skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You were seeking to draw a comparison between posting controversial content and doxxing, stating there is no "intellectual clarity" in the Internet steadfastly defending the former while rebuking the latter.

I provided that intellectual clarity for you, by explaining how these prima facie inconsistent views are actually entirely consistent with the principles of Internet culture.

Any questions?
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Thanks! We'll get that fixed up.
The major benefit (for me) of Pyramid is the security system. You can setup the routing infrastructure to check access control lists on anything, you could make sure a user has access to a file on disk or a certain row in the database and thats all built-in and easy to use even though Pyramid relies on no auth system or database.

Which really shows the power of Pyramid.

Flask and Bottle have Authentication and Authorization extensions but they just aren't as flexible or as powerful as Pyramids.

A lot of the power of Pyramid (especially the security system baked in) comes from its long history and the large applications built on top of Zope, Pylons, and repoze. The knowledge and experiencing coming from those frameworks shines through when you start building something larger than a blog or todo list and you have "real world" requirements.

Also, the amount of tests, documentation, and hard work that goes into supporting Python3 are great benefits of using Pyramid.
The threat isn't not watching Game of Thrones. The threat is not being permitted to own and modify open general-purpose tools at all, because they happen to be able to play Game of Thrones.
Everyone agrees it's the future, but how will the Geosocial mobile proximity app/network nut be cracked-- to launch and achieve mass appeal/usage? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4665294
I would think that the moment you're offered 40% of a company, your first thought would be "this guy clearly doesn't believe in this company himself, or else he'd never offer me that much of his company". There are so many options available, be it leaving no stone unturned to find some additional cash (bank loans, borrowing from family, cashing investments, etc), or offering a non-equity profit sharing arrangement, that there's really no excuse for giving up large chunks of equity until you're receiving serious capital in return. This just sounds like a stupid deal to offer, and a worse one to take.
According the Wikipedia, Suprnova shutdown due to legal threats, but never was taken to court. Basically, they just caved to the pressure. On the other hand, ThePirateBay has survived police raids and criminal proceedings.

Aside from that, it doesn't sound like SuprNova's setup was quite as intricate as this. I think that the post above was suggesting that the "caching border router + encrypted VPN" setup was what SuprNova used, but that's not everything that ThePirateBay seems to be using. Also, ThePirateBay only has to host magnet links, which didn't exist (IIRC) back when SuprNova was active. SuprNova had to host all of the .torrent files.
Google's data centers are guarded by stormtroopers
check out on the google maps tour of the google data center who is keeping guard.
I and everyone I know have been ripping on Color since the day they raised all that money. Maybe we all got lucky on one prediction, but for whatever reason, we were right. Hindsight or not.
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the fascination with spelling seems to know no end in the USA

It's not unique to the USA - the French could tell you a thing or two about the Championnats d'Orthographe....

I agree with your point though. There is a telling moment in the OP, where it says that the son's reward for working the flashcards is the parent reading him books beyond his reading level. What is the point of spelling words ahead of your reading level? Spelling prowess comes from repeated exposure to written words[1]. It's called "reading" and I can't see any reason (aside from stupid standardised testing) that a kid's spelling ability needs to be ahead of their reading level.

[1] This is if why you are a perl programmer the word "pearl" starts looking wrong.

Edit, due to comments below:

The question is why are teachers asking for words to be spelled essentially out of context. I just can't think of a good reason because the only way you can learn them is by flashcard games, and like the comment above, I just can't see how it is a good use of a kid's time. I certainly do not blame the parent for making sure their kid does well at school, I just don't see the sense of school being this way.

Take the word, oh I don't know. Serialization. Or hypervisor. Or encryption. Most people here can spell them (I assume!) even though you were never required to learn to do so at school - you have learned by sheer exposure. You also know that the opposite of encryption is not unencryption, but decryption, and a decrypted message is not the same as an unencrypted message. Now of course there are linguistic reasons for all this, but the point is that you know these things because you encountered these words in context.

A kid that reads a Star-Trek tie-in is sure to be able to spell "teleportation". Yes, you can also teach a kid to spell that out of context with a flash card. But why? I just don't get it.

[Disclosure: frustrated non-native English speaker who had to teach a first grader to spell "reduce, reuse, recycle" this week, gaaaaah].
Reddit didn't sit down and have a long debate and discussion about what is good and what is bad.

Instead, Reddit has only banned things when they have been dragged kicking and screaming to that point, and then they ban the things in a pretty narrow way.

Doxxing has a pretty bad history on reddit; I forget the exact time when it became against the rules, but a bunch of shitstorms had started up by people forming internet mobs to chase after people they thought did something wrong.

So they banned doxxing.

Similarly, Jailbait was only banned after Anderson Cooper started talking about it on the news. There didn't seem to be a long discussion of what was and wasn't allowed and what makes consistent policy; instead it seemed (as an outsider) to be "what rule can we make that blocks jailbait and its clones and as little else as possible?"

When you see the historical reason, it's clear why the stopped doxxing while tolerated creepshots: they hadn't made a rule about the latter.

The people that hated creepshots saw all this and decided on the obvious strategy: make creepshots as unpleasant as possible for everyone involved. I think it's a pretty bad way to set policy, but it's the only path that reddit had laid out, so they took it.

In the end, reddit probably should have a policy board that decides what is and isn't allowed and have long debates and discussions (partially in public) about how to set up a sane policy.
It looks nice, but not sure if it's actually better than the current implementation from a UX perspective.
FWIW: I used Anki for learning a foreign language, with the help of a human, who would ask one side, and then rate my answer. This worked pretty well, in fact, and allowed the devolvement to Anki of spacing and scheduling, with the benefits you've mentioned.
Yes, they're talking bollocks.
Since when did people need consent to post pictures they took, legally, of people in public, where these people have no expectation of privacy, then post them on the Internet with words to the effect of "I find this person physically attractive, I would like to have sexual relations with this person"?

I can sexualize whatever I like, thank you very much.
>brings people together

Facebook, and instagram, worked because they fed into the "braggart" mentality that has seized social media.

By allowing users to post doctored photos to their friends, you've tapped into their motivation to have better social standing in their "tribe". Few people care what complete strangers think about them.
This rings about as hollow as if it were Tim Cook complaining about closed ecosystems. Bezos likely realizes that as Amazon moves into making and selling mobile devices and tablets, they too will be targets for patent litigation.
As someone who just recently transferred out of Platforms[1] to another group at Google, I can assure you that the technology has not plateaued.

[1] Platforms is the group at Google that designs and builds the technology that goes into the data-centers.
From "The Hoosier Schoolmaster", published in 1871, but I suppose representing the 1840s or 1850s:

" There is one branch diligently taught in a backwoods school. The public mind seems impressed with the difficulties of English orthography, and there is a solemn
conviction that the chief end of man is to learn to spell. "'Know Webster's Elementary' came down from Heaven," would be the backwoods version of the 'Greek saying but that, unfortunately for the Greeks, their fame has not reached so far. It often happens that the pupil does not know the meaning of a single word in the lesson. This is of no consequence. What do you want to know the meaning of a word for? Words were made to be spelled, and men were probably created that they might spell them. Hence the necessity for sending a pupil through the spelling-book five times before you allow him to begin to read, or indeed to do anything else. Hence the necessity for those long spelling-classes at the close of each forenoon and afternoon session of the school, to stand at the head of which is the cherished ambition of every scholar. Hence, too, the necessity for devoting the whole of the afternoon session of each Friday to a "spelling-match." In fact, spelling is the "national game" in Hoopole County. Baseball and croquet matches are as unknown as Olympian chariot-races. Spelling and shucking[10] are the only public competitions."
> the cloud image encrypts itself and becomes useless

Sounds more like they are using full disk encryption, and the system just shuts down, requiring a password to boot up again.
So what can you do with the Galaxy Note 2 pen, anyway?
That is a repellant point of view, but I don't have the patience to argue about it further.
NASA exploring $1.5 million unmanned aircraft competition
The food trucks have disrupted the sit-down restaurant business in some cities. I liked this brief post about trucks in downtown LA near the Fashion Institute (FIDM) because it gets in to several aspects of the disruption:

http://blogdowntown.com/2011/01/6013-food-trucks-near-fidm-s...

* The fight over parking spaces (food truck employees "reserving" street parking with their own cars, in advance of a later arrival of the food truck itself)

* Parking tickets as equivalent of rent

* Increases in options and quality

* Disruption of incumbent and lazy chains
In my opinion the issue is relatively simple. If the content is illegal, then remove it. If it is not, then it stays.

It can not be the task of a platform provider to conduct an in-depth investigation on who agreed or did not agree on a picture being taken. Otherwise you would need to include with every picture some form of a weaver were all persons displayed state their real age and consent to the picture.
Thanks, that was really interesting insight into what's going on behind the scenes.

So it looks like most of this is being orchestrated by the group running SRS (ex-somethingawful?), trying to shake the foundations of reddit just to "see what happens"? I'm looking forward to seeing how this plays out.
This is the wrong way to judge a company. Consumers don't care that the CEO is a startup flipper, or that smart people are working behind the scenes.
Well, that's related to the particular implementations, not theory. If PostgreSQL works faster and is less resource-intensive than MongoDB, it says nothing about their theoretical underpinnings. The whole point of the NoSQL movement is that one approach (relational databases with SQL) to work with data and its structure cannot be the best answer to all the possibilities in that space. Not because of particularities in the implementation (eg. speed), but because it gives you an easier time working with it; there's no mismatch.

I'd say that if you are working with diverse documents with a few or no relationships, a document oriented database is necessarily a better fit to the task at hand than a relational one. It's a tautology.

If you are needing many JOINS and your data is homogeneous, there's a mismatch. You probably should have chosen a relational database in the first place, as it better fits that model.
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Nice idea. You might want to look into adding auto-suggest from Google or one of the other services and adding a set default engine option (to enable hitting enter/return).
How about comparing the number of real-life web applications (i.e., not counting final year projects) in each framework, or the number of users each of them serves?

BTW, I've been a long time Pyramid user (since the Pylons days) and can't be happier with my choice.
You further agree not to use any sexually suggestive language or to provide to or post on or through the Website any graphics, text, photographs, images, video, audio or other material that is sexually suggestive or appeals to a prurient interest.

I like the rest of your argument, but this rule exists only on paper. This is lots of porn on reddit, both people posting self-shots as well as (almost assuredly pirated, but that's a separate discussion) professional porn.
I'm an H1-B holder who pays $10K annually in property taxes. Seriously, you're just making stuff up here. Everyone pays property taxes, either directly for homeowners or indirectly through rent. H1-B holders pay income taxes just like everyone else which is what pays for things like emergency rooms. H1-B holder also have jobs (by definition) and so are nearly guaranteed to have health insurance unlike most Americans.

If your point isn't that H1-B holders don't pay their way in society (because they do) then why mention all the points about how they're not paying their way?
Well then you agree with the point I made, which is that you can't stand on the ceremony of "free speech" while forbidding forms of otherwise lawful speech that happen to challenge the mores of the group, such as the names and employers of pseudonymous members of the group.
You built a straw man and said, "Are you suggesting this straw man?" You've done this with several comments now.

It's entirely up to a private website to run itself in any manner it deems fit, and if you can't find "intellectual clarity" when the rules are posted then why do you even comment?
I can agree with this article.

I work in medical equipment R&D and understand criticality. I have personally used competitors systems and am freaked out by their security problems. "Want to see how to infect this system? Plug this thumb drive in. The OS is set to autorun. Or, lets just plug a keyboard in and hit CTRL-ALT-DEL open the task manager and lookie here, full access to the system as an admin user. Plug a network cord in... the C drive is fully shared all permissions. Well, at least the drive is RAIDed so that any malice that happens to this device has a failover backup. facepalm"

My devices run Windows Embedded and they are locked down hard so that no unauthorized access. You aren't getting into the bios. You aren't getting into a permanent part of the file system. You aren't getting access via the usb port unless it is exactly what we want. Something on the system changes and fails a checksum test, we will know and the system will not allow usage. Our service people are the only ones allowed to make those types changes.

There are replies on this post and the article seem to have a strong anti-Windows for the sake of being anti-Windows sentiment and shows an extreme lack of understanding on software and hardware configurations. "Herp-Derp Window$ BAD, use Linux". Windows itself is not inherently bad. I would make the same statement if someone just went with a full stock release of Ubuntu on a medical device.

Most medical devices use Windows Embedded, not a full Windows install, and developers should strip it down to the bare essentials that they need, set up the write filter protection and lock their system down tight and anyone that gives a care about their patients would overprotect above the FDA guidance.
Color didn't get exposure at SXSW - they didn't have anything to expose because they launched after that event.
I'm not the biggest fan of the Pinterest type layout that Instacart currently has. I'd definitely prefer this.

Only change I'd discuss with Kyro is the addition of dividers in the gutters between the rows [or shelves].
Who told you that? Any cloud provider can at any time inspect what's running inside a guest, so they'll definitely know it's piratebay (not to mention the metric fuckton of obscure network traffic that make torrents easy to spot).

As far as data, cloud providers usually have functions to administrate guest VMs, which would allow a law enforcement agency to peer into the box as well, nullifying any benefit of data encryption while the box was online.
Google also, allegedly, offered GroupOn 6 billion.
Very tempted to make the obligatory droid joke at this point. Have thought better of it though.
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> What if those photos do leak information that could enable real-life harassement

Then they should be removed. Imgur (Reddit's favourite image hosting) already strips meta data.
Do you use a CRM?
How is it possible that Color has 120k daily active users. And certain that doesn't mean "no one is using the app."

Something is wrong here, either with facebook's numbers or this conclusion. That's not a small number.
Ah, ok, my bad. But. Watching anime and two males kissing is definitively creepy. Ask any high schooler.
While the "shit sandwich" tactic mentioned in this article is definitely a negative experience, I feel that in some cases it's better than coming out of the corner throwing full punches. If nothing else, it implies that one is at least trying to follow the broad advice in this article and avoid making issues into ad hominem attacks, even if the actual method used is flawed. Great article overall.
At least for me, macros don't work in Bash vi-mode. Perhaps it is only implemented in emacs-mode? Or maybe it is the readline version I have in OSX.
Tin-can guitars will revolutionize music
As of PHP 5.4 you can use [] to define arrays. It saves some typing, and is less noisy on the eyes I guess.
No. You're playing a semantic game, by shifting the frame from harmful content (or a discussion about whether/why content is/can be harmful) to controversial content. Nobody is arguing about controversial content. At issue here isn't whether militant creationists can find a forum on Reddit, or hard-right anti-abortion activists, or "god hates gay people" picketers, or the Ku Klux Klan.
Have you tried the "Auto Pager" Chrome extension? It's pretty handy...
Meant 40 hours a month! Sorry.
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Sage advice not just for CEOs but for anyone leading a team. Direct, constructive feedback is a great way to encourage open communication. Give early, give often.
I am a former employee of LSI, and I actually had a chance to participate in a meeting with one of the patent lawyers at the company. This patent was specifically talked about in that meeting.

1) LSI is not a patent troll. They generate a small portion of their revenue through patents, but most of that is through its purchase of Agere (cell phone tech patents).

2) The patent in-question is near impossible to prove that it is being used by anyone unless the code is available to look at. And even then would require going over their code to find the issue. Most lawyers don't want to put in that much work to find a violation, they would rather have more broad patents to litigate or monazite with.

3) As there is a good chance that there is prior art to this patent, it probably won't be used by LSI. Worst-case is LSI hits financial troubles and sells the patent to a troll that tries to use it.
One thing that is very good about this design and Instacart should adopt are the promoted/discounted items on the top. If Instacart tracked my most recurring purchases, and occasionally gave me this banner-like ads to recommend a discounted product, I'd click on it. I like how Doritos, for example, really stand out in this image.

That said, you know how clients sometimes say "Make everything bold so that everything stand out!" Well, that's exactly what you did. because you cluttered the entire interface with similar 'bold' content, everything now is a blur. It's virtually impossible for my eyes to focus.

All-in-all, decent attempt, but in my opinion, you did not succeed.
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Zenos: Gawker was right to out reddit troll Violentacrez
There is an Android imprisoned elsewhere. Take a step or two back, go through the door on the right and keep going.
What's scary is that not only are these machines infected, they often end up as part of large-scale botnets. When these botnets are involved in DDoS attacks, the medical machines hosting the botnets cannot be shut down or easily stopped because they are in mission-critical roles.
People don't understand that admitting that you do not know does not mean you are dumb. It actually makes you dumb by not admitting it since you're wasting everyone's time by bullshitting and beating around the bush.
Disk encryption helps if the load-balancer is taken down before the back-end servers. Unless they are all taken down without 8 hours, then the servers shutdown and require a password to unlock FDE.
No, I surmise that you think I'm attacking a straw man because you saw the words "child pornography" and assumed (incorrectly but reasonably, given the hyperbole in this particular controversy) that I was equating creepshots and jailbait with child pornography.

I was in fact not doing that. I was suggesting that the principle on which your argument rested --- that we should tolerate all content in order to defend free expression --- was probably counterfeit. I was saying that you did have a problem with child pornography, not that you accept it and were thus a suspect participant in this conversation.
Does it matter who's the messenger if the message rings true? I think it makes sense for victims or potential victims of the broken patent system to complain about it and fight to change or eliminate it. Who else is going to do it otherwise? The patent aggressors like Apple and Microsoft? I just don't see that happening.
If you say "reddit can run itself any way it wants," that's true, but it doesn't lend itself to useful conversation. 'tptacek is also free to comment on what he sees as inconsistent moderation rules on HN (as long as HN tolerates it, etc etc turtles all the way).
You never actually clarified as to what you wanted that wasn't included in the list I provided.
Full disk encryption that requires a manual password. Nothing fancy. A reboot requires human intervention.
I agree that this is a good illustration of why "creepiness" isn't a moral or practical standard.
I completely agree with Bezos as it's absurd that companies can patent things like rounded corners or 1-Click shopping, oh, oh wait...
I can believe this in a heartbeat. I know that if Platforms and datacenter/cluster management innovation stopped, I'd see a mass exodus of my Googler friends (as well as a very noticeable change in Google's products).
It doesn't matter. The non-zero probability of having to defend against this turd patent is real. Maybe the "owner" of the patent is reasonable and decides not to enforce it, maybe not. Maybe they sell it later and it is enforced. There is still a nonzero cost to this patent. The greater problem is companies see the PTO is willing to let shit like this through and therefore patent everything in sight. The "system as a whole" failed utterly here.
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