skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The subtitle is a bit odd: "A dynasty of repairmen is keeping the world’s typewriters from going obsolete"

There isn't much doubt they've already gone obsolete. They're preventing them from going extinct.
That's why in your question, you need to state that you're picking apples!

http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#goal
I notice there is no US-russia trade. Is this due to trade sanctions?
I had the same experience last year in July - we stayed in a 5 bedroom apartment in Nakano, Tokyo which was run by a Phillipino lady who was a Japanese citizen. She spoke good English along with Mandarin Chinese. She caters for a niche market of large families - the 5 bedrooms can hold 10 people comfortably - each has a bed. It was a great neighbourhood - very close to the Shin-Nakano station on the Marunouchi line.
I like to call this "gategate"
Many users have JavaScript disabled with NoScript. Maybe add a <noscript> fallback?
The author doesn't seem to really understand Reddit at all, and this is coming from a non-"redditor".

There will always be drama and internal politics in communities of decent size, I don't think this is any different.

They main point they didn't address: How many people are churning? It could be negligible, which makes this a non-story.
Short hand for "long term" :)
> It hasn't really been set up this way. It didn't even evolve to be this way. It's ultimately a law of nature: ownership of capital yields exponential growth. The more you start with, the faster you grow. Most other sorts of vocations yield linear growth.

Anything with revenues in excess of expenses has the potential for exponential growth if you use the profits to expand the business. A successful landscaping business can have exponential growth, that doesn't mean each of the guys mowing lawns will be making exponentially more money.

But it has been set up that way in finance. It isn't a law of nature that mutual fund managers make a percentage of the fund as their compensation. The profitability of arbitrage is strongly influenced by the regulatory environment and the amount, timeliness and accuracy of information available to traders without privileged access.

Here's an example. I propose that we make insider trading entirely legal. According to all of the arguments used to justify HFT and the like this is the right choice because it will increase liquidity and more quickly and accurately reflect the true value of securities in their market price. Somebody please tell me why this argument is wrong in a way that doesn't apply equally to HFT.
Application of quantum statistics in psychological studies of decision processes [pdf]
Crapware – Satya Nadella needs to sort this crap out. It's not good for Windows.
One of the reasons to buy a Mac is that a Mac is a Mac is a Mac. OSX is always the same.

Windows resellers however "improve" Windows buy loading all sorts of garbage.

Satya Nadella is fixing alot of stuff. One more thing for him to fix is to ensure that Windows is not modified and that the Windows experience is not tarnished by any sort of crapware - including but not limited to spyware like SuperFish.
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Other very useless answer is having the first result as: 'This is a common question, you should use Google'.

This doesn't happen in SO, but it happens often enough in other forums.
> As for the "attitude" towards new users, this happens only when the user posts a bad question

This is not true in my experience. Several times in the past month, I've googled for some problem or other and found a StackExchange question with my exact problem and several useful solutions, which had been closed because a moderator deemed it insignificant or overly broad. I understand the need for community standards in a site like this, but if your standards are getting in the way of the actual questions people want to ask, you need to change the standards, not crack down on legitimate use.
Just one thing? The whole process of the job search is tedious, painful and just downright frustrating, and employers make it harder and harder because reasons. Not to mention the whole dog and pony show that the candidate has to go through just to even get a chance to maybe plead their case with someone with hire/fire power.

Having been on both sides of the table, I don't like participating in either process. It's broken all around, and the only solution is to burn it down for the insurance money.
Besides accessibility, if you replace everything with JS and Canvas, you lose transparency. Content then becomes opaque, siloed behind services, and requires running code to discover.

If we are to replace with a native-app style model, it needs to be far far more transparent that what is on iOS and Android with respect to exposing links and content in a way that is transparent.

If we convert the Web into a Web of Binary Applications, who query all of their information through private silos, we may as well just close up shop, because we'll be forgoing the greatest values of the Web, Links and Transparency.

We need to stop panicking over mobile native and FPS.

The idea that "60 fps is required" is a complete myth. Most triple-AAA game titles people pay $50 for on consoles don't hit a solid 60fps, most of the time, not even a solid 30fps -- typically frames are dropped in busy parts of the game.

The ideology that Apple has foisted on design, that somehow no one will use your app if it is not perfectly rock solid 60fps (iOS isn't even 100% jank free) is damaging.
What Books Could Be Used to Rebuild Civilization?
>... no one should be publishing someone else's content under their name without their continued consent.

I disagree. That's the deal when you add content to one of these kinds of sites - you don't own it. And you know that going in. And there are valid reasons to disallow it: if people start deleting their own answers the conversation becomes (in some cases) impossible to follow.

It's kind of silly to be so heavily invested on a site like this and then expect them to change the rules when you're ready to move on.
> The comment said nothing whatsoever about 'N'.

Not explicitly, no. I drew an inference about what the GP commenter meant (or at least an obvious implication of what I think he meant). He's welcome to correct me if my inference was wrong.
Definitely not just privilege. The remote thing doesn't work unless somebody really, really good is doing the alchemy of transforming the client/user's intentions into architecture & design.
And they dont even play the song it is famous for
Somebody already has. They're called Renaissance Technologies.
I just googled "Sam Altman" and among the top few links was the Wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman

I then read that and it answered your question plus extra. i recommend the same technique for most other topics. Very fast, self-serve, great for FAQ-prone facts.
I logged in just to say that you don't have to feel so disconnected from the startups in SF. Although I don't go to many parties, if I met you at one, I would consider it my good fortune and anything but a buzzkill. Most of my friends probably share that opinion.

Are you guys a nonprofit or a company? I am not a big angel investor (I have made one investment so far), but this sounds like something I would like to invest in / donate to.

My email is aj at ridelabs dot com if you're interested.
Cholesterol is back on the menu in new federal dietary guidelines
For IT, I find that most of the useful answers I get nowadays are from Nixcraft and DigitalOcean.

Not to say that there aren't a few useful answers at ServerFault/StackOverflow, but the moderation and design has made it hostile to all but the most simple questions.
The death of Austin Ventures
In what world is the democratically elected government of Mr. Poroshenko, a "US-installed junta"?
indeed. for the vast majority of people and cases some mix of Google/Wikipedia/Facebook/Craigslist/Amazon/Ebay/Tumblr/WordPress/Reddit/Yahoo/3tc is going to scratch their itch just fine. (to name just a few "big hammer" tools/platforms)
I wonder if there are counter-examples of successful companies that ignored some of these rules?
I made the mistake of clicking one of those "13 reason ..." links the other day. Each of the thirteen reasons was split into 4 parts, so I had to navigate through 52 pages to read the entire article. I quit when I realized what they'd done (5th section).

I'm not going to waste my time ... especially when your site is ad-laden and slow. The funny part is that this is probably a consequence of Adwords not allowing asynchronous ad updates on a page. They needed me to navigate through 52 pages to increase their impression counts.

Very sad ... and now back to my regularly scheduled uBlock.
Did you watch the whole season? I found that it improved a lot in the second half of the season and I'm hopeful that it'll get better in the future, especially with the cast they have. The first few episodes cribbed heavily from other shows, but they started doing their own thing later on and it was much better.
I would think very seriously before taking a job at a place that blocked stack overflow, both because it's saved my ass more than once and because, well, I don't like places with white lists. I'm okay with a black list - people shouldn't be surfing porn or political circle jerks when they're on someone else's dime. But it's frustrating as hell to realize Google found a site with the answer I need but I can't open it because it's not on the white list.

IT managers typically give the reasonable-sounding response "It's no problem to add sites. Just let us know which ones you need and we'll add them after we take a look."

To which I say "Great. Give me your home number so if I'm chasing some weird error at midnight during a big release I can call you every five minutes to get you to add entries as I look for a solution.
Hey, when I made that comment I was being playful. She made it sound way more serious than I made it. It is tough to talk about sex trafficking at a party though!
It may be a factor, but the US and Russia have very few imports overall. They don't need to, because they already produce almost everything they need at home.

The graph is difficult to read, but it appears that most countries either have a significant arms industry (and mostly supply themselves and sell to others) or don't (and mostly buy from others). I don't see any countries that have significant amounts of both imports and exports.
Craigslist has way fewer ads than they used to. They are actually playing ball and closing off many of these ads. The journalist was really kind to not mention our primary data sets we collect. We don't want traffickers hiding somewhere else.
> Just imagine how much crime we could stop if local police had full access email, phone, and social networking data.

If the police had that access, wouldn't the criminals avoid the insecure communication medium?
Hah Im not embarassed at all, I just am sensitive to bringing up such a dark topic at social settings. Im happy to talk to anyone about our work anytime. The comment I made was being playful - came out a bit more serious in the article. Thanks so much for the encouragement.
Hi everyone, I'd be happy to answer any questions or hear your comments on the article.
StatusPage (YC S13) is hiring an account executive with tech chops
Normally I find jokes on HN to be a bit distasteful due to the manner in which discussions are typically conducted here, but this brought me a smile. :)

That cartoon feels like it was from so long ago... Does getting this reference make any of you that also happened to watch during its original airing feel old?
Side note: click-to-play is a usability feature, not a security feature. It's still possible for Flash code to run before the user "clicks to play".
when one third of the country is under constant bombardment (by both sides) and not allowed to vote, the other third are refugees living in neighbouring countries, what you sadly have is not an election but a farce.
After posting this, I thought: well, what I said was entirely correct, but why did I bother objecting to some random guy's sour grapes story? And then the answer came to me... I did it because I want the ycombinator points! There is a point whore in all of us...
I think we can distinguish ourselves from spies because we only collect open source intelligence - meaning publicly available records. Technology is like a knife. It can be used to create or destroy, can be used by a surgeon for good or for a killer for evil. The same is true for big data technologies. They can be used for mass surveillance and violation of civil liberties or for recovery of trafficked children. We're not violating anyone's civil liberties or right to privacy.
The "trusted" status is that you took part (and succeeded?) in a YC batch.
Supply and demand sets the price of everything. You're just restating the fact that scientists don't make a lot of money. The interesting question is why there isn't more demand for scientific research when the returns are so high. Clearly it isn't that the market and society have no desire for additional scientific progress.
I don't think those values can be interpreted like that.

They are some type of "trend indicator values" that "do not represent real financial flows but are a crude instrument to estimate volumes of arms transfers, regardless of the contracted prices, which can be as low as zero in the case of military aid".

I'm pretty sure the US exports for sale dollar amounts much much more than anyone else does.

There is also the question of the graphed "value" of small arms vs larger systems.
It blows my mind when friends accept offers and I ask "did you get any equity?" and they say "yeah" to which I reply "how much?" and they give some figure that is meaningless without a cap table, and when pressed further I learn that they have never seen the cap table.
First sale doesn't apply because you are purchasing a "license" not a "copy". Licenses are essentially contracts through which parties can create all sorts of restrictions that wouldn't apply to copies. Top of the list are restrictions on selling the license to others, ie non-transferability.

The problem with Netflix really starts long before the consumer. With something like Black Books, which predates the netflix concept, nobody has universal distribution rights. The original creator, the BBC, long ago sold the American rights to someone else (PBS?). So there is nobody from which Netflix can purchase worldwide rights. Netflix instead purchases whatever rights they find and must mirrors them. Netflix very recently spoke out on this issue.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/netflix-upholds-geoblocking-...
I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't consider that info. It's definitely not enough for most people to sign up on. 99% of people would just close the tab and move on.

That said, there's no information once you log in, either. You're just taken to a feed, and left to your own devices. Not what I'd call a great experience. I like the idea, but you definitely need to develop this more.
Maybe it's not just you, however I think a potential factor to give one more attention is that you can do something about the first, at least in the short term.

Besides cleaning your box, you can blame Lenovo, stop buying their products, promote the boycott, etc. All things that regular people can do and serves as an anger/stress/steam release valve.

The NSA news, even though it is/should be a much more important or pressing issue, it's something you "can't do anything about". I mean, ostensibly you can do a lot as a citizen, however most of those actions have long term effects and thus are not as useful as a release valve. It involves commitment and even sacrifice, whereas blaming a corporation (however righ you might be) is much more immediate and serves the purpose of having someone to blame for that and lots of other stuff, i.e. you can then blame the general state of IT security, then how the govt does nothing about it, how privay is nowadays non-existent, think of the children, etc.

I also believe another factor is the way news have found a way to tap into this need for the audience to have a release valve. Something or someone to be angry at and so all your problems can be channeled to that. Where I live I've seen a growing amount of newspapers and news media that just basically do a certain journalism that does not bring anything to the table but things to be raging about.

I guess it's easier to sell stuff when you can easily get people "on your side", and since there's always a lot of people angry at something, it becomes easy to have an audience.

So what's the point then (from the POV of the media) of bringing "important" (for different values of important) news to the front page when that would require their audience to commit to actions that would last several years (change your country's politics for example) and thus not as easily enticed to "get on your side" (and thus buy your media), if on the other hand you could bring, I guess you could call them "anger-bait" (like click-bait) news, and have everyone talk about it by virtue of functioning as an escape valve where people relieve their stress, fear, anger, etc?

I'm not saying it's a good thing, but I've seen more and more evidence that points in this direction, and I guess that would be my answer as to why one has much more attention than the other.

Edit:

As an analogy, I read somewhere about the recent Charlie Hebdo (sp?) attack and how it got disproportionate attention vs the two thousand killed by ISIS (I believe it was ISIS... or Borok Haram?). Maybe it's a similar thing. You believe you are able to do "more" when it's close to home (Western nation) vs far (somewhere in Africa, far away from me).
Had a similar conversation with the guy who runs Raizlabs, and an original member of Pivotal, over the last few weeks. I definitely concede that there's a reason the market looks the way it does, and that it's not economically feasible to run a consultancy on gigs below a certain threshold, whether you're shelling out for Aeron chairs and massages or no.

We do call it a consultancy, and some clients certainly come in that centralized way, but it's also a resource for freelancers. Freelancers already have their own dealflow. We want to enable them to do more my offloading to folks they trust, not make them into de facto employees of some management team. That team is as small as it can be to keep things running, and in addition to hourly rates it's supported by the same commission that any job referrer would get for bringing in jobs.

For example, management right now consists mostly of me. Most of my income comes from coding on projects. But if a new job comes in through 'official' co-op channels managed by me, and I spend time screening & onboarding the client, I bill the co-op for that time.

With no office, no fulltime employees, and nobody who doesn't have billable hours, there's not a lot of overhead to worry about. The trick is keeping client experience and quality high while doing that, which isn't too terribly hard when you only have experienced, successful freelancers on board.
Hey, thanks for the concern. We take this very seriously. We also didn't build this in an echo chamber. I've worked for five years in this space and am very familiar with concerns about sex workers, poverty, desparation, and exploitation.

I can say with confidence that law enforcement, particularly human trafficking investigators, are also sensitive to these distinctions, generally. This used to not be the case, but a lot is changing and very quickly.

An example: An investigator I spoke to the other day said they used to be called a "VICE" unit, but they changed their name to the "counter-exploitation unit". This is similar to many agencies across the US and Canada.

We reserve the right to revoke a user's license if they are using our platform to harass persons, but so far this has not been a problem. In fact, just the opposite.
There are things that are basically impossible to do with PayPal until fairly recently that were extremely easy to do with Stripe. There's also the massssssive headaches from dealing with PayPal's API (message errors with no documentation) and PayPal's checkout flow can be a barrier.
Oh my god I have wanted something like this but could not be bother to implement it myself. You're a star!
Is this project really from Lenovo? The github profile has just this 1 project?
knorby, my main point wasn't about who holds copyright here, but it was to say that when he deleted a question, he was also deleting answers that other people had written. You really do need a good reason to do that.
Wow. Releasing the source to the removal tool might be the first right (rather than actively wrong and then merely a little less wrong) thing Lenovo has done in this entire disaster.

It feels like I can almost hear the screams of the engineers explaining why a black-box removal tool is nowhere near enough.
You're right : )
Alright! Hope to see you at alumni demo day. I think your company will be better off if you stay in the bay area instead of returning to Tennessee. I am from Atlanta, started my company there, and miss it a lot, so I do identify with your feelings.
Er, are you sure about that? That doesn't appear to be the case with Firefox.
A disclaimer is the right way to go. The more guidance you can put into the question, the better off everyone is.
Apart from investing in real estate abroad, last year, Chinese folks were buying huge amounts of bitcoins.

What is the reason, Chinese people trust their economy less than the western economy ?
Rust-media, a portable media player framework for Rust
Definitely agree with you on this, thank you for the input.
There actually is a good deal of money in law enforcement for this kind of tool. Anti-trafficking efforts are becoming more and more of a priority at the federal, state, and local levels. There is also a lot of demand for this solution as demonstrated by our user base.

Federal grants are increasingly common, local and state multi-disicplinary task forces are being established more and more frequently, and they need solutions for dealing with these kind of problems.

Sex trafficking is rarely an immigration problem. According to the DOJ, 83% of their cases deal with victims of sex trafficking who are U.S. citizens and trafficked by U.S. citizens. The remaining 17% are foreign nationals. This is a homegrown problem, generally.
Australian startup AgWorld has been building such software for a while now.

http://www.agworld.co/
Anyone else see Google Apps/Gmail autocomplete contacts reordered?
Several people at my office have noticed this: It seems like today GMail has reordered the contacts for email address autocomplete. Several of us (even outside our company) have ended up accidentally emailing people's personal email accounts instead of work emails. This seems fairly serious to me if this is happening to more people. I've gotten about a dozen emails today sent to the wrong address which makes me think other emails may be going to completely different people.
The issue is Creative Commons content, if you are legitimately pruning old low value content of yours that is totaly fine. But rage quits where people just want to take their content and go home, withdrawing it from the commons out of anger, is not OK.

You can always get to older content even deleted content through the regular Creative Commons data dumps that the whole Stack network publishes torrents of. You can also, if you sign an NDA, get a more complete data set for research purposes.
The account page is using the Lenovo logo. If it isn't them, I'd expect Github to get a takedown request ASAP, especially considering the current situation.
Yes, and they do all that with the user's consent.
Yes, traditional curves do that, and that is a laughably preposterous practice.
Yes, I saw it today too in all my autocompletes on my work e-mail. Wonder what's happening? Our bookkeeper sent stuff to a personal account today too.