skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9891402

This is the link I was referring to. There are a number of other comments I've made in there that have also been down voted.

I think it was downvoted based on disagreement instead of for the content. If I could have edited this comment I would have been a little more clear with you'd see in some of my subsequent comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9893764
This and a linked comment both received downvotes about the same time as I published this thread. The comments stopped and the conversation was over with a punctuated You are wrong! It's a bad way to be rewarded for trying to participate in a conversation.

But it happens. I don't want to blame anyone, I just think we need to think more when we vote as a community.

Edit: later comments even substantial ones can fail to attract upvotes just based on when you submit. And many of the people who read that far down tend to be the ones who downvote a day later (but this is only my opinion with no data to back it up).
Some of Hack's features such as return type declarations and scalar type hints will be in PHP 7 due to be released later this year.

PHP 7 also includes some serious performance improvements, contextual parsing, anonymous classes, combined comparison operator, null coalese operator and tens of other new features.
You are making the world worse, what do I care if your site looks nice if I can't read the text? I happened across such a site when I tried to buy a train ticket from my phone a couple of weeks ago, absolutely horrible.

I simply don't get the calculus, people who don't need to zoom won't and they get to see a nice site. What on earth do you win by preventing people that need to zoom from doing that? That they get to see a nice design that they can't use? And that is supposed to be better than seeing a usable site that needs panning? That's insane. I certainly hope your kind of thinking will go away quickly.
Has some common mistakes (sky color rendering is pretty chunky, for example) but is otherwise very compelling.

Sad to think this poignant simulation will eventually become just another zombie shooting club.
What people mean when they say native depends on what people you're talking about.
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I agree. But what I don't get is why your comment is being downvoted. An upvote really should be more of a"this" than a "thanks." A downvoted should be a "not this."
This iSAX 2.0 paper seems to be from 2010, so the HN title should
probably be changed.

The first iSAX paper was from 2008, and there's a page here about it:

http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~eamonn/iSAX/iSAX.html

The list of "selected" publications by Eamonn Keogh is a whole lot of fun:

http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~eamonn/selected_publications.htm
> Something like this would be way too inefficient to actually be used by people.

The same is true of most conlangs. Remember that kid who absolutely refused to use Klingon after he was old enough?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_language#Speakers

http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/7.08/mustread.html?pg...
The price of health insurance varies (generally, decreases) when the entire community purchases it vs. just the people who highly value it. This is because health insurance is priced based on the expected health outcomes of all of its customers.

This isn't quite the case with Happy Meals. I'm thinking that a regulation requiring everyone purchase happy meals vs regulation that everyone purchase health care have different overall welfare effects, but I'm not sure what they are.
Hey, that's a good point. I added a note saying that non-apple apps are still not performing well enough but no doubt they'' be better in generation 2 or 3. As for running, you have to run first with the iPhone, but once the podometer is calibrated, you can run without iPhone and still have music and performance tracking. The one thing you'll be missing is the GPS but it's not that important.
Hello HN. This is Gokul, one of the guys behind Tenreads. I thought I'd just share our story with the Hacker News community and gather your thoughts on what we have built.

The Internet has become a noisy place to be in. Cat GIFs, listicles and click-baits have taken over your news feeds and you're drowning in the content gushing out of the world's firehose - Twitter. We simply want to help people cut through this noise.

Tenreads keeps you updated on what's happening everyday on the things that matter to you, without bogging you with the things that don't.
Looking at one of your most recent comments, it's not at the bottom of the page. And besides, if you're broke, perhaps betting is not the best thing to do.
Mi pona! :-)

Sina pona?
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Overconfidence can only be defined in hindsight, therefore avoiding overconfidence cannot be a guide for decision making.
Note that the "comparison" page offers near-zero guidance on whether you're allowed to use the Community edition, to the point that it's really not a comparison at all: https://www.visualstudio.com/vs-2015-product-editions

The community edition is free for individual developers, developers creating open source projects under an approved OSI license, or for up to 5 developers in an entire organization. Basically, it's not for production use by companies with more than 5 developers developing proprietary software. At least from my quick reading of the license: https://www.visualstudio.com/support/legal/mt171547

UPDATE: Community also excludes any organization with 250+ PCs or $1,000,000 or more in yearly revenue. (credit: icegreentea)
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Probably. The heatpipes are either overkill, or these LEDs run very hot (combined 10W+ of heat). Wouldn't the metal frame of the lamp itself sufficiently cool 'normal' LEDs?
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Well, presumably any civilization advanced enough to communicate with us wouldn't be interested in being our pets. Civilization being sort of a prerequisite of communicating with us?

If you can't see how that would be one of the most impactful things in human history, I don't think there's any more to discuss.
Its not the size but rather intelligent entity density. You could have an infinite universe but still have high ratio of contact if the universe has a high density of life forms (think of it as collisions with particles in a large volume).
Mica Maca cool TLD
It seems like a step backwards in sophistication all because these mobile devices were grouped into the same category as desktop. We go from tools that look like they were aimed at adults to simplistic toys. I see it all the time in user comments when websites switch to responsive designs. It's like we don't give a damn about desktop users because they are no longer fashionable.
> I had a friend that jokingly made an account

"a friend"
I feel this.

I spent 20 years building a successful career as an enterprise software engineer, bouncing around between configuration management, development, and ops. It's a secure, good paying, stable career. And I grew to resent and sometimes hate it.

Then I started building something for myself, discovered the idea of creating my own startup to solve problems I experienced doing enterprise software projects in a general way, and I love that. It makes me feel like I'm doing something that actually matters.

Right now, I'm back in the enterprise to make ends meet and building on the side, which sucks and drives me crazy - but at least I see the exit and can keep moving toward it. And I figure I can get five or ten years out of building a company before I'm done with that as well.

Once you hit a certain age and a certain level of success, the things you realize you'll never do weigh on you more than the things you haven't done yet. And the things you do look more like impediments than accomplishments. That's when you need to change.
I know that some submissions can get penalized based on their domain, and that non-URL submissions have a penalty, but I am unaware of any point-penalty against particular user comments outside of banning. What makes you say rank-banning is a thing?
Well, one point is purely as a marketing tool. I doubt very few of these lamps will ever last 30+ years, due to moving, accidents etc, and probably dyson doesnt either. however its effective to say that in marketing.

Outside of that, people expect certain pieces of hardware to just 'work' forever. Generally they don't expect a lamp to ever 'require' an upgrade. Yes it will probably be replaced for some reason in that timespan, but not generally due to 'failure'
It looks perfect for a cleanroom but in my office those little wheels would be covered in dust immediately.
Can a satellite "orbit" so that it imitates a star?

Or would it have to "stand still" out there, which would make it fall back to earth?
PayPal valued at about $52B in market return
My mom once got a Dyson vacuum cleaner.

I can only assume Dyson pivoted from making a jet engine.
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Any idea for the availibility of the Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2015?
Here's the direct download link for the English Enterprise edition which I'm downloading using wget:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/4/7/647EC5B1-68BE-4...
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Or CBS with The Munsters?
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Yes, I know, that's what I mentioned in my original post: it requires portability work.

There is no Rust or Go compiler for vax, alpha, macppc, sparc64. There are C/C++ compilers though.

Well, I think compilers for some of these architectures (e.g. VAX and Alpha) still exist in gcc largely because OpenBSD and NetBSD have put so much effort in keeping them alive (yes, I know that OpenBSD is using an older version). So, it's not as if you get C compilers for these platforms for free.
Yes. In fact I downloaded the pro version about two weeks ago, so it seems they only removed it relatively recently. I hope they add pro 2015.
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You're paying for the name. This has all the industrial design as the vesa mounts I have for my monitors and they cost $25.
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Not to make this a point, as my initial "many" is weak on facts, but your example makes it "one person think", not many.
Am I misunderstanding you, somehow?

But to only understand 10% of a programming language's syntax seems a very limited understanding.

To only know 10% of the standard library or whatever is one thing... but 10% of syntax?

Either you don't know the language well at all, or else it must have a very complex syntax, with a lot of edge cases.

That's one of the nice things about (say) scheme, or lua, say. There's very little syntax to learn. Go, JS, Ruby and Python, more... but still, not that much syntax, really.

Even Ruby doesn't really have that much syntax to learn. Ruby, Python and Go all have pretty huge std libs, but not that much syntax.
They don't even tell you how bright their expensive lights are.
they give some value in lux but that depends on the distance in which it is measured.
I want lumen values!
I think the dirtiest remote install I've done was installing FreeBSD 6.X on a QEMU VM with zeroed raw disk image, then dd | gzip | netcat to a failsafe linux the hosting provided, and from there overwriting the hard disk with shell redirection.
Have you seen their other lighting product? That's some serious heat-sinking!

http://www.dyson.com/lighting/ariel.aspx
What about pharmaceuticals? These are a major arena of patents, where the R&D is measured in the billions of dollars per drug with massive profit margins on successful drugs and tiny profit margins on generics once the patents have expired. What do you think the best alternative is to patents? Government-sponsored research (which already contributes a lot to pharmaceuticals by paying for low level research) or something else?
Why the assumption that Ellen Pao was not fired? It felt like one of these cases when an employee has a lengthy talk with her supervisors, after which she is given an option to quit, as a way to save her face.

An evidence for that would be how fast was a new interim CEO found after the previous one "quit".
I'm a bit disappointed...
After reading the title I was expecting some weird string handling bugs in the driver that result in degraded performance when there are certain character sequences in the file name ;)
Exactly - using standard html is a plus.
'appelblauwzeegroen'? Never heard of it, in my 42 years of being a native speaker of Dutch. Not too many references on the web either, except for a hint that it might mean 'ugly, undefinable color' (so, not referential).
I think it could work with the canonical tag[1], not the url itself.

[1] http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.ar/2009/02/specif...
Wholeheartedly agree. It may just seem like it's sugarcoating it, but there is definitely a difference in changing focus and just giving up. Saying something other than, "I just gave up on it," (which is what quit generally implies) gives more a story behind why.

Side projects come to mind when I think of quitting. Sometimes the project becomes much bigger than what you expected. You and your buddy don't have the time nor resources to dedicate towards seeing it through or scaling it up. It really all depends on the situation.
Dyson, like Bose, is a genius.

And Dyson, like Bose, is an extremely successful marketer.

Both companies have some very interesting engineering which is then translated into expensive consumer products that don't perform notably better than the competition, especially if you consider function (cleaning carpets, reproducing sound accurately) more important than features (no vacuum filter bag! Tiny speaker cubes!).
Taking the "I don't get it" attitude on this resembles a sort of classic anti-science ignorance, not sure if that's what you were going for.
I'm not disputing your formula, I'm disputing your inputs. It's the part you've explicitly dismissed that is the problem. You can't say "our $5 million/month spend for 100,000 users proves that you could spend $50/mo and get 1 user."

You keep throwing theoreticals around, inventing numbers to match your narrative. "If horses were 10 feet tall, then we'd be able to ford this river." A 10 foot tall horse is called an elephant, and we can't afford elephants. How do we ford this river with the one horse we have? And your answer is, "well, if animals were 5 times larger than they usually are, then I don't understand how you don't understand."

I'm saying it doesn't scale linearly.
I believe this has been going on for a long time. There used to be an old trick to get crossfire working for games that did not support it yet -- just change the name of the .EXE to match a game that did have support.

I do not think this is a case of "gaming benchmarks" -- This is just AMD trying to optimize gaming experiences based on the application.
I read an interesting book called "Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe" that attempts to tackle why we haven't found evidence of any other life. It was written in 2000 so I guess it's rather old now in that many interesting things have been discovered since to discredit it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_Earth_hypothesis
Getting stuck in local minima happens in centrally planned systems too.

You are correct that things like advertising are (sometimes) zero sum - specifically, advertising based on irrational criteria. (Advertising which transmits useful information, e.g. "taxis suck and Uber exists", is not zero sum.)

But you also gloss over one of the big benefits of a non-centralized system - correctly finding the utility function. In a centrally planned system, your utility function needs to properly identify what tradeoffs people would make if they had the choice. This is not easy, and modern computing doesn't help very much here.

In contrast, consumer choice via price systems handles this nicely.
Exactly. That's why they've written doas and they do not rewritten the whole OS in Rust :)
Good luck. Tell us more about your startup someday.
Knowing that college-student living is only for a few years as a stepping stone to something better is a form of privilege. I've lived at that income level myself for more years than most, not knowing at the time that it was only temporary. Also, I was working and teaching myself instead of going to class, let alone enjoying all the other aspects of student life. You'd better believe I didn't consider myself the same as those pampered children.

Now, at 50, I could imagine living like they did for a while and even think I might enjoy it, but only because I know I could leave whenever I wanted and go back to living in a nice house etc. I'm in a privileged position now, but at least I'm aware of it. I know it will be far far easier for my daughter to take those kinds of risks than it was for me. Just because it's possible for someone below median income to start a business doesn't mean they'll do so at the same rate as people who are richer. That's the point that you originally said made no sense, no matter how you've changed your position since.
Too much ambiguity:

"'What is a car?' Lang mused recently via phone from her home in Toronto.

"'You might say that a car is a space that's used for movement,' she proposed. “That would be tomo tawa. If you’re struck by a car though, it might be a hard object that’s hitting me. That’s kiwen utala.'"
Nice. The 2-3x improvement is about the same that I've seen in preliminary tests with HHVM on a JSON API in ZF2. There are still many extensions that are not ported at all, something Box didn't run into but I have. These are lesser known extensions, but they can throw a wrench in the migration works. I would definitely check the status of all extensions and as the article mentions, test their code most extensively.

My biggest problem still is getting xDebug working with HHVM, something that after a few days of trying I have given up on once again (as of a couple of months ago). Unfortunately, a procedural or OOP language without a proper debugger (hphpd doesn't count) is pretty useless for real-word development. I know the HHVM team is constantly working on improving the ecosystem, so hopefully at some point, we'll have a real debugger that runs without crashing. Once that happens, I can definitely see rewriting the sections of the app that use extensions not yet ported to get the app ready for deployment on HHVM. Right now, the only reason we haven't done so is that we do want to compare both HHVM and PHP7 to see which one will yield the best performance.
"Just as an example, go read the Wikipedia pages and some assorted Googled info on what was listed in the article: nutmeg, ginger, “Bakul” tree, camphor, cinnamon, turmeric, Indian banyan, black pepper, long pepper, Neem and clove."

Actually, there's a shortcut - just read about aspirin.

It's very effective, it has truly medicinal uses, and is (for most folks) "western" medicine.

And it's just tree bark.
An article came out a few days ago about the fight for rooftop solar in FL - http://grist.org/news/enviros-tea-partiers-and-the-christian...

It'll give you some insight into the legal landscape for rooftop solar in FL (and a few other states).
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>Why do we need a balanced budget?

Because if you spend more than you make, you are essentially borrowing from the future (with compound interest). Eventually the quickly-compounding interest and principal overwhelm you and you have to spend most of what you produced to service/repay the debt for many years (exactly the situation Greece is in).

Printing money without the accompanying increase in goods/services produced is _stealing_ from everyone who has savings using the currency. The unit of currency loses its value, impoverishing the saver.

The only sustainable way to prosperity/affluence is through increased productivity, not financial shenanigans.
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As I said, deeply skeptical, as I rather like and respect the individuals who run this place. But I will not spend any effort betting someone on that, as it is not a good use of my time, and I feel it is insulting to those individuals who I greatly respect.

I will note, however, that I am continually disturbed by the preponderance of conspiratorial thinking that pervades discussion of how HN works. In particular, how often individuals tend to use their own theory for evidence of their own theory.
Ask HN: Why are some authors shown in Green on Hacker News web?
When I submit a post, my name always shows up as grey. Some posts have authors with green color.

For example see this screenshot of HN at 8:35 PM IST : http://oi60.tinypic.com/16i9nao.jpg
That's a pretty good summary. The only extra catch is that enterprise organizations cannot use the community edition except for open source / educational purposes. The kicker is that they define enterprise as 250+ PCs -OR- $1 million plus annual revenue.

That definitely borks a lot of smallish companies working in certain fields.
Plenty of designer stuff is vastly overpriced. That's fine, we all know that there is more than utility to making a purchase decision. But I do agree that the marketing here seems slightly off.

The LED cooling is the solution to a problem that nobody has or cares about if I ever saw one. And it doesn't even make for interesting small talk like some expensive gadgets. In terms of demographics, I think this lamp appeals more to the Wallpaper reading type than the Wired reading type and though there is a significant overlap, I think they should focus a bit less on the lifetime of the LED's and all that technical stuff.
Sounds very interesting ! God knows how Go AI will evolve in the future !

Perhaps the field of Go AI will produce a fully conscious machine in the future , one that can think and strategise like a human being , contributing to the technological singularity predicted by Ray Kurzweil ...
That sounds like a horrible idea in both cases ...
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I would guess because coffee is so widely consumed in the US.
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I'm not sure what to make of this blog post. The author writes:

>By resigning from Reddit,

Behind the scenes, Ellen Pao could have been forced out (also known as being "fired") but presented publicly as a resignation. I thought we don't really know what happened? Therefore, it seems biased to frame a thematic essay about "quitting" around Ellen's circumstances. If she didn't voluntarily separate, it's not "quitting" -- it's getting fired. Does the author Ernie Smith know the inside details of Ellen Pao's situation that we don't?

>Ellen Pao is choosing to focus her attention on the other things that interest her.

The underlying Washington Post article that this sentence links to is ~900 words written by Ellen Pao. She makes no mention of "other things that interest her."

Overall, a blog post of dubious quality.
Request: Make it so that it works well in scrolling areas too. This has been the major deficiency in most drag and drop libraries that I've tried.
New & throwaway accounts are highlighted in Green [1, 2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2434333 (/search green)
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I had 2015 RC working side by side with 2013 with no problems. Full release should work properly as well.
The example of Ellen Pao was merely a way to start the conversation. That specific example does not diminish the message of the piece which I find very insightful.