skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Myself, my wish list for HN is a feature I can flag stories for my later review; a save feature like reddit"

Are you aware that upvoting a story saves it? You can access 'saved stories' via your profile. On one hand, you might argue that overloading the 'upvote' function isn't quite what you want, but the counter argument is that if a story seems interesting enough for you to want to read lead, the upvote's probably deserved.
A misleading summary, since you're the one who introduced the idea of "malice" and "fraud". Dan's claim admits to HN users who believe they've been hellbanned for criticizing YC companies. Yours doesn't.
> The FCC is probably close to deciding

Given that the FCC Chair, who has repeatedly says he agrees with Obama on the need for neutrality (both before and after the recent statement), and specifically agreed that paid prioritization should be avoided, just announced that the final rules may be delayed into 2015 (he earlier said he wanted to get them out by the end of the year) because of legal work required by the consideration of the hybrid approach (a partial Title II reclassification which would go further than the original proposal and prohibit paid prioritization, which leaked recently as the current preferred approach of the commission) and the full reclassification approach, I suspect both the "the FCC is close to deciding" and "the FCC inevitably announces they're going to let the ISPs do what they will" parts of your prediction are wrong.
They don't have any shortage of advertisers so there is obviously demand for the space = companies paying for it. There are also piracy-complementary services that seem to be popular in the ads like VPN and privacy stuff, seed boxes, torrent clients etc that people do pay for.
"madrassa" is simply arabic for "school"; i really like the name because for me the word brings the ancient arab scholarly traditions to mind. also it is a nicely inclusive touch to use the word despite the somewhat unfortunate connotations it has taken on in the west.
IF someone is a genuine troll, then hell-banning is a great way of dealing with it, because it maximizes the time wasted by the troll and minimizes the time used by the moderator.

However, if the person isn't actually out-and-out to mess with your site, it sucks. I've seen lots of communities go down the tubes because the moderators get busy with life, and then Something Happens On The Forum, and moderators passive-aggressively go "fine, we're just gonna act like this, and if you don't want us to do that, then you should make the community act better!" Basically announcing that they are going to put in minimal effort to moderation, and the community definitely notices.

Professional moderation, like HN uses, seems like the best way to go.
Yeah fine, and everyone at SpaceX DEVELOPED the rockets that take people to SPACE for the same as what Facebook paid for Snapchat. Valuations are WEIRD.

Further the $50B price tag has a lot to do with paying a LOT of union folks, legalized "corruption" in many forms and the like. Finding huge cost savings in the construction industry is possible if you're motivated but nobody is because big infrastructure projects like that get handed out more based on politics than merit.
How are you sure of this? I wouldn't be.

And you're saying it's somehow a different class of ethical conundrum to engage in espionage to kill people, or to engage in it for economic advantage, and killing people is more ethical?

I am not surprised the state-capitalist Chinese see it differently, and are okay with both.
I don't even think that answer was even that bad, especially when compared to the parent. Here was a wild and personal accusation with no support at all, not even anecdotal, and pretty toxic itself.

Replying courteously even to baseless and ranty accusations is probably a good idea, but I can't say I'd blame someone for not doing it.

I see the mod(s?) deal with this kind of conspiracy accusation almost on a daily basis, and I can definitely see how patience can wear thin when every nut does that. Dang implying that this accusation was baseless was probably rash, but that's the only thing I see even remotely out of line here.

Moderation is a pretty thankless job, and like sysadmins, people never appreciate you for getting things to work right when they work right. The definition of success is invisibility to users. But the second it goes even a bit wrong, it's a shitstorm. Here's yet another piece of empathy that one needs to consider.
Interesting, thanks for clearing that up. Nutritional science is such murky waters.
I think you're being a bit dismissive. Hills are just one example - every city has its local issues, be they hills, rivers, different laws, traffic patterns...
A lot of effort to get rid of people, not so much effort to attract them. Maybe it's not needed because the site is so popular. But it seems to contradict the other messages where they try to encourage everybody to apply to YC, especially the people who feel like they are not suited to it.

It's a bit funny if you consider these algorithms might be part of the selection process for YC (consciously or unconsciously) - have they really nailed the detection of trolls? Maybe eventually the algorithms will align so well with the spirit of YC that they can eliminate the interview process :-)

I for one feel unwanted (it's not my first account - some got banned, one I somehow retired after a couple of years). I long for another news source, and also for open discussion.

In general discussion does not seem to be welcome, as there are mechanisms to prevent deep threads. That's maybe OK, they want to be a news site, not a discussion site. But it leaves a void to be filled.
Sounds a bit like a standard beef stock really. If it really is that, here is my current favorite recipe: https://www.ming.com/food-and-wine/recipes/season-1/master-m...

But chicken stock (with leftover bones from a roast chicken), and pork stock are also great bases for a good soup.

Which is really what this is: he is selling soup.
It's not completely replaceable by technology.

Once I had gotten a text from my wife as to where to meet her for dinner with friends. She didn't know the restaurant name, and had gotten the street name wrong. I just read the text to my London black cab driver, he asked me: "Did you mean XXX restaurant on [correct street name]?" (Note: there were multiple restaurants on the street). And sure enough, he was 100% correct.

That's the day I learned to really respect drivers with The Knowledge.
Did you notice the issue with the thickness in 1.1? For me, I get a lot of pretty epic farts with 1.0, so I was hoping the enzymes in 1.1 would address that :)
You can unflag. Go to the link for the comment, click "flag", and when the page reloads you can unflag.
And I hope it stays that way. We don't need more features, we need to address psychological issue of mistake-making.
How do you test the depth of one's convictions on the morality of various diets? Do you think that people can willfully choose their own convictions?
Rehabilitation is supposed to be one of the purposes, but is that true in many places in the world anymore?
> In that kind of scenario, it could just as easily have been Linux.

In any of these systems, any general purpose OS would suffice. There is no real problem for people to move from one platform to another that can't be overcome in a short time.
I think you could, when Paul Graham was actively moderating the site, get hellbanned for unproductively pissing Paul Graham off. I think it happened more than once.
or I should say: yes, a countable number of Maseratis.
C++ is getting more complicated and hence less interesting every day.

How is Rust solving this particular issue?
Yes, MSMBuilder is software package that uses them explicitly in protein dynamics simulations. The rationale behind it is it allows you to take trajectories from molecular dynamics simulations, and construct a markov state model out of the conformational state space of the protein. This is extremely useful in MM simulations, because it allows for the conformational space to be sampled by many smaller trajectories, instead of one longer trajectory where it is highly unlikely to sample the full state space anyways(gets stuck in local minima). This allows for molecular dynamics simulations to be done as High Thruoughput computing instead of HPC. Its the rationale behind Folding@home.

Edited for clarification
True, and GPS navigation can have real-time traffic information while a cabbie can at best make an educated guess.

What's _really_ valuable, though, isn't real-time traffic information, but future traffic information. What matters isn't the traffic right now, but the traffic as it will be when you arrive at a given portion of the journey. I suspect that at present cabbies have the edge there, but that edge will also be swept away by predictive algorithms incorporating knowledge of typical traffic patterns plus lots of inputs about events that may affect traffic.

The latter point is particularly interesting if a navigation system acquires enough scale that it is directing a substantial fraction of the traffic. In that case, it knows not only what external events may affect traffic, but can further make decisions to control the flow, distributing and smoothing.
Pretty crazy; but C++ has extra crazy all its own, so it wins the crazy contest.
why isnt firebug installed by default ?
Tesla Model S P85D Test Drive Blows Motor Trend Away
It was 11 months from discovery to public disclosure, interesting.
Press articles, app downloads (instead of active users), M&A "offers", employeess or FTEs, # of global offices, money raised (instead of cash on hand), "advisors" (this is a particularly stupid one in my opinion).

Basically anything that isn't active users, revenue or profit.
6) Soup for breakfast? No thanks.
This blog post is incredibly long.

It's not. It's really not. I don't know whether to feel slighted that the author assumes my attention span is so pitiful, or bemused that the author feels the need to mention the length of the post at all. I suppose someone who feels the need to open a post with the new hip way of saying "Summary" or "Abstract" has already given up on his audience anyway.
"A fixed or firm belief" - hm, sounds like religion all right. So, just like a person can't choose a religion, neither can they willfully choose a conviction?
Yes, that's generally true with all of NYC, we always give cross streets as reference. I'd never expect anyone to know just based on address number.
London's Legendary Taxi-Driver Test, Puts Up a Fight in the Age of GPS
How mobile app and game testing differs
> You can see that I don't like Material. I also don't like iOs's new UI language.

Could you elaborate? I think Apple's flatter UX approach is very well done.
Did this just go up? It seems to be going down intermittently. Edit: The "zip file" link doesn't work now, although it seemed to before. Maybe they took it down to save bandwidth?
I understand this is an option, but it's super frustrating that the FF profiles mechanism wasn't built the right way from the ground up.

There are significant advantages to having all your config in dotfiles beyond just keeping everything in one place: easy branching, getting rollback for free, human-readable diffs, etc.
Well, Markov chains as used by programmers are generally discreet-time. Continuous-time Markov chains are continuous. Indeed, in the original model he begins with what seems to be a continuous-time Markov chain. You are correct you get to solve a linear differential equation with constant coefficients to get the distribution at any one time. Another interesting way to consider this stuff is in terms of the "logarithms" and "exponentiation" of Markov matrices.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous-time_Markov_chain
A git hook would certainly work for this as you described and I would certainly encourage people to investigate that route if it is appropriate for them. http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Hooks

The goal for GitCop is to be fast and easy to set up in a way that integrates well into a GitHub pull request based flow.
Don't panic. The page is titled "Essential...", but unless you're beginning a new AAA engine by yourself, much of this laundry list is more like "Interesting"
I appreciate your reply.

You are not incorrect, and most of my "knowledge" came from one person, who was incarcerated for ripping off a casino--not via my own experience.

He did 17 years in a really lax place. Pool tables and ping pong and TV and community rooms, stuff like that.

A bit of a knee-jerk response on my part.
That is odd in my experience. Perhaps it has to do with my locale.

I am in a major metropolis and I drive throughout the city, suburbs and adjacent cities regularly. I know the area and I have been driving for decades.

I have been using Waze for about a year now. The navigation routes it selects appear to be very good. They appear to be based on relevant factors too. I can only guess what variables they include in their calculation, such as weighted capacity, current traffic speed, etc. of the relevant route elements.

My experience with Waze is the opposite of yours.
Those radio buttons and checkboxes are painful to use.
Some serious attempts at rehabilitation in Norway:

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/feb/25/norwegian-pri...
Erlang has the first two concepts nailed down.

I don't know what "data sharing ... with promiscuous threading" is, but Erlang is functional and immutable, so data sharing only exists in the sense of passing immutable data structures around. Synchronization issues associatied with mutations don't exist for in-memory structures since it's all read-only access.

I don't know Haskell's concurrency tools very well, but I believe it can provide much of the same functionality as Erlang, but the whole OTP toolset is missing — just as it is in Go. (Certain aspects of OTP can't be implemented in Go at all without additional changes to language/runtime.)
One of the reasons why Lisp is fading into irrelevance is that GC is obsolete tech. You should be using RAII, smart pointers, or ARC for all dynamic-lifetime resource management depending on language and toolset for completely deterministic object lifetimes.

This is also a factor in why Android phones are orders of magnitude slower than equivalently-specced iPhones, even with the new ART.
In case it's not loading for you, it looks like there's a mirror in the CoralCDN: http://swartzfiles.com.nyud.net/
Does the test check the best way, or only knowledge of finding Some route? I could see someone learning the city topology with VR, and then using experience to learn congestion patterns.
Good to see rubinius is still chugging along and doing things its own way. A while back the IRC channel was the place for a lot of interesting PLDI discussion.
This is a extremely long rant that seems to mix together tautologies, unexamined beliefs, either logical impossibilities or downright falsehoods with lots a lots of anger.

I will rather be polite and say that I am not interested in keep going further with this discussion. But if you ever find yourself in need to examine your world view please consider the following:

> And isn't it incredibly stupid of a supreme, intelligent, omnipotent, omnipresent being to demand belief in him without evidence?

Ok, granted... you have a point here. What of the many assertions you make can be logically derived from this one hypothesis? What other hypotheses could explain the same facts?
I would be quite surprised if most App Store games were created with Unity - it's expensive and (comparatively) cumbersome to develop in, especially if you're just using 2D graphics (even with the fancy new Unity2D stuff). I can't find any stats on mobile game engine use though, which is a shame because I think it would be interesting to know.

When creating Unity3D games, you have to be reasonably careful about garbage collection - lots of nasty performance dips result if you assume that it just works. Generally you have to cobble together a mixture of object pools and statements attempting to force collection at a convenient point in the game flow amongst other things. It would be quite nice if you could turn it off for specific portions of code :)
Chinese Programmer Sticks Windows 95 on an iPhone 6 Plus
Neat. You can start an Erlang process (or whatever they're called) with an anonymous function, and pass it another anonymous function that closes over another lexical environment?
New Relic Files for IPO
Wait a minute. Cult of Codd is proclaiming that everything is relational and everyone should always use RDMBS, and if they don't, they're doing it wrong and wasting their time. OP went even further with claims that RDBMSes cover pretty much everything in the CS. If it's not an aggressive cult, I don't know what else could be more aggressive.

I'm ok with using RDBMS for storing relational data, everything has its niche and every tool could be used efficiently when needed. What I'm not ok with is when cultists try to force everyone else to use their precious hammer everywhere, for every little nail. I'm not ok when I'm told that if I did not use RDBMSes I did not do any large scale data analysis.
Flexport is hiring engineer #6
I get a kernel Panics when I move a fullscreen window from one screen to another one.
If this can help https://gist.github.com/3on/cf6464e0ecb9f73aad6f
I used to think the same thing as much of my early career was spent in graphics. Then I got much more familiar with relational databases and realized I was an idiot. For example I spent about 3 months hand tuning code that read a quad from a TB sized image stored on disk into a GPU so it could analyzed by computer vision algorithms. Then I realized that using a DB would have been about as fast and I would have saved 3 months of time. Unfortunately I didn't realize this until I left graduate school.

In conclusion, yes you often don't need a database and sometimes it is wrong tool but usually it saves you a lot of time because it is fast enough and general purpose enough.
We currently use SunButter but the taste is not the same. It is not bad but it is certainly not like peanut butter. I was interested in your link but I see it is made from soy. My youngest has an intolerance to soy. :( We would love to find "a nut-free, soy-free spread the tastes like peanut butter."
Well, when computing power is plentiful, sometimes it's easier to just simulate the heck out of it. (shrug)

Back in the day, I was curious about the ratio between the volume of an N-dimensional sphere, divided by the volume of the N-dimensional cube that contains it, as a function of N.

I'm sure there might be an exact solution somewhere (it's basically the volume of the N-sphere of radius 0.5) but I was too lazy to look it up. Instead, I just did a trivial one-page Monte Carlo shoot-em-up with a lot of points. It converged quickly to a good estimate.

For the curious, as N goes up, the volume of the N-sphere is a smaller and smaller fraction of the volume of the N-cube containing it. It kinda blew my mind when I saw the result, but then it started to make sense (in higher dimensions there's more ways for space to be "wasted" in the corners).
Where are you drawing this line between religion and ethics? Jews believe it is wrong to eat pork, vegans believe it is wrong to eat animals. What makes one of these beliefs a protected status and one not?

>How do you actually determine if a diet is being followed for pure taste reasoning, or if it's something based on personal ethics?

One can also lie about religious affiliation, or magically "convert", to get better or alternative meals, and in fact some prisoners do this. I don't see your point.

Religious belief and ethical belief both reside in someone's mind and nowhere else.
I'm not too familiar with Atlassian Stash, I will have a search around and see how plausible it would be to integrate.
Show HN: Use your Facebook archive dump to map all the locations you've logged in
I don't know why people hate on Makefiles, make is great! Does exactly what it says on the tin.
On that very page:

Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something (e.g. to ask us questions about Y Combinator, or to ask or complain about moderation). If you want to say something to us, please send it to hn@ycombinator.com.
It's not that I don't like sleep, I just wish it was a leisure activity, not a necessity.
When you consider the iceman, a nearly 6,000 year old preserved corpse of a man pushing-50-years-old suffering from Lyme disease who was crossing the alps ON FOOT when he was murdered as irrationally healthy, I see your point.
Because he was mostly a mouthpiece for the site and not privy to financial details?
Honest question: when you read a comment, do you read the comment first, or the username? Because - and I realise it's difficult to judge 100% accurately - I think I always read the comment first, and often don't even glance at the username. And the styling seems to encourage that too.

Would it really be as crazy as it sounds, in the interest of promoting discussion above all else, to just hide usernames altogether?
Turns out, you need to do such things pretty rarely. Not "most of the time", as RDMBS proponents claim.
Am I the only one who can't stand people trying to deliver technical information via power point slides?
I don't think that at all. I just believe Kan when he says that the ones who are actually worth their fee won't work on a 10MM deal.
You're talking about a theoretical world where absolutely no-one has any privacy, even presidents, security guards, etc.

In the real world, there is lots of asymmetry. This asymmetry is absolutely critical when making ethical considerations.
As it is developer edition, would you give us option to enable/disable CORS policy.
So, what do? Perhapsh mark a object as "kill me without mercy?"
It is entirely possible to write native-performance (better than C++, and soft-realtime at the same time) programs in Haskell; I've seen it done in a professional environment.
That sounds like awful moderation - it isn't moderation's role to effectively do marketing for a product. Any good moderator would tell another to stay hands off as long as people are civil.
You have indeed identified an underserved market: capital for mid-risk, mid-growth companies. You could serve that market by organizing a venture fund.

Keep in mind: it's not like nobody ever had that idea before. Many people did, and proceeded with it, and discovered something that caused them to either give up or pivot to the traditional (high-risk, high-growth) VC model instead.

Some of the reasons why they didn't stick with mid-risk, mid-growth are bad: vanity, careerism, principal-agent problems. I believe there are some good reasons too, but you might be able to overcome them.

It would be really great for the world if you figured this out. Seriously, I'd encourage you to try. There are ways to start small and have the financial mechanics taken care of, such as an AngelList syndicate. If you succeed, you'd be enabling hundreds of people to have rewarding and more stable careers.
I don't shop. My groceries are delivered to my door. This is more expensive than paying for gas to go buy them, but it is still significantly cheaper than soylent. If this is not an option for you then I guess paying more to avoid shopping is reasonable if you can tolerate the taste of soylent.

Don't purchase 1 month's worth. Purchase 1 week's worth.

It is trivially easy to make a soup that contains 100%+ of everything. Potato soup is the best if you are intending to just eat that one thing unless you like milk and eggs in your meat soups (I don't). I usually do a beef soup and have eggs for breakfast and cheese on the side with my soup but that's a taste preference.

The microwave doesn't require assistance. You can just turn it on and go back to what you were doing until it beeps at you.

I spend $65 a week including delivery fee and that's for two people.
I'd rather have a list of book-recommendations.
It moves stupid comments down _faster_. If the comment's super stupid, that can be worthwhile.