skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you understand the concept of centralization if you think that when someone else stores x, then x cannot be decentralized...

:-/

Check out this image:

http://cffn.ca/img/articles/Centralized-Decentralized-And-Di...

Bitcoin is both distributed and decentralized. In a world with 100 people, you can say that a system is sufficiently 'decentralized' if 10 of the people ran nodes, independent of eachother, where if any of the nodes lied or crashed the system would continue to work, and where few or no nodes collude with each other. It doesn't require every single one of the 100 people to hold the blockchain.

Bitcoin nodes is a bit like peer review of a dozen academics keeping each other in check, only it's based on math and cryptography and proof of work. The proof of work ensures it's not possible to lie to other nodes without expending lots of money on mining and risking not getting any reward in return when your blocks are rejected. And even if you lie, nodes can't send money they don't earn due to the public-key cryptography. And instead there are hundreds or even thousands of such nodes and miners, and we call that decentralized.

In other words you can run a decentralized system with thousands of copies of all transactions, as opposed to all 7 billion people needing to store a copy and relay every transaction to everyone else.

Beyond that, not all transactions need to even be stored by the nodes that are needed. If you sent me a dollar in 1990 and I spent that dollar, and whoever received it from me spent it and so on tens of thousands of times now in the past 25 years, then there's absolutely no practical reason for me to store the data on our transaction in 1990. It can be pruned. And so can all the transactions between 1990 and 2014, and most transactions in 2015 of that particular dollar, except the last recent few.

Concerning security of the blockchain the vast majority (an ever growing number) of transaction data can be safely thrown away.

Some research universities and businesses might save that data for posterity/research/datamining, but for the network to operate, to function, you can prune something like 99% of the data.
Maybe it's the users' fault for relying so much on client-server architectures. There are some initiatives for P2P/F2F social networks but they need help.
In STM the backtracking is a bit different. It has a single backtracking point and usually it is implemented by killing the thread and restarting it anew. That is because doing IO actions is really unsafe under STM. Really it is not implemented in Haskell but in C, at least the last time that I looked at it).

This backtracking is different since it permits different backtracking points. It is possible to implement a more "civilized" version of the STM semantics this way, with more respect for IO actions.
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Would this be better titled "Attention Grabbing Headlines Considered Harmful" ?

</snark>

I understand that on a website you want to keep people clicking through and viewing ads, but I wouldn't mind if I could get articles condensed to a dry, informative, twitter size bite. (Edit: After browsing local news and national news, I seem to have the wrong mental idea about _most_ headlines. Double or triple the length of something like "Investigators find 32,000 emails in IRS probe" and I'll be even more satisfied.)
This only appears to be working for me (Windows) if the file has been opened once via the Media -> Open File menu. Opening a file by double clicking means that it doesn't appear, unless it has already been opened once with the menu.
Here an old IRC addict :)

/me also was the developer of XDCC http://xa.bi/files/irc/xdcc.3.3.0b.irc

Good old times!
Oh, thanks. I guess something on the page changes the URL in the address bar after the page loads.
How often do buildings get to look like what the architects envision? I feel there is an often a disconnect similar to how many cars are initially designed to look futuristic and sleek, but later end up looking quite ordinary.
>but it's a well known phenomena

I'm a bit dubious when the top google link of this well known phenomenon is an urban dictionary definition.
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This article falls for one of my major designer pet peeves: using heading tags as style tags.

Having a fixed relative ratio of font sizes for h1-h6 makes no sense because heading tags (as all html) are structure, not style. They are used to indicate the relative importance of heading text within a page and/or section, and should have a semantic css class appropriate to their role applied.

Depending on how a page is structured, a h2 may be a section heading, or an article heading, or a page sub-heading, or many other things, and each of those roles may call for very different styling relative to a h1 page heading.
I agree with the extreme risk-taking part 100%. VCs (and that's a bit of a misnomer, since real Venture Capital funds typically don't get involved until the $100MM level or so) don't care about your business in particular, they depend upon a ~10% hit rate in their portfolio of at least 10X returns.

That means they will push the executive team to take huge risks for the tiny chance of becoming a billion dollar unicorn, possibly destroying any chance of the business surviving at a more modest level. They don't want $10 million/year businesses and would rather see them go under ("aqui-fail") and move on to the next thing.
> I'm pretty sure the idea behind publishing this free book was gathering leads and potential customer-data for future marketing.

This is exactly why the direct link should be shared. I'd bet that most HN users aren't interested in "future marketing."
A lot of is to work around the limitations imposed - like not negatively impacting the habitat of burrowing owls. So it may just be a really weird solution for a series of really weird problems.
Ah! In some situations it is possible at the cost of a degraded user experience.

Let's say we have an experiment that encourages sending likes. There are two users here, the user sending the like and the user receiving the like. A traditional a/b test flips a coin. If the coin turns up heads, then the user receives the treatment. To control viral spread we want to flip a coin on the interaction of the like. To implement with a traditional experiment framework flip two coins, one for the user who could send the like and one for the user who could receive the like. If both coins turn up heads, then the interaction of the like receives the treatment.

A benefit is it allows us to test 2 hypothesis:

* Sending more likes is good for users

* Receiving more likes is good for users

However, the cost is an inconsistent user experience. If each coin is a 50-50 coin, then for a user sending the likes a random half of their network will be featured. Similarly for the user receiving likes, they may not understand why the sudden upturn in likes from some people when they may feel closer to others in their network.
What I doubt is not relevant. You claimed that the speech had " ... very little in solid critiques, but instead weighs to emotions", but provided no support for this statement at all.

That is, after all, precisely what unsubstantiated means.

Which is why I commented at all, being tired of commentary that simultaneously complains about either the low quality of current comments, or the impossibility of high quality comments --- while at the same time providing negative value itself.

Your approach is a variant of the tired formula "The post is [stupid/terrible/useless/...]. I am obviously [more knowledgeable/smarter than you/right/...]. Anyone who would disagree is clearly [an idiot/partisan/lazy/...], and I fully expect to see them come out in droves now".

This risible style does far more to lower the tone than any linked article I've ever seen here.
I'm reminded of the San Francisco Federal Building. It was designed with many of the same goals to "bridge the indoors and outdoors" and do away with traditional concepts in favor of being green and environmental.

It won many design awards, but later required massive retrofits to install traditional HVAC and ultimately was a complete failure.
Leonard Nimoy's final tweet
Thanks for that link. Fun memories.
Thanks. My brain saw the 'L' and thought "Leonard" then it got confused and ushered my eyes along to other words.
Most of these comments and similar above sound great on HN, but terrible ideas when you are actually operating a business which is trying to make money. You drop your unprofitable services and move those resources to other areas of your business which will make you money. Google gets heat and does this all the time, and they do it for smart business reasons.
There absolutely is more to life than banging out code, but I believe (and correct me if you think I'm wrong) part of what you're experiencing isn't so much disillusionment with programming per se, but rather programming culture.

Programming is a tool. It's a versatile tool, but it's a tool nonetheless. Part of what can happen in a technology-focused culture like ours is that we can become more absorbed thinking about the tools we use than what we use them for. Imagine we were builders, spending our time focused on perfecting the mixing of cement rather than constructing the Taj Mahal.

The point is, improving the tools is interesting to some but isn't exciting for everybody, think instead about what you want to do with your tools that you'd find more stimulating/worthwhile.

Also, "when all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail". Programming isn't always going to be the best tool, so look for what you want to do, then look at whether your existing skillset can be complimentary.

Hope that helps.
Mountain View (all of Silicon Valley, really) has the bad habit of approving anything that brings in new jobs while simultaneously rejected housing commensurate to the number of jobs added. Many of the residents of the valley want their cities to remain de facto suburbs (designed for cars). Throw in prop 13, a substantial number of well paid transplants, and you have a recipe for the extreme cost of living in the Bay.
8 Reasons Why Attention Grabbing Headlines are Ruining Society... and Why We Need Them More Than Ever
Their whole user built data was 1TB ? 50$ worth of hard drive .. sad.
Fantastic, I've been really interested to see a nonfinancial application of k that I could compare to implementations in languages I'm familiar with. If anyone else knows of other such k applications please share them!
The financial sector holds things on many different timescales, not just minutes or hours. Sometimes for decades if its profitable.
I'll bite. Here's a question I saw in a thread about lenovo/superfish (can't find it now), followed by some of my own:

What's it like building software that literally no one wants on their computer?

Is that last question wrong, and are there actually people that truly, unequivocally enjoy adware?

Is there a reality-distortion-field where some people building such software actually believe that they're making things that most people want?

Are meetings/discussions about building the adware ever openly malevolent towards users? Or is it always "just business"?
I agree. It seems very heavy on pictures, and light on explanations or reasoning for the rules given.

I find a much better resource is "Butterrick's Practical Typography"[0], which is a very accessible. If you want just the absolute bare essentials, the first section of the book/site "Typography in 10 Minutes"[1] is fantastic.

[0] - http://practicaltypography.com/

[1] - http://practicaltypography.com/typography-in-ten-minutes.htm...
http://www.businessinsider.com/poorly-timed-headquarters-200...

Or from a16z:

"Pouring huge money into overly glorious new headquarters — “The Edifice Complex” — then repeating two years later. There’s also a danger in signaling to employees “we’ve made it, we’re amazing” (and while everyone hates the cramped but collaborative space when they’re in it, they miss it terribly after the move)."
Very glad that you appreciate it. I think that there is a gold mine of applications under this simple realization.
jbk - where are you based in France, and can you tell us a bit more about your ideas? :)
The counts can be viewed directly here:
http://www.jotform.com/report/50575176734057
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Data centers are buildings. They've built a bunch of those successfully.
What's the process for adding additional companies to the list? Create a Jira ticket?
I work at Google in MTV and this is very exciting to me. I think the higher-ups at this company have the vision to pull this off, I hope I stay engaged here long enough to see it.

The real concern (which Google can't fully solve) is housing. If you add 10k or 20k more employees in these beautiful new offices, where do they all live? I guess Google could build apartments too but that's not ideal, I don't want to live at work.

I currently commute to MTV from SF. I have a shitty apartment, i pay 2x as much as it's worth in any other city, and I commute 1.5hrs each way on a clogged highway. I hope it's doesn't get much worse.
As the article notes, the most likely way Wordpress will get faster on the server is HHVM.

I doubt very much that the WP team has any intention of moving away from PHP anytime soon (if ever). Yes, they could start again on a clean slate of code, but they'd also have to start again on a clean slate of the community. But the community is worth way more than the code.

WP-API is important so that Wordpress can continue to grow into more complex projects. Javascript front-ends are getting more popular, and if WP cannot feed data to them in a flexible and performant way, it will lose out to other content frameworks that can (for example, Drupal), or custom development of content stores.
Majority of journalism has been employing those tactics forever. Stupid, misinformed articles because you have to crank out copy to fill the page before the press starts clamping? Please, don't start to be self-righteous now.
How I Learned to Get Customers from a Competitor’s Popularity
Two things:

First - the cat is out of the bag, and never going back, when it comes to applying direct response & testing methodology to journalism.

I recently had the pleasure of bumping into a YC-startup called naytev.com that optimizes social content to go viral.

Essentially they work to find the perfect blend of image / headline to maximize # of shares, clicks, etc.

If your competitor is using a platform this advanced to drive traffic to their stories you are either also using it or going out of business.

Unfortunately what works best by default today is PT Barnum style headlines - loud, obnoxious, dangerous, death-defying!

Second - and here's where I'm hopeful - every new iteration of internet advertising / optimizing works great until the novelty wears thin for consumers.

The whole "Dermatologists hate her" headline that drove affiliate marketing ~3 years ago has now devolved to a meme on reddit and shifting strategy due to lowered CTR.

Given "content marketing" and "content journalisms" extremely popularity at the moment I assume that as we wear out the consumer brain with PT Barnum headline screaming we'll see that give way to something else we can all decide to complain about in 2016.
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IMO, WordPress could benefit by shifting to Node.js.
I definitely agree that the 'revolving door' between lobbyists and regulatory positions needs to end.

But i disagree that pushing regulation onto elected officials would be better.

My point is that non-elected officials are shielded from many aspects that lead to corruption in elected officials. Namely having to re-up on funding every couple years. Non-elected officials do not have to raise money to keep their position.

Is there still corruption with non elected officials? yes I am not saying otherwise nor am i satisfied with the current state of things. But to say that the solution to that corruption is to place the power into the hands of an already corrupt congress seems backwards to me.

Also, I totally agree with you on the language and length of bills. I would go further to say that the congress people should be the ones AUTHORING the bills, let alone reading them. Nothing smells like corruption more than a corporation drafting a bill to regulate themselves and stamping a congress person's name on it.
I don't think they update that list. It's been over a year since we asked for CircleCI to be added :(
So, I know very little about the practical implementation of a non-trivial interpreter (read: next to nothing), but... it's difficult for me to understand why this would be the case. What is the reasoning behind the interpreters lack of semantic awareness? Can't it, in the most simple case, see that the block is not being modified or accessed in any way and optimize the reification out?
You need to stop thinking in terms of pages and think in terms of content.
I among many others would really appreciate that! Link? Can I help out?
> Is the database not the bottleneck?

It shouldn't be. If it is, it's because you missed a cache result. Even for highly dynamic sites, the DB should never be the slowest part of your app because you rarely hit it.
You don't need to build your React client-side JavaScript on the server. You build it on your development workstation and ship the resulting JavaScript bundle in your theme.

"PHP and WordPress really [don't] need to be fast"... until you're doing anything dynamic at all, and then they do. :-)
WebGL MRI semantic space embedding on the neocortex
We wrote a bunch of hacks to the linux kernel to do it.

Custom container implementation, custom networking, custom storage.

It's just really good hardcore kernel engineering.

If you wanna talk more and you're in SF, come to our meetup on the 10th: machinelearningsf.eventbrite.com.

Edit: the whole machine including RAM cache, CPU instructions, IP connections, etc. is carried over. We can also resize your machine in seconds while it's running.
AirBnB and Housing (NYC)
Such fail. Thanks.
It's a custom SDN layer we wrote.
Interestingly, a long commute is one of the most highly correlated factors with regards to people's happiness: http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2011/06/perils-commu...

You may be happier living at work than you realize, (yes, I joke, but not as much as you'd think).
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Show HN: a lightweight asynchronous text field view-validation for iOS
It's nothing if not bold. It seems to be drawing a fair amount of inspiration from the Metabolist movement of the 1960s, particularly in its emphasis on modularity and even mobility. I have to wonder how practical that's going to be – the only truly modular building to come out of Metabolism is Kisho Kurokawa's Nakagin Capsule Tower (http://www.voicesofeastanglia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07...), but in four decades, none of the capsules have ever been moved or replaced.
Aline Lerner is great: http://blog.alinelerner.com/
There we go, blame the user.
Yes, for example, in second language acquisition the hypothesis of a critical period has been pretty much disproven. Also, the conflation of perfect pitch with musical ability is a big stumble. Still, quite an interesting article.
What's tilde club?
I've heard that idea a few times: that word of mouth will find a way. It is generally true that great products spread, so I don't fundamentally disagree.

But for everyone that has ever worked on building a product that didn't get traction (and I presume MANY people on HN fall into that camp), they need to know this isn't the whole story. You can drive far more performance by making sharing easier. Before you had to put a lot of engineering work into it, which is what YesGraph wants to solve. We'll do the heavy lifting for you.

This is all from experience at companies at Facebook and Dropbox. I've seen the inside and know how it actually works.
Leonard Nimoy Explains Spock’s Secret Jewish Origins
These options are too simplistic. They should be checkboxes, at least.
This is nice.

It would be helpful to have an RSS feed on the main blog. RSS is still widely used too!
Apply ASAP. Start the blog and omit date postings on each post(you should be able to configure whatever you are using). Then link to whatever you want.
That's exactly it- K isn't in the same general paradigm as those languages. K resembles APL and other array programming languages. Syntax among those languages differs in some ways, but the most basic elements are the same. If you knew APL or J, K wouldn't look so alien.
I dunno if I would call it lazy html, but more likely that they have a bunch of code/libraries compiling views or templates, which is causing the ugliness.

I know that we have pretty ugly html in our product because we have to do a lot of bullshit to get it working cross-browser and cross-platform.
They could build housing then immediately sell those home by means of a loan to a non-profit created for this purpose. Who then pays off Google via rents.

Only issue is for legal reasons anyone could live there Google employee or not. However that is a good thing in the sense that if you lost your job your housing remains.
Failure is good if you want to succeed in the long-term. Too many people succeed early (1-hit wonders) and don't really know why they succeeded in the first place.
Google currently doesn't have space. MTV offices are packed, there's little space left to seat new employees, and no parking (pretty much have to rely on valet service)

Google has only 3 options:

1. find existing buildings nearby, but this increases sprawl even more
2. move to another city or only open space in other cities
3. build new buildings on land holdings you already have

#1 and #2 have the downsides of making it harder to collaborate.

It's not "Edifice Complex" if you have no choice but to build more space. And so, if you're going to build new buildings, why not get what you want to satisfy your requirements rather than a cookie cutter design?
It's not very convenient, but you can use `open -n /Applications/VLC.app` to open a new instance.
What I want to know is if QuickSync support is available on the Mac version of vlc.
That is equally inscrutable.

http://code.kx.com/wsvn/code/kx/kdb%2B/c/c/k.h
I was just tinkering with a tic tac toe game: https://github.com/JohnEarnest/ok/blob/gh-pages/examples/tic...

I think I can still make a number of simplifications and generalizations, and I'd like to have a stab at an alpha-beta AI opponent.

There's also a great deal of interesting code at No Stinking Loops: http://www.nsl.com
I'm not sure that it is. I think it's a hardware issue: our screens are too flat, and our hands didn't evolve to use flat surfaces.
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We contacted SoftLayer about this issue, they literally had not heard anything about it and they would "contact their datacenter team".

If they treat it like the last round of Xen vulnerabilities, they will simply place a warning on their dashboard an hour beforehand - not sending out any form of email notice. The first we knew about it was when we started receiving alerts from nagios.
wouldn't it be better to use existing structures, like all the abandoned malls in the usa? why not distribute the workforce so people can live in an affordable, commutable area? and it bugs me further they couldn't find a way to locate walking distance to bart or caltrain.
I work near a wall of windows, which is quite nice. But every morning I'm pulling and adjusting the blinds to avoid being blinded by the morning sun. I also wonder about what it will sound like when it rains. I guess with that will the curved roof transmit sound very long distances, such that you can hear quiet conversations across the building.

I'm don't mean this as negatively as this probably sounds. Google has done a lot of innovation in things like data centers, and I am hoping they have similar innovations for the problems I have raised.