skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really boils down to what SO optimizes for which seems to be less clutter, higher quality answers & lack of subjective questions(vim v. emacs).

I think their strategy alienates people as users(like myself) from posting, but encourages consumption. I only post there when I have a difficult problem I haven't been able to solve. I think that is the system working.

They have alienated some power users, I remember a thread ~1 year ago about someone deleting their account on SO because of these policies but I suspect a lot of the pure engineers and egotists like posting and dealing strictly with interesting thought provoking content.

tl;dr What SO sees as its major asset, others may see as "decline"
Cleve Shaffer's 1937 SF subway plan
The Mysterious Package Company
That wasn't what was said, though. It wasn't particularly coherent, but it was a comparison between two prominent figures in two prominent online forums.

I don't think it's hyperbolic to say that both sites have an element of sociopathic and downright evil people influencing the culture. And reasonable people can still disagree about the level of accountability for the actions and inactions of Pao and Graham.

There are plenty of details that don't line up well when making that comparison, but I read the comment as intending to illustrate all the hyperbole around Ellen Pao. There are a lot of people on the Internet talking past each other this week.
It's interesting that the log would also reflect internal editorial struggles within the NYT. If you scroll through the future changes since the major change, you see Silicon Valley described "sexist" then "male-dominated" then "sexist" again [1]. Seeing the flip-flopping edits would surely affect how the article (and SV) is perceived beyond the words themselves.

[1] http://newsdiffs.org/diff/934591/934616/www.nytimes.com/2015...
> Really, if your car doesn't have seatbelts, find an aftermket kit or buy a new car. Likewise, there are BSD-licensed libraries that provide GCM and ChaCha20-Poly1305. These are your aftermarket seatbelt kits for your deathtrap-car of a crypto library.

On mobile devices, this can mean not being able to leverage significantly optimized vendor-provided crypto libraries.

I'd be interested in benchmarking the difference between a decent BSD-license GCM implementation and our use of AES-CBC+HMAC ETM on iOS hardware.

Is there a particular AES-GCM implementation you'd recommend starting with?
I have better idea. Make bed shelves and stack people into them.
Author here.
The idea is a mix of many things. This is not how we write it in the paper, but just for intuition.

If Σ(S) is the set of all subset sums of S, where S={s_1,...,s_n}, then

Σ(S) = Σ(s_1)+Σ(s_2)+...+Σ(s_n).

Here A+B = {a+b|a in A, b in B}
+ is associative and commutative. Now we want to add parenthesis on that formula in a way such that it is fast. Similar to matrix chain multiplication. We make sure + can be fast if certain property are satisfied(Theorem 2), and the rest is just figuring out the right way to add parenthesis.
> If you start from 'I want to use sun.misc.Unsafe but I don't know what for - let's see what Google comes up with' you are clearly up to no good.

I completely disagree. If you are a new programmer who knows nothing about a certain topic/keyword/etc, googling "what would I use <x> for" is not only not being "up to no good", it's just plain common sense and curiosity. How else might one learn about entirely new things?
Also, at Kickstarter, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jkapalka/the-mysterious...
Buying a gun really only requires filling out a tiny slip, it took me less than 5 minutes and was not invasive in the least. Maybe this varies between states.
>No. I know she was well-loved by many moderators, and I'm very sorry at how everything played out. It could have been handled much better.
However, she was let go for specific reasons, which I obviously will not share, and we will stand by that decision.

Pretty honest, rather than beating around the bush.
>The fault here lies squarely with the websites. They choose to work with scum.

It isn't much of a choice, since they're not allowed to use AdSense or any of the other major ad networks.
Do we know what's behind this on the server? Is this a Node.js thing? (perhaps obvious to many, but I'm not down with the server-side js scripting and templating lingo.)

Creating a site from a json file sounds good. I defintely want to play with that, but what is required on server?
Consider a profitable business. Its workers need X dollars to survive, and the company can sell goods for Y, where Y > X. If there are a lot of workers and they all negotiate individually with the company, standard competitive market theory says that they will end up charging about X for their services, as any worker will eventually be displaced by someone who is willing to accept a tiny bit less pay.

If the workers form a cartel, their rational policy is to charge about Y -- they cannot charge more than that without driving the company out of business.

Labor unions are basically such a cartel. When they were ascendant in the mid-20th-century, the American middle class was vibrant, there were lots of low-skill jobs which provided good income.

With globalization, the business can now simply move its operations to a country where workers are poorer, regulations on environmental and workplace conditions are laxer, and organization is illegal. This has two effects: X gets smaller, and wages become close to X.

Globalization has some good effects -- increasing the world's total wealth by letting countries specialize in what they're good at, and reducing the probability of conflict by making countries more interdependent.

But the part few people in our corporate-owned governments want to talk about is that the price of these good things is, in effect, redistributing much of the wealth generated by companies from workers to owners.
Well, in this case it might be. In a society where no one owns guns, the chance that some intruder has a gun is near to null, so you don’t need a gun either.
This should be pretty great for research - the Reddit API is actually fairly limited in my experience, I wasn't even able to get my full comment history last time I tried.
Not sure that the world really needs more litigation...
written by Einstein
Have you ever read the article I linked? You basically linked two articles with the same inaccurate information regarding deaths, they are masking total deaths of all migrants to the ones that died building stadiums. A lot of Countires that held World Cup had a horrible conditions of construction workers but that did not stop anybody from having a World Cup there.
Update 2: Thanks to the Hacker News community, the post has now been reopened!

Anecdote is not data. StackOverflow is pretty well designed in regard to the sort of problem the author of the linked article encountered.
How much does the BOM cost for your headphones? May well be yours (in the $100-$200 price range) cost the same to make.
I just don't agree. It's not as though this isn't a solved problem. And this isn't just a stale read, it's a bait and switch.
Oh, so that's who said it (shouldn't be a surprise). I like that quote.
Especially if you get shunted around different sites.

A question about a *nix software on an Apple device? That could be superuser, or unix, or askdifferent, or maybe the ubuntu one whatever that's called.
Seems like it would be much better to move the content to a blog post then. The thing with sites like StackOverflow, Facebook, and Youtube is they can change and you have little to no control over it. If you write a blog post on it and then maybe just briefly answer the question on StackOverflow with a link to your blog then you get to control the content.
It's pretty decent for Python.

I hate to be contrarian, but I have not experienced much of the negatives people are complaining about here. StackOverflow has been a fantastic resource in my programming career.
This isn't that innovative, it's exactly what Django does by default.

By the way, this:

> And finally, MembershipReboot allows an application to require the user change their password periodically. This way user’s password can get updated with the current iteration count.

is pretty horrible. Don't force the user to change their password. If you need to upgrade the iterations, just do it seamlessly the next time they authenticate.
Niche content makes a better hobby than a business? Or at least, such content is best provided for secondary benefits, rather than expecting immediate riches from ad revenue for a few occasional posts.
I have nothing to do with Reddit, and my observation is only related in that she worked there. You may not like simple facts but I have no intention of ignoring reality because you don't like it.
I'm about to begin a 2-year circumnavigation of Africa - I look forward to the border crossings where swapping sides of the road is required - I'm told they're quite interesting.

There is a nifty double roundabout between Brazil and Guyana where you enter it one side of the road and when you exit you're on the other side of the road.
The direction of the trend is downward. It is going to happen. It's only a matter of time.
Clearly a 5'1", 105lb woman has no need of a gun when a 6'4", 240lb man breaks into her home.
Do objects dream of an Internet of things?
You should see how some Mexicans live in USA or Africans in UK, not much different from how those mentioned in your quoted article live in Qatar, these people decided to do it themselves.
Is it just me or has the anti-Americanism on hn been getting worse lately?
> You cannot have a community generated content site with community moderation where bad behavior is incentivized and rewarded.

Jeff Atwood used to think very deeply about this type of thing, the nuances of human behavior. It seems to me he no longer has the time or interest, and no one has replaced him in that crucially important role.
I do think that eventually automation will become the bigger threat. The end-game will be a point where robots and completely automated systems create all the food, clothing and shelter needed for all of humanity, and nobody needs to work in order to maintain the infrastructure to provide for everyone's physical survival and a basic modern lifestyle.

In order to get to the end-game where nobody works, we will have to pass through a point where, say, 50% of the people have to work -- and it seems like determining which half works, and what sort of accounting is used to justify the non-working half's resource consumption, is a recipe for revolution. Because it's a point that's so far away from what our institutions and culture have been set up to deal with.
I actually live in India. My generation sometimes doesn't even own computers, so much so that the biggest local e-commerce retailer is shutting down its desktop website.
I think as income inequality continues to sky rocket up, we'll see more examples of some people flying in "steerage" while some fly in reclining beds.

Inequality in flight is not the problem, it's just a symptom.
The people who know the most about a subject, including ourselves, are likely the ones who will be most biased about it.

Which isn't necessarily any worse than the external bias that the reporter/editor may have when covering a subject. And that bias is amplified coming from a place of ignorance.
Show HN: Two ex-Googlers turn garbage men
He doesn't store passwords - which would be a terrible idea.
Z-80 SoftCard
all IC pins are available, 5 normal I/Os arranged as DIP8, the "LED IO" also usable as input or opendrain output are in the innner rows where you can solder 6 pins down, or socket "up", so all 10 I/O are available.
Smart to look through my history, but it's not really related to that. That was something I was looking for during my research for this idea. That was more like a side thing for the future.
It becomes bait and switch via a presumption that the editorial direction wrought by the changes is improper. It's not if one presumes that the additional context makes for better journalism: then the changes are improvement. This appears to be the belief The New York Times's editors.
Show HN: Create collections of Marvel comics, characters and images (new)
Well, you gotta remember that the big majority of people are dumber than the remaining (no offense, that's just how it is), plus everyone craves entertainment in a world where everyday life is just boring.

So it's no surprise that a dumb and entertaining website would be so profitable - it appeals to a maximum number of users, most of which don't think twice before clicking an ad or making a purchase, either...
I guess one's preference depends on whether one is a top-down or a bottom-up thinker.
There is a difference between doing what your users tell you to do, and listening to them.

> “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” -H. Ford

Users present solutions to their problems, when you listen you discover what their problem actually is. In the above case, faster more reliable transportation.

edit: Jobs was a cofounder of what is(or close to) the most profitable company in the world. He saved the company from bankruptcy and is arguably the best quality control engineer ever. Rules always have exceptions but thinking you are the exception often helps to prove the rule.
Samsung and Google censor LGBT content
> Maybe to get more compact data structures?

Even if this is why, there is never a valid excuse for blindly truncating 64-bit pointer to 32-bits. It's just like saying "I'm gonna just go ahead and truncate all bank account balances to 16-bit integers to save memory in my data structures." It may be the reason, but that reason is still incredibly stupid.
I keep hearing this argument more and more often. What is prohibiting this from happening? Are there legal issues?
That looks uncomfortable. Also notice all the wasted space above waist level. Just to put prior art out there: Why not arrange seats like this? http://i.imgur.com/OyQT6xX.png. It doubles the capacity and the plane might fly upside down half of the time so each half of all passengers have some quality time.
I think they've made pretty clear that they want to be a place for "simple" fact-based Q&A things and not a discussion forum, not a community (in the sense that people know each other and interact on a personal bases) and that is the product they offer, and it is great.

The issue I see is that they have been so successful that now they are THE place where you'll find someone capable of helping you.

And then you have a question where you are sure that you could get great input from the expertise assembled on SO, but you aren't supposed to use it because the question has the wrong format. And there is no other (obvious) place to get the answer, because SO has all the mindshare, because they cover most questions.

A site that only caters to "questions not applicable to SO" would have a very weird scope, and a general site has to compete with SO for the SO-type questions, which is hard to do because SO does those very well.
This is a really interesting site for shipping news. Here's a video about the largest floating structure in the world being built: http://gcaptain.com/prelude-flng-taking-shape-birds-eye-view...
> You seem to have a basic misunderstanding of why FPH was banned - it wasn't because of offensive/hateful content like /r/coontown; it was because of active off-site harassment & brigading that the mods couldn't control.

One of us has a misunderstanding on that and I'm not so sure it's me. I'm aware of the brigading claim, but not of any widespread evidence. And even if so, then how do you defend the inconsistent enforcement of that rule amongst other subreddits like /r/srs? If you're going to use a rule to close a sub, then by god enforce that rule consistently if you want people to take you seriously.

https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Shit_Reddit_Says
What do you think of Rockefeller and other early US industrialists?
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My team is currently using the gradle cargo plugin (https://github.com/bmuschko/gradle-cargo-plugin) to deploy to our remote docker machines for testing. This is my first time hearing about Vagrant. What are it's advantages for our use case for active development?
Main problem is that one has to get a unknown persons in ones face when getting in our out of the seat.

A Fairly loaded stance if you ask me.
Further, it might be burying the trigger precisely because the trigger itself (firing of Victoria) runs against the tone of the (new) article. The whole reason reddit went into lockdown mode was because one of their most beloved employees (who happens to be a woman) was fired. The uproar didn't happen because people were generically upset with Ms. Pao, but because they were passionately upset with how she handled the dismissal a person reddit loved.
My favorite one is: alias fuck='pkill -9'
Wow, super handy
Increasing the article's emphasis on gender issues does not make the revision a "bait and switch". All the substantive material from the earlier revision remains. No facts reported in the original piece have changed.
Google Play Store A-B Test
Does that tiny slip get filed somewhere, indexed and archived, triggering an invisible trawl through your personal record? Maybe it's the behind-the-scenes stuff that has gun enthusiasts worried.
Judge jails kids for refusing lunch with dad
This is not a new idea - slave ships were already doing it in the 18th Century.

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1670325/infographic-the-slave-sh...
The advantage of poly isn't that it grips, but that it's elastic enough to deform and snap back quickly. The old idea of string having 'bite' has been mostly disproven with the advent of high speed video to show what's really happening in the fraction of a second during impact. Those geometric extrusion strings are more marketing than anything else (and shred your stringer's fingers).

I play with full poly at 48#, but have experimented with gut hybrids and full gut at times. Even comparing 48# poly to 60# gut, the gut is like a rocket launcher compared to the poly. The amount of power it generates, at any tension, is unreal. You can hit huge flat serves with it, but the lack of spin isn't worth the extra pace.
Some people who retire die of it. Being told by society that you are no longer useful can kill. Obviously, that's not true of most people, but it does happen.

However, I do think the main reason it happens is also because it is accompanied by the ambient message that those who don't work are worthless, drains on society. If not working was more accepted, the death rate of retirement would likely be much lower.
And if you’re not content with living in a world where all of that data is public then you’d better stop repeating that silly mantra ‘if you’ve got nothing to hide then you’ve got nothing to fear’...

Serious question: Who's making this argument? I don't hear it articulated by anyone, frankly. I'm sure there are people who hold this position and have argued for it, but are any of them in a position to make policy? Have any of our dozen+ presidential candidates made this claim?
You do not in general decide whether two types are equivalent. You prove it...
I'm not saying that people want to be secretive about their own salary, I'm saying people are afraid to know the salaries of their peers.

To use a childish simile, it's just like how most guys won't actually say how big their dick is, even if they'll talk about the general topic. It's not because it's "taboo", it's because they don't want to find out that their best friend is bigger.
Maybe you should bring that up with Sullivan, their full-time public editor, or the full-time editor they have in charge of managing corrections and clarifications, or that editor's full-time assistant? If it's "basic", I'm sure they'll agree with you.
The author of this post is using v0.17 but the latest Kubernetes version is v0.21 and soon v1.0 will be out. Beware that some of the commands he uses have already been renamed (run-container to run and resize to scale). Also a tip, some resources have abbreviations, eg. you can pass rc instead of replicationControllers in the cli

kubectl get rc -l name=www-nginx
To me disgusted and offended are unrelated. I'd personally agree that in magnitude of responses, disgusted is probably stronger, but, to me, being disgusted is about finding something to be awful, whereas being offended is like being hurt yourself. As a white guy, I am not offended if a racist guy talks about killing black people. I am disgusted, and hush the room and tell everyone to point and laugh at him.
Bob is coming from the perspective of Brouwerian Intuitionism, and so he is not really that interested in a closed "formal system". So, "proofs" in the setting that Bob cares about are not derivations in a formal system, so Gödel's result doesn't really apply.
I'm starting to think one of the trees was equipped with a Markov chain sentence generator that scanned a lot of philosophy papers and just spit out a lot of pretentious gibberish. To philosophers though, I'm not sure it would matter because nobody could tell the difference anyway.
About time Jonas made the front page. He's been on HN a while and freely answers questions, both here and on his twitch stream (http://www.twitch.tv/317070).
Thanks, those look interesting. Will give them a read when I have time. My naive reaction though is: a lawful universe does not necessarily imply well-behaved fitness landscapes. Many lawful and even very simple processes give rise to chaotic and complex results.
Do a Google search on "Jim Hood vs Google", see who he colluded with, and then come read your own post here again. In short: The MPAA/RIAA hates Google. To top it off, you name Chrome/Chromium as if it's the same product, and then go off on a tangent about a binary blob (voice recognition) that was included. Other comments would have gotten away with that, was it not that the whole issue here _is_ the distinction between Chrome and Chromium, the latter being an FOSS project, which has no place for closed source binary blobs. (And that was the underlying issue, not its functionality.) Some people need to be protected against themselves, for some this protection is a site block, for others it's reading more before writing drivel in the HN comment section.

Link for the lazy: http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2015/04/11/jim-hood-...

The block was put in place because of malware being served by those domains, blocking them is by far the easiest response and _also_ the most motivating for its hosts to undertake action. Occam's Razor seems to agree that this was a bad advertising being blocked rather than "ebil guggle conspirucy".
Obviously, there are obese people at the NY Times to who Ms. pao is a hero for protecting their fragile feelings.
>> That doesn't mean that when people prefer Beats' audio, that the audio is 'better', it's just 'better to them'.

This. It's just like TV sales. A lot of people like those amped up color and contrast settings in big box stores that would make TV-philes gag.

So what?

Tastes are subjective, and judging people by their tastes is more often than not, wasted cognitive effort.
There are two convenient fact omissions when talking about sexism and racism towards Pao: the fact that the fired employee was female too. And the fact that Pao is of asian origins and that Asians are traditionally over-represented in SV and not traditional victims of racism in technology.

Those facts made the case for a racist and sexist crowd a bit too nuanced for a front page.

(Or maybe Asians and Indians are officially not counting now? They were getting too much in the way of the simply racist technoworld narrative?)
Even if it was intended #irony, the random hashtag inserts eventually made the whole piece come off as clickbaity to me and I actually stopped reading it. I mean, I got that you are totally hip to the ecosystem in the first paragraph, you don't have to keep whacking me in the face with it.