skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, I'm familiar with all the things the Yotsuba codebase does for "identity." I was trying to say that they suck.

Tripcodes are an abomination--when you use them and others don't, you get made fun of, and allowing them to persist between threads removes the point of anonymity. Country flags (or any real-world-attached property of yourself), meanwhile, encourage hate and trolling.

Probably, the most obvious system would involve taking tripcodes, forcing the arbitrary-input-string to a numeric value one can increment (i.e. increment on each post where a "Keep Identity" checkbox isn't enabled) so that everyone always has one but they can still change easily, and then adding the thread-ID to the hash so that they can't be kept forever. And then visualizing them with something colorful, because when every post has a tripcode they become a mess of very-hard-to-track text.

Or, you know, hashed thread+user identicons, like I said.

> Your IP is your identity for moderation purposes. Not ideal, but an explicit goal is to never ever require logins.

You don't need logins to have accounts. Use an http://samy.pl/evercookie/, and generate an account for someone when you haven't seen them before. Make unnamed accounts ephemeral (expire them after a year or so.) And make it so that if you enter just an email address, you get sent a link that--provided it's opened under the same evercookie--merges the account it was opened in and its history into a named account.

Thus, the login flow looks like this:

1. go to 4chan, browse around, make posts;

2. decide you want to keep these posts;

3. enter your email address in the "email" field while making a post; now all the posts you made on this computer are attached to your account (but that doesn't retroactively change the identicon they have in their threads) and you are logged into that account from then on.

4. somewhere else, using a new computer, repeat 1-3.

This makes it much simpler to ban miscreants, while still generally keeping things anonymous. The one problem with it is that you won't be able to "remove" a 4chan identity from a (possibly public!) computer--but this can be handled by making computer identities separate from user identities, and allowing the "user" to log out while still remembering who the computer is. (And by making a ban ban both your current user- and computer-identity, of course.)
Discussion at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7411307
That raising "threatened wife" motif is actually quite sexist. Its entirely possible that the founder may have felt that his wife could relate better to the accuser but that their meeting may not have went well and the wife felt that the accuser was behaving as inappropriately as the accuser felt about the wife. Furthermore, accusing someone of "sitting near me to intimidate me" is quite vague and bizarre.
Oddly enough it didn't bother me when I was reading it, but now it's messed up my colour perception and everything looks pink.
Alibaba starting US IPO process as Hong Kong bid falters
I clicked the article thinking it was about the recent deaths at SXSW.

It's someone complaining about bands.
There's first world problems, and then there's "first world" first world problems. You americans are blessed with amazing conferences of all sorts especially tech, SXSW included, but god forbid the music was "not obscure enough".

Why is this even on HN?
> "hackBCA is open to all high school students, from the absolute beginner to the experienced developer. Spend 24 hours turning an idea into reality."

What can an absolute beginner do in such a venue?
One of the big things about most malls outside the US is that they aren't usually built in the middle of nowhere. You don't need to drive for an hour then struggle to find a place to park just to buy some jeans. In some cases this is a because the transport links were built afterwards, but in most cases this is because they are built in areas that are already connected. Obviously space is restricted so they are smaller (250,000 sq ft is a pretty average size), this means you often end up with the same well known brands in each mall which can be a bit boring. Due to space and as malls are usually in the 'town centre' you don't always have cinemas in the mall, but they can usually be found nearby.
it could have been well intentioned. bringing in an pseudo-outsider may not be the smartest move but its also not necessarily evil at all. the founder may have felt that his wife could relate in some way. until more evidence is given, we should withhold judgement.
Can't wait for this. Jared, you're the man.
Seems like SXSW has been pronounced dead every year for the past 5+ years. Somehow it keeps getting bigger. It's the old Yogi Berra quote: "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."
Surface to air missiles are never the real problem, its the radar system. You cannot shoot what you cannot see, and you cannot open your eyes (turn on the radar) without letting everyone know where you are.

Russia is sure to have deployed their most sophisticated (non-export) S-400 radar configurations in or just outside the Crimea ... but this drone is sure to be incredibly stealthy.

If a F-22 has a radar signature of a steel marble ... this relatively small drone probably has a signature closer to a tiny ball bearing ... in the middle of a large sky. Its precise signature will be highly classified, making it very, very hard to spot.
Three years ago I had to pay about 1000 € in Germany for downloading a music album (I don’t remember which it was, but it certainly wasn’t worth as much). AFAIK there are laws on their way to restrict batch warnings.
well I've witnessed this phenomenon in the real world, so I can't discount the existence of this, stereotype label aside.

I've met the opposite as well, charming, well dressed, and physically fit engineer types who can hold a conversation with the opposite sex without any awkward vibes at all.

The awkward types seem to lack some dating experience and thus cannot discern positive/negative social cues or read body language as well.
Great write up. What I can't tell is whether the change in behavior is class based or culturally based. Do Hispanics not visit the Mall because they're poorer (class) or do they not visit the mall because the Mall is more of a white person invention (cultural)
Yes, but only until Microsoft issued a fix for any vulnerabilities discovered. After April 8th, no more fixes, just bugs that can be exploited forever.

Rumors have it that hackers are detecting and cataloging vulnerabilities that they're holding in reserve for the day Microsoft stops support for XP, after which they'll have a field day exploiting known vulnerabilities, secure in the knowledge that the errors will remain in place until the victims finally dump XP.
Linux isn't a great example of scientific advancement, being a clone of UNIX. UNIX was the product of a commercial research lab. BSD was the product of an academic research lab. I'm not sure who you're referring to with radios and Xrays, but those were discovered in a very different time. A lot of those folks were professors and today would be doing funded work at universities.
The community is working on it. See multi signature addresses as a possible future.
It's probably not required if you're seeking just-another-job from just-another-hiring-manager.

However it's probably a good idea if you're interviewing a founder (especially of a client-based business) who's seeking people who share at least some non-zero fraction of their passion for the business.

I wouldn't suggest faking enthusiasm. But if you genuinely feel like it would be one of the best places for you to work, and you made that clear during the interview, it doesn't hurt to follow-up and say it again.

EDIT: The original "who the f--- writes thank you notes?!" comment was deleted while I typed this.
jwz is a well known hacker and sf club owner. SXSW is about, among other things, the music, so I think the music is a worthy topic of discussion.

The fact that the US has lots of conferences is a good reason to avoid the bad ones.
Posting that video (and it ending up on polygon) has doomed this project. He'll be getting a Cease and Desist letter from Nintendo in a few days.
I'm not any the wiser, as you don't mention what your average ad revenue is like.
> Make it relevant, concise, and focused.

Like this bloated, scattered, impossible to read slideshow?
Likely the author is Jamie Zawinski, one of the creators of Netscape and proprietor of a SF music venue and all-around hacker legend.
Local Motors to 3D-Print an Electric Vehicle at IMTS 2014
thanks for the clarification, it's been so long since I've been to any indoor malls in socal.
"So - you feel the penalties set down in law are always just and appropriate?"

I believe not all penalties set down in law are always just and appropriate, probably even some authorities may see it this way too, but just imagine that you were to ask that question if you were set in front of a judge to justify your piracy acts, do you really think that'll get you out of trouble?
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I feel like the article was trying to make the point "traditional malls from the 80's are dying" but didn't do a good job at that (the title for example). So that's leading to a lot of comments saying "Well some malls are flourishing and some are dying" I suspect the flourishing ones are the newer malls that have a lot of unique features you can't get online (food/cinema/furniture)
The TRIPS agreement requires criminal penalties for willful copyright infringement, art. 61 (and circumvention of technical measures is in all cases I have seen implemented as being a form of copyright infringement) when it occurs on a certain not well defined scale. TRIPS is implemented everywhere except a few muslim countries in Africa and Asia.

There almost never is a minimum scale defined in actual implementations.

There have been several attempts to sue people in my country, usually settled before any final judgment, for being instrumental in copyright infringement, even if that and the actual infringement occured on limited, loss-incuring scale.

I live in the EU, so every web page I visit is required to be logged by ISPs for 6-24 months. Clearing cookies does nothing.

I'm more than willing to bet that your law says too that circumventing technical measures is illegal and when done on purpose a criminal act. Admitting to using the privacy mode of your browser to circumvent the paywall is admitting to a crime in many jurisdictions. Sometimes with optional prison terms, otherwise fines that will eventually turn into prison time if they're not paid on time, so prison is certainly an option for using the privacy mode to access NYT. Not likely to be prosecuted, but a crime nonetheless.
Good job justifying harassment. I'm sure anyone who bullied you thought they were justified too.

If turning the tables to people you agree with causes an action to become worse, you're applying special pleading.
$10,000 tweet puts Dogecoin fundraiser for clean water in Kenya over $30k goal
The title is a good reference to one of yesterday's top comments on "Worse" :)
Right, so if the women's liberation movement hadn't made flat orgs so fashionable, then maybe Github would still be a nice place for all kinds to work, and we wouldn't have this whole class of pseudo-sexist problems.

Am I reading this right?
You are correct about the empirical facts (there exist some companies don't currently pay dividends), but theory is needed to understand that if those company's never paid dividends, they would be worthless.

The fundamental principal is that of the transversality condition, also called the "no ponzi" condition, which states that assets must eventually deliver. If a company pays no dividends forever then the value of its stock is only based on what people are willing to pay in the future, forming a self-reinforcing ponzi-like system. It is generally assumed (I can think of many good reasons for this, like the finiteness of the universe) that such violations of the transversality condition don't occur.

Therefore the value of a share is the expected value of all future dividends. I suspect you also didn't read my post carefully and missed my qualification of "dividend-like" things. E.g. a company might start small, grow, stagnate and be bought by a private equity firm and split into parts that are sold off. At that point, the company has effectively delivered dividends to the private equity firm.

>With all respect, do you really want to be pontificating about something you know nothing about?

Your smugness is unwarranted and reflects badly on your character. I suggest you read some books on economics and try to be a better person.
Microsoft and Bungie released a remake of Halo a few years back. I hope Nintendo does something similar with Mario 64.
It's no use trying to be clever with words when you aren't being clever with facts. You are simply wrong, empirically and logically.

> You previously stated that resistance is no way exacerbated by using GMOs. Now you're saying that it is for one GMO, but trying to qualify it with a "but". Too late. You've already conceded the point. Now you're trying to lawyer it.

Total rates of herbicide resistance have not increased since the introduction of herbicide resistant GMOs. The rate of glyphosate resistance has increased, while the rate of resistance to many other herbicides (e.g. ureas, dinitroanilines, atrazine) has slowed by a greater total rate.

> Resistance is dose dependent. GMOs allow higher dosing. It's the entire point.

1. Dose dependence of resistance doesn't mean what you think it means. When we say resistance is dose dependent, that means the plant is resistant only up to a threshold dose, beyond which it will suffer the normal symptoms of toxicity. It does not mean "the more herbicide we apply the more resistance there will be".

2. Glyphosate resistance does not allow higher dosing, it allows lower dosing after the crop has been planted (non-resistant crops in general have the land treated with extreme doses several weeks before sowing).

3. Herbicides select for resistance with different strengths, related to how easily mutations can lead to resistance. Glyphosate is a relatively low selector for resistance. Atrazine is an example of a very strongly resistance-selecting herbicide. By reducing the use of strongly-selecting herbicides like atrazine, Roundup-ready decreases the aggregate strength of selection for resistance.

> The more herbicide-resistant GMOs we use, the more herbicides we'll use and the more resistance we'll see.

No. The introduction of herbicide resistant GMOs has led to a reduction in the rate of herbicides applied for most crops, or approximately similar rates of less harmful herbicides applied in other crops.
Counterdote: One company I was with created a product to solve our own problem (time-tracking for projects) and while we loved it we did not find anywhere near enough other people to buy it.

If you're going to be building something anyway, even if there's no market for it, that's fine. If you simply assume that a given solution to a problem that happens to please a handful of geeks is going to please many, many more, you may be in for disappointment.

In retrospect we screwed up by not first validating the market for what we were so sure people would want.

A corollary here is that, for all I know, people would have loved the product if we pitched it to them correctly. Being unable to sell/market a good product is as bad as having a dud offering.

In any event it is far from a given that scratching your own itch means you have market validation.

I've become increasingly convinced of sales+marketing first, serious product building after validation of the idea and of the ability to sell it.
To be honest, I am living in a very different culture now from the US culture where social gender roles are more significant but also somewhat flexible. I do expect the post to bother Americans because it goes against what I call the myth of interchangeability, the idea that gender equality necessarily reduces to the idea that the sexes are interchangeable. I don't believe this and I think that equality has to be more substantive than this because interchangeability tends to mean that a male-normative model gives you hidden sexism. Exhibit A is Marissa Mayer's maternity leave duration. There is nothing equal about that.

The point is that when you look cross-culturally and cross-historically, where you don't have women certain things like rule of law don't happen (you see this develop in the American West for example as gender rates stopped being so lopsided).

I would suggest that recognizing that the genders do have differences in terms of social aptitudes and needs, and different positions relative to life choices is the first step in reducing the male-normative view on our economic model (i.e. "if you work like a man, and wait to have kids like a man, you will get paid like a man").
I'd even pay 50$/month for that kind of system (and I'm a student). But I don't think I'm in the majority.
Sure, people still go, but nobody important goes there anymore.
Monsanto's seeds reproduce just fine, however if one saves the seeds from their harvest and replants than it is an IP violation. It would be like copying a CD for a friend, very possible but not legal
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The existence of Popcorn Time serves as a pretty strong counter-example to the argument that DRM protects IP rights.

I have, however, had technical difficulty playing a movie I legally purchased through iTunes thanks to HDCP deciding it wanted the day off.

Another minor complaint: I want to run my movies through an audio filter I developed to improve stereo imaging on headphones, but I can't really do that with DRM'd content. (Annoyingly, attempting to open a Fairplay-protected item with an AVPlayer object on OS X 10.9 causes the process to be sent SIGKILL.)

Not that I think this justifies piracy, but I do think DRM is a lame non-solution that punishes paying customers while piracy continues to run rampant in spite of it.
Whats the elevator pitch on what this is and what it does?
Yeah, the same thing has happened to the "Super Mario in a Browser" project a couple of months back.
>Malls aren't dying.
Cities are. Certain "rustbelt" cities and towns to be more specific. The malls that die are invariably in areas of decline.

Caruso may be shifting the game with his paradigm of outdoor faux townscapes [sic] but he is making malls that do not look like malls with the same single ownership structure--and this is the real problem: single entities developing millions of square feet, risking lots of capital and building as cheaply as possible because of the risk. He's just using modern design methods to emmulate old downtowns, as anachronistic as that may seem. But the style is just that. Style.

He does not build in places like Matteson, IL, for example because Lincoln Mall in Matteson is dying due to demographic trends (mostly white flight) and the thriving of another ...mall of the same - style - and vintage but with a shinny Apple store. Places like Matteson are unlucky because other malls in and around the Chicagoland are doing quite fine despite their tired, mid-century-gray motifs.

In places like Chicago where the weather is miserable most of the time winter and summer (IMHO), indoor malls still make a lot of sense. The "Gold Coast" downtown does well because it's a tourist attraction in one a wealthy zip code. But when it's 34-below an indoor mall is a nice respite.

Perhaps I am just venting because my thesis was on these greyfield malls and how to save them without starting from scratch or following the next trend in retail development because many places do not have the luxury to start fresh. Mall typologies are like hairstyles: you may not like afros, comb-overs or mullets, but each one had its day and will have its wearer and they are all here to stay. It's just a matter of how you maintain them.
If he was gay and she was a man, would it still be sexist?
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At least a complaint (from an actual club owner) about bands not going onstage on-schedule has some basis.

Here's someone complaining that the Spotify house "was too corporate"

http://techrotica.tumblr.com/post/79212740983/for-the-record...
Full disclosure, Presto seems to be a subsidiary of Foxtel.
It doesn't stream in HD.
It costs $19.99 a month (first month is $4.99).
It's only movies, no TV.
I take a multivitamin. Also L-theanine + caffeine.
Well, I don't see how downloading non-commercial products can be seen as a piracy at all. It would make whole lot sense to me if you were to say that non-commercial software downloading should be a civil matter, not a criminal one, but here we're talking about pirating commercial products in popcorn time, which can be categorized into criminal matter.
Worth noting though, a lot of the value of GitHub in particular, and to a lesser extent many other services, are extra features like issue trackers, wikis and so on that act to lock you in.
On any given day my ad revenue is around $20.00USD. It pays the bills and then some at the end of the month. Sorry about not mentioning that.
I'm definitely getting here too late, but this is the series to read to get informed on GMOs. "Panic Free GMOs" by Grist Magazine, very balanced take:
http://grist.org/series/panic-free-gmos/
Perhaps these "other people" who don't want their property "interfered with" should not wantonly hook it up to a global communications network full of anonymous actors. In an ideal world the law would quickly change to match the reality of an unaccountable network, hacking itself would be legal, and only specific intended harm caused by it would be a crime.

The problem here stems from young being people more in touch with actual reality, as they haven't been beaten down by society to respect arbitrary social mores. So they take risks doing things that seemingly should have no consequence - like smoking marijuana or sending nonstandard signals over communication networks. And so a few unlucky ones get caught, and the best they can currently hope for is to have an institution that will go to bat and isolate them from the "real world" of public persecutors' scoreboards.
The email address doesn't seem to be the thing registrars should be "validating" about contact information, anyway. Shouldn't my registrar be calling/texting a code to the included phone number, and sending a letter with another code to the included mailing address?
Does the fashion industry really "dwarf" the tech industry?

Random googling tells me that the global fashion industry does about $1.2 trillion in revenue per year. Microsoft, Google, Apple, and IBM together do a bit over $400 billion per year, so about a third of that, and that's only four (albeit large) tech companies. I'd be surprised if you couldn't more than triple that number after you accounted for all the other tech companies in the world.
I think it actually should work better than the usual method. With the old use case, you'll be uploading for the duration of the download, and once it's done, you might stop seeding and start watching your movie or show. But while streaming, you aren't likely to bother to stop seeding while watching, especially if the app doesn't go out of the way to interrupt your show to tell you it's done downloading. So while your average user may be uploading bits in the worst possible order required to keep the file alive, they will likely be uploading them for much longer.
> Most Apple stores are in malls!

Are they? Do you have data on that? I am by no means an expert on Apple stores but of the ones I've seen, only one was in a traditional enclosed mall.