skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some businesses have long had policies against photography, enforced to varying degrees. I was once at a gas station and noticed an increasingly-rare payphone, and whipped out my SLR camera from the backseat to take a picture. As soon as I did, an employee emerged from inside the shop and told me to stop taking pictures.

I'm not sure what damage it could have done, but it is their own private property, so they have that right. I could have elected to stand on the public sidewalk and take a picture of the payphone with a 400mm lens, but I just wasn't that interested.
I joined Hacker News 1,570 days ago (~4 years). I launched my first two ventures here. One of them, Feedback Army, was concieved and built entirely from my interaction in this community. Three years ago, the feel of this community was very much one of support and maybe, a little self esteem boosting. It certainly worked for me and I was very grateful to this community for what it contributed to helping shape me as an entrepreneur.

I still come here for the articles and I occasionally read the comments but I don't participate much. I feel the same way as the original poster. I see someone post something genuine and then I see someone else rip it apart in a condescending way.

I used to come to HN and on the other side of the usernames, I pictured the leaders in our field, the pioneers of the next steps of our information age, and people who I wanted to emulate.

It's not this way for me any more.
I did that and it is actually incredibly easy to get used to (within a couple of hours). The bigger thing you have to get used to -- and which I suspect most will struggle with -- is not moving around when in insert mode.
came here to post the same sentiment. I am sure the legal team at McD was not too keen on a reply.
I'm in the same boat with you on upvotes. If my voting activity is going to be tied to the quality of my posts and comments, please decouple the upvotes with the saving.
That's a neat idea. -1 doesn't mean much without a comment explaining why.

I do have a concern, though. If this system is implemented, doesn't that mean that the "new kids" will also have access to this system and may use it to exasperate HN's "new kids" problem?

What about modifying the existing HN guidelines to include comments and promote the guidelines more? For example, cite a downvote with an appropriate quote from the guidelines.
Big Data's Evolving Role: Predictive Coding
First of all, this seems to me to be taken almost fully from a press release of some sort - it's quite an advertisement for that company.

Secondly, the only specific decline they gave evidence for was quantity, with a little shorthand mention of motility:

"After a quick scan, she sits up straight and shakes her head. The number of spermatozoa darting around each tiny grid on the slide is two to four, well below the minimum six required, and nowhere near the 10 to 20 per grid that indicates the kind of healthy concentration the bank likes to see."

If the main problem is the # of sperm declining, my hypothesis would be an increase in the availability of porn and increased masturbation.
I suspect they're having no trouble selling cars; the only question is whether they can manufacture the cars they've already sold.
Programming is Easy
Codec registration has never been an issue. Let me repeat that with some emphasis, because it's an important point. Codec registration has NEVER BEEN AN ISSUE.

And global registries are not inherently a bad thing. If you were to say "I don't want a json/pickle/messagepack decoder built into the codecs module by default", I would agree - because it's not a string/unicide <-> string/unicode transformation. But it wouldn't bother me for someone to add that support in their stuff because data.decode('json') is terribly convenient. Arguably better than peppering your code with the following (or loading it in a shared space, or injecting it into __builtins__, ...)

try: import simplejson as json

except ImportError: import json

But ultimately we are adults. If you would prefer to import a cluster of modules just to convert your strings to hex or compress your string with zlib, you are free to do so. It's just unfortunate that due to misunderstandings about the fundamental underlying problem (TypeErrors), functionality was removed.
long-timers will grow bored and decide to drift off

This is why the community needs to always bring in new users. I see some people talking in other comments on this page about how to stop the new users, but if you aren't bringing in anyone new you are only shrinking.

In HN brings in no new users, it will be dead in 5 years.
Perhaps only consider the karma earned from comments and exclude the karma earned from article submissions.
By the same logic, won't they be able to detect SSH tunneled traffic too?
The most annoying IMO is the guy in the room who really is smart, but is not (yet) wise. I've run into this with young-20-something programmers who really are exceptionally bright but lack the perspective of real world experience. These people can be insufferable when they are sure they are right and think everyone who is trying to temper their cocksureness is just being negative.
In addition to what other posters wrote: you can decide to run an exit node but restrict the sites that are available to Tor users. The most obvious use is to disallow your home country. For extra safety restrict it to far away countries that have no legal power where you live.
How about pyparsing? http://pyparsing.wikispaces.com/
Same with Chrome on Android after a flash of the content...
If someone wants to build a billion-dollar company they deserve (and need) a lot of criticism.

However, if someone just wants to get a couple hundred thousand dollars over the next 2 years, the same level of criticism is not needed.
"Speculative theories range from the mundane (carrying cellphones in front pockets) to the far-fetched (depleted uranium from exploded munitions)."

Strange. Depleted uranium is almost certainly a better guess than cellphones. The health effects of DU are pretty well understood, while cellphone radiation is in the realm of quackery.
I'm considering buying an iPad, and I have a question: is there no browser on the iPad that allows you to choose whether you want to the mobile version or the regular version? If not, that's almost a deal breaker.
> The remains are from a time before written records existed there.

As William Gibson would certainly say, the future has never been evenly distributed.
Xiaomi Phone 2 now official: 4.3-inch 720p IPS for just $310
I wonder what kind of response he wants. "An apology rather than a denial would go a long way toward mending hurt feelings." Oh, ok. I'm right, you're wrong, and don't you dare suggest otherwise.
All good points.

Being in French and reasonably short would have been made it more adaptable for French media and their law experts too.

In my opinion, the key is to make this seem like a distinctly French problem and conduct it in French public space. Given French pride (and assuming it has no gross legal repurcussions), that could force a response.
Here's a thread from 847 days ago full of people being mean and negative about Groupon: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1288116

Today, Groupon stock is worthless, and the company is doomed. Should the people in that thread be penalized for being right, but mean?
It might be more accurate for the headline to read "This is how Brazil works." In the US we tend to take for granted how much a functioning regulatory system, far from retarding healthy growth, is essential for promoting it.
HN formatting breaks the first Wikipedia link by removing the apostrophe. I ran it through a link shortener as a workaround.

http://cl.ly/1r153b103k2P
To be the Dark Knight of the Internet, one must at least beat down a handful of Internet villains.
You know, before I tried Flash programming I would have agreed with you. But Flash has been painfully awkward every time I've tried it (for programming).

HTML5, if learned from good resources, using good tools, is much nicer for the programming side.
What if the poster had an option to restrict the ability to comment on a submission to members with a certain threshold of karma or account age, not to exceed the poster's own level?
So basically, the Java strategy. Killing the alternatives through creating compatibility uncertainty. Oh, man. This doesn't bode well.

I hope this drives developers towards using and improving Postgres, but, well, who knows. One can dream!

More likely is that it may drive people towards Percona, which I have on good word is a solid professional MySQL branch...or, like Java, people will just stick with the brand. :/

EDIT: adding links for the curious.

Percona: http://www.percona.com/

Background on the Java stuff: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2010/12/apache... (the difference is that MySQL never did have open governance, so there was nobody to quit in a justified huff)
Neuromancer and Snow Crash always inspired me.
Ask HN: Anyone here paid money to App.Net?
Just wondering if anyone paid money for App.net? If yes, then why?
Yes, I know I shouldn't say it out loud, but here I am saying it (take me, Police) - out of curiosity, I went to Hard Candy section of The Hidden Wiki. (Yes, it is exactly what you would think it is.)

GOD.

There are seriously forums full of pedofiles sharing pictures and - maybe worse? - their stories and wisdoms. Maybe out of utter fascination, I spend about few hours on there and I felt like I want to murder all humanity. On one of these forums, there was this alleged "doctor", who adviced people, from what age you can have sex with your children without their doctor to notice. Tips how to kidnap young children. The worst thing was that I just knew that - if they don't do something stupid - they are basically untracable and uncatchable, while I would simply want to catch them all and kill them one by one. (I am sorry for being so expressive.)

There were also some picture forums but really I couldn't stand that, I just wanted to vomit while I was shaking.

I... am not sure why I am writing this. I am all for Tor. But we have to admit - when everything is allowed and anonymous, EVERYTHING is allowed and anonymous. And the dark parts of humanity flow on top. Drug markets, weapon markets, assasin markets (altough I don't know how sersiously to take those), terrorist websites, child porn websites.

But - as hard it is for me to say it - to see that the seriously f...d up child molesters are freely allowed to say really anything there and noone has a chance to catch them just shows that Tor is really anonymous and safe.

edit:
I do not know if The Hidden Wiki is still operating, if the dark places I visited are still operating, it is about one year and I did not feel any urge to revisit it again.
Please consider releasing a dataset, even to a limited set of qualified folks under NDA.

There are lots of ways to spread the work out. A number of the people here have backgrounds in search (which is really all about ranking and not much about searching). Even a closed Kaggle competition could yield some really interesting algorithms (Anthony is a great guy and would be happy to discuss it I'm sure. Note that a closed competition is done under NDA by only the most qualified participants).

Spreading it out might be fun, hope your consider it. Lots of smart guys love HN and would probably want to help.
That would leave people like me out.

I often find the news here, so I'm very unlikely to submit something. And I only comment when I feel like I'm going to add value to the community or discussion, which isn't that frequently. So I have a clear judgement on when I contribute, it's not much or often, but it tends to present some value.

I've had an account for 2.5 years, and used the service for even longer, yet my karma is still less than 300.
I wish you'd consider investing less time in technical countermeasures to dumbness (all of them are gameable, and the brand of dumbness you're fighting is not at all incompatible with an intuitive talent for that gamesmanship) and more time into just setting better community norms.

It is hard to imagine that the site guidelines you write years and years and years ago when this place was tiny are, intact and without change, the optimal guidelines for the site in 2012.

It's also the case that the things you say to guide the tone of the community, for better or worse, have a huge impact on how the community works.

If it should be a norm of HN that criticisms be kept constructive, and that the community should have a default position of supporting entrepreneurship (and, more generally, of supporting attempts to build anything) --- and, that should be a norm. --- why can't you just say so? Not in comments, buried in random threads, but in somewhere prominent on the site. Like, for instance, the guidelines. Which you need to update. Please.
I'm sure a bot that algorithmically classifies mean comments is possible. I'm not sure that the same can be said about trolling. Poe's law? Deep cover trolling?

When one of the criteria of trolling is the hidden intent of the person writing, then there's no physical process that can reliably find a trolling, short of looking inside their head.
Facebook barely holding 50% line (19.01)
This is one of the best comments I've read on this topic. Again, anecdotally, I look at the world in a massively different way than other people in my family (other than my brother who is also good with computers). This way of thinking is repeat with looking under the hood, analyzing why things behave the way they do, and imagining other outcomes that could occur. There is also a lo more questioning, followed by needing to know the answer.

I wonder how you could define a study to determine corellation versus causation here. Maybe I think this way because I've spent so much time fighting computers. Or maybe I've been willing to spend so much time fighting computers because I think this way. It's a fascinating question to me.
Why is there this myth that there is a "community" or "family" of entrepreneurs?

Startup founders are actually competitors - for funding, for sales, for attention etc etc etc

The scale that should be expected between entrepreneurs goes from "Open Hostility" on one end to "Cold War" on the other.

You should expect any "positivity" you get to be fake, stupid or both. If you receive better, you should take it as a bonus.

It's the same way Corporate HR is not the employee's friend.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urGVKx3H_Rk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ0BQUufUpE&feature=relat...
So, time for LibreSQL?
In fact, I'd go so far as to say that the vast majority of design people are horrible at UX. Not that programmers are any better, but in general, industry standards of UX is incredibly poor.
Smart Battery Chargers Offer Three-Phase Operation
>> No, I do not raise my voice to talk, because I've mastered the arcane art known as "volume settings".

This is usually true, but my experience with people who have naturally loud voices is that they have no clue how loud their voice is even when lowering their volume.
There's a way to be negative (right or wrong) without being mean. I think that's the heart of the problem here.
I am not convinced the people who killed this guy were particularly cautious when applying capital punishment.

But, again, nobody can be sure how good his lawyer was, since there is no written record of the criminal process that led to his execution in such... creative ways.
Why not to balance the budget
My advice would be to spin up a free EC2 instance, put a small "dog fancy" type blog/website up with a few articles about poodles, and then use something like openVPN to tunnel your traffic via tcp, port 443 through this.

It looks like you're just doing your wordpress thing, fancying your dogs. Just watch how much data you tunnel this way. 500 gig in a month might raise some eyebrows.

Also remember to use your regular un-vpn'd connection to visit ILoveAhmadinejad.com on a fairly regular basis so not all your traffic goes to this mysterious blog.
One easiest way is to keep a very cheap and down market mobile, So you dont like to take it out in restaurant. It would work!!
Can you elaborate about this fields? What kind of problems belong to VD and what to UX (possibly with examples of good and bad desing/ux)? I'm a coder (cs student) genuinely interested in learning some design skills, but I'm not quite sure what areas exactly to pursue.
Learning about the nongreedy modifier is IMHO a must when it comes to regexps. It makes them much more convenient to write.
Hmm, I often find myself using my phone in restaurants in ways that don't exclude the people I'm with (See this photo I took of you earlier? Oh I think that movie is playing, should I check the showtimes? I can stay a little longer, let me just text my wife.) I know it can be tempting to use it in ruder ways but I'm surprised that defense hasn't been raised by anyone else yet -- maybe I'm giving people around me too much benefit of the doubt.
But you can't make that comparison! With a cup of Starbucks coffee, I know the extraordinary quality I'm getting. This walled social network is a life-or-death gamble.
Are you sure about that? Seems like it is becoming possible.

http://www.teslamotors.com/forum/forums/canadian-pricing-out...

Also: lol at the price. I get why it's that expensive (tariff, taxes) but wow, I can't see them moving many.
"Strange. Depleted uranium is almost certainly a better guess than cellphones"

Especially given the several tonnes that have been embedded in the ground (and Palestinians) around Gaza. General conscription means radioactive fun for everyone!
I think it's part of a larger trend in startups. When there is no startup boom, people who do startups do them b/c they love building things. When there is a boom, ambitious people do startups b/c it is part of their calculation of how to achieve power and wealth, the competition for which is a zero sum game.

The true visionaries who build amazing products and companies are not the kind of people who, in the midst of a boom, decide to do a startup instead of applying to a prestigious MBA program.

YC's new approach of choosing founders who have no idea is part of the problem. The people who can get funding just b/c of their pedigree (how they look on paper) is exactly the selection approach used by top MBA programs and investment banks. For these people, life is a reputation game which they are good at winning.

It's no surprise that YC went in this direction, b/c it clearly helps get companies funded. The founder simply becomes a risk asset, just like a racehorse, who clearly has a certain level of sophistication and metal ability, and who will follow the guidance of the YC team. This works great for attracting capital b/c the person with great paper credentials can be puffed up and made to act the role of visionary by pantomiming the style of successful entrepreneurs.

This is all in pursuit of capital, since to a large extent companies that are well capitalized and not staffed by idiots can generate a nice ROI, and the cynical investor view is that if you have n companies in a space where you expect growth, then some percentage will fail, some percentage will succeed, etc.

Ironically, though, it's never required less capital to do a tech startup, and much of the capital is being burned up on young people who put off their MBA and want to live in a major city for a few years and gamble on the boom.

This is just startups becoming mainstream, and attracting the same kind of people that have always gravitated toward iBanking and other MBA oriented fields. Sooner or later some of the startup funding will dry up due to routine, cyclical forces, and the startup scene will once again consist mostly of hackers and builders.

So I view it as both a good and a bad thing. The investor class is slowly learning who makes a good bet, aided by tons of cheap capital thanks to quantitative easing and stimulus. But for now nobody is being too picky and in the midst of tremendous uncertainty people who look good on paper are a hot commodity.

Just keep building and learning and ideally find a great team of people who love your product and what you are trying to accomplish, and you will eventually triumph.
Why is Apple scared to compete with Samsung?
Many people who need Tor can't afford or are unable to purchase VPSes abroad. However, the obfsproxy feature is available in the latest versions of Tor, which can mask traffic, and worked effectively against Iran's DPI earlier this year. You can contact the Tor Project directly to get a few bridges that support this feature.

https://www.torproject.org/projects/obfsproxy.html.en
Tapbots: Don't Panic
If you do ever get a moderation bot running (especially in something like /r/ronpaul) I would be eager to read a writeup of your experience.

Improving the quality of discourse is a subject close to my heart, and I've never thought about how robots can help us act more human to each other.
??? This doesn't even make a tiny bit of sense.
wanted to try the demo game. don't have/want a facebook account. didn't get to try it.
Why would I buy a fast-charger for my home? It will never pay for itself in fees, and you don't need one at home – overnight charging meets essentially everyone's needs in that case.

Edit: just to be clear, I support people sharing their chargers. But fast charging is overkill.
Credit reporting. My birthday and previous addresses are listed in them, and if someone else has the same address now (old apartment), their name may show up in relation to me. Your life is not as private as you think it is.
Is "the white-coated director of the Hadassah Sperm Bank [...]" some attempt at a pun, or am I just tired enough to be inventing one where there's nothing to be found? :)
Assange's stubborn grip hurt WikiLeaks
That's some seriously astute extrapolation! Nice idea, friend.
Yes those browsers are available. Chrome has a "request desktop site" option and my personal favourite, iCab Mobile, has an extensive list of agent strings (custom ones can be added as well) that can be set.
Agreed. I always turn if off when asked. Do you think there will be an expectation for people to take their Google glasses off in businesses?
I'm very interested in Bitcoin, and advocate for it as best I can.

I don't think you'll find anyone really who disagrees with you in the Bitcoin community. Most of us see that as a feature, not a bug.
Ask HN: codecademy, or LPTHW?
I've been asked for help learning Python. Should I recommend they start with codecademy, or with Learn Python the Hard Way? I know and would lean towards LPtHW, but others swear by codecademy.

What does HN recommend?
google play (android) allows for full refund within 15 minutes of purchase. I don't know if you bought from them, or somewhere else (maybe itunes), but you can check their policy. It likely won't help you this time, but maybe in the future you can just get money back.
Is there anywhere I could see a feature list or screenshots for this app. I use post to a blog on wordpress regularly and wouldn't mind a desktop client. But, I would also like to see if the app is something I would use before actually testing it.
IOS runs on Cisco routers. You're thinking of iOS.

/pedantry
A lot of the ideas in Plan 9 were ported to Linux. UTF-8, the /proc filesystem, and the idea of union filesystems. Also Plan 9 is arguably better because of what's not in it http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhatIsNotInPlanNine
Twitterrific
I'll add my tuppence and agree that I've noticed quite a few more "he's an idiot" comments recently. Coincidentally, I've tried to assess whether this is partly due to frustration with the quality of the original post. In some cases, I think it may be a reaction to some fairly out there opinions; in other words a kind of de facto criticism of genre rather can content.

The hammer of Thor seems to be wielded a little more. There's a lot more players now, and defenders of the castle will mow down the barbarians, to use a metaphor.

It's natural selection at work, but as any club owner can tell you, don't let the doormen / bouncers get too self important.