Hacker News Reader

aokyleron Uber Fires More Than 20 Employees in Harassment Probe

12000/20 = 0.001666

.17% is not a huge number.

aokyleron Why Are US Presidential Elections So Close?

I agree completely with this. The spoiler effect has never been so real.

aokyleron Rosetta catches dusty organics

I'm not against releasing the particle...but any specific reason you hope they release them once back into the wild after?

aokyleron Neural network spotted deep inside Samsung's Galaxy S7 silicon brain

That is a great analogy. That test in the video didn't really mean anything towards the overall speed of the device. It's interesting to see, but I how this test would change over n trials.

aokyleron Visual Studio Code 1.4

I don't know what it's called specifically in context of other open Windows, but I'm guessing the functionality could be described as a feature of "IntelliSense" (but I think IntelliSense is Microsoft's name for it).

aokyleron Vanity Project: The difficulty of knowing that we look like ourselves

This was a very compelling essay. I could almost see the limit of my brain's ability to accurately see "self".

aokyleron Merging vs. Rebasing

Where I work we merge with the no fast forward option - this keeps an accurate git feature topology where merges are represented as their own commit. We've found it gives us the best of best worlds: adding clarity/readability to the history while avoiding problematic rebases.

I haven't personally really noticed any downsides with that approach, can anyone else think of any?

aokyleron Gone in Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for Cloud Services

I agree this could become a big issue - but I wouldn't consider it a "security vulnerability" per se.

URLs aren't secure, and shouldn't really be considered so.

aokyleron JavaScript's popularity appears to have peaked

I agree that javascript will be replaced in time, but that article in no way asserts that javascript is declining in favor of WebAssembly. WebAssembly shows promise, but it nowhere even near ready to begin mass adoption.

I have no issue with javascript fading away over time, that's just not what's happening right now.

aokyleron JavaScript's popularity appears to have peaked

Does this not basically say that javascript is still being used but people are opting to use transpiled siblings?

As far as I'm concerned we will still be adhering to all the core language constructs for the most adopted interpreter until a viable ancestor arrives.

aokyleron Show HN: WallaMe – App to leave augmented reality messages in the real world

I'm not sure how you expect to be able to leave or receive private messages in public places if they know who you are.

aokyleron Xiaoice, a chatbot that may be the largest Turing test in history

"Xiaoice is not a polite listener. She answers questions like a 17-year-old girl. When a person pours out his or her heart to her, she is not always predictable. She can become impatient or even lose her temper. This lack of predictability is another key feature of a human-like conversation."

Predictability is a huge part of conversing. I expect a lot of range and flexibility in conversations, but definitely not unpredictability. It seems like an ai (chatbot, rather) behaving unpredictably just covers for it's lack of abilities and tact.

Nonetheless, this is still a very cool project.

aokyleron Three and a half degrees of separation

I believe they determined their methodology on past similar studies (at least they compared their results, so I would hope they used the same methodology for determining a degree). The degree of separation just asserts that there exists a friend 1 who is somehow connected to another person (and on average some distance from any other person). It makes no claim on the quality of those connections.

Also, the assumption that because two people have interacted means those relationship are easier to leverage isn't substantiated. I'm sure the result would be interesting, but it wouldn't necessarily be "more correct".

aokyleron The Scooter Computer

This write up is really great. Hardware evaluations and comparisons like this are incredibly helpful as I learn more about benchmarking and choosing hardware.

Would there be long term implications for the chip's longevity in the unit because it runs so hot?

aokyleron Paul Allen's yacht destroyed 14,000 sq.ft of reef in the West Bay Caymans

Our interpretation of the events is very possibly limited - we as a community are hardly informed enough to be judges of Paul Allen's character. It's just poor content, that leads to a lot of silly trolling and adds very little to Hacker News.

aokyleron Paul Allen's yacht destroyed 14,000 sq.ft of reef in the West Bay Caymans

Right, I agree with that completely - I'm more suggesting we should be a bit ashamed of ourselves as a community for pushing the equivalent of tech tabloid news to the front page.

There are more appropriate mediums to argue in if we feel Paul Allen isn't responding well enough to "the incident".

aokyleron Paul Allen's yacht destroyed 14,000 sq.ft of reef in the West Bay Caymans

I don't see how the airings of Paul Allen's yacht news is particularly relevant to Hacker News. It's gossip, at best. Even in the guise of having conversation around environmental responsibility.