skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They even censored

https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/39ddnb/if_you_dont_...

"If you don't believe in freedom of speech for those you loathe, you don't believe in freedom of speech." (1600 points and gone from http://reddit.com/r/bestof)
> You'd think so, but they're banning any new sub that attempts to be a "new" /r/fatpeoplehate

Is there any reason at all to think that /r/fatpeoplehate5 is not going to be administrated in exactly the same way that /r/fatpeoplehate was?
> Google isn't just a search company anymore they're working on lots of very interesting non-trivial things all around the company.

Right. And I really doubt that people like Andrew Ng or Geoff Hinton or Sebastian Thrun were asked to invert binary trees....
Actually "Shit HN Says" has been around for a long time.
This is one of those things that I think we just have to agree to disagree. I've to (unfortunately) use Google's webapps in some of my client projects and they're a mess from user experience point of view. Personally I have an iPhone and I'm an Apple user but I make a conscious effort to look for good ideas from where ever they might come so I've made a habit to try latest Android where ever I can. That being said, I'm sorry to say but honestly, I think it's far from intuitive and for me Android has never felt consistent - even Google's own apps are breaking conventions constantly. I realize that this might be because I haven't used Android regularly over long period of time but for me if UX takes time to get used to, it's crap.
> I'm speculating but it seems like an easy outlet for that "being offensive for its own sake" mindset you see sometimes in kids and young adults

Possibly, though theres /r/imgoingtohellforthis that literally aims for that exact "use-case", so whether FPH is the outlet for it I'm not sure? It's definitely possible though.
The problem are not ads, but certain kinds of ads.

Bad ads: CPU intensive ads and privacy inversive "personalised" ads that follow you around

Solution: Show us simple text or picture based banner ads with ad content related to the website topic and pay the website owner a reasonable money per 1000 views/impressions called CPM.

AdBlocker should block only the bad ads, and keep the static non inversive ads. Remember as soon as browser vendors blocked the annoying popups the ads industry had to change their ads format. It's time that browser vendors initiate another such forced change. Though blocking all ads is a bad solution, as an internet without ads means probably a bad web walled garden paywall experience - a lose lose situation.
Lol, take it to /r/conspiracy bud.
As a note, even CRC32 is enough to check most random collisions.
Here is an open-source one as reference: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=imsi&fdid=co...
While that's likely part of it, that's not the entirety of things.

To be fair, I would wager that fatpeoplehate had its share of trolls, but I would definitely believe that the vast majority of its denizens were former fat people, and very frustrated at the obesity epidemic in the United States.

Frustration leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. You know the rest.

I speak here from some experience. Several members of my family are morbidly obese, with BMIs well north of 45.

For the average person, obesity starts at a BMI of 30.

More than a third of the population of the United States qualifies as obese. Obesity-related diseases are the leading cause of death, and the problem is getting worse.

There are growing social movements that promote obesity as a way of life. This is simply insane. Nobody would promote anorexia as positive, or smoking, or heroin.

Now, this would all be completely fine if it only impacted those that choose this lifestyle, but the problem impacts all of us, in the form of higher medical costs, greater danger for service personnel, and in the cost of infrastructure changes required to support the obese.

Every holiday, I got to watch as some of the people I grew up with eat themselves into an early grave. To listen to them complain about their latest weight-related medical problem. To hear them make excuses and blame other people as to why they are sick.

And then these same people would insult my spouse and I, because we control our diets and exercise regularly.

I do not want to live in a society where this is accepted or encouraged.

While I don't think that mocking fat people will solve the problem, I can understand how that particular community could grow so fast.
"What do you mean by this? If 2mb of transaction data is generated every 10 minutes, but only 1mb of it is mined, what is the free market solution?"

When you submit a transaction, you're entering an auction. The winners of the auction get their transactions processed quickly. The losers don't. The market thus sets a price on getting a transaction processed. This discourages free-riders who expect their transactions to be processed free or for a nominal fee. Miners are facing the dreaded "halving" next year, when the block reward drops by half. They need higher fees to compensate.[1]

[1] http://www.coindesk.com/new-study-low-bitcoin-transaction-fe...
Well, if you said a large percentage of minorities commit crimes in a certain area of the country, based on statistics, you would be called 'racist'.

It's the world we live in.
"Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice. Their suggestibility is increased to the point where they cease to have any judgment or will of their own. They become very excitable, they lose all sense of individual or collective responsibility, they are subject to sudden accesses of rage, enthusiasm and panic. In a word, a man in a crowd behaves as though he had swallowed a large dose of some powerful intoxicant. He is a victim of what I have called 'herd-poisoning.'"[1]

[1] http://reasontostand.org/archives/2011/01/19/aldous-huxley-o...

Also, for historical interest the blue-green riots in Rome: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nika_riots
it is the rare human indeed who doesn't seen the evidence leading to their opinions as one-sided. it's probably more common to find people who are willing to silence opposition so they can find the evidence even more so.
I think it stems from the fact that obesity is a real problem, it takes decades from peoples lives and is costing us trillions of dollars. And, for the most part, it's a lifestyle induced disease. Yet there are still a lot of misconceptions.
People need help, they need knowledge. They don't need people being plain mean and ignorant.
Is there an API to automate it? :-)
Hacker news is consistently superior to reddit. I think we're just being difficult.
It's 2015, we have multitouch screens, why would we want clunky styluses/mouse/touchpads? The original surface had the nice property of being very spill/damage resistant.
> Or, if you're monetizing a website and one of the largest hosts of your content (imgur) is being actively harassed by a minority of your users, you find a way to mend the insult.

I said exactly as much in my comment?
Has “innovation” supplanted the idea of progress?
I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure Mark Zuckerberg can reverse a binary tree.
I believe he's referring to the Ecuadorian Embassy located on that street, where Mr Assange is located presently. There are obvious reasons (WikiLeaks) for keeping track surreptitiously of those visiting him.
I think graceful restarts are fine for servers that offer web pages or other things where a client will not retry a request.

For all other cases[1], I think graceful restarts are a bad practice. When you use that pattern, you come to rely on your server closing down cleanly. It makes you consider abrupt terminations (pulling a powerplug, kill -9, network partitions) an edge case.

Because you separate 'shutdown cleanly' from 'shutdown abruptly' and that in most deployments clean shutdowns are much more frequent than abrupt ones, you end up not exercising the abrupt termination case very often. This means that your system's reaction to abrupt terminations is likely buggy or neglected. If it works fine because you took great care of handling that case, the effect is that your codebase is now more complex. You have two code paths to handle termination: a clean path and a dirty path.

If instead, you shutdown only one way (abruptly), those two cases become the same. You reduced the problem space and now your code shuts down only 1 way. You can be confident that your system is resilient to abrupt failures, since you exercise that shutdown path every single time you stop your server. Some call this crash-only software.

A caveat with this is that clients must be able to handle abrupt terminations. This usually means that clients must have the ability to retry (with exp-backoff) their operations, and that each operation they perform has a timeout.

How To Know If You're Infected By The Graceful Shutdown Fever:

Assume that your servers are `kill -9` every 2s at
random, are you confident that your system will keep
working properly?

[1]: another valid case I found was in distributed systems that require a certain part of their members to be up at any time. If the nodes coordinate their restarts, they can ensure that a minimum number of nodes are kept healthy.
[2]: I've spent many hours arguing this with very smart colleagues who disagree, so this is a bit of an opinionated view (still I think I'm right =])
Would hashing every image be much more resource intensive than rendering the images? Images would only need to be hashed once whereas images need to be rendered in various states at ~60Hz when a user scrolls through a website.
Do you have any source that gives more detail about a post of "editorial cartoon" being deleted? That does seem an odd example.

Editorial cartoons are a pretty fundamental part of journalism. What if Tony Blair could delete news of the world editorial cartoons?

Seems to cross a line and, all due respect, until I saw proof that a delete happened, I'd be more likely to believe it was a histrionic "just-so-story"

I mean, Pao deleting this stuff personally? Even admins doing it?

It doesn't seem reasonable to me.
> Do you maybe think you shouldn't hold it against him that maybe he also doesn't know everything?

The problem isn't that he doesn't understand everything. The problem is that he doesn't seem to understand "discretion".

I'm about to give someone access to very sensitive HR information across multiple companies. Do I really want to do that when he just demonstrated that he can't make a simple job inquiry with enough discretion to not piss the CEO off? Doubly so since it was a GOOD job offer.
He also offered refunds for the passes last year because Google's new Recaptcha system meant that a lot of users were no longer seeing captchas at all.
Because it's not the government doing it I'd say.
In what sense is it ironic? Reddit is a private corporation unaffiliated with the United States Government.
> Most of 4chan left in response. Many alternative chan sites were started, including 8ch.net.

A very small fraction of the worst bored on a bad website left to join an even worse website.

Don't kid yourself.
>There are growing social movements that promote obesity as a way of life. This is simply insane. Nobody would promote anorexia as positive, or smoking, or heroin.

I think FPH got created as a counter culture to these movements.

>I do not want to live in a society where this is accepted or encouraged.
While I don't think that mocking fat people will solve the problem, I can understand how that particular community could grow so fast.

I agree.

Rather than focusing on education and knowledge they resorted to insults and mockery.
Yep. I would post from time to time to point out incorrect "facts" they posted. It doesn't matter how well researched and reasoned your argument is. If you aren't towing the line, you are moderated and banned. They auto moderate and message any user who is voted down by the self-proclaimed shitlords.

It is a pretty disgusting place.
Great execution, but the indentation is wonky at times, making it difficult to see the idea.
"Personalized" ads can actually be kind of nice. I like seeing ads that are for things I care about, instead of for things that "people who visit this site" care about.

There's hazards, it's true, but I feel like I have seen the future where ads are helpful and don't feel like ads as we have come to know them, and I like it.
> The policies are not exactly clear-cut, and neither are the actions of the administration.

Understated.
I've heard that it's not uncommon to have to interview twice before getting in to Google.
Please stop spreading this nonsense. I expected better from HN.

>constantly banning and deleting anything disagreeing with her viewpoint about her law suit.

There are multiple posts on multiple reddits, each with thousands of points and comments that were not deleted. Some posts were deleted by sub moderators(not the same as Reddit staff or Pao) on some subs because they were offtopic and were being vote brigaded and had comments full of hate speech.

E.g of posts:

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/30j9mn/ellen_pao_loses...

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/38qkmx/after_losing_he...

It doesn't make any sense why she would leave those posts up if she really was deleting stuff. It's interesting how the folks against her have made it look like she was. It's just sad how easily so many people are manipulated by false information.

Examples of comments that were being made and upvoted by the brigades on unrelated big subs:

>Somebody needs to fire this whore right fucking now. What a tampon smear...

>She's a lying cunt who is using her pussy pass because she didn't get what she wanted; a big pay-out for being a whore.

Why would subreddit mods want to deal with hundreds of such comments when the story is offtopic to their sub?
Oi. Hope I grow to love my assignment, or can at least switch "cleanly."
Netflix - Essentially a paywall for great CONTENT. You subscribe to their service with regular payments.

Youtube - Ads for free content.

Both seem to be working just fine as far as revenue is concerned. Can you elaborate on why you find only sites like SE or GH "content"? What's your definition? Are you suggesting entertainment doesn't have a value of its own?
haha it's pretty hacky but thanks :) i think a Twitter timeline-esque design would be awesome and would jive with the hashtag approach.
I was wrong, it's not ironic at all. Censoring a post criticizing censorship is perfectly consistent.

Though not entirely consistent with their statement that "we do protect the right of people to express their views".
I can imagine a world without advertising quite easily. If you could snap your fingers and make all advertising disappear the world would be a better place. Sure, TV and Radio would disappear, but who needs it? I stopped listening to Radio years ago,and people are fleeing from TV in droves. I remember the internet before the "make a buck off the internet" crowd showed up. They can all fall out as far as I'm concerned. The beauty of the internet is that you don't have to see advertising if you don't want to. And if the day comes when it can't be avoided I'm turning it off. Wouldn't miss what the internet has become now anyway, just another form of TV.
Reddit would do well to learn from it. Force fatpeoplehate and fatacceptance to post in the same subreddit.
An analogy I like is "using a leaf blower in a sealed room full of leaves". Sure, you'll kick users out of their former resting spots on the floor, but they have nowhere to go and will just settle back into new resting spots after being in everybody's face for a little while.
You wrote "forcing him to make concrete predictions".

I took that to mean that you considered his criticism of climate models to be invalid because he hasn't produced better models himself.

Perhaps I mistook your meaning.
This isn't real life. It's access via a screen. In real life, my argument wouldn't stand. On the internet, you are given tools to weather the storm. Shitty people will always exist. Everyone else now has to suffer as casualties of the wide net cast in hopes of eliminating a vitriolic idiots because of a few victims.
Not even. If you know what a tree is, and you've written a couple of recursive problems on trees in your life, then you know most of them are approximately 5-6 lines of code.

If you're spending 45 minutes writing 5 lines of code, it is not definitive, but certainly a red flag.
I think these are all great choices, and you really cannot go wrong with any one of these choices.

Some things to help you decide:

- Look at the team you will be working with. "Tesla" sounds exciting. "Writing device drivers for USB components for cars" does not. The team matters. Which team is most exciting?

- Look at your immediate manager. Does he/she seem like a person you would enjoy working with?

- Look at the other members of the team. People you can learn from? People you can get along with?

Good luck!
Say, I want to see the definition of a class.

If I try to search the repository using just the name of the class; the result is very messy. It shows me everywhere the class has been used. But that's not what I want. I want to go to the definition and BitBucket Connect demonstrates exactly that.
OKombinator: Applying the YC recipe for startup success
So most developer experiences are of dealing with an unending stream of unnecessary dumb puzzles, rather than challenging problems with real meaning.

That's exactly what I meant by self-inflicted: thank you for stating it clearly!

I don't mind working on genuinely hard problems, even if we can't get anywhere. It's dealing with lots of unnecessary silliness or trying to get one more month out of the shitty legacy code that drives me nuts.
We're not all unicorns pooping rainbows on a rocket to the moon – Startups
"OVER the last decade, China has become, in the eyes of much of the world, a job-eating monster, consuming entire industries with its seemingly limitless supply of low-wage workers. But the reality is that China is now shifting its appetite to robots."

Translation:

We know that you know that the Chinese are really doing most of the manufacturing jobs that not-so-mysteriously disappeared the United States over the last 30 years.

We also know that you know that we did this on purpose, because taking advantage of Chinese currency repression, wage repression and loose environment controls meant higher profits for us.

This is the part where we're going to be completely honest with you, because we have no vested interests here whatsoever:

Those jobs aren't ever coming home because androids that will replace all of those Chinese workers - you know, like you've seen in all those movies.

Any.

Day.

Now.

And, as soon as we're done with that, we're sure somebody will invent a robot to build those robots so we don't need to pay your wages either.

We will continue to deluge you with anecdotes of individual factories doing banal automation like they have done for the last two hundred years until you 'get the feeling' that this 'trend' is unstoppable.

Meanwhile, pay no attention to NAFTA, CAFTA, TTIP, TPP or the US goverment's unwillingness to designate China as a currency manipulator. Also, we need you to keep up the pretense that austerity is about saving taxpayer money, rather than repressing your wages.
Nuts 'protect against early death'
You were 13 minutes ahead of me but I didn't reload the page so I just said it anyway. :)
"Does that mean I should stop eating entirely?"

No, but to continue that simile, you should probably stop bitching about people who choose to wash their own dishes.
Apple hasn't done this entirely out of the goodness of their own hearts.

Of course not. Read the article (or spend a few moments considering the consumer tech coprorate landscape), and it's obvoiusly also an assault on Google.

"An Apple realist might argue that its great rival Google makes more than 90 percent of its revenue from online advertising — a growing share of that on mobile, and a large share of that on iPhone. Indeed, Google alone makes about half of all global mobile advertising revenue. So anything that cuts back on mobile advertising revenue is primarily hurting its rival."

The thought that it's part of a long-game play positioning Apple within the content space also comes to mind.
Having read "The Computer and the Brain" by von Neumann. I would argue some key aspects of the von Neuman architecture are a computer's ability to store a program in memory, and have it fetched to run on the CPU. Another important aspect is a program counter(PC), and IO devices attached to the CPU via a bus.

The concepts that I would categorize as the von Neumann architecture are incredibly basic. Equating his plan for computer design with a difference between storing program/data vs. just program misses the mark. Von Neumann wasn't at all concerned with this difference.

Take this quote from "The Computer and the Brain":
"Large digital machines are made up of 'active' organs and of organs serving memory functions-I will include among the latter the 'input' and 'output' organs.."

You can see how basic his thinking is by today's standards, and why Dijkstra later criticized him, and other American computer scientists for anthropomorphizing machines. He talks about 'an organ serving a memory function', he doesn't even talk about main memory because that word isn't in use yet.

You're interpreting von Neumann from a modern context. You don't understand just how basic and fundamental his ideas were.
When I want to give up
Paul Graham says, "that growth is everything for a startup". We are taking it to heart and we are running a growth experiment modeled on YC's growth philosophy.
"Current Balance 197,455.64
Last Statement Balance 196,955.64
Minimum Payment Due 500"

I think they have it backwards, plus it looks like she lucked out with a zero interest loan.
But censorship isn't limited to governments.
I actually thought of using CRC32 when developing my first system, but I preferred MD5 because it would be easier and clearer for people to check file integrity in a *NIX command line.
A Note App to Replace Your Ziploc Bag
SJWs are cancer. Reddit staff ban opposing views while letting people who are blindly liberal off the hook for having the 'correct' views.
No ads would mean you will have to pay per page view like in MicrosoftNetwork/MSN95 (Bill Gates plan of the "information highway" that failed in 1995 thanks to the free internet), and Teletext based systems from the 1980s like BTX in Germany.
Great.

Maybe I can finally load a website on mobile in less than two minutes. Maybe I can finally load websites without my entire browser freezing for several minutes while a zillion Javascript scripts all fight it out. Maybe I can finally switch a tab and switch back without the entire website having to reload because all the Javascript wants a new set of ads.

All of this could have been avoided if you loaded my content FIRST and then filled in the ad placeholders SECOND. But, noooooo, ads are more important than content so my screen jumps around, my browser freezes, and my tabs reload and reload and reload and reload.

Fuck 'em.
Moderation doesn't seem right either, though: the people who wanted to be part of those (toxic, terrible) communities had chosen to go there, and the only times they popped up in other communities was people linking to them as a sign of how terrible the people there are (counterproductive as a strategy).

Moderation implies curating an intermingling of user-generated comments so as to provide a super experience for the people reading those comments. There was no intermingling here.

I think a large part of the anger is that people on Reddit tend to recognize it's a patchwork of communities, each with distinct borders you can't cross accidentally, and they like it that way. In contrast, this decision is motivated by a desire to expand Reddit's appeal to new users and as an advertising platform, both of which rely on it having a good reputation to the outside world.
Just like the great Digg v3 Migration to Reddit happened years ago... its happening again from Reddit to Voat.