skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I understand it and have observed, users are shadowbanned because they've shown that they sometimes act in ways that are detrimental to the community as a whole. By continuing to act that way, they've accepted that they might be banned. Users can also appeal the ban by contacting the mods by email.

I leave showdead on and have vouched for comments of banned users. I've also seen users continue to spew vitriol after they know they are banned. Is the type of user that would pointlessly continue to contribute negatively in this fashion have on balance a positive impact on the community? Arguing that they're behaving this way because they've been banned shows that they don't have the maturity to recognize that their behavior continues to reflect badly on them. It's not going to change the fact that they're banned.

You're right that if you're a determined troll, you can get around a shadowbox. From what I've seen, banning has been on balance effective to deal with uncivil behavior. Creating a new account does add some cost to the ban. Relying only on down votes puts the cost entirely on the community at large at no cost to the user behaving badly. Do you think it's fair to the community to bear the cost of the user's behavior?

Do you have any other ideas on how to effectively shape community behavior, preferably ones that move the cost from the community to the user behaving badly? I'm honestly interested, because I've seen enough complaints about banning that I'd like to hear about alternatives that would considered fair and still be effective.

It would be great if everyone would contribute in a positive, or at least civil, way. In larger online communities it's much easier for users who contribute negatively to destroy a community where positive users no longer want to participate. Each community has its own standards and cultures (and what's considered good and bad behavior), which is great! So far, I think it's pretty remarkable that HN has been able to maintain the community it has in comparison to other online communities of similar users.
>But a depressed person often is a negative person, and moods can spread.

That's pretty stereotypical. The happiest people on the outside can hide some pretty dark clouds on the inside; especially in a work environment where outward appearances are important. In fact, I would suggest that the majority that are depressed don't show any outwards signs to working colleagues.
Maybe for when done for personal use. The same tasks are still difficult and demanding in hardware when done for professional purposes.
The US is not a democracy it is a democratic republic.
Why pollute HN with reddit drama? Aren't we all glad to have left reddit behind?
iMac 27inch i5 mid-2011. Upgraded to 32GB of RAM. Just added a 1TB SSD drive and boot from this and it is now like a brand new machine. The existing 1TB drive is used for cold storage.

To load dev environments I use vagrant.
> Why should the power of your vote depend on where you choose to lay your head down at night?

Because it turns out that has a very strong effect on the power of your vote :)

The electoral college exists to balance the voices of citizens in cities vs. "the country." It checks the power of highly dense populations who are more likely to vote for pro-city federal policies, so the needs of those in "the country" are not ignored.

I didn't support Trump and live in a super-blue city, but when the EC was explained to me this way, it made sense. I don't want to see the US further turn into a place where you can only succeed if you live in a city.
I run a Mac Pro 5,1 (2010). It's a fantastic piece of hardware and I doubt we'll see anything quite like it anytime soon. It's ancient in a sense, but it's very fast and it runs OS X 10.12. I wanted the pre-2013 model (the large aluminum box) specifically for the 4 HDD bays.

I sync most of my dot files to Dropbox (symbolic-linked). I use software you've heard of: Sublime, Karabiner, Moom, Brew, Omni stuff, f.lux, &c. Sometimes I run acme.

I use a Topre keyboard, a Deathadder, and a 2007FPB 1600x1200. I like the Deathadder but it's a bit too large. Peripherals are very personal choices, so I won't make generic recommendations, but having a good middle-click is very important (esp. for acme).
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13034747.
No it seems fine. How would I test for CPU throttling?
That said, I do find 8GB RAM restrictive for the number of tabs/VM I have open and wish I had 16GB. Also, I think the SSD might be slowly dying because it's had many, many writes on it by now (reformats, VMs, videos, etc.) and sometimes Windows takes ages to open Explorer to show me my files.
> don't buy hardware new

Generally agreed, except that SSDs are a major exception which should always be purchased new.
Whatever else it means, "republic" doesn't mean minority rule.
Show HN: Five Things Today – a super simple to-do list
Hey HN.

Before you go ‘not another to-do list’; I wrote this for myself much earlier in the year, after using the “only set yourself 5 things to do every day” hack on paper for a few weeks, and it works quite well.

I put it on its own domain shortly after so I could access it when out and about. I had some vague plan to ‘market’ it at some point, but other stuff took priority.

Early this week I was talking to a friend about this article: https://taylorpearson.me/fast/ - basically, at 70% you should just launch something. It coincided with a great book I’ve been reading (‘How to Be an Imperfectionist’). This project seemed to be a (/another) prime example of something I start, that gets to 70% and remains un-launched. So he said “Why don’t you just launch it?”

The ‘perfectionist’ in me hates the idea of sending something out now - I’m actually kind of nervous doing it. But I know if I don’t, I probably never will. I’m sure you’ll be able to find some bugs and issues, but I’ve been able to use it personally relatively successfully. The homepage / landing page hasn’t been designed to encourage signup (which would have been on the roadmap), and the whole site was a result of ‘build and see’, rather than any kind of logical planning. The design needs a bunch of ‘prettying’, but… well, 70%. And if you find it useful, then great :-)

The mailing list comment in the join box refers to the fact that I may, at some-point, send a ‘checkout my site I actually got to 100% on’, but I’m not adding anyone to anything now. Feel free to test, use, whatever. There’s a delete option on the settings page - it’ll (permanently) delete everything in the database relating to your account (including any email address before I’ve added it to any kind of list).

So here you go. Go easy. Feedback welcome!
Home 1: 4k TV with a Macbook Pro 13" running OSX
Home 2: 1080p TV with an 8G/8 core Acer running Solaris 11.1
Home 3+: various laptops running as servers with Linux

Work 1: 15" Macbook Pro with a 27" Mac Monitor
Work 2: 17"? Dell Laptop with 32G/8 cores

Keeping configurations sane is something that I've been unable to keep track of yet with the variety of OSs I'm running. Mostly I use emacs and pass around a .emacs.d git repository but that still seems to have problems.

Most machines run 'nicely' without too much configuration. Solaris is about as rock solid as they get if you don't mind running 10 year old software...but it screams and with running a simple WM and it's almost too fast and could be considered 'twitchy'.

Keyboards are a combination of builtin on the laptops and Unicomp Model M keyboards.

Throwaway mice.
Great question.

The distinction I'm trying to make is between taxing a stream of bits and taxing a stream of dollars.

Similarly, municipalities are not taxing the weight of the items purchased at the store, but their monetary value.
Single Sign-on can be implemented without third-party cookies and therefore without the cookie warning.
A public blockchain, even if it is just readable by citizens if far more difficult to manipulate.

> without the resource consumption overheads and limits on concurrent transactions associated with blockchains?

I'm not sure what this is about, do you have a source? Volume of transactions should be easily large enough to satisfy their currency - all that's needed is some hashing.
Dunno what they think, but Wikileaks has this:

https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/2699

Note the subject of this thread is "WaPo Party."

Anu Rangappa is a senior DNC adviser is writing to DNC national fundraiser director Jordan Kaplan on September 22, 2015 saying:

"They aren't going to give us a price per ticket and do not want their party listed in any package we are selling to donors. If we let them know we have donors in town who will be at the debate, we can add them to the list for the party."

Kaplan then replies with: "Great - we were never going to list since the lawyers told us we cannot do it."
So the only thing holding you back from deleting a subreddit with tons of information, 25.000 subscribed users and what looks like a rather active and healthy discussion isn't that it would be a dick move to both golang in general and the community, but that you're not actually the owner.

Could you get any more childish?
If a program just needs to communicate over open sockets, cap_enter() will restrict the program from opening more sockets.

But the existing fds aren't restricted. You can use caph_limit_stream(fd, CAPH_READ/CAPH_WRITE) to restrict existing sockets down to only what is needed for stdio routines.
You might have a wrong definition of net neutrality. What the consumer-facing ISPs want is more something like tier levels: basic tier gets only 2mbps, platinum tier get 250mbps for instance (and other tiers in between) . So if I'm Spotify and I pay platinum , it is extorting other players, especially small ones as they can't afford paying platinum level. This is even more true if ISP decide that only one music app can be platinum, forcing all music services to bid for that platinum spot, raising the cost for it even more.

In the meantime, Backbone providers still provide Pandora, deezer, i<3 radio, and [new hot music startup, potentially more innovative than Spotify] at 250mbps to the consumer-facing ISP, but the consumer-facing ISP decided to create artifical scarcity and throttles those.

A theoretical counter argument would simply say: but in that case free market would penalize that ISP as consumers would choose a different one. But I think that's a naive answer because : some people don't see/know the issue, Spotify is good enough, as lycos search and MySpace were good enough at their prime. and more importantly it's a fact that 3 out of 4 Americans do not have a choice in high speed broadband provider. And for those who do, they're sometimes locked in because they still want that cable TV bundled with it. (hypothetically, This would be even more true if that bundle TV provided HBO at 250mbps where regular HBO would be deprioritezed because they didn't pay the platinum level, instead Netflix got it. HBO was business savvy enough to get prioritized via the bundle story.)
Surprisingly, I'm quite comfortable with my decision to trust the New York Times' investigative reporting team (which is what Snopes links to regarding this Instagram matter) over "archive.is" links created by Reddit and 4chan.
My typical argument about Brexit with the leftists goes like this:

ME: British are against the muslim immigration because large percentage of muslims hold these undemocratic antiwestern beliefs: A, B, C, D, and they don't assimilate.

THEM: You're a racist / bigot. Shame! Shame! Shame!
And the possibility of other comments being edited, and him not admitting to those being edited (which I assume is what the golang admin is worried about).

This is where I'd insert a certain GWBj quote about being fooled again...if I was on /.
I'd make the subreddit unofficial, too but for other reasons. It is a very unwelcoming place. I'm not the first one who's saying this, but it's really a shame how toxic the /r/golang is.
He has implemented zero policies and net neutrality is not a topic even currently discussed. It is strange to see people make up something they think is bad, accuse the person they don't like for doing it in the future despite having no indications whether that person will actually do it, and then say that persons supporters are stupid enough to support said action. I think most Trump supporters are watching closely at Trump making sure to fulfill his existing promises like the wall and why Trump backed away from investigating Clinton than thinking about net neutrality, let alone excusing Trump for disabling it (he hasn't), but that's just my observation.
I Will Kill This Love
I don't understand - obviously they wouldn't publish such a list in China, and what good would it do outside of China? Admittedly, Chinese who break through the GFW would find it useful, but given that I have a hard time imagining the Chinese government accepting FB if they did publish such a list outside of China.
it works fine for software dev. there's some tearing when playing videos, not sure if it's the card (most likely) but it doesn't bother me at all. I dont do gaming, but I've heard the lag can get bad with tv's.
They don't know how to compete with foreigners = they don't know how to compete outside of China - it is quite simple.

> A lot of western companies have effectively saturated the market in the west, the only room left to grow is in China, and so they pander.

That isn't true! They are eating the rest of Asia as we speak. Myanmar just opened up, and already Google/Facebook dominate its market. Not a WeChat to be seen. They are completely winning the east that isn't China. The same will happen in Africa when it gets to that point. Chinese Internet companies simply cannot compete outside of their home market without competitive pressure.

China is only 1.3 billion people out of a world of 7 billion. That China currently says our 1.3 billion are off limits is fine as they basically forgo 5.7.
I browse /r/all almost every day. I don't subscribe to everything I'm interested in, so I check /r/all to see if I'm missing everything. Before they changed the algorithm, page one was nearly 100% /r/the_donald spam. I don't care about their politics, that's their own business, but it's pretty obvious they're gaming the system. Again, that's fine. That's their own business. So reddit changed the way the posts are displayed to make /r/all usable to a wider audience again, problem is now it's mostly porn after you get past page one.

To remove politics from the argument, I don't watch basketball. So if /r/nba decided they wanted to have all their posts on the front page and told their readers to up vote everything they see no matter what, I'd have the same reaction. It's not what the system was designed for. I want to see a healthy mix of what reddit users actually think are the most interesting posts of the day. One subreddit, especially one that's not even that popular, taking over /r/all is not what I want to see. Doesn't matter which subreddit. I want to see a good mix.
We're in the process of harmonizing our entire team (9) to use Vagrant in a VirtualBox. For the most part it works, but we run into issues regarding VB memory consumption crashing machines. Minimum 8gb ram machine.

Do you have any advice on how to keep the memory footprint low?
Both internal. The motherboard supports 4 slots, using only 2.
If you are using CGI, then you probably already don't care about performance.

On top of that, the CPU throughput overhead of using a compiled managed language is typically less than a factor of 2, which, combined with the fact that the majority of web applications are not compute bound means the number of webapps that it would make any sense to write in C is nearly zero.

Pretty much all pithy advice (such as "Don't write your webapps in C") has an implicit exception "Unless you fully understand why I made this recommendation and have good reasons for why they don't apply."

That exception is not made explicit because 1) It would make the advice less pithy and 2) Then those who would most benefit from the advice convince themselves that it doesn't apply to them.
I don't mean to hate but why would anyone chose Stripe over Braintree? It seems the same to me + Paypal which is HUGE.
This guy should be applauded. Here's why: He made a mistake by making a childish response to a childish attack and then he admitted fault.

That's so rare. I wish more CEOs had his backbone.

I'm sorry to be inflammatory, but it seems like people take reddit a little too seriously and this is the real world not /r/relationships. It's probably not time to: "lawyer up, hit the gym, delete /r/golang".
You can't make a logical case on a liberal site like HN for anything. It's not allowed by the liberal elitists. Liberal here defined not as true liberal but progressive (destructionist) liberal.
Ask HN: Experiences of moving from Europe to the USA for a developer job?
Hi HN! Do you have any experiences of moving from Europe to the USA, to work as a developer?

Was the process of moving difficult? How is the working culture, compared to working at companies in Europe? E.g. Is it possible to keep a good work-life balance?
Ubuntu 16.10 using libvirt 2.1 + KVM
I've debated writing an angry blog post about how I was a 25-years Windows user until Win10 pushed me to Linux because of the flagrant privacy violations put forth by this telemetry gathering--even before we knew it was being shared with third parties. But I suspect it would fail to bring about any real change.

What might work, however, would be some sort of page of "protest users" who have pledged that they have or will switch to Linux after the repeated user preferences abuses of Windows 10. That would be far more effective, in my opinion, than just ranting and raving.
Show HN: Modi ke real note- detect fake new currency notes
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> You're overreacting.

While I agree deleting the subreddit is excessive, I think you're downplaying it. Reddit has increasingly censored more and more content that the admins disagreed with (rightly or wrongly). Now they've taken it a step further and started to modify content they disagree with. If this was early on in reddit's history and they made the modifications as a joke then it wouldn't be a big deal, but the CEO modifying posts seen by probably 10s of thousands of people (that subreddit has 300k very active subscribers) is a huge slip down the slippery slope. I mean, think what your reaction would be if I misquoted you at the top, and I'm just a random user quoting you, not an admin actually changing what you said.
Currently on a 2012 Retina Macbook Pro 2.6Ghz i7 with 16GB RAM, and 2 thunderbolt mirrors... I mean displays ;)

I run OSX for my day-to-day dev work, but am noticing I'm drawn more and more towards tiling window managers (like i3), so I'm exploring options to switch back to Ubuntu (which I used on my Dell laptop before I got the MBP).

The previous gen rMBP is hands down the best laptop I've ever owned. I haven't used the new 2016 model yet.

At my office we use the (ridiculously cheap) iiyama prolite x4071 40" 4K displays, which I absolutely fell in love with. Once you go 4k, everything else feels like a step back. I'll probably upgrade my setup somewhere in near future to a high end laptop + 2x 32" 4K displays. 32" because 2x40" is too big (you'll need to turn your head constantly) and 'high end laptop' because I'm not quite sure about the new MBP.

My 2 cents: Invest in a high end laptop and an external monitor/keyboard/mouse, instead of a desktop. That way you'll have an ergonomic setup at your office/house but still be able to carry your work anywhere you want.
The Round Up by No. 43
> The electoral college exists to balance the voices of citizens in cities vs. "the country

That is the effect of the electoral college in modern politics, but it is not at all why the college exists.
I'm curious: How many other buildings over 20 stories in the SOMA neighborhood use friction piles? Why would anyone use bedrock piles if they are more expensive and have no "superior" advantages? How many buildings with bedrock piles in SF have tilted this much as they have settled in?
"I draw every day, for example, but I can't really talk about that and be interesting."

As in a similar situation as @rublev I feel I am, I think it helps to say that, as this thought is somewhat recurring, we expect our environment to tell us it's great what we do but that's a problem. Man if you enjoy drawing, do it, and if you want to talk about it, do it and if someone does not care, boy you may not care about him writing everyday too, but does this make you a bad person or a non interesting one? Don't expect others approval, be yourself.
Probably a local phenomena. I've done some comparison shopping in my town and the price of most identical items at the Target here is +50% over the Walmart. Not 100%, but plenty overpriced.

It's probably just because the locals don't want to be seen as "rednecks" for shopping at Walmart. (Of course there are plenty who don't mind, and I guess, better deal for them)
Ask HN: What is your favorite podcast?
Inspired by https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5esn1c/what_is_your_favourite_podcast_whywhats_it_about
The comment has everything to do with editing content. Schmidt was effectively convicted on the content of his emails. I don't think Schmidt was able to edit an email used in that case.

It is a positive example of what the poster I responded to was claiming.

Additionally, this CEO (now of Alphabet) has continued to engage in seemingly illegal behavior over Google email. I'm not aware of Eric disputing any of these allegations, even though I have confronted him on them multiple times.
This is a positive thing. It turns out that we can't run government by the Executive branch and various agencies just declaring stuff, we actually have to build institutions up legislatively and inform citizens of their purpose in order to create popular support that would punish legislators that don't conform to desired norms. Obama should have cleaned house of corporate Democrats voting in the interests of their paymasters, but his elite upbringing and education inculcated an actual belief in the policy suggestions of the self-interested experts and corporate representatives who he considered his peers. We've already seen what an unfettered executive looks in the hands of a moron, and a elite corporate technocrat - how about a madman?

That being said, this article is pure propaganda and contains no information. Of course decisions made by agencies can be reversed by the combined efforts of the elected head of state and the legislature. That's why we call it a democracy. The Post gives us no reason to think he has strong feelings about this other than

> Trump vowed to “eliminate our most intrusive regulations” and “reform the entire regulatory code.”

and a single tweet

> Obama’s attack on the internet is another top down power grab. Net neutrality is the Fairness Doctrine. Will target conservative media.

And to back that up, anonymous sources saying that it's unlikely that Trump was lying about something that they haven't even made a decent case that he said he would do or even feels strongly about:

> "It's unlikely Trump was misleading the public, according to policy and business analysts. The new administration, they say, will instead delete from history the Federal Communications Commission's unprecedented regulations for Internet providers."

10/10 anonymous unquoted policy and business analysts agree!

This entire article is sourced to "analysts" and it's about what Trump "could" do. What he could do with the support of Congress doesn't need "analysts" it's just a point of fact. The random analysts are just to make this sound like news.

Here's a better headline for the article so everybody will know it's shit and not worth clicking on:

Robert Kaminski, a Telecom Analyst at Capital Alpha Partners Says: "Net Neutrality Has a Big Target On Its Back," Declines to Explain Further

edit: This isn't fake news, it's shit news. I'm not accusing the Washington Post of being a fake news outlet.