skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quotes:

"The "zone" is flow through a lens darkly: hyperfocused, neurotransmitters abuzz, but directed toward a numbness with no goal in particular."

"I don’t have to think. And I know I can’t win."

"You know how you get people younger to gamble? Hand them a fucking telephone."

"A more exact replica of a slot may be Tinder. The mechanics of the dating app mirror the experience of playing slots."

"It’s okay to addict people as long as your business model doesn’t depend on it."
Very nice. Does anyone have a recommendation of a good rain in video game? The genre - racing, shooter, RPG, or even a demoscene - I don't mind, I just want good rains and thunderstorms!
Another quote:

"In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind." ―Louis Pasteur

We cannot ignore the influence of prior knowledge on observation and reasoning. Observation is theory- and paradigm-laden. (See also the Duhem-Quine thesis.)
Technically, so does PHP too
Ladas were a common sight in the UK on the early 80's. Especially in Scotland where they did well in the tough conditions. They were also cheap.

I've still not figured out how, if Top Gear was to be believed, how the BMW 3-series became the best-selling vehicle in the UK.
> Spotify and Netflix (without copyright law, for instance, no one would pay for those services);

Really? People already decide to pay for it instead of pirating it, because it's more convinient, not because they're scared of breaking the law.
The Day Google Decided HttpWatch Was ‘Unwanted Software’
It's very easy to accidentally borrow in Go, because Go has implicit reference types. If you send a slice across a channel, you're sending a reference, not a copy.
Why are Americans okay with education being an exercise in repeating falsehoods?
What you're saying, then, is that it's terribly confusing [for you] when someone uses a list comprehension fully?

Presumably, these also are not completely clear to you:

> [x * 2 | x <- [1, 2, 3, 4], even x]
[4,8]
> [x * 2 | x <- filter even [1, 2, 3, 4]]
[4,8]

What, exactly, is not clear here? This is the essence of composition; to use clearly defined things together. I can appreciate a good pipeline as much as the next guy, but to say that this is somehow more complicated and hard to read is to overstretch a little bit.

To say that a pretty uncluttered list comprehension is some challenge to read is just hyperbolic. These pipelines, even with newlines, can get pretty long and terrible too.
Is it somehow unfair for the OP to point out such mistakes? Incorrect is incorrect.

There are many ways to implement interpreters besides VMs, including "threaded" interpreters and tree-walking evaluators.

I don't fault anyone for not knowing something, but that calls for asking questions, not making incorrect assertions.
Not clear it is the number of distributions that is the problem as they tend to package the same libraries, desktop environments and applications. I agree with grandparent post that it is the churn in underlying libraries and the downstream re-work for no increase in functionality that causes that is the problem.

PS: Linux is widely used everywhere except traditional 'desktops'. Existing mainstream DEs are pretty good (KDE5/Gnome 3.16/MATE 1.8) and provide a range of choice.
Thank you for the feedback, i changed a few things and now it starts with a small presentation of what it is.

Any new feedback ? (do i have to do another Show HN for new feedback?)
What about the OS license? Did he buy it separately?
Nice resort model. Where are the gun emplacements to fend off the pirates?

The article also neglected to mention another difference between, say, California and Texas: employers don't own your every stray thought in California. Hard to get smart people to work for you under dumb conditions.

What, you don't want to come work in Petopia??? (or whatever it was in the "Family Guy" episode where the dad finds out he has the right to make his house into its own country)
1. independent as in funded almost entirely by google and ads (ads implying a form of surveillance hence privacy issues).

2. Well that's a bold statement to make to say that web analytics have to be third party to provide valuable actionable insights.

3. I don't care about operational efficiency, I care about my privacy. If mozilla sacrifices privacy for operational efficiency, well they do sacrifice privacy.

4. WTF are you talking about,visiting a mozilla webpage that doesn't give away analytics data to a third party gives better privacy than visiting a mozilla webpage that does. This is true whatever the rest of the world does. Besides mozilla has no reach on that billion of websites.

I tend to differ, the track record does not exactly point toward shipping great software, nor protecting the interest of individuals. As shown by bugs marked as won't solve and inclusion of controversial features while removing other.

So yup, you are missing the point because you seem blinded by your own vision.
Indeed. A farm labourer could become an assembly line worker or a docker or something quite quickly. Not to denigrate those guys and I'm sure there are some that have or could, but truck driver to Javascript developer or whatever, is a much bigger jump. And the skill of driving a truck doesn't change nearly as fast as the latest JS framework which has a half life of 6 months before its wiped out by the new thing.
You must not have watched the Ted talk which makes a very compelling case to why its a bad flag. The video talks about how great flags, like chicago's, are flown everywhere and bad flags are not.

I grew up about an hour north of Chicago and an hour south of Milwaukee; I visited and worked in both cities. I've never seen the Milwaukee flag but I always saw the Chicago flag around.
I know several acclaimed mathematicians who have little stake in the arguments between network scientists, but who all seem to think that Barabasi's work is extremely low on good ideas.

I am inclined to believe that two decades from now, 'complex network research' will be in a much better state, and there'll be less room for the likes of Barabasi.
People have been making slices in Go and sending them across channels without unique ownership and borrow checking for years, and it hasn't been a problem.
I am using Holistic in exactly the way the article did and my argument has nothing to do with the normal definition of it anyway. My argument is:

Either the current process in its entirety used by Ivy Leagues produce the most successful candidate or it does not. If it does then either it is already selecting the smartest hardest working candidates whatever the race statistics or success from going to an Ivy League has less to do with brains and effort. If so, we're just arguing about who get's a non-merit based boost in life.
I'm using a 4670K, so there is a difference, but I doubt that this is the explaining factor.

I know that gnome successfully offloads work to the GPU when I drag the windows [1] because I can hear it [2].

I don't have kwin installed, so I didn't compare.

[1] Yes, I also did move them wildly, too.

[2] My graphic cards has serious coil whine issues.
To some extent these already exist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_camera_back

But they're more for medium/large format cameras.
Discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9551239
Yosemite likes to crash hard when it is put to sleep at home then plugged into a thunderbolt monitor at work. This has happened quite a lot to multiple machines and I have no clue. Add to that the buggy Finder from Maverick and I am getting complaints. Its time for another Snow Leopard.
The problem with "inefficient welfare programs" is that they're actually very efficient... at providing well-paid, secure jobs for bureaucrats and civil servants. UBI or similar ideas only really work if the overhead of running them is very, very low.
I actually find responsibility to be a great source of joy and happiness, and remember my adolescence as unhappy because I didn't have thing that I had enough control over for them to be rewarding
The most obvious alternative is probably Piwik[1], which offers similar basic functionality to regular Google Analytics out of the box, but is also Open Source and highly customisable/extensible via a plugin model.

Among the features threeseed mentioned, funnel visualisation is probably the weakest area in the baseline version right now. There have been various plug-ins available to do it for a long time, but it's not built-in yet. That said, this area is underpowered in GA as well, and at least with Piwik you can do something about it (and people actually do).

Piwik has been in development for nearly a decade, has been downloaded millions of times, and is in active use by high-profile, high-volume sites. It's every bit as production-ready as Google Analytics.

[1] http://piwik.org/
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Capitalism uses the market to allocate resources, but it is not the only system that does so: [1][2][3]

From what I can gather, you're limiting the role of government to a very libertarian role, and not finding any feasible solutions.

Why abandon government reallocation? To the contrary, many forms of government reallocation specifically counter injustices, for example, any Pigou tax.

Regulation is also a good thing, as it allows the citizenry to enact constraints on companies where consumer action would be toothless.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_economy

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_capitalism

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_socialism
How about Vespignani's result on epidemic thresholds?

http://works.bepress.com/avespignani/13/
Mars Curiosity Rover Tracker (2013)
Google's up to 1.7m miles, apparently; this came up earlier in discussions of the accident rate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9526602 (Always in motion, the future is...)
I don't know how to quantify, but I have definitely heard proposals for BI with a flat tax and with a progressive tax, with somewhat different groups pushing them.
That looks similar to existing plug-ins like Policeman. These are great for technically-minded power users who understand the implications, but IMHO they far too complicated for "normal" users who just want a bit of added privacy and security without spending half their lives tweaking configurations.
An important image is missing from the list:

http://i.imgur.com/GCBnz3Z.jpg

"IBM Germany, known in those days as Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft, or Dehomag, did not simply sell the Reich machines and then walk away. IBM's subsidiary, with the knowledge of its New York headquarters, enthusiastically custom-designed the complex devices and specialized applications as an official corporate undertaking. Dehomag's top management was comprised of openly rabid Nazis who were arrested after the war for their Party affiliation. IBM NY always understood-from the outset in 1933-that it was courting and doing business with the upper echelon of the Nazi Party. The company leveraged its Nazi Party connections to continuously enhance its business relationship with Hitler's Reich, in Germany and throughout Nazi-dominated Europe."

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/IBM.h...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/mar/29/humanities.high...

"I.B.M., Black reports, knowingly provided the Third Reich with the technology to identify German Jews in the period 1933-1939. After World War II broke out in Europe, Hitler's plan to exterminate the Jews became a 'mission the company pursued with chilling success.' Drawing on documents from archives in the United States and across Europe, Black tells the astonishing story of a corporation and a corporate leader, Thomas J. Watson, eagerly conniving with the Nazis as they carried out their murderous program."

https://www.nytimes.com/books/01/03/18/reviews/010318.18scho...
Fair enough, but the fact it can be arbitrary is not my fundamental issue. Why does it need to be judged at all? Why can't they just say "Cool, we all made a game!" and then leave it that? What is achieved by having scores, and bearing mind a lot of ppl are going to be disappointed by bad scores, is it worth it?
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First employee, pseudo-founder of Doubledown Casino here (now the highest grossing game on the iPad). The interesting thing is that we were absolute crap at the actual gamification stuff. It was simply the slots machine mechanic which drew people in. I (and another person) kept trying to push the principles of gamification, the psychological tricks, etc which had worked so well for the likes of Zynga (not entirely proud of that, of course), but were for the most part utterly ignored by the other couple of guys who didn't understand their value. So, what I find interesting here is that even without the gamification bells and whistles, the simple mechanic of a poorly skinned, very buggy slots game (which is what we had in the begging) was enough to skyrocket us (along with ridiculously cheap facebook ads back in the wild west days of the platform.)
Minecraft looks like a very engaging game. However, I've never sat down and tried playing it, and I'm having a difficult time understanding why people would routinely rather watch videos of it than play it themselves (which the article suggests happens). Is this really true for a subset of players? Can someone help me understand, maybe with an analogy? I certainly can't imagine wanting to watch professionals build legos to the near exclusion of playing with them myself, or to watch people perform Halo jump tricks and not play Halo myself.
It could also be that happiness is strongly dependent upon where you stand relative to the people around you. Children don't compare themselves to much other than the immediate family, village, or neighborhood; they just don't have the life experience to know how people in different cities throughout the rest of the world live. Adults have had time to absorb cultural messages of inferiority: these are all the things that your counterparts in America do that you're missing out on. (Never mind that the Hollywood messages broadcast around the globe tend to cherry-pick the most glamorous, outrageous lifestyles and display them as normal.)

It takes a lot of deliberate mental practice to learn not to care about what others have or what they might think of you, and few people bother.
Its really kind of depressing that this is 'news' enough that it gets 245+ upvotes here. It can't be older than the internet itself, obviously, but its damn close...
If you have a Windows 7/8/8.1 license it will be free to upgrade to Windows 10. If you don't have any of the above, than yes, you will need to buy a license.

I suppose the author bought a Windows 8 (the articles claims that he did a clean Windows 10 install starting from Windows 8) license at some time in the past, since a Mac doesn't come with a Windows license.
I may be mixing this language up with another text-manipulation language starting with 'R' (not being coy—I genuinely don't remember its name), but I seem to remember being uncertain of the reach of this project.

The Wikipedia page links two publications by (I suppose) the creator of Ragel, and two publications that do not seem to be specifically about Ragel; and the product page mentions nothing in the way of publications or references to uses in industry. Is Ragel actually widely used?
I hear a lot of technologists with this opinion, basically that the way it's worked out for the last 150 years will continue work out.

But I think there is definitely cause for concern, not because of x or y class of jobs going away, but two factors: 1) the concentration of wealth increasing at the same time that increased taxation on the rich is political anathema, even though they pay only a fraction of the tax rate that they paid the last time income disparities were this wide a centry ago. 2) an unabated hunger for exponential growth in the consumption of natural resources with no serious economic thought given to the long-term viability of assumed infinite growth and what externalities we are ignoring to our own peril.

It's very easy to sit here as a privileged class of software elites who have no realistic risk of becoming unemployable—or even just as an the average human in a first world country who has a relatively low risk of global economies collapsing during our lifetime—and just hand-wave away these concerns. But personally I think we need to start thinking harder about sustainability and egalitarianism in society if we ever want to achieve the fabled post-scarcity economy, because at the moment we seem to be in a greed-driven economy which will never recognize itself driving off a cliff until it's too late.
Yeah, it's probably BS. It seems to be a commonly espoused belief in MRA circles.
I'm not sure who proposed the thing you're arguing against here, or precisely the shape of it. Clearly many people receiving BI would still be filing taxes, as everyone receives a BI by the definition of a BI. I can think of some reasons we may want to treat BI as income like any other income.
Curious to see how .NET Native would compare given it is using the same backend as VC++ .
The first thing that came to my mind when I saw this man made island in international waters was that someone can just get a boat and a few armed men and rob the place. I agree with all the complaints about government surveillance, intrusion and so on, but the one thing that they do provide that would be sort of important for a place like that is protection. So then they would have to raise money for an army to protect themselves... next thing you know you are paying taxes for the military...and so on and son, you get the idea, you are right back where you started.
Also missing: put it in the bank (i.e. do nothing).

The answers to the "greatest satisfaction" question are also telling. They are all job/business related. There's not even a single "spend time with my friends and family" catch-all.
>So yup, you are missing the point because you seem blinded by your own vision.

I am ok with my views being challenged but remain unconvinced by your arguments.
How would one 'start feeling', exactly? I often get the impression that my feelings lag behind my rational thought, and I'm not sure how to go about changing that.
This is a terrific explanation for the uninitiated - covers pretty much all the reasons I would think of.

The author mostly describes nice mathematical properties, so I'd recommend considering absolute deviation in practical analysis in many cases as well. Then your error is dominated less by few outliers in your model. Specifically, least-squares is best when you expect your error to be gaussian distributed, which isn't always the case.

See for example:
http://matlabdatamining.blogspot.com/2007/10/l-1-linear-regr...

You might say the example is contrived, but if the outliers were gone both estimates would give nearly the same result. The main time to prefer L_2 would be when your error is gaussian and your variance is huge, but that's going to be an uphill battle regardless.
> Some of the most explosive tech companies today benefit intensely from various pockets of regulation: Spotify and Netflix[...]; Lyft and Uber [...]; Stripe, Square, and even much of Mr. Thiel’s early success at PayPal [...]. And don’t forget the Internet itself [...]

All his examples are bogus/fallacies.

> without copyright law, for instance, no one would pay for those services

If copyright law did not exist and people did not pay for the artists, artists would have no incentive to compose/perform/record/distribute their work. That would create the incentive for people to pay for those services. As lawl pointed out, people already pay for these services for their convenience.

> ever been to a country without paved roads?

The private sector would happily pave the entire world. Road pavement is not something only the government can do. We have numerous examples of roads built by the private sector (private toll roads, anyone?).

> without SEC regulations to limit our financial losses on identity theft, who would so freely hand out their credit card information?

The same people who would use a credit card in the first place.

> And don’t forget the Internet itself, which began as a scientific communications network started by the government.

Really? How can you predict it would not be created in some other form by the private sector?
it's stunning to me how the Bay Area / startup scene culture has become such an extension of Stanford culture. And that seems to be almost entirely due to network effects- it's not like Stanford is a particularly better education over Berkeley or Harvey-Mudd or Waterloo or Indiana U (which is my list of where the truly great programmers I know have attended), and none of those are really more that a few percentage points better than any decent program at any of the thousands of colleges and universities in the world
Self driving trucks are going to be a real bomb in the economy, make no mistake. I personally suspect we'll really see some labor unrest as it hits. Millions of people will lose their jobs, and they aren't going to be prepared to find an entirely new career. I'm very much a bull on technology, but this is something we (technologists) need to start talking to policy makers about. Incredible disruption is coming down the pipe, and good policy needs to be designed to cope with it.

Manufacturing automated the jobs away, by the by - it didn't really send them overseas. That's a popular error, but wrong. The US was #1 in manufacturing until last year.
And it will be easier to deal with failure because you did what believed in. Less regrets.
However, in the absence of copyright, presumably it would be much easier to download quality content (assuming for the purposes of the hypothetical that all the content had been made in the first place) given that, for example, Napster v1 would be perfectly legal. Storage and bandwidth still need to be paid for of course and there might be a market for services that curated and served up free music and movies but the price would presumably have to be less than a subscription for Spotify or Netflix.
For those not wanting to click reload a slew of times (it took me about 3 minutes of clicking!)...

//Sieve of Eratosthenes
primes xs = sieve xs
where sieve [] = []
sieve (p::xs) =
& p :: sieve [& x \\ x <- xs | x % p > 0]

//Outputs: [2,3,5,7]
primes [2..10]
I would argue the prime age employment to population ratio is probably a better proxy for the job market. In addition wage growth has been very stagnant recently. I think these two data points show that we've haven't fixed out employment problem yet, and there isn't enough jobs to employ another several million truck drivers.

https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/LNS12300060
brief overview here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehomag

you first picture is kinda similar to this:

http://www.fail2fail.com/uploads/misc/gatwicklondon.jpg
That doesn't need to be a slippery slope. It's possible to stop after constructing the amount of government needed to solve that problem.
So many confounding factors. Culture and social pressures pay a large part in how happy adults will claim to be.
In other words: the "most common job" statistic is quite arbitrary due to non-uniform binning of job types.

The question is, is this somehow fixable?

I don't see a way because those categorizations themselves seem arbitrary and you could lump anything somewhat related together while dividing down anything else if you want to show it's "the most common".