skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pun threads, memes, and complaining about post quality have been a part of reddit since I started frequenting over 5 years ago. Honestly, with the popularity of so many niche forums the general quality of the website has probably gone up. The problem many people face is after frequenting for awhile you begin to see trends: before opening a post you can predict what kinds of responses are going to be upvoted to the top. It feels like the website has gotten worse, but the only thing that's changed is your enjoyment of it.
For what it's worth, drivers with a rating of less than 4.3 or so are booted from the service.

I've heard of people in my city having trouble and getting a driver to accept, most probably due to him having a low rating (whereas I never have trouble finding a driver)
How do you know what assets these families have? Most of them I'd imagine would have assets so wrapped up in opaque trusts in secrecy jurisdictions (Caymans, British Virgin Islands etc.) that I can't see how you'd ever really know.

For a very interesting read on the above, check out http://treasureislands.org/the-book/ ... a fantastic read.
Harmless Harvest explains it on the bottle and their website. They suggest that it shouldn't be pink when harvested, but if it turns pink later that's natural and okay.
http://harmlessharvest.com/results/coconut-water#pink

In freshly cracked coconuts, pink water can be a symptom of spoilage. This is not the case with Harmless Harvest which is completely clear when bottled.

All of our coconut water is clear when bottled. However, some bottles turn pink with time due to varying levels of antioxidants, or phenols, interacting with light. We could use additives to hide the color change, but the pink bottles are just as delicious and safe to drink as the others. Variation is a part of nature. It’s ok to be pink.
As a long time Reddit user, I used to see this advice and sigh, because I thought it was bullshit.

However, I just wasn't doing it right. Reddit is now a new tool, and you have to learn how to use it. This took me a long time to adapt to.

Remember at one point you figured out that you could search youtube for anything and find someone trying to share how they did it? (how do I change the steering pump on a '92 pontiac sunbird) Reddit is like that now.. for any interest or hobby of yours, visit reddit.com/r/hobbyname. Woah. There is a group of people talking about growing kefir. Large caliber air guns. Building decks. Kiln making.

It's almost like the new Usenet, in some ways. The difference is we have a huge ball of greatest common denominator shit that you have to figure out how to sidestep.
I'm an engineer, and I have several friends who are or were management consultants. None of the ones I met "lived to screw people over".
Because it is very unlikely that a newborn committed the murder?

But really, good question - why not?
It can very well go back, just let it's popularity die down again and you'll be back there eventually.
It looks really promising :) Do you plan on adding catalogue features for items other than books at some point in the future?
With some delays, I finally got it today.
Ottawa Linux Symposium (OLS) needs your help
Interesting. I had not seen that stat. Any idea how they were able to grow their market share so quickly? Obviously the government subsidies gave them the requisite funding, but what was making consumers choose Baidu over Google even before China started crippling Google?
No, not that I can tell :/
Just like any other marketplace transaction, we the buyers do provide the suppliers (drivers) with value. Equal value, of course.

Much of that value is automated in the form of our credit card details in our Uber app. But we do provide value in a few other forms: not being obnoxious, not trashing/puking in their car, not harassing them physically or verbally.

All these things happen to taxi and Uber drivers regularly, so there IS a need to keep the demand-side riders in check. It's analogous to eBay or AirBnB's two-sided rating systems.

Also, it's not fair to state as fact that our consumer buyer ratings will be "saved, sold and shared eventually." If Uber were a free consumer app with an unclear revenue source, that'd almost certainly be the case. But Uber isn't in the business of needing to sell that data. On the contrary, any marketplace data they hold is competitive advantage over other driver/rider services. They have at least some incentive to keep that proprietary.
I'm not a driver, but I know enough about Uber to answer this...

Drivers are prompted to rate their passenger immeditely after the trip, in the exact same manner as riders rate their driver. Then, when a trip is offered to a driver, they're shown the potential customers rating (and other details), then the driver will choose to accept the job or not
What do you mean by "why not" ?

In USA, many states and big cities are collecting newborn DNA as well as any human who encounters police or government officials.

https://www.aclu.org/free-speech-technology-and-liberty-wome...
Looks promising, but might need to add Doozer to the stack as groupcache has an issue with maintaining a list of peers where the cached data is distributed. Definitely worth looking into though.

https://github.com/ha/doozerd
I don't get why Uber doesn't tell me the exterior color of UberX cars coming to pick me up. I have no idea what a "Nissan Versa" is; knowing it's a blue minivan would be helpful.
Would not likely happen in the US.
BTW - a web search for this turns up some very... interesting results of people trying to defend the practice of early eBay bidding. The "logic" consists of stuff like "waiting to bid at the end only gives time for more competition to bid, so it'll be priced higher". Hmmm... makes my head hurt :)
I agree - it seems like much better design to tell you the color of the car picking you up :)
> Also, the content can range anywhere from a quaint series of animal photos to an intense discussion about bitcoin to graphic pornography, all in a single thread. That could spook brands that do not want their ads displayed alongside not-safe-for-work material.

Reddit is too adult for ad networks. Can they grow up?
They seem to display the license plate number now. That works perfectly.
>Drivers rating the passenger is a defence against passengers rating the drivers low

I don't see how this it the case, assuming that drivers don't know what passengers rated them before rating the passenger.
Where I work[1], AGPL software is strictly and unconditionally forbidden to use for anything, even things that are completely internal and will never see a public user.

The fear that our lawyers have is that, since putting up the software in a service counts as a derived work, our whole software stack (including the stuff we don't open source) will have to be opened along with it. There have to be clear service boundaries between the AGPL software and the stuff we write ourselves, and the lawyers don't trust us to write in appropriate boundaries.

It's really kinda tragic, because we actually do submit source code upstream when we make changes to open source software that we run internally. As in, if it's an OSS product that we just use for some dumb internal automation thing, we'll submit patches if the license is BSD or MIT, but as soon as GPL (especially AGPL) hits anything suddenly the lawyers get paranoid because of what constitutes a "derived work", which can be interpreted as anything that links against the software to make a complete product.

The upshot of this is, if the OSS software is on an unrestrictive license like BSD or apache, we contribute upstream. If it's GPL or especially AGPL, we simply don't touch it, ever.

[1] A very, very well known technology company.
>I feel bad that they rate us because we don't provide them with anything.

You provide them with the "I didn't vomit in your car" service.
Author here, if you have any questions about the game or blog post, I'll be here for a while.
In the same way I go to McDonalds for quick mediocre food, I hit the frontpage for quick mediocre posts. It's not good discussion, but I still enjoy it for what it is.
The perpetual cycle of the 'oldfags' complaining about the 'newfags' will never stop.
Some people want to see healthy EPS growth, and as you point out some patient investors are willing to buy the "reinvesting in accelerated growth" thesis.

But everyone is getting tired of AMZN's lack of transparency. Increasingly, buying AMZN is akin to buying the "Bezos is the next Jobs" meme on faith.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/2343265-amazon-com-bezos-ser...
Or being able to describe yourself: Black hat, white shirt.
I spoke with a driver yesterday about it and he says he will basically pick up anyone above a 4. This was in NY so might mean different things in different places and to different people.
but the overall focus of the site has changed to humor from discussion.

I disagree. I'd even argue there really isn't a focus after all. It's a massive site with an even larger userbase.

For example, once you leave the top 10-20 subreddits, you encounter places like /r/askscience, /r/books, /r/hiphopheads, /r/dataisbeautiful etc.. All primarily discussion based subs with consistently in depth threads on esoteric topics, even by HN means.

That's not even mentioning the live updated threads on huge news stories, or all the sports subs with their game threads and on the second updates. It's a viable resource that's looked down upon because of the front page, and that blows.
Have you tried Safari? I hear it is more energy efficient: http://thetypist.com/482/chromefree/

Allowing Flash to autoplay is wasteful as well.
Read the essay that inspired this essay (linked), published by some little British journal, (Nature, I think?). The point is to express a similar frustration.
It works almost always :P

(I mean the sequence of commands. It's kinda nice, now that you explained it. I'll try running your script from another computer.)
Displaying the license plate number is less useful when the car is across the street or approaching from a distance.

I also had a fun "gypsy black car running uber app trying to extort me" experience in NYC last trip, and a bunch of black cars who took 15-20 minutes to arrive (despite initially saying "3 minutes" and showing as around the corner). In a few cases I had the driver call me and give me useless directions to where he was, so I cancelled the trip and booked another Uber, and got someone dramatically better.

I apparently have a 4.6 rating.
Parsing PHP in ocaml:
https://github.com/facebook/pfff

try ./pfff -dump_php /path/to/file.php
It seems that all the critique in the article stem from the advertiser's perspective. "Oh no we can't make money off of the reddit users" the site must be rubbish and outdated. It needs to be more like facebook so that we companies can connect with users".
Lyft provides a picture of the vehicle that will be picking you up.
I find this completely unsurprising. Maybe because I'm someone who used to (kinda sorta) make a living as a writer?

Writing software is more profitable than writing prose (or poetry), because fewer people can do it, but at the end of the day the economics are the same: the fruits of your labor are easily copied, so making something that 10 million people read or use is not inherently much more expensive than making something 100 people read or use. Under those circumstances, it's easy for everyone to read the best content, and use only the best apps. People's differing tastes, need for variety, and imperfect awareness of their choices means the authors of the "second best" thing aren't completely screwed in either case, but it's still pretty close to winner-take-all.

(Also, social proof—people's tendency to use what other people are doing as a proxy for quality—amplifies winner-take-all tendencies, even when there are no obvious network effects.)
Love to see more of your web scraper. Could make cool tools such as send you a text / notification each time your rating changes.
I am also tremendously curious as to Putin's geopolitical ambitions. He controls a populace that loves him (Putin has very high approval ratings within Russia, I forget the exact numbers), and huge swaths of land and natural resources. He also has effectively unlimited term length, and controls a propaganda machine so powerful it rivals even that of the United States (/snark). All these factors make for a good recipe for going to war.

So why would he want to go to war? Energy. Currently, the Russian oil industry contributes massively to Russian GDP, as it's a net exporter of oil that has always controlled massive swaths of oil-rich land. BUT, in the past couple years, Shale Gas has risen as a viable alternative energy source. The US has so much shale gas that it will be a net energy exporter by 2020, and natural gas prices in the EU are plummeting because of this. Thus, EU energy companies are turning to natural gas sources -- namely, the US -- for their energy, and reducing their dependence on imported Russian oil.

Putin sees the writing on the wall, and he knows that one of Russia's primary income sources is dwindling, as is his stack of bargaining chips along with it. He needs to find a replacement for this income, fast.

According to Wikipedia [1], Ukraine has the 3rd most known Shale deposits of any country. I suspect it's no coincidence that Putin is charging into Ukraine, a country with a promising energy future, at a time when demand for his oil reserves is dwindling.

If I'm correct, and Putin's ultimate motive is the shale gas reserves in Ukraine, this is at least encouraging because it means he will likely stop after taking Ukraine. That may seem bad, but you can't really fault him for that logic, and a lot of Ukrainians seem to support Putin, so it doesn't seem like something the US should put too much effort into stopping.

There are a lot of massive geopolitical shifts happening in the next decade. The US becoming a net energy exporter will have effects on the Middle East, Russia, and other BRICS. Simultaneously, the BRIC countries are opening their own IMF competitor to reduce their dependence on the Petrodollar. And while all this is happening, China is building up its military, Russia is isolating itself, and the US is pumping fodder after fodder into its anti-BRIC propaganda machine.

The next decade looks like one that will be very unstable, and I suspect it will mark the beginning of the next major war. Scary time.

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shale_gas_by_country
Somebody will definitely do it, on a throwaway dev account, but the original developer will only need to file a complaint and that account will almost certainly get banned for such blatant copyright infringement.
http://viewsourcecode.org/why/redhanded/images/hoodblink.gif

I miss _why.
Zip car is the same way. They have a picture of the vehicle, but it isn't the right color, just some generic picture.
Why does it need to? Is it self sustaining? Maybe that's all it needs to be.

When you try hard to commercialize and squeeze profits, things change and you lose audience. This is exactly what it is limiting the lifespan of Facebook.
Investments in capital items are shown on an income statement expensed over the life of the asset. Decreases in investment have no impact on increase in profit (only the opposite is true, increase in investment will add a decrease in profit of 1/n of the cost where n is the life of the asset in years).
"This is how success is distributed in almost any profession."

No—only in professions where the marginal cost of serving an additional customer is low.
Managing the infrastructures is quite easy with Ansible, Puppet, or whatever your flavor of config management is. You can also take advantage of anycast DNS and GEO targeting by signing up for a free NSOne.net account. That would probably shave $5 off the total.
It can, but from my experience it just doesn't happen enough. The deal breaker is usually lazy modding. Can't blame them because it isn't a job per se, but it does have a huge effect on submission & post content.

Really makes you appreciate the team here at HN keeping things on lock after a while
Said college educated. First glance I thought the same thing too
I don't understand the people who don't like Reddit based on the front page. FFS, Reddit is a platform and the action is in the subreddits. There are some very high quality subreddits with good mods which work as well or better than HN.
Charging for admission has always struck me, at least in the case of SA, as a tactic to guard the community against, essentially, trolls and children. Not as a moneymaking scheme.
doesn't seem that strange to me. in the old SOAP days it was easier to run everything through a set of filters and just have what server code specified by a field.

in this case it is pretty clear they sped up requests by returning some generic data every request needed to update the app all at once as well. that's a pretty common requirement. netflix even allows client code to upload server code to pack responses into the least number
Good to know that, thanks. I have captured and pushed the screenshots with subpixel turned off.
Ideas for reddit monetization:

- Charge $10 a year to keep a subreddit name registered. 500k subreddits, say one half to two thirds pony up, thats $2.5 - 3.3 mil/year.

- There is a "trending subreddit" section. Implement a bidding system for a daily "featured subreddit" section similar to this (implement a N day cooldown so larger subs can't buy everyday)

- Implement a rev-share system with sub-reddit owners. Paying for a subreddit name could mean no ads, however if the owner wants, they can turn on ads and split the commission with reddit.

- Advertise (a little heavier than now) to only non-signed in users.

Basically I'm thinking you try and get the subreddit owners to help foot the bill since they are generally the ones getting the most value from the community engine that is reddit.
I have a very similar experience.

I have thousands of comments on Reddit (around 45K comment "karma"). I started visiting the website in 2008, when I was 18. Thought it was fun.

However, I began to notice that as I grow older (mostly intellectually), it seems that reddit users stayed the same age. The discussions that I once found intriguing and raised some meaningful points now turned into nothing more but a huge "circlejerk", as reddit users call it. It has become "you're either with us, or against us".

In essence, I think reddit suffers from its userbase: too many minors who think they know exactly how the world works in every way (I will admit I felt the same when I was <18). The WorldNews subreddit is terrible - /r/europe is even worse, especially now with the Ukrainian conflict.

I do find that some more-focused subreddits (I frequent linux, python, programming, webdev...) are somewhat better (as someone here mentioned). But although almost new to HN, I find the discussions here far more meaningful and I find myself visiting HN more often nowadays. Let's just hope it stays that way.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Apk Full Cracked App plus Data Free Download
Awesome, happy to find I have a 5/5 too!
You could just pay for a license if you're that paranoid. It's remarkable to what extent people will complain about free not being "free enough". I assume you haven't contributed a line of code to the project, so it's a bit presumptuous to knock it.
That's often not an unwelcome side-effect. If you're at a large technology company, making sure companies like yours don't use the free version is a common motivation. Aerospike sells a commercial enterprise license; in that kind of a "dual-license" setup, the GPL/AGPL can function as a useful poison pill to keep from cannibalizing enterprise sales with the free version (where a common alternative would be to just not open-source at all, for fear of that cannibalization).
Reddit wants to be a big company using a site where big companies are the enemy. They could do it, but they need to overhaul the ad system.

Having purchased more than a few ads, I can tell you that their platform needs serious help. They're already a step behind because users don't give location or age. To an advertiser who knows the customer, this results in blanketing people you know aren't interested.

The real problem is that targeting ads to interested audiences results in very few interactions. When you target to a sub, you have a good chance of showing up on that sub's home page - but no one really goes to a sub home. You need to get people on their front pages. The front page is hyper-competitive: you are bidding against people who are willing to serve ads to ANYONE (ahem, Hipmunk). I've still had some success, but it varies a lot depending on when people buy ads. Their planning tool cannot be relied upon.

If reddit were a grown-up advertising company, they'd run it on a cost-per-click bidding basis for link/comment/share/save interactions. Votes would be free to the advertiser, but they'd use recent upvotes and downvotes as a quality score to push ads that people hate off the site and encourage ads people don't mind by giving them a competitive edge. They'd also create more sophisticated targeting options, e.g. people who subscribe to /r/A AND /r/B. Or people who subscribe to /r/A AND either /r/C OR /r/D.
I try to tell people this all the time. It's a great source for information, just don't judge it by the front-page and definitely unsubscribe from a lot of the default subreddits. Up to about early 2011, I depended on a vast network of blogs I subscribed to in Google reader to get info in my various interests. But by the time Google Reader was shut down I had long abandoned it and going to various subreddits for the same, or even better info.
I actually find this super brilliant, however, a nitpick -->

'college educated - in the us' <-- that's all this kids can get is some bullshit VA job that pays dick/hr? lmfao "higher education" - what a scam 'college' is
I equate success with a job. No scratch that: at this point I'd settle for a damn interview.

I have a Masters in Chemistry, my girlfriend has a PhD in Chemistry. Neither of us, for the past year, have come remotely close to gaining employment that uses those skills (in Australia).
Their whole mapping scheme is pretty neat too on this "mobile" view.

They'll use lat/long to determine if the user is in China or not and then pull up google maps or baidu.

Beautify this (https://d1a3f4spazzrp4.cloudfront.net/web-mobile-client/js/m...) then check out line 13185 for loadMap (Map loading resources on # 13094)

They also create a gorgeous map "blur" effect when the user is ready to pull the trigger on a ride: http://snag.gy/rlBYX.jpg
Case in point: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2bs0rc/ama_fe...
> Or you know - Russia could stop meddling in Ukrainian affairs

What I said has literally nothing to do with Russia or Ukraine. I'm talking about things the U.S. Government does, even domestically.
There's an article from an AppLovin (RTB ad-network) engineer (http://liviutudor.com/2014/07/24/of-advertising-and-scaling-...) talking about how Aerospike DB is essential to their serving up 15B (as in billion) ad impressions per-day.
I'm used to riding Lyft which uses a real picture of the vehicle. Last night, I was waiting for what I "thought" would be a red Hyundai and the driver had to yell to me before I realized that it was the car I was expecting.
What an idea! Simple but challenging and so much fun!!
Blackwater Falls
Not necessarily. It shows you only the first decimal.
I think they know their ad system sucked so I read somewhere that http://adzerk.com/ is now handling almost all of their ads after starting with their display ads.
If you're curious, I put together a Python library for that:
https://github.com/tals/uber.py

Some of this is remainders from when they just had consultants working on this. Look at hash_password() at client.py :)