skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This kind of argument pops up all the time whenever a subreddit has a discussion about moderation but in my experience it doesn't work in practice. For starters, only are there technical disparities between what the rating algorithm considers hot and what the community actually likes (for example, images can get lots of quick votes soon after submission, which propells them to the front page). But perhaps even more importantly, there is the "eternal september problem": moderation lets a subreddit enforce their culture to the new users, which is very important. Something like /r/askscience would be impossible to maintain in its current state with just user voting.

As for tagging, it helps in some situations but its not an universal solution. The UI is kind of lacking (you need a 3rd party extantion to hide unwanted tags and it doesnt filter posts in the reddit.com frontpage) but it also doesnt do anything for passing users who havent configured their tags.

In a hypothetical world maybe its possible to create a smarter "hotness" algorithm that is less prone to these problems but in the current system I really don't think "just downvote the bad stuff" is a practical solution.
Thanks for asking the hard questions.

I'm excited to see what this new equity-share model will lead to, and hope that the value and quality I already get from reddit can be multiplied with this capital. You can be displeased with certain aspects of something while at the same time acknowledging the good and its potential, like with children, friends, your country, really any relationship or community.
"as well as individual investors like ... Calvin Broadus Jr. AKA Snoop Dog [sic] (also randomly)"

Snoop Dogg is actually a pretty active reddit user: http://reddit.com/u/Here_Comes_The_King - especially in a certain..err.."plant-based" subreddit.

He's done several AMAs that are actually amazingly fun to read. In some ways, AMAs can provide a better "celeb-to-fan" interaction than Twitter so I can see why they got a few celebs in this round.
We want to attack command-and-control structures of drug organizations, and to do that we have to be able to exploit their communication devices.

This doesn't make sense on so many levels. If a law was passed so than Apple and Google had to reverse their decision, no drug cartel is going to store incriminating data on their iPhones anymore.
An example I always found quite fun: if you knew how to turn lead into gold in LEO, for free, it still wouldn't be a profitable venture.
I agree that her uniform is largely irrelevant to the discussion. She also likely has no choice in it.

I'm trigger happy pointing out police militarization, which manifests in overt ("tanks") and subtle ways (military dress).

Perhaps it's a stretch, but I believe that militarization doesn't ease the tendency of the police to desire and acquire powers they shouldn't have.
A contrarian view: there is some room to attack Amazon, primarily in the UX department. I wouldn't rule that out as a strategy for growth, but is eBay the right company to execute it? That's where it gets murky. They have a lot of the same usability flaws.
You should worry more about what color socks you wear as that's probably even more likely to be a factor in someone's decision to invest.
Looks like it (confusion between 'real-time' precedence and real-time guarantee), thanks.
You're implying that Apple doesn't own the content people store on their devices? I thought the entire point of their walled garden OS was that they did, and were quite willing to add, delete or modify it as they please.

Going to the actual owners of the content makes perfect sense.
Network Function Virtualization goes open source
some instructions on how to build the extension and install it, rather than use the chrome store, would be awesome!

EDIT: wow, it works out of the box. just go to chrome://extensions, "Load unpacked extension..." (enable developer mode i think), and then point to the folder where you've downloaded the github repo, and you're good to go!
Does dying at 56 from cancer you tried to treat using pseudoscience until it was inoperable count as "breaking down"?
Enable Chrome's “Mute This Tab” Shortcut in the Dev Channel
Now that Adobe will be supporting ChromeOS; will Pixelapse support it as well?
Why passing functions through the environment in Bash is a misfeature
Even in Westeros kids are making slide decks for school
I went through something similar in college.

So I started a side project. I got to work on it only after my school work was done and my job was done. Sometimes that meant staying up a few extra hours.

I think this will pass. 2 Semesters, I'd stay in school and bang that out. Could you take an extra class or 2 this next semester so you have a really easy last semester so you can job hunt or dedicate yourself more to a project you enjoy?
Onedows.
Except they have a specific plan and have even ran that plan past a lawyer to check its broad legality. I'd say they're doing both, thinking about AND plan[ning to.
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I wouldn't turn down $25M for Improvely today. I might in a year.
The reddit admins are taking completely the wrong approach if their goal is to increase the quality of discussion on the site.

Every time a subreddit gets added to the defaults, it goes one of two ways: The subreddit goes to total shit (r/funny, r/wtf), or the moderators are forced to combat an ever-rising tide of shit in order to maintain quality (r/science).

Neither of those scenarios seem tenable in the long term.

There needs to be a single default subreddit so that users can branch out from there on their own.
Probably all shares go to r/gonewild.
I've used TinyGrab for this for quite some time: http://tinygrab.com/
I see no reason for why Mars colonization is needed to "finally bring 3D printing into its own."

Anything appropriate for a Mars colony would be as appropriate for overwintering in Antarctica, or for the residents of various islands from the Cook Islands to Saint Helena, or similarly isolated place.

Presumably there's a cost-benefit matrix. Denser processors mean less needs to be shipped to Mars, but the harder it is to make locally. You mention "pre-iPod society" as if digital entertainment was the main loss. Pre-iPod also a pre-GPS-everywhere society, and pre-Internet-of-things society. Wifi embedded in every device may make a colony more likely to succeed. I would like a faulty CO2 scrubber to be able to notify the colony network, and wifi is cheaper than building cables. With that network in place in order to survive, a mobile device with phone-like communications is likely not only trivial but essential.

Regarding 'resourcefulness' - that's besides the point. A self-sustaining colony requires a huge number of people. (Who builds the fab units? Who are the doctors? Who repairs the sewage systems? Who takes care of food and O2 production? Who spends the 20 years to educate the next generation to the PhD level needed to support a high-tech frontier?) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576513... estimates 40,000 people, which is a shot in the dark for the minimum size. Musk proposes 1 million; his cost numbers don't work out with only 40,000 people.

Any rocket technology which is cheap enough to deliver 40,000 people for a self-sustaining colony on Mars is one which can support trade between the planets. Someone will want saffron. Someone will want white truffles. (Both are already in the $1000s/kg range.) Maybe not the first generation, who all volunteered, but surely the second.
Microsoft announces Windows 10
Ok, Sam Altman, YC and reedit all just entered my personal mini-hero status for "we want to give 10% of shares to "the community"

It does more than bother me that community created value is captured by a few servers in SV - and it's going to take a lot of experimentation to get this right. I rather like the idea of licensing my location data to Google Traffic, and rather doubt giving equity to some but not all redditors will ever work out fairly, but hats off for actually acknowledging the problem publicly and trying something. I expect whatever the normal for community value will be in twenty years, none of the ideas on this thread even come close - in beginning to enjoy the ride though :-)
i hear they are going to ban air soon because pedophiles can use it prey on children.
This seems like an interesting but risky experiment if Reddit really does tie something like this to user contributions.

First it seems like a massive regulatory headache. From Reddit's perspective, are they going to send out 1099s to their users? Will they require them to have real names and addresses on file? From a user perspective, will I need to worry about my Reddit activity when filling out my tax returns.

It is also a gamble for Reddit as there is a psychological principle know as the overjustification effect [1] that is at play here. Once a person is paid for a habit they previously only did for enjoyment, the habit will generally become less enjoyable. Reddit turns from a hobby to a job.

Finally there is the issue of "circle jerking". Reddit is already notorious for its annoying and dangerous group think. Can you imagine if people could actually turn their karma into straight cash? The incentive will be even higher to simply echo back to the group what you think it wants to hear.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overjustification_effect
Hmm, npm with Node.js allows that to happen. I don't recall that causing any problems, though. The "solution" seems to be that B is tested with both A and C, and when you're developing B, you know what kind of values you get from A, and you know what kind of values C accepts.
Whoa whoa whoa whoa. Reddit is full of racism and sexism? Are you sure? That sounds like reverse sexism to me.
Let's hope that the competition between Amazon and PayPal results in some significant value for the consumer/user/business users. Years ago, when I first built my e-commerce site, the only viable payment method that could be easily integrated was PayPal. Unless I wanted to pay a significant premium to have a payment gateway before I was ready to take on those initial sunk costs, PayPal was the most attractive and likely solution.

Hopefully, the industry will shift as more options become available and user-friendly. PayPal has the advantage of name recognition, but Amazon shares the same, and frankly, I personally regard Amazon more positively than PayPal. Hopefully, the industry continues its trend, now a quasi-oligopoly and eventually monopolistic competition.

Like others have mentioned, I too wonder how they are going to divvy shares.
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Is it an essential requirement that in order to design great products or market leading products, management is supposed to work and force others to work during insane hours, especially sunday night?

I am not sure how frequently these things happen. May be ok, when you are near major deadline/shipment date but not on every week. Are there no other ways to avoid them like say, internal wiki/intranet ...etc so that mgmt can search answers on their own?

Many people followed Steve Jobs authoritative style of leadership after reading various accounts...etc. I hope mgmts of other companies won't shift to these methods concluding falsely that such working hours are essential for great products.
Microsoft Skips Windows 9 Goes Right to 10
You flag posts and they'll drop in the rankings, sometimes right off the front page.
I think the argument is that as the landscape gets more competitive, eBay can't afford to tie themselves so intimately to a single payment provider.

That is why eBay's stock lurched upwards as soon as the news was announced. To someone looking to invest in an online marketplace, eBay is more important than PayPal by itself.
Londoners accidentally pay for free Wi-Fi with a firstborn
This is a cost saving measure with a good PR component to it. Its expensive to comply with requests and uses up important resources. By taking the technical ability out of the equation for getting into the device itself Apple is saving itself time money and resources and looking good to the public for doing so with no legal damages.

This does not actually fully protect any ones data though. Government has full access to the cell phone companies that can with warrant provide location information including dates and times, SMS information, and can still monitor any un-encrypted traffic from a users phone. At worst Apple is providing a false sense of security to individuals that do not understand the other part of the equation, which is the Cell Phone companies and the Interweb can monitor and log stuff. But I do believe Apple that iMessage, FaceTime and the device itself is not intentionally open for spying on. But what about the other apps. Whatapp, and Blackberry messenger and Skype and all the other apps that sends data to 3rd parties. None of that is protected. But Apple only ever talks about itself not 3rd party. Take a iPhone and use only Apple software on it you will probably have the best protection in the industry for consumers. But its limited to that.

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Apples business model isn't based on data either. So when they say they don't scan your emails to profit from it I believe them. They are probably the only major ecosystem that does not need to do that. Yahoo Mail, Outlook (hotmail) mail, Gmail all have business models that provide a free service in exchange for your information. Its rooted into how they make money. Apple makes money from the sale of Hardware and direct cost services.

At the end of the day anything NOT in your head is exposed and a potential security risk. Even writing something on paper creates something to be discovered. Not putting thoughts into a tangible readable and accessible form is the first line of personal security. Followed by absolute control of what ever you do put those thoughts onto. Paper, paper goes in pocket. Paper is burned when no longer needed.

Computer, no wifi, no blue-tooth, no always on connection in your physical possession is as secure as you will get with encryption in case you lose physical possession. A smart phone can reach this level of security but defeats all of the abilities it which makes it a smart phone. You can disable data and wifi and use the phone only as a phone but at that point why do you even bother owning it.

As the CEO of Google once said, if its something that can hurt you don't do it. In this case don't make a record of it. Dont take pictures, dont text about it, don't use a calender to plan it out. Keep it in your head. No one ever takes responsibility for there own stupidity when it comes to security. Go back to a book and pen if you are worried. But that can be seized and read if arrested.

Technology used right can offer better protection then ever before.
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You can (and I do) use npm and Node.js with type checking at compile time using TypeScript. Although to be honest it doesn't play that well with different versions of the same type definition, but in principle you could have two header files of the same library and the compiler will create an error on a type mismatch.
We need Yahtzee to make a "WHAT THE FUCK IS REDDIT" video!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_%22Yahtzee%22_Croshaw
Hard to say. The guy lived more of an interesting life and had a bigger impact on the world than any of us will ever come remotely close to.

Would 80 years of mostly mediocrity beat 56 years with plenty of "best on earth"?
They have leaked it with Apple's warranty canary which was removed.
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Well, that explains why they were looking for a Cryptocurrency Engineer.

http://www.reddit.com/r/redditjobs/comments/2c9d61/cryptocur...
You Don’t Need 8 Glasses of Water a Day
I remember reading about Hal Finney about a year ago, and then about the cypherpunks and all, including about PGP. And I was surprised to see how recently an encryption standard was deemed a weapon, and sharing the algorithm was deemed exports of weapons, a punishable offense, particularly if say, an Iranian would come to read the algorithm on some forum post! That meant jail-time, treason!

Ridiculous, I thought surely we'd be a bit more enlightened about these things in the 1990s. It felt almost comical, as if it was a joke.

Now this. Two consumer companies we all know and love, implement an encryption standard by default that has been openly available to the world for many years, and we already see talk of preventing it through congress. It feels like we're back in 1993.

Just gonna leave this here:
http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/how-would-...

How would you want it wrapped? Protect the kids or anti-terrorism.

They literally wrapped this one up twice, mentioning both the terrorism and the pedophiles. Sigh.
"Instead of criticizing one person based on a picture, I criticize thousands of people based on a picture! That'll show him!"
Personally, I'm waiting for Windows Fuck It We're Going to Eleven.
Thank you for the interesting insight :)
One thing I would also add to my questions above is: Where would company X want to be strategically in? Is it easier to acquire you than build it in-house? That's not necessarily a good enough reason to start something but can be proxy for who might be interested.
What's wrong to think that types are important? From mathematical point of view, types are interpreted as theorem statements and functions(values) that typecheck are considered proofs of those theorems. Types are fundamental.

See Curry-Howard correspondence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry%E2%80%93Howard_correspond... or, if feeling adventurous, Homotopy type theory dubbed to be a new foundation of mathematics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homotopy_type_theory and http://homotopytypetheory.org/
Sometimes entering discussions with a potential partner trigger an internally required process of due diligence. This means the company is required to go out and find other potential partners to compare against. While they may not find any, they are required to do this search in order to prove they are not giving preferential treatment to one supplier.

Just a maybe.
A little non topic related reddit love story.

When I first came across reddit, I was working on getting more traffic to my website. So I tried to use reddit to achieve that. I don't think it needs to be said, but I was banned in an hour. I remember presenting my case in forceful comments to the mods and thinking how unjust everything was. The mods replied to my questions and gave me a detailed reason on why reddit is not for self promotion and why I should stop spamming.

I wouldn't have gone back but I did, feeling bad for what I had done. The comment replies by the mods had played a big role in that. That and the fact that I found a lot of far more interesting posts in that SR (/r/programming, if I recollect correctly).

Reddit has influenced me personally in a big way (/r/atheism). And the trolls, the bots, the larger than life andrewsmiths and some extremely talented OPs and commenters make reddit what it is, because reddit allows them to be their true selves.

Reddit is not for business. Reddit is used, I am sure, by marketing teams, but that is not what reddit is. Reddit is where you can be yourself. Your kind, nasty, loving self. That is why I think reddit is popular. The marketing teams are on reddit because of the eyeballs. If you change reddit to make it better for the advertisers or if you change reddit to make it better for one particular set of communities, some of the original magic will be lost. Subreddits with their own rules and mods is a good idea. Site wide extra rules is not.

Thank you for reading
>And added things that existed in Linux since 1985

has Linux existed since 1985 :-) ?
Get a fucking subpoena you asshole motherfuckers.
>> And added things that existed in Linux since 1985

I not sure if you are being snarky or something else but I am sure Linux was not there in 1985 and comparing Linux from 1995 to Windows 10 shows an absolute lack of understanding of Operating Systems.
Windows 9.999... = 10 :)
Peak IPv4? Global IPv6 traffic is growing, DDoS dying, says Akamai
Obviously whatever reddit can do to deflect that type of stuff is a good idea. But I often wonder how much of this is simply taking how people (especially young men) are on the internet and ascribing that to the "reddit" brand name. Chase them off and they'll show up somewhere else while we're all still busy hating reddit. I dunno.
Powershell can't handle ctrl+v either. It puts in a ^V character. You can paste with a right click in Powershell, but no ctrl+v.
I was living in DC during the first Crypto Wars of the late 1990s and covering them as a reporter (I've since shifted to working on recent.io, of course). It sure looks like this will be Crypto Wars II: the Feds Strike Back.

From my experience a key question to ask is: What would the eventual law say? Will it make it a federal felony to possess an encrypted phone? Or a federal felony to sell one?

The FBI endorsed H.R. 695 the last time around, which would have done the latter. Read it for yourself:

"Whoever, after January 31, 2000, sells in interstate or foreign commerce any encryption product that does not include features or functions permitting duly authorized persons immediate access to plaintext or immediate decryption capabilities shall be imprisoned for not more than 5 years, fined under this title, or both..."

"After January 31, 2000, it shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture for distribution, DISTRIBUTE, or import encryption products intended for sale or use in the United States, unless that product--
`(1) includes features or functions that provide an immediate access to plaintext capability... requiring any person in possession of decryption information to provide such information to a duly authorized investigative or law enforcement officer..." (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/T?&report=hr108p4&dbna...)

Note the distribution ban above. That would have hit open-source and free software projects.

Put another way, implementation details matter. A lot of voters might agree with the general proposition that law enforcement should have a way to snoop on terrorists|child pornographers|drug kingpins. They might not agree that a 14-year HN reader with a forked version of Android|AOSP on Github should go to prison for 20 years because he dared to distribute an unencrypted OS.
I have this issue with learning guitar right now. Finding a competent mentor, on recommendation, is surprisingly difficult.

I spend a lot of time on git reading code, shamelessly stealing function and seeing how they work in my code. I am glad that there is benefit to what I am doing. Thank you for the advice!
I'm still using the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse, not perfect but (at least) it has a few bindigs to AWS services.

Million dollar tip: Just wait next re:invent before start to develop anything :)
I'm the dev/designer at Firebase who made Vulcan during one of our experiment weeks. I've been using it for pretty much all my Firebase development since. Let me know if you have feedback!
Thank you for bringing the subject up! Importing data from JSON in a painless way is very high on the priority list. Right now we don't have an elegant solution for your specific use-case, but we're working on it so stay tuned!
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