skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who writes down everything in a bullet journal, isn't this the point? I want to free up mental space for things that actually are important and at the same time I don't really trust my memory. Reminds me of that one Einstein quote: "Never memorize what you can look up in books."
Playing video games is good for your brain
Britain Poised to Muzzle 'Extremist' Speech
- I went through clinical depression myself 10 years ago. I think the OP deserves a second opinion.

- I would tell someone with type 2 diabetes to stop taking drugs and instead stop eating the carbs (of course the politically correct pharmaceutical / govt response is to take drugs which only treat the symptoms - funny how financial interests work). Again, first hand experience with this.
Yeah but we get hit by write/update contention constantly. :(

Would love to see if aurora fixes this for us.
Then maybe you should elaborate on that a bit because your post doesn't mention any of that. I'm also curious what emergent behavior you're talking about. When I look around I don't see any kind of qualitative difference in the kinds of things people do with technology. The tinkerers and hackers are still doing what they were doing from the time general purpose computers and networks became widely available and the rest of the population is still using them as convenient application platforms.
Netflix app is native.
If we want HN to become a political power (and I am not saying we do), then it seems like a more productive approach is to become a lobby like the EFF/ACLU/NRA/etc.

Isn't that the reason? We may need a lobby too.
Is this an inditement of Dr. King, the FBI, Or the EFF?

Are you inditing all three of them?

I'm pretty sure all three parties have put their words to action, and are fully willing to follow their moral beliefs in addition to foisting those beliefs on others.
I agree with the submission: I think there is potentially a problem of test edits, or unsourced edits, being reverted automatically or in an unpleasant manner, and that newcomers can easily be discouraged from contributing. I think part of it is a problem with the culture, and part of it is a necessary evil: when articles achieve higher quality overall, there is bound to be less adding and more discussing about what to add, so more changes will not make their way to the article. (This is the case for any document, you start with a lot of writing and then there is a lot of painful editing, I don't see why it would be different here.) Also, the more you try to structure and source the articles, and the harder the syntax is going to be, compared to the time where you could just write anything and add it to the article.

Yet, for all of this, I have never been able to understand why, whenever a discussion about Wikipedia comes up on HN, so many people complain about getting all their changes reverted. I have edited Wikipedia for years and I think at most 3 cases did I see something reverted for no good reason. Maybe this is because I edit in less controversial areas (computer science), or because most of my edits are just typographic fixes, or because I also edit on different Wikipedias (especially the French one), or because I'm vaguely familiar with some of the customs or policies?

It would be really nice if people complaining about bad reverts could provide links to the diff of their edits, the reverts, and the subsequent discussion if any. One nice thing about Wikipedia is that the history is always public, so if something valuable has been reverted for bad reasons, it can be seen, and added back; if someone seems to be discouraging new users from contributing, anyone can see it and let them know; and if there was a misunderstanding, maybe we can see that the two sides were of good faith.

It's a bit frustrating to see everyone complain but never have links to objective facts where you can see what went wrong and try to understand why.
First reaction: WOW, great!
Second one: `cd: command not found`? mhh… Same with mv, cp, of course nano…

A list of the available commands would help!
And I would love to see this, anyway, in Firefox Marketplace!

Also: do you want to treat it as close source software? If not, you host the source code somewhere, in order to allow contributions.
GCP is largely used as the acronym for "Good Clinical Practice" and has been around a heck of a lot longer than Google.
Yes, it is completely unfounded. You do not need to know anything about category theory, or even what it is. All you need to know about Monad is its interface. If you can handle java, you can handle haskell. All you need to understand with kinds is "its how many arguments a type takes". And that isn't category theory in the first place. Anyone can define an ADT. That's one of the first things I taught our PHP team, nobody had any confusion or problems with it, it was a 2 minute thing. I have a hard time imagining how you could think:

data Bool = True | False

is hard to learn or understand or woulf have a "negative ROI".
it doesn't matter what political party you create. vote buying is rampant and it goes to the highest bidder.
It's like they want to be offended or something, don't you think? Isn't it pretty obvious that when someone says "Americans are silly people" they don't mean that literally every single American person is silly?
I don't think a design could be said to be "corruption-proof" without taking into account the elements that compose it. That may or may not be most of a proof of the non-existence of "corruption-proof" government.
Do you realize that it was Democrats, the "left" in US politics, who were opposed to MLK's message of equality and freedom for all? that the battle for Civil Rights was won thanks to Republicans, against Democrats? that it was Democrats who were the anti-abolitionist party?
Yes, and unless you're planning on an extended stay somewhere you'll put it to use, there are so many alternatives which are likely to be more valuable than learning a language.
Maybe for some cases, but good is relative, subjective term. Good for whom?

Did the FBI agents drafting this think they were doing their best to do good?
Looks like I'm at one of the retailers you crawl. Recently, our site was getting hit with a web crawler that was following links incorrectly. I black listed several IP addresses from accessing the site and now I wonder if it was this!

Does your crawler obey robots.txt rules?
Why would any sane person want to be to the left what the Tea Party is to the right?
I suppose the Demiurge should be expected to have much to say on the nature of reality as a construct. If the Gnostics have it right, I don't know if we could trust it to tell the truth though.
I don't understand why they were talking about IPv7 in 1993 when IPv6 wasn't finalized for another three years.
That's a very cute quote, but "democracy" in of itself is vague. Direct democracy is certainly not better than other forms of government that have been tried. Indeed, direct democracies are nearly non-existent. Most countries are constitutional republics, or more euphemistically "representative democracies".

That said, the United States' implementation of a constitutional republic is still worse than other forms that have been tried. It has a majoritarian voting system, an electoral college and is heavily vulnerable to gerrymandering and divide/conquer.

Furthermore, the United States usually gets more stern criticism precisely because of the idiotic lie of American exceptionalism. The United States is the only country I know of that obsesses over how supposedly "free" it is with an almost religious fervor. All of this propaganda only makes the inevitable examples of U.S. government corruption even more bitter than they would have been if only Americans had a far more realistic outlook about themselves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentatio...
You can buy a much cheaper WiFi module... http://hackaday.com/2014/10/25/an-sdk-for-the-esp8266-wifi-c...

The ESP8266 is roughly $5 (including shipping), and has an active community, and community driven SDK. It is available in the UK, and everywhere else that DealXtreme ship to (other sellers are available).
I'd love to see a review of this code
I just find its one of those products that the more you use it the more you simply cannot live without it. I could see someone copying the product, but personally I'd probably continue with New Relic unless the price difference was significant.
> fails to make any logical sense

By and large humans are not logical, our actions are not logical/rational at least on individual basis. They are rational from a evolutionary species domination POV. We are herd animals. Enforcing "moral standards" is outcome of Herd dynamics. e.g. way to maintain control / "leader of the herd" status and to distinguish other herdmembers.
Great news! I also like the new 50 replica limit.

I gave up on MongoDB after 2.6 but it sounds like they're finally maturing to a true production ready datastore.
or these PureScript examples https://gist.github.com/spion/982350f4b3d3464b1870 using the Canvas monad to pre-create a scene and then render it; the DOM monad to construct DOM elements.
This is somewhat simplistic but consider life as a kind of prisoner's dilemma. Cooperation has many benefits and the people cooperating have a strong incentive to make others cooperate as well. It's not an exact match but try substituting "cooperation" where you would use "moral standard" and it will usually make good sense.
If this hadn't been labeled "suicide letter" I never would have read into it that the writer wanted King to kill himself. "You know what to do" is actually pretty vague. Do what? Come clean about his affairs? Leave the country? Quit being a pain in the ass for the government? Quit working on civil rights?
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Getting stuff out of cache is also worthwhile in some cases. I had some message passing between cores, and apparently the CPU wasn't good at telling that my chance of using a populated and sent message slot again was zero. Adding a clflush after send significantly reduced my number of cache misses.
Developing for Android, the likelihood is actually they will be less efficient. Generally when developing for a target use the same tools that most people use for it; the probability of someone having encountered the your particular problems and already solved them for you on StackOverflow is so much higher.
> C# allows default values for parameters, but it's not quite the same.

Right. Scala has C#-style default parameters as well, implicit parameters are a different (though very loosely related) thing.
i agree with this comment completely. As an aws user, they have just done a great job in the cloud space. For anyone to really over take them, they'll have to come up with something radically different because the product is that good.
Old school would be Wirth; he's done several data structures books. That's where a lot of the fundamentals got laid down.

Hard core is Knuths' "The Art of Computer Programming", but tackling it is somewhat akin to asking how to tell time and being shown, in exquisite (or excruciating) detail how to build a clock.

I think I learned the most/fastest from Sedgewick (Intro to the Analysis or Algorithms, Algorithms in C (or C++ or Java)). His style worked for me; YMMV. The book Rivest, Cormen, et. al wrote (Intro to Algorithms) is also very good, as is the Aho algorithms book.
I see so much emotion in this thread. Yes, I was there to witness what M$FT (ha! take that Mr. Gates!) did around the dawn of this millenium as well, but we had all felt that the times they were a-changin' when Slashdot retired the Bill-the-evil-Borg image already. It's just Microsoft refused to adapt until now, which e.g. made them miss The Mobile in its entirety.

So, Microsoft is finally adapting. But what are they actually doing? Why did Microsoft finally decided to make .Net cross-platform? What's in it for them?

Look at what's in this shiny new package: They've open-sourced just the core runtime. They are not open-sourcing Visual Studio. Or WPF. Or SQL Server. Or Active Directory. Or Office.

There's one thing the Linux ecosystem is pretty good at: Scaling, both up and down. There are technical reasons for that, but none could possibly be an issue for a software powerhouse the size of Microsoft. There are also commercial reasons for that, most important being: You just can't beat free.

So that's what Microsoft is finally moving against -- Dear startup founder who is afraid that licensing costs will eat him/her alive while his/her "Growth Hacking" strategy is working, dear embedded programmer whose tiny IoT device that just can't cope with the whole Windows mumbo-jumbo, welcome to the Microsoft platform -- You can now safely run your C# on these free platforms as well.

So, Microsoft is finally back in the game. They even seem to be playing nice. But the question in everyone's mind is: For how long?
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Don't know why you're being downvoted. You're absolutely correct. The Democratic and Republican parties had polar opposite platforms from their present ones until the Southern Strategy beginning in the late 1960s.
The objective of any crowdsourcing system is to find people who know more about the topic than you. However, oftentimes those people are dicks. You need rules that will allow you to get their content without them causing you (or them) a lot of grief.
USA should try democracy then instead of being a republic.
Democracies don't have memory, they only have momentum.
That's why I said "new legislative initiatives" and not "appointments."
An early cybernetic device interacted with musicians as part of a live ensemble. The machine detected novelty in the sounds it was hearing and would grow "bored" if the musicians' improvisations did not keep up. People who played with it interesting experiences. (I can dig up a reference to this if anyone's interested..)
We have the Piratenpartei in Germany, full of nerds and people who take a strong stance for privacy, net neutrality and many other things tech related. They get laughed at and ridiculed (often for good reason) and are considered "unelectable" by many, even in the tech field.

BUT they force other parties to think more about these issues and take position themselfs. I think the Piratenpartei is extremely beneficial for the political landscape here.

I have often wondered why the US seemed so slow to adopt these ideas. From my limited understanding, a good deal of the problem is probably the 2 party system in the US, but that doesn't mean a "HN party" couldn't apply a lot of pressure to democrats and republicans alike.
One reason it is a little depressing is because many of the technological innovations in the beginning were not driven by consumer needs but were results of actual research initiatives led by some pretty smart folks. I'm specifically thinking of PARC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARC_%28company%29) and there is obviously a bit of a creation myth kind of setup going on but the general gist remains valid.
> So, Microsoft is finally back in the game. They even seem to be playing nice. But the question in everyone's mind is: For how long?

I think a better question might be: what next? (Disclaimer: optimistic MS employee)
> I thought I had forgotten about them

You thought you had forgotten about something? How does that work.
Yes. We changed the url to that from https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/fbis-suicide-letter-dr... as the "original" source.
Believe it or not, students, TAs and professors of physical classes can all be found on the OCW forums. The sheer wealth of discussion is amazing, but the one big drawback is that the higher the level of the course, the less likely a quick response is. In some cases it's better to go to http://math.stackexchange.com/

I totally agree about the textbook part of the equation, too. While I love the automated graders for CS courses on Coursera, I think it's a major, major flaw to de-emphasize textbooks in favor of lectures. It's different for language courses of course, but I've never encountered an engineering course in which lectures were a good use of time compared to working through the book and going to office hours as needed.
Also consider extension methods, which serve some of the same purpose as implicits in Scala.
One thing that concerns me is that every node needs to run every contract. Computers that are connecting to the network for the first time and doing full verification will have many, many contracts to compute. Catching up could take significantly longer than it already does.
> Is there a way to disassociate enforcement from penalizing?

Do a Google search for "predatory agency." It's an idea that's been kicking around the law+econ community for 20+ years. Think the GAO on steroids, and at the state level too.
Chill out and pick different audience. Most people on HN are not just "scraping by" unless making >$100k first year after college is now called scraping by. I would say overall HN audience benefits much more from current political, economic and financial situation than suffer from it. It's probably not true for reddit so you can find more receptive audience there.
> We could be to the left what the tea party is to the right.

Extreme and uncompromising to the point of absurdity? Actually, that does sound like the HN community!

More seriously though, even if there were enough cohesion among HN thinkers to build up anything resembling a worthwhile political entity, at least in the USA, it would be a powerless symbolic party, fit only for mockery by late night television comedians. The USA's current political system is completely intractable to the point where the current two parties are the only option; the only viable path is to move the two parties in our direction, alternatives are assuredly doomed to failure.
True (and I'm guilty of this).

However... dinner times are a very culturally dependent thing. Dinner at 7:30PM might mean "food served at 7:30", or it might mean "I will be thinking about turning on the oven at 7:30". I like "7 for 8" (don't arrive before 7, we're eating at 8), to avoid the ambiguity.
Elon Musk confirms plans to provide global Internet from 100’s of satellites
... and unremarkably, the software on set-top boxes and TVs (and perhaps washing machines--mine's pretty buggy considering the number of inputs and outputs involved) is uniformly terrible, along with most pre-Android Java-based phones. Not to mention the overhead required to run something like Java in an embedded system was until very recently, bad for keeping costs down.

It's notable that the current, much more successful, wave of embedded platforms suitable for DIY work don't run Java.
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What people '"believe" in their government'? Do a search for "poll americans believing in government". Most polls will show < 50% of people are willing to state that they believe government officials on various issues. So, trust really isn't the problem.

I agree with your last statement completely. The trick is to get people to get knowledgeable (or even care) about history and what is happening in the country. Right about now, it seems to be we're more tending towards "Brave New World" than "1984". If people could just turn off 30 minutes a day of their "Real Housewives" and focus on learning something new, about anything, we'd start fixing the problems.
Personally I think it's more motivated, at least in the beginning, by said person wanting them to be "better". Said person feels they should act this way, as it's "better" and tries to force it on them.

Similar to how you'd feel towards people getting payday loans. Don't do it. Because X, and X is a valid reason to me to not do it. So you shouldn't do it.

At least personally, not giving advice that's isn't asked for is really hard at times because I think I usually have good advice. But that's exactly how "those" people feel.
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FYI Python has had an await equivalent for a looong time through the Twisted networking library and now asyncio. It has the same semantics, but you use the yield keyword instead of await.

Also as of recently there is a standard library event loop package, and as far as I know Twisted was the defacto event loop on 2.x for most types of work.
Quite an appropriate topic here, wouldn't you agree?
You know the same thing happens here, right?

Not everyone can down vote, flag, etc.

Irony isn't lost on me.
We do, at least, know, that voting on this particular matter is futile :)
The Democratic part before the civil right era was vastly different. After the passage of the Civil Rights bill in 1964, the political climate of the party changed drastically, especially in the south[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_South

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Democrats
> the battle for Civil Rights was won thanks to Republicans

It was more a North-South divide than a party divide.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964#By_par...

(Signed into law by a Democrat, incidentally)

> that it was Democrats who were the anti-abolitionist party?

And France had a Napoleon (III) at the helm, but that hardly means a thing today.
Pandora is one of few Silicon Valley companies with gender balance
if the future is instagram and twitter, you can keep it
That picture needs some context for scale. My first impression was that it had a normal USB port and was much larger.
Hacker news commenter with a lot of karma...
Wow, I wished mine is as good. My average is between 40-50fps, and sometimes glitches happened. May I know what's your MBP's specs?
Supermicro builds its gear in Taiwan still, no? Has been a while since I had to buy physical hardware.
Because renting bare metal servers and put your cloud on it is cheaper and better in a lot of cases.
You can get the keys off of a HSM with a scanning tunneling electron microscope, a lot of time, and some electronics engineers depending on the type of hardware. It is possible, but unbelievably more difficult.

If the get the server with the hsm in it via a NSL, game over. That being said, it is impossible for a hack to get the private keys, so this is still a massive win.
So you guys are scraping all the product information for a retailer and keeping it up to date? Or is it all live, you fetch it when that particular url is called? Where do you get the list of retailers to scrape?
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Yeah, I did install the first mod-chips on a Xbox that required a million soldering points way back when.
But still, I am a noob compared to this dude ...
This looks interesting. Am I correct in understanding from your diagram that Kozo generates both the clientside and backend code? In what language does the developer write? Another question: how much control does the developer have over the server once the application is deployed?

Thanks for any response and good luck with this project!
Exercising but Gaining Weight
In the 1860's Governor George Grey owned Kawau Island in New Zealand. He imported numerous exotic plants and animals. Some of which included Zebra's, Antelopes, Monkeys and Wallabies. Only the Wallabies remain there today.
See also this article on the impact this hack had on weather forecasts: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/...
Handy Sued for Being a Hellscape of Labor Code Violations
esr's definition of hackers' political values, curiously, always seem to match esr's current political values.
Very interesting, I worked on a system that does provide 'truth and trust' but the first part (voluntarily destroying instances) of what you say seems like the opposite? If you want to maintain truth with everyone being aware of each other 's state but then want to voluntarily disrupt said state, wouldn't that lead to unnecessary work? Also, would be nice if you shared the data that led to such an approach (I see this removes the need for say Upgrades, but does it actually provide a benefit)? May be I'm completely off-base here.