skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent a little time browsing Zed's comment history (after seeing his reply to the comment you linked). It does seem to be representative of the kind of comment Zed calls "slanderous", at least in the past year or so. Perhaps there's something else, or perhaps there are comments that Zed did not respond to, that are actually problematic in some way. But, what I see is a polite but somewhat negative review of one of Zed's books. If that is "slander", then I have slandered Steve Jobs so many times it's not funny.
>which is precisely defined according to a formula, and, hopefully, correlates highly with true narcissism.

Yeah, that was his point. Hope doesn't cut it. You kind of have to go off and prove your formula does correlate highly with true narcissism, not just skip on to the next step.
Maybe I spent to much time on 4chan. As in, any time at all. But, I was more than a bit moved when I heard moot claim "People deserve a place to be wrong."

I believe that arguing is a tremendously important and valuable activity. So much so that I'd argue that even tired old arguments with idiots and assholes are worth revisiting occasionally because sometimes, on rare and special occasions, idiots/assholes have something to teach you. Not nearly as often as they like to think. But, sometimes.

Usually they don't. Usually their arguments are ill-formed, confusing, irritating, a bit scary, pretty-surely not worth the emotional investment required to confront. But, if you don't occasionally perform a genuine check on your assumption that the assholes are also idiots, you shouldn't continue to confidently move forward acting on that assumption.

I think that HN is incredibly valuable. I think it still has a fine mixture of inspirational and questionable criticism. Not a homogeneous, consistent, reliable mix, but a fine mix nonetheless. But also, not a mix that is effortlessly self-sustaining, certainly.

And so, even though I disagree with him, I'd like to thank Zed for making the personal expenditure to call out HN on some of it's bullshit. He's on the receiving end of more criticism than most. Whether that criticism is inspirational or questionable is a good question... Either way, although that's a downside that should be expected from his, let's say, 'unusual' and highly public style, expected doesn't mean easy. I certainly have no idea.

So, thanks anyway Zed, you magnificent asshole, for checking your assumption. Here's hoping you find it in you to continue checking until you learn something.
I'd love to completely wipe 1984 from my head, just for the pleasure of reading it again! You will not look at the world in the same way once finished.
I've been using it for a couple of years and I really love it.

It's a simple tool, no fancy features, but it gets the job done really well.

For people who work on multiple projects and want to organize their ssh config, this is a must have.
> The best part about ripping on these guys though is this:

If they have a blog, speak at conferences, publish papers,
or write books then they are public figures just like me.
This means that thanks to Larry Flynt I can stab them in the ear verbally, insult them, question their sexual orientation, and say anything that’s true and they just have to take it. Their only recourse is to write their pathetic little rebuttals in their stupid little blogs.

Oh, the irony.
Take a look at Elixir on your dive too; it compiles to run on the Erlang VM, follows the OTP model and you can use native Erlang libraries directly in your code.

Overall it offers a higher level entrance to the Erlang world and coming from Python you may find the syntax slightly easier to digest (anecdotal).
These sorts of comments absolutely infuriate me

Clearly, but the fact they infuriate you doesn't change my rebuttal of the OP's point. Which you still haven't addressed, short of telling me how it infuriates you. I understand you're infuriated.
I like Zed, and his contributions and writing are a credit to the community. But yeah, this attack seems off-base for him. From what I can tell, this was sparked by a submission [1] and subsequent upvoting of a critique of his book, a critique that is months old. That it got upvotes means that, well, it got upvotes, from 50 or so of the thousands of HN users who might be reading the site at any given hour. It doesn't mean there's a high conspiracy to shit on his work. If there were, would his books be so highly upvoted as they've been over the years?

I would love to see Zed critique the "Don't Learn C the Wrong Way"...it seems like a better use of his energy than ripping on Paul and the HN mods who don't seem to care directly either way.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9636605
I think this is a result of people starting with the decoration rather than the tool they chose. I'm primarily a programmer, but i'll always fire up Sketch (previously Photoshop) if I want to do any design work.

Much like the author of the article, I find that designing in the browser doesn't use the right parts of my brain. I don't just mean in the sense of decoration.
Erm, because the first thing a real scientist would do would be to test the narcissism metric and check that it does, you know, actually correlate with narcissism? You can't just invent metrics and hope that they work.

> It's how social science is done, and how you discover results that are worth exploring.

Do you see the problem here? If you invent metrics, assume they work, then only pursue the ones that produce results "worth exploring"... can you see the problem?
If people are not obsessively looking for reasons to be offended (which kind of might hint about subtle underlying psychological problems) - neither.
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In general, while I think more things like Hacker News are a good thing, Product Hunt feels elitist to me.

The people who are already in the know and well connected can get lots of publicity, and those who are more independent or just starting out either can't post or don't get recognized.

I've also had multiple friends (who are much better connected in SF) create big roll-out plans where they get all their friends to quickly up vote them. While it's not technically a problem, it takes away the real test of "is the idea worth voting for" and turns it into more of a popularity contest.

Just my 2 cents. Maybe others have had great experiences (and certainly some of the "products" posted are cool), but I'm skeptical of Product Hunt in general...

My suggestion is to stick with truly democratic places to share your new things (if you want more unbiased feedback), and submit press/news directly to places -- they want good stories and interesting ideas/products to share with their readers if what you have is a genuine contribution.

Good luck!
But they often get taken over by fucking wingnuts.

Look at groups that discuss male victims of rape. This is an important subject that doesn't receive nearly enough attention - it's even acceptable to joke about male victims of rape on tv in a way that would be totally unacceptable if it were about women.

But a sizable number of the groups addressing this are dominated by men who try to deny the female experience of rape (rape against women doesn't count as rape because they were drunk, or they were a friend of their rapist, or because they didn't fight, etc) or they distort sexual violence statistics to claim that more men are raped than women.

Or look at groups discussing family courts. There's an unwillingness to accept that some men are abusive fathers or abusive husbands and that children or spouses need protection from those men. Family law is browen and unjust and many men are being denied their human right to a family life with their child (and ditto children their right to family lofe with father) but you need to accept one of the many reasons for that is the huge numbers of women murdered and beaten by their spouse and the large numbers of children murdered and beaten by their children.
Really fun to play. Just a quick add; maybe everything could be a little smaller. Great work, congratulations.
Firstly, I'm fairly senior in a large consultancy; make of that what you will.

Secondly; I mean the power and influence that you have in your company, if you have no influence in your company, then at least you have some power in your market. Your employer is not the only one in your city and moving usually gives you a pay bump. Just don't go fucking begging, you're a professional and you're worth money.... bro.....
We're talking about the US, right? And what, specifically, about J.E. Hoover? We're probably not going to argue that he was a bad guy. Whose presidential nomination or campaign did J.E. Hoover derail? And again, let's stipulate that this was a terrible, autocratic person who abused his decades-long position in office.
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1. Regarding native complexity: surely, using CoreGraphics is just as easy as canvas?

2. That game looks like it's running at about 15fps. I'm not sure that constitutes very good proof of the argument. The best apps and games run at 60.

3. I'm not sure who's using web MVC frameworks en masse and to what end, but I would NOT want to write a data-driven web app like Discourse from scratch.
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I could not agree more about the role of paper for coding. I used to jump right into action and got lost very quickly in details and gave up soon after. Now I try to slow myself down and do sketches about quite everything. Database design seems to be of a special importance, as it hurts so much the find out later that you did not think hard enough and forgot too many cases that you need to incorporate in your database schema. Slowing down with all screens off and mind on certainly makes a huge difference in my workflow.
LOL, I don't think it does what you are thinking it does: https://workspace.imperial.ac.uk/lesc/Public/jdml.pdf

Also, your post is right now somewhere around #6 on google for "Job Description Markup Language".
I like the build-up explanation in this chapter (Monte Carlo Methods) from MacKay's book: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itprnn/ps/356.384....
"self-tuning" is alive in activity metering

http://www.autoletics.com/posts/managing-performance-analysi...

and execution control of systems using adaptive control valves & QoS

https://vimeo.com/groups/sentris

http://www.autoletics.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/UsingSy...

http://www.autoletics.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Adaptiv...

self-adaptation (self-tuning being a sub category) needs to be both online & offline in reality

http://www.autoletics.com/posts/iterative-application-perfor...
Even if some of the test just test the existence of a feature, this is a great compatibility table !
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Calling someone a stupid fuck is clearly corrosive and going to derail threads. Do you really not see that?

And placing the blame for that on mental health problems? That's ignorant and lazy.
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Mostly ≠ totally
An issue which is not linux specific is when calculating the size of an array allocation you can overflow size_t. So when mallocing arrays, you're supposed to check the computed size for overflow (or use calloc(3) or OpenBSD/libbsd's reallocarray(3) instead).
Ah neat, I used Soundrop when it was around. You guys should do a write up on the architecture now that it's closed down. Any material on in production BEAM apps are gems for me.
That isn't going to catch sites that load reasonably but behave slowly afterwards (eating CPU time so potentially slowing other apps down too).

There are a couple of sites I visit that do this. If I leave a few tabs of imgur open in Chrome they'll consume a pile of CPU time (this doesn't always happen, so perhaps it depends which ads are on the page?). IFLS pages eat CPU and memory too (again, almost certainly due to the ad content). In both cases it can be noticeable on a powerful desktop machine, so it must be a significant drain on low powered laptops and such.
I imagine a manual step somewhere along the way - not at the level of individual withdrawals and deposits, of course, so it scales well enough - but still someone has to be in the office until that ATM is closed.
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For some reason every time somebody criticizes Google, somebody ends up making the argument that Apple is worse and vice-versa.

I don't really get it. Is it because you feel the need to root for your favorite or something? Either way, it's a fallacy that brings nothing to the discussion.
I agree with you - I hated the format of this article and I wish there was a way for HN to provide constructive meta feedback.
This is sad, there was people inside and knowing that the error is human only shows how error prone we are. This denotes the importance of test even if not everything is testable.
and it's why I wasn't a fan of Toy Story 3. They get saved at the climax by coincidence
I think it's a pity that people can't see past him being "combative and dogmatic". I don't agree that it takes away from the core message of his work at all.

A lot of really smart people are cantankerous, and often they can afford to be.
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Looks good, lots of details all in one place.

Lots of stack overflow posts one this, but most answers are in snippet form. Would be good to have a single place to point people to for answers.

Guess you have seen this python version that gives javascript read/write access: https://assembly.com/gridspree
Yes, the truly interesting models are hard to analyze but, to paraphrase, if intelligence was simple enough that we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.
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The security model is broken, just like BGP's is. Root CAs plainly can't be trusted. It's not just that they'll cooperate with governments. See "Security Collapse in the HTTPS Market".[0]

[0] http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2673311
You get access when you reach 25,000 Karma points. You know, so you don't feel too bad if the data doesn't swing in your favor.
Not sure what you mean by saying PH is elitist..
I believe that the "hose who are more independent or just starting out" can also get noticed and someone can see their product and submit it to Product Hunt as well.
It is all about the product quality in my opinion.
Anyway there are lots of other stories of Product Hunt success.

What would be the "democratic places to share your new things" you mentioned?
Doing that right now. Multi-tab multitrack :-) love it. (Not doing step 2 or 3 just yet though, can't find my old tape deck.)
Url changed from http://flowingdata.com/2015/05/29/why-the-subway-isnt-gettin..., which points to this.
There are lots of VSTs that do about the same thing. In the xoxos VST link posted above, check out Pling. If you want the exact same algorithm in a VST plugin, you could port it to Lua in my scriptable plugin. In fact someone made a nice Karplus-Strong script for it a couple of days ago (I should be merging it instead of making HN comments):

https://github.com/pac-dev/protoplug/pull/8
I don't, sorry.

Maybe you'll build a good one. :-)
"She found, however, that she could study them by following them around and observing their daily activities and interactions."
Are you f$%"£ kidding me? This sounds like such a revelation but is so bleeding obvious.
Of course you have to observe people in their natural habitat, WATCHING them, not just sending them a SurveyMonkey survey or asking a buncha questions. C'mon people. Get real!
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The words "rockstar" and "ninja" are not allowed in posts?
Did you read the comments? It's pretty obvious why.
Its interesting to see how other industries tackle the same problem.

VFX has essentially the same problem to google: a huge bunch of tasks that need to perform all at once.

However VFX only tend to have one data center, so they don;t need or want clustered scheduler.

https://github.com/mikrosimage/openrendermanagement, Alfred and tractor from pixar, and framestore's FQ (which is faster and more efficient than Borg at job dispatch. ) Are a few good example of task management.
Security on GoPro cameras 'too weak', 'could be used to spy on owners'
I was at the talk Zed was ranting about and didn't know what Zed was ranting about until I looked it up.
Yes, because people are so good at judging risk. Go on, say something using the word, "Darwin".
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Interesting choice...

Seems like genetic algorithms, particle swarms etc. would be more attractive choices since they solve the same problem and
are inherently parallelizable while Metropolis Hastings is almost 100 years old and designed for a 4 function calculator.

Although I guess some people have meta-parallelized it... but still seems like a patch job compared to modern likelihood navigation algos.
Why is the premises here that everything to the last letter has to be taken seriously? I'll be damned, but there's reddit? netsec and such places. They seem to fare pretty well. Relevant rules?

- Don't create unnecessary conflict.

- Keep the discussion on topic.

- Limit the use of jokes & memes.

Places a bit of trust in people's hands instead of slapping 'lel no this, lel no that'.

I can't say I blame something or someone (well maybe people introducing those rules), after all it barely affects me.
You're not the only one and there's a reason why these links are marked with a "[pdf]" warning.
http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-time-to-submit-a-produ...

I do not think there's one specific time for submitting a product....
That could be measured. I'd like to see a graph of how often those occur in whoishiring threads. Perhaps it's wishful thinking, but I bet they've gone down.
You are witnessed!
All too often, US groups that should be allies in the fight against state survelliance show their true colours and only really campaign when American privacy is under threat.
I think HN and reddit are both pretty democratic (everyone can submit and vote).

Of course, people can always try to get their friends to vote, but in my experience the feedback is pretty even-handed and proportional to what is posted. :)

Any other places you'd suggest?
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I had some very old machines around, even if I am not even 30 yo, I love almost any kind of old machine I was able to collect.

I had a small collection since a couple of years ago composed by Sun Ultra-60, Next Workstation (working, but original HD was gone), Next Cube (never worked), Commodore 64, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Apple Macintosh (not working) and some others machines people were not interested anymore and I was able to collect for free. It was a quite good collection and funny to deal with in the spare time, but then, one day, my father decided to discard all of them because they were old and mostly broken. I was so disappointed it took me a while to realize it.
Unfortunately, the RoR “community” and Zed have a history when it comes to penis-related insults. There was a time when you could add anyone you liked to a github project & they couldn’t block you, so a bunch of developers thought it would be funny to add Zed's github account to a project to draw ascii penises. Every time he’d remove himself, they’d add him to another one & so on.

Puerile? Yup. Also, possibly career sabotaging if a potential future employer looks at your github project list.

See https://web.archive.org/web/20130117043748/http://sheddingbi... for some of the gory details. Github woke up, smelled the coffee & made it possible for their users to block other users shortly after this little saga.

Yes, it’s easy for us to say “he should be the bigger person & not respond in kind” but on the flip side, we haven’t been on the receiving end of this kind of abusive behaviour.
That really spends on the movie. I don't feel like Ratatouille is really a kids movie nor is The Incredibles. I'd even argue Toy Story and Toy Story 2 are pretty adult. I could certainly relate to Woody's feeling scared of the shiny new hire (TS1) or his being lured to probably the wrong job (TS2). Up seems like an adult movie with stuff added for kids vs the opposite. So did Wall.E IMO. Lots of parents found Saving Nemo very close to their hearts (not a parent so not one of my favs).

Cars, on the other hand ......
What's the big deal? Who is being hurt?

Anyone who for whatever reason is using HTTP/1.1 will have a much worse experience if sites start making the kinds of changes recommended in this presentation to work better with HTTP/2 today.
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You speak as if the problem is that it could be the security apparatus has been abused, but we don't have any evidence this has happened.

The problem is we cannot be sure exactly when it has been abused. It's only fair to presume our our corrupt system does not use the NSA ethically.
An article about the flight: http://www.aopa.org/News-and-Video/All-News/2008/March/1/End...
I reccomend "Programming in the UNIX Environment" by Kernighan and Pike. Partly because it was written so soon after UNIX and C themselves, it has very little of the modern 'cruft' in it. It's at the level of "cc program.c -o program".

Make is fairly easy to learn, at least in its basic form. Autoconf is horrendous.
One of the parallelized versions is Gibbs sampling that is used for sampling from Bayesian networks. In this case you don't even need a proposal distribution; neither would you need the test from MH.

I think Graphlab (https://dato.com/) comes implemented with something of this kind.

The trouble with Particle swarms/Genetic algorithms is that they aren't guaranteed to sample from the underlying p.d. It is not yet apparent whether you can find the mode of a distribution faster by choosing a Markov chain whose stationary distribution is different from the underlying one.
Not a presidential campaign, but Hoover was really not keen on MLK and spent a lot of effort attacking the civil rights campaign: http://time.com/3582004/fbi-letter-hoover-mlk/
Go to dribbble and replicate certain components you find there. Set yourself a condition for each one you do.

* Modern browsers only
* use flexbox
* must work in ie6 with no js
* must degrade gracefully
etc
> Even if a large percentage of people are no longer capable of easily hosting a full node, the benefits of decentralization are there.

How exactly? If you don't host a full node, you can only participate by going through someone who does.

> The resources required are not insane, so "normal" people (read: not power elite) are capable of running a node

The resources are formidable, and those in developing economies (except for the "power elite") have no hope of running a node.

> there is still enough decentralization so that no entity can corrupt the blockchain

Except that mining syndicates control huge swaths of the blockchain and it would only take the collusion of a few to control an absolute majority.

> the rate of transaction growth is slower than growth in bandwidth and disk space costs, so things will likely get better

Please explain the math on this. My understanding of network effects means that the problem will probably only get worse.
Hi,

I am studying Computer Science in Würzburg ;)

It depends on your skillset, but actually its plenty easy in Würzburg and Germany in general to make SOME money. It off course depends on your expertise and requierments.

Although, i am the University for Applied Sciencs, and our Faculty has a real strong support network for getting students into various jobs. Cant speak for the University, and certainly not for the Faculty of Biology.

If you want I can give you some advice though :)
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