skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A comment's location is affected both by its points and by its age. New comments tend to appear at or near the top in the first few minutes after they're posted, and then will drop down the page if they don't receive many upvotes.
I've done this, too. If you e-mail the mods they'll reverse it pretty quickly. On the same hand, if you e-mail the mods all the time they might have more of an incentive to implement a self-undo.
I'd like to try Soylent. Is there a way to order, say, $10 worth to check it out?
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As far as I can tell, there are no guidelines or FAQs about what downvoting should be "used for" on HN.

On Reddit, the Reddiquette [1] standard is that you should only downvote if a comment doesn't contribute to the conversation. I think is is an excellent standard. It's been suggested in the past that a similar standard should be present on HN. [2]

Considering that flagging is a privilege that can be lost if someone decides that you're abusing it, ideally it should be reserved for the egregious cases that are unquestionably bad. Downvoting on HN should be for comments that truly don't contribute to the conversation, though the comments in question may not rise to the level of flagging.

As an example: Say you have a comment expressing an opinion with no support, no references, and factual errors. Is it "inappropriate"? Arguable. Does it contribute to the conversation? Not in any positive way. I would suggest downvoting that comment would be the right answer, even if you agree with the sentiment, because it doesn't positively contribute to the conversation. But flagging wouldn't be appropriate considering the comment is on topic and not spam (which are given as criteria in the HN Guidelines).

If you encourage downvoting because you disagree with an opinion, then minority opinions get buried. And sometimes it's useful to see that an opinion isn't unanimous, and that there's another side to an argument, even if you disagree.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/wiki/reddiquette

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=721314
I think disagreeing with a comment is not enough to merit a downvote. I'd rather see downvoting as a signal to the author about the quality of their post - while flagging is a signal to the system itself in cases where the post is unacceptable and should be removed from the site.

When I disagree with a comment, I'd rather write a dissenting one or a reply stating my counter points. Another method of dealing with disagreements is to simply upvote other comments you agree with.
I worked through the demo and actually kind-of liked it, until I got to the checkbox page.

How is that checkbox design better than the commonly used empty square for unchecked, and square containing an X or a V for checked? I can't even tell if the boxes are checked or not!

I would seriously advise taking a look at the usability of these checkboxes.
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There are a few reasons such articles usually do not get flag killed.

1. Most of the paywall news sites allow free viewing of a few articles per month and so many here do not hit the paywall.

2. It is often very easy to get around the paywall if you are over the monthly limit. Sometimes it is as simple as searching for the article by title in Google and clicking Google's link.

3. If you cannot get around the paywall, it is often the case that you can find coverage of the same event at another site that is not paywalled, which will give you enough information to meaningfully enjoy and participate in the HN discussion.

4. Even if you cannot find free coverage of the thing under discussion, it is often the case that the HN discussion is entertaining and enlightening. HN discussion often goes off on tangents inspired by the article, and those tangents can be appreciated without having read the article.

5. Many people here don't see the paywalls because they subscribe to the paywalled sites.

6. Most here do not have such big egos or senses of entitlement that they are bothered by others reading and discussing something that they have not been able to read.
Downvoting for mere disagreement has been blessed by the top level; it's an HN 'thing'. It would be less of a problem if it didn't also fade your comment.
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> comment flagging privileges disappeared

Comment flagging privileges don't disappear (edit: alone). Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8585939.
It's a picture of an egg with a plant growing inside of it. I don't really know how much clearer the iconography could actually be. It's mayo, but with some plant product instead of chicken eggs. Were you really deceived, or are you playing devil's advocate? (Edit: parent edited his post, it no longer says "deceptive marketing at its best.")

I agree that "mayo" is generally considered to be synonymous with "mayonnaise" and that mayonnaise has a precise definition in the law, but neither of these are a trademark. The law doesn't define "mayo." It defines mayonnaise.

It's not clear to me if the standards of "confusingly similar" still apply in cases outside of trademark. I know this is a standard in trademark. It's not like they're marketing a non-dairy "malk", which is obviously OK.

Maybe they should change the product name to "Nellman's" and they would be better off. I went looking for any brand of Mayonnaise that markets itself as just "Mayo" and didn't find one.
If I buy something that has mayonnaise on it then I'm expecting _mayonnaise_.
As for the egg on the label, it's probably the idea of the plant growing into the empty place left by the removal of an egg, but the minimalist color scheme makes that kind of confusing (hard to imply negative space when all shapes are a different color pasted onto cardboard.

But yeah, it isn't mayo. Might work like mayo, but it ain't mayo. If they just put something on the packaging that says it isn't mayo, that'd probably be good enough?

I'd be more concerned about the lack of sustainability in the other half of a tuna salad sandwich
I have never done or participated in an acquisition that large, but my intuition was also that 1-2% on an 8-figure deal is cheap. Because, I reasoned, that might be a 6-figure deal with a different group of people. I think the problem is that you state "$200,000 of value to a 10MM deal". But "10MM deal" isn't what an acquisition starts out as. It could be a $2M acquihire or $10M deal or $100M package by a competitor who is scared s$%#less of your disruption paying in stock that they fear will lose 60% of its value (along with the rest of their company, worth billions) if they don't turn the tides soon on this disruption, by buying an innovative upstart. They could fear they're facing a very binary scenario and don't see any other way forward.

These deals are not "$2M deals", "$10M deals", and "$100M deals" deals respectively, until they happen, and 5-10% either way probably matters a lot less than which of these scenarios you end up living in.

This is similar to why it's not expensive to pay a CTO 50% equity of your "$2M business". Because it's not really a "$2M business" it's a "$2M business" or "$0 business" or "$5M business" or "12M business" (or the sky is the limit) and the CTO will be quite crucial in determining which one happens.

This is counterintuitive. Put another way, Sergey Brin and Larry Page didn't each pay the other guy $30 billion to do what the other guy did in 1998. (Based on their respective net worth today, and the fact that they had to give up half their company to the other guy in 1998 instead of keeping it all.)

Because if they hadn't had the other guy, each of them who is now worth $30B wouldn't be worth $60B, but rather most probably $0.

So saying "2% of a 10MM deal" is like saying "50% of a $374B company."

It doesn't work that way. I certainly wouldn't mind giving 15% to someone who had closed a few $100M deals and wanted to help me close mine. And it would be a steal.
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Depends on which meaning of "Just" you use:

1. guided by truth, reason, justice, and fairness: We hope to be just in our understanding of such difficult situations.

2. exactly or precisely: This is just what I mean.
Not if the update is due to a bug that would cause a system crash.
Using a downvote to express disagreement with somebody here is going to come off as highly inflammatory towards them because downvotes actually cause their comment to fade out, as you mentioned. In fact, there have been instances where I've upvoted comments that I didn't agree with because they were so well articulated.

I believe that pg himself disagrees with me on this, but I honestly don't think the site is designed correctly with his view of voting in mind. The punishment for downvoting shouldn't be so harsh (both moving the comment down and fading it out) if it's just to express disagreement. That just encourages extreme group-think.

By far the best way to express disagreement IMHO is to neither vote nor flag, but to post a response.
They could do something like a BOM. Any comment without the wchar in position [0] is rendered historically. Anything with it is rendered using markdown (or another renderer).

It adds no new columns, and better still if you pick a symbol which is nuked by TRIM() e.g. \x0B [U+000B] (vertical tab) then it might be ignored by existing infrastructure/trimmed.
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"Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Technically speaking, mayonnaise is oil, an lecithin based emulsifier derived from egg yolks, and an acid (which may be vinegar, or mustard, or something else).

If you get a vegan emulsifier to work as good or better than eggs, then go ahead and call it the generic, unprotected "mayo"- because that's what it is, and that's how it will be used.

This blog post/article is a bit hyperbolic with the whole the dirty egg industry thing.
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Echo back your HTTP headers and query
If we all wore universal body cameras, but the recordings were encrypted with a key only the wearer knew, could we fight back against public surveillance with private surveillance?

Interesting idea. Personally, I think CCTV does more good than harm. There's no right to privacy in public places.
ReactOS now (from 0.3.17) is a able to run Steam (but for now not so fast)
I agree with the fact that it is problematic to say that prisons should accommodate any kind of voluntary diets (vegetarian, vegan, halal, kosher, etc.). I do not say this because prisons should "punish" inmates, but because it would require to draw a line between "common" or "reasonable" voluntary diets, and other diets. (Of course, this does not apply to special diets required for medical reasons.) In fact, I have the same problems with voluntary diets being honored in other State-run facilities such as school canteens.

However, I do not see why, as a general principle, prisoners should not be allowed to buy food and have it shipped to them, using their own money.
> We never remove flagging privileges because of just one flag. The concept of a mistake is intimately familiar to us, I assure you.

Is it possible to either allow people to upvote a comment they have previously downvoted (or vice versa), or at least to undo an accidental upvote/downvote?

Especially on mobile devices, the margin of error here is very low, and I know I have accidentally downvoted a comment that I meant to upvote.

(In addition, I know some people may upvote/downvote a long comment before they have finished reading the entire text. This probably isn't behavior that should be encouraged or catered to, which is why allowing people to change their mind on votes[0] may be overkill. But at least allowing people to revoke an incorrect upvote/downvote might mitigate this effect.)

[0] ie, the way Reddit does
Whiny?

>Unilever is asking the court not only to make Hampton Creek stop using the Just Mayo name (and remove all current product from store shelves), but also to pay Unilever the amount obtained from profits, plus triple damages.

I do not understand how our legal system entitles Unilever to anything.
It's hardly available in the US at this point. I waited for 3+ months, then they extended the wait time before I cancelled.

I'll try it some day when I can get 2 day shipping.
I delete comments to keep the site clean and on-topic, and not too argumentative. It's not 'threatening to delete my comments over downvotes' it's 'agreeing to withdraw a comment if it's too controversial.' (i.e. downvotes, no replies.) Not every thought needs to be voiced. Also, your feedback may have been better directed to my email, I do list one.

An example of where I recently deleted a comment was in response to this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8569545 where my opinion was actively solicited. However, I decided that the reply to it sent the thread in a wrong direction, and also could be read without my reply. I looked instead for the person's email who had asked, but he didn't list one so I ended up deleting my comment. In effect I was saying that on reflection I chose not to comment on the linked essay in that thread.
Sorry, didn't see this until now. We do cross platform gui apps in L/Tk for our source management system. We're pretty small so doing native apps for Windows/Mac/Linux is a lot more work than doing it once. Yeah, the hassle of making them look good is true but not as true as people claim it is (see my other post above).

We looked at Qt and I didn't want to bite of C++ on all our ancient platforms we support.

I'm a C kinda guy, I like looking at things and understanding it quickly (when going into new code I tend to read the .h files and find the structure definitions, that tells me a lot). Most scripting languages don't have structs (they use a hash instead which means you never really know what is in there unless you find every single assignment to it and memorize all the keys).
edit: I completely thought I was answering a different topic. Please disregard the quoted, but I will leave it for completeness.

> I'm not quite sure what you mean by this question.

> What do you mean by "not sampling at each step"? The idea isn't to characterize the entirety of the sampling function along its support, but to draw a sequence of random variables from it.
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Porn pays bills, the torrent would get the shaft, but the steams wouldn't. they'd take priority over your VPN.
> pg has said many times that it's OK to downvote out of disagreement (particularly since it's OK to upvote due to agreement.)

What value does this provide to the reader? Community groupthink is not strongly related to truth, IMHO, and provides little marginal value, because I already know what it is and it's easy to find. In fact, I wouldn't read HN if all I found was the groupthink -- I gain far more from new or challenging ideas.

EDIT: When Amy up/downvotes, it is for the benefit of Bob and other readers. Amy receives little benefit besides maybe a little emotional satisfaction. If the vote mainly was for Amy's benefit, HN wouldn't need her vote to impact anyone else's threads -- we all could have personalized, independent scores for each comment. What benefit do I, Bob, receive if Amy is just voting on what she agrees/disagrees with?
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That is also a problem. One downvote later and the comment is immediately biased toward future readers.
Add sharing to your Swift app via UIActivityViewController
"Yes the bolts must be torqued properly but that has more to do with ensuring that even pressure is applied across a huge gasket face than anything to do with the bolts self-loosening."

Ensuring that even pressure continues to be applied cross a huge gasket face is somewhat helped if the nuts do not become loose.
To me, that logo looks like a perfect logo for real mayonnaise: it contains the two main ingredients: an egg + a plant representing the oil.
Nobody's allergic in my house, but the kids can't bring any peanut stuff to school, so they take this… http://www.wowbutter.com

This stuff absolutely nails the taste although the texture is more in line with a Skippy or Jif than with better peanut butter.
Legal really will depend on the firm. For my exit, I used a boutique firm that ended up costing around $75k, but when I spoke to even my friends at the larger tech legal firms like Orrick, they wouldn't even consider it for under $250-300k.

It can be pricey.
They were in YC S12, so that makes it magical by default.
Once you have received your first shipment, and you use your email from previous order on future orders, you will receive shipments in reasonable time. I was one of the first backers on their crowdfunding campaign, and had to wait 1 yr before my first batch, but now I'm on monthly subscription so everything comes on time.
A few quick comments:

1. It would be nice to be able to use arrow keys to move through the courses. Even when I have my mouse, I prefer to use my keyboard for this.

2. Related, it would be nice to have the browser's back/forward work as expected.

3. As another commenter noted, it's hard to see where in the gif loop it is, some indicator (or ability to restart it) would be great.

It looks great and I'm looking forward to learning using it.
could you try to describe the taste? there was nothing in the FAQ and while I'm sure it is challenging to articulate, it would be great to get an idea before ordering only to be horribly disappointed.
People respond to incentives; the whole point of HN karma is to incentivize people to increase it. So I don't think we can blame people for deleting downvoted comments (when they tend to lose more karma if they don't)
Hey,

we sample the data at 1kHz with 24bit precision and the final template takes ~25KB, which can be further compressed for an accuracy trade-off.
There is no particular purpose for HN downvotes other than to express dislike. It's not needed to move 'stupid' comments down, because only 'non-stupid' comments rise up. The comments which are never voted on have no intrinsic value, so they might as well be stupid anyway.

I wasn't even aware of flagging on comments until someone mentioned it, and to be honest it's so inconvenient i'd probably never do it. Downvote is an easy enough way for me to say "I don't like this" and it helps reinforce the group dynamic, which is what they want (this whole post is about manipulating group dynamics).

The only way to fix downvoting is to put an express purpose behind it, like a button that says "I disagree" next to a button that says "I dislike" next to a button that says "Inappropriate comment". But for some reason forum admins always prefer generic feedback which give rise to unexpected behavior. Heh, it probably keeps people upset, which reinforces user engagement.
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Fair question. Gauged interest 6 months ago, and seeing where we are in the market now!!
I'm getting a 500 Internal Service Error

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The digraph operators are not a large problem for me. I'm used to Perl, so I'm sure I can master them. But what is a lew.wod.dur, and what is lax supposed to mean? What happened to variable names that made at least a nod to descriptiveness? Why do you think adding a two-word comment to a function is enough to make it all crystal clear?
Never understood? Really?

For starters, it's a Y Combinator company (host of Hacker News).

Secondly, it was developed by hackers.

Third, it is one of the foremost examples of hacking diet.

Fourth, the HN audience is a key audience of early adopting efficiency seekers.

Finally, people in the community have strong opinions about it both ways.

Never understood? Really?
Lunch with family (in the prison) sounds like a great way to improve recidivism rates. I'd bet that yoga or another form of meditation would also be beneficial.
I can believe they weren't making much but I have an hard time believing they were actually losing money. At that scale, if they were losing any money, it would be way more than they could afford to.
Nothing wrong with his name (or his comments).
TL;DR - if a company is just fishing there's some quick ways to weed them out

I think there are ways to vet these opportunities. Some signals for me have been.

1. Is the person reaching out to you a decision maker?

2. Are they willing to sign an mNDA prior to you flying out?

3. Will they invest sufficient time as an indicator of interest?

--

#1 is fairly easy by looking people up on linked in. Depending on the situation you want someone in business development (for a partnership) or better yet corporate development (for deals or acquisitions). VPs or C-level folks are good.

#2 is harder as it might put off an interested party. It's a bit of chicken and egg. But never hesitate to say in a meeting "I'd love to share more once we've signed an mNDA" -- if that's truly your position.

#3 do some video conference calls with them and see who shows up on their side (see #1). The more time (number of people * time) they're investing can indicate their level of interest. If it's just one lone guy you're always dealing with and they're not VP or higher it might not be that great of an opportunity.
Coursera pesters “learners” who aren't interested in paying for a certificate
I'm not sure. I have visited this website infrequently for years now, so I think it is actually older than Chrome itself, although new demos of course keep popping.
Interesting. At first I thought, wait a minute, isn't "don't downvote to disagree" in the HN Guidelines? Then I checked, and no, it isn't. The guidelines talk about downvoting ("downmodding") very briefly, and only to say that one shouldn't complain when it happens to him or her. There are no guidelines on how or why to downvote.

Maybe this is a problem, in and of itself? Seems different people have different takes on the use case for downvoting.
That's a circular argument. What constitutes "proper" regulation and control is the thing in question here.
I see Soylent is now completely vegan. This is interesting and will appeal to a new community for a range of ethical and environmental reasons, especially if it can deal with many of the common nutritional issues (B12, iron). I think another interesting marketing angle for the future of Soylent would be a measure of its carbon emissions[1,2] especially considering the somewhat unique distribution mechanism.

[1] For example, http://www.foodemissions.com/foodemissions/Calculator.aspx
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_carbon_diet
It's like a battle to see whose science is worse. In the end there are so few facts on either side it is hard to make any rational conclusions. I suppose this is true for any political debate. When you should be starting with facts to form an opinion, politics starts with an opinion and collects supporting facts while ignoring disproof.
http://xkcd.com/123/

The defense rests.
6 necessary precautions, including coding,to make it through the coming 25 years
This is one exceptionally well-written article.
I wonder how many moderators are needed to be able to keep up with all the comments and traffic here? It must be a tedious job ...
I haven't checked others but the publishers O'Reilly offer something like 8,000 titles related to IT. Open to correction but I can't see a single one on Smalltalk or Pharo. Is this simply because no publisher can see any return on investment? What do the Pharo developers think about this?
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