skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of the references do look rather somewhat dubious. For example, in the "Tunnels" section there is a reference to "Subterranean tunnels and the hollow earth" - which appears to be available at:

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol...

"What if I told you that I had been inside a fantastic tunnel system that runs beneath the continent of South America? Would you think me a liar? Or worse yet, insane? Though I admit it is a story that seems difficult to believe, I am telling the truth. Read on, dear reader, and decide if I am mad or lying."

Edit: Reading further down that page I see a positive reference to Erich von Daniken (NB as I have mentioned in another comment, I learned the importance of skepticism from the works of von Daniken at a very young age).
Find a way of having re-occurring persistent subjective discussions that would still be a part of SO. Chat is a rubbish idea for this because it's transient.

Find a way to dis-encourage posting a first question and then disappearing without accepting the answer. Mandatory registrations? It's popular enough already.

Allow accepting multiple answers.

Make answering questions worthwhile even if a decent points outcome is not likely (new user, specific question). Mods awarding extra points?

Fix the problem of fastest answer typically getting the most attention: "the post-first then improve if popular" strategy.

Make points more meaningful, like reddit gold maybe. Reward not just total reputation (there is no catching up with some early members) but reputation spikes as well.

So many things to improve, but some could be risky.
That is but one passage. Others in the New Testament do in fact include "lechery with men" in the same category as murder.
I wouldn't kill my mother for that.

But fortunately I wouldn't have to, because she pays her taxes. And is proud to, last I checked.

As you can tell, I reject your whole line of thinking.

It makes a bunch of assumptions to carry the situation to extremes, and then innocently asks, "you wouldn't want that extreme outcome, would you?". The same argument can be made against any form of regulation whatsoever.
Sick leave here is unpaid (well not exactly, but something like a 3-day leave due to sickness can be unpaid). Which means that when I'm sick, I still go to work as usual and get everyone else sick. Because fuck them.
If you don't like Dart, then you should actually be in favor of this move. It negates what was previously an advantage of Dart over JavaScript.
You can fake it if you really want them: http://clipperhouse.github.io/gen/
> Or, how about you think about this when finding a job, and weigh the pros and cons of various employers' benefits and policies

Sure, if you are in high demand you can probably do this. If you work an entry level job you won't have much leverage and since you probably can't afford to take extended time off, you may find taking care of children somewhere near impossible.

> We don't always need top-down guidance from bureaucrats in D.C. to solve societal problems.

I'm glad you qualified it with always. But a look at U.S. history shows a lot of societal problems were helped by those bureaucrats in DC and elsewhere (school segregation, voting rights, equal access to public transport, public accommodations [restaurants can't deny your service based on your race], equal opportunity employment, etc).
Most of the time, kids pay for themselves out of their future earnings and consumer behaviors. We have a stable enough civilization that we should be able to invest something now for a potential return in 18-25 years.

The children will be born whether you want them to exist or not, and regardless of whether the parents are fit to raise them. Once the kid exists, what do you intend to do with it? Ignore it and hope for the best? Or maybe coax it into some form of societal contract, wherein we all help it reach its maximum potential now, and in return, it constructively participates in the civilized economy later?

The question is really whether you believe that the inability to easily pay the costs of child-rearing, whatever they may be, dissuades people from having more children.

And if, for some reason, one generation decides to grant itself a heap of late-life benefits that will have to be paid for by future productive workers, like retirement funds, pensions, and medical care, it would really be shooting itself in the foot to slash its support for young parents and immigration. The existence of "money" notwithstanding, current consumption always has to be paid for with current production and past stockpiles. Unless there's a warehouse somewhere out there filled with stored-up services for older people, people looking to consume such services had better start thinking about who might be providing them in the future.
"I would certainly respect the rights of others to support the opposing side"

No such right exists in this context. A proposition to ban interracial marriage has nothing to do with people's consciences and everything to do with the letter of the law, where marriage is an established legal construct to which access is guaranteed under the 14th amendment. Voting to have rights stripped from other citizens for arbitrary reasons is not a protected freedom and such a proposition is patently unconstitutional on its face. You don't need to be impartial here.
Whoa, really?

...I've been flagging a lot of articles.
Gay people can tell whoever they want that they're gay. What follows is a complete and exhaustive list of things that you can do about it:
> (1) Most companies provide better benefits than what is legally required

Gosh, I'm sure that's comforting to the OP.

OP: "My car's samouflange broke at 60mph and now I'm quadriplegic." cdoxsey: "Well, most samouflange-failure incidents only result in minor bruising, so everything is fine!"
Hi! There are a few of us here, I saw at least 4 or 5 users mention LS on JS/Coffee/other related threads. I'm saying this because some month ago I was worried about LS future: there is nothing happening on the mailing list and commits on github are rather infrequent. But when I found a bug in LS compiler and fixed it the PR was processed in a reasonable time and the people were there to help. So I guess LS is just mature and somewhat complete at this point and not stagnating :) Which is very nice, because LS is the only lang I know of which gathers so many very useful features in a single language. This is even more true now when generators support was added. The only problem with LS is lack of source maps, but as it compiles to a rather readable JS it's not that bad. It probably limits its popularity greatly, though :(
It's a more collaborative genre. It seems like when a rap artist releases an album nowadays, you'll see 12 tracks... with 15 different rappers on the project hehe.
I imagine we will never agree on this, as it sounds like our opinions could not differ more.

To sum up with an example though: a few elections ago I voted for the political party who had stated that they would raise my taxes (in particular, the bracket I get paid in). I did so because I consider myself very fortunate to work in a clean ventilated office, and sit at a desk solving programming problems. I don't think it's because I'm hard working, or diligent, or anything like that. At least, no more so than the dude outside logging bags of concrete around

I think it's because I was lucky enough to be brought up in a culture where I "fell" into this situation (pressured to do well in high school, brought up around computers with a passionate father, taught to program when I was 10, going to uni was a no-brainer and couldn't be any other way, etc). Other people aren't so lucky, and it would be height of hubris for me to think any other way.

(edit: quick note: I live in NZ, not the US. My opinions aren't particular controversial here)
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He felt that the engineers intervened DURING the games, and obviously did not feel that intervention between games was reasonable either. The former was disallowed, and the latter was taken advantage of more than Kasparov thought it would be.

He wasn't being a sore loser and there was a reasonable amount of agreement among other chess professionals (engine authors and players) that his claims were true.

Keep in mind as well that when he asked for a rematch with more stringent scrutiny in place, IBM declined and nearly immediately dismantled Deep Blue.

The unfortunate thing is that kasparov would ALWAYS have looked like a 'sore loser' unless IBM decided to implicate themselves of wrongdoing. Kasparov being silent also does a disservice to the community, particularly since he was neither the first or only person to point out the inconsistencies in Deep Blue's play.

Keep in mind as well that the 'real circumstances' make it so both parties responses were rationally founded within the context of the available information at the time.
> I mean, how many more reddit posts about the "evil" Federal Reserve or how terrible of a person Thomas Edison was do we need?

As many as it will take for mainstream thinking to be more aligned with reality.

You do understand that the Fed being necessary and Thomas Edison being a good guy is what is already taught in schools?

And you're saying people should investigate these mainstream ideas even more than what they're being taught in school?

In other words, it seems you're saying school is not educating people enough; and therefore students should keep focusing on the side the schools chose to take, but just study that side further; no need to consider the other side because... why?

I don't understand your position. You have a bigger speech around these ideas, that you then used as an excuse to dismiss those two ideas out of hand, because you don't like them. But have you studied them further or have you just chosen to dismiss them because you interpret disagreement and debate as "rebellious aspects of intellectualism"?
Hey Nikhil. I've been wanting to do some similar link analysis (including PageRank style calculations) as well as clustering. I'm trying to decide between learning Python and R, not much free time for playing with both. What do you recommend and why? Obviously your product uses Python, but please try to be objective.

Since your blog posts are clearly marketing (not a criticism), it would be very useful to also show how much it would have cost to run each step in this and other posts using Zillabyte's per hour rate.

Do you realize your first name would make a great rapper handle?
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No, it's rapidly moving into toy hardware platforms targeted at web developers.
>It's completely shameful and it's a stone age policy compared to the rest of the Western world [1]

not that i agree with such policy. Yet logically i can see the other side of that - why encourage people to spend their time and effort during the most productive years of their life on basically their personal sideprojects - children - instead of contributing to the economy when US can "import" through immigration any kind of people they want - from toddlers to ready-made programmers to almost ready-made doctors - thus saving a lot of societal resources which otherwise would need to be spend to bring up and educate such a person (add the risk that not every child becomes a highly productive member of society and some even become a burden like go to prison). Basically the same logic why iPhone is built in and imported from China :)
That contorted chain of logic is quite striking. And even then you miss the other questions you need to ask yourself.

"Would my kindly, gray-haired mother refuse to pay taxes for this?"
"If she didn't, would my kindly, gray-haired mother really manage to escape from prison?"
"Even if she did escape, am I certain that she would be shot instead of apprehended and re-arrested like the majority of other escapees?"

And this is, of course, all conditional on the idea that the government would simply throw you in jail right off instead of garnishing wages or seizing assets to cover the tab (you know, the things that would actually happen).

And the best part about all of this is that, all you've really come down to is the idea that maybe the parent commenter didn't realize that governments can't pay for things without taxes, as if that very basic feature of how governments work had momentarily escaped dmm just as he was typing to an HN <textarea>.
Also use gettimeofday() instead of clock(), because you don't know how far into the second you are at the time it's called.
> As with everything else, one needs balance.

Does balance come from dismissing the other side of the argument as "probably useless"?
Yep, I live in St Paul. Know many possibly crazy bikers that bike to Minneapolis even in heavy snow.

They have the crazy huge tires as well to go over snow/ice. Each one said its not a huge deal to bike in -20ish weather with snow/ice. Just means you travel slower was their statement.
HR is on holiday tomorrow. Can we do it on Monday?
You're just flat out wrong. That's why there's a tab dedicated to replies. Twitter conversations can be incredibly interesting and benefit all participants by being public. Twitter's setup hugely encourages @ing people in your tweets.
Check out Owncloud https://owncloud.org/ it is a popular free and open source alternative. It does even more than dropbox.
Take time off from working, pay bills from your savings, and be comfortable with that.

That most everyone lacks savings which can be used this way is the underlying problem. This is due to an economy where any extra steady-state income gets extracted via an ever-present housing bubble (plebs' only access to money printing press. people don't buy houses - they rent them from banks) and increasing taxation to grow the bureaucracy and the empire.

These basic structural problems are masked by a constant creation of new entitlements that pacify the majority of people by directly taking care of their specific popular problems (eg this), while making it even harder to retain autonomy or stray from the herd.
Correct me if I am wrong, but our work with 3D CAD models in revit, Max and autocad all point to surfaces/meshes being created when 3D functions (extrusion etc...) are applied. When we look at the file hierarchy within an FBX for example we see surfaces/meshes as the core geometry regardless of how they were built.

Are you saying there is a functional difference between a vertex/spline/NURBS square that has been extruded and a similar block built as a native 3D object? AFAIK the latter just basically "automates" the extrusion process from the outset instead of having a function or second extrusion step.
Strange - doesn't mention Nicotine. I believe in patch or lozenge this has as much affect as caffeine [1]. Note that I'm not advocating smoking, just the nicotine itself.

[1] http://discovermagazine.com/2014/march/13-nicotine-fix
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"...remember that all tax revenue is the result of holding a gun to somebody's head."

Wow! I never noticed, and I've been paying taxes for 25 years...
https://www.reddit.com/r/netsecstudents/comments/2k03lk/befo...

This is a very nice reddit comment that explains some of the various foundational, necessary knowledge and where to learn more about them.
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It's actually harder than it seems to cut off the ceiling, houses may have all sorts of weird heights, angles and corners, doors, arches... Any simple solution might work for 80-90% of models, but our viewer has to work for 100%. So we only remove faces with backface culling currently, we're going to do better soon though :)
Interesting project, but I doubt it will gain any traction. It would be good to provide some kind of a runtime and a standard library.
I wonder about that. On this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiler the first sentence reads:

"A compiler is a computer program (or set of programs) that transforms source code written in a programming language (the source language) into another computer language (the target language, often having a binary form known as object code)"

It's even sourced. There's nothing here saying that "target language" can't be another high level language; and if you look at CoffeeScript (for example) implementation you'll see that it's structured as any other compiler would be. I think "transpilation" would be a bit more precise, but I don't think "compilation" is incorrect term.
And note that one of the companies mentioned by the OP (Google) is very up-front about screening for "culture fit".

Sometimes people get hired and then get very unhappy with their "fit" in the company or the way things are done. Some people leave within 3 months. It's nice when they screen to avoid that.
> Obviously our public sphere is full of criticism of Islam (a.k.a. islamophobia)

Islamophobia, racism, etc., are not criticisms. Criticism is the application of reason and intelligence for the purpose of analysis and improvment. Bigotry is the assumption that "others" are worse simply by their being "other". Nothing you listed is criticism, it is various forms of bigotry. In bigotry there is no desire for dialogue, simply judgement and superiority.

> And YES I would take a racist for CEO - if he is more qualified than others - each and every time. Because I truly believe in a society where gender, sex orientation, race, religion, ideology - do NOT matter.

Those two sentences are incongruent. You cannot claim to champion a society where gender, race, etc., do not matter, and then turn around and state your acceptance of a racist CEO.
haven't we always known that twitter is just an anechoic chamber to stick narcissists in?

i guess its alright for comedians/intellectuals to post amusing stuff (even then I find the tweet value to be inconsistent enough that its not worth scrolling through their history). outside that isnt it mainly a platform for egotists & social climbers to add to their self-importance?

i like it cuz it kinda tires them out, maybe stops them from taking to the streets to act like hot shit -- and i never have to look at it :)
Not much. The presentation I saw positioned Go as an alternative to C++, not Java.
I would allow small edits to fix typos. Right now, SO will not allow you to make only small changes.
Can someone explain how flags are applied? For example, today a post where person is asking for a job got killed, but I have seen same posts (people looking for a job) before that were left on the front page. Why was this one killed?
Not many MCs can hold down an entire track by themselves.
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I can see we are going to get one of these DB / OS Adapters each day now. Looking forward to BerkDBOSQuery - because, well, the Berkeley DB needs some love too.
Pretty much this: doing blocking operations in your poller thread is a big no, even if it appears clever.

Btw, I am not sure one can call "reactive architecture" if using a single thread.
really nice approach to code reviews!
Is anyone even making new apps for BB now?
Conversations work on Twitter if the participants share enough context, such as similar vocabularies or compatible high-level goals.

Unfortunately the system and its harsh constraints is also really good at matching up people sure to misunderstand each other.

I suspect, though, that a lot of recent angst is transient, due to the inrush of users with wildly different rhetorical standards, and the exciting novelty, including the excitement of discord and performative moralizing.

But the novelty of nasty arguments with strangers will wear off – like how Farmville and similar games become less interesting when their basic mechanics and repetitive loops are understood. The true utility of Twitter will persist, leaving us with a better ratio of light-to-heat than some are experiencing at the moment.
Why does it hurt your feelings so much? If I had this kind of prejudice and contempt in my heart for an entire group of people, I'd keep it to myself. It's kind of embarrassing to air it publicly like that.
>me being bitter about Twitter, JavaScript, smartphones, tablets and all the other stuff I really don't care about

Can you elaborate why you are bitter about the above?
And I am from Scotland and I've heard all manner of "theories" about the Scots being a lost tribe of Israel and that the Lia Fàil (the Stone of Destiny) is the stone used by the biblical Jacob as a pillow.

Just because something is a nice story doesn't mean it is true!
> Twitter has no mechanisms for this. Every user floats by themselves, interacting with who they please. This denies us the ability to build communities, to set social norms, and to enforce them. Twitter has absolutely no way for me to share with others that someone isn't a person I want in my communities

I read this and said "oh, he wants to censor people." Then, I got to the bottom of the post and saw that he doesn't allow comments either. It was a one, two punch.
Interpreter of what? "J", apparently, from context and inference, but that should have been in the post title.

What's an "interpreter fragment"? Most of the Google results for that term point to the same story.

I know this is Hacker News and everyone is supposed to know everything about everything already, but on obscure topics it's nice to take a moment and explain what you're talking about.
I don't know of any resources like that, but if I'm not mistaken Frontier serves New Haven.
Terseness itself tends to confusing and difficult to understand code. Support for extreme terseness formed a large part of the complaints against perl. For examples of powerful languages geared toward terseness, see APL or its derivative J.
I have a script that sets up 90% of a full nagios/icinga server automatically in about 5 minutes.

Why, in 2014, are people still not monitoring everything as job #1?

Why isn't this being taught in schools? How do people with tech jobs not know this?
With hopes of not sounding too rude:

Could you explain more what this is about? (These frontpages with nothing but a "give me your name and email address so we can sign you up for $list" are kind of irritating, personally.)

Why should one sign up? The hashtag makes me think of IRC channels (but apparently it's just a hashtag?) Why is this better than creating an IRC channel and pointing people to it?

..so it's powered by levels.io, which is for "building a community around your product." Its frontpage includes a graphic about a spike in pageviews.
If you run a server with anything but "swapoff -a" you're doing it wrong. (or even having any swap partition in /etc/fstab).
If the server has to swap, get more RAM or scale your stuff out but never swap.
Yeah, I'm with you. I fully realize that I work in an industry that allows me to build a hell of a nest egg, and easily find a job elsewhere. Someone posed the question elsewhere in the comments about "what if your sick time runs out and you're still sick?" Easy, I tell my employer what the deal is and provide a doctor's note if requested. They don't like it? Fine, don't pay me. Fire me? That's fine, too, I've got a pile of money for such a contingency and I'll find another job later. (That does not, however, preclude seeking the advice of an employment lawyer should I view the company to have acted poorly. If not for myself, then for everyone else. EDIT: and for the record, none of that hypothetical has happened.)

But not all, probably only few, are that fortunate. And though as I grow older and have less need for such safety nets, I also grow to realize that shit needs to change for all.
Makes local and remote io ... quite the same.
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I agree, this is more of an eloquent critique. Also this reads as "this is why I don't like twitter" instead of "stop liking things I don't".
Between the two, I can only conclude that he has something very, very specific in mind as the proper form a community should assume. I wonder what it is.