skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IANAQ* , but could not the effects shown in this article occur from content-neutral rules, combined with some clustering in the popularity of various subreddits?

For example, assume there is a rule that a given subreddit can have no more than N posts in the top 50 at a given time. It seems like this alone would explain the clustering shown in the article. Super-popular subreddits like /r/funny would rarely have posts on page 2, simply because they usually already have N posts on page 1. Thus they drop off sharply in likelihood to appear in the 40s, then shoot back up after #50 when the limiting stops.

Meanwhile clusters 2 and 3 appear to be the subreddits which rarely and often (respectively) reach the top 50, but only due to the limiting rule. Cluster 2 is the least popular in the unlimited spots past #50, so it makes sense that it usually reaches the lowest of the limited spots, while cluster 3 (apparently medium in overall popularity) takes the middle region.

Naturally I'm just squinting at it, but it looks like the article's findings could easily occur without Reddit treating some subreddits differently from others (as I take the author to imply it might, given the title). Am I missing something?

* I am not a quant :P
> > The selling point behind these devices is convenience, but at the cost of security. I don't think I need to explain to HN why an always-on, internet connected voice recording device is something to keep out of your house.

> Do you have any computers in your house? A TV made in the last few years? A smartphone?

Neither the first nor the last of those is necessarily always on or Internet connected. (For example, I have both of them, and, with brief exceptions, neither is Internet connected while in my house.)
One thing that immediately jumped to my head when I saw the falloff towards 50 and then the jump right after 50 was simply visual prominence. I would guess that people naturally pay more attention to posts that appear at the top of the page, whether it's page 1, 2, or 3. There's also a blip of attention at the very bottom, since that post is also visually and conceptually distinct - everyone looks directly at it because it's the last one, so it gets more eyeballs and potentially quite a few people giving it a charity vote to "save" it from dropping to the next page. Meanwhile people scan more quickly over posts in the middle, perhaps (as I do) merely skimming over a couple words and the score, to see whether it merits moving my eyes over the whole line (because my time is that valuable).
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Or maybe someone is trying to get out of the market and pocket all of the wallet funds sitting on another marketplace.

Seriously, if you were running a Tor marketplace and one of your competitors goes down, it is a perfect cover for running away with everyone's bitcoins and disappearing.
To me, this is the difference between being a programmer and a software engineer. Software engineers think of the bigger picture and understand the overall impact of choices made in the code on other things. Programmers focus too much on just coding and don't see the bigger picture.

I am sure much of this has to do with experience and having had the opportunity to learn from good software engineering teams.

In my teams, I have handled this with mentorship. Recognize who in the team needs mentoring and assign them a code review buddy. If mentorship somehow doesn't work, you just have to manage those programmers and put them under tighter supervision. However, you can't expect much change until you set and communicate expectations. Be clear on what you expect and review against those benchmarks.
The scary part is that you can't protect yourself easily from those around you. For example, let's say you like to maintain your privacy, and you're careful about anything you post online, you're careful not to have an always on microphone, such as the Echo, you're careful not to have a smart television with a video camera connected to the internet in your living room, etc. That's great, and up to you to decide, but what about your friends house?

I mean, when you visit your friend, stop at a girlfriends apartment, or hang out with people at the pub, are you checking if they have any of these devices? Do you search their shelves for an Echo? Do you ask everyone at the restaurant if they have a smartphone with a microphone connected to the internet?

It's impossible to avoid things like this in your life. The second you walk outside, you're surrounded by cameras and microphones that can be streaming anything, to anyone.

Facebook is another example. You might say, I don't want to enter where I live, or where I went to school, I feel that's sensitive information. Well, since you refuse to give up that information, Facebook just encourages your friends to squeal. Hey, does John Doe live in X or Y city? Did you go to university with John Doe? Hey, why don't you upload more photos of John Doe, and tell us the time and location that photo was taken. Actually, no need to tag him, we'll just detect his face, and use the date the photo was created.

It's not going to be long until you can search a person, and see a timeline of their life based on data from third parties. Let's watch John Doe's life for 2018. Oh look, Jan 15, he appears in the background of a tourists photo by the Eiffel tower. Jan 21st, we detected is face on the metro in southern France. Oh, Jan 28th, a car dash cam finds him walking down a street in Italy. Oh, his phone was on and we can see he was in Jane's apartment Feb 1st. Let's pull the audio from the microphone on Jane's television for that day.
I disagree. Pretty much any news article or situation is sided with the left on Reddit. Its even difficult to have an open and honest discussion here on HN, because anything that goes against the mainstream view (which tends to be liberal) is downvoted and silenced.

Its getting to the point where the only way to defend against such tactics is to play just as dirty.
If you think Snapchat is private, then it is already too late.
That in no way changes the fact that it is popular because consumers believe that it is. Consumers might not always be very bright when it comes to privacy and security, but the popularity of snapchat demonstrates that they do care.
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They're just like other default subreddits, which is to say that you can unsubscribe from them. I only resubscribed recently because I started working at reddit and figured I should know what's going on in my own company.
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http://leanstack.io is very similar.

EDIT: Oh, leanstack.io now redirects to stackshare.io... So I guess this is a rebranding.
Here's a recent image of the person charged from his instagram:

http://instagram.com/p/uyqRk1CXWk/

Prophetic.
Just to add some more. The legalization of pot hurts cartel's income. I read somewhere, that pot accounts for 60% of the cartel's profit in a multi-billion dollar industry! I mention this because of the recent trends in the US where states are beginning to legalize it. I'm sure they weren't too happy to hear that Oregon and Alaska legalize it as it only takes part of the profit away. Once the US is fully legalized, it won't be a hugely profitable business anymore so they will hurt. This means less profits, which means less power for them. With less power, then perhaps there will be less violence in Mexico?
Thanks for your feedback/questions.

I do have very detailed plans for each one.

However, you can agree with me that having plans (& business plans) is not as important as doing something tangible.

Time is money & spending too much time on planning phase is not wise since I already know what I'll do & even the best plans change & they should according to the real time feedback of the users!

I am planning to engage the users from the beginning & will have a detailed feedback system so I can have a detailed feedback on everything from the logos to layout to features etc

I tend to make complex systems out of simple ideas. This detailed feedback system would be very useful for startups & in fact it can be a startup by itself!. Imagine if you have such a system where money or time is never wasted so you can reach your milestones as efficiently as possible.

From experience, if one can not afford the time one shouldn't engage in such complex endeavors. This is why I need to secure the money to be able to do this.

In today's world it's almost impossible to compete without a backing.

Answers:

1) Quora is just a question-and-answer website & there are many like it. KibitzO is focused on friends/family where you specifically solicit from them "opinions" mainly so it's a social thing not just Q and A. Also, what would be really different is the functionality. Today, uniqueness of functionality is what makes any website/startup stands out as there are many copy cat for almost any kind of a website. If I reach beta then you'll have a chance to see the functionality 1st hand.

2)MooZeeKaa is different than anything out there. I can guarantee that to you because on this one I did a comprehensive market research as I tried to get investment for it. You'll be hard pressed to find quality music lessons for free!. Also, could you imagine having a famous musician be your mentor? or give out free lessons/vids!
If you went through the features list you can see that tutorials is just one part of it. The main difference here that it's an ecosystem! it'll have a complete platform to allow anyone from musicians to beginners to 1) have everything related to music in on place (Wal-Mart of music) 2) create an income of it, so you feed the ecosystem & be fed by it

3) Kingdomlove is a social platform to connect people based on what they love (love as a broad term not only as in dating so love of art, money, animals etc) so it has all the social features (like facebook) & a platform that allow useful sharing & growing your love based interest. Example, some people love sports, you ask yourself how 1) allow them to find people based on that love not just interest as someone who loves sports is different than someone who is interested in sports! 2) What tools do they need to allow them to grow this love in a productive way? So, for each love based there are suitable tools! Example, money love> business2business tools/features, lead generation etc, animals love> adaptation features, medical history tools etc

Please up vote!
If you wrote it in a language you consider "more secure" you'll open yourself to timing attacks and loose portability.
I can say exactly that, watch me: their persecution priorities are corrupted. How many rights violations is this darknet thingy causing? More than the megabankers that get away with a slap on the wrist? And how much easier is it to arrest megabankers than technical-minded hacker guys and gals that try their best to hide their crimes?

There's a much higher beneficial payoff that can come from arresting bankers (like Iceland did), and at much less effort, than trying to make sure anonymous people don't put silly substances in their mouths.

So yes, attempting to close down darknets is a shining example of our government's corruption, today, with everything that is happening with the economy, courtesy of the bankers.
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Favorite easter egg: in https://gnupg.org/faq/whats-new-in-2.1.html the examples showing how modern gpg works includes the identities 'Glenn Greenwald', 'Laura Poitras', 'Daniel Ellsberg', and 'Edward Snowden'.
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> it seems plausible that law enforcement have a vulnerability to locate servers over the Tor network.

They've bugged nearly all of the entrance and exit nodes. This allows them to do trivial traffic analysis. Parallel construction hides the method from the courts which would be reluctant to rule against anyway.
Are you disagreeing with him? I'm pretty sure he's right. You can also be right, but it's hard to know because you seem to have put the least possible amount of effort into your comment.
Why I might buy an Echo:

- it's a speaker with extra features. At about the same price as a bluetooth speaker, and I need a better one of those, the extra features are basically free as long as the audio quality is good.

- it can answer questions at the dinner table. My wife and I both have the annoying habit of pulling out our phones to answer questions that come up during conversation. Asking "Alexa" instead would be much more socially pleasant.

- it can stream music without the hassle of bluetooth. Bluetooth streaming becomes less convenient when you don't know which of the many computers, phones or tablets were used to start the music, or where it is...

- my three year old can probably figure out how to use it

Thought I'd throw those out there, and start a "positive" thread. This discussion is overwhelmingly negative. Lots of good points being made in the negative comments, but there are some nice positives, too.
They have just published a Google Maps style photo of the massive September 11th 2014 protest that the article mentions: "The Catalan independence movement has also broken its own records for the largest entirely peaceful demonstrations in Europe. About 1.5 million people formed a human chain across Catalonia in 2013, and as many as 1.8 million - 23% of the population - formed a giant V (for "vote") across Barcelona in September, to demand the dret a decidir, or "right to decide", in an independence referendum."

http://via2014.assemblea.cat/ortofoto/
Yeah, but that falls under epediaman's "Stop over-engineering. YAGNI!" quote.

If you want the benefits of `new` without exposing your interface, you should totally wrap it.

But if you're going to have boilerplate like that for code that not's performance critical (and most of it is not), why not just go for Object.create() and returning the instance yourself. Less action at a distance.
IIRC, Silk Road 1.0 (is this what we're calling it now?) had mirroring servers. As we know, somehow the IP of the main server was leaked, whether through the CAPTCHA or by other means.

Security by obscurity always fails - especially against the FBI. Given that Tor is essentially an obscuring mechanism for servers that have to function to some degree on the clearnet, if the FBI really wants to find a hidden service there are apparently many points of failure to exploit.

However, given that Ulbricht and now Benthall both had poor OpSec, criminals on the internet have as a last resort the ability to have no identifying information on their servers, even if their servers get owned.
>Such a scenario falls outside your 1 vs. 2 design options; is plausible; useful; and fairly easy to program too. I'm sure there will be many others like that.

Yes, I went back and added scenario #3... apparently at the same time you typed your reply. I think my scenario #3 is similar in spirit to what you're warning people about.

>P.S. My profile says I'm a "recovering" engineer, not a "recording" one :)

I have several browser tabs on music recording and I definitely had a dyslexic moment there.
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What if it's used to sell drugs from someone to someone else inside a country where both buying and selling drugs is legal?

I know that's a stretch, but hell, we're legalizing drugs all across our own country as we speak. In another election cycle or two the feds might well be fighting the states in every state.
> How do you know that it's actually off?

I take your meaning, in the sense that there's no inherent reason to trust one but not the other; but I think that it's fair to say that there's a big difference between:

Hey, wouldn't it be handy for our users if we started storing and pre-processing audio *before* hearing 'Alexa', so that we're ready to respond instantly? Let's quietly take down the text that says that we don't do that.

(which is a plausible reasoning process somewhere down the line) on the one (Echo) hand, and

Hey, wouldn't it be a good idea if we ignored our users' explicit election to turn off a feature?

on the other (Siri) hand.
You should post this at

http://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco

as well.
Can you figure out the navigation the designers used for this article?
That was my day today I.e. untangling one of those bags of shit that someone had tangled even more by converting it to a VSTO add in.

It's now a nice clean late-bound C# command line tool and powershell cmdlet.
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This sucks, my heart goes out to his family :(

For a brief moment I wondered if this is what I want to see on HN/Techcrunch. But we're a community, and lots of us live in SF - if it were a friend of mine, I'd be super happy to see this trending. Seems like the least we can do is have each others backs.
If the least common multiple of two elements is high, the rhythm would have a very long period, which doesn't sound very well. Three elements of periods 16,9 and 7 would have a period of 1008 steps, which at a tempo of 100 would take 10 seconds to reset. That's not a rhythm, that's a tune.
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Apparently Jimmy actually loves that song and asked Macklemore to be in the music video.

[0] http://www.fuse.tv/videos/2012/11/macklemore-ellen-degeneres...
That is some fucked up doublespeak right there.

If corporations weren't so powerful, they wouldn't be able to manipulate the government into passing laws that restrict choice among citizens.
By that argument, those people won't buy the Amazon Echo either, so what's the problem?
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>User agent detection sounds great, until you have a user that spoofs their agent.

Do a significant percentage of users spoof their agent?
> Nevertheless, selling illegal drugs on the internet is illegal.

Apparently running a social media website where you don't sell drugs but other people do is also illegal.

He committed the equivalent of putting up a bulletin board where drug dealers would pin instructions on how to buy from them.
I guess that post has been removed by an admin because it contained personal information (wtf?!):

http://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/2lhwzi/an_impo...
I saw him once in havard sq. about 15 years ago. Great show in a tiny venue. Wish I could remember it better than I do!
I said "our paranoia". I wasn't trying to dismiss it but these types of conversations tend to devolve into mainly discussing our paranoia. I don't need to be warned every week. And it's my choice to decide to allow Google or Apple, for example, to get my data.
So did the conformed slave.
I'm a student at the Iovine and Young Academy, and I would be happy to answer any questions about what the school is actually like.
Where are the Windows stack components? For example, I don't believe Stack Overflow runs solely on Redis for their data storage.
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Then buy one of those instead.
The people in this story (including the author) seem insane to me. It's crazy enough to ride a motorcycle (let alone without armor), but that's a footnote to the real issues: the violence, needless aggression, and treatment of women as chattel.

What's worse is the author spares no effort rationalizing her abuse. For example: After Jack hits her, he quickly says he's sorry and comes to her aid. That was not an example of how much Jack cared about her. That was Jack scared of her calling the cops and sending him to jail.

I can't find a single good decision made by the author of this story. Had Jack not broken up with her, she'd probably still be in this abusive relationship.
Yes, sorry -- it's all open, and lives in SmartOS, which doesn't necessarily have the most intuitive repo name:

http://github.com/joyent/illumos-joyent

If you look at the commit log, you'll see this is a very active area of development. Also, you can find us in #smartos on Freenode if you have specific questions.
R is awful. It's full of decisions made by people who seem to not have much programming experience, in that they seem good at the time but cause major issues later on. See, for instance, http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2012/06/08/r-the-master-troll... , http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2008/12/use-equals-or-ar... , http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2012/02/29/parsin... , and the necessity of http://tim-smith.us/arrgh/ (I wrote up some stuff about the *apply functions, but not yet in a form suitable for the guide: https://github.com/tdsmith/aRrgh/issues/18 ) .
This is true, but I believe that in modern JS implementations, the performance difference isn't as large as one might expect.

The similarity to Python is limited to syntax — I just wanted to raise the point that in both Python and prototype-free JS, higherOrderFunction(object.method) does what it looks like it will do.
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I think what makes it better is that it's completely hands free and accessible to everyone in the vicinity.

I already have a smart phone with Google Now, and I have a Sonos, but I'd still consider getting this to solve this common use case in our household:

Every morning my wife or daughter asks what the weather is going to be like. My wife could ask Siri, but she doesn't always have her iPhone at hand. I always have my phone, so I ask Google Now. I think it would be fun to have an Echo in the kitchen so my wife or daughter could just ask and get an answer. And it goes way beyond that. My daughter loves taking my phone and asking Google Now silly questions. It is high entertainment for her. Echo would be a device that she could interact with without having to co-opt my (or my wife's) phone.
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It's definitely not a suburb of Denver. It's relatively close, but it's a different place. It's a lot like Ann Arbor, Madison, or other cities of about 100k which have a large university in town.

It's actually got a fair bit of tech activity--nothing like top tier cities like SF, NYC, Boston, or even Austin, but for it's size the tech scene is significant.
Yes, it is. That's not relevant at all. Governments are not making these devices or forcing them in peoples' homes.
I agree completely and I would add that you need to keep the review size reasonable for this to work. I've been asked to review thousands of lines of code at once and it doesn't take long before your eyes glaze over and you start missing things.
Hehe, I have talked to Kevin on irc before about his custom compositor. He hangs out on the freenode irc channel #osdev sometimes, iirc. Really nice dude. I am very surprised this hasn't already been submitted here before. :)
Polyfills won't break your page and random, worse case you get worse performance over native. However the point of a polyfill is to do exactly what the native method would have done if it existed
For those curious,

quant |kwänt|
noun informal
a quantitative analyst.

ORIGIN 1970s: abbreviation.