skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing that has always bitten me, is stuff like:

Go to the <a href=/settings>account settings</a> page to change your username.

It is tricky, because you can't just extract three strings, and if you extract the full text, then you have urls and html in the translation files. I have done stuff like ||link|| and ||end_link||, which works okay, but you also need a tool to make sure the translations have matching components.
2.4.3. rngd
Random number generation is improved by enabling rngd by default.

violent twitching

The /dev/random situation on Linux is beyond laughable, and everyone who thinks the "solution" for a kernel problem is MOAR USRLAND DEEMONZ!!!!@$^#$# should drown themselves in the nearest toilet immediately.
Mmhh how about Automatic with wordpress?? They give their product for free and yet have a SaaS ?

Or how about OnVelocity? They provide a source code repository and have hosted version.

Or SugarCMS ?

Or couchdb with couchbase?

It seems to me that there are plenty of Saas companies that share their products as open source.
Fortunately everybody agrees as to what constitutes actual justice.
If you want to do something interesting in financial technology, you have to get away from the existing networks. Doing that requires 47+ money transmission licenses. Green Dot is an incumbent that has them. Generally speaking, startups do not and will not.

https://www.facecash.com/legal/brown.html
would just like to point out:

Google started moving towards a more social experience from search engine by adding google plus.

Facebook started move towards a search engine from social experience by adding graph search.

They are definitely lined up to converge at a giant battleground, both coming from opposite sides of the spectrum.

Both will come with different strengths, however, Google's integration of its plus network is FAR superior, both technically, and in the sense of having a plan. Whether we use it or not, it is already stealing data from us, even if we dont know it.

IMO, google has no adversaries. FB is doing this for the fun of it.
From what I recall you can stop friends from tagging you in photos on FB.
It sets the scene really well: "A bright, cold day in April" is evocative of exactly that. It's not pretentious and it immediately puts a setting in the readers mind.

"and the clocks were striking thirteen." is an immediate juxtaposition of something non-intuitive. The first reaction is "Clocks don't strike thirteen! They strike a maximum of twelve!". It's just nonintuitive enough without necessarily being obviously nonsense. And so the reader is engaged to read the next sentence to find out what he means by thirteen. Get the reader to read the next sentence enough, and you've tricked them into reading the book ;-)
So now committing suicide makes one a "victim?"
Yeah, in the US Charles Schwab provides most of this stuff (they refund all ATM fees so you effectively can use whatever ATM you want, they have an app w/ check depositing, etc) and has for a long time. Don't really get it.
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I was not contacted. I have a verified email with Reddit, but received nothing.

The fun of closed walls.
Hell/shadowbanning works.

If you ban someone, they just re-register, and you have to hunt them down again.

If you close registration, your site slowly withers away.

If you verify registrations one at a time, your time slowly withers away.

If you charge for registration, you better be SomethingAwful or MetaFilter, or your site will rapidly wither away.

I've had to mod a few communities here and there, and while I admit that I'm not particularly good at it, it has definitely taught me that it's mostly a thankless slog.
I think the point of the first line isn't to say anything, be clever, or to give you an emotional reaction. It's to prompt questions that make you want to read further. Questions like:

* Why is it a cold day in spite of the fact that it's spring, and bright out?

* Why are the clocks striking thirteen? Did the earth's rotation become slower? Or did some bureaucrat change the system of time to match his whims?

In my mind, it alludes to the fact that this is a world that is ok with blatantly inconsistencies, but forces you to verify that allusion by reading further.
A little reading might show you that folks have been saying this for a long time.

For starters read all of his blog.
> Only if it's followed up with a petition to "return all taxpayer money wasted on egoic pranks".

If someone keys your car, and you spend $5,000,000 tracking them down to punish them, it doesn't mean they've wasted $5,000,000 of your money. It means you're a moron.
OKC actually did a blog post [1] about attractiveness by camera model, and (unsurprisingly?) photos taken by more expensive cameras were rated as more attractive than those taken by cheap camera phones.

Obviously there's dozens of confounding variables (if you have an expensive camera, you're more likely to know how to take a good photo), but still.

[1] http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/dont-be-ugly-by-accident/
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You seem like a decent guy based on this brief wayback machine history: http://web.archive.org/web/20110907072017/http://www.reddit....

My guess is that you posted too many links like the pop mech link, which had an auto playing video the first time I visited before a cookie was set saying I'd seen it (I'm guess they do this because I didn't see it again)

Links like that are extremely annoying and the quickest way to express it is to hit the 'report' link.
Doesn't add up. You don't get banned from Reddit simply by being added to the /r/reportthespammers subreddit, and there's no way he would know that the vote was 2 to 3.
Never too late to start.
Yeah, this would be super simple to build using SendGrid (which you could say is the Twilio equivalent for email). For example: http://sendgrid.com/docs/Code_Examples/ruby.html
Just make a new account. One of the things I advise people is to not use your personal account in reddit. But do use your business account in a savy manner by:

- participating in the discussion on subjects related to your business/product.

- not posting links to your content until a minimum amount of Karma is achieved.

- not linking to your own facebook/twitter pages unless someone asks to.

- using related discussions to explain how a given problem might be fixed, offering options, and mentioning that you provide one of those options.

This also applies to HN, but do realize that the community here is more tight knit and more focused on learning than many other places. So you can make a post of how your product is awesome (in a technical manner) and people will appreciate the content and participate in the discussion.

But! Reddit is not generally a place where you find people like HN members. The average there is more about passing time, and hanging out. Though particular sub-reddits have their own culture, you will should expect the typical group of trolls (sometimes, the moderators are the trolls).

If you plan to post to a specific sub-reddit, then contact the moderators before posting, and get to know them. I always, always do this and have never been perma-banned. The way to do it is to introduce yourself in a friendly manner and ask for their blessing. Explain to them the who/what/how/why/when if what your are doing. Let them know that you dont want to spam the community but want to take part in it. Thus, imparting your knowledge about the domain with the insight gained from providing a product in the market is something that is valuable for the community at large.

You will also need a good sense of humor and a flame suit.
The link in reporthespammers is to my user page, where they could see my posts.

Shadowbanned users are 404d as well.
> I think you should basically never hellban anyone who has ever done anything even marginally useful on your site. Either talk to such miscreants or explicitly ban them so they know what you did.

It's a matter of ratio. Is their marginally useful contribution worth the hassle that they cause?

Rooting a troll out of something like HN, or Reddit, or a forum is hard. They probably have more time than you.
My point isn't "It can't happen".

My point is "Why don't we discuss things as they are, not as they may or may not be some time in the future?".
This post has been taken off the frontpage. Deliciously ironic.
The worst year for massacres in the US was 1929 and worst occurred in 1927 (45 dead by explosive).

Citation needed.

2,996 people died in the September 11 hijacking, including the 19 hijackers. That is the worst massacre that I'm aware of in US history.

If you just want domestic violence, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing killed 167 people in 1995.

Prohibition era violence may have created more massacres, but they were much smaller. And the people killed were much less likely to be innocent bystanders.
Our web app - https://www.draw.io/. Entire thing is served statically. If you don't think you can do much with just JS, you're a few years out of date...
By that description, it sounds like Facebook did a good move in restricting this, as well as removing the ability to do it awhile back.

Seriously, females are human too.
This petition could be a ticket and an opportunity for the administration to begin such a change...

Yeah, because we all know how well Obama's "change" went. How's gitmo going? What about those executive orders? Seen any drones in the Middle East or northern Africa lately? Surely there is no more cronyism in the White House or Justice Department. I realize not every promise can be kept, but I've never regretted a vote like I did the vote for him (not that I ever would have voted for McCain).

The point is this administration has shown it could care less about change. Don't expect anything, much less anything positive, to come of this.
Here's the link to RTS - http://www.reddit.com/r/reportthespammers/comments/xwrf7/ove..., no discussion there at all. Just a karma count of +3/-2
Have you checked out the documentary that Jason Scott is working on? He ran a Kickstarter to fund the development of three films. One of them is specifically about the 6502:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/textfiles/the-jason-scot...
You can see the up/down votes for a post. It's available via the API, and the Reddit Enhancement Suite.
That's so incredibly cynical. Maybe I'm the only one putting favoring other attributes higher than physical looks? Or I'm just butt ugly and can't get any of the good looking ones?
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As someone who builds app for big brands (Conde Nast, Nike, Porsche, etc.) I will not use this, despite any desire to actually do so.

Why?

You're shipping me a binary only. I want the source. I don't want to wait for you to fix some shit that you may or may not get around to doing. I have a really strict rule about this when it comes to client work, even stricter for personal work.

Your idea that I should base an entire application on a closed source binary that may or may not work is customer hostile, imho. You are inadvertently leaving customers out to dry when something breaks or doesn't work correctly. Unless your company has a team of devs ready to handle these cases ...

Would have been a good idea when the component market was roaring in the Borland Delphi days, but we're in the future now were open source is the way to go.

Pass.
LUKS/dm-crypt for file system encryption on Linux

Encfs and Truecrypt for encrypted file stores

GnuPG for encrypted files and email

Enigmail to integrate GnuPG with Thunderbird
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I'm also with Schwab. The only thing I can think of is that they're trying to cash in on the anti-bank sentiment of the Reddit crowd the way Ally has. Their difference is branding, not substance.
I mean, why not link to the specific r/reportthespammers submission that was discussing you? (e.g., http://www.reddit.com/r/reportthespammers/comments/16mx8w/se...)

I'm tempted to dig out my toy project that fiddled with the Reddit API to try and find it; since you last submitted something four days ago, it gives me a definitive bound to search through, buuuuut this sandwich isn't going to eat itself.
I'm pretty sure she can only be fired by Obama, but unfortunately I'm not confident "prosecutorial abuse" is a strong enough reason for him to do so.
Given the legacy infrastructure they have to deal with I wouldn't be surprised if the code were dropped in their laps that it would still be impossible not to ruin it when wiring it up.
Chomsky is extremely methodical in citing references and providing evidence to back up his narratives.

Any over correction is on the part of the reader, not the writer.
Pundits and analysts on the internet predicting pricing is sort of like monkeys on typewriters producing Shakespeare. I'll maybe concede that the monkey to useful output ratio is a bit different between the two cases.
Joseph Heller

Kurt Vonnegut's writing is superior to my mind, but a lot of people may disagree.
Although I cannot site specific examples from Chomsky right now (wish I had books other than programmin ones at work, but it may freak out my colleagues) I find that belief in a "secret coalition" is as common in the left as it is in the right. This is understandable, because people don't want to believe the alternate (and, I think, much more correct) idea that you have mentioned, i.e. "This really is just how people behave." It's much easier to believe that some powers are manipulating people.

For the record, I'm not a Chomsky nay-sayer, any intelligent person's (and he's brilliant, of course) opinion needs to be taken into account to update our worldview. It's just that the extremity of some of his positions (in linguistics, too) has made me lower the weight I use while I incorporate his views in the periodic update of my worldview on things.
This is in my admittedly cynical view a false dichotomy posed generally by investors seeking to justify pushing out founders in favor of their handpicked person. I see this more from old school VCs than from the newer breed. Keep in mind the most successful tech companies (Microsoft, Google, Facebook) had founders who stayed in control all the way through. A fact that is recognized by Andreesen Horowitz for example.

The truth is that management is like any other skill - it's learnable and teachable. Founders who do that and can see through the old school VC shibboleths stay in control of their destiny.
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Job interviews are horseshit. I've been on both sides of the table, usually the hiring side. I've encountered people who excel at interview, and turn out to be useless. Conversely, I've encountered people who are horrible in interview, and wonderful employees.

Giving a presentation isn't a test, it's a pleasure. You're not being tested. You're just presenting facts for someone to make a decision. There's not a right or wrong. If there is, you're in the wrong room.

QA is not a test. It consists of tests, sure, but those are for the software, not you. It's a task, and one with a purpose.

Memorising a menu is not a test. It's memorising a menu, for a purpose. If you were memorising a chapter of Crime and Punishment verbatim to get a job at Cheesecake Factory, that's a test, and an arbitrary one.

Getting a license, in the sense that you're tested, again, is different, as those are vocational tests which test your practical skills for a specific application.

Being tested is only part of life if you choose to let other people set your challenges. This is what the educational teaches you to do, and accept as normal.
Ever been in jail?
you're going to have to take that argument a bit farther for it to be convincing.
Most of the article is merely breathless praise of features that other banks and credit unions have had for years, but one paragraph caught my eye:

> Altman said GoBank was also designed to save customers
> time and that Green Dot looked for lots of ways to
> accomplish that. One, he explained, is that customers
> can check their account balance, without logging in, in
> just two seconds -- far faster than the 80 seconds or so
> it takes people on many banks' mobile apps, he said.

So anyone who borrows my phone can see my account balance? If my phone gets stolen while it's unlocked, the thief knows who I am and how much liquid cash I have available?
I voted up this article because I just wanted to read something technical on HN.
That was my entire point.
Well, I'm not too worried about that. ORMs just lead to slower code that is harder to maintain.
That's just people who happened to vote on a particular submission in a particular subreddit. This is not Alexis Ohanian personally clicking a "I agree to shadowban gms8994".
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Interesting. It was submitted five months ago, but he was still posting four days ago.
For what it's worth, the 'xenophobic rural jingos' in and of themselves don't cause a lot of gun crime. The drug trade is the primary source of gun violence in the US.
I think it's worse than just "they didn't ask". They don't even care if a moderator vouches for you.

A week or so ago, it was pointed out to me that ircmaxell was also banned from reddit - I think it was a shadowban as well, since his username still appears as the submitter on some items, rather than "[deleted]" - because he was submitting too many links to his own blog.

Now, this isn't just some average blogger. Anthony is a very well known PHP developer - by which I mean he develops PHP, not just in PHP, and has voting rights regarding the direction the language takes. (Please don't hold that against him, Jeff.)

While I'm sure he was posting a lot of submissions for his own site, it was really great stuff. The first I really heard of him was due to a series of articles he and another developer wrote as a guide to understanding the internals of PHP with directions on what various C code was and how it hung together. It wasn't spam, at least not by any definition I care to recognize.

This didn't matter. Quality didn't matter. Apparently, one of the moderators to /r/php even went to bat for him with the admins, asking that the ban be lifted. The admins didn't care.

Meanwhile, many people submit a lot of content they also made themselves - memes. If you want to make a bunch of advice animal image macros and upload them to imgur, that's fine. If you write a five part dive into the guts of PHP's internals, you're banned.

It's funny too, because maybe I'm remembering incorrectly since it's been so long, but I seem to recall early reddit specifically saying that it was cool to submit your own stuff, and even encouraging it. Now, there's some sort ratio of yours-to-others content that you need to keep in balance, otherwise you're marked a spammer, regardless of how good your own content happens to be.
Ask HN: Freelancers and contracts 
How do freelancers work when it comes to contracts and billing? Do you invoice the customers after the work has been finished? Im guessing so.

Also how do you work with 'online contracts'? Or do you just trust people? Is this best way to email details of what work you will carry out to the client and them agreeing to it in theory are signing the contract.
There emphatically is not a worse motivation that being willing to do anything for money.
Do something to ensure there is a little less tragedy in the commons. Please.
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The court did not invalidate the statute, it invalidated one of the many qualifiers for a company to be deemed a QSB.
Same here. I have a simple account with the $100 opening deposit in it. It's a beautiful UI, but changing banks is an awful pain in the butt and I'm pretty happy, in general, with Bank of America.

My wife and I have our personal and joint accounts there. I hardly ever use my debit card (nobody should! Debit cards are, in general, awful. Credit cards give you actual protection and far more perks). What I care about in my bank is that I can easily connect everything with my wife, that I can easily do bill pay, and that I have full-service ATMs and iPhone apps that include deposit features.

But if I was 20 again and had far simpler banking needs, I think I'd use Simple.

Oh, another thing is, when it comes time for a mortgage or other installment loan, it's sometimes beneficial to have my money at the same institution. If we decided to dump BofA I can see us moving to a credit union (Alliant is great, for example), but as Simple isn't a full-service bank I'd have to pass on it.
At worst, he is guilty of unrealistic idealism, in the same fashion as the original democratic philosophers. But his knowledge and understanding of real power (perception management) is more sophisticated than any adolescent, and for that matter, most adults.
I was referring, specifically, to the issues of corruption and organized crime. But even considering the general murder rate, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that your likelihood of being murdered in Mexico vary tremendously depending on where in Mexico you are. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm guessing there are some areas that are pretty safe and some areas that you'd have to be brain-dead stupid to walk into.
Basically you need to tell apart those who do something bad, and those who know something is wrong and has penalties, and are still doing it. You seem to be claiming that there's no way to do this scalably. I disagree.

You said elsewhere in this thread that shadowbanning is required because otherwise they just create a new account. But the new account starts with none of the positive karma the old one did, so it is hellbanned in the usual way.

Literally all this takes is that the site support non-deceptive versions of ignore/kill/nuke/blast and use them the first few times. If the guy sees his stories being flagged and continues, then stop showing him that his stories are flagged.
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That's because of the moderators checking the spam filter on their subreddits. Most of the recent posts were there.
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Personally, I hope Facebook owns the online dating space in a decade.

It's time for online dating to die. I've had enough of my little sister calling me up with horror stories, like the time a guy's first message was "what's the largest you've taken." No joke.

A world where online dating takes place on Facebook (or Ark) will be a better place.
I'm trying to counter this notion that MIT is a place where information runs free and people are encouraged to explore to their heart's content. The fact that MIT is a billion-dollar defense contractor means that its culture of freedom and openness necessarily exists within well-defined boundaries. Judging from its reaction, MIT clearly felt that those boundaries had been crossed.

From the perspective of a prosecutor, what do you do in that situation? Can you not see how the nature of MIT as a major defense contractor would color an outsider's view of the situation? Do you honestly think the prosecutor would have acted similarly if Swartz had plugged into the network of a sports bar?

I shouldn't have to point this out, but again, I'm not saying that 50+ years or whatever would've been an appropriate punishment for what happened. I'm in fact quite sympathetic to the problem of overly aggressive laws re: network security. But I think it's willful blindness to paint this situation as someone doing something totally harmless and every day and being totally unable to comprehend why anyone would react differently.
That's probably because you don't really know who Chomsky is or what the breadth of his work has been. Even if you choose to discard all his work in politics, he's a towering figure in linguistics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky
> this administration ... could care less about change

So, in fact, they DO care about change then?
You say hyperbole, I say history.
I found another one from a year ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/reportthespammers/comments/jaut1/thi...