skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure that a single core of a modern CPU is much faster than Pentium 4 at the same clock rate. As a result, I believe that a proper parallelized code running on a modern quad core CPU would be much faster than the same code running on 4 P4s.
This is some serious bike-shedding.

Well there are some rare cases where you really need generic data structures, is not hugely annoying to use go generate and a template implementation. That being said, I'd still like to see generics in Go, providing the drawbacks are limited.

The other criticism about null pointers is just ridiculous. If null pointers make in into a list of your top ten pain points while developing software in a team, I'm going to call you out for not being honest to yourself. Null pointers have their benefits and drawbacks, but it's so far down the list of practical concerns that it shouldn't even feature in your decision on what language to use.
I read this comment and was moved to summarize every graf in the piece to check whether it was an opinion piece:

https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=9870891

Spoiler: I don't think "it's an opinion piece" is a colorable argument.
In this case, the edits were so large, I think they would have been better served with an entirely new follow-up story rather than replacing the original like that.
CloudFlare Forced to Censor Anti-Censorship Site
The Death of Reddit
Kapor isn't quoted about the Pao lawsuit. He's quoted about the demographics of Reddit and the virulence of misogyny on Reddit. The conflict of interest in that seems six- degrees- of- Kevin- Rose to me.
...and Smedley Butler's "War is a Racket" testimony.
You can't determine what is OC from comments, only from submission titles.

But by sheer coincidence, I have made a chart comparing average scores for OC submissions vs. non-OC submissions a few months ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/2rv76z/oc_...
Wow! I couldn't find an image that seemed to be from there, but when I was looking for it, I found someone's blog with several impressive examples [0]. I really liked the aerial photos of some of the intersections.

0: http://basementgeographer.com/crossing-from-right-hand-drive...
Anything.

There are bash libraries to do OO programming. Obviously, you can do text and screen based UI, but with things like tcl/tk and canvas, you can also do some GUI programming. bash has the virtual devices /dev/tcp and /dev/udp to do network programming in it (there are smtp, http pop3 imap3 and others protocols implemented in bash). There are shell and bash compilers to generate native code executables from bash sources.

So you can write any kind of application in bash.

Some big programs have started as shell programs.

But then, the question is why? For soon, very soon, you reach the limits of bash, with the lack of advanced data structures, the difficulty to write algorithms in it, the awkward syntax, the quotation hell, the lack of good debuggers, and so on.

When you could have the same interactive and script-like kind of development with other programming languages, like Common Lisp (or Smalltalk, scheme, or even ruby and python), and with better ways to interface with libraries and GUI frameworks, and more delivery choices.

Any programming language having implementations providing an interactive REPL and a decent debugger will provide you with a better programming experience than bash.
This is going to sound harsh, but here's my take.

When you're farting around, you want to read “fun” questions and answers (e.g. “Interesting uses of sun.misc.Unsafe”), and when you see stackoverflow moving away from the “fun”, you have time to write an angsty blog post (because you're just farting around).

When you're trying to get work done, you want to find direct answers to specific questions (e.g. “how do I do X in JQuery again?”). The Powers That Be want stackoverflow to focus on this kind of Q&A, so you're not likely to find your question closed for being off topic, and even if it is, you don't have as much time to write an angsty blog post (because you're hard at work).

Then there's the fact that people are more likely in general to publicly complain than to publicly praise, and complaints are more fun to read than paeans.

So if your impression of stackoverflow's “decline” is based on recent posts you've seen on HN, you should try to get a more objective assessment. I don't see stackoverflow as declining based on their traffic measurements:

https://www.quantcast.com/p-c1rF4kxgLUzNc
> How about 60# full gut vs 50# hybrid (gut in the crosses)? Would the former still be a lot more powerful than the latter?

The hybrid setups I tested were usually in the ballpark of 46-48# poly mains with 50-52# gut crosses. My experience was that the hybrid setups were (obviously) more powerful than full poly, but still very noticeably less powerful than full gut at any tension. Without poly's spin/control, the full gut setups were a big disadvantage from the baseline, but I could hit some amazing (for me) first serves.

I didn't experiment too much though because I was breaking every gut hybrid I tried in a few hours, which got expensive quick.
I've got nothing to hide besides:
- my public opinion not in line with US foreign policy
- my genitals to not shock the frigid society
- my wage to keep sure that everybody is happy with his slave money and cannot compare
Note that the craft can't take pictures and send data at the same time, so it only sends back a few navigation images and only periodically, fewer now as they're doing more science as it gets closer. It also takes up to 4 or 5 hours to transmit the images (I think they're down to ~1 kbps now). The last few seem to have been posted within less than a day of the team receiving them.

You can see the transmission schedule here: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2015/0624055... (images to be posted on the raw image page are in bold)
What do we need 4GB RAM smartphones for?
I've been looking to replace my Nexus 4, a 2012 android handset with 2GB RAM. It has always been swift, but more recently with software updates - buggy. I don't feel like the bugs are down to exceeding the 2GB of RAM.

Phones like the Oneplus2 are now shipping with 4GB DDR4 RAM. Beyond the obvious marketing gimmick - is there software waiting for more RAM that are yet to see on our phones?

Curious to know if anyone has anything to share on this.
To many experts back in the day it was hard to imagine a traditional process below 100nm.
Show HN: Shakespearean Insult Generator Web App in Go
The question never was can wind generate enough power - just build more windmills. The question is can it be reliably integrated into a stable electrical system?

Unfortunately, largely no. At least not still. Without getting into technical details note that in jurisdictions with a legal mandate to prefer windpower (when available) and large installed windbase the price of power goes negative. That is, there are situations when power companies pay to have anyone dump their power. Otherwise they'll damage their equipment.

the problem never was the turbines, but the grid!
You can though. When someone says raising tobacco taxes will increase government coffers by X, they're effectively levying that tax primarily on lower and lower middle class families since those communities are more likely to smoke cigarettes.
Here is a breakdown of the article, helpfully numbered by paragraph.

https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=9870891

Here is the actual article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/11/technology/ellen-pao-reddi...

My challenge to you:

Either (1) tell me which of those paragraph summaries is inaccurate, and how the accurate summary would reveal "suppositions" and "manufactured context", or (2) tell me which of those paragraph summaries directly implicates either of those two things.

Again, you made a list of things that bother you about news stories, but also affirmatively claimed that the article printed suppositions and manufactured context, so I'd like to see if you can back those two specific arguments up with evidence.

Thanks!
Have you looked at [AWS WorkMail](https://aws.amazon.com/workmail/)?
$7 homemade shotgun. No 3D printing. Ammunition supply would be the biggest issue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1wV3lmbSv4
Do you think Kapor really supports additional censorship on reddit?

My issue isn't with what he said in his quote. It's that the Times changed their well-balanced piece into one that implies the crappy parts of reddit need to be brought under 'control' and quoted a sentence from Kapor that lends support. I may be wrong (and to be honest I don't personally know much about Mitch), but I'd be surprised if a founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation feels that reddit should be more restrictive on speech it hasn't moderated to this point. While his quote doesn't directly say he supports more censorship by any means, including it in the context of that article misconstrues his (probable) beliefs.
Show HN: One dot for every person in San Francisco, colored by language
Exposed Vocals – Victoria Bernardi – Separate Lives HD (Sub Esp)
Deliberate omission of some set of facts is just as much an editorial decision as their inclusion. Ignoring the context of Pao's history in tech is as editorial as its inclusion. The BBC's "Omar Sharif: Lawrence of Arabia star dies aged 83" is appropriate for mentioning his role in a movie more than 50 years ago. Journalism is about exposing the relevant facts and erring on the side of too much rather than witholding is reasonable. History matters.

The past is never dead. It's not even past. -- Faulkner
There are reasons other than "I disagree with your specific comment" that a person might be downvoted.

And do you know something about Victoria's firing that everyone else doesn't? Do you know why she was fired?
When reddit will be death, the internet will totally different. I see reddit, as the Internet is* + some moderators.

* spam + idiots + trolls + porn + and opinions about [ENTER STUFF HERE]
Don't see why not as a place to start. The book "Programming in Lua" is really well written if you want some background, but you can probably pick up the basics easily anyway.
I sit on our company's architecture review board, and we do a pass on every product that the company does. There are three links that I regularly have grounds to give:
The "Linux is obsolete" Debate - http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/appa.html
Taligents Guide to Designing Object Oriented Software: http://www.amazon.com/Taligents-Guide-Designing-Programs-Obj...
And "The Critique" http://walfield.org/papers/200707-walfield-critique-of-the-G...
That was one thing Digg had that I missed when I moved to reddit. I suspect it's a pretty resource-intensive function compared to what exists today, though.
Is there any evidence that synesthesia exists other than self-report?

-----

edit as a reply to both responses:

Tests like this were mentioned in the article - but wouldn't the same effect be caused by people who had an honest belief that they saw the number 8 as orange, or if you sat someone in a room and played a tape for an hour that "One. Blue. Two. Violet. Three. Green.[...]" etc.?

i.e. if I've said that I see 5 as blue enough times, wouldn't that affect my times on an association test?

Are there any stronger examples of tests? Any papers that I should read? Honest question; not trying to be contrarian.
I think it's fascinating that if anyone uses this dataset to train an AI, some tiny piece of my personality might make a contribution.
I'm curious about your first two points -- are you privvy to information about those firings that the general public is not privy to? Because the general public, for legal reasons, is not privy to most of the information surrounding those firings, and it strikes me as interesting that you have an opinion related to them despite not having any information.
You can't use it as a passenger, either.
Build a blog with the MEAN stack (part 1)
Pretty much standard business for China. You either give your secrets over to a Chinese company as a partnership, or you find them stolen later.
Help me ;(
For better or for worse that argument is facile in countries where guns are already plentiful. No one gets to choose whether their intruder will be armed.
What coincidental timing! I was just listining to Johann Hari's "Everything we know about addiction is wrong" TED talk[0].

His central premise is that the drug policies of the last 100 years have marginalized and disconnected addict populations. His proposal is that connection is the opposite of addiction.

Interesting to hear temporally adjacent to the idea you express -- providing the means for marginalized populations to rejoin society should be priority #1.

[0] http://www.ted.com/talks/johann_hari_everything_you_think_yo...
> ps: I'll add that I was somehow afraid to express my views on Freedom of Speech. Funny.

Hah yeah because speaking up against these mobs can lead to getting DOXed. What an insane world we live in.
The referenced article simply asserts that minimum wage increases lead to job losses, but doesn't actually cite any evidence of it happening.
bobsadino@gmx.com

help me out.
A friend of mine once put it this way to some guy that was trying to proclaim that he has nothing to worry about:

> Of course you have something to hide. It's not bad to hide things from others. For instance, do you mind if we talk about your sex life? Heck, can I watch you and your wife next time? Sex is natural, we all do it, there is nothing to hide!"
I agree, except I don't think it's "incredibly complex". The bigger issue is in reducing things to a soundbite, we almost always end up with something that just speaks to the individual. And as you pointed out, I may have nothing to 'hide' myself, but want to ensure the privacy of others as a basic freedom.
Yes, the revision between a quick-take and fleshed out article changes the emphasis of the narrative in the story. No, this is not okay if done without a note that it has been done IF you want to be called a document of record. This statement is irrespective of this particular piece.

>The Pao NYT piece never changes the directionality of the concerns it raises.

With respect to this particular piece, I was pointing out later revisions that do change the directionality of a particular concept, namely its description of silicon valley.

"Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief" becomes "Silicon Valley 2, Ellen Pao 0".

"the entrenched sexist culture of Silicon Valley" becomes

"the entrenched male-dominated culture of Silicon Valley" becomes

"the entrenched sexist culture of Silicon Valley" becomes

"the entrenched male-dominated culture of Silicon Valley".

That is not just a fleshing out of a narrative, but an editorial flip-flop. Sexist is a particular and egregious charge to lay on an entire culture - an editorial statement. Male-dominated is a fact, separable from the concept of sexist. One can be proven, one cannot. Subjective vs objective. Opinion vs journalism.
Greek island agrees to test digital currency
This is what I meant. While I looked over some benchmarks I saw that a single Haswell thread for example seems to be 3-4 times faster than a Pentium 4.
I started seeing a CBT therapist this year to be more productive at work (I was also a big procrastinator). It was very effective
For actual journalism on the internet, it is worth going to shared common sources. I almost always rely on Reuters and AP. Since they are cited so often by downstream media, which is a major part of their business model, their content is--by its very nature--somewhat static. I have also generally found their writing to be less biased, with the exception of Reuters being inherently pro-finance and globalization (again, due to their specialized business model). In terms of more immutable print media, back n the early 2000s, I was also a firm believer in that the ridiculously low word count limits and easier barrier to reader entry encouraged at the Metro (the free public transportation newspaper) left whatever was able to make it through less biased. This again is on the basis that bias would add too much complexity to stories whose sole purpose was to impart the basics of widely agreed upon fact (cf. Simple English Wikipedia).
How does this relate to Pick? https://robots.thoughtbot.com/announcing-pick
Your best argument that the Times has "flip-flopped" is that they couldn't make up their minds between calling Silicon Valley "sexist" or "male-dominated"?

I don't find that argument credible.

That doesn't mean I'm right, but it does mean that this is not a profitable line of argument for us. I'll go ahead and assert that both of those constructions mean the same thing.
This would be a terrible move and will retard the uptake of Java 9. Why not leave it as it is or just repackage it until replacements snake their way through the JSR process and then users can migrate their source.

Java will never bridge the performance gap with C/C++/etc. until it plays nice with modern architectures where being memory cache friendly is vital for performance. Unsafe has been shown to allow orders of magnitude speed improvements for certain tasks.

While I am on the subject could someone explain the point of Jigsaw? It will deliver nothing to current users and why bother with a cutdown Java on small devices these days when the cheapest phone has more power than desktops of 10 years ago? It seems to have consumed enormous resources and caused delays while Java is slipping further behind C# and other modern languages.
I got excited for a short second http://helm-engine.org/
Prison Born
> And the fact that Pao is of asian origins and that Asians are traditionally over-represented in SV and not traditional victims of racism in technology.

Is the reddit audience particularly strong in SV? In the people on the board, and working for the company, yes, in the audience, I would say no.

Also, it doesn't necessarily matter about what people really think, the behaviour on reddit was more about trying to find the most unpleasant thing you can say, rather like when a football/soccer crowd tries to rile up opposition players with abuse - it's more bigotry than genuine racism. Although, just like with football crowds, the genuine racists do then get to ride in the slip-stream. And people don't necessarily go back into the real world and shake it off, these movements develop their own momentum. Much in the same way than 4chan started off being racist in an ironical or troll-like way, and is now unashamedly, sincerely racist.
"For how could I fall in love with a Moon, When having set my sight on the Sun first."

Dugg into every manuscript written,

Every prose ever composed,

Yet I cannot find an instance of men describing.

Describing the sentiment in my heart when I think of you, YourLocalCousin.

And every moment, that is.

I am now sadly forced to believe,

"Man" has never felt it.

Ineffable, it is.

Elyvate is the name I give it.

My pen is my witness and will testify

That I am left with only one desire

That is: in your heart to Reside"

A boy
> The range of human opinion on every topic is incredibly broad. That means that there's a tiny minority of people who hold truly outrageous and objectionable views. If you simply hide those people with deletions and shadowbans, you relegate them to their tiny corner of the internet where they're free to reinforce each other's insane ideals.

Let's take antisemitism as the truly outrageous & objectional view. Say that a tiny minority of users of reddit are vehemently antisemitic. Sure, they can hang out on their own subreddits and talk about how great antisemitism is, and they do. But they also post in popular subs, bringing their vitriol along with them. The community doesn't care, because censorship is bad. Sound about right so far?

Say you're Jewish. You wander in to a thread on some popular sub and you find a bunch of antisemitic comments. What is your reaction? Do you dig in and try to convince the antisemites that they're wrong? Or do you say fuck it and leave? How many times does this have to happen before you write off reddit all together?

Now let's say reddit is full of antisemites, homophobes, xenophobes, racists, fascists, and sexists. If you're jewish, gay, from another country, black, aren't a fascist, or a woman, why would you want to keep visiting the site?

Let's say you're none of those things, but you think that antisemites et al. are terrible people. Why would you want to spend time on a site that is full of those kinds of people?

Why would you want to visit a site where terrible people aren't told to get the fuck out but rather defended because telling them that they are not welcome in a community is censorship?
I'm thinking of this line from the Hippocratic Oath, which I understand to be quite historical:

"Whatever, in the course of my practice, I may see or hear (even when not invited), whatever I may happen to obtain knowledge of, if it be not proper to repeat it, I will keep sacred and secret within my own breast."

The point is that this isn't being challenged in the latest privacy wars, even though it flies straight in the face of the completely nonsense mantra of "if you've nothing to hide...."
> No web page after 2016 will be user readable anymore

But webassembly is going to be user readable.
Picture Band: Simplifying group photo sharing
There's one person in this thread who is disappointed. Everyone else seems to recognise this as the amazing thing it is.

Perhaps we just need some kind of infographic? If the camera is a single pixel, how many pixels away is Pluto? What's the equivalent using (as one person suggested) a iPhone camera?
For me there are two take-away points from that video: 1). do one thing and be absolutely awesome at it. 2). take complete responsibility for your customers success at using your product.
Almost no company will say why they fire someone. reddit is not unique in that regard. Personnel retention is a private concern, regardless of how it makes the community feel.
Consider the neutral statements that were deleted:

“It became clear that the board and I had a different view on the ability of Reddit to grow this year,” Ms. Pao said in an interview. “Because of that, it made sense to bring someone in that shared the same view.”

Sam Altman, a member of Reddit’s board, said he personally appreciated Ms. Pao’s efforts during her two years working at the start-up. “Ellen has done a phenomenal job, especially in the last few months,” he said.

Also consider what the article left out, like the complaints of IAmA mods about the way Victoria was terminated; the requirement that all employees move to San Francisco; the ban on salary negotiations; the community manager who said he was fired for being too sick to work; the complaints from mods about poor support from the admins.

Some opinion pieces explicitly state an opinion. This one conveys an opinion by cherry-picking facts and quotes.
Not trying to throw cold water on this...but are the Reddit execs OK with this? I mean, Twitter and Facebook would most likely issue takedowns for similar kinds of data dumps...but is there something in the Reddit API TOS that says this is OK?...I wouldn't be surprised if there a fairly liberal license, as that would be aligned with the early spirit of the site. And an onerous TOS would have likely curbed the active user-run bot ecosystem that helps manage and monitor Reddit's discussions.
Ignoring the political issues, living in a landlocked state, it always boggles my mind reading about and seeing pictures of these huge ships. I'm not sure I've ever seen a man made object even coming close to the size of these ships.
>I honestly dont know who is to be blamed for reddit going the shithole but at the end of the day CEO needs to take responsibility.

That's what it boils down to. The buck stops at the CEO's desk, even if the CEO wasn't directly involved with the problem. This is really not much different than the CEO of Target losing his job after someone hacked its customer data.