skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I doubt you could host a large scale operation on a single server. Given the volume that SR1 && SR2 received, you would need more servers at some point. At that point you either need to hit up craigslist again or host via cloud providers. (of course all of this is assuming that the first guy you met on craigslist was not an undercover agent).

Given I've bought servers for cash on craigslist, I doubt this is really an issue.

You are making a large number of assumptions that in real world situations aren't likely.

They'd need to:

A) Locate you. Assuming good opsec, you'd move and so forth if they imaged/seized your servers and you were aware of it.
B) Seed craigslist across a large enough area to catch you.

Hell, you could just move to Canada on "vacation" and pay cash to rent a room up there as well as buy servers in Vancouver or something.
I think that this creates both first and fourth amendment issues.
Turns out that the site accepts bug reports in klingon -
"(And yes, Klingon is OK.)"

https://sites.google.com/site/bughunteruniversity/improve/us...
I had this happen to me when I critiqued a YC backed company. Had a few thousand in 'meaningless internet karma points'.
You pretty soon realise after a few further comments anyway, so I doubt it's actually effective.

It's pretty mean spirited though - generally a "douchebag" move. It'd be like having a bad employee, but instead of firing him, or discussing his work, just don't bother paying him any more.

After being hellbanned I actually realised that commenting on internet forums is toxic, generally a waste of time, and not productive. So I quit. At the start, you sort of care about "karma". But you end up realising it's a measure of two things. 1. How much time you waste commenting on the internet, and 2. How much you can agree with the groupthink echo-chamber.

But for those that like spending time commenting, I would have thought following a subreddit model would work better here, with the growth. Spread the power out. If I get hellbanned from the "rust is the future!!!" subhackernews, big whoop.

It'd also help with filtering out all the non-interesting (self driving cars) stories.

But then perhaps it'd basically be reddit at that stage which would defeat the point...
We've got an idea about this that we want to try. It's one of the future experiments Sam alluded to at the end of his post.

(I'll add some details in a few minutes. Edit—well, quite a few minutes.)

The problem is that banning an account is an all-or-nothing system where inappropriate commenting is not necessarily an all-or-nothing phenomenon. The solution we want to try, which was suggested by several users, is to give the community the power to bring comments out of [dead] status. Letting fellow users make the call when a comment is (or isn't) ok seems like it might work, especially since the recent experiments with flagging seem to have helped. This is one of the things Sam was referring to when he said we plan to experiment more with community moderation.
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The last time I tried it the only thing it was missing was the thing that chrome does when you tap near several links and chrome determines that the click was somewhat ambiguous and offers you a zoomed up version in a pop-up box. Does it have that now?
Aha Integrated with Google Drive
I believe the fading starts at 0 ( a comment starts with 1 point ).
It was (rightfully) a pretty large part of the reasoning behind the ruling. But 99% of the internet fanboys/fangirls have no idea of this.
Dolphin travels through space and time
Transferring information directly between human brains
I would love to see them lower the threshold for down-voting. I've only got 200+ karma, and it's hard for me to get more. I can't be on here all day commenting, and being the first to submit articles.

If I have something important to say, I comment, otherwise, I mostly consume. But that doesn't mean I shouldn't be able to download a comment I don't agree with or find offensive.
Yeah, I should have said 'examples please', because that's a pretty strong statement, given that history has generally been pretty shitty for humans over the last few millions of years. I am not convinced that wealth redistribution (the few times it has been tried) has been effective, and certainly less effective than things like 'abolishing slavery', 'ending wars', 'ousting dictators', 'eliminating corruptions', and the like.

as for the question of just desserts, i don't think there really is such a thing. I work towards curing cancer, plowing a lot of personal resources towards it (including money) and not expecting any profit. I also feed people with HIV/AIDS every week and volunteer at a homeless shelter, but do I expect to 'deserve' anything from that? Not really.
good points

actually, whenever i hear that story i always think of the bootstrapper / lifestyle business guy vs the "go big or go home", VC-funded, billion dollar IPO guy

for example, a box maker family business, or a hand-made shoe business, or a fishing trip boat-rent business, etc etc

the argument being you do something you like, on your own terms, and down-size your expenses so you can live a relatively low-worries life

vs

you burn the candle at both ends to make it big, so that you can one day take it easy

Of course it doesn't have to be that black and white, but given the choice I tend to go for the former
Fretting. Under high lateral force and vibration, I get fretting and I hate it.
Betting on China: Gilt’s Relaunch into the Largest Luxury Market in the World
"Free" and "neutral" can't co-exist.
"Free" means that the government controls it.
This by itself implies that it's not neutral.

Q.E.D.
> To prevent abuse, moderators review flagged stories and comments and revoke flagging privileges from users who flag inappropriately.

At first I was appalled at hearing this until I realized I misunderstood the change. I was mistaking down voting for flagging.

Flagging and down voting are two different things. Also, most everyone can [now] flag comments but you have to take one additional step (extra friction, perhaps for the better and to also prevent accidental flagging) which is you first must click on 'link' next the the comment and then 'flag'.
Is there any way for me to tell if my flags are useful or stupid?

I tend to pre-emptively flag stories which I know will draw out the worst bits of HN. That's probably a bad thing, and I wouldn't be surprised if it caused my flags to be ignored.
They've always covered their money trail, it's been a critical part of the illusion they portray where they're good people doing good things for nothing.

Given that the rest of the internet at their popularity level manages to generate enough $$$ to cover thousands of employees, produce their own whatever etc, it's ludicrous to expect TPB's traffic to 'cover hosting' as is the popular rumor.

A similar site, SurfTheChannel, was found to be generating ~$78,000 per month with order(s) of magnitude less traffic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfthechannel
> Another perspective is that letting luck play a role is a more cost efficient way to get people to take big risks. Maybe people wouldn't do some things (like move to Silicon Valley to re-imagine the way we do blah blah blah) without the chance of a big payday.

Diminishing returns on money are supported by happiness surveys and common sense. There is no reason to assume, as you seem to, that risky things are automatically better for society than non-risky things. IMO common sense suggests the opposite.

Also, risk is fungible. If you want people to do a thing that has a 0.1% chance of earning $1m, you can find a thousand people and just pay them $1k each. If you have $1k and want to turn it into a 0.1% of $1m, you can play roulette a few times (not completely free, but the house take is pretty low).

> Would as many people play slots if winnings were taxed at 90%?

Probably, yes. My country's lottery is taxed at 50%. Gamblers are not generally rational.
This anniversary makes me feel like I should do something nice for Firefox. Then I realised that I've been working on their DVCS of choice, Mercurial. Well, Firefox, you've served me very well over the years. I hope I can make Mercurial better for you in return. Thanks!
> I'm not sure that the Web needs to be in VR.

Don't think of it as "the Web in VR". Think of it as "VR in the Web".

I don't think the web should be in audio. Hyperlinked 2D documents don't get better when you put them in sound streams ;) But, having audio in the Web is really nice!

The Web is the discovery/distribution channel. The fact that it is also possible to wedge hyperlinked 2D documents into a VR environment is incidental.
Shouldn't your move vs copy constructors be generally irrelevant? The idea is that they are semantically equivalent thus the compiler can make the correct choice for you.

Your comment about RVO isn't accurate, those are two separate returns with rvalues (which can thus use a move constructor).

I would heartily agree that tooling to allow inspection about how all of these rules apply would help tremendously.
Your reading is correct...unfortunately, my early posts actually did better than expected, and I seem to have become the mask, so to speak.

I agree there is nothing wrong whatsoever with his actual comments.

That's the nicest thing anybody's said about me all week. :)
if you're looking for an OSS variant of this (packet editor with a GUI), have a look at Netdude:

http://netdude.sourceforge.net/

older package, but does basically this.
Dropbox integrated with Aha for visual roadmaps
Sam, thanks for the update. I feel that the quality of news has improved greatly as of late and the comments are getting better.

Does anybody know what the downvote threshold is? Or any other thresholds for that matter?
Ever notice how people who make claims about why they got banned never provide links to the posts in question? That's because their claims are nearly always false. If users could look at the actual record, their perennial sob story of perfectly reasonable behavior struck down by bullying censors would evaporate. So they make new accounts and post linkless statements designed to be unanswerable.

We don't ban people because they "critiqued a YC backed company".

Edit: Some of the replies have made good points, and I realize that I overreacted. Sorry about that. Please shoot us an email at hn@ycombinator.com if you feel your account was banned unfairly. We're always happy to look into this—there's no question that we make mistakes; the most I can claim is that we're eager to, and do, correct them when they're brought to our attention.
I don't find that strange, as I remember the days we had to pay for every single one of our tools, including distribution royalties.

Open source kind of killed this way the industry used to work forcing companies to find other ways of revenue, except for big corporations that kind of still work this way.
ah thanks. Even worse!
I obviously can't speak to whether MOC is experiencing it, but I can say that with my first HN account, before I understood the context and spirit of HN, I made a very Reddit-esque comment that got me banned. The first part of that was the so-called slowban, as the site was all but unusable when I was logged in.

This was years ago and I have no idea if the mods still use this tactic, but I imagine so in certain cases.
Well, they have a higher Alexa ranking than the Pirate Bay, so it's probably easier for them to get advertisers. Also they're a near-monopoly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MindGeek On top of that, while porn may be objectionable to some advertisers' brands, it's still worlds better than the straight-up illegal content on the Pirate Bay.
Same here. MacBook Pro 15" Retina screen: http://imgur.com/fmtqXFD
No kidding. I ordered back in May, Soylent told me they were "shipping soon" in September, and I still don't have anything.
Offtopic here, but i noticed a huge relay since recently on HN...

My initial loading time is 13 seconds (didn't realize it was that huge) since a couple of days.

Note: didn't realize the lag was that high, i load some other tabs during the waiting...
Note 2: I'm from Belgium, so perhaps it helps to debug the issue. Github account didn't seem to contain any items to report bugs/issues
Not sure where you got that assumption from. We don't own your data anymore than Dropbox does.
I consider myself a language enthusiast, but I think that 'merit' in PL design is extremely poorly understood on a practical level. This idea that these languages became popular in spite of their apparent lack of merit is far too easy a way to stop thinking about what merits they might have that the oft-touted 'better languages' lack that drive people to use them. And this thought-stopper has to rest on an assumption that programmers don't want things to be easier/better/etc., which strikes me as unlikely.
Sounds like a great idea! Let's license foods too!

11. BECAUSE THE FOOD IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE FOOD, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE FARMERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE FOOD "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR CONSUMPTION. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE FOOD IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE FOOD PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
My understanding is that all four of those of those systems were timed for the first public stable release of SteamOS.
I would assume it's cheaper and/or logistically easier to fulfill nutritional requirements with animal products. Presumably that's why Soylent used fish oil initially.
They probably put this as a joke, but someone should try sending a report in Klingon ;)
These people were highest up the food chain and are all VPs of various technology departments.

Hard to believe they treat the little guy innovator the way they treated us! Treated us like dogs!
At least theoretically, the government bureaucrat can be influenced for the general good. The corporate monopoly bureaucrat will fuck everybody over if it serves his interest.
I see. I was thinking generally about tools / libs / ecosystem, and platform presence. I actually didn't realize Haskell was already so established.
for some reason I can't reply to thelogos

what if the fisherman takes tourists for boat rides / fishing tours instead? - the argument being that with a little bit of craftsmanship you can still live a relaxed lifestyle (provided you always spend more than you make)
Flagging seems like the solution to toxic comments, and should be more encouraged. At the same time, this means it overlaps with downvoting—but only one use of downvoting. Really, the meaning of downvoting on HN is somewhat confused and muddled: is it a "flag lite"? Is it a way of disagreeing? Is it a way to push worse content to the bottom? Is it just the opposite of an upvote?

Any one of these would be reasonable, but having all at the same time is not great. But that's exactly what we have now, both in the design of the feature and in how it gets used in practice.

Personally, I think downvoting should move away from being an alternate form of flagging (with flagging, perhaps, taking a slightly more prominent role for dealing with actual abuse) and more towards just being the opposite of an upvote. This still makes it a bit of a hybrid (both for moving bad content down and disagreeing), but one that makes a lot more sense because it works just like upvotes do.

For one, this is what the interface already implies. The downvote button looks just like the upvote button upside down. Seeing the two as exact opposites is entirely natural, and that's how it plays out in terms of karma too. But in terms of social conventions and, importantly, greying out comments, this doesn't quite hold.

I also think that some symmetric way to counterbalance upvotes is actually useful in and of itself: downvotes can offset comments that gain a lot of upvotes before getting a strong rebuttal or comments stuck at the top of a discussion because of other quirks in the system. But people now seem pretty hesitant to use them this way. Which makes sense: if downvotes are, in part, mini-flags, they are too strong just to indicate that you think something has been upvoted too much or is not a particularly good comment (without being bad or abusive).

So what would I do? Well, from the site's perspective, the main tweak is greying out comments after more than one downvote. Still have the votes change the order, but only have a really visible effect after a few have accumulated. More importantly, from a social perspective, it would be good to reach consensus on what a downvote actually entails, namely that it's just the opposite of an upvote, neither more nor less.

Disentangling flags and downvotes like this will improve the utility of both features by making them more focused. Downvotes can be a symmetric force in shaping discussion while flags could be pushed a bit more as means of pruning actively harmful comments.
Shelf stable mayo is disgusting. Make it at home and compare. None of these companies should be able to call their product mayo. Sure they meet the technical definition of mayo, having at least the ingredients that whafro lists, but they also contain a bunch of other crap that significantly alters the texture and flavor. Just Mayo does seem to be even further from real mayo than most of the competition.

I don't see what the big hubub is about. Hellman can pursue all three strategies to win at the same time. Innovate, market, AND sue! Not to defend the system but it's the one we have and I don't blame them for taking advantage of it.
Well, the code is better than that of Communicator :)
unfortunately, don't see a native Mac app
Design Details: Square Order for iOS
That doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Do you have some reason to suspect that the diet you're currently eating is based on a more correct understanding of nutrition than a diet that includes Soylent?
How Slack has made itself an indispensable business tool
Generally speaking if you can get used to the taste IMO it's pretty amazing for alot of reasons.

BTW the taste is not as bad as many say, but it can be difficult to resist a trip to [your favorite restaurant here] for lunch every once in a while.

First, it fits my lifestyle. I work from home as an independent contractor, so no issues with having it for days at a time without hassle of bringing it to work with me every day.

Also, for the first week or so your body is adjusting to it, so in terms of social interactions you may not "be yourself". For example, for me, I would get tired randomly after a glass. After that first week or so things start getting back to normal.

I sometimes go on work binges depending on what I'm trying to accomplish, so in those circumstances the last thing I want to do is get up from my computer to spend even 1-2 hrs preparing and eating, then cleaning up after a meal just because my stomach is growling.

Second, my personal experience so far has been that it truly does give you that "full" / "satiated" feeling after you've had a glass of it. More so than pretty much any home or restaurant-prepared meal I've ever had. It lasts a long time as well. I don't have stats, but when I'm really busy and involved with a project I would say the number of times I get up from my desk to take a break, stretch my legs, etc. for one reason or another has decreased dramatically.

Third, generally speaking for a quick meal in the past it would be a trip to a restaurant, or some processed / high sodium, low in nutrition meal (ie. your mac and cheese, pizza, canned soups, etc). Now there's a basic peace of mind that I don't have to compromise nutrition just because I don't want to put the time and effort into preparing a healthy meal.

Fourth, general energy levels / focus throughout the day. Probably because overall I'm eating healthier during busy times, and the formulation is meant to maintain things like steady levels of blood sugar, etc. You don't get the peaks and valleys you sometimes can get after eating a heavy meal.

I'm no fan boy, though it might sound like it. It's one of those products I can seriously spend some time promoting to people because I truly do believe in it. If I had to guess, I would say (barring disaster) this is going to be a multi-billion-dollar company.
First: I thought this was a well-written article.

Second: although it is definitely not something I would seriously consider, I can appreciate that there are some people out there who are in fine mental health and would eagerly go on a one-way trip to Mars.

But third, when I read this:

Before he’d applied for Mars One, Josh had met a girl at the Redhead Days festival in the Netherlands. Eli did not have red hair, but was brunette; Josh was drawn to her easygoing demeanor, her effortless good moods, and they fell very much in love. But a shot at Mars would be a serious, life-changing turn of events, and Josh knew that he would have to fully commit if he was ever going to make it to the final selection. He didn’t even wait for the application deadline to break it off.

...I concluded that Josh was an idiot. Not for wanting to go on a one-way trip to Mars, not because of any career or lifestyle decisions he had made, but simply because he sabotaged his potential happiness based upon a promise of something exciting happening, made by people a world away that he had never met and who seemed to have a dubious command of the critical technical details of such an undertaking.

Ten years from now, when Josh is still on Earth, Mars One is considered to be another Biosphere 2 and Bas Landsorp and his pals have long since moved on to other commercial ventures, I suspect Josh will wonder about that brunette.
Lots of the world gets by mostly on rice. Soylent is oats, rice, starch, fiber and vitamins. It doesn't scare me, especially when supplemented with actual plants.
The logic you just proposed is actually illegal in the states when it comes to job applicants, because it disproportionally discriminates against some candidates based on their age.
FirefoxOS 2.0 released
That was over a year ago. The scorecard was just launched this month.
It's surprising in hindsight that DDG ended up being an option in iOS before Firefox.
Insurance companies are prohibited to have selection bias under ACA, and now telecoms under Title II. So yeah pretty close.
The fingerprint situation on papers is a mess:

Since 2007 German passports must contain two fingerprints. They're encrypted with a key held by the German government, (claimed to be) stored on the passport only.

German ID cards can contain two fingerprints. Besides being optional, the same rules as for passports apply.

On entry to the USA they don't seem to actually use the fingerprint data on the passport, and they require you to give ten fingerprints plus photo.

The original claim is that the US required them. By now, many countries require the data on passports. But none of them seem to read it on foreign passports, and from what I understand they're not able to.

So the main reason is that the requirement exists to force countries to provider a higher baseline against forgery. Alternatively they planned to access the fingerprints, but countries couldn't agree on a common standard and ACL system, or the USA got screwed because they required "digitally stored fingerprints", which they got (hence _two_ fingerprints) - but not in a format they can actually use.

I kinda like that last option ;-)
Does anyone know how Go is used inside Microsoft, except their participation in the Kubernetes project?
Switched to a Flame (from a Galaxy S4) and have never looked back since -- Update to 2.0 dropped on 11/07 it seems.

I got it a little late, but am still excited by all the new changes.
Mozilla is prototyping a content micropayment system tentatively called "Subscribe2Web". Here is a video presenting the ideas behind the project:

https://air.mozilla.org/subscribe2web/