skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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When Is It a Good Idea to Build Your Own Website?
> I usually don't trust yelp, but the decline is way too visible here.

So, you are told of a credible example of a restaurant being sabotaged on one user-content-based website by opponents, and then turn to another user-content-based notorious for fake reviews & astroturfing, and see an abrupt & extraordinary decline on every axis, and rather than take this as additional evidence of the sabotage campaign, you take this as evidence that the restaurant was declining simultaneously with the sabotage campaign? Interesting reasoning there.
Am I the only one who finds it a little funny that the link in this post is to http and not https ? :)

https://blog.httpwatch.com/2014/07/07/google-has-given-https...
Perhaps not the most subtle example:

I may tell someone to "man up and crank through the work". I didn't intend on being sexist, but someone points it out. And then I proceed to get into an irrelevant shouting match about how, in German, "mensch" is gender neutral.

If you didn't intend on being sexist or whatever, then maybe there's a better way of phrasing what you said. Or, you can find faculty later, in private, and try to come to an understanding about the situation. Anyways, I would just say "sorry" on the spot and save the debate for later.
This is an impossible rule to enforce, even lightly, when large portions of the population don't even recognize that those classes of prejudice exist, especially within them or their friends, their family (except their grandparents, which I hear about a lot), their class, their culture, or even their country.

As everybody knows on the internet: The real bigotry is pointing out bigotry.

A real solution is to have an opinion as an organization about specific classes of offense, and a process to deal with them. Not saying what an "-ism" is seems like the opposite of that plan. Instead of creating a minefield, build a path. Kick out anyone who doesn't follow it after having been warned.

Will you be reprimanded for saying something about Libertarians? If not, how about Democrats or Republicans? If not, how about war spending, religion, oil pipelines, or Social Security? Be specific about what the policy prohibits, and why the organization has drawn its particular line.
Servings of Small Change
Having met some of the Hacker School faculty (though not the OP) and discussed their social rules, I don't believe this is a shaming ritual, in intent or practice. I think it's more like a code review.

"You need to check for a null pointer there."

"I think what you said was subtly racist."

"Did you think about making this its own class? It might be easier to test that way."

"That was a well-actually."

The intent is to educate, not to punish; and I think the expected response is more "oh yeah, good point!" than "I'm sorry".
>> The ban on debates is particularly jarring.

>That does not mean you would not be able to ask for clarification....

Only if such is not going to interfere with the current discussion, instruction, or other activity, which presumably represents what you are all there for, at that time.

Which might be the reason for banning debates: "Take it offline."
"could". "may be". "for several days". Lots of slipperiness here. And keep in mind this is just for Australia, this year: many other factors including weather, regulations and local pricing don't make this a global success story.

As much as I like solar, it seems absurd to celebrate "the end of coal" just yet.
Gnip is the other one. It was recently acquired by twitter though: https://blog.twitter.com/2014/twitter-welcomes-gnip-to-the-f...
So? Unless you are ethically opposed to anything with four wheels, it's a cost/benefit tradeoff. If a car is X hassle and Y money, but moving to LA saves you 2X hassle and 2Y money...
It's really heartening that this has gone down like a lead balloon here.

Seriously, anyone who manages to take offence at a mixed group being greeted with "you guys" really needs to find something better to do. It doesn't consciously or unconsciously make anyone's life worse. It's just a couple of words that are a convenient greeting.
Accusation of sexism (etc.) is public and brings shame to the accused (whether or not the accused is guilty). It's also clearly a ritual. In conclusion, I think these social rules explained the blog article are indeed shaming rituals. You might not agree, which is not surprising since you're one of the founders.
They got it wrong, the next big language is obviously Limbo![0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbo_programming_language
>A ban of the technology would pretty... unprecedented

It would not.
Excerpt:

In writing about Huntington’s efforts to reinvent the way the city eats, Black and Cunningham hope to underscore the need for a more expansive “food movement,” one that places inclusivity alongside idealism. “You can already see the contours of a two-tier food system in this country,” says Cunningham, “where those who have the financial wherewithal and the inclination are eating food that we would agree is healthier, and everyone else is eating the same crap that is slowly killing us.” But with the nation increasingly bifurcating along cultural and political lines, perhaps food—with its ancient capacity to connect—is a frontier we might still be able to traverse together.
Very slick interface, but there's one glaring UX problem: I often need to refresh the page just to access my bookmarks.
Foxconn is ready to release an army of robots to build the iPhone 6
Is the job salary section still US only? How much is 'averaging' skewing the results? I am quite a bit over CTO (not to mention Sr Software Engineer) as just a web developer, and I don't feel like I'm overpaid...
Apple Releases iOS 8 Beta 3 to Developers
That's not the point at all. The USA claims to be a bastion of democracy and freedom. Therefore it has significantly higher standards to live up to than countries like Russia and China.
To those who think these guys are trying to supplant the existing email protocols: they are not. They are creating (essentially) a modern "inbox" protocol. That is, it is focused on the user, not the actual delivery of email. I'd view this as a level above email.
This was a well written article.

I'm a commuter cyclist (in San Francisco) and I admit to taking actions that I'm sure piss off some pedestrians. I always feel bad about it and am working on it. The one thing is that 99% of my focus is on dealing with the 1-ton boxes of death metal traveling at 60KM/h and not on the 150lb squishy humans going 5KM/h.

The new bike lans going up in the city are awesome though. I'm sure if you looked at biker<->pedestrian conflicts on a street like Folsom before and after the huge bike lane they put up, you would (hopefully!) see a marked decrease.
The culture we used to have didn't cared about isms or whatever you want to call them.

This reads like a 4chan teenager's manifesto. Alright, a bunch of nerds in their basements who are just so edgy and can say whatever they want. Badass! Well, you might be pleased to know that you're totally free to carry on the misanthropy club in plenty of areas of the internet. But here on Hacker News, and apparently especially at Hacker School, a lot of people that are actually coming from within the culture would like to see some change.

When I read this article, I too was annoyed. I felt it was over the top, way too politically correct. But then I read the comments here, and it's basically all these people coming out of the woodwork and vaulting right over the spirit of understanding in their haste to defend their right to be acerbic assholes.

They're not trying to silence you, they're just trying to implement guidelines that foster inclusion and collaboration. Is that really so awful?
Apple Releases OS X Yosemite Developer Preview 3
As a scientist, it is fascinating to watch developed societies slowly but surely chomp down at the very hand that feeds them.

The U.S. is the world leader in scientific research, and what they do, others follow. The absolute gutting of the NIH and other institutes, along with the ruthless exploitation of extremely talented graduate students in a nefarious pyramid scheme, does not bode well for the future of scientific research.

Make no mistake, the scientific method is the only thing that separates homo sapiens from the plethora of majestic flora and fauna on this fragile planet. Only through arduous devotion of driven individuals carried out over hundreds of millennia have we reached our current, almost unfathomable state of knowledge which has conferred upon us unprecedented control over our environment.

Those who who don't know history...
Spreadsheet? I'd rather use the command line.
there's a lot more out there if we seriously start looking

Not within individual limits of time and scale. The Moon is a couple days away, but for all we've looked at it seems it's little more than a dead atmosphere-free rock. The next nearest place to walk is a couple years away. Both will require hauling an oppressive amount of stuff along to stay there long enough to achieve anything resembling self-sufficiency. The sheer scale of time & effort - balanced against payoff of any kind - is vast beyond human comprehension. "Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space, listen..." [Douglas Adams] Travel time gets a lot longer the farther the destination. Between Mars and the next place we have any hope of surviving on is a very, very long distance. I remember when Voyager I was launched: decades later, we're arguing over whether it actually left the solar system yet. Yeah there's interesting things out there...but don't underestimate how very, very, very, very, very far away they are.

Oh sure, look hard enough and we'll find "something interesting", and perhaps come to grok "why we're here" - but at enormous cost to those who don't get to go. Sure you'll find a few people actually willing & capable to make the trip (stark raving boring as most of it will be, even with a Morale Officer), but those "orders of magnitude of orders of magnitude" more people needed to make it happen don't get enough out of their contribution to bother contributing, and ultimately it's their paychecks that will be "redistributed" to fund the effort. Firefly Alpha will cost (optimistically!) about US$10M to launch 1 ton into low orbit, with that cargo assured to return at least $10M revenue; if not for that payoff, those involved have compelling reasons to elsewhere route money which provides a good life for some 400 people ... how much then the human cost of sending a handful of people on a trip which, beyond a couple nearby rocks, would take a lifetime or far more?

TL;DR - very little of space is close enough and interesting enough to get to before you're dead.
> The paper says Bayesianism is 'aggressive' and 'subjective' while Frequentism is 'cautious' and aims for 'universally acceptable' conclusions. I wouldn't characterize them that way.

Worst-case vs average-case seems like the relevant distinction here. ( http://lesswrong.com/lw/f7t/beyond_bayesians_and_frequentist... http://lesswrong.com/lw/jne/a_fervent_defense_of_frequentist... )

> Frequentist methods try to answer the question of "What is the probability of the observed data" given an assumed model.

Isn't that more null-hypothesis testing...? Frequentism is broader.
The existence of the case has been unsealed, so here's the latest docket: http://ia902509.us.archive.org/20/items/gov.uscourts.nvd.101...

Looks like there was a stipulation filed on July 1 to transfer the domains back to No-IP, although the actual document isn't accessible in PACER.
What's the difference between your proposal and a policy of starting as a closely knit monoculture, and only accepting people that share that culture? Isn't that exactly what you should be trying to avoid?
Meet the 11 companies selected for the Disney Accelerator
K&R, the white book. There are few books that match it in conciseness and elegance.
Wouldn't matter, the GET for a particular IP for the article would still show up before the GET for SecureDrop, the actual timing is irrelevant here, if there's always an article visit, and then a SecureDrop request.

I guess you could randomize if you load the iframe or not. Then you couldn't be sure if a visit was an actual visit or an iframe that was randomly triggered (with a random delay).

But for this to be useful you'd still need to instruct sources to randomly browse the page before going to SecureDrop. Which might work if you force them to click a link on the main-page to get to the SecureDrop page.

But if they go directly to /securedrop it will fail again because the GET /securedrop will show up as the first request from that IP, giving away that the visit was intentional.

So my current idea would be to randomly generate the actual /securedrop path in a non-predictable matter per client. Maybe something simple like securedrop-sha1(...). Then link to that from WaPo's main page. Forcing everyone to go trough WaPo.com.
But then you still have the problem that you must make sure sources don't access this link from history or something.

Quite a lot of work, for still flawed security.
This is a really useful dataset, especially when combined with tools like mapbox tile mill[0] and qgis[1]. Hours of fun!

[0] https://www.mapbox.com/tilemill/

[1] http://www.qgis.org/
Michael from Inbox here. First of all, we love Fastmail and think they're great. :)

We're working hard to support any IMAP server, and it's our goal to support all providers. We just started with Gmail/Yahoo because they were the two largest services and made testing easier. IMAP is a tricky protocol to get right, with many various extensions that are not always supported or enabled.

We know we need to work to gain the trust of developers, and show that this is a product and company built by developers for developers. It's one of the reasons we decided to make the sync engine open source. Something that traditional "business school" folks would never do. We're going to keep making Inbox better and better, but the code will always be available for you to run yourself.

We're planning to release a hosted SaaS version of Inbox (think Heroku), so you don't need to host +terabytes of email data or manage sync infrastructure. We haven't announced details around that yet, but feel free to email me if you'd like access to the preview. mg@inboxapp.com
> I feel we are being invaded.

by whom?

>The culture we used to have didn't cared about isms or whatever you want to call them.

When? Depending how far back you go, The hacker culture attracted a very specific type of person. It was self-selective, so they themselves had similar cultural norms.

Today is very different. Hackers are more diverse, thus these issues come to light.

This brings us back to:

> Now we are being invaded.

There are going to be growing pains, but in the end, diversity is a good thing, right?

Or is this all an issue about degree?
Although our employees are diverse on some axes, we're 90% white. There are also class barriers to attending Hacker School - while Hacker School is free, living in New York for three months is not.

I can't help but laugh sometimes. Good thing all the rich white women feel comfortable!

But seriously, how is it possible to have so few Asians? Usually the "problem" is that there are far too many. Maybe we need affirmative action for Asians, for once?
That paragraph deeply annoys me.
The same pattern occurs in TV, film, and games. In movies, for instance, a lot of the money is made in selling foreign distribution rights. There is still a significant cost associated with exhibiting movies in China, for example, including localization, marketing, distribution to theaters, etc. An American studio would rather license off the rights to a foreign distributor, taking a sort of annuity income stream, than incur those costs and burdens itself. This has become so lucrative, in fact, that foreign sales potential often "wags the dog" in the domestic (US) market. Movies get financed and produced off of pre-sales to other territories. (This is a mildly simplified way of describing the process, but on the whole, it will probably suffice).

So you see these patterns play out in the home video market as an aftereffect. Rights were carved up and sold off during the theatrical window, and more rights were carved up and sold off in anticipation of the home video window. And by the time that window rolls around, various parties hold the rights to various spots on the map. It's in the interest of none of those parties to break down DRM or region control.

It's hard to overstate the systemic importance of foreign distribution to the moviemaking business. Accordingly, it's hard to overstate the fierceness with which studios and distributors will fight to maintain region controls and exhibition windows.

Eventually, this model will have to give. It makes increasingly little sense to consumers. And, while there was once a physical scarcity making it necessary, that scarcity is largely nonexistent (barring extensive local marketing costs). But it'll be a long time before we see any major changes here. There are just so many parties aligned against change, and the capital costs of building a competing ecosystem are enormous.

With books, the barriers to entry are much lower. So I have a bit more hope for that market in the next few years.
Yep, it really focuses on the developer experience. Threads are a first-class object in the Inbox API, which is an abstraction above the existing protocols. (Although it still deals with messages under the hood.)

https://www.inboxapp.com/docs/api#threads
There's platinum in the asteroid belt
After reading this I must ask you to please take the time to have a redundancy plan in place for your glasses; I recommend a secondary pair offsite at your work in order to prevent outages of lost/forgotten glasses.
Anyone else heard of using a MOOC for "extreme content marketing"?
> Your prediction fails to account for the fact that Wikipedia can manage the problem

Except that Wikipedia can't manage the problem. See cratermoon's post along similar lines upthread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7999720