skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find the rules to be fairly clear.

1) You can't ban content just because it offends someone, there wouldn't be much content left, if any. Is religion distasteful? Violent images of war? Gay marriage?

And it's not like a user is forced into subreddits to view content they don't like. The whole point of the site is for individual users to make decisions on the type of content they are viewing and participating in.

2) "doxxing" isn't some random rule they came up with to protect people who post 'distasteful' photos. AFAIK it's been a long-standing issue to prevent users from rallying users to harass other users outside of the site, whether it's justified or not. Instances in the past have seen people twist facts about a story to make someone out to be a bad buy, post that person's personal information and then that person is harassed via phone calls, emails, letters about some non-existent offense they are accused to have perpetrated.

I'm not sure the specifics on the Gawker ban issue though, so I can't speak to that.
The "distasteful" content always bothered me but was something that was so disconnected from my normal use since I stay mostly in the programming and nyc subreddits...I see things like r/creepshots as being one of the downsides to the many upsides of how reddit is run, and one with no perfect solution.

However, this dampened my interest in Reddit quite a bit:

> Mr Wong described the decision as a mistake that was "not making Reddit look so good". The ban has now been lifted.

"As admins, we chose to recognise that opponents have the right to criticise us, to expose us, to tell a story about us - even if we don't like that story or we feel it's wrong."

However, individual subreddits can choose their own rules regarding what sites are blocked. One popular area, Politics, is continuing to block Gawker links.

It is sickening how quickly a site that is devoted to the extremes of free speech would turn into that they despise after an investigative piece...and all of this for someone who, besides administering the "distasteful" content in question, turned tail and deleted his account after being outed.
This is really interesting...and kinda creepy. I wonder what Samy is working on now, considering he only does security exploitation "for fun".
Most probably not universally true. Care to provide more information?
A pretty comprehensive recap of what's been going on if anyone is interested, it's in three parts:

http://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/11bypn/recap...

http://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/11byvp/recap...

http://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/11gg8v/recap...
Indeed, but what if you don't?
I'm not saying that intuition is bad. I'm saying that intuition is bad when trying to make a reasonable point.
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The flowchart is both correct and completely useless. It betrays the concern of a successful entrepreneur (Steve Blank) and focuses on the status of the VC with whom you will meet (partner, associate or none).

VC meetings are easy to get. Just go to a few networking events, meet some of them, get their business cards and drop them a note asking for a meeting. Their job is something like 40% networking, 40% saying "no" to deals and 20% trying to value deals to which they might or have said "yes". By and large, I've found them to be very smart, nice and helpful people and I count a few of them among my friends.

But remember: to get advice, ask for money; to get money, ask for advice. VCs apply money to fix problems and risks in order to increase growth. Help them understand how you can help them through helping their reputation, portfolio (through helping your business) and future opportunities (through helping you).
That's a great idea - thanks! Will definitely check out leanpub.
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This is brilliant. How did you do this at no cost ?

This is really good.
I quite enjoy no longer having to sit in a car for 2 hours a day. That's 40 hours a week I've gained back.

Excuse the mostly pointless post, but how many days are in your week? :)
Yeah, exactly. That's what I like about it too. Have you tried this one out? If it solves those problems, it wouldn't be too hard to make it work like Self Control. Maybe a GUI could be made for it. I am more familiar working in Node.
Awesome, thanks for the comment.
I wonder if even the employees are surprised, I thought they'd already folded up given how quiet it's been from them.
No, but in the UK I get to vote on what my government does. The closest thing to a 'vote' I have with reddit is whether I have an account or not.
You're right that most of my big-data experience is batch work, and outside of finance. I guess I'm finding it hard to envision the kind of data where you'd want to work on the whole set, but that set's small enough to fit into memory - for real-time analytics wouldn't you be wanting to stream data and reduce it to the representation you want as it comes in?
Using state machines with Rails instead of booleans
except the example document is flat and the collection has to be homogenous for this to work. Isn't that... kinda missing the point of mongo?
I think Google (or Facebook) would have done well with their technology and people. Color is a great feature, to paraphrase Steve Jobs. Though maybe not a $200m feature.
Same here. Maybe they should have been making something people would use instead of playing around with their ball pit and foosball table in their downtown Palo Alto office.
You'd think maybe posting photos of minors without their consent might also have been a rule to prevent long-standing issues. But, no?
I don't understand this reasoning.

For a moment, assume you're a Facebook user.

There's been a rash of reporting on cyber-bullying via Facebook lately - with some tragic cases of youngsters committing suicide from the despicable actions of their online torturers.

Do you intend to renounce your Facebook account also?

What reasonable person would associate you with this type of deplorable behavior because you are also a Facebook user?

If someone who is so ignorant that they would associate you with cyber-bullying simply because you're also a Facebook user, would you really care about the opinion of this person, and would their opinion actually matter?

There will always be a particularly ignorant portion of the population that will conflate membership in a group with the actions of a subgroup. This has been true for rock music, MySpace, Facebook, rap music, goths, homosexuality, and beyond. Why pander to these individuals and let their ignorance dictate your actions?

I can understand the angle of "I find this content disgusting, and I am disappointed that Reddit is not taking a hard stance against it" - if that's your position, I get you 100%. But the whole association thing I don't get.
The basic idea is to keep the knowledge "in" the different memory spaces (short,medium,permanent) for it to get moved up to the next memory space, until it becomes "permanent".
I believe that doublely linked lists are described by Knuth in the Art of Computer Programming volume (something). My recollection is that it may have been in a problem or note. They are definitely used in UNIX for the run queue where rapid traversal was necessary. I recall them from an internals course I took at UNIX expo back in the mid '80's.

Additional pointers are trivially implied so I don't think that this patent should not stand.

What a mess!
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When I was kid, my flashcard routine was this:

Show the card. If it is right it goes to the done pile, if it is wrong, it goes to the back of the current pile. Repeat until there is nothing left in the current pile.

Then do the same thing the next day. We did this until I could get through the entire pile in one try.

This method seems overly complicated for both child and parent.
I'm pretty sure it has something to do with living for millions of years in this place that has a day/night cycle and how limited the crucial visual sense is in the dark. Might as well save your power for when you are at your most effective.
You can develop a-lot of features and hire some (a-lot of) pretty fucking good people for $200m
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I don't think he ever claimed Linked Lists were patented. The title of the post is "Patent #7028023: Linked List". That's entirely factual based on the number and title of a patent.

At no point in his comments do I see him say "A linked list has been patented" or something similar.
>There is no intellectual clarity to these lines at all; they're simply gerrymandered around the proclivities of the most active Reddit users. I guess that's fine, but it's hard to pretend that there's any important ideal being defended by their management.

If that was true subreddits like r/shitredditsays would be banned for "doxxing" and harboring hostility towards reddit as a whole. All this noise is generating from that single subreddit and it would be so easy for reddit to make it disappear. But they don't.
Since you're obviously a pretty thoughtful guy, I'm curious why you don't have a strong opinion about creepshots and jailbait. I've read the rest of what you said and inferred a sort of "pox on all their houses" message from it. Jailbait and creepshots seems like the kind of thing you'd normally have a problem with. Why don't you?

(I'm asking seriously, expecting to learn something about the situation from your response, not to make a point.)
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If someone were to compile a list of distasteful websites using Cloudflare would it help you quit working there to prevent you being associated with that content?
Alright, then, let's rephrase that a bit: "Distasteful" subreddits that consist of compromising photos of PEOPLE taken without their knowledge are to be tolerated." I'm not sure why a rule against minors suddenly makes this okay.
Hackathons like in the Social Network movie... :)
Always fun but schools may not agree to host it on campus...
There's something in the idea of ad hoc social networks. Someone will find some gold there eventually.
The HN Community is fascinated by the outside view of HN and eagerly gazes at the held-up mirror. One of our shared interests is emerging online social structure, of which we're an example.

We're also attracted to self referential expression, such as HN comments about HN self-organization, HN self-policing, and HN self-referential comments.
As troubled as Color is, it represents the future direction of location data. No longer will location data be just for its own sake- apps that answer "Where am I?" "Where are you?" "Where's lunch?" It's evolving to be something bigger. The future is integrating it into new uses, to answer questions we haven't even asked yet. For some examples, see:

News.me and Instapaper - Sync your articles to your phone as you leave your house, so that when you're underground on the train, you have all your content right there

Now - Combs instagram for clustered activity in your area, and then notifies you of what's going on (i.e. movie in the park that people are enjoying)

Dark Sky - Alerts you when it is going to rain in your precise location, based on radar

Square - Automatically logs you in as soon as you arrive at the coffee shop or wherever

What it boils down to is location is automating various parts of user interface. Making your life better in the process. (this post a tldr version of http://adage.com/article/special-report-digital-conference-s...)
Look, I get it. I just don't approve it. I think it's irresponsible.
Facebook does not publicly tolerate the use of their service to harass minors. Does this memo from the Reddit CEO sound like something Zuckerberg would say? It doesn't to me.
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Absolutely that's a consequence.

Have you spent any time in developing and undeveloped countries? Do you have any idea what would happen to your life if we averaged out the standard of living across all countries?

After living in Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, etc for years, I honestly believe the majority of people in the developed world would die if they were forced to live like that.
Related: My wife works at home, too.
These days everyone is a funding expert for start-ups. Trying to earn money on clueless founders is I think getting a real big market. Providing services and training to these founders is apparently easy and without any risk. Is Steve Blank one of them?
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A handful of countries attempt to block Tor and only two (China and Iran) do it seriously, using deep packet inspection (still doesn't work because of obfsproxy, duh). Even though, not even China and Iran outlawed it.
Nice. Thanks for running those. The reason inner isn't faster is probably that we do bounds checks on every array access. This is surprisingly inexpensive on modern hardware but it still takes some time. We're working on a couple of things to address this: generating code so that llvm can more easily hoist bounds checks out of loops, and allowing turning bounds checking off entirely for blocks of Julia code.
You can potentially use existing tooling that expects a RDBMS against a mongo database.
It would come down to whether Facebook had done anything about the problem or not. If Facebook had said "that's free speech and we're leaving it alone" then I would have been upset and wanted to take action (which might have meant deleting my Facebook account).

I do think a lot of the content that's been talked about is disgusting. I'm not disappointed that reddit is not taking a hard stance on the matter. They have decided to uphold a notion of free speech, but given that the site will be associated with this content in the mind of the general public I would rather not be part of it.
There are also two types of writing. Writing to convey a point and writing poetically. This is supposed to be advice so it would suit it more to be understandable rather than beautiful.

Having said that I assumed she was making a joke in the first paragraph, she seems to calm down a lot after that. Surely the irony of

> I’ve seen young writers contort their prose into incomprehensibly pretentious muddles, all in a disastrous bid to sound more erudite than they are.

is apparent to the author.
Looks intriguing for what I can see. My comments so far are that I'm left wondering the following:

- How is the product tour presented to my end users, is it something I host or you host?
- How well will it work with the somewhat crazy HTML/CSS I may have on my product?
- Is $3 too cheap for something like this as it's somewhat specialist, i.e. I have to be a web site owner to use it?

Would I use it, not sure really. I don't have any live projects yet that would warrant a product tour.

But it's nice to see work in this area. My only other comment is the homepage colours aren't quite a vibrant as I would have liked - personal opinion.
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Which really could just indicate that we all have an interest in HN being a good resource for us to read.
I hope ORDER BY, LIMIT and SELECT also can be easily converted to mongo's query API.

JOIN is the hardest part, I think.
I think that's what stunned me the most about this type of learning is how deep the knowledge gets burned into your brain. It's not like cramming for an exam or reading the language dictionary on the flight over.
It's rough, because when you do have direct match searches come in first, you get apps trying to name themselves directly after the search.

FLASHLIGHT PRO

GAMES: The best card game ever.

FOO: The Barrest blah blah.

Doing it this way discourages SEO-naming. I don't know if that's why Apple does it this way, but it's a nice side effect
Good for them, I suppose, but what is their position on enabling criminal invasion of privacy?
I do not like articles on the Internet that purport to explain that the world is 9,000 years old, or that suggest that the Bible demands that women be subservient to men. I don't like articles that suggest that the world is ruled by a secret cartel of Jewish international bankers. I don't like articles that militate against taxes for capital gains or inheritances.

I tolerate all of these things because they are ideas. Stupid ones, yes, but ideas.

A photo of a minor taken without their consent and posted to a public forum for people to comment on is something worse than a blog post that tries to convince me that the world is 9,000 years old.
I wrote about that bit in my previous post:

http://blog.codeclimate.com/blog/2012/02/07/what-code-goes-i...

But really, in short, don't worry too much about it. Plan on reorganizing once or twice as you find what works for you.

-Bryan
Perl was mentioned in the article, but PDL (Perl Data Language) wasn't.

https://metacpan.org/module/PDL

PDL is the Perl Data Language, a perl extension that [...] includes fully vectorized, multidimensional array handling, plus several paths for device-independent graphics output.

PDL is fast, comparable and often outperforming IDL and MATLAB in real world applications. PDL allows large N-dimensional data sets such as large images, spectra, etc to be stored efficiently and manipulated quickly.

For integration with R, there are Statistics::R (https://metacpan.org/module/Statistics::R) and Statistics::useR (https://metacpan.org/module/Statistics::useR)
At least one big company that was using Perforce to store tons (TB's+) of binary assets that was looking to migrate to Git after talking it over with them I ended up recommended they stick with Perforce. For users that are just looking for a place to store files and not looking to take advantage of features of a distributed revision control system Git isn't the best solution.

A good example is a special effects company where you have a massive amount of assets (PB?) including storing multiple copies of each frame in full resolution raw for the movie. If it you only wanted HEAD local hard drives can't even hold all that data and you only want to work with small parts at a time. For this situation stock Git is absolutely not what you want.

Before anyone tries to sell you that "of course Git scales" you really need to find out more information. Git does have large file support via extra tools that solve it in a handful of different ways, (sidenote one tool: bup is a very very cool from a technical perspective). With large repositories you must also find out are you dealing with a lot of small files or a handful or large files. Windows for example will fall on its face if you try to dump it with a ton of files which git will stat (say just a 4GB git repo) when you run git status while linux can't handle it with no problem. Once you get beyond 4GB in repository size you need to evaluate the problem more closely. Nine times out of ten it has been as simply as splitting the repo into two, one that contains the source and is 1GB and leaving the 399GB of binaries (for 6 platforms, debug and release, etc etc) in a better long term archive storage system be that another git repo using one of the above tools, perforce, or most likely some server that IT manages. An easy way to look at the 400GB repo is today I doubt you are syncing all 400GB to your laptop from perforce (Stock macbook air's max out at only 256GB for example) so how is your perforce client setup? What data does it grab? which data does it leave on the server?
That is addressed in paragraph 2. At the start I needed to address problems with handwriting, which meant that the evaluation of whether he has done the flashcard correctly has to be done by me. Having flashcards on a computer, and then a manual evaluation, seemed like counterproductive complexity. I did not want a computer between me and my son for this activity.

But it turns out to be a good thing. Because the fact that I have been involved has let me track down issues, such as the need for a reward activity. Anki currently does not offer that as a feature.

However in a year or so I do want to move my son to something like Anki.
At we had a few (non-medical) products that ran on Windows XP Embedded [1]. It was pretty nice, it had something much like a Linux package manager where you could select which components you wanted and didn't want, and it would generate a disk image that you could dump on your target device.

And no, we didn't offer security updates (although Microsoft did provide some infrastructure to do this). This was a hardware company, the idea of providing anything other than consumables and spare parts was quite alien.

[1] The original plan was to use Linux, but we needed to connect various hardware that only came with Windows drivers...
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That's really your problem. Working from home still requires you to manage your time. You should get up, have a set time you work and a specific time you are done.

When you are done for the day, you should stay done for the day. Did you find yourself wandering into work at midnight when you had to go into an office? Probably not, so why are you doing it now?
In finance you may be re-evaluating a whole portfolio of assets, or doing a value at risk (VAR) calculation across everything. More often you want low-latency access to the entire dataset without going to disk. For this the entire data must be memory resident and compact.
A link to the rules isn't going to stop things from slipping through the cracks.
I think cr is talking about how you get "baby bigtable" and "baby cloudscale" that are copies of internal services, but not what core platforms use themselves.
I also ran it on Windows 7 (64-bit). Nothing happens, although the prompt was displayed. It wasn't on Windows 8. The program doesn't do anything special. Either you're running some other version of the program, or your report is incorrect.
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Publishing private information of other people, not just those who "traffic in those photos", is forbidden because it the past it has led to real-life harassment. It's a pretty old and established rule.
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"We work to ensure that developers have the tools, network, and policy environment they need to innovate."

Meanwhile the AT&T ("Facetime? Yeah we're gonna have to charge you extra for that...") logo is stamped on every surface of the site.

Fuck you, Application Developers Alliance!
Edit: Ignore this, its wrong. I was looking in the wrong place. Should have been http://gov.uk.

I've just (17:10 utc) at the source for http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/ and http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/2012/10/16/gov-uk-the-st... there is only one occurrence of the string "google" in the page, and that is is link to a font called 'cabin':

<link rel='stylesheet' id='linen-accent-font-style-css' href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Cabin:bold type='text/css' media='all' />

Doesn't look like they are using google analytics to me, at least not now.
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I think what is being missed here is that this ban is party to a small subreddit called "ShitRedditSays".

They ran a campaign to get jailbait banned, and recently to get creepshots banned, by bringing the media's attention to these subreddits.
It's not obvious to everyone that other people are talking out of their ass. In particular, those who grow up around people who are always bullshitting, and do plenty of the bullshitting themselves, may end up not really knowing the difference.
Thanks for sharing these notes on your experience. Clearly a lot was gained.

Your awesome and I look forward to hearing about your next adventure.
Indeed it is. According to the manual this is true as of MySQL 5.5, so sometime in 2010 it switched. Good to know.