skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've got my account (with 9+k point) banned. Which is, of course, annoying, but the most annoying thing was the comment left by moderator "we banned". How about "I banned"? Faceless corporate "we" does not look well.
There was also a lie about warning which never happened, but hey, "not lying" is not in the guidelines, so…
And while some of my comments might be harsh I sometimes wonder if overzealous moderation leads us to creation of some kind of Stepford here.
> Let companies decide what workers they want.

Let companies manipulate their workforce as much as they want?. It's THEIR workforce after all?
What's Intels play here?
I'm glad the mobileye team get some nice purim bonus but we'll see in couple of years if Intel won't kill the product (and the team)...
Please, for the love of God, learn about the US home building industry and about the construction industry in general. Nothing you said even approaches the truth, except for old Japanese housing (new Japanese housing is much better than the old stock) being of lower quality than US housing.
That is indeed ugly stuff. Thankfully you never have to use f.call(o)
Seems like everyone uses the glove embeddings for any text based DL project.
what's up with the ZR* and ZZ* classes?
Really? Odd.

Good to know, though.
Increase the price of petrol. Many conflicts in the world are related to petrol. A significant part of military budget can be seen as a subsidize to petrol. There should be enough taxes to compensate all these hidden costs.
Spot on. Most of the time I can barely stand reading my own code, so how about I take a break and read some barely intelligible code written by someone else, using a different coding style and a different mindset? Wreck my brain trying to figure out what on Earth the other person was thinking when they wrote that abomination. You know, just for the kicks.
"their request will almost certainly be denied at this point"

I can't imagine anything that would increase support for independence more than any hint that we wouldn't be allowed to have another referendum.

[OK - apart from BoJo being PM].
The Timeful iOS app might still float around somewhere
One thing I think is missing from a lot of processes or tools is feedback of some kind comparing expectations to reality to help you set more achievable goals and better timelines in the future.

If I have a goal to do X within a month and it takes me two instead, I should look back and see where the discrepancy was. Did other things come up I didn't account for, or did the process take more manhours, or was more research/training required to have competency to complete the task?
Telegram mass hack on PHDays
They asked for them, and you gave them, and annoyed all of them.
The older Web wasn't much harder to use, but it was overrun with spam and content farms and the threats of anonymous communication were far more visible.
Self-determination and post-colonialism only seem to apply away from home. Madrid has a big influence on this because of Catalonia and Basque country, but there are tons of non-self-governing territories[0] which are swept under the rug, or clung to with claws of "economic uncertainty".

It's funny that Scotland lost its (semi-)independence by trying their own hand at colonialism[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_list_of_Non-Sel...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darien_scheme
One thing that makes it even more complex is state deductions. For example, in Massachusetts you can deduct rent payments to your landlord from your taxable income.
You are over-dramatizing things. EFF members or the judge who overturned Trump's travel ban are alive. It's not like people are routinely killed in US over copyright infringement or political protest as your comment implies.

>a live political activist and champion of human rights

You emphasized "live" there, but I would rather emphasize

> political activist

> champion of human rights

Alexandra Elbakyan is neither. It's just an opportunistical breaking of rules that are not enforced in Russia, and nothing I've read from her (except her interviews to Western media) implies her "political activism" or "championship of human rights".

However, if you still thing that she is worthy of the prize, I would also suggest nominating the owners of pornolab.net. It's one of the largest porn trackers out there, and it's online for a dozen years at least. It's in Russian, which I believe is one of the main reasons it's still online.

On the more general note: the enemy of your enemy is not your friend, it's a tactical ally.
This is called "burying" and it is unremarkable. (This story is likely to be buried.)

The stories that are buried are not appropriate for the front page. The reason you come to Hacker News is because it has a better front page, with better comments under it, than other places. You experience the benefit of this editorial intervention each and every day.

I've had a story buried as it was gaining a lot of traction very quickly: this one. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11920431

The quality of the comments was inordinately low and it didn't look like it would be improving, which is the reason it was buried.

No complaints from me around this. You can email the moderators if you want to know their reasoning. (I'm not one.)

People here need to understand and be thankful for the extraordinary and ongoing work that the moderators do every single day to keep this place an appropriate place for interesting, deep discussion along the editorial lines chosen. It is not a democracy (see: reddit) but I find the moderators generally extremely fair.

As far as I understand the moderators bury tons of stories (often political, link-bait, etc), which do however get traction quickly until they do so. It is easy to get traction through click-bait.

Generating serious discussion is harder. For example, this title promises "the stories that Hacker News removes" -- but is not really about the stories that Hacker News removes. For example the author does not analyze the comments under them or see why it derails or is not a good contribution to HN.

It is more of a click-bait title is bait-and-switch, and is designed to generate easy outrage.

There's nothing remarkable here despite the traction this story is getting. It is part of the hidden workings that keep HN great. Dan and Scott (the moderators) do an extremely good and thankless job keeping the principles of this place alive.

You have no idea how hard they work and I've seen them make difficult and intricate decisions. (Sometimes as simple as detaching a thread that was derailing an important discussion.) In my opinion this story does not belong on the front page.
I usually do something similar, but write it out the night before along with my journal entry for the day. It helps me cut down on my list of things I should do, but aren't urgent/have deadlines. I guess it works because I'm just more optimistic about my productivity ahead of time and commit myself to more than I would in the moment, but get it done regardless.
If you get any money on your paypal account without a bank account linked, you can't 'move' it.

So I just let Mrs BusError loose on a shopping spree immediately! that usually clears the balance in no time at all.
Ask HN: What if there is no inheritance?
What if there is no inheritance, so that everybody has the same start, does that make life fairer?
I did a long time ago, but maybe I should go through it again :P
Naval Ravikant on Reading, Ego, Decision Making, Habits, Honesty, Ego and More
It's ironic that the US population has continuously voted to increases social welfare spending since the 1970s. Thanks to all of this socialism, the US now has lower labour productivity growth than anytime in the past century.
I agree with you overall regarding transparency. It would be nice to see removed pages listed somewhere, or perhaps just the fact that it was done with a counter and maybe a timestamp. But as someone who reverse engineers a new mobile app nearly once a week these days: candidly, you can summarize nearly the entire discipline as security through obscurity :).

You use the word "suppress", but we generally can't use words stronger than that in security. We deal in abstractions that are hard to reasonably quantify, so we do so by approximations of monetary or temporal costs, and frequently both. We also try to limit absolutes. Reverse engineering exists as a discipline because 1) contrary to popular opinion, security through obscurity is valid, if incomplete and 2) there's frankly not much more that you can do in many cases other than obfuscation.

There are situations where algorithm secrecy gains you nothing defensively and is actually a strategic disadvantage, such as in encryption or hashing. But in situations where you fundamentally cannot discriminate between authorized users, such as in email (spam), search results (SEO) or, here, Hacker News (front page), you cannot rely on the strength of the algorithm to properly discriminate between users, because that's not its intended purpose. In these situations, obscurity is essentially your only remaining option.

To be fair the Hacker News moderators have more control of the ranking algorithm being reversed as it's on a remote server they control, as opposed to embedded in a client deployed to inherently untrustworthy hands. And once the information is out, it's out. But I don't agree that they have a trust or transparency imperative to keep that sort of submission on the front page. Even if the information exists, there's no reason to make it even more accessible. They can remove it and also improve the ranking algorithm.

If you want to design a general purpose web application without significantly reducing usability, functionality that is not restricted through authentication or higher levels of authorization is susceptible to reverse engineering. Being that the ranking algorithm is not client-side, there are fundamental protections we cannot bypass, but much of it is still inherently obfuscation. There is rate-limiting of course, and you have to log in, but the inherent inputs and outputs can still be somewhat flexibly assessed over reasonable timespans because there are hard usability requirements in place.

The tl;dr: algorithms which cannot be gamed because their inputs have significant quantifiable and controllable time/monetary costs do not require secrecy - these are excellent for implementing authorization. Algorithms which do not have such costs are not appropriate for authorization and, unless also paired with significant authorization constraints, require some degree of obfuscurity.
But the answer is always going to be "users flagged it", or "the flamewar detector was triggered", or "the vote ring detector was triggered". And advice is always going to be "if you notice something unusual email the mods to discuss it, because they can fix it if you send them an email; they might not see it if you leave a comment in a thread".
Seems like a cool invention, but unfortunately the writing or editing has been done by someone with no technical knowledge.

> a unique hydrodynamic principle, the rolling fluid principle vortex dynamic

what?

> which can create a large amount of energy

The first law of thermodynamics may want to hear about that.

> an output of up to 10 kWh per day

so ... 417W.

> This is enough power to meet the requirements of 5 European families

[1] gives German usage for one household per day as 9.6kWh

[1] http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/average-household-electricity...
> Before accepting rides on his Uber app each day, Seattle driver Fasil Teka must first choose whether to listen to company-run podcasts on voting rights, collective bargaining and city council hearings.

No, technically not forced - the headline is misleading / clickbaity.

That said, drivers are going to be well aware that Uber's likely to be collecting metrics on who listens and who doesn't, and I'd hardly trust them to follow employment law to the letter.
Telegram launched calls in test mode
FPTP plays a role, but "entirely"? Winning 40+% per cent of the vote isn't easy in the first place, and directing the campaigning effort well enough to win 58 out of 59 single-seat districts is a rare feat.
Because I don't want to work somewhere where my pay and likelihood to be laid off is determined almost entirely by my age.
I guess the acid test will be what happens to this post. If the first one was removed via manual intervention for whatever reason, then this one surely will be too.
Reminds me of a Black Mirror episode... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2089050/?ref_=ttep_ep3
> but I do notice significant productivity gains for my team with Angular 2 and TypeScript, and better code design.

Compared to a React/Redux whatever team or what do you mean?
I think the "introducer" feature is supposed to simplify this process, but I don't understand it.
Not sure if it has what you want, but you might check out toodledo.com, it has by far the most features I've ever seen in any todo/calendaring system.
I'm not sure what you mean by "doesn't work".

Subscription payments can be extremely profitable, leading the the continued existence and even expansion of the site. The only downside is that only people who subscribe can see the majority of the content.

Ads merely mean that more people can access the same information, including people who could have never or would have never paid for it.

Subscriptions are merely less egalitarian.
Show HN: Startup Bakery – MVP as a service
Unionist means union between Northern Ireland and England, not a united Ireland - the term for that is Republican.
It may be a privilege, but in this case my reading Hacker News is a privilege for them, and not their right. And I want to know what stories are manually suppressed in order to decide if i still grant them that privilege.

Also, check out Tim Berner Lee's article about the internet being hijacked by the likes of Facebook and Google in order to understand why your 'I am grateful for the privilege' attitude is wrong...

Edit: argh, I attached this to the wrong post. I was responding to paulpauper of course.
Hacker News is nothing but a censored echo chamber, pretending otherwise at this point is pure ignorance. Anything that doesn't fit the narrative will be beaten down or removed.
I don't think too many companies are scared of Microsoft anymore. This isn't the 90s.
I figure prayer is essentially meditation. There are many distinctions to be made between them, but no difference that I can see.
I'm not feeling like a victim, I'm extremely lucky and I know that. I admitted to that.. The unadulterated hell I was referring to is the excruciating pain that comes with opiate withdrawal...

To give you some further perspective here, I was sexually abused as a child. I would rather go through that 100 times before I would go through bad withdrawal again... Fuck off.
This is the price you have to pay for a (secure) decentralised system, but syncthing tries to help where it can. E.g. you can set a syncthing instance as an 'introducer', so you only have to establish a connection to this device to get offered connections to all others devices. You still need to authorise these introductions on the devices, but you do not need to type in the crypto verification strings.
edit: or better, it should be working now, care to confirm? THANKS

hmm that's very bad, thanks for letting me know!

It does seem to work properly on firefox here for any screen size, would you mind sharing which FF version are you using? thanks again!
The quickest path to success is having rich relatives and friends. Everyone should just pursue that.

All joking aside, even if they are placebos (and Myer's Briggs certainly is), whatever it takes to motivate people towards excellence to me would be a positive.
I used syncthing when it first came out on windows and it was very easy to set up so i can only assume its improved since then, and the android app is quite good. it has a large number of settings and you can make it only run when you're charging so you dong use all your batter.
There are too many issues on this repo
Why not indicate your previous account?
> Subprime leases at 50% more than the national average lease $/week.

I'm pretty anti-Uber, but that's not shocking given the unlimited mileage provision. My last car lease quoted additional mileage over the 10k/year at $0.21/mile, which'd add up extremely quickly as a taxi driver.
Another possibility is that voting rings for _other_ posts flag maliciously to remove the competition and give their posts a relative boost. Maybe author can find correlations with other posts that were showing on the front page at the same time as the flagged ones and see how _their_ rankings got boosted due to the flagging.
Sure, we can argue about spam and content farms, then and now.

But what do you mean "the threats of anonymous communication were far more visible"? Threats to, or threats from?
I use Arq too, however, there are some limitations:

- Scanning of new / changed files takes could be faster and less demanding for the file system (on my Macs, Finder sometimes temporarily freezes when Arq is scanning for new / changed files)

- Mail reports for '0 errors' (all the time, so the mail reports for errors only are rather useless)

- Running in user context only, i.e., if you log out while your Mac is still running, the backup will not continue

- Loading of existing backups (reading / caching index) tends to be slow (and sometimes hangs)

- GUI does not scale up for many existing backups

With that being sad, you listed the major reasons to use Arq and all in all, I am a happy Arq user.
The whole 'Next Action' is what really makes this method work for me. What is the one thing you need to do next to move this goal or project forward? Keeping goals actionable transforms them from ideals to reality.
Yes, I'm an eclectic christian, I find 'the daily examen' an Ignation spiritual exercise - useful. Agnostics, atheists can perhaps use the same procedure and replace the first two steps with mindfulness and gratitude meditation and the last with goal attention.
http://www.loyolapress.com/our-catholic-faith/prayer/persona...
But knox uses a Samsung owned proxy and send private identifying info to Samsung...
did it come with the car or is it aftermarket?
Once you established a connection to the 'introducer', it will introduce your device to all other devices it knows and vice versa. You still need to authorise these introductions on the devices, but no typing/copying of crypto strings.
Isn't there a really simple work-around to these dns-hole adblockers? Ad links just need to use actual IP address surely?
A New Apache Commons Component: Text
It includes edit distances, and part of Apache Commons Lang string related methods and classes. This latter will be deprecated in Lang and later removed.
Getting Started with CSS Grid
I think trade unions are fine. The issue I have with unions relates to public sector unions like AFSCME that are able to have representation on both sides of the negotiating table.

Libertarians (of which I am not) are not against unions, they are simply pro freedom. Freedom means being able to assemble, but it also means not being compelled to assemble, especially when a portion of the dues are used to fund political action for policies they don't support.

EDIT: autocorrect is horrendous
Sex Toy Maker Pays $3.75M to Settle ‘Smart’ Vibrator Lawsuit
Using a private key and 2FA should IMHO be the default setting.

(I of course understand that Backblaze wants to make its service as easy as possible, to they have other defaults.)
There's no guarantee that Scotland will be allowed into the EEA or EU as an independent nation. In fact, some member states are opposed to it.
He said entirely the opposite on the BBC this morning.
VR book [pdf]
Hey HN!

Startup Bakery is an attempt to turn into the services I've already been doing (helping clients build their MVP) into a repeatable process and package as a process.

Where this differs from plain outsourcing is that we're putting focus on customer and product discover first, figure out what to build, and only then approach the development. This may be no-brainer for HN, but a surprising amount of my clients have come in with concrete grand visions and assumptions about user base and needed "just" to implement the code, and in every case, the startup failed miserably.

So this is somewhere between a startup bootcamp, and an outsource offering, trying to combine the lean/discovery knowhow/mentorship focus from typical startup events, and the actual operational knowledge to execute.

Would love to hear your thoughts about this :)
I was under the impression HN start out as a more scoped / directed version of Reddit.
Which is exactly what happened to Pao's case. She had nothing, but sued anyways. Making what I wrote a pretty apt metaphor for the situation.

I disagree, but respect their decision to say my comment was off-topic. But your comment shows you have no idea what I was even writing about.
> Security through obscurity isn't a thing, and the better response is just to make a better algorithm, not try and suppress knowledge about it.

Obscuring an algorithm or making it more tedious to reverse may not make it perfectly secure, but that's not the goal. It's not like actual information security, where loss of the encryption keys means your product is broken or your database is on the Internet. You're just trying to minimize the workload on humans who act as a back-up for the few posts that slip through.

If an email spam detection algorithm was public, spammers could precisely craft their content to slip through. If the heuristics for showing a CAPTCHA were public, bots could automate their requests to avoid it. If a ranking algorithm was public, people who might financially benefit from the front-page traffic could force content there through vote rings and sock puppets.

If the algorithm is secret, far fewer will be able to do so, and this small fraction of abusers can be handled by humans.
There can be the reverse though. A controversial post may get flagged repeatedly but the impact of flagging could be disabled by mods to not disable the post.
You can make a machine an introducer so any things that are added on that machine are added to all the others on your network, also it has qr codes so adding to an android phone is very easy. its gonna be the same with any other p2p sync client. I think its even the same for resillo.
As a heavy user of Syncthing for the Tron project ( https://reddit.com/r/TronScript ) I'm excited to see how well Syncthing is doing, and really appreciate the hard work from the devs. We spun up a Syncthing node to distribute the project after Resilio Sync (formerly "BT Sync") put a hard cap on the number of nodes that were allowed to connect.

Keep up the great work, team!
> Subprime leases at 50% more than the national average lease $/week. Seems pretty unethical to me; Companies lending to people who have no business borrowing money...reminds me of the 2007/08 mortgage crisis.

Subprime loans are expensive because they're risky. Nobody is stopping those people from taking the normal lease, except that they can't get one because they have bad credit.

The problem with the mortgage crisis was that banks were making loans to people they knew would default on them and then reselling the loans as AAA loans, and insurance companies selling credit-default swaps under the same assumption. Then suddenly everyone finds out that so many of the loans are garbage that it made huge institutions insolvent.

There is none of that going on here. Uber is just willing to take the risk of defaults for the benefit of having more drivers.
This is exactly what the API uses to triangulate your position.
Those are marked first "flagged" as a warning, and then "dead" when the user flags reach a high enough level.

This article however is about stories that disappear without receiving either.
Move fast...and just leave things broken. Users be damned.
I've chatted to mods on various sites over the years and I've heard that "voting rings", particularly the automated ones, often try to obscure their upvotes by also upvoting obscure stories and downvoting competing stories.