skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've believed since newsdiffs.org (mentioned in the OP) was launched that an in-house diff-tracker/displayer for the New York Times would be both a win in transparency, accuracy, and the company's bottom-line. The first two are mostly self-evident...in terms of improving the bottom-line...well, I often go to the NYT for breaking news. For a given event, they'll often have a main story which they update throughout the day. The obvious problem is that if I've read it once, I have to re-read the entire story throughout the day, and mentally parse out the updated bits.

So why not have, for _every_ story, a "History" link, or even a _feed_ of latest changes, so that readers who re-visit a story can quickly see the atomic updates? For my own reading habits, this would cement the NYT has a place to go to for developing stories...the transparency/accuracy bit are just icing on the cake.

This issue of having an in-house Newsdiffs was brought up by the public editor back when Jill Abramson was still editor:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/opinion/sunday/26pubed.htm...

Here's what she said:

> Right now, tracking changes is not a priority at The Times. As Ms. Abramson told me, it’s unrealistic to preserve an “immutable, permanent record of everything we have done.”

I can't speak for her true motives or intentions...but part of the problem here is technical ignorance. Her perception seems to have been that tracking changes would have been too much of a burden -- and she is justified in thinking this if she has never worked with something that uses a diff-like program...and in my experience, this includes most news people...in a newsroom, editing and re-editing stories and supplying reasons (i.e. as in a correction) is a very manual process. If a newsroom is using WordPress, sure, they know of the concept of article versions...but they don't really grok the ability for machines to create timestamped diffs.

However, if Ms. Abramson was familiar with the kind of system that Github (or Wikipedia, for that matter) uses, she would see that keeping an immutable, permanent record is actually quite easy for machines to do. So to create a inhouse change-log-per-article would be quite easy, technically, and with some interface work, it'd be a very welcome feature to more than a few readers, IMO.

edit: In terms of "most news people" not knowing diff...I'm basing this on anecdotal experience with non-programming investigative journalists who, among all journalists, have the most to benefit from understanding the implications of an efficient document diff, but I haven't worked with any who demonstrated that grasp. A common scenario is having two versions of some important document and wanting to see every change made. A diff would not be perfect, but it doesn't have to be, it just needs to triage possible changes to further investigate.
Block out unwanted android notifications
They literally know more about you than yourself, because they can predict your future behavior.
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There is apparently a deep queue between the action of recommending that a question be closed, and when thwt recommendation is acted on. I have a question which admittedly, I put in the wrong section of the site. When I comolained about an anonymous, unexplained downvote, a helpful passerby left a comment that included useful advise, meta advice about where to post if I needed further help, and the observation that questions don't close as quickly as they should because the queue is too long.
You're right, but it's even worse than that. The speed of light in optical fiber is closer to 200,000 km/s.
The article mentions that the seats flip up when the passenger stands. (Note: this means they should never actually be in the position shown in the render).
These comments break the HN guidelines. Thoughtful criticism is fine, but dumping all over someone else's work is not fine. Please don't do that here.
people are buying what they want and obviously those guys buying Beats are not looking for very high quality sound. They are buying for style and recognition. The same stuff that Apple has played on us all these years.

Although this article is indeed a high quality analysis, and the author really done a great job. There is no point arguing that a Beats is not a genuine headphone. Whatever product it is, there are always people who are looking for quality and people who are looking for style (In some market they are one).
If your roads are an obstacle course then it sounds like they shouldn't have cars on because they're clearly not wide enough. That's endangering the lives of all traffic, not just cyclists.
Yes, trying to give any sort of nuanced answer to a reporter is almost hopeless.

For instance if you say: "Plan ABC is good, however the specific concerns are X, Y, and Z. If care is not taken in how these issued are addressed it will likely be a very expensive failure".

The article will appear as: PLAN HAS BROAD SUPPORT. _red says, "Plan ABC is good".
I am officially doing this at every function I attend from now on. thank you for this fantastic idea. JWZ would be proud.
Mention, sure. Highlight, sure. But this is the top article on a CEO's departure and it doesn't even mention the trigger incident until the 5th paragraph, below the second picture. It says nothing about /r/fatpeoplehate, even though that would support its argument that the internet is 'cruel' (though not that it's sexist).

It solely tries make Ellen Pao into a martyr for anti-sexism in SV.

And don't get me wrong, the nasty behavior on reddit probably warrants an article. I'd argue that the prescription shouldn't be to hide people's behavior through censorship but to change it, whether by convincing them to self-censor or better changing people's minds, which I think sama did well in his announcement. But as a summary overview of why Reddit has a new CEO, this article failed miserably.
The fact that they deleted the original version, rather than added or appended the new one is very telling. People worked on writing and editing it and that work got thrown away. "Hey, Mike, sorry." Why do you think that is?

You know, in the age of hypertext and search engines you would think that news would become more focused on actual events and facts. (Because anyone who cares could follow the links and do searches to get background information.)

Instead, everyone races to push forward more "analysis" and "context". We get "news" articles that pull in unrelated issues, do everything possible to frame the facts, and use emotionally loaded language wherever possible.
Ask HN: Help me to make a difference in my life
Presently I live in Indonesia, i have no money and homeless.
I want to start to sell a Software or Game but paypal not available in Indonesia.[1]

I have just two friends I can use their bank account so no credit card, I’m Christian, don’t know much people here[2]

I'm looking for app like gumroad.com so i don’t have to pay for hosting fees and charges just whenever transaction made for their commission.

I eat grasshoppers every morning and I beg people for buy a bottled water to drink.
Thank you very much.

[1] https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/About-Settings/What-to-do-to-Verify-Paypal-Account-from-Indonesia/m-p/964150/highlight/true#M10772

[2] http://ymitraining.com/80-of-indonesias-240-million-citizens-are-muslim-strategic-partner-update-3rd-quarter-2012/
Who dreamed of a highbrow Internet, and how did they get so out of touch with humanity in the first place?
Why would it do that? Univalence is unrelated to the halting problem.

What the univalence axiom says is that you can treat types you have proven isomorphic as equal.
They're still not that common, at least in Copenhagen, partly because most apartments are pretty small, so space is at a premium. But in recent years I've seen combo washer/dryer units that reuse the same tumbler for both functions, so they take only the space of a normal washer.

As for the cost, well, many Danes have money to spare.
Let me be clear. I do not support the offensive behavior on reddit. I just think censorship and moderation is not an effective or desirable solution.
Down with long sleeves!
Absolutely, but those ads aren't usually pointing at outright malicious software, just shitty adware like download accelerators or whatever. Google's algorithms and manual approval processes have been pretty good at filtering out anything explicitly malicious, at least in my experience.
I wonder how much the stability of the URL influences this sort of editing. If traffic is coming in via a site such as reddit, a new article with a new URL might not get as much traffic as an edited version of the original article.
Relevant IBM ad from those days: http://philosecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/hollerit...
I just watched 7 days in hell where he serves 174 mph. Just incredible!
A lot of work was going into the cubical model, but IIRC they realized it was a dead end about a month and a half ago. Right now the most promising work looks to be formalizing the set theoretic model in NuPRL.
what does cocaine have to do with it?
this does solve fat person beside you problem

I was expecting a few inches shaved off the seat depth and came here to say 'every single time it's "most passengers won't notice a difference" and then fast forward 30 years and the cushions are 1.5" thick and everyone's basically standing up'
Nothing like that has ever happened to me. In fact, I have never been in a situation where I would have been better off with a gun on me. Funny how people who own guns seem to end up in dangerous situations so often.
I'd be interested in finding out how this affects the rate at which the plane can be emptied, and thus whether it would pass the safety tests.
In some respects, not all that large; from the Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valemax): "Once all 35 Valemax ships are in service and if each ship does four round trips per year, they will be capable of carrying about 15% of the annual iron ore exports from Brazil to all destinations."
When they call I just tell them I need to put them on hold for a moment whilst I get my account details, then leave them hanging. One even held on for 46 minutes.
note: I am not a journalist, but I have worked with journalists.

I agree with you as it reaffirms to me how inaccurate media articles are. There are few to no news resources that provide in-depth investigative journalism. The internet makes the news slower because I check multiple diverse sources, and often the report, bias, story is different. It's interesting.

I also see where the story/article is continuously updated by mainstream internet news agencies to fix inaccuracies, spelling, grammar, reduce liability, change the title, change the entire story, change the bias, etc...
The comments are almost always more interesting than the actual news report, and can often provide a more accurate report of what actually happened. What were once former respectable news organizations doing investigative reporting no longer exist. We cannot expect "journalism" when reading news on the internet, we need to do that work ourselves.
Oddly timed article given the announcement by IBM of their successful 7 nm test chips.
To be fair, that's not just true of "media" - try talking to a person with third hand knowledge compared to first hand knowledge. It's more a human phenomenon than just a 'media' phenomenon.
They were likely getting a lot of views at that url and they didn't want to lose their SEO juice.
> Don't be evil

heavy load to carry financially and liably speaking
Can you stop this in Chrome yet? Can ublock origin stop it?
This is basic journalistic ethics, to post a log of corrections made to an article.
When they decided to sprout the "sub-stack-overflows" they decided that each sub would have a topic. There is a sub for interetation of Jewish religious law, and you wouldn't post a programming question there. But if you mostly READ stackoverflow questions (on the subject of coding) and you have a question about using PGP commandline options, you're not supposed to post it on stackoverflow just because it's the one you read most. That would be a superuser question (probably).
I'd already consider it impossible to exit from the window seat when the seats are filled.
You're commenting on the title ("The dream of the highbrow internet is dead", which is the first sentence of the article), but we only changed it to that because the top title was so bad. The article itself is more interesting than either.

Can anyone suggest a more representative title? Edit: I've taken a crack at it, but we'd be happy to replace it with something better.
And imagine if they get pwned. Not fun.
"crash position" just more awkward. about have a hard landing? just put your face in my lap.

also, folks with motion sickness would make these flights interesting.

from an efficiency perspective, this seems like a pretty sound design, though.
Heaven forbid an American might have to look at a stranger. The horror!
When traveling with at least one person you know though, this might be preferable.

There could be a group of seats in this new configuration and a group in the current standard (everyone forward configuration).
Audio amplification was "solved" a long time ago only if you didn't care about energy efficiency. Good class-D amplifiers are more recent, and they give real improvements in battery life over older designs.
Poly definitely changed the game in many ways, but not as much when it comes to fast serves. Even strung in the 40lb range, poly strings generate much less power than gut. You'll find that most of the big servers still use gut in the crosses (and they'd probably use all gut if they could just hit serves and no groundstrokes).
> then what is the point of warning them

using their fear to control them to reduce liability to the Google name in the form of zero-day browser exploits
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Sure, but in a window seat with two Florida natives to your right it's still impossible to leave.
Nope, it hasn't gotten better. I don't think I've been quoted precisely any time I've spoken with a reporter. The "quote" is usually the gist of what I said, so it's not a big deal, but sometimes the paraphrased version is different enough to change the meaning of what was actually said.
Yep! Unless you want access to the poles or multiple sides of the planet for some reason.
I agree, but it's kind of the news media's job to report it accurately. "You had one job" kind of thing.
We have something between the two in HoTT - universes of types is stratified by homotopy levels, corresponding to how many dimensions of structure a type has. A space with only points is thus a 0-type, a space with at most 1 point is a -1-type, and a space with only one is a -2-type.

The catch is that univalence is inconsistent with LEM at h-levels greater than -1, but assuming it is perfectly consistent for -1 types, which can be thought of as the "at most true" propositions of classical logic.
How is intentionally suppressing speech that you don't like, not censorship?

It would seem to be the very definition of censorship.
Cool, although disappointingly the trees don't actually seem to have their own email addresses. I clicked on one and the address was "melbourneurbanforest@melbourne.vic.gov.au" and the email subject had the tree id "Information about a London Plane, Tree ID 1024530"
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Perhaps instead ask "I have this idea, it goes like this, how the hell do I build it?"

Wait, is this the analytics for musicians idea we're talking about? (spotted in OP's history). If so... my 2 cents is that analytics is a tricky game. Platform providers have their own services be it Google or Soundcloud where such data is stored and seen. You want to access and gather that data somehow, and charge musicians to see it?

Anyway, before you can learn what you need to learn, you need to learn how the basic building blocks of your idea are made. Eg, a global highscore table, how to build one of those little suckers. Shop around the thousands of free articles on that subject. Get things working in a dev environment..... [actually getting things polished and finished takes sweat and long hours and the odd bad day. The worst thing is when you think you've had a lightbulb moment of progress, only for it to be actually confirmation that you went down the wrong road 4 hours ago, or even days ago, and in some rare cases years ago!]
Check out this Scientific American article[1], especially the video of a presentation given by Voevodsky.

Edit: Here's a more direct page[2] if you just want the video.

[1] http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/voevodskye280...

[2] http://www.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/blog/video/lecture-...
Yeah, tons of airlines are experiencing customer revolt due to poor service, overcrowding & exploitative fee schemes. /s

https://www.google.com/finance?q=rya
Ask HN: What if Ellen Pao hadn't been CEO?
Pretend for a moment you haven't picked a side pro or con on the Ellen Pao Reddit story and please consider the following hypothetical.

Suppose Ellen Pao had been a Reddit product manager (not CEO) who made some unpopular (possibly bad) decisions and then was the subject of numerous disparagements and threats on the company's public forums. Likely Reddit's responsibilities to her under this hypothetical scenario would be large and clear, as Reddit would both be her employer and the host of public forums publishing disparagements and threats. HR training usually describes a large responsibility of companies to protect employees from job related threats and harassment.

Now Pau was in fact the CEO, so she presumably had a lot more power than a product manager, and one might suppose is entitled no protection from her own corporation's forums. But is that in fact a point of law? Are CEOs employees in this sense? Given modern corporate structure is the intuition "the CEO is the company" actually correct"?
I posted an answer to a question that had an accepted answer, and it gets upvotes once in a while. The accepted answer was correct at the time. My search for the answer later turned up the SO question and answer plus the new correct answer from the cmake site. So I posted my new information as a new answer.

I think if a question is closed, that would mean no corrections or updates would be possible.
Didn't work out well for China. There's a reason Asian countries have zero tolerance
Or maybe that was just a convenient excuse at the time. Now they present me a screen to input my phone number every time I login. I choose to ignore it.
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still, considering the mess of code they release every year with new Android versions, empty promises ('smooth as iPhone') where the solutions implemented are things like 'project butter' that cranks the CPU frequency to maximum when you touch the screen to overcome 1. ineffective governor design 2. bloated software; and generally poor design, it still doesn't seem outside the realm of reality that

eh, maybe it does.
This doesn't surprise me. Back in about 2002 the company i worked for built a shitty intranet for a major high street charity in the UK. Cost them £100,000...
And even if I have nothing to hide why can't I fear for potential whistle blowers, journalists, or activists?

It's a shame that we love to boil incredibly complex issues down into simple platitudes. You find it on facebook, on the news, on twitter (although short and sweet does work well there), and every where else you look and people you talk to.

It's a shallow way to talk about things.
I highly doubt anyone starts with "oh hay, I want to use sun.misc.Unsafe". More like "hmm, I think I need to use sun.misc.Unsafe, but I'm not sure if that's the right call. Since this is an uncommon API, it's going to take a bunch of research, which will be a waste of time if I don't need to use it. Let me look up the common applications and see if they pattern-match with the stuff I'm trying to do."
I disagree. Even flagging notcensorship's personal attack (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9870590) is a form of censorship. It's certainly not First Amendment protected, and you're absolutely correct that he retains the right to call me out anywhere else on the internet (or world). It might even be morally justifiable. But that doesn't mean it's not censorship. Wikipedia adds:

> Governments, private organizations and individuals may engage in censorship. When an individual such as an author or other creator engages in censorship of their own works or speech, it is called self-censorship. Censorship may be direct or it may be indirect, in which case it is called soft censorship. It occurs in a variety of different media, including speech, books, music, films, and other arts, the press, radio, television, and the Internet for a variety of claimed reasons including national security, to control obscenity, child pornography, and hate speech, to protect children or other vulnerable groups, to promote or restrict political or religious views, and to prevent slander and libel.

> Direct censorship may or may not be legal, depending on the type, place, and content. Many countries provide strong protections against censorship by law, but none of these protections are absolute and frequently a claim of necessity to balance conflicting rights is made, in order to determine what can and cannot be censored. There are no laws against self-censorship.
We said the same about Ryan air and Easyjet, and they're both still doing fine.

People will use it if it's cheap enough, and just put up with the user-hostility.
Except these stupidly small pockets of further subculture division generate less and less useful answers.
If they have nothing to hide, ask them for nudes.
Yeah, Knockout has also served us well: has been flexible as our architecture has shifted, and has progressed steadily without forcing us to pay a "framework churn" tax. It's become a mature, stable, pragmatic option, IMO.
Right...but the implementation details matter. And not everything that is worth tracking is not necessarily a correction.

In terms of corrections, for non-trivial ones, it sometimes takes more than a day to get the true story...and this is sensible, as no one wants to correct the correction. This process is pretty manual.

In terms of changes, as described by the OP, it's not always clear what kind of changes deserve a manually-written line-item description. Fixing grammar and punctuation? Adding a new quote (usually when a new quote is added, an "Update" note is prepended to the story, but for most WordPress using organizations, this is again a manual process)? Rearranging the lede to put a more important, newly discovered fact up higher?

So instead of leaving it to humans to decide which changes are worth manually logging...just let the machine timestamp the changes and show the diffs, allowing the reader to see them in a transparent way. For changes that require no explanation (i.e. the addition of an Oxford comma), let them stand alone. For changes that require some context, such as a new quote, give the option of letting the reporter/editor describe the reason, e.g. "Mr. Smith responded to a reporter's calls at 3 p.m. today".
Disagree. Basic courtesy would be "We appreciate all the work Ms. Pao has done and the way in which she handled her resignation as well as her professionalism in the face of many abusive comments from the community."

The glowing "done an amazing job" etc... is typical corporate BS and is the classic back scratching that happens at these upper management levels. As an example when Victoria was fired, there was no statement or acknowledgement despite the publicity - let alone a "Victoria has done an amazing job..." type statement by Pao, Alexis or otherwise.

Again, just reinforcing the manager/worker class division.