skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked as a journalist for over a decade -- CBS, Time, CNET, Wired, etc. -- before founding https://recent.io/ and every news organization I can think of updates articles after publication.

This practice predates the Internet by decades; wire services called updates "writethrus." Updated copy would be labeled internally for editors as 2nd-lede writethru, 3rd-lede writethru, with perhaps some details about what was changed or added, with those internal notes typically not being published for readers. So east coast papers would print a different version of the story than later-deadline west coast papers. The Washington Post did this in print form, with stories in the early "bulldog" edition often modified and expanded before appearing in the final edition. News has always been a snapshot in time.

There is significant pressure on reporters to post news quickly to capitalize on social sharing and search -- even if the quick first post is one or two paragraphs with little review by editors -- and update their articles quickly. This was the official policy in at least one newsroom where I worked. That can and does lead to inaccuracies and hasty reporting, though errors do tend to be corrected quickly. But the linked article does not accuse the NYT of factual errors.

It is true that it would be near-trivial for news organizations to have a history tab appear on each article that shows older versions -- I've suggested this and other features before, like providing people quoted in the article an automatic right of reply in a text field underneath the story. The reason we don't see history tabs is probably a combination of legal risk (imagine that a green reporter writes that John Doe was convicted of murder, and John Doe was the prosecutor, not the defendant), little demand from readers, embarrassment about errors in early versions, and newspaper-era newsroom thinking.
Here is the entire Victoria graf:

Ms. Pao’s departure from Reddit was prompted after the online message board’s tight-knit community broke into upheaval when news broke that Victoria Taylor, a prominent and well-liked Reddit employee, had been suddenly dismissed from the company this month with no public explanation. In protest, Reddit users shut down hundreds of sections of the message board.

This graf:

* Establishes an objective cause of Pao's ouster --- the firing of Victoria Taylor --- that Pao's opponents widely agree is the reason she left.

* Calls into question the reason for Taylor's firing.

* Reports the subreddit strike, which was done precisely to get this sort of attention.

At no point does the graf downplay the firing or somehow mitigate Pao's involvement in it. Which it easily could have, because Pao didn't fire Taylor, Ohanian did.

I do not think you can win an argument that the Times tried to spin the Victoria Taylor issue out of the article.
Really interresting I hope to see more of this =) such projects are truly inspiring, what we still can develope and build in this world.
Sennheisers are great but i swear by Beyerdynamic. I have a pair of DT-770's that lasted me for 9 years.

You bring up an interesting point that there's no real center in the U.S. that carries audio gear online, Europe has Thomann (thomann.de) that basically carries everything but now in SF it's hard to find something else then B&H Photo Video NY to deliver stuff.
No, it is not. The article's claim is more specific. In essence, what it says is that the Times does not provide a "git blame" for all their articles, and for that reason, it is bad at covering technology.
I hardly ever use reddit, and I'll certainly agree that reddit (especially the default subs) is dominated by young males and can be, at times, misogynistic.

If I have an agenda here, it's to ask for better from professional journalists.
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Did it occur to you at anytime that they might have a replacement for unsafe in the works? I don't get why you think it's so unreasonable for them to replace something they consider "unsafe" with alternate solutions that do they same thing but in a proper and supported manner.

BTW, Java will also get that "world class native code integration" with Project Panama.
This person is speculating about the office politics of a site they actively dislike. I doubt that they have given it any thought, or even have any knowledge on the topic.
You may also have twitter of a rock lying in some forest:

https://twitter.com/kamen_v_lesu

It's "Today nothing happened" if you're curious.
Mind boggling!

Also - how does Shazam makes money?
This makes me sad in three ways.

1. Hurd is still not here, yet.

2. With Duke Nukem Forever actually finished, and with Perl 6 looking like it might get finished this year, we kind of run out of good jokes to crack about the Hurd. What will be the next killer-app that will run on Hurd out of the box, once it's finished?

3. Unless I've been misinformed, there are multi-server microkernel systems out there that do work. So it's not like the Hurd was a totally misguided idea. And yet, it's still out there, like cold fusion, artificial intelligence and hypo-allergenic kittens, it's tantalizingly out of reach...

Well, one day
I had a man break into my home when I was there. He got in through the roof, going up scaffolding on a derelict building next door.

I offered him a cup of tea, and told him it would probably be safer for him to leave via my front door and down the stairs rather than back down the scaffolding. He declined the tea, but I went and made one for myself and called the police. He went back out the way he'd come in. The police caught him in the garden, where he brandished a bottle at them. They did not shoot and kill him[1], they de-escalated then caught and cuffed him. He served a short sentence, got some drug and alcohol rehab, and is now only engaged in minor crime.

At no point did I think "this would be better if any of us (me, him, the police) could have a gun".

[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/armed-police-...

Armed Police in England and Wales only fired their weapons twice out of 14684 operations in 2013/2014.

And let's not forget that the UK has terrorist and paramilitary groups operating here.
We haven't seen porn on there yet. The most used word is 'nipple' (which in the USA would be a pacifier) leading to vast disappointment.
Best for porn would probably be bathtub, brassiere or bikini (or a mixup of the previous).
I don't think there are dirty pictures in the imagenet-1000 dataset, so the network doesn't know of porn. But there are 1.3 million images in the dataset, so we don't know for sure.
Anyone wondering what a "fast-forward" merge is? https://sandofsky.com/images/fast_forward.pdf
Successfully making a 7nm chip doesn't mean it will ever be cost-competitive with a 28nm or 16nm chip. Per-transistor cost isn't going down anymore, so these new processes are only going to attract customers that are willing to pay more for lower power or higher performance. It's no longer the case that the whole product line will be brought forward when the fab capacity becomes available.

It was only this spring that AMD finally removed 40nm GPUs from the low end of their product line. They'll keep selling 28nm GPUs until the fab equipment breaks.
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Earthquakes frequently do not cause tsunamis. Or the tsunami strikes an area where it does minimal damage. So yes, an earthquake WITH a tsunami that also happened to strike a nuclear reactor is a combination of rare probabilities.
> diverse philosophies at the table, including classics like liberty, speech and privacy.

Are you seriously claiming those philosophies are on a level with the gibberish you quoted, which may as well have come from Sokal?
My point (which I stated in the parent twice) was that people regularly fall victim to confirmation bias and choose the facts that support their own beliefs. I think I was fairly objective in pointing out that there are opposing viewpoints and people tend to gravitate towards places (blogs, communities, sub-communities, news agencies) that reflect their own views.

> there are entire news agencies corrupted by feminism is revealing

I don't want to debate whether something like xojane is "feminist" or a "blog" or a "news agency" or both. My point was that people look to confirm their own viewpoint, which it seems you are doing here rather than see the point I stated several times. Again, it was that there are opposing sources in media and people gravitate towards views and media that confirm their internal bias.

edit: I can no longer edit the parent post but if it is helpful to others reading it, substitute "news agencies" for "articles concerned with feminist/women's issues"
Your comment is a bit inflammatory, but thanks, it's good to know the political biases of a source.
The secret joke of Kant's soul: emotions and moral reasoning [pdf]
Well, lots of vitriolic responses here. Let me say that I don't really have a strong opinion on this article here because I don't really wish to delve into the entire bibliography, but:

1. The points I mentioned are at very least closely related to the topic of the article. They are not totally an argumentum ad hominem, the moment TechRaptor began to commentate on journalistic integrity they opened themselves to comparison of their own journalistic integrity. This does not mean they are wrong about the NYT, it just means there is a possibility of hypocrisy and irony in their accusations.

2. I do not believe this history taints their reporting, only that perhaps greater care should be taken with accepting their claims on similar topics.

3. Please note that the first paragraph of my response carries no value judgement on Techraptor (just a quick, largely neutral history for context), and the second paragraph only includes what I mark as my own personal opinion. I mentioned the "death of author" incident only to note that TechRaptor writers seem to be amateurs (not a sin in any way) who are perhaps not as well antiquated with all industry practices in journalism as NYT writers may be. This does not mean they are wrong.

4. I have also been frustrated when news outlets silently update stories with changes/corrections after those issues are pointed out by myself and others. I have not really engaged over those because the topics of discussion were largely unimportant and I did not really feel invested enough to start a large public argument with a news site or magazine. So I think there is a real issue here to be discussed and I don't wish to silence anyone.
Wall Street are, ostensibly, private citizens doing their private jobs, not elected officials who are supposed to be acting in the public's best interest.
I'm always so happy when people get the reference :D

I think it's a great place to start! Lua is a fantastic language!
> Since the full dataset is ~285GB, you only get 4 queries per month.

That's only true if your 4 queries need to read every single column.

One of the big advantages of BigQuery's column-oriented storage is that you only pay to read the columns that are actually needed to answer your query.

For example, this query to extract the top 10 authors only cost me 19GB to run (and took 7.0s):

SELECT
author,
COUNT(*) AS COUNT
FROM
TABLE_QUERY([fh-bigquery:reddit_comments], "table_id CONTAINS '20' AND LENGTH(table_id)<8")
GROUP EACH BY
author
ORDER BY
COUNT DESC
LIMIT
10;

author,COUNT
[deleted],228425822
AutoModerator,3677774
conspirobot,575576
ModerationLog,547671
autowikibot,402076
PoliticBot,388395
imgurtranscriber,360248
dogetipbot,358093
qkme_transcriber,301968
TweetPoster,293309
This would be a really amazing way to make factually backed statements about the nature of Reddit for news sources given the recent publicity.

I.e. the frequency of comments of a certain nature, typical karma scores for those comments, breakdown by subreddit etc.
> I do not think you can win an argument that the Times tried to spin the Victoria Taylor issue out of the article.

That's not exactly what I said, and certainly nothing I meant to imply. Allow me to try again:

The article ignored the complaints expressed by the moderators.
> Reworking the supply and demand equation, Xiaomi limits availability through online-only flash sales. Tightly controlled and lean, this model allows the manufacturer to sell phones at near cost to the fortunate few who can catch a flash sale before supplies run out.

Why does the manufacturer want to sell at near cost?
> With CSS, or JavaScript, the app may just not work.

When it comes to CSS, generally most apps will continue to work even if the CSS is simply ignored.

Because that was one big point of CSS. Separation of presentation from content and function.

It's funny. That kind of separation of concerns is something developers talk about valuing, but the SPA/webapp craze erodes the user-facing aspect of it, even while developers are very proud to demonstrate they're thinking hard about which specific kind of separated-concern architecture they're working with well away from the boundary where an outside user or UA would care.
You need them, because people want to write text editors in JavaScript. It is basically like fashion. The customer does not want highly optimized and functioning things but new shiny stuff.

A less cynical man would say, that performance gains in the lower levels frees the developer to optimize the UI/UX.
One certainly gets some new information about one's code when one runs it.

But there are plenty of pieces of information about an application that one won't get by running a bit of code.

Running part of a language implementation won't tell you if the language itself has a flaw that will annoy user because it won't run the entire language.

Running a single module won't tell you if there's a flaw in the way information flows in your application because the different modules aren't interacting.

And if you writing an application and find flaws in a user interface or similar large-scale aspects, you may find that you have to rewrite much of the application or jury-rig existing code to make things work. And iteratively jury-rigging code is a practice that guarantees extra effort latter.
Our Deadliest Problem? Not Terrorism
One imagines this is precisely the confusion the Oxford comma might prevent.
Are you quoting these for comedic value?
There are monthly "Who Wants to be Hired" and "Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer?" threads for this.
I would pay extra for a coffin on an air plane. Wouldn't be great for the claustrophobic, but the isolation and prone position would be great for sleeping.
Your description reminds me of the US compelling Japanese automakers to setup plants in the United States in order to have access to the market. I think you can find plenty of other examples, in most countries.
From its product - which is the users, who else?
Sadly this campaign ended June 17, about a month ago. Very interesting idea, though. I wonder if there's a place we can demo this?
I have some Sony PS4 headphones where there's a metal rod going through plastic hinges. I would gladly pay an extra 100 bucks for a headset where any part of the device which is prone to wear would be made of metal, aluminum or otherwise. My larger than average head means that most headsets shatter after about a year of use.
First , we don't need to wait, there are already microcontorllers for $1 with a floating-point unit.Also sleep current is rising greatly as one moves to new nodes - so some micro-controllers will stay on older nodes. But yes 28nm should be popular for mcu's - especially that now we have tools to package very tiny(sub mm2^2 dies) with lots of pins.

Anyway, today , and much more so in the future, microcontorllers will be commoditized(heck for most purposes today, many companies offer chips with low-enough power) and extremely cheap - and the determining factor will be software - and software ecosystem.

So the company who could come with with a great improvement to productivity and quality of embedded software developmet - and control that tool - would be in a very good place.
I do care about guns and having weighed up the pros and cons I have decided I would prefer to live in a society where they are not readily available.
People with enough reputation can do exactly that.
How can it be that no one has referred to this as "treemail"?
Can someone explain for a layman what this cooling technology is useful and necessary for?

Edit: Thanks for the excellent explanations. Upvotes all around. :)
Wow now that's special!
You sound just like the kind of person that refuses to read any article published in Al Jazeera.
I did a 'sonification' of what Shazam's reduction of your music would sound like, some time ago [1]. Perhaps it adds something to the article. You can actually Shazam it, it still works.

[1] https://soundcloud.com/sample_noise/shazuffle-ii-shazam-me
As far as I know, Siri uses Shazam to find music. Example from my life: "Siri, what song is it playing now?" "It's xxx". Then I got home, opened iTunes, found that song in my latest searches and bought that album. So clearly that's a moneymaker for iTunes, artist and they'll pay for that.

May be Shazam has direct relations with major music brands who'll pay for each successful search.
"The system chills incoming air from more than 1,000C to minus 150C in less than 1/100th of a second"

sounds impressive!
hmm, I didn't read it as a piece about nyt covering tech, but about covering news posted on the internet, with the ability to rapidly update and change articles without providing a record. E.g. they gave an example of the AP and spoke of journalism generally. I guess both examples, nyt/reddit, AP/email had an element of tech in them.

Fwiw, this shouldn't be construed as an endorsement of the article.
Coal plants don't really do "standby" well though. They are much better at providing constant output. Gas turbine plants are better at handling rapid changes in supply and demand. Possibly pulverized coal could be used in a turbine but I don't know how well that works.
People who report synesthesia perform better at tasks such as counting 2's in a picture with 2's and 5's, owing to their different colours.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Synaesthesiatest.jpg
End the 'war on' drugs. Completely. Either we own ourselves or we don't.
> The univalence axiom says that two types are equal if we can convert their values back and forth (without loss of information).

So strings are equivalent to everything, and vice-versa.

> Now, the issue is that currently we don't actually have a computational interpretation for the univalence axiom

JSON? Sexps?
People have been trying to make sentient bots of any kind for some time now.
Minidisc always sounded better than mp3 to me, but I never tried out the other codecs that Apple use. I wish I could find a replacement battery for my MZ-NH1, it supports PCM recording and I like the idea of optical media better than a flash chip.
half of the links on these pages (not the torrents) lead to malware, surprised its taken this long.
Yes, they've verified this in several ways, either test-retest (ask for a variety of synesthetic associations and verify them some time later) or even by constructing challenges that would be easier for synesthetes than non-synesthetes for example, detecting a shape in a mixed cloud of numbers based on associated hue (much like some color-blindness tests).
Meanwhile, Linux plays a dominate role in the world with a Kernel that is in absolutely everything.

So yeah, Micro-kernels work. But monolithic and simple has been carrying the day for a decade plus.

(and before anyone complains about NT, they lost their Microkernel card when the moved graphics into the kernel. They like XNU on the mac are Hybrid Kernels).
Any lawyers help me out here - if there is a legitimate concern of censorship of parties that clearly shouldn't be affected - and CloudFlare refused to comply - wouldn't someone have to take them to court where they could argue their case?
Buzzfeed is a good example of a site that rose to prominence with GIF listicles but is now branching into actual journalism. You can maintain both.
Controlling the OS many people use, selling other services, having a great consumer brands and using it to sell other stuff(it has a plan to partner with 200 startups) ,building an e-commerce store/empire , etc.

Also most consumer brands sell via a retailer(and it;s hard to change that). Xiaomi sells direct-to-consumer. That gives it more options with regards to pricing.
Thanks for your message.

We maintain a roadmap: https://github.com/MLstate/PEPS/wiki/Roadmap

Thanks to Opa (possibly due to that fact that we know how to use it at its best), we are able to develop features very quickly. I would say that what we need most is to optimize the UX and little details that matter to refine them over time. But overall, I think we can go technically much farther that Zimbra/Roundcube. But to achieve more popularity, we will need to beef up some marketing aspects!
> diverse philosophies at the table, including classics like liberty, speech and privacy.

'Speech' is hardly a philosophy, 'liberty' is deeply contested down to its core, and 'privacy' is, again, something you have or you don't, like speech.
I would suggest the same reason PayPal literally gave people money, but I don't know.
Interesting how something can explain how something works without giving a hint as to what it does.
Nice work! Thought, for me, it would probably just make me anxious as I watch the minutes and seconds tick away...sort of like watching the clock in school, the more you look at it the slower time seems to go and the more distracted by time you become. That's just me — I'm sure this will be a good motivator for others.
Fascinating. Robert Heinlein's "The Roads Must Roll"[1] was written in 1940, after this article. Heinlein's roads had sections that went up to 100MPH but otherwise look to be taken from the idea in this 1937 article.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roads_Must_Roll
"The father is 15 years old" happens frequently, and it doesn't even matter if the woman is an adult. He still has to pay child support.
As a fan of both Minidisc and iPod this sounds dubious to me. Mp3 allowed you to use both better encoders and higher and a wider range of bitrates than ATRAC. I would have rated the headphones as the weakest part of the chain on the early iPods and you didn't use those.