skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just set "showdead" to "yes" and you can see that
smhenderson replied "And here you are on hacker news using it to push yours." to fwn's post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9458661

And you can see that the last post in fwn's history now says "Ok, I feel like I'm on /r/all ..." and is downvoted to be light gray: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=fwn

As anyone can see, when a hacker news user deletes a post, it still shows it to people who have "showdead" set to "yes", followed by the string "[deleted]". He edited it to replace the original comment that smhenderson replied to, but fwn's downvoted comment and smhenderson's reply are all still there. That's how hacker news work.

The ball is in fwn's court to explain why his post was so badly downvoted, what it originally said, why he deleted it, what he meant by editing it to say "Ok, I feel like I'm on /r/all ..." before deleting it, and why he then lied point blank twice that "Also I did not edit anything recently, I really think this is a mistake." and "I - still - did not edit anything in the thread you mentioned."

So I'm confident that I know that fwn has stopped being honest. The fact that you can't delete postings was designed on purpose by Paul Graham to keep editors honest. But fnw is denying the evidence and blustering instead, which is a pretty good indication that he's the kind of person who would exploit the tragic suicide of a transgendered person to push their misogynistic gamer gate agenda, which is behavior that doesn't belong on hacker news. So the system is working as it was designed.

http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html

>"I think it's important that a site that kills submissions provide a way for users to see what got killed if they want to. That keeps editors honest, and just as importantly, makes users confident they'd know if the editors stopped being honest. HN users can do this by flipping a switch called showdead in their profile." -Paul Graham
A related thought might be, once this is in place, how much work would it be so support Appkit (OS X) apps as well?
So you rent a status symbol to put outside your house? What an easy thing to just stop doing.
The most important thing I've learned is that the "bill" is not like the bill that comes at the end of the meal at a restaurant. Medical bills are more like the first offer in a long negotiation process. Unfortunately for the uninsured who get serious illnesses these days, it often just amounts to an impossible demand that is then graciously negotiated down to merely everything they have.
>Soviets tried to keep to common people away from culture

This depends on your definition of culture.

I was born in 80th and grew up throug 90th in Russia. I grew mostly on american films and western games. They showed me how to kill, cheat and hate.
Recently I've watched some of USSR movies and I was shocked. There is realy not too much of them. But there is very little politics, but so much humanity.
This is not really taking the original discussion forward, but 20 minutes vs. 13 minutes is quite a difference when calculating average speed.

I probably made a mistake here, but using "google", distance from Victoria Park to Clerkenwell is 3.2 miles, 5.14km. If it takes 13 minutes, the average speed is about ~24km/h. To make the same distance in 20 minutes, you can drop your average speed down to ~15.5km/h. And that is not so "high speed" for cycling.

Funny fact, I put "average biking speed" to "google" and it told me that: For cyclists in Copenhagen, the average cycling speed is 15.5 km/h.

So I guess google uses 15.5km/h to calculate the time used to move the distance by bike.
Don't listen when (male) thirty-somethings hype the next social networking app
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If you own a car today it spends most of it's life sat there waiting for you. Not so the self drive car which can be off doing errands - picking up those Amazon deliveries for instance - or working as a taxi for someone like Uber and making you some money by providing the individual, door to door, on demand public transport we want. This is gong to have a significant impact on how many of us own a vehicle I would imagine.
It's not just the billing codes that are insane, it's also the differences in prices. I recently filled a prescription at CVS. CVS billed my insurance company nearly $200 for 90 days. I found out that you can get the same prescription at Target for $10 for 90 days. (I'm not sure that the insurance company will actually pay $200 - I'll have to wait to see what the claim says).
Are we ?

I don't know either way but the countries with fastest population growth tend to be ones with lots of agriculture.
FWIW, opera (on iOS at least) did this right years ago, when I hit the area it just zooms in and highlights both clickable areas, so I can effectively click on the up or down arrow.

(OTOH, the up/down buttons on HN are not desktop friendly either)
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A different domain can't possibly access the local storage for grooveshark.com right?
I live in Europe and while I can get around without a car, owning a car improves my standard of living quite a lot. I guess the point is "I live in Europe" says nothing about how easy it's to get by without owning a car.
I have been working at a design for a science-themed roguelike which is at base a sophisticated crafting system. The building block of this world is [vectors by which a thing can be converted to another thing]. In my model, engineering and cooking and chemistry are exactly the same thing.

The kettle example here sought to be whimsicle, but struck me as an expression of the same idea. This constructor thing appears to be a mechanism for compressing lots of different ideas into a single notation, from which you can run equations. If I understand it correctly, then the kettle would be a good kitchen-table analogy for that complex idea. Another would be - consider how much better suited arabic numbers are than Roman for reasoning about equations.

[update] I'm glad for the criticism article - has given context and momentum to create a proof of concept. Using water, kettle and power.
There's a lot more to the DC area than the inner city. I happen to live in the suburbs.
Yes - it guarantees that it's safe at the moment.

But it limits how the API (especially on provider site) can be used in the future. If there comes up a need that that the data might need to be mutated at one point in future you might need to change it to an other interface in both of the languages and then change probably lot's of consumers according to it.

If it's only an internal API that might be ok - for a public API it would be to inflexible for my taste.
I did address more modern times too....
What if my target audience is actually that 1% niche that doesn't care about mobile, or a niche that actually uses decent browsers and mobile platforms, so they're perfectly able to view my simple page even without stupid meta viewport tag?

It seems easy to just add the tag and a few CSS rules - but what if this is a still useful page from 2005 which I have forgotten about?
You're absolutely right. I understand "peak car" as trying to get away from unreasonable car use. Like in the US where one has to use a car for trips that one could easily walk, if only there were sidewalks.
Peer review should sort out the bad science from the good. The above link is just laziness: they have correlated P values with low quality research, and have decided to use it as a crap filter in leu of better, but more expensive, peer review.

The article submitted was not peer reviewed, and could very well be bad science, but I think accusations of non-science are not very productive and do not provide feedback in how to do better.
It's not necessarily impossible.

Some big Australian cities work reasonably well with 'cars optional' suburb. They have an overall feel and lifestyle that I imagine would be familiar and comfortable enough for most American suburb dwellers.

For a quick and dirty snapshot: Suburbs are considered similar to small 'urban towns.' They typically have a train station (some Sydney suburbs have cool ferry stations) at the centres and the suburb stretches for a 1-2 mile radius from there. They are usually denser and have a more town center feel near the center. Inner city suburbs feel more urban. The really distant suburbs are more car centric and often have a semi-rural feel. Suburbs on the Dandenong foothills in Melbourne are a cool example of this.

Basically the nearer the city centre and suburb centre you live, the less cars are necessary or convenient. It's not extreme though. Most people have cars everywhere but the level of use varies. I would estimate that >50% live someplace where car free living is possible without too many trade offs.

Realistically though, the way to prevent cars is to make them unaffordable. That's an option, but I don't think you can call it a victory for quality of life by itself if it's achieved by making something people want unaffordable.
I'm surprised that addon cards for laptops such as the Gobi3000 aren't mentioned yet. Are these a security risk? Is "off" really off to such a card? Is isolation sufficient?
The iWatch does have a do not disturb mode. It also has a mute mode and you can control the haptic effect. These settings are easy to access. That writer is clueless. I have used the watch for a couple days and I'm really happy with it.
Microsoft has been on a tear lately! I am really impressed with the direction they are going.
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>The aftermath of the financial crisis seems to have been handled remarkably well though, don't you think?

Hell no. It was used as an excuse to shovel money into the pockets of the ultrawealthy.

>At least in the US the economy is doing fairly well

By what measure?

Because if you're going to count employment, you should factor out the people who used to have decent middle class jobs and are now scraping by working at walmart.
Searching around, it appears to be in dispute, but not conclusive.
There are a lot of contradictions in this article, which leads me to believe it is edited by multiple people. It would be interesting to know how you picked what to quote and why you chose to ignore paragraphs like

>The death of Joseph Stalin in 1953, and Nikita Khrushchev's Thaw, paved the way for a wave of liberalization in the arts throughout the Soviet Union. Although no official change in policy took place, artists began to feel free to experiment in their work, with considerably less fear of repercussions than during the Stalinist period.

Artists felt considerably less fear of being prosecuted? Prosecuted because they painted something? Paintings are dangerous? I thought guns were dangerous. Who fears paintings? Such a silly thing to fear.

Gorbachov's goal was to end the USSR, so no surprise his first reforms were in the cultural realm.

Things were bad enough with visual arts, but very few people care about visual arts or literature. If you deny those people completely, you would get more trouble than if you just let them do their thing in solitude and simply spy on them and take care of the most dangerous ones. Let the hippies have just a little bit of freedom, just keep the commoners away. That's the equilibrium you want to keep, if you desire a long utilitarian rule.

The really atrocious deeds were done in performance arts like cinematography and music. Everything had to go through a censor. Almost every movie had to support the class struggle or put the party in a good light. Commons people don't stare at paintings. They watch films. They listen to music. In my country, artists were repressed because they refused to sing praises to the communist party. Their relatives thrown in jail. Their kids were refused higher education. Obedient artists were promoted (and put on a piedestal), even though they were of a lesser talent.
If you only have 100% logic bugs in your code, I'd say the code is in damn good shape. That means all your bugs are "meaningful".

Different programming platforms have different "incidental complexity" causing bugs not related to actual program logic, but merely how it is put together, so to speak. In particular, Rust seems objectively better than C++ in this regard.
I think this is really about the decline of miles driven in cars, not the decline in cars made or owned (although that connection surely exists). I live in a suburb and have a car, because having a house almost requires a car; hauling paint and wood and plants and things doesn't really work in public transport. That said I commute by public transport simply because it is faster (bus lanes and subway instead of traffic jams) and parking in the city would be over $100/day. So I'll likely never get rid of the car as long as I have a house, but commuting with it is just not an option.
That's the joke. It's a strict subset of JS, not a transpiled language.
Good point. People discussed different ways to get to the parts stored in localstorage, but that obviously only should work locally. Since Groovebackup got shutdown as well we can't check what they did.
Well, you're implicitely asking for it. In Rust you have to explicitely specify your intent, i.e. not by omitting something, but rather by specifying that you want to ignore it.
Yes, that was poorly worded. Europe is big. I meant to say that there are places (specifically in Europe), where it's perfectly possible to go through one's whole life without a owning car and without missing out.
What do you mean two characters? What are they exactly? I'm guessing $ and ; because it's like jQuery but some operations seem impossible, like how does it even assign variables?
Assuming that the proofs make perfect assumptions that exactly match real life, sure.

"the down-winders would not vote unless they thought that vote mattered." - this decision requires mental resources to make, and if the rational choice is too complex then many people wouldn't make it, breaking your assumptions.

Is there any research that tries to model the economic cost of coming to a "rational" decision (as defined by the voting game)?
Two thoughts on this.

First:

I was an occasional user of Grooveshark, and whenever I used the service (which had a brilliant UI, by the way) I found myself wondering how they could still be operating, given that they weren't licensed by the major labels. It felt like Napster in a web app, only more centralized (and thus, easier to take down, one would think).

Well, the answer seems to be that they have been fighting the major labels in the court this whole time (~5 years). Unlike maybe everyone else who has faced up against the major labels, Grooveshark forced them to fight. When the labels didn't give them a licensing deal, and told them to stop operating, Grooveshark responded, "Make us."

They created their tech, built a loyal following, grew their business, all the while fighting this lawsuit. In the end, the only thing that stopped them from pursuing their vision was a judges' order. This settlement seems to be a judge-mediated settlement of only the damages portion of the trial after liability had been established. It seems that the judge ruled against Grooveshark by summary judgement in September, which means they have known for more than 7 months that this was inevitable. They shut down their service 2 days ago.

People have called Grooveshark "shady", and many people believe that their business model was "illegal". Both adjectives may be accurate descriptions. I think the best adjective to describe these guys, however, is "gutsy".

Second:

The front-end system that Grooveshark built, which is the best that I have used for music playback and discovery, is now jointly owned by the major labels. They cannot possibly be short-sighted enough just to throw that away. Will we see Grooveshark resurrected as a label-owed alternative to Spotify, et al? Will they try to maintain any portion of the Grooveshark organization, especially the engineering team? Again, they would be foolish not to try, although maybe I'm giving them too much credit.
Thx for the idea. I'll check it out.

Up untill now wincon have only been tested on WindowsXP and Windows7. I still need to add Windows8 to the test cycle.
When I was looking for mindfulness resources on HN, one of the fundamental books on the subject was referenced in one of the comments: "Full Catastrophe Living" by Jon Kabat-Zinn. It is a fat book, more than 700 pages, and I proceded to read some shorter books on the field. Eventually, I came back to the book and now have almost finished it.

The linked course is based on the materials and the MBSR programe developed by the author of the book, Jon Kabat-Zinn, but I see that the author of the course has found and included some excellent additional audio and video resources.
People Analytics and the Big Data Dystopia
In terms of the traditional theory behind unions, public sector unions don't make any sense. There's no concentrated interest sitting on the other side of the table (i.e. the owners of capital). The public interests, and power, are even more diffuse than workers' interests.

On top of the structural analysis, civil service protections pre-date, and are independent of, public sector unionism.

Yet here we are in the U.S. where union membership is today disproportionately public sector works or quasi-government workers (companies that derive most of their revenue from government contracts.)
Worth keeping in mind that you don't always want to split something into a separate function. When you split out a function, you should be asking yourself if you're actually simplifying something, or if you're just sweeping the complexity under the rug. If the person reading the first function will typically need to see the definition of the helper, the helper's definition is non-obvious, and the helper wouldn't be used elsewhere, it's probably not worth splitting out.

Another important consideration is whether or not the code block you split out makes any assumptions about the current state of the program (or object or whatever), and if those assumptions not being met would result in non-obvious bugs. (If this is true, you should probably wait until there's actual duplication somewhere before splitting the function out, IMO.) This is obviously not an issue with pure functions, but for most programs, most functions aren't pure.

See http://number-none.com/blow/john_carmack_on_inlined_code.htm... for further perspective on this.
I worked for a company that bought about £100,000 of electronic components (plus other stuff) per month. They knew where every single item was - down to the paperclips.

I'm kind of surprised to hear that tech companies might not know where their money is going, especially when it's $85.

See also "Cuckoos Egg" where a few cents difference in billing leads to uncovering hackers intruding on the network.
The message they posted a day before this settlement - http://grooveshark.com/

I'm confused, didn't Grooveshark just provided aggregation and a streaming player with playlist management? The music was not hosted by Grooveshark right?
I chose to quote paragraphs showing that there was also non-political art, and therefore the policies of the Soviet Union don't alone explain why their art is not known in the west.
> The above link is just laziness: they have correlated P values with low quality research,

My point was rather that there was so much low quality research they decided to try to filter it by banning a statistical tool. Are you saying the reasons for so much low quality research had nothing to do with methodological problems? Maybe it's not low-quality, since you know it's "subjective"...

> The article submitted was not peer reviewed, and could very well be bad science, but I think accusations of non-science are not very productive and do not provide feedback in how to do better.

You are addressing a point I never made. What I said was(quote): The advisors should have encouraged a smaller and more manageable scope with a more thorough methodology

Because an important part of undergraduate education is in fact learning to be able to tell what good research is. The advisor's aren't really benefiting them by not pointing out methodological problems and letting them do research ">>>>> wherever that may lead them" - because that only encourages methodologically sloppy work in the future.
That's right, it should come with auto-dampening headphones as well. See no evil, hear no evil.
> whether they live in Moscow, Idaho or Moscow, Russia

That's a funny way to put it.

I can say from personal experience that actively learning to be mindful - meaning present and sensing - instead of constantly being obsessed with thoughts and mental picturing of the future and the past - has a very positive impact on my well-being and that of the people in my environment who I communicate and interact with.

I am definitely going to give this course a try.
How Big Data Can Help You
Or they are trust fund kids who don't realy need to work - you goto the ivys/oxbridge for the social contacts
Cars aren't comparable to literacy or agriculture. The equivalent there would be transportation in general. Cars as a specific form of transportation certainly could peak. Horses and sailing ships did.
# Do NAT table lookup
n = natlookup( p1, p2 )

is clearly unnecessary. If natlookup doesn't do a NAT table lookup, it's a badly named function.
Why startups and small businesses need a multilingual website
The biggest winners of this change are the SEO companies that charge small businesses lots of money who will now charge them lots of money to make sure their website is mobile friendly (even if it already is).
What s sustainable and economical public transport? And what is that population density? Are US suburbs less dense than European ones? Or is there less Will to publicly finance public transport? Funding road construction with tax money but not having a public transport system on those roads with 50-100% tax funding is just asking for congestion, sprawl and pollution.

I live in a smallish suburb with mostly single family houses 30 minutes by bus from the city. Buses leave every 10 minutes, and every 2-3 minutes during commute hours. I would never commute by car, especially since the buses use bus lanes.
> Just set "showdead" to "yes" and you can see that smhenderson replied "And here you are on hacker news using it to push yours." to fwn's post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9458661

No.

Fwn wrote a post. ("I feel like I'm on /r/all".). That post got flagged and is now dead.

Someone made a different post, and smhenderson replied to this other post. That person then deleted their post.

> The fact that you can't delete postings

You can delete posts. You've made a mistake.

> As anyone can see, when a hacker news user deletes a post, it still shows it to people who have "showdead" set to "yes", followed by the string "[deleted]"

No! You can see that a post was deleted. You can't see the deleted post.
They've been in the position of power before and had experienced that it is possible to take control of your life. I guess a psychological problem in long term refugees as well as poverty is not believing that you can take control of your life - since it was take from you before.
It gets press :)
All I can say is try and get something with an SSD drive, makes a world of difference in terms of speed.
And yet we're possibly about to throw out that model because something better might have come along.
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Launch a repl on your command line to any browser in the cloud
You owe fwn an apology. You've misunderstood how HN handles user-deleted posts and how it handles flagged posts and how it positions posts and leapt to the wrong conclusion.
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