skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a company situation you also experience trolls and you can't get rid of them, at all. To my personal surprise I find that they, between periods of stress, also contribute to the company. You just need to get around their trolling and they can be a productive part of the community.

Maybe instead of detecting them faster we should learn how to integrate them better. If they troll more when resisted (as suggested in the article) then maybe they troll less when supported? They are humans, and as humans they desire to belong, just as we do, right?
Pizza Hut keeps their users' passwords in plain text as well.
Americans as a group seem to view ever-harsher conditions in prison and after release as being a necessary disincentive for criminal behaviour. Sexual assault in prison and its tacit support amongst the general population seems to me to just be another part of this "hang em high" mentality - how often do you hear people joking about dropping the soap or "sharing a cell with Bubba" when talking about criminals?

The fact that this sort of approach to criminality drives up recidivism does not ever seem to enter the conversation, with the possible exception of places like HN or Metafilter or other liberal-by-American-standards forums.
Where does PTSD begin and end? Was this person predisposed to other mental illnesses before their trauma? Their illustrations seem to indicate a level of depression and/or compulsive behavior that may not necessarily been caused by their trauma. I am curious whether the popular portrayal of PTSD as an all consuming life ruining problem is counterproductive in terms of how society views and treats victims. Wouldn't it be much more positive to say "PTSD is real, but it doesn't have to define you, here are some resources that can help".
Asian Guy Explaining All Relationship with Finger Magic Like a BOSS
There's currently an Indiegogo campaign going on for pre-assembled Ergodoxes [1]. I'm not really comfortable with early-stage hardware crowdfunding, so I'll still be sourcing and building my own.

[1] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ergodox-ez-an-incredible-...
Google Wants to Speed Up the Web with Its QUIC Protocol
QUIC, a multiplexed stream transport over UDP
How cute animals change attitude and freak out
Improving Internet access in the developing world through zero rating [pdf]
"[...]88% of trolls are on Twitter."

And this is the reason of stalled growing of the platform. Anom users is a recipe for disaster.
Why are most online commenters male?
"True randomness" is at complete odds with points 1. and 2. If I flip a coin 10 times and get 10 heads, its still "truly random."

I think iPod's shuffle was originally truly random at first and it was changed - I'm reminded of this thread from a while back - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4301922
Extensive discussion 6 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9363577
As are, for instance, many college campuses, many business campuses, and of course lots of farms. The Vatican is microscopic.
Most users would be equally fine with another editor. You seem to be backpedaling here, since you admitted it's slow to start up for you earlier.

Additionally, I'd be interested in seeing how Atom affects battery life. That's probably a pressing concern for many users even if speed isn't.
Not from the US either, but I've lived here a long time. I don't think the connotations are specific to the US, though.

If someone calls your behavior/characteristics creepy here, it's a very bad sign.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Creepy
High-Tech Employee Antitrust Settlement
Brave little dog chasing away a bear
>Computers are only going to get faster.

Not that much, and not in single core performance (which JS basically uses).

Besides, native will get faster at the same rate.
One camp creates machines that actually work and coerce no one to do business with them.

The other has to use force. That's all they know how to use. Its their solution to every problem.
At least it is not as bad as the older server side image maps.
I don't think it's yet meaningless. Saying "appear.in is like etherpad for videochat" still has meaning even if making similes for startups is now cliche.
Moreover, even if you concede that there's a single algorithm at one point in time, there's still not a single algorithm since the Google search result you get today will be the result of a different algorithm than the one that determined the result of the same query last week. It's not only necessary for the French government to ask how the algorithm works, but they'll need a daily changelog or the algorithm description will become stale quite quickly.
>That's exactly my point, so I'll turn your argument back on you. Your use case is not the same as everyone else's.

One wants an editor that can handle all common use cases though, not some kiddie editor that's only good for smaller setups...
Microsoft also has the money to perhaps pay developers to make their apps work on their store. I mean, they used to give you money just to make Windows 8 apps.
Is this something like Couchsurfing but mildly less creepy?
Ma Bell was not a natural monopoly either. It was created by law.
No-one have mentioned Nodepad++ I would switch to Atom any day though, if it had any JS code analysis tools. At least Notepad++ has a function list! (Although I use the old deprecated one).

What's also off-putting about Atom is that everything is in Coffee-script. If they could make some guides for plain JS I could probably glue code in something like TernJS or something of my own.
Why I Use AirDrop Instead of Snapchat
The picture with the hammock is pretty cool!
Dr. Leary's extreme approaches set psychedelic research back many years and we are just now beginning to make forward progress again.
Why would you need this in the language? It seems to me that these things can be provided by a library without any loss.

No loss in function. C++ will certainly let you create classes, but you need to be extremely good to make them low overhead. You also can't pass them by value (the intrinsics can). And lastly, classes don't exist in C.

Vector math is so common it should have direct support and operators.
If France doesn't want its citizens to use Google search, then be straight up and admit that. Why are they playing games and penalizing Google? After all, the people of France prefer it and indeed choose to use it.l, no doubt because it's good at etsy it does. Why on earth would Google reveal its algorithm, it's a vital competative advantage. And why is it illegal for search to be biased. If it's bad then people won't use it. If France wants its citizens to avoid Google, instead of crying about it, it ought to advertise a better solution, or in the extreme case, pass a law barring people from using it. Not all lawyers and politicians are bad, but a lot seem detached from reality and cause serious problems as result of their ignorance.
Its freely available. A copy can be found in every cell of every cat.
A new account shilling for a service perhaps?

If you have only one comment, and it's a thinly veiled advertisement for a site, I'd be suspicious too.
In case anyone is interested in the HN community's collective wisdom, this was discussed at great length yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9395630
Artificially scented? The bergamot orange is a real plant.

Every culture that has tea will have flavored teas. It gives you something to do with the low-grade leaves. Just last night I tried ginseng oolong for the first time. Is it as artificial as earl grey?
Which also reminds me that MS made the decision to go to a flat address space when designing OS/2 2.0 and "NT OS/2" in the late 1980s, ignoring the Morris worm.
TL;DR only use the apostrophe when you're saying "it is" or "it has". "Its" is possessive even without the apostrophe.

More: http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/apostroph...
Can the Internet be saved without harming democracy?
I bet blind people would love that!
Ken Kesey, the Art of Fiction No. 136 (1994)
Software and protocols aren't the same thing. An open vs proprietary distinction can be drawn for either, but that doesn't erase the important distinctions between the two.
Wasn't this the whole point of Android in the first place?

I remember just before, or around the time Apple were releasing the iPhone, Google partnered with a bunch of other organisations to create the Open Handset Alliance

Android was a product of that partnership and developers/companies were free to fork the platform should they so wish, like Amazon did with their flavour of Android.

http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/oha_members.html
I wouldn't mind the larger amount of commenting, if it wasn't for the masses trying to dominate online discussions with bigotry, mansplaining, anti-feminism, hasperat, ...
Wikipedia has some more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberland
There's a great Netflix doc called Free The Mind[1] that follows several PTSD patients in an experimental program focused on meditation / breathing exercises.

[1] http://danishdocumentary.com/site/freethemind/
I'm very concerned with Google's search monopoly. For the vast majority of users (in western countries), Google is the internet.

That's a lot of power for one company to have, and it's only going to get worse as more and more transactions move online. Why should we trust one company with that much power?
So they say. Sorry, I'm half joking, half referring to this, from Wikipedia:

"Tea flavoured with bergamot to imitate the more expensive types of Chinese tea has been known in England at least since the 1820s. In 1837 there is a record of court proceedings against Brocksop & Co. who were found to have supplied tea 'artificially scented, and, drugged with bergamot in this country.'"

Yes, I'm quite a big fan of oolong flavored with osmanthus; haven't tried ginger.
Why electric turbopumps (requiring independent power) rather than ones powered by the RP1 propellant?

EDIT: RP-1 now, not methane
I'll believe it when it is successful.

Running a country is hard, ideology or not.
Well without the leash. A kinder/jungeüberwachung, if you will.
They chose to let their kids go out unattended. So obviously they accepted that bad things might happen.

And something bad did happen. It seems like the kids learned a valuable lesson - the police may stop and detain you and there is not a whole lot you can do.

But now the parents are saying they get to pick and chose which consequences are OK. You can't have it both ways.
How do you explain the presence of for example Kate which makes search and replacing newlines bafflingly difficult?

http://mandrivausers.org/index.php?/topic/30507-replacing-li...

I don't want to single out Kate. There are a gajilion text editors, and for most people most of the time most editors are fine, even though a lot of those editors have other equally weird ahem features.
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Oh, I wonder where other Portlanders on HN go for tea!
I had a similar response, charcoal is still used to draw with and that is what, 100,000 years old by now?

The interesting challenge will be that there is a certain level of industry required to support the manufacture of base film stock, and making the chemicals to develop it. As the number of users goes down, the base cost of that development is spread across fewer users (higher per user cost) and at some point nobody is will willing to pay the full cost of supporting the industry. It is, by definition, the equivalent of the power curve in flight, higher prices lead to fewer users, which leads to higher prices, until you are down to 1 user paying for all the costs. Sometimes you can recover if new manufactures can come in at a lower level but without that you lose the ability to support many ways in which film was used.
Get into the 100 Top Grossing Apps – “Unlock All” Button Facilities for Your App
Hello Liberland, welcome to the 21st century, where you can't call yourself a sovereign nation until you get your own first level domain. (and even then...)
While Greenspan certainly did his part to inflate the housing bubble, he had little to do with the incredible slowness that Bernanke had recognizing the problem. For example:

Bernanke: There's No Housing Bubble to Go Bust (2005)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10...

(2007 Testimony)
"At this juncture, however, the impact on the broader economy and financial markets of the problems in the subprime market seems likely to be contained."
http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/testimony/bernanke2...
Will they be setting up a free market for children?

https://mises.org/library/children-and-rights
Truncated Dreams: A story about depression, startups, failure, and happiness
Gitorious.org is dead, long live Gitorious.org
Yep, we're getting there. Use of psychedelics in therapy isn't a magic pill -- the patient still has to be aware, but yeah, it's great.

It isn't just applicable for those with PTSD. There is a Brazilian group that is trying therapy for those who have committed heinous crimes. There's healing in that as well.

Lastly: I think the rising of VR/AR tech into the mainstream, such as the Oculus Rift, Magic Leap, and the Hololens will do a lot for reducing the stigma of psychedelic therapy. Those technologies don't even scratch the surface of the kinds of experiences of psychedelics, yet even though they are relatively primitive in comparison, they are capable of inducing existential crises. I think that, more than anything else, along with accessibility to the mainstream, will change a lot of things for us.

Now, if there are visionary artists willing to work on VR experiences ... :-D
NetApp can join Sun and Oracle in the pile of great technology that was massively overpriced and oversold by short-sighted fools.
Astronauts won't be full members of the badass club until one of them does this:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/03/antarc...
Well, if you take the maxim of propertarianism to its limit, then you should be able to exclude anyone for any reason. This is what people like, e.g. Hans Hermann-Hoppe advocate, with proposals of anarcho-capitalist societies that end up sounding like isolationist dystopias. His views on democracy are interesting, however.

Either that or I suppose not even libertarianism can trump Balkan relations.
In my experience, if there is something that is troubling or upsetting for me, I can tend to engage in distracting activities or thoughts so I don't have to think about it. This seems like a less extreme version of becoming emotionally numb in response to very negative feelings.

Saying severe depression is a more extreme sadness potentially implies you should do some lovely happy nice things to fix it like you can with milder sadness - much like the usual bullshit I hear about how if only I did more exercise it'd all be fixed and really you can fix it if you just put some effort in! Never mind that the lead PT of the biggest fitness brand in the UK jumped off a cliff, or that many people with seemingly great lives have committed suicide...

I think this gets to the core of our disagreement. You are implying that people without mental illness experience life in a way that is simple and intuitive. If you are unhappy, do more exercise. If you have a "seemingly" good life then you won't want to commit suicide.

There is a lot of discussion on introversion on HN, and one interesting post I read was saying how the advice to "put yourself out there" was not good because shallow interactions with other people could be just as unsatisfying a no interactions. The advice was to find ways to connect with people at a deeper level.

Similarly "do more exercise" might be simplistic and bad advice for many people, not just the severely depressed. And people with seemingly great lives might commit suicide because they are deeply unhappy or dissatisfied about their lives. Do you honestly think that just because a person has the appearance of a great life, that they must be happy?
You certainly don't have to trust or use Google. However, it would certainly be weird to order Google to stop because of its popularity.

The Beatles had the number one position in the billboard charts for almost 60 weeks. That's a lot of popularity for one band to have. Should we have told them to stop making music?
Wow. Didn't realize this was on HN. Hi guys. Ankit here. I started TWS. Happy to answer any q's here or by email (Ankit at teawithstrangers.com). Actually in the middle of a gathering of the SF host community right now so will be a tiny bit delayed on responses but will get to everything!

Lots of gratitude for all the good words and valuable critiques.
I feel like setting up a double blind cola-vs-pepsi test now. I don't like Pepsi, but maybe that's just being irrational.
Does anyone know what SpaceX's target cost per launch is compared to these guys (4.9M)?

Also, I'd never heard of Rocketlab before but it turns out that they're back by Khosla Ventures. Pretty cool.
>If it's bad then people won't use it.

It doesn't have to be that bad to be uncompetitive. They can steer people towards their properties in a way that won't bother most people, but will do tremendous harm to their competitors.

> And why is it illegal for search to be biased.

It wouldn't be if Google didn't have 95% of the market share. Google got this market share by being better than everyone else no doubt, but at some point you have to admit that's too much power for one company to have.

Right now Google has the power to effectively remove anyone or any company from the internet. So far we've seen no evidence that they've done anything like this, but if history is any indicator, left unchecked the eventually will.
This sounded interesting to me when I first loaded the page and imagined it was talking about virtual tea: me sipping tea at home while typing/conversing live with a random person halfway around the world.

Is there such a thing? Turns out there are quite a few, as I just discovered with a quick search. Any HN readers have good experiences with any of them?

I just tried one briefly, and had a string of disconnects after just 'hello', and then one that didn't want to reveal the country they currently live in, after which I gave up.
"File Server Obsolescence" seems wildly unlikely.

"Commodity software defined storage" (IBM selling XIV on generic hardware, Ceph, and so on) seems far more likely.
I agree about The Sheep Look Up being an underrated novel. I read it in 1984 or '85. Until the end of the book, I was thinking it was a parody or satire or projection of Ronald Reagan's presidency. When I finished, I looked at the copyright date, and realized Brunner was projecting Richard Nixon's presidency forward.

Sort of unrelated, is it me or does every other John Brunner book kind of suck? The Sheep Look Up, is good, so is Stand on Zanzibar, but then Brunner wrote real stinkers like Children of the Thunder, which also predicts a world of Usenet, UUCP-like email, and climate change. None of thse things have anything to do with that book sucking mind you.
Oh, a Micron-nation. Not the first one though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_micronations
Things which aren't magic – JSONP
I would love to see eventually a solid research analysis of this data dump that maps out the social interactions of these Sony Exces ie: politicians, each other, other members of the movie industry..etc. Plus how much money Sony is spending in the political arena and the ROI for Sony Inc.
ColorHug2
"I didn't read "Maker of Dune""

I highly recommend the book. It was quite good. I am not a fan of the latter Dune books, but this biography was a very interesting and illuminating one.
I can't say this surprises me, but as a founder based in NYC who's seen how unpleasant the city is to small business I'm disgusted by this.

I want NYC to grow into a hub for entrepreneurs and founders, one that's better than bloated valuation valley, but this sort of behavior will never let it...
Okay, so let's actually tackle the problem here: what sort of jobs should people who have a high understanding of $technicalfield and policy making be allowed to hold?
That doesn't make the situation any better.

Request 1 takes the 'token'

Request 2 sees the token gone, returns 'silent success'

Request 2 response reaches client, client assumes success.

Request 1 fails somewhere internally

Request 1 returns failure to client, which has already acted on the success of request 2

User thinks the action was successful, when it wasn't.

Now, you can build yourself a lovely two phase commit system around the token and the operations performed by the action to deal with a UI issue, or you can just throttle the requests.
So did he get the job?

Or was his letter looked over because the Duke's assistant was looking for a technology using "sulfur"... and Da Vinci didn't mention it in his resume.
Probably just a fun project. Don't get your panties in a wad.
The authentication mechanism actually uses cookies, that don't expire for a long time, to authenticate the user. Private links come in when the user wants to log in via a device which he does not usually use.
I'd think a micron-nation to be quite different to a micro-nation.
Curious about this as well. I was under the impression that even though you might not own your apartment or house (or in the case of a mortgage wherein the bank really owns it), you still have protections due to it being your home.
Right. Let me take this from a different angle. I like to hear about projects moving away from technology much more than jumping onto a band wagon. Right now, Scala feels to me as a band wagon. Some of the guys who moved to use Scala from Java just simply moved back because they realized that almost all of the features are available (emphasis on almost) in Java (especially in Java 8). On the other hand, learning Scala takes time so for a while you are writing inefficient code. On the top of that you need to make sure everybody is on the same page in your team, that is also additional effort. All of these were driving projects (like Kafka) away from Scala (look at the new producer code).

To summarize: Scala to me is just a better Java with too many trade offs.
No, it has not "all 3d printed parts".

It has, actual quote "3D printing for all primary components."

Big difference.
Somehow for a product of rocketry class, a video of its CEO talking about just photo selfies and video streaming/other solved problems seems downright lame.

Talk about the capabilities of the rocket instead! The rocket looks cool though.
I guess Facebook hired a lot of MySQL people and that investment is bigger than the technological one. Also, you are right, Postgres is ahead of MySQL in terms of JSON support and many more.
I'll just leave this here as a tribute:

https://vimeo.com/113142476
I'm as ticked off as anyone here regarding the blatant security lapse(s). But I must confess: The level of tenacity of OP is outstanding in light of all the strongly worded comments that've been directed at him/her (understandably deserved w.r.t security). I do think this is a commendable attitude to display in situations like this. It makes a noticeable difference. Here's hoping OP will turn things around.
Agreed. It was hard to fit in the title.
The challenge seems really boring to me.