skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or maybe if you feel that this is sacrificing your right to privacy, your definition of privacy has expanded way beyond reasonable limits. It honestly reminds me of the people who complain about legalizing gay marriage as a violation of their religious freedom.
Aren't everyone's taxes and incomes meant to be public in Sweden ? Assuming he did file his taxes properly, this should be verifiable.
Oh, interesting. I stopped indexing HN comments after the points data became unavailable (it was still available through the Octopart guys' api, until Algolia took over). It looks like comment scores start showing up around the 30 day mark.
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`dpkg' format string vulnerability. CVE-2014-8625
Money works like RAM:
More RAM than the running processes require will not make your computer any faster, but if you run out of RAM it will make it slower.
So, users with high karma are just populists? And since when hackers are populists? Not agreeing with somebody could be highly subjective.
This is the best Wikipedia page on the topic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_computer

Basically, a balanced-ternary system would be smaller and more efficient than a binary system that can match it. I'd like to see an open architecture chip designed and built with balanced ternary logic. It would probably need to be made from memristors once that is feasible. We will need a computing reboot at that time anyway in order to take full advantage of memristors.
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What noticeable benefits have you seen since you started using Soylent? Easier to eat? Feel healthier?
Downvoting because you disagree provides the exact same benefit to the reader that upvoting because you agree provides. "Downvotes aren't for disagreeing" is an absurd redditism.

> "Community groupthink is not strongly related to truth"

In strongly technical discussions, which are common on HN and which HN should be optimized for, "groupthink" and "correct" tend to correlate quite nicely. Whenever there is a concrete notion of "correct", it works well. It is only when "correct" becomes subjective (such as in political discussions) that shit gets messy.
I don't use it because at this point it's alien in the world of modern computers. Back when Smalltalk was in its prime it wasn't just a programming language, it was essentially your operating system, complete with its own graphics system, window manager, etc. This hasn't changed, but instead of being the basis of your system it's essentially another OS running on top of whatever your poison of choice is.

I think today the concept of the Smalltalk image and workspace has pretty much killed it, not the language itself. I use git for version control, I use GNOME as my desktop environment and IntelliJ as my IDE of choice, trying to do anything in smalltalk requires I transport myself back to the 90's.

GNU smalltalk is the closest we have to a smalltalk implementation that works well in modern computing environments, but there's a big lack of interest in the project.
Of course I won't. However, I recognize that repealing bad laws is the right solution to bad laws, not an indiscriminate weakening of all law enforcement.
on HN, it depends.

a greedy corporate fat cat that cheated people? punishment. Drug or copyright infringement related crimes? rehab.
I love the keyboard next/prev idea, as well as your other points. Noted down and it will be there in an update 100% sure. tnx a lot!
GitHub could be leveraged to do this so easily and it would make for an awesome repo. Each product could get it's own file allowing easy tracking of revisions, PR and issue tracking. A standardised file naming convention and formatting are all that's needed to get started.

EDIT:

There is also DIY Soylent [1] with some popular recipes, detailed nutritional information and versioning of each formula. People Chow v3.0.1 [2] seems to be one of the favourite recipes.

[1] http://diy.soylent.me/recipes
[2] http://diy.soylent.me/recipes/people-chow-301-tortilla-perfe...
The "HN take on downvoting" comes directly from Paul Graham. People disagree with it, but it is what it is.

I don't downvote disagreement, but that's because I'm a compulsive (and, from what I can tell, fast) commenter.

The simple way to metabolize this system is just not to get unhappy when you get downvoted.
Fair enough, but if you buy a lot of the mayo products in the condiments aisle, the FDA doesn't think you're getting it. Check it out next time you're in the supermarket, lots of things are dressing and not mayonnaise, but I'll bet you never noticed or cared. I live with someone who's vegan so I've been paying a lot of attention to labels lately.

I feel like this is sort of the Turing test of food, given two jars, one FDA-approved and the other not. If you can't tell one from the other, aren't they both mayo?
What if out universe was a matter universe and 14B yrs ago it collided with an anti-matter universe and that was the big bang? An our universe was just a little bigger than the other one? It seems like would explain a lot, like why the universe is so empty.
So no doubt the people behind Just Mayo are cool with unlabeled GMO products, right?

After all, if it tastes the same, works the same, smells the same...

Age of innovation!

Disclaimer- I'm fine with most GMO, though I see no reason not to label it as such.
I've been developing on the .net stack since its inception and it has worked well for me. I scaled and e-commerce company to $24 million in revenue using MS commerce server and .net. I use azure to host (while I have credit via bizspark). There are legions of programmers who work on this stack day in day out. Stackoverflow is a classic example of a high traffic site built using the MS stack. Why don't I ever hear people say is Ruby on Rails on AWS a bad idea?
The issue is the provenance of the ads, there's way more ad publisher interested in nytimes, ebay, etc... it's even worse when you consider that people that surf piratebay probably use an ad blocker or won't be interested to buy any product.

I have an hard time though to believe they would be losing money. How could they afford to keep it online at that scale if they had to use their own money.
$75k is the lowest price I've heard for this so far. Congrats, you got a deal! :)
... 21 meals IS a week's supply.
I appreciate your feedback too and agree that security related code is a sensitive thing. I did not loose any thought on the actual hashing and as written in the readme this is just a prototype. The key aspect of Passpod and on what I'd love to get some feedback is the idea to save the passwords in a giant set of hashes instead of the commonly used map of clear usernames and hashed passwords. I wrongfully supposed that it would be obvious that the actual hashing is just meant to be a placeholder. So I changed sha512 to md5 and documented that the actual hashing is broken accordingly.
I worked in a Smalltalk shop, smalltalk is not that great. I've discussed it at length, my problems with it. As a language it is impressive what they built at the time. In practice it was a terrible pain in the ass with tons of "ravioli" code everywhere. The language has no qualms with letting you wreck havoc within the standard base classes, which makes integrating anothers code almost impossible.
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You would need to take a fee to provide that level of service since it goes beyond just logistics. Is there any reason why having that order option doesn't do it? You can set up a weekly email to go to your customer reminding them to place their order online for same day delivery and you can even save their most common orders online for instant re-order.
How does pornhub.com make money?
21 meals is supposed to be a weeks supply.
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That label is definitely misleading, and probably intentionally so.

Seriously, it features an egg, which it doesn't have.
Surely you can recognize that being able to go back and review records taken before the report happened is more effective. Arguing that another "less effective but possibly still okay" solution only makes sense if you present a reason not to use the more effective solution instead.
I don't have any reason to attack your central point (I find it mostly agreeable.)

I'm not defending tracker1; I'm defending Hacker News. Personal attacks make HN worse. They are low-value phrases that sometimes drag down high-value comments. The guidelines [0] are quite explicit about this, and the current top story [1] is about trying to improve comment quality (a discussion which is, in part, related to an e-mail exchange that came in response to a personal attack directed at my wife in [2].)

So, I reiterate: please don't make personal attacks on Hacker News.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html -- the paragraph with the word "shortened" in it

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8585597

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8552958
Or one who refuses to eat pork.
I rarely see well considered dissenting opinions down-voted into the gray. That is something that I typically only see when somebody is being uncivil, committing logical fallacies, mis-characterizing the arguments of others, or is factually incorrect yet self-sure.
When did they stop hosting .torrent files? Hosting only magnet links means they have nearly nil bandwidth costs (just some sparse HTML pages, by far the biggest piece of content on a tpb results page are the ads) and require very little infrastructure.

In contrast, they have banners on the results page, pop-ups when you interact on the results pages, and massive banners on the item pages.

A good chunk of their clientèle hopefully runs adblock, and I also can't imagine the ads they're serving are very lucrative since few legitimate companies will want to do business with them, but I can't imagine that it balances out.
Ah, okay. I thought locktite was only a "mostly permanent" adhesive. Thanks for the info!
There's a difference between "didn't check the label" and "can't check the label because the info isn't on it".
You stated: most people probably believe that factually incorrect statements are not valuable to the conversation.

I don't think this is true at all. I disagree that 1) this is a thing most people believe and 2) that incorrect statements are not valuable.

I would hope our disagreement would cause people to refine their thinking about what they post as well as what they downvote and flag.

[*] Most, referring to most HN readers
On the other hand, their bonjour service is top notch (anecdotally, but still).
> No need for the government to tell me what is and isn’t mayonnaise.

If I need "mayonnaise" for a recipe that depends on the specific chemical properties of the stuff (as a metaphor, see chocolate), I want to be sure that the stuff I'm buying at the store is actually oil+acid+egg that won't break down unexpectedly in my cooking. So by all means, I want regulation that ensures that "mayonnaise" is reasonably close to the actual stuff, and not some recreation that just happens to mimic the original.

Which, of course, goes against Hampton Creek's marketing.
Well, your reasoning doesn't come across like that to me, sorry.

And I have to say, you do delete comments with replies.
I can't seem to find a changelog.

I would love a "what's new"
Oh I do want to add that it is a language behind a paywall as well. Which i find rather strange. Being charged as a customer to one) use their language and two) being charged per user we allowed into the environment.

Because Smalltalk is an enclosed runtime (similar to Java, but much worse). We had to tell them how many users would be using non-developer editions of the runtime and they charged us for that.
Would you mind clarifying? The blog post (quoted by parent) seems to explicity say that flagging privs can be revoked, which directly contradicts what you are saying in the comments. Or was the quote from the blog post only meant to refer to flagging of articles?
To send actual humans to the surface of Mars requires several robotic missions first to prepare.

If we expect to make fuel for the return journey there, that needs to be happening before the people leave Earth orbit.

Ditto for digging the hole and putting in an underground habitat.

Building a greenhouse from glass made on Mars.

Growing actual food on the surface.

Each of these steps are critical and need testing before we send people. Otherwise it's a pointless test to find out which failure gets them first.
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Ordered mine 6 months ago and it hasn't arrived yet.
Since they ran a multi-million dollar business for like ten years without "having any idea of how much money the ads brought in" (as stated over and over in the court proceedings) that is a pretty big assumption you made just there.
Agreed. If they're this adamant about keeping the fading functionality tied to downvoting, they should just do away with downvoting all together, because fading just seems to worsen the discussion.

I've lost count of how many times I've seen perfectly good insightful comments around here that get ignored because some people decided to downvote them for some arbitrary reason. In fact, it's so bad, that I'd say I've barely seen any good instances of fading for the past year; they just seems to encourage group-think almost every time.

I'm ok with the idea of downvoting meaning disagreement, since that's how voting systems always end up being used anyway (not to mention pg approves of that interpretation as well), but penalizing comments to become practically non-existent based on a few downvotes (last time I noticed, a score of -1 started the fading) is just not conducive to interesting discussion.
how do you read 'angersock'? To me the plain reading is "an online persona distinct from one's usual persona; and one which has an extremely angry tone."

I agree there is nothing wrong whatsoever with his actual comments.
You should look into creating one of the DIY soylent recipes. I found this one particularly simple: http://diy.soylent.me/recipes/people-chow-301-tortilla-perfe...

Sure it isn't THE soylent, but tons of people are collaborating on that one too.
Furthermore, television is a means of mass communication that allows the few media companies to disseminate their own message to a receptive audience. As a cheap source of entertainment, it also occupies and pacifies the public.

If poor people could not afford televisions, they would likely be subsidized. The food stamp program provides the bread, and broadcast television provides the circuses.

How about tracking something that rich folk would be nervous about the poor people owning, like long arms or dissenter-friendly networks? How many poor people own an AR-15 and a software-defined radio?
You're looking at it the wrong way. It's not a matter of abusing power or not. That power is destroyed when people realize that privacy doesn't exist. You are worried that someone will record you picking your nose? Instead of banning such recordings, how about changing society to one that accepts that everyone picks their noses?
How can anyone still believe Skype is end-to-end? Microsoft was censoring links on Skype not too long ago for crying out loud! That wouldn't be possible with END-to-END encryption.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/think-your-skype-mes...
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Don't know if it was just added, but the front page currently has this on it:

Are you competing with Wireshark?

No. WireEdit is a packet editor, not an analyzer.
No real-time packet capture either.
Not strictly, no. From what I understand, Kahan's idea was that you run the computation under different rounding modes and see how the behaviour changes, see for example:

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/Stnfrd50.pdf
Well written article!

As much as I would like to but I think it will probably never happen in the near future. Not because of technical reasons as some people state in the article. In my opinion the technical difficulties are not the most difficult things to solve in order to travel to Mars. Humanity went basically from 0 to space and on the Moon but this was only possible because of the political pressure where everything was dedicated to reach this goal. This included a lot of money and ten thousands of people. But most important it was the society who supported this goal no matter what. Today nobody really cares if people go to space and this makes it impossible for a hand full of people who do.
Just curious, but are you saying that because of the relative position of the parent's comment in this thread, or is there a threshold for karma that unlocks seeing the karma on comments other than your own?
I think the point is that the complaints may all very well be valid, but that there is also the question what they did right. And Windows do get some important things (mostly) right, for example backwards compatibility.
How stupid do you think judges are?
How does HN's moderation staff feel about users who are dead, completely oblivious to it, but who continue to post, sometimes for years after the fact without any kind of warning that they are wasting their time.

Sometimes I check the comment history of these dead posters; 80% of the time it appears like they are a genuine troll who was correctly moderated out of the community, however, a significant portion of the time, there doesn't appear to be anything particularly inappropriate in the comment history, but the user is still doomed to waste a considerable amount of time attempting to contribute to this board.

In the context of internet discussion boards, it seems a little harsh.

Off the top of my head, I feel like something akin to an automatic probationary resurrection period would be an interesting idea. Perhaps it occurs one year after hellbanishment, giving the community a chance to organically reevaluate the user's quality of contributions, and giving a second chance to those who have matured in a years time (or who was simply hellbanned in error).
I now noticed that the NCR18650B batteries are Li-ion batteries (i.e. 2.7-3.7V range for one cell; I was thinking NiMH which are below 1.5V per cell). This may be harder to regulate to 3.3V as you can't simply choose a step-up nor step-down circuit because the source voltage crosses the target voltage during operation; I think I've seen chips that claim to do this but I don't know how efficiently[1]. You may be better off with the original plan of converting to 5V after all.

[1] well, actually an inverting buck-boost converter should be fine and seems like it should be as efficient as a step-up (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck-boost_converter). Whatever, my lack of enough experience in that area shows.
What assurances do we have that you'll live up to your privacy policy?
Is this a reasonable place to plead with people to stop the practice of meta-commentary on downvotes ?

I am sick and tired of seeing the scoring system injected into the comment thread:

"let the downvotes begin"
"EDIT: you can downvote all you want, but ..."
"EDIT: not sure why I'm being downvoted, but ..."

... and so on. Just comment and respond, don't add all manner of meta-commentary on voting and the score system into the discussion.

Thanks.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/1125 and http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/1117

First section says that someone using a misleading word or term "shall be liable in a civil action by any person who believes that he or she is or is likely to be damaged by such act." Second section says a winning plaintiff is entitled to profits, and up to treble damages.
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It's useful for low-fi demos of actual nice native stuff.
That's in the guidelines/FAQ.
"We" are not here not agreeing with it. You are here not agreeing with it, and clearly another group of people agrees with it quite strongly. I agree it could be clearer, but it does not follow that a point that is not clearly made is not true at its core. A thing does not need to be argued successfully to be true: the truth of the thing exists first.

Absolutely, with prejudice, I reject the principle of excluded middle—if not based on mathematics, then for its societal impact on the way we think about the world and ourselves. I think a three- or four-valued logic (yes/no/maybe or yes/no/both/neither) applies to reality better and helps humans understand complexity as it really is, while a two-valued logic nearly always oversimplifies and causes direct harm to ideas and how they spread and are discussed.

In general I have no patience for those who think in binary.
You do have a right not to be followed everywhere you go. Ubiquitous ANPR is essentially a police officer/power broker tailing every car without suspicion. This is more than a violation of visible privacy.
Again, interesting.

Maybe I'm in the minority on this, but I don't approach voting from an agree/disagree axis. I approach it from a productive/unproductive axis. I upvote comments I find helpful, articulate, or informative. I downvote comments I find unhelpful, inarticulate, or uninformative. I leave alone comments that I find "meh," or that someone has already said better, or that neither add to, nor subtract from, the conversation. Basically: something either adds to the conversation (upvote), subtracts from the conversation (downvote), completely derails the conversation (flag), or is neutral.

Case in point: I didn't necessarily agree with your comment, but I found it articulate and interesting. It presented a perspective I hadn't considered. It made me think. I upvoted it.

Now, one could argue that agree/disagree and productive/unproductive are basically the same thing in practice. They both represent a desire to move the conversation in one direction or the other. (To your point about the group dynamics). But I don't know if I totally buy into that. I have no idea if this is true, but I'd hypothesize that voting patterns would be different under one explicit guideline or the other. I'd also think that downvoting-to-disagree runs the risk of fostering an echo chamber, which discourages dissenting or different viewpoints, particularly on hot-button topics.
You missed the affiliate links - they also peddle crapware for $$$, in addition to the ads and popups that might be blocked.

Even if 1/2 their traffic is using adblockers that still leaves billions of ad impressions a month. There is no reason to believe their lies about how much servers cost, especially on a site like HN where many people have first hand experience of more elaborate hosting costs and advertising.

2009 = 1b pageviews/month https://gigaom.com/2009/07/19/the-pirate-bay-distributing-th...

2014 = 90th most popular website on the entire internet, which itself grew massively in that 5 years
no but you did write a check to your telephone company which everyone used at the time. And the problems were identical. You either got a busy tone or "all circuits are busy" message. Not trying to split hairs here, I agree on one hand that the technology is different but I am suggesting the problem is the same. We're talking about capacity issues and lobbyist. Although, telephone lines were subsidized where as I have a friend who lives just on the outskirts of local cable service and the cable company told him it would cost $30K just to run some coax down the street and under some railroad tracks. He's still stuck with dial-up as a result. Anyway...
Comment flagging cannot be revoked, but story flagging can.
For starters, it looks like this could be an issue:

Can I add support for stack Y myself?

No but we’d be happy to talk about it.

If this was FOSS, you could easily add support for your own stack rather than being at the mercy of their limited amount of time to work on it.