skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very thorough. Two things I'd like to see are comment score distributions in the 3 months or whatever before and after scores were hidden (the purple histogram), and a heat map of article tone versus comment tone.
Is that only for the preview or also for GA? Why would any corporate customer agree to this policy? Maybe it's only for the free version of Windows 10, the one targeted at $200 Chromebook clones?

The private equity members of Microsoft's board have been advocating for more focus on cloud services and less on Windows, e.g. recent moves to support Apple devices.
Possibly, yes
How could you run a startup outside San Francisco? /sarcasm

More seriously, if you decided you could do this in (say) Switzerland, you'd have to move the company there and all of the admin staff to prevent them being suborned by the NSA. Most countries you'd want to move to have lengthy immigration procedures. The cost is huge, not just financial but cutting yourself off. Remember, if you truly annoy the intelligence agencies, you'll go on the no-fly or visa denial lists, and you'll never be able to visit your family again. Just look at Snowden.

It's a political problem. No surveillance without acountability.
I think they meant more that it was the trolls' targeting critera ("Has lots of Attention, and 'doesn't deserve it" implies someone you can google, or who has a relatively large following), NOT that it was any implication that the target deserves such abuse.
This handily ignores that doxxing is not some virtuous research and release of pure facts in the public interest. Its purpose is to turn lies about the victim into the publicly perceived truth (defamation) by mixing them with the weight of real facts.

That people who have some level of public exposure (as you and I do, posting on a public forum) will have some personal information out in the open is obvious. The thread-starter appears to be playing down the damage that doxxing can do "I do want to gently call into question the danger of the attack surfaces". To me, their admittedly unspoken, conclusion from point 1 is therefore "they had it coming".
Well, the public internet is global so if someone else can speak your language, it doesn't matter what their societal customs are, there's bound to be differences in word choices, ethics, morals, etc. And do you think that's really going to stop people? People use their real names on Facebook and news websites all the time and they're vicious to each other, anonymity doesn't always matter. People need education on wtf it means to be on a public internet site. If it's too much, move into a private site. Do I think that's a great solution? Not at all. But, I suspect it's more realistic than ensuring everyone around the world treats everyone else with hugs and kisses. It's an asshole problem, not a technical problem. But hey, now there's more reason for people to use privacy-focused means to communicate (sites, apps, networks, etc), even if that reason is the result of assholes.
>historically that has only served to push users to other services.

But this is exactly what you want - get rid of the low-quality users and offload them somewhere else. reddit has gotten itself quite a questionable image tolerating pornographic jailbait, necrophiliac porn, stolen nudes and domestic abusers on its platform for very long.
> motorcycle
Cool idea!

I registered yesterday but today I can't login. The 'login with github' button doesn't do anything (just reloads the page).

Also the leaderboard seems to breakdown if you interact with it for a bit - just stops updating.
Give me a HN trend chart for the words "pivot" and "mvp" please:)
It's not victim blaming to say, "this attack surface is larger than that attack surface." Shame on you.
I am not a downvoter, but using your own analogy, your post is like saying "Why are people complaining about the existence of minefields?", criticising people for suggesting that something should be done about the minefields and ignoring the fact that the victims of minefields are mostly people who didn't know there was a minefield there.

Also, I think in plenty of these cases the victims are not going to the places where their attackers are. E.g. the victims of attacks organised at 4chan are not generally people who post on 4chan.
Such questions are favored by Reddit trolls, because they take virtually no time to formulate, require no effort in self-education, and eat up other people's time.

Without rehashing the obvious problems of giving a platform to harassment, child porn, spam, etc, just read about how Reddit supported and profited off bros like Violentacrez. Just a little research shows these corporations intervene heavily — but in peculiar ways. http://gawker.com/5950981/unmasking-reddits-violentacrez-the...
Well, this right does not imply that everyone or even a certain service provider has to provide you a platform for it.
weev's current webpresence:

http://www.dailystormer.com/what-i-learned-from-my-time-in-p...

clearly a posterboy for neckbeards around the globe.

if you download an mp3 you go to jail, you harass another human being nothing happens.
Social engineering an entity with the number...
Facebook's location-based ads can pitch the store you just passed
If your bank allows generation of one-time-use temporary CC numbers, you could load this up with a bunch of them, and have any fraud be limited to the number you have left unused. Cool!
As lmz mentioned, they inform the query planner that you'd prefer it to take a particular route to address your instructions where it might have a number of choices given your current table+index structure and data patterns (and has chosen a bad one of the options in the past).

I use the quotes around the word hint because it implies that it is a fairly informal pointer that the planner might choose to ignore where in reality they usually take it as an order and go that way without question (assuming that you know better than it might otherwise chose to do, or you would not have given the hint).
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Navigate the full map at
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That seems like a strawman.

I would say that blogging on the internet is more like going out for a drink at the pub. You aim to meet and interact with many people with the same interests, have discussions, and enjoy a drink.

However, there is the possibility that someone may abuse this, maybe through drinking to excess and becoming argumentative. This, while annoying, can be accepted. However, if that person gets violent and causes harm, I believe that is unacceptable.
Go to cloud.digitalocean.com/support and create a new ticket, giving them your promo code and asking nicely, and they'll put it through promptly in my experience
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The difference is when I travel I don't take all my cards out with me, I would leave at least 2 backups in the hotel safe and another at home which can get sent to me in an emergency. Realistically imitating this behaviour on such a device probably won't happen.
Useless or not, it could impact x86 operating systems and would benefit from developer feedback prior to shipment of microcode in new processors.

Oculus will make it more difficult to photograph the screen.
Great you're here. I'm using this app, but I'm sorry to say this... It's pretty bad.

Here's a list of issues that I encounter very often:

- It often crashes during startup

- There are massive encoding issues, I see question mark symbols pretty often.

- Comments often won't load, without any error message whatsoever.

I uninstalled the app multiple times for these reasons, but unfortunately there isn't anything that's better.
This was really eye opening for me, I had no idea weev was involved in such things, I always thought of him as the guy who hacked iPads.
Hmm, I was talking about DRM in the context of published information.

Obviously, in the case of private and/or sensitive information, you don't release anything to the public, so I'm not sure the protections (login system, etc...) can still fit in the definition of DRM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management:

Digital Rights Management (DRM) is a class of technologies that are used by
hardware manufacturers, publishers, copyright holders, and individuals with
the intent to control the use of digital content and devices after sale.

With publications, you give an access to other people (a restricted one if DRM is involved). It's not the same as not giving access to anyone but yourself.
> how many people are working full time on the HN codebase right now?

Less than 1. If you include everything HN-related, that number goes up to 2 or a bit more, depending on how much time kogir has.

> I'm also curious if there's a straightforward way to serialize these closures.

Do you mean to disk, or to the client and back? My sense is that it's technically possible but the I/O overhead would make it not practical. However, that's not based on much knowledge. Perhaps we could do it now that we don't have so many.

> I wonder to what degree you have scaling plans

We have a lot of scaling plans, but I wouldn't call them definite.
Top comment on the page:

> can there be legislation for airbnb to get a new logo?

http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/07/san-francisco-airbnb/?fb_co...
That's an interesting statement. I regard obscenities laws to be unconstitutional. Specifically, to be extremely anti-free speech and anti-free press (depending). All forms of censorship are unconstitutional and blatant violations of the first amendment.

Given the countless flawed or flat-out wrong positions the Supreme Court has taken over the centuries when it comes to individual rights, I think we can likely agree they are not always right in their conclusions.
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But most languages have some operation that will implicitly convert values to a different type. In fact Ruby and Python both do this (puts and print are examples), and they were examples given of a strongly typed language.
I made the worst comment of the month list for a comment I actually thought was good (!), and now I'm really curious about the context...

Is there any way to recover the thread ids or parent comments for items on the the worst comments list?
"C# SDK" doesn't say much. SilverLight can use C#, WinRT can use C#, .NET can use C#, but that doesn't mean your "C# library" will run everywhere. C# is just the syntax.
If you look at the full list, it seems like it's just autocompleting words in the dictionary. Here's some examples:

if.corp.microsoft.com
my.corp.microsoft.com
one.corp.microsoft.com
year.corp.microsoft.com
baby.corp.microsoft.com
pain.corp.microsoft.com
crisis.corp.microsoft.com
improvement.corp.microsoft.com
devil.corp.microsoft.com
animal.redmond.corp.microsoft.com

I don't any of these some of those are actual subdomains...
There are two people dedicated to HN development. Daniel and Scott. Four other people from the YC software team also contribute, but not full time because they have to also work on other projects: Nick, Brett, Trevor and myself. Other people on the software team: Garry and Dalton.

We actually just upgraded the hardware for HN very recently. A lot goes on behind the scenes and it's a testament to the team that it's all fairly transparent to the community to the point where most of you think nothing changes at all. The point is to keep the community focused on contributing, voting and commenting the very best content for hackers.

It's one of the reasons I was delighted to see Dan write about some of the work they do like reducing expired links. It's a rare look at how much thought goes into what feels relatively simple.
What's so strange about that? The majority are probably bad players.
Really good point. I doubt they'll ever[0] be able to put all that tech into a card that's actually as thin as a credit card that fits in an ATM.

But if they can do that, I want one, not to pay with, but for the programmable eInk screen with bluetooth connectivity (and touch? get real).

Then I'd hook it into my phone, that would somehow detect who is nearby/looking at it, reverse/stalk their social networks, local graph, location/environment context, little bit of magic, cold reading and random guesswork.

It would show exactly whatever they wanted/expected to see.

I'd have hacked myself a piece of Doctor Who's psychic paper.

[0] or at least for a few years :)
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I hope Linus is not that emotionally stunted.
I agree with that and I'm not sure what that jMyles' point was there, but I still don't think he/she was victim blaming, but rather making some sort of observation about the nature of privacy and popularity.
> I don't feel that we, as a society, should tolerate terrible things in general, much less let them prosper.

You mean premarital sex, homosexuality, genital mutilation and women showing their faces? Hint: two of those things are still considered normal in much of the world.
US companies of meaningful size that attempted to do so, would soon find new laws restricting their ability to leave.

Congress and the President moved quickly to stop tax inversion deals recently. They'd do the exact same thing on the basis of national security were major intelligence assets to attempt to leave.

The US Government will not give up the massive global information network it possesses in the way of Google / Apple / Facebook / Twitter / Yahoo / Microsoft etc. Under no circumstances will companies of this sort and value ever be allowed to crawl out from under control of the US Government.
I can second that. I work at Microsoft and those subdomains don't exist at all as far as I can see from the internal network.
What do you mean by "exalt the wrong people"? People like weev?
dupe - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8283006
Wow. This is a very serious security flaw. You should never assume that usernames (especially email addresses) are unknown to attackers.
You mean criminals might stop doing what they are doing because they know they are being investigated? Fantastic! Don't we want them to stop?
I assume you store all your money under the mattress? We all store "sensitive bits" (information) with others.
I was curious. So I went to the link secalex posted. Bountys start at $50; max is $15k.
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This is why it's always seemed to me that head ought to be typed as

head :: [a] -> Maybe a
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From the quote, I would assume that the author sees design both as a process and as an outcome/result. Meaning maybe that he is not considering those things as badly designed but, instead, as a bad design.
Airbnb is emblematic of the new "disrupt everything and fuck the consequences" economy. Too bad more landlords don't lay a smackdown on tenants who use their apartment as a hotel.
You're saying that women shouldn't go online if they don't want to receive rape threats, and that women should not have careers which involve public speaking.
This is something that could definitely have been reported to Slack before disclosing it publicly. Maybe he did that, but it's not mentioned in the blog post so I assume he didn't.

It's just a nice thing to do and they might reward you for it. You can still post it on your blog after they released a fix.
It's not just the bankers that were spared of course, all the politicians that were partially responsible for the economic melt-down were shielded as well. From Greenspan to Clinton, nobody in D.C. was touched either.

The Fed has caused more destruction of wealth in the last 20 years than all the private sector bankers in US history have combined. Not a single person from the Fed will ever, nor has ever, gotten into trouble for it. They can destroy the US economy with insane rates, QE, stimulus measures, you name it. They can debase the dollar and steal trillions in savings from average Americans. They can encourage incredibly dangerous asset inflation and speculative behavior with 'free' money policies, and nobody will ever do anything about it.
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I read it as "If you don't want to be harassed, you shouldn't have a public presence."

FWIW, immediately before that sentence, the thread-starter called into question the real danger of doxxing and calls to "action" based on the released information/misinformation.
The site seems to be down at the moment.

Here is a cached version [1]

The gist of it: the slack mac client seems to ask you for your groups before properly authenticating you - hence if you put in the email address of a competitor (or famous person), you can see which groups they belong to, which might be valuable information.

(haven't tried it myself, just summarising the post)

[1] http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=http%3a%2f%2fwww.tanay.co.i...
This issue actually seems to be even worse: You don't need a valid email alias to get a list of all teams. Just the domain name.
Sometimes the site isn't available, so voila:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Awww.t...
Premature optimization is that which is done before the need for the optimization is clear. Thus debugged, feature complete (for now) ... 'Established' really has nothing to do with it, if that established product has bugs then those should be addressed before attempting to optimize. Unless of course, the lack of optimization is itself the bug.
Harassment isn't. One of the big points of the article is that when law enforcement doesn't act that is justification that the action is legal and thus "free speech". Except that law enforcement almost never acts against online harassment. There are plenty of laws restricting free speech when it harms others, and I'd hope you agree that some of the examples in the article crosses the boundary into things that should be criminal.
Wouldn't exactly describe Hacker News as failing. It allowed one person to run a site for a growing community in his spare time and the sacrifice was the occasional expired link for some of its users. Not only do I think it was a fairly elegant solution, I feel like it was certainly a reasonable trade off. I'm sure pg would have been the first to change it had it actually effected things that truly mattered for a community site like Hacker News: story and comment quality.
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WTF - "that matches your domain". Big ouch.
I thought .edu was a US-thing.
That's why you write in situations like these in the first place. That's a way to pre-emptively stake your position giving journalists minimal room for creative mis-interpretation.

Interviews are a totally different situation and 'on the record' quotes out of context are the very reason I avoid interviews like the plague. I've yet to have one where that didn't happen, journalists are also called 'reporters' but from my experience 'reporting' to them does not mean reporting what was told to them but retelling in a way that suits their own agenda.
Yes!!! Now I can make my HN app! I don't like the ones that are on the market now (on Android platform)
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> What I don't get is why people willingly go onto an online community (knowing that there exist a potential for harassment) and then cry about it when it happens.

> As before, downvoters should explain their reasoning.

All right. I'm downvoting you for (a) victim-blaming, because you're basically saying that anyone who participates in any online community should expect an organized campaign of social violence and have only themselves to blame for it, (b) because you seem to imply that staying anonymous is sufficient protection when there are trolls who specialize in uncovering identities, and (c) because you're pretending that not intentionally participating in a community makes you safe from that community. Right now, in Gamergate, we've got a bunch of dudes trying to manufacture a political movement based on hounding one woman out of her home because her ex says she cheated on him.

Basically, in your world, no one deserves to be safe unless they cut off all human ties and live like a hermit. And that's bullshit.
You don't have to use the mac client: https://slack.com/signin and test@microsoft.com yields the same result.
I wouldn't call MetaFilter a particularly high quality community. Discussions there can have just as many trite and trollish comments as your average subreddit.

How MetaFilter differs is in that it features a rigid, hierarchical moderation structure, with gatekeepers who ensure posted content meets the stringent politically-correct tastes of its leadership. As a result I have seen legitimately interesting, good-faith discussion censored there, for no other reason than that it offended the sensibilities of some moderator. (This article was removed by a moderator, for example: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/girls-and-software)

It is a huge mistake to confuse enforced, intellectually sterile homogeneity for quality.
Yikes! What an incredibly brave blog to write. I can't even begin to fathom what life has been like for her over the last 10 years.

I don't know any of the backstory to this, so I'm taking the blog at face value. Even if only 1% of what she say is accurate (and I'm inclined to lean the opposite way), it's absolutely horrendous.

How is it possible that people behave this way? I don't understand what the line of justification can be. It's just cold-hearted, mean and vicious behaviour. I can't understand what benefit is drawn from treating someone like this.

Is there by chance a theory of sociopathy that covers this kind of behaviour?

I hope I never, ever make the terrible mistake of even unknowingly treating someone in this manner.
It's terrible at night when there's no wind and during the day when there's cloud cover and no wind. So you run the capital intensive parallel generators - and that's called running fully on renewable, is it?
> By shedding light on the issue, there is at least a hope that the situation can be improved. If nobody talks about this, then there's no way things can get better. On the contrary, silence would probably make things worse, as trolls would learn that they can get away with it.

Are you sure about that? It's not like if you tell a thief that stealing is bad, they won't steal any more. Also, a counter point would be, trolls want attention, and the more we talk about it, the more attention, and hence satisfaction, they get. Of course, talking about it might also bring about changes in law, but in my experience, most of the laws about the internet are really about censorship/control, and only use "harassment"/"child porn"/"piracy"/whatever as a popular excuse.
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I cannot believe the incompetence.
You can probably find an online copy of the city ordinances that specify exactly what "motor vehicle" means in that context. An interesting thing I noticed in one city is that it's technically illegal to drive certain (stock, unmodified) models of car above 3000RPM due to noise ordinances prohibiting exhaust bypass systems.