skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I honestly don't understand the necessity or want for something like this. I get that people want their community detached from corporate interest, and that they don't want censorship involved with their communications and ideas... but as the article passingly mentions, the technology is coming out of groups that have a reasonable monetary incentive to push it.

I for one am hesitant to rely on a 'reddit p2p network' for which I have to seed with bitcoins.

Are there any estimates and just how much that cost/"incentive" per user is?

> Furthermore, when a user upvotes content, that sends a small amount of bitcoin to the author of that content, thus incentivizing the production of good content

How do you deincentivize folks from gaming that? Would we potentially run into a situation where new forms of online publishing are going to arise, where instead of being funded by Google Ads they are now funded directly by users liking their content? Will curators of cat pictures become overnight millionaires?
Pretty fluffy piece, I'm not sure why it's so high. FB does have some pretty cool stuff though - I've been itching to play with React and GraphQL.

One tangential point I often think about is the importance of investing time in learning tools as a developer. What should the breakdown be? Should I spend 20% of my time "sharpening the ax" and the other 80% working on projects? Someone else in this thread pointed out that companies face some of the same questions. How many resources should be allocated to things like improving the build system or developing custom tools? Where is the break even point where time invested in tools starts saving time for developers working on core products?
Looks like they're double dealing, too. Invoices to Egypt and other oppressive governments have already been found in the torrent dump.

Christopher Soghoian on Twitter: "Just from Torrent File listing, Hacking Team's customers includes South Korea, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Lebanon, and Mongolia."

https://mobile.twitter.com/csoghoian/status/6178628794050641...

Edit - just read Christopher Soghoian's entire Twitter stream for the juicy bits. It's bad news for Hacking Team:

https://mobile.twitter.com/csoghoian
> Most western countries can't even afford paying the interest of their debt.

If that were true, the countries would be in default. And yet they are not.
Still they make less money, bear the cost/burden of child birth, are more likely to care for children, are more likely to be physically abused by their partners, more likely to be killed by their partner, and the list probably goes on...
The problem is that, in Barack Obama's America, schools can't test potential teaching candidates to see if they're qualified. That would be racist.

See: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/08/nyregion/questions-of-bias...

And http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/06/nyregion/judge-rules-secon...
I've never been contacted but here is a #lifehack if you use gmail sign up with youremail+domain to track who is selling your info.
Very misleading title, extremely stupid concept.

Really all this article suggests is a p2p network where you are paid small amounts of BTC to be a peer (and pay to access other peers) and upvotes send BTC to the poster. It's a ludicrous idea that would never work. Reddit works because, among other things, votes/karma is worthless. Everyone's vote counts equally and everyone can vote on everything once. To tie voting to BTC or incentivize people to scam/cheat/lie for real money is just idiotc.

Also the blockchain will not be used to "host" the new reddit and other people (wrong people) have suggested.

Now an identity linked to the blockchain, used to access a decentralized reddit of nodes that contained subreddits which could be synced to other nodes (think newsgroups/usenet) but with anyone being able to run a node and set retention rates on posts/comments might work. Anyone could archive off bits and pieces of it (a la google groups) but some might only be hosted on 1 node or require some kind of key or password to access the content so "dark" sub reddits. The big problem is voting, and I'm not sure if a system like this could support anonymous voting. I'm guessing not but I'm no expert.
One, demanding that the victims do extra work to solve the problem is problematic in that it shifts the burden onto people who are already having a hard time. (If you think this can be easily solved, volunteer to deal with the police for someone. Or just pay for someone to act as an advocate.)

Two, if you were paying attention to previous victims of online harassment, you'd know that police generally don't give a shit, and when they do, it's an extremely hard case to pursue.

Three, if you're tired of people talking about their lives on their blogs, don't read their blogs. You coming on here to whine about other people supposedly whining is ridiculous. There are plenty of us who actually want to solve these problems and are glad when people post.
As someone who loses sleep whenever he submits an app update to the App Store, I can't even imagine... Good luck to everyone working on this mission -- it's an awesome one.
Another commenter already acknowledged the possibility that it only appears to be that far away and the signal could come from the edge of the solar system (maybe passing through it). Would explain why it was brief and appeared to come from a place having about nothing.

The comment you replied to was a joke, though, so it doesn't really matter.
New Features of the Linux 4.2 Kernel
Surprise, it's only going to take 9 minutes it looks like, I'll go ahead and spoil the ending it's complete nonsense.
The only real "issue" that article seems to take with the movies was that (A) it used a term that doesn't exist to describe a condition that does have an actual name and (B) it was a cheesy romcom. But I mean, do you really expect any Adam Sandler movie to get to the real grit of living with a terrible disease?
Points:

(1) Reddit is in the news now. Fred's post
also mentions the challenge of how to
manage a social site, e.g., Reddit,
that depends on a lot
of volunteer workers.

(2) Fred is highly interested in nearly
everything about BitCoin and blockchains.

(3) Fred runs a popular blog, AVC.com,
and he regards it as an important part
of his business as a VC. In this blog,
Fred sees himself as a bartender who
watches as others interact.

In addition, IMHO, Fred likes to toss out
ideas that are easy to comment on because
they are deliberately incomplete and can
easily be made more complete or
deliberately not very good or very well
supported so that they can easily
be improved on.

So, he tossed out something about
social site management and the blockchain.
From 50,000 feet up, the point of
mentioning a blockchain for site
management is that a blockchain
can be distributed in
various respects.

In particular, with that post, Fred
kept up interest in social sites,
one of his favorite ideas, "a large
collection of engaged users"
that can form a barrier to entry,
and blockchain. And he got some
thoughtful comments.

Some of the commenters may have
spent more time on their comments
than Fred did on his post!
It is not uncommon to send chaperoned emails to your list; that's where your friend includes a message from the sponsor in his regular newsletter.

Someone else gets their marketing message out to his list, but doesn't get his emails.
De facto he can. Pretty much more than women, actually. Men can choose to not have sex, and that choice is more rarely violated. There are contraceptives galore for men.

Of course he can't violate a woman's right to her own body and terminate a pregnancy at her risk, or prevent a termination (how would that work actually?).
link to example please
Ask HN: Share an idea?
If you're like me, you often have a lot of ideas that you don't have the time or resources to execute on.

If so, why not write it down for your fellow hackers' enjoyment?

Topics can be anything: product ideas, service ideas, blog post topics, stand up comedy skits, research initiatives you wish could get funded, etc.
A few fun podcasts I listen to on my walk to work:
Virtual Reality: Rev VR,
Python: Talk Python To Me
Could a smart marketer simply query the list for all emails with "+" and truncate from there?
I'd think it would return the original promise, for chaining.
I agree with this list completely, but it doesn't mention one of the best reasons generators and promises are awesome: async/await-style asynchronous programming eliminates callback hell by letting you write asynchronous code as if it were synchronous, including using control structures like conditionals, loops, and try/catch.

And you can do it in (most) browsers today using a transpiler like Babel and a library like Blurebird, Q, co, or task.js.

The rest of the things are nice, but promises/generators (and eventually async/await) are game-changers.
Public Health. Obesity is the most pressing, and cheapest to fix problem in the United States (stop paying for food for fat people.)
Or better, Promise.reject
JavaScript is object oriented just like any other language. The difference is that it is prototype-based OO instead of class-based OO.

I would say that JavaScript's OO is actually more powerful/flexible than other languages but it is less readable and more error prone if you're not careful - For example, the fact that objects can 'borrow' a method from other object an apply it to themselves is a common source of issues for beginners.
Just found http://fullstackradio.com/ yesterday and I've been listening to most of them. They're pretty great. They talk about their subjects in a mostly language/framework agnostic way so it's really useful. I don't know why but it's hard to find podcasts that don't assume you're a web developer by default.
What would make you say that? Why wouldn't you use promises in your business logic?
Inflation is a "tax" on those who have savings. In some cases (e.g. elderly retired) those who have savings are poor, but mostly if you have enough money left over after eating and keeping the lights on to save, you're not poor.
"The current leadership of Reddit really does not understand the community and the fine implicit agreement between the community and the host."

The community doesn't understand the relationship they have with the owners of the site. The owners have final say in the sub-reddits and they made it pretty clear when they forced the sub-reddits back to public, circumventing all of the changes to private.

"This is going to make a great case study in the future on how to manage the relationship with user generated content sites."

Reddit is really a terrible example of anything progressive. It's really a form of social regression. Witch hunts, bullying, silencing, and bigotry toward anything that's not liked and no acceptance or tolerance.

Even look at Pao. When it was thought she was fighting for women's rights, she was looked at as a great person and an asset to the community. Now, after not even knowing all of the facts, she is enemy #1.

If this were all just for entertainment, it would be fine. However, it actually destroys lives, businesses, and careers.

HN is going the same way. 5 years ago, it was a place for intelligent and open discussions away from political correct nonsense. But it's not the same anymore.

Opposing opinions are down voted immediately instead of discussed and bigotry is accepted, as long as it's against groups of undesirables. IE: religious, conservatives, or Republicans. It pretty much fits the definition of fascism.
So what you're saying is Greece needs to declare war on the rest of the Eurozone, and then lose badly?
It's probably time to start a "Old Boys&Girls Club" movement in technology.
In fairness, the tacit Sino-American currency union has propped up Chinese industry since the Nixon Era. Predicting that the U.S. would eventually fatigue of this arrangement wasn't totally insane. Those folks just didn't appreciate that the U.S. and China were going to keep trucking along until China's population was well and truly urbanized. China just cracked the 50% urbanization ratio in the last couple of years, so who knows if the government there will remain motivated to drag peasants into the cities, or not.
I don't think it's a particularly a silly analogy. You're going to be able to work better if you know what you're reaching for rather than googling around.

Idioms and design patterns are also very well suited to flash cards.
The Omega Tau Podcast is great: http://omegataupodcast.net/
So you promised to take care of your wife and children, and now you are held accountable to that promise? Buhu.
Lots of discussion two months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9447097
> ...Hacking Team's customers include South Korea, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Lebanon, and Mongolia. Yet, the company maintains that it does not do business with oppressive governments.

I was curious if those were all oppressive governments, especially since South Korea was included. According to a couple indices on Wikipedia [1] South Korea is pretty free (only the press freedom index is lower than America's), and Mongolia's not so bad (political freedom, but weakness in press and economic freedom). Pretty hard to lump South Korea in with Saudi Arabia or Kazakhstan.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_freedom_indices
Tim Hunt is a nobel prize winner. He already made his career. And the thing he was asked to resign from as an honorary position so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

> Please, please, PLEASE show me some evidence that I am wrong.

I already did. Your theory doesn't make any sense because of how insanely labor intensive it is. Revenge porn sites, 4Chan, GamerGate, the Fappening, all of it is too involved and complex for even a determined group of false flag rabble rousers to execute on.

And again, on top of all of that, they would be harassing people, which would make them not people who believe in fighting harassment by definition.

So here's the crux of the matter. Even if your theory was true, all you're doing is distracting from the point, not addressing harassment or any of the possible ways harassment could be prevented.

p.s. given that you haven't actually engaged any of the points i've made i don't plan on writing you any more replies. I hope that you endeavor to do as Abraham Lincoln once said and "Be excellent to each other"
Philae comet could be home to alien life, say top scientists
I really don't think this will even be an issue 20 years from now.
Skepticism is disbelieving something. Putting forward a conspiracy theory with literally no evidence (and evidence to the contrary) is not skepticism.
I had to read that twice and figured I missed last week's Two Minutes of Hate.
> They don't give a damn about "Women in Tech", her or anything else.

I disagree. If this was a pure love of fucking with people, men and women would get equal levels of this. But that's definitely not the case. They have a strong opinion on women in tech (and in gaming): they're vigorously opposed.

> The only way to discourage them is to introduce concrete risk to the unwanted activity.

I'm all for that. But it's tricky. There are good reasons names are rarely named in situations like this: the consequences of a public fight are often worse for the victims than the abusers. If we want consequences, we'll have to find ways to make it safe for victims to come forward, and we'll have to give them confidence that reporting abuse will actually do some good.
Rooftop solar has really taken off here in Australia, and around 20-25% of houses have a solar inverter. Is it practical to build a cheap rooftop wind-power harvester that plugs into the inverter?
As an early evacuee from Digg to Reddit, Reddit wasn't scalable at the time. It was constantly down.
My comment does not apply to those for whom it does not apply.
Maybe I'm wrong. Since I got bored of 4chan, I've only seen trolls when they're being well fed --such as right now. I guess it comes down to:

Which is most likely to be the more prevalent source of the problem?

A) There is a small, but significant population of men in technology who aggressively harass prominent women in tech and they do it primarily because they want to actively work against the growth of female participation in the general tech community.

B) There is a small, but significant population of people on the internet who enjoy aggressively and anonymously harassing anyone they think they can get a good reaction out of. Some of these trolls participate in the tech industry. Their distant familiarity with prominent women in tech makes those women into particularly fun targets.

The problem of aggressive, anonymous harassment in tech is almost always portrayed as A). But, I believe B) is by far the more prominent source. This misportrayal distracts the conversation from discussing real solutions. Instead, it actually feeds the trolls by generating highly entertaining, heated arguments where neither side is even talking about the real source of problem: them.
Direct link to the announcement tweet https://twitter.com/hackingteam/status/617852091390935040
Can you share a pic of the output, for lazy people like me?
More than a few sites refuse '+' in their email address validators.
I don't believe for one moment that corruption and tax avoidance has been eliminated from Greece. I would wager there are a number complaining about the 'harsh' EU treatment who have also not done the right thing by their government and fellow Greeks.

Besides - why should other countries be equally or more responsible for Greece's problems than the people of Greece themselves? It just doesn't make any sense.
The comment period opened on May 5th, but between then and June 22nd there were only seven messages. However, the week of the 22nd brought 10,015 messages. The the week of the 29th brought 995 more. So I think it's clear that, without significant outside promotion of these topics, almost nobody would have noticed this proposal.

Does ICANN not want the public to contribute to its process? ISTM they could do a bit more publicity.
I have to admit, even though you already have my information as a paying Namecheap customer, I'm weirded about by having you wanting to "call you and guide you through the process."

Is it a really hard process? I've talked on the phone with Congressional staffers before in the US--I assumed it was something similar where a bored intern added a tally mark next to a side of the issue and reported to their boss later.
I posted a link to his stream with the rest on Schneier's blog. The stream is... Hacking Team's own answer to Failblog. I only wish I had 400GB of storage handy with a good network in case it gets taken down or something. Hope people are copying the shit out of it.

Note: There torrent is so big and has so much stuff that this laptop I'm using (few years old) was lagging on scrollbar with fan on full blast. Had to close it lol.
just wondering... why are you singling out only white males? I'm a non-white male.
The author of the submitted, um, article (blog post) didn't cover all the ground that could be covered on this issue, because it was an off-hand post. The previous comments here on Hacker News prompt me to bring up one more issue: even if we follow tradition and call "the" an "article" (as I was taught at some point in my schooling), we have the interesting situation that some languages, even in the Indo-European language family, have no expressed definite article at all. Latin didn't have one, and Russian doesn't have one. Definite reference in Latin, in Russian, and in many non-Indo-European languages (all the various Sinitic languages that are jointly called "Chinese" immediately come to mind) is indicated by means other than a dedicated word such as "the." Because languages can do perfectly well without words like "the" and "a" as those words are used as articles in English, perhaps it is not so shocking that modern grammarians prefer different category names for those words.

My eighth grade English class was innovative in that it used a textbook based on phrase-structure transformational grammar to teach me a lot of my English grammar. I would be glad to see books like that (modernized based on further linguistic research since the 1960s when the book was published) used in classrooms today. The "traditional" grammar poorly taught in the United States is based on an Indo-European grammatical tradition that is not completely lousy for teaching native speakers of Latin how to read and write Greek, but it has never been well suited for teaching analysis of English to native speakers or foreign-language learners of English. English has many grammatical features that are poorly described by the grammatical traditional of school lessons in English-speaking countries.

For further reading on this point, see Steven Pinker's excellent new book The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century.[1] For a better than average treatment of this point on Wikipedia, see the article "English language,"[2] which was updated to "good article" status during the most recent Wikipedia Core Contest, and is actually pretty decent for a Wikipedia article, with lots of references to good-quality reference books about the English language.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Sense-Style-Thinking-Persons/dp/06...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language
> Google for the myriad of really terrible stories involving people accidentally traveling to New Jersey with a firearm. In at least a few cases they were forced to travel to New Jersey because of an airline mistake (unexpected layovers, misplaced luggage, etc.). Reciprocity is a much bigger issue than you're making it out to be.

That's not about reciprocity so much as it is about NJSP thumbing their noses at FOPA (federal law since 1986) I think
> So you still need tools and tools programmers. You might not have an entire team building an editor, but you need something (and it's very easy to build custom editor tools inside the Unity editor).

No disagreement there. I just meant that you don't need to start from a blank canvas and start in on engine, editor, etc. development just to get to the point where you can do good game mechanics. Obviously even if you use a canned engine you'll still need to do some work to get your asset pipeline squared away (just as how everyone needs to do a bit of scripting/config, etc. specific to their build process for example.)

I guess I didn't explain it well, but I was trying to contrast to the web world where people [seem to] very often look at places like Facebook rolling their own frameworks and saying "we need to do that to be good!" and thus literally go on to start from scratch.