skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this would make more sense if comment karma, and link karma are a different (like on reddit). For example, I have nearly 1000 karma points, but most of those points came from links I have posted. And then there is bob who has 500 karma, but has never posted a link and most of his karma comes from contributing to discussions. I pass the 1000 point threshold, and now I have the ability to decide whether bobs comment is good enough to be live when I haven't proved that I can contribute to the discussion.
Twitter has numerous IPs and they are buying more..
> Long story short: stick to the standard.

ahem...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG

when you can no longer trust the organizations setting the standards (NIST, CFRG) this argument looses water.
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> a sovereign state to experiment with?

some scandinavian countries are close to this, in some respects. some oil countries too

some native peoples, within nations, also (tho other issues complicate it)
I see Sexism, Racism, Islamophobia (and speed limits !) mentionned as taboo and unspeakable several times in this thread.
I'm not sure we live in the same era. There is mainstream politicians all over Europe and the US saying sexist, racist and islamophobic things. They usually win votes by saying them. (And there is motorist groups still openly advocating for no speed limits ;-).
There is a confusion here between unspeakable and "currently fought by a sizable active minority".
If you need a key-value store, why would you use mongo over redis?

There are jobs I wouldn't trust any NoSQL db to do though. The moment financial data is involved I wouldn't use anything other than an RDBMS.
Had a laugh at the addon concept. I think I'd prefer it as a userscript though, considering it's novelty use.
Unfortunately, last I heard NIST was trying to weaken the default SHA3 implementation, even compared to SHA2 (give it only 64 bits of security), and not implement Keccak "as is". Keccak as is should be fine, but I wouldn't touch NIST's modified Keccak "for performance" as SHA3.

Also, wouldn't we rather trust software implementations than hardware implementations post-Snowden revelations? Isn't that the same logic behind PRNGs now?
That's pretty much true of all of them though. And mongo seems to have more schema requirements than most.
Maybe I misunderstood the system (and with no way of checkin it out myself, having below 1000 karma myself), but I thought users with 1000+ karma would see all comments appear directly on each post and could then decide whether they are "worthy" or not to be shown to everyone.

Thinking about this again I realize that would kind of defeat the whole idea as established users would still see all the "bad" comments, maybe someone can elaborate on how exactly it's supposed to work.
> * Before they could start, we had a very serious security vulnerability responsibly disclosed by Will Farrington and Charlie Somerville

> * We fixed it on February 17th

the fix scares the shit out of me:

https://github.com/isaacs/st/commit/5a0c1886737a20d78ae00b61...

Properly escape all relevant html entities
Avoid problems with files named things like '<img>' and so on.

- var name = f.replace(/"/g, '&quot;')
+ var name = f
+ .replace(/"/g, '&quot;')
+ .replace(/>/g, '&lt;')
+ .replace(/</g, '&gt;')
+ .replace(/'/g, '&#39;')
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"Punditocracy" is that a thing? If not it seems like a good term for it and something that is pretty antithetical of a site site that calls its self "hacker news".
I think that digital currencies is the way to go to test this idea.
> What are the definite benefits of Basic Income?

> It is the most efficient possible form of wealth redistribution

So it is just another deceptive label for outright communism, directly out of Marx/Mao/Stalin's playbook. Nice.
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yes, if it increased income. but it still reduces admin cost
Actually, http://www.tweakers.net (a popular dutch techsite) has a good system for downvoting.

Just hide the box that shows the comment and only show the authorname and the downvotes...
A number of comments here are pointing out the considerable barriers to migration away from Microsoft based systems; back end systems; file compatibility with MS Office formats; training needs for significantly different interfaces on a 'desktop' system.

The UK govts recent suggestion that we require open formats may begin to address one of those issues [1]. The move to more recent browser mediated applications might mitigate another. A new generation will have grown up with devices that probably don't run Windows [2] and that might reduce the training issues associated with UI changes.

Can I turn the question round: how many decades do we think that the default systems for large enterprises and governments will be provided by Microsoft?

And if a country as huge as India with a developed IT workforce of the kind India has decides to start a migration programme, the resulting pool of skilled people and working software (GPL Licensed software) would make future migrations that much easier. I personally wish the UK had a Munich or two simply so we can develop the skills here.

[1] http://opensource.com/government/14/2/uk-government-open-sta...

[2] http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2014/03/21/microsoft_sorgen...
"Making music has gotten easier; selling it has gotten harder. Making music has been democratized, but the market is in the hands of fascists." ~ Stewart Copeland, former drummer for The Police
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> Everyone will do the least amount possible because everyone else is just going to take their profits so why bother

Perhaps you're describing yourself? I know I'd be a lot more actively working on business ventures with a GBI.

> Communism didn't work so why are you proposing it now?

How is this communism? It's still promoting free market, but making it easier to start competing businesses and contribute to society. Yes some people will sit around collecting their check. That happens already. Most others will take the money and do something with it other than working at McDonalds.

> Unless you are physically handicapped or retarded, in which case there is charity and family

Yes, the free market has no use for these people. Let them rot.

> I find it offensive and an attack on my personal liberty that you would demand that I sacrifice my livelihood so that another doesn't have to work hard and make wise decisions.

I'm getting kind of sick of people throwing "liberty" around whenever GBI is brought up. You know what? You pay GBI taxes already. It's just that most of it goes into government overhead instead of the hands of the needy.

What's more, there's a difference between your personal liberty (ie, the ability to buy a stupidly large car, the ability to go for a walk in the park, the ability to speak your mind without fear of government persecution) and your debt to society. We all have to pay into society, because society provides for us. It provides opportunities and protects those who are in need.

You owe society. Not because it's stealing from you, but because it gave you everything you have. Everything in your life that you think you've built with your own blood and sweat? Maybe 10% of it was actually your doing if that. The other 90% of it was provided by society: the roads you drive on, the computer you type on, the phones you talk over, the doctor you go to when you're sick, the police keeping bullets from flying through your windows at night, ETC ETC. None of what any of us do would be possible without the infrastructure set up for us by others.

The distinction between producers and non-producers is not your distinction to make. You owe society as a whole. Not just the producers.

So let's stop pretending that everything we accomplish in life was completely our doing, because it's not. Let's also stop pretending that everything can have a price tag put on it and the free market will solve all our problems and make lazy, handicapped, insane, elderly people vanish (somewhere?).

Part of your job as a citizen is to help provide for others because the same is done for you. So quit your whining and pony up.
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I think this may be the effect of the entire Turkish internet-going population hammering the google DNS servers.

More importantly, does anyone know about the potential of man-in-the-middle DNS attacks? There is no https-like certificate based 3rd part validation for DNS, is there?
An Australian company was selling "trade secret" additives as an anti-counterfeiting measure that they said were unique to each client... but were actually bought in bulk from China and could easily be reverse engineered.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/how-the-csiro-chea...
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I am curious what you think is so bad about SE? Are there people that contribute only for Internet points and prevent healthy communities from developing by doing so?
The RHEL derivates such as CentOS or Scientific Linux provide such long support.

By virtue of Red Hat. If Red Hat goes away, I'd be surprised if they can keep up that commitment. Besides that CentOS is now a Red Hat project.

There is Wine which allows to run Windows programs on Linux just fine. I am still using Office 2000.

Now try Office 2013. Last time I tried, not even CrossOver could run new Office versions without serious loss of functionality.

MS is changing UI every version and it requires retraining users and administrators.

Windows 7 is very similar to Windows XP. The same can't be said for e.g. GNOME 2 -> Unity or GNOME 2 -> GNOME 3.
According to Google Trends Hacker News' interest seems to be be stable: http://www.google.com/trends/explore?hl=en-US&q=hacker+news&...
Which I read as the point that the parent post was making: India can 'pull itself up by its bootstraps' by using the pool of Linux/BSD oriented developers to help a large scale migration project thus further developing the skills base.
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I am very aware of what the government is messing with lately, maybe this scenario is outcome of an incompetent politician's actions (it probably is), but this could very well be some kind of technical fault. Either way no one knows what is really going on and everyone gone absolutely nuts about someone blocking the dns and thats what I'm not OK with.
And ageism and ableism, but people keep forgetting that.

Also, please write "woman". Using "girl" is a clear manifestation of the Patriarchy.
During development is probably the best use case I can think of. With editor integration an interpreter is a tremendous help when coding. At least Lisps, Ruby, Python and Haskell have this kind of "development environments' to a some degree. I think GHCI even doubles as a debugger.
I wished they would show notebooks like these early in school: "Look, this is the pinnacle of human thought and it's full of corrected mistakes, scribbles, attempts and mnemonics".
Windows 8 Lockscreen in HTML
Not a responsive one, best viewed in 1366x768
I'd say 'scared' might be too strong a characterization? I have a slight wariness and a slight trepidation, which is completely absent when I post on (say) /. (which I rarely do any more but you know).

I've learnt that comments with 'meat' are valued and comments that have _positive_ things to say are valued. Negative comments and glib comments are downvoted here. Even if the negative comments have a point they are downvoted.

Don't feel like an outsider, if you have something to say, say it. For instance, this post of yours was articulate and informative. I'm not sure I'm in a position to agree with your last statement, I'd say we should have a trial run and have some sort of feedback mechanism up to and including abandoning the scheme if there's enough consensus.
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Wallabag – open source self hostable read-it-later web app
You cannot discuss anything without name-calling, do you?
To be quite honest I think we all ignore fake pound coins. Yes the obvious ones are obvious but they simply stay in circulation - you are going to use it soon and that person will pass it on too.

I think one pound is below the "worth bothering about" level, which probably makes it an ideal counterfeit target
Wow, great article!
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darn I can only upvote that once :-)
Well it seems I am simply getting old. Thanks folks :-)
I think we are severely overestimating the panacea that is the future. When we run out of gas to fuel automobiles and natural gas to make fertilizer from, it will make us all poorer. Our problem is not just that we need to transition to electric automobiles or sustainable agriculture, rather it's that we have no replacement for the free portable liquid and gas energy that we take out of the ground every day.

We'd be better off planning for the reduction in carrying capacity of the human race that will ensue as fossil fuels wane, instead of trying to find more efficient ways to distribute all of our newfound wealth and production.
How are so many of these dead? If they are from new accounts, how have the accounts been banned so quickly?
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For what it's worth, I lost flagging privileges around that time, and appear to have got them back. There may be a timeout based on magnitude of "illegitimate" flagging or something like that.
In my opinion small regional communities can only exist in isolation. I don't see how such communities could defend against an aggression by a strong state-backed military. Putin is having a great time picking off countries one by one. Maybe if someone comes up with an anarchist religion, something that strongly motivates people to seek out and destroy governments before they grow.

I think it's like snipers in FPS games - the only thing that can REALLY stand up to a sniper is another sniper.
What fascinates me most here is when and how he and Page transformed over into doing public business with their research, not just keep working on it academically. Lots of my friends are working through their often very interesting thesis projects, tangled up in this academia lifestyle, but they all seem to be drifting away further and further from the ability to ever put this into a business context. Not that this is necessary or what many want to do with their research, but I really was just curious how Sergey and Larry made that shift.
Is there a way of generating a list of comments by people with karma over (say) 5000?

Just to see if the quality is any different to the ones in this chronological list?
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There have actually been quite a few public organizations that have migrated to Linux: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_adopters
Maybe this will strike a better balance between comment quality and participation?

* A comment by a person with karma < 1000 stays pending until endorsed

* Once 5 or so successive comments by this user have been endorsed, he/she can comment freely

* Now, if a new comment by this user gets flagged, every subsequent comment goes into pending state until 5 or so comments have been endorsed again

Of course, the numbers and the algorithm can be tweaked. But the basic idea is: reward users once a certain threshold of their comments are endorsed, and punish them if a comment gets flagged.
We are back to my original point (and, really as a statistician ‘Data’ scientist what has been my main focus for the last 15 years), poorly expressed by the story about the guy searching for his keys where there’s light, not where he lost them:

You can’t make progress by using exclusively your archives. You need to imagine how people from whom you haven’t heard anything make decisions.

‘The community has always agreed on most points’ (“HN has always been like that”) and ‘there is no problem for contrarian opinions’ (“I'm not yet convinced that this will be a huge problem”) should be considered violently contradictory statements. That policy might not make things worst because there has never been that much discussion -- but it won’t fix the reason for bad comments which are usually two-fold:

* people don’t know how they could phrase one (I’ve turned every one of “Aha-ha! You are dumb…” into a more insightful questioning dozens of times on other sites.);

* contrarian feel excluded, powerless, and react poorly or violently. I would love to see Hacker News clarify if it is the internal communication tool of Y Combinator, or the leading source of hacker-focused information on-line. Any reader who isn’t a US resident feel disempowered by this contradiction, for instance (and don’t give me the ‘but there are non-US applicants…’ that is the equivalent of ‘But I have a black friend…’)
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> You know, I always bowled better drunk.

Me too. Snooker/Pool is also better. At the start of the night I'm sober and play a fair game, but at the end of the night after two/three pints I'm doing consistently and considerably better.

I keep meaning to take a night of not-drinking to see if is the beer that is responsible, of if it is just because I only carry out these activities every few months and I need a bit of time to relax and get back into the swing of things..
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IIRC getting unencumbered high-resolution images of, for example, famous paintings in public galleries is still far from assured, so (grading on the curve) it's not to be underestimated.
>Give a way to non-professional programmer to create simple web application.

Sounds like a good idea. Wait...

>(JSON format)

What is this JSON of which you speak? It sounds like programming to me! I won't have any of it!

I don't see why or how you want to get non-programmers interested in your programming environment. Rails already has a way to create simple web apps in a few minutes, but I don't know any non-programmers who use it. What's different about this, apart from the fact that you can write killer web apps starting from the code that "rails generate" produces?
A number of ISPs over here (PK) preposterously block gDNS (as well as OpenDNS). What's rather ironic is that they only block UDP requests to gDNS, and not TCP (`dig @8.8.8.8 google.com +tcp`). It's ludicrous, but that's how it is.
There's an interesting meta pattern here. pg has obviously thought a lot about this change, he's the creator of HN and he's the one who knows the site the best. All pg is saying is this: let's try it out and see if it works as intended. That is, it is an experiment, and reality is the ultimate judge.

If you look in this thread, the original thread, or the latest poll you see a different attitude. It's not viewed as an experiment where reality will be the judge at all. Instead the comments basically boils down to "This is good." or "This is bad.", plus a few technical questions.

How come so few people think of it in terms of an experiment? Isn't this the supposed standard m.o. for startups as well as for coding?

Is it just that people who have the wait-and-see attitude don't comment, so all we hear about is from the vocal crowd? (This was the case for me before writing this post.) Is it some form of domain dependence going on here? I find this to be a very curious pattern.
it's quicken loans, not quicken, which aren't related except for the name. but the mindshare spillover quicken is getting from people like yourself certainly doesn't hurt (and didn't cost them anything!).
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Except in those cases we would hope they implement the feature in question and in this case we can only hope he has the good sense to leave it off.
This looks really great! I would love to get my hands on one.
It just doesn't make sense to test every bad idea and lament that fact as some kind of opposition to scientific curiosity and inquiry.
Firstly, MitM attacks on DNS: totally free. Nothing is authenticated, all is plain text in UDP. Just intercept packet and change the answer.

Secondly, no, there is no third-part validation for DNS. There is better.

DNSSEC [1,2] takes advantage of the hierarchical nature of DNS to build a chain of trust. It does so by authenticating subdomain delegations, and signing resource records.

Keep in mind, even though all DNS root servers now do DNSSEC, Internet-wide deployment is still ongoing and coverage is far from satisfying.

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4033
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System_Security_Ext...
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Sales.

A bit like the UK MoD taking on a weapon when the real market is to sell the weapon to other countries. It's a way for the UK government to support UK industry.

The Royal Mint is the world's leading exporter of currency selling to over 60 countries, and this is their sales pitch for the next 30 years.

By securing the use of the technology in the coinage of the UK as early as possible, they are able to use that as a strong signal to other countries in the future who are assessing their coinage needs.

The UK taking on this coin now, is a sales pitch. An effective one.

Patents.

The second part of why now is that they've patented all of this. The replacement cycle for coinage is long (30+ years), and if they fail to make significant sales in the next 15 years they are not going to be getting significant benefits from their patents.

They need to get as many sales in the next 15 years as possible to have effectively used the period of exclusivity the patents granted.
Seems a bit like a marketing pitch rather than a question? Are you interested in other answers than those random two?

The great thing about scaling startups is that your knowledge on scaling also scales along just as well, inherently. Professional CEOs are not necessarily just scaling experts, they're often brought into to take over the 'not product-development' tasks of running a company. Making sure the financing keeps going, everyone has their work computers, coordinating HR with work load and budget, coordinating with Marketing. A lot of scaling in tech startups is nothing a CEO is necessarily pushing. It's often the CTO, or lead developers and infrastructure guys who make sure the product scales and holds up to demand.

And, my experience with business coaches in the tech industry right now is that this is a hit or miss type of world, where most of the time, you actually, sadly, totally miss. There are some coaches or mentors worth their time out there, but you will rarely get anywhere near unless your product is exciting to them. If only money brings you closer to their knowledge, you'll probably be already one step into trouble.

I always go by the simple check that when a business advisor is willing to invest his own money into the company, he's likely someone who would also care about our future. If he wants to bill me for giving me guidance, then I usually know what's up.
Do you feel like slashdot has high quality discussions? I don't. The problem isn't new, but it also isn't solved.
You're clearly not using 4.
> Society makes it possible for everyone to earn a living

Do you have evidence of the size and nature of job vacancies compared to the skills and number of the unemployed?
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Just one more reason to not comment at all.

If your intent is to turn this site into something more like Designer News or Echo JS, then doing this is the right start.

Both of those sites have great links and almost no commenting whatsoever, despite having the functionality.
candle idea is interesting
Gotta disagree here. I never have a problem with this useful long-standing feature.
I get really frustrated with the comments that say "but backspace doesn't do that when you're in a text control". To me thats completely missing the point. Can anyone explain why anyobe would make such a comment? Is it just pedantism with a lack of understanding of the bigger picture? These type of comments drive me crazy, and I only ever see them in programmer fora.