skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Imagine if in English, we only used Mr. and Ms. when talking to someone who's chronologically older, and had different forms depending on if the speaker is male or female, and furthermore it was considered very rude not to use the title where appropriate.

In parts of the South, you’re still expected to use “sir” and “ma’am”, particularly with strangers. Most speakers find this a bit old-fashioned or excessively polite, though.
Use .ssh/config to shorten all hostnames a set specific key combinations.

ssh h.e.c
As mentioned on the blog post's comments, it's often caused either by storing a pointer in a DWORD variable (very common on 32-bit Windows), or by storing a pointer in a "long" variable (on most common 32-bit and 64-bit platforms, a "long" is at least as wide as a pointer; the main exception is 64-bit Windows).

The correct variable type to store a pointer would be intptr_t/uintptr_t for portable software (and DWORD_PTR for Windows-only software), but the "intptr" types didn't exist until the 1999 C standard (and, as far as I could find, the default Windows compiler didn't add the corresponding header file until around 2010). Software older than that would often assume that a "long" (or a DWORD, which IIRC was just another name for "long") was big enough to store a pointer, or perhaps tried to use the C99 types and used "long" if the header wasn't found.
Subvert: multi-language framework
The newsroom must be deeply divided on the handsomeness of Omar Sharif, too:

http://newsdiffs.org/diff/934092/934104/www.nytimes.com/2015...

You can browse NewsDiffs for all sorts of NYT stories. This story was heavily edited, but it isn't the only heavily edited NYT piece, and there doesn't seem to be an agenda connecting which pieces are heavily edited and which aren't.

The more likely cause is that pieces that have to be written in a hurry will tend to get changed the most before their final version hits print.
Now that it's edited to somewhat more than just calling me out personally (and yes I'm a white guy, I currently live in Virginia and my startup is linked on my profile), there's a couple points to respond to.

(I'd argue that your post just underwent self- or moderator censorship, of the justified sort.)

> It's incredibly disingenuous to claim that having some guidelines on a private forum (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html) counts as "Internet Censorship".

> You are actively supporting hatred by making that argument.

> It is not censorship or suppression of speech to tell a bigot that they can no longer borrow your megaphone. The bigot remains free to buy, build, or borrow another megaphone, a fact demonstrated clearly by the rise of voat.

> It is morally reprehensible to argue that taking away a privately owned megaphone is equivalent to censorship. It diminishes the meaning of the word, and boils it down to nothing. You should be ashamed of yourself for making such a truly insane and asinine argument.

Let's call a spade a spade. It's absolutely censorship by the definition of the word. You believe it's justified censorship.

"It" is somewhat unclear - but let's call it moderation beyond what is currently exercised by reddit, in order to remove the unpleasant content we saw in the wake of the FPH and Victoria incidents and is excoriated by this article.

I argue against it for precisely the same reason you think it's justified. The range of human opinion on every topic is incredibly broad. That means that there's a tiny minority of people who hold truly outrageous and objectionable views. If you simply hide those people with deletions and shadowbans, you relegate them to their tiny corner of the internet where they're free to reinforce each other's insane ideals. One of the greatest things about reddit is that though it's divided into subreddits, it's one big place - and any given user's reddit lineup will have slightly different posts than another's, whether cat photos or racism. That means you get cross-pollination (or -contamination), which offers a chance to change those people's minds. Yes, the crazies will show up in big community threads. But that means the sanes get a chance to teach them why they're wrong, whether by shaming them like sama, convincing them with reasoned argument (lol), or just downvoting them into oblivion and sending some irrational flames back (your choice!).

When you destroy the centrality of reddit, even if by cutting out really bad stuff, you encourage the sharding of the web into isolated echo chambers.

EDIT: No, I think you're absolutely right that reddit has zero obligation to allow any content. I'm merely arguing that though the content may be reprehensible and censorship is legal and even justifiable, it would not improve reddit to remove it.
Why is it bad? Because you don't like Mitch Kapor? Seriously asking.
Greece: Past Critiques and the Path Forward
I'm in the wrong job... :p
I 100% agree with you. If I knew someone technical that I trusted I would be all over trying to convince them to work with me. Believe me when I say I've tried, but my current location is not a good place for people with technical skills.

It's actually been quite frustrating so my next step is try to build an MVP/prototype myself which I can then hopefully use to either get into an accelerator or to show investors who have the connections I need with good technical people. Other than that I am also trying to figure out how I can get myself to SF and actually be able to go to meetups/etc.

It's not like I hate the idea of coding, like I said I'm still a techy guy, it's just more like a chore to me at the moment. Not something I really want to do but it seems like I have to. I've read so much about lone non-tech founders struggling or not getting looked at, so until I can get a partner I'm sorta stuck without many options.
I used Hy in a Django project to define the URLs. I was using some functions that added input checking, and I wanted to parse that and generate Javascript functions that would check the input in the client. Hy takes less effort to parse than Python (just call read).

I ended up never implementing it though.
StackOverflow took on a tough challenge in getting its members to self-curate the body of questions on the site. They were smart to recognize that "more isn't always better", and thus gave moderators an incentive to identify and close off-topic questions.

There's nothing wrong with that idea, they just have a bug in the implementation. Somehow they've incentivized the closing of good questions that are frequently on-topic.

Here's an example of a plainly on-topic-yet-closed question that annoyed me recently:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2847655/find-threads-runn...
Stuffing more herrings into jar principle will not work well when applied to humans.

Psychologically sitting face to face with a stranger for hours will make 50%+ passengers feel uncomfortable and irritated.

It will also be very awkward and strenuous physical exercise for middle and window seat passengers to get to the restroom.

This will cause more irritation to stewardesses, anger to passengers and lawsuits to airlines.

0/10
And how does that relate to the complaints from the moderators of IAmA, Science, etc?

Are you calling them juvenile and misogynist too?
Apple is now a hip-hop / image company. They are not about quality or innovation.
I agree that two comments upthread is inappropriately personal.

Several people downvoted all my comments in bulk, including the one below that's a purely technical explanation of using multi CPU/GPU caffee. I personally do not care about points (moreover the same comment in another thread more than offset the 'karmic punishment' in this one) but since you're here, please have a look at the way some people are treating the downvote button.

I will keep things up a level and more broadly constructive in the future.
This reads like a warning against doing too much business in China? They basically blackmailed a Brazilian company into setting up a joint venture with a local Chinese shipping / ore company by forbidding their ships to enter Chinese ports?
You could also let people stand, as ryanair considered doing. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8779388.stm

I'm surprised coffin seating wasn't considered before. Put everyone in a coffin with air supply, stack the airplane to capacity, you could fit a lot of people that way.
> It may be the reason, but that reason is
> still incredibly stupid.

Sometimes there are stupid reasons, but sometimes even reasons which are incredibly stupid from a technical standpoint make sense in a broader context.

For a short-term fix, for example, I can very well imagine to prefer this "trick" forcing sub-4G allocations if the other alternative would be to change 1000 places in undocumented legacy code doing crazy casts... And if it's for a product (or product component) on life-support only needed for a forseeable future, to me it makes perfect sense to ask the initial "crazy" question, even if it makes me cringe...
Rectangular-shaped ones so more humans will fit into given space :)
How they treated other subs is off topic for the question of why FPH was banned. Fact is, they banned it due to brigading and off site harassment etc. Whether you are personally convinced by the evidence kind of doesn't matter. They have no onus to share it all with you anyway.

If you were aware of the reasoning behind the ban - that it was because of alleged brigading, and not because of just hateful content, then that makes your post above (trying to make readers of your comment believe that it was arbitrary due to an offensive sub) quite deceptive.

As it happens they many times explicitly explained why SRS no longer meets the bar for banning under their current policy. Not that I need to defend reddit's decisions, nor automatically become on their side. Further, even without them explicitly saying why they did not ban SRS, it is not inconsistent - it is merely incomplete.
How is this different from bcrypt?
I mostly intended my comment to be a shot at the Times' shoddy reporting on this one. You're right that censorship is certainly justified in many contexts. But the article quoted a founder of the EFF in its clear bias towards more.
To message board nerds, yes.

To anyone who takes seriously the notion that the Times is the "paper of record", no.

(This is a positive argument, not a normative one.)
Those diagrams are what united execs fantasize about.
Hash Tables in JavaScript
You would get better packing efficiency if the "chairs" were just straight boards you strapped people to and put them on shelves. You'd also have the advantage of the people in the top rows shielding the bottom people from radiation.
Building reliable SMM backdoors for UEFI based platforms
SHE ON ME
Great to see a fellow PayPal Austinite on HN Chris! For a lot of people really quick and easy way to have a personal site up and running. Couple suggestions, possibly add system requirements and deploy instructions (possibly deploy to heroku/or deploy to digitalocean button) ?
Off the top of my head: DoS, providing perverts with confirmation that an image is what they want it to be, giving organized groups intel that images are known to law enforcement, etc.
My dad just told me his computer is running awfully slow.

I bet he clicked on every single attachment that comes via email.

He is in another country - but luckily he does not do any online banking.
Extensive discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9868331
Then why is our government so secretive?
Switching a neutral article for an opinion piece would bother me even if I agreed with the opinion.
They don’t. To quote Marco Arment: "Those metal parts are the hinges, subject to the most wear, that need to be most durable."
See also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-CkZ71iz68
All that these professional victims do is drown out the voices of the actual victims.
The site is a node app, so you would need node and npm (the package manager for node) on your system.
I sat down with a reporter and literally watched him type out my words, and corrected his article as he wrote it, and made damn sure exactly what I said was written on his screen... and the final article still managed to wildly misquote me. Nothing to do with incompetence (or lack of recording equipment), everything to do with making things fit an interesting narrative.
SILENTO WHIP NAE
It does happen, but you picked a bad example. Read the close reason: " Questions about general computing hardware and software are off-topic for Stack Overflow unless they directly involve tools used primarily for programming. "

StackOverflow is for programming questions. That question, as it was formulated, is not about programming. It belongs on either Unix&Linux or Super User instead.
Sorry! It seemed like such a brazen attempt to trick readers and I responded without much grace. Can't edit it out of my post at this time.
How is that a false positive, as opposed to just a positive?
I have a mix of 75% no. "6" and 25% no. "9". It is loud enough that I can hear it while talking to people or walking on the street, but if I don't mind it or forget about it, I can go for days or months without hearing it. When I focus on it, it comes back shining.

Recently, I am trying to be mindful of my inner sound in a similar way to breath mindfulness.
> The advantage of poly isn't that it grips, but that it's elastic enough to deform and snap back quickly.

Sure, I should've put "gripping" in quotes - what I meant is the top spin potential, not the actual physics behind it.

> Even comparing 48# poly to 60# gut, the gut is like a rocket launcher compared to the poly.

How about 60# full gut vs 50# hybrid (gut in the crosses)? Would the former still be a lot more powerful than the latter?
HOT SONG FOR THE CLUBS
This could be amazing as input to a question answering engine.
Why do you need VC attention and funding to publish film reviews?

That is, to me, the core problem in the article. It seems to suggest that Dissolve deserved to be given money since other less worthy sites are being acquired for millions.

That's not how the Internet works. The 20th century "highbrow" journalist enjoyed a certain income because he had a monopoly on access to media. A widely read newspaper only needed one film critic. But on the Web, any group of people can start a site like Dissolve.

It's not a special privilege reserved to media elite, and that seems to annoy the author: Dissolve had "Pitchfork credentials", which apparently implies that it would have deserved financial success based on that association.
Amazing concept, and now there is bot acknowledging people petitions.
Extensive discussion 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9856330
So what? You might be a /%$&/§$ or a )()%§&!"/$ for all I know but I can still independently make up my mind about what you just wrote. Are you suggesting censorship based on people's thoughtcrimes (in your opinion)?
And all Bose products, which have always seemed egregiously overpriced to me.

AFAICT, their noise cancelling headphones still have by far the best noise cancelling. If you work in a noisy environment or fly frequently, they're amazing. If your primary concern is audio quality in a normal or quietish environment, buy cheaper headphones (or I suppose more stylish ones, if that's your jones).

I actually just got a pair of very expensive Jabra Evolve 80 headphones (http://www.jabra.com/Products/PC_Headsets/Jabra_EVOLVE__Seri...) primarily for their mic. The noise cancelling is dramatically worse than Bose and the headphones make me look dramatically stupider because of the mic. But clients can hear me better so that's a net win.
Sure, author here, ask me anything!
In this case, Mike Isaac, the original writer, seems to have a good amount of domain expertise, as starting last week he has been posting frequently on Reddit in an official role, discussing/answering questions about his reporting on the site. (Also claims to have been a redditor for five years, presumably on some other account.)

Oddly, all of his official account's posts have been in the GamerGate subreddit.

https://www.reddit.com/user/MikeIsaac
Amnesty International uses interactive map to visualise Israeli strikes on Gaza
Or put them on the gangway to be crushed by the card. Fantastic.

Yes it seems we are like the broader people now and have to pay more to travel convenient.
Conversely, from when I used to write professionally, people would often not recall saying something I had recorded them saying on tape.
This whole story reminded me of Pratchett's The Truth. The starting up of newspapers and William de word trying to write proper articles only to be defeated by cut-my-own throat dibbler who invented news stories that were much more exciting with crazy headlines but were untrue.
Sure - but Google chose that mantra themselves. As you suggest, it may not be something we can reasonably expect, all things being equal. However, that's not the case here - in this case the commenter is comparing their actual behaviour to their stated policy, which is perfectly reasonable.
Mapping Where America Is Failing Its Youth
Interesting to note that not all of the USA drives on the right. In the US Virgin Islands people still drive on the left side of the road, but mostly with cars made for driving on the right side.
No, Microsoft isn't in the same position as Apple. MS only owns the Surface and (now defunct) Nokia/MS Lumina device market. And how long will you get Windows 10 automatic updates for free? At the moment Microsoft hides that information until 15 July. Read the above link to get the details from an independent German IT newspaper.
That has been there since the start :) it randomly picks from the chat suggestions every minute and acknowledges the one it picked. I'm one of Jonas's co authors, feel free to ask me anything as well!
Zombie Operating Systems and ASP.NET MVC (2009)
I would love to feed my megahal with that.
Sure, but the article is talking about the stuff on reddit that wasn't removed. Doesn't calling it "out of control" imply a desire to start controlling it?

(grandparent was edited after flag, even more ironically by a mod I think)

EDIT: In fact, let's all just take a second to appreciate the irony here. A guy made a throwaway account, called me an idiot, and (lamely) doxxed me – all in order to argue for restricting lowbrow content on internet forums. Love it.
I apologize if you felt I was picking on you personally however I was in the same position as you. Nothing out there works. Now including your recipe.

Meanwhile the top GitHub issue for your referenced Python project (also on the HN home page is):

"Unable to run script with default arguments, get an invalid syntax exception."

I poked in to see if he'd managed to rename "avconf" to "avconv" yet.

Right below:

print("SHITTTTTTTTTTTTTT You're running CPU man =D")

I found this:

# this line is not tested cuz i don't have avconv :(

It's just all so gloriously half-assed. Sorry if you got caught in the cross-fire but it's hard to soar with the eagles when you're hanging out with turkeys.
Rotterdam may be first city to build roads from plastic bottles
Assuming humans are "rational actors" according to a third person's definition of rationality is the biggest flaw in the theory you mentioned. Rationality is not amenable to interpersonal comparisons. What looks rational to me depends on my wants, needs, desires, orders of preferences and is impossible for you to deduce in an y objective way. That is the problem with most econ 101 models.
I think the term data-laundering will come into use. It will describe the practice of taking illegally obtained data (such as this OPM leak) and selling it and plausible deniability that it comes from a clean source to willing buyers who would not otherwise have touched it because of legal liability.

I an utopia, a forbidden-fruit doctrine would develop and be enforced. Data from an illegal leak would be illegal to touch. In practice, who knows.
Link-only answers are discouraged on StackOverflow - the mods will ask you to copy the relevant information into the answer so that it can be useful even without following the external link. The justification about "the sites change" goes both ways.
FWIW, I can highly recommend project mailing lists and IRC channels as a great way to tap into discussion-based knowledge and expertise for various things. I find I generally tend to do most of my free-form discussion in those contexts, and augment with SO serving as an index of quick solutions to common problems.
There are plenty of those already, it seems like a very strange place to do business compared to the west.

It's also fascinating (from a distance).
You should be concerned because:

1. the rewrites weren't noted in the article, thus undermining the authoritativeness of ALL NYT pieces.

2. They added a bunch of opinion to what was a fairly neutral piece.
I would read "papers" as different from email. Papers I interpret as personal records: journals, financial records, etc. Email, tweets, Facebook postings, etc. are already by default shared with at least one other person or unknown other persons so there's an implicit reduced notion of privacy.

I agree with the larger point that information on digital devices should properly be considered "papers" or "effects" even if stored in something nebulous such as "the cloud." As long as there's no deliberate or implicit sharing of these things, "the cloud" should be considered as private as a desk drawer.
That must have been a lot of pressure growing up :)
> it won't stop you from losing

One counter-example: the Taliban
There was also someone that created a dump of all HN data a while ago: https://github.com/sytelus/HackerNewsData
It would be nice seeing Hurd on L4se now that its source is freely available
Those edits regarding Mr. Sharif's handsomeness only go one way though. His description never increases in subjectivity.

It's not to say the NYT has an agenda here, but rather that there is division, at least between authors and editors. If the paper wants that division to be opaque, and hierarchical internally, than such real-time edits do it a disservice as they bring into the public those debates. If real-time edits are required to break a fast story, then either 1) they should not break stories quickly and wait to publish until their internal debates have settled - penning only 'news of record', or 2) they really should make those debates part of the public record, and not feign historical steadfastness - a timestamped 'record of news'. But to be a news of record where the record is changed is dishonest.
Underwater greenhouses are growing strawberries
The biggest problem here is increasing the passenger density while not increasing the amount of cabin baggage storage. This is particularly a problem in the US where there seems to be basically zero enforcement of cabin baggage limits. When I flew coach, I would always try to get on first just so my perfectly reasonable backpack would be near me. Get on last and it might not make it on the plane at all.

I say "when I flew coach" because AFAIAC that phase of my life is over. I'll pay to fly in a premium cabin when I have to fly. I consider myself fortunate to have that option and a not unreasonable indulgence.

I actually have no problem with this seating per se because it fits into the overall model of passenger/price segmentation. I'm not sure how much of this will be aimed at the developed world since flying is already ridiculously cheap in terms of real income [1].

I mean I've flown from NYC to SF return for @260. A mere 25 years ago in Australia it was relatively common to take a 2-3 day train journey from Perth to Sydney because a domestic flight was too expensive for many.

There are some general trends in the airline industry. First, first class is rapidly disappearing (eg Qatar Airways doesn't even have a first class cabin on many of its planes anymore). The reason is that business class is basically what first class used to be. What's now premium economy isn't much worse than what business class was 20 years ago.

[1]: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/02/how-airl...