skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, you were banned for being rude and obnoxious.

Had you stopped at "Oriental is not an offensive word", individuals may have downvoted you to express their disagreement, but I doubt you would have been banned. Personally, I think 'Oriental' sounds a bit dated, but not of itself offensive.

Instead, you were banned because you followed it with "anyone who thinks it is should grow a pair and get a life. The hypersensitive PC social justice crap is so wearisome." It's the insult in this second part that went over the line.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12698197
As silly as it is to say this, people (you?) should contact them and suggest these things.
This was approach that OpenSSL does (it had its own memory management routines), and it already caused security vulnerabilities, not to mention performance issues.

Rule of thumb: if you need to allocate memory region that will be overwritten anyway (for example reading a file) use malloc(). If you need a zeroed memory, use calloc().

As long as you rely on guarantees provided by the calls and use the right call for right use case you get predictability and very often optimization.
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Wow, very nice site. Thank you yes, what do I need to do to apply?
Dear publishers: you're fighting the wrong battle, and the wrong people.

You look at people who visit your site without seeing the ads as "stealing" your content without paying the price (suffering, apparently I guess) of viewing the ads. Forcing them to view ads is a dumb move that you've been forced into because of the bizarre incentives in the business, but it's not a sustainable strategy.

Forcing people to view ads won't make those ads effective, and it'll make your viewers hate you more. Ads are likely not a long-term stable source of income either. Precisely because people are becoming more and more savvy when it comes to figuring out what to buy and less and less tolerant of being told what to buy.

I know that advertising is one of the easiest ways to make money, especially with a content site on the internet. But you need to put serious effort into finding a better way. If you don't then you'll be caught flat footed when both your ad revenue and your viewers gone. Foster stronger bonds with your viewers, figure out how to monetize them without ads (there are a zillion ways without paywalls), keep innovating, laziness is how you die.
On the pinboard.in/popular page, it would be useful to have an icon linking to the HN discussion. In fact, lets also have one to the Reddit discussion.

If someone has some time, this could be a useful extension.
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Evidence that birds sleep in mid-flight

http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12468
Neilsen Norman Group writes articles that convey important technical information in very easy to understand language. Reading their writing makes me feel smarter, and I think it's more than a feeling.
The bit about them insisting they know better than you what you need to see and how you need to see it, coupled with the bit about ads, is a non sequitur. We're talking about tracking usage stats.

Some people simply can't be bothered to disable an ad blocker for non-ad related things. Others take a more extreme stance and consider analysis itself to be an affront. Everyone loses. Producers don't know what works or doesn't and consumers don't get the content they desire.

One thing I've noticed is that these comments tend to come from pure consumers but rarely from those who both produce and consume. It's partially an issue of having a lack of perspective of the other part of the equation.
You might look into TCPDF library for PHP, it is for generating PDFs, does a lot of great graphics stuff. Add inith FPDI and you can also import PDF files as page templates. You can set whatever page sizes, etc. And being PHP based it is very web capable.
+1, too. EconTalk is amazing. It sounds like I'm listening to a really fascinating conversation between two really smart and really knowledgable people.
Given perspectives like this, I think it's pretty hard to argue that it's possible to appease the activist community by feeding them.

The equation in their minds is essentially power == good. They want power over you, and over us, so that they can use this power to do good -- for the quite large set of human beings they feel themselves the protectors of (pretty much anyone but a "straight white dude").

No one has really found a limit on how much power they want, or how much good they think they can do. What we do know is: when you feed them, they get hungrier.
Thank you! It's very hard to monetize this at this point. The traffic is too low. I would rather focus on growing it first before I start to think about monetization.
Here's an idea. If a story is clearly political, then just turn off comment moderation except for flagging.

Objectively, HN has a huge problem with leftists and socialists downvoting conservative/libertarian comments.

Dang knows this. I haven't read all the comments, but if he denies that simple fact, then HN has bigger problems.

You can't have legitimate conversations if the other side is openly hostile to the very idea of even displaying contrarian to their beliefs opinions.

There was a big bubble that many on HN lived in until election day, when they must've realized that there's another half of the country that doesn't think like them.

Here's a perfect example of living in the bubble. Look at all the car hatred on HN, where people are almost giddy over ideas to ban them, limit them, etc...

The vast majority of the people in the world don't think that way.

HN is just a bubble and why it's a parody.
It's always nice to see hardware/not-SaaS content on here.
I actually agree with some of the points you've been making, both here and in other comments, and I've noticed and appreciate your clear effort to be civil. I know how far from easy that is.

The problem I have is that you seem to set at zero the other set of concerns here—the ones I described at the top—intellectual curiosity and civil, substantive conversation. Those things are the raison d'etre of this site. Do you think I'm wrong that political flamewars don't threaten them? Or that they don't matter?

I understand why a politically committed person might say "screw those values, the cause is too important", but that amounts to a scorched earth approach that doesn't see this place as much worth protecting and can easily progress to other battlefields for further scorching. My job is to make sure this place doesn't burn, so it's hard to take advice from that quarter. I'm all for suggestions about how better to serve the site's values—and by the way, 'civil' includes being welcoming to others—but objections that don't think they matter are harder to credit. It's pretty easy to say what we should do if you don't share our goals; not so easy to struggle with the tradeoffs if you do.

It's my view that for all its flaws, this community has something worth protecting. Perhaps it only lives up to 40% of its values, but that's still a lot, and it's the reason why people are attracted here to talk about things, some of which are inevitably political, in the first place. If you think significantly better is possible on the open internet, show me where; from what I've seen, everyplace else is so much worse that this one is clearly worth protecting, in the hope of achieving better. And if you think we're not interested in welcoming people who suffer from social or political disadvantages, I don't know what to tell you, other than that you'd be misappraising well-wishers. I hear you that it might happen anyway as an unwanted effect, maybe even is happening, and we care about that and take it seriously. But that information tends to come in complex political and ideological packages, and it can be hard, even for a well-wisher, to decipher signal from noise. The discourse around these things tends to be all-or-nothing, indeed extremely so. For us that's a double bind, because HN can't be either.
It reminds me of the music/movie industry in terms of how these adblock detectors mimic something like DRM. Anyway the problem is with the business model. People are installing adblockers in response to more aggressive advertising, and then the ad companies get more aggressive because of it. It's a never ending cycle.
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Thanks so much. Do you have a MVP that is on the web that we can see?
Bill Gates writes very well in English. It's evidence that he wrote excellent software decades ago. It's interesting that writing software seems to make more money than dealing with English documents as ordinary office workers. However, as one moves up and becomes a successful businessman, he reads and writes in English primarily, and makes much more money than those who write software.
If you're only interested in blocking the trackers, you might appreciate ghostery (https://www.ghostery.com/) - it does exactly that.
Speaking of the alt-right, did you know Teen Vogue did a piece on them?

http://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-the-alt-right-is

Don't know about you, but I always trust content from Teen Vogue...
With automation, robotics and AI the world does not need so many bio-robots anymore. Before we needed dumb people to do manual labor. Not anymore. Machines can do it. Most of people don't want to learn and change. What to do with the bio-mass that can only eat, shit and have fun?
HyperCard failed, but not necessarily for technical reasons.

It might be worth making some hypotheses and testable predictions here about how much complexity is needed for various tasks, and how well current tools are doing at avoiding unnecessary complexity.

I think surveying the current landscape and past efforts, and getting a dialog going along the way, would be a lot more valuable than immediately starting to design a solution.

I'm very confident there are opportunities here, but not so confident about the chances of any particular approach.
Some designers from Stripe absolutely helped with the design of this page.
I agree with you on your points on setting precedent, but respectfully disagree regarding the practical use of the law as the evidence apparently shows the US targeted this individual thorugh a 'backdoor search.' The article explains this in more detail:

> “Second, the court said that the surveillance of the defendant did not involve a ‘backdoor search,’ that is when the government collects communications by targeting foreigners, but then turns around and searches its databases using email addresses or other identifiers belonging to Americans,” Crocker said.

> “On this second point, however, we think the court almost certainly got the facts wrong. Based on public evidence in the case, it seems the FBI did in fact search its database for Mr. Mohamud’s emails — which would be a serious violation of his rights, according not just to EFF and ACLU, but also to lawmakers like Senator Ron Wyden who have been trying to stop this practice.”
You know what it does:

The calloc() function contiguously allocates enough
space for count objects that are size bytes of memory
each and returns a pointer to the allocated memory.
The allocated memory is filled with bytes of value zero.

You should not care how it does it.
RIGHT OVER HERE there are HN users spouting the usual disproven gender-essentialist bullshit about women in STEM fields: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13101949

I have no idea why you feel so much more comfortable at this place than MeFi - MeFi isn't good, by any stretch of the imagination, but at least when people get banned for horrific misogyny or anti-Semitism people don't come along later and say "but they had great technical contributions!"
This idea that "we are not using the old rules based system" is nothing but self appreciation, a way to justify that we are doing something new. The reality is that the 'statistical word match/associations' is nothing but described by a set of rules. People need to understand that the only way we can build something is by designing the rules of the thing. A probabilistic system has its own set of rules different from other type of systems. Yes, there is something new and that is we are representing the problems in new and different ways that has allowed us to solve problems that were not feasible with the old representations. The solution, of whatever problem representation you are using, is still rules based.
An Optical Journey: Building optical archival data storage at Facebook [pdf]
How often do you actually interact with those sites? If it's almost never, I suggest giving NoScript a try, most sites are readable with it on. Obviously, you'd need to whitelist any utility sites you use, like email, but that list is likely small and doesn't change very often.
Not caring is the default state.
These numbers are actually shocking. I wonder what the statistics are on level 4 and above, assuming level 4 is programming.
If you use a broken hammer to attempt to insert a screw, you're crazy for using the hammer, not because it's broken.
It doesn't matter what it's named though, you can always alias the import.

If it was "github.com/foo/poppycock" I could just write import mux "github.com/foo/poppycock" and use it as mux.

Import name similarity is a terrible argument for picking a name.
Code sample on the homepage please!
Let me get this right. Are they saying politics is to be hated actively for a recurring period of time?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Minutes_Hate
Yeah absolutely. Were it just about the technology i am sure we could have fixed that long ago :/
Reminds me of Google Latitude. Honestly, I prefer Latitude to this. This just smells of eternal tracking to me.
I don't yet have a product I've settled on, but I'm in the early stages of developing a website for a government body.

With all the regulations and policies on data protection, using something not self-hosted is just not going to happen. (I believe that if there was a possibility that their users were affected by a 3rd party breach, the fine is around 1000x the project budget).

If this means a little less information about the audience, that is perfectly acceptable.
This is nice. Definitely in response to Facebooks Safety Check and it's great to see innovation that makes the world a better place. I wrote about this: http://richartruddie.blogspot.com/2016/12/facebook-google-sa...
They're doing this based in wifi networks for the most part.
Should I think that it is coincidence that Uber wants 24/7 location data, FB wants it, and Now Google officially wants it..
Now, people like me who prefer to 'own' their digital lives, and not become part of this surveilled garden would be labeled as 'tinhat'.

Thanks but no thanks.
youtube-dl supports vine: https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html
Looks like you got your wish!
UBlock Origin for Safari - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13112280
Do you have any similar positions for interested applicants without a graduate degree?
I'm not sure how this relates to the article?
Virtual reality for rehabilitating prisoners?
I wrote the mentioned “[Babel 6 is] a lesson in how not to design software”.

Maybe I shouldn't have written it at all. It's never my intent to hurt or insult anyone. Not by way of excuse, but by way of explanation all I can say is that Babel 6 is at the heart of JavaScript, and my experience of using it was days of crushing, mind bending pain because I had to configure everything - the point of the blog paost being that conventional wisdom is to make a set of rational configuration choices for your user, whilst Babel goes the OPPOSITE way - it does NOTHING by default.

Perhaps if a person is unhappy with the outcome of using some open source software then the best thing to do is just turn away and silently stop using it.

Hard to do though when that software has become central to the ecosystem.

I hope I was criticising the software design decisions and not the authors.
See also how many hundreds of bombers and thousands of crew were lost to Messerschmitts over Germany before the Army Air Force would admit that, yes, they did need fighter escorts. https://warisboring.com/arrogant-u-s-generals-made-the-p-51-...
Whenever you sense a sci-fi motivated discussion your best bet would be to say - "You are confusing AI with artificial life".
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Considering that all our eggs are in one basket, right now, any topic of discussion in the vein of colonization is a good one, as long as it keeps people thinking in that direction, I'd say.

In the short term, their are still the intra-solar-system planets and satellites, and those are something we should push onto quickly. Once we get to those, permanent artificial platforms will arrive all the faster, if at all.
How much of a that is poor or inexperienced management hiring too many or not reading the Mythical Man Month, and how much of that is cultural or political pressure to hire people even if their jobs are make-work? I would be surprised if Chinese managers were not aware of these inefficiencies, but justified them as part of a social contract.
If that was a response to the comment someone recently posted asking for it to be ported to Safari than bravo for the quick response!
Is there a service yet which lets you enter your vine username and receive a zip of your videos? (edit: looks like twitter is planning on building one)
Salient tl;dr

> The main point I want to make is that you, dear reader, are almost certainly in the top category of computer skills, level 3. In the United States, only 5% of the population has these high computer skills. In Australia and the UK 6% are at this level; in Canada and across Northern Europe the number increases to 7%; Singapore and Japan are even better with a level-3 percentage of 8%.

> Overall, people with strong technology skills make up a 5–8% sliver of their country’s population, whatever rich country they may be coming from.

> You can do it; 92%–95% of the population can’t.

A lot of smart people price themselves too low because they're simply being kind. I'm one of these. It is worth remembering that, as a HN reader, self-selected for such content and community, you may also be too kind.
It would depend on where you are. Here in Utah my cell service goes out within the first 5 minutes of the hike I do by my house. The hike itself is about 2 hours in and an hour out.
By that logic it affects a butterfly in China too. I'm talking about what we can control.
The first test of your skill is: can you determine what the link really should be to actually view the article? ;-)
Politics is not discrete.

While I agree that posts about election results or political leadership changes are mostly unrelated to topics I come to HN to read about, I think that there are many ostensibly political posts that are very relevant (e.g. Snowden or Wikileaks related posts). I would hope that they will not be subject to exclusion.
Uh, I think Safety Check was inspired by Google.org's Person Finder.
Yes, my post above was agreeing that you should check the error condition of the return value, rather than relying on errno to be cleared on success.
Of course it can go down, and you can have CloudWatch alerts to alert you about that. But so can your Nagios server sending pings go down or the fancy SaaS you signed up for.
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> Objectively, HN has a huge problem with leftists and socialists downvoting conservative/libertarian comments

It's funny how partisans on the right often say this, and partisans on the left often say the same thing, with the sides reversed.

The fact is, HN has sizable and active contigents from all parts if the political spectrum, and partisan voting (up and down) comes from all sides.
Making the front page change on reloading or for different readers (making it a random sample) would indeed be really disruptive, but it could have a kind of second-order benefit, that new experiments would become easier to introduce, because we'd stop expecting it to look the same for everyone. Not that I'm seriously advocating this for HN -- maybe for a new site?

Geez, I forgot about /best. I tend to visit here to shirk work, and I'm not even shirking most effectively.

That's a great suggestion, pointing out the short story. I enjoyed it too.
This happened to a friend of mine recently. I can't recall if it was the same extension but it wasn't easy to close.
It's amazing to me how many people make a decent extension and then sell it off to an advertising agency or something (not saying that's the case here but I've seen Facebook groups dedicated to buying and selling extensions).
You're supposing that there aren't people out there willing to make and distribute content without demanding some kind of payment in return. Content doesn't only come from people that put tons of crappy ads on their sites. And I can't say I'll find it tragic when Buzzfeed and Upworthy go bankrupt.
Most jobs don't require people who can endure getting "pushed to the limit" every week, hour, day, etc. Especially while under close observation and scrutiny. That would strain most any person. If it is that demanding, then be upfront about that instead of surprising candidates during a stressful interview.

People should be aware of what they accidentally select for in candidates. I feel like I am skilled at remaining calm in crisis work situations where people (customers, co-workers, owners) are dependent upon me, but I can bomb interviews just as easily as the next person. Some approaches might consistently filter people who get stressed during interviews, rather than select people who maintain poise.
As soon as I publish it I will ;)
Isn't the better plan to use Lambda instead of your servers?
But is it better than using extensions like Wipr that used the built-in ad-blocking system?
Health hacks. Supplements, nootropics, MCT oil, sleep aids, HRV training equipment, meditation software--whatever I find works. $1200 USD more than covers my annual health needs for regular upkeep beyond food and exercise, but I would spend four times as much for the same without hesitation.

From a purely monetary perspective, I know I can reliably turn $1200 USD invested in my health into many tens of thousands more, but only if I am reliable.

Having the right tools helps me avoid illness, depression, inessential idleness, "brain fog," anxiety, and other, similar maladies. Not fighting myself means I have more energy to focus on my goals, which results in more time for essential idleness, which provides me more energy to focus on my goals, and so on.

With the right tools, I can work at peak performance every day, and $1200 is, to me, a worthwhile price to achieve this. Regardless, I wish you well in whatever you choose to invest your $1200 in.
Bullshit. As an engineer, I have entirely enough time to read books because I prioritise the importance of doing so. Remember, we all have the same 24 hours in a day.