skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If I go to comment at a wordpress site it says this: "Email (required) (Address never made public)"

So wordpress - not disqus or gravatar (which I'm aware is owned by wordpress) - is lying to you. Let's put the blame in the right place.
(You missed your [1] footnote.)
...and this spaces are full of people that are doing their job by passion and not because they don't have the choice, right? This is sad to read such a comment.
Personally I would love the option to plug in an ssd-disk, solely for those games with massive loading times. That's the setup I have on my PC, and it works very well.
Sailfish ported to Nokia N9
How Am I Supposed to Get Experience Without a Job in the First Place?
it has way more comments that votes, which triggers automatic downvoting.

[and i see that you immediately assume - with no evidence or knowledge of how ranking here works - that it was excluded "actively and consciously" rather than through some automated process.... at what point do you start to question your own process of solving problems? maybe blaming everyone else is not always right?]
> If it were not for the bug, then many posts with a negative score would show up on hot pages.

I think you misunderstood. What I got from this, is that articles under 0 MUST NOT show up on the Hot page.

Now that could probably have been implemented as a filter, but I don't think it's a bug doing it in this weirder way.
It gets a bit awkward when you comment on racist/anti-immigration websites with your (at least semi public) email while you represent a far right party that officially has a zero tolerance on racism.

The party has its roots in the skinhead/neo-nazi organizations and they have been trying to shake that image problem for quite some time now. To be fair, putting on suits has helped them.
Why is a link on HN downloading an EXE?
Linux Voice hit crowdfunding target and will make a new magazine
Puzzle Facade: Rubik’s cube in a building facade
Some predictions for careers that will be taking off a decade from now
you are absolutely right, we have public email addresses, and also the spam filters. But then still, information needs to be protected. There are people who dont want their email addresses public or in some list which is being sold over and over again to marketing companies which then flood your inbox with spams. It is irritating at times even if there's spam filters.
You should be thankful for those patches as the version on the disc you bought is virtually unplayable. The goods didn't come until Spec II in my opinion, nearly 1 year after initial release.
IF you are looking to turn a coding blog into direct monetization, my suggestion is to blog every single day and publish amazing content. Even then, it is a long game.
Even if this features didn't exist, something I find interesting but most people don't care about is still easier to find on new.
Hah, yes I did! Thanks. I edited it in. It was just a list of a few C functions whose names I find particularly obnoxious.
Winning money in a coding contest isn't a constitutional right. The comments in this thread are tiring.
MD5 hashes of emails is very common practice for Gravatar etc. - although it's fairly sucky, I'm assuming this is in the API specifically for things like showing Gravatar images.

I reported a username -> plaintext email vuln to Disqus earlier this year and they were very prompt in patching it, I wouldn't criticize them for this at all as this a very common issue across most blog comment systems.

Would be nice to change how Gravatar works, but it's fairly fundamental. I think if you want your email to be private you should probably be registering temporary ones or using the + aliases like gmail offers to avoid these kinds of hash-cracking attacks.
I personally think that the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_1980_Bologna_bombing should be part of that list.
Yes. I know about the ones in Arizona and Nevada because I know (offline) two friends that work in them; one with a boyfriend, one with a husband, both go to college and "cam" in the studio after classes a few nights a week for extra money. The boyfriend is in his girlfriend's page most of those nights so they can chat whenever it's not busy. They're both also active in their local kink community; they have a passion for voyeurism and get paid for it.

Yes, there are "sex workers" that are being exploited or coerced into their situation all over the world. Not everyone who turns on their webcam and disrobes for money is one of those people, and the fact that there are companies catering to them isn't in itself a "sad" thing. They're not part of some underground -- you can find the job listings for the studio's building managers, website maintenance and such on Monster.com. If you've ever visited Philadelphia and walked the tourist attractions, you unknowingly walked by the nation's largest phone sex hotline too. It's a cubicle-farm call center, the employees wearing normal work attire while working FT shifts for FT pay, benefits and bonuses.
MongoDB is not significantly better at any particular thing so yes, Redis can be used as an alternative for the things I may use MongoDB for. Keep a close eye on http://www.amisalabs.com
I agree, sorting by controversial is mostly useless. Instead of controversial posts you get articles/comments nearly no one cares about
> Four grand jury indictments and a criminal complaint allege unjustified beatings at downtown Los Angeles jail facilities

Wait. Is there such a thing as a justified beating in a US jail?
Croatian central bank establishes that Bitcoin is legal in Croatia
I use name.com for my half-dozen personal domains, and am yet to have any issues with them.

eNom I've only ever encountered while working for a web hosting company, and remember nothing but pain.
>Go to Manhattan and talk to a bunch of 25-35 year olds. Count how many men are sick of just "giving it up" and want to get married versus how many women express a similar view.

I am a woman in my 30s and I have never ever once in my life heard anyone else use the term "give it up." I am going to go out on a limb and say people just don't talk like that. Not the women I associate and have continued to associate with through my 20s and 30s.

And the real data might be surprising.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/02/21/why-men-are...

Rather than living up to the stereotype of commitment-phobic bachelors, modern men reported that they fell in love just as often as women, were just as likely to believe that marriage is “forever,” and scarcely bit when asked whether they'd prefer to “just date a lot of people.” But most shocking was how many of the single men wanted to settle down—and how willing they were to lower their standards to make that happen. A whopping 31 percent of adult men said they’d commit to a person they were not in love with—as long as as she had all the other attributes they were looking for in a mate—and 21 percent said they'd commit under those same circumstances to somebody they weren't sexually attracted to. The equivalent numbers for women were far lower.

the percentage of men saying "yes" to imperfect committment was actually highest among men in their 20s, almost 40 percent of whom said they'd commit without love (compared with 22 percent of women).
Even better, you can be certain a great number of users reuse their password
I'm considering buying a PS4, and my gf keeps asking me why don't we just get a PS3 instead, as they're so much cheaper and the games look just as good?

Now after reading this article I'm really wondering. We don't have any consoles except a Wii so I was looking forward to having a "media centre" finally, but it looks like I'm SOL there on the PS4. :S
Dreamcast had a modem that was supported by very few games. There was an optional Ethernet adapter that's very rare and supported by even fewer.

The ethernet on the PS2 was optional until one of the later hardware releases. Very few games were released using it until after the PS3 had already shipped.
Yeah well, the person has himself to blame. Either be identifiable or anonymous. Don't use private email and expect to be untraceable. That's just mad.
>It's a really interesting thought that this whole "learn to code" movement existed in some form seventeen years ago and somehow didn't take off when it seems like such an inevability right now.

It seemed an inevetability back then too (and 10 years before that, with the first wave of the cheap PCs).

Like now, it actually wasn't.

>But I think it's one of those things we'll look back on like the 2010 iPad / 1993 Apple Newton and say "yeah coding trade schools were a cool idea back then, but the world just wasn't ready for it yet", and now that they've become 'cool' so to speak we're going to see that permanent explosion.

Nope, it's just a fad now too, driven by the current bubble. It will subside with it.

>I mean, I'm new to this game but did you even call it "coding" in 1996?

You'd be surprised, but it was called coding in 1986, 1976 and even 1966. And it has been considered cool, in the right circles, ever since 1970 (circa).

>I mean were startups even a thing in 1996?

Sure they were. And Open Source. Everybody and his dog started a startup around that time, until they had a bubble bust circa 1999-2000.

Seriously man, you have to check up on the history of this "coding" thing. You seem to be missing a lot of knowledge, that's not just folklore but also essential to a well groomed
developer.

Here's a 1998 documentary on the building of Mozilla:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u404SLJj7ig

Here's the Hacker's Dictionary:
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/index.html
I miss SNES days, where you just insert a cartridge and play -- with no loading times ;)
New US spy satellite logo features world-devouring octopus
How  "Email Tracking" Proves To Be Effective
Oh yes, although too many "alias" commands will mean that it's possible to search for the known plaintext of 'alias'. But the more non-ascii bytes there are the more it will put off my analysis which dependeds on isprint().
The evidence so far shows Milt was inside the bike lane at all times and the stretch of road was straight and easy to navigate.
Life isn't fair. People are born into random circumstances outside of their control that vastly affect the quality and direction of their life. Sociey has developed in an imperfect fashion, and has many issues. These problems are complex, and there is no silver bullet. Some people are trying to create a positive impact, and hopefully make things a little better. Meanwhile, you sit here bitching about "reverse discrimination". What is your better solution?
Ask HN: How to Deal with a Conservative Family?
I'm an undergrad and my family is very conservative. For instance, my aunt who works at IBM thinks 'programmer' is the software equivalent of a construction worker. My grandfather tells me not to write open source software because I don't get paid for it and so on. Any attempt at explaining why my GPA is getting lower and lower as I focus on projects outside of class is futile: they see me doing something weird, going down a path so foreign and assume I must be wasting time or doing something wrong. I imagine many of you are going or have been through the same situation; what should I do?
What is beneficial to society is none of your competence, so you would do wise to refrain from such comments.
I do the same. I haven't seen stats but my hunch is that "accounts older than 3 years" flag those stories much more frequently than "accounts created in the past 3 years". The former is becoming smaller and thus, about two years ago, the submission/popularity of "reddit-style" articles. I blame Jeff Atwood for constantly posting about how great HN was on his blog years ago. He started it haha.
I mostly agree, but nothing is pure and perfect. I've seen many people in dev out of necessity rather than appreciation or even desire/passion. Many people despise it deeply (managerial harassment, being undervalued as a person, high stress, absurd workplace processes). It's better for social status and pay.
It'll void your warranty, but I've heard of people replacing the internal disk in their PS4 with an SSD, and it does exactly what you'd expect when it comes to load times.
For those of you who never are on Reddit, both keltranis and raldi posting here are former Reddit admins.
+1

I have put a great deal of effort into improving the level of automation that can be performed without writing code, or working with graphical mathematical structures (such as wiring together nodes in a graph, or building a flow chart).

The work done on Logo, a language designed to teach children how to program, has been particularly helpful. In the system I'm developing, everyone is using a "debugger" (without knowing that's what it's called) even in the process of getting onto the system.

A lot of the progress we've made has involved aggressively simplifying the development process into something that's at the level of using a spreadsheet (and just as concrete for the user). For example, if you have to develop an API, you've already excluded most of the people from being able to use your tool. API design is hard and takes a great deal of experience. That's the opposite of what it takes to get productive value from a spreadsheet.

I agree that there's a huge amount of benefit a user can get from being able to automate their own work, and to be able to easily and effectively share that automation with others. Today's scripting languages aren't even close to the "spreadsheet" ideal I think is possible.
> No, but when ruthless capitlist patriarchs or whatever intervene with their money in order to maintain its status quo, the difference begins to fade.

What are you talking about here? Bribing regulators to keep the girls poor? That would certainly be an issue if was happening, but I don't think it is.

> Or did you think the girls came up with the money for the studios by themselves? That unless they come up with a steady cashflow for the studio, they're not back wherever they came from?

What are you talking about? This whole line seems very incoherent.

> Yes, there's a legitimate business need for what they do, but I find it difficult to shake off the feeling that the investors behind the studios would be so quick to invest in, say, education.

I don't think so; I think they're just chasing whichever investment gives the best return on their money, and if that were education they'd be in there like a shot. (There are certainly plenty of scumbags in the education industry if that's where you were going with this)
You interpreted my drunken rant about the poor user experience of bad client-side scripting as an argument against user experience? Okaaay.
ValuationUp: Grow your business value, do more of what you love.
> > One may wish there to be more male teachers, but that does not mean one considers the lack of male teachers a problem with the industry.

> So then... your source?

This is a logical argument. You claimed you spoke to teachers and found something that doesn't correspond to my assertion to be true. I pointed out that it may be true, but it doesn't correspond to my assertion.

If you are now asserting that teachers, in addition to wanting more men in the industry, also think that the lack of men is a problem with their industry, then it's up to you to prove your assertion. And not with 'if you talked to any random teacher'.

>>> That line of thinking inevitably leads to saying men's brains are "wired" to "think a certain way", which has been proven false each time it's brought up.

>> Male and female brains have massive differences in the amount of gray and white matter for one thing [1], connectivity [2], and size [3].

> Your first link doesn't show that women are less likely to be programmers.

That's correct. All the links are direct responses to your assertion that "men's brains are "wired" to "think a certain way" has been proven false each time it's brought up."

I have provided cited three papers to disprove a claim that I've quoted and you've responded by saying it doesn't disprove something else. I'm not going to bother spending time arguing with a child.
How about "Google sponsors over $150k of grants for programmers with most open source contributions" or "Google sponsors over $150k of grants for programmers that win an online hackaton for newbies" or "Google sponsors over $150k of grants for programmers with best school grades or most impressive hobby projects"?
Whilst there are a lot of impassioned statements of position in this thread, I'm not seeing a lot of discussion of the massive body of research on sex work and sex workers, or the many commentaries on the industry from people working inside it.

Given this is HN, that seems like a bit of a pity. As usual, evidence produces some conclusions which intuition may not.

Here's one study on strippers, for example, from the University of Leeds (Reuters link, can't find the original study, irritatingly):

http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/08/27/us-britain-lapdanc...
I'm amazed that Sony/MS don't offer it as an option at a fat markup, I guess they will wait until later in this generation.
What would you people suggest for this website, to add into it?
Yeah I agree both with you and the ancestor. To get good results you basically have to provide the solution to the algorithm through great features. Then the choice of algorithm is not so important, as all the hard work is done in representation. So the algorithms are not magic, you have to drop the solution in front of them and all they do is find the optimal parameters for some trivial low dimensional separation manifold.
Don't they do many of these types of things? I highly doubt this is is their only grant. Also, how do you determine what is too much and too little to put towards a certain issue? Seems a little presumptuous.
> But, as a relatively experienced web developer, I realise that would break pretty much every website ever. Shame really.

This is exactly what happens. Laptop from 2006 is not very happy with sophisticated html/js UX so I put NoScript, I could count usable websites on my fingers[1]. I fell back on Adblock to scrape off the most annoying things and accept the fancy yet slow UX everywhere.

I recently found a "motherfuckingwebsite" http://goo.gl/b56yOd that makes me very calm, people should try it. Websites of this kind are my favorite now.

ps: I also like to run pages through printfriendly.com or readability just to enjoy seeing how small content is when you remove chrome, ads and layout. Most of them amount to a comment like ours.

[1] Blogspot even gives you an empty page. How cool.
Replacing harddrive on PS4 does not void warranty, they even have a guide for doing it: https://support.us.playstation.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5...
A few months ago, I saw a submission where the standard malloc was replaced by a non-freeing malloc. It never dealocates, just leaks memory. It was faster, and was used in a short lived program (¿grep?) where the leaks are not important. I couldn’t find it now. Is this strategy useful here as an easy step towards a real malloc?
I expect even past gen consoles could run SNES games without loading times. Loading times are the price you play for advancements in other areas.
I had a LOT of fun with a game with procedurally generated settings:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starflight

"The group designed what they called a "fractal generator", which took six man-years to develop and allowed them to increase the number of planets in the game from 50 to 800"
How Do You Want to Spend Your Next 4 Years of Your Life?
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(Many/most) Publishers want to be able to monetize and create complicated sales funnels and all that sort of stuff.

(Many/most) Web users just want to "read a goddam text document".

This tension is unlikely to be resolved.

Of course, some useful things on the web truly are 'apps'. Text isn't, and probably never will be.
From the article: "The only person who is significantly injured by turning off JavaScript on my site is me, because it’s needed for the login system and posting UI".

To me this is more sad than the tenure of the article as JS should not be needed to do this at all, I do not need that on my website.

I also disagree with making everything uniform in usage as it brings boredom to the field, for me most exiting times in a field is when the uniformity hasn't kicked in yet, of course my opinion is personal.

I only use NoScript to safe my ass from scams and nasty people trying to encrypt your stuff and extort you for it, and it does it's job well for that.

On my website I mainly use scripting to bring luxury shortcuts for the people logged in, it works without all that for the outside world.
This is bad article because it ignores that both Microsoft and Sony made statements about media centre and external storage functionality in future updates.
I think that factoid is pretty widespread actually.
My family are not particularly conservative, but they would still be concerned about a falling GPA.

Perhaps you are misdiagnosing the problem?
Compiles out of the box on Slackware 14.1 64 bit. I had to run cmake in "wizard mode" (cmake -i), I kept all the defaults except changing to lib64.
I miss pulling a pack of cards out of my pocket, no loading times, no waiting for console to boot times ;)
What is wrong with scientific publishing and how to fix it.
So, what would suffice to maintain anonymity AND the ability to send the user email notifications?

I'm guessing Hashing (not MD5 though) + Salting + throwing away the salt and bruteforcing it every time you need the plain email (you will lose the option to mass mail your users)

Even then the whole concept of anonymity AND email bound account seems kind of silly. Even if the user uses a secondary email address just for this, he still has to trust the email provider (and if he uses a throwaway, what is the point of collecting it anyway?)

This crack is proof that services that provide a fake sense of anonymity can do a lot of harm.
God likes octopuses better than whales.

God says...
C:\TAD\Text\WALDEN.TXT

-- all that he could now cling to --
to convince me that it was no common "rider." I felt it, and still
remark it almost daily in my walks, for by it hangs the history of a
family.
Once more, on the left, where are seen the well and lilac bushes
by the wall, in the now open field, lived Nutting and Le Grosse.
But to return toward Lincoln.
Farther in the woods than any of these, where the road
approaches nearest to the pond, Wyman the potter squatted, and
furnished his townsmen with earth
I think deep down many of us wants this kind of medium to aggregate our tiny efforts into something big we enjoy. And people respond positively because Google get value out of it as much as we do by contributing.

About your question, I don't know, but I'm curious too. Especially considering the communication technology of that day, it would require some ingenuity to do large scale crowdsourcing.
Why do you grades necessarily get lower due to your side projects? Is it not possible to keep both up?

This is a good exercise in learning to communicate and to manage your image. Present things in way they can relate. For example, you can present open-source like getting involved in your local community or a local business organization. You do things for free (in real world organizations you have member events, volunteering, etc) and you gain valuable business connections and expertise.

The 'construction worker' analogy can be put aside if you can present them a career plan. Research the jobs you want to get, get information on salary and benefits, and explain to your family that this holds a good future for you.
How would the author face new standards like Websockets and Server-Sent Events? Those standards requires some kind of client scripting.

As a previous user has stated, the use of javascript is not the problem. It's the abuse of it.
There may be stuff I add to my site that needs scripting. And I may take the scripting out for the login.

The posting UI is just for geolocation which you can't do without JS.