skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Certainly runs of the risk of removing dissenting opinion from the mix, which is unfortunate.

For example, if language X has had a new release with a bunch of features and someone posts the announcement to HN, language X users will typically form the majority of the comment pool.

Now, when someone comes along that feels differently about language X and the direction it's going in, foundation, etc., naturally the dissenting opinion will be suppressed as pro language X users will be incentivized to not promote the comment, no matter how constructive the comment is, and the dissenter will therefore need to rely on members of the minority (dissenters) to come to the rescue, so to speak, in order for the comment to go live.

I prefer to see the _whole_ picture, if something comes up on HN it's important to see the pros and cons, not just the pros of the pro-X-posting crowd (i.e. clique affect).

Gut reaction is thumbs down, comment quality on HN is generally quite good, but PG must have seen a need (or had an itch) to implement pending comments.

We'll see how it plays out

p.s. seems a little heavy handed for the under 1000 karma crowd, which must quite large...
The page uses SeaDragon (Ajax edition) from Microsoft former "Live Labs". It's the same infinite zoom technology that powers also Photosynth and DeepZoom both from Microsoft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seadragon_Software
Turkish source: http://www.webrazzi.com/2014/03/22/google-dns-engellendi/
> 90% JS/HTML/CSS and 10% native code.

this was going to be my comment on the original comment: it's not like you have to do only HTML5 or only native, or so i'm given to understand... i'd be interested to hear more about the hybrid approach if anyone has links/blog posts.
I read this book as a kid and loved it. Since then, I haven't found other works by Queneau to match it, and I've been more fascinated by Perec (especially _La Vie mode d'emploi_, though the constrained nature of the writing is not as visible; and _La Disparition_ which I find is suprisingly more than a linguistic tour de force).
but then if you choose not to interact with the market economy you cannot subsist off your own land, especially if everyone is buying up land and making it private so that there is no public access to nature
There is a difference between a project and a product.
MH370 Malaysia plane: How maths helped find an earlier crash
So you're making a radical change to a site you don't even intent to carry on using, like a student society president changing all the rules just before they graduate?
C was not build by the "greatest pioneers". Just succesful pioneers.

There were far more evolved and elegant languages at the time C was created (and during the time it took for C to rise, even more were made). LISP for one, but also languages with the same performance characteristics and systems programming capabilities as C.

C definitely wasn't seen as a "great language design" -- just a very useful and pragmatic one (e.g see also the classic "Worse is better" essay).
That's not infinite loop bug, that's recursion. Usually an exit condition will get out of the loop. In this case, sounds like once found solution to cure disease and new energy, the condition is met. Yes?
> MetaFilter does that, and doesn't seem to have problems with quality of discourse.

What also helps the level of discourse at Metafilter is moderation to the tune of showing up in threads, deleting comments, and saying "knock it off" when things get particularly bad.
I took a screenshot of one for you: http://i.imgur.com/929HNgE.png

I remember watching this AI play and thinking if I could write my own strategy into an AI. The AI's strategy suffers from the issues that my strategy tries to combat. Perhaps someone can tell from my screenshot what my strategy is.
The amount of revenue gained in a near 100% system would guarantee basic income for all, including children. This is my point. Take away gifting and nepotism and automatically assign an equal amount of potential resources to each child from birth.
Isn't racism just ignorance of the fact that others are just like us?
I don't really see why this particular example contradicts what the Stoics believed.

We could say that racism as an idea rose out of the need for the self-preservation of one's kin, by rejecting those who do not look like us out of a belief that they are somehow inferior.

Yet, nature teaches us that we're all basically made the same and that mixing our DNA with other groups actually strengthen our kin's chances of survival.

Looks to me that racism arose out of an 'ignorance of the reason in nature', and we ended up believing something that is the opposite of what we should strive for.
If you have a fundamental disagreement with someone, you get shadow banned.

The only time it makes sense to comment is when you think you can avoid downvotes and flags.
The article says bowling is the #1 recreational activity. There's no way, as cycling is easily #1. Surely they rigged their definition to somehow exclude cycling.
Reminds me of an incident (I forget where I read about it) where Dirac is giving a lecture in Europe, someone asks a question & Dirac has to start working it out on the board - and Ehrenfest turns around and yells: Kids, now we can see how he does these things!, or something like that.
Aren't invites tied to the inviter? Seems like buying an invite, and figuring out the inviter would be the simple way to identify the person. No snooping required. (Unless you consider the invite algorithm snooping).
Has anybody actually done the math?

Is the ratio of superK users to subK users sufficient such that they won't spend all of their time approving comments?

Back of the envelope calculations from where I sit suggest that this has no choice but to slice the number of comments by at least an order of magnitude (and I actually think it is closer to 2 orders of magnitude).

If that's really the goal, why not just implement a comment killer that every now and then just randomly stomps on a posted comment and blocks someone from posting for 15min/30min/hour/whatever when it fires.

If you tie the probability to karma and karma ratio, it would do almost as good a job and not inconvenience the superK folks. And you could tune it to get the comment posting rate that you want.
So, neither MS online mail products, nor online office systems can be trusted any more!

can you back this up with proper evidence? If I get it correctly, the hotmail EULA sort of allowed to do MS what they did. So does the Online-Office system (is that the same as Skydrive actually?) have a similar EULA? If so, then your statement seems valid. Else you are comparing apples with, erm, something that still comes close to apples: legally MS can't do that - which is no guarantee that they won't. Apart from that, like with probably any cloud service, there is always the risk a thir party like the NSA does whatever they want with your data anyway.
Same here, I thought it was going to be "open source" as in part lists that people had used to build their own bikes.

The site still looks useful and probably will be even more so when there's more bikes to choose from.
It's not always so easy to say which component is better than the other. A good example are Shimano systems: if you compare Ultegra with Dura-ace, depending on your use, either one of them can be the better choice.

For people like myself, this is quite useful service. It would be even better to quickly find similar bikes in the same price range and compare them together.

And please, add Rose bikes to the database...
I think curiously what this would encourage is a slower way of thinking. I.e., not quick comments, but longer, more thoughtful ones.

I don't comment much, but when I do think back on the comments I have made that have been somewhat popular, they are of this longer type. Maybe there's something to this.

But just be aware you're positioning yourself as kind of a catalyst in the opposite direction of most small, quick messaging fora.

Maybe that's good for us. Maybe it will come to be appreciated. Maybe people will abandon it for something easier.
I am one of the authors behind that guide. That guide does not assume that you're running "a bunch of processes" or "even a full system" in the container. Even if you're only running 1 process, it's still highly relevant.

The main point is the Unix process model and how zombie processes work. Things are just not setup properly if your system doesn't handle that properly. And except by using specialized apps (e.g. the my_init system used in baseimage-docker), it just isn't set up properly.

One of the Docker authors, shykes, stated: "In short, regular applications don't expect to be pid 1, and generally speaking they shouldn't."

The other point is to be able to login to the container to perform one-off sysadmin and debugging work. There was lxc-attach for that, but now that Docker supports multiple backends, SSH is the only portable solution that works no matter which Docker backend you use.
I don't know-- usually the answer to such questions about academic priorities is "because it was cheaper", but they just seemed to emphasize geometry much more at the K-12 level. It's a generalization, of course, but a pretty robust one. One of my professors came from Kazakhstan, and once casually remarked that a certain problem on a homework set was "impossible unless you were Russian", since the proof was easy if you knew a certain proposition from Euclid, but extremely tedious without it.

EDIT: this interview with Izaac Wirzsup comparing the Soviet and US systems confirms my prejudice:

Another extremely harmful feature
of [the US] school mathematics programs
is that only about half of our students
take geometry, and for only one
year, generally in a concentrated high
school course. Students cannot be
expected to master the material taught
in this way. Moreover, they are not
being taught solid geometry, and they
rarely have a workable perception of
three-dimensional space, which is so
essential for studying science,
technical drawing, or engineering.
Soviet children study geometry
extensively for ten years, including
two years of solid geometry.
Thanks for the reply. Yes, I was going for "data structures are algorithms" bit. Eg what good is a Fibonacci tree without the operations on it? And on the other hand, lots of `algorithmic problems' fall into place naturally, once you have the right data structure.

> My point is simply that I feel comfortable creating stacks, queues, linked lists, graphs, trees, etc., whereas when someone asked an open-ended algorithmic question to be solved on the white board or phone, I struggle under the pressure and gazing eyes of multiple interviewers to solve these problems (whereas I do fine in my own environment with only the pressure of finishing a job).

I actually do way better in the interview than when I just have to convince the computer (or myself). Enough confidence often persuades interviewers to accept handwaving.

That advantage is unfair, and makes the interview less predictable of success on the job; but I won't complain. For you, I can only recommend practice, or looking for companies with different hiring procedures.
This has been a problem, but it is comparatively minor. Even without this misunderstanding trust in US companies is broken because they aren't allowed to talk about what they do and do not do for national security agencies.

The fact that the US can and has used its warrant powers to force US companies to comply with spying directives is a bigger problem.

The fact that the US is stopping US companies talking about how often secret warrants are served is a bigger problem.

The fact that the US has subverted security processes put in place by US companies is a bigger problem.
The schools in Kerala, India use only Linux OS.
It seems to me that living in developing countries where you can
1.use Popcorn Time
2.rant on social networks
3.use Torrents
4.save the greens($)
5. have someone to cook delicious meals
6. yes - obviously HACK on imp challenges

would be a great idea to monetize on esp for most people on this forum.
> Perhaps expensive journals are having trouble finding original content in our culture of openness?

Apparently:
http://www.nature.com/news/publishers-withdraw-more-than-120...
I'm one of the authors behind Phusion's baseimage.

Phusion's baseimage does not go against Michael Crosby's best practices. His best practices states not to boot init, and with that he means the normal init. He states that not because it's the init process itself that's a bad idea, but because the normal init performs all kinds of work that is either unnecessary or harmful inside a Docker container. In fact, this is exactly what the Baseimage-docker documentation also states: don't use the normal init.

The Phusion baseimage does not contain a normal init, but a special init that is specifically designed for use in Docker.
The Sinister, Scary Impact of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370
Well, here comes the common denominator. The upvoting circles and shilling was pretty bad already but this makes it worse. You enable mutual backpatting and group thinking. Sliding out all people who have "odd" or uncommon opinion. It is like rogue censorship.
So what are the alternatives? Is there another site even remotely as good as this one has been? (Anyone spare me a lobste.rs invite?)
You are part of the 10k karma cabal.
Pretty sure both the Chinese and Russians have reasonable intelligence capabilities, especially online.
I think it's a good idea, as the quality of comments have been degrading.

Perhaps after a post has reached a certain age (few hours) comments would slowly open up to users with less and less karma. Just a thought, but I agree a "show pending" toggle would be nice too.
50-Cent Microscope That Folds Like Origami [video]
Many times is used by the offended ones in an (rightful or not) attempt to portray any critics as motivated by hatred/racism and not on rational thoughts.
Kerela has 100% literacy rate , not so true for the rest of the country where the majority live in villages. It's tough to even get these kids to come out and study.

Even urban city engineering schools use pen , paper and drawing abilities of a left brained person for grading.
The are discussions where user name matters, for instance when refering to the nth parent in the same thread, or when trying to bring more context to a point made previously or even retracting a comment (knowing it's the same user posting is important).

We could get away with temporary user names, changing on a per thread basis for instance, but that might be heavy to implement.
10/90 is Phonegap/Cordova; when hybrid is viable (imho) is when you need to show complex documents; what HTML was made for. So the parts in your native app where you need to show documents with nice flowing text, images, charts, etc HTML is a good option, but then the 10/90 is usually not native/html, but the other way around.
The first implication for me was - well, rewrite the same code in different styles.
This may come as a bit skeptical, but IMHO the large scale adaptation of a Linux distro in Indian state departments seems a long way to. The lack of Linux operational training to the personnel along with replacement costs may call for an early demise to the plan to switch to Linux. While it does sound promising, the average government clerk in India, is computer literate in terms of Microsoft Office suite. Replacement of MS Office with Libre/Open Office suite itself is a big hurdle which in terms of usability is still in its early days. In addition, most systems on government offices I've seen run IE8 as their primary browsers, running applications "designed for IE only". I believe that if the switch to a Linux distro is to be made, the government should start with replacing leagcy windows software with their open source, linux compatible counterparts, before making the big move.
I think you need to think of this in two ways.

1) Flying cars like THe Jetsons - The regulation alone would have to put this so far beyond anything we could predict it would take all meaning out of it.

2) Hovering Cars - I would like to know the answer to this one.
How I came to write a book
>that people who practice Islamophobia are targeting people by their beliefs, when in reality they will target them by their headwear

Are you proposing that they should read minds? As far as I know that's not possible so this statement is preposterous, of course they are going to target by the headgear/skin-color, is the only way they can determine who is Islamic and who is not; being bad at it is a different matter.
Assuming each is a coinflip is not a reasonable assumption.
I have posted some 10-15 comments here on HN and not one of them have appeared in the discussions. I don't know how a "noob" can have his comments actually appear and get some kind of discussion going.
This will probably make it even worse.
So more of the "toeing the party line comments" apparently. Just watch, this comment won't be seen either...
It seems bureaucracy has come to HN.

I personally won't follow the new rules. I prefer not to comment anymore.

I was one of the early users of HN, this alone made me have enormous karma and influence out of nothing.

I forgot the password several times and created new accounts. Now my comments were worth nothing just because I was new.

One of the reasons I write anonymous is that I don't want to carry my real life reputation with everything I say, call it the Feyman effect: when he got the Nobel price everybody started considering everything he said like God words, even if he wanted to just do a funny stupid remark.

I don't want my comments to be judged by gatekeepers, or to be the gatekeeper myself.

Probably, given the size of HN this is necessary, like Reddit we just have to find a smaller community that cares about science and start over again.
The formula of the additive is now a secret waiting to be stolen. Interesting technology, though I don't get why it's introduced today, since it looks like something that could have been easily implemented 10 or even 20 years ago.
So, why today? Cost effectiveness of the technology? Political decisions?
Super Magical and ever so geometric comment here <<
Because SHA3 is the standard, we' re going to see hardware implementations of it and a lot of research will go into its software implementation.

If you care about performance, stick to the standard.

Another commenter also rightly pointed out that SHA3 implementations will be more scrutinized, and therefore more secure. Exploitable security issues lie rarely in the algorithm.

Long story short: stick to the standard.
However, "the complaint alleges that Kibkalo committed criminal trade secret theft", keyword being "criminal". I believe the crime in question is the following federal crime: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/granule/USCODE-2011-title18/USCODE-...

Whether or not we agree with the law is a separate matter from whether or not a crime was committed -- which they had reasonable suspicion to believe it was. Therefore, they should have gone in front of a judge for a warrant.
It's a good point. I've spent time responding to a comment and decided to abandon because the HN community will soon correct me if I'm being biased or saying things without any real source to back it up.

I don't worry so much about being up voted or down voted (but I dig getting karma points as I know I'm giving someone else some value). I do however care about end up in a disagreement with someone else that turns into a superiority match. I personally don't want to be that person.
Free credits for the first person to port it to an embedded blinkenlights platform.
You can't take away gifting unless you take away private property - how you can prevent me spending my resources (no matter how much/little of them I may have) on rising my kids instead of myself?

The natural unit of the economy isn't a person, it's the household - all the legislation and market theory is about resource flows between households, we've never had societies that were able (or even intending) to control resource flows within a household. The only way to ensure equal resources to each child from birth would involve also fully centralizing childcare - i.e., taking them away from parents and raising them all equally by some single anonymous system; but I'd call that a dystopia.

I do want my children to have an advantage in resources if I can help it, it's a natural property of homo sapiens and most other mammals to care about their offspring.

You can take away 'nepotism' in that sense as soon as you're able to genetically modify our species to have a different psychology than homo sapiens - and while we're at it, this could also solve wars, greed and a bunch of other problems.

Implementing what you propose might be possible, but it would require to apply violent force on a mass scale, as almost all people would naturally want to circumvent the system at some point and need to be forcibly prevented from that - or it all goes back to the "communism" where in theory everybody is equal but in practice it's just empty words and everybody cheats the system.
And of course there is the meta discussion where they feel superior for analyzing the behavior of the crowd and pretending that discussing random controversial matters is a childish behavior.

Hooray for internet I'm sure (not guess).
Exactly.

But perhaps this is the problem of moderating comments on a binary scale of "good" and "bad".

A comment judgement/rating system that is more nuanced will not only help the readers to choose from but also help the commenting user to understand why his comments are being downvoted. Examples of nuanced downvote reasons may include:

Possibly ...
1. Non-sequitur
2. Racist/Bigotted/Sexist
3. Gratuitous Profanity
... etc

If we really want to get clinical about this, we can simply use this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies

This of course is only for the downvote.

I personally would be interested in seeing whether, over time, my comments (and therefore my thinking) have been victim to certain patterns of thinking that I haven't noticed in myself.
Summary: Censorship by group-think. Unharmonious comments will just never be seen.
If the incentive to work at McDonald’s decreases to a point where they either need to raise the wages or automate large parts of their process, won't that lead to a possibility where McDonald’s ceases to exist or becomes a luxury item?

It's not very unlikely that they won't be able to automate their business and the only option is to raise the wages. With raised wages they will need to increase their prices.
It probably is just a death by a thousand cuts rather than any one specific thing. The pace of the sport is slow. It's doesn't have the level of physicality of other sports. The players are not necessarily good looking or in good physical condition. Some of the top guys are fairly old with beer guts and probably remind people of their grandparents. etc, etc.

It probably could be at the level of golf if bowling companies were able to sell high-end products. But for better or worse, bowling is a pretty cheap sport to play and doesn't require owning any gear whatsoever.
This would be akin to dumping a load of cash into the economy, driving inflation to the point where the extra cash had absolutely no difference to anyone especially the poor.

It's a lovely idea but the working wage is a much better one!
Why would a comment being approved by a community member be different to a comment submitted by a community member?
There are more resources than just money. Metals are in high demand already, and the prices have increased faster than anyone's GDP.