skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Presumably, for advertising to work, your ad has to stand out. If every ad tries to stand out more and more compared to other ads, the result is more and more invasive ads. I'm not an expert on the matter, but it seems to me like the free-stuff-sponsored-by-advertising model isn't very sustainable. On the other hand, I do like free stuff as much as everyone else.
Except that's not a fair analogy to what happens on reddit. Sure, the shouty horrible people have a corner that they hang out in, with couches and televisions and snacks.

But they're also free to wander around the rest of the store shouting whatever they want. They hang out by the front door with the greeters even! Up until now, Costco hasn't cared that they're providing a comfy space for these loudmouthed assholes to congregate.

You can't just not go to the corner if you want to avoid them, you have to avoid all the parts of the store that they are shouting in.
Or `caches_page` and then it won't even hit rack / rails and can be served directly by nginx. But I agree that the usage scope is quite limited. We still use it for pages served to not-logged-in users where it makes sense, and both the performance boost and the reduction of load on the system is noticeable.
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I mean, there are smart playlists that can be based on last played date (eta: or ratings, or play count, for that matter. Honestly the iTunes smart playlists are a powerful but hugely underused feature), and iTunes fully supports selective syncing where you can just sync certain playlists you like and the smart playlist, and nothing else. iTunes was built as a music management system. Regardless of the crud that has been added on since, that's still what it is at its core.
Well the real problem is that they are at 4 or 5 now. Slippery slope may be a fallacy, but when you look up and see that you've been going down a slide, the intelligent thing to do is to assume you are, in fact, on a slide.
It is literally impossible to visit reddit regularly without seeing casual racism, sexism, able-ism, etc. "Some leakage" is actually a steady stream of hate into every subreddit at one time or another. Some subs are better than others, but mostly the good ones (science, AMA, for example) are already heavily moderated...they won't change because the racist trolls are already being silenced in those subs. If you don't find reddit obnoxiously bigoted as it currently is, it is because you are predominantly visiting subs that already have stricter content policies than any reddit is likely to impose site-wide.

And, I will note that we're all talking on HN which has always had relatively strict guidelines and heavy-ish moderation (compared to most of reddit). If anyone hates moderation and a strict set of content guidelines, you're in the wrong place, because HN is stricter and has more active/aggressive moderation than reddit will ever have site-wide.
Har har har. But in all seriousness Reddit become the phenomenon it is because of its users, and the many hours, days, weeks, and months they each individually put in to build communities. To create something with value, larger than themselves. Who's going to rufund that time investment?
That's the beautiful thing about types which satisfy the Monad laws. Because both Future and Option (in Scala if not other languages) satisfy these laws, I think it perfectly valid to consider a Future to be collection type with a cardinality of 0 or 1 that also abstracts latency.
But there are other differences. As with the previous generation iPod Touch, they actually cut a lot of subtle corners. Sure, there is some margin in the iPhone related to the cell plan subsidy, but there are some real cost cutting measures in there too. I think a reasonable way to think about it is that with the iPod Touch there is a strong incentive to compromise on the subtle things that users don't notice; the things Jobs always claimed they never compromised on (total fib).

The iPhone 5 vs. iPod Touch 5 was probably the closest the two ever came, the Touch's processor was still running with the 4S's processor/GPU/RAM and the 4's camera, and the body materials weren't equivalent.
Edit: Would be considerate if the down-modders would provide an alternate scenario.

I'd imagine you're being downvoted more for the "U jelly?" childishness than the (im)plausibility of your (completely out of touch with reality) notion of how Keybase got their funding.

That's why I downvoted, anyway; I saw your opening line, clicked the down arrow, and moved on to the next comment without further thought or consideration.

Whether you agree with the mod-supported position that downvotes can legitimately be used as a form of disagreement or not, they're explicitly also meant to be used to discourage the kind of discourse that brings down the tone of the site. "U jelly?" certainly qualifies as that.
This whole fiasco is so strange. What kind of CEO claims a "moral authority" to do a purge and adds a trollface picture?

Also, look at the subreddits that u/spez is moderator of. For example, his subreddit r/Cannibals has a top post: [https://www.reddit.com/r/Cannibals/comments/3cxp5e/to_stop_w...] where a highly scored post from 3 days ago reads, "To stop world hunger we must simply eat all the poor people." While obviously satire, it begs the question of who decides what belongs and does not.

>We tried to let you govern yourselves and you failed.

On what metric?
I have a feeling that Reddit, with its focus on growth of the user base, is just going to play to the lowest common denominator. As soon as it is filled with what amounts to user curated network TV levels of content and the banal advertising mindset that goes with it, it will become Just Another News Aggregator and will not inspire the level of engagement it has enjoyed until now.

Reddit doesn't have a sticky network effect. The content decays. People can easily jump ship.

I don't understand why they are obsessed with raw 'ratings' numbers anyway. Part of what makes their user base valuable is that they are self-segmented -- it is the small, focused communities. Also that they are used to hopping off site then back again to re-engage. They are missing a huge opportunity, not to merely get more people in the door, but figure out how to serve the valuable communities that already exist there.

If they keep staring at that bone in the water and open their mouths to grab it, they will lose the tasty morsel they could currently be enjoying.

What they really need is some people that know how to target ads effectively to small valuable clients and some technologists with the chops to help them make a profit from that valuable connection making. Some deep experts from Google's Adwords team, for example. And they need to make the whole process above board and transparent so the userbase doesn't feel like they are being used secretly. Reddit and their commercial offerings should feel like a partner for users, a valuable available resource, not a slimy shill machine. I think that's possible to do but it is going to take a hell of a lot more finesse and openness than they've shown recently.
Interesting sentiment analysis going on :-) Can someone provide the reasoning for how short selling makes for a better or improved (by some definition) market? I would be interested in your take on that.
Well, D, A and CH are the international symbols for these countries, so the abbreviation makes sense.
This is going to sound very Animal Farm, but I'm going to lay it out there because it's the truth of the matter.

There's free speech and free speech. Reddit can advocate that it's in favor of free speech while simultaneously banning the sharing of child pornography, bestiality, death threats, and revenge porn. So does Twitter. So does Facebook. So does Google.

If there's an argument to be had here, it's an argument about where the line should be drawn between "acceptable" and "never acceptable." Reddit's in favor of moving the line to acquire more interest from the outside world---a world that has generally (read: "in the markets Reddit's funders care about") categorized revenge porn and overt racism to be never acceptable. The existence of the line itself is not in question, and entities that have such a line are not in general accused by reasonable people of standing against free speech.
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I can't in good conscience mod you up, but I did laugh a bit at your comment...
Reddit is a decade old site. I can imagine what happened to Digg, horrified reddit team to do anything that might upset their users and they continued to operate without revenues / quality in mind but when they realized that something is wrong, the culture of doing anything got in-grained into reddit crowd really well.

Most of the reddit history tolerated even most ugliest form of sickness and suddenly they want to clean it up? I am not sure how successful this effort will be. Either it will be that a bunch of arrogant assholes who equate freedom of speech with saying BS would leave or the another Digg fiasco would happen.
working on a big idea social platform, can't reveal details but pretty excited. oh and we're building it with microservices from the get-go which so far has been awesome
> Its a meaningful argument from the POV of Reddit management, and their effort to build a profitable business

Oh absolutely. I'm not disputing that. Of course they are doing all of this in pursuit of profit (or at least in pursuit of pleasing their board). The trouble is that, in my view, there is a conflict between the goal of pleasing the reddit board and the goal of creating a vibrant community.
If your framework just saves up json like most SPA's, your pretty much SOL unless you do non-js fallbacks, but that's boring and tedious ;)
The market leader in this space appears to be crestron and personally I find their technology to be terrible in so many ways. It seems like a big opportunity, but the problem is fairly difficult to solve and device manufacturers are working against progress in many cases.
Thanks Kiro and everyone else for watching out for the quality of Show HNs. Submitters regularly break the rules and we don't have the cycles to vet every post, so community input is hugely valuable here.
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The link I added has a filmstrip view where you can verify that this isn't the case. Alternatively visit the two sites yourself! The multi-second difference is perceptible to a human being.
This is a very cool idea. We have a project along a similar vein at HackerBoxes. Tron looks like great basic circuit education/exposure, while we're doing things more on a project level. These could even be complimentary, so some may want to subscribe to both.

Either way, please keep in touch with us over here at HackerBoxes. In order to gauge what users find more or less interesting, we definitely want to hear feedback on our boxes from all subscribers, certainly the HackerNews crowd!

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Yes that's true. I forgot about promotions. Learning and getting paid market salary is fine with me. I believe, If they tell some-one as promoted and cut their salary by 10% ..then no-one will ever want to be get promoted :)
How much angst can one waste over a old digg wannabe on its way down?
Kudos for finding work/life balance while providing the community with, dare I say it, an essential tool a lot of us could not live without (or our lives would be much more difficult with a substandard tool in its place).

Thank you, and congratulations.
To the founders: why are you collecting payment before asking me where I live? Are you cool if I sign up through my American VPN and then choose a Canadian shipping address?

Edit: I see now that it's leveraging Paypal for shipping information too. Still, I wonder how the price responds if I start from a U.S. IP.
Its waiting on room temp superconductors I believe. Otherwise you have to cool a 1000km of cable and of course the material needs to be reasonable ductable. And dont hold your breath on room temperature superconductors, it may not even be possible...
What support libraries would you recommend?
Hey Iwein, there are couple fundamental issue with the way we style HTML elements today. CSS is exposing every declaration into a global namespace. This makes it to eliminate dead code as it is hard to figure out where it is used. Many techniques like BEM were invented and declared as "the right way" to do styling.

I don't know if inline-styles defined in JS are the end-game, but working with it in combination with building components turned out to be working way better for us than using CSS.

If you want to know more about it I highly recommend this slidedeck: https://speakerdeck.com/vjeux/react-css-in-js
> Do you feel your experience on reddit is harmed if /r/coontown is gone?

Not directly, of course. My experience on reddit isn't directly harmed if any community I don't visit is removed. But it would be pretty obviously unrealistic for me to propose that reddit remove all subreddits except for the couple of dozen that I'm subscribed to.
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Thanks Sebastian :)
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> What kind of CEO claims a "moral authority" to do a purge and adds a trollface picture?

None. A former CEO claimed the current CEO had the "moral authority" for the predicted coming purge.
Well said, Andrew.

This article propagates the 'veterans as victims' narrative.

And no, I don't want to talk to you either, Uber driver.
Only users interested in /r/stormfront would visit tho. Its not like removing /r/stormfront somehow deletes racism or prevents stormfront from recruiting in the comments, news post, etc.
Looks cool. We're using Hubot more and more, but this does look like an easier, friendlier alternative.

What's the pricing model? Is it hosted? How extensible / hackable is it? Who's behind it? Would be great to get a bit more detailed info. I couldn't find much info on the page.
> I would like reddit to be a place for completely free, uncensored expression.

This is nice in theory, but it basically requires defending the rights of hate groups to silence those they hate. It's hard to freely express yourself when there are people calling for your extermination, or treating everything you say as if it came from the mouth of a five year old.
What story mentions the same information this one does that has been on the front page? This, at least to me, seemed to be new information. Posts about reddit seem to be more harshly removed from the front page than other stories, is it because it's a Y Combinator-backed company?
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I wish we didn't push outdated crypto protocols such as PGP. So many companies seem to want to invest money or development time into making PGP "better" - with one exception: they can't make it forward secure, which I think is absolutely critical in today's world of companies and individuals "losing everything" in a hack.

Investing in a protocol that will last another 20 years and doesn't even have forward secrecy seems like such a wasted opportunity. It feels like one of those things where 20 years later you think "I wish we hadn't done that then".
In PowerShell you do the following:

New-PSSessionOption -Culture=de-DE

Might be worthwhile looking up the PowerShell reference before making comments like that...
> Who's going to rufund that time investment?

Well, what's that time worth? If they can find a site that will pay them all for that time investment, then maybe we could start to attach a value to it.
Interesting geographic attack vector from a Russian launched cyber counterattack
I've heard discussion amongst the adtech crowd that it's "viewability tracking" products that are creating a lot of the slowness we feel today on the web.
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Happy to answer any questions anyone has about editorial design or self-publishing! I posted my pre-order/launch revenue numbers earlier here, some great discussions and questions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9847965
He's posting with admin flair. So reddit is still allowing him to do so? Maybe this is just a PR stunt?
The people who invested in /r/coontown and /r/fatpeoplehate don't deserve a refund from Reddit (or anyone else, for that matter).

Most of Reddit's users aren't going to find their subreddits of choice interfered with.

And honestly, the people who are going to get smacked by this are well capable of forming social connections that transcend Reddit, so they haven't lost all of their investment. But investment of time doesn't in itself guarantee a refund---never does, shouldn't be expected to without a contract in place.
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This hits on the big barrier to human collaboration in firms: Role separation that has little to do with company goals.

We see a small microcosm of this in software development. Big, lumbering software firms that spent millions of dollars getting very little done end up with teams that have separate DBAs, frontend programmers, backend progrmmers, testers, business analysts, project managers, software architects, build specialists... Lots of jobs, lots of people, and none of them really has value to the company in their mind. In comparison, a small company replaces that entire army with two people, and delivers cheaply and quickly.

Only through shared goals we ever get anything complicated done. This is what agile, lean and devOps are really about. Most of the rest is overperscriptive marketing.

Focus more on building the right product, than in building the product right.
None of that matters if Disney's lawyers get bored :).
The bigger problem is that because of how awesome Redis is, it tends to get used for lots of things and RAM is finite. There's lots of configurations for Redis for how it handles running out of memory and nobody looks at these until they've run out of RAM and important things start disappearing. I can't count how many Rails apps I've encountered that use Redis for all or a mix of caching, background queues, pubsub, and list operations.
Porter Braswell, CEO of Jopwell here. Really excited to be connecting minorities with job opportunities in tech and other industries. Lots of work to be done but our team is eager to help make the workforce a bit more colorful! Happy to be a part of this discussion.
There's some arguments that anarchy is only possible/advisable in smaller communities. The United States can't be a (functional) anarchy, but maybe the US virgin Islands could be.

Maybe that applies here. It's to big to be free.
Wouldn't /f, /R, and /D also need i18n'd in this scenario?
Imagine if Costco sold itself as the go to sight for all your political needs. They sold what ever political prop you wanted. They carried everything. Costco promised all parties that weren't terrorist were allowed. Most of it wasn't on the store floor in the physical buildings, but you could go online or order it to be delivered. As such, many smaller parties made Costco the go to place for all party related needs while in other cases Costco was better than the official party.

Then they decided to remove some crazy political party's items for sale. Say one of the anti-immigration parties in Europe. Then they took out the US Tea Party. Then ex-Costco leaders said a purge was coming. Now people are left wondering which party is next. That if their political party's goal doesn't align, they may be kicked out. Not a massive problem, except that Costco picked up a lot of the market share and thus has not insignificant voice in larger matters. Do now the political parties are pulling back and thinking they need to pick some other entity as their official seller.
The non-naive version sets the PowerShell culture/Bash locale before it runs anything.
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One week ago I've launched my first project as a developer.

https://magicalpush.com/ (no English language yet)

Magical Push is a social project which helps people to develop new positive behaviors.

Every day participants of a 30-days challenge should do 4 simple things:

- to learn something new

- to exercise

- to do an act of kindness

- to meditate

I've curated a lot of content from edx and coursera online courses, a collection of online fitness classes, guided meditations, random acts of kindness ideas, etc.

Nothing super special, but I feel good by spreading positive ideas and lifestyle.
working on beekeeper: https://github.com/mirceal/beekeeper

Still very early (will do a proper showHN once it has decent quality and I polish some of the rough edges) but would love some feedback on the idea
I don't know what you mean by "encrypt per email address." Who is doing the encrypting, and to who? Do you want to have multiple keypairs associated with a single keybase account?
This sounds like the box you would be mostly interested in: Hackerboxes.com
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Interesting logic but bad conclusion -- why didn't you do the final calculation?!?!

1 minute/day verifying URLs --> cost of $0.33 of lost productivity --> avoid .01% chance of phishing attack --> avoid .01% chance of loss of $500 --> avoid a loss of $0.05

With these numbers, it never makes sense to verify URLs ($0.33 > $0.05).

> my loss is $500 + WEEKS of hassle with banks, credit reporting agencies, etc, to clean up the mess!

This is the rub IMO.. if it costs you $2,000 in time/lost wages/whatever to work through fixing it, it still only costs $0.25 total/day, ie still not worth it. If it costs $3,000, then it's worth it.

> This is like the antibiotics trade-off.

Not really - you saw "population" and made the connection, but it isn't there. In the antibiotics situation, there's a common resource - antibiotic effectiveness - that is slowly depleted as a member of the population partakes. It's in the population's interest to maintain the resource, and in the individual's interest to deplete it. This is called Tragedy of the Commons [0].

For security though there is no analogous common resource; my security practices as a user and yours aren't connected in that way. It's everyone for themselves.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
I disagree. Any C-level coming from a large financial institution or a consulting firm is a clear signal

Could you elaborate why you don't think the CFO is a strong signal?
Having worked in and managed a remote/distributed team for the last eight years I can agree with that. We have made really good progress, but as you grow it is a challenge and you don't always get it right. Often you don't have a good template to work from and you have to iterate your way towards a good process. Which sometimes can be hard work.
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So, why are you here at HN, which has much stricter guidelines and much more active moderators than reddit will ever have site-wide? Reddit is still vastly more "free" than HN, and yet...the caliber of conversation here is generally higher (not always, and the HN demographic has its blind spots), and I believe it is precisely because it has no tolerance for fools.

In short, I don't care about racist's "right" to rant on reddit. They can go write it on the wall of the cave they live in, for all I care.
As a rule of thumb it is good to bury posts that are duplicative so the front page isn't devoted entirely to a single subject. However, it does seem like a conflict of interest given YCs involvement in reddit.