skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't really get the first point about scale and brand, because the examples you give like email are built on open protocols, so it's the protocol itself that is the brand. I don't need a particular brand of email client to send emails to someone.
this is a better (written by Myerson, a Nobel laureate), more precise, still fruitfully intuitive picture of Nash equilibrium putting in perspective of economic history.

a good remark of Myerson: non cooperative game theory can roughly be define as a practical calculus of incentives, which came into existence all because of Nash.

http://www.uib.cat/depart/deeweb/pdi/hdeelbm0/arxius_decisio...
"I'm a white dude, it shouldn't hurt me" - not unless you become a victim of positive discrimination.
Adobe pull this same scummy move with Flash downloads; Oracle do it with Java too. Surprised me recently setting up someone's Win 8.1 laptop as I had thought that such moves were now illegal in the EU - perhaps they are?
It appears SF closed the abandoned 'gimp for windows' account, and opened a new account maintained by a sourceforge editor specifically labeled as a mirror which explained in detail what happened.
I have trouble leaving Facebook because for better or worse it is how many of my friends and acquaintances communicate. I ended up finding a nice compromise: I installed an extension which hides all the content on news feed but still allows FB chat. When I couple this extension with ublock, the only thing I see when I go to Facebook is the chat interface, which is perfect for how I use the service.
Never? I am not even registered yet.
I moved my project to github after one of their "enticing" offers installed a vpn client that redirected all my traffic and inserted ads into my browsing, when I installed filezilla. The installer they add is designed to make it very easy to install their "offers"without your realising it. I'm very wary of any code on sf now.
> The author left SourceForge due to their business practices and this allows SourceForge to take over the repos and continue making money?

That it is open source does generally allow anyone to do this, right?

But yeah, Sourceforge sucks.
It's not just reading stuff, you should be passionate about the knowledge you would like to acquire. Most of the time people just read and read thinking they will be an expert after just reading a book.
It reminds me of an article from Paul Graham: http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html

"The way to win here is to build the search engine all the hackers use. A search engine whose users consisted of the top 10,000 hackers and no one else would be in a very powerful position despite its small size, just as Google was when it was that search engine. And for the first time in over a decade the idea of switching seems thinkable to me.

Since anyone capable of starting this company is one of those 10,000 hackers, the route is at least straightforward: make the search engine you yourself want. Feel free to make it excessively hackerish. Make it really good for code search, for example. Would you like search queries to be Turing complete? Anything that gets you those 10,000 users is ipso facto good."
Isn't that 1.5 billion accounts? How many are bots, fake, duplicates, or otherwise not representing exactly 1 person?
I don't think it's any wackier than faith in a supernatural creator/messiah/teacher. Most of today's theologists do indeed try to answer the questions posed by those with a more critical mindset, and those answers get pretty wacky, IMO. See [1] and [2].

If ancient civilizations believed in supernatural beings, then it stands to reason that perhaps their idea of a conscience was these beings speaking in their heads. I feel like the only exceptionally strange idea in this article is that humans weren't self-aware until these beings decided to STFU.

My own opinion is that we couldn't have organized into societies without self-awareness. And at some point, someone decided that societies needed rules, "higher purpose" was a bit abstract, so let's create beings to be feared ... and oh, yeah, that little voice in your head telling you not to do bad shit? The gods!

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transignification

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transubstantiation
I would love to have something like this as a dynamic desktop background.
He was asked a direct question, don't be a jerk.
Prior submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9612574 19hrs ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9612438 20hrs ago

HN submissions occur so fast that stories often don't gain traction if submitted during peak times.
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Cloudfind is a startup providing SaaS-based automated classification (tagging) of files stored in Box, Dropbox, Google Drive - enabling users to locate files by topic, and across conventional folder hierarchies. With 35bn MS Office files in Dropbox alone, businesses face a significant productivity dropoff as users struggle to find what they need without repeated searching.
I agree, that's always been the most likely explanation to me as well. You can see this phenomena with many things...

I was at a concert and saw loudspeakers on the top of some poles. I immediately associated them with shelf speakers, and my brain told me they couldn't be more than a foot tall. Then later I saw a worker climbing the pole to do maintenance and realized each speaker box was taller than he was.

I've also noticed this illusion in the city. There's a particular street that has a hill. As you drive up this hill, the top of a skyscraper is framed by the road and trees nearby, and it looks absolutely massive. Then you crest the hill and see the entire thing (along with the rest of the buildings downtown) and they look so much smaller and distant. It's really striking.
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Nature is amazing
Most likely he is a freshmen in one of the said establishments. Let's give it a few years. Wisdom takes time.
[IANPG]

If we take the odds of a startup surviving as 1:100, then the odds of both Digg and Reddit surviving are 1:10.000. If we assume that either Reddit will crush Digg or vice versa, the odds of Digg crushing Reddit are 1:20.000. If we assume that the odds that the marketplace will support more than one company are 10:1 the odds that Digg will crush Reddit go to 1:200.000.

Even if the denominator us high by an order of magnitude, the first order problem is just surviving and that depends on luck and execution. All the other factors do as well.

The mistake is in confusing game theory with a Sport metaphor. Sport focuses attention on beating particular opponents. Game theory prioritizes a diversity of outcomes. Beating Digg isn't an objective measure of success. Reddit could beat Digg and not create value.

My apologies for just being a random person on the internet and being neither PG nor Alexis Ohanian.
Very nice list thanks for posting
Hmmm... And I did this (had fb for a few years, deleted for a few, had for a semester abroad, deleted as soon as I had my first steady girlfriend, broke up and now about three and a half years later I'm back on). The problem I found was, as soon as I deleted my fb no one had my e-mail as it was deleted with it my account and messages.

I'm not the biggest fan of facebook obviously, but when I wqs studying abroad in France it really was a handy way to connect with people when I didn't have a cellphone. Now, after deleting for such a long period, I don't have any connection to my old friends which is a shame.

There's the argument that if people wanted to talk to you they'd make it happen but then there's the argument that if you're on facebook people are more likely to talk to you because of the convenience. No one wants to lose touch, and facebook provides and easy way to make sure that (had I not deleted) when I wanted to go back to Europe I'd have easy access for communication lines to the individuals I might want to visit.

Everything is double edged and while I've enjoyed my time off of facebook (why does everyone have to hate on the poorest in America? I will never understand. If the people on welfare were actual leechers maybe they'd own a portion of the country, anyways I digress).

That being said, it's a total privacy invasion, and the people I apparently know don't critically think too often unfortunately even as I try to gently prod, and yet, it has allowed me to find events I might not have gone too, and friends I may not have seen.

I hate to do this to hackernews where the discussion is the key reason I come here... but I did not read the article. Sorry!
See also http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=friendsreunited (in UK) or Digg or MySpace ...

FriendsReunited was /the/ social network [amongst a certain demographic at least] in the UK before anyone knew the term social network. They established a massive userbase including paid for users but Facebook came along and destroyed them, particularly because FR did the paid for communications like LinkedIn do.
Most people are already happily migrating to IM platforms where they can contact people more directly and form relevant ad hoc groups.
Facebook was smart enough to recognize that and buy one of them.

I'd be interested in seeing action metrics over time for FB. My gut feeling is that people use it more passively these days (I do, it's mostly a fancy contact book for me). Every now and then I catch myself posting stuff for reasons of "look isn't this great...please like it" but for the most part my FB use is fairly passive these days.

I also feel like I should just delete my FB account for various reasons every now and then but usually talk myself out of it.
how many of those are no longer active?
How to Stalk Someone’s Location on Facebook Messenger
I made some contributions to one of the open source java implementations(https://bitbucket.org/nimbusds/nimbus-jose-jwt) and I believe the encrypted form of JWTs are referred to as JWEs.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-jose-json-web-encrypt...
I cringe every time I see phrases connecting hackers to intellectuals. Most people in software I know are intelligent, but being smart does not make you intellectually curious. There are quite a few people I would consider hackers who have zero interest in a intellectual life beyond technology.

That's not to say they should if they aren't interested. But "intellectual" should mean more than just hacker-esque knowledge. I fear labeling your own in group as always intellectual leads down the path of believing everyone else is not worth listening to.
There is zero excuse for what they did, and zero excuse for what they have been doing for the past years.

Once again reposting what I said in the other thread (which seems to have been modded off the frontpage, sad).

I'm one of the lead devs of LXQt and an LXDE sysadmin. We use Sourceforge for our mailing lists and some LXDE legacy stuff.

I'm absolutely sick of them. It's not the first time this has happened. I've been pushing for us to move off SF for a while and this is a good occasion to push for it harder.

I've sent an email [1] detailing plans to move. I am urging everyone who still has projects on Sourceforge to do the same.

If you have similar migration problems to solve as the ones I've highlighted in the email, please contact me directly and we can share the workload. My email is available on my Github profile [2].

[1] http://sourceforge.net/p/lxde/mailman/message/34148903/
[2] https://github.com/jleclanche
andigilog. It had both under one roof in 2004. http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.as...
New Ugandan radio stations run on sun, smartphones and buckets
That's rather like saying that people use Apple because it has good UX: true, but perhaps we want to unpack it into specifics in order to improve our own work.
Spot on! The website builder is now in open-beta but that app is surely in the cards. Thank you for the suggestion!
So how exactly does this go from racing up the front page to number 4, to pretty much suddenly not being on the first 5 pages within an hour?
Eh, I remember the days of trying to keep in touch via email, and not getting replies, or feeling bad that I wasn't sending a reply. Just to keep in general contact, with no specific goal in mind. I don't look forward to going back to them.
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hahaha man, you made my day :) thanks
Lol, yes!

Except that I was envisaging some way to suggest a book (and by extension vote for a book) so a volunteer could choose a book that was in demand.

Also I didn't figure copyright in to the equation; Librivox is for public domain works it seems.
As far as I know in the Netherlands you get aside or stop when you see the strobe and hear the siren, to let an emergency vehicle pass, it is also allowed to run a red light.
> That it is open source does generally allow anyone to do this, right?

Their malware is open source?
OK, but only if you do me a favor and disable that enormously irritating popup ad
Yes, but the choice has to be made to use email rather than Facebook, iMessage, LinkedIn, etc. For some people it's the default, but there is always advertising trying to tempt them away. Email doesn't really have a brand identity.

Note how easily email converges on big email providers too, rather than everyone running their own services. Gmail is definitely a brand. Lo and behold, Gmail is a service that is "free" but paid for by selling analysis of the content of your emails.
Looks pretty nice.
I am not too fond of web-based database management tools, but it looks good.

One thing I'd like to see in this software would be export to Excel directly (not CSV). I am no big fan of CSV (e.g. Excel can't handle UTF-8 text in CSV files) and think that exporting to xlsx is a tremendous time saver. Exporting to SQL dumps is another important feature - but I see that you have this in your tool.
This alone seems like reason enough not to use SourceForge even if just for mirroring a project. Which is what a lot of projects do including some Linux Distributions, what are alternative hosts at that point though?
Moon is bigger closer to horizon, thanks to refraction.
For Haskell in particular, you are better off using Hoogle [1] or Hayoo [2].

[1]: https://www.haskell.org/hoogle/?hoogle=%3E%3D%3E
[2]: http://hayoo.fh-wedel.de/?query=%3E%3D%3E
HN thread on triple-entry accounting, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7771712
'Buy button' to be added to Google search results
Matthew Miller, Fedora Project Leader, Is Doing AMA on Reddit Right Now
> github used to allow binary distribution but not anymore

Sorry I must be missing something, what's wrong with "Upload a release asset" [1].

[1] https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/releases/#upload-a-rel...
Such as bypassing copyrights and video protections?
You never had to copy data from a test database to the productive database or the other way around ?

I am using MySQL Workbench all the time for tasks like this.
I post here my 2 cent summary about game theory, if someone needs reference, i can post later:

In noncooperative game theory, a player is supposed to be rational and intelligent. Being rational at least means that player doesn't use a dominated strategy (like in one-shot PD, cooperation is dominated by defection). Being intelligent means that player can bet in the rationality of opponents (which means one knows that the other will not play a dominated strategy ~ cooperation).

-> Just these two conditions can solve the Prisoner's Dilemma. However, in other games, after iterating away all the dominated strategies, player needs a stronger
notion of rationality: player maximizes expected utility given accurate prediction about opponent's strategy. As before, with the intelligent assumption standing, both players' keen consistency in their action will lead to Nash equilibrium (NE).

NE is a broad and fundamental concept. It's broad because it bases only on belief, not necessarily on what's real. Given the convergence of action and belief in equilibrium, what wasn't justified before will become justified. However, too broad is also its inherent issue because game theory loses its predictive power in many games by dictating too many possible Nash equilibria. Speaking of that, this concept is still so fundamental that it becomes the unit test for any kind of stricter equilibrium concept that one would like to build.

-> Many giants have tried to make major refinements built on top of NE. But along this literature, the further they go, the heavier the burden of rationality assumptions on modelling decision makers becomes. Player has to bear an exhaustive rationality in analysing the game in all the nodes that may never happen, or in face of background noise, or in thinking from future back to present.. Even making mistake needs to be justified. That requires ability to do complex optimization and infinite recursive thinking of common knowledge. So they say, what is the point of a theory starting with assumptions about players that are not even close to the statistically real truth? And if the collective reality doesn't matter, what matters?

-> Until now the narrative has substantially shifted from these ideal players to less demanding subjects. Just
as applied economics of behavioral, experimental, neuro-economics trying to figure out a reasonable approach
to modelling decision makers by adding cognitive and psychological knowledge, theorists bring evolution into
game theory. Starting from an amusing observation that nature doesn't assume any rationality of its creatures
but its solution many times becomes our definition of perfect, evolutionary game theory (EGT) offers a less
pervasive way of thinking into games by replacing strict assumptions by adaptive learning and letting the itera-
tive selection process do its job. Surprisingly, sometimes it gives us the perfect equilibrium just like in the classical regime.
Human app encourages people to adopt a more active lifestyle (video interview)
If that were the case then it'd be bigger in photographs. It isn't.
> What are you implying here? That humans do things without economic
> incentive, thus everything can be done with economic incentive?
> That's a ridiculous extrapolation.

I entirely agree that's a ridiculous extrapolation from my question. (Though I suspect you mean 'without' rather than 'with'.)

You then proceed to bring yourself along to the point I was making -- it's a matter of degree, and self-valuation (as the parent alludes to later) is the primary factor in determining what can and can't be done, or over what time frame, with someone's output.

Not that self-valuation isn't important - but it probably shouldn't be entirely self, or entirely others', role to determine the value of someone's output / contribution to society.
I haven't actually hired anyone from a bootcamp, but I was involved a bit with a local one to a minor degree (a guest lecture once).

I do think college in C.S. changed my brain in interesting ways, but the number of really good professors I had was probably small in my major, and smaller outside.

I find myself mostly using some very minor bits of discrete math in the end, and college left me with a employeeable but misguided interest in Java that I quickly learned I probably didn't like so much. Still, there were some abstract projects that were conceptually difficult. On the job learning is more useful.

Looking at the program I was talking to's syllabus, it was pretty much all "near best of breed" tech presented in a good order with a focus on automated testing.

Universities are trying to avoid being career farms, and yes, you want to learn things that last, but I think the answer is somewhere in the middle.

Some of the best people I've worked with with art or music majors. On a similar front, C.S. programs don't do a great job of teaching what industry really feels like - if I had known, I might not have gone into C.S. :)

A C.S/related degree helps a hiring decision, but I'm not sold on it if there are projects to back it up, and is no guarantee of awesomeness. I do like to see some four year degree on a resume still though.

I think you somewhat want proof of being able to learn, and also learning how to learn, and an appreciation for things like reliability and performance and "good code" and things like that. However you come to them is ok.
The bicameral mind sounds a lot like how artificial neural networks work in machine learning. It's basically the "about-ness" problem from the standpoint of psychology, rather than computer science. When does something that can learn and compute become conscious? When can it think about a problem rather than act on training and instinct?
> 2) The author left SourceForge due to their business practices and this allows SourceForge to take over the repos and continue making money?

Well, why not?
I remember having an idea to make something like G+ as a response to the "which groups really see what" issue shortly before G+ launched. Glad I didn't try executing on that one. Having tried G+ though I think it's too cognitively complex to categorise a few hundred contacts into various subgroups. Most users aren't going to bother. I imagine facebook takes an automatic AI type approach as to which posts it shows to which people so techie posts are more likely to go to techies. Anyone know if that's the case? Might be a gap to do that stuff it facebook is not already on it.
GnuCash is great; I credit it with changing me from a '$20 in my pocket/$0 in my pocket' guy in college to someone who's doing pretty comfortably now. It's all about understanding how money dances through a series of accounts.
I feel the same way @junto. Facebook was a nice phase but now it's phased out of my life. Anyone that is important to me has my email/phone.
We have a pretty clear and accessible privacy policy that addresses these issues in detail https://www.tunnelbear.com/privacy-policy/ TL;DR: no logging
The North-American slave trade was less than 10% of the American slave trade. Abut 40% went to the Caribbean and the remainder 50% to South America (mostly Brazil).
If you actually think that you might want to look up what that actually means.
Being Happy at Work Matters
Chinese Founders Say What Western Start-Ups Should Change to Succeed in China
Responsive data table by transforming each row into a table like style
Ask HN: Is it necessary to be a CS major be successful in the tech sector?
Tell me HN, what are your thoughts on this? Do you believe it's absolutely necessary to be a CS major to be competitive in the technology world?

Can the same result happen for someone who isn't a CS major but goes through all the hoops to teach themselves?
Why would a piece of software on my machine needlessly be under remote control ?
UBI will likely encourage unsustainable population growth. So, population growth dis-incentives need to be part of the package.
Why France is building a mega-university at Paris-Saclay to rival Silicon Valley
>4) The reason why they did it is actually completely irrelevant. "I killed him because he slept with my wife" doesn't change the fact that you committed murder.

Hate, well, love to be pedantic, but it actually it does matter.

Courts and society alike take the reason for a murder (e.g. self-defense, revenge because of having been abused, being crazy or intoxicated etc.) into consideration for less harsh sentences or even acquital.
Dice Holdings also bought Slashdot, and now there are things that look out of place, like the Kate Upton ad for God of War, Slashdot Deals [1], and annoying ads as tweets on the twitter account which made me unfollow.

[1] https://deals.slashdot.org/?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=n...

Would be interesting to see if Slashdot posts this story.
I've been using Hub forever. It's a lovely bit of improvement over raw git, at least for Github-based projects.
yeah, nice examples.

Now let's talk about the "DEVELOPING COUNTRIES"... what good examples do you have?
I'm not sure if this is the reason, but I have noticed that there is a definite backlash against Go here and on /r/programming, especially when discussed in relation to "better" languages like Haskell and Rust.