skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The advice is pretty good, and covers a large number of cases. It's close to my own formulation, discovered on G+: "Block fuckwits".[1]

The solution is one that works well where it is afforded, and breaks down pretty badly where it isn't. I noticed this quite especially on Imzy, a new site pitched as a "kinder, gentler Reddit", and claiming several ex-Reddit employees among its own founders. The site combines a number of profoundly dysfunctional dynamics, including pervasive single-instance anonymity, inability to block anonymous tormenters, and several UI/UX patterns which exacerbate the situation, as well as a founding user cohort already exploiting the opportunities afforded. I have been, and will be, critical of the site on account that its own top management, including Dan McComas, CEO, seem entirely insensitive to compound issues.[2]

There's another problem where the administrators of a site, either volunteers or (as in the case of Imzy) management and employees create or foster a hostile environment. One of the more salient criticisms of Wikipedia is the article-squatting which occurs by entrenched interests (often manifesting as edit wars), particularly over politically-charged issues, though petit wars can also emerge on obscure topics. I'd posted Peter Strempel's criticisms of Wikipedia to HN a day or so back,[3] even though I disagree with many of his conclusions and don't quite understand his goals (he and I have been discussing the matter at G+). I've witnessed the issue myself most especially on global climate change and related articles, particularly those involving the Koch Brothers (or their various companies and political-influence "charities"), or organisations emerging from the Mont Pelerin Society and Atlas Network (including many Koch-associated institutions).

Reddit certainly has its problems of moderator capture / squatting, including such incongruencies as the xkcd forum falling prey to a set of MRA, neonazi, and Holocaust-denying interests.[4]

Scott Alexander's Slate Star Codex has some excellent discussions of toxic dynamics among online communities, most especially "The Toxoplasma of Rage".[5] There's much prior art going back to Charles Mackay & John Templeton's Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, and Gustave le Bon's The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (both available via the Internet Archive's truly amazing books collection).

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Notes:

1. https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/drLZV8sm...

2. See for general issues: https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/500ysb/the_imz... For problems and failures of oversight, see: https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/qdxyzy2x4lbaq_4rx81nnw

3. http://peterstrempel.com/index.php/culture/phantoms-of-fear-... for g G+ discussion: https://plus.google.com/+PeterStrempel/posts/Rbm6AusBgmt

4. Discussed briefly among other issues with Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/20yhxc/reddit_...

5. http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage/
Facebook Workplace: On the Size of the U.S. Enterprise Collaboration Market
not really actually. the 2 systems on offer were similar price range, and there was other factors that pushed towards a mac.
It probably doesn't help that some companies, such as Amazon, like to treat their unskilled labourers as basically disposable. It's a lot more profitable to set performance requirements that are impossible to meet without seriously injuring yourself, then replace all the temp workers regularly with fresh meat, than to have decent working conditions.
Color disappears at small scales (how small exactly?) So I guess those images are artificially colored.
Totally off topic, but as soon as I started viewing these, I immediately felt the urge to play the Metroid Prime intro music. It enhances the experience, I think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42u0KB6f5eU&list=PLB8DF09F4B...
I think you missed his point. He was speaking generally about the costs of working on new tech stacks that other people just accept.
> Would also be interesting if it's in relation to the ancient lizard people gearing up to head for Mars.

While that'd be interesting on it's own, if the ancient lizard people aren't in charge of the UK finance ministry then it has nothing to do with this.

> What's the point of even stating something like this?

I'm making fun of the GP poster downplaying this as a non-issue. A bank doesn't drop a customer for no reason and given their for-profit motivation the only reason would be political pressure.
Show HN: Mesh Notes – Nearby P2P Notes Collaboration for iOS (Internet-Less)
Yet the scrollbar is 5 pages long :D
I kind of agree, but to be honest I have been on and off of server side projects since the mid-90's, and can count up to five the amount of projects "done the right way".
Many of these are also standard Unicode characters (such as and all the smileys)
Idea guys in a nutshell
This story is now 7 hours old with 164 points, but on page 5.

I count 6 stories on the front page that are older than this with less points, e.g:

9. Virus stole poison genes from black widow spider (bbc.com)
155 points by kawera 10 hours ago | hide | 25 comments

Is HN censoring?
As someone else mentioned, linux (Ubuntu) + i3wm is perfect for most development needs (sure, still need a mac for iOS/OS X/tvOS apps) but if the following apps or feature complete alternatives were on linux...it's be near perfect

1. GUI git client (yes, i know how to use a terminal, but at times, you just wanna get work done and not google a command - I used to use sourcetree, and now Tower but there's nothing great on linux. The best I could find is Smartgit which is ok at best - but not on par with the others I have mentioned).

2. UI development - Sketch/XD etc.

3. Adobe Suite

I want to add games to that list, but we have recently got Rocket League so that and along with various valve games and Minecraft seems to be enough for casual gaming right now.
It's not frozen. It's a notification that they have 1 month to move their account somewhere else (or get a cheque for their money)
Waiting for Apple or someone to introduce "Retina VR"? The issue is, if you double the pixel density you quadruple the amount of work on the GPU. Few current graphics cards would be able to smoothly render content that high-res, yet.
So why did they choose GDDR then?
banks do this all the time. It happened to some Iranian citizens some time ago too, they'll typically do it when they think the account is being used for illegal activity.
"Unexpected by most" could be related to the pace of the uprade, Autopilot 2.0 with next level autonomy ready next month, hardware already in cars leaving factory. I expect a big upgrade to Autopilot OR a new product line.
Btw. just for curiosity, there is a difference in the source of radiation as it pertains to how dangerous it is.

Banana (potassium) radiation is mostly harmless to humans. Nuclear weapon or reactor radiation (for example caesium) is not.

The Banana equivalent dose is therefore a bit of a misleading term, and I have sometimes seen it used to dismiss other more harmful radiation sources as harmless, because of this incorrect banana comparison.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/04/fake-science-alert-fu...

Here is an example of using the banana comparison in an incorrect manner:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/08/10/the-fukus...
I get that this is frustrating, but this is exactly what Google said it would do. You can still track your traffic through analytics (per my GA setup, it shows the regular domain's AMP page, rather than Google's site), and you can still run ads against it if that's what you would like to do.

It's not so much a shock as it is a "new normal." Whether you like that new normal, that's up to you.

(For what it's worth, AMP causes a significant bump to my bounce rate, made up by the higher number of visits that come in via users looking for the AMP symbol.)
Tesla's New Manufacturing Veteran Is Just as Ambitious as Elon Musk
oh yeah! thanks! this is fixable, I just have to draw it in a different way, logging a bug.

I haven't tested it but I am guessing it has better rendering time, it has much less code than SVG (with their path, it is often quite long) and you can style it (such for hover state) and animate it more easily.

With SVG, you can do the same, but it has to be inline in HTML, no img tag embed SVG and such, so if you have 2 of the same icons on the same page, the code has be to repeatedly inserted twice in the html, but with css it just share the same classname.
I think you misread my comments. I am just saying that when a fairly large percentage of the population is considered 'mentally ill' then they're probably not ill at all, they're just having a perfectly reasonable response to a completely screwed up society. I mean objectively the binary view of "sick" and "healthy" is wrong for starters. Also objectively, many societies don't have these issues or at least don't have these issues to nearly the rates that the US or Japan does... what does that you tell you about so-called (capitalist) "development" in a society? Maybe something, maybe nothing. You be the judge. Not that anyone asked, but I personally believe the whole antidepressant epidemic in the US (and other places, like Denmark, the self-reported happiest country on earth) is a symptom of a fundamental breakdown in the community aspects of society and a pervasive, deep-seated sense of mental rudderlessness infecting the more vulnerable parts of the population (lower socioeconomic status, indebted/mortgaged workers, isolated lifestyle individuals, the elderly) as a result.
What I'll write might sound stupid to some but well...

There needs to be a re-configuration of the global economy and its system.

People like me late 20's and younger might be feeling that they have no future. At least I do. I am working full-time and thats fine. That only pays my day to day expenses, coming the end of the month am always out of money waiting for the next paycheck.
Me buying my own house? That sounds like some sort of sorcery to me...

Unfortunately prices went up, on houses etc and nowadays you got Tech involved in anything you do. You have to have a smartphone, and your wife wants the smartphone with the bitten apple no matter if it will cost half a months salary. Your kids want an Ipad or some sort of tablet. Your household needs a TV with netflix, amazon and whatever so you don't get bored. Add all those small things around and the era where everyone is obsessed with "BRANDS", yes let me buy a GANT sweater cause it going to make me so cool, while I could have bought a sweater much much cheaper of the same quality.

Unfortunately that makes you think that ok... live today and let tomorrow be.

Also another thing that I see around a lot is the use of Drugs and Weed especially. Several people I know or most I'd say they make daily use of Weed. Thats definitely affecting their mind and tbh they've reached the level of obsession with it where they really don't need anything else to live off.

There is literally no goal set for me. Will I get a pension when I get older? WHO KNOWS? Will I ever get off working even when I reach a very old age? Who knows, most likely i'll be working for the rest of my life...
Will I be able to afford a house and a normal way of life? Probably in the next 20 years, thats too late but its the truth I'll be around 50's when I'll be owning a house. Not an expensive house, a house that prolly when I sell it won't even cover me for 5 years of living without a job. Thats the sad situation that I and all youngsters are in, let alone people in the US or even Europe with Student loans, I don't even wanna think of them and what kind of future can they have.

P.S I am referring to an example of what the average person around me thinks of. Don't call me self-entitled that's harsh and you don't know me.
Tesla Truck?

Smart/Mini competitor?

Watercraft of some type?

Finally revealing the fictional electric plane mentioned in Iron Man 2?

Tesla Motorcycle?

A transforming amphibious Tesla vehicle?

As unlikely as most of these are, they are more likely than this much hype for announcing the next level of autopilot.
no better source than fox? Many believe foxnews is not a reliable and a highly biased source.
As some others have pointed out, there is a lot of evidence that hear democracies were overthrown because of western influence.
How a Cappuccino Helped an IT Company to Increase Online Inquiries
How is it making the Internet worse for current users?
Sublime Text packages do a good job of adding new features.
E.g. for diff view, you can use https://github.com/kemayo/sublime-text-git (which gives you a nicely colored diff output), and https://github.com/jisaacks/GitGutter as a bonus to see which lines have changed directly in the gutter. Latest version even displays the diff itself in a popup on rollover. Pretty handy.
The jQuery Foundation Gives Way to the JS Foundation
There is still an issue of youtube-dl being out of date. Even in testing from what I've heard.

You also don't have an AUR for Debian and there are many things that just aren't in the repos. Teamspeak 3, for example, is completely absent.
The 25 Gigabit Ethernet Rollout
Top 5 Challenges Small Business Customers Have with Their Websites
No risk, no reward. Copying, I think, should be planned for, especially in a global market. If a single video is enough to copy it, then maybe don't release a video before you're done making it. What I hate seeing is when an idea gets copied and then the laws made to guard against copying get used against the creator preventing them from even competing on other fronts like quality, marketing, etc.
Sony develops algorithm based AI music – Technology
In rem – The Idea
Sorry, I hadn't seen the second part of your comment.

Our working time hasn't changed throughout the enormous productivity gains of the 20th century. But the amount and quality of available products has. It's hugely superior.

Maybe you could work one hour per day in our present time and have the same products available that you had in the year 1900. But would you? Or would you end up asking someone to work just that one more hour when it's for a good cause - some life to save, some impressive machine to build, someone waiting in a queue, having fresh bread on Sundays or bringing you to some holiday destination in August?
Passion requires that something makes you angry
well great: autoplay video (with sound) and not even when you scroll in view, no - the video is several pages down. even if i were interested in watching it or some other video on the site, i would have to find and restart or stop this one first.

i'm not sure if i'm even interested in reopening the tab and reading the article now.
Socialism and Marxism are not synonymous, no matter how much you would like to pretend that's the case.

Socialism and Marxism are not synonymous, no matter how much you would like to pretend that's the case.

Edit: in my original post, I said that "self-described Marxist regimes murdered 100 million people".

Which of the social democracies you mentioned explicitly describes itself as Marxist?
Ironically, it happens to American citizens as well:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/reaction-to-us-...
AFAIK EULAs are entirely illegal and unenforceable in the EU.
[rant of my own opinion about RT, not considering their bank accounts]

My blood boils when RT/Russia/Kremlin/et al. start using phrases like “Long live freedom of speech!”.

They have an autocratic country, with _practically_ one party system and no opposition. They live in a country where prominent people (journalists, politicians, businessman) who uncover 'too much information' - just 'disappear'. They blatantly go to other countries and advertise that _all_ that country's media have no second opinion and they will bring the truth to the table. [0] When some prominent news about Syria or Ukraine come up, RT either shows some opinion interviews with facts pulled out of their asses or they will not show anything like nothing happened. [1]

They just simply use liberal and tolerant west, like a bully is using some nerd to bring his lunch. But they will never let something like BBC inside their own territory (with their own studios, multi-million dollar ad budgets, etc.). Personally RT looks to me, just how I would imagine Goebbels would've looked like 75-80 years ago.

[0] google "russia today this is what happens when there is no seconds opinion"
[1] google about ukraine RT and MH17
> did you know if you get past the first couple of pages it checks whether you are a bot

I still go past the first couple pages somewhat regularly and I don't get any sort of CAPTCHA.
The reason I asked for this is, I have a couple of websites that I read at least everyday, to keep up with current news on different categories, combined they are all north of 15 I sometimes even forget which is which, I keep open tabs at work currently to keep them up, I would like to have one website that has nothing by default and I add URLS to my news sources and it will show me news from these sources all day, some of this sources are just websites with no RSS feeds :( so something that works magically would be good, RSS being the fallback if that can't happen
This also my be relevant:

pre-commitment 2: Ecuador eae5c9b064ed649ba468f0800abf8b56ae5cfe355b93b1ce90a1b92a48a9ab7

pre-commitment 3: UK FCO f33a6de5c627e3270ed3e02f62cd0c857467a780cf6123d2172d80d02a072f74

claim from intelAnon that Ecuador had caved in to pressure from the Clintons:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cu7pNidVIAAUweO.jpg:large

The hashes then being a message from Assange, or it my be Assange being paranoid.. Or something else entirely.
They recently added a way to use native components _directly in XAML_ inheriting all the binding goodness.
I agree that it is still difficult to have a 100% platform-specific look&feel, but it's an incredible time saver for the majority of apps which deal with _functionality_ and good Ux.
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/787889195507417088
In related news: Julian Assange's Internet link has been intentionally severed by "a state party".

https://www.rt.com/news/362985-julian-assange-internet-link/

Wikileaks also apparently triggered a dead-man's switch, releasing keys to several pre-committed posts. This has spawned (false) rumours of Assange's death, addressed in the article above.

http://www.inquisitr.com/3602381/is-julian-assange-dead-vira...
>Really? What?

* Conflicts with other software installed causing all sorts of weirdness.

* Numerous packages not in the main repo that weirdly have to be installed by some other mechanism (pip, cask, etc.).

* Dependency on XCode. There's like a 5 step installation process to get it up and running!

* brew install rsync -> rsync [xyz] -> why isn't this working? -> oh wait, the version of rsync on the PATH is still the ancient system one for some reason.

* whatever brew doctor does. the fact that command even exists is a big red flag to me.

^^ This is just the stuff I've run into recently when I've had to debug stuff that was working just fine on linux but somehow broke on a somebody's mac.
Here's another source: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/787889195507417088
Responsive Web Design: Τι είναι και γιατί το χρειαζόμαστε;
Right now, in London and if you have a 15% deposit, its cheaper to buy a place than to rent from month to month so I guess it depends where you live. I always thought it was better to keep my savings liquid for startup capital but I found myself going back to work because I did not like spending it on rent. I figured that I would continue my project at a slower pace in the evenings and weekends and cover my expenses in the meantime. This is not a good recipe for swiftly setting up a startup.
After watching the documentary "13th" on Netflix recently, I wondered about how the US prison population affected this. Something like 1 out of 100 people in the US are in prison, which must be close to 2 out of 100 men. And another chunk of people who's function in society is to monitor those in jail. Plus the difficulties of getting a job as a felon. Seemed like all put together must have a serious impact on productivity.
Looks like it is in this theme park?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taman_Mini_Indonesia_Indah
Nuclear's inability to be both cheap and reliable is hurting it more. Once you add up all the costs for decommissioning old power plants and nuclear repositories (usually paid by the state, not the company owning the power plant), it becomes really uneconomical. Even compared to solar, nowadays.
I did not say that, and I agree with you. However, I disagree that any majority has the right to force others to 'engage with society' on their own terms or be excluded, which is often basically what allegations of 'mental illness' are.
Chatbots and RPA – A Marriage Made in Digital Heaven
To be clear: You dont need anything special installed on your phone. Just Google Play Services and Google Chrome..

Currently the feature is muted by Android.
https://developers.google.com/nearby/notifications/overview

So its not working currently.

However the idea is to move to the Physical Web:
https://google.github.io/physical-web/
We have similar stories. We even brought in a devops consulting firm, who insisted on a pure AWS / Docker (ECS & co) stack. After a couple months of shocks, crises and occasional all-nighters, I just started deploying backup instances on Heroku, so that the QA and design teams wouldn't get blocked by the weekly clusterforks. After a few weeks of smooth sailing on that front, we just activated logging and auto scaling addons, and blessed the Heroku stack with the production domain name and CDN.

Heroku gets expensive quickly at scale, but the engineering required to make "the future" work on AWS was unmeasurable (because it never really succeeded for us).

I don't even know what to blame for the whole episode. Docker's incomplete architecture (2015)? AWS's inability to abstract and manage complexity into something that just works as described on their product pages? The consultants? Myself, for putting faith in that triad of unfamiliar but crucial people, services and products? Whatever, it's no longer a current problem for me.
Agreed, Fujifilm gets what many other manufacturers don't: that the camera needs to get out of the way of photography. Their recipe for this is to have great physical manual controls combined with great automatic settings. Fujifilm cameras don't beep and boop, they don't Instagramize your pictures, they don't have "fireworks over a snowy beach while your kids are chasing backlit dogs" mode. They just take pictures and get out of your way when you need to tell them how to take pictures differently.

I have an (original) X100 and my only complaint is I wish it had more knobs and buttons: at least an extra knob for ISO, and a third or even fourth user-configurable button. (It looks like the X-T2 is swimming with knobs and buttons, so good for Fujifilm, they must listen to customer feedback.) I rarely need to use the knobs but when I do, they're right there so I don't need to spend time navigating menus.
[Podcast] Why Cloud Integeated Storage (CIS) Is Taking Rapid Growth
How is "your own network, your own view of the file system, your own view of the process table, your own view of the user IDs, ..." the same as "processes"?