skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you realize how inaccurate the country <-> IP lists are at this point? And it's only getting worse as people are trading IP4 addresses.
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How would a decentralized ledger handle the 100 billion emails sent a day?
I think the real problem is that Reddit's core mod tools are pretty woeful and age-old problems haven't been fixed.

/r/modhelp is basically full of the same problems and issues that mods have been having for years.

Some examples:

* Want to run your sub without downvotes? Sorry (you can hide the button via css, but people can still hotkey it)

* Have a sockpuppet downvote brigade screwing up your sub? Message the reddit admins and hope they bother reading your message and doing anything about it. Because you have no idea who's doing it and can't really do anything about it. Current best advice is (this is not a joke) "wait for them to get bored".

* Somebody was granted admin access, kicked the rest of the mods off and has turned the sub to private (and the sub creator is incommunicado?) Tough luck.

* Want to delete a sub I created? Too bad.

* Fuzzed numbers, votes, subscribers, current people on the sub, etc. Some mods don't want it in their sub. Too bad.

* want to ban some URLs from your sub? try and use the spam filter, but good luck otherwise.

and on and on.

I think practically what the sub's admins wanted to do was to just push down submissions on certain topics so a wider variety of things floated up, this happens on here all the time. But Reddit's tool set to do the same is pretty ham fisted. It's like changing the battery on a watch using a mallet.

Given the choice of using the mallet or not, they decided to go ahead and use it, I disagree with this and they're suffering the consequences of it.
Thanks for pointing that out - that makes it a lot more interesting. Basically they then become a marketing arm for temp space for the landlords - a much better business imho.
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+1. It's going to be a while before this all shakes out. I hope the standards bodies wait a bit and cherry-pick the best parts of the various vendor implementations, rather than trying to jam something incomplete and poorly specified into the market now.

With all this noise about "standards" though, it's important to remember how much we (computer people) take for granted. I, as well as the majority of people here, I'd guess, wouldn't consider building a new device that doesn't use TCP/UDP and IPv4/6. There'll be a battle on the layer-1/2 front (radios, electrical stuff) and messaging formats (OSI layer 5+: application, session, presentation), but let's not forget how far we've come.
HN's guidelines call for changing the original title when it's linkbait or misleading. This one was misleading, so we changed it.
The bathroom server was up until just a few weeks ago. I'll have to ask someone here what happened. (We've had the system for over ten years, I think, so some of the equipment is getting old. )
This is because Angular uses reflection, which requires that the dart2js compiler retain a lot of code and metadata unless it's told what it can safely discard.

AngularDart 0.10.0 has an option to remove the use of reflection for release builds which drastically reduces the compiled output size.
While that is good and all, maybe it would be more in the hacker spirit if they did it open an transparently. If reddit isn't destroyed by this move, maybe HN can survive too.
Just because axis truncation is in the lier's toolbox doesn't mean that every use of axis truncation does, or intends to, misrepresent the data or is inaccurate.
Amazon SES definitely does have a spam problem, and the issue is that they don't bother doing anything about abuse reports. I've reported a spammer (who scraped our email address) to them, but the spams kept coming. Other people have reported the same thing.

If you're running a bulk mailing server you simply must respond to abuse reports, otherwise your service will get blacklisted and be essentially useless. Other providers such as mailchimp are much more proactive about getting rid of spammers.
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> MLs or Haskell where the seatbelt magically appears around you.

Well, only if you don't need nominal subtypes.
PG has straight up admitted that there is classification of articles (automated or manual) and that penalties are applied to certain classifications, such as "political". There is no real denial.

> "So already for the past week TSA stories have had an automatic penalty applied. Or more precisly, they've been autotagged as being political, which entails a penalty."

> "When anything gets over a certain number of flags, it shows up on a list that admins see. They decide either to kill it, mark it as political or whatever, or do nothing."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1934950
Why is Medium penalised?
> Maybe a typo

Could be a bug in your web browser. The first sentence is a quote as indicated by the ">" character at the beginning of the line.
They're just re-transmitting normal OTA broadcasts of TV channels intended for end-users.
Not included in the cost calculations: several days of remembering to check the cost of the air fare every day, and stressing about whether or not you'll end up paying a ton when the predictor erroneously tells you to wait. The price differentials cited in this article are well worth just buying it and having it out of the way, IMHO.
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I think https://voice.ee is pretty cool if you need to share and embed polls
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I read it as an attempt to be "not corporate". But I don't know how the author typically is, so it could be normal. But given the rest of the language it felt a bit contrived/manipulative to me, although with good intentions.
Ya: distributed computing, storage, and power are hot. Where did all the kernel research go?
>Aw dang, really? No other options except to remove 100% of threads containing the words "snowden" and "national security agency" and "tesla"?

No. Either allow the posts and remove them once the discussion start and then deal with 100 "MUH FREEDOM OF SPEECH, !!CENSORSHIP!!, MY PRECIOUS KARMA!" threads or remove them as soon as they're posted.

>Then only threads that a majority of people like would make it to the top

That's part of the problem. People want to see thread like this - you'd see "NSA spying people" thread upvoted in EVERY SINGLE default subreddit if it was posted and allowed by moderators.

Votes are horrible for determining what kind of content should or shouldn't be allowed. Especially for default subreddits since majority of people vote from frontpage and are not familiar with subreddit rules, or don't even notice which subreddit it is.

People don't even read more than titles! You'll often see threads marked with "false information" flair, or people pointing out in the comments how the whole story is fake/wrong/etc. Those threads continue to gain upvotes after it has been proved to be wrong information. Do you really think that people would notice the subreddit and/or rules regarding that submission?

>If you think about it, a system like this would allow for stories that only partly relate to technology, but are still hot topics that tech enthusiasts want to talk about, to make it to the top.

Nope, read above. It would allow for stories people like (upvote) to make it to the top.

And plus you have threads linked in other subreddits, IRC etc. that skews up votes too.

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tl;dr: votes work in theory but fail miserably in practice, especially when dealing with large amount of voters.
Has anyone ever seen any hard evidence for the incognito/cookies price differences other than cursory anecdotal evidence? I've only ever seen "I fly a lot and everyone who flies a lot knows this is true" reasoning for this phenomenon. Has anyone ever seen/done an actual experimental study on whether or not this is a real thing?

I'm not necessarily doubting that this is a thing, I've just never seen hard evidence.
There are a few alternatives:

1) Have each subreddit democractically elect/delect its moderators after N period of time.

2) Make moderation log public to provide more accountability to moderator actions

3) Pay the moderators, either from the Reddit business itself, profit-sharing from ads on the subreddit, or through community donations.

All 3 would disincentivize the moderators from behaving badly. However, the methods may not scale easily.
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This is completely wrong. You might benefit from reading Foucault's Discipline and Punish.
I am no fan of Bitcoin but that is pretty much nonsense given that one of the major holders of Bitcoin is IBM and it's subsidiaries who view it as a medium of exchange far removed from it's current guise.
It does, but for obvious reasons (access to the source and effectively a single "sub"), the HN mods have a much finer degree of control over how this works. From "decay a tiny bit faster than normal" to "complete ban"
The only times I had to contact the admins (sex pest approaching children; sub linked to from other sub causing massive brigading) I got quick responses that took action.

The sex pest was banned from Reddit; his sock puppets were banned. (I hope, but do not know, that the admins reported him to one of the law enforcement agencies. He was pretty clearly unpleasant and definitely breaking US laws).

I had worse experience when I tried to report stuff to Tinychat, who appear to ignore their own TOS.
At this point, the only thing keeping the hounds at bay is the reality that a TV with non-crappy software requires a much deeper cooperation with content providers.

I think there may be economic factors too. Isn't it true that TV replacement rates are low and they have low margins? Given the longevity of displays, why would anyone want to bundle in hardware/software with faster refresh rates?
> If you ToS say I agree to receive mail, guess what? I don't agree, I just want to try your product. I'll flag you in a breeze.

No. You literally did agree.

That you don't like that it's a package deal, and you're exchanging getting their sales email for trying their product just makes you an asshole, but it doesn't make their message spam.

You established a business relationship with them, in which they told you ahead of time they'd do follow-up contact, and then you have the gall to complain about it in a way that damages the reputation of people who relay the messages you agreed to receive.

Way to make the world a worse place.
In the context of a news aggregator? Pretty much as soon as the company was founded and named. Nikola Tesla has been dead for decades, there isn't much news about him these days.
Seeing zero referenced arrays in the detailed data output warms my heart. Looks like no one likes the middle stall. At current employer, no one uses the first stall because the flush mechanism is partially broken and no one is motivated enough to figure out how to get it fixed. A maint dude could find this data useful to find problems requiring repair.

I will admit that looking at the headline I initially thought this was a geolocation app for urban bathrooms. To discourage the homeless most local retail establishments either supposedly don't have a bathroom or you need to explain to the front desk why you need a key and they need to think your appearance is adequate, or you need to buy something to be allowed entrance into the area at the back of which are the restrooms. This could be useful. Where I live and shop is 20 miles away in a much nicer area, but where I work, if you're out for a walk at lunch time, and you have to go, you pretty much have to use an alley just like the homeless, so an app like this to find the nearest free toilet (free as in don't need reservations and seating at the restaurant, or rented office space, etc) would be occasionally convenient.
> you have come to an invalid conclusion here ...

It's time to offer evidence, not opinion. My claim (and that of scientific philosophers) is that falsifiability is requires for science. That is not a point that's open to debate, it is an established requirement. It's even written into the law, for example laws that prevent Creationism from being presented as science in public school science classrooms:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLean_v._Arkansas

Quote: "The judgment defined the essential characteristics of science as being:

* It is guided by natural law;
* It has to be explanatory by reference to natural law;
* It is testable against the empirical world;
* Its conclusions are tentative, i.e. are not necessarily the final word; and
* It is falsifiable."

> So, what about this research is not falsifiable?

Try to imagine how someone could prove false the claim that a reduction of lead in gasoline caused a reduction in the crime rate, to the exclusion of other factors, in a social setting, with no meaningful controls in place.

> In other words, your point is entirely incorrect.

You need to make an argument before coming to a conclusion. At least, that's the rule in a scientific debate.
If they really wanted to compete with Apple Inc in terms of branding. They should rather have renamed Microsoft to Nokia. It's not only catchy, but also Nokia is essentially a hardware vendor brand much like the Apple Inc.
Could be a bug in your web browser.

I got that part, I'm talking about your first sentence.

... anyone who has run an email server... would say the same.

This reads as though you agree that "IP blacklists are a waste of everyone's time" as OP said. And maybe you do (and that's fine) - I'm just unclear given your second sentence.
It is breath-taking how much Reddit has changed since 2006.

That said, I thought the whole idea of Digg/Reddit/Hacker News is that the community moderates itself via voting.

Mods should only have the power to ban users who abuse the system. That is it. The content moderation is the sole domain of the users.
I'm not sure you understand how IP blocking works and why it would be impossible to block domain names the same way.
Thanks for the feedback; we're working on site speed as a top priority. The examples are similar to the usages feature from your IDE, but 1) the examples are drawn from all the open-source code we've indexed online and 2) we support non-statically-typed languages like Python, JS, and Ruby.
Their argument isn't that they should be able to use the data freely because it's broadcast over the public airwaves. The relevance of the public airwaves is that there is an existing compromise between broadcasters and the public such that the public is entitled to watch certain content for free over the air, in return for broadcasters being allowed to use the public airwaves. What Aereo is arguing is that their service falls within this existing compromise, because it's no different than attaching a rabbit-ear to your TV with a really long cable.

In other words, it's okay not just because the data is on the public airwaves, but because the data is on the public airwaves AND broadcasters have agreed to let the public use that data under certain conditions. This isn't quite the legal posture of the dispute, but it's the public policy essence of it.
participants should send data that obeys the specifications, but
they should be willing to accept data that doesn’t.

This is what I believe to be the next logical step in device interoperability -- the "un-API". Inferring API-call intention from the provided data. It will require more than one datapoint and a feedback loop, but an API only has to be categorized correctly once -- rather than every implementation being created manually or relying on custom independent library. Zapier has touched the tip of the iceberg on this.

I am currently building a SaaS product to this end, please get in touch if this interests you.
>It also doesn't take a small nationstate to stir shit up, it just takes a vocal determined minority

Very true. It doesn't really take many upvotes to make it to the front page of a sub-reddit, just a high up-to-down ratio. Reddit would be an easy target for manipulation by a small group if they really wanted to.

My idea: have a default post sorting algorithm, but create an add-on that allows users to create their own sorting algorithm. Most likely users will find the best algorithm, share it, and spread it, but their would also be many algorithms in use, so you have multiple systems you would have to game.
Request: someone please post a tl:dr

Thanks.
That a nice link and possibly true but equally there is compelling evidence to suggest people with experience are highly attuned to a change in environment despite being unable to articulate why.

Malcolm Gladwells Blink dealt with the issue.
The TRS-80 Model 100 had possibly the nicest keyboard of any laptop ever.
Yeah, conditions may apply, same for the other categories. Then again, we're (literally) in car-analogy land here so meh.
You may have better luck with a direction antenna than an amplifier. This one is a good compromise between size and expense and so forth:

http://www.channelmasterstore.com/Digital_HDTV_Outdoor_TV_An...

It does sort of demand a permanent installation. I guess similar designs are good too, I think the Channelmaster is actually better, but it is discontinued.
I fought with those and eventually gave up, because their implementations were either broken or missing in the browsers I was supporting. But that probably 18 months ago now. Maybe they have improved.
Fair enough.

Yes, I agreed, but if I stop using your product, can't rescind the implicit contract and I am no longer interested, I will flag without compassion.

A product reminder is implicitly out of the terms of service, since I'm actually not using the service anymore.

Also: the other six points still stand.

> Way to make the world a worse place.

Seriously? I should've added that sentence to my post for dramatic effect too.
You say to nest your styles but that over-qualifies the CSS and drops performance for the sake of readability....

How is that CSS at scale?
One oddity here is that broadcast tv is treated differently than cable/satellite only channels. the FCC enforces different rules regarding advertising and programming restrictions than what can and does appear on cable. Mostly this is restricted to political ads.

From that standpoint of broadcast being so highly regulated because the airwaves are public property do the stations who use that medium retain any rights to what they broadcast? If the FCC can claim jurisdiction and tell you what you cannot broadcast over "public airwaves" because is public property does the act of freely putting your shows on it mean you give up the right to control unaltered reuse or differing uses?
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Of course it was. You're looking at it literally, as though it considered transcoders, etc. The 1 antenna per customer was very clearly conceived to prevent "disruptive" approaches to broadcast.
(Using asterisks makes it a little hard to quote you. You may want to use - instead.)

- Want to run your sub without downvotes? Sorry (you can hide the button via css, but people can still hotkey it)

Downvotes have been in Reddit's DNA since the beginning. This is a reasonable stance.

- Have a sockpuppet downvote brigade screwing up your sub? Message the reddit admins and hope they bother reading your message and doing anything about it. Because you have no idea who's doing it and can't really do anything about it. Current best advice is (this is not a joke) "wait for them to get bored".

Good advice! What else are they going to do? You can't punish a crowd.

- Somebody was granted admin access, kicked the rest of the mods off and has turned the sub to private (and the sub creator is incommunicado?) Tough luck.

Maybe a way to transfer sub ownership would be good. Though if the creator decides they're not interested in the sub they themselves created, maybe creating your own and sticking a redirect message on the frontpage is in order.

- Want to delete a sub I created? Too bad.

A sub isn't merely property of those who created it. It's community property. Personally I think even being able to set a sub to 'private' after it's been created is too much, because it's equivalent to a delete. People shouldn't be able to delete the hard work of a community.

- Fuzzed numbers, votes, subscribers, current people on the sub, etc. Some mods don't want it in their sub. Too bad.

If Reddit were to show the actual number of upvotes per post, people might feel a little daunted. Right now people think a mere 2,000 upvotes are all that's needed to get to the front page of a default sub, rather than the more realistic 80,000+. They may lose interest the same way most people aren't interested in the presidential elections: they feel their vote doesn't matter.

- want to ban some URLs from your sub? try and use the spam filter, but good luck otherwise.

AutoModerator seems pretty good for this, isn't it?

I think practically what the sub's admins wanted to do was to just push down submissions on certain topics so a wider variety of things floated up, this happens on here all the time. But Reddit's tool set to do the same is pretty ham fisted. It's like changing the battery on a watch using a mallet.

I don't know why this story keeps floating in regards to /r/technology, but this isn't it. Some moderator of /r/technology, when responding to censorship claims, responded roughly "Reddit is a place for cat pictures and insulting people. Stop getting so worked up." They didn't take their job seriously, and no one could do a thing about it. That's what pissed people off, and it became pretty clear there was no accountability internal to their mod team.
It is users such as yourself that make spam filters have the kinds of silly false positives being discussed in this thread: as a user (not as a product owner; I am a product owner, but I don't send e-mail, so I have no "skin in the game": so, you can claim all you want that the people downvoting you are all product owners, but some of us really do just feel you are abusing a shared system to carry on some kind of personal vendetta) it really sucks that I can't trust spam filters to not filter valid e-mail out of my inbox because people like you are so trigger-happy (and in some cases, simply vindictive) with the spam button... it is my sincere hope that services like Gmail are at least sometimes smart enough to realize "this person is just being annoying" and makes your spam votes meaningless :/.
I read it as Adderall on first glance.
> If it is the latter and that argument can be used, then would it be legal to capture cellphone communication and any wireless data?

Actually, yes. Except that Congress has specifically made that action illegal if not done under a specific list of exceptions (e.g. law enforcement with a warrant, intelligence agencies collecting foreign intelligence under an authorization from someone at their agency with that authority, etc.)
Animated CAPTCHAs. Is this the next step?
Honest question; Could you give an example where you need nominal subtypes?
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It may sound small by volume, but it sounds pretty big by potential effect. Especially if we're talking about compounds that can bioaccumulate and move up the food chain. We worry about the mercury content of tuna, what happens when the tuna has an appreciable amount of whatever-mustard-gas-breaks-down-into?
Enough to make them drive less!