skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And for buying stuff on the internet - I use it more for that than when travelling.
sure they're all illegal immigrants.
This problem cannot be fixed by changing hiring policy or corporate diversity training. 18% of computer science graduates are women. If women are 18% of programmers, then arithmetic dictates that most software companies cannot reach gender parity. If one company has more than 18%, another company has to have less than 18%. It's just simple math.

I applaud companies who try to increase the diversity of people learning computer science. But they cannot, by changing internal policy, reach gender parity - not without making some other company even more male-dominated. It is pointless and counter-productive to continually whack Google and Facebook over the head for their inability to make two plus two equal five.
Average price of 60m^2 in not-so-shit area is about 700+ nowadays and keeps rising every year.
The biggest economic horror story is real, according to a new Fed paper
Grow Your App Using Pineapple Pen Effect
>- If you're running all hands, your number one priority is to eliminate any feeling of big company corporate "rah-rah" culture. It's really easy for all-hands to feel fake with lots of imposed cheery "culture" things (someone else in the comments mentioned a singalong.. Really? It's cool to have unique things that you guys as a company do, but they have to be organic. Coming up with them as a manager basically guarantees that everyone laughs at them behind your back.

This is precisely where I work at the moment. I always suspected it might've been a US/UK contrast. In UK we like to laugh at ourselves and not take anything too seriously, but being a US company, we get a lot of the "YOU'RE NUMBER 1, WE'RE NUMBER 1, WE'RE THE BEST TEAM WE CAN BE TOGETHER" and to be honest, it's rather cringey.

We're a megacorp who answers to shareholders - they don't give a crap about me and the guy talking most certainly doesn't know who I am, so let's stop the pretense. I've no problem with the pecking order, but don't make out like the company is looking out for my interest.
I wonder if you could analyze this data to extract moderation information (for example when mods changed, or when mod activity level changed). It would be interesting to identify data spikes, and try to understand why.
Interesting, I never looked at it really. As a statically typed language, how does it handle complex objects, something like a document coming from a document based DB sent over JSON?
99% of the accounts on Yahoo Mail are for accounts which have little consequence for the reputation of its users. Yahoo is the wastebasket of the Internet, a kibble drawer for frivolous social media signups and forum registrations, and the goto service when one doesn't want to hand over his/her actual email address.
Yes, and there are some problems with that system as outlined by others — I've also seen instances where the system was really only half-implemented:

Peers supply the feedback, but one manager has the time/resources to review it... so basically they can interpret it however they decide.
Why do they need a politician like Trump to fight for their cause?

Because both parties have abandoned them, and class politics, in favor of identity politics.

Why do so many politicians, activists, journalists, and other leaders ignore (or demonize) their cause?
I find it refreshing that they are unsupportive of the Facebook paywall.
From my point of view, classical music has a slower and more stable rhythm than a bunch of short pop songs, and is often in Italian rather than English (when there are any lyrics), which (since I do not speak Italian) ensures I do not get disturbed by someone talking in my ear. Also the general noise level of classical music is typically less than pop music.

Now everyone is different and I am sure some people find it more comfortable to focus while listening to heavy metal!
Welcome to Berlin. :)

I came to Berlin roughly 5 years ago before the investment started pouring in and most startups were existenz grundungs, this is when you get 50k from the government and you underpay some interns to build your MVP. It was pretty shabby back then, and things have changed dramatically in the intervening years, but most people came for this vague idea of living cheaply and doing what they want - you could say they washed up here as tourists and stayed. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but these people are being replaced with people coming here for startup jobs that pay real salaries. It used to be that ~500 euros a month was a good startup job, now it's more like 4-5k.

All of this change is happening while Berlins administration is still the bureaucratic and slow machine that it always has been, they haven't built affordable housing in 25 years, there's no plan on how to reduce congestion or prevent gentrification from wiping out existing communities. Registration takes ~3-5 months to get an appointment, god forbid you're a foreigner and have to also register at the ausländerbehörde and wait from 3am for the 1 of 50 tickets available that day.

It's nice that people still see a future here, but i take an issue with such a rosy picture of what it's like to live here, because it really isn't the case.
Protip: setting your user agent to GoogleBot eliminates a lot of bullshit like this. Most sites, including Quora, won't hold out on GoogleBot, although the WSJ does. I guess they don't care if 90% of their article doesn't get indexed, that's pretty brave.

There is a plugin for Chrome that makes that easy: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/user-agent-switche...
New version of DLib lets you create Deep Learning based Object Detectors
I would say that my target market aren't really familiar with twitter - let alone Reddit. Also it's just a time thing - I spend about 15 - 20 hours researching each newsletter.
> If a group of people at a party were talking about a book
> you had not read or a movie you had not seen, would that be
> breaking your party experience?

Not really, but, while snappy, that's not really a good depiction of what's happening here.

A better analogy might be groups of people at a large exhibition discussing what's happening in the various booths. You're welcomed to go look in the relevant booth then join the discussion. Most of the booths you can just wander up to and take a look inside, but sometimes you walk over and poke your head in and the booth bouncer looks at your visitor badge, slaps you in the face to attract your attention and demands you fill out a bunch of forms and pay them before they'll let you in.

The wasted walk and the slap in the face kinda ruin your experience, so you ask if people discussing the slapping sort of booths might maybe warn people first, but they suggest you just put up with the slaps and move on if you don't want to pay up front for everything.

How does that make you feel?
I was actually the one who submitted the feature request which you closed --- I'll reopen this. Thanks!

Update: no, I can't reopen it, so I'll open a new bug.
Lost traffic on websites = lost revenue.
That's kind of what Socrates did. Not everybody thinks it's acceptable (just look at how well it turned out for him), but it's important to challenge all beliefs.
Sierra + the lack of MBP updates has me seriously looking around if I can switch to Linux for my next setup. The Dell 5500 laptops look nice, and I have purposely kept my tools as platform agnostic as possible. So far my list of problems are:

* HiDPI does not seem to work as well on other platforms.

* Lightroom is a pain to run over wine or some other tool (and no, Darktable is not there yet)

* 1Password still has no linux client

* I like the iPhone and do not plan to move away anytime soon

* iOS app builds - not really a problem to keep my old MBP around just for doing builds

I have been using linux for years on the server and I'm really amazed how short this list has become.
"sufficient alcohol"

I remember all-hands meetings like that - one in particular where the CEO tried to buy the hotel at 4am so he could order the bar open. The withering disdain of the barman was quite something.

Mind you this was in Scotland so "sufficient alcohol" really means something.
Quality of life varies greatly between countries.

That said I would certainly consider Bratislava if I was moving East. Its proximity to Austria (Vienna in particular) means that you can, in many ways, have the best of both worlds.
I wonder why it is that your legalese is only applied to people who say that illegal immigration is a bad thing.

Lots of people openly say that we should tolerate illegal immigration either for economic or humanitarian reasons, and I've never seen such an argument applied to them.
How do you define "very good tax rates" though? Is it the same thing as "low taxes"? Are high taxes in Northern Europe "bad taxes"?

Taxes are not theft you know, they're supposed to buy you and your fellow citizens things (health care, infrastructure, cheap education, services, etc), some of them highly beneficial to a startup.
I live in Germany, and I always wondered: how Germans buy online and/or book hotels/tickets online, if most of them don't have credit cards and only have this EC-Karte?
Look, I know black people that support trump. That doesn't change the fact that Republican politics have been building to this point for 40 years. The use of racial imagery and the stoking of racial fears has been a deliberate strategy.

Of course, the class based view of this is that the capital owning class have disenfranchised the rest of the country. It's impossible to talk about class in America without including race. The poor and working poor whites have had more in common with their black neighbors than they have had with the capital owning class since the end of the civil war. That doesn't change the structure of the issue. So, no, I was not saying that it is as simple as race.

Ex-Democrat, I can see, but ex-liberal...what, is this person now a mercantilist monarchist or something? I'm assuming that they still support the ideal of democracy and some kind of quasi-market capitalist society?

There are some on the "far left" that take the view that Trump is exactly what this country deserves and that if we went "full retard" that it might mean real reform sooner rather than later because of the damage he would do. I don't agree. The American president is clothed in tremendous power and is capable of terrible things.

I don't think that the avid environmentalist is actually an avid environmentalist if they think that Trump would be good for the environment after attacking the EPA and the limited good that they do now as choking the lifeblood out of business.

EDIT: What I'm trying to say here is that in the American class system the middle class whites who struck a deal with elites for privilege over the poor and people of color are afraid that the deal has changed. They are right. There's no economic advantage to the capital owning class to respect prior social compacts and they have removed all the levers of power that the middle and lower classes had to stop them. They were allowed to remove those levers in the name of maintaining racial privilege for a large group.
Which Retargeting Works Better, Email or Site?
Yeah. I really want a split ergonomic keyboard with mechanical switches and thumb clusters, but there's absolutely no way I can spend $300 on a keyboard. Like you, I understand why they are doing it (combination of small production run and no compromises), and agree that in some sense it's "worth" the asking price. But I've been following this project since the beginning, and I'm completely priced-out.
> 500 bn in wealth transferred from the labor class to the ownership class

Yes, that might help explain Trump's support.

It might also help explain the opposition to Trump from the ownership class.
Is HN open source or something? How is it that everyone knows this algorithm?
The GOP Has Nobody to Blame but Themselves
Delete your *.wsj.com cookies, use a referrer control addon and set it to google.com for wsj.com and enjoy clicking HN links and not see the content block.
It may not be the end of Samsung, but I sure hope that this will mark the end of an era in smartphone design -- an era during which everyone rushed to make the thinnest, flattest, flimsiest phone ever, durability be damned.

There have been reports of ultrathin phones from several different brands bending and cracking in people's back pockets for years. Honestly I'm impressed that manufacturers lasted so long without a bunch of explosions, given the energy density of these fragile gadgets. I also don't quite see the point of anything thinner than 9-10 millimeters.

Lack of durability may have been more acceptable in an era of incredibly fast innovation on the hardware front (planned obsolescence, hurray!) but now that most flagship phones have comparable features, perhaps someone will begin to design phones that last more than a year or two. With replaceable batteries, of course.
I essentially agree, which is why I conjectured that plq was recalling incorrectly, based perhaps on second- or third-hand accounts of Shaw's problem.

My hope was that plq would clarify either with a pointer or something else more than "IIRC".

The only thing I disagree with your assessment is that "ignorance" and "newbie misunderstanding" can sometimes be due to bad design, which is a design bug vs. an implementation bug. In the Shaw case, there was a bug in the code which widened the gap between the user model and how the code actually worked, and that gap did cause data loss, just not in committed data.

Also not in a way that could be handled in git with reflog, as plq suggested.

This is a more expansive definition of "bug" than software developers, who are often more focused on the implementation than the user interaction model and as XKCD points out are very good at memorizing arcane commands, typically use.

Hipp wrote that he might have done the same thing as Shaw, which means that specific case wasn't "purely a newbie misunderstanding."

I think that was a humble and magnanimous statement which cut off some of the blame-the-user flamewar that can all too often happen in developer-driven project. As I recall, Shaw noticed this, and thanked Hipp for the way he responded. I've tried to bear it in mind since then.
...it already does.
No one mentioned Flume + Kafka? This sounds to be a mature solution.
> But does this mean that you are suggesting the members of this tribe convened and decided to put rules in place to define a member's behavior and potentially institute punishment if these rules were broken?

No, although I could trivially say that any group of humans living together will be a society in some respect (and thus "natural" human behavior involves being in a society anyway).

Ignoring that, though, removing cheaters doesn't need to involve any sort of centralized group decision making. Your immune system doesn't convene and decide what kind of foreign bodies are unacceptable, and it's largely effective at what it does.

> ...does not disprove that cheating and lying are embedded instincts in living beings.

Sorry, the burden here is on you to prove that cheating and lying are embedded instincts (which I'm assuming means "typical in primitive humans" here). You're the one who made an affirmative statement.

My counterpoint is that cooperation is plentiful in nature (with many examples of cooperation in comparison to parasitism) and thus cheating is unlikely to be typical behavior in the wild.

You need to prove otherwise.

> Cheating and cooperation are not mutually exclusive concepts.

Are we defining cheating differently? What's your definition of cheating?

> The parent comment was suggesting that we are somehow evolving to lie and cheat and I'm suggesting that we have been more than capable of this behavior all along.

Humans are capable of any type of behavior. If your definition of "embedded behavior" is "humans are capable of doing that," then sure, it's trivially true because humans are numerous and any type of behavior can be found with such a large population.

> but we have actively suppressed these "survival skills" because they are deemed bad qualities.

Right, and my argument is that they're primarily suppressed because they're inferior survival skills in aggregate. Cheating and lying are classic "tragedy of the commons" behavior.
It's a lot easier to set up and manage in my experience. The interface is very user friendly. It all depends on your specific needs of course. ELK is a bit more performant I think, although I have never compared them properly. Both have good scaling capabilities.
At SXSW Eco, Google Sustainability Lead Kate Brandt Promotes a Circular Economy
But they can still point to other companies and call the names. :)
I think it was so users wouldn't follow "Windows 9x" tutorials thinking they would still work.
I am the only one who thinks this is an extraordinary step? Does this mean that they've identified the problem and believe that it's beyond repair? Or do they think that the Note 7 name has been so tarnished now that they just want to kill it?

It's especially surprising because most people who have the phone seem to love it, aside from, y'know, the risk of spontaneous combustion.
Thanks for the reply, very interesting.
Okay, next question: why is that?
> People should do what they feel passionate about regardless of their gender (or skin color or other nonsense there is possible to come up with). Everything else is a moot point.

Yes. This is why I believe children should be raised in a gender-neutral way. It helps in steering clear of premature expectations.
I saw this article on HN this morning at zero comments, and I really expected to drive in to work and get there with 50+ comments going "Yeah! That's right!" I had this comment all planned out about how impressive it was to get HN to suddenly line up behind the neocon foreign policy establishment by just saying "Boo Trump!" in the right way.

But it seems I've underestimated HN a bit; my compliments and apologies.

I'll salvage the part where I point out this is basically an appeal to authority appealing to authority, and I don't necessarily trust either of the authorities. I do believe that there are some serious negotiations that take place and that there are things hidden from the public that are more serious than they may initially seem (both in the sense of being important and being treated more seriously than anything that makes the news), but when I look out into the world I still see an awful lot of official foreign policy maneuvers that do not seem to be the result of sober adult calculations for the best of humanity but still very much seem to be games of brinkmanship where the players stand to gain and the public and the world... and not to put to fine a point on it, but me and the ones I love, and you and the ones you love... are the ones that will pay if they lose.

I haven't got much rational reason to trust the current foreign policy community and I've got no rational reason to accept Elizier as an authority on the matter. That is not to say either of those things is false... it is to say that I have no reason to accept them as true, and in the case of the foreign policy community, some rational reasons to distrust them. If I am wrong, because it turns out those are both reliable authorities, then the only rational conclusion is that both of these authorities should have tried much harder a long time ago to give me rational reasons to trust them more. Such things happen.
Interesting study, it suggests a few dynamics.

The weekday data show a high back-page rate for Tuesday, and a high frontpage rate for weekend posts (Saturday/Sunday). This suggests to me that the total volume of posts, a statistic not presented (that I noticed) might have some bearing. Specifically, many PR firms and other seakers of publicity tend to target Tuesday morning for positive items, as these beat the Monday rush (and blues), but allow for time to process during the rest of the week. And professional submitters are going to be quiet on weekends. If I had to hazard a guess, I'd suggest that HN attracts a significant amount of direct or indirect RP blitzing. My thought is that PR pieces are, in general, less likely to be voted to front page than organic content -- where PR includes low-quality blog, YouTube, marketing, and similar type content.

The time-of-day analysis suggests something similar. Traffic begins to pick up at about 0400 system time, which is US/Pacific. That would be 7am East Coast (morning breakfast/commute) and about 10am in Europe, suggesting there's traffic arriving from those locations. There's also a pretty noticeable dip in backs ratio around the noon hour, plus or minus, and a slight increase in the early afternoon. Again, PR / SEO content might take a mid-day break within the US.

As for "new" page reconfigurations, a concern I've had is that as submissions increase, the latency of any given item on the page decreases -- well under an hour at peak times. Odds of even a good item collecting upvotes is small.

An alternative presentation might be to randomly shard submissions such that each is present on the page for at least some period of time, for some fraction of HN users. A hash of UID (or some other arbitrary value) and shard assignment, weighted by the predicted voting on the item, would present each unvoted and low-voted submission to a small set of users, but over a longer period of time, while increased positive votes would expand the exposure category. The idea being that each piece has a more realistic opportunity for exposure. Flags would remove from scores.

HN does a good job of (usually) promoting quality and interesting content. It does have a high false-negative rate, in not promoting good content, which is a problem. On the other hand, there are very real limits to how much content a pereson can handle in a day, and simply opening the firehose wider isn't a viable solution.

Based on counts of daily emails from Stephen Wolfram and Walt Mossberg, and The New York Times moderation desk volumes, I'm seeing ~150 - 300 emails, or <800 comment moderations, per day, as something of a pertty consistent upper bound to meaningful content interaction, and that 800 is a pretty low value of "meaningful" at about 36 seconds per item. HN's front page with 30 solid articles is a pretty reasonable target for deeper material.