skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in the process of migrating from svbtle to Ghost (https://ghost.org/), which is free if you can install it on your own web server.

I stuck with svbtle for a while because of the free early membership and custom domains. I still think the platform is good for editing – at its core it was a super simple way to publish posts in markdown (I was using jekyll before), but I was also turned off by kudos and the network. I would prefer to not use Medium for similar reasons.
I entirely agree with you.

Naming the post "Comparison to Redis" and adding some paragraphs about this is a bit glory hunting, because having two buzzwords in the title is better than one :)

Basically it's just Memcached internals discussion and improvements suggestion.
That isn't necessarily pay, it's bill rate for offshore partners. I have no idea what their overheads are and how much trickles down to their programmer's pockets.
I understand your hope for comments to be constructive, and if you would like to have a discussion about the negatives of Node, it seems like that might be better on an article actually discussing that (though I will include them in this post to sate your curiosity :P). Additionally, I did not wish to start a flamewar (which always happens when you get into a discussion about the relative merits of a language on the internet).

My reservations about Node stem from this kind of app actually; the creation of a tool that goes far beyond the realistic and sensible use-case for Node.

That is, the huge benefit that Node offers is the ability to have both server- and client-side scripting in the same language; that's awesome. However, it's a fairly common bit of knowledge that JS is less than ideal for a wide variety of reasons (e.g., no integers, breaking the commutative property, etc.). While it may be a great alternative to PHP, it's still not that great of a language. So, to go beyond the notion of just using it to unify the language for webapps and to start creating userland applications on such a platform seems very counterproductive to me.

In this case, I am especially taken by the fact that this author has made three or four projects which all do similar things but for different use-cases. If this project were made into, for example, a C library, all of the derivative projects could just source that library and be simpler for it. Not to mention the fact that other projects could interface with it as well.

Despite C's reputation as being rather hard to make portable code, a public API with a C library actually makes it incredibly portable and extensible.

Again, I am completely okay with Node (I don't crusade against its existence), it just saddens me to see such cool projects be based on such a platform when there are obvious benefits to using something closer to the metal.
The corollary of the "nothing to hide" argument is that many will see this as a list of people with "stuff to hide", rather than a list of outraged citizens.
Nice, lol
US Drone Rules Affect Amazon PrimeAir Plans
Yes, it's wrong on so many levels, one of the biggest ones being the social and media response. It doesn't have the ability for nuanced discussion by nature. That system needs fixing, but it may not be possible.

> They might be very smart, but they arrived at objectively wrong conclusions.

In many, many cases, we call that science. Extremely intelligent people are allowed to be wrong for many, many years, and continue searching in the cracks and crevices for the truth—as long as they're wearing a white lab coat.

Of course I realize this is reducto ad absurdum—the general public is not qualified to be making such judgements. But systemically, one of the things that prevents people from making binary judgements about the world is to prevent making binary judgements about them.

And that starts with all of our responses, not just the media. I'm convinced that these anti-scientific (as in, people who disagree with the scientific consensus) people are more influenced by the response of their close social circles in the context of social media than by the oft untrusted old media. It is the responses of hatred from people they do trust that drive them further into their hole.

If we want these people—often your friends and family—to learn nuance and probability and tradeoffs and the ability to think in grayscale rather than black and white, then we need to teach them directly using our responses. We need to lead by example, and that begins with not calling them "stupidly wrong i.e. really really wrong"—even if they are. Often they already are thinking in grays: they have doubt where everyone else has an absolute!

Lots of people have been stupidly, really, really wrong in history. Some of them changed the world. That's not likely in these cases, but it is the perspective that will make an argument rhetorically effective. And in the process, we may discover the small nuanced ways in which they were actually right—that's the beauty of the scientific process, and that's the reason people fight against the black and white. They have more to offer than you realize; and especially more to offer than the label "stupidly wrong" would have you believe.

For perspective, I'm almost sorry to admit it, but my mother is a vaccine... 'doubter.' She is a scientist, a biologist, extremely intelligent. She has a nuanced understanding and soaks up data like a sponge, references studies in her sleep and connects more dots than a first grade class. It's less clear-cut than you might think, and not all vaccines are equal. People like her are fighting against the absolute mentality of the mob and how the issue is thought about in public discourse—not the end result like you might think they are. They're not stupid, they're just living in an extremely complex ecosystem without a guiding light to bring it all together in the right direction. Show them that, instead of pitchforks.
You are way off. I would estimate $100-200k for 4 years for someone with around 4 years experience when they join. This is based on some quick googling, glassdoor, quora and knowing that 600k+ stock for 4 years at established company for relatively junior positions doesn't make economic sense.

Acquihires and very rare skill holders or more senior roles? Higher -- if your friends of either of these, then maybe.
wherein the simulated minds might experience suffering

you are creating new lives that are capable of experiencing suffering, and who inevitably will at times

Hence my statement: if you had reason to believe there was a sufficient likelihood of a sufficiently negative outcome.
My favorite Culture story is actually fanfic - "Culture explores Warhammer 20k universe".
There's a marked difference between "drinking" and "being drunk". It's perfectly acceptable where I work to "have a beer", but I would fully expect to be, at least, reprimanded for anything more than that.

EDIT: It's a context thing. If I was in the middle of a difficult problem and wanted a little "mental lubricant", I don't think anyone would question it. Drinking for no reason, or when being even slightly tipsy could affect performance, makes for perfect grounds for punishment.

I understand the professionalism argument, but we're all adults here. If having a drink completely obliterates your sensitivities, you didn't have very many in the first place.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9052919
The HBP plan does include simulating the mouse brain as an intermediate objective.
I used Pygments to power the syntax colouring of ulisse (https://github.com/JulianBirch/ulisse) a Clojure documentation generator (specifically, a codox writer).

Here's some example output: http://julianbirch.github.io/arianna/arianna.html
> Two Sundays ago, a woman flirted with my friend and got him to buy her a drink. She was uninterested in him, merely thirsty.

Flirting is flirting, and doesn't necessarily imply intent to go any further. Some people enjoy flirting and find it fun in itself. You and your friend are likely in the wrong for expecting it to go any further.

> If unexpected and unwanted physical contact is the dividing line, that same day a different woman kissed me without my permission. Should I publicly name and shame her?

"Unwanted kissing" is sexual assault under most definitions (including many legal ones). I wouldn't see an issue with publicly naming this woman. It's your choice, though, and strongly depends on what you feel about it.
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>Instead, we should encourage that type of thinking—and guide it. Yes! You're right! We're not 100% certain. But here's why that's okay. Thank you for doubting. Thank you for recognizing uncertainty in the face of complexity. Thank you for being complete in your understanding, because here's all the data. Thank you for trusting us—let's keep working together.

Uncertainty, yes, but not radical uncertainty, in which we begin to doubt that we exist or the sky is blue, nor infinite uncertainty, in which we always invent new reasons to disbelieve whenever presented with evidence.

Correct reasoning is about finite uncertainty, which can be moved towards yes-certainty or no-certainty by evidence.
This is a very slanted piece. Read the original Trac ticket [1] instead. Arciszewski's original patch wasn't merged because it was overly broad, lacked unit tests, and had whitespace problems. He also started emailing one of the lead developers directly [2] instead of the security team, then got up in arms about lack of response.

[1] https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/28633

[2] https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/28633#comment:25
> Technology provides leverage on ability and luck, and in the process concentrates wealth and drives inequality. I think that drastic wealth inequality is likely to be one of the biggest social problems of the next 20 years. [2] We can—and we will—redistribute wealth, but it still doesn’t solve the real problem of people needing something fulfilling to do.

What's the best case realistic scenario for redistributing wealth?
Neat trick, but still an example of Greenspan's 10th ("Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.").

The Common Lisp condition system (http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/beyond-exception-handling-co...) is worth understanding, even if you're developing in other languages. It's an elegant example of how to manipulate the call stack. Unfortunately, it's hard to implement in most other languages.
Note that these are commercial drone rules. Hobbyists are still largely exempt.

Overall, they are less strict on what you can do with a drone than I expected. The only really tough one is that you must be within line of site of the drone. I've had some ideas that would not fit in that box. Also, you can not fly over people not involved in the flight. I know that will be a point of consternation for a lot of people, but I'm happy about that one.

The operator licensing requirements seem a bit onerous. What the hell does the TSA have to do with it? "Licensed drone operator" is effectively now a thing. This is definitely written from the perspective that they expect drones to be remote controlled vehicles on steroids, not autonomous computer controlled machines. How do I get my algorithm FAA certified for flight?
how do i get shadow unbanned?
This is a very astute comment, with a recognition not many people have.

The trust chain is extremely important here, and yes, it's breaking down.

That's the reason for people uncertain about vaccines: they're attempting to find something to trust in a truly complex ecosystem of information that's more available and more difficult to parse than ever.

We're teetering on the balance of the above perspective, trusting without information or understanding—and the opposite, just on the other side of the truth, distrusting without information or understanding. Is either truly more or less valid from an individual viewpoint?

And is it any wonder we're in this situation? What is the institution that would uphold this trust? Do we need a new one, and what would it be?
While I generally appreciate the way you think, the problem is likely that different people evaluate the expected value function of this project wildly differently - for perfectly legitimate reasons. The path to resolve this kind of conflict is not straightforward; barring some additional (and accepted) scientific insight, the matter is resolved politically.
Moin atudute,

you have !NOTHING! to show, at least not to me from the viewpoint of a search engine author. You show an empty page without JavaScript.

ok ... lets be a nice human and allow scripts. Allowing nomadhouse.io: still blank page. Google maps sounds interesting, when looking at the 3rd party scripting domains. But still a blank page. Mixpanel, Segment, Addthis, ... hey ... how many evil 3rd party tracking scripts does this site run? And still a blank page.

Finally: Stripe w-hat ... I need to enable scripting of a payment provider to view the page?

Where are the google maps, I hoped to see with maps.bigbrotherapis? Or are they also only include to add an other tracking?

Clicking on Berlin, I get a popup asking for registering a user. So you basically have a big expensive, complicated landing page, with a lot of tracking, but search engine blocking, that does nothing but asking for my mail address.

sorry ... no bounty. I'm harsh now, but your site fails completely, even if the service might be interesting. You might get a good peak now with postings on HN, but ensure your site is accessible without JS for search engines. You have only a few days time, that good links might result in a good SEO. Change your site asap.
Banks handle orders of magnitude more transactions and also offer many services beyond the basic Bitcoin network. Thats a dishonest comparison.
Not sure if you're asking sama about his opinion or if you want others to chime in. A popular answer among the HN crowd that I tend to agree with is to tax the wealthy and distribute the proceeds to the poor via a "basic income" scheme.
I think the headline message of this article is important - "drastic wealth inequality is likely to be one of the biggest social problems of the next 20 years"

But I think the article really lost a lot of its punch with non sequiturs like "If we can synthesize drugs, we ought to be able to synthesize vaccines".....
Every modern distrubuted database / IMDG does this
I'm not quite sure how a professional association (which typically has little or no bargaining power with employers) or a labor union (which as a primary or secondary effect, makes it harder to fire people, even shit people) would have helped here.
I was doing good until he tore his fingernail off. Yuck!

Is that something that really happens?
"He's dead, Jim!"
Ah, I see. A bit annoying when using more than one user.email across projects. But git-cal works okay :)

Thanks for the info.
What do you get when you mix a) the last vestiges of a well-meaning but stubborn rear-guard action to keep pot criminalized (NIHR), b) a psychology department in need of grant money (King's Cross College), and c) a media property in need of clicks (BBC)? You get a study[1] that makes weak claims ("people who take powerful drugs every day are more likely to experience psychosis") which gets sensationalized and used as link bait.

I'd write to the author but the piece doesn't have a byline. Whenever you get to use the word "psychosis" in the title of a piece, you should get some sort of prize.

[1] http://www.thelancet.com/pb/assets/raw/Lancet/pdfs/14TLP0454...
When the best example you can come up with of someone being railroaded by outrage is this guy:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/rw50uko2nl5aoj2/Screenshot%202015-... --- which, seriously, is actually the last example you provided of someone getting railroaded by outrage ---

... I think it's fair to call shenanigans on the idea that we're in a "moral panic".

Of course, your comment wasn't germane to mine, either; it was an attempt to change the subject. The comment to which you responded doesn't even engage gender --- it doesn't even mention it. It's a smokescreen, which you're throwing up as another attempt to discredit the story.
Sure; I suppose it comes down to your definition of "broken". I would consider inconsistent results broken and, as you say, a thorough analysis should be performed to assess the impact.

I was thinking more along the lines of "I don't like this code, let's refactor". That can be dangerous.
It's a desolate suburban wasteland of freeways and strip malls, utterly lacking in character, history and any real sense of geography.

Although I will grant you that once you get up into the hills it's really rather nice.
More or less. That sounds like it's giving me too much credit. I wouldn't say I have two estimates so much as one intuition - but that's what my intuition corresponds to, yes. If I made those estimates, I would expect to have a higher estimate for project B than project A.

(But I should note that I deliberately chose projects where it seemed obvious which one was better, so that I didn't need to do any calculations or even think very hard about which one to prefer. In reality, sometimes it's not obvious, and you should think hard and do calculations and it still might not be obvious, and the specific project being discussed is probably one of those cases.)
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I may have "nothing to hide" but I sometimes send and receive sensitive information I wouldn't want leaked by an incompetent/malicious intelligence agent or hacked from their databases by a third party.
Why not Aleppo? Excluding the older camps?
Good stuff atu!
Why Americans still use Fahrenheit long after everyone else switched to Celsius
I'm not sure, but the first article is from January 2015. I think that Google need one or two months to find your site.

Clicky: http://nami.me
My hypothesis is that working in small companies (or startups) like Fog Creek where the goal of the founder is to be sort of "be happy and make some money at the same time" is going to be a far better experience than the typical company whose goal is "Let's acquire users so that there is potential to display ads which means that I get funding or get acquired". Of course I have no data to back that up.
That's possibly the most relieved I've ever been at finding out an article used a misleading headline. This would be, from my perspective, like EA buying Valve. To address his arguments individually:

1. Too broad a category; so do an awful lot of other companies. Besides, Apple doesn't do their own manufacturing.

2. Again, this is also true of tons of other companies.

3. Reasonable, but no trendy company will admit the opposite.

4. Doesn't support the conclusion.

5. This is true, and the direction Tesla takes their centre console will be interesting - I'm hoping they don't try to compete with an already fairly saturated market of app stores.

6. That's precisely the model Tesla is trying to disrupt. Neither a Tesla owner nor (hopefully) an Apple user should be willing to spend $150 on an app.

7. And I can afford a pogo stick, that's pretty poor evidence that I'm going to buy one.

8. Same goes for any store and any cool product.

9. Tesla could also achieve this without Apple.

10. True, but it doesn't really support the conclusion.

11. Again, true, but can afford =/= will buy.

12. Tesla seems to be doing just fine with designing, and I'm not sure there's a whole lot of similarity between shipping phones globally and shipping cars globally.

13. Conclusion doesn't follow from this.

14. This is true, but it follows more from driverless cars than electric cars. Right now, Tesla isn't leading research into driverless, Google is.

15. And?

16. I'm not sure that's how acquisitions work - correct me if I'm wrong, but suggesting that Musk could become CEO of Apple after they acquired it seems unrealistic at best.

17. Both are big companies with crossover in fields, I'm not sure that number is even statisically significant.

18. Incredibly subjective. Tesla's superiority in the EV world is far more clear-cut than Apple's in the tech world.

19. Not an argument.

My prediction is that this is hot air; my hope is that Musk would laugh if Apple made an offer.
This is not a way to change the industry or the world, and shows a lot of the courage she has (which is nothing).

There should be zero tolerance for these kind of things if we actually care about them, but see how she pretty much protects this person just because he has money.

You guys (people in power) make me sick.
Which do you think is a better choice for funding, and why?

In support of project A: fibromyalgia, which has arthritic-type symptoms, is partly linked to anxiety, of which one of the common manifestation is nail-biting. Could evidence of nail-biting be a useful tool as part of differential diagnosis, or a predictor?

In support of project B: the idea of a 'cognitive reserve' in preventing the onset of Alzheimer's disease is fairly well established, even though it has no disease-modifying therapy once the symptoms of decline are already apparent. To what extent can learning a programming language aid that cognitive reserve?

I see your point though, but I'm not sure how well it applies to funding large-scale data collection work like the HGP. Or the LHC, to use an example in another field.
Supply vs demand. The supply of engineers wanting to work at small startup companies is huge, while larger companies will always dwarf the startups in demand. So yes, you're paying a premium in your salary for the opportunity to work at a startup.
I'm not really sure why hugs would be given at an investor/pitching session, so maybe this is kinda moot, but I've certainly given a couple of half-hearted one armed hugs which turned into sideboob grazing and I definitely wasn't trying to feel the other person up. It's kind of like when you go to shake another person's hand and they grab your fingers instead of your palm and then it becomes a totally awkward handshake because you didn't get your hand in there far enough.

Anyway, I have no idea if this was the case, but you probably don't want to pillory someone unless you're absolutely sure the guy is a complete d-nozzle.
Frankly, the people who want to live in a place like this will figure out how to work the site. Maybe it's better that way.
You believe hayflick applies to multi-cellular organisms. ... Just stop. Go handle your issues with death elsewhere.

Here is the forum for those choosing to fight such beasts. Please come back when you've reworked your psychological underpinnings.
Scott gets very little press -- mostly when he picks up support for games after the publisher or matchmaking service abandons one.

I used to live in Perth and we'd sometimes hang out and mock the front page of HN.

http://www.gameranger.com/about/
"J. J. Abrams, the filmmaker and showrunner, is a friend of Ive’s, but he could not attend the September launch, because he was shooting “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” in London. He later told me that Ive had shared some of the company’s news in advance, and that they had discussed “the fact that we were both working on things that had a level of expectation and anticipation that was preposterous."

Am I the only one that thought that sounds a lot like you just gave away material, non-public info to someone who could have easily acted on it? Probably nothing beyond what was in the rumor bin, but still.
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If you choose your framework based on a logo, you're gonna have a bad time