skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used this[0] query to find the top ten[1] most downvoted comments of all time on Reddit.

The most downvoted comment[2] is ironically in iAMA, by a mod of iAMA (ironic because of the recent drama).

I'd find the top ten most upvoted, but I ran out of free bandwidth on BigQuery :(.

[0] https://gist.github.com/alexggordon/7b56353dcf8044a7a5f9

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzxo-UKxFmN-eWticy1BR2tCRDQ...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/s5guk/iam_bad_luck_br...
> Also sleep current is rising greatly as one moves to new nodes - so some micro-controllers will stay on older nodes.

How fundamental is this? TSMC has 5 different 28nm processes, so there's obviously some room to adjust things. Can't microcontrollers get effective power gating to keep idle power low when moving to smaller processes?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BG4D5oOCUAEREoN.jpg
There's a difference between "total war" and "nothing left to rule"; indeed, there's a difference between total war and merely executing civilian hostages in reprisal for acts of insurrection, although the taking of civilian hostages is often a feature of total warfare -- as, indeed, it was when Sherman employed the strategy against Confederate civilians, who had so recently been his fellow citizens and yet remained his fellow Americans, during his famous "March to the Sea".

In fact, Sherman not only engaged in total war, but originated the idea that it should be used in that conflict; he had to sell it to Lincoln before he could get permission to employ it. I really don't think it's that much of a stretch to imagine such a thing happening again in the United States; all it'd need would be, on the one hand, another sufficiently bloodthirsty general, and on the other, another sufficiently widespread perception that those on the dirty end of the total-war stick had it coming.
But, why trees do not respond?
> if you don't like a country you can just move...

you know many many people risk their lives under extreme conditions to do exactly that. See Latin Americans trying to get to US or Africans into Europe.

Hell I am in the process of emigrating from one Western country to another, and its an incredibly stressful process with no guarantee of success for me.
Let's solve the problem instead of the symptom.

End the culture of punishment that festers in the traditional American Puritan psyche. That people ought to "pay for what they did." Focus on rehabilitation, and make prisons conducive to that end.
Why? Isn't HN fundamentally about startups that want to make money? What if everyone refused to buy YCombinator services and products? What if everyone refused to buy your company's output?

You could do what I do when there's a paywalled article that I don't have subscription access to: click away. Read something else.

BTW, I subscribe to the NYT online precisely because I saw so many NYT articles here on HN. But I don't subscribe to FT or the Economist. I can't read everything, but I have enough to read.
It's still not a thing??

https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Contributors/Corporate

Looks to me like a pretty big list.
Directly drug-related (possession or trafficking) yes... but how many property and violent crimes have their root cause being drug-related? I would guess many.
Back in the 80s/90s a good percentage of studios had a beatbox above the mixing desk to complement the giant monitors. You wouldn't mix on the beatbox, but you'd check a mix sounded good on it and give some attention if it didn't.

A lot of mixes were made to sound good on cheap bookshelf speakers called NS10s, made by Yamaha. Most studios had them. They weren't hifi, but the story was that if something sounded good on them it would sound good everywhere. I was never completely convinced, and a lot of bright and grainy mixes from then have been remastered since then with less edge. But it was a good story, and it helped sell a lot of speakers.

Now mix engineers are more likely to listen in the car or on cheap headphones, because that's how most people listen to music today.

Mastering studios are more likely to have very clean high-end equipment. Mastering needs subtle changes in tone and dynamics, and you need a clean reference to hear them clearly.
The Taligent book is online too: https://root.cern.ch/TaligentDocs/TaligentOnline/DocumentRoo...
> That binary blob was inactive and had to be proactively turned on in the settings screen. So was it really an issue? No, but ...

Just to be clear about a thing, there was an issue. The automatic download of the extension occurred in Chromium, the FLOSS software around which Chrome is built. Chromium is shipped in a multitude of linux distributions, including Debian. Debian takes their FLOSS standards very seriously. The automatic downloading of a binary blob by Chromium was a FLOSS ethics issue.

Google went on to address the issue by not just removing the automatic download, but ensuring that the remaining hooks to enable the audio search feature were removed.

That's the entirety of the actual, real controversy. The rest is made up assumptions by people that fail to understand Hanlon's Razor: never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
It looks like this is related to 'bot detection' services from http://www.whiteops.com/ , as White Ops is listed as the contact on tagsrvcs.com.

The html served back includes a script tag having

require(['http://static01.nyt.com/bi/js/tagx/tagx.js'], function () {

http://static01.nyt.com/bi/js/tagx/tagx.js

loads

http://s.tagsrvcs.com/2/818492/analytics.js?<bunch of query params>

which defines an 'encryption key' that is later used to 'encrypt' POST parameters back to tagsrvcs, but looks a lot like a page load identifer, including using it to namespace 'postbacks' later on.

tagsrvs.com/.../analytics.js

loads
http://s.tagsrvcs.com/2/4.10.0/loaded.js

tagsrvcs.com/../loaded.js

'postsback' to urls like
http://s.tagsrvcs.com/2/4.10.0/818492/L0an5rrDUnnex1s8dQ4fGu...

(Note the 'L0an5rr...' which is the same as the 'encryption key' returned before in the 'analytics.js' file)

This collects some fun things like WebRTC addresses, scripts loaded on the page, and much much more, and sends them out as they become available or more events happen.

If you'd like to investigate this information yourself, the best place to set a breakpoint is in 'loaded.js', inside the function 'e.prototype.emitAsCORSXHR' which is responsible for 'encrypting' the payload before transmission.
> KIJINI’s reports are data-driven and sophisticated, based on 25 years of research in a clinical setting.

The claims are completely unbelievable. Do they have one double blind test published in a serious peer review medical journal???
Given my experience with academic coding (and in fact, some fleeting experience with cms stuff) I wouldn't be surprised if it was.
Does Siri use Wolfram|Alpha for any kind of complex requests?
Only against an occupier unwilling to meet it with measures harsh enough to be effective. Historically speaking, I'd say it is more likely for US military forces to employ such measures against Americans, than against occupied foreign polities; as far as I can think of, we've actually never done the latter, while US history exhibits at least two instances of the former -- the Indian relocation, on the one hand, demonstrating the effectiveness of mass resettlement, and Sherman's March to the Sea, on the other, doing likewise for "scorched earth" techniques and reprisal killings of civilian hostages in response to guerrilla attacks.
Euthanizing children with this condition at birth should not only be legal, but encouraged. Because of the enormous suffering they experience.
Title should read:

The Girl Who Smelled Pink: Are we all born with synesthesia?
Yes, lets discuss that nasty grey box that the majority of people are forced to use at work. As for Windows dying, well, desktops declined 10% this quarter so give it some time. It'll be a slow death for Windows, but it's coming.
My favorite bit has to do with a referendum held in Sweden:

In 1955, the Swedish government held a referendum
on the introduction of right-hand driving. Although

no less than 82.9% voted “no” to the plebiscite,

the Swedish parliament passed a law on the
conversion to right-hand driving in 1963.
This varies a lot between states. Your description sun's like NH?
> Don't let companies or governments lure you into asking for your fingerprint and storing it for you on their servers "for your convenience".

This is hard. Any entry to the USA for example requires every alien to have their fingerprints taken, and if more and more countries require this there isn't anywhere to go. Another way is needed to stop this practice.
Free Monads from Functors from GADTs
Pull requests on news articles sounds intriguing.
Nginx direct file upload without passing them through back end
That's unfortunately a question they have an answer to. It's a bad answer, and one that needs dismissing as quickly and decisively as possible, but there are people who think some concern they have trumps other people's rights.

The more important question is, "what gives you the right to try to take it, no matter what concern you're professing?".
In relation to the moms, I am reminded of Nordic prisons: enforce something approaching a normal life, including basic luxuries and general responsibilities (actual things-to-think-about-and-manage responsibilities, not just "do X repetitive task for six hours"), and recidivism rates go down.

The Bastoy prison island in Norway is the quintessential example: it's basically structured like a small town, with jobs, houses with roommates, bicycles and other personal items the prisoners can own, and even a small supermarket. And with all that, the recidivism rate is 16%, the lowest in Europe.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/feb/25/norwegian-pri...
Seems Kubernetes 1.0 is also out: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/pull/11103 Why do they do that on weekends? ;)
Or if you really care about sound quality (but not looks): Audio-Technica ATH-M50X
>dev tools and environment is probably the best in mobile development.

I installed the latest Visual Studio. I think it installed about 30 applications and sprayed over 15GB of files all over my HDD. That's a pretty nasty environment. I'd rather use Android Studio from IntelliJ.
lol, not only that OpenShift 3 is completely based on and built on top of kubernetes.

people like ams6110 amuse me greatly. I picked Go and Rust before they were even on peoples' radar and kubernetes was the same. It's already got it's fingers everywhere.
The keyword here is "Music Information Retrieval". If you're interested in knowing more there is a few high quality tutorials out there. Don't be afraid of "research looking" papers. They're often pretty accessible. For instance:

http://www.cs.uu.nl/groups/AA/multimedia/publications/pdf/is... (A SURVEY OF MUSIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS)

Or a longer PDF:

http://www.nowpublishers.com/article/Download/INR-002
To slightly adjust a British military saying, you need to remember your irregular verb "to leak":

The soldier commits a Federal crime.
The junior officer displays a marked lack of integrity.
The senior officer delivers an off the record briefing to the favoured reporter.
Thought they used Parsons Code as it is space efficient as a fingerprinting technique and less across the wire too for a partial fingerprint and it handles tempo drift. In addition I know they where becoming CPU bound and then moved to GPU to do matching, that greatly helped them.
28 Years Later Trailer – Europe Invaded (2015)
TONY G MONSTER
On the subject of old San Francisco transportation plans, check out this map of the desired freeways in the late 40s/early 50s:

http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~25...

http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~25...

The plan was to wipe out a bunch of downtown neighborhoods and blanket the city in freeways so it would be more accessible from the suburbs, just as happened to many other American cities in the 50s–70s. Luckily, San Franciscans protested loudly and most of it didn’t happen.

Another fascinating one is Burnham’s San Francisco plan from 1905. He wanted to add plazas, green spaces, etc. reminiscent of European cities, to end up with something like this:

http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~28...

Then the earthquake and fire happened and the plan was scuttled. (Was probably unrealistically destructive and expensive in the first place, but kind of interesting to look at.)
Beyerdynamic cans are pretty bomb-proof, as are Senn HD25s (as many DJs can attest)
Here is how Facebook and Youtube does it:
http://www.dediced.com/links/the_laborers_who_keep_dick_pics...
That is a weird quote. Is it normal for articles mentioning past trials to say "if a mistrial is declared, the trial was invalid"? Seems like an out of place, almost tautological piece of information. Maybe if something like a motion for a mistrial was filed, but why state a fact like that just randomly? It only serves to apply doubt to the validity of the trial outcome, with no apparent basis (I don't really know anything about the trial myself).
they do have an autoupdate
I've taught quite a few friends how to code. Here are my thoughts:
Its good that they own up to it but I'm getting a bit tired of hearing "we take security very seriously."

I feel like this phrase has become the mating call of organizations who aren't serious about security until they get hacked.
My sister had progressive severe hearing loss, severe vertigo, and tinnitus. She resisted any treatment until she was completely incapacitated. Friends dragged her to an ER where she was scanned for tumors. Follow-up visits to ENTs (ear, nose, throat) confirmed substantial hear loss, but could not identify a cause. Despite skepticism, she went to a chiropractor and has started recovering her hearing (measured by ENT as 30 decibel improvement) and balance. About a week ago, she was adjusted and within 2 minutes noticed her hearing improve. She still has a long way to go though.
Floating Feasts – Gourmandism on the high seas
$200/month for the whole technical infrastructure?
>The problem with those kind of stats is they fold in every $0 Android device that are purchased and used essentially as glorified dumbphones.

As if WP stats aren't dominated by cheap $0 phones that are also purchased and used as dumbphones and in the case of WP more so because of the lack of apps for the platform.
You can't power gate sram, or device state registers. That's like reset.That's a large fraction of the chip.

How fundamental - i'm not sure.
Yishan Wong comments on "What's the best long con you ever pulled?"
And how many violent criminals are in prison on drug charges because they're easier to prove?

I think people too readily accept the narrative that crime in the U.S. can be traced back to the drug war.

Here is drug war spending: http://cdn.thewire.com/media/old_wire/img/upload/2012/10/12/...

Here is violent crime rate: http://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/wp-content/uploads/...

Violent crime started trending up in 1963, about 8 years before Nixon declared the war on drugs. By the time the drug war really got going in 1982-86, violent crime rates had already tripled.
Kinda makes sense, as all ads are suspicious at the bare minimum.
Ask HN: Downgrading my Internet speed to match the Speed Test and save money?
I am in the SF Bay area, customer at Comcast. I pay for 150mbps (download) each month, but speed tests show my current download speed to be around 25mbps.

If I downgrade my Comcast plan to something like 75mbps, do you know if it will have an impact on my current speed?
Privacy is gone; it's a chimera. Let's focus on building a society where we use openness for the common good instead! E.g. don't let some people still try to hide because they consider themselves "special." Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
Sounds like a session-layer/presentation-layer sort of thing. TLS or IPSec might have such a protocol message.
This is self-evidently true.

The statement is true, but what it speaks about is a what-if scenario.

You might not like that Pao's trial keeps appearing in the Times story about Pao's resignation, but the giant petition for her ouster chose to lead itself off with it. It's materially part of the real context of the story.

I'm not saying that NYT should be prohibited from mentioning the lawsuit. I'm saying that it's not directly related, and definitely not related enough to take up half the article.
I believe they're doing the real launch at OSCON which is in a week or two.
If the New York Times gave the same amount of column inches to holocaust deniers as it does anti vaccination nuts there would be an outrage despite the fact that both camps are about as valid as each other.
But if you add the energy costs, it makes financial sense to move to newer nodes. Maybe we need some financial innovation that charges a part of the chip in small installments that you won't feel , because of savings ,while also supporting moore's law ?
Maybe in desertic and hot countries they are cheaper
It is possible to observe how people react to things and infer a difference in perception. My oldest son likely has an auditory processing disorder and mishears things if he isn't watching someone talk. Other people will consistently agree that X was said while he insists it was Y.

When he was 19 and recovering from a health crisis, he casually mentioned that he knew he was getting better because heno longer tasted colors. I recently asked him what that meant and he said he perceived color but with his tongue.

They have developed vision products for blind people that feed data to the tongue to let them see. So, in some sense, new technology is confirming the ease with which we can cross wire the senses to perceive something typically only perceived by another sense.
yes i'm totally serious and i am still looking for the answer to my question connecting 1 to the rest of the events which you have outlined in greater detail.
I didn't realize Kierkegaard talked about things like that. Could you recommend something from him to read on the subject?
Great response from jedberg about the business costs of security and the fact that a company can take it seriously and still have a breach: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9834461
Killing is a pretty strong word. I'd say "euthanizing."

But perhaps part of the reason for existing is to be a constant reminder for researchers to get on that gene therapy research...
Contrary to popular opinion, the amount of suffering that exists in the world does not intrinsically matter.
It's a thing in that it exists, can be deployed, has industry backing and a lot of hype around it. And enough mindshare that no direct (open) competitor has a chance.

But the difference between what it claims to be able to do and what you want to actually use without hiring a bunch of developers (if possible, those that build the feature you are interested in) is also a thing. Anything going above a basic feature set is quite tricky, and many components are of bad quality. Or have undocumented specialties and the only way to get support that can help is to track down the original developers on IRC. Or 3 components share a concept, but all do it in slightly different ways.

To many cooks and all that... Many developers have recognized that, but cleaning up takes time & there are new bits and features added all the time.

Which also means that if someone doesn't need the full feature set OpenStack promises a competitor (like using containers & Kubernetes maybe) can easily beat it.

(I don't have that much experience using it myself, but I've heard the above from many developers, vendors and people trying to use it on conferences and online)
For posterity:

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> Here's one.

> In 2006, reddit was sold to Conde Nast. It was soon obvious to many that the sale had been premature, the site was unmanaged and under-resourced under the old-media giant who simply didn't understand it and could never realize its full potential, so the founders and their allies in Y-Combinator (where reddit had been born) hatched an audacious plan to re-extract reddit from the clutches of the 100-year-old media conglomerate.

> Together with Sam Altman, they recruited a young up-and-coming technology manager with social media credentials. Alexis, who was on the interview panel for the new reddit CEO, would reject all other candidates except this one. The manager was to insist as a condition of taking the job that Conde Nast would have to give up significant ownership of the company, first to employees by justifying the need for equity to be able to hire top talent, bringing in Silicon Valley insiders to help run the company. After continuing to grow the company, he would then further dilute Conde Nast's ownership by raising money from a syndicate of Silicon Valley investors led by Sam Altman, now the President of Y-Combinator itself, who in the process would take a seat on the board.

> Once this was done, he and his team would manufacture a series of otherwise-improbable leadership crises, forcing the new board to scramble to find a new CEO, allowing Altman to use his position on the board to advocate for the re-introduction of the old founders, installing them on the board and as CEO, thus returning the company to their control and relegating Conde Nast to a position as minority shareholder.

> JUST KIDDING. There's no way that could happen.

/u/yishan (Yishan Wong, former Reddit CEO)

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/whats_the...

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> We all had our roles to play.

/u/spez (Steve Huffman, new Reddit CEO)

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/whats_the...

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> Cool story bro.

> Except I could never have predicted the part where you resigned on the spot :)

> Other than that, child's play for me.

> Thanks for the help. I mean, thanks for your service as CEO.

/u/samaltman (Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator)

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/whats_the...
The dehumidification is done before the precooler, I'd expect.

They seem to inject it at the end, collect it somehow, then inject it upstream of the first injection location, then collect it again, then inject again upstream of that...

No clue how they perform this collection action, though.
Very difficult to watch the embedded video. But of course I did, as I need to know everything. Was brought to tears though, FYI.
Another curiosity with Sweden is that priority to the right has been codified in law since the switch to right-hand traffic, but has never actually been practised by motorists. Instead they have a bunch of unwieldy and dangerous ad hoc rules, such as priority-to-the-crossbar-in-T-intersections and priority-to-the-slightly-larger-road-in-4-way-intersections.

Also confusingly, when Swedes are about to make a left turn they keep to the far right instead of the more logical left, and vice versa.
Hey there! I'm the one that uploaded the original dataset. I'm creating API endpoints that will easily allow you to do this. It should be completed in 1-2 weeks.
I just realized my username on here is ... oh god.