skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me propose an alternative:

In my profile, similar to [show dead] - let me select the number of new posts to randomly show...

And another idea: always show posts with word [xyz] in title...

Edit: and finally; collapsible threads please
Sendgrid got hacked
I just received an email from them...:

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Great idea +1
Heaven forbid a woman also has their likes and dislikes.
Re: apt, I meant there are well documented ways to host a complete apt repo either on your own server or even offline (eg the Debian cd/dvd images are the same structure)

Thanks for the references - I did find a reference to an environment variable in the vagrant source somewhere so maybe it can work reasonably well with a private reverse engineered "atlas"
There used to be the occasional outburst of suspicion of mean moderators with double agendas hellbanning great commenters. Dang's been very active presence here recently to explain decisions that might've seemed fishy, and that has already done a lot to remove that kind of thinking.

Nevertheless, the conspiracy theories and rebellious "<name in other thread>, looks like you've been hellbanned by the evil mods!" comments are still around, and I suspect that the 'vouch' feature will help kill the last of it. I really hope that it'll work as intended!

(assuming it's all unfounded of course, which I believe it is)
If we're making feature requests here I'll add mine:

Please add the ability to undo/change an upvote or downvote. It's very easy to accidentally vote on something when scrolling on a mobile device.
I was thinking the same thing… this article doesn’t exactly speak to non-college-educated women and minorities.

But for college–educated WASP women, yeah, there is a surprising phenomenon going on that nobody seemed to foresee.
I believe along side of the changes mentioned for Vouching (which I think is an incredible idea), I'd like to see changes to the way that submission titles are changed. I'm actually very much for changing titles that are clickbait-y or misleading, but I feel like sometimes the original intention of the article is lost when the titles are changed. I think it would help a tremendous amount if a changed headline is noted as changed (for example, with an asterisk like the on on this post) so that users know that they aren't the original submission. I think it would be even more helpful if hovering over that asterisk to show, or including a link to show, the original title would help. That way it's hidden from being easily influenceable on voting but still allows the initial context of the submission to be present

Otherwise, I think both of these announcements are great news and would like to offer congratulations to Y Combinator, Dan and the whole community for keeping this such a useful site and community through all these years, even despite growth and changes to members.
The feature I was referring to is not a long press. I'm sure it was prototyped somewhere 10 years ago, but that is not the same as bringing it to market at all.

Styli and pressure sensitivity on Android is a great example of what you are talking about; it literally is the same product someone came up with 10 years ago. Google has not contributed anything to make it revolutionary.
I am not talking about quality of writing. I'm talking about people who think they're experts at something but actually have no idea what they are talking about. No matter how good you get at writing, an idiot is an idiot. Plus, huge chunk of Medium posts are self promotion disguised as an "insightful post". I am not trying to discount what Medium is trying to achieve, nor saying the platform sucks. I just think the format and structure of the platform encourages a lot of shitty people to try to take advantage of it.
Regarding the elementary one, there's a good reason for the larger numbers though. With 4x3, a student can get the right answer through a counting process.
1-2-3-4 5-6-7-8 9-10-11-12

For someone who hasn't either memorized multiplication tables or learned faster ways of working out the answer, that's likely the approach they will take. With 6x7 on the other hand, it's natural to look for a faster (better) way to solve the problem.

I agree that the last question was vague / poorly state.
Yep. Started with Yosemite and iOS 8.
As JustSomeNobody notices I even claim that I'm not the majority. I know that I'm not the majority. The phone companies wouldn't do this if they hadn't done their marketing research. I couldn't find good resources on this just now though. Does anyone have a link to market research done on this?

I'm just saying - and it's fine for you to have a different usage type - that there are people around (even in "tech" circles) that are just not concerned about cameras, pictures and videos. And my feeling is (it's really just a feeling) that it's not clear how many there really are as most of these people are also not active on Facebook, Instagram, Flickr etc.

In other words: I guess my viewpoint is just as subjective as most of yours and heavily dependent on the people around me and you.
We're working on it and it's coming. No one will be happier than I am when it's out, though I'm worried that it will be impossible to please everyone, because the specific requests we get are disparate and even contradictory. We'll have a considerable period of testing and feedback though.
Nice simple sampling technique.

I'm curious what this did for average request latency, as that's what really matters for the clients.

Since this effectively measures wall-clock time and the process can spend time waiting for replies from external resources (like local storage, memcache, DBs), which don't consume CPU, did you consider identifying and separating blocking calls into their own graphs?

It'd be nice to confirm/challenge the, "conventional wisdom" that app servers spend most of their time waiting for external resources.
It's not about the disagreement that makes me call them shills, it's about the speed at which they replied to the comment thread (before anyone else did), and that their comments are all negative/dismissive without content, de-railing, or minimizing the issue, rather than addressing it directly while discussing facts as is the HN comment standard.
Once you get 4.000 Engineers in EE, it is worth considering creating some tools specifically for EE. Let's call this team Effective and Efficient Engineering, thus EEE.
Nice of SendGrid not to recommend what is obvious to most of us: If your SendGrid password is shared with any other accounts, please change it universally.
Tampons would eventually be phased out with reusable fabric or a diva cup like device (silicone reservoir).
How do people feel about video dating app?
Hi, I have a dating app called HeyU where people post 15 sec (or less) videos of themselves to show off their personality and who they really are. It's my attempt to get away from photos and get people to treat each other better (more like human beings instead of strangers). I've built a prototype, but have no idea how to find users. How do you feel about a dating app where you upload videos of yourself?
Agreed, but this wasn't really about Agile methodology as much as the generic notion of fast iteration, which can certainly exist outside a specific agile regimen. From my experience, if your government audience is not already familiar with a piece of jargon, then introducing it risks 1) distracting from what you're actually trying to communicate, 2) giving them a false sense of understanding that will later be unintentionally used as a bludgeon against you or others in some planning meeting (a slightly caricaturish example: "No! Sprints are two days, why are you doing two week sprints!?").
Very few things make me stop reading an article. But, this one won with:

"This isn't China or India where they have a man-made gender imbalance because of all sorts of horrendous things".

What a way to over-generalize 2.5 billion people.

A snide remark like that in a ultra-shallow article. Yeah, I have myself to blame but bleh.
"This product is unavailable in your country."

:(
Yeah, so glad of using different passwords everywhere!
We alpha-tested that and it didn't work. The median item on /newest is far too low-quality (by HN's definition) for randomness to do much good there. In practice, it just mixes junk onto the front page—the worst thing that can happen to the front page.

(I've posted about this a few times; let me see if I can find the links.)

Edit: I found some of them, in addition to the ones scott_s mentioned downthread.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix=false&page=0&date...
Agreed. I just got a Sony TV with Android TV built in. I was hoping to hear some updates on this.
College is a scam anyway...
Discriminated unions, pattern matching are common but not universal features of functional programming languages.
That, or very slowly as iterative improvements to education eventually produce better-educated teachers.
Oh man, the buggy Bluetooth stack in 10.10 is a huge source of frustration for me. At first I thought it was my peripherals, but they work without any trouble within EFI or Windows on the same hardware. I even tried poking at the stack using Bluetooth Explorer (part of Xcode), to no avail.
Software improvements certainly can play a part.
I think this is because society dictates that men who aren't educated and earning lots of money are somehow less attractive. They call it dating 'down'.

Firstly we more women in college.

Secondly guys are less likely to judge their mates by whether they do attend college, so you end up with a dynamic where college educated men are dating both 'up' and 'down' whereas college educated girls only want to date 'up'.

This mentality of dating 'up' based on societies ideals of what 'up' is somehow feels like hypocrisy as many of these girls are staunch feminists.

Why are these non college educated guys not good enough? Are they bad people because they didn't go to college?

Oh well, as a college educated guy, im not complaining.
Orphaned Calf Sucking Bottle
They don't come in the box, but you're free to hire musicians for your workflows!
To be frank, if there legitimately are a glut of women who aren't able to find a "college educated man" (and, frankly, I doubt such a phenomenon exists in reality) then maybe these people will have to settle for men who are simply just successful, college educated or not.

However I highly doubt college graduation numbers has much to do with the women near thirty who are unable to find a partner. I'm sure their standards are just set in such a way as to reduce the dating pool significantly (and I suspect more than just academic background is listed).

PS - This interview gets quite sexist and generalising as you go. They give up even pretending that the numbers are influencing their opinion about halfway down and then it is just purely an opinion piece on "the problem with men these days..."
Arpeggio by Tangible Instruments Is Now on Kickstarter
I am finally in the market for a new mobile phone - my trusty MOTO FONE (F3)[1] finally died after three years.

One of my absolute no-compromise feature needs is removable media ... an SD card slot that can accept the new 128 GB cards. This is because my current music collection is 68 GB in size and carrying the entire collection is one of my use-cases.

But ... I also want a non-crapware, pure android phone, and the nexus "reference model" idea always appealed to me.

So here's the new phone, and I need one, and click through, ready to pre-order. And then I see my storage choices are 16 and 32 GB. Like it's 2010 or something.

So I'm ready to purchase, card in hand, full price ... and willing to add on $250 or whatever clown-markup they have for the (non-existent) 128 GB model. And unfortunately we can't do business at all.

Maybe next time.

[1] The best phone I ever had - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Fone
This is worrying. It reeks of Microsoft's DirectX strategy from a decade ago.

I suppose I should be happy that Apple does not anywhere near the same market share that Windows did when Microsoft came up with that.
Hypergamy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergamy
Does anyone else have the suspicion that Prism was named prism because instead of getting companies to co-operate with the program they were siphoning off data like they did to google by tapping their fiber lines?

That would fit more in line with what we have heard about the tapping stations/rooms at AT&T/Verizon over the years.

I mean if they were really involved with back dooring the individual servers of google/apple/facebook that would involve hundreds of employees at each company to make that happen. Someone would have spoken out by now with some evidence to prove it.

To my knowledge that hasn't happened. Just this shitty looking powerpoint outlining when the data was starting to come in...
There are plenty of countries where taxis work well and are perfectly fine. Uber was specifically founded to adress a broken taxi market in certain US cities. It's almost completely useless in a lot of countries where the same problem with taxis simply didn't exist. In those countries, Uber is an unregulated, not cheaper alternative that isn't as tried and true.
Let me try to distill this even further - let people have better control of the way list pages and threads are sorted. Filters like that could easily be added through the user control panel and applied as query strings without affecting the appearance of the rest of the site. Being able to sort a thread by most recent comments rather than just karma would be great.
Visually it is stunning, however functionally, I use HN to glance at the top things happening in the tech/startup community and the premii link only shows me 6 stories before I have to scroll.

Yes, scrolling isn't that big of a deal, but neither is stunning design for the sake of stunning design. (Just my own personal opinion and I genuinely enjoy that you like that premii link; it just isn't for me)
When thinking about what is considered the "original" representation of the sprites, one should be aware of the nature of the original medium (CRT) as well. Most importantly: pixel aspect ratios, color space, overscan ...

Highly recommend reading Kyle Pittman's articles on
CRT simulation:

http://www.piratehearts.com/blog/2014/03/28/crt-simulation/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9364800

http://gamasutra.com/blogs/KylePittman/20150420/241442/CRT_S...
After talking with a few friends about this, a kind of a non-consensus emerged - men say that women only aim "higher", want more successful, taller, handsome, equally or better educated, "alpha" men; women agree and say that many other women want this, but not them. At the same time, women say that men "lower", and want a women that earns less, isn't more educated, and is submissive; men agree and say many other men might think like this, but not them.

I'm not too sure what to make of this, except that each perspective is necessarily biased. (In the above, "men" and "women" refer to my friends, so a very small sample. Also, I'm only describing the heterosexual view.)
The problem is probably exacerbated by college educated men being more willing to marry women that aren't college graduates. At least, that's something I think is happening.

This is a supply and demand problem. If the men are in high demand due to low supply, the women need to adjust, whether than means lowering that specific standard, doing without a spouse, or putting more work into the relationship (it's not fair, but I'm talking about reality here, not how we wish things were).
That looks excellent. What hardware?
Someone's had a less than ideal love life...
Autonomous in 3 years sounds impossible. Though I guess that depends on what definition of autonomous you use.
Look at it another way, you bought a great phone two years ago that you now get to enjoy for another year! I'd be thankful not for not feeling compelled to shell out ~$400 for a new phone. The only downside is reduced Li-ion capacity, of course.
Well, it's cool that they seem to want to join this market, and I don't want to be a naysayer, but I really hope they have a decent stylus for this or the device would be kind of moot for me.
HDR is a gimmick in the sense that it just takes information from the sensor to bring out highlights. This is the sort of thing that can be done in post-processing on any RAW image. Its not a feature of the camera itself.
How to Ruin an Ad – Part 6
Maybe, but anecdotally, I saw the FFV remake on steam, and I'm the target audience and have bought a number of versions of various Final Fantasy games and remakes. However, I didn't buy the FFV remake because it looked horrible versus the standard def version.
See this reply for details:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10298834
Facebook is getting 43x the QPS of twitter, and they are doing it on MySQL.

http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/11/4/facebook-at-13-mil...
No. You can mirror a Chrome tab; that's the best you can do. And it doesn't work as smoothly as a purpose-built app.
A few friends showcased an IR based irrigation monitoring system at Disrupt Hackathon two weekends ago (got 2nd runner up out of 160+ projects).

http://www.harvesters.club/
Is that flagging on stories or on comments? For example, the flag button on comments only appears when you're on the comment's page, for example, I can see it right now, but when I was reading your comment, no flag button.
A related thing: what about considering the number of people who clicked on the article or comments links in addition (or even instead of) to the number of upvotes?

For article links, it can be tracked with navigator.sendBeacon for recent browsers with JavaScript enabled, and a server-side redirect otherwise.

There is some risk of promoting click-bait this way though, so might need to be careful and provide an "undo upvote" or downvote button, and perhaps find some click-bait-related signals to hedge against (maybe time until next action on HN, titles with lots of generic words, similarity to Buzzfeed headlines, etc.).
a. sounds like a perfect example of the concepts of CC being mis-applied. It might make sense to explain how they arrive at the answers in general, but separately explaining each answer is obviously nuts (and would have driven me crazy when I was in school).
Wait, you had some kind of special edition of the Fone that had 128GB ?
Likes and dislikes based on societies arbitrary ideals of what an ideal guy is like.

Whats wrong with non-college educated men?
Not only that, but if the body weight of a woman (particularly her fat reserves) drops too low, her periods become sporadic. So if women are starving, periods become less of an issue. Something about evolution designing for not getting women pregnant when they don't have the resources to feed themselves, much less nurture an infant. Mother Nature is weird like that.
You kidding right? Maybe your have the art of taking photos with that phone down or something but pictures I take with it always seems to washed out compared to my Moto X(another bad one)
I know a woman medical doctor (a high school classmate of mine) who is married to a man who is a carpenter. (He owns a small home remodeling business.) She seems happy, and she certainly has been married to him for decades now. People don't always have to be matched in level of schooling completion to be good matches for love and for forming a family together. Anyone who has been looking for a spouse for a long time might be well advised to reconsider whether their spouse search criteria are too stringent to be practical.
I agree that information density can be lacking with some of the redesigns... but I want to point out that if you're able to read HN on a mobile screen it is because you are blessed with youth and/or good vision.

A lot of us can't make out the text when it is so small, so a ton of pinch-zooming is necessary, which is a rough user experience.

(That being said, at least pinch-zooming is an option... nothing bothers me more than when a site actively disabled zooming on mobile with the god-forsaken "user-scalable=no" meta viewport attribute!)
Nail clippers, useful materials and quality consumables.

Phoenix Downs, and Cups of Lifenoodles.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9866140 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8790134
Most relevant excerpt (page 34):

How iMessage sends and receives messages

Users start a new iMessage conversation by entering an address or name. If they enter
a phone number or email address, the device contacts the IDS to retrieve the public
keys and APNs addresses for all of the devices associated with the addressee. If the
user enters a name, the device first utilizes the user’s Contacts app to gather the phone
numbers and email addresses associated with that name, then gets the public keys
and APNs addresses from the IDS.

The user’s outgoing message is individually encrypted for each of the receiver’s
devices. The public RSA encryption keys of the receiving devices are retrieved from IDS.
For each receiving device, the sending device generates a random 128-bit key and
encrypts the message with it using AES in CTR mode. This per-message AES key is
encrypted using RSA-OAEP to the public key of the receiving device. The combination
of the encrypted message text and the encrypted message key is then hashed with
SHA-1, and the hash is signed with ECDSA using the sending device’s private signing
key. The resulting messages, one for each receiving device, consist of the encrypted
message text, the encrypted message key, and the sender’s digital signature. They are
then dispatched to the APNs for delivery. Metadata, such as the timestamp and APNs
routing information, is not encrypted. Communication with APNs is encrypted using a
forward-secret TLS channel.
Do we really need these "vouch" link? It seems like complicated for no reasons. People with showdead could just be able to upvote [dead] comments just like other comments (is it not the case already?) and a [dead] comment with enough upvote should be unkilled. And then a banned account with enough unkilled comments should be unbanned. Seems like a simple solution with no changes in the UX.
Reminds me of these two articles in the Atlantic. Both good reads:

"All The Single Ladies"
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/11/all-the-...

"The End of Men"
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-end-...
I rarely flag a post on the front page, but this really doesn't belong on HN. It brings nothing to the HN community, and is largely just a sexist uneducated highly ignorant rant that just makes women look stupid just for the hilarity of doing so.
> [...] near thirty [...] I'm sure their standards are just set in such a way as to reduce the dating pool significantly

I'm not there yet, but looking at the trends of people my age getting married, the dating pool is necessarily significantly reduced by then, so to keep your options open, you need to lower your standards significantly. Maybe men need to do so less, because anecdotally more women are attracted to older men than vice versa.
Hacker news is analogous to a single subreddit. Many subreddits do have this level of interaction with the "mods" of the subreddit. While I am no longer a reddit user, I recognize that while supporting the long tail by having subreddits and promoting diversity, they have a massively difficult time communicating and pleasing their users.
Not available in UK apparently, clearly shows a UK plug too.
:'(