skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or, how about "forking" posts. If the content is truly of higher quality, then the fork will be up-voted more from that point on. If not, then the original post will be. And why must the article be attributed to only one person. Karma could be shared by some mechanism if a forked post gits [sic] more up-votes.

I think "hellbanning" should also be a part of this conversation. The combination of mods non-transparent editing practices and hellbanning makes an extremely strong case for categorizing the mod system as a form of censorship.

HN is a private website. So, I fully believe that HN should be allowed to censor if it would like to. I certainly at times censor my friends when they post to my facebook wall. But my facebook wall isn't a community. And it doesn't purport to provide news. Thus, I believe HN should be held to a higher standard.
Waaaait, at that point Verizon stops being a peer and starts becoming a subscriber, since they have a bunch of consumers that don't host valuable content within Verizon, but want access to content outside of Verizon.

If that's not a settlement-free peering agreement because of the disbalance, then Verizon should be the one paying part of their users subscription fees to the rest of the internet backbone.
I'm sure if it was open source people could modify it to fit their needs (to trade another item).
Even better with MacBook: four-finger swipe to the side, done.
I, for one, would appreciate it if you patched up news-yc.appspot.com to work with the new API.
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But you're still capable of being sued after you've killed someone.
Either advertising works or it doesn't. Insofar it works, it's basically coercion

Not even close. An ad can make a decent amount of money if it does one of three things: show me a new place where I can get a need that I have solved, or show me a solution to a problem or need that I know I have that didn't know had a solution or, and this is the most tangential and the one that is most difficult to do - shows me a need or a problem I didn't know I had and a solution to that (this is what people often complain about as superficial, but if I see a sign saying "most people pay more tax than they have to, lets us do your taxes and save" that might get me thinking).

There is no coercion there, the information itself is valuable to me and the advertiser.

The trouble with most ads, and the reason people think they suck in general, is that most of them are for crappy products because crappy products, in general, need more advertising. Great products need advertising too but not so much.
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> Now Slashdot is a wasteland compared to what it once was, a decade or so ago.

So it seems as if leaving slashdot did not really make it better. I'm not aware of a reincarnation that kept the good bits, either. So, to put a sharp point on it: just because blowing a city up has a "bigger impact" than being in it and complaining, doesn't necessarily make it the better option, if you know what I mean?
Not really. Look at China, they have a hugely powerful government, yet even they find it easier to engage in popularism than domination. It's much easier to govern a country which supports you: logically any sustainable government should be interested in maintaining enough popularity that their position will not be undermined: but no more than that.

European history is an excellent case study in the fall of dominant rulers who failed to satisfy their subjects.
Sometime in the future there will be just one government for whole earth, and all the people will have equal vote in it. But until that having just one powerful government is very bad. It might have to listen to its own population, but it will completely disregard people of other countries who do not have a vote.
The US lags behind in card payment systems. We usually hand the card over to the wait staff, they carry it away to a remote terminal (and we trust that they don't copy the card while in their possession), then we manually enter a tip after the fact.
http://de.flightaware.com/live/flight/MAS17/history/20140717... - click on other dates and keep an eye on the flight path

http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/ukraine-t... - they were instructed by Ukrainians to fly at 33,000 ft instead of requested 35,000 ft

http://en.itar-tass.com/russia/741248 - the warplane escort. The original tweet was removed, but here's a copy - http://i.imgur.com/8YILn3x.png
I guess it grows with the number of Tor users.
Back around 2006-2008 Comcast was suspected of massaging Vonage data to degrade the connection when they were releasing their competing phone service.

See:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121564856618241033.html?mod=...

http://adamnoah.com/comcast-admits-to-blocking-vonage/

http://www.wired.com/2006/03/comcast_throttling_vonage_users...

http://gigaom.com/2008/07/09/did-comcast-just-admit-to-vonag...
sweeeet. ty!
> Surface-to-air missile encountering a large body moving at 900km/h which is fully loaded with fuel will cause the body to completely disintegrate mid air at 10000ft.

There are plenty of pilots who ejected after being hit by SAMs in the Gulf War, and they were flying planes much smaller than an airliner. I don't think we can draw any conclusions from the state of the wreckage just yet.
Ecoded date from the downloaded youtube file:
Encoded date : UTC 2014-07-17 10:44:19
Exact upload date using the API:
<yt:uploaded>2014-07-18T10:43:10.000Z</yt:uploaded>

> "you will find that the encoded date timestamp is 24 hours behind the
upload date"

Excellent analysis, but the last statement is reversed. It's probably
just a typo/oversight (like that's never happened to me before (sigh)).
The encode timestamp is 24 hours before the upload timestamp, which is
impossible since it must be uploaded before it's encoded.
there is no credible source during propaganda wars
> India for example was ruled primarily by Muslim rulers for over a thousand years

Factually incorrect. India as a whole (esp. south India) was never under complete Islamic rule, let alone for a 1000 yrs. The Delhi Sultanate started around 1200 and British colonialism around 1700. That's around 500 years of Muslim rule esp. in north India.
That's why he's suggesting that the new TLDs do this, to start early, so that everyone's expectations are set properly.
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The Chrome SSL team works very closely with that of Firefox.
The Guardian has a data blog of the airliners flying over the region. Top 5 fliers were Aeroflot (86), Singapore (75), Ukraine (62), Lufthansa (56), Malaysia (48). Really could have been anyone. http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/jul/18/mh17-he...
Thanks. I guess I'm trying to give some sort of indication that I know what I'm talking about. Too many people have opinions without any factual basis to make them on. I'll try to be more toned down in the future.
I would think it's better either to have no security and advertise as such or make the encryption of useful length.

Doing this way is akin to ddwrt having less than 2048bit ssh keys. Kinda pointless.
There is considerable overlap between good investigative skills and debugging software. I'm glad to see both being used together!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

Sunlight reflected on clouds, misidentified as the launch of a nuclear missile.
I know that hacker news has more-or-less descended into self parody already, but do we have to have yet another subthread on how gub'mints are the root of all evil? It's especially ironic given that this has happened partly as a result of a lack of stable government in the region.
Rake has a new home
You're not following. DNSSEC is secured by a chain of keys leading to a root; the entity that controls the root controls the chain. If you use DNSSEC to authenticate your certificate, you're giving control over your certificate to whoever runs the roots.
There's a limit for mobile bandwidth, where also the number of towers won't help; but cable is different - sure, at one point they have to put proper fiber to the home (and it's economically feasible to do so, if there's actual competition instead of monopolistic ability to charge huge prices for weak service), but after that you can have as much bandwidth as your routers can service.
The third person is the site moderator. And yes, I believe pretty much whatever Daniel tells me. He's that kind of guy.

"That Daniel Gackle is the HN moderator" is the kind of factual detail you might want to know before developing very strong opinions about how the site is run.
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Actually, you can look at the fact that he historically doesn't vote for education bills, so that pretty much makes him a hypocrite. Can't blame a company for trying to hire the best trained people to do a given job.
I've long wondered why they don't allocate the slots (however many are politically palatable) via some kind of bidding system, e.g. highest-salary-filled-first, instead of the current first-come-first-served system. There is a "prevailing wage" requirement, intended to ensure that H1B is used to bring in workers where there's a shortage, not merely to undercut wages. But that's hard to police. And there is a more market-oriented way of allocating the slots to where genuine shortages exist: look at revealed preferences in the form of how much companies are willing to pay for a worker. If a company is willing to offer $150k to an H1B worker, I'm willing to believe there is actually a shortage of that person's skills. If they're only willing to offer $60k, I'm less convinced this offer is filling a skill that suffers from a major national shortage.
Thank you who ever did this. I have University access to this, but my University website is down at the moment.
Incorrect. The scheduling only ensures that the queues in the network (from the NIC onwards) don't fill up. However, there queues are still there in the host and in the arbiter. The authors never measure or demonstrate that these queues are any shorter, that the tail latencies are improved for any real workload, or that there is any actual benefit in the approach for a real world scenario.
Are you an expert? In another comment you made the extraordinary claim, substantiated by absolutely no one and no organization of any authority at all (just the standard conspiracy noise and rhetoric that is simply deplorable. It is the domain of the worst, and appears immediately after any event), that the plane was shot down by Ukranian fighter jets. Which...wow.

Your credibility among most intellectual people sits somewhere around "none".

The general notion is that these were people operating a weapon system they had limited knowledge of, and motivated by their success the day earlier were a little trigger happy. And FWIW, most weapon systems do not tell you what kind of aircraft you're pointing at (this isn't the movies). Recall the USS Vincennes, with the most advanced fire control system in the world at the time (certainly far more advanced than this unit), shooting down an Iranian jetliner that was ascending and squawking civilian airliner transponder codes.

I would find a study of the brains of conspiracy fanatics fascinating. There is something fundamentally broken there.
As a left-libertarian it always disappoints me to see this attitude. But political opinions have always been about incentives, always about expressing your position in an in-group, and it's amusing in a depressing sort of way to see how peoples' political philosophies switch when their interests are at stake. In particular, it seems to be common among hackers to be very libertarian except when they feel threatened in their jobs, then you hear them talk about unions and protectionism and regulation and so on.

I think it's very selfish to oppose H1B visas. America is wealthy compared to almost everywhere, and phenomenally wealthy compared to many of the places these H1B workers come from. Furthermore, the best thing for the US in the long run is to import as many smart people as it can. The best thing for us in the long run is to import as many smart people as we can. There are economists who dispute increasing immigration, but there is to my knowledge no serious argument against importing smart people.

Again, there is to my knowledge no economist, who anyone takes seriously, who would say "The USA needs to import fewer tech workers". It's a gain for everyone except the worker being "replaced", and that's a fallacy anyway because the economic pie is not zero-sum.
Some real world examples here.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/machinelearning/archive/2014/07/1...

There's also the Azure Machine learning university program with videos etc., but looks like it's for partners only, perhaps will be available to all once it's out of preview.

https://readytogo.microsoft.com/global/_layouts/RTG/Campaign...
As a middleastern, I find this very incorrect and stereotypical.
It's probably people flagging it and not the mods, yes. But are the people flagging it actual users?

The story in question here had 200 upvotes when it was a link to an NSA story at Slate. The link was changed to the same, source NSA story at First Look and it was quickly flagged to oblivion. I think there're likely some monitoring scripts and flag alerts at play, not just NSA fatigue by actual users.
It's a way to filter out those people who consider fashion important. ;-)
They used not to resolve in the far past. Apparently they decided otherwise later.
These are all good tools but I am worried about using Amazon's infrastructure. They would gladly hand over your data.
By "make hn better", you mean "make it different from how the originator and moderators want it to be".

Given that, yes, you should find a community whose leadership agree with your perspective.
Fastpass is not "zero queue". They simply move queuing into other places. First, in the end host. When a host wants to transmit data, it must queue those packets and send a message to the arbiter to get a slot, it must then wait for a response, and then wait for a slot. Second in the arbiter itself, the arbiter must be able to keep up. This is easy at low load, but will get much longer at high load and larger systems.
Even if it is true that all airlines thought it was safe, I don't see how that is a valid defence.

The simplest research would have told Malaysia Airlines that (a) rebels were shooting down planes in Eastern Ukraine with surface to air missiles; and (b) some surface to air missiles can reach 40,000 feet. Those two facts alone indicate that the region was not safe for commercial airliners.

If all airlines flew through Eastern Ukraine then they are all guilty of abdicating their responsibility to make simple checks about the safety of their flights.

It is not acceptable to say that air traffic authorised the flight. In the cockpit the co-pilot is trained to question the judgement of the pilot. In the same way Malaysia Airlines should have performed simple checks on the information supplied by the air traffic authorities.
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The people gathering that kind of intelligence are a secretive bunch. As a civilian, you don't "have" that kind of information, you are only provided with it when somebody thinks that's a good idea. If the British, Chinese and Korean services, for example, knew about a big risk for commercial aviation (plausible), why didn't they share it with the entire commercial aviation community? Sounds a bit like they gave that information to their national carriers, together with an NDA. If that is the case, the British services will have to answer some very tough questions (9 British are dead).
Military intelligence, in particular that of the US, will already know exactly where that missile was launched from. They have infrared satellites and ground-based monitoring for missile launches in that region already. They're not going to reveal their imagery in public unless no other evidence turns up - but they won't sit on it either.
I found a way: you can apply the restriction to a non-supervised device, which simplifies the process. You don't need to re-install or wipe.

Just create a profile with the restrictions, then follow the instructions at: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5833

(Edit to add: It's actually unclear if the non-pairing restriction gets applied when using this method, it doesn't seem to get listed in the profile details once on the device)
Only to be repurchased 10ft later for an exorbitant price, because the contents of those bottles went through the most thorough examinations possible and are perfectly safe.
Ah, the conspiracy garbage infects HN. This is exactly why this sort of story does not belong here.

click on other dates and keep an eye on the flight path

You mean that the flight path changed significantly every single day? What does that prove? You do understand that flight paths are set based upon weather, air currents, etc?

As to 33,000 versus 35,000 -- so? What does that prove? The SAM could hit up to 70,000 feet and beyond. That proves utterly nothing.

As to the "Spanish air controller" -- people referring to an anonymous twitter source is simply incredible.
Click the down arrow in the top left corner then click the minus button to scroll out.
Yes, residential connections are supper asymmetrical both in capabilities and their usage, but residential ISPs don't have "roughly balanced peering agreements" because they don't have peering agreements at all.

If most of your traffic is residential, then you're not a peer, then you're a subscriber - residental ISPs have to pay others for their Internet access. Verizon has also a valid transit&peering infrastructure, but if we would be looking at their residential business separately, then it would have to pay for the customer<>Netflix traffic on their interconnections.
Well, it's a Gist, so it's tracked by git and can be forked, but I don't think you can make pull requests.
Though grim but i can't help but wonder about the mythological philosophy "everything happens for the good and for a reason". Extremely uncanny...condolences to the people onboard.
Well the 'rebels' posted boasting about shooting down a plane at the time MH17 was shot down and even posted a video though they seem to have thought it was a military plane. That seems like fairly clear evidence to me. A more interesting and uncertain question is whether they are actually rebels. The main guy organising it is a colonel from Moscow (Igor Strelkov) who officially retired last year but quite likely is reporting to Moscow still rather than rebelling. Here's an article in the Daily Mail - sorry about the quality of the paper. Still facts are facts.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2696389/That-blast-l...
Just wait till the guy's seat gets replaced by an app written by one of those H1B holders he'd like to ban from the country at the ripe age of 23.
Vedzoo
> No, DNSSEC has nothing to do with CAs. Each DNS authority defines its own keys used to sign its records.

which in turn must be signed by the zone operator (e.g.: Verisign for .com) who publishes them in DNS. So we still have Central Authorities - in the sense that there is still some overlord controlling everything.
If a British service has had intelligence on that, they have failed to protect 9 of their compatriots by just sharing it with BA.
Which is surprisingly practical and comfortable in warm places.
The comments on reddit are quite interesting too: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2b4kpg/conspira...
Your perspective is wrong.

The important thing is not that HN gets "better" according to your preferences (which appear to differ from those of the moderators), but that you have a community that more suits your preferences.

In a similar vein, you can complain as much as you like that company x's smartphone doesn't have the features you think are important, or, better, you can buy company y's smartphone that does.
Not to mention the American civil war, which had only superfluous regligious motivation (the interpretation of slavery in the Bible). I am European and haven't read in detail about this conflict, but my impression is that it was to a large degree caused by cultural disagreement and to a lesser extent about territory. >600,000 dead.
Agree with the downward pressure point. Personally, i think its a good thing. American companies (including start-ups) now have a larger pool of talent to hire from without paying Wall street salaries. However, I disagree that H1Bs are somehow cheaper. I was paid the same wage as my American counter-parts when I was at AMZN.
Simple fix: a "moderator comment" which simply sits at the top of the thread and is required when changing the URL or title.
Ask HN: Open Source Pivotal Tracker/Basecamp alternative?
I've had success using Pivotal Tracker, JIRA, and other project management tools in the past. Now I want to install something like that on my own server. I'd like to do it on my shared hosting account, so a PHP solution is preferred, but I would also look into things I can put on my dedicated box. I prefer Pivotal Tracker's interface over the other alternative. And yes, I've also had previous success with Google Docs, but that's not what I'm looking for here - I'm looking for something specifically similar to Pivotal Tracker.
I wasn't suggesting that, obviously. I was trying to be helpful and point out that students have free access.
For one I didn't say it was shot down by Ukrainian fighter jets, don't put words in my mouth. For two, nowhere did I say it was certain or obvious. I did not claim it either. Watch your arguments, bud. And personal attacks? Please.
There are probably not a ton of people here who would disagree with the phrase "the USA needs more tech workers." There are probably quite a few who disagree with the phrase "the USA needs more tech workers at the expense of its current tech workers."

Do you see the difference? If MS, Google, Cisco et al want to import workers, they should be paying them the same amount as their American counterparts, rather than pulling them in to be temp workers and lay off higher cost employees.
I know each publisher is different, but is there a guideline amount of how much each researcher gets when they are published in such journals?
But I can blame companies for conspiring to hire the best trained people to do a given job at the lowest possible price. H-1B visas, offshoring, anti-compete clauses and non-poaching agreements are their key tactics.
The laptop on his desk is his Pixel. Still IMO the best piece laptop ever made.

I still wish it was dual-bootbable.
Anyone who is smart enough to calculate the differential of equations is smart enough to see there's little money in those jobs.

You see this in practice. STEM graduates do 3 things, in my experience. Work in management, work in IT, and work in academia. I wouldn't count on any of having up-to-date science knowledge except the academic ones.
Shale gas boom fizzling out?
It honestly depends on how it's set up. If it's American-style, where "the population" amounts to a jabbering know-it-all teenager with no real control over anything, then it won't work, no.
hey, @petar, why you're tilting your texts?
It's not depressing to see people's political attitudes change with more experience and in response to life experience and new realities. It's actually quite refreshing. You should be far more worried about the opposite, someone who uses ideology as a mental shortcut.

> In particular, it seems to be common among hackers to be very libertarian except when they feel threatened in their jobs, then you hear them talk about unions and protectionism and regulation and so on.

It seems you are in favor of open borders and ascribing extremist views--non-sovereignty of nation-states--to those who simply might not toe the liberal party line.

> Again, there is to my knowledge no economist, who anyone takes seriously, who would say "The USA needs to import fewer tech workers".

Since when did economists have tech worker interests in mind? All bow down at the altar of GDP, everyone else can burn.