skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems timely in light of the new "pending comments" system.

What it boils down to, is comments being censored by default, until they're possibly uncensored by group-think. As if the community needed a narrower focus on supporting Basic Income and other misguided but popular ideas.

The effect will be silencing unharmonious views, which seems like something the author of "What You Can't Say" would see. Maybe silencing dissent is the goal here. I don't expect (m)any of my own comments to get uncensored.
Welcome to the cat-mouse game:

1. government blocks something

2. People posting workarounds online

3. government block circumvention methods again

4. network activity goes underground.

You are not at stage 3 of the first cycle.
A Rare Blend of Monster Raving Egomania and Utter Batshit Insanity
The government should have blocked the ip of Twitter to make the ban effective!
mainly using http://casperjs.org/ to do all my high level testing.

as to services, recently started moving to https://www.codeship.io/ for continuous integration testing. though I love it it doesn't 100% cut it for me though as I have some dependencies on Windows, unfortunately.
ve been using Tor both on desktop and mobile with no problems since problems started.
.. and other(?) Aspies, such as myself.
Congrats on your ability to climb out of a desperate situation. A distinction needs to be made between a situation that has a solution and one that doesn't. Consider refractory cancer, or a severe neuralgia. Such persons cannot simply "do something about it" in the same way that someone who is in financial trouble can.
Social Content Rules We Have Learned The Hard Way
I was also skeptical till I noticed 2 huge deployments 1.Cafe Cofee Day is India's largest chain of cafes, sort of India's Starbucks. Their billing machines seem to be a custom Linux that boots into a console application (tastefully made)that's used for billing, taking orders at the counter, upload data etc. 2. Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India the country's largest Insurance company with thousands of branches has rolled out Linux desktops a couple of years back.
Lets see if this is true.

traceroute output for google dns:
traceroute to 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 1.916 ms 1.885 ms 1.872 ms

2 81.212.171.79.static.turktelekom.com.tr (81.212.171.79) 6.546 ms 6.548 ms 7.746 ms

3 93.155.0.130 (93.155.0.130) 8.952 ms 8.962 ms 9.998 ms

4 * * *

5 gayrettepe-t2-2-gayrettepe-t3-6.turktelekom.com.tr.119.156.212.in-addr.arpa (212.156.119.143) 11.529 ms 12.833 ms 13.350 ms

6 72.14.223.21 (72.14.223.21) 22.117 ms 23.176 ms 23.174 ms

7 64.233.175.188 (64.233.175.188) 45.687 ms 44.425 ms 44.377 ms

8 216.239.48.117 (216.239.48.117) 44.844 ms 216.239.48.125 (216.239.48.125) 59.738 ms 50.628 ms

9 209.85.254.114 (209.85.254.114) 50.647 ms 50.649 ms 51.616 ms

10 * * *

11 google-public-dns-a.google.com (8.8.8.8) 53.117 ms 53.809 ms 51.228 ms

--

traceroute output for twitter.com:

1 P-2812HNUL-F1.P-2812HNUL-F1 (192.168.1.1) 27.282 ms 27.520 ms 27.748 ms

2 81.212.171.79.static.turktelekom.com.tr (81.212.171.79) 32.212 ms 32.926 ms 33.018 ms

3 93.155.0.130 (93.155.0.130) 34.917 ms 34.817 ms 40.507 ms

4 * * *

5 gayrettepe-t2-3-gayrettepe-t3-6.turktelekom.com.tr.25.212.81.in-addr.arpa (81.212.25.72) 42.955 ms * 3174.208 ms

6 ulus-t2-3-gayrettepe-t2-3.turktelekom.com.tr.204.212.81.in-addr.arpa (81.212.204.205) 56.691 ms 21.201 ms 20.673 ms

7 * * ulus-t2-1-ulus-t2-3.turktelekom.com.tr.197.212.81.in-addr.arpa (81.212.197.197) 2853.324 ms

8 ulus-t3-6-ulus-t2-1.turktelekom.com.tr.29.212.81.in-addr.arpa (81.212.29.99) 22.575 ms 22.747 ms 19.829 ms

9 * * *

10 * * *

11 * * *

(It looks like 8th node drops all the packages)

--

just to be on the safe side, this is for the yandex dns:

traceroute to 77.88.8.8 (77.88.8.8), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets

1 P-2812HNUL-F1.P-2812HNUL-F1 (192.168.1.1) 4.234 ms 4.725 ms 5.196 ms

2 81.212.171.79.static.turktelekom.com.tr (81.212.171.79) 9.674 ms 10.857 ms 11.185 ms

3 93.155.0.130 (93.155.0.130) 12.008 ms 12.007 ms 13.069 ms

4 * * *

5 gayrettepe-t2-2-gayrettepe-t3-6.turktelekom.com.tr.119.156.212.in-addr.arpa (212.156.119.143) 15.934 ms 18.825 ms 15.887 ms

6 ams-col-1-gayrettepe-t2-2.turktelekom.com.tr.102.156.212.in-addr.arpa (212.156.102.69) 70.412 ms * *
7 ams-ix.retn.net (195.69.145.216) 101.343 ms 101.304 ms 101.318 ms

8 GW-Yandex.retn.net (87.245.246.14) 65.985 ms 62.182 ms 63.166 ms

9 tulip-ae1.yndx.net (87.250.239.46) 79.653 ms 78.998 ms 63.158 ms

10 dns.yandex.ru (77.88.8.8) 73.809 ms 67.510 ms 67.868 ms

It is pure hoax. I'm also very discontended these very recent restrictive movements, probably the authors at webrazzi are feeling the same way, but by publishing such news without verification, the media becomes more and more a tool for propaganda.

Seriously, there is so much bullcrap going on, I don't know what to believe anymore.
This feels like a less refined version of the Slashdot moderation and metamoderation system to me.
Okay, I should've done that myself.

Puh-lease? Fanboyism? That's uncalled for/the wrong tone, really.
I don't think that is true, especially for Windows 7. But there are other issues to consider. Windows 7 is from 2009 and is still supported until 2020 (!). There is no Linux distribution outside RHEL and probably SLES that provides such long support cycles.

And even the comparison with RHEL is not really fair. New applications will continue to be compatible with Windows 7 for many years, while with RHEL you are mostly stuck with what you get with a particular version. EPEL et al. do provide some relief.

Suggesting that Xubuntu is a viable replacement is disingenuous - Xubuntu 12.04 LTS is supported until 2015. Let's take vanilla Ubuntu 12.04 for the sake of the argument. It's supported until 2017. A large organisation will not deploy a new system when it is released (many organisations are migrating to Windows 7 four or five years after the release). So, let's say that they deploy it now. That's only good for three years of support. So, in three years you have to redo the whole migration. Users have to be retrained now for GNOME 2 and in 2017 for Unity. You see where it is going, it is a mess.

Of course, then there is the issue that many existing Windows software doesn't work on Linux, compatibility of LibreOffice with Office documents, etc.

Linux on the enterprise desktop is usually not a viable option, except if you already have good infrastructure to support and maintain it (e.g. Google), or for a subset of users (e.g. developers).
This is what I feel too. It expect it to streamline the comments and kill the discussions.
Reread the comment you're replying to; that's exactly what he's saying.
How Good Names Can Help Products Succeed – Startup Vision
As the Wikipedia article mentions, Bruce Schneier pointed out the problem with this product almost a decade ago [1]:

The idea is for me to paint this stuff on my valuables as proof of ownership. I think a better idea would be for me to paint it on your valuables, and then call the police.

He hedged his position after a study came out showing it worked[2], but it's still a good example of the security mindset[3].

1. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/smart_water.h...

2. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/01/smartwater_wo...

3. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/03/the_security_...
Crytek Engine Subscription Plan Targets Game Making Startups
No true Scotsman

How do you decide who owns the "right" beliefs? By that logic, who can we consider to be a Christian?
> 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 think that's not a bug, that's a feature. PG mentioned before that HN was growing too fast and that keeping up was hard. I'm guessing the problem trying to be solved is the Eternal September[1], and this feature does exactly that: you are only allowed to post once you learned how to behave the HN way.

[1] In case someone doesn't know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
I'm convinced that "intelligent" auto-folding will improve quality of experience. It will naturally reduce depth of branches on the earliest (which are often top) comments and promote more top-level comments. In a sense my feeling is that there is no need to penalize people for unpopular opinions, the view should be such that unpopular comments are discoverable only by most dedicated readers.

I'm afraid that current change will increase mono-culture.
That sounds reasonable and yet isn't always good advice; you don't throw yourself out the window and "wait to see what it's like".

I fail to see the problem with the current system / current comments; bad comments usually drown at the bottom of the page and that's that.

What would be the point of preventing noobs from commenting? What's with this love of aristocracy? "We were here first!!" So what? (I have 4k+ "karma" and my account is more than 2k days old but that does not make me special in any way, shape or form. If anything, it probably means I have already said all I ever had to say and should be shot in the head to make room for the young!! ;-)

But in this supposedly "democratic" system we're not given any choice so I guess we simply have to take it...
It was inaccessible in the morning, appears to be back now, so cut the government crap and shut up.

This is from around 09:00

Tracing route to 8.8.8.8 over a maximum of 30 hops

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 8 ms 6 ms 6 ms 81.212.171.62
3 9 ms 9 ms 13 ms 93.155.0.146
4 10 ms 9 ms 9 ms 81.212.108.162
5 15 ms 16 ms 26 ms 81.212.201.254
6 22 ms 14 ms 13 ms 81.212.208.145
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 ^C

This is after I changed my dns to 4.2.2.1, again in the morning:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 88 ms 7 ms 7 ms 81.212.171.62.static.turktelekom.com.tr [81.212.171.62]
3 9 ms 9 ms 8 ms 93.155.0.146
4 3481 ms 2804 ms 2210 ms 81.212.108.162.static.turktelekom.com.tr [81.212.108.162]
5 10 ms 9 ms 9 ms bursa-t2-2-bursa-t3-3.turktelekom.com.tr.201.212.81.in-addr.arpa [81.212.201.254]
6 12 ms 15 ms 12 ms gayrettepe-t2-2-bursa-t2-2.turktelekom.com.tr.208.212.81.in-addr.arpa [81.212.208.145]
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 * * * Request timed out.
As a Canadian in the healthcare field perhaps I can chime in as well.

When you talk about Canadian healthcare, it is a provincially run program (not federal) so let's talk about it at the provincial level. As I am an Ontario resident I'll be discussing this from an Ontario perspective, talking about all of the provinces and their differences would entail several posts.

Ontaio is currently going to institute (or plans to at least) pay freezes on physicians due to the rising cost of healthcare in a non-booming economy. However it is currently one of the best provinces in wait times. The provincial median is 6.7 weeks to see a specialist after being referred and another 7.1 weeks to being treated. This has increased 3 years compared to last year and about doubled from 20 years ago. For some specialties like orthopaedics the total duration is ~40 weeks. This is in contrast to the US where ~90% see the specialist within 4 weeks. Internationally we are considered to be amongst the worst nations when it comes to wait times.

Another big problem with the Ontario system is unemployment. 1/3 specialists, especially surgeons, are unemployed due to a lack of operating rooms and jobs available - even in rural areas. There is a definite need but with the single payer system we have, the aging population pyramid, and increasing healthcare costs we have there is no money left to pay physicians - who make less on average (at least in the surgical specialties) than the US physicians. So we're graduating surgeons who can't work and are forced to go the US to find jobs.

To address one of Dr. Martin's comments btw, someone jwo develops a surgery/technique/game isn't always the best person at solving it. Developing a mitral valve replacement survey using MIS techniques doesn't mean you're the best person to technically achieve it (you could be, but it's not a given as she phrases it). The US has a system that rewards exceptionalism and excellence, the Canadian system generally rewards mediocrity (this is even evidence in other fields such as law and even academia). The US is famous for having premier surgeons and state of the art equipment. A prominent example I know is in the field of limb lengthening, where until very recently there was not a single surgeon in Canada who could do internal limb lengthening, they all used the external fixator pioneered in the USSR. Even in medical education you are seeing prominent US schools teaching the use of hand held ultrasound devices which are supposed to one day replace stethoscopes. The US also has far more specialized medical fellowships focused on advanced techniques and tools such as using tne da Vinci robot system.

I can provide references if necessary (I typed this up on my phone) but most of these facts are readily google-able.

TLDR: Our system isn't as perfect as you might think and is actually teetering on financial instability at the moment with up to 1/3 new physicians unable to find a job in the country due to funding issues.
The core problem is that conversations aren't one way highways made of high-value comments.

Sometimes interesting things may come out of silly ones. Or maybe not. If we assume a conversation is also (not only) as a creative process, then mistakes and silliness are simply part of the process to get to something interesting.

Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating the "far west" attitude; I just think that the up/down voting works enough for the purpose.

Introducing an extra layer is going to push people to behave in a certain way (that somebody define, in an extreme way, groupthinking), which may make things more interesting in a certain way, but far less interesting in another.

There was a certain experiment on a certain site where they switched to Facebook comments, and they found that trolling comments were drastically reduced, but the posts started to look to nice and compliant.

Also, very important, the new system replaces a democracy with (more or less) an aristocracy, and I some doubts about this.
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> Sociopathy is permanent and uncurable. It's also common among people with a criminal record.

Also common among CEOs and politicians. See? Being a sociopath doesn't automatically make you a murderer!
This was shut off around 4 hours ago, in case any issues came up while he slept.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7447790
Ask HN: Do web app yourself – is it relevant?
Hello,

I want to share with you a project dear to my heart : Give a way to non-professional programmer to create simple web application.

The idea of this project is to define data and program logics in a single file (JSON format). This file is converted to a web application that can be be run to any computer. It is not mandatory to install anything to create a program, nor to pay a hosting solution. Everything is done on a web site.

The 'pro' languages do very cool things but it takes time to learn. The language that is proposed with this project frees you from constraints of classic programming (asynchronous flow, data binding, ...) and focuses on the essential : to display, manage and calculate data. As a result, do not expect to create the new killer app with this project ;)

A video is available on YouTube to show basic features : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiccHCoJOlY

A demo of the language with some examples can be found on the web site : http://www.thelogicalbox.com

The service itself is currently in beta development stage but you can ask for an access code if you wish.

I hope this project can provide valuable support to people who need a small program but they lack the time, money or skills to do it.

It would be useful for me to have feedback, especially if:

1. The idea of a language for non-professional programmer is relevant.

2. The language seems simple and easy to understand.

3. You have ideas for improvement

4. You need a program (I can help you if it sounds possible with this project)

Do not hesitate to criticize, that helps !

Thank you for your attention,

Sébastien
sha2 based, and faster than md5? do you really not see the value in this? sure you wouldn't want to use this your own coin, because of say asic, and gpu miners, and your saltless password hash for bruteforcing issues.

but databases, filesystems, checksums for packages, git(to be fair, they're all some sort of storage systems)

by the definition you said above we would still be using md5 in everything.
It was blocked, got a screenshot this morning: http://d.pr/xuwh
The other type it could cause problems for are whoishiring.
But that's part of the problem - comments will only show up if there are enough people looking at it to do the endorsing. A single site-wide list of pending comments won't work either - surely the whole point is that comments should be endorsed in the context of the thread?

It also runs the risk that things will only get endorsed if they agree with commonly-held views, and I'll also be interested to see how it effects things like whoishiring.

Some sort of moderation is fine, but I think that in its current implementation, this is a rather ham-fisted approach which will have a detrimental effect on HN.
I've also noticed that the Chinese have a pretty high focus on geometry.
Http://www.rawlemon.com/
Jut from my own common sense it seems like geometry is important for understanding the relationship between abstract things and concrete things. It's easily understandable that shapes are described by geometry and it seems obviously useful. The square footage of a house. The volume of a bath.

If you try to describe what Calculus is or does, it's abstractions of abstractions. Rates of change or 'angle of a curve for a certain values. I think it's hard for students to see this as something useful or even see how it's a description of the world that opens up ways of understanding it.
>So [only] language designers can be critical of other languages?

Yes. Or rather, other people can be critical too, but language designer' opinions have far more validity.

In other words, anybody can say whatever uninformed BS he wants (it's a free country). But that's no replacement for being an expert in what you're discussing.

>Since programmers can vote with their feet and gravitate towards better languages (is it miraculous that almost all programmers have a distaste for PHP?)

You'd be surprised. PHP is one of the most popular languages and one of the most used languages, so far from "all programmers have a distaste for PHP". So if we were to use that "voting" argument alone (which I find wrong), PHP should be considered a very good language. Not the intention you had, I guess.

While PHP has it warts, it's mainly the less pragmatic and more fad prone programmers that have issues with PHP, those who look for silver bullets and like to feel superior by choice of programming language, editor and the like.

As for programmers "voting with their feet", well, they don't do quite a good job at it. The best languages (like LISP, Smalltalk, OcamL, Haskell, to name but a few etc) are seldom the most popular too.
Seems like a good idea to me, lets do it. We can always change it back if it doesn't work out.
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And frankly, it would make this site much less attractive to browse as an occasional commenter.

I find myself wondering whether that's part of the unstated goal of this action - getting fewer "occasional commenters". I have no clue on the reasons but clearly that will be an effect of the change. I think we can all see how rushed this rollout was so it's possible that is an unintended consequence.
They exist, and generally they don't bounce the same if you drop them.
So you suggest at every little internet hiccup I should blame someone and rant about my freedom being restricted?
Certainly, but there is a misunderstanding here.

I don't doubt that any event is meaningful.

What I'm saying is that, in a certain context, a single event that highlights that "corporations have relatively little power", doesn't disprove many events highlighting that "corporations have plenty/excess of power".
Evidence or not, if you find yourself in a situation where a company would gain a significant competitive advantage over you by accessing your communications, it would be just be prudent not to voluntarily store all of that information on that company's servers.

But even assuming the most vile malice on Google's part, the vast, vast majority of the data people store on their services just isn't interesting to them (except to algorithmically process to serve ads).
https://github.com/gjvc/commander/
You probably don't want a healthcheck done for every DNS request.

Better to have a healthcheck service doing healthchecking, and modify SkyDNS along with whatever else happens when a service goes down.
Punishing people for endorsing comments that don't meet an arbitrary and vague content standard will inhibit endorsements.

This happens already with flagging and downvoting. If you flag or downvote too often/aggressively/whatever, you will have those privileges revoked. I used to go to /newest daily and upvote/flag until I lost my flagging privileges. I eventually got the ability to flag back but now I rarely go to /newest. It's the tragedy of the commons - if I go to /newest and flag/upvote, this is a better community because I'm active and participating. But if I am worried about being punished from doing so, I won't do it and will just hope that others will.
If it's just a simple additive with a detectable signature, then counterfeiters could obtain the same additive by grinding up real coins. Then they could apply a layer of that material to the surface of their fakes.

So I think, as you suggest, they must (also) be using an anti-counterfeiting method that's more sophisticated than a plain additive. At least an additive that wouldn't return the same signature after it has been reprocessed by counterfeiters.
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Ask HN: Technical options to overcome attempts by governments to block access
As stated in number of posts, Turkey is blocking Twitter and even may have blocked few DNS servers for a while to prevent workarounds.
Beyond the politics, a discussion that belongs to HN is figuring out what the technological options to enable people to circumvent such oppressive policies by governments may be.<p>Turkey so far used blocking access to specific domains via DNS, and will likely block certain IP addresses of websites and possibly alternative DNS servers. They will likely take additional measures if they need to.
- Tor still seems to be not friendly enough for non technical savvy people, but is Tor browser viable option in this case?
- VPN based solutions may also be hard for non technical people, but it may be possible to make them easy enough to use?
- Is there a name resolution mechanism that is more resilient to such attempts?
- Other options?<p>Turkish government won't be the last government that attempts silencing social media. Whether they are successful in their attempt to block access will have ramifications beyond Turkey.
> Well, then McDonalds can offer more money to work there.

Which means burgers will cost much more than they currently do.

The same will be true for all domestic products/services where a significant part of the work force currently has low wages.

Which means that you and I will pay more for goods/services than previously. The effect will be similar to a significant sales tax, might as well try funding BI that way (at least imported goods will carry some of the tax burden) and look at published studies on the effects of sales taxes...