skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask science is basically "ask someone who may think they know about science". I have never heard of /r/art. /r/history is a complete joke compared to /r/askhistorians. /r/books is "here is a meme about this book we all read in grade x".

So yes, I 100% see the shit collecting where the shit already is. I had literally no idea there was drama until I came to HN.
Nope. No hand-eye coordination or motor skill improvement happening when you use a mouse-driven computer interface to place blocks on a screen.

No ad-hoc social interaction with other kids either, especially on public servers where lots of kids hang out.

have you even played minecraft?
Corporations used to hire typists that could use a typewriter to type up copies of letters and memos. They'd have a room of 100 typists all typing away all day for 8+ hours a day for five days a week.

That is until the Word Processor and Laser Printer caught on and then they only needed 1 person to press 100 copies on the Word Processor after typing up the letter and memo. Learning how a PC works and how a Word Processor works requires a higher level skill than a typewriter.

I used to work for a law firm IT department. I was given a series of tasks to automate forms into electric forms that were ASP web based and use Crystal Reports to export to RTF, PDF, XLS format etc. I did my job and the people who used to do the reports by hand got fired. They got replaced with an web app that worked 24/7 for free and stores data on a MS-SQL Server database.

I felt really bad that what I wrote had cost jobs.

Consider web sites that work 24/7 selling items, they put retail stores to be closed and people who work those retail jobs to be fired. Macy's closed down stores near my house and fired people, and my wife orders her dresses from macys.com instead of going to a store now.

Now you might say you need to learn some IT skills to service and support websites and technical issues, but they offshore that work to India and China for cheaper labor. Anything needed on US soil they can hire H1B Visa Workers for cheaper than US citizens to work those jobs. So yes jobs are being created, but some of those jobs goes to foreign workers who can work for a lower cost of labor.

Yes we need a basic income and support it by taxing corporations who use automated programs, AI, and robots to do the jobs that human beings used to do. Also tax the companies that use foreign labor to save on costs. It is because those companies cost native jobs when they do that.

Unemployment only counts those on unemployment insurance, not those who lost unemployment insurance because it ran out or those who ended up on welfare or disability because they couldn't find work.

We have a lot of qualified IT workers with student loan debt who cannot find a job in this country. But they are refused to be hired for silly reasons, or considered overqualified to hire H1b Visa Workers instead.
It's not "stagnating", there's simply not much need to "innovate" it anymore. It works well for both new and advanced users. Changing the standard UI would just be a pointless frustration - see Windows 8.
Look at /r/askhistorians, which is probably one of the highest quality subreddits on the site. They moderate the subreddits tightly and decline being a default subreddit. With effective mods the friction with Reddit goes away. It is easy for me to see that community mods are terrible, especially on the default or topic subreddits.

/r/askscience is comparatively poor quality. Wrong answers are often given with no repercussion. Answerers are often entirely unqualified to answer question. This is arguably worse than no answer at all. I would not consider it a quality subreddit.

What you see on reddit is: people blowing gossip out of proportion on the subreddits who allow it. Those that "went dark" are probably the reasonable ones to avoid to avoid poor content.
The only thing you can be certain that popularity indicates is it's popularity.
Gestures are 90s technology. There were shareware programs to facilitate that back then. There was no touch screen though. That's the difference.
> Together, these two factors have led to large amounts of research into sewage treatment, new technologies, and upgrades nationwide. Just because you apparently are ignorant of them doesn't mean they haven't been occurring.

While admittedly ignorant of the specific changes in water and sewage provision, I never suggested they weren't occurring - I said the experience for an end user hasn't really changed much. Even if the water quality has increased tenfold and a city's demand trebled in a decade, we're still pulling water from the tap the same way we were before, and our usage year over year doesn't change that much (on a household basis). My household needs and expectations for water service don't seem any different than 15 years ago, whereas my household needs and expectations for internet service are radically different. Governments do 'big' better than 'fast'.
Variables can be mutated in Lisp. That's all this is.
Making jokes about cultural differences is not racism. It's comedy.
Apple+locking+down+users'+music+by+adding+DRM+to+it
The part that led to 25% drop in GDP and three times the unemployment rate. The part that took a 50bn problem and made it 330. You can say whatever you want about the incompetence of Greek governments, but the wise foreign advisors managed to be even worse in every respect (e.g. using wrong multipliers to calculate impact of reforms and even making growth assumptions in an economy they themselves dried up from investment.)
> The point about "user control" is odd though, since that's basically the exact opposite of the Apple philosophy today, and even the older Macs seemed more opaque and with less user control than the PCs of the time.

As an advanced user, I don't want more control. I want defaults that are good enough that I never want to change them.

Every hour I spend tinkering with my computer, is an hour I didn't spend achieving useful work. Sometimes yak shaving is useful, most of the times it just keeps me from getting anything done.
react-haskell enables that
http://begriffs.com/posts/2015-01-12-reactjs-in-haskell.html
>the characteristics of the Internet desktop

Something like... "Ycombuntu"?
https://www.urdesk.net/desk?l=yc

Granted, it looks just like a Macintosh, but there is much, much more to it than meets the eye. I am going to start really getting into some of those language concepts pretty soon (help needed)!

To see the site with my sales pitch to HN thrown in at the beginning:
https://www.urdesk.net/desk?l=yc&r=1
structs are the female version of classes in swift..
You should check out PostgREST, a tool to expose Postres tables through a JSON APIs: https://github.com/begriffs/postgrest
It's not possible, but there's also no good reason to do it. You might as well just make an e.g. Serializable trait that requires you to manually implement the serialize function. You're not saving a whole lot of work by looping through the object's fields and saving them. Most objects only have a few fields to serialize anyway.
Bummer, stuff like the F Sharp Tutorial requires it.

http://www.tryfsharp.org/

I had disabled Silverlight in my web browser, and had to enable it to use the Try F Sharp tutorial.

These websites that use Silverlight have to be rewritten to use something else instead.
It depends a lot on your screen size. Below ~19" I just keep everything maximized and use hotkeys to rapidly switch between windows. I'm usually flipping between a text editor and web browser. On even a rather large laptop, 50% of the screen width is too small for web pages. Unless you're doing data entry I doubt you're memorizing the contents of one window to input it in another, and if you're doing that copy/paste exists.
It's a complex issue, but I see American car culture as much more recent and derived from suburbia, rather than from rural farm life. Very few people in the era when the majority of Americans were farmers had cars, because they were very expensive, and patterns of daily life didn't involve driving the kinds of distances to big freeway strip malls that you see today (neither freeways nor strip malls existed). The family may have had a tractor which was sometimes used to drive into town or a bigger city (or a horse was used instead), but driving daily to the Super Wal-Mart is a post-urbanization trend.

It's anecdotal, but certainly none of the farming background in my family involved car culture. My great-grandfather lived in a small farming town in Kansas, and they didn't own a car. The town, despite being small, was very centralized around a compact "main street" where all the shops were in walking distance of each other, pretty typical of any Midwestern town prior to WW2. People who lived outside of town either rode into town on a horse, took a tractor in, hitched a ride in, or walked. If they needed to go longer distances, they used this method to get to the nearest town with a train station, and took the train. They bought a car when? When they moved to Los Angeles in the 1930s. The rise of car culture and suburbia also led to most of these traditional compact farm towns turning into what you see today, with old downtowns are that are abandoned or semi-abandoned, replaced by a string of strip malls on the bypass freeway—a bypass freeway that in most cases was built in the 1950s or '60s, well after most Americans lived in cities.
Well I'm sorry, but that sounds altogether far too sensible.
thoughtbot's carnival is a good example of a JSON API written with Yesod: https://github.com/thoughtbot/carnival
Actually, I assume abstraction not emergentism but my assumptions are beside the point. My point is that quantum weirdness is not observed on scales that are not quantum-sized and quantum-whatever is therefore a poor candidate for analogous reasoning. In addition, the gap between the physical components (I do assume physicalism) of the brain and the properties of the mind is so far removed from the quantum-sized(weird) phenomena of quantum physics that some reconciliation(read: major breakthrough) must happen in the field of physics before quantum physics becomes a viable scalpel with which we can try to dissect the mind-brain problem.

I agree that emergence-flavoured theories of consciousness are essentially woo woo, or non-explanations. I am therefore not very exited about massive statistical simulations trying to achieve intelligence, because even if Watson were to become self aware after stuffing it with even more megahertz, we would just have another "brain" on our hands and we will have nothing but the turing test to discern its "brain-ness". That is to say - I am exited, because Watson is really cool and useful, but not exited about what neural nets, genetic algorithms or statistical data analysis will tell us about consciousness.
funny i was about to comment on this and then i realized the guru has come to comment on his post :P

i think the parent might find this article informative

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2014-05-11/strace-wow-much-...

brendan, what happened to ktap, have you stopped using it? i know it almost made it into mainline, but apparently as long it's using a different architecture than perf it's a no go. but it also seemed to be a little performant because of that
Offtopic: Thank you for ezSQL
That was definitely a good book, would recommend it as well.
As a purely economic solution, a Grexit combined with a default might work. However, who would step up and finance the ongoing deficit? Interest rates even for short term borrowing would be unsustainable. What would happen in the meantime, until such a Grexit could actually be performed? The banks don't have money any more, there's no infrastructure to print new bills, there's no plan on how to actually do that. It's the choice between austerity because the lenders want it or austerity because there's no money left.

On top of that, would Greece leave the EU? There's a lot of greek living and working abroad under the EU residence/work rules. Would such a vote not be perceived as a "No" to europe, effectively pushing greece out of the EU at least on a temporary basis?

I'm not convinced that the Grexit is a workable alternative in a larger context.
> has a perfectly workable alternative in a Grexit

Its not "perfectly workable" in a country that imports >>50% food, has practically zero foreign currency reserves, and is already considered a bad lender.
As someone who hasn't really had to deal with managing large communities or being in the moderator position you're in... could you give a few examples of tools you wish they'd provide for community management or ways you wish the reddit corporate team would be in better contact with the community (besides the obvious notifying when firing liaisons coordinating things)?
"They had knowingly and purposefully brought weak states into the Eurozone, because they genuinely, even nobly, wished to build a large, strong, United Europe."

For folks who know Europe/Europeans well, is this true?
You might be amazed to learn that this is very common in rural USA.
Especially since it was largely caused by the failure of the Greek government to implement the required changes.

Also the slow recovery in 2013 and 2014 was 'accidentally' left out.
That quote is silly, it completely justifies fraud. There has to be a balance.
There is an additional reason that makes the 'Cadastre' extremly difficult project for Greece. A lot of the land in northern Greece is claimed (with documents) by people who are now citizens of Republic of Macedonia. Greece will break some EU laws if it doesn't honor those documents, but that land is used for more than 60 years by other people or the Greek state.
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Who says the creditors were fully aware of the government's misrepresentations?

Those misrepresentations were discovered when the Troika started to investigate Greece's financial state.
The title was edited from "The best analysis of the situation in Greece" to "Greece". The former title, while baity, is a much better description of the article than just the name of the country. Might as well call it "Blog".

It would have been much better to, for example, delete "the best" and leave "analysis of the situation in" so that readers understand what about Greece is being discussed.
So if you have known all of that you still invite them to the Euro, you still lend them like there is no tomorrow, and then you put all the blame on them?

What kind of investor are you? A german banker? Ja wohl! Ich know all of thiz but I still lend them because if antyhing happens I call up Die Frau and she get our back.

Nice, really nice.
Related to this, there's a fair amount of research on the connection between embodied cognition and the learning of physics (and mathematics), as well as examples of 'embodying' physical forces and laws.

An example from Hans Freudenthal is from a standard physics question. If there are books on top of a table, what are the forces acting on the books? Most all students draw the downward force of gravity, but some forget about the force the table exerts upward back on the books. You can have students get on their hands and knees and put books on their back, or have them lie on their back and hold up books with their hands and arms. They 'embody' the table, in a sense. When you add a second book, you feel that you have to exert more effort (which correlates with force) to hold the books up.
> As a purely economic solution, a Grexit combined with a default might work. However, who would step up and finance the ongoing deficit?

As I added in my edit, Greece has a primary budget surplus. There would be no ongoing deficit.

Existing debt would be paid off with the expedient of default and currency devaluation, just as other countries have historically done. A little rough patch and then things look up. Seems a much healthier alternative than decades of economic suffering due to more and more austerity and the consequences thereof.

> there's no infrastructure to print new bills

I can't imagine that is a very hard problem to solve.

> On top of that, would Greece leave the EU? There's a lot of greek living and working abroad under the EU residence/work rules. Would such a vote not be perceived as a "No" to europe, effectively pushing greece out of the EU at least on a temporary basis?

Does leaving the Euro mean leaving the Eurozone? That's an honest question. I don't think it does, but I've heard this said before.

On your final point, I don't disagree: at least right now leaving the Eurozone is politically untenable. But I suspect that economically it might be the most sensible thing to do, and not just for Greece. Unless Europe forms a real fiscal union, this kind of madness will happen over and over.
Actually there have always been subsidies all across europe, but these are discussed at the EU level and are not related to the euro.
Then there is no high pressure at the bottom, only low pressure at the top.
> Are you a gambling service ? No! Users can’t withdraw money from GoGoLuck. The money goes to charities.

Are you really really really sure about that?
ktap was really promising, but when eBPF began kernel integration, ktap development was postponed until it could be rewritten to use eBPF. eBPF itself is still being integrated, part by part. I hope there's enough eBPF to restart work on ktap (or something like it) this year. ktap might have just missed out by unlucky timing. But hopefully we'll end up with a better tracer (ktap+eBPF) after the delay. I still want to see ktap finished.

I've spent so many hours with Linux tracing (and talking to its developers), I think my next post will be "Choosing a Linux tracer (Jul 2015)", where I briefly summarize the current state of tracers, and make recommendations. I think it might work as a blog post, with a clear timestamp, since it's a topic that changes from month to month.
Ask HN: Career dilemma, what would you do?
In the last year, I've joined a services consulting firm as a consultant for a specialised area in IT. This job pays roughky $90k (package) in SF. However due to issues regarding relocation (immigration and so forth) I've been working remotely from another country. This has been difficult nonetheless, however the company has been supportive and have paid for all lawyers thus far.

Last week, I was given an offer from a friend who heads this particular area of IT in a pre-ipo company that has been considered a brilliant place to work and is one of the stable growing startups for over 5 years. The offer given to me was to not relocate and take a job leading a team in my expertise for a higher pay + equity.

I have worked with said company's team in the past and have found it delightful.

I would like to ask HN, what would they do? I have a level of loyalty for said company in SF and love the team a lot there. Immigration issues are soon to clear up if all goes well.

Personally I had decided to leave SF company by the end of this month if such immigration issues do not resolve and take this offer.

Otherwise, I plan to continue with this company even though the pay will be significantly less and work significantly more stressful.

Said company in SF have been cutting costs and do not evaluate salaries more than once a year. Even after staying a year, I feel like my salary will only increase by $5-10k.

Thanks all
I don't agree with your statement at all.
The problem in discussing this subject is the idea of "intuition" itself because the term doesn't have an unambiguous definition. Meaning varies from one instance to another, even one moment to the next, and disputes arise from imprecise communication.

In the example, I think what Feynman is describing, we commonly call "visualization", to be able to "see" the problem in imagination. That is no less a form of abstraction that is often vital to problem-solving. Of course, not every problem yields to this approach but it is a powerful feature of our basic cognitive tool set.

Einstein wrote that his early success in formulating his idea of special relativity was the outcome of his intuition about the physical properties of light, etc. he studied. Later on, the mathematical abstractions became more powerful, and at that point intuition about the "physical" nature of phenomena was insufficient for understanding.

But I think there are forms of intuition that apply to very abstract ideas, or what seem to be so to us. I once heard a physicist say "we never really understand higher mathematics, we just get used to it". Feynman would probably have agreed with that sentiment.

"Getting used to it" is really the equivalent of developing an intuition about the subject. I remember first learning about programming recursive functions, mind boggling in the beginning. After a while, it began to "sink in", that is, it became intuitive, I no longer had trouble "seeing" how it worked. The key is familiarity, something once strange is now digestible.

So there's nothing binary about intuition, it covers many forms of thought, and incorporates reasoning about emotion, having a "feel" for the problem in question. There are limits to our abilities, at the highest level it's genius, but there are no clear boundaries.
Well, Greece implemented a lot of changes, and it's one of the few Eurozone countries that successfully implemented internal devaluation (salaries halved).

What you call "necessary changes" actually turned out to be "bad changes", and everybody with a grain of salt would say there was no way they could get Greece up again on its feet.

Greece, like many other countries, messed up or not, began sinking after joining the Eurozone. One may wonder a bit before blaming them.
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So if you have known all of that you still invite them to the Euro? You still lend them like there is no tomorrow eve though you have known this stuff has been going on for decades? And then you put all the blame on them?

What kind of investor are you? A German banker? Ja wohl! Ich know all of thiz and that I shouldn't lend them any money! But I still lend them because if antyhing happens I call up Die Frau and she get our back.

Nice, really nice. So German too!
jitsi does. who uses anything else for xmpp nowadays?
Couldn't this argument apply equally to the way we currently publish reusable components, especially with regards to QA?

The only difference I see with web components is that instead of implementing jquery-datepicker and ember-datepicker and angular-datepicker and react-datepicker, etc..., we can publish a single datepicker that operates underneath instead of within a js framework. Is that a correct assessment? I am not intimately familiar with web components.

Edited to correct some phone auto-correcting.
This was my main take-away:

"There is one morality tale that says the debtor must repay, or she has sinned and must be punished.

There is another morality tale that says the creditor must invest wisely, or she has stewarded resources poorly and must be punished.

We get to choose which morality tale we most use to make sense of the world. We do, and surely should, use both to some degree.

But if we emphasize the first story, we end up in a world full of bad loans, wasted resources, and people trapped in debtors’ prison, metaphorical or literal.

If we emphasize the second story, we end up in a world where dumb expenditures are never financed in the first place."