skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that's obvious now I've re-read your comment.
Regardless, I think it would qualify as gambler's fallacy for the person buying your stake!
In my opinion this is a feature of HN discussions and one of the things I detest about reddit discussions.

Slashdot had the ultimate solution for our different tastes: you could configure a comment type (informative/funny/etc) modifier/threshold. You could say you wanted to see more funny replies and I could say I did not want to see them. It was a tiny bit complicated initially but I think the big impediment to adoption at other sites was the clunky UI. There is not a simple/unobtrusive way to display so many feedback options for each an every comment.
> If you are doing a pitch, "Netflix for Octopusses" would make you look stupid.

Only if your pitch target is stupid, because "Octopuses" is correct according to any English dictionary you'll find.

There's a point here somewhere about the dangers of hyper-prescriptive grammar.
If you're not polite you don't deserve to have an opinion. Fact.
You've just been MicroShafted.

What a bunch of pathetic hypocrites. Spending money on lame smear campaigns against Google while snooping through the emails and documents of their users.

It's a pity Google isn't vindictive because if they were they would make this two faces lying company pay. On the plus side, whenever Microshits even try to bring up privacy concerns about Google we can always shut them up by pointing out how their favorite company really does business.
Respectfully, your site is not as usable as BikePedia on a laptop computer. Here are some suggestions:

Let me change the model year without having to select the model again. BikePedia has quick links for this, so I know right away what other years there are.

Have the comparison tool default to something smart, such as the same year and manufacturer, rather than starting the second bike totally blank.

Add some sort of filtering to help people find bikes they might want ("about three years old, MTB, Shimano XT or similar").
It is very easy to win. You shouldn't be able to select 2 or 4. The decision should be random and that would be fair like the original.

The easiest solution is to have just one 2 on the table, then spam 4 in corners.

Best( lowest ) score: 1684
Is that really the case? I find quite a few users seem to check replies to their comments -- so eg: answering a question usually isn't a waste of time. It would be if the person asking a question doesn't have 1k karma (see other comments for riff on this topic). Just struck me that this is rather bad -- while hn isn't (probably nor should be) a "stack exchange" type site, there's always someone asking on a story "what is this X that everyone here seem to know". Where X is anything for traditional MVC to data normalization etc[1]. I'm sure we all have some gaping holes in our knowledge of computer science and history -- having such questions answered seems to me to be a good way to maintain a sense of community.

[1] For example, not realizing that RC4 is now hopelessly broken, and asking for a couple of recent references.
I agree. Still learning the marketing part. I will definitely make it more direct.
Of course. I stand by my original statement, however.
Between these lists that have been popping up today and the recent discussion about custom-color privileges, I was really beginning to wonder how much of HN am I missing.

Glad to hear this wasn't a hidden thing after all; just not prominently shown.
I disagreed. What's the new HN comment system?
I think you'd find that drug abusers are much less likely to commit crimes once they have a steady flow of money. "Well now we're paying people to do drugs!" But we're doing that in the first place, through welfare and food stamps, etc. And if we don't pay enough, they steal. So in one instance we ignore the problem and it ends up costing us, in another instance we accept that there are people who are going to withhold contributing to society and we give them their check anyway because they'd just end up taking it.

As far as mental illness goes, that is an interesting problem I don't think GBI would solve. Sure you can give a schizophrenic person a check, but are they going to cash it? Or would you still have some sort of public facility for mentally disabled people? I would hope so.
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This silly thing: http://precis.gopagoda.com/url/https://news.ycombinator.com/...

Put any url you like in there. It'll either work or it won't. /css/[url] kind of works too.

Also a random app in C# because I failed a midterm exam because I couldn't get runtime DB access to work from memory. Yeah I know, I still suck unless I have Stackoverflow and/or a reference right next to me.
LEDs are incredibly common and incredibly useful debug tools. I've had to work with boards that don't have them and without physical access to the traces for a scope, you're out of luck.

While some of it is fascinating, I've also had to spend entire days figuring out why a single pin won't toggle on a microcontroller. It sometimes takes herculean effort for the simplest debugging tasks.
In the line of gray text beginning with your username at the top of your comment.
...is YC open to reverting to the current system if/when it doesn't work out?
not a fan of attempting to police speech no matter how "dumb" or "bad" it is perceived to be...compared to the internet average comments on hacker news are already far better.
We can only sign people up that are in one of the 36 states on healthcare.gov -- otherwise we rely on our partners to help get people signed up
So I would like to have someone explain to me why I am wrong But I feel like this will penalize discussions that are happening off the front page. I spent a decent amount of time reading things that don't make it to the front page. I comment and am involved in discussing posts that rarely get much altitude. So now comments that are made on articles that are interesting only to a minority require the ok of a member of the majority. This seems more exclusionary than worth while.

Perhaps an option would be to add filtering on any post that is up-voted above a certain score. This would allow early movers to help generate conversation and then trigger moderation when the conversation is going to go wide.

This type of a tactic would encourage better behavior in the big leagues while giving room for smaller voices that may not be fully part of the community.
I was actually thinking about joining the hacker news community. I'll see if I can find another place that better fits my needs.

Elitism and some pseudo-plutocracy among a "hacker" community is laughable.
Co-founder of the website. It appears all the licenses to sell insurance are in his name instead of the company's.
The government currently spends almost $10K per child on public schools, so you can also shuffle in and out of that budget to make the BI cost for children "disappear" in your models.
Why don't you focus on making comments load faster than 30 seconds. This site is slowww. Additionally, after making a 2nd comment the site tells you that you're commenting too fast... Really? With what I just read above and my experience with this site I have to say you're the last person who should be coding and making decisions, thank god you're giving it away.
I think this goes against the ideas the curators of HN have for HN. For the simple goal of furthering (meaningful) conversation, I think dropping comments would be better.

On the other hand, I think it'll drop the number of really good comments -- those where commenters go out and lookup a few (possibly obscure, but very interesting) references. Doing that kind of work, just to have the text be deleted with hardly anyone seeing it doesn't seem worth it.

Which brings us back to the question of "What should HN be, for whom -- and how do we achieve that?".
You naively assumes that every game is a 50/50 coin-toss, resulting in an estimate that's off by many orders of magnitude.

A more realistic model would put the average edge around 58%, and the value of a single bracket at a much greater level: $0.000001.
too early to tell?
... Much higher than P pretty obviously. 16 possible drop points and 4 possible moves each turn maximum, let's say only half of each is available on average. That gives ((2)(8))^N for N amount of turns.
Sure. It's a word game. Should appeal to the Scrabble/WordsWithFriends crowd. I'm sure I'll announce it here when it's launched so people can point out why it sucks.
I don't have a Facebook page, gave up on twitter, only lurk on Reddit, but here is where I occasionally comment. I sit at only 102, not nearly enough to past the pending comment threshold. Not sure if I'm going to participate much anymore :(

I'll hangout for awhile and give this experiment a shot, but I don't expect much.
And then complain? Alright, that seems fair.

Edit: rabble rabble.
> > If you are doing a pitch, "Netflix for Octopusses" would make you look stupid.

> Only if your pitch target is stupid, because "Octopuses" is correct according to any English dictionary you'll find.

"Octopusses" ≠ "Octopuses". Considering that the "Octopusses" line was in response to a post about the impact of an extra "s"...
Yes; the weight seems to have become so speculative that many brands boycott stating it in the specs at all. In fact, I don't know of any brand other than Author who states weight. I kinda look at it, to compare between different Author models, but that's all I can do with it; I'm not sure if it would be fair to compare weight between models because every company weighs differently and there's some unfair speculation seemingly going on.
The point of a universal/general basic income is that it's the same for everyone. SF's cost of living is significantly higher, but nobody's stopping you from getting a job there still on top of your GBI.

If on top of having a job and getting GBI you still can't live in San Francisco, then you'd move to a cheaper area of the state/country.

What's interesting is that a lot of people flock to urban areas for the increased opportunity, but with a GBI, this may not be the case as much because there's less of a strain to make ends meet. This could reduce the cost of living in urban areas.
PG THE SILENCER.

Y COMBINATOR THE TOOL OF SILENCING.

oppressors. can't handle the truth? hide from it. run away. get to karma 1000 and you can control the fate of many. is this scientology now? do i need to buy an e-meter before i can post?
Back of the envelope calculation please - that will clarify your vague words and reveal many arithmetic errors (if such are present).
SCHAFT Staying in Darpa Robotics Challenge, More Teams Joining DRC Finals
> You'd have to have read all the criticism of the system to be able to make this claim.

Fair enough: This is a popular criticism of the system for which I've never seen any supporting evidence provided, including in this thread. Hunches and suspicions don't qualify.
The fact is that the healthiest situation for any society is for every member to be able to afford to meet their basic needs with a little extra income. This is clearly not possible through a purely free job market. 'Sacrificing' some of your income to maintain this society and permit mobility is in your best interests. Who's to say you won't be the next one fired, or your child?
In an interview, Warren Buffet suggested that if someone was perfect at the Final Four, he'd offer to buy them out for the EV (or even half the EV). If you aren't already rich, you'd be an idiot to not take his offer. It pays for Warren Buffet to buy someone out for their EV, because that minimizes HIS risk.

Even if the person refused the offer, Warren Buffet could go to Vegas and bet on the last couple of games, as a hedge.

Even if you're perfect at the sweet 16 (which has never happened), with 15 games left (assuming each is a coinflip), your EV is 1/2^15 ~ 1 in 32000, so your bracket is only worth $300M/32000 ~ $9k.
A site I used to work for had a pre-moderation system for pictures posted on the site that worked like this, to the best of my memory: There was a moderation queue and various volunteers (here it could be the >1000 karma people, I guess) went through it and gave their vote. A picture had to reach all positive 3 to go live or positive six to go live if there were any negative votes. Moderators were awarded points based on how many of their votes matched the consensus. This encouraged them to keep doing it, even though it's kind of boring. Here that could be karma bonuses.

If you really want to make sure that every post gets voted on you may need to do something like that to incentivize endorsements.
What do you do after launching app...
Just launched DormChat. Getting good traction. Now what?

That's the simplified thought process. What I'm curious to hear though is personal experiences on what you did for the days, weeks, month, after launch.
he may be referring to dan gilbert...
Hello, Pot? This is kettle. You're black.
It was sarcasm. I had hoped that including the bit about omaha would make it obvious. To be honest the motivator of the second option was:

"I have enough money that I can risk giving up a billion"

I had assumed everybody knew that Buffet had so much money. I did not understand how the commenter thought that this contest was going to be the way the world found out that Buffet was loaded.
By what metric do we determine if it "works out"?
Why is it Dark at Night?
I think the stops would have to be very close together for this to be a factor. If a train trip is jerk limited, then the train would not reach maximum acceleration between stops. It is more likely that a train trip is acceleration limited where the train does not reach full velocity between the stops.
Because I ran the original article in its entirety you are complaining?

And Yes, I'm desparate for SERPs on a site with no Ads.

You totally outed me.

Looking at your comment history it looks like about 2/3s of your comments are about how authors picked bad headlines, and how you would have picked better ones. So tell me again, who died and made you the headline police?
i'm not sure i want to invest time shouting into an empty void with a chance someone will hear me to see what it's like.

for what it's worth, i hated the removal of the comment scores too and i'm still here.
What's wrong with (old) slashdot (I mean, technically) ?

While I'm usually a kind of hard core html-first, ajax/js/webapps later kind of guy -- I'd love for the comments to be served up in a json-blob, with a couple of user-settable preferences ("Show only comments rated higher than N, hide threads with lower (median/mean) rating than N, show all direct replies to my comments -- and similar).
What's wrong with 1)?

I'd rather have robots clean the toilets and free these people to watch TV and eat chips or get high or whatever they would prefer to spend their lives doing.
By that logic (extending it a bit), we could fire all the cops, and just give our money over to criminals who ask for it. There's a point at which I draw the line, and prefer to fight instead.
Of course. We'd be pretty stupid not to revert something that wasn't working. Plus in any case if you tweak parameters like the number of endorsements a comment needs and how much karma you need to endorse, you can approach current HN as closely as you want.
There is one on Yahoo that still has a chance to get all of the first round right: https://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com/quickenloansbrack...
Are you equating liberty to redistribution of wealth, or liberty to "I'M NOT PAYING MORE TAXES SO FREELOADERS CAN SIT AROUND WATCHING TV?"

I don't see what you're trying to add.
I have a couple colleagues who are openly Christian, and will mention church events when asked what they're doing this weekend. Nobody cares.

I go shooting sometimes, and I sometimes talk about guns with another colleague. Nobody cares.

I've suggested that thorium reactors might be a great idea during lunch conversations, and nobody batted an eye.

These aren't terribly taboo taboos.
For note, here's a chart I just made of the number of Hacker News comments made over the last 3 years: http://i.imgur.com/4FwglA8.png

The number of comments has been growing significantly; perhaps change won't be bad.
This is my favorite option.

That being said, I think people are especially worried that if it's a bad change, it won't be reverted or tinkered with in a timely manner. HN has a (deserved, I think...) reputation for being unresponsive to user feedback.
I think the community is just nervous, but I'm willing to give it a shot (as a sub 1000 karma-er). I do feel the heaviness of the new comment system though; and I understand the uneasiness of those commenting--kind of like swapping files in production.

I think it would be great to have some sort of "Beta HN" where whoever is taking over HN could try out all sorts of new features before they become adopted into the main HN site.
Does a comment need to be seen by many users to be worthwhile? If it contributes to the discussion of a small group of users (who may not have over 1000 karma), is that not still valuable discussion that you would want to continue? I understand the goals of trying to promote healthy discussion, but I fear that this will have many unintended consequences.
Consider how many people disagree with you here. Well-respected users.

If we disagree with you here on what you may have thought a well-regarded idea, who is to say how many well-regarded comments we are now going to miss?

How many excellent comments are headed for the dustbin because of a misunderstanding?

This might work, but it will turn HN into a community that is very inward.
very interesting variation, I like it. Didn't notice the instructions when I played so I didn't realize I could put 4s so my strategy mainly consisted of trying to figure out where the worst place to put a 2 would be especially at the end when it was filling up to get it to catch twos by itself or other singular numbers. Won in the end so I'm pretty content: http://i.imgur.com/7E3WBQk.png
As far as I know, courts aren't in the business of selecting juicy stories to get an audience to sell ads to (Judge Judy maybe).

Since you bring it up, that a court can't be completely certain is of course one of the main arguments against the death penalty - plenty of faulty convictions that we know of to back that up.

There's a much bigger difference though and that is that news outlets are mostly in private hands and usually quite openly run an editorial line. How would you feel about Murdoch or the Koch bros running the judicial process if you are certain the press are and will remain so even-handed? N.B. I'm not even saying this is necessarily a bad thing wrt journalism, just not to be fooled that it is something else (and which it often purports to be). Any adult should know that it's both foolish and dangerous to believe what you read in the press.
Remember when a chorus said hiding comment scores would be the end of HN?
It's worth comparing this poll to the one about whether HN should display comment scores: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2595605

Only 38.5% of users were in favor of comment scores being hidden, but it was decidedly a positive change for the site.
Than MD5??? Weak marketing.
> Well, and no offense intended, but hopefully not, since your comment is a good example of the problem this is trying to solve. It's unnecessarily angry.

Do you seriously not understand the point that I was making? You're basically saying that my comment is unworthy of an audience...not because it was nonsensical or rude or offtopic or abusive...but merely because I wrote in an angry tone. My tone offended your delicate sensibilities, therefore my voice does not deserve to be heard.

I'm sorry, but people like you are precisely the reason why this moderation policy is a bad idea.
One Still Perfect Bracket as of 11:25p EDT
That would be the case if each of the games were played between truly equal teams. In fact, many of the games are much easier to predict than 50/50 since one team is better than another. So the expected value is actually higher, (though presumably still quite small, of course!)
How many S does mine have? How many does yours have?
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I'd give it a few days. I want to see what happens in the comment thread of the next popular controversy.
> Depending on the circumstances, killing can be acceptable, eating human flesh can be acceptable, why wouldn't stealing be?

Maybe you find those acceptable, but I find all of them horrible. Killing someone is only acceptable in self defense (in which case someone else is trying to kill you first), while cannibalism is just sick.
I can see how any system can be abused, but why not treat the user as positive contributor initially, and then if they accrue negative/downvotes; similar to what happens now.

It seems the new pending way involves more effort from the 1k karma people to actively click posts to make them visible. Could this also stop them coming here as if they don't do any work, the site could stagnate?
That, coincidentally, works quite well in the current system too. You don't even need to agree. Just post your comment as a reply to the top comment or, since your karma might be a bit too low for that, as a reply to the first comment deep enough to have no siblings. I'm not advocating that you do this, but I am asserting that this comment of yours would have been seen by many more people had you done that!
Reputation is not as easily reversed.
I'll provide far more napkin math - and I deploy a frictionless work requirement - and it cost not a dollar more than we spend today:

https://medium.com/p/1d068ac5a205
There is still one bracket left as of 11:27p EDT.
https://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com/quickenloansbrack...
No, that's only if you assume every game has the same odds as a coin flip, which is far from true.
Wait to see what it's like (suggested by PG)
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or create 50 parrot accounts and echo the group think until you have enough points to matter...

INVEST NOW!
Comment scores are actually irrelevant.

The relative score is all that matters, and a comment's position on the page tells you all you need to know.
a great website that quickly and plainly tells me that healthcare is b r o k e n. Those prices are i n s a n e. Time to go to a local doctor and pay him directly.
Have you considered that bad content breeds bad discussion? Some subreddits have evolved to deal with content marketing shills, a plague on HN, by demanding submitters have no relationship to the content they submit.

I think this would go a long way to restoring a healthier commenting environment. I also think you should consider taking HN with you as you step back. YC are not appropriately positioned to deal with this problem because 1/2 the startups exploiting HN are YC and the other 1/2 are copying them.
If this were the case, many people would just not work, and rely on the monthly checks.
>> I'd argue that your chance of winning the bracket (or, at least, a valuation of it) is much higher than that given your ability to predict all of the matches prior.

I believe the chance to win given you win all but three are higher than 12.5%. But MUCH higher? I am not quite sure. There are too many games this year can go either way, and predicting these games right is more on luck than technique analysis. Though winning all these previous prediction did gave you the credit in your expertise, but I am not quite sure about MUCH higher statement.

Like I have said "Of course the reality is how much you would sell it very much depend on your conviction of how likely your guesses on final 3 games may be correct.". As tournaments goes on, your feeling about we will win it all will change. Say Louisville will all the team 100-0 in previous game, yet you predicted them to lose at final four, you are more likely to sell your stake at a cheaper price than not.