skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why can reddit users delete their old comments, but HN users can't?

1. Because of the sometimes perverse and always unfair effect of deleting comments after 20 replies are attached.

2. Because HN commenters expect to be held to a higher standard of personal responsibility.

3. Because we should be obliged to explain our misstatements, not delete them.
For what it's worth -- and here I have to wonder how much it's worth to criticize someone's point of view based on a photograph of them -- that's a dress uniform.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dress_uniform
One of the things Bill Gates commented about Steve Jobs, that he never really understood, is that when people turn around 35-40, they tend to chill out a bit, lose that intensity, and become "Management". For some reason, this didn't seem to happen to Steve, and he kept driving as hard as he did when he was 45 as was when he 25.

In comparison, Steve Ballmer, when he was on, was nuts (in the best way) - but, I get the sense he took his foot off the accelerator, particularly during the Vista years, and the Windows Phone response to iPhone years.

There is something to be said for "Youthful Intensity" - particularly if you can sustain it your entire working career without having a breakdown.
curl puts the data from the server on stdout, progress on stderr. what's the process for getting ads from the server to appear in curl progress?
Personally, the rewards were secondary: the drive mainly just reminded me to set up permanent relays, so I did. :-)
Nice find! I was actually quite excited about "Windows 9". Now that it's called Windows 10 I get this feeling of political bullshit within Microsoft and some higher ups not knowing what they are doing and demanding it be called Win 10. I just kind of have to laugh at this number jump.
I've always thought the user flow that a lot of newsfeed apps use would work well for reddit. (ex: show a list/grid of communities/topics, check the ones that interest you, maybe show some recent posts from them as a preview).

Given that new signups are plopped right back to the home page after registration I can see how they don't immediately get it. Hell, even redirect to /subreddits (which, I suppose IS what I described above, but less guided/interactive) after signup could help people get into the curation part more.
Considering that the "peace" faction's strategy was to force an invasion and massive casualty's (98% wastage for the first 5 waves) to help a negotiated settlement I think Pres Eisenhower is as naive as Chamberlin was prior to ww2
Nop, it's a reference to Photoshop's Large Document Format. [1]

[1]: http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/file-formats.html#lar...
Alaska is relatively inhospitable, cold, distant from main human cultural centers. Mars is vastly more so. While science fiction might give an imaginary fantasy of life on Mars appeal, if there were somehow a fact rather than a fantasy of some kind of habitation being possible there, the reality wouldn't be pretty. I'd imagine we'd use the planet as a penal colony for the dregs of society if it were a reality rather than a fantasy.

Also, I wonder how your version of "many people" compares to the population of Alaska.
L.A. Mayor Garcetti Says the Driverless Revolution Could Start in Westwood
Thank you!

PCC measures these performance metrics and combine them via a utility function describing the data delivery goal, which can be "high throughput, low loss rate, don't care latency" or "high throughput, low latency" as we evaluated in Sec. 4.4 in the full paper
I think the point is that these companies literally can't unlock the phones and give access to the data, since (according to them) they no longer have the keys to do so.
Man Creates Expanding Shoe to Help Poor Kids
No.

Precisely because, as alexis said (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8390156) reddit is a platform for communities as much as it is a platform for users, and the norms for communities are created through moderation. The moderator gets to create the community they want, and it's up to users to accept the standards of moderation or move to/start a different community
I think the idea is if you buy something, they don't charge for delivery since their plan is to sell your data (i.e. if you order an Oral-B toothbrush, they won't charge but they may give you an ad/offer to buy a SoniCare for X$). The $10/$15 charge looks like a fee if there is no retail purchase (tasks, waiting in line, etc.), hence no opportunity to advertise.
Which inquiries, by whom, of whom, and in what context? Links, please; that doesn't accord with any history of WWII I've ever read, and while I don't assume that makes what you're saying false, I would very much like to evaluate the claim for myself.
EFF's September Stupid Patent of the Month
"You should better educate yourself, the article is about seizure with a warrant, with which Apple and Google will no longer be able to help them."

To add to the other great comments:

I understand that it is via warrant. In fact, the article states that Apple said, "It's not technically feasible for us to respond to government warrants [...]".

My concern is perhaps more nuanced. Put aside the warrant issue for a moment. That is to say, where do we draw the line and say, "This type of sweeping, 'open everything up and stop encrypting' request is a violation of, 'the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects?'"

In summary, my contention is that forcing companies to open up in this manner violates the explicit right of the people to be secure.
still haven't set it, but 9 years after demo day is certainly going to be over the bar.
> At the other end of the spectrum, there are hospital emergency rooms and pacemakers running Windows. It would be the wrong thing (always up-to-date) on those devices.

From the original link.
Nice, happy to come on anytime :). Intimidating list of speakers you already had, so I'll bring my best.
> It's fine to say that Japan would have surrendered without invasion, but such a strong assertion needs to be backed by equally strong evidence.

This was shown by post-war inquiries. Japan had already offered a complete surrender, contingent only on preserving the emperor. They had been trying to surrender since April, according to documents leaked by the president's Chief of Staff, on roughly the same terms that the Americans ultimately accepted.

The rush to drop the bombs was that the Soviet Union had promised to join the war against Japan on August 10, giving the Western allies only a few days to make sure that they would be the ones occupying Japan, not the Soviets.

A cynic might also suspect a bit of enthusiasm among U.S. military to field test the power of their new weapon.
> However, if they are, at some point the government is going to try to present evidence they gleaned through this lie, and that fact will leak out.

No, they are not. That is the whole point of parallel construction.
> users with more karma should have a larger voting power with their upvote

That will just make it more valuable to game the karma system. .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidan#Vote_Fraud
Rare Video of Steve Jobs Calling Out Michael Dell
Where did you get the data dump from?
There's been "QuickEdit" Mode for years which lets you right-click the mouse to paste or to copy text. But, CTRL+V will be a nice convenience.

To enable QuickEdit mode: right-click command prompt title bar and choose "Properties" from the context menu. In the "Options" tab, check "QuickEdit Mode". Now you can select text by pressing and dragging mouse, copy text with right click, and paste text with right click.
Thank you all for your interests!

We just updated a full-length version of PCC to arXiv, but it takes some time for arXiv to process and post online. The full version discussed our approach in a more detail and, I believe, clearer way. We have more evaluation for more challenging network scenarios and also evaluated PCC with different utility functions expressing different data transfer objectives.

So here is a preview:
http://web.engr.illinois.edu/~modong2/pcc_fullpaper.pdf
During this two weeks, we are writing some simple docs and making the file-transfer SOFTWARE more user-friendly. We also plan to release our experiments/demo CODE so one can easily play with and compare PCC with existing TCP variants.

Code is available at https://github.com/modong/pcc, but currently it is under some refactoring and some compile/run instructions are outdated. We will have a more formal release in two weeks.

Thanks

-Mo
The caveats of dual-licensing
Fashion Style with Heart
+1 A mentor is always a great thing to have and can really speed up the rate at which you improve. However, better than just any mentor is one who thinks, or sees things the same way you do. Working together on problems will result in dramatic improvements if the mentee has the right attitude.
I'm Wayne, one of the co-founders of Sortd. We are aiming to create a new email paradigm with Sortd. Happy to answer any questions...
A recent Supreme Court ruling[0] makes it unlawful for authorities to search confiscated cell phones without a warrant. They could, theoretically, confiscate your phone based on probable cause, but searching it would be a different matter.

[0] http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/13-132_8l9c.pdf
You do not want to see the cesspool that is moderated comments on 2xc.

Spam and hateful comments fall pretty fast anyway, but that doesn't mean that it should stay there. What would you prefer - a youtube page with all comments and some hidden due to a low score, or a page with all the shitty comments removed altogether? Someone is going to see that shit anyway and it's going to be awful as it involves everything from rape threats on support threads to someone that is trying to post something completely irrelevant to the subreddit.

And then there are comments that are really unpopular but they aren't hateful or spam, and even if it's buried we don't remove those. They would be mixed in with the hateful comments just because people don't like what the person is saying.

Some type of moderation is, in my opinion, a necessity. There are very few free-for-alls on the internet - if you have a good example of that working out, then I would like to know.
HN has never been purely tech-focused. You're right, of course, that it's a lot smaller than Reddit.
I really dislike that this teaches you how to use the Ruby virtual machine in C rather than just C itself. If you tried to hop from this over to a real, true C project, you would be totally lost, which isn't what you want from a tutorial.
I signed up for a dev unit but the "early prototype" part makes me think it won't work all that well ;) We'll see.
man, you don't need to tell me how bad Russia is - there is a reason i live in US now :). What i'm saying is that oppression of Russians has forced them to choose Putin's Russia - the situation when Putin's Russia is the better alternative speaks for itself. While oppression and discrimination before Euromaidan was below pain threshold, the Euromaidan brought to power the forces which were clearly intended and now, with the power of the state behind them, capable to perform another tutsi-hutu situation. Of course nobody is going to wait for 1M to be killed before acting this time. Language law and "trains/buses of friendship" was enough for even the stupid ones to understand that it is time to go, that ethnic Russian can hope for any protection from Ukrainian government because the government became the main assailant. The anti-terrorist operation (indiscriminate shelling of civilian cities) only confirmed that the choice was right. New "lustration" law toward ethnic Russians is basically the same as Germans laws 80 years ago prohibiting Jews from all government, education, etc... positions.

When Estonia, Latvia, Litva did similar things to Russians 20+ years ago (with very significant exception - there wasn't violence there) it was at least understandable as a payback for the "occupation". When Ukraine started to do this and let right wing nationalists to escalate violence - what was at least half valid foundation for that? This is why many Russians are pissed off, because Ukraine instead of solving its problems allowed the new oligarchy regime to basically scapegoat ethnic Russians for all the problems. Ukraine people allowed the initial social unrest to be channeled into ethnic dimension.
Cool. It's been a while since I've used Photoshop on a regular basis, so I'm out of the loop. It just seemed odd given that psd is used directly underneath the icon.
Went through four pages, and didn't see a single zero-point comment. That's pretty rare for reddit.
What Nate Silver taught us about log management
Seems like it's time for podcast.genius.com, which would be amazing.
HN is (only somewhat, but definitely somewhat, justly) famous for its sexism, hivemindedness and wacky politics. So, uh, what's your point?
No, the point of reddit is that communities of people moderate themselves under the rules they make up. Voting is not a substitute for moderation- see memes, offtopic comments, trolls, or the middlebrow dismissal that plagues HN. The later is always sitting at the top of page and in the positive; HN would be better if mods removed the comments or punished the accounts who make them.
Here's the Wikipedia article about their history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_desktop
+1 to the slow and eventual consolidation of power into a few hands -- this sounds like an awesome idea, in theory, until you put it into practice.

This is exactly what happened at Digg and was a huge reason for it's downfall -- combating this with the disaster of a total rewrite and eventually collapse of the card castle.

Watching that unfold made me realize... no matter how smart you are, people that can make money (or clicks or impressions) from your system are going to be smarter.
Some people would say they are putting themselves above oligarchy.
One way to promote quality is to crack down on low-quality content (which is something that HN does and you've done a good job at doing. :P).

For example, many popular subreddits support the making of image macros/memes. Many of the serious subreddits have a) banned the use of image macros/memes and/or b) forced the sub to use text posts only, which forces the submitter to add discussion, and also reduces the incentive for karma-gaining since text posts generate no karma.

Another approach is to promote original content [OC], which gives an incentive to submitters to submit unique content instead of just being the first to post a submission to a new article on TechCrunch for internet points. The subreddit /r/dataisbeautiful has done this very well. (I really wish Reddit would remove its 10:1 rule, which was made to punish self-promoters and is a different issue entirely)

And of course, the standard machine learning techniques can be used to predict the probability of a post being good given, for example, a) keywords in title b) quality of domain's previous submissions c) quality of user's previous submissions, etc.
I disagree. This would simply skew the entire site towards content that nets high karma, and high karma users. I have seen no evidence that high karma users post content any better than a new user, and often times, they are worse - manipulative or egotistical.
I asked my wife "do you want to go to Mars?"
She was in the other room with my noisy kid and she yelled back "No let's go in April"

Took me a while to process that:) The comments here seem to have the same sort of disconnect from what Mr. Musk is actually proposing. One gentleman suggests the only thing that's holding him back is the lack of a suitable Martian school district. Forget Martian teachers, or even a single Martian school - he wants an entire Martian district of schools so he can A/B test his way to the best one for his kid. Well, more power to him! At this rate, forget Mars, going to Mountain View for the 90 day yc gig seems a formidable exploration - what are you going to do about the school district there?
Or even more specifically, the appetite for capitalising on the rest of the worlds appetite for growth. Let's not forget what region of the world production of our physical goods is outsourced to.
Maybe, but if not done carefully, this could also lead to a coterie of high karma "power users" who control the content regular users see. High potential for corruption and drama. This already happens (for example that "biologist here!" fellow who controlled a voting ring to promote his own content and downvote competing content), make karma worth something might make the problem even worse.
I think he is being very clear. For now, at least, he doesn't want to be the moral police - he expects each user to exercise their own moral judgement. I personally prefer reddit to leave moral choices to their users
To be fair, I think Andreessen only got a couple hundred million (3% on an $8.5B acquisition [1]). But while pmarca says he recused himself, the whole thing reeks.

Though don't forget what is actually the far far bigger failure. When that idiot Meg Whitman acquired skype in 2005, she acquired skype but not the underlying tech (Joltid), then fucked the founders on an earnout. So there was tons of bad blood, and they were declining to relicense their p2p tech to skype. You can read all about it [2] and elsewhere. That, plus some other stupid stuff, made ebay give the founders 30% of the company back for $160m. I don't think Andreessen was on the board for the initial acquisition, but what idiocy.

It's hard to believe a reasonable technical person was involved in the initial acquisition. Where the hell was the board? The point is, it's hard to say ebay has had competent executive leadership or a board for a while.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-03/ebay-andreessen-ref...

[2] http://mashable.com/2009/11/06/skype-lawsuit-settled/
Did not see on the site, is this another startup that has access to all of my email content, and a product that has a good chance of going away when the run out of cash, or get acquired and shut down?

Or, is this a local layer / plugin that keeps my data where I want it, and will continue to work as long as Gmail itself does not change drastically?

Questions may sound snarky, but this year more of the startup services I have used have shutdown then are still around.
Android Push Gets Major Refresh
So people only think they'd like to live on Mars, but you know they really don't?
They were acquired by Conde Nast but have since parted ways to go private: http://betabeat.com/2011/09/a-startup-is-reborn-reddit-no-lo...
Well, I put my money where my mouth is and bought a Moto G. It's smaller and quite durable for a smartphone. Acceptable?

"life-proof" is kind of a silly term, I agree. But as much as you might want to mock people who do not baby their smartphone like a delicate glass flower, they are most of the market.
There was a positive feedback loop between music technology and computing technology. Without efforts at playback and recording of music, the mercury delay lines that were used to make some of the first computers would have been impossible. Without the massive popularity of transistor radios it would have taken much longer to develop the semiconductor technology used in more modern computers, and without the Walkman the stabilized tape recorders early hobbyist computers used for storage would probably have been impossible (when audio skips it's annoying, when data skips it breaks your program). Same story for CDs; if ARM is the way forward for general-purpose computing, it wouldn't've happened without portable music.
Underground black markets such as the Silk Road prove otherwise.
Oh, excellent! At least that prevents overt searches.
> I don't mean to belabor the obvious here, but do you consider HN a "large Internet community?"

No. I'm talking about the largest 30 or so Internet communities.
Interesting article, but the images I'm getting are all extremely low quality. Tried both Chrome & FF.

EDIT: Well, downvotes or not, I'd still like to know what is going on. Here is a screenshot of part of my browser window while viewing the article.

https://imgur.com/IcEyM3R

I assume others are getting higher quality images (?).
By analogy the AI is a leprechaun or a genie that will give you what you asked for but in a way that could do you harm.
Absence of ctrl+v in the terminal was one of the most simple and obvious clous that Microsoft didn't give a .... about developers. Absurd ad infinitum that it took this long.
> e.g., There are Cleveland Browns fans who've visited reddit every day for years and don't realize there's a r/clevelandbrowns community that they'd love, not to mention r/cleveland and r/foodporn or whatever other communities they'd dig.

Maybe use IP address geolocation to suggest subreddits during onboarding?
hahah, ethereum.

Or you know, you could use practically any other system that doesn't try to be money (or en ethereum's case, an everything wannabe)
The cops can complain about Apple's policy but they can't do anything about it unless the law is changed.
> There are Cleveland Browns fans who've visited reddit every day for years and don't realize there's a r/clevelandbrowns community that they'd love

Can you use retargeting to drive people on the frontpage to appropriate subreddits?
I don't see a whole lot of point to discussing what we think Japan would have done, given the information that we have now. I have seen some of the research suggesting that Japan was more concerned about Russia's declaration of war than the atomic bombings, and might have surrendered based on that alone. But that research is based on a bunch of historians with unlimited access to Japanese records of high-level meetings and conversations, and all the time in the world to research, correlate, and discuss things.

They may well be right, but American Military officers making decisions couldn't possibly know any of that. All they can know is what the Japanese government has said and done, and anything that their intelligence sources can pick up, which may or may not be believable. Everything they would have seen up to that point says that Japan is ruthless and determined to not surrender, and they can only be convinced otherwise if it's clear that they face total destruction otherwise. I can't see how any information available to them points to any other conclusion than that the bomb should be dropped as soon as it's ready to bring an end to the war as quickly as possible.
New experimental console features in Windows “Threshold”
Yes. All four of them are evasions of personal responsibility, but only one of them seems to empower people to seek relief at the genius bar.
I would bet many of them justify it as a means to build a fortune that their kids can use to live a better life. Kind of like immigrants moving to America and working all their life in factories so their kids could go to college. Unfortunately the sad truth is them being away from their family will probably hurt much more than a huge lump of cash would help.
Next version I'll add the possibility to add a timespan in number of days or number of downloads before deletion. What about that?
The vast majority (if not all) of subreddits I've discovered over the years has been because of getting linked to them by other users.

True moments of wonder are often discovered when linked to a subreddit that is a completely different world. /r/ooer, for example. (I'll add a nsfw warning for that page just to be cautious - I literally have no idea what's going on there).

I would never discover subreddits like that one without the help of other users.
The high quality subs are high quality because they have limited appeal. It's the same way HN keeps a reasonable level of quality, if there way an influx of people here who weren't interested in technology/programming and just wanted to talk about video games or politics then the quality would go down.
Haha, yes, was thinking about the same. Currently I'm just glad I can provide a useful service. There is no business case (yet).