skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What other system would you propose that would ensure that articles are as uniformly objective and factual as possible? It's all right to claim that anyone should be allowed to edit an article, but the fact is that internet communities have consistently shown that without extremely heavy-handed moderation to uphold standards, they can quickly devolve into echo chambers where only one opinion or one set of facts is heard.

Articles about NBA players are not a good example of this, but I can easily think of plenty of other topics which would involve extremely loud and opinionated fringe communities who are very motivated to broadcast their views to the world. I can't think of any way to limit the influence of these communities except by insisting that every article have impeccable sources.

The cost of this insistence on sources is that sometimes utterly obvious edits may be reverted unless they can be properly sourced, but I think it is an acceptable price for maintaining consistent standards of quality across the wiki.

Also, I don't agree that the system only exists to pander to academia. Every encyclopedia in the world has standards of quality to which their articles must conform. The only difference between these other encyclopedias and Wikipedia is the speed with which they are updated.

Now I don't know about you, but I don't go to Wikipedia to get the latest news. I go there to learn stuff with the belief that this stuff will be correct. I don't care if players' teams are updated hours instead of seconds after a trade. I care much more about whether this information is correct. Verifiability builds trust, and I don't see how Wikipedia could continue to exist without it.
The page itself is plain HTTP, too.
What Software Developers can learn from a Sushi Chef
Check your credit card statements for something like "security protection fee". I was paying $20/mo lumped in to my monthly bill. I initiated a charge back against the credit card company itself and had a few hundred dollars back within minutes.

This is a bogus insurance plan that credit card companies add to protect you against unknown evils. I had no idea how they signed me up.
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It wasn't BAC, yes you where correct, It was AMEX, WFC and US BANK Corp. It's all listed right here. http://projects.propublica.org/bailout/list

Buffetts investment in BAC is more inline with his buy companies when no one else will philosophy.
Valid point, but even before the ICH there was a lot of knowledge sharing among Western countries with regards to drug regulation. There are some minor differences even today, but it's pretty consistent.
Is google trends really indicative of growth? Not that I'm contesting that reddit has grown, it most definitely has.
I am convinced that the J programming language is an elaborate hoax. I just don't understand how anyone is falling for it.
The set of active investors plus the set of passive investors is the set of all market participants.

If the passive investors all earn the market average, then the average earnings of active investors, before fees, must also be equal to the market average. Since passive investors pay less fees and active investors, the average earnings of an active investors, after fees, must always be less than that of the passive investor.
Two questions on this (from an novice-techie pov):

1. Https is slower. From a practicality standpoint - is it that much slower to actually make a difference from a UX side of things?

2. I've implemented https on one of my sites, but in chrome, it's not full green, but appears as https with the broken lock. Any idea on what that means and how to fix it?
Apple Watch and the iPhone: Different strategies
I love git, but even git checkout is asinine. It's fine for checking out a tag/branch/rev/treeish, but why on earth does it also revert files to their checked in state if given a path argument?

I don't think git should be prone to trashing local state due to how it usually yells at you when it's about to do that, but then I've been working with a student this quarter who seems to do that every time I push something to github and she needs to pull. I think if the git community got together, did a usability study on how people actually use git, and renamed/split out commands into names that made sense, it would be a huge boon for general usability.
Scala keeps features for imperative and functional programming, which is one category too many, because they solve the same problem just different. Thats how Scala is supposed to work. Its impossible to remove an approach.
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Did they make any notice of commitment to this for themselves?
> Intuitively it makes sense: I can't imagine starting a Foursquare in San Jose (there isn't a critical mass of people -- not all of them geeks -- cloistered around any given landmark to gain sufficient traction).

It's not uncommon for a startup's initial userbase to be geographically far removed from the company's headquarters. Facebook's was in the Ivy & NESCAC colleges in New England even after the company moved to Palo Alto. AirBnB's was in NYC. Twitter, I've heard, took off in Austin after SxSW. Orkut got Brazil despite originating in Mountain View. WhatsApp first took off in the Ukraine and then India, also despite being based in Mountain View.

I don't know why this is - intuitively, I'd expect it to be where the founders are, because that's who they can directly talk to. But the data doesn't seem to bear that out. Maybe it's because of random chance - if you model a successful startup as a cluster of users who happen to have an unfulfilled need and an entrepreneur who happens to stumble upon the solution to that unfulfilled need, then it makes sense that many initial userbases will be geographically separated from the company simply because there are more people far away from you than people close to you.
It's a really great collaboration tool. I think git itself could use some work in certain ways, but Github really makes it hard to go to any other web-based version control + pull request type tools.
I don't drive. I caltrain. Train at least gives some alone time to get work done, the main issue is it restricts your schedule if you want to take fast trains. I train from Sunnyvale every day.
I find this hilarious.
Teaching Haskell
Can someone write a post similar to this one -- http://ocaml.org/learn/teaching-ocaml.html but for Haskell?
I've always wondered. Alexa has become unusable, and Trends was the only free thing I could find. One datapoint that it works: When I used Google Trends to claim "Reddit seems to have doubled since 2013," no one contradicted that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8567833

It seems like all tools are indicating that Reddit is growing like a weed, though. Actually, Reddit is in a pretty unique position. Subreddits mean that pretty much every person on the planet is going to find something interesting, so everyone from 13 year olds to grandmas are participating.

I wonder how long Reddit will continue to grow before people start comparing it to Facebook.
The author could have experienced the same by flying a kite or throwing a boomerang, but what's amazing (to me) is asking for political action to protect you and others against ones own misjudgment...
There's a severe regulation in place in France, but it doesn't stop amateurs from flying drones in crowded areas, with no accident to report anyway (during the same time, thousands are killed on the road).

I remember one day, I dropped a yo-yo from my balcony, from the 17th floor. Yes, I could have killed someone. Should Yo-yo be regulated?
It seems so absurd, I could almost doubt the author's honesty and wonder if it's just lobbying in disguise.
re 2: you're loading mixed https and http content. open up the devtools console and it will show you what's being loaded over http.
"How do you feel about living in Russia for a bit?"
Quora is successful? Their userbase is still below 5 million and most of their traffic comes from a third world country(India), and they still have exactly zero ads 5 years on after raising 161 million in capital.

Quora is an unmitigated failure at this point.
If google recognizes you as an open source contributor who does something significant, you get couple hundred $$$ worth of credit in their store (I wish I were joking)
I think what's meant is that it will be easier to create software on Linux that uses MS enterprise packages, like SQL Server, Sharepoint, etc.. So devs can make use of the MS ecosystem without being totally locked into it. Especially since cloud-based services like Azure means never having to buy/host/maintain any Windows boxes at all, if you don't want to.
Quora could be so much useful but they make it hard to use. Here's a pastebin link http://pastebin.com/FAYF2D9b to read freely what Yishan wrote.
This seems to be a perenially popular bad startup idea. Sergey Brin's previous idea, before teaming up with Larry to found Google, was a startup to let people order pizza via fax machine.
Ugh, this is terrible, the index is git's best feature. I kind of see where you're coming from with the idea of squashing together commits before pushing but it seems like a lot of awkwardness and overhead for the really basic use case of committing a bunch of files without doing it all in one command. Maybe it's just my OCD tendencies but I actually do spend time crafting the perfect commit, picking only the hunks/lines that matter and all that.

I think if people are taught git focusing on the index/staging area, it makes a lot more sense and you have much fewer problems.
The Big Data Brain Drain
I hear there is a river named Amazon in Southern Hemisphere and there are people landing in Seattle for river expeditions.
Mastercard and Visa to kill off password authentication
For the record, it's worth noting that we're starting from a state that's nothing short of disastrous: https://alexgaynor.net/2014/nov/12/state-of-news-tls/

Let's hope that twelve months from now, we're looking at a very different landscape. Kudos to NYTimes for issuing the challenge. At the very least, this is an important conversation starter.
In some mammals like the lions, if a feeding mother lost her baby, she will start ovulating immediately. This allows for the new male to have children without waiting for the existing kids to be weaned which can be as long as a couple of years.
I'm more concerned with how this article helps my inner thigh gap? what kind of $#*! tumblr is this? i came here for pictures of fruit and ITG, son!
re 1: see https://istlsfastyet.com/
> if drug regulation is so burdensome, why have none of the drug companies taken a promising product and tried marketing it as a nutritional supplement instead?

As I explained before, the FDA will not allow that.

> My theory is

Peltzman's statistics show that new drug development dropped in half in the US coincident with the 1962 amendments.

> less tightly regulated markets

Can you give an example drug market in a 1st world country where this is true?
Hi Dan! Remember when I DDOSed Google Code on Super Tuesday 2008, when I thought it would be a good idea to host my election map result tiles there, and then I forgot to turn off the cachebuster in my tile URLs? Good times... :-)
Perhaps. All I'm saying is that they have good content. Give it a try, you may be surprised to find you like it. Even if they're on an implosion trajectory, Internet Archive will make sure most or all of it stays online. So it won't be a failure if you measure success as "generating positive contributions to the world" instead of dollars.
I totally believe Yishan. Jokes aside, just look at his twitter profile picture! https://twitter.com/yishan This man is definitely burnout.
How a nerdy kid from nowhere self-published and got noticed by Larry Page
My understanding is a drug cannot be brought to the US market until it meets the FDA's effective standards. This is regardless of where it is developed.
To add to that, it's an alternative to OpenCL as I understood it.

"...HSA Foundation seeks to create applications that seamlessly blend scalar processing on the CPU, parallel processing on the GPU, and optimized processing on the DSP via high bandwidth shared memory access enabling greater application performance at low power consumption. The HSA Foundation is defining key interfaces for parallel computation utilizing CPUs, GPUs, DSPs, and other programmable and fixed-function devices, thus supporting a diverse set of high-level programming languages and creating the next generation in general-purpose computing."
I think you'll find that whatever it is that you are doing (or not doing) that they find objectionable will be some crime or another. The courts around here are becoming somewhat... marsupial.
git it, boo! this is the perfect comment to this entire delicious thread. "oh, sorry, but internet just happened. grab your kids and head to the basement; gonna weirder there, too, now that I think about it."
content producr lock-in, is from some contract, technological issue or just ubiquity of Youtube? If Facebook starts its video service pushed heavily on Fb, it will get eyeballs, what is stopping it?
I hope you got a lot of upvotes for mentioning this invaluable wisdom.
This is really awesome. Reminds me of http://www.tidesdk.org

Honestly, I'm super prepared for the world where HTML/CSS is used for all the GUIs (while HTML/CSS are not perfect, I think they've done a pretty good job being flexible enough style to millions of user-facing GUI applications, also known as web sites, for so long). I don't think many people agree, but the day I don't have to try and choose between TK, GTK, QT, and some other smaller framework is gonna be a good day.

Not quite the same (since this runs on chromium, and I'm not sure that TideSDK does also -- at least it's been around too long that it feels like they couldn't possibly have).
From best to worse, in my experience:

1) Google's current internal one

2) Gerrit (open source, to be used by Go)

3) Google's old one (Mondrian)

4) Rietveld (open source, but run for free at codereview.appspot.com)

5) Github

I would totally suspect that Phabricator or Review Board would be well above Github (as are 1-4 in my list), but I don't know where. I have little desire to use or explore new code review systems at this point. Four per day is enough for me at the moment.
The article was discussing two separate bugs. As it says "one of the other bugs ...."
Can the Internet Archive/ArchiveTeam scrape Quora with their regwall?
dual tap is kind of like clicking twice
I have quit jobs due to burnout and said it was something else, too.
Interesting comparison between reddit and facebook: https://i.imgur.com/NUkB96v.png

Notice facebooks decline.
Nope.

"Worth noting: Quora has no public API, no backup/export tools, blocks anonymous display of answers, and banned the Wayback Machine entirely."

https://twitter.com/waxpancake/status/453958676529696769
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1760935672/android-ciph...
Alan Perlis on APL:

"What attracted me, then, to APL was a feeling that perhaps through APL one might begin to acquire some of the dimensions in programming that we revere in natural language — some of the pleasures of composition; of saying things elegantly; of being brief, poetic, artistic, that makes our natural languages so precious to us."

http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/perlis78.htm
Why I Am Teaching a Course Called “Wasting Time on the Internet”
I wonder how similar this is to their existing dediboxes; I have an €5.99/mo box with them which is some kind of VIA Nano-based Dell that is only sold in Europe:

http://www.online.net/en/dedicated-server/dedibox-scg2

Nice little setup. It's slow, of course (certainly not fast enough to encode 720p H.264 in real time, for example), and the ARM architecture is bound to be faster.
Exploring large projects with Projectile
This is a fantastic answer on Github's (rare) shortcomings. I hope the Github team is here reading this and taking notes!
Tell them you're graduating and want more time to decide on what to do with your career, that you're unsure of whether you'd be a better fit working more on the tech side of things. Say this to the hiring manager. This gives him/her two possible choices you'll like: (1) you get more time to decide, i.e., interview elsewhere or (2) they recommend you for another team and you get an accelerated interview there. Or (3) they stick to their offer at which point you can re-approach this decision after considering your backup plans.

In the unlikely event this approach results in them rescinding the offer, either you lack tact or it's not a place you want to work at anyway.
What's wrong with nano?
Yishan was in a really tough spot with that comment. It sounded like morale among existing employees was being significantly negatively affected by this ex-coworker going around spreading shit about the company. A CEO needs to consider how his actions will be viewed by everyone involved in the company; it's quite possible that neglecting to act would've caused enough of a productivity & morale hit that he judged calling the employee out to be the right call, even knowing what it would potentially do to his & the employee's reputation.

That said, your comment is precisely why people generally avoid bad-mouthing former employees, and why smart employees avoid bad-mouthing their former employers. Worst case, it blackballs a person or organization forever. Best case, it just makes everybody look bad. Better to keep your mouth shut and let other people draw their own conclusions.
What does the last mile matter if the preceding miles are monopoly-controlled?
Interestingly this essay is responsible for most of our attributable revenue at Blossom (https://www.blossom.io). #trivia
Dennis Ritchie.
FYI if you have a "CONTRIBUTING" or "CONTRIBUTING.md" document at the project root, a neat little info bar "Please read the [contributing] guidelines before proceeding" will show up to anyone filing a bug or a PR.
One of the points in the lecture was that you have to be ready to abandon a feature, even if you really believe in it, if user feedback indicates a lack of interest.

But what if it's one of those things (like TiVo and Uber) that people think, in advance, that they don't need -- but it turns out they'll be totally hooked once they try it?
> * you think of what the board of Disney said to Walt when he decided to open a brick and mortar theme park when their only product to date had been a few animated films?*

I read an article on Walt once that covered this.. he went to all his friends and family and told them his plan. Every single person told him he was nuts and it would never work.

That was how he knew he was on to something - the fact it had never been attempted before only made him more certain it was going to work.
No mention of this, though?

https://np.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2iea97/i_am_a_former_r...

I would not want to work for any company whose CEO takes the low road on personnel issues. That was truly cringeworthy.
There was no misunderstanding. Trademarks, as you yourself have said, are also an exploitative tool of abuse by entrenched interests. Impersonation and slander should still be illegal, but the claiming of ownership of a name is only rife for abuse. I'm against IP in general.
A good eulogy here from economist Steve Landsburg: http://www.thebigquestions.com/2014/11/13/the-rising-sea/

"... the greatest of all modern mathematicians and arguably the greatest mathematician of all time ..."
I won, too. HN could remove all the undeserved downvotes I get ;).
How can you construct something which is larger than the amount of mass in the universe?
They banned Wayback Machine?

Quora, you're making it so difficult to like you.
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Earlier today when I saw this thread I came to post my game that "should have won but didn't", only to see to many other people posting the same. For me it was the "no duplicate columns or rows" rule that I didn't notice. Something about this game is tripping a lot of people up.
The best-engineered technology rarely becomes the most popular. I think git has some huge problems, but now it's ubiquitous. Everyone has at least a basic knowledge of it, and that makes it the best technology. Switching to something else would be a step backward.
On top of what you have stated, every person has a different level of tolerance to burn out. Heavy workaholics can go on for months before succumbing.
Anyone have an idea what's the FB bump in 2013?
I guess it is like hosted Mesos. They provide Masters and API similar to Marathon, and you just have to run slave instances. Looks nice :)
> at the lycée and at the university

For anyone wondering, lycée is high school in French.
"Call me naive but I completely believe sama and yishan."

I believe them as well, the big question for me (still) isn't why yishan left but why reddit needs to be 100% in San Francisco -- not in the sense of SF vs Daly City, but the Bay Area (only) vs. having offices in SLC, New York, etc. I'm sure there are hand-wavy reasons for it like synergy-collaboration-focus-blahdeblah but nobody has yet convinced me that it wasn't just a poor decision (one that seems to clearly have had a large impact in this departure even if yishan and the board agreed on the Bay Area centralization).
A lot of startups would love to see the kind of growth (5x) Reddit achieved under Yishan's stewardship from around 30m to now 175m. That's some achievement imo!

I hope Yishan takes some time off before starting a new professional adventure.
- GitHub doesn't show you what changed in a PR from the last time you looked at it. You can look through the individual commits, but this can be painful if there's a lot of them, and can easily become impossible if the code was merged, rebased, or squashed.

- GitHub sends each comment individually, encouraging "shotgun commenting" instead of a coherent set on the sender side, and leaving the receiver to deal with dozens of individual emails.

- GitHub attaches line comments to the deltas, which makes the comments disappear if the underlying code changes. This makes it easy to "lose" a comment during a review, and forget to check that something was fixed properly. Even if a comment survives, GitHub doesn't track (non-) resolution in any way, so it's still easy to forget to take care of stuff.

- You can't customize things: can't pick your favorite source code font, the wrapping margin, syntax highlighting colors (as it doesn't have syntax highlighting at all), links that open your editor directly on the correct line, etc.

As it happens, https://reviewable.io fixes all these, and has a much lighter-weight integration with GitHub than Gerrit does, not to mention a much friendlier UI. And yeah, it's my own project so I'm obviously biased, but check it out if you're annoyed with GitHub's code reviews but Gerrit/Phabricator are too heavy for your needs.
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