skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seriously. When I joined reddit there wasn't an active hip-hop board (which was the only major interest I had that reddit didn't have an active community for).

So I thought I'd take it into my own hands. Started posting content, inviting users who I thought would be interested, and almost 5 years later, turned into what it is today.
I am of the opposing opinion. I think Reddit has an entirely separate purpose from a place like HN, and I think it hurts the bottom line of Reddit and makes the Internet a less interesting place if more moderation were to take place on Reddit.

I just don't believe it's in Reddit's best financial interest to decrease the level of impact an individual user can have on its site.

I also don't believe moderators, as they're currently designed on Reddit, are capable of discerning signal from noise. The whole driving premise of Reddit is the upvote, and that's an incredibly powerful concept.

Legitimacy is established through adherence to core values, and Reddit's core values have always centered around what's popular, not what's "good" or "right", as judged by a few randomly selected people.

Reddit is the upvote, not the moderator, isn't it?

Edit: Sorry, this is a little rambling, but I'm torn between spending 20 minutes fleshing out this comment, and being a productive employee (aren't we all?).

The overall gist of what I'm saying is the idea of a more "curated" Reddit, a la HN, would be bad for the website, the Internet, and the company primarily because of the lack of any kind of vetting of those who would curate the various reddits. I think there's a place on the Internet for a very profitable website that doesn't have any particular "quality control" beyond what the users like and don't like (janitorial tasks, e.g. spam filtering and illegal content pruning aside).
Feel free to start your own community with a hands off approach. :)

We have 1.1 million subscribers in an active and default subreddit. Related and private subreddits are growing too to meet the random niche demands of some of our users, and that's a great thing. Our users have options if they don't like our moderation style.
I haven't used it myself, but the comments I've read are overall similar: it's great to have a single binary to do almost everything you need, making it the ideal choice for projects that have few contributors, little history and/or low SLOC count without having to deploy all the usual jazz.
Even the interstate highway system in the US was implemented by the state governments who collaborated with each others' planning committees.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_System
Although Belfiore stresses that this preview only shows a glimpse of the changes in Win10, it's striking that it only shows that Microsoft is making it more like "classic" Windows again. To be honest, apps run now in normal windows - this is such a no-brainer, it should have been there from the start.
I never said I was an attorney. I was a stupid college kid and this is what I was told.

I stand by what I said. I knew lots of rich Chinese families. Despite what was said after (notice I said I talked to the one I lived with years later, so until about 2012), no one of them moved to the US or Europe. They discussed it often, and quite seriously. My point is that people want to believe the system will indulge them, the system will not.

But I will be a better immigration attorney next time.
reddit has been downhill for some time now. Just check /r/worldnews. It also shadowbans users and it is a big reason folks are leaving en masse.
Like with computer backups, it's a good idea to test that ability to survive under totally inhospitable conditions before we have to do it "for real".
Congrats, the new site looks fantastic.

You 3 do some of the best interviews of any podcast out there.
Path Talk Lets You Text Businesses
Right you are! We will implement a page in between depending on the referer. Direct download users won't have any issues, but to prevent abuse the page will be shown if from an other site.
Useful .psqlrc
Maybe they're resurrecting the historic support Windows NT had for MIPS?
They don't have to present evidence when they can just make their target disappear off to Guantanamo or some eastern European torture camp.
Who are current & past competitors? Who bought them? For how much? What type of traction did they have? How do you compare?
So they made Windows 10 what Windows 8 should have been (I have no idea who made the decision to do that dumb metro thing. But it is a nightmare for anyone). And added things that existed in Linux since 1985?
I'd be interested in a questionaire ala Netflix for suggestions on subreddits that I might find interesting.
The other side of version-less software
I most often discover new subreddits by clicking "Other discussions" on links that I particularly like. That's how I discovered /r/artisanvideos.

I'd love to see those related subreddit threads (possibly sorted by activity) be surfaced more visually when I visit a comments page to find our more about it. Just an anecdote but I feel like you guys have a lot of data to play with.
Like I said the Yun does not and I would bet never will run Windows. If you can get Windows 10 to run on a 400mhz MIPS processor with 64mb of memory and 16mb of storage I would be genuinely impressed. I pointed it out because it's funny, like taking a picture of an iMac and slapping a Windows start menu on it.
I was able to make a mockup app, if anyone is interested in seeing what I'm doing you can reach out to me by twitter @kmetral
Oh, that's simple
Startup Tees for Charities from Product Hunt (Stripe, Medium, Yo, and More)
Slick video indeed. Although the actual experience in real life could be less exciting without the Dubstep soundtrack. I'll be amazed if this is actually good or takes off (globally).

I do like to be amazed.
I was a founding moderator of /r/gamernews, which was founded with a seriously different mindset than that of r/gamingnews or r/gaming. When we started, we had a lot of people coming from the other communities trying to force in memes, rumors, blogspam, and other things that were against our founding principles. It took a few months before the submitted content matched the community we were looking for. Trolls realized they weren't welcome, and people who wanted news without rumors or other cruft felt comfortable there. If we didn't have heavy handed (and often controversial) moderation policies for the first few months, we never would have hit 100 subscribers, let alone 90,000.

Relying on a community to police itself is great for an open community (like /r/gaming), but if you want any kind of formal structure you need some moderation. Especially on such a sensitive subreddit as /r/twoxchromosomes where the potential for abuse, spam, and general hatred is so high. Although with that community, I seriously have to wonder why reddit would want it to be a default, or why the moderators agreed. Terrible, terrible decision to take a community of respect and trust and open the floodgates to the greater internet full of assholes and trolls. Oh well.

Voting in an open system only works to reenforce the viewpoints of the majority of voters, not the viewpoints of the specific community. That's why I can't vote in the elections of another country.
Which of all of these is the best? Which is most likely to still have my files after 5+ years?
Is that 1 billion guess a guess of 1 billion MAU? In other words, as much MAU as Facebook?
Those who use that justification should go watch Breaking Bad.
Yeah, let's not spoil the kids who choose our platform...
That idea crossed my mind even seeing how many companies failed even during boom times.

Service could be powered by some speech recognition software (maybe more than one) which initially would give insane percentage of incorrectly recognized text. Community could fix those errors (weak link in my plan:)). Afterwards you feed data back to software and train it so next time it would work better.

Training would require marking which person talks when in episode to tune algorithms for each of them. Maybe group them by regional dialects.

Oh, another tiny small thingie - not clear how to monetize that.
We have already established the One comes after 360.
I'm curious as to the author's choice of Redis as opposed to RabbitMQ, or another queue. Redis is problematic when it fails, which makes me question the use of a centralized queue server altogether.
Sure, but this is not a "real-time guarantee".
Design and Evaluation of Gradual Typing for Python [pdf]
You mean that network where the operator tried to call in an hit on people? Look at how many Bitcoin networks have been hacked (the digital equivalent of using violence). And in real world black markets, (think mafia), violence is rife (even in areas where the underlying transactions aren't illegal).
there are tons of general purpose c tutorials out there; this one is specifically for rubyists looking to learn how to write extensions in c
The details were in a memo from the president's Chief of Staff, detailing McArthur's accounts of five separate surrender offers. This article gives more details and a lot of sources:

http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v16/v16n3p-4_Weber.html

In an article that finally appeared August 19, 1945, on the front pages of the Chicago Tribune and the Washington Times-Herald, Trohan revealed that on January 20, 1945, two days prior to his departure for the Yalta meeting with Stalin and Churchill, President Roosevelt received a 40-page memorandum from General Douglas MacArthur outlining five separate surrender overtures from high-level Japanese officials. (The complete text of Trohan's article is in the Winter 1985-86 Journal, pp. 508-512.)

This memo showed that the Japanese were offering surrender terms virtually identical to the ones ultimately accepted by the Americans at the formal surrender ceremony on September 2 -- that is, complete surrender of everything but the person of the Emperor. Specifically, the terms of these peace overtures included:

- Complete surrender of all Japanese forces and arms, at home, on island possessions, and in occupied countries.

- Occupation of Japan and its possessions by Allied troops under American direction.

- Japanese relinquishment of all territory seized during the war, as well as Manchuria, Korea and Taiwan.

- Regulation of Japanese industry to halt production of any weapons and other tools of war.

- Release of all prisoners of war and internees.

- Surrender of designated war criminals.

Is this memorandum authentic? It was supposedly leaked to Trohan by Admiral William D. Leahy, presidential Chief of Staff. (See: M. Rothbard in A. Goddard, ed., Harry Elmer Barnes: Learned Crusader [1968], pp. 327f.) Historian Harry Elmer Barnes has related (in "Hiroshima: Assault on a Beaten Foe," National Review, May 10, 1958):

The authenticity of the Trohan article was never challenged by the White House or the State Department, and for very good reason. After General MacArthur returned from Korea in 1951, his neighbor in the Waldorf Towers, former President Herbert Hoover, took the Trohan article to General MacArthur and the latter confirmed its accuracy in every detail and without qualification.
No, I don't know, just imagine it would be different than how they imagine it. I don't see living there through the lens of science fiction so much as biology.
Jobs probably had several big chips on his shoulder that Gates never had, from being forced out of Apple, seeing the Mac lose badly to Windows, and then seeing Apple on the brink of death. Meanwhile, Gates was the richest man in the world and his company absolutely dominated the personal computing space.
Vulcan: Inspect your database in your browser
Ask HN: Should a startup seeking investment use GitHub?
I'm about to be pulled into a discussion about where to host source code for the startup I work for which we will be seeking investment. I have suggested we use private repositories on GitHub, but this has been challenged on the basis that some paranoid investors do not allow such a thing.

It feels like backwards thinking to me. Any experience or thoughts on whether this argument has merit? Any advice is most appreciated.
It's extremely difficult to implement cryptography correctly, and then cryptography != security != privacy.

You should also look through the other linked articles. Some of them include features built into iOS devices that already circumvent encryption.
It doesn't work in practice and I don't know of any big reddit community that has managed to keep things clean without strict moderation. For example, one problem that happens very often is that image macros and other "lighetweight" content get more votes than longer articles. It only tkes seconds to look at a picture but ot everyone can take a couple of minutes to read an article and vote on it (not to mention that the "hotness" metric gives less weigth to votes after a few minutes than votes after a few seconds).
Too cool.
This restricts access to strong encryption by a broad range of ordinary people. It's discriminatory. It creates a class system. Shepherds and mutton-eaters vs. the sheep. "Privacy for the rich/powerful/savvy, but not for you."
It's (I think) symptomatic of an organization that prioritizes new-hotness work over old-and-busted work.
“going to be the preferred method of the pedophile and the criminal. We are going to lose a lot of investigative opportunities.” - Cathy Lanier, chief of the Washington Metropolitan Police Department

Oh, the delusional world Cathy lives in...
Reading the comments made me laugh so hard... Was hilarious! Thanks guys and thanks MS!
> Also, there was no uncertainty about the lack of military significance of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the contemporary reports state this clearly, they even warn about the presence of American POWs in the area (which was ignored and they were incinerated along with the hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians).

Hiroshima was the city that supported the Kure Naval Base and associated anchorage. Nagasaki was a major port that was an adjunct of the Sasebo Naval Base. Those were two of the IJN's four main bases. The impotence of the IJn at this point notwithstanding, I think it is unreasonable to claim they had little military significance.

Whether or not that justified levelling them in what you can argue were just live-fire nuclear tests is a different question.
Yeah I've read Diamond's book too. b^) The livestock hypothesis is plausible, but another model would be the following, from the perspective of the crew of explorers:

Crew carries all diseases endemic to their native land. Crew travels to foreign land. Now foreign land has all diseases endemic to native land, and crew has some diseases endemic to foreign land. (The all/some asymmetry I get from the assumption that a crew of nothing-to-lose sailors are likely to be better-traveled than the tribe that inhabits their landing site.) Some or all of crew dies of these foreign diseases while in foreign land. Whatever portion of crew returns to native land carries foreign diseases that are survivable from a no-immunity starting point. Population of foreign land has all native diseases, including those such as smallpox which will leave alive but a fraction of a population that has no immunity.
Yeah, from what I've read on the subject, it seems that it's pretty well understood now that the Soviet Union was as much (or more) the intended "audience" for the A-bombs as Japan....

Pretty scary stuff considering that the main brunt was born by civilians.... oO;
I would personally like to see good defaults (I don't understand the big icons on taskbar nor any forced integration with any Microsoft markets), workspaces (more than 2) and flexible customization of visuals (not just transparency, colours and fonts) and some kind of a package manager for programs (at least set a standard/options for new installations of third-party programs to bind their update servers with a windows package manager). Perhaps a selection of normal user vs power user on installation would be welcome.

I know I'm describing Linux desktop environments, but I have problems with drivers and hardware managers on Linux distros (with my T420) and I don't think the desktop environments are polished as much as Windowses and Mac OS's are. It feels like I have to put that extra effort in just to get things set up correctly. (I've used Gnome, Xfce and awesome)
maybe because serious Windows developers shouldn't be using command prompt?

Powershell and Powershell ISE is available for almost a decade now?
Why did Windows got skip to 10? Because seven ate nine!
Dress uniform for police? That's not quite as bad as the paramilitary BDUs, but, really?
Your second link is a weird mixture of perfectly sensible stuff, complete nutjobbery, and ancient history.

Simply because nuts misinterpret evidence and refuse to change their minds when their errors are pointed out doesn't mean that all interpretations of all evidence pointing to alien life is nutjobbery.

And simply because scientists have been wrong before about features like Martian canals (which were less generally accepted within the astronomical community than they were without it) does not mean they will always be wrong.

In particular, the Martian meteorite micro-fossils are fascinating if not completely compelling as ab initio evidence for life. The important thing to remember is that if you handed one to a competent authority and told them it was a fossil-bearing rock from the appropriate locale on Earth, they would very likely say the structures were (uncontroversial, terrestrial) micro-fossils.

The debate is about how much the meteoric micro-structures raise the plausibility of the claim "There was ancient microbial life on Mars", not whether they either a) exist or b) are consistent with terrestrial micro-structures. The skeptics say, "Interesting but not compelling", the non-skeptics say, "If it's good enough evidence for ancient life on Earth, it's good enough evidence for ancient life on Mars."

The difference, as tends to be the case with these things, is in their prior plausibilities. The skeptics (rightly, in my view) are saying that terrestrial micro-fossils are more persuasive than Martian micro-fossils because we are virtually certain there was ancient life on Earth, whereas it's still a wide open question on Mars, so we never really use the micro-fossils to answer the question "Was there ancient life on Earth?" but rather to make some claims about what kind of life it was.

As for the Titan images, any time-varying process could be due to life. It might be a shoal of hydrocarbon herrings, or some Saturnian Kraken being woken from its long sleep by the alien emanations of the spacecraft overhead, although I can't see any reasonable prior that would give such propositions greater plausibility than the more geologically-oriented suggestions in the article.
> Where's the refutation of my point that we will have entirely disappeared in a million years

Where's the support for the claim?

> This isn't a philosophy debate, where words like "controversial" and "unjustified" carry weight among people trained in critical thought.

"Unjustified" always carries weight among people trained in critical thought, at least, when its true -- i.e., no adequate support has been provided for the conclusion presented. You've simply asserted that humans have been around for only 200,000 years as a species (which is one of two common viewpoints about H. sapiens, though "humans" in this context usually means the genus Homo and not the species H. sapiens -- 500,000 is the other, because where exactly at what point H. sapiens becomes a distinct species is debated), and jumped from there to the conclusion that H. sapiens will be replaced in another 200,000 years and that nothing similar will be around in a million years. Neither of those conclusions follow from the premise, which itself is less-than-certainly correct.
>"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

I think its asking way too much of someone who wants to join a casual site known for cat pics and meme jokes to read through the couple dozen default sub rules. There's no practical educational solution here. The volume of new users and the labor of understanding all these rules is huge and its impractical to expect people to digest it all, especially for a topic most users, being male, aren't into. Lets also not be ignorant of the massive feminist thought that dominates subs like 2x. To you, its mainstream, if not conservative, to others its very different from what they're used to. Why do you think subjecting random people to that and not expecting some kind of reaction?

Reddit's idea of default subs seems flawed to me. Perhaps it should have suggested defaults when you make an account and you choose what you're interested in. Non-logged in users should get, maybe, randomized top 500 or so subs. Hand-picking subs, many of which are instantly polarizing (atheism, worldnews, politics, 2X, etc) is really an insane way to run that site.

Worse, once a sub is made a default, its quantity goes up but its quality goes down. /r/writingprompts was once a fun place for authors to get some practice. The highest rated stories were usually good for a read, but now its a default sub, and its unreadable. The top comments tend to be half-assed efforts usually ending in a joke or even a reddit in-joke because the guy who posts something silly immediately will dominate while the guy still working on his story and posts after an hour of writing ends up being comment 78 and no one scrolls that far down to read. Heck, that sub is so bad, that if you want to read a decent story you start at the bottom, with the lowest ranked items, and scroll up. Talk about failure of design!

/r/books was an okay resource for the casual reader and now is dominated by items that are, imo, much more lowest common denominator. I'm sure there are more examples.

I really think reddit is about ready to have its disruptive MySpace moment when some Facebook-like competitor moves in. The default subs are unrreadable dreck, the politics a mix of the ugliest libertarian meets social justice warrior crap, and the mod policy a schizophrenic per sub mess that pleases no one. Most subs seem completely overwhelmed and just resort to strict rules and 'self post only' policies to keep some level of sanity. This isn't a sign of a healthy system.
Record your scripts into a gif
This move has nothing to do with consultants and everything to do with activist shareholder Carl Icahn.
Avoiding a sort of Web 2.0 of the old usenet "Back to School newbie flood" certainly helps. It takes a really good mod team to stand up against the flood. See the decline of /r/books, for instance.
Why in the world does that Wikipedia page exist?
This is the Microsoft way. Take Vista and Windows 7. With Vista they tried something new. In Windows 7 they fixed it. In 8 they tried something new... and the cycle continues.

Personally I don't mind the start menu being fullscreen. What really bugs me is how I have 2 incompatible desktops. I have my desktop which I have had since Windows 95. I then have some weird application space and jumping between the two is really unintuitive.

My bigger gripe is the name. Windows 10... It's PHP all over again.

Windows 7.
Windows 8.
Windows 9? No.. far to logical. Lets call it 10. Perhaps because it is 10 years since 95? I don't know. Still feels wrong.

Like PHP

PHP 3
PHP 4
PHP 5
PHP 7...............
Luckily, this isn't Europa, so we may attempt landings there.
Really? Unidan has his own page? If ever there was a reason for Wikipedia's speedy deletion... Is /u/shittywatercolour notable enough too? Holy shit, he is.

Is Wikipedia trying to be knowyourmeme.com?
Right, the EU is more applicable if you compare each country to a US state. US States typically do have central planning, like doling out these water rights.
Nice features