skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It won't, and that's not the point here.

A judge has been asked to prove that seven commentators are actually clients of the service — otherwise, said comments were slander. He or she can't ignore that; more importantly, that accusation is almost systematic from service providers who accuse Yelp of slandering them, presumably with non-existant users, and then racketing them to dismiss said comment (in actually, pay to chose which comment to put first). Having the receipt might help clear common issues: the user got the name of the restaurant wrong, the interaction happened before the owner changed, it happened ‘that night’, etc.

This is far from an isolated case: all services from the distributed economy (eBay, AirBnB, Blablacar, etc.) have to handle trust and find appropriate mechanism. There has been cases of good-grade racketing on eBay; AirBnB has proven fairly good so far; BlablaCar name itself is a great example of a non-binary rating. Hence the discussion.

If users of that service want to get their good back, a small claims court seems more appropriate than a Hacker News thread.
Ideas for Bengaluru
http://status.dropbox.com should really be better, and be the primary portal for updates. We use StatusPage.io which is awesome http://status.commando.io.
It is a common story among small business owner. Such legends or which hunts are shockingly common with the thickening filter bubbles.
So do you think it is going to stop a lot of people from buying electric cars or are you just being picky?

Because I meant that it probably wasn't really going to stop very many people from buying electric cars (so it is then strange to assume it is about protecting the market for ICE cars).
Getting started with Node.js part 2: Socket.io
I loved this extension, and is really the only thing I'm missing now that I've moved back to Firefox :(
Seriously, this bug has been around for years and people have constantly complained about it. The only reason they would have for not having fixed it at this point is they simply do not care.
I upvoted you because I like seeing people who go against the grain here, who hold combative viewpoints and are willing to be blunt about faults, regardless of whether or not I agree.

However, after seeing this:

> ... because they are entrenched, and they literally own quite a large portion of their userbase.

> Unfortunately no matter how many people invent software that does the same thing as Hacker News but works much better and offer it up for free, nothing will be done.

... I have to say, if you are disappointed, have you thought about testing this theory? This website has not been around forever. It isn't the first of its kind either. I'm probably not the only one here who came to this site after having frequented a bunch of others that were essentially the same thing. So I don't expect it to be the last one, either. If someone has the interest and the skill set, I say, please do make this. Worst case you waste a few weekends or something.
What I hate the most is when I'm using a scrollbar and the infinite scroll adds more content to the bottom of the page and suddenly the scrollbar jerks up because I'm now 30% down the page instead of 15% down the page--then it takes me a minute to find where I was before the infinite scroll event. Happens to me ALL THE TIME. F-ing annoying. A "load more" button with some kind of ---------next page--------- line to delineate the new content would be preferable. The solution is to use the "Page Down" key but that's not always intuitive.
Its kinda like Craigslist, though not nearly as bad, since Hacker News gets the job done well enough.

(Also, they let people scrape them and create improved versions!)
That really cracks me up! I work in C# probably 80% of the year (python and shudder vbscript make up the remainder) and I use lambda statements, implicit typing, and anonymous functions almost every day. The Linq IEnumerable<> extensions are also pretty well indispensable for me. My biggest complaint with C# is the limitations imposed by the static typing system: anonymous functions can't be generic, so you're forced to either declare delegates or explicitly declare each of your anon signatures; and KeyValuePair<> and Tuple<> both force you into sometimes excruciatingly, comically long object declarations, eg

Tuple<string, IEnumerable<string>, IEnumerable<KeyValuePair<string, bool>>

I've come to a point where I can comfortably write functional code in the language (though I should stress that I don't write "pure" functional code; I don't fall into the camp that abhors side effects in all scenarios). Day to day, it really is a fine language to work in, notwithstanding a few warts. In all honesty though, I'd rather be working in Python or a LISP most of the time
This is the worst. You either have to train your hand-eye coordination to be similar to an Olympic athlete or memorize URLs that only the dev team of certain sites should have burned into their brains
This is, sadly, not a great post-mortem. They missed an opportunity for goodwill. I don't feel more confident in their level of understanding or ability to remediate the problems that led to it after having read it. I know they have an excellent engineering and operations staff -- this post-mortem doesn't reinforce that, though.

A few of the things that jumped out at me after one reading:

1. The apology is the next to last sentence. That's burying the lede. I'd like to see that far earlier, in the first two to three sentences.

2. The tone is overly clinical and lacks humanity. I suspect they felt that it made them sound more authoritative and in control, but instead it comes off somewhat robotic.

3. There's a mixture of too little and too much technical detail. It feels like they couldn't decide who the audience was. There were technical tidbits thrown out without any elaboration that lead to more questions than answers.

4. The remediations sound pretty weak. There's no discussion of the human factors like how the recovery process went, how this issue was missed in testing, or what changes if any they think they should make to their incident response process. At the very least I'd expect to see some remediation around their during-outage communication process since it has pretty universally been considered to be poor.

It's not the worst post-mortem I've read, but they missed a few chances to reassure customers.
It's skewed because many students are still dependent on their parents. An example is Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA. Because of the low population density, the students have more weight in pulling down the average income. The area is marked has having a high poverty rate. But many of these students drive expensive cars like late model BMWs. They are most certainly not poor.
So it looks like this exists, https://www.cozy.co/for-renters/
I'd agree with your premise twenty years ago, but at today's
tuition--a healthy debate is warranted.
What does it mean to be "not getting by" vs "getting by".
A hundred times this. Humans find it incredibly difficult to avoid anthropomorphizing things. While it's bound up with Theory of Mind (predicting others' mental states), one of our biggest talents, it goes a bit awry when applied to non-human species.

Just because we know what a human's intentions would be if it did what a cat did, does not mean we ascribed the same quality or depth of intention to a cat.
What? Does anyone choose the first option over the second one? The second one seems unequivocally better.
Funny how two brand new accounts were created just to downvote and insult me.

Didn't know the GOP was astroturfing HN now, too.
I haven't read the book this is based on so maybe that makes it more clear, but reading just the article I agree this is inane. I grew up with cats and have a cat now and they clearly act differently not only when it comes to strange humans vs strange cats, but also humans of different types, eg. genders (my cat trusts human females inherently but it takes her a long time to trust males, I adopted her from a shelter when she was 2 and assume she used to be abused by a male or something).

All that aside, cats do use their own body language towards us quite a bit, like the head-bump, the "making biscuits" thing and the slow eye blink. But they also customize things for us as well, like I've read other researchers who say cats don't meow (in a non-growl way) with each other after they are kittens, that is reserved for talking to humans.
This is the same problem as to why slaves were single-threaded for so long:

Statement based replication (default) is tricky to apply in parallel, since you can't easily figure out ordering dependencies.

In MySQL 5.6 replication is now parallel per-schema, and in MySQL 5.7 it will be parallel intra-schema.
Requiem for Spring (story of Spring/CarrotMob closing down)
I don't understand the appearance complaints. Must every site look like a unicorn vomited it out?
The US isn't the ruler of the world

63 countries have US military bases and troops, 156 countries have US troops (overlapping sets), 46 have no US military presence[0]. The Five Eyes are basically the US's subalterns in Empire. Outside of Russia , North Korea and China calling non US countries independent is a bit of a stretch. Classical international law certainly wouldn't have considered any country with another's military bases anything but a protectorate.

[0]www.miprox.de/USA_speziell/US-Military-Bases-Worldwide. jpg
Cats purr for humans. And they like to nest with humans.

There is room for the cat to be deferential to the much larger human and less so to the similar sized cat. There are also cats that don't much like visitors.
Wall Street Predicts $50 Billion Bill to Settle U.S. Mortgage Suits
I feel like the right people will respect you more for doing so.
The wiki page about him is not even 6 months old. People involved in the malicious campaign, as grand as this, don't leave any stone unturned to make what is false into truth. I cannot bring myself to believe that. Sorry, not possible.

You should have checked what your reference is. And now this is not a debate, what I said was not that he was not part of the movement. But Polio campaign was not started by him, is a fact.

Started, is someone who actually launched it on the national scale which would be the then prime minister, but should I also commit the same mistake of naming a politician and giving him all the credit? No I won't, I already said what is the known truth.

Also, if you read my reference (from US National Library Records) you would know, that the first project was launched in Tamil Nadu, then expanded to 3 states.
There are a number of Hacker News clones, i.e. people got fed up and even went ahead and figured out how to mirror the Hacker News content. Far as I know very few if any gained any popularity, but its not because they weren't better.
They most likely have to keep login time and IP (terrorist laws and all that); that can lead to the ISP that may or may not be US-based. If it is (and the judge grants a warrant, which appears likely) then you have a narrower base of users to consider. If the comment is from somewhere outside of the US, unless it’s suddenly a trend to cross an ocean to have your carpet cleaned, Yelp would have to consider the possibility that the comments might have been fake, face little legal consequences presumably, and erase those. I know I can be lack creativity, but… trolling a dodgy carpet cleaner half a world away? Seriously? The most convoluted case I'll consider is competition — and ever that seems far-fetched.

Include here a ton of CSI-based scenarii on people using chat-room and web-cafés to communicate convoluted plot via dry-cleaner reviews, over-zelaous investigators and tech wizz using the ‘enhance’ button and green lines bouncing around the globe to trace the actual IP.
The State of Rust 0.9
The problem is it isn't the only situation this comes up in, and the fact that this has to be done at all is a testament to the problems with adding significant whitespace to a language not completely designed for it.
Pretty much every reason besides "I thought I would enjoy doing it".

That's a shame. I think I've been lucky enough to move between different focuses (between sysadmin and programming multiple times) enough that I never got too bored or dissatisfied with any one.

Seeing other people push for people to enter the industry for the money and/or jobs, instead of satisfying a passion for the work, has me slightly... annoyed. Annoyed is a good word for it.

I can relate. I remember while in college circa 2002 thinking that the number of CS students was artificially inflated by people who made decisions during the dot-com boom. People that had no real aptitude for the subject, had no passion for the subject, or both. I understand that's going to happen in any major, but when it felt like upwards of 60% of my peers weren't interested, and I couldn't help feeling they would have been better served by studying something they actually cared for.

...but I do not think that computer science is in any way special in this regard. My non-CS peers in university grew in their own personal ways as well. They didn't miss out on anything that I had any more than I missed out on things that they had.

I'm routinely disappointed I haven't found more time to apply towards other disciplines or areas of study (this isn't new, I used to want to go back for a second major someday. I no longer necessarily view that as the best route for further advancement though), especially in reading comments here from some people that truly have some deep experience in different areas.

That I think, is what many programmers don't understand. They lack exposure to other perspectives, and therefore mistake their own path through life as the obviously correct or superior path.

I think that's correct, but I also think it's a matter of people incorrectly attributing value to programming based on positive outcomes they've experienced after learning to program. Learning to read doesn't make me smarter, per se, but it is a very useful tool in allowing me to learn and explore certain ideas. I think programming is similar (although on a lesser scale). It's a good tool for examining certain types of ideas which may provide great benefit, but it's not a causal relationship.
>people who go against the grain here, who hold combative viewpoints and are willing to be blunt

ie assholes
In hard sciences it's typical that your tuition will be completely covered and that you'll additionally be paid a livable wage. With that knowledge, do you agree with his premise now?
I get a DNS lookup failure for that domain. It looks like the correct URL is http://resources.emartin.net/blog/docs/AgeAchievement.pdf
> What's the point of learning UML and Design Patterns? (Especially, if you can't program?)

It was for the BIS program (http://www.rmit.edu.au/programs/bp138). You can get an idea of the program for graduates.

I look at coding as a way of programming but not all programming needs to be done by writing code. There are other ways to program a computing device: a.k.a alter the behavior of a program.

> What were students supposed to be able to accomplish that they couldn't do before?

I don't recall the ILO's (Intended Learning Outcomes) of the class but I do recall one was being able to apply Design Patterns in their analysis and design.

I'm not saying I agree with people designing software systems without also having an ability to code but I do think people can think critically about solving problems using tools like UML without having to code out the solution.
It's not a single thing. There are multiple places that use dynamically-generated links. They make the source very simple. I've gradually replaced them in the most common situations. Replacing more is not in my top 10 priorities for things to fix. The reason is that it's not really what users want. What people come here for is good stories and comments. I doubt we have ever lost a single user over expired links. Whereas stupid or uncivil comment threads have probably cost us lots of users, and indeed, some of the ones I'd least like to lose. So that's the sort of issue I spend time thinking about.

Incidentally, for those of you working on startups, this is a good example of why making something people want is not a simple matter of making what they say they want.
Those are some very absolute claims. If you worded that as observations and not so absolutely (or provided some quotes to back up the claims), it would sound a lot more credible.
The improvements necessary probably require going back on some of those fundamentals

Not at all. It's pretty trivial to replace code that uses dynamically generated links with code that doesn't.
Yeah, its fairly boring unless you're into the creative art stuff. I'll usually just whip together some of my art assets and Photoshop something quickly.

Use this to publish your icons quickly: http://appicontemplate.com/ios7
I did not closely follow the Graham thing. I did not say that nobody was doing any vilifying. I said that if somebody was, you should be talking to them, not me.

I guess we disagree on how I should take your opinions, but that is not a surprise.

You did claim that I had accepted a "world view" as fact. I consider a frame and a world view effectively the same, so that's what I meant. You should also decide whether you think I misconstrued what you said, or whether I'm being disingenuous. Accusing me of both at once isn't really coherent.

I'm sure that last paragraph is meant to be devastating, but you're going to have to try harder than that. Like Scalzi, my opinion is that a lot of young white males are going to have little tantrums when I talk about privilege, because that's easier for them than the discomfort of actually accepting their unearned advantages. That's fine. Eventually you'll get over it. Or you'll grow up into a bitter old white male, increasingly resentful about your diminishing privilege. I'd rather it were the former, but it's up to you.
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No, you are conflating two separate concepts. Just because a framework is dynamic doesn't mean it has to be shared. MacOS X provides all the benefits of dynamic frameworks that Landon outlines, but third party frameworks are almost always bundled within each app (and on iOS they would certainly be required to be).
I have heard that lions' pack behaviour is more reminiscent of dogs than it is of domesticated cats, which have a more solitary nature similar to tigers or other big cats.

Do you know if this sort of behaviour has also been witnessed in wolf packs?
The rationale is that the value provided by fixing the problems is less than the cost of doing the work.

This particular problem isn't going to cause tons of people to leave, and fixing it isn't going to cause tons of people to join.

Unless someone does the work for free, or manages to get a large portion of the current users to quit over the issue, there's no reason to expect it to be changed.
I never minded the appearance too much, but the usability bothered me. I month or two ago I tried some of the chrome extensions (specifically HackerNew[1]), and it's made a big difference. In-line replies, hover to see user stats, collapsible threads, etc. I'm not enamored with the infinite scroll, but it's not horrible.

It makes it look a little slicker too, but I truly couldn't care less about that.

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackernew/lgoghlnd...
I think you generalized some odd cases. I know a few CS and physics professors as friends. Every reasonable professor knows that there are way fewer academic jobs than PhD graduates. To expect all your students to go to academia is silly & is not the norm among professors.

Surely, a professor should strive to have his/her students graduate with sufficient publication record to be suitable for an academic job. Not everyone will have it upon graduation. And it is not the sole point that you must go to academia!

In some fields, there are research jobs outside of academia (eg in CS, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Intel). And in most fields, if you go to industry you make way more money. You just don't get tenure, sabbatical and as much freedom, but it is hardly a failure.
It's not a good mobile phone experience. It's fixed width <table> based.
Actually we change things almost daily.
I did my PhD in computational genetics. My current career has precisely nothing to do with genetics, which suits me just fine - but I was fortunate in ending up with having a choice between an academic career in a modern field, or a non-academic career in a modern field.

Most PhD students don't have that choice, and that does seem like something of a problem. Realistically, most of them aren't going to have the opportunity to enter a meaningful tenure-track program and stand a real chance of becoming a full professor. Pushing a bunch of people down that track without providing any support for the ones who aren't going to make it seems pretty unreasonable.

I'm not going to argue that that means we should dilute PhDs. I'm fine with the current degree remaining as it is. But we should stop encouraging people to do PhDs just because there's a chance that they're going to get into academia. I gained a lot from my degree, but I could have been taught that without the aspects that were tied to the assumption that I'd spend the rest of my life in academia. We should work out how to provide the more generally applicable aspects without making people feel like shit for doing that and then discovering that they don't an academic position to take up.
Closures, not continuations.
> Humans find it incredibly difficult to avoid anthropomorphizing things.

But this one takes the cake - they've even assigned similar (aeluromorphous) intent on the part of cats. Which is extra cute.

Dogs' motivations are well understood, while cats are less scrutable, and so we pretend they're complex, and therefore like ourselves.
Java brought garbage collection into the mainstream. That alone is enough to consider it progressive.
On the free speech issue, the majority is clearly wrong, and the dissent is clearly right. I expect either en banc or a higher court to fix this.

Past that, i'm not sure why yelp continues the jurisdictional argument (that VA has no jurisdiction over them).

They have a registered agent in VA, yet claim this does not give VA jurisdiction over them. While there is a split of authority over this across states (with most federal courts holding the states can do this), this is unlikely to be one of the close cases these splits represent.

Yet they continue to press the jurisdictional argument, pissing off every court along the way, while they have 0% chance of winning a jurisdictional challenge at any level (even if the registered agent issue was resolved in their favor, the court would still have jurisdiction over them under other tests).

I have serious trouble understanding this strategy. All it does is make you seem unreasonable, which, for better or worse, increases your chances of losing on the real argument.
I'm sorry, but I've seen too many Startups hire friends--not
"Talented, persistent and technical-minded persons willing to sacrifice a huge part of their lifes for their careers."

I wish Startups, Businesses, and Government would hire the best and the brightest, but nepotism and networking seem
to be more important factor. So many guys who got rich in
the Startup world--owe a lot to luck. They are usually in
deep denial, until the company is sold, or goes under. I
had a friend who got lucky with a gaming company. He went
from a humble guy to someone I just couldn't listen to.
What bothered me was he never let me in on the "game" early
on. I guess he wasn't much of a friend? And that's why I
never kept in touch. (This is not geared to you, but your
post got me thing about this industry.)
Try using the raw link I posted afterwards. That'll give you as much room as your browser window has.