skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Strangely, yes. I still read it daily believe it or not. It's like a lighter version of hacker news or arstechnica. Ars and HN are usually too deep and suck away my time and brain power (in a good way!). But sometimes I just want to spend a couple minutes reading tech news without having to think too hard. That's slashdot.

But stay away from the comment section. It's horrible to navigate and lacks any interesting content at all. Seriously, don't even think about clicking into it.
Google Car Drives Like Your Grandma
There are precedents of HN doing funny things. E.g. they mess with rankings of comments. They'll often rank a pro-YC comment to the top of the comment thread (it's clear here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7354815 - that a comment made after some 30 days of the submission is sent straight to the top). There have been precedents in which comment threads critical of Dropbox and Stripe were messed with. After a lot of these occurrences, they did something really smart: they instituted a policy change on HN that "HN is not a support service for YC companies" -- that if anyone has complaints, they should take it to YC companies themselves. Now, whether that is really a good-faith policy change or a clever ploy to cut down anti-YC talk, I'll leave that up to you.
I still visit daily. The occasional brilliant comment makes it worth it.
I have no idea what your question means.

The comments are unhinged, that was my point:

"Women have taken control of society. How? Through misandric laws and policies that give women the power to destroy men's lives (forced redistribution of wealth and power); to wit:

The VAWA, Yes Means Yes, Title IX, no-fault divorce, alimony, child support (alimony light), false rape, false DV, false harassment, false sexual assault, exemption from selective service, Affirmative Action, SNAP, WIC, women-only scholarships, lighter/no punishment for equal crimes, use of state and federal funds for majority/female only funding and soon paid maternity leave and free child care for single mothers.

Who enacted/will enact these laws? The white knights of the patriarchy - at the behest of the pathologically narcissistic, entitled gynocracy. Why? To get elected/re-elected - the majority of men have been tossed mercilessly under the bus - by other men - for decades."

Notably here, he's blaming other men for all of societies problems. Because although woman run society for their own benefit, they still have to bribe "white knights" to pass the laws for them.
That's kind of cool. It's a full, large book complete with examples with full syntax coloring. And still fits into less than 1/100th of a cent of disk space.
You must interpret low-power devices as low-end Linux boards. No one is aiming to target the microcontroller market with a Linux/arm board.
Careful now D503 even speculating about play will have the Bureau of Guardians take you away to room 101.
Preparing for a Career in Medicine
First time founders and the trouble with founder friendly terms
Stick "127.0.1.1 slashdot.org" in your /etc/hosts. I promise you'll have forgotten about its very existence within a week.
I think it's saying if the two panes were sealed without a hole at ambient pressure when the plane is manufactured then the outer pane at elevation would have ~1atm of pressure pushing out on it and the middle pane would have ~1atm pushing in on it. With the hole the outer pane only has cabin pressure pushing out on it, which is ~75% of 1atm.
If everybody starts asking for a raise, the average salary will go up, and we can start all over :) By the way, I'm wondering how one would determine the average salary for one's job in a reliable way (your boss could contend that those numbers are fake to some extent).

Wouldn't it be advantageous to employees if salaries were just out in the open within a company/department? It seems to me that employers benefit most from the current situation where salaries are private.
> But even for less super-concurrent databases, C++ databases don't outperform Java ones. In this benchmark, the Java databases (H2 and HSQLDB) almost always outperform MySQL and Postgres: http://www.h2database.com/html/performance.html (and I don't even know how the Java solutions handle concurrency, whether they do locking, optimistic locking or a clever combination, like SpaceBase).

It's hardly surprising that a vendor's own benchmark shows it as winning against the competition.
I used to argue for type decorations, like in most C like languages, but then changed my mind.

When programming in a high level language like JavaScript, you should not think about types. Thinking about types will only limit your creativity and problem solving. Instead, you should focus on the logic abstraction.

Also you shouldn't lock yourself into classifications. Instead, just check the input and throw an error if it doesn't fit.
> The EU super-structure should constrain extremist elements by acting as a moderating influence.

We don't even manage to integrate the Brits into the EU, and there is not even a religious issue.
Oops.. Yes, you are right.
> But what would be useful would be some detailed critical thinking on the topic.

Detailed critical thinking on any topic would be wonderful. Perhaps I have attended the wrong conferences, but I rarely see presentations like this. We really should think and discuss more and preach our position less in conference settings.
You used to be able to set your preferences to see dead ones and browse sections like new, but now they've unlinked them, so there is no way to check any more. It's sad because the moderators around here tend to do a really terrible job, butchering titles to be less informative and other harmful actions, and this just makes them even less accountable.
Oh, my sympathies...
This.

The 850 Pro I've got in my machine has a stated write lifetime of 150TB.

And chances are, it'll do a lot more than that, it's just the number they'll look at for the 10 year warranty.
You don't need to be a physicist: if the panel is sealed there will be a constant pressure inside. The pressure on each face is then P_ext-P_int. It's just as likely that both panels will fail at the same time in that case as in the case with a hole; but the bonus in this case is that you can set up the internal pressure so both panels have lower nominal pressure (but the internal at least should be able to still handle the full pressure difference).

I know it's routine to manufacture even household glass panels with different gases sealed in their interior (I think they put Argon inside? some low conductivity gas), but afaik it's at atmospheric pressure.
It gets ugly fast. Most tasks are not a simple sort. There's a reason that cooperative multitasking is not widely used in operating systems anymore.
Stress Test Recap: Bitcoin
In the case of something as simple as a bubble sort, you probably could code something to periodically hand control back to the browser to pick up input events, but I imagine that would slow it down considerably as you'd need to check every few milliseconds otherwise the user will see some lag. Also, in something more complex inserting breaks would be a lot harder. Why bother when web workers are a good, working solution?
I used it professionally from 2012 - 2014, and I know of about a half a dozen companies either developing things in it or supporting it as part of saas offerings. Not that many, but each group that I know of made the switch after extensive reviews of other language options, and they've all had positive experiences so far.
Brillo contains a very minimal part of Android for HAL and the network stack. 64MB is our medium-end target. The ART is not in the scope of Brillo.
I guess FOMO is a thing. And at one point the amount of brilliant comments is not enough to justify filtering through the noise
hero/villain claim: So it's a tautology if you interpret it like this: You are currently A. You will die. If you don't die as A, you will die as !A. But it's not a tautology because there's an intermediate state between hero and villain that is neither A nor !A.

cancer claim: Again, it sounds like a tautology, but you aren't considering statistics. Sure, if nothing else kills you, you die of exploding fingernails. But the intent of that expression is to say that cancer is the default, it's not a bullet you can dodge forever. I'm not sure I agree, because "old age" != "cancer", but that's what it means.

Or was your question purely rhetorical? I tried...
Ajax-form: a web component that extends the HTML form element in amazing ways
I can't reply to Porker! But.. in reply, yes, I agree, critical analysis is horribly lacking in science atm.

Maybe this is something a plenary could do well - what are the assumptions that underpin some of the things that we are doing? Can we challenge those? Can we pick out the complaints/problems that people outside have about what we are doing?

That's hard for any community to do...

BTW. for the record, I learned years ago that objects did not for a good modularity make...
Enrique Iglesias has fingers sliced by drone during Tijuana concert
On the one hand, I agree. On the other... well, an inability to add more value to a verified certificate is pretty much one of the fundamental problems that Coursera (and other MOOCs) has struggled with. A certificate that you've completed a MOOC (together with some weak identity verification) just doesn't have pretty much any value to most people.

Maybe if you've got no other credentials, they're better than nothing--especially if they indicate a systematic attempt to educate yourself in a relevant area. Or maybe to satisfy some sort of continuing education requirement.

But MOOCs haven't really gone much of anywhere as businesses precisely because their value is correctly largely seen as more akin to self-paced study with books and video than a college class. This isn't only because of the lack of value attached to their credentials, verified or otherwise, but it's one of the reasons.
US Senate Debate on Patriot Act Extension
Google is building their own hardware, an embedded Linux distro is primarily a need at Google to support our hardware projects for a long time. But, for the first time, the industry is capable of building hw projects at scale. It's not surprising we reinforce our interest to get involved by opening what we're already doing.
Enrique Iglesias injured in concert drone mishap
Do you actually, like, really believe that?! That’s absurd.

I mean, ok, as a political idea that can be powerful but I don’t see it having anything at all to do with the truth. It’s just absurd …
Thinking about a box of hammers makes me smile.
Is co-operative multitasking really as far as it's got, after two decades of web progress? Sheesh.
It is not to save the government, it is to save the money from the people who own the government bonds, who are mainly Japanese. It is a redistribution issue.
I recently read "Working in the Shadows: A year of doing the work (most) Americans won't do." http://www.amazon.com/Working-Shadows-Year-Doing-Americans/d...

It makes some excellent points about how pathetically underpaid some jobs are and how crucial they are to the functioning of society. People (mostly men) who do back-breaking labor, like harvest food from the fields, are critical to the food supply, yet it is often paid less than minimum wage. My dad grew up on a farm and was a soldier for more than 2 1/2 decades. I always find it pretty galling when folks who make good money are basically snobby assholes about the value of blue collar work.

We really need to do something about making sure that critical jobs get paid a living wage -- not out of compassion or charity but out of enlightened self-interest. That's the only way the spoiled educated people who made "good" career choices will get to keep sitting on their asses at a computer and still eat. Sigh.

There are some things very wrong with this world. Not in a "gosh, we are all assholes" sort of way but in a "gosh, we are all idiots -- what happens if we can't fill these blue collar jobs and the grocery store shelves sit empty?" sort of way.
Soylent News was stood up more than a year ago after /. forced a new style on people, and generally started going downhill. I read both now.
Cyber criminals accessed 100,000 U.S. Taxpayers files
From what I understood many articles are flagged automatically based on certain rules, like spotting attempts of gaming the voting system. Of course it can have false positives, but I don't think there's any malice involved here. And while I agree that there have definitely been instances of articles being buried due to miss-usage of the "flag" link (which is necessary IMHO) or to overzealous moderators flagging based on certain topics, I don't remember seeing censorship because of a conflict of interest with YCombinator.

Of course, I could be wrong - I used to think that Slashdot wouldn't ban negative pieces on Sourceforge either.
I have showdead on and New looks right to me.
Women stand up for men getting better access to mental health care because women are affected as mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters of men who die by suicide.

That's just one example where feminism would seek to help men because it's in the interests of women. There are plenty of others, and there are more altruistic examples too.
To delete it?
Magic as probability manipulation is about the best system I've seen.

See also David Drake's Northworld Trilogy. Though that's more science fiction than fantasy. And Keepers Chronicles by Tanya Huff.
That is what I said, yes. But not even a flaw (though it can be seen as one), so much as just something that has to happen—like the CAP theorem, or more analogous, Arrow's impossibility theorem.
Is there really a significant difference between having two stores called UserStore and MessageStore, and having a single Store with state like {users: userState, messages: messageState}?
Agreed, attacking people as sexist for totally benign comments just HURTS women's rights. It's a "boy who cried wolf" scenario, filtering out the B.S. just makes people insensitive to the real issues later.
OP said "HN buries articles" without qualifying that YC is involved, and my comment followed up on that aspect without resorting to conspiracy theories. You are reading my comment in the context of nearby offtopic conspiracy fodder and have, as a result, completely misjudged my point.

You even repeated and agreed with the sole point I'm making.
My point is I don't want to forget. It still serves a purpose. I'd get over it if it vanished but I'd rather it not. I'm sure there are other alternatives out there though. Speaking of... any recommendations?

I just want an on topic, light reading, tech news site. No machine learning, Markov chains, or "How we at company X solved Y" articles. Also not interested in "random gadget Y that has X more pixels than the last" articles. Know anything that fits the bill?
He really has the Bill Nye like enthusiasm + nerdiness nailed.
There is not a single mention of Java at the Brillo announcement.

Irrelevant but flush your biases and assumptions down to the toilet. Java can statically compile to microcontroller architectures with minimal runtime footprint. Stop blaming the languages, blame the runtime implementations.
I have a handful of high-yield corporate closed end funds. The biggest downside is that some of the payments are non-dividend distribution (such as return of capital) which are tax-free but lowers the cost basis when you sell.
I agree there's disparity in artistic prominence here but I was going for more of a metaphor than a comparison.
Buffon's Needle: An Analysis and Simulation
I've gone barefoot a few times - it's a bit sore on gravelly ground but other than that not terrible. Supermarket chiller sections feel very cold.

>Disagree with your definition of addicted //

I made pains to show that "addicted" was being used metaphorically. I was describing common use not presenting an alternate definition. That said the roots of the word are in having an inclination towards something and it is still defined in some dictionaries as alternately relating towards habits rather than solely pertaining to psychological or physiological dependency.
>Measuring narcissism was tricky, Hambrick said. Self-reporting was not exactly an option, so he chose a set of indirect measures: the prominence of each CEO’s picture in the company’s annual report; the size of the CEO’s paycheck compared with that of the next-highest-paid person in the company; the frequency with which the CEO’s name appeared in company press releases. Lastly, he looked at the CEO’s use of pronouns in press interviews, comparing the frequency of the first-person plural with that of the first-person singular. Then he rolled all the results into a single narcissism indicator.

It must be nice to be able to just make up and use a method for identifying "narcissists" without having to test whether the people you're identifying as narcissists are, in fact, narcissists. In my opinion, if this is how you do research you can hardly call what you do science.
Check out what? Gawker is one banned site among a lengthy list of banned sites. Or are you hinting at something else?
Immigrants, Latinos Helped Drive Business Creation Last Year
So wait, according to this article:

People who are nice, team players, selfless, etc. cluster near the top and the bottom of our hypothetical payscale graph.

People who are narcissistic, egotistical, entitled, and overall "assholes" also cluster near the top and the bottom of payscale graph.

But their data on narcissists only comes from CEOs?

I would suggest that in aggregate this tells us basically nothing about how one should act to get ahead (Except maybe "Avoid the middle road of only being an asshole sometimes?").

It does however suggest that narcissism might be more common among CEOs than in the general populace, although again, not a predictor of being a particularly successful one.

This is all of course setting aside the obvious problems of "How are they even defining these nebulous categories (In the case of narcissism, their measures were pretty unconvincing IMO. A lot of those decisions could have been made by marketing/PR people. There's sometimes value in the 'personal brand' of your CEO, even if they themselves are pretty humble in attitude) and even if we believe their definitions, how could they possibly be measuring them in a rigorous way in the wild"
Did you personally think up this quilting analogy for copy-pasta programming? Because it's pretty awesome and I want to be able to give due credit when I steal it.
It was very hard to read a text this bright on a white background.
>Also you shouldn't lock yourself into classifications. Instead, just check the input and throw an error if it doesn't fit.

I really don't see the gain here - instead of delegating the typechecks to a tool, the compiler you clutter your code with them. You still have to think about the types, functions/methods (public ones) start with at one, two or more ifs and you even have a hit on runtime perfomance.
I thought about doing something like this myself a while back. I use Ocado[1], who have their own scan and shop app. I could possibly put this onto an older iPhone with a battery pack and some sticky velcro and run it from that.

I like what the author has done though, and it's good that the server was open sourced.

[1] - http://www.ocadogroup.com/news-and-media/news-centre/2014/20...
> Whenever I see these kinds of video processing on real time, I just want to drop everything and work on that.

Personally, I find AI too much of a "fuzzy black box" thing to be really interested in it. I have to agree that the applications are often truly marvelous. But the fact that, for example, training neural nets is often more of an art than a science is holding me back to step into the field.

I like to work on a problem, think it through, and be 99% sure that it will work before I have even written one line of code. With AI, it is more like "let's try this and see if it works".
Used to? I can configure my account to see dead comments (and have), maybe this is different for newer accounts (but I've never heard this)? Also, I can see the new section when I browse incognito, so I'm not seeing what I think you are describing.

Also, moderation has become a lot more transparent over the last year or so (see https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dang) and I cannot think of a site offhand that does a better job of this.

Edit: My comments about moderation are related to the parent statement about how Hacker News often indicates why thread contents (such as the title) have changed.
Check out the spec: https://github.com/wycats/javascript-decorators
I'm surprised Reflux wasn't mentioned. I really don't see the need for a dispatcher, but perhaps I am missing something important.
Soylent News is OK and meant as a Slashdot replacement. Its suffering from a lack of community though.
I want you to know what I understand what I see "cultural fit" on a job description.

I understand it means you want people just like you. I understand it means that there is a total lack of diversity at your place of employment. I understand you have chosen to write this because you are not able to express what you need clearly enough and perhaps not in legal, professional terms.

So, it's a very easy filter for me. Thanks :)
Are you saying that dead submissions in new used to be clickable links, and are not clickable links anymore?
mjg, most well known as a kernel developer, has poked about in HN metrics, starting around about here:
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/33551.html
Nothing against HN, but you must not visit a lot of sites if you can't name one site that moderates better than HN. Lest we forget, there are several people who have been hellbanned for multiple years without any clue. They waste a significant portion of their life talking to nobody because the person who developed the site felt passive aggressive was better than just banning someone outright and preventing them from rejoining. With incognito mode checking if you're hellbanned is a five second operation, yet dang hasn't replaced that aspect of HN despite its futility and childishness.

Most of those bans I've seen have been enough to make me cock an eyebrow, as well.

When you get banned from a subreddit you are told, by the system, via private message. Reddit has user-level shadowbanning as well, but I've only ever seen it used when it was warranted, like doxxing -- here, some of the hellbanned comment histories mystify me. Reddit certainly has its own share of weirdness but in my opinion, /r/askscience (to use one example) has absolutely incredible moderation that makes HN pale in comparison.
Thanks, one of the things I miss is face recognition tagging and all the edition capabilities from plus
Those "casual" (not really) games are addictive without really being "fun" per se. People aren't playing at them, any more than they're playing a slot machine. They're just hooked on them, with social reinforcement by the same mechanisms as prime-time television (the water-cooler "did you get to see/do X last night" sort of conversation.) They're like viruses spreading through the population.

There are probably a few reasons why America has the problem especially badly—maybe an higher-than-average prevalence of ADHD makes this sort of addiction easier to fall into; maybe being the origin of these games and their first launch-market means we get saturated in them (and especially in their coordinated "viral PR" launch campaigns) in a way few other countries do. Really, I think it's just that the social pressure factor is stronger—we really like having shared private experiences to talk about at water-coolers. See also: soap operas.
I have take a lot of Coursera courses, and I guess this news is a bit of a downer, but not too much. For me, SOA is more of a memorabilia peace than any value, though I admit it is convenient to have an externally visible list of courses. But if any employer ever cared, I could just print out the profile page listing them anyway :)

OTOH, they have to make money somehow, and the fact that I still can learn so much without paying anything is plain awesome.