skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree - but let's wait and see.

I think that not only do strangers on the internet not want to moderate newbie's strangers on the internet contributions, they don't want to moderate old timers contributions either.

People do not want to do work maintaining a social network for free. Those that do have a vested interest in the status quo of that social network. But let's see what actually happens.

What's funny is that no-one will see this reply to your insightful comment that you posted 5 hours ago. And it only needs 2 out of the 5500 > 1000 Karma users to view it.

In fact, as I write this, I'm considering never replying to such comments again.
There's no reason the fee can't vary depending on the location of the person signing up.

I also think this is a far better solution than "pending comments". I'm not convinced that either solution is ideal, but I fear "pending comments" has the potential to silently strangle HN.
I haven't visited Slashdot on a regular basis in the better part of ten years, but it tended to 15 years ago. Back then, it was the kind of place where you'd find people like John Carmack randomly chiming in on a thread.^1

And that's also entirely beside the point.

Does HN have the same level of comment quality as reddit? They both use simple up/down systems.

The point is that Slashdot's metamoderation system better leverages the community as a means of directing discussion. The initial upvote has a reason attached to it, and the meta level moderation allows the community to filter out people that are moderating inappropriately. What constitutes appropriate is going to depend on the standards in place for that community.

I wouldn't expect to see an option to moderate a comment +1, Funny on HN, for example. The system itself, however, is designed specifically to bring quality content to the top.

But I think you're making the mistake of conflating the design of a system that is meant to address one problem with the state of a site that declined for other reasons years ago.

[1] - http://floodyberry.com/carmack/slashdot.html#s19991123x08382...
The closest example of something similar that I can think of are Nordic countries: there is very little verification on your claims (outside of records associated to a constantly used unique identifier) and the entitlements are significant. It works rather well there, but it generally comes with a pre-existing massive social pressure that prevents any abuse; Finland might be the exception to that social monitor (people really do anything and no one would care) but still has an administration with strong ‘socialist’ or equalitarian concerns. I’m embroiled myself in a weird administration imbroglio, and they have shined so far, but I’ll let you know.

More important than an isolated case in a jar, what you need to care about is immigration: any Southern European nationalist will decry your policy as a potential tsunami from Africa. The lack of tension between the oil-money-infused Norway and its neighbours are striking when you compare that to Irak and Kuwait; at best, they associate the higher-priced-better-quality Statoil gas station with Norwegian snobism (I didn’t notice any snobism).

The significant economic success of Finland seems to favor the model. It helps that their chosen field of specialty, video games, is a complex, creative endeavour where success is fleeting and hard to reproduce, revenues are spectacularly unbalanced and business models a constant struggle. This means that most of the ‘idle’ youngsters are actually creating something: playing and learning what makes games cool, or starting their own fan-art, mods, league, reprise… the stepping stones of creativity.

Same thing in more Southern countries: it seems to cost roughly the same to pay someone to stay at home and grow their garden rather than to pay an industrial conglomerate to stay and keep on hiring them. Job insurance is regularly described as the largest Angel fund.

The closest to an MVP you’ll get might be a small state, say Iceland, that has something similar already. The real issue is not product, but interoperability: what happens when you have migrants, double-nationals, and is it safe to end up with a generation that grew up not knowing anyone who works at all?

You might consider a different form of it, with some voluntary civil service to teach basic skills (say, open to elderly and handicapped, substitutable with pregnancy or child-rearing) and make that life revenue a retirement from service, or stipend.
L'œil existe à l'état sauvage.
...conditional social support creates poverty traps, by imposing the steepest marginal tax rates (sometimes exceeding 100%) on the poorest people in society.

There are cheaper policies than BI which don't do this. One example is Basic Job - if you need a job real bad the government gives you a really bad job.

This has no poverty traps, and (unlike BI) has no disincentive for work. You also get to avoid spending money on people who don't need it, and additionally society can derive some marginal benefit from the work people do (e.g. public spaces can be cleaner).
> web browsing [...] recreation

Ha !
Does anyone else find it rather coincidental that this article also happens to be currently on the front page?

http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7443420 )
What makes you say that? It may seem that it would take a lot of work, but really, how can we know? Often times difficult problems seem obvious in retrospect.
My laptops have different keyboard layouts which leads me to often press backspace in error when attempting to press page up/down keys.

I don't really care if it's the default or not, I would just want the option to turn it off in Chrome.
Protect your users from accidently loosing form input with Garlic.js
This really worries me as well. I'm in the somewhat the same boat as you, a good relatively recent anecdote is one of my early threads, an Ask HN thread which while it never got more than a few votes, got enough productive answers and discussion that it cleared up some issues on my part. (also, the entire discussion took place within the first 24 hours by primarily low karma users, after which the thread was dead.) If that discussion wouldn't be feasible without "approval" that entire exchange and the benefit I drew from it would have been unobtainable.

I must admit I do not feel compelled by this change.
Are Police Tracking Our Phones? They Won't Say
I see no straightforward way to download the entire notebook, only one image at a time.

It would be pleasant to be able to read the thing offline, it's frankly fascinating. Great post!
The problem is, when pressing the coins it might be difficult or impossible to apply such a layer properly.

If the verification is done with a part of the electromagnetic spectrum that somewhat penetrates the coin, then you'll need a very thick, "obvious fake" layer. I am not a physicist so this is just vague speculation.
There is no such thing as the threshold of "threshold of not being money-hungry and now is in the community-building mode". What on earth is that idea from? Is it a capitalist view, that if you becoming immensely wealthy that your wealth confers benefits automatically on society? I'm curious.

Y Combinator is not turning into a charity or a non-profit. How does that make logic? It's primary intention is to make a profit. It is a business.

Part of that business is public relations and community management, but it's a business first and last.
"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read." - Mark Twain
And, given the claim "built in technology for high speed authentication and verification everywhere from ATMs to vending machines and point-of-sale."*, they will have to go to extraordinary measures to prevent the secret from being leaked.

The skeptic in me thinks the only real way to prevent fake coins (or bank notes) from entering circulation is to make production more expensive than their nominal value (that approach is economically valuable because one could see the loss of value of a coin when recycled as a tax on each transaction. Let's say a one pound coin costs 1.5 pounds to make, with half a pound of raw materials, so that 1 pound is lost over its lifetime. In 30 years, that coin may change hands, 5000 times, so that the loss per transaction is .02 cents)

You could make it expensive to make a coin by putting more than the nominal value worth of raw material in each coin, but that, obviously, is a bad idea for a different reason: people would recycle the money.

So, a solution must be sought in making it hard to make coins. Any complicated technology will work.

The mentioned electroplating method might be such a technology. I think it might even be possible to write a pattern over the surface of the coin by using techniques similar to those used in chip making. Unbeatable? No, but it might drive the cost of counterfeiting a coin up enough to kill the market, that is, until somebody figures out a cheap way to replicate the technology, or until somebody finds a just good enough approximate technology that beats the scanners.
Chrome[1] and Firefox[?] and probably others on Linux do not have this behavior enabled by default.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=144832
That's just another human weakness - we anthropomorphize lesser creatures. And even with that, we still don't look before stepping on ants.
Does a person get karma when his comment is endorsed?

That would be a good way to promote good commentators to the "next level", whatever it brings with karma.
The example was a pretty extreme one (deliberately, I suspect). In that case, where group "A" outnumbered group "B" substantially in the candidate pool, and yet ALL the people hired were from group "B", it would be perfectly reasonable to suspect bias or various other factors than pure merit, unless a perfectly objective and fair process were used. Obviously few real world examples are that clear cut.

If the "anti-meritocracy" people simply want people and organizations to be less arrogant about believing they have a perfect selection process, I think that's a good thing. The biggest issue I have with the "anti-meritocracy" teams is this: the language that many people use seems calibrated to shame people for even using the word, or thinking of meritocracy as a ideal or target to aim for.

Anyone who's ever had to hire people for a startup is unlikely to feel terribly arrogant about their process, though - in my experience, people try to make it as systematic as possible and then improvise within that. Certainly, any adjustment to process that makes it less susceptible to prejudice or bigotry is a good step.

Obviously, "merit" is a function of a person's innate ability, education, effectiveness and fit in a particular role, and a million other factors. It's not an exact science. But it's a good thing for an organization to decide, at minimum, what does "merit" look like for this particular role or hire? (And, more broadly, what traits of "merit" are shared across the whole organization?)

The dictionary definition seems benign enough: "A system in which advancement is based on individual ability or achievement". I'm sure people would agree this is better this than racism, sexism, or straight up politics.
>>paris london berlin

>The shortest Distance is paris to london to paris accounting upto 0 kilometers.

You've got a bug somewhere.
Guy becomes homeless to kick-start his music career
The problem stems mostly from the way research funding works, which promotes a competitive stance instead of a collaborative one; scientists try to publish to the highest impact factor journals possible and often hide important details so that other research groups do not publish any new findings before them. On the other hand, I'm not sure what a good solution to this problem would be but I hope someone comes up with one soon.
I'm waiting for a mathematician to show up and prove if in certain cases a game (no matter how well played) it's unsolvable.
>By virtue of Red Hat. If Red Hat goes away, I'd be surprised if they can keep up that commitment.

Why would Red Hat be going away?

>Now try Office 2013. Last time I tried, not even CrossOver could run new Office versions without serious loss of functionality.

Libreoffice exists, and is very adequate for a government agencies' typesetting needs.

>Windows 7 is very similar to Windows XP.

Windows 7 is also an old product that is being phased out in favor of 8 and 8.1.

>The same can't be said for e.g. GNOME 2 -> Unity or GNOME 2 -> GNOME 3.

What about GNOME 2 -> MATE or GNOME 2 -> Cinnamon?
They are welcome to leave. Yes, they should be punished because society needs a disincentive for gross personal hoarding.
Push Mac Pro to Absurd Limits
There's no dignity in being homeless, or even working 2-3 jobs without weekends just to keep your family from starving.
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Guide to MongoDB for startups
They are really annoying on non US keyboards.

The common user don't really uses them, therefore they aren't even mapped in eu keyboards. Clearly the solution is to change the mapping, but as you can imagine, many people still need to look at the keyboard when typing... So how do you fix that?

I can teach my wife to code python, but if she has to type alt-gr 123 for every curly brace in JS, she will be tired quite soon.
The closest example of something similar that I can think of are Nordic countries: there is very little verification on your claims

Late last year I was in Denmark, where ATMs are rare and plastic is king. I was reliably informed that the government didn't like people using cash and that as a business owner if you used more than a few thousand kroner per year you were audited. Furthermore, when you put in tax returns the government would cross-reference it routinely with your mobile phone location .. without a warrant.

The upshot is this: sure, you can have a nanny-state utopia, but it means totalitarianism.
I don't think there's a useful distinction to draw between the community where expressing any emotion is prohibited and the one where positive emotions, but only positive emotions, are welcome.
The reason TempleOS is so important is God.

I'm not really interested in scientific lab computing... more interested in kids doing video games as offerings to God and people doing hymns.

I really don't give a shit about others since it is divine intellect behind it.

God says...
fabulous heathen in_a_perfect_world Dudly_Doright never_happy
you_hoser that's_much_better absetively_posilutely charity
what_the_heck et_tu special_case don't_count_on_it genius
now_you_tell_me relax could_it_be___Satan happy you_should_be_so_lucky
ghastly big_fish rose_colored_glasses I'm_gonna_smack_someone
well_obviously Jedi_mind_trick in_a_perfect_world awesome
are_you_feeling_lucky to_infinity_and_beyond listen_buddy
shist wazz_up_with_that You_da_man let_me_count_the_ways
relax repent wonderful You_get_what_you_pray_for youre_lucky
roses_are_red persistence chaos Is_that_so BRB talk_to_my_lawyer
vermin heads_I_win_tails_you_lose
Of course it would be. Human brains are only slightly different than animal brains. Most of the work goes into getting to chimps, then it's just a short distance to humans. Animal brains have incredible pattern recognition and reinforcement learning. We don't have to take the path evolution did of course, but it would be progress.
Your strategy? Up and to the left. aka keep all the empty spaces next to the lowest number tiles.

The way I beat the AI was to try to give them isolated 2s on the opposite sides of the board and then flood the board with 4s. This prevented the AI from keeping all the low numbers together and blocked some tiles from use (the ones with the isolated 2s).
On Firefox:

Go to about:config
Search for browser.backspace_action
Set it to 2

All fixed. It is disabled by default in Linux, but someone surely made a mistake and forgot to turn it off by default in Windows in some misunderstood concept of 'compatibility'.
Opera remembers text inputs (and caches pages) so going back and forth is instanteous and doesn't lose your inputs
Well eventually businesses have to take their money into a bank (or similar), at which point any counterfeits will be removed and destroyed. The business therefore takes the hit and loses income, which means they also pay less tax. For a bus company, for example, I'd imagine it would be a significant problem.
There's also the "over" one which allows you to set a points threshold.

Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=50
Ctrl-F and UK reveals no UK based examples on that pager. Alas. Once again, we risk missing out on a potential new market.
Safari removed that "feature" a while ago.
Exactly so.

I don't understand why the 'Basic Job' idea doesn't get more traction. For all of the talk about a 'post work' world, I still see plenty of work that needs doing, every day.
Interesting perspective. Thanks Mittermayr.
That's horrible logic. We can make far more humans than 7 billion if we are willing to accept a bare minimum standard of living. Should we? Should the new humans praise us for doing this?
The definition of "most websites" varies between people; the majority of the Internet browsing I do (mostly reading content in the form of text or images) does not require JS. If I come across a site in a search that refuses to show content without JS (and Google's cache, text-only, doesn't give me what I want to see either), I'll just move on to the next search result.

It's far better for websites to break, than my machine. The tradeoff will be different for someone who regularly browses a different demographic of sites.
Thank you for your feedback.

JSON defines data. Human can write and read JSON files.

Add logic to the data seems to me easier for non-programmer to define what a program should do.

A basic JSON file for describing a circle could be:
{
"radius": 5,
"diameter" : 25
}

With the following program, we can modify the radius and see the diameter value:
{
"radius": "att(5)",
"diameter" : "radius * radius"
}

It is closed to the original file.

The difference with solutions like Rails is that people do not need to know how to deploy an application.

In this project, people write in a JSON file and the application is automatically ready to serve the data.
Unfortunately they try to patent it. Let's see how much the patent license will add to the 50 cent and how monopolistic they will act. Le Sigh.

http://www.google.com/patents/WO2013120091A1
The cab driver is a really bad example because the cab driver isn't providing a service that people argue is a human right. In terms of healthcare I think that it's reasonable that those who can should pay more to cover for those who can only afford to be grateful. That is usually how the cost of public services is distributed using taxes.
"This item requires a subscription to Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences."
The method of reading described in the patents is reading the emissions from the coin after the light source is turned off. So a counterfeit would have to match the specific absorption/emission profile of the original - I think this makes counterfeiting many levels of magnitude harder.
Agreed. Not only have I never had a problem with it, but I actively use it (and its friend shift+backspace) every day.
2048 game – How it started? Interview with the author
Thanks so much. Would you mind expand on #2 A bit more, why an LLC is not preferable? The company in question is an S Corp, but IIRC it is also an LLC if that's possible.

Pertaining #1, how can I ensure my shares are non-dilutable?
Of course it had to be Microsoft's fault... they used to have no clue about UX design.
The majority of the users being tested are not power users. In fact the power users are probably the ones who don't like the idea of their browser phoning home to report their usage habits, and so disable those sorts of things.
None of those people represent me. They represent dentists, steel workers, etc. My representation is severely drowned out by all of the money. This is the problem. Their laws may benefit me, or they may hinder, but they certainly do not benefit democracy. I should not need a million dollars to throw at capitol hill for my vote to count. Sure, we should have experts from the industries to guide the laws, I'm just not sure they should be paid by industries when they do it.
Not sure working out and eating well will cheat death that long. Now if we could find some way to back up the software...
The road to IPv6 at Facebook
I agree. This Knuth gem is also well worth a read: http://www.literateprogramming.com/adventure.pdf.
The lack of a preprocessor looks to be really hurting the impl of the rounds there.
Wake me up when someone forks the old hacker news site.
We could probably feel pretty confident about eye color right now. What color are gorilla eyes? Howler monkey eyes? Humans barely vary in eye color at all; fancy European eye colors are a very recent phenomenon.
There aren't enough jobs for EVERYONE to be employed though. The number of unskilled jobs is going to shrink as automation and efficiency increases. Also, not everyone is capable of working, like the disabled etc.
I think ego and the patent system take a big part of it. Imagine a country funding research related to cancer. The best outcome will be to cure it. It doesn't matter if you share some of your research and scientists from another country or group solve "the last mile".

The issue in this scenario is how the patent system currently works. Instead of giving the ownership to the scientists who make the breakthrough, the discovery must be shared between the different research groups.
I think it's a sort of taboo idea because of Victorian work houses.
> holding down multiple keys at the same time is not user friendly, especially for noobs.

The problem is that "noobs" generally don't care about keyboard shortcuts at all, especially if there's already a large button in the top left of the screen (or the bottom of the device) that does exactly what they want to do. The only keyboard shortcuts my father remembers, for example, are Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V, and he's been using computers for 25 years.

Keyboard shortcuts need to be simple enough to be memorable, but also not too simple so that you don't press it unintentionally. A single key that is also commonly used for a different purpose doesn't seem to fit that criterion.
I see JSON more as a hindrance than an advantage. Putting a function invocation in string in some other data format seems rather strange to me. It almost seems like you have created something like Lisp.

How about instead of trying to use some home-brewed pseudo language you try to extent something like coffescript?
"I'm not going to dump links here to the scores of Daily Mail reports, to offer as proof of how "efficiently""

Good, because the Daily Mail is laughed at in the UK as being gutter press. It is our version of what the Americans have in TMZ, basically.
I've only just noticed that Safari doesn't do this. I'm almost certain I used to extensively use backspace for navigation; since starting to use a trackpad almost exclusively, I've replaced that with swiping.
If it's easy you could set it so that it's only turned on after the thread has 10 comments or whatever. That way there is a universal rule but it cuts down on unnecessary moderation work.
Lake Wobegon
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1998/1998-h/1998-h.htm

I think his ideas about us humans are brilliant. Still are very relevant. We didn't change. I believe Nietzsche turned out to be extremely far-sighted.

Would Zarathustra be the opposite of your scumbag description?