skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's so very different. Most comment sections don't have peer-moderation. Those that do (e.g. the Guardian) tend to not really penalise comments - in fact, the Guardian doesn't even have a 'downvote' concept. Even genuine rivals to HN (reddit, slashdot) tend to be much less strict on quality of comments. HN will punish you if you write too many comments that don't get strongly upvoted, and it's that kind of approach that helps to guarantee productive commentary.
Thank you! You got my point.
It's a little ironic to say the poorest are not as poor, don't state countries, put a picture of African kids there and continue, when in the end it's these two countries we already know that they made progress.
I think there's another problem which would be indistinguishable from this one. The realms of behavioral science show we're inordinately vulnerable to priming, and to various forms, conscious and unconscious, of peer pressure.

Well, it turns out we've screwed up any semblance of a 'presumption of innocence' by intermingling that concept with forced group dynamics.

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From a previous post - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8546354 :

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...Because it is not voting in the sense of other voting. A criminal jury verdict has to be unanimous, but we send them to a sealed room and tell them 'Come back when you have a unanimous verdict.', rather than "Oh, you voted and disagreed? Well, Not Guilty then."

There is a strong understanding among the populace that a jury is a majoritarian body, that unanimity is a legal fiction, and that juries which can't effectively suppress dissenting opinions are failures in their social function, and we demand both extended "deliberation", and a completely new trial to correct their issue.

We even reinforce this understanding in caselaw; A last-ditch effort to un-"hang" a jury is termed an Allen Charge, which is apparently when the judge instructs the jury's minority vote that their position isn't reasonable while glaring at them menacingly.

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How does a "Presumption of innocence" held by one member, survive that group dynamic? A juror who is unconvinced by the case the prosecution makes doesn't have to say "I'm unconvinced", they have to actively fight for the defendant in deliberation, and convince the other people to change their votes, in order to leave the room. The holders of minority opinions are entrained to see themselves as inconveniencing every other member of the jury, keeping them from work and families. If they do not feel strongly about the verdict one way or another, the ideals of the justice system say that this is an absolute case for dismissal, because 'better ten guilty men go free than for one man to be wrongfully convicted', but faced with these social incentives, what do you expect them to do?

We've created a system where we may as well tell jurors: "If not all of you believe strongly in the verdict, forget the presumption of innocence and go with the decision of whichever among you has the strongest opinions that are the least persuadable".

If you want a system that preserves a presumption of innocence, switch to a unanimity-which-fails-to-acquittal or a supermajority-which-fails-to-acquittal standard rather than a unanimity-which-fails-to-another-vote standard.
What reason where you banned for, if you don't mind sharing.
The trouble is, opting out of facebook used to mean just that: opting out of facebook. Increasingly, however, it means opting out of engaging with a host of other sites. I think it's pretty poor form of a site to segregate its users by locking out those who don't happen to have an account on a separate third-party site.
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TPP doesn't apply to EU, but TTIP and TISA do, and indeed they could also be used as a "backdoor" for the US to get the data anyway.

At the very least we may see that the TTIP Tribunal would override ECJ rulings (terrible idea for obvious reasons), but I'm hoping that if such an agreement is passed, the ECJ would also rule it invalid for not being in accordance with EU regulations and the fundamental charter of human rights.
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Apart that Apple has iAds, having more or less services that store user data has nothing to do with having more or less foresight.
Here's a link to the full research paper (PDF): http://sigops.org/sosp/sosp15/current/2015-Monterey/250-hawb...

More related resources here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10332559
Closed comments on a website are clear sight that the editorial staff can't take public criticism.
Denmark already has 180% tax on normal cars, and EV's have been tax-free in the past. But the government is ditching the green goals, and will phase in the 180% tax on EV's.

Ironically, a BMW i3 (pure electric) will be more expensive than the BMW i3 Rex (same as i3 but with a tiny fuel engine). This is because the i3 Rex will theoretically go 166 KM/L, and therefore you can subtract a lot from the tax (you can do that on vehicles going more than 16KM/L).
This needs a (2012) label. HSA already happened, it didn't live up to the hype.
To be fair, the Gates Foundation basically singlehandedly bankrolled the political process to push through Common Core...so a private individual buying control of our public k-12 schools. There are differences here, but both are dangerous.
It's also sad to see how people on either side of the debate on basically any issue what so ever are becoming more and more intrenched in their ideologies. It used to be that people were right wing or left wing. Now you have ideologies about everything, a cell phone you use, a car you drive, the type of food you eat or don't eat.

With grater availability of free expression that can reach many people, the arguments that used to be civil and intelligent quickly devolve nowadays into shouting matches, where the messages shouted are the most extreme, and often the most idiotic, version of any given side's message.

It's true on any board nowadays, even something like HN. It's very sad to see well meaning and intelligent people devolve to this, especially considering how ineffectual the actual messages people are shouting are.

I generally try to form my own opinion about things. Which basically means that my views are generally hated by both sides in this increasingly polarized society. To the left I am a bigot and to the right I am a morally deprived tree hugging liberal.

Not sure if comments are to blame exclusively though. Perhaps another lesson to take out if it would be the quote from one of the cinematic masterpiece of this century, Harold and Kumar: "There is no reason to get riled up every time a bunch of idiots give you a hard time. In the end the universe tends to unfold as it should."
How directions on the Waze app led to death in Brazil’s favelas
> And you can't build a Facebook wall with intercontinental latencies.

I have yet to see a Facebook wall in under 0.133 seconds, I'm not sure intercontinental latencies are the biggest problem in web performance these days...
You can replicate within groups of datacenters which fall under the same privacy rules. Thats more than enough to run a centralized global social network, even though I'd love it for making it impossible.
> The mounting criticism of mounting inequality is a political position. It's not an objective statement of fact.

The mounting inequality itself is however not just an opinion.

> They are free to ignore the mounting criticism

But they're not ignoring it as such, and IMHO it's gotten to the point where it would be foolish to do so. So now they're supplying an alternative political position on what to do - i.e. don't worry, markets will sort everything out.
Well that's just ill-informed. A person grappling with extreme guilt, especially in circumstances were they believe they have committed or participated in mass murder, in all likelihood may not be able to express themselves to their comrades.

There are plenty of war veterans, especially from WWI and WWII, who didn't speak to even their own families about the torment they were going through. Many veterans to this very day don't seek help and bottle up their trauma. Australia's national broadcaster, the ABC, has an excellent podcast about this on their Big Ideas website, perhaps you should take the time to listen to it [1].

Your comments are ill-informed and frankly unhelpful. The rate of suicide for veterans is twice the rate of the civilian population. A cursory Google search would lead you to Wikipedia which has a well sourced article detailing the rates and research into the problem [2]. You might also want to look at the PTSD article [3].

1. http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bigideas/shell-...

2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_veter...

3. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posttraumatic_stress_disorde...
I didn't say that it's just a problem with Facebook's contract. Model Contract Clauses and Binding Corporate Rules are pretty restrictive, and Facebook may not like them and prefer to instead separate their data. But neither does it mean that they cannot do it.
Exactly. Particularly when they're written by and for said companies, or the ones who own them.
They are just disrupting the theory of disruption.
Nope transmissions. Level3 purchased a large number of John Deer patients from the 1950's and 60's and produces surplus tank parts.

Well technically its a manufacturing company with their controlling interests owned by Level3. Its very steady predictable revenue. Literally an investor centric board member's wet dream.
Actually, I'm pretty sure it proves he's right. In these distributions, the percentages matter a lot. I think the mentioned figures were upwards of 50% for startups in the 1-2 Billion valuation range? That's a fairly nontrivial difference from the expected 30%.

Is there a real stats person around here? I bet that if you plugged in the numbers into the formulas in "Statistical Tests" in the link that you gave, it would pretty much show that Sam is right. When I punched in the numbers and ran the Chi-Square test, it seemed kind of off. :P

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FoSfPvRSLK04ySAfjEqE...
Note that I said "de facto", not "de jure". Nobody would bother suing a non profit that doesn't have EU offices unless you were very large and/or very prominent and/or doing something really nefarious about the data you have. And even then, suing an US company with no EU standing in front of an EU court from an EU citizen complaint is far from easy.

The same reason that if, say, Texas introduce a law that says everyone commenting on a texan website needs to be polite and I post a comment with some name calling, suing me as someone not from Texas nor the US would not be very doable, even though I technically infringe on that law.
The companies that need integrations and consulting are more likely to buy Cisco. This open source OS will be in the "experimental" status for quite some time.
Doing business in the EU should not be relevant (except insofar as it matters for establishing jurisdiction).

The relevant provisions are articles 25 and 26 of the Data Protection Directive [1] and their implementations by the member states.

[1] http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:...
I feel like the tech sector is at risk of losing one of the things that made it special if we go down a path where networking skills and "who you know" become more important to a person's (or company's) success than than raw ability.
Let's not blame Waze for this. The blame lies squarely on the shoulders of the maniacs who shoot at people just for driving down the street.
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Technical document explaining the scientific background here: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/201...
The difference is in the size of the donation. Sanders rightly prides himself on the fairly small donations he receives; his donations come from a large number of not-very-rich people. Many other candidates rely on a handful of billionaires and big corporations to fund them.

Better would be to get all money out of politics, but until we get there, surely Sanders' donations are a lot more democratic than those of the billionaires' favourites.
Has been featured in the recent episodes of The League on FX as well.
Couldn't we get a better source than Business Insider?
There's a huge difference between acquired wealth and inherited wealth. Don't consider luck is the only way to success just because it was yours.

Socialism might give you good feelings, but might as well make it harder for those who were not lucky like you and count on hard work instead.

That's inequality, one I'm more concerned with.
Most libraries found in the wild are kinda crap, because as an industry we have a massive problem where most of our stuff is built on free labour that people have performed in their spare time to scratch their own itch.

Using libraries is still generally a good idea, but its effect on software correctness is a bit of a coin toss.
The mounting inequality itself is however not just an opinion.

But how much inequality is a problem is an opinion, I'm afraid.
Node v4.1.2 released. This is a critical update
I think this is a matter of value. If someone puts work into an article, then it must be disappointing to find credit being given to a pile of dross attached to the bottom, by people who can't be bothered to think before they type.

I notice theregister.co.uk has shoved comments off onto a separate less important page. So you only follow the link when your blood is really boiling (and put yourself into a self-selecting group).

Comments work for the www.dailymail.co.uk because their articles are generally written to bait their readers, and drivel in the comments is how they measure success. Stories are marked up with how many thousand comments they have generated. The real challenge is to get your comment to the top of the "worst" rated category.
Why something better? The title (of the article) should read "we close comments, write an email if you really need to".

And being a Linux nerd who uses a lot of "old tools" like vim, grep, etc. I still can't understand why people switch from any communication technology X to email nowadays. Email is slowly dying, no reason to jump on that train if you don't have a lot of fancy configs/setup/knowhow in that area already.
Eh... no. The total spending of all the groups the Koch brothers support (including Freedom Partners) is $889m. But that's not what the Koch brothers are spending, that's the total spending of all the groups they support. The amount of money they spent is a tiny fraction of that number.

For more realistic numbers this is a good place to start:

http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2010/09/opensecrets-battle-k...
Following is the most intriguing stat for me.

"In March, for example, researchers from the University of Denver found that 96 percent of all inmates screened at the Downtown Detention Center in Colorado had brain trauma, mostly from blunt-force injuries to the head — much higher than the estimated 6 to 8.5 percent of the general population."
Replacing "140 trillion times the total water on Earth" with "enough to supply an entire planet's worth of water for every person on earth, 20,000 times over." wasn't a particularly good idea.
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Benchling (YC S12) is hiring generalists to build the future of biotech research
No, the data protection directives are not something you can opt out of, even if you nicely ask your users with a banner.

Note that the original point of the cookie banner law was not to ban cookies, but to inform users about it and allow users to avoid websites storing information about them. That consequence of that law is terrible and we all know that with the banners everywhere, but at no point was it "cookie are forbidden, but you can bypass it with user approval", it was "cookie are allowed but require approval".

Storing EU citizen data without respecting the data privacy directive is forbidden, period.
I'm in the middle of a microservices mess than was forced upon us. I have nothing positive to say. If you're in the SaaS space already and it's not a greenfield project, it's orders of magnitude better to deploy lots of smaller identical monoliths than it is to try and build and deploy lots of services and manage the contracts and complexity between them.

Major problems I've seen are: per transaction performance sucks due to the network or IPC channels, development friction, logical complexity, infrastructure complexity, managing contracts between services, debugging failures, monitoring performance, bootstrapping new staff and the biggest of the lot: headspace.

If you want to succeed, at least in the short term, just keep your monolith tight and fast and without sprawling infrastructure requirements. Single machine, single process, single storage engine (or database), single messaging system. Then scale that to multiple instances. If your site deployment requires at least 20 machines due to sprawl, you're going to be even more screwed when you throw microservices at it, not less. If your application is incredibly complex, it's not going to work either. The problem domain needs to be small and easy to consider as it's difficult to cleanly extract a chunk of your average monolith into a standalone concern.

There are also people with technical authority in many companies who blindly follow the latest fad without real consideration of suitability, risk assessment or accountability. If someone starts waving microservices, AWS and everything else around, they need to fight their position and everyone needs to assume that isn't the default end game.
How[1] did Tom Steyer "buy the California legislature"?

[1] Meaning both "in what sense" and "by what means".
So I think there is a parallel to this with the whole "everything must be in tiny modules on npm" movement in the JavaScript community. If you do this, you end up with lots of repositories, a rigid separation of concerns but a network between you and your dependencies that will get hit a lot unless you wield some npm link sorcery, and a bunch of extra complexity.

A modular monolith application is what people have been writing since people thought up the notion of modules. Enforce proper discipline when building your app out and you won't need these physical walls between your functional areas.

I'm currently reading SICP, and the notion of using "block structure" in Lisp to compartmentalize and encapsulate functional areas of code is introduced in Chapter 1.

Get the basic stuff right before you start introducing complex systems to split up your software.
Indeed.

But the thing is, of course, that you are framing your answer to not include the original case. In my book that is just a non-answer.

You even started out with "a funny" saying "look at this site you're reading". You didn't care if it fitted the case, you just wanted to say something clever. Very Reddit-like (and I do like Reddit).

But in what we could call an open environment where people do not care about their reputation - such as Vice - what can you do?
I thought that claim was because Safari is not keeping up with web standards in the way the FF, Chrome and even IE/Edge are.

Supporting Safari is not quite at the same hell level as supporting IE6 became though (unless you're supporting Safari for Windows)
I'm not talking about replication for disaster recovery, but replication to avoid intercontinental round trips.

If my actual name is stored in Europe, my US friend must request the data from the USA just to show his friends list on an HTLM page... (is that a transfer too? is it forbidden too?)
>It's just the general audience here is different

It's not even the general audience. It's the subject matter, which is carefully selected.

HN is the best place on the internet for discussing a specific kind of subject, mainy technical matters, programming and the like. But post anything half-way political, and the comments look no better or more informed than anywhere else on the web. Which is why the moderation doesn't allow it.
It's a hard trick to pull off.

Slashdot didn't seem to be run by morons, the stories were filtered by editors the user moderation was complex and nuanced yet it still succumbed to the lowest common denominator.
"The government is defending the measures by saying they will help businesses save money and create more jobs."

That is some twisted logic, please tell me how taking money away from its citizens creates jobs, maybe they mean govt. jobs.
Buzzfeed, usvsth3m, The Metro and their ilk just recycle reddit submissions anyway, I think it makes sense for reddit to take a slice of that pie themselves.
I love his little worflow diagram embedded in the article: http://media.korokithakis.net/images/microservices-cargo-cul...
You seem to know a lot more about this than I do: in your opinion how much of a leap is this? Could this be the Chicago Pile of quantum computing or just another D-Wave?
While that was a pointless article to write anywhere outside of reddit itself, as it is in essence just a reddit rant, it is actually spot on imo. /r/food is parody of a food blog by people who are either in on the joke or, due to heart disease, won't live long enough to get in on the joke.

The description of your average reddidiot was also accurate.
No, you are more or less right. The general rule is that personal data may only be transferred to organizations in third countries such as the US if they comply with the EU rules on data protection. See chapter IV of the data protection directive: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/en/ALL/?uri=CELEX:319...

In order to avoid that each EU member state would have to approve Google, Microsoft etc. one by one, the safe harbour framework was set up to let US companies self certify that they complied with the rules:

"In order to bridge these differences and provide a streamlined and cost-effective means for U.S. organizations to satisfy the Directive’s “adequacy” requirement, the U.S. Department of Commerce in consultation with the European Commission developed a "safe harbor" framework. The U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework, which was approved by the EU in 2000, is an important way for U.S. organizations to avoid experiencing interruptions in their business dealings with the EU or facing prosecution by EU member state authorities under EU member state privacy laws. Self-certifying to the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework will ensure that EU organizations know that your organization provides "adequate" privacy protection, as defined by the Directive."

http://www.export.gov/safeharbor/eu/eg_main_018476.asp

That was obviously a broken system, partially because the certified companies didn't live up to the EU standards, partially because the US government violated the rules systematically through CIA, NSA etc.

The fault here is really European as much as American. By relying on the wolf to guard the sheep we very much had it coming.
I wonder if the box on the right should read "You need automated regression tests"
What is concern trolling exactly? Trying to change a community more to your liking because you dislike its rules and want your rules to reign supreme, by expressing concern about the ways of the community.
Are you suggesting hosting a web app in the USA and its database in Europe makes no difference?

There's also the problem of bandwidth (if you can't cache data locally).
I use Bitcoin every day, and these steps will rule out 99.999% of users from being able to get any etherium (and hence buy this music)

The biggest problem with bitcoin is getting "normal" people to acquire even small amounts without going thru too many hoops, Coinbase and Circle are doing a good job there
I enjoy the fact that while they have a very clear opinion and bias (liberal economics and the free market), they avoid mudslinging, keep their criticisms factual, and are often quick to point out where their preferred system is failing.

That being said, I've few issues with The New York Times.
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