skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you're describing is companies choosing who they market to, not choosing who their customers are.
I disagree with these premises.

I find Ruby, C[0] and Go really fun. The reason I get shit done is because they are so fun! I can't wait to do something else in them!

Also, the elegant utility library code that took four hours to write can—and likely will—be reused, and save you hours upon hours.

Meanwhile, the Java hacker will always have +1 hour of coding, because he never learns.

[0]: I realise calling C fun is weird, but I enjoy writing C code, and it's my guilty pleasure, I guess.
In other words, the reason you don't have options for service providers is that it's expensive to be a provider; and the reason it's expensive to be a provider is...government regulations.
I think this is true for HN, less so for reddit, and that it generally depends on the nature of the site.

On HN, we have a small-ish community of people (who are often experts in a particular domain) and an expectation of on-topic, high-level discourse. Comment history is worth a lot here, as it's been vetted by an intelligent, serious community.

On reddit, you have a huge number of people and a very low expectation of what's acceptable to post (in general, of course--specific subreddits are often different). The relaxed atmosphere promotes users who tell jokes or pander to the large userbase, making it harder to identify users whose posts are worth actually reading through. Of course once you have identified a quality poster, it's nice to be able to go through their history. It's just that signals like karma score end up being meaningless at that scale.

Then there's 4chan, with opt-in identity. You can't inspect most users' histories, which means you have to take a submission at face value. And for serious, constructive submissions--admittedly hard to come by sometimes--this rivals the HN model for intellectually honest discussion. You're not just nodding along with well-known users, and you're also not ignoring submissions from people who may have simply slipped up in their past. But users can take a name if they choose, and there are 3rd-party archives which catalog their submissions.
I'll take the liberty of rephrasing jerf's comment: this is the sort of paper I'll be more likely to believe after it's been reproduced by multiple labs. Until then, I'd just as soon not even be told about it.

It sounds too much like any number of "xxx affected by cell phone radiation!!1!!" results that historically have given rise to much panic, intense discussion, and clicking of links, but have never, ever, ever proven to be consistently replicable. At some point, skepticism and even a bit of "HN negativity," as you put it, becomes the most rational response to initial reports of such phenomena.
Maybe because Intel "desktop" processors are just laptop processors in slightly different packaging. Or maybe they want to push more customers into the more expensive -E segment.
No, the mechanism is increased stress, and it has already been experimentally verified (although I'd like to see it repeated). Mogil has a guess about why that might happen, and it's called out as supposition, not an "extraordinary claim". Other potential explanations include a few male rat-farmers who were rough with the rats, which made the rats edgy around males later in life.
actually should be "experimenter sex". Gender is a social term.
Lacking evidence, you ignore all the allegations and do the same thing you always do when you have two employees who can't work together: see if they can be assigned to different projects, and if not, decide which one of them you want to keep based on their value to the company.
I read his thesis ... I'm stating it's wrong. Utilities are not free-market and don't represent American capitalism. This is one step away from government-owned utilities, closer to socialism and worse than both (capitalism and socialism).

EDIT:

Reading the sub-comments below, I think perhaps my mistake is assuming that American capitalism tends to be more like Tesla, Amazon, etc (maybe I'm deluded or just a hopeless optimist). But if "Bad American Capitalism" is the topic being discussed, utilities are a perfect example and perhaps we can agree that there are examples of "Good American Capitalism".
I've been stuck maintaining a carcinogenic prototype for the last 2 months. While I don't like dealing with the maintenance nightmare, I do really like that term. I'd never heard it before, but I knew what it was as soon as I read it -- the text in that section only confirmed my suspicion.
Indeed. If you cannot stop information, or take it back, then the next option is to degrade its value.

If a negative comment about is then echoed over and over but with X replaced with a series of other names then the idea that it's targeted starts to go away.
> That reason is alerting people around you to things going on. If I see a firetruck going past my office, I'm going to want to know where it's headed, for a number of reasons (is there anyone I know involved, are people safe, am I going to be delayed getting home, am I in any danger). Local news isn't going to pick up every fire department response.
Or in more positive ideas, a spontaneous block party is happening down at the local ice cream shop. I'd love to walk down there, but I don't know it's happening. Hyper local services would be incredibly useful with leveraging technology to bring a community closer together. Twitter could solve this problem, but I need to know who to follow. With hyper-local services like Yik Yak, I wouldn't need to follow anyone. The information would just be there.

Ok, so you want a local information app (Circle?). Why does anonymity have to be central to such an app?

> We could save millions of lives by getting rid of cars.

Cars exist for a clear purpose with clear benefit. Here, the costs are deemed acceptable considering the benefits of rapid travel. What are the benefits of Yik Yak? As I noted in my original post, even the creators of Yik Yak couldn't come up with a "good" example of Yik Yak that followed its anonymous design.

> teach your kids the value of walking away

Yes, it would be lovely if all parents everywhere instilled morality into their kids. That isn't the case. Some kids have crappy parents, or no parents at all. When a student posts something that causes a death there are two victims: the suicide, and the kid who has to live with the fact that their actions resulted in death. Most of the bullies in the Formspring suicides were kids themselves, too immature to understand the impact of what they were doing.
I was just thinking the same thing as I re-read my comment. It is a false dichotomy and it was badly phrased.

The reason I asked it though is that if this is being used as a tool then it takes away from the real problem. I have no doubt that there are a lot of women in technology have experienced and do experience sexism and that is a very bad and sad thing

However, the amplitude and focus of how this story played out (in places as far as the British Sunday papers) and focussed on institutional sexism seems to be very different to the facts portrayed in the report. Such harassment and psychological pressure is of course terrifically difficult to document and I do know that there could be several different backgrounds that fit the report but there is still quite a distance between the two.

So the reason that I asked the question is that if this is the case then it's a massive disservice to those who are feeling the effects of genuine sexism and weakens their voice. I suspect that that was the net effect of what happened in the Sendgrid case and I think that is a very sad thing.
> and the reason you don't have the option to switch to another service provider is your state and local governments granting comcast, et al local monopolies.

The real reason is the FCC doesn't require the infrastructure businesses to sell wholesale access to competitors. Once upon a time, Comcast et al would've leased you the line, but you would've had choice in your ISP service. A stroke of the pen eliminated all serious competition in the ISP game, and made it so Comcast owns the entertainment pipeline all the way from movie studio lot to your internet connection.

Odd that the studios aren't allowed to own movie theaters [1], but they're heading straight for the same end result by controlling your internet access.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pict....
Teresa Preston-Werner posted something on her blog that disputes (or at least adds more info) : https://medium.com/p/d96f431f4e8e

It's a bit of a she-said, she-said situation, except that it seems to have happened before with the Preston-Werners and Melissa Severini.
How's retention? In my feeling, when users arrive too fast, then they also go away pretty fast
Why would it be illegal? You are not obligated to accept it. It is quite often a condition on out of court settlements and I can confirm that it is very much a thing in the UK.
Well if it's anonymous there might be a simple solution...
Get a list of all highs school students, write 20 or 30 standard insults and flood the the thing by script.

Make those who want to read gossip really work to pick it out.
Since the P in GDP stands for productivity and the US has one of the highest GDPs I find it extremely ironic when someone says Americans don't have or don't understand work ethic.
> It's unclear how, or if, a lunch break will factor into the scheme.

It's a common misconception that eight-hour work day means 9-17 everywhere. In Sweden, the common work day is from 8-17, meaning 8 hours paid time and 1 hour non-paid lunch hour. To my understanding, it's more or less required by law.

So if you look on how many hours we will be "at work", we will go from working one hour more than Americans to one hour less.
If we're going to be pedants, it's a HYPHEN-MINUS. http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/002d/index.htm
Why did he get off easy? Who's going to work for him now?
I expect it would be useful to have such an app that suddenly "unlabelled" and gave out everyone's identity. The blow back would be pretty huge and it might make an impression on some of the teens that their outlook was not just wrong, it was counter productive.
Also, those working 8 hours may be demotivated by knowing that the 6-hourers get exactly the same cash while needing to work less.
I'd like to read that thesis (and related work), is it easily link-able?
Read up on the tyranny of structurelessness.
Exactly like it did before the cable companies were allowed to kick out all their competition. In 1998, when I leased a DSL line I had a full page listing all the ISP options I had. Now that we're 'deregulated' and have a 'free market,' I have exactly zero choice in broadband ISPs.
And before that, bathroom grafitti.
> Cable (and other utilities) are not good examples of free-market capitalism

That doesn't mean they're not good examples of American capitalism. It just means that American capitalism is very often not free-market capitalism.
Ummm, that just says that Julie was put on an initial list. It does not say in any clear way that the investigator contacted and interviewed Julie.

So to quote another hacker new user "You have to read the article if you are going to comment on it." :)
The problem probably is that Haskell is still not expressive or useful enough compared to some of the more "primitive languages". Take for example high performance / numerical computing, in principle a well adapted functional language should have a lot of potential in that area (e.g. sisal), yet Libraries like repa or accelerate-cuda fall short as soon as you want to go beyond what they expose in high level functionality (for example dynamic stencils in the case of repa). Try to express matrix vector multiplication tailored to matrices arising for discontinuous galerkin of a certain pde (they are typically sparse but in a predictable way) in accelerate-cuda and compare to the ~500-1k straightforward lines of code to do the same with intel thread building blocks or cuda. A language like C++ will give you both the possibility to write very high level code at the expense of
loss of control and low level code with very fine grained control.

There are lots of examples like this in Haskell, where you come to a point at which the abstractions provided to you don't work, mostly when the problem has more structure than you can hope to capture in the type system and some generic operations. In an imperative program it is much easier to "teach" or "tell" the computer what to do, when the compiler or language can not do it for you, whereas in a pure functional language you essentially have to give up at that point.
this one, too, and this one is really confounding because the LAW requires animals to be handled at RT.

http://www.nature.com/news/chilly-lab-mice-skew-cancer-studi...
“Taken together, these results suggest that women are likely wearing cosmetics to appeal to the mistaken preferences of others.”

The results suggest no such thing. This is a massive assumption. This article misses the most obvious and likely answer of all - women are wearing makeup for themselves and don't give a damn what anyone else thinks!
Well, the medium is realtime, so that profoundly changes the kinds of conversations that can be had. I agree with you in principle though, it will blow over after a few months when all the kids have unloaded all their catishness. In the end they will learn a lesson early: nobody wins when everybody is being an asshole.
that may be "my opinion" but you know how humans work?
seriously?

I predict this thing will die of boredom before long.
There will simply be too much junk on it.
The modern legal system is an authoritarian whimsical piece of garbage.

I'd much rather the kids learn not to be assholes to each other.
Replace the colors with patterns in a colorblind mode (e.g. A left striped replaces blue, a right striped replaces green, a vertical striped for red, a right horizontal stripe with dots in the brighter spaces for yellow, etc.).
But considering that the total amount of scientific knowledge is limited, linear progress will find "everything" in a manageable amount of time. Of course we don't know how big the percentage of our total knowledge is, but it's quite possible that we are already getting close to know "everything".

The singularity doesn't promise certain invention (for example it's possible that there is no and will never be a way to go faster than the speed of light) it only promises exponential growth which will bring the "end of science" into the foreseeable future. So if we found maybe 80% of all physics in the last 200 years, with linear progress we would reach the end of physics in 40 years.
I think that it is easiest (and therefore best ;) to define creativity by what we can observe about it, without any internal knowledge about it. So basically "creativity" is some sort of black-box that generates novel outcomes (for a broad sense of outcomes).

On the face of it, I think that for this definition of creativity, I think you could do by simply logically exploring problem spaces that have not been explored before, or by exploring branches in problem spaces that have not been explored before. Maybe throw in a source of randomness when deciding what to explore, to explore possibilities that may not otherwise make sense but could nevertheless lead to interesting outcomes. (The equivalent of a chemist randomly fucking around in his backyard shed).

Some of my friends and I practice a sort of very limited mechanical creativity in the form of a drinking game. We invent new "startup ideas" by ad libbing into the phrase "The ____ of ____", where both blanks are existing companies. We then explore that idea and speculate on what such a company would actually entail. "The Twitter of Githubs", maybe that's a company build around the idea of sharing code snippets, like gists? Not a very interesting idea, but I'm sober at the moment. ;)
> Up until know, when evaluating GitHub's reaction, we assumed the other co-founders wouldn't have known about this.

I'm not sure how they wouldn't have known about the settlement with Severind, if that's what you're talking about.

For the rest of your post, yes, I agree, it means they made a big mistake (even bigger? Probably.) And that mistake probably did contribute to a bad* environment, as tons of people have already mentioned with the PWs and pressure about the wife's work. My point is that these shortcomings have already been documented and admitted. What did the fact that it's happened before add to that?

* Note: Be very careful, though, about accepting adjectives such as "toxic" at face value: she can say whatever she wants without damaging herself in this case, but people have a funny tendency to use strong words to describe things that, objectively, just aren't that big of a deal. For example, my school's newspaper had a reporter complaining about being "violently rejected" because someone didn't respond to a text. No joke.

Call my well poisoned by that experience, but based on her Twitter posts (some guy deleting her code for not f*ing her, for which there is no proof), I don't know how reliable her description is.
Adding to that, it is also possible that Github board of directors were willing to make a scapegoat of a founder (guilty or not), rather than risk the whole company's reputation by acknowledging inequalities in the workplace.

Shouldn't these sort of investigations be done by a legal agency? Not that legal agencies are always unbiased, but an investigator appointed by a corporation seems obviously suspect.
And no one was stupid enough to put their real telephone number (or IP address) down when they wrote it.
Ha I forgot about both of these. Yeah they were pretty vicious. There was some other app that facilitated anonymous on campus chat with fruit pseudonyms(i.e. "you are now chatting with Blueberry") but I can't remember what it was.

I was anti shutting them down, even though I think they were mostly posted on by horrible vindictive people.
Ask HN: Best writing interface in a browser?
Everyone seems to love Medium. Ghost takes an interesting approach. Is Posthaven really just over email?

What's the best writing interface in a browser?
you must be much younger or have gone to a better school...

people have been mean on the internet for quite some time now.

I predict the ease of meanness will make more of it... so much in fact it becomes diluted.
It's been legal since two individuals were allowed to enter a contract with one another. Furthermore it doesn't become illegal for someone to make disparaging comments or even breach an NDA. You don't go to jail for that. There are however consequences to those statements which were mutually agreed upon in a signed contract.
Well; there are tons of HR books with general advice and probably dozens about what you're discussing here.

The general consensus is that there is no right approach [1] but that there are a lot of best practices and no-brainers and that it seemed that very few of them were in place here.

As for my advice; there was just no escalation strategy at all here. HR is just like anything else with costs increasing exponentially the longer something goes undetected. That's why good HR isn't even so much about policy (although setting rules, no matter what they are, does help a lot,) but more about setting up structures so that you can resolve conflicts at an earlier stage.

[1] You can even see it in their statements where the first was the 'minimize legal risk' school of thought whereas the second was 'maximize empathy' kind of thinking.
Interesting text, but flawed in many ways. A couple of the more important flaws:

- Exponentials often look linear in short x axis observations. Science at t-50 and t-100 may be too short an observation period. Looking at the past 3000 years the exponential characteristic is quite obvious.

- Measuring scientific progress as defined in the paper is obviously simplistic. You don't have a limited set of equal valued discoveries to be found randomly. You have a limited set of increasingly valuable[a] discoveries, with dependencies, to be found. The value rate of discoveries is ignored in the text, but is relevant. Say, observing the periodicity of star movement was important, but the gravitic theory built on that to produce even more valuable information. One allows you to count time, the other is fundamental in travelling to the moon. One can be discovered by an uneducated farmer, the other requires calculus knowledge.

[a] The definition of value is itself difficult. Impact value, as in practical application value, is a metric. Foundational value, as in which doors are now open for research is another. The utility function is probably a mix of both. I'd wager more recent discoveries are better than older ones in both counts (antibiotics vs immune system programming for example). Do not get fooled by the relative impact (you get a division by zero error in the first scientific discovery ever made)
If you're not willing to defend speech you disagree with, or find repulsive, then you don't support free speech. Popular and uncontroversial speech doesn't need any protection, because nobody is trying to ban it.
That's a fascinating insight Alex. Some businesses are just not ready to be helped...
The whole point of having two sets of comparitors (=== and == in this instance) is that you can use the correct one for any given circumstance. Proscribing the use of one in favour of the other is just woolly thinking.
But that's a completely separate issue.
Wagtail's authoring interface and Django's admin coexist. I believe the demo sets up the Wagtail interface at /admin and puts the standard admin at /django-admin. Presumably you can change those in your urls.py to whatever you like.
Yeah, this definitely feels like a permanent addition to the lexicon. It crisply describes at least two systems I'm maintaining currently.
> Utilities are not free-market

True.

> and don't represent American capitalism

Depends on how you define "American capitalism". I think they represent American capitalism just fine, because to me "American capitalism" very often means "companies that can't compete in the free market use their capital to get the government to pass laws and regulations that protect them from competition".
What Killed My Sister?
It sounds like Blink and WebKit are actually removing display:run-in, according to the Gecko bug:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2056
That's a beautiful letter. I found a bit more information about the event here: http://www.minotdailynews.com/page/content.detail/id/519549....

What the English teacher said about the matter can be read there and it is also a nice sentiment. It seems in the end the school allowed the books to be read and the teacher (whom I believe was forced to resign) was given $5000 as a settlement.

I always find it very peculiar how people can be so offended by curse words and at the same time have such an under-developed sense of morality with regards to things like censorship or war.
No, the mechanism is increased stress, and it has already been experimentally verified (although I'd like to see it repeated)

Until it has been repeated, it has not been verified. That is how experimental science works.