skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But what the marketers can't fathom is that people come to the site for the sites content, not the sites technology stack.

Well be careful with the marketers you hire - because you have a lot of developers who get bored and shift to marketing, and bring some bad habits with them.

Tech stack is not up to marketing to decide - what marketing may say is that the app/site performance is making you lose customers, or the design needs to be improved.

Get proper marketers.
What are we calling a start-up? You're going to have to set at least a modestly limited definition.

Any relatively new business? Sure, there are tens of millions of those started every year globally.

Six million small businesses are formed each year in the US (any new business with less than 500 employees), most of those are small, usually single person, self-employment entities. That's clearly too broad however.

Closer to the definition of a corporation being formed with the intent to hire other employees, it's more like half a million per year in the US. [1] It's probably safe to say it's at least five or ten times that globally.

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/08/news/economy/us-startups-nea...
Been using DevDocs as my documentation reference for a couple years now, has everything I need with no extra fluff, would recommend.
It does work on Windows, and is fairly easy. It's true that it needs an entire Ruby environment.
>A private corporation must strive to meet real human needs in order to survive.

Private corporations knowingly caused the opioid epidemic to make money.

Tell me how mass murder "meets real human needs."
Any consideration towards bulk pricing?

100's of millions?
It's a private space and they want to promote a certain kind of discussion. It's not cowardly at all.
Reminds me of Dash[1] which is especially useful when configured in your editor: press a key to open documentation for the word under the cursor.

1: https://kapeli.com/dash
Well they didn't use inception. If their inception units have, say, a 7x7 conv, then ladders will probably be found much earlier.
Something similar which I really love for terminal is tldr : https://tldr.sh/

Behaves like a substitute for man pages with most useful examples. Saved me hours of googling and searching.
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Believe it or not, there are people who believe in xyz even in the U.S.

India is a land of paradoxes, just as the U.S these days seems to be.
>A rational billionaire would realize that he have nothing to gain from more wealth and would live the rest of his life in lavish and luxury (while donating 99.9% of it if he cares about public opinion), aiming to spend all of it before he dies. So if billionaires were rational we wouldn't have such a large inequality.

How is being a spendthrift rational? How is "donating" it rational?
> What is the official pronunciation of Spacemacs?

> As it is written, that is space then macs.

http://spacemacs.org/doc/FAQ
Are you talking about UCB? Nearly all my friends doing EECS or the likes are depressed, swamped with work and borderline suicidal. It has taken such proportions that it has become a meme on the facebook meme page UCBMFET. From what they have told me, their administration has no interest in student satisfaction or mental health.

The gruesome workload and collective depression is perhaps only topped by Waterloo.

Yeah, you get a top notch engineering education. But, I'd wager the trauma isn't worth it when you realize the workforce standards are well below what's requires of you in the "dojo".

Stanford kids seem much happier.
Purpose of HN is ultimately agitprop for YC. It makes sense that curation of posts occurs--this only confuses people that buy too much into the "hacker" ethos.
The 960 EVO is a consumer grade SSD with firmware tuned for bursts of I/O (through eg. the use of SLC write caching) at the expense of sustained write throughput. It doesn't have power loss protection capacitors, so it can't perform safe write caching when you're issuing synchronous writes. 4kB is much smaller than the underlying page size of its NAND flash, so performance is going to suck without write combining. You're testing it in shackles, with a workload that doesn't at all match its intended use case. That doesn't make it a joke, it just makes it the wrong kind of drive to use for stereotypical enterprise applications.
It also packs well as a fluid app if you'd prefer a standalone (and fluid doesn't seem to purge the cache and lose offline mode like your browser might)
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Paywalled articles are explicitly not against the rules.
I've noticed that a lot of submissions have had their titles changed recently (past month or two). I wasn't aware that users were allowed to change their own titles - I was chalking this up to moderators "curating" articles.

How often do users change the titles of their submissions? There's no way to tell.
http://devdocs.io/openjdk~8/ (Java SE is proprietary; OpenJDK is open-source)
It be easier for everyone if you just admitted you use vim because you've not yet figured out how to exit it.

Ctrl Alt SysReq + REISUB

(It's the only way.)
Sure... it's still mostly about votes right?

"Popular things go to the top" is a pretty good first approximation of the algorithm. You have things getting flagged to death for generating bad conversation/flamewars (kinda like parents telling kids to stop playing rough since people are getting hurt). There's the hiring posts. At least to me, it's always felt like moderation is happening at the margins.
>+ The founders retain a lot of control via the company stock structure, are nerds, and seemingly want to recreate a Bell Labs style culture. + Doing crazy science keeps up their brand as a tech thought leader current, even though 95% of their revenue comes from a pretty simple set of products that about 20 years old. This helps them recruit the best and brightest.

I once worked on a Google R&D project that got well-known in some circles. Google cut the funding without warning and I eventually had to find a new job.
Block Based Editing...?

SharePoint is knocking and asking for it's render model back. Web-parts in SharePoint are the whole reason why SharePoint runs like a dog.

For the open web to go down this route is very worrying indeed.
Because, exactly like I just said, the rate spiked spectacularlly since 2014. A near 20% increase in the murder rate, almost entirely in inner cities, at the same time police have drastically toned down the extra attention they gave crime ridden neighborhoods, is hard to explain away.
So " ubuntu-17.10-server-i386.iso" is 64-bit?
Hugo is written in go and does exactly this. Has a pretty large community and themes already.

http://themes.gohugo.io
Google developers definitely know there's a problem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bZvq3nodf4
Seems like there is a deeper discussion going on here. Not only Print Vs Digital, but also open educational materials Vs "History of the World version 324".

I personally prefer printed materials for extended reading, but it is really just a matter of taste. So if we see a study which says "Printed text books are better", it should really add "For SOME PEOPLE". Give students a choice! Give parents a choice!

I recall buying two copies of a 120 dollar book just so my son would not have to lug its 5kg back and forth each day from school. The sheer amount of weight students have to carry is ludicrous. Open educational materials solves so many of these problems.
>That's fine. But any argument against Google as a private property applies equally to Harvard (and the entire Ivy League), Stanford, MIT, etc.

Exactly! That's why we need to nationalize the Ivy League.
"Censorship by Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China"

How about:

"Curation by Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China"
Web analytics that are always realtime with a very simple integration.

Integrating into SPA/Angular/React is so easy that you don't even need to tell it a page or event has changed!

It's FREE for however long you want it.
I've been using GNOME Shell in preparation for this, and with almost the same customisations as the Ubuntu devs have done by default, it almost feels like the same experience. Perhaps even a bit smoother, given that most of the apps were actually made with this experience in mind.
Banning by IP is so commonplace that it shouldn't need to be mentioned.
No you can't. There is very fine silver lining between the two. She should have blurred out the face of the man as it can have very serious consequences(perhaps not in this case). I'm not condoning his actions but his trial should be through legal means and not a possible public lynching.
Has anyone tried installing a window manager or another DE? I’m curious if GDM and Wayland might cause issues for X11 WMs.
Where is this documented? Not trying to be snippy - I have no idea what powers the moderators have in this realm. Maybe HN could benefit from some lobste.rs-esque moderation transparency.
executioner? with a 30 year old picture with no name?

as I understand it, the account was suspended because too many people try to use facebook as a harassing platform.

is facebook overzealous in taking down harassing images? it means that the problem is really serious.
People using BSD licensed code have an incentive to contribute changes that aren't "secret sauce" to make maintaining their forks easier. Sony has pushed code they wrote for the PS4 back upstream to make keeping current with upstream easier, for example. Juniper still pushes patches upstream, and they've got a much larger team working on Junos than Sony does on Orbis.
The way things are going, you know that argument is coming next.
Marketing builds brands, manages products, distribution, CRM and communication.

Branding and communication go beyond reacting to numbers - it's getting a strategic vision and develop it in a way your customers relate to.

From what I've read I don't know what kind of marketing people you guys are in touch with... my god.
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"The algorithm" should never be an excuse. There are many real people on many levels of responsibility behind "the algorithm".
Facebook restored it only because the story gained a traction (it is even on HN, right?). What is the rate between restored and not-restored in such cases if the story is not as prominent as this one?
I switched to Cinnamon on Ubuntu after struggling with Unity for six months. Works perfectly, and personally, i much prefer it to Unity.
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No, also it’s not “Ubuntu Desktop”.
He said he registered them from Public Wifi. So anyone registering first account on HN from said cafee will be banned?

Why are you so surprised he might have multiple accounts? You really have one email account? How about work-related email? Company-facing related email? If anything, its actually good he has multiple accounts and stuff related to / from his company account he is posting from company, and private is private.
https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/buffalo/press-releases/201...

>ROCHESTER, NY—U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that David P. Gaylord, 51, of Rochester, New York, pleaded guilty to bank loan application fraud before the U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison a fine of $1,000,000.

>Assistant U.S. Attorney Tiffany H. Lee, who is handling the case, stated that in 2006, while residing in the Western District of New York, the defendant submitted various credit card applications to Advanta Corp., Bank of America, and Family First Federal Credit Union. Gaylord knowingly provided false information regarding his income in order to obtain lines of credit from the banks and credit union. The defendant indicated that his income was anywhere between $90,000 to $122,000 when, in 2006, he reported to the Internal Revenue Service that his income was approximately $12,488. Gaylord ended up leaving outstanding balances on the various lines of credit and filed for bankruptcy.
It's happening b/c

- so many people don't understand statistics or science and

- some beekeepers in Germany wrote a paper. Here's one of the original papers: https://www.farmlandbirds.net/sites/default/files/Orbrioch%2...

The 75% decline number appears to be from two data points from a 220-acre plot.

- People panic, post it here and everywhere else, presuming that:

- proper scientific methodology was used and

- what applies to a 220-acre plot in the German hinterlands must apply to the whole world.
HN is not a government or a political party, it's a privately run link aggregator.
You're so young, now is the time to think about exploring other interests. Read lots of books. Go do some traveling and immerse yourself in the world and all of its cultures outside your own. Then get involved in other activities that is not about corporate work. Volunteer your time and talents to help out others. Learn something that is outside of what you usually do, perhaps art. Since you have the skill sets that will get you hired later on -- now is the time to figure out what life is all about, what you truly value, and explore your own self-development.
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The intention of insecticides is to kill the insects that prey on specific crops, not to kill every single insect there is. It's working better than they thought, causing it to have unintended consequences.
dang made a full writeup here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380

I agree it (along with other moderation behaviors described in the article) should be documented more explicitly in the guidelines/FAQ
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Votes are a powerful signal here because they're the easiest signal to automate. That leads people to believe their HN votes are more sacred than they are. There has never been a point in the history of the site where it's ever been unclear that the site is ultimately run by the mods.

People complaining now should find someone who's been on here for a long time and ask what it was like under Paul Graham. Hint: not better.
Me too, which is why I'm a bit surprised at all the negativity towards this article.

Sure, it's sort of 'defending' trial by ordeal, but it's not new that this practice was real and terrible. What's novel to me is that it wasn't just a way to automatically convict every suspect; a 2/3 acquittal rate is vastly higher than I would have guessed.
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For PHP it's missing the comments at the bottom, which are often essential to understand certain strange behaviours.
No, it's written like that because belief in God is paramount to how this system works; especially back then, defendants might've not be afraid of the criminal justice system per se, but God, hoo boy don't want to piss that guy off.

I mean the basic premise of trial by ordeal is "Hey, we dunno if you did it or not, and we can't trust your word for it, let's ask God, and let Him burn the shit out of your hand if you're lying". Pain + religious fears.
If you let the readers decide, you'd have HN with the front page full of the "news" about tech scene Kardashians.
From Dans explanation in the post:

> We downweight posts in response to things that go against the site guidelines, such as when a submission is unsubstantive, baity or sensational.

So, this is what's happening already.
Right, my suggestion was that you would not give them a certificate for your domain example.com, you would just give them a certificate for staticresources.example.com, and you would never load anything from that subdomain without subresource integrity checks (or load anything whose contents or mere existence leaked important information, or...)
My first impression was that this was related to Project Gutenberg; that might raise trademark issues.
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This is why this type of editors should be called "rich text editor" not WYSIWYG. Note that you will not find "WYSIWYG" in the article.
Stop working for startups. Crazy hours and low pay with a tiny chance of a big payoff. Go work for a big established company where the pay and benefits are good. Where you show up at 9 and leave at the stroke of 5.

Life is short, waste as little time as possible doing work for somebody else.
Civil Engineers don't understand chemistry or quantum mechanics - how they build a bridge.
I think this is a silly comparison. The HN curation isn't done to further some sort of agenda (at least, not at its surface or in some obvious fashion). It's to make sure we have higher quality content, not to sway the users' perspective in favor of some hidden cabal.
Aligning a webapp with the API
I am considering redesigning a web application so that it is structured the same way as the API. The same URL would take the user to an application in a browser, or a corresponding API endpoint if used programmatically. That could work by checking the request headers.

The goal is to improve discoverability or exploration of functionality. Many of our users might want to use the API programmatically. They could explore the API using the user interface. For a detailed definition of the API, there is SwaggerUI already.

Do you have any experience with this approach or advice? Any opinions?
In addition, if you don't have some faculty at the top of the field, how are you ensuring that your undergrad curriculum remains up-to-date with, for instance, the last decade or two? What stops your teaching from getting stuck in the 1980s without faculty who keep up?
Independent news sources provide investigations critical to the state, which state run media do not. It's like GNU/Linux or Android to Windows or iOS. They provide excellent value as well as competitive advantages.

SnapChat vs Whatsapp? well.....
Exactly. They aren't the picked upon underdogs no matter how many of us might still think of them that way. They are major power centers in our societies that can and do go toe to toe with other major power centers. These major power centers are and always have been jockeying with each other.

In a different context, Madison wrote "ambition must be made to counteract ambition" -- the idea was that if these powerful institutions were wrestling with each other, then that would create a space underneath them where the general public could, unnoticed by the struggling titans, have some freedom of action.

So the last thing I want is for the institutional media or the government to give SV a pass. Or vice versa.
100s of millions over a time period? You can keep buying more tokens as you run out of request quotas.
How so? HN is run by YC, and HN is used to promote YC companies and attract talent and normalize YC-style startup culture.

Please elaborate before being so dismissive--you know, like we used to do on old HN.
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It appears we have finally found a volunteer for X11 maintenance.
It depends very much on context, doesn't it? There are probably not many social circles suspending you for photos like this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_Thi_Kim_Phuc (or those in the OP's article)
If anything, it's the priests that had most proof and evidence that no matter if someone's guilty or not, putting their hand in boiling water does damage, and God doesn't give much of a shit either way.
There's a practical difference between optimizing for content quality with honest and well-known criteria. And, optimization to prevent people to subject the party-line to criticism.

Unless you have examples where it has been the case, that's an unfair comparison.
I strongly disagree.

As user base grows, all platforms suffer from mean reversion or "Eternal September" where quality of the content reverses towards low quality issues. If you want to keep up the quality you need editorial staff. Call them curators, editors or moderators if you want.

What I would like to happen is HN editing being transparent. Show buried or nudged content differently so that those who submit can adapt.
The mods mentioned it a few times when they started doing it ("In case you wonder why this suddenly has a different timestamp/was resubmitted, ..."). AFAIR there have been variants, e. g. asking people to resubmit vs resetting the timestamp on an existing submission. It seems intentional that individual moderation tools are explained occasionally, but there is no up-to-date list of all of them.
Shouldn't this be handled by a government agency? It seems awfully risky to have unaccountable companies trade your sensitive information around for profit.
If someone walks by my desk and sees a picture of a dick, they have no idea that I'm reading about the Me Too movement. All they see is dick. And they don't confront me about it, they quietly say to their manager, "hey, this guy was looking at dicks on his work computer and I saw it, I feel sexually harassed". Boom. Instantly fired.
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>The whole point is not to notify you, rather to get a feeling how much people would eventually buy it.

Sure, but I wasn't expressing a doubt on why Samsung put that on, I was doubting why an end user would want to give away his/her name/email/company, substantially in exchange of nothing.
Oh, good to know. Guess we don't need any kind of logging system for that, we'll just take it at face value - I'm sure there are absolutely no other reasons that mods would downweight posts, so that's just great. /s
but...you gotta be able to tweet while you're being autonomously chauffered! Or maybe the car needs to be able to tweet (https://antipaucity.com/2010/05/13/cloudy-driving-in-progres...) to tell lesser, mortal drivers where traffic is heaviest (or would they tweet misinformation to make their own drives better?)

oh - and be sure to let the car tell you what coffee shops have the latest artisanal Vanuatu-Uraguay-Uzbekistani blonde blend available on your ride into work

or where your favorite punk reggae lounge band is performing tonight, so you can be sure to swing-by and enjoy the show after work
Essential quoting of the thread:

1. "I was happy to realize that most of the criticism in that essay no longer applies to relatively recent versions of the language/IDE (Delphi 7 in my case)."

2. "Delphi 7 was released in August 2002 (at least according to the Wikipedia page), over 15 years ago. It's hard to think of this as relatively recent."

3. "It's 21 years newer than the critical article he mentioned.."

4. "But that article was not 21 years newer than the first version of TP that was released in 1983."

5. "The first version of Turbo Pascal didn't have object system or modules."

Now, you can make your version of what we had in mind when we wrote each comment, but I'm very sure that others would agree that 2 was trying to say that criticism was invalid much earlier than 2002.

So when you say that the original article was much older in 3, it seems obvious that you're trying to say that criticism was valid because the article was about a much older version.

And then I point in 4 that criticism was no longer valid much earlier than 2002.

And then you point in 5 that TP didn't have object system or modules that's a complete non sequitur because the original criticism hardly could criticize lack of object system when its author had not made one for his own language. Actually there's a lot to say against the original article, but that's another story.
Is this definiton of censorship from Wikipedia incorrect then?

"Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information that may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, politically incorrect or inconvenient as determined by governments, media outlets, authorities or other groups or institutions"
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