skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If the presence of a few foul people are enough to make you vacate an entire massive community and feel as though you cannot participate, then I might suggest that you grow up a bit, learn that there is literally no public place in the world that is all rainbows and puppies, and check whether you are being overly sensitive.

Some of the best communities (/AskHistorians and /AskScience) are already struggling with this. A mod from /AskHistorians:

https://np.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3cxedn/i_am_steve_huff...

>To illustrate, without in any way intending to boast, it is clear that a number of current and past staff members at Reddit really enjoy AskHistorians. This has been made publicly clear a number of times. But the reality of Reddit is that AskHistorians was created by going against the grain, by struggling against Reddit's mechanisms rather than being organically created by them, and by quite frankly disregarding a number of statements about Reddit's underlying philosophy made by admins and CEOs alike. That mostly involves deleting an enormous quantity of comments, with the express purpose that they are not seen any more, that they are vanished into the aether.

>In addition, reddit's increasingly poor reputation on the internet might, for some people, be because of what they perceive as censorship. But in my experience, the majority of that poor reputation is garnered from the kind of communities that Reddit harbours, which have grown larger and increasingly restive. And so long as they're there and doing their thing we have to share a website with them. We have to share a website with communities that have racist slurs in their name, that spew raw bigotry like it's water for all the farms of China. A lot of our flaired users on AskHistorians are professionals in their fields, and at times it is pretty hard to keep convincing them to stay on a website like this. Most of that convincing consists of how much stuff we are able to keep out of our community. I don't see how that is remotely tenable if we're no longer able to actually leave seas of [deleted]
Having somebody throwing chairs will ruin your dinner party, so is the person who's only going to look for an excuse to police how others speak.
I don't think that's entirely true.

Reddit's management has a ton of resources that an 18-year-old in his dorm does not. Depending on the choices they make and who is running the team, I'd say Reddit either has a much lower chance (right now), or a much higher chance (if we assume they get a good management team in place), than the hypothetical college student. But the same chance?

> Just because you're paying to keep the lights on doesn't mean you can control the nature of the community.

Actually, it does? It doesn't mean you can create whatever you want, but you can certainly destroy the bits you don't like, which is what the advice you're critiquing is suggesting. You say that means you'll shed users, but that's the point of the advice. The analogy the author is using is hiring some really strict bouncers to eject the "bikers". Which will absolutely cause the bar to "shed users" in the short term.

> For all self-stated credentials of the author, I would expect him to recognize this fact a bit more, and pile on his value judgements declaring "failure" a bit less.

I don't think you really understood his comments. Fundamentally you're responding to someone saying "Reddit can't be fixed" with "this guy is an idiot; doesn't he understand Reddit can't be fixed?".
I submitted it a few hours ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9873424, only to discover that the video on the front page is not working (some people though that the whole thing was broken).

Now I link directly to the (working!) game.
I think the biker gang label is appropriate. I mean, any time you have a small group in a community who will show up and destroy or dominate the entire conversation about their negative behavior, how is that different from 15 guys in leather showing up and beating you senseless for suggesting that they go deal meth elsewhere? And if you see that happen repeatedly at a bar you frequent, would you continue drinking there?
Just my guess.

You were sorta putting your situation on a par with investors missing out on investing in the early stages of a company now worth $24bn. That is to say, them not paying attention to you is equivalent to missing out on an absolutely mind boggling amazing opportunity (in hindsight).

Now, you might truly be as awesome as that but people tend to vote down comments where people are blowing their own trumpets, for better or worse.
Hmm, so I wasn't able to find any technical information at all about the vehicle (engine specs, suspension, electronics...etc) neither on the linked page nor on their official website.
> Yor're assuming that all users are equal and the important thing is raw eyeballs.

I really don't get how you are taking that from what I said. Of course I don't think all users are equal or that users and advertisers won't be driven away by bad behavior. It would be ridiculous to suggest otherwise.

My point is that, if management comes in swinging a white sword they will inevitably suffer a net loss. As I said, the community can be nudged in one direction or another—quite significantly given sufficient understanding and guile on the part of management—but you can't declare Reddit "broken" and then "fix" it. Even if you assume Reddit has "failed" (which I don't, but even granting that), the changes you need to make will drive away many more users than it ever attracts, because the "good" potential users are already turned off by Reddit, and the existing users will be alienated. If management comes in with the mentality of needing to "fix" Reddit then they are damned if they do and damned if they don't. Fortunately such axiomatic pessimism in Reddit is unfounded—I get how it is not what a heavy-handed SV elite megalomaniacal MBA wants in his portfolio, but that doesn't mean it can't be a successful business on its own terms.
Yup go ahead.
> OpenDNS has grown dramatically in recent years, and claims it has 2,000 paying customers alongside many more users of its free service. It charges $28 per user per year for its most basic package

This seems like shockingly low revenue.

> Adding security to one of the most important control points on the Internet, the DNS, is important

But not important enough to back something that would have actually added real security, like DNSCurve or DNScrypt? As operator of a major TLD registry, they could have pushed this unilaterally.

This service will open up opportunities for mining user queries. This is the registry that hijacked NXDOMAIN for their "site finder" service, after all.
You are probably right, I am probably selling the dream when the reality is that by and large this sort of thing becomes a lottery than any sort of actual investment.
> It’s not difficult to imagine a future where a cohort of the male population — especially those who have trouble connecting with members of their preferred sex — sits at home many nights with the Oculus Rift strapped to their heads, living out their sexual fantasies in VR, having their psychology further shaped and distorted by the persistent absence of connection with real life people.  Regardless, the future of porn is here, and it is fucking intense.

There's already a hit song about basically this. From 1979. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF4Z6smOrZw Also related: this film from 1973 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westworld .
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Can someone explain this?

this tends to mean that you get a book of business which has loads of little concentrations in them - you’ve got all the mixed-race dentists in Yorkshire, or something. And this, in turn, means that when the world changes, your risks tend to be very correlated and you lose years' worth of profit in one lump.

I would guess that many small concentrations would be less correlated with each other, not more, than a few large ones. Or is he comparing it to having fewer 'concentrations' (which I understand to be market niches you dominate) at all; that is, having a few customers in this niche, a few in another, rather than everybody in a particular niche.
That's right. Auto completion is really cool. I wish zsh and bash have it.
Works out of the box on Safari 8 with no Flash installed.

Edit: proof: http://i.imgur.com/myfsoNv.png
Unfortunately, most of the people who they're targeting for this round probably don't have the training to evaluate that type of information even if they had it. Are there any reliable third party experts who have given their opinion of the tech one way or the other? That's probably the next best thing to understanding it yourself.
It is so ridiculous that we allow these people to play masters of the universe, with little or no accountability or transparency.

We shouldn't settle for scraps.
Fixing or Replacing Reddit
Let me add this song from 1969.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izQB2-Kmiic
Refunds aren't necessary, it was actually my employer who paid for the book so it doesn't matter that much to me. I'm still receiving updates since I bought the book via gumroad and might actually check it out again now that I have more knowledge of the framework.

I'm just glad to see you're listening to feedback and working on actively improving the book. I think books are a very important way to get a linear education on a subject instead of random tutorials. Especially with angular, where so much has changed over the different versions.
Ah, yes- thanks.
There is some info in their PDF (http://www.eliomotors.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Elio_33...). Link is available on their website.
Do you know what they're quoting as capacity?

Installed capacity would seem to suggest peak MW. Later on in the report they say that 490MW of "combined electric capacity" in schools equates to 642 GWh, which suggests that they're figuring annual output to be about 15% of installed capacity.

So, is that 3.5GW of panels (in which case about 0.5GW averaged over a day) or 3.5GW of average capacity?
"This new technology is totally gonna make everyone lonely and messed up!"
84 mpg is a rather low number. Volkswagen Lupo 3L was about 78 mpg, but that was 15 years ago, and fuel efficient tech has advanced considerably in that time. And the Lupo was a normal 4-wheel car with a lot more space than the Elio. The Lupo 3L is probably slightly more safer, too.

The Elio does beat the Lupo in price, though, but $6800 is of course an estimate.
Proposal to make it easier for US professionals to work in the EU and vice-versa: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2162296-14-10-07-eu-...
Facebook currently only supports HTML5 video for Windows 7+.
I got fed up with programming data driven websites (I'd been doing them since the 1990s - I'm 46) so I got qualified in AutoCAD, got a job as a draughtsman, did day release in Manufacturing Engineering, got into Six Sigma (I'm a green belt) and am currently doing a degree in Supply Chain Management with a focus on Computational Logistics.

I still use OpenBSD for myself, I went from BSD/386 -> FreeBSD -> OpenBSD. I've never really liked Linux (I'm in the "GNU is not useful" camp) and Free became less attractive over time. I feel most at home on Open.

I don't use Plan9 for much atm. which makes my heart ache.
You've missed the point that using the analogy of "biker gang" is inherently portraying groups of people that ride on motorcycles and have a favorite bar are inherently bad people. Biker gangs have often been portrayed in the media in a very stereotypical manner that has little bases in reality. How would it sound if I used the analogy of a "gang of black thugs with their baggy pants and shitty music" moved into my community and ruined it, and that "they should get high and make our white women uncomfortable elsewhere"? Same thing.

Look at your own comment of "go deal meth elsewhere." Is the irony lost on you?

Even past that, the analogy is flawed because it assumes an organized group of "bad people" that move into "my space". There is no such organized group, and it is no one person's space.

Even past that, there is no group of people on Reddit that "show up and destroy or dominate the entire conversation." I've been on Reddit actively for about seven years and while I definitely see the vitriolic individuals (and some specific toxic subreddits), I think it is incredibly childish to suggest that "my safe space is ruined by all these bad people!" The site has not been "dominated" by "the bad people". It feels ridiculous to have to say that about a place that gets, what, 7+ billion pageviews a month now?

Come on.
Not really, no. If we're doing analogies, it's like you bought a house with no porch, and sometimes you accidentally get locked out and are stuck in the rain. These guys came along and built you a porch to put next to your house for when it does rain.
>When you figure out how to determine that before the fact I'm sure there are plenty of VC firms who would love to hire you.

My email is in my profile (if anyone wants to hire me). I've described a strategy that involves making small bets across large number of startups and not focusing on making judgements or even attempting to figure out how much this startup is going to be worth (as you say VC are human, why introduce that inherent bias to a numbers game?) because like we witnessed with the guys who rejected Airbnb, their own bias towards safety incurred a huge opportunity cost.

> They rejected countless startups that have since failed (and surely some other that have succeeded). VCs are human, you can't expect them to have the clairvoyance required to only invest in eventually successful companies and only turn down eventual failures.

Exactly, which is why I feel like they should ignore their own instincts and thought processes. Even if they were able to land a few successful ones, how can we be certain that it was not the work of dice rolling? Studies show that most money managers perform no better than buying the index or throwing darts, what makes you think VC's suddenly have improved odds?
tl;dr "I don't use Reddit, I don't even have an account. Here's how to fix it."

There is one thing he gets right though: there's a good chance "reddit" is simply not a business. I like Reddit, but there's no reason for a Big Media Company to own such a thing. They should cut their losses and sell it. Maybe someone can figure out how to run it with a small enough staff (say 10 people) so the $5MM/year revenue is enough for them.
Definitely not what I was saying.
There are lots of "we" in your sentences. Who is this "we" and when was the last time when you noticed scientific consensus on any highly subjective topics like sexuality ?
Reddit is a cesspool. It's /r/coontown and /r/jailbait. Do we really have to keep talking about them? I don't understand how any decent person would want their name associated with that excrement.
An interesting exception is Lamport's Bakery:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamport%27s_bakery_algorithm

Thread safety without synchronisation primitives. I'm not sure it's ever actually a good idea to use it, though.

EDIT: unless you count a fence as a synchronisation primitive.
Half the comments you cite are more about moderation tools than about users. As for the rest (specifically, the second one), I don't think that any reasonable person would confuse /r/CoonTown with /r/AskHistorians.
I had a great chat with pbiggar so for now I think I just need to digest it all for a bit. Thank you for offering, though!
Made me really, really want to see the yes email.
I would assume he would be pretty relaxed about that as Bob Howard is pretty much based on the BOFH.
And what about this sentence then?
"Note that I cannot claim I became the big success that AirBnB has after these “rejections”"
> Because let's be real, how many internet companies have a zero knowledge policy towards their users' data?

Well, the whole point of TFA is that Apple, Google, Yahoo and the likes want to progressively move in that direction (not totally for sure, but just enough so that the FBI/NSA doesn't like it).
It would be cool if Reddit's karma and upvoting worked more like Netflix's DVD recommendations: tailored to each person.

Rather than the surfaced comments being a function of raw upvote count, the upvotes could count for or against you seeing the comment based on whether they came from someone who tends to deliver you read-worthy content. Racists would see all the racist comments they want; others not so much.

This could also decrease the influence of voting brigades and others trying to game the system.
The author is scared by the reddit 'basement' and he wants us to think that his position is in such a majority that reddit is doomed. Sorry, Chuq Von Rospach, that's just false-consensus effect talking.
I was wondering when someone would bring that up:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptera_Motors

"As of January 2010, the number of unique deposits tracked at the unofficial Aptera forum surpassed 5000."
no, not necessarily.

consider guidance from new zealand's Health Information Governance Expert Advisory Group (HIGEAG) [0]:

> Unless an exemption is granted by the National Health IT Board, all personal health information held in an identifiable form and associated clinical or administrative data must be fully domiciled in New Zealand.

[0] http://healthitboard.health.govt.nz/standards/use-cloud-or-h...
I think reddit overall is more comparable to a festival. There are groups and communities there interacting with each other and within themselves, but there is not all that much that they all have in common that they don't also have in common with their neighbor who isn't sure about computers being good for anything.

I don't intend that to be hair splitting about words, I think that attempts to address reddit users as a single community are a fools errand.
His interviews with non-comedy people have fewer of these digressions (I think). I'm not really that into his comic interviews.
Bob's initials are even B.O.F.H.
Someone needs to make "Tropes vs Men" series.
It's likely that Paul Graham directly and enthusiastically introduced them to the VCs, which obliged them to respond with a semi-coherent rejection. That's what the Fred Wilson rejection was like anyway: http://www.paulgraham.com/airbnb.html
"Today the Bitcoin network is restricted to a sustained rate of 7 tps due to the bitcoin protocol restricting block sizes to 1MB. "

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Scalability
How about couples in a monogamous relationship - is that natural? (genuine question) Are we moving to a more fluid type of relationship - is VR sex closer to cheating?

Sexual images that are illegal would still be illegal in VR?
The thing is, will there be a time where people will stop dealing with a concrete specific language to stay at the `lisp` level, or will this keep going on forever ?
>>for technically complex but potentially very high return inventions

Its worse! There is a good chance this is a technically complex but low return investment when compared to software startups (ie, snapchat).
I am a bit skeptical, if maximizing shareholder value at any cost is stupid, then aligning the mods with money seems a bit stupid too.
Life itself is a giant experiment for which no-one really knows the answer to.

I am pretty much for being open and accepting of our own humanity (desires, flaws, quirks), without tabooing the fuck out of everything and trying to control what other individuals think and do with themselves. Education, information, critical thinking and a sharp change of culture into acceptance is what I think we need, not a "safe process".
No argument that Singletons make it difficult to unit test things but there are genuine cases where singletons are required: For instance, you don't want to end up creating multiple objects that read the configuration file, when one is enough. Or you certainly don't want to create too many objs that are heavy (like a cache that stores data heavy objects, or services, or god-objects (which are themselves an anti-pattern unavoidable in certain cases)).

At times, there's genuinely only a single entity of "x" that's available for use by the environment, like a security-policy, or access to standard-output, and so on...

Singletons are necessary evil, IMO.

Re: Global state: At some point the abstraction will have to leak. If you squint enough, nothing is truly isolated, and everything's sharing everything else with other binaries on any given system at some abstraction level or the other. This is more often the reason why security-exploits are theoretically possible despite isolation.
Relatively often, actually.

For instance, on this link on HN: https://medium.com/@bchesky/7-rejections-7d894cbaa084

It loads <some random subdomain>.cloudfront.net - and it changes every reload for me. For instance, d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net, dnqgz544uhbo8.cloudfront.net, d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net.
Reddit is also /r/haskell, /r/emacs, /r/AskScience, /r/AskHistorians, /r/puremathematics, /r/compsci, /r/art, and many, many others. Notwithstanding that /r/jailbait got banned years ago, sounds like you're being pretty selective here.

If you want to talk about "that excrement", let's talk about the sort of selection bias and language you're using right here.
> reddit is dead

31st most visited website. i hope to be this dead one day
Super Mario Maker teaches game design
are your fee fees hurt?
I think the reports of Reddit's death is greatly exaggerated. The death certificate isn't usually granted until you produce a dead body, and it seems that Reddit, good and bad, is still very much alive.
Could we help Greece?
Who would be interested in volunteering some of their time to help out with Greek government with whatever IT related work they need at this time of possible change?
I haven't noticed it getting worse; I have noticed people complaining about it more, though. The up-vote down-vote system turns everything into an echo chamber anyway, so whatever racist or objectionable comment you see will probably go away unless the majority agrees with it.
Translating Haskell to C++ metaprogramming
The generic variant is called posix compatible or sometimes Bourne compatible.

Lots of people target bash without knowing that some of its non-posix features are not compatible across even minor versions.
secondarily, many non-US companies with data centers located in the US have been impacted from the global backlash.
Some language features are just bad and should be removed entirely. Moderation is often the answer, but not always. https://xkcd.com/690/ .

> Of course we solve the challenges that mutability can introduce by lopping it off altogether, but at what cost? It's really not too far from solving problems that object misuse can introduce by getting rid of objects.

At what cost then? I can point to specific scenarios where objects are useful and languages without them (e.g. Haskell) solve the problem less elegantly. Can you say the same for mutability? Have you got a specific business problem that you've solved with and without mutability and found that the mutability made it better?

(FWIW my position is: no unmanaged mutability beyond method scope. Local mutability is fine, but anything that crosses method boundaries should be explicitly managed using e.g. State)
Yeah, but that doesn't solve the problem inherent in karma anyway, that all you end up getting is a bunch of people posting and upvoting comments with the same or similar viewpoints and patting eachother on the back.
I cited only one comment, specifically this part:

>A lot of our flaired users on AskHistorians are professionals in their fields, and at times it is pretty hard to keep convincing them to stay on a website like this.
Jailbait was banned years ago, and now there's coontown. There's always something. Always has been since the early days. You're welcome to hang around /r/haskell and pretend you don't feel the smell, but it still rubs on to you.
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