skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having things tied to the users karma will result in the StackOverflow type issues. There are some high score moderators that close questions that really should be left open. e.g. i don't agree with most of their decisions however i don't have enough karma ( or time to chase karma) to become the same level.

I see the necessity of moderating however there has to be other considerations. i.e a number of lower karma users can override the high karma users decisions.
Tony Blair was re-elected, so I'm not even sure that this argument has merit.
That was almost civil.

USA will give them a lesson in abusive police power at the end of the month at RNC convention and then again at the DNC next month.
MySQL is as popular as it is because it has been free (as in beer), and relatively easy to set up and use.

The time for that has come and gone. MySQL's shortcomings limit its use in many corporate and professional settings, and the alternatives are now much easier to use.

If I were looking to become a DBA today, I would study PostgreSQL. Likewise, if I were developing a new web application, MySQL wouldn't even make my list.
One way is to go to the kindle store, choose the kind of book you want (Amazon calls it a "Department") and sort by price. For instance, here are programming books:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_st?bbn=726697011&qid=1345...

It's not perfect but you can find good deals this way.
Can't we all just act like adults and learn to deal with the negative comments

Actually I find that harsh comments are more common among children and noobs than adults and experts. A random fan watching a football game in a bar is far more likely to use harsh language about a player who misses a pass than another professional football player would.

What's happened here is itself evidence of this trend. The comments haven't gotten more negative because we were all a bunch of fools initially, and now the real experts have arrived; rather the opposite.
I felt physically sick reading some of the vile comments to the makr.io team

You're not the only one. I have, in the past, tried to say things like "hey now, we can do better than this" to people being negative in a malicious way. Maybe we should all be more persistent in nudging people toward civility?
Too bad, people like nickb are no longer around, it just takes a few of these types to make a world of difference. Oddly, it sounds as if you're describing reddit 5 years ago when I launched a startup. Good luck.
It's the memories of all of our ancestors.

I must not fear, fear is the mind killer...
I don't know why I love watching the Facebook stock sink so much, I know it's probably bad for the tech industry as a whole.

Facebook is so mediocre and this is right in line.
It seems lile that could be fixed by tracking which articles a user clicks and disregard an upvote if they didnt read the story or they read it 5 seconds ago.
I would never do this for a website or web app, but if they could make it code emails that work in every email client I would use it immediately. I don't care how shitty the code looks.
Me too.

Is there any reason to make it run only on Facebook? Some requirement by Facebook perhaps? If not, why wouldn't you at least put a preview version of it outside of Facebook, which might make people interested enough to join?
The only thing I don't like about job posts is if they don't say right in the headline their geographical area. If they do have that, I can filter them out in 5 seconds.
Why binary if DNA naturally has 4 bits?
I think your point is pretty hard to argue with but it doesn't have much bearing on the original point; not everybody can be a programmer.

Yeah a programmer can be a hipster douchebag, a Star Trek loving nerd with Asperger's or a stay at home mom. But not everyone will ever be able to do it.

PS - I love Ratatouille.

EDIT:

To clarify further; anybody CAN have aptitude for programming, but not everybody DOES.
For what it's worth I've been here for about 3 years, and have commented often and submitted here and there. For the most part I agree with sw007. HN is not the same and has been in decline for some time now. All online communities suffer from this. If anyone can figure out how to negate the gradual erosion communities suffer from, they'd have my money for sure.
Which means they don't care enough about "great experience" to bother with looking for another app.
Show HN Validation Helper (JS validation lib)
I have been working on small input validation library. The concept is to select an input (by jquery), then chain some validation to the input, and then get the state of validation once run. Hope you guys like it.
In Europe, cooperation between different police forces is fairly routine. Below some examples from UK police forces, I'm assuming reciprocity.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-184038/Police-smash-...

http://www.sussex.police.uk/about-us/policies-and-procedures...

(UK has around 40 regional police forces along with various national agencies.)
Rather than trying to identify nasty comments, how about weighting votes in such a way that it's proportional to how often a person has voted over time. I would think that a vote from someone who upvotes something occasionally is worth more than someone who has a tendency to upvote more often. Of course, this won't be perfect in that you will have people trying to game the system with idle accounts, but I think with some work it could be doable.

'Nasty' comments can be difficult for humans to spot, let alone machines. A lot of important information is lost when we go to a strictly text only medium. If we're going with the group to decide what's good and what isn't, then we run the risk of group think as well. So I am a little cautious about endorsing any automatic filtering of content in this way.

People who are new also, have the ability to upvote but not downvote. I think this might be causing a disproportate amount of upvoting, which may also pertain to 'nasty' comments. Perhaps maybe disabling upvoting for new people for a certain period and/or after a receiving a certain karma score might alievate this a little?
"We informed the foam technicians at our plant in Michoud Louisiana that they were the cause of the loss of Columbia..."

That to me is pretty disgusting. In an incident like the loss of Columbia, there is no one, true "root cause". To assign blame to those foam technicians was disingenuous and just another instance of "passing the buck" that seems to happen so often in the post-mortem of NASA failures. NASA knew of earlier foam strikes (STS-112) yet chose to continue flying without diagnosing the problem. Even during the tragic STS-107 flight, engineers knew of foam strikes and their concerns were ignored. Even though they would have been almost completely powerless to remedy the situation on STS-107, the higher-ups decided to continue on with the mission instead of addressing the concerns with the heat shields. The article author states later in the article that he apologized to the foam technicians. Commendable, but I am still bothered by the fact that NASA was initially so eager to place the blame on a single contractor instead of owning up to their own culpability. Leadership and responsibility needs to come from the top, especially in such a prestigious organization!
And the relationship to Inferno is...?
how about a 'quarantine' period. users can only comment after being registered, after voting and after viewing a certain number of posts/comments.
I believe communities change (sometimes for worse) when new users don't get what the community is about and just hit the ground posting/commenting.
While having a phone out can be rude, I agree with huggyface that it's a statement about the importance of the conversation, not the person.
With billions in play in the Social Network universe, someone needs to write an opus on Mitigating Eternal September.
If your school offers it take a course in human computer interaction this will teach the fundamentals of UX such as designing menus to be intuitive and efficient.
Phew, Nostalgia indeed. I looked a Plan 9 back in late 90's when we were doing research for alternative OS's and ways of sharing stuff securely across a network without the cruft of DFS...

It had a lot of promise. What did become of it I wonder?
However, if they are thin-skinned, a tech startup is not the place to be. Better to weed out the insecure before they invest their entire life into something. If anything HN has made me stronger -- if one of my ideas flies well among this crowd, then talking to a skeptical VC is cake. And, it would seem that most of the harshness is well meaning. In NYC, bluntness isn't considered rude, it's actually doing the other person a favor -- we don't have time for smoke to be blown up one's ass.

I think my main complaint about HN is the cyclical obsession with the Torrent/Kim Dotcom/Wikileaks side of things. There is a sizable minority that seem to have some ignorant idealism that everything should be free and that developers/musicians/filmmakers ought to just produce content simply out of the joy of doing so, while neglecting that if you give away the store, you can't pay your bills. The recent story about the 200,000 downloads game devs who were now homeless illustrates what happens when that logic is actually implemented.

As Fred Wilson has said, the key to reducing piracy (and the need for it) is the frictionless, low-cost ability to acquire desired content.

I'm am glad that the Bitcoin fad seems to have faded from the HN pages. The fringe types (constantly looking for conspiracies, no problems with "warez" and very "hack the planet" (i.e. Hackers (1995)) seem to provide some interesting "color" but also occasionally drown out the original purpose of HN -- startup-related news and the technologies involved therein.

I was a late comer to the party, so perhaps I'm part of the problem, but still, on the whole, HN, even with its snark, is a great place to be and I'm proud to have earned a few Karma points over the last year.
> Tien thinks the shift toward building more compelling browser-based gaming experiences is a matter of course, but doesn’t see too many players in the space really trying to push HTML5’s limits.

He doesn't? I see plenty, some random examples I can remember off the top of my head,

Turbulenz

PlayCanvas

Game Closure

Cloud Party

and those are just new startups, there is a lot of interest from existing companies as well (more slowly, though).
https://blog.torproject.org/running-exit-node
Tor is meant for dissidents and the oppressed, that's all fine and cool. But for me as a business community admin Tor always, always means trouble. Either the user using it is a scammer, a fraud or in the best case only a troll.
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I wish there were a simple way to communicate how large and widespread CP is, and how much law enforcement could use your smarts to go after these guys.

There are more households sharing CP in your community than there are bus stops. (We can roughly map IPs of known CP files advertised over torrent networks.)

There are too few innovators in this space because specifics on CP networks are privy to law enforcement, and investigators are often patrol cops who get promoted into a child crimes unit.

It's fine (and true) to say these technologies are used for many more things than CP, but that's not an excuse to turn a blind eye to it, anymore than Craigslist does to child exploitation.
> 2. What reassurances are there that tormail is not a honeypot?

None, which is why you should always use PGP. The advantage of tormail is they provide a free onion interface to email.
They are measuring sperm motility, which is a way to gauge the sperm's ability to fertilize an egg.
Using a different ring tone for important contacts takes care of the need to even glance at the phone.
SiRNA may someday prove as powerful a tool as antibiotics
I can't tell from this article whether the author is for or against Tor.
Employee morale could be improved quickly by approximately doubling everyone's equity stake, to match IPO valuation, financed by Zuck and others, to better match the insider sell-off price and the rank-and-file equity value expectations.
Welcome to the Hellbanned club, soon!
STOP REPOSTING THIS

It's not even true!
Oops - something must have gone wrong with the formatting. Cheers for pointing that out!
Very cool. I look forward to it. I'm just poking around this release now, and it's great to see the vision you had in the original video coming together. Not to rush you or anything, but I was wondering how the plugin API was coming along. Is that something that we'll get to play with anytime soon, or will that be something that comes with the final release next year?
I didn't click through the links described (or even have time to install Tor), but it occurs to me that one may be able to find these guys via statistical analysis of writing style.

Spider the web and then correlate less-anonymous writings with the stuff the ringleaders are saying on the Darknet.
Developers We Admire. « Paul Irish
I echo this sentiment. I have been here longer and does not comment unless I have something of value to say, but do actively vote on stories or comments. People whom I know in real life and frequent here have the same usage pattern too. I would hazard a guess that there is a substantial amount of people in this category. So a purely karma based approach may not be sufficient.
Both. I was able to complete the Codecademy Python exercises in a matter of hours, it's just getting your feet wet. LPtHW is more like work, but it will burn it into your brain. Also, start your own project immediately - even if it's just a simple command line program, it will make learning more fun.
I can't speak for other users, but I'd rather see more project launches than any of the following types of submissions

A separate, heavily moderated forum on HN dedicated to product launches and feedback. Non-constructive criticism like "Your product sucks, it's a terrible idea and you're a terrible person for thinking of it" results in an HN hellban/permaban.

Myself - I'm not opposed to receiving negative feedback. It's the worthless, non-constructive feedback that riles me. Say something positive and/or insightful. Meaningless, parroted comments are what ultimately sinks an online community.
Every Shuttle in the fleet has had one or several extremely close scrapes with death. To look at the Shuttle record and see the history of calamity it's easy to think that we just had bad luck, but quite the opposite was the case. We were enormously lucky with the Shuttle, in a fairer world we would have lost more of them, and sooner. The Shuttle was plagued by many fundamental design flaws which combined to make it an inherently unsafe system. Within the last years of the program that knowledge finally started to sink in, which is why the Shuttle was essentially restricted to missions to the ISS.

Some of the achievements of the Shuttle program have been inspiring, and the vehicle itself is pretty to look at, but we should have canned that program long, long ago.
That is such a perfect example, although it's a good example of replies trying to encourage more positive discussion. I wonder if there's a small group of people who just don't care about social disapproval.
Part of the problem with HN (and reddit) is that the format is still linear. A comment system results in multi-dimensional conversations both in subject and in tone.

Some comments are on-topic and are helpful, some are on-topic and humorous. Some are off-topic and also helpful, some are off-topic and worthless. As so on, and so on.

With only one direction we can "push" a comment (and only one direction with which we can view comments, up & down), there is not all that much filtering that can go on.

Sometimes I enjoy reading the "funny" responses. What if this was a separate comment axis that I could view? Others may not be interested in such a thing, and could ignore it.

In any case, the format of HN doesn't lend itself well when people from all over the world bring their own views into a single topic. I don't know if a good way of solving it easily other than being ruthless about removing content that doesn't belong.
The solution is fairly easy: start importing it
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In fact, if the air conditioner coils are between the air tank and the engine, the air conditioner could make it more efficient, if you don't have some other kind of regenerator-in-a-dewar trick going on.
Those comments are mean?

I can see they are skeptical, but I would hardly describe them as "mean".
When I first heard of D-Wave I thought for sure they were some kind of scam outfit. I am impressed..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Provisioning_Protoc...
I'm not sure if Chris or any of you guys have seen this video but it is exactly what Light Table is about to become (perhaps more) and that makes me very excited.

http://vimeo.com/36579366
You can do what I do: don't read the comments. Pretty simple solution and you still get to find some great articles to read.
I hope you are wrong, because I find Smalltalk IDEs infuriating. Mostly I dislike the fact I have to either make 10 click to reach any code I want to see, or manage a large number of annoying windows to keep track of what I'm working on.
> The health effects of DU are pretty well understood, while cellphone radiation is in the realm of quackery

I think you are confused. Claims that cell phone radiation causes brain cancer may be borderline quackery, but we aren't talking about the brain or cancer here. There's plenty of evidence that phones near testicles can be bad. A couple references:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19076254

http://www.clevelandclinic.org/reproductiveresearchcenter/do...
That is utter nonsense.

I don't even know where to begin. Technically, you can say whatever you want, but you cannot expect to avoid persecution (or prosecution) if you do.
You don't think that enabling them to discuss it, enables them to carry it out? Who's the more effective child predator: the one who does it alone, with little guidance or feedback from others; or the guy who spends time discussing it with a supportive peer group and perhaps carrying out predation with their help?

The only value to such a forum is for monitoring and catching them. If by definition the forum isn't useful for that because it's TOR, then that's a giant negative for me in the existence of TOR. If the cost of assisting dissidents is that children get raped... then I don't know that we should be assisting dissidents this way.
Having used to be mod/admin on a rather busy and strife-filled SMF-forum the past 6-7 years, I can confirm that this works surprisingly well.

I say "surprisingly" because, like a lot of tech hackers, I often think about a technical solution before I think about the simple social one. But I've noticed time and time again just how much effect the simplest changes in user-interface can have on the entire "mood" of a community. And "simple change in UI", includes the guidelines, or--I don't know--there's actually a lot of space for a notice below the comment submission form where you can give people the "right" idea (what you want to see in this community).

The personal anecdote goes a little something like this: We have a real solid group of mod/admins with a hands-off approach (way more hands-off than the invisible ones at HN, but that's a different gripe), so we had our fun with the innocent tiny changes, like changing the descriptions of individual sub-forums ever-so-slightly, like a pun, or a little in-joke. After a few years however, all of the descriptions had mutated into something that was not at all descriptive anymore. All the "old" members (which includes the mods of course) knew perfectly well what the sub-forums were meant for. But the new members did not. As new members look to older members for social context, there was a sort of generational loss in relevance, and at some point people almost entirely just posted whatever, wherever. It was chaos! And so I had the brilliant idea that, hey we can change those descriptions so that they're both descriptive and somewhat funny (utter genius, I know).

The amazing thing is, that it took only about 2-3 weeks before people starting posting on-topic things in the right sub-forums again.

The moral of the story is: people really tend to respond really well to just flat-out being told what to do. Really well. Amazingly well. Frighteningly well.

Better than some tech solution that tries to subtly "guide" them, in particular (or at least much easier to implement).
Friction forces have been core theoretical concepts since many centuries.
...how have they been granted a monopoly?
So they measure every spermatozoid's motility? It seems like a daunting task.
not anymore:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Corrupt_Practices_Act
"There's also a political aspect, because birthrates among Arabs in Israel have at times been as much as double those of Jews, triggering a population race that some believe could one day affect who controls the land."

What problem is there in Arabs "controlling" the land?
I used emacs for 11 years (93-04) and then acme-like editors (wily, plan9port acme, Acme SAC, Inferno acme) for 8 years (04-). Acme (especially guide files) made a distinct and pervasive change to my working style that emacs never did: sped me up, prevented me from forgetting, gave me help just when I need it, and reduced errors. Inferno's VM gave me a minimal unix environment whose executable and my scripts I can take via usb to clients' machines.
Google Maps 6.10.0 update breaks feature
Just wanted to add that those two fields neccesarily overlap.
Tor exists at least in part because the US DOD decided that investing money in countering online censorship was a worthy use of military funding. This seems like an important point; it is not made effectively by the article.
Yeah I put my phone on the table also just cause of comfort. Also because of a lot of research finding that cell phones in your pockets causes your balls to wither and die (paraphrased).
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what are the different types the page classifier returns?
How Our Hospital Migrated to Linux
They are not garbage sequences iirc, they control gene expression. DNA is a string that is coiled tight several times over itself (can't explain better than that, see the video below :)). So the garbage sequence is like padding that pushes genes in and out of areas that can be read. Changing amount or composition(?) of the garbage can turn a gene on or off just because it becomes inaccessible to RNA replication mechanism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW5JnYZImJA
Thanks for the link. It is only in the circumstances of running an exit node. If you aren't running one, then you don't need to worry (as stated by several others already).
"But a couple of (mostly health related) ideas shocked me nearly out of existance."

Can you expand on this? Ware these ideas in Israel that shocked you?
So then wouldn't it have been better to use the negative comments as data?
Whether or not they exist anyway, it seems obvious to me that a supportive peer group is going to increase their effectiveness at predation.

Perhaps they talk about it so much that they don't get around to doing it--studies on violent pornography and child pornography sometimes find that viewers use them as a safe outlet to actually doing it themselves. But that's a huge gamble. At present, TOR is simply enabling child predators to be better child predators.
UX is about how people interact with a product. Visual design is about what they see while interacting.

So UX will guide you towards what features are important and ways of exposing those features so the end user has the best experience. UX also tends to focus on testing assumptions.

Visual design will guide you towards making sure the elements on the page are aestheticly pleasing and that they communicate what is trying to communicated. Google is famous for testing it's shade of blue, but, IMO, great design can't be tested, but rather comes from a designer understanding her audience and the story she is trying to tell.