skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem seems to be that Reddit sees itself as a platform to host numerous small communities while everyone else sees it as a single community.

Generally it seems like a bad idea for a platform to be too restrictive about what can be discussed (though I'd argue banning some types of content wouldn't be too controverisal) while allowing a community to run completely unrestricted seems quite irresponsible.

"doxxing" of the people who traffic in those photos is forbidden. That's not "free speech", it's something else.

Reddit has long had a problem with people posting identifying information of reddit users or people involved in videos/pictures/articles shared on the site. This has almost always devolved into harrassment. So, strangely, reddit has a kind of reverse Nymwars situation where you are not allowed to personally identify anyone but yourself.
It 'only' has 440.000 active users? I'd be quite happy with a failure like that.
Publishing covert photos of teenage girls on the internet has also led to real-life harassment. What's your point?
I laughed when I read: "To me, the most serious count against Advanced Placement courses is that the AP curriculum leads to rigid stultification -- a kind of mindless genuflection to a prescribed plan of study that squelches creativity and free inquiry."

I went to a big public university in the 90's. 75% of intro classes in topics covered by AP were large lectures where the professor only showed up for the first class, and attendance is graded and taken by swipe card. My high school didn't offer AP CS, so I got to sit through Computer Science 201. The class had 650 people in it, and was designed to weed out the folks who cannot grok linked lists. (CSI 301 had 150)

I took AP US History, got a 5 on the exam and received 6 credits covering History 101 and 102 -- had I not done that, I would have either spent two semesters listening to some grad student powerpoint about chapters in "The American Pageant" or skipped all of the interesting upper class History classes that I was interested in.

So if sitting in a lecture hall with 600 people encourages "creativity and free inquiry", I'm all for it. My experience suggests the opposite.
I think the whole creepshots thing shows how hypocritical reddit is about free speech. I thought the Gawker article did a good job describing the hive mind attitude there of "my speech is OK, but you must burn for yours". And, naturally, they responded exactly as I would expect: banning that speech.

I don't envy reddit's admins regarding this topic. Their user base is extremely worked up over the notion of free speech, so any appearance of interfering will be seen in a horrible light. But things like creepshots and jailbait do horrible things for their reputation, which could leave it with a situation where it becomes another 4chan, which I don't think they want.

In the end, I agree with potatolicious: this commitment to free speech will last only until the next shit storm occurs.
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No, i don't see why. It is a long standing rule that posting photos about Scientology without their consent is ok.

I don't what sense this rule would would make. As long as nobody can google it (since no name) no one is hurt. So what?
The ARM changes (specifically hard-float) means better performance on Raspberry Pi and similar chipsets that have that instructions set.

I'd love to see LuaJIT run on FPU free MIPS, which would open it up to a lot of CPU's in conventional wireless routers.
The controversy is not just around photos of minors, there's gore on reddit, too. It really is about distasteful content in general and not just one particular instance of it.

And yes, I do think that information inciting or enabling real-life harassment is different from just a photo taken in public without the accompanying additional info.
This is Internet Culture 101.

The Internet is a bastion of free speech. Under the guise of pseudo-anonymity, people are free to post whatever content they see fit, and people on the receiving end generally understand that it's just the Internet; it's not serious business.

It is an escape from real life, where you don't have to kowtow to political correctness, fear the tyranny of the majority, and ultimately, and hide your true identity.

'Doxxing' is thus a direct attack on Internet culture.
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"There sure has been a lot of trouble lately for Reddit, and I'd like to talk about about that before I nip off for a spot of tea"

Other issues aside, this sentence uses several British expressions. Wong does not seem to be British. Is Wong acting British because he is talking to the BBC? Is the BBC paraphrasing? That quote just seems odd and contrived.
That comes at the right time. While I was reading through the docs of Postgres, a colleague of mine spent time doing the same for mongodb. Our goal is to have on each computer at the studio local database with most of our files from the game - 3d models, assets, etc - and we are looking what is going to suit us. He was able to model and put in mongo all our level maps, we have the asset information already in sqlite and all our shaders are cached there.

So this comes as a good surprise. I've been excited reading about PostGres, and now this seems like a very good fit for us.
How does:

A source within the company tells us that the company’s shareholders and board last week voted to shut the company down.

Become, by the end of the article:

Color as a company still has plenty of cash in the bank, which means we’re likely to see another product from it before long.

?
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I don't understand the equivalence between Scientologists and minors.
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It knows you're leaving a location, that's how.
You may be right. My suspicion would be that a lot of the data is not terribly compressible, and that you'd be looking at over 1TB for the repository of a decent-size project. Add one checkout of head on top; add build products to that. Build products mount up surprisingly quickly, with multiple gigabytes of objects and PDBs being common.

1+TB (and git doesn't support partial checkouts) would make it difficult for people to work off a laptop, or use a SSD. Everybody would need 2 2TB drives on the off chance that they might have to work on more than one project at once. Or you'd have to check less stuff into the git repository.

I know people say disk space is cheap; I just don't think it's quite cheap enough yet to piss away to this degree. It's one thing to have a server with masses of storage, I'm just not convinced you can require every client PC to have the same. I could be wrong.
Agreed, thats why i've made this small tutorial to illustrate the basics.

Since i did a flask tutorial, pyramid doesnt feel harder to work with at any point.
> Actually, I think that's the exact wrong lesson to take from this. That's what Color did: look for something that hasn't been done before and did that. It was a solution to a problem that doesn't exist: meeting strangers

Color has never been about meeting strangers. Never.

v1 of the application allowed people who happen to be at the same place at the same time to share photos (still a great idea in my opinion, imagine concerts or random birthday parties where you hardly know anyone but everybody is taking pictures).

v2 was about live broadcasting (interesting tech but uninteresting product).
Have we reached the pinnacle of "using technology as a sex doll"?
How can Nokia, HTC and Samsung use the stock WP8 OS on Verizon and other carriers, but Motorola can't use stock Android? I'll blame Google for it if they really can't stand up against Verizon on this. Verizon is using double standards and Google should not tolerate this. They've backed down far too often on Verizon's demands.

If Motorola also worked to have a stronger position globally, they wouldn't be as dependent on Verizon, either, but I haven't seen Motorola try too hard on other countries or continents.
Filling out my profile...
"Experience: this field cannot hold more than 5 values."

Um? Any competent develop should definitely have more than 5...

Guess I'm done with it before it even started.
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You would be shocked (I am constantly) to learn how many devices, kiosks, ATMs, and other terminals simply run Windows.
Thinks that you don't like are creepy. Browsing photos on facebook is creepy. Watching anime is creepy. Two males kissing or merely being gay is creepy. Why would anybody give a fuck if you think something is creepy?
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Seen complaints about startups which are obviously saving passwords in plaintext? Imagine how much worse it would be if all the "why you shouldn't it that way" criticism was consigned to obscure blogs rather than here. I regard this as that kind of problem--huge long-term drawbacks that people don't proactively go looking into and don't immediately deter implementing the idea.
I like to have only one writer thread for any data. This can have its own flyweight. Other threads can be readers each having their own read only flyweight implementation.
Given the amount of funding it required to get that many users, and the lack of a clear business model, I think that their active user count is about as relative as where they leased their copier from.
On iPhone, it's indexed. #4 for me. Four painstakingly slow swipes to the right.
there's something awesome about saying "I don't know" -- you give your conversational partner the opportunity to explain! people love talking. the more chances you give them to talk, the more they will like you, or so says dale carnegie in "how to win friends and influence people" ...
i'd love any feedback on the site, interest in the idea, or questions about the plan!
No it's not. Take for example India where copyright enforcement is just not existent. People do not buy any software, unless it is Windows when you are buying the branded laptop and it is bundled.

Games, movies, TV Shows, Desktop Software and Market apps; everything that is available for pirating, will be pirated. Sure, some part of it is due to the fact that they cannot buy-watch-use this material either due to them being delay for years or because they require Credit Cards while most Indians have a Debit Card but that is a very small percentage of the entire sales loss.
> Color had disaster written all over it.

Hindsight is 20/20, it's easy to criticize now, but look at it from the investors' perspective:

- A CEO who not only sold his latest startup to Apple but who built about eight companies in the past twelve years, three that he sold and three that went public.

- A co founder team made from engineers that came from Google and Apple

... and you have a very solid foundation for a startup with much higher success odds than any other.
Would it make more sense to say that his son is ahead in letter reversals?
There is no difference. It's ok to posts photos without consent or it is not. Or tell me where you draw the line.

/edit

Or why the consent of a random 17 year old girl has more value that the consent of a random 20 year old guy working at a random CoS org.
Concentrate does this with a nice interface (non-free, although with a very long trial period): http://getconcentrating.com/

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be well maintained.
Under the guise of pseudo-anonymity, people are free to post compromising photos of children for the amusement of their pseudo-anonymous peers?

This just doesn't make sense. Why is the poster (who has deliberately decided to participate in an online forum) entitled to privacy, but the subjects of these photos aren't?
You are grossly misrepresenting the nature of the content posted on /r/creepshots here.

Your description of "sexually-suggestive photographs of underage girls" is way off the mark.
"If you are targeting angels and super-angels, the strategy of lowering your target may enable you to raise more money, more quickly."

Wise advice. The first time I ever tried to raise money I had absolutely no idea what I was doing. One of the key things I learned was that they all take comfort in not being the lead. It takes a lot guts to stick your neck out and be the first investor.
PUE 2 probably was the standard when Google started building their DCs. There's a wide range between enterprisey DCs that consider going from 2 to 1.8 an epic win and clouds/hosters who are getting below 1.3. Google's PUE data since 2008 is published at http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/efficiency/internal/...
In addition to calling Mongo from within Postgres theres a variety of other Foreign Data Wrappers that exist, including the ability to call MySQL, Oracle, Redis, and CouchDB. You can find the list of FDWs at http://pgxn.org/tag/foreign%20data%20wrapper/

It would be great to have the Mongo one listed there as well.
Would you still be happy if you'd spent millions getting those 440k users?

For $41m investment, you could pay 410,000 people $100 to become a user.
This is great... except it looks like an empty domain page.
The design is horrible.
Okay what if the story is that the current prices of their items includes some of the cost of piracy. And that it is very unfair to ask those who are being honest to pay for those who aren't.
> If the performance comes down to BLAS, then language speed benchmarks are moot. Saying one language is faster than another becomes disingenuous.

Fully agreed. That's why comparing NumPy calling BLAS to Julia calling BLAS is a silly exercise. Comparing NumPy calling BLAS to a summation loop written in pure Julia goes beyond silly to just unreasonable, but that's what the blog post does.
That's not a real argument. Are you seriously suggesting that there is no line to be drawn about what people can and can't post to Reddit? My guess is you don't support the posting of child pornography and snuff films.
Ironically, what you're asking for is not a more complete implementation, but more algorithms. If I patent a mechanical device, it's not expected that I describe how to build the device. That's not the invention, and it's not the implementation (it's an algorithm for producing an implementation). Likewise, if the patent is on the in-memory structure that allows for multiple list traversals, then describing how to build that structure is pure algorithm, not implementation, and outside the scope of the patent claims.
Yes, of course. Any illegal content was removed without hesitation. But we're talking about legal but distasteful content.
I like the idea of having a general theme, and then presenting what you've built at the end somehow. I'd rather not do a hackathon that required we use a specific API or product, or otherwise restrict what you work on. Instead, make the hackathon about building things along a certain theme ("music", "transportation", "education", etc).

Also, I may be biased as a hardware engineer, but I only consider hackathons that welcome both software and hardware projects.
I plead ignorance — I don't follow those reddits, or even the main ones, and so never heard of such an incidence, a link would be appreciated.
Show HN: iPhone app to track conversations on Twitter
Hey!
We have a web service which tracks Twitter conversations - http://www.conweets.com

We've very recently launched an iPhone app for the same. Its a minimalistic app with only a few basic features. We're working on more features for the next update.

So, I'd like to show you the app, here is the link - http://itunes.apple.com/in/app/conweets/id564864571?ls=1&mt=8
Does this mean Verizon will allow me to uninstall Color? They bought their way onto my phone and I never even opened the app. You won't be missed.
Beneficial? Hopefully it helps people remember that security in PHP installs (and the engine itself) is a complete joke and they'll either harden their stack or stop using it.
Thats advertised rates. The actual rates are higher or you lose people before you get a chance to offer a place to them.

We employ starting at £50,000 and we still lose 80% of our candidates to better cash sums.
>#1 Lesson from all of this: Instead of talking about your product to your prospect, talk about something your prospect cares deeply about to your prospect.

Better yet, make your product something that your prospects will care deeply about. That way you can kill both birds with one stone.
And yet here we are, talking to strangers. All we needed was a good excuse and some notion of community expectations.
From Fitt's law description on Wikipedia [1]:

"It describes untrained movements, not movements that are executed after months or years of practice"

That was exactly my intuition looking at those graphs. There's no way I'm going to be as fast reaching an icon in the upper right corner of the screen after heaving clicked start as I am reaching the top item in the start menu, after some training.

Furthermore, if you don't consider a trained state, this model seems simplistic to me. If you account for the ability to actually find an entry, top items in the list should be faster to click than middle ones - and I doubt a 2D grid is going to be as fast to find something on, until the training effect kicks in.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fittss_law
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I'm a big proponent of "I don't know" in the work place. People universally use "I'm not sure" in its place. It's mostly harmless until you have a conversation like this:

Question: "Is it A or B?"

Answer: "I'm not sure, but I think it's A. But I'm not sure. It could be B. But I think it's A."

It's annoying when that answer is seen as better than a simple "I don't know".
Certainly fits in line with the 1% rule http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)
It's illegal and has been removed.
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This made me think back to Wordsmith (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wordsmith_%28TV_series%29). It was the show that got me from a young age thinking about how you break up and form words, etc. To this day in my head from time to time I'll often play over words, breaking them up and similar (as though getting a 'taste' for the word).

I wonder if perhaps this show might be of benefit as well to the son of the submitter.
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It's not just hindsight; a lot of people, commentators here and elsewhere, were bemused by the entire Color story. A ridiculous amount of money for a product that didn't exist, had no market, likely had niche interest at best, and had no clear business strategy.

It did have disaster written all of it, and a lot of people called them on it at the time.

As just one example, a quick google first turned up, but i read mountains of commentary like this:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2655652

edit:the parent thread is better to read. this was after shit started hitting the fan, but i can't turn up earlier convos atm
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2655592
Yes that doesn't surprise me.

If you've lived in London for a number of years, you'll realise you need real cash up front to survive here as the transport and accomodation costs are sky high.

My rent for the 3 bed terraced house in South West London I moved into on Saturday could get me a 7 bedroom mansion with several acres of ground near Leeds...
In anticipation of the relentless quibbling about what is or isn't "sexually suggestive", I opted to use the word "compromising". Having said that: a Google search for this term finds pictures of teenage girls often with their faces blurred; it's pretty clear what the point of the photos are: to objectify girls and young women. That the objectification is happening as much for the amusement of adults as for their direct sexual gratification doesn't change things up too much for me. Maybe it does for other people.
Even if each one lost you money?
There was a recent article {can't find it right now} which talked about the lack of understanding of the meaning to Restaurant Gradings in New York City. A, B, C etc.

There are many rules which determine a restaurant's grade and having some technical issue could degrade a restaurant at the same time, while having an A grade doesn't mean that the person cooking your food won't pull a funny one.

So your point about "people want regulated food outlets" is kind of like the blind asking for a light.

Food consumption tends to be an individual opinion, especially in different cultures.

Your point about having everyone play by the same rules does make sense and that is what the article is trying to say in some ways.

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git commit
git fetch
git merge origin/master

No need to switch your current branch to pull.
Here's the thing with this: It's easy to find new unproductive sites and an outright ban from distractions is difficult to live with - humans crave distraction.

What if instead of blocking sites, the nonproductive internet slowed down a lot? Then in the 10 seconds you waited for Hacker News to load, you might think to yourself that this is a bad idea and give up.
I think Color shows one of the problems faced when people think about location and geo-locking of data. Color (V1 - no idea about V2) didn't bring people together or let distant people experience something that was happening to their friends, it created a pool of photos at a geo-locked location among friends with you and strangers.

Facebook works because it brings people together. Color only worked in places where dense numbers were expected. Targeting things that only work in a urban setting seems to be leaving out a lot of people including friends who just aren't there.
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I've been a Pyramid user for over a year now, I'm active on IRC and the mailing lists, I do not "follow" pyramid on github.

Statistics like this are silly because they rely on people actually wanting to use GitHub and I don't feel the Pyramid community of developers really cares that much for it outside of being a host of the repository.
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The only two mnemonics that I've taught him are, There are two too many ways to spell 'tu' and I before e except after c, or when says "a" as in neighbor and weigh. I know that lots of people use mnemonics, but I've personally tended to find them more trouble than they are worth.

Until this week we hadn't encountered any facts that were sufficiently hard that he had to break them down to successfully master them. It is clear that he uses tricks acquired from one card to do another card. But I've not had to tell him how to do that.

I should note that drills usually involve under 10 cards. We're not talking about endless work. (In fact most of the work is reading to him. Which stretches his vocabulary, and is also a learning exercise, but I won't tell him that if you don't tell him that.)
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I honestly have no idea, and the page on cookies does seem to say that they don't allow google to use the data or do much with it, but that just raises further questions as to how they could ever enforce that.

I guess I'm just very suspicious when personal data crosses borders.

EDIT - also wondering what you mean by a separate deal? If the data goes to the US it goes to the US and is then subject to US laws (and no longer subject to EU/UK protections, deal or no.
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