost zero open source firmware out there, so your application processor can encrypt stuff hitting disk and the baseband processor can be used to get dma.

time to roll out the hypothetical child molester straw man...
Why would I need an additional shell app to be able to simply use ctrl+v? For instance, on OS X I use the default terminal shipped with the OS, it does everything I need for a terminal application. Is a pasting functionality consistent with the rest of the OS too much to ask for a default shell?
I used a Blit successor (AT&T 5620 nee DMD) in the 1985ish time frame. It was attached to an AT&T 3B2 host running SVr3 and later SVr4. It was a very cool, minimal, useful and very Unixy way of doing things. The "window manager" software was called "Layers", and allowed a lot of application processing to happen on the terminal. Layers windows behaved (mostly) just like ttys multiplexed back to the host. There was a pretty decent cross development environment for creating little apps, including a C compiler and debugger. There were the normal doodads like a graphical clock, drawing program (pic?), calculator. There was also a pretty neat mouse-enables editor called 'jim' and I seem to remember a sort of troff previewer. Pretty much the coolest thing I'd ever used up until I got a Sun 3/160 in '86 or so running SunOS 3.x and OpenWindows. Game over.
Reddit has got to be one of the ugliest popular websites on the internet. And idealistic, gosh. How can you look at a toilet magazine largely being contributed to by people on their toilets and think "I bet all those people want to own a part of it."

This article suggests that in a "couple of years" reddit "could have close to a billion users". Are all these numbers just being pulled out of thin air? This person is talking about investing in reddit, a site with so many pageviews for such a long time which last I heard still somehow was not turning a profit.

This person is investing in reddit and giving 10% of their investment to purportedly a billion people. Which is a valuation of 1e-8 percent of his investment per person.

I don't want that? Can I not have it somehow.
That's an interesting idea. It's not often that people in law enforcement or military intelligence will come out publicly and say "if such-and-such adversary were to use this widely-available technology we'd be stymied!"
It's beautiful work, but not a revolution. Taking pictures for geometry and textures is well worn. The techniques they're using are effective, I'll give them that. But maybe I'm jaded and was expecting a more procedural approach.
Also, how does the game actually play? lol
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With those numbers that's an understandable assumption on your part, but as it turns out the dev team did learn its lesson from your helpful pointers around the time we launched for iOS…

I just checked our Android code and we are reusing compiled statements in our benchmarks (Inserts only since compiled statements are not available for multi-column queries, afawk). Here’s the code we use for inserts:

public void testBatchInserts() throws PerformanceTestException {
SQLiteStatement stmt = db.compileStatement("INSERT INTO "
+ EmployeeDatabaseHelper.TABLE_EMPLOYEES + " VALUES(?1, ?2, ?3, ?4)");

db.beginTransaction();
for (int row = 0; row < getNumInserts(); row++) {
stmt.clearBindings();
stmt.bindString(2, getEmployeeName(row));
stmt.bindLong(3, getEmployeeAge(row));
stmt.bindLong(4, getEmployeeHiredStatus(row));
stmt.executeInsert();
}
db.setTransactionSuccessful();
db.endTransaction();
}

So there you go: no intention to mislead. Us overlooking prepared statements when we originally benched iOS was definitely a regrettable error but we do try to improve. Thanks for helping us along the way.
I think that was their messaging -- the theme of these release is "we've fixed all the annoying things people complain about, from the Start Button for novice users to command prompt for power users". They want this release to feel, above all, familiar.
They are looking at using a crypto-currency backed by the shares.

https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/2hwpmm/fundraising_fo...
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Looking at the features, all I can think was, "Don't I already have all of this in KDE?"
He told you how much he earned? You must be big buddies.
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> I guess the only website I can think of that allows comments and is super-popular with the general public is Facebook, but since it's sorta-non-anonymous, people don't spill hatred all over the place.

That's actually a very interesting point.

I think a lot of the stereotypical poor Internet comments only exist because the author is anonymous and is talking to a faceless account. (Not all of it, of course, some of it is probably due to the communications medium.) I can't find the original post that I liked, but this one[0] has some interesting information on allowing an attacker to identify with a victim. I would think that would apply in this case too some extent.

If you actually had to vouch for what you said and what you said online were associated with you as a person, and you had a ballpark idea of who you were talking to, I think people would add more filters to themselves. That kind of social pressure is largely self-policing. Jerks will be jerks, but hopefully fewer non-jerks would turn into jerks.

I like the option of anonymity, but in all honesty I think it mostly just helps the edge cases, not large-scale discussion. Is it any wonder that Facebook and Google have tried to enforce "real names" policies and the Play store now links all reviews to a G+ account? There are other reasons for those moves, but it can't hurt to encourage the civility that accountability brings. Anonymity can bring out both the best and worst in people.

[0]: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/05/the_psycholog...
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