skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now for someone to make a 2 player one where one person is making 2048 and one person is stopping them.
Upsets are common. However so many of them appeared I'm completely unsurprised the money is already safe. Watching brackets in my company pool crumble left and right had been crazy.

With weighted results, I wonder what the odds of this set of outcomes happening even was (note, some of the "upsets" by seed weren't really, like the CU vs Pitt game where Pitt ran them over).
I always thought green meant the poster.
This reminds me of the 'penny gap problem': that the steep drop-off in users from raising the price from zero to a penny is much larger than the (much smoother) drop from further price increases.
What box is that? I can't contradict or agree with you unless you're actually making an argument.
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While I certainly understand your goal here, wouldn't you have a better moderation regime if you hired people to do this as their jobs? Metafilter is my example of a hired-mods-done-right setup. I fear that a 1000 karma policing setup will make this place more like slashdot. Not that I'm taking a strong stance against slashdot, but is that the culture we want from this website? Just my two cents.
Hey, no problem. I'm going through my comments, and just now saw you replied almost a month ago.

I just wanted to say, get in there and start doing it. I honestly think that, to a point, I'm at an advantage. I've had so much work experience outside of coding, that my context for interacting with people seems to work in my favor. I'm also just super glad to have a programming job. Mix a (hopefully) more level head, with an exuberance for the job, and I think I put across a pretty good image.

If I can throw some suggestions out there, listen to every episode of software engineering radio. The other books I mentioned are great, but SE radio is nice in that you can just casually listen to it while you're commuting or whatever else. I listened to it when I had barely done any coding and I think it lent a lot of perspective to what I was doing. I still run into random situations where someone says something like "do you know anything about AS400?" and I'll say, "well, not really, but I have a general context as far as the ibm i series os goes, and some of the general ideas behind it. I could probably pick up material and get going." It's not much, but being familiar enough with a ton of random stuff has given me credibility in a lot of situations I wouldn't have had before.

I also relisten to them a lot, and get new tidbits because I didn't understand bits and pieces before.

I hope this doesn't sound preachy. I think our culture pushes this idea of the talented hacker, or the person that started x or y when they were five. That's great, but man, screw that. I don't plan on stopping learning until my brain doesn't work, and I'm going to use that to my advantage.

Good luck!
This link appears to work. It includes the introduction and 6/99 of the styles.

http://monoskop.org/images/4/49/Queneau_Raymond_Exercises_in...
If you do the padding and signaling of last nodes correctly, which as far as we know BLAKE2 does, a break in the parallel mode translates to a break in the sequential hash function. This was proven by the Keccak people a while ago [1].

[1] http://eprint.iacr.org/2009/210
HOW DARE YOU BRING UP VALID POINTS. WE NEED A PENDING COMMENTS SYSTEM SO I COULD NOT APPROVE THIS COMMENT!
10k/year for 50m is 500b. Throw in 100% overhead and targeted welfare providing equivalent benefits is still half the price of BI.

Note that the current level of welfare is $20k/person so you are advocating a massive reduction of consumption for the welfare class. (I don't object, just pointing it out.)
I'll admit I'm slightly alarmed that "you can't ever post another comment until other people do X" didn't set off some klaxons for you.
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I realize I'm supposed to be horrified, but that actually sounds better than the current situation in America.

Can you give more details? What are rates of childhood malnutrition like? How hard is it for the sub-middle-class (or, God forbid, the unemployed) to get medical care?
Even if it's just a test, it seems a reasonable scenario that just the test will cause permanent damage. I understand trying to promote better discussion, but this system is downright unwelcoming to any newcomers. When I registered to comment I thought the downvote restrictions were odd and I was willing to try it out, but if this was in place I'd have closed the tab and never come back. Maybe subject-matter experts wouldn't be so put off, but novices and students like myself would feel shunned. That's not saying I'm the most valuable poster, but I am far from a troll and I contribute real opinions and questions. I think lesser experienced posters like myself are important.

I also fear that this may fail silently with an echo chamber as a result. I think this is a real concern here. Unless there is a great amount of monitoring on those posts that don't make it through, none of the automatic posters may even miss the ones who never get a voice. That doesn't make it a positive change though.

I hope you reconsider this change,

A concerned member of this community
The concern to me is this might cause a chilling effect on people's comments.

This sort silence by default will stop a lot of good contributors from taking their first few steps to joining the conversation.

It may make people who might take opposite views to the general consensus think twice about posting, even if they might have more information than most on the subject.
No, that's not the HN standard. HN overtly endorses downvoting disagreements (I don't like that, but it is what it is).
> Yeah, if you think using a cloud service outside the US immediately makes you immune to these problems, you are the one who isn't aware of the situation.

If you read my statements carefully, I did not say that. But in my country there are different laws and I know that many cloud service providers do not have privacy holes as Hotmail has in their legal statements.

I also said, that I don't know how the law in the US is, but some statements here made the impression, that companies like MS could just do what they want.
I've wondered about using SSH socks proxy on my devices to help get around this. Even if they break WPA2 they'd deal with SSH traffic only.

For example, it seems reasonable that I could have my laptop or phone use a ssh tunnel and it can only go to my wireless router. The router will only accept SSH traffic with a certificate and route traffic to an SSH somewhere on my wired network, or from the router itself.

At work I do something similar. I setup a firefox profile (firefox -ProfileManager -no-remote) to use SOCKS proxy on some port and setup SSH to connect to an EC2 instance I have lying around (ssh -i cert.file ec2-user@ec2.machine -ND 8888). This way I can browse sort of in private. :p

FYI: Some sites like craigslist or redfin reject ec2 traffic.
Sounds good in theory, the best communities are almost always those that are strictly moderated or have their rules heavily enforced.

It will probably make HN worse though. HN already suffers from being too much of a "rich, startup boys club". This will only get worse as those that have been around longer and made comments that "fit" within that viewpoint get karma and get to decide what comments are shown.
Wait, does this mean that the motivation for filtering all comments is to combat comments that should already be flagged?

I'm getting a stronger and stronger feeling that there is plenty of room for focusing the stated goal of this change, and then perhaps redesign the solution.

Please see references at my other comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7447122

(quoted to avoid readers having to click through):

[the following] seem relevant to this discussion:

Randy Farmer (I think this is what I remember) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn7e0J9m6rE

Bryce Glass (similar topic/similar takeaways)
http://www.slideshare.net/soldierant/designing-your-reputati...
If I can check out the best of Lego ever; Space Lego: then I am a customer.

Lego's worst mistake was discontinuing that. Mine was not keeping what I had over the decades. Same Mistake...
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I can't pretend I have an advanced degree, or any degree actually, but I did attend college, and I have looked at a number of different university curricula. And I have been paying attention to the obvious headlines in artificial intelligence and artificial general intelligence.

The courses that I saw and discussion that I have had with post-graduates in AI or related fields is very different from the topics that were being promoted by AI headlines or at AGI conferences.

If you really care about having the most relevant skills and information, in this age of Google and other online search tools, you need to do research yourself. You are almost guaranteed to NOT get the latest and most relevant information if you limit yourself to the courses listed in some particular university catalogue. Certainly the researchers at those schools don't.

If you do a masters and let your thesis be dictated by whatever your professors think is relevant or that you should pursue, unless your professor is really working on the leading edge of something, you are unlikely to be there either.
I'm not sure it is a worthwhile endeavor to hope that new users hit 1000 karma. I think the discourse would be better served by having a wide variety of people saying something worthwhile occasionally rather than trying to say something popular more often to play a karma game.

The best idea I've heard so far is a timeout, such that even if no one endorses your comment is to let you comment again anyway after a day.

I'm still not sure what the benefit of adding endorsements is compared to using a generic upvote as the endorsement.
Testacular: You were banned a week ago.

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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.
The rest of who? I haven't noticed my internet bill go up for the same service in years, and I only know a few people that don't have Netflix or share an account with someone.
I saw this a while ago and always thought it was interesting: I initially thought Knuth was an Apple fan after watching a few of his lectures, but apparently he uses his Macbook only for trivial everyday tasks.

For every WM enthusiast here:

Screenshot of Knuth's setup: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/screen.jpeg

Knuth's fvwm2 config: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/programs/.fvwm2rc
Actually rather than dock prisoners' basic income, confiscate it as part of their sentencing to fund their internment. That makes prisons a lot more self-sufficieny.
Interesting proposals all around.

Perhaps the best idea might not involve trying to determine the best path to take. At least we're asking, right?
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Why not host the site on S3?
What am I missing...? The top bracket is still perfect, currently 30/30 and their pick is leading in the other two games
An option to display non-endorsed posts (like "showdead") to everyone who wants to see them might be a good idea?
So since this is HN... is there any way to get to an MVP without having a sovereign state to experiment with?

Generally, any communal institution either develops rules and mechanisms to prevent freeloading, or has an authority who acts to prevent such. Almost all of them succumb to a "Tragedy of the Commons" dynamic in terms of some aspect of quality of life.

That said, there are some institutions that are identified as being communal that last and even prosper somehow.

Many also cite things like the Cabrini Green projects as an example of how removing the stake someone has in society by guaranteeing their rent/income is somehow inherently dehumanizing. To fully address such a hypothesis, one would have to control for factors such as social class and social stigma attached to such benefits.
I completely agree. The responses to your comment are a great illustration.
"There are four lights!!!!"
I saw this too. Am I missing something or is the headline here wrong?
"There are differences in productivity even among farmers."

Not if you don't have access to machinery, modern seeds, chemicals, weather forecasting, tens of thousands of years worth of agricultural research and oral history, et cetera.

"So my own creativity, labor, skills, talents and education only matter for 0.1%"

Pretty much useless to the subsistence farmer. Basically the only thing that matters is luck and hard work. Not to mention that society provides the source of your inspiration, provided your education, an outlet for your talents, et cetera.

Obviously my argument is a little bit of reductio ad absurdum. But much less so than "taxation is theft".
Stories hit the front page and disappear as a part of Hacker News's time weighting for determining ranking. It's extremely, extremely unusual for an article to be on the front page more than a day.
Not if its funded by a land value tax instead of an income tax.
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This makes it even worse. You will never reach 1000 karma unless you are lucky to hit the karma lottery with a big post.
I would suggest that this is a fine time for those of us with unfinished HN clones and visions of disrupting the whatever to try and see if we can do better, although the network effect around HN would seem to suggest that most people will simply put up with it or leave for reddit or another larger site.
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>Pretending we can build a system that eradicates laziness in an exercise in futility.

Not at all. You know what eradicates laziness? Hunger.
Pending Comments
It has been:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/1970s-manitoba-povert...
The two formulations are similar. If you just print money to give to everybody, you cause inflation, which is a tax on liquid wealth. The wealthy have ways to hedge against inflation, so it's basically a tax on the middle class.
I have been thinking about the long term effects of automation (as in self driving car/trucks etc) and I think such a scheme will become necessary in the near future. How many job losses will be there in near future if all the vehicles become self-driven. Number of truckers is estimated at In 2006, the U.S. trucking industry as a whole employed 3.4 million drivers. Another 233,900 cab driver. Maybe 2X number in supporting jobs, like waiters etc. Can a society survive with so many jobless people with the current unemployment schemes?

Edit: spelling
If I made known my views on a number of issues to my coworkers, I would quickly be looking for a new job and may even be shunned in the greater tech community.

I've made peace with that knowledge.
The Pending Comments page is a secret test of character. Endorse the correct comment, and endorse wisely.

Case in point: http://i.imgur.com/8Oa3z0H.png
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I am not sure I lake that
Do a tutorial or two, then just start messing around and building. I find that if I try to build something useful, I end up learning the code step by step as I understand how it works and the features that are available
What if we could flag comments, and then the professional moderators could make their decisions accordingly.
If it's really more efficient than the current system, it should be fundable from the existing entitlements. Just dismantle the programs, fire all the bureaucrats running them, and divert all these funds toward the basic income. If it requires another tax then it's not an alternative, it is an expansion of the welfare state.
That's right , 3 min is too many
Irrational spending of BI is not relevant. One could have irrational spending of your own salary as well. Thats not the problem BI tries to solve.

Theres always going to be money crimes as long as there is money, but its very different to take a risk on your monthly stipend to get 200 bucks. Its just a huge economical incentive not to do it, particularly in the lowest class, where violent crime is concentrated.

Gangs, Mafia's and drug organizations are based on a worker class that is super cheap to them, those out of poverty and desperation. It would deal a major blow to everyday regular crime.
I wonder how this will affect users is sparse timezones. The conversation could slow down or get buried to the point of being unusable.
This shows you the power of statistics
Wow, this guy totally missed Page's point. You know the old adage "give someone a fish, they eat for a day, teach them to fish, they'll eat for a lifetime." Well Page would rather give his money to someone who can figure out how to make life better and teach us to fish, rather than to give it someone who'll just buy some fish.
I am afraid that the bias of the "1000+ club" will silence many comment authors whose views and opinions are substantially different. The result is you will have a smaller community, the member of which are in agreement with each other, so there will be less interesting discussions, and the disagreed ones will flock away, having no chance to be heard here.

I certainly would read the comments less frequently.
I would like it if my children could peruse poetry... If you know the quote.
If your assertion is accurate, it's presumably an overreaction to concerns about being sued for redlining. But that's irrelevant here, to the point of being utterly off-topic. Meta's policy poses no risk that knowledge of your present address would be used to discriminate against a protected class. Instead, it is part of your duties as an employee: Live in this house.

You would first have to establish that that duty has a statistically significant harmful effect on persons over 40 that it does not have on other groups. This will not be easy, people under 40 have families, too!

It will be further complicated by the fact that the same effect occurs simply by virtue of a workplace being in a remote, hostile environment, or having work hours incompatible with a typical family life, requiring a limiting principle, which you have not provided.

If you pass that hurdle, Meta would have the opportunity to establish that the policy is based on a reasonable factor other than age. The court would have to find that Meta's policy and/or its purposes are unreasonable. That seems unlikely.
$1,000/wk* is enough in Belarus.
You're missing two important facts: first, that your pending comment eventually (after 24 hours) expires of its own accord, and second, that you can always delete the comment if it's taking too long and holding you up on a better comment you could have written.
Why not a limited trial? Have a new comments system day or week, then return to the original and compare.

edit: I saw [pending] pop up so I guess the trial is on
Interesting, I wonder if this page will give rise to unofficial "moderators" who decide to spend 5 minutes endorsing various comments.

I'm also interesting in seeing where / how pending comments look on a specific thread, I guess posting this will show that
I find this change frustrating. I've been reading and occasionally commenting on HN for 4 years, and I'm still not able to fully participate. I haven't yet reached the magical karma number needed to "earn" the downvote button, so I can't help moderate except by flagging.

Now, with this change, it's extremely unlikely that I will ever achieve the ability to truly participate. It seems that if you want comment quality to improve, then maybe it's a bad idea to even more tightly lock out people like me who would happily downvote bad comments or endorse good ones.
The article explicitly states a legal opinion -- that Microsoft violated the EPCA. The author is a lawyer. Come on.
it feels to me like "it makes rapid mvp's", because that's what everybody uses so all the rapid mvp's you hear about are mongo.

anyway, it's important that he builds his own so he understands how the build tools work.
Journalists get paid, that doesn't mean the news organization that pays them must be a for-profit entity.
Endorse and upvote is one click too much. Especially if its done like the "flag" link which will redirect you and make you lose your focus.
I've always thought that downvoting was for things that didn't contribute, and for things that were technically wrong (including logical fallacies and similar). However, disagreeing on opinion doesn't strike me as an area (on HN or otherwise) where downvoting makes sense.

So downvoting "1TB of data can easily be uploaded over a 20Mbps connection" (Takes 4.8 days, versus a 20 MegaBytes ps connection, which takes ~14 hours and while not easy, is at least more feasible) -- should be ok. But a comment with correction would normally be better...

Downvoting someone for saying that they prefer working in Eclipse (just because I prefer vim) doesn't seem very useful?
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I love constrained writing. It is one of the places where mathematics and logic meet with literature and poetry. If you can read French be sure to follow what the OuLiPo [1] does. If you are in Paris there are the Jeudis de l'OuLiPo at the BnF once a month, it's always quite some fun and often very interesting.

[1] http://www.oulipo.net/ && https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OuLiPo
It's not enough to 'destroy' money, you'd have to prevent it from reappearing.

If you can't get rid of drugs and prostitution, you won't be able to get rid of money.
Testing ability to make second comment after being endorsed once. Hi Max!

Update: apparently this comment was still pending http://i.imgur.com/KBuY5fx.png

Updatev2: I think I may have interpreted it wrong, PG wrote "Someone who has a pending comment will have to wait till it goes live to post another" so I guess all comments will be pending but after being endorsed once can comment again?
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It's especially amusing given how he ends the article. "I'd have said this before, but it would have hurt my bottom line, because it would have more fully informed sources of the risks they were taking."
I read HN as much for news links as for the ensuing intelligent discussion and pointers. Should you take them away, to me, the appeal of HN drops significantly.
I typically use sshfs to the VM for interpreted languages. Or fabric scripts to deploy source.
The new system is live. Would it make sense to add a permanent "pending" link to the top navigation bar?

HN users with > 1000 karma. Will you actively spend time to endorse new comments?
From what I can tell, the still-perfect bracket is not in the Billion Dollar Bracket Challenge, but just at the top of the overall leaderboard among all brackets/pools on Yahoo.
So let's charge these rich people coming over here for premium care a bit extra and redistribute subsistence care to those traditionally not covered.
With the availability of browser plugins and user scripts, I anticipate an "off-HN" application popping. Interested people can shadow the "canonical" HN discussion and continue a discussion that has legs, possibly grafting it onto HN itself.

Of course, it may be simpler to bot up a subreddit and do the same thing via convention. That may be the best result, redirecting the reddit-like dross back to reddit, where it belongs. Throwaway accounts will be mechanically discouraged along with the me-too, ya rite, and other useless posts.
You win a prize for reading to the end before posting!
pg: thank you
This is a perfect use case for openvpn. I use it whenever I connect to a public wifi to spare me worrying about how secure it may or may not be.
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