skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it hard to believe that Airbnb is not profitable; they have a well-defined monetization and are wildly popular.
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How is it frankly disgusting behavior?

Let me ask you about Brendan Eich, previously CEO of Mozilla. He contributed money to anti-prop 8 causes in California. He was fired from Mozilla because he supported anti-gay marriage causes. Was it wrong of mozilla to fire him because of his support?

If you say it was wrong, I will respect that we have different views on this issue.

If you think it's OK to fire Eich but not even bring up Pao's personal life, I will call you a hypocrite.
"I receive about 1200 and send about 200 (emails per day)" - Wow, not sure how he gets anything done with that amount of context switching.
"this reminds me of gamergate" => "questioning ethics in any journalism anywhere"

It's a fairly stock form of strawman, taking someone's opinion and extrapolating it to the extreme. There are qualitative parallels between this event and gamergate, and the GP was mentioning them. I thought the same as the GP. But questioning ethics in any journalism anywhere? Seriously? For example, people question the ethics of Rupert Murdoch's empire and those of the UK tabloid culture, yet that public questioning is not reminiscent at all of gamergate.

I certainly don't see Murdoch getting numerous vitriolic rape threats because of his questionable journalistic ethics.
On a meta note, I'm curious what parameters are ideal for AMA's. I say this as Sam's AMA has been up for 3 hrs, has ~1k comments, yet you have to scroll past a drove of noisy, repetitive posts. Forgive me for overgeneralizing, but I seem to get turned away as the audience for these things increase.
I used OnLive. Onlives problem was NOT latency. It was shit content.
> The main problem I think most people had with it wasn't that there was action taken. It's that it was arbitrary, there were no guidelines given, and there was no consistency.

There were all of these things. There just wasn't completeness - i.e. they didn't (yet?) ban every sub that was in "category 3" harassing people IRL. It was not arbitrary: those ones were actively harassing people. There were guidelines: they existed before, and she posted them in response. There was no inconsistency: subreddits failing to meet these criteria were not banned under this policy. 100% of people upset on these grounds are in the wrong.
yes only those of Chinese decent are compared to Mao.

https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0SO8xk4b...
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Okay, now I understand what you mean, thanks. That did not occur to me at first. I think part of why was that /u/kickme444's departure was not well-publicized until after /u/chooter's, so it seems natural that the response was more muted. But more fundamentally, I'm not looking for sexism for the sake of looking for sexism: I'm looking for plausible causes of why one person was on the receiving end of way more obviously awful behavior than another, and how we can minimize the vitriol that anyone gets. If sexism is a plausible cause, and calling it what it is helps to eliminate it, then let's do that.

Kindness does not cancel out or excuse vitriol. If women get more kindness and also more vitriol online, getting less vitriol to women is still important; I am not concerned about some sum between positive behavior and negative behavior.

Let's say that the Star-Belly Sneetches either get rich beyond their wildest dreams or find themselves starving and begging on the streets. The Plain-Belly Sneetches don't tend to do better than middle class, but they don't do worse, either. To me, there is a single obvious injustice here worth our immediate efforts. If we make sure that Star-Bellied Sneetches have a place to live and food to eat, and if they still get super rich sometimes (i.e., there wasn't an underlying economic problem that advantaged some at the cost of others), then we can look at why that is and why the Plain-Belly Sneetches don't. But worrying about the Plain-Belly Sneetches first is misplaced, and it's clearly not the case that there's some net equality between the two groups because their average wealth is the same.
Yep, machine/compose/swarm are great tools from Docker and I'm already using it, but compose is more of a "dev" tool so it restarts all containers with every new deploy.

What I'm looking for is a robust and systematic zero-downtime approach to update some of the containers (say in a loadBalancer → web servers → db architecture).
Well maybe they are, but not enough to not need more funding.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/27/airbnb-2/

Think about that valuation, think about Uber that makes 400m a year and looses the same. How many years do they have to be in business to make those money back and ever honor that valuation?

It's completely absurd IMO, but as I said there might be something I am not understanding.
You can be raining money but if you spend more than what you're making, you're not profitable. Of course, it is not a bad thing to be unprofitable for a period of time. In AirBnb's case, it is almost certainly better for them to NOT be profitable and instead to spend ever potentially profitable dollar on getting more marketshare.
Didn't downvote you, but as he didn't post it here, it's probably not the right idea to set an expectation that he will, and HNers love etiquette as much as they love computers.
The essay gave an example of non-free project that others have built upon:

> One of the most widely used software suites in bioinformatics (if not the most widely used) is the UCSC genome browser and its associated tools. The software is not free, in that even though it is free for academic, non-profit and personal use, it is sold commercially. ... As far as development of the software, it has almost certainly been hacked/modified/developed by many academics and companies since its initial release (e.g. even within my own group).

Therefore, by demonstration, using a non-free license does not "seal the fate" and rule out others from building on your code.

Also, GPL does not require anyone to "repay the favor." There's no requirement to distribute modifications upstream or to "the community."
While clearly advertising this space, it manages to simultaneously be an interesting enough proposition that I'd be sad to see it removed.
Can you elaborate? Its not clear to me where we disagree, if at all.
Ask HN: Gripe about a unicorn
Just out of curiosity, if you were to gripe about a unicorn startup ( Uber, Airbnb, Snapchat, etc), which one would it be and what?
Don't stoke downvotes[1]; I took hn:dangrossman's comment as a helpful nudge and thought about a similar, clarifying response.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The 7% of Americans in question are a big, big deal. In an old-school Cold War context, this sort of thing would be considered nothing short of apocalyptic.

To answer your question, check out David Brin's original writings on "The Transparent Society." If this material were to be leaked in public, it would almost constitute a field trial of his thesis. It would take a serious act of restraint on the Federal government's part not to pull the plug on the whole Internet, or at least every plug they can reach.
Awesome. What a cunt.
Delegation.
> The /r/iama mods were not upset that she was fired. They were upset that there was no transition plan in place.

From what I saw it was both. They shut down over the latter because it left them unable to manage things to their satisfaction, but they seemed to genuinely like her and wanted her to keep her position.
In a world where crowd sourced moderation is the norm, why they don't hire some dependable, low-paid college kids to help triage that amount of communication is so very strange to me. You do realize these people work for near "resume boost" only, right?

I suppose the biggest issue isn't in a 20-something intern being able to field thousands of words a day, but rather in trusting them not to leak anything or generally tow the line.

Personally, I hope voat.co focuses more on the community rather than the sum of a few corporate-bound individuals.
I agree that they're changing their policy, and that it has been—and always was going to be—a painful process. But the failures of their original policy get splashed across the Internet every few months. So they can either stick their head in the sand, pretend it's not the problem it always has been, and watch their community get turned into the world's largest bastion of hate speech, or they can fix their mistakes and clean house. Are they doing a good job? Not particularly. I don't think they really know how. But they'll figure it out eventually. Hopefully meanwhile not fucking everything else up, too.
RPi is bound at the network interface, then. Even the onboard Ethernet runs over the USB hub.
Which points to corruption and inability to control your vendors (i.e., regulatory capture).

Ultimately in large organizations like this that are arguably well funded, the answer often lies in corruption (and not necessarily just the bureaucracy, but also the legislators who earmark crazy stuff like specific vendors and specifications that are handpicked for their favorite funders).
The android AMA app is decent. Website, not so much.
Do you honestly feel that the work of beginning web developers falls into the same risk management quadrant as a major governmental database of personal information?
If you want to be fair to ISPs, don't look at cases where they fail to do the impossible or very hard, look at cases where they fail to do the very easy.

The standard deviation of any ping test I do is at least 3ms due to how DOCSIS works, and I can't ping my next door neighbor (same ISP) through the internet in under 16ms. I've done traceroutes against several servers that are in the same city as I am in North Carolina and the only one where my traffic didn't first go to Atlanta or DC (or both) was to a server hosted by an ISP that has no physical presence outside of North Carolina. My cable modem and my ISP's CMTS each have out of control bufferbloat that adds hundreds of milliseconds of latency under load in each direction, which can't be entirely mitigated by my router's traffic shaping and AQM. There's little reason to believe that they've got got any AQM further upstream given the large latency spikes I see even when my last-mile link is quiet. Disregard for latency is pervasive in the design of the ISP's network.
I tend to take time like this to simply write. Be it reflecting on the last 6 months of my life, or some sort of short fiction. Sometimes its good to forget about coding and look at the bigger picture.
Or for that matter newsgroups. I guess since newsgroups are subscribed by the carrier, IRC might still be the better example.
Amazon isn't profitable.

I think for Uber and Airbnb, it's not that they can't achieve profitability, it's that they choose to funnel all that revenue in to expansion.

Reddit, though, I think is on the same boat as Twitter: all those views, but not a clear way to monetize without ruining the original experience.
Freedom of speech != freedom to force anyone to listen to you.

As long as you are free to create your own community where you can say whatever you want, there is no need for any other community to listen to you.
They can be profitable and still be in a position where they can convert investment dollars into new market share. If you've got a machine that you can pour money into and get even more money out, why wouldn't you use it? Especially in 2015, when money for companies like Airbnb is cheap.
If you're in my house, I'm going to hold you to a much higher standard than "not blatantly illegal". If you resent Reddit doing the same, well, the Internet isn't lacking for dank underbellies.
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So what if some sub is offensive? Should it be banned?

Your opinion is offensive to me, yet I don't want to silence you, because freedom of speech is more important than people getting offended.
Amazon could easily be profitable if it wanted to be. If you're gunning for "the Walmart of the Internet", it's reasonable to take your time and get it right. It took decades for Walmart to perfect the formula.
There should be a comment icon on the right when you hover on one news item, with a link to add comment on the source site.
The first paragraph really turned me off. Author is throwing wacky statements out hard and fast. Eg. apocryphal Newton apple dropping reference + saying scientists are looking for evidence of life "scittering" on Mars
Whoever breached OPM knows that information.

Fuck, sometimes it feels like it's all falling apart.
Uhhh, this spacecraft is for a totally different application.

Planet Labs doves are in LEO for low earth observation. This Japanese one is a weather satellite to monitor the area around Japan.
There wasn't that much legacy. The first web based form was rolled out in 2000-2001. Candidates wouldn't need to have credentials that worked on the legacy back end services. I wouldn't put it past them that they did this on purpose to have an easy route into online accounts since EO12333 gives them a blank check to do whatever they want when conducting a background investigation. They don't even have to line up for a rubber stamp from FISA.
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Thanks I am aware of those.

These guidelines are rarely followed anymore. I've been seeing/feeling negativity over here for a long enough time now. Don't know when, but I'll surely quit HN soon. It's like a habit that I have to get out of.
This isn't exactly Deep Dream's equivalent for video. It takes frames individually (smushing them together), rather than having a unified neural network that takes the entire video at once.
Why don't you post your private bitcoin keys for your wallets, if you have any. Just to put your money where your mouth is.
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> It would be nice to know why they're so intransigent about it.

Because they're thugs.
I imagine it's a lot easier to just have the cash and power to swap out those who threw their hearts out on the line. Big pictures obscure the small pictures of the lives caught in the meat grinder of the march of capital.

Becoming a VC has become the new beginning of the end for any humanity left in a human being.
That's what you get for trying to turn the internet into Disneyland.
It is what happens when you let contractors run everything. Nobody knows anything.

When Republicans let slogans like "we need smaller government" define governance, this is a big part of what happens.
It's not whether I would use it, the problem is that it seems like you are foced to do that to stay in business even without have an actual business that has the revenue to support the valuations.

It reminds me more of a game than anything, and maybe thats what these kind of business have turned into. A big game with no need to ever make any proper money. Just a giant "pyramid" scheme to milk money out of the late comers, just like the housing market.
This sounds awfully like the ownership concepts used in Rust...
> We don't know why Pao went out.

Why don't you believe her when she says it was a disagreement with the board over the future of reddit?

"We don't know" when the person in question is saying "this is why" is not very respectful.
Lojban is extremely interesting, especially the predicate logic part of it. However, it's still a language that's meant to be written and spoken by humans, which comes with limitations and drawbacks (i.e., binary is extremely flexible and powerful, but not practical to speak and write by a human). It offers no real innovation as far as semantics goes.

What I'm researching is knowledge representation, independently from any physical representation or implementation. Mainly, how to represent facts and intention. The semantic web (linked-data) is very close to what I have in mind as far as facts representation goes. However, it seems to completely ignore the intentional aspect of communication (x wants y because z).

It is not difficult to represent "This pizza costs $10" or "I want this pizza" in RDF (semantic web language). However, that's a naive and simplistic way to think about the situation. It's should be more like a semantic contract:

Person A broadcasts this promise (offer):

- Person B owns Pizza X

- Person A owns $10

Person B broadcasts this promise (demand):

- Person B owns Pizza X

Matchmaking algorithm finds a match (2 people that share similar promises). In this case, both share the "Person B owns Pizza X" statement. However, since all promise statements must be true, Person B has to agree to add "Person A owns $10" to its promise. Once both have identical promises, the contract is sealed. Now, both users are responsible for making these promises (future truths) become reality. The contract is complete when reality matches these promises, and the trust score of both individuals is increased (trust score, like a credit score, determines how reliable people are at respecting promises aka predicting the future). This "trust score" also happens to become the future currency.

We must realize that all communication is about describing either actual truths or future truths. Contracts are simply endorsement of a set of future truths. Whether the truths you endorse become reality or not affects your credibility, and therefore the value of your endorsements. All we need is a framework to communicate these things, and nothing more. That should eliminate 80% of apps we use today, and reduce communication noise significantly.

Of course that's a gross simplification that probably doesn't answer your question.
> Erm, why should there be any "discipline" at all?

Because communities need moderators. A free for all is anarchy; enough shitbags will ruin any particular community. I've moderated a small forum, and that was a headache when I just had two trolls to deal with, and I still failed at it - people left because of those two people, enough of them that the forum is basically dead now.

On a more cynical/business perspective, if enough users leave and if enough negative press is printed, your business loses money.
Yes I understand the Amazon strategy of replacing growth with profit and it has kept them alive for a long time now. I do question whether they can maintain this forever though and I do question whether their venture into delivery is the right one as they seem to be loosing more and more there.
I perceive the same thing, but when you choose Airbnb to illustrate the phenomenon, you have to back it up. Airbnb is a weird choice, since it's so clear where their revenue comes from.
>It's not about faking anything, it's a question of what information you want to leave for posterity

Exactly, i bet when this guy wrote his blog post he used backspace more than once. No idea why he thinks git is any different.

I commit all kind of garbage while developing: stackoverflow references, commented code examples, temp commits when i have to leave in a hurry, etc... rebasing --interactive + merge (with optional no-ff if you hate linear history) is a must and basic respect for your colleagues.

You can cook naked if you want but i dont want to see your pubes in my meal.
And at least links to all their family, friends and associates. Making those people targets for further data theft.
But walmart was always profitable wasn't they?
Replete is in beta right now, so it simply requires signing up and making use of TestFlight. https://github.com/mfikes/replete/wiki/Beta

Also, it is a slightly older version, but if you want, you can try it directly online here: https://appetize.io/app/8hf37bv29k2zrj0v2j765xt3jr
> JavaScript is an integral part of the platform that is the web, just like HTML and CSS

I always think it's interesting when people bring CSS into this, because it's actually a very strong counter to the general argument.

By design a user agent is well within its rights to completely ignore any stylesheets attached to a page, and the idea was always that this should be completely OK, partly because you have no idea what the UA's capabilities are, up to and including whether or not it's doing any kind of visual rendering at all.

This isn't a news flash to everyone, but even those already aware of this seem to think the main reason you'd do this is ADA accommodations and those are some kind of minority afterthought. My experience is that this is misguided -- accommodations for unusual visitors is important, but I think the biggest benefit might be that the simpler you make things for the client, the less complicated the engineering tends be, even if you can't import your Java-imitation-of-smalltalk-inspired application paradigm of choice.

And "too bad if you didn't have JS!" position seems to basically boil down to the idea that serving a custom client that consumes JSON instead of HTML as the media type for a given URI is Real Progress™.

Keep things as simple as possible. Don't require JS unless what the application needs to do can't be done without it.
You may need to reread the comment
Does anybody else find it weird that he kept asking about an android app when there are many reddit android apps that work just fine? I'd like to know what he's looking for in an android app that he hasn't seen yet. I personally use 'reddit is fun'.
Bruce Schneier was wrong about MtE. This isn't so much a matter of opinion as it is (a) the currently prevailing theory in academic cryptography, at least when it comes to generic composition, and (b) the clear verdict of the last 10 years of crypto vulnerabilities.

Just writing this to be clear: it's not a debate. Ignore Schneier on this. In his defense: the most notable things he wrote about MtE were written before this was well-understood.
>>So half a percent of the userbase or so? I'd call that a vocal minority.

By that logic, the people who protested during the Civil Rights movement were also a vocal minority. Doesn't make their grievances any less valid.
Damn, isn't that basically SF apartment rent?
https://news.ycombiinator.com/showhn.html

For example, blog posts, email signups, and fundraisers can't be tried out, so they don't count as Show HNs.

This isn't something you've made that people can try out so it is not a Show HN.
Redit isn't a community. It's a bunch of communities. Most of them, I more or less dislike, for various overlapping sets of reasons. But I support freedom of speech. Everyone is free to ignore whatever they dislike.

Also, in such communities, strong anonymity is prudent. It does protect griefers from consequences, I admit. But more importantly, it protects all users from meatspace risks.

Edit: This is an old discussion. Especially if one replaces "Redit" with "Usenet".
What i react to with Airbnb is that their current postions and current revenue after all this time and looking at how successful they are still isn't enough for them to support their own growth.

I understand how the market work but I am not sure I understand why this is a good strategy unless as a business who want to be around. There will always be competitors always be someone biting them in the behind just like with Amazon btw.

If thats what it takes to be in business thats what it takes but it's hard for me to get my head around why this is healthy or normal.
Unions and professional associations can mandate standards, and enforce use of those standards in contracts. Look at the bar for the legal profession, or the liability associated with a PE stamp.

The software world consists almost exclusively of at will employees and 1099 contractors. They ship whatever slop management demands, and have no recourse.
> Case in point: It's simply not possible to offer proper zoom support without text-reflow,

It is possible to offer proper zoom support without text-reflow. You just don't know it yet.