skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know who you are. But if you are the creator of this site, you have my respect from the bottom of my heart.

Stackoverflow was wonderful when it was started the way it was. The moderated content was extremely useful. But later, they decided to screw everything up by doing some stupid things like assigning too much power to moderators.

I always used to assume SO was more like the real world democracy; if something isn't right, you could fix it yourself being an ordinary citizen. However, on SO, that's not the case anymore. There is a moderator on top of the users who decides what's right and what's wrong. And he goes into a 'rage mode ON' by flagging genuinely useful questions as 'inappropriate' or 'not suitable for SO', as he pleases.

How can you challenge his decision? God knows. I've searched round the site to report moderators. Good luck with reporting some rogue moderator. I like the fact that you can flag something offensive easily, but I don't like the fact that it's not as easy for the reverse.

Forget the moderators. Let's say you want to ask something about security with sessions in PHP. Good luck finding answers on SO. Your question will be migrated to some weird subdomain.stakcoverflow.com for which you need a separate account to maintain and collect your badges from scratch, again.

That's why I knew there would be a day when someone would start something like this. Nonconstructive nails it for me. And hopefully for other disappointed SO fans too.

Thanks for creating this.
reddit's AskScience[1] also suffered this fate.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience
Does anybody have an idea of how much Tesla employs automation compared to other automobile manufacturers?
My bank hit me with a fee when Dreamhost charged an expired card ... It was my fault for not keeping my account up-to-date but it does seem like the kind of thing their billing code could check.
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There's also the drag effects to worry about which pure rockets don't have to deal with.

This engine could end up being useful in the long run, but the clear path to cheap access to space involves reusability, and a more complex motor works against that.
> They apparently believe that a one-developer, one-vote system would not judge such questions "correctly."

I find this dichotomy fascinating.

They do a fair job of justifying that democratic voting doesn't generally identify useful questions, but then again the site's main feature is a one-person, one-vote system.
The velocity in the drag equation is relative to the vehicle.
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It's doing great at increasing smug.
It's bizarre that they're using valets to search cars.

i) People aren't allowed to take some items onto a plane. One option is to leave those items in their car. What happens when valets find inert hand-grenades or training knives or whatnot? (Legal items that can't go on a plane)

ii) What happens if the valets find illegal items? Do they then call police? Isn't this the kind of thing that US defense lawyers love?
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I work in banking and when a piece of our code went down due to failing to handle load correctly during a market announcement the business was able to say they lost, in that 7 minute period ~£90k.
+1! Slant.co works great because many "not constructive" questions are on the format "which alternative among $x is best for $y?" However, the site seem to be lacking in polish. For example, it doesn't remember your login and the procedure for updating and commenting on viewpoints is convoluted. Plus, there is no timestamps anywhere so it's hard to see what is going on on the site. Stackoverflow is much better from a usability perspective.
"I'm like a lover you just beat up for the first time"

Surely that just demonstrates poor knowledge of history? I mean, between the unethical experimentation on its own citizens of the 20th century and before, Japanese internment camps, the Gulf of Tonkin, the overthrowing of democratic governments in Iran, Iran-Contra, drone attacks for the past 7+ years, Guantanamo, the illegal invasion of Iraq, retroactive immunity for executors of some of the aforementioned...(and that's just off the top of my rather poor memory), how could your disdain have only recently arisen?

I find that a better analogy would be an uncle who gave you nice Christmas presents, so you ignored the persistent rumours that he molested your cousins. And now you're starting to receive the same treatment.
I recently submitted a question to unix.stackexchange, and the next day (after it had been answered) a moderator came along and "improved" the layout of my question. Objectively the result was no worse than my original, and perhaps it was indeed better, but I can't help feeling like my private space was violated by that.
I see really interesting and articulated responses here, so I'm wondering if anyone has tips on how to apply to jobs when you have 0 experience, like when you're straight out of college. I know most of you might be thinking "you have to build a portfolio/repository on github WHILE you're studying and then build from that" but often that's not an option. Maybe I'm particularly stupid but I don't have really time to do anything beyond studying for my courses. So I'm wondering, if you're just out of college and you don't have anything to show, plus you don't have much experience in terms of programming 'cause you just did 2-3 projects during your years as a student, what's the best course?
I wouldn't call RMS unsuccessful. But in any case, you're denying the antecedent. "If successful then creates religion" is not equivalent to "If creates religion, then successful".
The problem with community startups is that the community drives the direction of the startup as much as the company.

Companies can either choose to let the community go in whichever direction they want or they can step in and shepherd the community in the direction they want the business to go in.

Apple does this when pick the kind of apps they'll allow in their store, Stack does this with the kind of questions they allow and Etsy does this with the kind of items they allow to be sold.

Allowing the community to follow a natural path isn't without risk, especially as it's often the people at the edge of the community who end up driving the overall community.

For example look at how having at how adoption of Loopt in the gay pickup community affected it's ability to grow as a more general purpose social network or more recently the impact the Indian population is having on Quora.
If I was to unpack "Successful People create Religions" I would say it is composed of "successful people create objects of worship/adoration" and then "successful people create an ideology/aesthetic/brand/thought paradigm which links those objects of adoration."

But that actually doesn't match with the paradigms of some of the most prominent world religions, which despite being surrounded (in some sects more than others) by the trappings of object-worship, self-identify as explicitly about belief/faith. Scientology does essentially sell a very-specific type of counselling insofar as it is transactional. Many "prosperity" churches, and the Roman Catholic church in the middle ages (and some would argue to a lesser extent today), sell promises of security/eternity. But the majority of monotheistic faith and practice isn't about creating objects of worship/adoration and an ideology that binds them together. Fundamentalism is a symptom of transactional faith, just as entrepreneurship (great or mediocre) engenders faith in a product, and the transactional opportunity to acquire it. Religion that isn't fundamentalist attenuates the acquisition of the object of worship.
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Please also notice that this "news" is reported on Russia Today. Where is the American Reporting? They are too concerned with royal babies, ironically.
Poll HN: POP or IMAP?
For a new email service, which would you prefer?
Where I think bicycles.se tends to excel is less on the mechanical aspects of cycling and more on the technical aspects of riding. There have also been interesting discussions that are more esoteric, too, like how to get your bike on an airplane while avoiding fees.
Exactly what I came here to say. They make valet keys to prevent valets from searching and stealing from cars. Anyone with a bomb in the trunk will obviously use one of those keys.
In case you can't get through, here's the kickstarter link: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fingerprintfilms/dear-mr...
How about we just stick to what we have (freedom of contract) and solve disputes according to the terms and conditions we agreed on, maybe with some PR gestures on top.

Imagine a world where Saas vendors would be liable for economic loss their software bugs generated. You'd have to fill in a huge questionnaire to sign up and everybody would be paying a tailored, very high price to cover all the risks. Every software vendor would be in the insurance business.
Another option is BOTHSIDER.COM (http://bothsider.com).

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Another main reason is that they can't be used on pavements nor on roads
There was a pretty good movie that made you think about that type of situation, "Unthinkable" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0914863/

It's like the question in Swordfish, would you be willing to sacrifice the life of an innocent to save 10,000 people's lives? How about 2 innocents? What about 500?

Once you start to consider making those kinds of trade offs it's a very slippery slope. It seems to me the only correct answer is 0. There is no acceptable trade off to try and counter irrational actions.
Dude, you never had a cold bear? Just use a lever at his neck and drink the wonderful fluid that bursts from within.
Yeah, no IMAP is a bummer.
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Could you tell us why you so sure?
Don't underestimate kinetic energy of a train going 340 meters per second.
Perhaps with nano-tech we can eliminate this?
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I do generally like Stack's focus because I know exactly what I'll find when I get there: super-smart and helpful users (even if I do sometimes have questions beyond its scope).
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A documentary film about the impact of the best comic strip in the history of the universe: Calvin & Hobbes
And completely wrong. It's just that boring old "HAR HAR HAR RIGHT WING EQUALS FASCIST" trope put out by lazy lefties.
There is no difference anywhere. Even in the old communist countries you support one kind of corruption or another. World wide, in democracies, there is a distinct lack of an honest option.
Yeah, I'm not sure what the common 20-something intellectual culture has with plastic surgery. We're all assigned a certain level of genetic prettiness at birth, out of our control (as measured by how people perceive you, facial symmetry, etc.) Isn't plastic surgery a great equalizer?
People still play code golf. It's just now on it's own site.

http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/
I thought the problem was that the NSA does reign? USA! USA! USA!
Neat to see how much more traffic HN has been getting over the years and yet how the average age seems to be creeping up. Oldmanysiteis?
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You must have something to hide! If you're innocent, why not let them check?

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/06/why-i-have-nothing-to-h...
Apparently it is enough legal justification since there hasn't been anything close to a serious legal challenge it. The more interesting question is whether it is morally justifiable.
Could someone please remove Lennart Poettering

- from the f..ing thread title?

- from the discussion?

That's beyond insane. Leave the man alone. Disagree all you like, but this "Ah, that guy that ruined my life with Pulseaudio is now going to take over other stuff" whining, this crappy attitude _really_ needs to go.

Start arguments against the technology, take part in the projects (-> here, Fedora) and vote against decisions you don't like, but don't start running around with pitchforks.

That's really, really low.
Edward Snowden will be more than happy to receive asylum from Germany or Australia but they don't exactly line for that.

So he had to settle on Russia.
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I'm very excited for this film.
Thanks, I saw the .html in the URL and assumed the OP had a good ol' fashioned static site.

Here's the Vimeo channel for the documentary:
http://vimeo.com/dearmrwatterson

Here's the synopsis:

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Calvin & Hobbes dominated the Sunday comics in thousands of newspapers for over 10 years, having a profound effect on millions of readers across the globe. When the strip’s creator, Bill Watterson, retired the strip on New Year’s Eve in 1995, devoted readers everywhere felt the void left by the departure of Calvin, Hobbes, and Watterson’s other cast of characters, and many fans would never find a satisfactory replacement.

It has now been more than a decade since the end of the Calvin & Hobbes era. Bill Watterson has kept an extremely low profile during this time, living a very private life outside of Cleveland, Ohio. Despite his quiet lifestyle, Mr. Watterson is remembered and appreciated daily by fans who still enjoy his amazing collection of work.

Mr. Watterson has inspired and influenced millions of people through Calvin & Hobbes. Newspaper readership and book sales can be tracked and recorded, but the human impact he has had and the value of his art are perhaps impossible to measure.

This film is not a quest to find Bill Watterson, or to invade his privacy. It is an exploration to discover why his 'simple' comic strip made such an impact on so many readers in the 80s and 90s, and why it still means so much to us today.
If you don't like that a question was closed, flag to reopen (if you have over 2k rep I believe). If you don't understand why a questions was closed or feel a moderator is abusing powers, create a post on Meta and it will be dealt with. Then the voice of the users will overrule the moderator decision. Not that complicated, really..

I can't say I recognize the situations pictured in your rant.
He did not steal anything. All witnesses for prosecution said that he was not related to the case, all defence witnesses was not allowed.
Great idea. Imagine seeing this on HackerNews posts, or reddit, etc., even popular posts that got plenty of upvotes and had substantial discussions going on:

"As it currently stands, this question is not a good fit for our Q&A format. We expect answers to be supported by facts, references, or expertise, but this question will likely solicit debate, arguments, polling, or extended discussion. If you feel that this question can be improved and possibly reopened, visit the help center for guidance.
If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question."
Tome, I've had the same thing happen, but I chalk it up to simply the way the site works, which I knew upfront. Occasionally, however, the "help" in refining my question isn't that helpful...
- if you have any closed source projects on e.g. BitBucket mention this on your resume;
Seems like they're following lean principles. I have no problem with them seeing what the interest is before they start coding. Seems smart to me.
I'm curious about that checkbox. The whole reason for it, I'm guessing, is because of COPPA ( Children's Online Privacy Protection Act), but then that applies only when you collect a significant amount of personal information from someone 13 or younger and/or directing them to behave a certain way.

Which leads the question, why would Quora need that much information about me in the first place? I don't recall getting an "I'm over 13" checkbox when I signed up for HN and we're ostensibly doing the same thing: Discussing.
What's wrong with the Dreamhost post? He specifically says:
>"The end to this story is that of course, I’m very very sorry, we’re very very sorry, and I’m sure you’re very very sorry this happened. I really am. I understand the sort of problems that an unexpected large charge to your credit card (or worse yet, your debit card) can cause. If the tone of this blog post seemed a little light, I apologize I don’t mean to offend and I realize how serious an issue this is."

I can see why you'd still be annoyed about not getting your charges refunded though. What happened there? Frankly, if your bank didn't refund them when you told them what happened, they seem pretty scummy. I hope you dumped them as soon as you could!
It's funny that our bar has lowered so much that when we go from "The U.S. Government said this guy was bad" to a paragraph allegedly explaining a rich criminal history, we change our tone from "woah, wait, that's not a fair trail!" to "well I guess that makes more sense..."

If this guy did all of this shit on U.S. soil and was a while, natural born U.S. citizen he could have slaughtered an entire mall worth of people on Black Friday and we'd /still/ give him a trial and we'd /still/ not execute him (unless it was in a capital punishment state).

People are getting really worn down and used to this whole extra-judiciary killing shit.
Actually, SO IS like a real world democracy.

Real world democracy frequently end like this... it is a natural evolution of sorts of democracy, and this is known since democracy exists (there are greek texts about the theme)
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Neat! Great to have an ecosystem of content starting to grow. The Creative Commons license chooser is a good way to go: http://creativecommons.org/choose/. And their "before licensing" page is pretty good too: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Before_Licensing.
For the record, as stated in that thread archlinux moved a long time ago. Some of the mailing list threads and the annoucement:

* Annoucement: https://www.archlinux.org/news/install-medium-20121006-intro...

* Discussion on arch-general: https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2012-Au...

* Discussion on arch-dev: https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2012...

And there should be older threads but I dont have time to look for them now.
Seriously? Compared to that design evacuating the tunnel would make a lot of sense, as would going a lot slower than the speed of sound.

Now when Elon says it's not an evacuated tunnel, and also (indirectly) that you'll be traveling more or less exactly at the speed of sound, I'm leaning quite heavily towards the OP.
By small, I meant that you can hold every little part of the syntax and normal behavior in your head pretty easily. Yeah, there are edge cases (important ones even) and you can build god-awful complicated expressions if you want. But look a the K&R books -- they are slim. It just not that big.

By not-doing-stuff-behind-your-back, I mean that you can map the code you write into machine instructions in many cases. An optimizer will move stuff around on you but it is typically local(-ish) manipulations. That's much less black magic that garbage collection. You have to manage memory yourself.

By being-ballet, I mean that it is hard. I am a swing dancer. The best dancers I know all took ballet classes as kids. None of them dance ballet today. It is probably coincidence/age but the best programmers I know all spent a decade or more working in C. I think working in C gives you a level of understanding about what a computer does that a higher level language doesn't. That said -- if you want to get stuff done, use a higher level language. I'm really good at C coding but I'm x2-10 faster when in C#.
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If this has happened to your account, please send an email to help@twilio.com where we have our support team working on making this right for everyone affected. We are spinning up additional resources to make sure every customer issue gets resolved as quickly as we can.

Link for this article goes to our status board which serves as the authoritative source of information on this incident. We will be delivering updates every half hour or as new information becomes available.

We are very sorry. This is far short of our commitment to you. We'll have more on the incident and what we will do to make this right later today.
> whenever I happen across a closed question, I always sit there and scratch my head "but that's a great question!"

So you're saying that every question ever closed that you have seen, should not have been closed? Then I think SO's moderators and users are not the problem.
2x yearly is standard now for a business with at least 2 years proven history on sales and traffic.
As uptown said, providing valid credit card information creates an authorisation for a merchant to charge to you, if your card expires after that authorisation has already been created you can still be charged and that charge will still be approved by your credit card provider. This is a common problem for people who take out short term loans and then think they can cancel their card to escape being emptied out when due day comes.

Cancelling a card (or letting it expire) prevents new authorisations, it does not cancel previous authorisations.
FooBarWidget (who you replied to) is actually Phusion, the maker of Passenger (the very popular Rails app server). I think they have some very strong anecdotal evidence.

Up until recently Passenger was completely free, with donation options. Now they have an Enterprise offering - which we are happily paying for. I suspect the Enterprise licenses are orders of magnitude more than the donations ever were.
Not to mention, it's just odd to have valets on the front lines fighting terrorism. It would be even more absurd if they did find a bomb. Do they have training to deal with those kinds of situations?
It's far from decided, and controversial to say the least. The systemd package maintainers are certainly acting like they're going to be the default, but it isn't their call.
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Oh! Indeed we forgot to talk about moral in UNIX-like OS software discussion. Oh my, how could we?..
I can substantially increase the probability of success of this particular startup by becoming an early employee and applying my skills and talents. I believe that, and founder who is hiring me believe that -- if either of didn't think so then the hiring wouldn't happen. That is different from an investor who may not see me as exceptional (except maybe they do... after all, investors care a lot about the team, including not just founders but also early hires).