skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're not the same company as Amazon, and that wasn't my claim. My point is just that being the Walmart of ${some big sector} is a prize worth waiting for. In fact: we still don't know how big a prize it is, because Walmart is still expanding.
When I made this post (and for a good time afterward), and I clicked 'parent' of your post it took me to the post with the person talking about the vitriol being appalling.

My response above was written assuming that the intended 'parent' post was the one being linked as the 'parent' at the time.

That post is no longer the parent of your comment, instead the parent is a post which your post actually works as a relatively legitimate reply to.

I am saying this as a way of acknowledging, all my further replies (some of which may have been made after the parent changed, without me noticing) are clearly deserving of down votes in the current context.
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I'm not sure if "their competitive dynamics are similar to Amazon's" is helping your argument, since one of the last things I'd ever want to do is compete head-on with Amazon in one of their core areas.
For Founders, Preparation Trumps Passion
But, said Mr. Saadia, a post-scarcity economy is actually far more within reach than the technological advances for which “Star Trek” is better known. Warp drive isn’t coming any time soon, if ever, he explained, but wealthy retirees today already live an essentially post-money existence, “traveling and exploring and deepening their understanding of the world and being generally happy.”

They acknowledge that the technology won't be there, but a post-scarcity economy might. I don't see how that could be possible without some of the technology in Star Trek, though. At a bare minimum, we would need to switch completely away from fossil fuels to an abundant/renewable, clean energy source, find a sustainable way to provide food, clean water, and shelter to everyone, and have universal healthcare at no cost to any individual. To accomplish any one of those without the level of technology seen in Star Trek seems like a stretch.
They might be given that kind of control without their will.

Sorry to get all Jed-McKenna-Theory-Of-Everything here, but no being has proof that they are not in such a situation. In fact it is arguably the only consistent possibility.

Expect that pure power would eventually (partially) allow itself to experience a situation without the ability to recall its own construction of that situation. (Imagining temporal bounds for that situation can be a helpful way of thinking about it from the human perspective, but of course temporality is a construction within the limited frame rather than something inherent.)
Interesting - it unsettled my wife in the same way, but my reaction was "woaaaah, that's cool!"
That is the right question.
Ancient Greek philosophy didn't evolve in a vacuum. If anyone really happens to be interested in the subject a good source might be 'The Shape of Ancient Thought' by Thomas McEvilley which traces the co-evolution of ancient Greek and ancient Indian philosophy starting from the time both Greece and India were subordinate to the Persian Empire and interacted extensively in places like Persepolis. This interaction continued even after the subordination of Persia to Greece and later to Rome.
Evil is not a clinical term and attempting to clinically define brain disorders is not sugar coating evil. The word evil really has no place in a clinical discussion.
That's correct. We've taken Show HN out of the title.
That really is the case. Completely asinine, but if you are a public figure, the masses can be shockingly awful. There is an interesting article where Penn and Teller compare their rather large influx of death threats with Richard Dawkins[1], and from what I know, pretty much anybody in the public eye has to deal with this.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/10836833/Penn-and...
This isn't responsive to anything I said. It's a response to a different comment that says "they should only get rid of all toxic communities, not just some of them."

Building a community requires trust from the community members, especially the community members who are volunteers donating their time to help the long-term health of it. If the people in charge consistently act like they don't know what the fuck they are doing the volunteers quickly feel put upon.

The hardest part of managing a user community is dealing with all the users.
For Amazon maybe maybe not, for the consumer sure. But I am beginning to doubt whether this is a good thing for society in general. Something is not adding up.
Interesting takeaways:

* They mentioned some degree of "mentorship effect", but didn't clarify how they controlled for this.

* Cash handouts (ie, basic income) prevented desperate measures. The societal cost of the cash could be less than the aggregate cost of the crimes.
The issue here is not
me but some bad technical writing.

The OP failed to explain that
a prerequisite to reading the
post was being a
long time AWS user.
Then, the OP was bad
technical writing. Done.
QED.

Without such a warning about
prerequisites, the undefined
acronym was bad technical
writing.

> your lack of knowledge
of a particular
set of technologies

That whole concept is big mistake
common in computing.
The "technologies" in question
are, for at least a good first
description, just dirt simple
with meager prerequisites.

None of us in computing should
try to carry the whole pile of
simplistic trivia around between
our ears. For a related lesson,
after a while in academics, it
becomes obvious that only fools
try to carry the whole research
library around between their
ears -- the lesson is much stronger
for the less deep, less good
material in practical computing.

With good technical writing, nearly
anything in practical computing
can be explained plenty well enough
to nearly any of us.

I don't have a relevant "lack"
of anything in computing.
It's implicit in posting anything to HN that you think it's interesting, just as it's implicit that you're showing it. That's not enough to make a post a Show HN, or every post would be.
Ask HN: How do you organize data and requirements into data structures?
Specifically, when you start thinking about a project, before you start coding, how do you translate use cases & data, into data structures (including planning for inheritance).

Does this differ by language, because of differences in data structures? Are there any resources that have given you particularly good insight into the creation of elegant data structures?
Found this in game source:

$("#devPanelCheats").show();
> Of course, evaluating whether the therapy itself was the relevant factor here is pretty messy. There’s a lot to these classes other than CBT, and on the surface it looks like a lot of these things could have impacted the results: The programs were administered by adults, who could have created a “generic mentorship effect.” Or maybe simply requiring that they show up to class week after week taught participants self control.

Couldn't they control this by having the other group go to a class, but not do anything?
> On HN, it isn't as much a problem, from my experience, because the downvote button is masked for users with <~500 karma and I haven't seen many false positives.

Unfortunately, it is a serious problem. The moment you become a dissonant voice is the moment you're downvoted into unreadability by the choir. Make no mistake, many people here have enough karma points to downvote and they are quick to react.
I am not making an argument I am not trying to convince you of anything. I am trying to understand whats going on and so far I haven't heard anything that changed my feeling that somethings gotta give in all this.

But you have to turn this around and ask why is Amazon feeling like they have to grow when they can be profitable if it's not that they are afraid to be outcompeted at one point.
Maybe it's not about age, but class?
I never said someone should be liked because of their gender. It's just that using Victoria as a defense for Reddit's consistently juvenile view of women doesn't really work.
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The culture deck, still thriving and relevant:
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I like to a book on a completely new subject and read it on flights.
Honestly, I thought of a bunch of responses, but deleted all of them to settle for...

"No worries. Don't let downvotes get you mad during
summer on a Friday." ;-)
United pays up on Bug Bounty program
The comment was intending to cast doubt about a critique of the news article posted here. This article has nothing to do with gamergate, and the critique had nothing to do with gamergate. The comment could've elaborated on the parallels and presented a thoughtful analysis about that, but that's not what was posted. Thus if there was no blatant relationship between these events, and none were elaborated or clearly argued for, then what is the rule for applying this whole "integrity in journalism argument" => "gamergate" => BS chain of logic? If there is none, then by definition, it can be applied anywhere. So I don't see how my comment is logically invalid in pointing this out.

I also hope you realize that your comparison between this article and gamergate is about as valid as my original one was to orwell & huxley; i.e. it's pointless to just point out and insinuate some kind of similarity unless you clarify what it is you're actually trying to argue. Pointing things out like that without explanation just gives the impression that you want to throw the negative connotations of events like gamergate (or the holocaust for hitler analogies) onto unrelated arguments to silence them.

And finally, the problems with media run farther than just the bigtime moguls out there like Murdoch, and as I've already mentioned elsewhere in this thread, it's a direct byproduct of the influence social media has had, and this is more thoroughly elaborated on in the book "Trust Me, I'm Lying". That book came out well before gamergate even happened, yet random questions about the dubious journalistic practices this book outlines are all somehow related to that silly gamergate incident?
the max tile value is actually 20x20 (i.e http://himawari8.nict.go.jp/img/D531106/20d/550/2015/07/10/2...) making it the 11000x11000 res.
Check out r/tabled, it really helps cut down on the clutter
I'm in the same boat. I'm not sure if you've had any kind of clearance, or know what kind of info you have to give for the investigations (everything), but this will be terrible for generations I presume. Instead of offering us 18 measly months of credit monitoring, they should offer lifetime/18+ years credit monitoring for any dependents involved in the paperwork.

I suspect this will cost their ass.
To one degree or another authority implies the threat of violence. For the person confronted with violence, subconscious automatic action is required for survival. Mistakes may be made, but trust in your training is essential. It is the same in sports (football, basketball, ice hockey, tennis), if you have to hesitate and consciously think, you are "in your head" and you'll be beaten. Some of us have been trained to react automatically by our environments. The best training ground for criminal behavior is juvenile detention and other forms of incarceration where hesitation will get you in trouble quickly. Our system is creating these kids who act on auto pilot. If they lose respect they have lost nearly everything they have.
I'm a pretty regular user, but have unsubscribed from a number of the default subreddits. Still, there is often a feeding frenzy mentality that takes over there. The racism during Ferguson was appalling. I saw a Pao subthread where people were discussing how sexually unappealing she is. It degenerated from there. Pretty awful stuff.
The SRS sidebar makes it pretty clear that the whole SJW façade is exactly that: a façade. They obviously have legitimate complaints but hyperbolise everything to poke fun at it.
I'll hazard a 'yes' here, based on the comments (see top comment, below). In the interest of fairness, admins can see the private links, so Pao may have just posted to the wrong Reddit, rather than doing something ridiculous (though it would look that way to anyone not familiar with admin powers).

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kciuq1 1758 points 3 hours ago
Maybe the first priority is to learn how reddit works.
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In so far as I can remember he had good relations with many on the staff and even ended up with a special icon next to his username.

The /r/SubredditDrama posts in regards to the incident are correct as I remember it:

Part I - violentacrez: https://archive.is/7ygdr

Part II - CreepShots: https://archive.is/8AVd8

Part 2 above ends with a link to VAs alleged last comments with an alt:

http://i.imgur.com/E8fCA.png
I think merge commits are sufficient but I thought a tool/script could help so I made [git-pinch][1]. It makes it easy to make merge commits without having to go through the trouble of making a branch. I wouldn't say others should necessarily use it but maybe it's a start. One thing merge commits add in complicating one's workflow is rebase requires options to preserve them and sometimes doesn't play nice.

[1]: https://github.com/nnutter/git-pinch
Concerning the second question, I would say that it should not differ by language. There certainly can be differences in data structures provided by the different language in their run-time or standard libraries, but you should not use a programming language that doesn't allow you to implement your own data and functional abstractions, and therefore, you should be able to implement the same abstractions determined needed by your analysis in any target programming language you have to use.

sicp would be the resource that gives good insight into the creation of elegant data structures. https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/

That, and any book on data structures and algorithms.
Make it decentralized and someday we'll reinvent usenet.
Democrats have been running the show for the past 8 years.
Yeah, I never used the MIG part of it. For what I'm doing now, I use platform-independent autogenerated safe serialization code and use Mach only as a low-level transport mechanism for raw bytes and capabilities. It works fine for that.
It seems you missed what I tried to convey. I explicitly stated that the issue is objectiveness, and subjective terms, by definition cannot be objective. You can gather all the data in the world about reddit users and their mannerisms, but that does not change the way the logic behind 'objectivity' and 'subjectivity' work.
It sure would help all of us if that kind of background info were no longer used for verifying identity or granting credit. Info like SSNs, addresses, etc. never really was _secret_ anyway, it just wasn't all compiled into one place and for so many people.
I hope we can use a breach of this magnitude to really start thinking about how we authenticate in real life. The current system is broken. The whole SSN thing is bad enough in and of itsself.

Anything you can ask from me to authenticate myself: copy of a birth certificate, copy of my drivers license, social security number, information about where i grew up or my family... someone else has all of that now, which means they can now easily get original copies.
Open Data is preventing NY city from giving some parking tickets (right at
No. The widened circle of evolutionary concern that we display is due to a great deal of socialisation and enculturation. Most people, in most places throughout history have not treated members of the outgroup as having rights or worth.

There are some wonderful parts of The Better Angels of Our Nature, Steven Pinker, but one of my favourites was him taking the piss out of Richard Dawkins for thinking Saddam Hussein was uniquely and especially evil, worthy of individual study. Saddam's morality is vastly closer to the historical norm than that of educated elite Westerners.

Where psychopaths differ from non-psychopaths is not in how they treat the outgroup, but in how they treat the ingroup.
Ha ha! I left a message for a sufficiently long time to get a little more of those madvotes from them... It hardly matters you know. :D

Yeah, have a good Friday!
A large number of emails does not necessarily imply a large number of context switches.
Doesn't work that way for me. On 10.9.5 setting the wifi connection's IPv6 setting to "Link-local only" causes me to be unable to ping6 other machines but IPv4 is unaffected.
Sure, but the premise of Reddit is that mods can moderate as they see fit. Admins hadn't really been involved in shaping the content as much as keeping things running and legal.
That article was more suited for editorial than technology. Pao was hated mainly for things either done by reddit before her, or done by her before reddit. Unfortunately, as leaders often are, she was held responsible for both. That being said she was interim, and was apparently not aligned with reddit culturally. That's an internet thing, not, as this article was so quick to claim, a gender thing.
Tell HN: If you use Google Web Fonts your site loads much slower in China
We all know that Google is blocked in China, but I think it is known to a lesser extent that fonts.googleapis.com is also blocked. As a result, any site relying on Google to serve fonts will appear to load much slower than it should.

StackOverflow is a prime example of a site that should not need a VPN to access from China, but in its current state requires one due to the reliance on Google to serve fonts.

So if you're looking to include the Chinese or China's expatriate population in your potential customer base, please consider the implications of reliance on Google services.
The article indirectly raised a few questions for me:

Why is there a massive skew favoring Googlers having their proposals implemented compared to plebes? Did the stats change after rob's talk in 2012?
It seems to me that HN is more like a single subreddit than Reddit as a whole. The admin action on HN feels more like mod action on Reddit, because there is no larger umbrella above HN.
How journals like Nature, Cell and Science are damaging science (2013)
Does Google Compute Engine have the instances needed for this as well? Their datacenter is centrally located, so long times are much faster for me than east or west coast.
Meditation, mindfulness, respect
1. "the FOSS community is largely anemic in the bio world"

I'm shocked by that. I think of the bio world as having a lot of FOSS software. With BOSC it even has its own yearly (satellite) conference. By comparison, I work in chemical informatics, and think that FOSS availability in chemistry is rather less than biology. I've blamed money - chemists have a longer history of making money from their research than biologists.

Which research field do you think has a robust FOSS community and where there are also for-profit companies developing commercial in the same field?

2. "You need to have your own programmer, and a good sysadmin".

You say that myth is true, while Pachter thinks it's false. Your disagreement is really more one of team size. Pachter's myth concerns "a large team." You have a team made of a handful of people. That is, Pachter wrote: "I agree with James Taylor, who ... stated that ”... Scientific software is often developed by one or a handful of people.”", which is what you have.

I can agree that it's not clear from the text that the myth concerns, having ~6 or more people in the team.

3. Could you explain why your explanation makes the myth true?

Pachter gave the example of the UCSC genome browser. From its web site, "The Genome Browser, Blat, and liftOver source are freely downloadable for academic, noncommercial, and personal use. For information on commercial licensing, see the Genome Browser and Blat licensing requirements." Were you working in a for-profit genetics lab when you realized that FOSS was so important? Otherwise, how would a restriction like the UCSC one have affected you?

4. I actually think the FOSS vs. licensing cost are somewhat orthogonal issues. I distribute my software under the MIT license, but only to those people who pay me about US $25,000. This is something the FSF encourages, as a way to bring revenue to a project. However, it only works because I'm not trying to establish some sort of "community" but prefer a vendor/customer relationship.

BTW, I think points #1, #2, #3, and #5 can be recast as "you need to build a community around your project." I think that's a myth in its own right.
> The source is the employee himself who did an AMA that was partially censored by Reddit

It looks like Dacvak deleted his own posts: "Edit: I've removed this post. All future discussions regarding this subject will be between me and reddit."
In what way does the Federal Government lack the resources to secure OPM data? Whether we're talking about OPM's $2.x billion budget, or the NSA's budget, or a dozen other agencies that supposedly have something to do with security.

The US spends more on domestic security theater than Germany or France spend on their entire military.
Stop using Mother Teresa as a pinnacle of good. She was a terrible human who thought suffering was good and gave people a place to suffer, not to heal.
a) would be a terrific outcome for future historians.
Greek Parliament Votes to Approve Austerity
Hey I've got an idea:

Let's all cry together because someone said something mean about a public figure. In fact, I'm incapable of discussing any other aspect of this event until this unspeakable atrocity has been addressed.
Am I allowed to say "Ouch" on HN? Probably not, but "Ouch".
This is what needs to change. Personal trivia can no longer serve as proof of identity. We need to make the personal data useless for identity thieves.
From a naive end-user perspective, NAT provides a de-facto firewall and "solves" the issue of opening ports. Little do people realize how much of a pain in the ass UDP hole-punching is (not to mention how much latency it produces) and how much UPnP announcement spam floods their network.
The material comes from http://www.ras.org.uk/news-and-press/2680-irregular-heartbea... , with the more prosaic title "Irregular heartbeat of the Sun driven by double dynamo".