skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tough shit. Lessons learned from MBA being applied to new line of MBP. Is Apple the only technology company that draws the wrath of people in this vein? Everything is less open - it's the inevitable path of more for less that the consumer demands.

Techno-nerds are not what's driving technology any longer - it's regular folks that a) don't care what's in their technology as long as it's good and b) it's better than the last thing they purchased. Get over yourselves.
Actually Romney already had a private meeting with Rand recently:

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/meeting-rand-paul-mitt-r...

And shortly after meeting Rand said that it would be an honor to be Romney's VP if chosen.

And here is CBS saying that he's strongly expected to consider running in 2016 or 2020:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57449843-503544/rand-...

It's pretty clear that the only way Rand will definitely not run in 2016 is if he is Romney's VP nomination. And right now Rand is the only Republican whose actively positioning himself for 2016 on a near daily basis, so he is kind of Romney's biggest 2016 competitor by default. I don't have a specific source for the actual claim, but I've definitely seen it repeated by many people across the blogosphere.
Can you go into more detail on your setup? I've been using Python to simulate interday ETF strategies -- which is a relatively simple matter, but haven't really done anything to complex with it yet.
Be very wary of headlines like this. They draw the line at 6 hours, but that includes everyone, even people that only get 3 hours. What we want is the raw curves. If you get exactly 5 hours and 55 minutes a night, you might only be 1.5 times as likely as someone who gets 9 hours a night, while the people getting 4 hours a night are 15 times more likely.
Agreed. It's a great way to bootstrap the initial conversations with customers, and to find out just what, exactly, your customers are looking for. With the right approach, this really is a huge leg up in customer acquisition in the early stages of a startup.
I flagged a story today because the submitter had chosen to submit it with a sexist title instead of the title on the linked page.

If a moderator had changed the title I would have removed my flag, and presumably it would not have been flagged to death.
Isn't this heavy-handed banning approach pretty much a tacit admission that the voting algorithm is broken? Why couldn't this spamming be prevented through pattern algorithms/frequency analysis and...this is what I thought Reddit aspired to...democracy? If a lot of articles from a source are voted up by a diverse group of users, then maybe it's because the source is good?

The worst part of this is how this countermeasure reeks of the fallacy of ad hominem: who cares who the submitter is and how he/she personally benefits...as long as the content is good?
If this was happening on HN, the majority of domains would be banned.

When did this start being a "shady business practice"?
Reddit is no longer owned by Conde Nast and is now an independent company.
Ian Cheong?
I don't want civilian police forces using military equipment for any reason. It's really that simple.

Rand Paul gets it.
Your ellipses excludes some important context:

>people that are past the age of 50 and are trying to start a mobile, local, social startup but really are not capable

Not "all people past the age of 50 -are- incapable", just people who are so incapable they don't recognize the credibility they lack due to external influential but not necessarily exclusive factors like their age, background, and appearance. I think all of us could rattle off a list of 50+ year old "geezers" that could pull something like this off, but the reality is that many of them can barely use a cell phone. If your presentation doesn't include measures to address that assumed, pre-programmed credibility gap, which often means just talking about things in a way that demonstrates you know what you are talking about and actually can navigate around Android, then you likely don't (yet) have the realism or the drive necessary to make something go.

The 50+ remark is just a way to say "This guy looks like he can barely use Outlook", or "This guy is out of touch". Perhaps not the most well-considered illustration, but I think we can get the OP's point without throwing a politically correct hissy-fit.
that's not reddit's problem, that's a people problem. the reason for the lowest common denominator winning is because it is the lowest common denomitator - it has the biggest ratio of upvotes vs downvotes. the answer isn't focus, it's moderation: see the great improvement in recent months in r/science, r/gaming vs r/games, r/askscience is something everyone on the internet should strive to be, etc. all those success stories have one thing in common: active, relentless, remorseless moderation. this is something pg understands well and is also the foundation of hacker news.

re recommendation system: it might work, but OTOH it might be too intrusive and/or too compute-intensive... a risk worth taking IMHO.
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Damn I feed off that shit too! What I noticed about myself is that I would try so much harder when people tell me I can't do it, I am hell bent on proving them wrong. The problem is that much of my life people have been nice to me......I need more assholes in my life....LOL
A halfway-decent anti-gaming layer just gives these people who have already demonstrably gone out of their way to exploit the system a benchmark they need to beat. And they'll pay to do it.

I hope HN does a similar thing to the domains being spammed here too.
I replaced Readability for the same reason and now use iReader.
> Rather than throw out OC, why not throw out the actual rule breakers? Those who manipulate Reddit by illicitly acquiring votes should be the target of anti-spam measures, not simply those who submit their own content.

That's exactly what was done. These publications have employees manipulating social media sites. They're not just submitting stories, they're actively spamming for traffic.
I addressed this in my comment. I am aware that each individual user controls their own reddit, my problem is it is very difficult to find good relevant subreddits without relying on third party tools (which very few users are aware exist) or randomly stumbling upon subreddits through comments or cross posts. If there was a reddit system that could match my voting preferences to specific subreddits (for example if I upvote Minecraft content in r/gaming it recommends r/minecraft) the quality of the site for each individual user would increase. If the quality of each individuals reddit experience increased the entire site would improve.
This is happening on HN - bostinno.com literally has dozens of accounts, macobserver.com, bgr.com, extremetech.com and a bunch of other sites all have a handful of accounts each. A lot seems to slip through the cracks.
That's too kind, but thank you.
In which cases are people buying high karma HN accounts and buying upvotes?
you mean, intel, the manufacturer of wifi drivers that only works with binary blobs? or the manufacturer of GPUs that work wonders with linux because they have no feature at all?

i wouldn't count them so happily as linux supporters.
Thanks for linking to this. Contrary to what the general opinion seems to be in this thread, this was not a matter of reddit banning high-quality content because they didn't want it on the site. It was a matter of them banning an admittedly high-quality domain that nonetheless intentionally broke reddit's submission rules.

Spamming good links doesn't make you any less of a spammer, just a less onerous one.
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Correlation does not imply causation? Statisticians like to use that one at every opportunity.

Bear in mid, though, that "you shouldn't investigate correlations anyway" is absolutely the wrong conclusion from this.
The reason (I think) is that these places are doing it intentionally from the top down instead of just some random person within their organization or pushing an agenda. If they can successfully identify when domains are coordinating this and make the bans temporary, then this is probably a good discouragement of the abuse. If their detection methods are wrong and they're either banning too many or not enough, then it probably won't.
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If it's really worth reading someone else will submit it.
Zach from Olark here, sorry to hear you were having issues some time ago! Honestly, I'm not sure what could have been causing issues for you back then, but rest assured we take message delivery extremely seriously - whenever you're using Olark if you ever have any issues please let us know so we can dive in to the logs and take a look!

Most of our users routinely have many, many more than 10 simultaneous visitors - I can assure you we work in that case. : )
> That said, the tradeoff here is that we lose control of the headlines that we get submitted under, and the submission timing, and have to work quite a bit harder to make sure that we see submissions to get involved in comment threads when possible.

I think that the first two are ultimately good things. The headline and the timing can be more useful as feedback than as part of the message you control.

As for the third, the key is figuring out how to get notified when something is submitted. If it's important enough, then the "work quite a bit harder" is worth the investment.
Though in CS recoil could be predicted and controlled. I had a friend who spent literally hundreds of hours spraying an AK at a wall on an empty server in order to practice incredibly fast and precise mouse corrections.

He was of course one of those often banned, since he was able to shoot at full auto without suffering recoil. I remember playing with him; his handle was kylyk, so I went with kylyks_meatshield.
Yea the problem is the legacy PC BIOS which relies on real-mode boot sectors. EFI firmware has code to read file systems which makes this much easier, and PCs are finally beginning to have it too.
Perhaps 'Correlation does not imply causation'. The associated logical fallacy is known 'Post hoc ergo propter hoc'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_caus...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc
Thanks for correcting that. He did have comments killed; that's how we noticed he was hellbanned. And, like many reasonable people would do, once he found out he'd been hellbanned, he left the site, which is my point: his leaving was more our loss than his.

Mistakes happen. I'm just pointing this out as evidence that this particular form of site policing is error prone.

I'm definitely not inclined to rant about the unfairness of it all, because I do not believe I could do a better job running a site like this.
With a recommendations system, obscure subreddits would have the opportunity/disaster of being blown up in a matter of days, which would destroy some communities. I think for some subreddits, it's better if they're spread with the word of mounth to keep their culture. It's also fairly easy to find subreddits of one's interest anyway and I also believe most active redditors already have unsubscribed to almost all of the top 100 subreddits.
"Dozens of new language-specific communities have now entered the fray and brought along their legions of devotees with them, and many of those devotees see PHP as being passé. I even had the following happen to me, and this is absolutely a true story and can be verified by our VP of Operations, Richard Kotulski: I was in an elevator with O’Reilly’s very good “PHP Cookbook” in hand and an older gentleman scoffed at me and said, “PHP? What is this, 1920?” This really, actually happened. I doubt it would’ve have happened if I had had a Python or Ruby book in my hand."

Which... is even odder because some evangelists like to point out that python and ruby are older than PHP, as if that means much.

While I generally agree with the points, many PHP strengths are also weaknesses. For example - "Direct HTML embedding." It's nice and easy, but because it's so easy, it leads to unescaped output, and xss exploits and such.

PHP does let you as productive as you want to be on the web, either with raw PHP or with one of the myriad frameworks. The author's point that no other language gives you that is, I think, another one of PHP's strengths (but yes, is essentially a weakness in the wrong hands as well).

EDIT - have been using PHP since early 1996 - almost since its inception, and have watched the criticism (and occasional hate) ebb and flow over the years. That seems to be the only constant to PHP. :)
> see the great improvement in recent months in r/science, r/gaming vs r/games, r/askscience is something everyone on the internet should strive to be, etc.

That's exactly my point: I did not know that r/games existed until I saw a post in r/gaming recommending it, at which point I subscribed and my reddit gaming experience improved greatly and I have since submitted highly upvoted articles to that subreddit, thus improving the experience of other r/games subscribers (they got the sort of content they wanted to see).

If each individual reddit user is subscribed to 20 subreddits they care about vs. 10 default ones that are just content dumps with no real target audience then the individual redditors would have a much better experience which will in turn improve the experience of others.
I find this kind of fascinating after Digg v4, which basically tried to ban everyone else but mainstream publications.
I really like the content of FP and the Atlantic.

Nevertheless, I already have a feedreader, and I don't need to see HN, or reddit turned into another RSS feed or twitter.

If your stuff is good it will rise to the top.

In the meantime, especially at HN, it crowds out less well known sources and authors and bloggers.
According to Wikipedia, they share a parent company. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Publications
"I would hate to see whole publications banned just because of the actions of their paid supporters,"

It seems there is a simple solution to this...
Either, Not Both: Stand Out or Fit In.
Again, it isn't the async stuff. It is:

<script src="http://server.not.responding.com></script>;

That causes the browser to block waiting for a response.

It was a couple months ago, but I think it was olark19 not responding.

While I appreciate what you guys are doing a lot, I'm not willing to be a beta tester for your networking. Stuff like that absolutely needs to be hosted on an architecture that just doesn't go down. Ever.
Oh, certainly I'm sure that Rand Paul will eventually run for President when Ron Paul gets too old for it.

If Romney loses then one Paul or the other will be up on the stage in 2016, getting 9% of the vote and eventually losing to Chris Christie (or Marco Rubio or Bobby Jindal). If Romney is President in 2016 then a primary challenge from Rand Paul is no threat whatsoever.

The only way the Pauls could threaten Romney is to run as a third party candidate and siphon off enough of the vote to ensure a Democrat win. I don't think they'll do that though.
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Another possibility would be prominently marking submissions from spammers. And/or all links to sites that are proven spammers. Let the users/communities have more information to cogitate with when deciding if the content is worth voting up.
Circle of Trust
The first thing that came to mind was that anybody might be able to get someone else's site banned from Reddit by making it look like they are trying to spam/game the site.
Most people should not be told just to give up completely. I'm not sure why the OP wants to focus on "you just don't have what it takes to run a company" instead of "your presentation skills were lacking, rehearse more", or something like that. For many entrepreneurs, the offense is not in "x needs improvement", but "We believe you are too stupid to improve on x". Even if you believe that, why not just say "x needs improvement" and then wait to see if they really are too stupid to improve on x or not? Why does everything the VC thinks, including have to be shared?

There is nothing productive about "you're incapable, just give up" or "you're incapable, go deal with someone who gives people less money first and see if that gives you some capability". These are all deflections of the real problem. Why not try "We were concerned that you appeared nervous when asked how your site would handle potential copyright issues" instead of "you just can't do it"?
Several of these well known content producers have been caught spamming and otherwise cheating their way onto the front page. They've been banned for that and not their content.
What setup do you use for this?

I'm quite interested in testing some trading strategies with Python.
I have a few nits with this post, but am mostly irked by the comparisons between PHP (a language) and Rails (a framework)
He actually just endorsed Romney a couple days ago, after the two had a private meeting. I don't think it's necessarily likely that he'll get the VP slot, but I do think that if that's his goal then he is going just enough against the platform to stand out in a positive way right now.
I made blaster rifles that shot destructions, but never realized you could shoot map features. That sounds like the potential for interesting fps: remake the map as you go.
A more balanced take on the study: http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/APSS/33225
Drones are no more military equipment than are guns, cars, and radios. All of those are equipment that is used both by civilians and by the military.
"I think iFixit is looking at these machines in the context of other players in the industry."

I think iFixit might also have a conflict of interest in that it sells repair parts for Apple equipment...
Some good choices. Limbo is currently on sale in the Humble Bundle [1] (along with a bunch of other great games), if you want to try it.

FiftyThree (iPad app) looks really polished and fun to use, though I don't have a stylus. Is it still a stellar drawing app if you are just using your fingers?

[1] http://www.humblebundle.com/
I think you're missing paulhauggis's point - by "if this was happening", he means "if we banned domains that were being submitted by paid marketers". His point is that doing so shouldn't be considered a shady business practice.
I'm glad phys.org and science daily are banned, I think /r/science and other subreddits will be better without them. They're both interesting sites, yes, but they blast out articles about X Y or Z if a scientist somewhere finds a b or c.
reddit is not owned by Condé Nast as of September 2011, rather they are both owned by Advance Publications

http://blog.reddit.com/2011/09/independence.html
Nice that it exists, but I wouldn't want to try that with only an Atom CPU. When you have a low-power CPU like that is exactly when you need graphics acceleration.
Great post. I'd love to hear about the other failed startup.
Actually, I always chuckle when I see people use literally when they mean almost, so I intentionally misuse it to make others chuckle (though, admittedly I think it frustrates more people than it chuckles!) :)
Location based tasking for professional journalists (word, photo, video, radio) that is 100% anonymous (including payment). Disrupt the need for every news gathering organization on earth to maintain ANY foreign bureaus. Users of this app ARE the bureau.
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You have no idea how common this method of thinking is, even by successful startup founders. Granted, most are more concerned about building a product people love, but some people thrive on proving people wrong, and that drives them to success.
When was the last time your typical redditor read anything from The Atlantic or Businessweek? On reddit, high-quality content bans itself.
This is simply extending the IRL justice system into the internet, where the point is mainly to create an incentive against committing crime (banning domains the spam reddit), rather than to directly prevent crime (implementing an effective anti-spam service).
Thanks for the link! Here's mine:

https://t.co/vTmqyCah
Right, I basically picked apache randomly. Pretty much any significant open source project from the era I was a student (1997-2001) has the same problem, from a student's point of view anyway.

The problem was that an intermediate student who can use gcc and make but has questions like "what's the best way to organize my source code into directories?" there were no good answers if you were stuck at the command-line with man pages. If you didn't have a good mentor, you were figuring it out for yourself, or trying to emulate a random open source project with hundreds of source files organized into multiple subtrees with helper files, shell scripts, dozens of libraries and modules, and huge configure files that bear no resemblance whatsoever to any problems you're actually trying to solve. Or, maybe, if not a big project, then another intermediate developer who was just as clueless as you and you don't actually want to be imitating.

Meanwhile, GUI-heavy IDEs were offering sane default answers for those intermediate questions and offering tools to help manage a moderate number of dependencies, build steps, and platform targets. Unfortunately, they were also hiding important details and too often became crutches for people who didn't understand how compiling and linking actually works.
Eat a terrible diet, get little exercise, live a sedentary lifestyle, approx. 997 times more likely to have a stroke.
Great, I'll know now. I see a lot of such conclusions in major media. Wish they'd point out the fallacy, but that probably wouldn't sell the news as well!

Love the example in the 2nd link: 'One class of examples is sometimes called the "Rooster Syndrome": "believing that the rooster’s crowing causes the sun to rise".'
Actually, quite the opposite. I'm not sure I agree that students need to be informed of how to write build files, but I don't use an IDE myself. That said, I did learn how to program in an IDE, and I don't feel as though I missed out on a whole lot in doing so.
I guess this will make the "big mac index" go up an insane amount this year instead of "slowly" over several years.