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I think one compromise could be to remove this restriction from users with > x karma. It's not ideal to me but it is something ...
I am worried about this as well.

I believe it will likely kill decent and valid discussions. HN already is a little disconnected from reality sometimes, with this we will end up with a fake consensus. Besides, it will become harder to attain 1000+ karma, so we will be endorsing a small group of people of old users and will be unwelcoming for new folks.
Would you consider allowing users to have one pending comment per thread, as opposed to only one at a time? I am afraid that this will impact the way I read HN, which is in batch mode.
There's this attitude I see a lot, that I think started with Digg, then attached itself to Reddit, that a community should A. be about whatever its users want it to be about, and B. be free to join. These principles are usually claimed to be somehow representative of "democracy."

Together, however, these principles will invariably mean that the "community" will be reduced to a snapshot of the world-at-large, as new only-somewhat-related-to-the-community's-current-interests people join, and further expand/dilute the scope of the community. The eventual equilibrium consists mostly of partisan political debate, sex RP, and cute animal pictures, with nobody recognizing anyone else and nobody sharing any interests with anyone else--in other words, not a "community" in anything but name.

Digg was reduced to this. Reddit avoided it by shattering into postmodern everyone-gets-a-different-flavor subcommunities, but all the "frontpage-default" subcommunities then succumbed to this anyway.

If you want a community, you must moderate either participation or membership. Personally, I think moderating membership results in better communities. But--unless you follow the SomethingAwful strategy of "you can be unbanned as many times as you like, as long as you keep paying ten dollars"--moderating participation is easier at scale.
It's orthogonal.
Who the hell do you think you are? Rather, who the hell do you think I am? I assure you, you do not know enough about me to boldly and indignantly assert that "Science cannot go forward" with the kind of attitude held by "persons like [me]".
Yes, this seems like the whole point of the "feature".

I'm really missing what problem is being solved..
It will be an act of service to the community (which will be amply rewarded by the community being a community of higher-quality comments, methinks) for the users with more than 1000 karma to regularly visit the new submissions page

https://news.ycombinator.com/newest

and the active threads page

https://news.ycombinator.com/active

to keep track of which threads are most likely to need comment review. It looks like pg will also attempt to set up a pending comments page, from which it might be necessary to trace back to the original fine article to know whether or not a comment is good, but that doesn't sound like too much work to help build a better community. (I used to look at the noobcomments and noobstories view of the site from time to time, until automation pretty much took over spam-filtering here.)

Best wishes to all of you who desire to post good comments here. I'll do my best to use some of my recreational time to review those for general visibility as early and as often as I am permitted.
Living in Alaska for a year is a steeper obstacle than living most places.
Great article. I am looking forward to using Julia once the data-munging (and vectorization) packages start catching up to things like Pandas and numpy.

Did you have any experiences with vectorized Julia being slower than the "loopy" Julia version? I have heard a few tales of this happening that have put me off of converting from Python...
I support the basic income, but I have also thought about alternatives that do not require government support. Consider e-currency with a time based demurrage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demurrage_(currency)) fee. The demurrage fees would be paid out equally to all consumers. The demurrage fee plays the same role as a job in the current economy by circulating currency from producers to consumers. Since it is an e-currency, it would be independent of governments. The good news is that if in the future wealth inequality causes economic output to shrink, businesses might be forced to accept these types of currencies in order to grow.
> Will robots patrol the streets and keep you safe from crime? Will they prosecute people who hurt others, or preside over those trials to make sure everyone's rights are protected?

Hah, that's exactly Robocop (in Detroit 2029).
Can someone tl;dr me the benefits of this new language? I am not a big fan of Facebook or php.
> The only thing I'd like is a way to collapse comments (Reddit style) so I can easily get past a long chain in a discussion.

This is the only thing I want as well.
Sean, I’ve read some of your research and it’s great! I agree completely. Hell, even the concept of “to create software means some set of sequential steps” is presuming quite a bit. Although I don’t have too much experience creating software otherwise, I at least acknowledge we really barely have any concept of what we’re doing and what’s possible.
If it is it's pretty reversible as deathknells go.

(= pend-on* nil)
Hard work is a recent invention. It arrived with the farming revolution a mere 10-12k years ago.

Before that, humans as foragers are believed to have worked about 20hrs per week, if they so chose.
The article is conflating the ISP's _costs_ with the _prices_ paid by consumers:

"And I think we can all accept the fact that business service costs are ultimately borne by consumers."

The above statement seems designed to cause confusion. The implication is that the total price consumers pay is determined wholly by the costs incurred in delivering the service. This may be almost true in aggregate, but isn't true at an individual level.

ISPs offer an all-you-can-eat internet service, but aren't happy with the customer-level margins for the most heavy users (including Netflix users). They could raise prices for heavy users (e.g. by applying caps in the same way as mobile providers) but have chosen instead to engage in different tactics to limit usage or get additional revenue from other sources. Throttling P2P traffic (I don't know which ISPs in the US do this) and asking CDN providers to pay for ports are two examples.

This seems to be like they're increasing the maximum speed of the local pipes ('unlimited water up to 100 litres per minutes!') without being willing to increase the size of the pipes into (and capacity within) their own distribution network.

Am I missing something, or is it just that the business model of offering unlimited high speed internet only sustainable at a higher price?
Is the lock on new comments not per-thread?
Not, years, months; assuming a couple of decent comments per day, with a couple of points per answer( my definition of a couple is ~ 2-4 here ).
Oops, yes, another thing I overlooked.
Wow thanks! I didn't know about the init process and the zombies.
Man, I love the site design. Any plans to do freelance design work after the book is out?
The pie grows larger as people enter the economy who were brought there by the desire to get a free income? I support the proposal, but come on
1. Firing government workers in droves does not in fact lead to poverty.

Example: Release of hundreds of thousands of conscript soldiers after WWII. Many economists predicted catastrophe. This did not happen.

2. Elderly health care: You legalize private cheap insurance for the elderly. The poor elderly can use that. The non-poor elderly can get fancier coverage should they so choose.
I take it as a sign that our court systems are failing when a judge can jail someone for crimes that has admitted to not even understanding. Whether he's a good guy or not, that's ridiculous.
Agreed. This will only work to increase the echo chamber that is HN. Any type of debate will now need to go through the HN elite. I really didn't have a problem with the current system, any obvious troll comments were always downvoted out of sight. I rather see any unapproved comment and make up my own mind on its "worthiness" instead of someone else.
I think I understand the motivation, but this smacks of elitism to me. Unless the 1K users constitute the majority, then by definition a minority of HN users will effectively moderate (and can potentially censor) the discussions. That seems very unfair.
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I really really support this. IMO it would make this world so much more fun to live in.
It does: put an email address in your profile.

I don't entirely disagree with you guys, but I wonder why these discussions aren't being taken to email (or whatever you kids are using these days) anyhow.
I'm working on a site to create and share parallel translations, i.e a single book/document in two languages next to one another.
The solution to this is to allow collapsing uninteresting comment threads. I use this all the time on Reddit.
I think this is a poor implementation. I'm here to have discussions with people and read the good comments, so I have little incentive to spend my time reading unendorsed comments, and anything that stops me from seeing a good comment in a timely manner is taking away value for me. I assume similar motives apply to people with less than 1000 karma, and the community will cease to grow if they don't obtain value as well. But the worst part of this is that for those with >1000 karma, we're being asked to pay attention to posts with a high chance of being bad or mediocre. That's the opposite of what I want to be doing.

Starting around the same time comment scores were hidden, people have been voting less on comments, and it often seems like few people even read your comments in threads not on the front page. What this effectively means, especially in less active threads, is that I can only hold conversations with people if they have >1000 karma. Others will simply fade into the ether.

A slightly less bad approach would be if the popularity of the thread determines the threshold for posts needing endorsement. So as an example, non-front-page threads get posts from people with >50% endorsement rate and >20 endorsements immediately live, threads on the bottom half of the front page get posts from people with a >75% endorsement rate and >50 endorsements immediately live, and threads in the top half of the front page have everyone go through endorsement. Or maybe the number of posts already in the thread determines those thresholds. The issue with that is that in a thread with 200 comments, I'm never going to look at all of them, or even a quarter, so any that need endorsement will likely be missed.

Another possibly less bad approach would be to start posts at 0 points if the poster is under a relatively high karma threshold.

Also, after 24 hours, all "non-endorsed" posts should go live with an indicator, not disappear, so we can see if the system is even working as intended, and have one last chance of finding those hidden gems.

That said, you will be missed, Paul! I hope we'll still see you post from time to time.
The acceleration curve you describe would have infinite jerk at the start, stop and halfway points. A |jerk| minimizing curve for a fixed travel time would gradually (linearly) increase to maximum acceleration during the first 1/4 of the trip, gradually decrease back to no acceleration over the next 1/4, gradually increase to full deceleration over the next 1/4, and finally gradually decrease to no deceleration over the last 1/4.
Sounds like an interesting experiment, but also the type of thing that will require quite a bit of adjustment and tuning. So I hope the complexity will not prohibit the new site runners from making these adjustments.
Ask HN: How do you recommend preparing for technical interviews?
I was recently laid off and I'm back in the job market for the first time in a number of years. I have several technical interviews coming up.

One (Amazon) specifically mentions reviewing basics like data structures, algorithms, etc. I don't have a formal CS background, so I feel unprepared.

What resources, techniques, etc. do you recommend to prepare for technical interviews?
Everyone who uses Hotmail, Gmail, Google Drive, OneDrive, Google Docs, Dropbox, Evernote, and countless other similar services needs to keep in mind the following quip (which I stole from somewhere on the Internet):

Today's word: The cloud.
Explanation: Someone else's computer.

I'm a user of various cloud services, but I'm not naive enough to have any expectation of privacy, from either that company or from the NSA. Period. Full stop.
My friends company did the same thing. Probably the best way if you can, he does very well in ad-tech.
A shame.

Whilst I am always intrigued with what hits the front-page, I rather more often than occasionally, find myself getting to page 10 or so on the weekends.

Just to see what has been going on that I missed.

Your change will basically mean that someone like me who might have something to add to an existing conversation might as well not bother.

It'll be years before I have enough karma on ycombinator's hackernews >1000, and that means I might as well seek another avenue. I guess I am back to post link on social media and comment on it.

Oh well, back to the 00's I guess.
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One key aspect of this is that the data was not stolen thru hacking or other networking evilness, but was physicaly stolen.

Another aspect of note is that the data appears to not be encrypted.

Now that is a whole area of IT security that many overlook in out times of internet badies our to get your systems. People think, not on the internet, no need for encryption as it is issolated, physicaly.

Whilst the days of the RAM thefts have become a distant past with whole server rooms raided by theifs just after the RAM sticks during the times of oevr inflated memory prices making them targets. The threat to your data and systems from such means still exist and can be anything from a opertunist or disgruntled janitor down to planned targeting of the data or even the hardware it runs upon.
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Perhaps add the ability for a poster to retract his orher pending comments? You could add a mandatory waiting period to prevent abuse.
the 3d one I found to be the easiest: http://joppi.github.io/2048-3D/

but 4d is terribly hard: http://huonw.github.io/2048-4D/

edit: I did a 3d victory in the 18 minutes in editing the comment. You can generally just push higher numbers into a corner, and pick either the left or the right side to consistently fold to and you'll get it mostly without thinking.
Um, how will this work out with timezones? Should I even bother writing comments outside of US office hours?
It wouldn't limit criticism of YC. A comment only needs a few people to endorse it to become visible. To suppress comments on any specific topic would require all the users with over 1000 karma to agree not to endorse them, which is hard to imagine.
A bad comment is a bad comment whether I write it or a green-named user does. Jerkface.
Can someone who knows crypto shed some light on the "gravity" of this algorithm? Is this going to out and out replace MD5, or will it fall among the many "awesome, but not widely used" hashes out there? It sounds pretty awesome... almost too awesome!
This is an obvious parody of DOWN (formerly Bang with Friends).
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People spending their basic income :)
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I haven't read much on BI, so I'm sure this has already been answered already, but: how do the numbers add up?

The US poverty line for a single person is $11k. For simplicity, let's say BI gives everyone in the US $10k per year. Times 313.9 million, that's $3.1 trillion per year. The US government spent, overall, $3.45 trillion in 2013. How would we be able to afford basic income?
I think it would be interesting to have a 2048 variant where every player starts with same board and after every move, the same random next piece is given to all the people who made that move. The server would track over time how many people have made a series of identical moves to you. This wouldn't be synchronous but accumulated over time as a history of moves in a given situation is stored.

Starting board: 103,044 players have made identical moves

After 1st move: 70,333 players have made identical moves

After 2nd move: 18,231 players have made identical moves

...

After 7th move: 3 players have made identical moves

After 8th move: You are unique - no other player has made the same 8 moves as you.

All kinds of neat data could be generated and turned into illustration of the branching over time and where each particular set of moves ends.
This type of feature is exactly the reason I don't participate in StackOverflow. Granted, pending-comment is better than can't-comment.

That said, I expect this will save me hours of my life since I expect that I won't bother to write comments once this is in effect (and as an added bonus, there should be less comments to read). I tried noprocrast and couldn't handle it, but this will do it.
So one might endorse a substantial comment which is incorrect just so one can downvote it for being wrong.
It's not behind a paywall, slvv. Just clicking on the link opens it. (I haven't paid anything to anyone).

Or you can just Google "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences female entrepreneurship", then click on the PDF icon and you got it.

For example: There was a HN post here of a blog post wondering why there are very few women led backed venture. They cited the article (well, the journal) but if they had read it, they'd know that the authors hinted at the reason of that: That there are simply way fewer women pursuing this than there are men. And the women who end up being entrepreneurs, mostly focus on women's stuff (cosmetics, etc). It's right there, in the article. But they didn't do their reading.

It's like talking about some book character after reading Cliff's Notes. Worse, imagine if Cliff's Notes were written from summaries of summaries of summaries.

People are just lazy. This is why "Did You Know" in Facebook is such a hit. They give you pseudo facts (often taken out of context and a lot of times resulting in a superficial reading and a hurry to draw a conclusion from a Wikipedia entry). Most people will read them, accept the fact and think they're smarter by the day.
People who can see pending comments (= those who can endorse them) will always be able to see them. They just won't be endorsable after a day.
The first thing I do each day (or couple times a day) is click on my name/comments to see if someone has said something interesting in response to a post of mine.

In fact, if the responses are interesting enough - I may never actually look at anything else on HN unless it appears in my RSS feed (filtered to topics > 100 points).
How about making the pending comments scoped to a thread? That way, no one can get locked out of commenting completely, but they can't make a bunch of bad comments on a certain thread if they violated the rules once.
Good point. I do almost all of my work in vim or a terminal, which maximize my text-editing space. I could see feeling cramped in an IDE with lots of side displays and menus.
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I'm a bit torn on this idea.

On the one hand, I think it would be great for some of the bigger threads, that often go to hundreds of comments, many of which say the same thing over and over again. It could do a lot of keep those shorter, more insightful, and more on-topic.

On the other hand, what about the smaller threads, that tend to get one or two dozen comments, if that, and probably not many page views? Would discussion there become essentially impossible unless a >1k-er deigns to drop in and bless a few of the posts with some endorsements? Has anybody actually checked what proportion of users are >1k and how willing they are to drop in on every thread on the site and endorse comments? Or constantly reload bigger threads and scroll all around to see new comments for that matter?

If it were up to me, I'd do a sliding scale. Something like no endorsement/auto-endorse all for under 20 total comments in the thread. At >50 comments in the thread, users with under, say, 100 karma need endorsement. At >100, you need maybe 250 karma, 200 posts 500 karma, etc. Maybe users under 5 or 10 karma always need endorsement. Maybe some formula to compute it that you can tweak the factors on as needed if there is too little discussion or too much fluff.

Another point - say I make a comment that sucks. Oops, happens to all of us sometimes. What happens then? Does it stay unendorsed and stuck forever? Can I just delete it, or will it auto-delete or something? Does it get downvoted without ever being endorsed?

Hey wait a second, I think we're just getting closer to slashcode here...
Two player should have a bigger board. 32768 anyone?
I think if you could see close-up how these systems work now, you'd be convinced that it's completely not worth the cost in practice to try and figure out who "deserves" each of the many, many special benefits/allowances/exemptions available (plus it's incredibly difficult for potential recipients to figure out what they're eligible for, plus it imposes those costs on the people who aren't eligible, but end up having to jump through all the same hoops.)

This is just my experience after working for ~1000 hours on healthcare.gov w/other YC alumni (relatively nonideological-liberal-or-libertarian engineer bias), but I think it's become increasingly clear to all of us that the implementation of well-meaning policies intended to separate the deserving from the undeserving ends up adding an incredible amount of complexity and overhead, along with unintentional side effects, edge cases, and bad incentives.

(This isn't why healthcare.gov had major issues, it's just another problem.)

That said, there's no way politically a basic income is going to fly anytime soon. So since this is HN... is there any way to get to an MVP without having a sovereign state to experiment with? Or is this solely in the realm of public policy?
It is, actually. Comments by users with over 10k karma go live immediately.
You have to read a thread enough to know you want to collapse it, which incurs exactly the same "scroll-pain" as actually scrolling. It's not a physical tax from the action required to scroll, but rather a mental stress from making a decision to skip something. Enough of that stress building up at once, and you decide that the comments page itself is probably skippable.

If uninteresting comment threads could start collapsed, that'd be great. But they won't, because humor-fluff and other such things are superstimuli for upvotes, so you can't use anything about the vote tally to determine collapsed-ness. (If there was a secondary voting system--like, say, if enough people collapsing a thread would make it start collapsed for others--this might work. But then you'd have to take into account the people who collapse everything as they read it, to mark their place...)