skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would you like to explain what about that you find so offensive? Because that whole line of indignation really felt like so much pearl clutching to me.

Dude writes really whiney content. And then there's his name. That's super unfortunate. That's not, like, a slam on his family or a dig about his person. That's just a linguistic observation.

If I made compost bins, for example, that's a completely legit parallel for someone to point out, even if silly.
That's really cool how you got the phone stuff working!

What do you instead about having the user enter their own phone number and zip code on the site and click submit.
Then twilio calls the rep and the user? That way the user doesn't have to even dial.
But both New York City and New York State are places. When someone just says "New York," going by which place had that name first is a reasonable way of resolving the ambiguity.

Also: "York" is a city in England. It should be apparent that "New York" also refers to a city. "New York State" is the state in which the city of "New York" happens to be.
> One weird result: 11% of user accounts have an @gmail.com address but were signed up without OAuth

Not weird at all. It's the number of users who don't like reporting to Google every time they want to use your product. If I were a user of your product, I might have been one of those 11%. I never log in with a third-party identity if there is an option to create a username & password, and if there isn't such an option, I usually just walk away.

Back to the main thesis of the article. Whether or not your business benefits from social logins probably depends on the nature of your business. Are you in the social gaming scene? You absolutely need Facebook integration. Do you sell an app that caters to mobile developers? Most mobile developers need to have an account with each of the major mobile platform vendors anyway, so it's reasonable to expect that people will use their Google accounts.

But the article you linked to at the beginning was written by Aaron at Mailchimp, and Mailchimp's main line of business has no obvious connection with any of the social login providers other than that they often send email to them. Mailchimp's most profitable clients are corporations, who spend serious money with their corporate account. They might even have specific employees who are responsible for the company's login credentials. It's not hard to see why those clients might not be attracted to social logins.

tl;dr: Generalization is difficult to do properly.
Such a great, stable, and easy to use product. Keep it simple and reliable.
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Are you saying that the "You can probably stop reading" quote was out of context? If I remember correctly, it was the first sentence. What context are you referring to?
If ejabberd starts up, I found it to work rather nicely, so it is not a big problem to me.

But I wish you the best of luck with Prosody, as I said, I really liked it at the time and I trust it only got better :) – regarding the ‘soon’, 2015 is likely an optimistic estimate given Debian release schedules etc…
The problem is that there economics is pretty simple, so there isn't much that can be invented here: you want the people who are currently starving to produce more stuff that others want to buy so that they can buy food for themselves and their family.

Economic innovations won't help with that, but engineering ones might.

Or just remove the trade barriers with Africa and start buying from them like we do with the Chinese.
How does Uber harm the community?
> The sooner people understand that anti-social behaviour is about community and not about rights the better

"Anti-social" behavior according to whom and to what extent and for what purpose? For the purpose of feminizing men so that they are more passive and they fit better into your ideals of who people should be? So to fit men who want to be themselves into your little cult of civility?

> I still see people confusing the two.

There is no confusion. People want to be themselves and want a culture to cater to that. Instead you want a culture that caters to your needs. Which is fine, but that is no global definition of what that is and how to implement it. The idea that everyone and every community should conform to these feminizing norms is highly flawed. And is totally arbitrary.

> Both behaviours will leave adults concluding

Massive generalization. Adults, eh? Fuck you for calling any ideals that don't conform to your to be childish.

> mates establish a norm of anti-social behaviour, you will neatly exclude large portions of the population including most women, most children and most men over 30.

The point is to appeal to your group, not to appeal to all of society. That's what religions attempt to do, and fail all the time doing. There are no ideals that fit every community or even all of society. To attempt to create such ideals is essentially social engineering. It's the purview of totalitarians.

> intelligent conversation about tech and startups

Fuck you for calling people who don't conform to your norms unintelligent.
I agree completely. (I accidentally downvoted you, sorry.)
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I don't think this is reactionary. I am still a fairly new user and hardly participate for various reasons, one being that I come here for the programming resources because I just started learning to program.

I'll preface what I think with this: I grew up with a computer since the early 90s. I used BBS's, and online communities since then. Internet culture always seemed to me to be very abusive, with very few exceptions. And as Dave says, there is a whole aspect of anonymity that makes people very comfortable when saying whatever they want, since they feel there will be no retribution.

For me, HN is one of the better places when compared to other forums I visit, such as music ones (not the technical side of music, by the way).

The one common problem I see is a user not giving another the benefit of the doubt. When I took an online course at university, the prof sent us a link regarding "Netiquette". It was actually very interesting. I can't find the exact one he sent the class, but it was something like this: http://ctlt.ubc.ca/distance-learning/learner-support/communi...

Anyway, one thing that stuck with me is asking genuine, courteous or friendly questions when you disagree with someone. There were many, many times when I would read someone's point of view which I thought were absolutely false. But I took the recommended route of asking a question to clear up some information. This is what I mean by giving the person the benefit of the doubt.

I think a lot of people worry that all of this is a competition and everyone's out to prove they are right. It is difficult to admit one is wrong, I know. But those who are sometimes right go out of their way to try and humiliate others with snarky or sarcastic comments. I used to be exactly like that when I was a kid participating in online communities in the 90s. Then I read something Oscar Wilde wrote: One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

It's pretty simple, but it works. You think you're right? Fine. But play nice. It may seem disingenuous, but ask questions which you think will lead the person to what you think is right. I've done it and many times the person knew something I didn't. Sometimes we were talking about different things. Sometimes I was right, but hey, at least the person learnt something new, and I learnt how to be a better person. And, of course, many times I was wrong, and I think to myself, "I'm glad I wasn't an asshole to him/her right off the bat".

I think we would benefit from interacting with others online the way we would if we were talking to them in person.
The system worked flawlessly for me, and hitting * to automatically connect to the next representative or senator saved a ton of time. Great work!
No, it's not, if you RTFA you would see that you're paying for their time and talent. The photographer still holds the copyright to those photos because they took them. Some photographers will be happy to license or even sell the rights but that's going to be a significant extra charge. It's the difference between buying a print of the Mona Lisa and buying the Mona Lisa. That digital file is their negative and you could very easily take that into Photoshop, make it look like it was painted by a clown and then put it up on your website with the photographer credit. You can do that if you want but you're going to pay for the privilege.
In my journey as a programmer I discovered that sometimes people who told me my ideas sucked turned out to be wrong, and many of the folks who leaned on superior background were stagnant and became institutionalized in a way that is similar to a professor who relies on tenure for credibility. There are a lot of false idols to be worshipped in programming if you are looking for someone else to tell you what to do.

The elitism isn't shocking anymore, but it is sad and limiting. I want to hang out with / work with a programmer like this as much as I want to hang out with a religious zealot. Which is to say not at all.
For some reason I can never load LWN stories, so: https://github.com/ktap/ktap
To do PDF, you better install HTML->PDF command line tool than that. What this do is simply load a webkit browser and we just perform an screen of that.
Is it accessible on the 443 port like GTalk?
Thanks for the schnozzel link! Just last night I pulled out my exped pad and thought "huh, that's going to be annoying to fill up". Problem solved thanks to your good offices.
Whenever you put your own work in the world, then expect criticism. It doesn't mean verbal abuse should be the norm - it just means that criticism is most likely gonna' happen. HN isn't the only online community - and it's most likely not your target market for a startup. So pushing a product that's not intended for HN users as a target demographic, and bleeding over every critique here is the wrong move. If anything, you'll understand your tech stack and scalability concerns by doing a Show HN here. It shouldn't be your go-to source for pushing your startup.

I like to think of HN as one big subset of focus group users. Get another subset of people with a similar psychographic/demographic trait and you're likely to face just as much criticism, just of a different bent than you would receive here.
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I browse in a 1050x1680 side monitor, and you seem to be assuming minimum 1280w - about 20% of the page is scrolled off the side. I can't remember the last time I saw a horizontal scroll bar on a page. You ought to think about whether you can make the page design more responsive, or at least consider whether 1280 is appropriate for whatever your target audience is.
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That's probably a really important insight

We do get crap articles being posted (there is less decent meat on HN)

But we want the comments to be insightful and relevant. Which basically means rewarding those who have domain insight / experience. Which is hard.

FOr example, if there is a thread on web security and cookies, I would like to see tptacek's comments near the top so I can see them

But how to automate that? Its feasible I suspect but not easy.
Why don't you just flag articles from his domain?

Why don't you restrict yourself to commenting on the things he's sad rather than commenting on him?
I have not used hangouts, but the name appears to suggest some sort of chatroom? Wouldn’t a XMPP MUC[0] do the trick at least for text-based chats? I can hardly imagine someone wanting to use audio/video all the time anyhow.

[0] http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0045.html
Open-plan offices make employees less productive, less happy and more sick
This is pretty much what working in university IT is like, yeah.

The less work you do, the more you'll keep everyone happy, and the higher your job security. If you try actually getting anything done, you will make people mad and lower your job security.

I suspect this is true in many/most large organizations, not just universities, yeah?
This is the second one of these i've seen and neither of them does anything interesting with 'sudo'... :|
Troubleshooting can be a bitch.

Could you add a tl;dr though?
Case for why it's better to rely on browser for comments instead of the webpage
There is a rudimentary troll block at HN. It just doesn't work very well.

The troll block here is "hellbanning." http://toway1234.tumblr.com/post/16021243707/hacker-news-hel...

The problem is that since hellbanning is inherently passive-aggressive -- nobody in the community knows it's been applied, not even the person who's been banned -- it doesn't teach the community lessons on what behavior is beyond the pale. The banned person simply disappears. This makes life easier for the admins (since it lets them avoid both having to confront the person being banned and a time-consuming discussion of why that person was banned), but at the cost of not putting forward an example of How Not To Be for others to learn from and follow. So people make the same mistakes over and over again.

If people really do need to be thrown out of the community, it'd be healthier to have at least some of that happen via public executions rather than silent disappearances. At least when you see someone up on a gibbet, you get the message not to be like that person if you don't want to end up there yourself.

Full disclosure: I was partially hellbanned myself (submissions only, not comments) for a period, despite having 4,000+ karma at the time. I still don't understand what I did wrong, really. The experience knocked my opinion of HN down a few notches.
But you can be honest about a bad/terrible idea without being and asshole about it. I thrive on the criticism I get from others and look forward to speaking with people who think my ideas are no good, as long as they can explain their reasoning. There's a world of difference between "Your idea sucks." and "Your idea sucks because,"
Designer News is not relevant to this world. HN it is. Let them do whatever they want with their elite community.
Respond to them how you like if you're doing it there. But here? People prefer better conversation.
I think your estimate might possibly be to high: According to what I've been explained by friends who let rooms via AirBnB, you don't fill your rooms or apartment with "average" city rates. You will have to be on the lower end to do that and have a "clean" rating, too. That seems to be about $ 50 for rooms and about double for flats in NYC, therefore I would assume the actual income is more likely to be about half your estimate.

On top of that, there is an administrative overhead to normal renting of a flat. And, to be top-ranked, you have to be extra-nice to maintain an excellent rating on the site, too. Not so sure that beats the comforts renting with well-defined contracts...

I think AirBnB is for you or your family & friends if you want to use that apartment yourself at times, too, or if you are sharing a room in your flat to pay the mortgage, and similar such cases. It probably does not beat renting, otherwise I assume this service would have gone even more "viral" long ago...
Female here. I'm not going to speak on behalf of everyone, but I use dick-sucking, cirlejerk and all sorts of various illustrative language to get the point across. We had this issue come up with Linus re: a female dev before (re: "circlejerk"). It really doesn't matter to me what terminology people use as long as it is about my intentions and not about me personally.

I guess my language caused this comment to be [dead]? Heh.
Well, for one thing, I got an apartment in building where I knew sub-leasing was not allowed.
It's worth considering if the meaning of this article/complaint changes at all if you replace the words "Hacker News" with "Internet messageboard".

Is this something unique to HN, or something that many popular messageboards with anonymous posting features have in common? My guess would be the latter.
> "Angels of our Better Nature" improve HN, and I take that to be his context.

I think that's what I meant but just to make sure: when I'm talking about standards a part of it is to make an effort to contribute to a fruitful discussion. It's about trying to raise the level of the discussion rather than lower it.

I see it as a problem that polemic comments have a tendency to get easy upvotes, and that's ultimately a cultural issue around here. What makes this problematic is the fact that ultimately it's a self-defeating behavior. It's not enough to just push personal responsibility aside and point at the voting buttons as a source of morality and motivation (as I believe Danilo just did). To keep a community valuable, more effort is required than simply relying on populism and the conviction that the other users have to accomodate you.

And just because I'm probably sounding pretty sanctimonious, let me repeat that I don't think I did particularly well in this regard up to now either.
Appreciate the feedback! Making it responsive is definitely something I want to add
What's going on in the console there?

Otherwise, very cool! Assuming you're going to put a little bit more into there. Maybe a command to send you an email or something would be neat (and fun to abuse).
Why does anyone care whether one group of people (e.g., women) wants to participate? I love how the antithesis of "equality" and "fairness" is always creeping its way into every sector under the misnomer of the latter two.

"Here, be fair to everyone by limiting what you say so that women can participate."

If you want to participate in a community, do so, otherwise don't. A community is an emergent whole comprised of the free will of its constituents, not some inorganic machine that should be influenced by special interest groups (e.g., <XYZ group>'s Rights Advocacy).

TL;DR - If you don't like our community, go the fuck away or make your own "community" wherein your dogma can be enforced.

Alt TL;DR - If you love something let it go...
I think you missed the point. Go ahead and repeat that quote to every male around you and see if they all approve.
any reason why you guys choose to pipe the compressed content into `tar xzf` process inside the container instead of extracting it outside and overlay the extracted content onto the container via overlayfs or something similar ?
That might be true if your worldview started and ended at the edge of NYC. For the rest of us, AirBnB is used across the country in suburbs and less populous cities.

If you have a two family house and "air out" the second apartment, how exactly is that converting externalities into profit?

I'm not sure a densely populated city should really make any objections to externalities.
It's not Wordpress.

It's actually quite clever, creative and cool.
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I thought this was America! Huh? Isn't this America? I'm sorry, I thought this was America. -Randy

I just went on a european trip and used airbnb. Houseboat in Amsterdam (super awesome place) My "Experience" was wonderful. However, I did feel that the security deposit was unsettling. Their word against mine kind of thing. So it goes. I guess we will just leave the hotel business to the professionals. How did 9flats avoid this?
The intention of the law is irrelevant once it becomes law. Airbnb will never win this fight because it's obvious what the law targets: prostitution and illegal hotels. That said, there are alternatives where you can stay with people for free, although that will be a lot more difficult. In that case, it would not be considered renting.
Thanks nivla, I had a chance to speed read most of them. I didn't see too much trolling other than from Dave responding to almost every comment on there (fanning the flames).

Just like I said earlier, Dave is personalizing his past experiences and shoving them on Mayer. The CEO of Semantics lead him on, but the BIG DIFF here is that Mayer is the CEO and like I think the brightest comment on there said, Mayer has to have a very thorough plan. She has alot to prove in this position, to shareholders, to her team, the board, and to everyone pushing the PR.
They bet on GoogleTV for that (and have apparently quietly abandoned that).
I DuckDuckWent it?
Not to single you out specifically, but you guys sound like a bunch of pansies. Make up a few fake people with names and addresses and use those. It's more fun to do so on the spot.

Ted Billson. There...use that. His email address is ted@bill.com if you get asked. ;)
The article is a lead-in to an app that helps you create personas.

I personally believe in the effectiveness of personas, but they can take a lot of time to do right, which is why I think there is a market for this type of SaaS.
Saying that Google Checkout is being replaced is extremely misleading to merchants. Almost all Google Checkout merchants process less than a million with Google Checkout, so it is not worth it for them to do their own credit card processing or if they are large enough, there isn't enough of a value prop to use the wallet API.

The Wallet API was announced back in November, but it seems never caught on. I remember that 1800 Flowers and Rockport were offering discounts to customers that used Buy with Wallet, but this doesn't seem very successful by the lack of top merchants that aren't adopting it (even when there is a financial incentive like when Google funded the discounts for Rockport and 1800 flowers). Yes all people that buy Android apps have a Google Wallet account, but they aren't using this account outside of the Android ecosystem.

The customer support for checkout just isn't there as well. It has always been via email and extremely slow. With Paypal if you do over 200k then you get a dedicated account manager and they always have phone support. It has always seemed like a product that they are trying to make solve a problem it isn't equipped to handle- like having Android developers setup a Google Checkout account in order to get paid. It isn't designed for developer needs but it works well enough to get by.
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Probably the worst possible way Branes could have handled what would have been an insignificant incident to most.
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HN is a fairly tight knit community overall and I think the repercussions for being problematic citizens would be stronger. Simply posting someone's real name is not sufficient: It needs to be the person, their company, their work history, etc, to be a sufficiently strong deterrent.

Your point about whistle-blowers and retaining anonymity for privacy/protection reasons is a very valid one, I hadn't considered that.
I'm not parent, but I think /r/business and /r/finance on Reddit are quite interesting. They're relatively low-trafficked subreddits that can still maintain centrist (balanced) and informative discussions.
That's a bit of a stretch, I'd say. In this specific case, unless the mayor's tenure is actually benefiting drug crime more than a $200,000 cash infusion would, I don't see how this could be a net positive.

If it were a matter of "give an illegal bribe to an aide who filmed something illegal being done by an already-corrupt official," that would be different. It's still not "life-saving research" unless that corruption is actually costing lives, but it fits with your argument.

I don't think that's what's going on here. The author seems right on target: They're trying to do something that will incidentally (but obviously) fund a whole lot more harm than it's likely to save.
Is there a connection between this and the distributed task queue that I am missing, or do they just have the same name?
Android fans dislike the iPhone

So, the book appeals to people who think like this?
centre? lol You must not be American. We're busy complaining about the DoJ, IRS, and two administrations that don't have control of their bureaucracies.

You know, the things that matter in American Democracy. ;)