skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One thing I sincerely hope reddit will do with the new injection is to increase the level of quality of content and discussion across the board. Often the advice given is "you've got to find the smaller subreddits" and while that's true, I think having the first few layers filled with terrible content and hive-minded, often racist/sexist discussion is incredibly detrimental to both the site's image and new user experiences.

Do we have any examples of large Internet communities with unilateral good discussion?

They way I've thought about it, the subreddits with better user content/discussion are primarily because:

* They attract fewer people, so only users more dedicated to the topic and more dedicated to finding a good community will find them. These users tend to be better contributors.

* Heavy-handed authoritarian moderation.

The first one only works so long as the subreddit is less popular. The more it will regress toward the mean of Internet contributions, which I believe to be inherently low.

The second one only works well when you have a specific topic with carefully defined rules and very active moderators with no regard for popular consensus and said moderators don't develop a power complex.

I don't think reddit has shown any interesting solutions to the problem of high quality contribution. At the risk of sounding elitist, we've seen how popularity kills quality discussion on countless communities over the years. Again, I think massive discussion tends toward being inherently low on average.

Edit: Beaten by noir_lord by a couple minutes listing the exact same two points.
A collection of Design Patterns and code for your next project
A collection of design patterns & code for your project

http://codepen.io/patterns/
Paste in command prompt? This works today:
Alt-Space, E, P
Don't worry, though, Microsoft and their NSAKEY will be there for them.
Eek so I actually have to make/use a setter for every single attribute of my models? That's definitely a deal breaker for me.
shameless plug: there is a company who is doing this in Paris (France): http://thevibrantproject.com/la-cour-bleue/

On the other hand I believe much more into industrial application than personal one. One of the advancement in the field: "Liquid phase 3D printing for quickly manufacturing conductive metal objects with low melting point alloy ink" [http://tech.scichina.com:8082/sciEe/EN/abstract/abstract5147...]
We should ban the ownership of non-trivial safes for the same reason then. We should also prevent people from writing things in non-approved languages, in case in makes the understanding of things more difficult when a warrant is served.

Hell, if I just hide my information in a stack of a million other paper files, that would be enough to thwart all but the most determined investigator from accessing it without my cooperation.
The problem with reddit right now is that community managers are rather ineffective at actually handling the community which leads to the other employees of reddit (engineers) to finally step in. The only time when reddit does usually act is when there are some serious legal implications. This is what often leads to the reddit administrator's actions to be labeled as arbitrary.

Although, as of recently the reddit administrators started banning some of the more racist subreddits even though they didn't have any official change in policy.
Whether or not giving up a password or unlock code is protected by the 5th amendment is itself a gray area that the courts are still sorting out.

I would prefer to have the password NOT be protected by the 5th amendment and have strong encryption on phones than not have strong encryption on phones. That seems like the only way to prevent casual warrantless rummaging.
OS X Yosemite GM Candidate Released
Yes, this includes bumping extended support until 2021.
Google announces Drive for Education: free, unlimited storage
I am against a site policy that says "we are aware that something horrible happened, but we aren't willing to make any changes to prevent it from potentially happening again".

I'd love to get some feedback from the downvoters, because it's hard for me to reconcile Yishan Wong's statement with Sam's assertion that he's "excited to watch it play out".
That understanding doesn't come from the people with guns. Else the US would not need to spend $billions on guns to fight the drug trade.

I don't say the folks with guns can't do constructive things to improve trade. They can. But they don't create that understanding you're talking about.
Then why would the interviewer specifically bring them up as an example of what people have complained about?
The average buyer isn't confused by which version to use. They use the one that comes with their computer, or if they really want to upgrade on the same computer, the one that is on the shelf at Best Buy.
Is that to provide users with a false sense of security since US law enforcement can secretly ask for the decryption keys?
It's a good time to invest in reddit. Not because it will become cooler over the coming years, but because it will become more valuable as it monetizes itself and sells off it's goodwill/equity.

Reddit as a platform peaked in 2013- quantitatively[1] and qualitatively. It's mainstream now, and will soon be passe (something like SomethingAwful).

If reddit has any value as an investment, it's for advertising and personal (pseudonymous or not) data. Facebook peaked a few years ago in the way I've described, and since their IPO has grown in market value[2] but declined in cultural value[3] (even as its MAU continue to grow!). They are slowly selling off piece by piece, literally to the highest bidder, the equity, trust and attention that it has built up over the years. It's not a sustainable model, it's in a mature phase by now, and it generates a whole lot of cash while it lasts.

Wouldn't be surprised to watch reddit do the same.

[1] http://www.randalolson.com/2014/09/28/the-most-upvoted-post-...
[2] http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=FB&t=2y&l=on&z=l&q=l&c=
[3] https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=facebook
"“This is a fundamental tension,” Howe said. The “balance between how much privacy you’re allowed to have and how many rights the government has” is a question that has continued historically in the U.S., he said."

Uh.. I thought I had unalienable rights as a human being, from the Creator or whatever. It's not about privacy the government "allows" me to have.
The r.http command in RethinkDB is interesting, is there another database that has anything similar? I can't think of one.
Sorry to hear – and yes, it will pass!

Focus on the degree. Two semesters will fly by. In many cases, a degree is just proof on a resume that you were able to stick to a task, and finish the job.

Be upfront with your girlfriend. The current work/school dilemma isn't a permanent situation – it's a means to an end (or a beginning, I guess). Good luck.
Alaska isn't another planet, and therefore lacks the allure that living on another planet has for many people.

It really is that simple.
Thanks for the heads up! We will address that right away.

Also, one of the examples (GridViewExample) in the release reads JSON data with GSON.
Good catch! I suspect it is more like they wanted to convey the message Windows 10 can also be used in embedded applications currently covered by e.g. Windows Embedded Compact 7. Someone in marketing did an image search for "embedded board" or something, and added the best looking image, which accidentally turns out to be a Yun.
I get that there's a lot to like about Reddit - it's absolutely an impressive platform and it definitely deserves investment. And I get the libertarian ideals of the admins, I do.

But yeah, seeing the phrase "First, it’s always bothered me that users ..." not end in a discussion of the toxic parts of Reddit's culture and the various high-profile cases of Reddit's admins ignoring ongoing problems of their most horrifying sub-reddits... that was a bit jarring.
Should have brand it Windows X 10.0.
Ctrl+Shift+V
Bingo! You can, as far as I know, confiscate and search a suspect just based on probable cause, whereas you'd need to have at least a subpoena if not a warrant to get wiretap authorization or phone records.
This is good feedback — we definitely expect to be polishing the API quite a bit in the weeks to come, just like we did on iOS>

You have to use Realm.createObject because objects are strongly tied to one Realm at a time. We could introduce standalone objects you can create with regular constructors but you’d be a really heft performance hit there.

RealmLists are mostly used to model relationships at this point, so you could add them to a another model like (http://realm.io/docs/java/0.70.1/#relationships) although eventually we do want to introduce standalone RealmLists.

What would you expect to use multiple RealmObjects in a single RealmList for? (Just so we can learn from your use-case.)
Ya, I thought about after I wrote it. Though I believe you can only downvote comments not stories on HN.
>Like it or not, we have a legal system that entitles the government to execute lawfully obtained warrants.

The same legal system also says using encryption is perfectly legal.
Isn't the point "ensures humanity's future". How does living underwater ensure humanity's future if Earth goes pot?
Talk it over with someone who knows you well. I don't think an online forum is this best place for this kind of thing.
I hopped into the #b2g irc channel and mentioned this thread. A user told me that s/he has notified someone who might be able to do something about it. I guess they have a bug/ticket open somewhere which they use to track "brand use" issues.

In my mind, the appropriate outcome is that the EULA be removed. It's obviously the work of someone attempting to cover their bases while not being knowledgeable about software licensing.
Set a global policy and stick to it. When something gets banned it's because it violates the policy and not because of some half-hearted moralizing, while other clearly horrendous communities (like nightmare inducing) are allowed to sit around.
That's speculation. What if there were significant mineral resources, attractive tax rules, a large, highly motivated labor pool, and a lot of solar energy that could be harvested to drive that economy?

Could be a playground he couldn't pass up.
Excellent one. I'd add economics, sociology and, although I am just 80% sure - medicine.

There is a book out there called something like "Curing factors in psychoanalysis" which ends with a sentence: "Well, we know that talking to a person certainly has some impact, but what impact, how and why, we're not sure at all."
"The new windows is so much better in fact that there's no longer any reason to buy anti-virus and anti-malware software to deal with its defects."

That's Windows 8.
I wonder how much the complete and utter darkness of the deep see would psychologically deter/impact the decision for underwater cities?

Also while Mars does get crazy cold -225'F it can also get up to a nice 70'F at noon. The deep ocean is 0-3'F with not much fluctuation. Of course we could engineer some water cycling around the cities to bring cold up and warm down.

The other psychological choice to make is, "Would you prefer to live in a dwelling surrounded by almost no atmospheric pressure, or intensely high atmospheric pressure?"
The odds are 99% that, twenty years from now, you'll be glad you stuck it out, as you survey the working room floor from your carpeted office where you make the decisions for those people who acted on their frustration at the slow pace of formal education.
I'm still interested in how moderation really works on reddit...

the "reddit drama" always makes me curious but I don't really know the rules very well.
They're saying its going to run on phones and phablets etc so yes sounds like some version of Windows 10 will run on ARM. I doubt it will be full windows api though, probably a subset something like RT. Whatever subset their universal apps target I guess.
This is a pretty awesome MCU. We live in a time of stunningly powerful 'cheap' compute power. Now with the DSP's boosted to the internal clock I am thinking we will seem some of these appear in software defined radio systems.
Good find, thanks. Apparently there are some data plans that are only authorized for use with certain phone models (i.e., the phones are locked-down so that the plan is not as "valuable"), which are identified by IMEI, so this could fit.

I wonder, do you have to be doing it strictly "to obtain telecommunications service without authorization", as opposed to increasing privacy? I noticed the text doesn't say "with intent to defraud" like the surrounding paragraphs[0].

[0] http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1029
I really enjoy /r/photography, the quality of discourse is high and there are very little nastiness. The mod team is also highly active and engages members - weekly discussions along directed topics, weekly writeups/discussions about famous works/photographers, etc.

IMO subreddits like it are evidence that the Reddit macro model has been, and will continue to be a failure. The community is at its best when tone is actively directed by a dedicated mod team, and abusive behavior actively policed, in distinct contrast to the relative free-for-all that are the default subreddits.

Reddit's admins make a lot of noise about believing in the hands-off approach ("every man is responsible for his own soul"), but ultimately the hands-on approach create higher-quality communities (even at scale: see /r/iama) and curbs the abuse that has made the default subreddits complete intellectual wastelands. Not only that, Reddit itself has not been consistent on being hands-off, what with the banning of subreddits and whatnot.

Side shoutout to /r/movies - always good discussions. Things get more animated and sometimes less civil than /r/photography but the mod team does a good job keeping things from exploding.
I totally agree that it could go wrong in many ways. We could end up in a zoo or go extinct, no doubt about that. But it seems to me that there is a bit of a mechanistic undertone in phrases like "ruthless efficiency" as well as in the paper clip example and that contradicts what we consider intelligent.

General artificial intelligence is an antropomorphic concept in the first place. It includes inefficiencies. It includes self reflection. It includes uncertainty and disagreement about what is and isn't efficient and about what is and isn't right.

Does that guarantee that any AGI would be reasonable or even morally acceptable in our sense? No. But if it is intelligent in our sense we know two things:

This entity can be reasoned with, and having grown up in our midst, it will understand us. It would also be very surprising if it shared none of our values. After all it has evolved among us and any intelligent being is going to pick up some of the values of the society it is part of.

Secondly, intelligence includes creative leaps. That means, no two AGIs would share the exact same opinion, just as no two humans do. So we may be able to convince a majority of AGIs to be kind to us, and any efficiency of an AGI society wouldn't be as ruthlessly efficient as if there were just one single all powerful AGI.

So, all I'm saying is, let's not strip the term general intelligence of all its non-mechanistic, self-referential, social traits. An AGI could one day anihilate us but it would probably not be a side-effect of some fairly unimportant industrial process like making paper clips.
What is wrong with Mac OS11? Apple keeps going with OSX because it's so marketable. What is wrong with Linux kernel 2.6? Linus bumped the version number purely for marketing (after saying he would not bump the version number).

Version numbers are pure marketing anyway.
Try looking for a subreddit directed at a very specific niche. I find that the local and sports subreddits tend to be pretty good. Some other quality subreddits are http://www.reddit.com/r/syriancivilwar/ and http://www.reddit.com/r/ukrainianconflict.
Heavily moderated subreddits are Reddit's biggest problem. Time and again, the volunteer moderators prove that they cannot be impartial, and bias creeps in, inevitably culminating in a bizarre power struggle with the normal users. I've seen it so many times.

This isn't helped by the fact that the majority of popular subreddits are moderated by the same people, resulting in a kind of weird cabal situation.

I'm not sure what the solution is. Personally I think no moderation, simply relying on up/down votes would be better, but without going to that extreme, perhaps only allowing one person to moderate one subreddit (or a small number) would help.
If we can't get our shit together in the billions of years it'll take the sun to sputter out, we don't deserve to live.

Honestly, are you really going to be disappointed if, after a few billion years, humanity runs out of gas? We'd have done be the most successful species in the history of species.
Agreed, love the detail. And they even dropped the source code at the end to let me play around with it. Going to have to give this a try to see if the setup is worth the time versus just plugging in an existing javascript framework. ES6 has no bounds.
Migrate Data from Polarb to PollHub
Slava @ Rethink here. Not sure if anyone else supports it, but check out http://rethinkdb.com/docs/external-api-access/ for more interesting details on the command.
The New Ethnic Media
Technically yes, you could write your own JavaScript wrappers using the bridge (and alias the API differences between iOS and Android) but that’s probably cumbersome at this point. We do hope to make a version of Realm for Phonegap soon.
Article title: "The world's loudest sound caused shock waves 100,000 times that of a hydrogen bomb"

Submission title: "World's loudest sound sent shock waves 100,000X nitrogen bomb"

WTF? Nitrogen bomb? Does no one know how to copy and paste any more?
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/r/AskHistorians is one of my favorites. Mods are insanely hawkish about the rules which slightly turned me off when I first subscribed. But after a few months it started to make sense and the quality of contributions is superbly high.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians
>I develop on Windows

In my experience, this sucks in basically any language.
I always know I'm using Windows 7 at work because I really miss the much improved task manager and file transfer screen that Windows 8 has.

Plus I'm running an anti-virus. That's a big tell than you're on an outdated OS.
These are some of my favorite subreddits:

http://reddit.com/r/hiphopheads

http://reddit.com/r/frugalmalefashion

http://reddit.com/r/javascript/

http://reddit.com/r/snowboarding/

I find these subs to be on topic, relatively positive, often receptive to the new and uninitiated, providing a wealth of FAQ/just starting out information and have interesting weekly events.

I especially enjoy the header with album release dates in hiphopheads, and there are a number of cool weekly events in frugalmalefashion (and its more expensive brother subreddit, http://reddit.com/r/malefashionadvice).

As with any sufficiently large group, you'll find groupthink. However, I've found that many smaller subreddits are more receptive of self-criticism when it gets too bad.
"single point of truth that's not centralized"

Outside of the blockchain, what other examples are out there? It seems to me like trying to do something similar with Usenet, DHTs, IRC, XMPP, BitTorrent, or Freenet all have issues that don't really allow for this. Am I just mistaken? Please, enlighten!
Reddit Plans Cryptocurrency to Give Back to Its Users After $50M Raise
No commercial Firefox OS devices are shipping in any English speaking country. It looks like you're finding community blog posts probably clustered around launch countries. Anyway, press releases are always announced in English here: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/category/press-releases/
Some of the communities around mental illness offer very caring communities. Obviously I think it is mostly because of very strict rules/admins. It is special to have an anonymous place to vent and have people understand you without trolling.

/r/mmfb

/r/leaves

/r/trichsters & /r/calmhands

/r/depression

/r/SuicideWatch
er - possibly, I'm not a lawyer.
I read it somewhere on the internet and it sounded credible at the time.
In b4 Solaris
I wonder if those community shares will benefit the people whose digital content is infringed upon for profit will be? Giving back to the community is interesting. Attempting to give back to the content creators upon whose backs Reddit is built would be even more interesting.
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It absolutely does. Just look anywhere in the world where there isn't a government (or "dominant gang" if you want to call it that). Trade totally breaks down. In a world where there is no entity with guns to punish use of violence, its the game theoretic advantageous behavior. Not everyone will engage in it, and most won't, but enough will to cause the framework of trade to break down.
>Error establishing a database connection

This works...

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2014/sep14/09-30fu...
That didn't stop them from doing Xbox One.
The Illusion of “Natural”
The Director of the FBI James B. Comey says: "What concerns me about this is companies marketing something expressly to allow people to hold themselves beyond the law."

See, that's funny. Because what concerns me is that the government thinks they are beyond the law.
Yeah, weird they didn't put in an Intel Galileo or Edison, since those are actual embedded boards that can run Windows (Galileo at least, but I'd be shocked if Edison doesn't run Windows for IoT/devices/embedded whatever too).

Or maybe it's all a secret project to massively slim Windows down so it can run in the AVR's 2 kilobytes of memory. BillG can revise his quote to be, '2K ought to be enough for anybody'. :)