skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could have flags for CP and then download content with a zero CP flag score. It could work similar to centralized spam providers where you check an IP or username before they post or register. If they have a spam score higher than x, you don't allow them to post or register.
Interesting blog post from him about how that came to be. http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/it-all-began-with-a...
The fact that people have being doing the same thing over a certain period of time makes no indication to the effectiveness of the activity.

People have being praying for thousands of years, yet I have seen no conclusive evidence of its effectiveness.
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Why is the USA then the extreme outlier then when it comes to the sheer number of shootings also highest concentration of guns anywhere in the developed world?
The separate PA thing means that you lose all phase related issues (providing the vocal PA is a mono single effective source, rather than a pair of speakers...).

You hardly ever pan main vocals anyway, so you're normally using your stereo pair to produce a mono sound. In other words, both speakers are producing the same sound at the same time. Since hardly anyone in the audience is an equal distance from both speakers, they'll hear a messy comb-filtered version of the main vocals, rather than them cleanly.

You can make a very good argument for not bothering with stereo at all for live sound (except for effect stuff, but then we're back into separate-pa-for-each-instrument grounds...). The trouble with that is how much harder that is to rig. If you're stacking stuff on the ground at all, then you can't really stack center stage, you need to stack to the sides. (Or behind the stage, with all the feedback issues that involves). If you do fly your PA, then you still need legs, usually. And a big PA is stinking heavy, and flying it near the legs is a lot easier than near the middle, due to lengths of truss, loading points, etc.

I've never tried it personally, but people who's ears I trust all say that besides all of that, just using a secondary sound system for vocals still makes them come through a lot clearer and everything sound better.

One possible reason for that is that a speaker is essentially just a paper cone with an electromagnet on it. There are physical limits on what that one bit of paper can do in terms of vibrations. We like to pretend the world is a lot more digital and measurable than it really is. By separating out the vocals from the other instruments, you allow the speakers to only move when the vocalist is singing. I can see why it could be cleaner. I believe the Chilli Peppers may be doing 2 PAs at the moment splitting off the vocals to their own mix...

You'll still always need a good sound guy, and you'll still need somehow to control the (vocals:instruments) ratio in the audience.

Ideally, bands would think of the sound guy as a member of the band. Kind of like the conductor of an orchestra is a vital member of the orchestra. A good sound guy is very similar. A bad sound guy has all of the same control, but none of the feeling.
This is so well known that places that care will strip it out at the signup process. Also, they will use a simple regex check with their company/service/product name to see if the user is using a highly probably unique email address.
Touché! :D
> If the universe ever comes to an end it will be because it has been rewritten in JS.

Insert joke about theories that the universe is a simulation here.
Skeptical if that is actually him, his prior actions do indicate it's possible.
Just an aside on the carpenter metaphor, there's sort of a running joke that a carpenter's house is never finished. It's not just the software profession that has this problem.
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The word "shareware" really comes from a pre-internet era, where distribution of software was a challenge.

So the idea is to let your users do the distribution for you, please, you are free to share this software with your friends by letting them have a copy. Or by putting it on a dialup BBS download area. Or by including it on a CD you try to sell people of thousands of mostly crappy shareware/freeware ('freeware' another word that's sort of been eclipsed by the 'open source' revolution), which people are still happy to pay $5 or $10 for, because it was hard to get software otherwise, people didn't have access to an internet with all the software!

Shareware often had all software features unlocked immediately, but encouraged people to pay if they liked it and continued using it. Or maybe not 'encouraged', often "required" by terms of the license, but with no real enforcement mechanism, really just the honor system

Or occasionally locked some features until you had bought a license -- but that was rare in the pre-internet era, because there wasn't a good cheap way to exchange money for license keys, that didn't require building up an expensive infrastructure.

All of these business models are still in use. For instance, you can download SublimeText for free, and use it as long as you want -- buying a SublimeText license does nothing but disable the popup message on startup that says "Please buy a license if you find this useful." I forget the language it uses, how strongly it tries to tell you that you _must_ buy a license to continue using it, but either way it'll let you keep using it forever with the startup popup message, without paying. It's essentially "shareware" as far as that goes -- but there's no need for users to obtain a copy by their friends who already have a copy 'sharing' one; everyone can just download a copy from the ST website themselves.

Some things that basically use this 'business model' are actually open source -- you legally _can_ use the software for whatever you want without paying for it, but if you'd like to support the developers, send money. That's sort of "shareware" too.

But now that it's pretty easy/cheap to set up your own website for people to download software, and sell license keys over the website, and have the software be feature or time-crippled without the license key -- people who really want to require the users to pay in order to keep using the software are more likely to do that. And we don't call it "shareware", it doesn't need a special name, because it's such a common way to do it now, maybe even the predominant way to do it.

The term 'shareware' is from a pre-internet era, and from an era before open source caught on too (and open source catching on came along with the internet era too). And there's no reason to buy a CD of a compilation of mostly crappy freeware/shareware anymore, everyone can just browse the internet and download whatever they like.
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Ditto. If this was built with say, Qt, it would be very easy to run everywhere
I was expecting a little more maturity from "CEO"s!!!
http://daverat.com/ has some really really cool articles about the lengths they're going to to get good sound at conchella, etc. A lot of very cool content on his blog, once you hunt around.
I'm sorry, what notoriety?
Various spammers have been faking mail from addresses that look like they might be your contacts for a decade or more, and sometimes attacking freemail accounts in order to spam actual contacts. It's enough of a problem that gmail has a help page for it: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/50200
The example quoted under "Arrow functions" is NOT "arrow function". It's an enhanced object literal.
Why build your own type system?
You can solve all three of those with Wolfram Alpha too, with no need for apps. Seems like Google knows how to solve the last two, but not the first one. Perhaps with some different syntax it would be possible too.
Isn't this kind of what they're doing on Google Play, or what was done with Mr. Robot, minus the torrent? The first episode or two are free, then you either pay per episode or watch via TV subscription. I frequently download free pilot episodes to see if there are any shows I might be interested in watching. I would say that Mr. Robot was a great example of this. I heard about the show by word of mouth (it might have been here, or possibly on Reddit). I do not watch any other shows on USA, so it is likely that I would have never heard of the show had I not had the pilot recommended to me and easily available to watch on YouTube. I think that last part is key. I probably would not have made the effort to download a "USA" app, or jump through hoops to watch it on a web browser. Having it easily available on my phone where I could watch it with the built in YouTube app was perfect.
For basic application there's no need for very deep knowledge of the platform, so you can find people who know iOS and Android equally well and just write two different apps. As Cordova might introduce more problems than advantages, writing two identical apps might actually be faster, if app is not that huge.

And native fast responsive app with smooth animations might earn you more, than HTML container.

I wrote a simple game using cordova and I won't do it again. HTML+CSS+JS just not suited for mobile app development (I didn't try react native, those guys might change the game). Either you use frameworks and everything is just bad or use vanilla JS and everything might work, but you have to write a lots of spaghetti-code and device support might be limited.

The real unmatched benefit of using cordova (or any other webview) is the ability to deliver updates for your app without bothering with App Store moderation.
I think the problem I'm having with it is that it's presented as a logic puzzle, but I'm not sure I'd classify it that way.

It seems more of a comprehension test to me, as the trick is both to see that the questions is a "Can you figure out the answer?" rather than "What is the answer?" and to realise that at no point does he say that either label is correct.
Welcome to the real world where email is unreliable. Gmail could be replaced with any service or corporation running their own email servers. Stop the spammers and email can be reliable again.
Have you even read I Robot? You now, the book in which the laws of robotics lead the robots to institute a robot ruled dictatorship, taking away human freedoms because they reasoned by by controlling our lives completely they could protect us from ourselves? The whole point of Asimov's laws was that naively encoded moral rules can have horrific consequences.
Context was that Greek army invaded Asia minor during WWI, period. The reasons of the invasion is always justifiable by the invader.

That land was invaded by Turkish Tribes during 12th century. So historical occupation that far cannot be justified with 20th century invasion. Greek people living in the invaded areas were around %18 of the population.

Besides, Atrocities goes both ways.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yalova_Peninsula_massacres_(19...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Turkish_War_(1919%E2%80%...

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

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

Edited for wording and some corrections.
Now what if your home regularly changed in such a way that your old chairs didn't sit upright anymore? There are limits to the carpentry analogy.
Am I the only one that really hates the carpenter analogy? As someone who does woodworking on the side of my programming, there's a million reasons why it's a terrible way to think about software development. The chair doesn't have supported platforms, new security issues, or the need to be updated so that people keep buying the same chair. Someone else isn't going to have to come along later to maintain the chair and have to be knowledgeable about the specific tools that the chair was built with.
What's the advantage of that? (It's not like you're going to get to use hardly anything else from Markdown.)
> That is true.

I don't agree. You're going to have different communities, just as reddit does now. Intellectuals are (likely) not going to be posting in /r/I-love-taylor-swift; they would post to their own communities as they do now. If you're concerned about what makes it to the front page, you use a different algorithm than reddit uses. Or, better yet, you allow mods (or even users) to customize the algorithm their subs use.
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https://support.google.com/mail/answer/50200 is the reason they don't do that.
Last time I checked (a few months ago) you couldn't use file:/// with a WKWebView at least on iOS8. Apparently, latest iOS9 beta allows you to load a local file.
I don't understand the last slide - are they public proponents of using font glyphs for icons?
> Actually, I always find it a bit surprising Cordova doesn't have more competition.

You mean Xamarin, Qt?
> I thought the Unix philosophy embraced the idea of "small tools that do one thing really well."

Big monoliths are too useful to go away. Does emacs "do one thing and do it well?" No, it does a million things, some of them better than others. Nevertheless, lots of Unix guys use it.
Do these counts of the number of guns include the number of illegally held guns as well?
sure, it's perhaps a bit immature.

on the other hand, it's just another business out to make money -- like many others. there are more important things one could get upset about. let's not take things too seriously.
Enable SPF and DKIM before jumping to uneducated conclusions please. Even if it's randomly accepting for the same address during repeat testing does not indicate that it's not caring about SPF or DKIM, it indicates a random check!

To put it into perspective, don't complain about the car, the road, weather, or the cop when you get ticketed for hitting a parked car in the rain while speeding.

Email is highly complex, and GMail are one of the few that are doing it right! (and per RFC's instead of making their own standards like some other unnamed companies do :)
You can get the same with Xamarin, Qt and similar tools that offer a better native integration than a web view.

Even if I have to code native like widgets in QML, it is surely way better than hacking around the DOM.
There is one in the addIt function.
Ouch.. This dynamic exists in pretty much every group, but some are better than others to acknowledge it, the militant "[Insert your group here] Issues" and PC crowd not so much.
I highly recommend the FaiF oggcast (http://faif.us).
Don't forget that a programmer's work is not really like making three of the same chair either. Maybe if every single thing the carpenter made was a highly customized bespoke piece.
Your email server may not be administered by you, but I'd bet you control your domain name.

SPF is a DNS record on that domain name. You control that record, not your email provider.

Set that and watch this problem disappear.
I have to say the website really does sell the product well. It's everything 'Preview' should be and more.

It looks very polished and is really, really fast (opened a project of ~11,000 files on my old 2010 MBP with spinning disk and it could instantly filter and search).

I congratulate you on shipping a piece of software that surpasses Apple's standards. :)

I've installed the app on all of my machines, work and personal within 10 minutes of visiting the website. Great job!
yep. personally I've taken a much more functional approach to my javascript development that barely relies on oop.
Palantir Europe?
Actually I agree with you - good point - I can see why being on the other end (i.e. as the answerer) can be really frustrating, especially as you said, your answer can be 'more' correct with greater detail etc.

As I said, my experience could very well be based on that I've only asked something like 5 questions on there, all very specific, which is really the kind of question perfectly suited for a site like that.
Fair enough :)
Here's the abstract:
"This report is a study of monetary problems in Iceland and in what part they may be caused by the current monetary mechanism, the fractional reserve system.
There is indication that the fractional reserve system may have limited the Central Bank's ability to control the money supply while giving banks both the power and incentive to create too much money. Indeed, commercial banks expanded the money supply nineteen-fold in the fourteen year period that ended with the banking crisis of 2008.
There is also indication that the fractional reserve system may have been a long term contributing factor to various monetary problems in Iceland, including: hyperinflation in the 1980s, chronic inflation, devaluations of the Icelandic Krona (ISK), high interest rates, the government foregoes income from money creation, and growing debt of private and public sectors.
Economists have long been aware of the problematic nature of the fractional reserve system and proposed various reforms. A program for monetary reform by Fisher et al in 1939 received the support of 235 economists from 157 universities and colleges but was not imple- mented. This report reviews some of the more frequently mentioned proposals for monetary reform: 100% Reserves, Narrow Banking, Limited Purpose Banking and describes in detail the Sovereign Money proposal.
In a Sovereign Money system, only the central bank, owned by the state, may create money as coin, notes or electronic money. Commercial banks would be prevented from creating money.
This report describes how such a Sovereign Money system could be implemented and what steps would be required for a successful transition."
https://github.com/ejgallego/jscoq
ITM, slave!
I'm with him, I'm pretty excited about destructing coming to JS. If it's half as powerful as it is in clojure it'll be great.
There are a lot of things, like say your competitors eating your lunch. If someone comes along and sort of satisfies the need it's easier for them to get people to upgrade than it is for you to come along later with a more polished product and ask them to migrate.
Does that change the fact that this was an invasion? Last time Ottomans invaded Anatolia was 12th century. Current Greece was invaded in end of 15th century. And Greece tried to invade Anatolia in 20th century.
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There is a proposal for a :: bind operator.

1. a unary :: operator for binding methods to their objects: `foo.then(::console.log)`

2. a binary :: operator for chaining: `x(a)::y(b)` (equivalent to `y.call(x(a), b)`)
Ah gotcha, looks like Android support is coming to React Native soon, fingers crossed
> There is no downvoting in this system, only upvoting. (How would you take bitcoin from someone?)
A downvote is a transaction that costs like anything else, but you increase the cost of the downvote. For example, 2 karma to post (given to the owner of the node or community), 1 karma to upvote (goes directly to the OP), 2 karma to downvote (which allows you to subtract 1 karma from the OP - and all 3 karma go to the owner of the node or community).
There's also http://reapp.io/
It can produce apps that run on Android but last time I checked the documentation was pretty iOS centric.
Thanks. I had trouble reading it in text form, but now that it's an image that includes a guy's head I get the point.
He mentions that it's a C#/WPF program that he wrote :) The article includes a link to download the code and play with it yourself:
http://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2015/07/RampageShootingSt...
Not just OSX, it is also just for one single version of OSX (Yosemite) so far.
Sure that works too, plus its a great way to point out initializing default arguments.
LOL! What the hell is this word "needful" anyway? The amount of times I've heard this from Indian tech support is remarkable (that and the word "lakh", which I discovered is actually a unit of measurement - a hundred thousand).

It's not actually a problem in itself and in fact I'd find it quite disarmingly endearing if not for the fact that every time I've heard it said the "needful" was not done and I have been forced to escalate the issue/argue with support/explain the whole situation again to a second support person.
Nits:

In the past, the argument was that it wasn't infringing if the person who wanted to exercise gun rights wasn't a member of a militia. We can prove historically and grammatically that this isn't true, but it took the Supreme Court's agreement for the legislature to accept it.

I don't see any legislators changing their mind about this, or any laws being passed based on it, although I might have forgotten some state ones. Except for:

Then, the argument was that sure, it's an individual right and not limited to those in the militia, but hey, the second amendment says you can keep and bear arms, but it doesn't say where, so instead, the government insists that the right is only applicable to within the home. Have as many guns as you like, and carry them anywhere you want, as long as it's inside your home.

It took Chicago v. McDonald getting that one overturned in 2012 by the Supreme Court.

Errr, McDonald v. Chicago just applied Heller to the states and specifically Chicago, and further Federal court action, not appealed to the Supreme Courts, enforced a shall issue concealed carry regime on the state ... which I'll note for a blue state is much better balanced between the big cities and "downstate" for it.

Not counting California and Hawaii, where this is still being litigated, every other Federal judicial challenge to a restrictive concealed carry regime has failed, and the Supremes have then denied cert, despite the circuit split. As it stands in the Federal courts, we now have a right to keep arms in our homes, and to bear them there (that was actually an issue litigate in Heller and is elsewhere one, based on so called "safe storage" laws), but not outside our homes.
I wish more software updated itself. I don't want to navigate to the download page and run the installer every time it updates. That's busywork.
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He's known, amongst certain people in the industry - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Petzold
I'm glad that you're sad. You certainly did suggest that this person who has reacted differently to trolls than you imagine you would in her situation should "take a break from being in the public eye". If you think about it a little you'll see why my paraphrase of your sentiment is pretty fucking exact. Then you can change your mind and not be sad anymore.
Car built with scooter tires... Scooter built with car tires...

Just not seeing it.

When Java was first becoming popular, I recall emphasizing how important it was to use the standard, well-documented, well-tested java.lang.String, rather than a custom String class as had been done in C++. Application domain experts started asking about strings that didn't fit in RAM (documents).

A great, tested component in one domain may require a significant redesign in a domain with other requirements.
Amsterdammer here, for anyone interested, check angel.co for indications of startup salaries. Keep in mind that the cost of living is very high in Amsterdam. Rent is easily 1100 euro or more if you are unwilling to share or live in a bad neighbourhood. This could equal 40-50% of your take-home pay.
So you're saying if I create two accounts, one that posts illegal content and one that very quickly flags it, I'll gain a bounty from users each time?

If you're going to say that the reward now must entirely come from the person who posted said content, well, that requires also solving the problem of each poster having to have a sort of "deposit" of money, which is marginally better.
Perhaps people afraid of being the next shooting victim buy lots of guns.
You could argue that something like Sublime Text is Shareware, even though they don't use the term. You can download it, and the trial period never expires. So you use it without paying if you are a lame person, much like in the shareware days.
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> dump or upload an entire DB backup from a file (have to use another app for that)

What's the other app that you use?