skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea of putting a bunch of normal everyday computer users in front of a Unix system manages to fill me, at the same time, with joy, fear and surrealism (if that is an emotion).

At work, I oversee a network of about 70-90 Windows clients, mostly in the hands of users who are pretty clueless when it comes to computers. Sometimes I cannot help but think what it would be like if all those computers ran a Unix system.

Some aspects of my work would become easier (no more dreaded Patchdays!), but realistically, those dreaded PEBKAC-calls from users asking simple but tedious/annoying questions would turn into torrent that would make my phone melt.

Sigh Still, one cannot help but wonder what the world would be like if either everybody used a Unix system, or if Microsoft hadn't won and we would have a flourishing diversity of operating systems. (I'm not saying the result would be better - I'm just saying I am intensely curious to know but don't want to live in such a world without knowing ahead of time if it would be an improvement on the current situation.)

Maybe next lifetime, maybe in another parallel universe, we'll find out.
Libertatea's score was computed on a very low number of comments so it may contain large errors, pergaps we should remove him/her or show a warning there...
That discussion makes me a little sad for HN. Although 'userbinator has a fantastic comment in there.
I meant the code generator size: it starts at line 448 and ends at 535, so its size is about 86 lines. The rest of the code is taken from original c4 and is not changed.
Not so sure about that, these surgeons are performing the same procedure again and again. And being compared to surgeons who also perform the same procedure.

We don't tend to write the exact same code repeatedly. Or the exact same code as other coders.
Google is heading for the exits in Russia and others are likely to follow
Hey itnom, cob mentioned that tracking contributors to tracks (the credit part of this article) isn't apart of the MVP you guys are building. Would you consider leveraging reputation / on chain graph DB (key graph) to handle tracking this information in a future iteration?

I think this would make the blockchain much more useful for other 3rd parties to plug into and leverage said DB.
Security folk are well aware that low value government agencies are targetted by spies, not for the information they hold, but for possible conduits to higher value agencies (the government is all connected after all).

I think you are right and wrong - right that Norway in itself uninteresting, but wrong that it doesn't present a valuable target for spies. Like you said they are hooked into the EU - what better way to get insight into the machinations of the EU than a government that is probably awash with chatter about sensitive EU matters, but that erects little defences against spying thinking noone could be interested in little old Norway.

I wouldn't be surprised if those cell towers included ones that were run by the US and Russia (maybe China too).
I can't recall the last time I needed a third. Halves, quarters, tenths, hundredths...
In Ruby, I prefer exceptions for most errors because they make the error handling more visible and explicitly defined, but if performance is an issue, returning a value (or setting an error on an ActiveRecord model) is much faster than raising an exception.
Hi. I built a Chrome extension for Hacker News that lets people follow others and get notifications when they are replied to or their karma changes. http://hackbook.club

The ext basically matches my original vision now, so I'm thinking hard about what features to add next, but I'm not quite sure I understand what you're asking for. Are you saying that when the extension says "So and so replied to you", you want, say, a sympathy score shown with that user as well?
Why not a postcard for insecure and envelope for secured? Might be hard to distinguish in small icons and can be confused with email too easily but otherwise the message should go through.

Can't be worse than padlocks with different shades of green as we have today anyway. Does anyone actually understand them? Here on HN i get a gray padlock, on some other site i get a green padlock and on yet another site i get a padlock and a nice fancy badge with the website name in it. Doesn't help that every browser keep changing their looks with regards to this every 6 months also.
This. My mother was worried with all the time I spent in front of the computer. I wasn't always doing educational stuff, but I wouldn't have become the programmer I am today without that (three quarters wasted) screen time. When our household got dial-up, I remember taking some beating (literally) from my father because the programs I was using, Borland C++ and IDA Disassembler, had the interface layout similar to mIRC.
I love the name of this emulator, but unfortunately, an emulator really takes all the
fun out of a NeXT... --namely, you can't light it on fire!

http://simson.net/hacks/cubefire.html
> Okay, but, doesn't it, like, at least double the amount of fuel needed for a launch?

It does reduce payload capacity (30-40%, IIRC) but the expected upside is drastic cost reductions. If I can launch several payloads for the price of one as a result, it becomes well worth it, and if I've got a large payload I can either use the upcoming Falcon Heavy or we'll start doing more in-orbit assembly.
Is there anything in NeXT that didn't get ported to OS X / Objective-C ?
I never limited "screen time." I only took their stuff away or denied them things for very specific problems. So, they learned to stop behaving in a problematic way.

Example: Their dad would take their video games as punishment for something totally unrelated and it bred resentment. I took their video games only if they were fighting about a specific video game and I only took that specific video game and lectured them that they were doing it wrong, games were for having fun and if they were fighting with a loved one over a stupid game, they were totally missing the point. They learned to negotiate and cooperate and not fight.

I also sometimes took their controllers during the day because we homeschooled and "10 minute" breaks would turn into hours of video games and they got nothing done. So, for a time, I locked up the controllers during the day. They were given them back not at any specific time (like 3pm) but once they were done with their school work for the day. So working harder got rewarded.

If there was a problem in specific, I addressed that specific problem. But I never arbitrarily limited anything like "screen time." I have zero understanding of what the point of that is. To my mind, unless you specifically think it harms them developmentally (for example, creating eyesight issues), I just cannot fathom why parents feel some need to be so controlling about this stuff. It just does not compute for me.

They are now 25 and 27 and they are wonderful human beings, imo. I am perfectly happy with the results of my parenting efforts.
So why bother with httpq at all when we have plain http?
True, but then it went worldwide, and nobody kept records any more.
I don't know if anyone else noticed this, but @Tichy ranks first in Emotional range, Fiery, Prone to worry, Melancholy,
Immoderation, Self-consciousness and 2nd in Susceptible to stress. I haven't read any of his/her comments but this makes me wonder how distinctly each of these measurements are calculated. Given another random set of 100 users, would one user come out on top in all of these categories too?
My kids are older: 11 and 9. Here are the rules:

- Tablets can be used for reading at any time

- Schoolwork is a valid reason to use devices

- Music without videos is not "screen time".

- anything else is "screen time".

- Screen time does not exist on Monday through Thursday. (This was originally "from school end until all homework is done", but it turns out that their behavior is significantly worse when we allow that.)

- Screen time is never available after dinner, unless a parent is actively involved. (Drastically improves their ability to go to bed on time.)

- On weekends, one day is as much screen time as you want until dinner time. The other day may or may not have some screen time depending on behavior. If you find something better to do, you can't claim a refund.

There hasn't been a live TV feed in our house since before they were born; commercials are fascinating to them. I frequently have to tell them to put down a book while they do something else, because otherwise they will try to perform the task one-handed while reading.
I was about to quote the same paragraph. It is the one thing in this text that is truly timeless.
Why would such a developer want to partner with you?
Is this the same Hayek who defended transitional dictatorship, and believed that the Pinochet government was a good example of the sort of dictatorship that would likely lead to a liberal government?
This is hilarious!

I'm ranked first in:

Cheerfulness (Before or after morning coffee?)
Orderliness (Because of my 3rd normal form sock drawer?)
Gregariousness (Before of after my 3rd beer?)
Agreeableness (I disagree! Watson needs debugging.)

I'm ranked dead last in:

Imagination (No one I know could imagine how this could be.)
Authority-challenging (My teachers & bosses would disagree.)
Intellect (Before or after my mother dropped me on my head?)
Composing Transducers in Clojure
No, your face is a mashed potatoes.
Re: reading level: do give the Simple English Wikipedia a try!
Check out luvit:

https://luvit.io/

Learn a little Lua along the way. Really great stuff!
You're advocating for air launch, not drones - the Falcon 9 / Dragon is already an unmanned drone craft.

It has been successfully tried - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_%28rocket%29 - but my understanding is payloads are pretty severely limited. You can see the size of the Pegasus launcher is much, much smaller than a Falcon 9 - it's certainly not going to work for SLS/Falcon Heavy/MCT-sized payloads.

edit: For ground-launch with jets as the first stage, I really don't think that's going to work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrust-to-weight_ratio#Jet_and_... indicates the SR-71's engine had a thrust-to-weight ratio of 5.2. SpaceX's Merlin has a thrust-to-weight of 150. There might be room for improvement, but 30-fold? I doubt it.
The comparison was books vs. tech, not books vs. reality.
Moving to a different part of the country doesn't necessarily change as much as you think (and I thought it would change everything).
> Grand juries are a safeguard for the accused. Do they work in practice? No. But eliminating them concedes the problem to the prosecution entirely.

No, it doesn't, because eliminating grand juries does not eliminate the gate to a full trial; criminal cases in which that function is not served by the one-sided, prosecution-controlled grand jury process in which the target is not entitled to have representation, cross-examine witnesses or challenge evidence, present evidence, or even be informed that the process is taking place have the function served instead by a preliminary hearing in which the defendant is entitled to all of those things.

The grand jury indictment as an alternative to the preliminary hearing otherwise used is not a safeguard for the accused, it is a means by which the society at large (represented by the grand jury selected from among them rather than the judge handling a preliminary hearing) that the actions of the prosecutor in response to serious crimes are well-directed, it trades away protection of the accused for protection of societal interest in oversight of the executive branch by the public.

> You're not the first person I've seen suggest this, and I'm baffled by the logic.

You seem to think that the alternative to the grand jury is no procedural gateway between accusation and trial, which is not the case. Its understandable that, under that misapprehension, the idea that removing the grand jury would lessen the power of prosecutors would be baffling, because it misses the alternative that actually exists and is, in fact, used for those cases where grand jury indictment is not.
> She's not yet able to comfortably read at the level of Wikipedia

May I recommend http://simple.wikipedia.org? It's obviously not nearly as expansive as the standard English version, but it's a great option for EFL adults or younger kids.
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SoundCloud is certainly not intended to be an iTunes replacement. Other than playlists it doesn't have any library management features and an import from traditional apps for that use case doesn't make any sense to me.
kind of video tl;dr: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4NRJoCNHIs
I include bower_components/ in .gitignore and use grunt-bowercopy[0] to move the files you actually want from bower_components/ to public/{js,css} or wherever. Files get committed once they're in public/ and I only re-run the grunt task when I want to upgrade a lib. I can understand people thinking this is overkill for a small project, but when you have dozens of libraries it's nice to have dependencies and their versions clearly defined.

[0]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/grunt-bowercopy
So, you should be able to provide an example of an NSA thread on HN where a sockpuppet diverted the conversation to infighting between people otherwise sharing common ground.

I don't think standards groups need a lot of help concern-trolling complexity into standards. The exact same force is exerted on more benign standards; watch HTML for example.

Here's a rebuttal framework: select a NIST crypto standard and show an example of needless complexity and the discussion that led to it. I'll reply with an HTML working group thread that demonstrates the same thing. I'm pretty sure I'll win that contest, but we could try a few rounds just to see. How about we just do one?
Werner von Braun originally wanted to use reusable boosters about the size of Space-X's Falcon, launch huge numbers of them, and build a big space station. See his 1952 book, "The Mars Project". (That was written before we found out that Mars barely has an atmosphere.)
I am personally very sympathetic to concerns about the efficiency of overflow checking. There has been some discussion of this on the riscv-hw mailing list, e.g. https://lists.riscv.org/lists/arc/hw-dev/2014-09/msg00007.ht.... The current position of the Berkeley team is that overflow checking just adds a single rarely taken branch, which can easily be predicted. If new data is produced (such as evaluating a wider range of instruction traces, e.g. those from programs not in C), there may well be an argument to be made for new instruction set additions. There is a plan for some sort of RISC-V consortium with representation from all major implementors, though this is will take a while to develop. I imagine we'll be discussing this at the RISC-V Workshop 14th-15th Jan in CA http://riscv.org/workshop/
Intellect (Before or after my mother dropped me on my head?)

In other words, you are ranked 148th out of like 100k really smart people.

So, maybe quitcherbitchin? :-)
This could make a good movie plot. The all powerful AI analyses your characteristics, gets it all wrong and assigns you to the wrong line of work (Harry Potter?) :)
"some dead white scientist"

You do realize Einstein was a Jew who was forced to leave Germany because of Nazism, right?
Banning is a poor substitute for discretion.
Yes I am. I don't think they are a useful way to think about the world.

One model in isolation can appear compelling, as some other posts in this thread indicate. But you can't view them in isolation, because all the model shows is that a simulation with certain properties exists. The problem is that:

1. There are a huge number of ways to model the same process. There are many details of the model that could be changed or tweaked, each giving different results. This is a bigger problem for agent based simulations than traditional game-theoretic/economic models (although it's a pretty big problem in both cases).

2. Even if you know that your model is the "right" one for the process you're interesting, in the real world all kinds of processes are interlinked. E.g. racial segregation is highly linked with Southern vs Northern, rural vs urban and wealthy vs poor. It's possible that there things swamp the process that the simulation is modeling. Even if they don't they can make the data so messy that it's impossible to test the model empirically (not that there was any attempt in this case).
I wonder if you can have a favorite e-book the same way you can have a favorite physical book? My favorite books I read multiple times, they have become worse for wear, I know every wrinkle I made while reading it, and, while reading it, it just feels right in my hands. I don't have that with e-books. Yes, the content is the same, but I am less able to form an attachment to a virtual copy than I am to a physical copy. Somehow, the holistic experience of reading a physical book versus reading an e-book on a e-book reader is different, although the actual content in both manifestations is the same. Maybe I am old-fashioned, but books and series I care about more, I still get physical copies. For my light reading, however, I'm fine with e-books.
Almost all of those have genuine ambiguity. The context and overall intent matters.

Say a fairly rational and reasonable contributor goes silent. They are likely just not willing to invest the time.

Say a troll drops a bomb, disturbs the convo, goes silent, and does this regularly?

The first scenario is just ordinary human dialog. The second one is a dodge.
I can recommend the book 'A Course in Game Theory' by Ariel Rubinstein and Martin J. Osborne . You'll probably need some mathematical and economic background knowledge to gain the most out of it. Note that it is more abstract than illustrative though it is aimed at a beginner in Game Theory.

The book ist free to download after a simple registration at http://arielrubinstein.tau.ac.il/books.html
By writing incorrect recursion? Or in some other way?
I'm a mom to an 8 yr old and a 4 yr old. My initial challenge was similar - managing screen time, but I was also concerned about the content of some of the videos. Enabling safe search was not adequate.

To solve this problem for myself, I built an HTML5 Youtube player app which allows parents to set daily time quotas and flag inappropriate videos. I've replaced YouTube with this app on our iPad. The kids don't exceed the quotas that I've set often, but its useful to have a history of how much they've been watching and what they've been watching. I did flag some music videos that were inappropriate. The kids seem to like the fact that they have their own profiles.

The app is still work in progress, but if you are interested , take a look at http://www.olipie.com/. Any feedback or suggestions are most welcome.
> I'm having a hard time understanding how this could be. How could attempting to meet a list of security requirements result in less security than doing nothing?

IME, people given a list of "X requirements" often assume that the appropriate experts have addressed subdomain X and that it is no longer necessary (or even appropriate) to expend further attention on that subdomain beyond meeting those requirements. Thus a standard security checklist that isn't well tailored to a particular project may decrease the quality of the result for that project, because the people on the project are less likely to consider security in the context of the particular project, and instead inspect efforts in crossing boxes off the checklist.
The Intel bible volume 3 is the definitive source but it can be somewhat confusing to interpret. http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/architectu...
Sounds more like Divergent. Gah, can't believe I know that.
Previous discussions about why not to discuss current issues in politics in HN have included the conclusions a) they are off topic and b) usually result in low quality discussion, sadly.
This reminds me of the Encyclopedia of Science and Technology series. Excellent series for young minds.
In Chrome: 1Password, AdBlock, a Gmail checker, a cookie editor, FlashBlock, Ghostery, Hacker News Enhancement Suite, Imagus, Reddit Enhancement Suite, Stylish.

Once I'd installed the corresponding Firefox add-ons, the UI became too unresponsive too often for me to put up with it.
That's odd, because the UK experience is that while there's some superficial liberalisation, services stop improving after a while, contempt for customers becomes endemic, a new managerial/rentier class appears to squat on the new economic opportunities, and prices invariably skyrocket.

Privatised utilities? Yep. Energy price inflation has made a huge contribution to keeping the economy stagnant since 2008. Supposedly this is because wholesale prices have increased. But the industry has - for example - closed 'uneconomic' winter gas storage, which now guarantees that the UK has less than a third of the winter reserves of more sensible countries, which makes it more vulnerable to increases in cold weather spot pricing.

Privatised rail? Totally - with the added insult that state subsidies are higher than they were during the days when rail was nationalised, and adjusted ticket prices were less than 10% of what they are now.

Privatised dentistry? Yep. There are ragged remnants of NHS dental care in many places, but it's often impossible for anyone who isn't earning good middle class money to get any dental care at all.

Privatised universities? With a new business-driven ethic, quality and independence of research is disappearing, fees are waiting to explode, students are treated entirely as a cash crop.

Privatised property ownership? Destroying the UK's stock of council-owned rentable property has put average house prices far beyond the reach of anyone on average earnings.

Privatised communications? The US and UK and telecom sectors are legendary for miserably slow broadband roll-out outside of headlining urban areas. The mobile phone service barely works, even in cities. But customers are locked into 18 month contracts, even in areas with little or no signal quality. Broadband has stalled in 'non-economic areas'. Because no one wants to use broadband outside cities.

Airlines? Considering O'Leary's reputation, I'm not sure mentioning Ryanair is really helping your case.

Not only is privatisation irrationally wasteful, it also generates inevitable economic opportunity costs in the form of low wages, zero-hours contracts, and debt instability.

So it's nice that you get mail on Sundays. Most of the UK still doesn't and never will. And when postal prices start creeping up and services are cut the odds of further service improvement are somewhere between none and zero.
Use the phrase "add value" for this. Calling for people to add value requires them to make material, original contributions to a dialog, not just quote, cut, paste and link.

Link dropping is the worst. People won't actually express themselves. They will just collect information and drop it into a dialog like a trump, or battle card, rendering the whole thing a mess.

A call to add value helps push back on garbage like this.

As for "Google it", that cuts both ways. It can be valid for a person to cite the burden of proof as being yours. If you are pushing something not peer-reviewed and logically sound, supporting what you say needs to be the dominant norm. More work for you, but if you establish that norm, it also means the clowns, asses, dullards, zealots, etc... will have a much harder time establishing overall group credence.

Not as simple as it seems, is it?
See extensive discussion from about a year ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7107173
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