skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think they're always looking for efficiency of traffic flow. I live on the south side of Chicago. I swear the lights along major streets are timed to make it inconvenient for traffic flow ON PURPOSE. My unscientific theory is that this is done to prevent speeding, rack up violations for idiots that like to race, and make it easier for cops to pursue in their cars. Case in point: my street has a stretch of at least 3 blocks without a light; hence, we get idiots (cars and cycles) that like to gun it in a 30 mph zone.
Give me a break. You sound exactly like the elderly folks you always hear saying "things used to be so much better, nobody saying "Sir" and "Ma'am" anymore...kids these days have no manners."

The commenting ecosystem on the internet has always been a coarse and insensitive place, and it always will be. This is not a new thing.
I always use the 'threads' button in the menu bar, good enough for me.
Or use http://hnnotify.com
I would think in this instance that this is not just a Google opinion. It is now becoming a Best Practice[1].

[1] - http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7258
You are asking a question, and I see quite a few people
answer. Since you expect others to show appreciation
for your contribution, why have you not shown any towards
them?

Also name calling everyone that doesn't adhere your cultural rules is quite mean from my perspective.
Put the command in a .bat file with notepad and run that in the cmd window?
This is one the benefits (among many costs) of not having a world state, the interests of nations balance against each other creating room for successful dissent.
China races to restrict messaging apps
Just disable Javascript by default.
How could they roll out this marvelous new idea so quickly. Uber was genius to think of this radical concept, "splitting a cab," there is no way Lyft could come up with it so quickly on their own.
Ah well... I have a -4 downvote just because I accidentally replied to the wrong thread one day.. big deal... won't sleep any less over it... guess that's part of the internets...
No, it is worse than reddit. reddit has a way to deal with the noise. With HN you get noise or silence in too many cases.
In the long run, that'll hurt Russia a lot more than Europe.
Definitely. On the other side, it's even worse if you're having a conversation with someone and they start editing their comments which you have already replied to, invalidating the entire thread of conversation and making you look like a dumbass.
Anyone know of the top one-person start-ups as in a single person is still running them?

I suspect it is in the area of affiliate marketing.
Maybe they didn't want to bring down their average comment score? I'm not saying that is a good reason, just a possible reason.
Rails' Degenerate Front-End Support
Actually Ethereum requires you to trust the mining pools that make up 51% of the hashing power of the network.

Codius allows you to select oracles based on whatever criteria you like -- including using mining. The nodes don't necessarily need to be reputable, you just need them not to collude
File a trademark for Nerdcore and then file an ownership dispute with WIPO against the new owner. Just kidding, but I lost a domain that way. The domain system is a mess and unless you have strong intellectual property ownership behind the name you should assume you could lose it at any time.
Not at all. Unlike the e-cat, the design here is clear and it sounds like it's independently verified from the ground up with good experimental conditions.

The e-cat had "secrets" that they wouldn't divulge and it's tests were also questionable with the machine being plugged into a power source the whole time.
This is both true and irrelevant for the vast majority of users, who will do what they're sold.
The current state of affairs is not much better than Reddit (I'm talking about /r/programming here specifically, as I used to be a long time reader who switched to HN several years back), honestly. There's just a bit less vitriol on average (but also less humor). I don't know what the solution is either. To your point about "resist[ing] letting irksome things irk you" - I agree, and it can be very hard. It takes dedicated practice to become "well-adjusted" to the world around us. The degree to which you can change the world around you is much smaller than the degree to which you can change yourself.

I'd recommend watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKYJVV7HuZw

Then, if you liked it, listen to the entire speech that was the inspiration behind it (the video above is only a small section and I don't really like it but I put it first because I think it's more accessible than the entire thing for the uninitiated):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI
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Because lots can go wrong, one experiment is not a verification. Particularly when the measurements are so sensitive. And I'm aware this is the third experiment, but with a result that is so counter to basic theory, we need many more.
That's what I use, but I am generally only going to check responses on the most recently couple of posts. And I'm afraid the 2nd page suffers the same fate as Google results that are beyond the first page... never getting seen.
I tackled the problem by not calling it a downvote but a "reprimand". Upvotes are called "rewards".

I've never seen anyone used a "reprimand" yet, but rewards are used generously. Also, I periodically gives out a number of reward tickets that people can use to reward people, they're far superior than reprimand tickets, so I guess people think twice before reprimanding someone and losing the chance to reprimand someone else who really deserves it.

It's a smaller community so I don't know how it would do on Hackernews, but the power of words, etc...

ps: to give more info about how I do it, I also don't use upward/downward arrows. They would suggest a sorting of some sort. You can also reprimand multiple times someone, but he will only lose 1 point of karma. So you won't lose 20 points because of a comment.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

Nothing worth visiting, just marketing for their service.
Well, the relativity principle states that things don't "move from one frame of reference to the other". You choose a frame, and observe things on that frame; changing the frame of reference is your choice, and must not alter the results in any way.

Accepting a flaw in conservation of momentum is already hard enough without you (and the original paper) imposing a flaw on the relativity principle to explain it.
Here are some use cases: https://github.com/codius/codius/wiki/A-(Hopefully)-Simple-O...

[disclaimer: i'm an employee of ripple labs]
This is the first time we're hearing performance in that magnitude, and it's definitely not the intended frame rate. It sounds like your system is switching to software OpenGL rendering, rather than running directly on your GPU. Could you please share more details about your system on Github? https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-js/issues/new
On certain topics, HN always had a downvote problem for certain contrarian opinions. For example, heaven forbid you didn't think everything Apple produced when Steve Jobs was alive was a gift from heaven. Anything questioning that was always downvoted, even if presented in a non-snarky way.

It was so bad that pg even introduced a downvote floor (-5) to keep people from shedding hundreds of points of karma when the downvote brigade inevitably pounced. This simple change really helped with user engagement and breaking up some of the more fantastic group think here IMHO.

We're just seeing a different form of what HN has always had, but just on different topics. Just like the karma floor "fixed" the old downvote brigades, some kind of adjustment will probably fix what's going on these days.
Welcome to the internet.

Maybe they erased the post by accident? How do you know that your answer solved their issue or was relevant? You might think that was the case but it might not be.

In general, I think this is a extremely silly.

I had instances where I would post about cloud infrastructure and somebody would crawl out of their hole to 'educate' me on colocation, thinking they are solving a ground breaking issue.
There's a 'comments' link in your profile. I check it religiously, there are very often interesting responses.

Say thanks by upvoting.
Opposite for me. I wish I took VC money. I bootstrapped my startup. We failed. And part of why we failed (besides obviously being cash strapped) was the early validation that we were lacking (from a customer side, but also from an investor/VC side). One shouldn't underestimate the experience and connections those guys have.
Smart contracts run on Codius can interact with any blockchain!

To move money in Bitcoin all you need is a valid digital signature. Smart contracts are programs that can check some conditions and then based on those decide to sign a Bitcoin (or Litecoin, Nextcoin, Ripple, etc) transaction or not based on those.

For a simpler introduction to smart contracts and Codius check out: http://bit.ly/codiussimple

Keep the questions coming!
I suppose that really I just don't find your model compelling - I don't think that is how copyright revenues work. I understand that you are simplifying for the purposes of discussion, but in reality most copyrightable works of the kind we are discussing either "die" or, rarely, they "live on".

If the work does live on, you won't be charging a constant price for them year after year - the price of a book, for example, will go up to match inflation, so if you sell a constant number of books per year, your "dollar" revenue will also go up with inflation (I'm ignoring technological advances in printing, etc., which are independent of this argument). It is essentially in this way that the Doyle estate continue(s/d) to make money from Arthur's works, albeit through licensing - the point is those things were priced at current market value.

However, I personally don't believe that the creators of copyrightable works take any of this into account when they are producing those works, partly because of the uncertainty involved in future revenues - it is highly likely that any given work will be one of the ones that just dies, and so anyone who might bank on a perpetual revenue stream is probably deluded, and most people are smarter than that.

I'm not sure, but I think your analysis might provide the expected value of a work, but that is essentially meaningless for someone who is only going to produce a relatively small number of works, which are highly unlikely to somehow represent a random sample of all possible works.

Assuming I understood correctly, I agree with everything in the post to which I'm replying, regarding the role of incentives, just not the present-value analysis you refer to.
I suspect that the initial sanctions had more to do with Snowden than with Ukraine.

FYI -- the women behind these sanctions, Victoria Nuland, used to be a senior aid of Dick Cheney. Prepare for shit to get a lot worse and last a lot longer than anyone expects.
The back end may be the fun part, but there is a lot of actual computer science in the front end too.
Or, you know, reword it with the edit button. You'll probably get a better, more helpful response with a well-worded comment.
I have this issue too but more so because I feel like I am just adding to the noise when I don't have anything more substantial to say other than Thank You. "People are already overloaded with the amount of emails they get, do I need to it?" is how I've looked at it but perhaps but that's not the best approach.
Yelp lied about review policies to inflate stock price, lawsuit claims
Ironically, this is a perfect example of a comment that never would have been written in the old days.

There may have been an instance here or there of HN being coarse or insensitive, but it was the exception and not the rule. Evidently, that has reversed.
May be that person felt embarrassed/stupid after asking the question. Personally, it wouldn't compel me to write a post about it.
Kinko.me – PGP to the masses – starts crowdfunding
See https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/kinko-me-pretty-easy-privacy/x/4253161

Feedback + Support appreciated :)

Also: This was posted as a link a couple of minutes ago, but showed up [dead]. Would someone care to explain why?
There always seems to be a touch of nostalgia for the good old days when situations like this come up. People undoubtedly yearn for the time when Hacker News was smaller and more close knit community. Ive been a member here for about 3 and a half years. I suppose that in that time, some of the quality has declined, but I really cant even say for sure that is the case. I think I have learned a lot here, and because of that I may perceive certain topics and discussions here not as stimulating as I did back when I joined.

As for downvotes, I reserve that for obvious trolling and overly snarky comments that just seem to be aimed at stirring the pot. I have noticed that some genuinely funny comments or puns based on the discussion get downvoted, which I disagree with. It may not add to the intellectual value, but I enjoy a good laugh as much as I enjoy learning.

I would agree with some of the sentiments here that the person probably deleted their question out of fear that they would "look dumb". I think experience has taught me that while Im not the smartest person out there, when something doesnt make sense to me, there is usually someone else that doesnt get it either. Ive also learned that people that react poorly to "stupid questions" are probably feeling defensive of their own knowledge/incompetence.

Anyway, I agree Colin, there is basic courtesy that if you are asking for help, it should be acknowledged and thanked when its provided. Nobody knows everything, and asking for help isnt a bad thing. So OWN your questions folks!!!
Just another data point, but I really enjoyed my course, even starting with the lexing/parsing. We did do everything from scratch though. I imagine learning to use bison/flex in a class isn't very rewarding.
mewtoo^w me too
One of the handful of pinned tabs in my browser is my HN Threads page. I don't comment that much so the first page of that section can go back 4-5 days. I usually refresh that a couple times a day (when I have recently posted) just to make sure I don't miss a reply to one of my comments. I don't go back further than page 1 so if you reply to a few days later I am likely to miss that. But since HN moves in hours not days, I don't really see that as a problem. If you are not actively looking at responses to your comments then you don't seem very interested in discussion.
I wouldn't take it personally. It was kind of you to answer the question, but take into account that while you are (evidently) HN savvy, many are not and perhaps lack the skills to send you a personal note about them having to delete the question quickly.
I'll accept that point but I still don't think its the same. My thinking is that these companies pretty much grew with the internet, which played a pretty big role in their success and I just don't see the internet growing in that same fashion today.

That said, the way we use the internet today is changing which is why I don't think its exactly impossible but would question how difficult it would be in comparison to 20years ago.
> It could've been coordinated by activists, but then somehow all their organizational skills disappeared right after Yanukovich was gone. Just look at the mess that followed.

This is how virtually every revolution goes.
They screwed him for sure. I bet they got a bit more money from the "resale" too. Threaten them with court action because their terms specifically spell out the scenario in question.
We've gotten this request a few times, can you elaborate on why you need so much RAM? How much is enough?
It comes down to motivation. If the airliner was shot down accidentally, then there is a pretty clear precedent that victims and nations can sue for damages, but I do not recall any retaliatory sanctions against nations.

Ukraine shot down Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 in 2001, the US shot down Iran Air Flight 655 in 1988 and the French probably shot down Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870 in 1980. The Russians do have form on this with shooting down Korean Air Lines Flight 007 in 1983.

Unless it is a deliberate act, then it is generally treated as regrettable collateral damage, but is not usually considered an act of war. For the obvious reason that the world is already intentionally dangerous enough without us taking too much umbrage at any of the inevitable fuckups that constantly occur alongside the everyday business of blowing the shit out of each other.
Why We Might Be Stuck With Passwords for a While
I wonder if this also affects static sites. Is there a reason to provide SSL on static sites?

What about blogs where only an admin logs in? (I suppose that could still be an issue if the site is hacked and templates edited to serve malicious code.)
10GBASE-T isn't popular because your cable runs are cut short.

Costs have come down a lot on fiber. A short range SFP is like $120 or so, and short range cables are like $3 per meter.

What a lot of people do as a stopgap is binding ports together, using something like LACP. There's trade-offs of course. A 4 port 1000BASE-T card could be used to boost a few important servers.
https://www.namecheap.com/security/ssl-certificates/comodo/p...
I've taught a compiler design course every other year for awhile and one of the big drawbacks is that the students don't have an intimate knowledge of machine/assembly language for any specific architecture. 20 years ago programmers understood how the underlying machine and OS worked in detail -- nowadays programmers/students are strongly insulated from these details.

Ideally I would want to teach a two semester course starting with the backend first -- the first task would be to write several significant programs in assembly language (for some clean RISC machine) and grade them on how well they managed register allocation, stack frame / heap management, page alignment, etc.. Then cover how to convert some SSA IR (e.g., LLVM) into that language.

How do you translate into a language you don't understand?
Nevermind, I put everything on one line and it fixed it. Thanks!
I think you get it at 500 karma.

Maybe it'd be a good idea for the site admins to check the first 5-10 downvotes of someone who just received downvoting privileges, and if they're inappropriately used, take the downvoting privileges away from that person.
You aren't out of touch, I feel like the downvotes are being used more often on HN, maybe someone like dang could look at the actual data to see if there is any validity to the feeling.
I am the founder and sole operator of PubExchange, a platform that helps publishers manage their link exchanges. It is currently powering billions of links per month.
I'm pretty sure this doesn't need to be said, but everyone is allowed to take issue with things that they are not directly involved in. It's part of how society works.
Please don't fall back on things like "welcome to the internet." One, it's needlessly snarky. Two, we would like this place to be better.
Two Tap(YC W14) Raises $2.7M Round For Its Shopping Cart For The Entire Internet
Yes, but your original comment in this thread is just a semantic ruse.

Saying we can't decide how wings work is not at all in the same category as saying these guys don't know how Q works.

One "not knowing" is about not knowing exactly precisely how to model something perfectly because it has so much complexity.

The other not "not knowing" is about not having even a basic working theory that doesn't use mumbo jumbo and stands up to scrutiny.
20/20 Hindsight
This is true as well. I don't really like receiving emails that just say 'Thank you', and I'm never sure whether other people do or not. Some relatively high-profile and busy people have said to me in the past "Did you get the thing I sent? You didn't say thanks." so it's definitely a personal thing.
I see this has negative for several reasons :

* Certificates are expensive (to buy _and_ to manage)

* Crypto is hard and there will be a lot of screw up with inadequate certs in the wild for a long time. Just having a certificate does not mean much if it weak or broken.

* Can't help the feeling it's an indirect push for cloud business hence possibly eating the margin of freelancers / ISV

* Security Theatre : a lot of critical information for business still transit by email. Will Google force encrypted emails for the greater good ? I don't think so.
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I've found that a suit disguises my doughy physique better than anything short of a winter coat.
> Why would tracking someones movements be an extraordinary achievement for CIA?

I do think that would be an achievement while he's under the wing of the Russian government. But what do I know?

What's really extraordinary is that gpvos knows for sure that it's not only doable but is actually happening; and is willing to share this intel with us. Or they seem to know; no citation to support the claim has been provided yet. It could just be internet BS.
There's a link to a free version (in fact, several, in english and something that's maybe chinese) of the paper in the other story about it at HN.

But you're right that there are no actual dimensions in it.
Im not a founder so my knowledge is somewhat limited, but from what I see around me most of the known or more 'successful' startups tend to have at least 2 founders. There must be some reason/correlation behind that right ?
Fairly sensible advice. One quibble I have is the idea that computer science departments are somehow shortchanging students by not teaching them business skills. If you want to learn business, take some classes from the business or economics department. Or ask for advice from a businessman. Computer science professors should be teaching computer science, not business. It's kind of silly to expect otherwise.
Good points ... of course, on the phenomenon of everyone constantly evaluating and knowing they're being evaluated: them little triangles, and the subsequent benefits / consequences, kinda encourage that. Bit of a double-edged sword, perhaps.
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Silicon Valley Tech Entrepreneurs: Behind the Stereotype
Seems pretty misleading to call these one-person startups. Maybe PlentyOfFish should qualify because it was run by one person for years with significant revenues and profits, and there may be a good case for DuckDuckGo.

I can't say with absolute certainty about all the rest but many were solo founders who quickly attracted a team.
There's a short edit window; annoying, but it prevents aging threads from being defaced or comments being changed to misrepresent responders so I guess one has to learn to live with it.
It can be any visual editor - a HTML page (with some js) or even some CLI tools.
That's a good point. Actually, it might work on HN if each downvote required an explanation.

When you click the down arrow, it wouldn't apply immediately, but would first show you a text box for explaining the downvote (this would be just like the "Add Comment" page).

The explanation would not be publicly displayed anywhere, but would be accessible to moderators. This could be an effective filter against frivolous downvotes.
> On certain topics, HN always had a downvote problem for certain contrarian opinions. For example, heaven forbid you didn't think everything Apple produced when Steve Jobs was alive was a gift from heaven

Also see: Snowden is not a hero, Piracy is not ok & The NSA snooping is not so bad.
I have been down voted when there was a 10+ reply to my comment and question. I was told I was totally off base and needed to read the article.

I read the article and quoted exactly showing what I was talking about down voted again so that maybe people wouldn't see that they were actually wrong.

My favorite community right now is Google+ for R and VIM. Down votes are focusing on disagree and not constructive.
Huh. Nice trick. Thanks!