skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In that vein, perhaps there is a call for a protocol/RFC whereby each person's public comments live on their own server, and a comments section, such as HN, would just return a bunch of links (or even just a root link, with child links being distributed with each comment)? The client would be responsible for constructing the comments page by contacting each individual server. Maybe hashes could be used with each link, so a client could flag any after the event rewriting?

It's got a NNTP flavour to it, if clients start doing caching and the NNTP client's view is threaded, but the idea would be that the canonical copy remains on the author's server, where they retain control of and responsibility for what they write. Its also RSS like, in that a server's output could be viewed as a stream of comments? It would be a bit like a blog, but each entry would be linked into a conversation/comment page by the client, possibly with selective downloading if comment are collapsible. It's basically SMTP, but instead of the server sending a message once, a client could contact the server at some point in the future and request a retransmission of a particular message. Is there already an RFC or protocol that fills this niche?
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It seems you feel very strongly about this.

Are you also against open source? It allows companies to rely on unpaid labor (with no benefits) and directly competes with software that does pay benefits and could potentially put them out of business.
There is actually a reason you can't have ~/.ssh/config symlinked the same way: ssh refuses to read a symlink for this file (for security purposes it is strict about the file type and permissions). My workaround is to copy the file instead of symlinking in my dotfile-setup script.
I have a friend who is really drawn to stuff like this -- the curved screen. He told me that it's great for swiping from the edge of your screen to open up a window for viewing what apps you have running.

He was convinced (via marketing) that this is the only phone with that ability.

My rooted S3 running on Beanstalk can do it.

What I'm trying to say is, yeah, gimmicks, but to the poorly-educated consumer.

I personally find the edge to be just another thing that can go wrong when I drop the phone.
> I know of students with better grades and SAT results that were not admitted to MIT.

Were they Black, Asian or White?

> I know of students with worse grades than me

Were they Black, Asian or White?
Where voting is allowed for best comment, the best ones are often quite useful. The Economist for example, it's usually worth reading the top comments. For some odd reason the guardian does not allow sorting the comments by best votes.
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Well for whatever reason it certainly didn't help MS in the long run to produce that video. They missed the technology that actually mattered like the iPod, iPhone, and iPad and are still scrambling to catch up to everyone.
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Small correction: F-Droid doesn't yet support automatic updates [0], but rather, automatic notifications that updates are available to be manually installed. Merge requests always welcome though :)

[0] - https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/issues/106
To rephrase/expand your tl'dr slightly: you can express turing complete programs using Morte. But it only does a certain number of well defined things (like inlining) to reduce an expression and compare it, so some programs that are 'the same' due to a more complex isomorphism could generate different executables. This is fine, because program isomorphism in general is basically the halting problem.
What struck me was that people were there almost as props. It was as if technology had advanced so much (information gathering and intelligence) that the people were more or less redundant and were 'doing things' just to act out our newfound purpose.

Basically all the information was there and people more or less had veto power --yes or no. I know this is just conceptualization, but they may not be that far off.

It looks fun and would appear that people would have lots more free time to do whatever, but for the most part things were done by machines for people.
It's tough to say - the public generally doesn't like talking about military engagements of war. I suspect they would generally remain apathetic.
I tend to think learning by doings main issue is it wastes time.

If as an adult you don't have a lot to learn doing is fun so why not. But if you want to train hard, back to boring.

There's different research out there, basically the doing side was introduced without research hence the scramble to work out the better method.

I think it is compounded by the fact experimental schools often do better, since they are putting in effort. A known performance enhancer.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/08/21/math-wars-rote-memor...

->

http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v17/n9/abs/nn.3788.html
There are other articles that do go into an initiative from Mozilla, Telefónica, Verizon and other phone companies to make flip and slider phones using a version of the OS with a simpler interface.

http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/01/mozilla-is-bringing-firef...

http://liliputing.com/2015/03/firefox-os-coming-to-low-end-f...
There's an academic consensus that exposure to violent media increases violent and aggressive behavior, eg[1][2].

Needless to say, this is very widely disputed and fought over. It's possibly more controversial than climate change.

However, it's quite widely studied[3], and the consensus position is fairly settled.

[1] http://www.jaacap.com/article/S0890-8567%2809%2960387-7/abst... (This is a meta-study)

[2] http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/2014-41977-001/

[3] http://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&q=impa...
I think failure to monetize is a result of one or many of the reasons mentioned in the article: No market need, Pricing issue, Lack of business model, etc.
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That's very cool. If people make a habit of using this, this could be really handy for annotating programming tutorials. Just modified the HN bookmarklet to make a new bookmarklet to reload the current page in Genius:

http://acjay.github.io/genius_bookmarklet.html
Interesting. Do you have any more resources about how these bots are made? ²
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I think we could add rank like this:

Host xxx

Rank 2
If you were driving slower, you probably wouldn't hit as many pedestrians regardless of whether or not they're wearing reflective gear.

The reality is: a runner hits someone, two people are annoyed. A car hits someone, one person is dead. Cyclists are somewhere in the middle.
Yeah, you may have a point there. With wars in general the elites benefit - defence contracts, interesting news, the chance to play the big leader - while the general population suffer the downsides - higher taxes, being held vaguely responsible for killings done by your country that you never asked for and so on. It's good to have some counter to all that.
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There's always gems among the dumb and/or mean comments.

I don't comment too much[1] because I've found that, in general, there's always someone smarter than me who has said what I want to say already. The fact that I always seem to find that smarter person in the comments is why I'd prefer comments sections not to go, even if they are loaded with trolls.

[1] This thread's an exception, I suppose. I don't want to see comment sections go, though!
I found this paper a couple years back when I was writing about statistical errors. I love the right turn on red example -- an everyday situation where bad statistics leads to extra deaths every year. (Somewhere on the order of 10-100, I think.)

The problem, turning "not statistically significant" into "there is no difference," happens all the time in just about every field of science. Often you see people report "three studies found that this medicine work, but two found that it didn't" and conclude that the evidence is contradictory and can't be trusted. But if you look at the effect sizes, you see the five studies found nearly the same answers -- its just two of them didn't quite cross the threshold for significance.

I wish I had a way of teaching statistical thinking more clearly than standard intro classes. It's so weird and counter-intuitive that very few people get it right. I've given it a shot by writing a book (http://www.statisticsdonewrong.com/) but there's a lot more to be done.
In college (many moons ago, I was a double major in Mech. Eng. and CS), I took drafting for a semester in my freshman year before we transitioned over to CAD. I do remember the initial feeling, hard to describe, almost claustrophobic, of going from a drafting table to the mouse/desktop setup. Overtime, you got used to it and I never looked back, but do wonder now if a freshman ME would feel the opposite when going from a mouse/desktop to a large, wacom "drafting table".
Heres Chris Leary's patch for Firefox. A bit dated at this point though https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=677272
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The argument is pretty easy in New York: city driving is driving within the city limits, which are largely defined by islands. Exceptions are made for fully-grade separated highways.
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Yes the State is an extortionist and if you are aware enough your moral system would lead you to explore alternatives really hard. For example preferring to personally try to be a Conscientious Objector[1] before buying the discourse of a guy with a tie that got elected in office to send you or your children to the front while having equity in the company that will get the contracts to rebuild the mess based on lies.

Dying defending your freedom is something very very different to justifying others people killing based on assumptions of threat after a preemptive war of aggression [2]

The only thing that can try to keep such an illusion consistent is Exceptionalism [3] which would magically give you self-serving moral superpowers.

Extrapolate that a little bit and you will see how Exceptionalism escalates to some form Elitist Dystopia [4]

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So Microsoft's vision of the future is for us to continue to be touching flat screens well into the future? Pinch to zoom, drag and drop. Those two gestures pretty much dominated their vision.

There seems to be a lot of production value in this video, but it doesn't seem thought out. The interfaces just show drag and drop, and then items spouting animated complex information. There also seems to be a hell of a lot more screens in the future.

It doesn't feel like anyone took a real world work or play scenario and thought it through from end-to-end with future technology.

I don't know where future technology will take us, but I hope it reduces the amount of time we spend in front of screens. I hope it allows us to spend more physical time with the people we love, not just talk to them on giant Skype screens.
Additional Note: Barry Silbert is the founder of SecondMarket.

Not sure what they're doing now (website is confusing) but when I interned there in 2012 they were a marketplace for all sorts alternative assets. They became somewhat well known when they made a deal with Facebook to be the exclusive pre-IPO market for Facebook equity. They made a business of helping private companies organize buying/selling of their shares. They branched out into all sorts of things including a gold fund, etc. So this seems like a natural move for Barry.
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just like there is .ssh/config for ssh, there is $CDPATH for cd.
To me, Kino is a portrayal of the emotionally inert, of those who will not risk. The longer I live, the more of these persona I recognise (myself included). Come on, look about you, the computer profession is replete with this personality type. The "tap, tap" of rain on a window is Nature's message to Kino: Let life, with all its sweet sorrows, in.
From an individual's point of view, no.

But when privilege is correlated with a particular group, then it isn't helpful to see it as random. It self perpetuates.

But an individual can be lucky to be born into a rich family, but the rich family probably isn't lucky to be rich: it tends to retain its status over generations. Not in terms of absolute dollar value, but its social status.
I wonder what they thought was wrong with `abort`.
The most important function comments serve is to allow readers to view dissenting opinions and remarks conveniently. Something they would otherwise have to search out.

To date I have not seen a method of comment moderation on any site that hasn't been used to stifle dissent or unpopular opinions. It's unacceptable to give the illusion of open, free discussion when you have the ability to downvote or delete a post.

This is, plain and simple, an article espousing censorship. I'm not qualified intellectually to argue with censorship proponents, especially here.
When I call that library, I shouldn't have to worry about the fact that it uses HTML. It is a leaky abstraction since a field that is, intuitively, supposed to be text for the label, is actually just treated as HTML for plain insertion into the page.
Funny how that works. Some people like one thing, others like another. It just doesn't make sense, sometimes! Why doesn't everyone only like what I like?
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-20/high-frequ...

Predictive enough that when combined with money management strategies you can make money every single day of the year.
I'm not sure.

When I was hiring for good C++ game engine programmers, our recruitment test had people program in a language they'd never seen before. Because I believed that the imminent capability of a person in C++ wasn't as good a determiner of their long term value as their potential capability, which I thought was more likely correlated to flexibility, learning speed, calmness under difficult conditions, clarity of reasoning.

So I think this already happens in hiring. What I'm describing is one end of a continuum. My point is that it isn't clear to me that day 1 competence is a good optimisation strategy. And if I optimize for day 10 competence, then why not day 100, 500, and so on? There's got to be a tipping point somewhere, but it isn't obvious where.
Is there even a difference between 'psychosomatic' and 'organic'? As far as I know we've acknowledged that the brain has significant power over the functioning of the body, being able to modify blood pressure as an example. Why wouldn't environmental factors be able to influence mental chemistry and functioning, which in turn influences physical fitness?

Maybe I misunderstood but it seemed as though you were drawing a line between mental and physical origins of the disease and I just don't see how this is so "highly likely" or even a useful distinction.

That said I think it is highly likely that we simply don't understand enough about the brain or body to say one way or another what could be causing diseases like CFS.
What this essay says more than anything is that anybody can have a personal definition of postmodernism.
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Point that.
And as a value judgement it's not something a person decides for someone else, least of all among adults.
> To date I have not seen a method of comment moderation on any site that hasn't been used to stifle dissent or unpopular opinions. It's unacceptable to give the illusion of open, free discussion when you have the ability to downvote or delete a post.

What are your thoughts on the downvote system? on Reddit, a comment that is badly downvoted sinks to the bottom and becomes collapsed... but if you want, you can still choose to read it.
It depends on the person.

I don't use video calls much, but my younger daughter considers video calls to be the default.
While not to start a whole discussion about this, is MSFT vision of the future is one where women do all the work?
No. Windows 8.1 is almost as lean as Android (although for saying that, I'm probably going to be downvoted by the portion of HN that still thinks Windows is the same as it was 15 years ago).

As far as price goes, we've seen decent models under $350, and the very low end is under $200: http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/01/lenovo-tablets-mwc2015/

In short, Microsoft has no reason to create a less-functional, web-only version of Windows 8.1.
I thought you were being funny, Reddit-style. Then I searched.
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The problem with Internet comments isn't really incivility per se, but rather a free ridership problem. That is, people are getting to use a platform created by others without incurring any costs if they cause damage to that platform.

I'd argue that incivility itself isn't even necessarily a bad thing, and that the real goal shouldn't be eliminating incivility, but rather making people put their money where their mouths are. (So to speak.)
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Didn't I specifically list some of the things I was talking about, explicitly?

Privilege is used in various senses: both the narrow power one group has over another, propagated by their ability to pass it to others in the group and more generally (in the later camp I gave the example somewhere on here of privileges of high IQ). I was trying to be clear in my OP by listing what I meant, so I really don't see why the word is what you're hanging on. OR why you think my purpose was to define it. As I said, call it boondoggle, I was explicit what I meant by it.

By definition, Asian males have 8x the "probabilistic causes of non-equal representation". It seems highly unlikely that they have 8x the "social biases unfairly favoring one group", which is what hackeruser and myself were actually discussing.

Why would the factors have to be equal for the point to stand? If something isn't 100% the cause, then it isn't significant? If it turns out that 4x the effect is due to cultural privilege, of the kinds I listed, and 4x is due to demographic, bias, so what?
It looks fun and would appear that people would have lots more free time to do whatever, but for the most part things were done by machines for people.

Is that not the "promise of technology?" That is a world I am trying to create - one where we work not out of necessity but out of passion, so I am fully behind that. I just didn't see anything in that video that blew my mind in that respect.

I would love to see something projected which would reasonably leap us to the (next thing) the way the personal computer did 20 years ago. This MSFT thing falls short of that IMO.
I searched. Then I found you were being funny, Reddit-style. You thought you were the 2nd in the chain though!(?)
How would a great team help you to make money out of a product nobody wants? Market fit (#1) is the most important thing
It is exactly #1
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Obviously, this article is about that school of thought.

This is not a school of thought of which I am familiar, who are its proponents? In fact, I have not heard of any assertion that the universe should either a) make sense; or b) have a motivation, outside of religious texts. Of course I don't really know what sense of "senseless" you're using without your defining your terms, so I'm using two common ones.
If the parent had said 15 or 20 mph instead of 25, there wouldn't be a significant difference in traffic deaths. If you get hit by a car at 15mph, you are highly unlikely to die. You may break a bone, but you won't be dead.

Of course, that excludes freak accidents -- you could fall onto a spike or something. But freak accidents are possible whether the car is going 5mph or 15.