skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has been a side-project of mine over the last couple of years. Recently I have given some more attention to it, addressing problems and adding more features.

I know the need for URL shorteners nowadays is reduced, and that's why this tries to be more than a URL shortener. I have tried to make it easy to use but I'm not sure if feature-creep isn't already a problem here...

I'm looking forward to hear opinions about it (and shortening in general), to see what can be improved. I am also wondering if there's a way to monetize this in a clean way (i.e. not with annoying ads and trackers): what would you pay for in a service like this (not necessarily this one)?
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This is going to be quite an important ruling. Libel laws are different in every country but this could be quite an influential precedent for many future rulings. It may very well have a large impact for a lot of websites with both comments and user-generated content.

If websites choose to enforce a system whereby commenters have to sign up with their verified personal details, many people may be put off and conversation rates could dwindle. This in turn may reduce traffic and said websites may suffer from it.

Some websites may choose to forgo commenting systems altogether because they may be too strapped to enforce such a system, or they may be risk-averse and wouldn't want to have their necks out anymore after this ruling.

A big problem is that a slander lawsuit may hit any time and the only things you can do to prevent it is to moderate the hell out of your UGC. That may not be feasible though. Business insurance against this kind of scenario is crazy expensive and as a business cost may be unrealistic to most. One of the people that co-run a decently sized e-commerce store in South Africa told me once that one's best bet is to have enough money on hand for a lawyer because the insurance will cripple you.

Over at http://www.mybema.com I've played around with many ways around this sort of issue. Right now, negative consumer reviews cannot be seen if you visit the site. Only the category of the review can be seen. In fact you can only see the review if you sign up and subscribe to the author. However I doubt that provides any sort of defense because legally slander is slander once another party is exposed to it. Alas, my pondering continues...

I don't know about EU or the states but in South Africa there have been rulings like the one in the article where the plaintiffs had their cases thrown out because it would be unreasonable for the media owners to moderate every comment made.

What do the other UGC platform owners on here think? How do you manage these kinds of scenarios?
It's a logistic regression model, a basic statistical technique which wouldn't have even come under "machine learning" a few years ago. Later they use some kind of LASSO regression to penalise the inclusion of redundant features.

"Combing through the correlations", it seems, literally means calculating the (Pearson) correlation between two variables (success vs. an input feature) and adding some interpretation, as they do on p6 of the arXiv paper. For test/training data, it looks like they just used a 30/70% split rather than k-fold cross-validation and holdout, but I'm sure it makes no difference either way and in this case (as often) is trivial to design and implement. Presumably their AUROC could be increased just by dropping in an SVM or a Random Forest in place of the logistic regression.

From what I've skimmed of the paper you're over-estimating the complexity of the study.
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What is so ironic? In fact, it pretty much illustrates the fact that it is difficult to move off Google services entirely for someone who creates and hosts content on the internet. If someone is trying to do this, and isn't completely successful at it on the first try, I don't see any value in ridiculing him.
Do you know if there's an addon that prevents websites from doing that? If not, is it possible to make one?
Subtitles are just text data with a time code corresponding to a point
in the video, so the feature of "subtitles" can be used to store
whatever text you want, including notes, even though keeping notes was
not the intent of the feature. There is nothing requiring the text data
to be either an exact transcription or translation of the audio data.
In fact, some fansub groups have released "joke" or "troll" translations
for fun on various anime videos.

Once you generate your subtitle text file, you can easily merge it
into the video file. There are a few different subtitle text formats
but the only one I've really worked with is SSA/ASS.

The MKV video container format allows you to store multiple "streams"
(files) of ASCII or UTF-8 text synced by time codes to the video. The
reason for multiple subtitle streams is so one video (container) file
can have subtitles in multiple languages. This means if there's some
hard limit (I'm not sure if there is) on the amount of text you can
have at a single time code, you can get around the problem by adding
another stream/file.
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Let's hope to God people on Hacker News don't start taking upskirt shots.
While working on WORDS for Chrome (http://www.words4chrome.com, soft-launch 6+8=14), I've done a lot of thinking about the problems with web comments.
In short, it's two things:

1. The Clean Slate Effect - the ability to go from site to site being horrible everywhere, no centralized consequence mechanisms

2. The Too Much Trouble Effect - Creating a new account and giving up your email address yet again sucks. How long will the comment last? Will it be searchable? Does it use your real name? Whenever comments are Too Much Trouble, only crazies leave them.

WORDS doesn't have any comments in it yet and I'm still tinkering and testing getting ready for launch, but I'd appreciate your opinions on it.
Middle East countries treat phone and internet as a source of revenue rather than as fundamental business- entrepreneur-enabling infrastructure.

So they're concerned that Facetime, maybe particularly Facetime audio, cannibalizes their mobile network call revenue. Yes, Skype and other alternatives may still be available, but Facetime is integrated into the iOS address book and pressing the "call with facetime" button is just as convenient as dialing a contact's phone number.

I saw this crushingly-self-harmful behavior when I lived in the region and experienced expensive, slow Internet access. They also ban ISPs from buying bandwidth from anyone other than a massively-overpriced state monopoly pipe. If they treated mobile and internet as a key enabling infrastructure instead, the massive expansion in business would result in much higher tax revenue than the hit to the measly communications tolls. But they're either short-termist or have friends who personally profit from the telecom departments.
They are pretty much the same thing though.

A comment on something like a news story page, is a conversation with the author about the article pretty much.

Conversations that take place without threading are tricky to follow without additional tools.

I'd prefer ontopic comments. Interesting conversation can errupt from interactions though.

My biggest issue with online comments is that there are just too many. cap amount of posts, or cap posts by author?

Some people hang around the comment sections and just can't help but post. And some just repeat what others have already said and bring nothing new. But I'm not surprised that people haven't waded and read through every comment before they comment.

My local online newspaper has the same small collection of people regurgating their predictable opinions on pretty much every article posted, and it's very tiresome, and puts off other people commenting. They are a negative and contrary bunch.

I understand the want to hang out in a particular internet locale (I do it on two forums, my online haunts), but people could do with holding themselves back. On one forum I'm a member I've postend about 400 comments, and I could probably boil that down to about 5 themes. If I had time it would be worth me whittling them all down. Less is sometimes more.
It would be nice of Amazon removed DRM the same way Apple did for music.
Good luck with it guys. There was a site long ago called clearstation which was bought by Etrade and killed. It offered similar features (charting, profiles, following, tracking, discussion, etc.), they built a great community of traders which was educational and enjoyable to participate in. It's hard to build something good. Keep pushing and good luck.
...aaaaand last nights was a dud, didn't see a single meteor and sat out there for 2 hours. still fun though.
I get what you're going for, but it's pretty much openly legal to kill pedestrians with cars (in the US, at least). "No criminality suspected"!
I think privacy needs to be looked at in a different way.

There are other averse effects than sacrificing privacy, which is a trade-off one could indeed make for the comfort of Google's services.

Another effect is that we are currently slowly moving towards an oligopoly when it comes to internet services. Some are intentional, such as shutting down XMPP federation, leaving us with closed ecosystems (Hangouts, Whatsapp, Skype) if you want to chat with most other friend. Others are more of a side-effect, for instance, it becomes harder and harder to run a small e-mail service, as it becomes more and more of a reputation system[1].

If we want the internet to be open for new competitors and services in the future, it's important that it doesn't become a small set of closed systems.

(I am a relatively happy user of Google's services, but I also see the dangers.)

[1] If some spammer uses GMail, it's unlikely that Outlook.com will block other e-mails coming from Google's SMTP servers. If that spammer uses Fastmail, the big players don't mind to block SMTP servers for some time. As far as I understand, this is the reason why Fastmail partitions new users together (server-wise). It's less likely five year paying customer suddenly turns into a spammer and you don't want long-term customers to become victims of a spammer, by having their SMTP server blocked.
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>We find that Reddit users with higher status overall (higher karma) [...] are significantly more likely to receive help

There could be a common cause to these two factors (a certain way of writing, for instance), that could explain the correlation. I can't imagine someone basing a judgement on a stat reported on someone's user page.
Somehow I'm missing your point. If sites make requests to Google Analytics, Google APIs, etc., then anyone who looks at those sites and allows the requests is being tracked and data-mined, and is contributing to Google's power as an internet participant, and contributing to widespread dependence on one company. That's fact, not emotion.

There is an emotional element in either caring about this or not, so maybe that is what you mean. Also, listing the Google properties like he does probably overstates things for a rhetorical effect - certainly not everyone is such a heavy user of Google services. I would guess that most people online use only a few of them (and that you would demand numbers rather than guesses). Nevertheless the point is sound, though expressed in a hyperbolic way.
The cycling group of subreddits was pretty good in my experience
The 503 is there because currently my blog is hosted on shared hosting plan ... of course CDN is one approach to ensure availability of websites (I've not moved assets to any other CDN yet) but the point is to reduce reliance on Google Services to consider many other alternatives here and there.
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Or just use a static site generator with nginx, does the job fine, even on modest hardware.
irony: "an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected."

The expected outcome for me would be that the article would be delivered to me without the use of Google services.
You, and the OP, are likely mistaken about the cause of the corruption. MySQL, running InnoDB, is ACID compliant. InnoDB takes that durability seriously, and even by hand-tuning the performance factors, it's very hard to put InnoDB in a state where a simple process death, even during shutdown, will corrupt the files on disk.

If the database truly corrupted only due to improper shutdown, it was because the double write buffers were disabled on a non-atomic FS in which case you're intentionally risking DB corruption. More likely, there was bit-rot which was undetected during the normal running state of MySQL, and recovery couldn't get around it.

On the anecdote side, I've yet to have MySQL corrupt a database from a kill -9, and as I do a lot of failover development and testing, I'm issuing kill -9 to running databases frequently.
Having hiked in the White Mountains with a small group for 6 days, it sounds like the leader of this group underestimated a mountain range containing Mt Mansfield, where the coldest wind chill has ever been recorded.

Just because these mountains aren't any taller than 7000 feet doesn't mean it isn't one of the most rugged in the world. The Jet Stream is particularly low in this part of the world which is the reason of the extreme cold.

Sometimes, vanity can be deadly.
People that post Show HN links are not here for leisure. They want feedback, new users, critique etc. There are many more examples I'm sure.
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> Why would I be humble about something that has personally changed me?

You've answered your own question. The fact that it's personally changed you makes the need for humbleness apparent - your spirituality _yours_. It's something that helps you find balance, but it clearly doesn't work its wonders on everyone. Meanwhile, other methods - meditation being one example - help others find balance, but not everyone as well. Truly, to each their own.

To assume that your answer is "the answer that will work for everyone, if only they find it" spits in the face of their beliefs, which is everything they stand for - the same way someone telling you your relationship with God is merely a "solution that works for you." You have no problems doing this, as you feel that your answer is singularly "correct." However, this is in fact not the case - there are many others who find their balance doing other things, as users have pointed out.

Some people just aren't wired to be religious, but find equally effective means for finding balance in their lives. To answer as though the solution is a trivial "accepting of religion into one's life" just because it was trivial _for you_ to do demonstrates a clear lack of empathy and understanding for others' positions and beliefs.
I was reading some veteran sucide report, which immediately reminds me about this post.

Programmers are like soldiers, fighting in the battle we didn't choose.
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I expect the higher score makes you seem reputable. Less chance you're trying to game the system with multiple accounts.
Just because a program which is designed to prevent kernel panics due to OOM kill -9s a process, doesn't mean that you as a sysadmin should.

kill -15 typically leaves processes in a properly shut down state, which in terms of databases alone means that they will start up without a recovery process (which can be a 20-30 minute operation sometimes). That alone makes waiting a few minutes for a running process to respond to a kill -15 worthwhile.
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I don't think anyone is interested in "AAP" or Indian Politics here. Post it here: http://hackerstreet.in/
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We must be doing different things. If I start getting relative paths like that, I usually pull it out into a separate module.

I can understand bundling a bunch of modules together for UMD builds, but if you need to bundle all of your NPM/browserifiable modules for other browserify apps, you are probably going about it the wrong way..
"Trying to book a flight on any Brazilian airline is impossible unless you're Brazilian"

I'm a UK citizen and recently booked and flew on an internal Brazilian flight. I used my UK passport number in the slot for the Brazilian identity number, there were no problems at all.
Putting aside the need to port code from elsewhere and not exist in your own private universe, this is a bit like saying remove the filesystem APIs because we have a database. Both are valid things to keep around. Given the choice there are still lots of instances where you would pick the former.
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And what about when that cleanup takes longer than a proper shutdown?
By allocating people to building quantum computers, something that needs to be done today.
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OP: actually I didn't mean that literally, but I tried to express how I feel about that and what I see around me ... so what I really meant to look into your daily activities, and see if anything can be replaced by some other alternatives and if so, give it a try but eventually your view/analysis is great.
Great idea - I have never used one. There was a recent 'This American Life" podcast where the marine version of this saved a family on a sinking vessel in the middle of the Pacific.

I bring a tiny dual band ham radio (Baofeng uv5r) plus antenna. At 4 Watts it might not be powerful enough - though
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> I dropped Google Analytics, Google CDN, and Google Web Fonts. This is for ATIA Web Space. But moreover, I dropped Google Search as the-go-to search engine.

Need alternatives to each of those?

https://prism-break.org/en/
It's good to be optimistic, but the problem is that everything needs oil to be made and to move. Once demand can't be met, all parts of the economy bid against each other. Many people won't be able to drive to work. Many factories will not be able to make things at affordable prices and will shut down. Food will be vastly more expensive. Fertilizer is made of oil. Many more people will fall out of the middle class. Tens of millions of people, or more, will starve.

The overall economic result will be stagflation and there will be nothing that can be done with the spend, tax, or money supply levers. Less oil means a shrinking economy.

Energy is wealth. It took over 100 years to build this oil-based economy. We have 20-60 years left to get off oil. If we do not start a production line to mass-produce safe nuclear power plants and find a way to safely reprocess the waste, soon, it isn't going to happen in time. We spent trillions on wars and on bailing out an insane derivatives market. Will we have the capital to switch away from oil?
How is the answer to raise all boats 'no'?
I find it fascinating that people feel entitled to comment sections. There is genuine outrage when sites remove their comments sections.

When anybody can publish a URL commenting on another URL, the web is working exactly as it should. The missing piece is a meta-comment system (maybe some microformat) that lets you know when someone else is explicitly commenting on your URL.

Let's say I post a YouTube video (and there is no comment section), and someone else writes about it on their Tumblr using a format using an anchor tag with a rel=comment or something. Then the meta-comment service (where I have registered my YouTube channel and the Tumblr user has registered their blog) notifies me that this person has commented on my video. I could publish a reply on Tumblr to their original Tumblr post, and they would similarly be notified.

A page on the meta-comment service or a little JS widget could even show the comment reply tree across sites.
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I was burned by this, thanks.
Who needs quality in comments? Certainly, not the old media. All they need are clicks, views and users' engagement.
It's quite often to see an obvious flamebait promoted to a "featured comment", etc.
A failure with that parameter will only cause transactions committed in the last second to be lost. The DB won't require manual fixes.
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Agreed, I think it's great on mobile, but the unfortunate thing is that for desktop, they just scaled up the mobile experience.

Maybe that's a good thing, maybe that's something people are used to in this day and age, but I personally think the desktop can achieve more density and be more effective for it.

But in the end, it's not that big a fail. Consistency on all platforms is nice.
I learned programming & CS at age 18 and I'm on par with people I met who learned it at say 11.

I learned English starting at age 5 (I read as almost fluently in English as in my mother tongue, Russian); I learned Hebrew starting at age 10 (I have a hideous accent and prefer to read in other languages); and I tried French in university at age 20 (it was the only time I had to take private lessons to pass the exam).

I'm not sure CS/programming are that much like foreign languages.
Wow sounds like a nice trek. Those are famously steep, aren't they?
The article is correct in saying that nobody has "the answers." Religion is not _the_ answer, it is _an_ answer.

You may feel as though the previous sentence is belittling your beliefs. However, saying the answer that works for you would work for everyone else is just as belittling to other's beliefs. It's an intractable stalemate that has only one logical conclusion - that no one can (or should!) assert their beliefs as being the only way to go. I wholly acknowledge that your beliefs are what work for you - but I do not recognize them as "the answers" the OP is talking about.

For something to be "the answer," singular, would require it to be the _psychological_ answer to stressors. The reason the article is so psychology-oriented is because "the" answer would by necessity have to be a psychological one, not a personal one. Something that works for one person (like establishing a relationship) but may not work for the next can never be "the answer" that a better psychological understanding of the problem would reach.

In spite of how much religion has done for you, it isn't an answer that works for everyone, and so is obviously not "the answers" OP is referring to. It's still your answer, but that doesn't mean it's the answer. Psychology is the only commonality between all human beings, so that's where "the answers" lie.
I like your point on the balanced portfolio. I hope there will be more feature on Nvest that addresses this issue in the future.
How about "Possibly, they see people making ridiculous amounts of money in tech and want a piece of it?"
I can't help but notice a market opportunity evolving out of the need to moderate comments. I imagine a service where sites could hire cheap, proven moderators - and pay based on the number of comments needing review.

Two-sided marketplaces are undeniably extremely hard to build, but seeing as this is a huge problem and something tons of websites need, maybe it could be successful in this case.

Anyone know of anything out there like this/think this could work? I guess there's MTurk.