skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I built Musi (http://feelthemusi.com and value it at roughly $125k. It's extremely lean to run, has tens of thousands of users (most of which are active), brings in a decent amount of advertising revenue, has a pretty nice database of user metrics, and has many possibilities for growth.
Kickstarter: film photography
Out of One Comes Many, the Cloning of Bitcoins
Make up your mind HN. Either you love my comment or you hate it. Let's not have any of this upvote-and-downvote-to-0-karma stuff.
Nailed it. Definitely a conspiracy theory here. Probably even fraud if you squint and cross your eyes a bit.
Sam Altman AMA
Yes, Reddit is certainly unique! I'm often aggravated at the terrible things I see on there, level of discourse, stupid snarky crap, etc.. Hive-mind indeed but that's up to each of us to deal with in ourselves.

But I still go on every day, because there probably isn't a single time I go on there that I don't learn something new and interesting. Not another site I can say that about, even HN.
Tell that to 9223372036854775808.
> The million year forecast isn't "optimistic"; while it may be unlikely that human beings would be around for 5 billion years, your particular argument for that point is, well, based on one controversial claim and a couple of unjustified claims that don't follow from that controversial claim.

Where's the refutation of my point that we will have entirely disappeared in a million years, replaced by some other species? This isn't a philosophy debate, where words like "controversial" and "unjustified" carry weight among people trained in critical thought.
From 1.400  +17.000 Facebook likes without spending any money on adds/promotions
Japan had already offered a complete surrender, conditional only on the protection of the emperor. They were looking for a way to surrender since at least April, according to the post-war inquiries.
Which is nonsense. I don't voluntarily and implicitly give up constitutional rights just because I chose a particular mode of transportation. Even if there was some sort of magic implication, surely I could cancel this out by loudly declaring "I decline to forfeit my Fourth Amendment rights and I do not consent to a search".
I got excited when I saw that feature. It's a shame it's riding the meme of another platform, but people instantly "get it," at least.

The core problem is people don't even understand how the site works (subscribe to communities you like). That's something the team is still working on improving in a non-annoying way. Mobile is going to be a big part of it, I think.
Progress. Innovation. Market disruption. Pivot. Entrepeneurship. Development.
Exactly. Parent wants HN kept relatively civil from his/her perspective. When it comes to other people's perspectives, no holds barred.
Actually, we have _not_ stopped evolving because of natural selection. A significant proportion of people choose not to have kids nowadays, or are just having one child.
In a generation or five all this "I don't want kids because there are too many of us in this planet already" crap will be over, and we'll only have people left (in developed countries) that get drunk and don't use condoms and decide to have the kids anyway, people prone to religious belief systems that forbid contraception, and just people that plain have very strong ingrained urge to have a family/kids, despite career pressures and all the information/stimulus overload from internets and 24h connectivity and all.
Uh, which of those aren't just blatantly obvious? (Totally serious question)
It is hilarious how terrible the terminal emulator is on Windows in general.

It wasn't a big deal with CMD as, frankly, CMD barely got touched since forever. But they've been actively developing Powershell now for many years but yet shoved it into the same antiquated terminal emulator.

I'm glad they're at least looking at it. Next up hopefully Control Panel. Barely changed since Windows 95 and subpar relative to what Apple do in OS X.
But failure to comply = restrictions of freedom of travel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_movement_under_Unit...

It is not voluntary for airports to use TSA. Therefore you have no alternative options when it comes to air travel. Saying traveling by ground is an adequate alternative is nonsense.
> increase the level of quality of content and discussion across the board

I hope not. Freedom is too big of a price to pay for comfort. I'd rather deal with spontaneous witch hunts and despicable subreddits than see it all turn into the PR wet dream of 1-2 hours AMAs with celebrities that seem unable to read and type on their own.
As a misnomer, while the speaker answered talking about live tiles themselves. At least that's my interpretation, per my initial reply.

How I read it:

"Q: How are you responding to push back regarding live tiles?
A: We actually didn't see push back from live tiles, but learnability. We are addressing the latter."
The popular parts of reddit are popular because they appeal to many people, it's the same as music. The most popular bands will have the broadest appeal. So most of the reddit front page is cat pictures and slapstick humour because that's what everyone can appreciate. If the front page was full of obscure stuff about haskell , less people would enjoy it.

In terms of racism, I've never seen racist or sexist content on the front page when I have visited.
Interview with James Pearce of Facebook
I'm a default (twoxchromosomes) mod.

I would love to see better moderation tools. Most of the shitty content I've had to deal with are from newer/multiple accounts, as well as the older accounts that are sick of the trolls. Our AutoModerator shadowban list and our ban list is so ridiculously long I can barely scroll it. It'd be amazing if we didn't have to rely on a bunch of other tools (toolbox, RES, AutoModerator) or consider building our own tools (subreddit history scraper). It'd also be amazing if there was some site-wide automatic action against certain throwaway accounts so we don't have to clean up _after_ the 4th attempt at some idiot trolling us.

I would also love to see a better take on Reddit 101 too. We still get comments like "I'm a male and why is this on my reddit page" and people that just barge in without reading rules to post things against our rules (like a ton of misogyny _and_ misandry). Some of this is inevitable but it's pretty annoying that there isn't much we can do here either other than deleting things after the fact.

I don't think that those two alone will improve the site significantly, but it would be a burden lifted for default mods, and that might help clean up parts of the front page. Maybe. I don't even want to think about how much time we spend on everything from figuring out trolls to writing warning notes for each other, to discussing some idiot user trying to dox one of the mods. It'd be time we can spend doing other things for the subreddit. That would be nice.
Let's assume for a second that the effects of general relativity are negligible, and that as external observers of the system, we can see the global ordering of operations on an object as issued by all participating machines.

"Real-time" in this context means all participants observe operations on an object in the order in which they were issued. Not only do all participants see the same total ordering of operations, but that total ordering is the same as the ordering that we would see as global external observers.

Contrast this to serializability, which only guarantees that all participants observe the same total ordering of operations. The order does not need to be consistent with the ordering we would see. For example, if we see that write W1 was issued before write W2, serializability means that the participants must either all agree that W1 occurred before W2, or all agree that W2 occurred before W1. Linearizability means that they must agree that W1 happened before W2, since W1 temporally precedes W2.
Little Performance Explorations: Julia (vs F# and C++)
>I think having the first few layers filled with terrible content and hive-minded, often racist/sexist discussion.

Relative to what? Are YouTube and Yahoo bastions of intellectualism and racial tolerance?

If you really think that Reddit's issue is that the quality of discussion is too low, you need to take another look at any other site on the internet.
A strange green organism has spread, clogging up the world's rivers
Well we all know that law enforcement gets a copy of every safe key made. you know just in case
Author of the blog post here. I had this idea to start a site for crowdsourced podcast transcripts (or indeed any audio content) but never did it. I’d still love to see such a site because I agree that there is so much valuable content.

But transcription is just a huge amount of work and I’m not sure how well you could automate it with the help of software.
While I totally agree with you...

>I think having the first few layers filled with terrible content and hive-minded, often racist/sexist discussion

You just described mainstream television and its appeal
Dim light is lovely at the beginning or end of the day, but it's not something that's great to live in full time:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_affective_disorder

Colonists could use energy to get artificial lighting to a decent level, but in a wholly artificial environment it might would be depressing to have no nature to experience. We evolved to like living in natural environments that we couldn't really reproduce on Mars. No oceans, no streams, no lakes, no time in the sun, no natural beauty, it sounds like a horrific nightmare to me.
That's one big reason why Steve & I wanted it to be open-source! http://code.reddit.com

It's not like all forum-software-innovation stopped in June 2005 when the 2 of us launched reddit to the world.

The hard part is going to be quantifying "quality of submissions" in a scalable way. We thought a lot about this and while it's not perfect, the vast majority of content on reddit across those half million communities is indeed good.

It's a fascinating problem that I hope someone can solve -- improve on Steve's hotness algorithm!
Wow seriously? Dude I freakin' love r/hhh.
I believe that the decision to start encrypting data will just make it harder for local law enforcement to attain your data. When they subpoena Apple for your data they will get the encrypted data. The NSA will probably also receive your data encrypted however they probably won't have any problem unencrypting it.
I run a particular /r/ with a couple hundred thousand subscribers. What I would like to do is to be able to limit brigading. I havea controversial idea on how to do this: If you a subscriber to /r/X then you may not subscribe and vote in /r/Y. IF you're posting in /r/X you may not post in /r/Y

This would then turn shenanigans into private subs... but at least it would be a start.
Thanks; you're right, I missed that.
It's fun. Instead of spending 40-50 hours a week doing something you might or might not enjoy, you're on the cutting edge, and you're doing something you definitely enjoy.

Doesn't make it worth it, but that's part of it?
Apple has staked their reputation on the line and said "send us an NSL if you like, we have nothing we can give you". And the cryptographic principles, if executed properly, are sound.

Maybe they're lying. Maybe Snowden 2.0 will come out next year and tell us the truth and instantly destroy their credibility. That's a gamble I wouldn't take with my company, but it's plausible.

See I figure, if you're a threat to National Security, the NSA still has options. They just don't include monitoring over the wire or asking Apple or Google for it.

edit: The Intercept article [4] you mention above suggests to me more that they aren't yet finished implementing it properly and less that they are lying. I would take it as a work in progress.
Blit – The first Unix graphical multi-programming terminal (1982) [video]
Not included in the transcript is something they mentioned in the podcast is that they feel that the companies management is very much run like a startup with few people in charge sending direct e-mails not only to their direct reports but to anyone within the company.

Seems to me that what might solve some of this e-mail craziness would be to realize better that they are a big company and do more delegation, perhaps to different time zones if they need to have a 24 hour work cycle but more realistically just stop this nonsense and hopefully change the culture to be more logical.

At my company e-mail is something where you expect acknowledgement within 24-48 hours depending on urgency with answers provided on a best availability schedule. Managers also take on fielding a lot of stuff being directed to their reports because they have aggregate knowledge and let's face it distributing a developer for trivial stuff leads to pointless productivity loss.
They'll be very person specific but sure I like these (some are less than perfect).

/r/futuresynth (no one comments but the stuff is great,
nearly perfect ;))

/r/ada

/r/embedded

/r/raspberry_pi

/r/bicycling

/r/programming

/r/linux

/r/nottheonion

There are some subs I try to like /r/minimalism (which on any given day is either "I have nothing...but these apple products" or "Two arms..one too many?") and /r/zen which is mostly people arguing vehemently about what zen is (which is both ironic and often hilarious).
Upvotes should be weighed by a metric. Just as an example: New users should have less voting power and users with more karma should have a larger voting power with their upvote.

Would decrease upvote/downvote bots, incentivizes good content (higher karma gives you slightly more voting power).
This hits home for me. Finding r/memphisgrizzlies just over a year ago changed my life (and sadly killed so much productivity).
I take it the contingency plan is for, say, another Chicxulub sized impactor hitting the Earth. At which point even undersea or desert habitats will be in trouble, unless they were totally self-sufficient. My impression is the (current) lack of amenities on Mars demands establishing a self-sufficient colony; hard to imagine anything on Earth rising to that level.
http://www.reddit.com/user/jjshinobi/m/technology
I hope you mean this ironically or sarcastically. Windows 8 is just as vulnerable as any other Windows version.
What's very very bad about this, in addition to the direct effects on people's privacy, is that it creates a class system of people who are allowed access to strong encryption while the cattle being farmed on this plantation are not.

What do you mean?
I generally agree that heavily moderating a subreddit is a bad idea, however for subreddits like http://www.reddit.com/r/science and http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience, they have been able to scale up to frontpage levels without a serious drop in content quality.
Not everyone has children or intends to have children.
This is quite cool. I actually have worked from the opposite in that I've started taking more photos as reference for future drawings and paintings, which in some ways has reinvigorated my tendency towards inspiration from mundane objects and events.
Mars at 54.6 million km compared to moon at merely ~0.4 million km is about 135 times further away and considering the amount of on-board supply and resources, a trip to Mars is on whole another level.

Going for a 10 meter dive isn't a good enough testimony to over a 1km deep dive.
I think my main issue is with the front page and default subs. They are so unrepresentative of the great quality that can be found, and yet that's the face reddit chooses to put on. Why have default subs at all? Why not rotate through a constantly changing set of high-quality subs throughout the front page? Or why emphasize individual stories on the front page and instead present snippets of entire subreddits, almost like a real newspaper?
Some folks like the pressure - like being always on, are bored by "regular" life. Some folks like the power and the prestige (they are dangerous for those below).
Title of HN post: WunWun, a free on-demand anything service, launches in San Francisco

FTA: For a courier service (delivering something or performing a task without a purchase), WunWun charges $10. If you ask for a special request like waiting in line for cronuts or at Madison Square Shake Shack for a shake, WunWun will add an extra $15 for every hour of waiting (after the first twenty minutes of waiting) in line.

Maybe I'm confused but that doesn't sound free to me. What am I missing?
So it is a Sanfran-scale?
Most of the sports subreddits are pretty awesome. /r/cfb is my favorite, but /r/baseball, /r/hockey, and /r/fantasyfootball are all quite good as well. /r/nfl is probably the flagship sports subreddit, but it has been a little rough lately with the community and mods having some conflicts about the direction of the subreddit.
I curretly live in a small town in Alaska. No mater where you go, some people will still hassle you over political and religious beliefs. We even have internet access (where I live it maxes out at 22MBps) And while supply runs do happen infrequently, we have Amazon (or any other online provider) to provide us with resupply.

I don't know if I would go as far as relating Alaska to Mars. Certainly the appeal to Mars is something more unique than just living in a small town.
Yeah, that's how I see it.

Since Apple's software isn't open source, it's possible they're lying. 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.

I think it would be an enormous risk for Apple to blatantly lie about something they put in black and white on their website. So I tend to think they're telling the truth.

Maybe one day, we'll get a real, bonafide, non-niche open source based phone where these things can be audited.
I'm just waiting for someone to create a (fail-safe) parachute for those devices so we can just move on from the "it's gonna fall!" arguments.
Is the icon supposed to have a psb extension? It looks like a typo.
It is certainly true that most users will prioritize convenience over privacy and control.

It is still true that in the environment we are moving towards, those consumer choices are leading to a situation where _we don't control our own workstations_. Everything you do will be at the forebearance and under the observation of a corporation you pay.

You can say that that's the natural free market consequence of consumer preferences combined with current technology all you want. That is still a scary situation for us as a society, where more and more of our lives involve interacting with software, and we have less and less control over that software.
> Humanity will have entirely disappeared in a million years

Even if you mean that in the narrow sense of H. sapiens, rather than humans as genus Homo, that would make H. sapiens a shorter-lived species that H. erectus. If there's a reason to believe that, you haven't provided it.

> Please try to remember that we've only been a distinct species for 200,000 years

Or 500,000, depending on which view of the relevant taxonomy you take...

> and in another 200,000 years, chances are we will have been replaced by something different.

There is no factual basis for this claim; particularly, even if we except your POV on how long we have been around so far as a species, it does not follow that the same amount of time in the future would see us replaced.

> In a million years, five times as long, we will not exist in any form whatsoever.

Again, you provide no reason to believe this. H. erectus was around for 1.75 million years. If H. sapiens only lasts as long as H. erectus did, our species would be around -- starting from your 200kYa start date for H. sapiens, another 1.5+ million years. And humans, genus Homo, have been around for over 2.5 million years.

> It is the height of absurdity to think that a lowly species like us will exist in any form at all even a million years hence.

It really is not. We may be lowly, but a species lasting a mere 1.2-1.5 million years (what H. sapiens would have to last in total to be around a million years hence) is not uncommon at all. Many hominid species have, why wouldn't H. sapiens?
Or perhaps for some reason management needs an external blame sink for doing something they wanted to do...
Reddit considering a cryptocurrency backed by 10% of its shares
Windows Technical Preview is coming soon
Hey, one of the founders of Pixelapse here. For context, our target demographic is graphic designers.

We initially started out with tiered pricing based on storage. However, based on usage, we actually found that people rarely hit their storage caps. A better barometer for us is the number of people working together, which we approximate with projects. In that regard, our pricing plans are similar to Github's. Public projects are free and unlimited. Private projects are paid.
> you are now forced to first create an account online, and subscribe to a bunch of internet-based channels, before the app will let you use the P2P portion.

Hm, I don't know. I've unsubscribed from all internet-based channels, and the P2P still seems available.
I would agree with you that the vast majority of the content is indeed good unfortunately the bad is often concentrated into a few sub-reddits and at reddit scale that still is a lot of bad unfortunately.
Al Jazeera English and BBC International.

I don't really trust any of the US news channels. Frankly US news to an outsider sounds like raw propaganda most of the time (and that is aimed at the so called "non-bias" news channels in the US, not just Fox News and MSNBC). And the rare times they aren't spreading propaganda, they're seeding fear into the population.

The only decent source of news coming from the US is a handful of newspapers and comedians (e.g. Daily Show, Last Week Tonight, etc).
I think you've outlined something really important here in terms of value and individualism.

Some people get value from spending time in the great outdoors, others by growing and caring for a family, for a large number of people (I imagine) in Silicon Valley there is no better way to spend your time then sweating at 1 am because you need to solve a problem.

I'm one such person. Fortunately I don't have a family to look after, so I can dedicate myself to doing exactly what I absolutely love: working.

That doesn't mean I don't try to get enough sleep, that I don't exercise daily, and occasionally participate in yoga (not to mention my daily morning meditation practice). But still, to me, this type of lifestyle is fun. We'll see how old age influences my perception, of course.
Different strokes, different folks. Erdős missed out on all kinds of traditional life to do just math. If you care a lot about, or are really excited about what you're doing, then it's worth it. Or worth it for a while.
Aleph-naught bottles of beer on the wall!

Aleph-naught bottles of beer!

Take one down, pass it around.

Aleph-naught bottles of beer on the wall!
Has a warrant ever been a guarantee that a search will produce results?
Trying to win by bombing civilians was a common theme in world war two. From British Air Staff papers (1941)[1]...

The ultimate aim of an attack on a town area is to break the
morale of the population which occupies it. To ensure this,
we must achieve two things: first, we must make the town
physically uninhabitable and, secondly, we must make the people
conscious of constant personal danger. The immediate aim, is
therefore, twofold, namely, to produce (i) destruction and
(ii) fear of death.

Whilst that strategy may have worked in Japan with the atomic bombs it was hardly successful in Europe. And surely the impact was on the high command and political leadership rather than normal people.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombing_during_World_...