skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't speak for that user, but I ran a forum from around 1997 to 2008 (directly involved until 2005).

Interventions helped.

This only works with moderators who aren't narcissistic, megalomaniacal and/or sociopathic (marginally or beyond). When snark got to be irritating, we would issue a written warning privately. If that went ignored, we'd revoke posting privileges for a day or two (sometimes longer if it's a bad case). Worst offenders got banned. This worked fairly well because our forum was invite only, a bit like Gmail's early days.

If we found that troublesome users were invited from the same set of accounts, we'd issue warnings to the entire tree, so to speak, or in the worst case, kill it with lightning.

Above all else, mods were forbidden from identifying themselves in any way as mods as long as they had the privilege (this will cycle on and off as needed between a select pool of users).

We also had some peculiar rules : http://eksith.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/harshest-forum-rules-...

As they say, most people are basically good.

Sometimes they are surprisingly unaware of how hurtful their posts can be. There's a dehumanizing effect introduced when your communications are filtered through text and suddenly there isn't a "person" per-se at the other end. When this is pointed out to them, usually they understand and adjust themselves.

There are exceptions to this, of course, and the best way to deal with them is to not interact, entertain or in any way give them an audience. Hellbanning in this regard isn't my favorite technique, but it seems to work to some degree.

Now that would only be acceptable if its application is flawless. Sadly, from from what we've seen so far, it isn't.

Edit: Just remembered that I wrote a (longer) spiel about this a little while ago http://eksith.wordpress.com/2012/04/29/re-wordpress-com-foru...
This article is amazing. If you didn't read: two things it claims about the House intelligence oversight committee are:

* That it censored a congressman from discussing the contents of the Snowden leaks with other representatives (search for "sanctions")

* That this chairman allegedly made up a secret committee vote that didn't happen, and that in practice he can get away with this (search for "voice vote")
The first real linear virtual desktop soon becomes Open Source
So when will he be put in jail for piracy?
I think a fabulous night sky also makes people, especially kids, wonder about the universe, what our place is in it, and how it all came about. That's part of why it's such a shame that it's obscured for so many.
They'll still be silent: "Allow scanning by services" is listen-only with no transmission.
So this is a search engine for HTML/CSS/JS code instead of content? Seems like a really useful idea, well done. It would be great if you could give an outline of your infrastructure and process, particularly the indexing strategy. Maybe another blog article?
"In early July, Grayson had staffers distribute to House members several slides published by the Guardian about NSA programs as part of Grayson's efforts to trigger debate in Congress. But, according to one staff member, Grayson's office was quickly told by the House Intelligence Committee that those slides were still classified, despite having been published and discussed in the media, and directed Grayson to cease distribution or discussion of those materials in the House, warning that he could face sanctions if he continued."

Well, since we're having a merry old time stomping all over the Constitution, I suppose asking what ramifications could possibly befall this Representative, considering the "Speech and Debate" immunity provided under Article 1, Section 6 of our allegedly-cherished Constitution, is a moot point. This is why it's probably best that I'm not in Congress, since I'd like to think that my response would have been "so?", followed by my continuing to press the issue. Sens. Wyden and Udall didn't take such a course, so I assume the consequences would have been dramatic.
Triage your favorite Opensource project
Anyone notice how if you reverse the letters PG and prepend it with K for karma, you get the KGP?
I may or may not agree with you, but my comment only considers HN rules and that there is a strong precedent for these HN-policy meta-discussions to be killed by mods.
How to support both Python 2 and 3
> On a related note, you will be hellbanned if you create an HN account over Tor

That's not true. This account was created using a Tor browser bundle less than three weeks ago, and it is definitely not hellbanned.
I appreciate That!!
Hellbanning is necessary because of the low barrier to creating a new account. You are assuming that all users are well-intentioned and can be reasoned with, but this is simply not the case. Any sizable only community will develop a number of hard-core anti-social trolls exhibiting behavior which they can only undertake online (because in real life they would get their asses kicked on a regular basis). When said trolls are also hackers you need some relatively automated and powerful tools to keep them in check. It's unfortunate that there is some collateral damage, but please understand that the choice is not between new users being inconvenienced for not, the choice is between HN being a place where civilized discourse can exist and spiraling towards a 4chan-like atmosphere.
How would these boxes pick up 3g/4g traffic? Also, to pick up WiFi wouldn't the communications have to be unencrypted?
I think you might be misunderstanding just how much of playdoh is generic "basic site setup" vs how much is Django/Python-specific configuration. Playdoh is almost completely composed of configuration for a Django site.

Your suggestion sounds like you think that Playdoh is a generic application template that just happens to use Django, that could be adapted, but that's not the case. At best, you'd be able to see the kind of things Playdoh configures (Security things like X-Frames and CSRF, integrating Persona-based logins, etc) and implement similar things with another environment and framework, but Playdoh is pretty much 99% Python/Django stuff that would need to be replaced.
Ask HN: killer JS framework for RIA
Why is there no rock solid framework for RIA (= JS desktop like apps in the browser)?

Here is my list of serious RIA frameworks.

Ext JS
Yahoo YUI
Cappuccino
Qooxdoo
DOJO
Moo Tools
JqueryUI
KendoUI
zeptojs

ExtJS is commercial, Cappuccino uses a custom language, YUI is old, jQueryUI and dojo don't have good tables & panels. Qooxdoo is very nice, but has not managed to build a rich community for whatever reason. I didn't include Angular and Backbone, because they quite different goals it seems to me.

How does Google's polymer/XBL2/Shawdow-Dom fit into the picture? Any emerging libs already building on this?
> there is a strong precedent for these HN-policy meta-discussions to be killed by mods.

If this is true, it would be a pretty sad state of affairs.

If such a discussion comes up, it's because of a lack of transparency.
When news papers write articles about legal matters, I wish they stop combining different terms and concept as if they were synonymous.

The title says he is a dealer. The subtitle says he is a facilitator. The text says he is a allegedly involved in distributing. Lastly, The warrant says he is a distributor and promoter.

Most of those are quotes, but it confuses the matter to the point of ridiculous. I know what a distributor is. I can guess dealer is a synonym to it. Everything else is just wage hint of "wrongness" with no solid legal ground.
Thanks for being blunt, and no I wasn't trolling, I was definitely very confused earlier this morning...I just saw MEAN and everything else SEEMED to connect but like you said these are NOT interchangeable and not production ready.
The "-enable-audible-notifications" is working with flash audio and it is in chrome since months.
So let me get this straight: someone defending freedom of speech is criminalized to the point where the US will use their political influence to hunt him down worldwide.

Land of the free indeed.
If I make a comment, any comment, and it gets two or more downvotes, I assume the account has been hellbanned and abandon the account.

Why? Because it's happened to me many times in the past.

I create new accounts often. The thought police cannot stop me.
Several years ago, while being logged into and working on several remote Linux servers simultaneously, I rebooted the wrong one.

I realized it approximately .002 milliseconds after pressing <Enter> (after "shutdown -r now") but it was too late.

Since then, I use one style of prompt on my personal machines and other non-critical hosts. On production/critical machines, I use a different style of prompt that stands out quite a bit and includes the hostname in all caps.

It seems simple (and it is) but it has done the job of keeping me from rebooting a critical production machine during the middle of the day.
I'll say it again: we don't know if the security services blackmail politicians, and other influential or powerful people.

When I say black mail, simply knowing that one is routinely snooped on makes people more compliant. The implication can be enough. Had a few joints at college? Want to be a politician? Well, behave and be nice to security issues then, just in case... Very much the Soviet trick. Have every one assume they are spied on.

Not a US problem as such, one for the any relationship between security and politicians (and other powerful people), regardless of country or political system. And all because security insists on secrecy, which I am not convinced is required in a vast majority of cases.

To my mind, the lack of any real reaction to the NSA revelations, both in the US and here in the UK, increase my suspicion that this implied blackmail is rife, perhaps standard practice.
> Producers, whose content get leaked to the secondary market, get caught by law-enforcement, because each video available to law-enforcement is one more piece of evidence that can be used to track and trap them.

It seems to me that the same materials (or even more) would be available for discovery by law enforcement in the secondary market if the secondary market (i.e. redistribution) didn't carry large criminal penalties.

> The consumers in the primary market will get in trouble for their leaking to the secondary market--much in the same way that Microsoft will get mad at you for leaking your company's Windows/Office MAK key--because, if a producer has only given copies of a video to five primary-market consumers, it's quite easy to figure out which of those consumers is responsible for the leak.

The ability to punish leakers is somewhat irrelevant unless there is near 100% success in doing so and the secondary market is entirely eliminated, which seems implausible.

> Since producers and consumers are taken out of the primary market in equal numbers when this happens, supply/demand stays constant.

Are you assuming a 1:1 relationship between suppliers and consumers for some reason?

> The "pirate" re-distributors in the secondary market--the people these primary consumers leak to--don't care about any of this.

Regardless of whether they care, changing availability in the secondary market will affect demand in the primary market because would-be participants in the primary market may satisfy their demand in the secondary market.
no light at nights and see what comes out

Jack the ripper?
The last live post from baidu.com was send 2.7 years ago. I guess that the site is blocked. https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=baidu....
Ubuntu Mono font has an Apple logo in it.
Dictator never give up the power. Only sites which already have good moderation would sign up to such service.
I am frankly baffled that there is a jurisprudential theory under which the viewing of a particular arrangement of bits is, in itself, a punishable crime, let alone by such draconian measures as these.

Exploiting children? Absolutely should be prosecuted. Paying for CP (and thereby directly contributing, economically, to its production)? Definitely. But just downloading and viewing an image? I'm no fan of the idea of CP, nor a radical libertarian, but I just can't grok this idea.

I've heard many justifications for it. The most substantial of these seek to establish some connection between demand for this content (by non-paying/free viewers) and the economic motive to create it. I think many people in this thread--and numerous investigations--have found this link to be tenuous/nonexistent. What, are child porn producers running a charity or something? They're in it for the money. If you download pirated/free CP, they don't get paid, and they'll never get paid.

The more ridiculous explanations, frequently deployed by Jesus politicians and law enforcement lobbies, have to do with a link between consumption of CP and real-life sexual abuse/assault/molestation/rape of minors. Even if we assume, for a moment, that there is some connection and that the causality is intelligible[1], how is that compatible with the spirit of hundreds of years of Anglo-American liberal intellectual history and legal theory? Since when is it okay (or constitutional, etc.) to prosecute someone for something they might do, but haven't actually done? Is this possible in any other area of law, or is CP that special? Why's it so special?

[1] Does CP cause sexual abusers of children to go do that? Or is it something they take an interest in it because they're already sexual abusers?
Is Java really that much more effort to set up than Python? Solr's problem isn't Java, it's the bloaty mess of XML configuration files it insists on having - something like elasticsearch pretty much Just Works.
Seems to be down. Google cache version http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?biw=1256&bih=91...

Edit: alive again
The commit is more interesting than the article:
https://github.com/sympy/sympy/pull/2318

It does fail to mention that you need to also use special exception handling in all cases, eg.

try:
...
except TypeError:
e = exception()
...

...but it hits all the other things, except the obvious, make sure your tests are running continuously using py2, py3 and pypy, otherwise you'll just frustrate yourself as you're coding.
Indeed, although I honestly have no experience with other templates similar to Playdoh (although I know they exist).

In my dream world, Playdoh is a Django project template (rather than this installable-as-command stuff that happened before Django had project template support) that makes it easy to enabled/disable certain annoying aspects, like Mozilla-like L10n. It'd get rid of the vendor submodules and load everything in via pip requirements (Erik Rose's peep would be super-helpful here to avoid having to run a PyPI mirror). It'd also get rid of a lot of the old not-commonly-used code, like the pre-commander deploy script, and it'd take away or make optional some of the extra libraries that not everyone uses (django-waffle is amazing but there's no point in loading it if you're not using it).
The same way I always did: by recommendation of humans and going to gigs. Oh and playing it (I play keyboard, guitar, clarinet and drums).

The world did still turn before everything went all crazy shit "social". Stuff was still found, music was still listened to.
Sorry, that was a typo. Unfortunately I can't seem to figure out how to edit the title post-submission.
Democracy in full effect.

> "If I can't get basic information about these programs, then I'm not able to do my job", Rep. Griffith told me.

Very similar to the judges who do not know enough about technology and make decisions about things they don't understand.
Why would I want a square in my prompt?
Or it should play only when you switch to the tab.
Good friend of mine created Desktop Panorama a virtual desktop environment, after working on it for about thousand hours he recently decided to make it open source.
Hats Off To You, My Friend

Panorama has a user friendly design and it is very intuitive.
The mechanics are simple, you can drag and drop windows in and out of the square, which can give you a better overview.The layout of the program is fairly nice. You can switch between a number of skins and the overall design looks very well.
In theory, you have an infinite number of windows you can move around.
USB is also a standard for chargers now, so why wouldn't it be?
"Legal" does not equal "ethical" or "moral", in any country.
Resurrection records in Camden, London.

No shit music and no fucking hipsters.
Wow! This is exactly what I needed. And it also reminds me that my Emacs config desperately needs a refactor. Today seems to be a good time to do it :-) Thanks for sharing! (and of course, for writing it too in case you are also the author)
What the fuck is scrobbling?
Show HN: Yet Another HN Android App
I used to be correct. You are right now, though.

They started rolling out HTTPS for everyone on November, 2012 (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:develop...)

But since I don't live in the US, it must have taken Facebook a long time to get to my country. I still remember telling all my friends to opt-in to HTTPS in 2012.
Show HN: Tube Map Live for iOS
Cell phones causing cancer isn't "up in the air". There's zero evidence to suggest they do and no theoretical reason to expect them to.
You are very right.

EXTJS is the only RIA and desktop top js lib that has enough features to be a net gain for the UI dev. There is room for a desktop focused lib in this space, that is not at the scale of EXT, or even an opensource project.

http://www.kendoui.com/

Kendo is not ideal but does address a couple of your issues. It is opensource for delayed versions and commercial for current. But it has a poison tree license on the free version. I only bring it up because some of the structures allowed me to build a recent project with a mostly desktop feel, although the documentation is beyond horrible.
> ... a team of mercenaries paid under the table by the police ...

Or, you know, the police themselves.
Never delete email. Never. Archive, of course, but never delete.

I have been in, and involved in, too many cases where old emails have been crucial evidence in both minor and major ways, personally and professionally.

House keep, tidy, archive. But always have them ultimately available. Never delete.

I'd say the same about paper work. Advantage with email is that its easier to manage and store.
NerdyData
Our mobile site is still under development.

Please visit from a desktop browser

Why would you go to the trouble of blocking Mobile visitors instead of serving them the full version?
I hope Greenwald gets his chance to the hearing. So convenient for Obama to cancel his hearing [1], so they won't be able to have one until Congress gets back to work, so they have plenty of time to strategize against him, and get the politicians they need on their side.

http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/31/greenwald-hearing-canceled...
As someone who runs some large boards, blocking Tor stops trolls. Does very little for spam.

For spam, http://www.stopforumspam.com is pretty awesome. But most likely because the few people who have written scripts for vBulletin or phpBB attempt to hit all of the vBulletin and phpBB sites... so it works pretty well for that group. May have zero effect on something like HN where an entirely different approach may be used (cheap labour?).
Six months later I got a phone call from an office of an ENT here in Canada. I was unbelievably angry.

I had a similar experience with the UK's public healthcare system when I was studying abroad there; had I been completely dependent on it, I likely would've died before being treated.
This looks like a really bad way to find Optimizely's clients. You can just download all of their .js files from their CDN, then parse the domain names.
To be perfectly honest, I hadn't reviewed the HN guidelines in awhile, and I forgot about that one. If I have an issue in the future I'll be sure to do that, however, I think this discussion is valuable to the HN community, and it would be unwise for me to delete this post.
UK now most unequal country in the West
GNU bzr 2.6.0
Copious Data, the "Killer App" for Functional Programming
To tell you that there is encoding (or font) problems in your setup before it turns into a real issue. (?)
From the TOS: At least 30 days notice will be provided to the associated email address(es) on a Copy account in the event of [...] deletion of data due to inactivity.
That's ridiculous.

I often get down-voted for some of my more bone-headed, humorously off-topic or bad faith posts. Well, not _very_ often (generally I'm a good soul) but you get the point.

If you're not making this up and this has happened to you many times then maybe you should consider the possibility that your posts are not adding anything of benefit to the site. I created one account initially and went from there. I have never even felt the need to create an alter-ego, and evil twin or a "posting-while-drunk" safe account.

Hope that helps. Think twice or thrice before you hit the "reply" button.
Somehow nobody mentioned market dynamics.

Your health is priceless. You'd pay anything for yourself or your children. Therefore the going rate will be whatever maximizes profits, which doesn't necessarily mean providing services to everyone (at least in backwards countries) but usually means providing service to "most of the community", more or less.

That's why when very few people are tourists, its profitable for the tourists. Obviously this doesn't scale because if you can outsource basically all non-emergency medical care, prices will rise for tourism because the served group now earns 5x as much so "why not" charge 5x as much if the locals don't go there anymore.

Its no different than "tourist-y" restaurants and stores. Once the locals are chased away, prices explode to what the tourists can pay, what the locals pay doesn't matter, they're kicked out of the market.

Once the real economic value disappears, all thats left are scammers. So "everybody knows" that going to .mx for raw vanilla, tequila, and jewelry is a losing proposition because so many crooks are involved. You'll hear accusations of this for medical tourism, but its just not there yet. It'll take awhile but the economic forces are inevitable, at which point there will be true medical disaster stories about scammers.
TIL I have an encoding or font problem by not using Mac OS X..
Official Imgur App Now On iOS
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5965697

Posted from Tor, as was this comment.
"I'd love to hear how you solve the problem."

While this is fair question for sure not being able to solve a problem (right away) and identifying a problem are two completely different things.

Especially when asked to solve a problem as if it's a question on a test. And the fact that a problem is hard to solve or someone doesn't have an immediate answer doesn't mean there isn't a problem to be solved. Nor does it matter if they have ever run a popular discussion web site either.

In the real world to "solve a problem" such as this would take thought, time and testing all of which a commenter is not going to be able to do a good job of in a "reply" to a question posed here.

Most likely no low hanging fruit of a reply available.

I was asked a few days ago "well what would you have done then if you were Snowden?". As if I'm supposed to be able to come up with or commit to a response that makes sense on the spot. I simply won't do that.
We know exactly how they are being blackmailed: if they don't cooperate, they will be outed as unpatriotic and anti-American via the media, and their political careers will be destroyed as their peers duck for cover.

The threat is so clear and obvious it never needs to be expressed.

That's what the American doctrine of "patriotism" is all about, and it will remain that way until Americans start recognizing this is not just a word describing the normal love for ones own country most people around the world share, but an extremist ideology aimed at silencing dissent and enforcing conformity.