skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That used to be more of a problem. prior to the Royal mint resizing the 5, 10 and 50 pence coins, the 10 and 50 were exactly the same size as other international coins of a much lower face value. The Kenyan 1 and 2 Shilling comes to mind. A friend at University from Kenya used to use those coins to phone home in payphones. I don't know the specific exchange rate at the time, but they were worth pennies in Sterling from what I remember. The Irish coins, worth less than UK Sterling, also had similar sizes and some of the Australian and New Zealand too. Usually the coins were small face value, but even so, it was possible to pass them off.
The track is providing a downward force - the inertia of the rollercoaster car pushes it up against the track. The track returns the same amount of force in return.
This could potentially censor minority opinions.
Making JavaCard a nice software platform, https://github.com/martinpaljak/AppletPlayground and its relatives
‘They’ don’t want you to know you’re a sucker
My argument was badly put.

What is the benefit of using the same language on the client and server? That the developer only needs to know one language?

The server-side code you write has to interact both with the client and the underlying OS. So you should consider how language X interacts with both client and OS, in addition to the intrinsic qualities of the language.

If we adopt a modular approach to software development, then I don't see any universal benefit to using the same language for all modules.

js might be a good server-side language, but choosing it because it works on the client is the wrong reason.
how about opendns(dnscrypt?) or http://www.blockaid.me/
Gmail closes door on NSA; all email now encrypted
Being in a different time zone I missed out on the trial, bummer. I'm looking forward to actually trying it out. Going back to the original discussion it seems this is a measure designed to weed out comments that are nasty and low in content.

The potential issue I see is that this feature adds a layer of complication and indirection to solve a cultural problem.

There are two classes of low-grade comments: the "normal" ones which quickly sink to the bottom because they're downvoted into oblivion, and the "crafty" ones that get a lot of upvotes even though they're cheap, inflammatory, personal, repetitive, or just generally trollish (like for example the maneuver where someone posts a reply disagreeing with an imaginary point that was never made in the parent).

The existing voting system is pretty good at filtering out the normal trash, but it fails to address the crafty pieces - so I assume the Pending Feature is designed to address those. I'm not sure it can though, because the crafty trolls seem to have a lot of fans and the same people who upvote these things today are just going to endorse them in the future.

Sorry for spit-balling from the cheap seats, I'm actually excited to find out how the new system works in practice. It intuitively it feels like a layer of complexity with dubious benefits, but that said: addressing the underlying problem is a worthy cause.
If there was better tooling, maybe there might be a few animated WebP images out there.
Sure. When are the automakers going to pay back their bailouts?
Interesting bit near the end:

"And even though they have incredible color-changing skills — going from beige to blood-red or striped in the blink of an eye — cuttlefish are totally colorblind."

Which raises the question of how cuttlefish mimicry works - how can it imitate what it does not perceive? There must be some feedback mechanism, what signals does it use?

I found little in a quick search: "Camouflage is one of the least studied subjects in biology" ( http://reefbuilders.com/2011/06/06/cuttlefish/ ).
> The system kind of works.

Isn't it actually radically different in that you are not allowed to choose to stay unemployed, i.e. you have to be at least trying to look for work in order to be eligible for such benefits?

In other countries there are similar systems but before you get "basic income" like benefits, your property will have to be used up / sold.
It is important that we encourage new users to comment on HN. The reality is that early posts from new users may not make the grade set by 1000+ Karma users. Let them be visible as otherwise you may discourage such new users from re engaging/commenting further.

Color coding comments to flag they as 'pending' is fine. But complete hiding them sounds too strong

Its great to have the conversation on how to improve HN comments
But the emails are still not encrypted as they reside on the servers, no? In other words they are still just a quick FISA 70[234] away for NSA.
Accelerated SHA1 has been available for a long time, this was necessary for embedded systems.

The NIST is currently modifying SHA3 to make it faster, with some controversy.

You are right in the sense we will have to wait for the definitive standard to get out before we see some heavily optimized implementations.

If you want immediate performance, use SHA2. If you want more "future proof" security, use SHA3 (and one could say that SHA2 is still very good in terms of security).

Stick to the standard, unless you know a lot about crypto.
An overview of the Nginx FastCGI Module
A word of warning to others: if you visit that page and actively flag, you may lose your flagging privileges. It happened to lots of us here when the Snowden story first broke - a lot of folks who regularly visited /newest to upvote/flag incoming stories lost their flagging privileges due to legitimately flagging the duplicates/blog spam/crap about the Snowden leaks. I can remember going to page 2 and 3 on /newest and 25 of the 30 stories shown would be dupes or crap about Snowden that was unworthy of HN. We got "punished" for doing what we thought was the right thing. And FYI - there is no timeout for lost flagging privileges that I know of.

I suspect that > 50% of the stories on /noobstories are flag-worthy but do yourself a favor and just flag 1/10th of the stories you think are bad/unworthy. It's an unfortunate side effect of the flagging/downvoting policy here at HN.
To be honest, screenshots of this game are no longer a proof of anything. I am not calling you dishonest,but just saying that I could run the AI version, and when it wins change the address at the top,and using any browser's inspect feature just remove the two buttons above the game field. It's just ridiculously easy to fake winning screenshots of 2048 now.
Amount of upvotes for a given post are about a lot of other factors than just the quality of comment. Time of day is a major factor, for instance.
Thanks for hammering this nail yummyfajitas.

I'm completely open to the idea of basic incomes but it seems that if it is possible, it should be easy enough to demonstrate the basic outline. This isn't something that can be discussed without arithmetic.

Excluding dynamic effects (more/fewer people will work), political necessities (program X must be excluded from the chopping block) is OK for a start. Picking and choosing countries is OK for a start.

The first question I would like to see answered is how much it would cost to bring every net recipient's income up to par with the biggest recipients'. Presumably the basic income needs to be set somewhere near this line or we'll have a situation where many current recipients are worse off.
If I maintain my current levels of posting/karma receiving, I should be eligible to post unfettered comments in 84 years or so.
Of note is that the study didn't show that SmartWater actually helped to solve crimes - indeed, last I heard there was no study showing that - but it still had a deterrent effect because criminals think it helps. (I think many of them may have caught on by now though.)
> supported until 2020 (!). There is no Linux distribution outside RHEL

The RHEL derivates such as CentOS or Scientific Linux provide such long support.

> that many existing Windows software doesn't work on Linux, compatibility of LibreOffice with Office documents, etc

There is Wine which allows to run Windows programs on Linux just fine. I am still using Office 2000. Compatibility is also problem with newer Windows and I would say that in long run Linux will be more compatible with WinXP than Windows themselfs. Microsoft seems very eager to drop old functions to boosts its sales.

You are also forgetting that upgrading Linux is usually much easier. MS is changing UI every version and it requires retraining users and administrators.
This is insane. I can complete 2048 easily, but can't seem to win this version. For others, it's other way around. How does that work? :/
It's not about the immediate cost. It's about the fact that conditional social support creates poverty traps, by imposing the steepest marginal tax rates (sometimes exceeding 100%) on the poorest people in society.

Listen to this investigation into Disability benefits.[1] Listen to how the people who receive these benefits genuinely need the stable income that they provide, but are then prohibited from working part-time, tutoring, even volunteering for their community, for fear of losing the only available form of security. Listen to how trapped they become by the system. For them, being trapped by a conditional benefits program is better than the alternative -- anything is better than starvation -- but it is still a dehumanising and self-perpetuating institution.

The flipside to making benefits conditional is that we require employers to provide social support (eg., via minimum wage, etc). By setting an expensive threshold below which employers cannot create jobs, we impose enormous costs on industry and minimize job creation. A basic income should go hand-in-hand with the elimination of minimum wage. By removing the requirement that jobs must provide base-level income support, we would enable the creation of more jobs.

Between eliminating the steep marginal tax rates on the poor, and removing the steep threshold to job creation due to minimum wage, we would eliminate the two biggest factors in chronic poverty traps. So if you want to do a real calculation on the costs of our current policies, be sure to include the cost to industry of the minimum wage, as well as the Net Present Value of the future costs of letting the current poverty-trap system continue to grow.

1: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/490/t...
It's really surreal to me that we're having this conversation without discussing the reality that outside of the Apple-controlled iOS sandbox, the world is replete with hundreds and hundreds of languages. You don't have to navel-gaze to theorize what's it's like to work in another language: just try writing some code that runs your laptop instead of your phone.
Suggestion: this thread should have the comments sorted differently than normal with a heavy biased towards newer comments (e.g., everything posted in the last year is sorted separately and placed ahead of everything else or comments are simply sorted by their date). The thread is a bit of a mess right now; the proposed change would make it easier to navigate and provide exposure to newer feature suggestions, which I assume are more relevant because the suggestions older than X that aren't implemented have either been reviewed and rejected or placed on a shortlist somewhere.
It's been a decade since I've posted there with any regularity, but this more or less lays out why I feel like I still haven't seen a more elegant solution to moderating comments than Slashdot's metamoderation system.

Comments not only receive a +/- minus score, but they receive a reason for that score. Additionally, meta-moderators are selected randomly from eligible moderators who go behind and moderate whether the scores given to a particular comment were justified. Get metamoderated down often enough and you lose your ability to moderate.

It baffles me that every site on the web keeps using simple up/down systems and then complains about how hard it is to generate quality discussion when this is hardly a new problem set.
Very cool! Any more detailed information about its construction? I bet they would also be interesting to a different audience - as toy.

Edit: Found this http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1403/1403.1211.pdf
At my last job, the (rather dedicated) developers would often push code to production at 1am, give or take an hour.

As support, I would ask them "Please don't do that. You don't watch to make sure it works okay"

They would respond 'It's okay, because we'll be back online at 8am'.

"Yes, but our primary customers are farmers, who check our SaaS at 6am to plan their day. It's the point of our software."

'It's okay, because we'll be back online at 8am'

"I don't think you understand how this works..."
Substance editor's funding bid to build an open publishing platform
I have a pot that I throw my change in to - there's £27 in £1 coins, and one is either fake or has turned a very dubious colour.

Some fakes are amazingly real looking, some are so fake looking I find it amazing anyone actually believed it was real. I always seem to get them in small shops, pubs and take aways. Usually from independent traders who deal mostly with cash. I guess this is because the fraudsters can get away with passing them off more easily to those kinds of businesses?
Great, so just let people die if they can't afford health insurance and get bronchitis. Let people starve if the economy tanks. Ability/desire to work does not equal production. Sometimes there is a willing worker and no job to do.

Are you aware of the purpose of society in the first place? It's the idea that as a whole, we all do better when we're looking out for each other. So far it has worked surprisingly well. This whole notion of FREE MARKET EVERYTHING, PRODUCE OR DIE needs to go back to the stink hole it came out of. People, and society as a whole, are much more than their market value.

Also, there needs to be a distinction between productive and needy. They are not mutually exclusive, and not everything in this world that's worth producing can have a price tag slapped on it.

The libertarian utopia you describe is a pathetic excuse for a society.
Our freedom is already being restricted, you idiot. Access to Twitter is blocked by the government, without a court order.

Hiccup my ass.
I'm a fan of post-publication review. Let people post, and then if it really is something bad, unhelpful, or spam, just let it be down voted and hidden after it receives a certain number of down votes (such as 5, like on reddit). And I like that people can still click on a down voted comment to see it, since sometimes comments are down voted because they are saying something unpopular, not necessarily "bad."
Twitter shuts down #Music app
OpenLoveMap
hueving, it's true that there is an arguable attitude in the forum, but even under this assumption, to say that the comments section [...] is laughable is unfair.

It's certainly true that has downsides, but everything has.

It has at least one interesing upside though: one can learn to formulate opinions in a thoughtful, informed, and overall solid way. This is extremely valuable, and very importantly, it's entirely up to the user.

Groupthink is omnipresent; you just can't avoid it. But I've personally noticed one thing; most of the times, opinions which are against the establishment are respected and in best case admired, if they are solid and carry interesting/unexpected/creative information. I'm not talking about HN here.

So one can perfectly thrive here (and don't get me wrong, I don't endorse craving for upvotes) while still being non-conformant to the groupthink, everywhere. I'm pretty much "anti-technology" in some perspectives, but my account still survives pretty well, and so can yours.
Notice that work disincentive is a plus, not a minus, when there are millions of unemployed people.
Why Scientists Need to Learn How to Share
5 months ago.

But they don't have any updates/community/english ?

Forums are spammed.

Twitter stream not english.

Qa site nearly dead.

Chat ~dead.

Jira looks alive.
Could we please have the way to unlock someones abilty to post comment (delete comment, wait for timeout etc.) described in the FAQ?
Just checked dns servers.They are fine https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/t1.0-...
Maybe he's confusing DMCA with Section 230.
Shadowbans/hellbans are meant to silence trolls, not unpopular views. They sometimes hit people with unpopular views, which is a problem that needs to be sorted out, but their purpose is not to enforce groupthink, merely civility.
I'd argue hunger promotes stealing more than eradicates laziness.
Many of those hundreds of languages do actually run on iOS. Many games on the App Store are written in Unity (a C# platform).

Heck, many are written in Flash too. Yes, Flash.

I actually consider it a very healthy sign that the people complaining about Objective C are a vocal minority whining about such silly, unfocused, vague things.

It means Objective C is doing quite fine, thank you very much.
I don't think that 'general' topics that most people have something to say about are inherently bad (in my opinion). They just have a few problems.

First, On 'developing statistical methods' the average HNer has more insightful things to say than the average person. On alternatives to social welfare the average HN commenter is not much more insightful than the average person. The only reason to do it here is because here is the community where they discuss things online.

Second some articles contributes no more than just the topic ("Yay basic income, no facts, no reasoning, yay"). HN isn't for that so it fails. It works for discussing articles or specific facts and news items, not for discussing 'topics.^' ATM it looks like there are 2-3 of these on page one.

^BTW, is there any software specifically designed to allow discussion of these "forever topics." IE, the topics that keeps popping up in every forum and get pinned in the traditional BB forums?
My only complaint is that the verb 'to endorse' might be a little bit too strong. A button that says 'appropriate' might be better, because it's more clear then what exactly the intended criteria for an endorsement are and the user does not need to identify with clicking the button as much.
The "extra complexity" needed for multi-machine setups over linking containers is actually pretty minor.

Your services need to read something to get the IP, which ultimately comes from an ENV variable. In the linked container scenario Docker sets that variable. Otherwise you set it manually. That's the only extra complexity.

I was worried about this too, so I tried it out[1]. In this case I have a YAML config file, which can be overridden by ENV variables (which may come from Docker).

This isn't as automatic as CoreOS (eg, no failover etc), but it is a lot less complex.

[1] https://github.com/nlothian/Acuitra/blob/master/services/que...
Wind and Solar Harvest Enough Energy Now to Pay Back Manufacture
Secure, introspectable tunnels to localhost
> How many have stuck with Linux 2 years out? 5 years out?

IT@School (see another comment for details) seems to have stuck with it for at least 6 years, to go by the retrospective on their webpage [1]. And they show no signs of migrating back to Windows yet.

It may have helped that in this case, there was (AFAIK) no widespread officially sanctioned use of Windows for governmental purposes to start with. I don't think MS could get their foot in the door in any meaningful way before the FOSS spirit took over. I do faintly remember MS trying to lure the government with nominally priced e-governance offers, though.

[1] https://www.itschool.gov.in/glance.php#8

(Edit: spelling)
When it get read out of context by phbs.
Twitter Pulls #Music App From App Store, Final Shutdown on April 18
You know that the Turkish government is currently playing with the routing for the internet in Turkey. It seems likely given that the google DNS is spraypainted over downtown Istanbul and being shown all over the world on the news, that if the routing from Turkey for the very same DNS goes down for a while, that it is probably something to do with an annoyed politician not realising that the google DNS is used for a lot more than just rogue twitterati.
Snowden Makes Appearance At TED: “The Biggest Revelations Are Yet To Come”
We will never be able to have such an open debate like this again. Future conversations on how to improve HN will be filtered by 1000+ karma users. That seems at odds with what HN news stands for. While I have confidence in the abilities of these 1000+ karma users, it doesn't seem the right way.

I am confident that with some refinements a good outcome will be reached.
I've been here three years and have 9000 points. We have a similar karma average, so our comments are basically seen as the same quality. If you want community privileges, then contribute to the community! :)
Ask HN: How are you planning to scale up your startup?
You are an amazing hacker and a product geek. You are capable of building products that are relevant & sticky. But you probably not sure how to scale up your startup when the product fits the market. May be due to lack of experience in running a "business" in the past.

There are 2 ways to solve this.

1. Hire a professional CEO like what Sergey and Larry did by hiring Eric Schmidt as CEO.
2. Get a professional business/executive coach to guide you. Apparently Mark Zuckerberg was coached. (http://www.quora.com/When-did-Mark-Zuckerberg-seek-the-help-of-a-CEO-coach-Who-was-is-the-coach-and-who-made-sure-Mark-was-convinced-to-hire-one)

What will you do?

Disclaimer: I'm the co-founder of www.coatom.com and your answers helps me making it relevant & useful.
In nature most animals do not die of old age or sickness. In fact, dying of old age or sickness is the most horrifying and prolonged death possible for any life form. It's torture. Being hunted and dead in the span of hours, or even minutes is far more "humane" (I hate the etymology of this word).

Preserving an animal's life artificially until it's so old it dies from its age is what is actually unnatural (also see the original point 3). So the focus should not be on extending an animal's life length, but improving those animals' life quality.

And actually if you would replace "animal" with "human" in anything I say, it still applies. This is how you know I'm not discriminating against an animal's life. Which would be pure ignorance.
it's pretty clear to me that HN is already an echo chamber in many respects - the consensus VC and corporate views are frequently those that get the most upvotes. requiring approval from 'old guard' users will only exacerbate this echo chamber property of HN and will, imo, likely degrade the quality of discussions more than it will help.

what has made HN and reddit so popular is the ability for anyone to participate, even if their comments get downvoted. by removing this open posting property, you are going to switch from a "burning man" culture to a "popular nightclub" culture. i would like to think that most of the developer types on HN recognize this as a bad thing.

i, for one, will not bother participating in discussions with the same frequency if i know that it requires approval from a karma overlord. i expect this chilling effect will be similar with many users of your site.
Multiple Pivot Sorting Algorithm Patent
Are really 3% of all 1 pound coins counterfeit or is this just a case of Gresham's law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham's_law
It's interesting that this seems to be a move away from the world of realtime. Some of the articles on HN only appear in the top 30 for a few hours. This seems to grate against the idea of pending comments.

Also it exposes HN to something that irritates about Stack Overflow, this idea that there are a bunch of people who somehow know what I want to read. The amount of questions on SO that are 'closed as deemed none relevant' is ridiculous.

Also remember, the bad comments are the exact benchmark on which you judge a good comment. Without bitter there is no sweet.