skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You postulated that if there were a hidden genetic factor in power acquisition, some genetically determined subgroups would have more power than others. This is exactly what is observed.

In this post you seem to also be assuming that if genetically different subpopulations differed in any way that we presume to matter, we would have strong direct measurements of it. Of course, if modern genetics is not as advanced as you seem to think it is, then that claim would be false - such a genetic trait might exist but we simply haven't figured out which SNPs are relevant to it yet.

You also seem to be assuming that it's somehow directly correlated with overall genetic distance, and that it obeys a specific linear relation. You've demonstrated fairly well that if genetics cause power, it doesn't do so in one very specific way. This is not explaining how the world would be different if the general theory of genetics -> power were true, it's merely explaining how the world would be different if one specific straw man were true.

This is like saying "particles fall at a non-constant speed, therefore a gravitation theory with a constant rate of motion is false, therefore gravity must not exist".

No one is a hundred times smarter or stronger or faster than the average population. Yet you see both individuals and localized groups (at almost any size) that are easily a hundred (or a thousand) times more powerful than other individuals or localized groups.

Wow. Last time you tried to define power, the best you could cook up was a graph - A can influence the actions of B, so A has power over B. (I.e. pretty much everyone has power over everyone else.) Now you've somehow cardinally quantified power? What are it's units?
I like the majority of the ports to be on the rear of my laptop, monitor ports, Ethernet, at least one USB and power for sure.
Pretty hard to find these days, I'm using t430s but don't know what is next. Maybe this retro think pad.

I did miss the numpad when they removed it.
Sure. I agree that shaving is better than the desperate attempt to cling to the last remaining follicles look.

However, shaving your head does not necessarily mean you're going to look "good", aka Jason Statham mode. A lot of people just look like eggs or aliens when they shave their heads.
True, my mistake, misread the comment, sorry about that sp332.
Yes, that's why freedom of panorama is an exception to copyright in many jurisdictions, because otherwise taking photos of public places becomes a minefield of copyrightable stuff strewn everywhere.
Would you work for Reddit right now, or even then?

I got the impression then, and I definitely get it now, that the management has little respect for their employees. In the case of Yishan's spat, it was definitely relatable, but it definitely had the smell of the company that view employees as assets to be managed and controlled rather than people with emotions and opinions.
A time like this is an excellent opportunity to create a reddit competitor.
Current alternatives(like voat.co) are focused on completely avoiding censorship and moderation, thus attracting the worst of reddit.

I am curious, what are your thoughts on how one could go about attracting the best of reddit?

I am working on a personal project that is very similar, but I wouldn't try to compete with reddit to attract all the haters and celebrity-gossip kind of people. Do you have some ideas about what kind of startup could attract the most intelligent and creative parts of the community?

(right now my project is focused on writers, "reddit meets fictionpress", but it would be very easy to pivot into something broader, if I can come up with a smart way to do that)
I would remove varnish and use nginx anyday. Varnish config makes baby jesus cry.
Could you please comment on salary ranges? Barcelona seems a nice place to live, but low salaries (and high prices) compared to northern Europe is concerning.
From the outside view it looks like people of Reddit are unsatisfied with their government and so they destroy their own motherland in an attempt to overthrow said government. Looks very much alike any coup d'etat. Human nature is in play again. It will lead to civil war and huge damage to the community. In the end there will be no winner.
>HN is for intellectual curiosity, not ideological wars.

/s?
This is where most of the conflict lies. Reddit the community and Reddit the business don't have the same goals in mind.

The company wants to grow and become more profitable, the community wants to preserve what it has.

I don't know if a site like this can really be run as a for profit company, at least not a growth oriented one. The obvious monetization schemes will be met with resistance. Even though its attracted a lot of users, can it really ever make money?
I think stackexchange are still running on IIS so it's probably close to doable - although I imagine they have some seriously smart people and resources way beyond what Voat will in the near future.

That said, does Azure play nicely with IIS? I bet it's expensive but can you scale that way maybe?
Of all the excellent casual script typefaces out there, they had to choose Comic Sans.
Indeed, it's better in a bunch of ways! The one that finally got me to switch was that Jasmine didn't have an official CLI version for the longest time; it was browser-based and the CLIs were all third-party (and none of them very good). It includes one now, but it was too late.
Best I can do is an EC2 micro instance
They've even got them here in Canada! Victoria BC of all places.
Star maps can be downloaded free.

Because you generally only need the brightest subset of stars in any area, you don't even need a comprehensive one.

A star map for Mars would functionally be pretty much equivalent to an earth one, I guess, given the distances involved.
I'd be a lot more OK if all "humanized" dates could be toggled to an ISO date with a button click.

It's so true though, if trying to scrutinize the history of a repo I find I frequently need to clone it locally just to access the info I need in any kind of decent interface.
To the person talking about his downvotes: don't.

Do not interrupt the discussion to meta-discuss the scoring system. Don't talk about your score or your votes.
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Your last point is a big reason why mobile/tablet systems have become so popular, and why that technology set will filter back towards desktop computing. Managed apps (package managed installs, one click install/update/uninstall) plus seamless app hibernation and resumption are overall a big win for usability.
For people comparing this with Digg v4 you should remember digg was already on a steady decline long before it completely imploded with the redesign: http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=reddit+digg#q=digg%2C...

But reddit on the other hand still seems to be growing and haven't hit an inflection point:
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=reddit

Even the recent fph drama barely caused a noticeable blip in traffic and was easily recovered from a few days later.

This event might be the start of the inflection point but reddit isn't going to die overnight anytime soon.
I think your point about code quality is very poorly expressed, but I'll disregard that for now, I wanted to address this:

> I think this is a Red Hat thing - they're happy to develop new features collaboratively and in the open, but actually turning software into stable, reliable working releases is their secret sauce that people pay them big dollars for.

I'm not sure what you're talking about. Are you saying RH magically makes stuff stable only on their distro, and doesn't fix bugs in master? Because that's not only BS, it's not permitted by the software licenses they themselves choose.

And regardless, yeah, making stable releases is not an obligation. Never have been, never will be. It's a nice thing to do, and often it's useful, but still optional. Web Browsers don't do stable releases (in the LTS sense) anymore either.
I am seeing a cartoon forming in my head with a Russian strategic bomber pilot, crashed in a kid's bedroom and looking up at a roof covered in those glow in the dark stars and a big red flashing light warning about course deviation.
all the guys at the top know that if you want to cook the books, you use Goldman Sachs and PriceWaterhouseCoopers to keep you afloat.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9813112
Why is Australia selling its residential real estate to overseas buyers?
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> So people who disagree with you are just trolls? That's a pretty good attitude.

I shouldn't have said that, you're right, sorry.
I don't know. I got downvoted on this post a lot.

Technology jobs are far less secure for the humans older than me with more experience. Ageism wasn't the only reason I posted this, but I'm guessing nobody that downvoted me was older than me. (eager to be wrong)
Because if you're going to start building a protocol on UDP from scratch today, you can do much better than SCTP based on what concerns you're trying to solve. Pretty much every new UDP protocol pays at least lip service to the mobile use-case, and tries to get to zero roundtrip session establishment for majority of sessions ( and here the 4-way handshake of SCTP sticks out like a sore thumb).

But then there are some people who might be more interested in making a secure protocol from scratch (rejecting the layering complexity and third-party dependence of SSL). For instance: http://cr.yp.to/tcpip/minimalt-20130522.pdf
this is awesome! great work guys ... wonder how different my playlist would have looked way back in the day.
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Ask HN: How could a Reddit competitor attract the best of Reddit community?
A time like this is an excellent opportunity to create a reddit competitor.
Current alternatives(like voat.co) are focused on completely avoiding censorship and moderation, thus attracting the worst of reddit.

I am curious, what are your thoughts on how one could go about attracting the best of reddit?

I am working on a personal project that is very similar, but I wouldn't try to compete with reddit to attract all the haters and celebrity-gossip kind of people. Do you have some ideas about what kind of startup could attract the most intelligent and creative parts of the community?

(right now my project is focused on writers, "reddit meets fictionpress", but it would be very easy to pivot into something broader, if I can come up with a smart way to do that)
I enjoyed this post, and it's not like we can say "you made that up" or "you're just trying to get fake Internet points" because it's been tried and tested. Joel's telling us exactly what he did and his awesome results. Thanks for sharing!
Hacker News posts need to be in English. We like and admire many languages, but HN is an English-language site.
Hey, modern Australia was founded from a colony of convicts, too.
I'd still expect that we'll see something like a real time OS microkernel written in hardened C or Ada/Spark or kin with a standard suite of drivers to control sensors, motors, etc.

Most of those kind of things get written as open source projects, and then compiled in to specific bundles by middle men who get certified by insurance companies to reliably choose and compile such bundles.

Big companies (eg, Boeing) will naturally still just use the open source microkernel tied together with a few in house drivers, since they have the capacity to deal with software certification themselves.

Really, I wish hobbyist drones would start having more functional co-processors, because I want one where the flight computer and the user land computer... aren't the same core.
You can use template strings in ES6 and avoid that whole problem.
libscore ranks js library usage by crawling sites:

Meteor = 86 sites

http://libscore.com/#Meteor

React = 552 sites

http://libscore.com/#React

angular = 6,882 Sites

http://libscore.com/#angular

backbone = 9,853 Sites

http://libscore.com/#Backbone
HN uses flat files instead of a database
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ummm.... mobile devices, though not truly multihomed (in the sense of using multiple NIC's simultaneously) approximate multihoming in a time-division sense.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
Officially debunked by Ellen Pao: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/3bxm5v/redd...
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I think I'd go nuts in a codebase with their whitespace and brackets rules.

Sure, cramming the opening bracket onto the previous line is just ugly and something you could learn to live with. But there's a special type of rage that can only be generated by clicking on to the start of a line and having your cursor land 1-2 spaces to the left of it.

Why would anybody do that to their code voluntarily?
Maybe, maybe not. Six months in microgravity doesn't seem to cause serious problems. Maybe people will just do six month tours. One Russian guy has been up there for 800 days, and wants to hit 1000. He'll probably need some rehab when he comes back down, but so do most people who deploy to war zones.
> - you proved to me that AGPL is not usable in any professional system that runs in the cloud

That interpretation is wrong. The AGPL just prevents you from pursuing a business model that is based on leeching off the mailpile project without contributing back.

It's the decade old misunderstanding. The GPL is about user freedom. You talk about developer freedom. Mailpile tries to optimize for user freedom. The whole project is about preventing business models like the one you proposed. Choosing the AGPL is completely coherent with the stated project goals.
History is full of horrors. Failure to appreciate that makes it all the easier for such horrors to happen again because we didn't do enough to keep them at bay.
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like
Section (9) of http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/165havel.html seems relevant:
{9}The post-totalitarian system touches people at every step, but it does so with its ideological gloves on. This is why life in the system is so thoroughly permeated with hypocrisy and lies: government by bureaucracy is called popular government; the working class is enslaved in the name of the working class; the complete degradation of the individual is presented as his ultimate liberation; depriving people of information is called making it available; the use of power to manipulate is called the public control of power, and the arbitrary abuse of power is called observing the legal code; the repression of culture is called its development; the expansion of imperial influence is presented as support for the oppressed; the lack of free expression becomes the highest form of freedom; farcical elections become the highest form of democracy; banning independent thought becomes the most scientific of world views; military occupation becomes fraternal assistance. Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics. It pretends not to possess an omnipotent and unprincipled police apparatus. It pretends to respect human rights. It pretends to persecute no one. It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing.
I'm pretty sure its not Comic Sans
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People keep saying that FPH was not engaged in harassment and abuse that spread outside that group, and outside reddit.

But it clearly was. Reddit should just release some of the brigading details - and that has always been something that can cause your sub to be closed and your account to be shaddow-banned.

I do not understand how you can use the existance of vile groups as evidence of Reddit squashing free speech - doesn't the fact that those vile groups didn't get closed (unless they brigaded) evidence that Reddit allows free speech as far as possible.
Related to your project: At my university, we learned basics of assembler programming in an IDE made by one of the professors. It was written in Xaw/Athena widget se. Now I see somebody has ported it to javascript: http://ivanzuzak.info/FRISCjs/webapp/
Off-topic: Is it just me or does this page mess with scrolling?
I'm curious as I haven't found a good coding style guide about object inheritance in ES5.

I usually write this even though it's a bit verbose:

function Child() {
Parent.call(this);
}
Child.prototype = Object.create(Parent.prototype);
Child.prototype.constructor = Child;

Any opinion on this or link to a good guide?
Shaping what you build
In Future we will be able to control Electronic Appliances using Samsung phones
Wait, are you saying that you put the opening bracket on the next line? That would drive me crazy.
🐉. (Dragons)

http://utkin1.ru/sites/default/files/dragons.jpg
Amazing story! Also thanks for the video, I can't believe it has only 1000 views..
the only way you could compare Gates to Robin Hood is if you've never heard of his letter to the Homebrew Computer Club[0]. But now you have, so you have no excuse anymore.

Gates made a career stealing from not just the poor, but the charitable[1]. Then he pioneered new ways to destroy competing markets[2] He'll have to cure cancer to offset the damage he's done.

0. http://www.digibarn.com/collections/newsletters/homebrew/V2_...

1. http://slashdot.org/story/00/05/02/158204/kerberos-pacs-and-...

2. http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/halloween1.html
That is not an equation...
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It heavily depends on the company; Facebook may be all 20-somethings, but Microsoft is much more balanced. As one data point, I'm 43, joined Microsoft 2 years ago, have an offer from another big tech company.
> The screams that would have produced...

From most, not a one I agree.

But from the 24x7 headline-starved troglodytes looking to whip the populace into a frenzy? Loud and heard from every corner. And what would those which slavishly follow their pundits-of-choice do? Would they remember the ease with which they received health coverage or would they incorporate whatever mantra was beaten into them?

Or am I being too cynical here?
Every sane linter has //NOLINT support.
very cool — nice running to you in SF last week, Jake :)
I'm not sure this is a good solution for this use case (password management).

The obvious way of getting the password out of the Emacs buffer is copy and paste, which leaves the password on the clipboard where it is very easy to find. Manually removing it (by copying something else) can't be relied upon. (If you use Klipper you have an even bigger problem.)

I know all bets are off with any kind of password manager if the host is compromised, but password managers and browser plugins presumably at least try to scrub passwords from memory, which will save you if you forget to lock your screen or your window manager has a screen lock bypass bug (very common).

The Emacs solution will protect you if you don't use full-disk encryption and your disk falls into the wrong hands, but that applies (or should apply) to all password managers.

What am I missing?

Edit: The same applies to the solution in the article.
How the World Looks to Your Phone
Nice diagram, I'm borrowing it as a reference for the setup I'm going to be designing for work soon :-)

Did you consider running nginx for your PHP application servers as well?

Also, can I ask what sort of traffic you get per {{ time period }} ??
Well, one simple typographical way to solve this is not to use a quotation character (') when what is meant is an apostrophe character (’).
LOL, who benefits most! Couldn't it be argued that as a high-paid salaried worker for a good Silicon Valley shop, employee benefits more in the first XX weeks than the employer? Does it mean we don't have to get paid?

Or, working on open-source for a startup, where you get to take the proper credit for all your hard work?
He probably refretted the answer, because it's like he didn't even read the question before answering with some boilerplate answer, which is probably why the question got rated so high after the answer.

I do. But I was jailed in 1960. For trying to use a public library. And that caused more good than harm. I marched to end segregation. The day Dr. King spoke on Washington, in 1963, I was there for that speech. That day, from Texas to Florida, you couldn't use a single public toilet. We could not buy ice cream at Howard Johnson's, or stay in Holiday Inns. We fought to bring those barriers down. And because those walls are down, all the new interstate construction across the South - the new bridges and ports, and seaports - that's progress. You couldn't have teams behind the Cotton Curtain. You couldn't have had Olympics in Atlanta behind the Cotton Curtain. You couldn't have Toyota, and Michelin, behind the Cotton Curtain, so we pulled those walls down.
So our work has been beneficial. And it seems to me that people who benefit from that work ascribe it to the wrong reasons.
When the laws change to make the South more civil, that brought in more investment. So we've made America better.
All these changes have come from our work. Our work has bene good for the South, and good for America.
My goal is to expand our consciousness, to create as big a tent as possible, as we fight for justice and world peace. I was able to bring Americans home from jail, from prison, and gaining those freedom of those Americans was the highest and best use of my talents and time.
The team who was recruited had to work as typical government contractors but are now forming their own company which they want to operate differently from all the other companies that build stuff for the government. One of the team members told me a while ago they were interested in organizing into a public benefit corporation or something like that (I had never heard of such a thing).
Scripting is clumsy compared to what? Clicking radio buttons and "next" for 5 minutes???

Another alternative is to make an empty (or test setup) database instance in the "PGDATA" directory, and archive that (while the DB is shut down) for redeployment on another server instance. Unlike Oracle, everything is in one place, as ordinary files and subdirectories.
> But it clearly was.

That's the problem. It's not clear. There's a lot of unanswered questions there: how does off-site activity on Tumblr and other sites get linked back to specific people and the overall thrust of a subreddit? How do you even solve that problem in general?

I have personally observed chan (not 4chan) threads involving skimming certain subreddits and finding targets to harass without even having Reddit accounts. We've long observed 4chan/goon "Redditors" in YouTube comment threads. I'm with you on releasing how they got there, and I think it would provide a lot of clarity.

One last thing, I have to correct you: I never said Reddit was squashing free speech. I wish they'd pick a consistent value on it, that's all, and I pointed out specific things said in the press about free speech. I'm less concerned about FPH than I am about something like /r/jailbait, which got removed because it became the squeaky wheel due to CNN attention. There are worse subreddits regarding sexualization of children, and Reddit fails to uphold its own standard there, which negates the standard itself. That's my problem.
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The AMA app really has nothing to do with the subreddit. Reddit inc made it to try and capitalize on /r/Iama.