skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No they didn't; no it wasn't.

FPH brigaded other subs - and this is something that has always been ban-worthy on Reddit. "No vote manipulation" was always one of the rules.

FPH didn't just vote brigade; users would travel from FPH to other subs to harass people in those other subs, and FPH travelled to other sites and harassed people on those other sites.

If they'd kept it all in FPH they'd have been fine. And there's a clue in all the other FPH-style subs that didn't get banned. Identical content (ideas), different behaviour.
I consider your comment harassment. I think it should be removed.

Slippery slope don't you think?
> ... the goal of making money ...

Personally, I feel that if one finds money itself as a goal, then he or she is missing the point of life, or at least that he or she has a pretty shallow goal. It sounds more like your real question is, "What is the purpose of life?". If you can find a purpose, then you can let money play a part in that purpose when and if money should be needed. If money should not be needed for a particular goal, then money has no place there. Money is a tool like other tools, and it sounds like you are trying to find the purpose of the tool, rather than letting the purpose find its place naturally.

> Philosophically, what resources should be accessible only to wealthy people?

If you were to ask what should be available only to those who work harder and smarter for the better of humanity, I might say greater success and social recognition. If you are speaking of monetary wealth on its own, then I say nothing extra whatsoever should be available. Money is just a number, like the value of a variable. Looking at the world as a whole, the value of this variable has more to do with fortune, luck, and morality than with hard work. True, if these factors are the same between two persons, the one who works harder and smarter will likely have more money, but these prerequisite factors are never equal in reality.
I wish they split out revenue for their Enterprise (Google for Work) division.
Structured Logs at Nextdoor
Given that it's the central issue to their business, it's surprising they haven't crafted a much better response. It's going to keep coming up over and over until they do.
In the context of a site like Reddit? Yeah.

The division of subreddits mostly handles that already and is likely a good chunk of its original purpose. Narrow, interest-based groups. Its just that on steroids really.
You're saying a few things: 1) light sentences for 80, and heavy sentences for 20; 2) light sentences for first-timers, and heavy sentences for repeat offenders; 3) more than half of the 20 are first-timers. Per 3, at least 11/20 exist that should get a heavy sentence under 1 and a light sentence under 2, which is a contradiction.

If we just forget about the murder thing, why not "two strikes you're out" then? Because baseball?
The Tyranny of Tolerance
Rather than go point by point, I'll refer you to someone more eloquent and credentialed. Check out some of Mark Buchanan's comments on http://physicsoffinance.blogspot.com

He talks about many things, but if you're curious you'll find several lit review posts about this topic.

The heart of good science is solid theory followed by experimental evidence. Simulations such as the El Farol Bar problem demonstrate how systems of prediction agents go through a phase shift from stable to chaotic as the ratio of memory to number of participants decreases. Historical phenomena match the prediction -- as more low-latency algorithms participate, the market exhibits more dramatic movements.
Yes! This is because when a shape is first created the WebGL Renderer draws the shape as a texture in Canvas2d and then uploads that texture to GL. The operations "Vertices" and "Scale" force each shape to be redrawn so there are a lot of textures being uploaded and deleted every frame this scenario. If you keep things to translation / rotation you can make the WebGL renderer push wayyyy more shapes than the other 2 renderers.

I'm currently developing a way to "cache" textures that don't change much so if you had a Two.Group that doesn't change much you can turn that into 1 texture. This will greatly increase performance as well. Thanks for checking it out!

#themoreyouknow
Yishan is pretty clearly biased, but yeah, he is definitely entertaining.

I'm pretty sure Pao's "remove" was going to be a tiny fraction of what will end up hidden and she was closer to Yishan's "Do whatever" position than Huffman will be.
What's wrong with that honestly? I'm totally fine with them removing subs/content that exists only because assholes on the internet are anonymous. This whole nerd rage is from nothing in my opinion, they are telling the idiots to take it somewhere else, and the majority of the rest of us can read content on our subs and the staff doesn't have to waste time with the back and forth or lawyers that comes with questionable content.
Any bubble will eventually pop, it's inevitable.
I assume you're applying the same standard to people who met in a bar?

Really, this is entirely your problem. I've never used dating services or apps, but I've had several great long-term relationships which started in a variety of weird ways. That's just life, man.
Yes. Content-opaque communications mediums are a binary proposition. If we do have some, then the harmful "actions" simply move to the freer networks. If they have all been eradicated, then unpopular speech is easily censored (insert a personal example you feel should be protected, yet isn't worldwide).

I would choose freedom of speech rather than destroy it to prevent some uncomfort. Society will adapt to not seeing such publishing as harmful.
They go to a farm upstate. They're real happy there, with lots of room to run around.
Users of coontown are racist, yes, and that's probably detectable in their posts.

But users of coontown apparently[1] don't post threads linking to other subs and then visit that other sub with thousand of votes and dozens of comments. FPH did.

[1] i've never read coontown so maybe I am totally wrong. Maybe they do brigade but they're so small it doesn't matter?
Sequoia Capital presentation on start ups and the Recession (2008)
They view the site as "Guest" so:

> This classification will require a login, must be opted into

That would prevent them from being visible.
How could I possibly prove AA put me on this list? All I can say is only AA has me on this list, so this would suggest AA put me on their own SSSS list. It means that when I fly I actively avoid AA if at all possible. I haven’t flown with AA for around 5 years so I don’t know if I am still on the list, but I am not on it with any other airline.

The worst episode I had was when the TSA forgot to mark off my boarding pass after I went through security. At the boarding gate the AA staff freaked out, called security, and in front of the other passengers I was dragged out of the airport and back through security. I was then left with running through the airport to catch my flight. I just managed to get back to the gate before the plane left.
I wrote a (high-level) blog post about the motivation for creating this here: http://chargecapture.com/post/weekly-byte-pmds-first-open-so...
Search engines can't typically crawl content that's behind authentication.
KeystoneML – Simplify large, end-to-end, machine learning pipelines with Spark
They're adding it to Objective-C now to make it interop better with Swift.

Objective-C classes have Swift interfaces automatically generated so you can call them from Swift code. Up until now this has been pretty shitty, since Swift is overall a stricter language than Obj-C. e.g., calls in Swift can enforce a return value to be non-nil, but Obj-C cannot, therefore all Obj-C-Swift interfaces leaves these values in an unknown nullable state even if the code itself makes guarantees on nilness.

The "nice" bits being added allow proper generation of Swift interfaces so that Swift code calling Obj-C code doesn't lose type safety (or nil-safety).
Show HN: Strong Brain – Anti-Alzheimer's mental exercises
Malcolm Gladwell's excellent 2006 New Yorker article "Million Dollar Murray" directly addresses some of the grumbling in the comments below... it's easy for people who've followed the law to resent spending money on people who've broken the law, but it would be more efficient to spend a little money on decreasing recidivism and save a lot on incarceration. Gladwell sums it up nicely with an example from Denver's homelessness problems:

"That is what is so perplexing about power-law homeless policy. From an economic perspective the approach makes perfect sense. But from a moral perspective it doesn’t seem fair. Thousands of people in the Denver area no doubt live day to day, work two or three jobs, and are eminently deserving of a helping hand—and no one offers them the key to a new apartment. Yet that’s just what the guy screaming obscenities and swigging Dr. Tich gets. When the welfare mom’s time on public assistance runs out, we cut her off. Yet when the homeless man trashes his apartment we give him another. Social benefits are supposed to have some kind of moral justification. We give them to widows and disabled veterans and poor mothers with small children. Giving the homeless guy passed out on the sidewalk an apartment has a different rationale. It’s simply about efficiency."

http://gladwell.com/million-dollar-murray/

EDIT: Changed "much of the grumbling" to "some"
I am subscribed and get my Angular Newsletter weekly from this site[1].

Although the newsletter also involves the anticipated changes for the 2.0 version, they do provide good articles as well related to the latest Angular release.

If you are on Twitter, you could also follow @AngularJS[2].

Also, Egghead[3] and Airpair[4] normally provides good articles related to AngularJS, although the latter has more diverse web topics.

[1] http://www.ng-newsletter.com/

[2] https://twitter.com/angularjs?lang=en

[3] https://egghead.io/

[4] https://www.airpair.com/posts
You actually do have a screen with 50k pixels. Many more than that.

A continuous heat map over two dimensions, at 500x500 pixels, is 250,000 pixels. Of course, to generate the heat map, you have to aggregate (binning on two dimensions), but you don't have to downsample.
Library of Congress: Twitter archive project limbo
For 11 I think you're wrong because you forgot the part: "As minutes pass, you begin to vaguely remember lurking in your basement and typing the command ':(){ :|: & };:' in an xterm session just before everything went black.". The fact that you have a machine which has an xterm session means that it's either an OS X or Linux Box, which rules out the possibility of having 3 windows boxes. So you have 1/26 chances of having 3 linux boxes and 3*2/26 chances of having 2 exactly 2 linux boxes, so in total it's 7/26 (or 0.2692307692307692).
Use SwiftFile [1] to help soft emails into folders. Based on a few things like sender and subject it will suggest 2-3 folders that you've filed similar emails into.

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24019219
Completely underwhelmed.

Being rich isn't the issue.
Is the Django project Pythonic? I mean, on the one hand, Python is the language of bells and whistles builtin. On the other hand, packages are encouraged to be simple and to the point.

Whilst this wasn't a discussion on which framework is best (and I'm not a Web dev by trade either), I must say I turn to Flask, as I find the API more Pythonic.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that the Django source code is probably great, but the less heavyweight packages/frameworks the better. Learn Pythonic API design from somewhere else.
Interesting - its good to see transparency in investing. Do you have a ranking for the person with the most tips received?
But things like accessing the server directly through a third party program would normally be pretty blatantly against most corporate AUP
It feels like your last sentence defines what _why was, a beautiful creation.
I didn't say there was anything wrong with it. I totally agree that they should ban racist/sexist/bigoted garbage.

I do think it's kind of pathetic how transparently Reddit's owners only ever respond when they get bad press from the mainstream media, instead of showing some spine and real moral leadership.

It's sad that Coke's ad buying team is what passes for a conscience today.
Sure, but who convinced 71% of Californians that this approach was a good idea?
admittedly didn't read the article, but assuming something like this might answer the question posed in the headline; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRZ2Sh5-XuM
I think Tipboard might be more what you're after:

- https://github.com/allegro/tipboard
- http://tipboard.readthedocs.org/
Per capita murder rates in the US peaked at 9.8 (per 100k) in 1991 and we still close to that peak at 9.5 when CA passed their three strikes law in 1993.

Edit: actually 1991 was a local maxima. It was exceeded by a bit in the early 80s. Still though these laws were definitely passed when crime was quite high.
Hmm. True. Though obviously crawlers can be allowed different access.

Doesn't Google have a policy that sites must allow access from Google links in order to have content indexed? See for example the New York Times and their paywall, which is famously circumvented via Google.

That seems to indicate it's not that clear cut. My suspicion is they haven't really thought about it yet.
While his tone is too harsh the underlying idea is the problem with crime reform.

"Those other guys aren't my problem" is a general consensus and "those other guys who got through our great court system and were found guilty" is a huge barrier to overcome for most people, even though it is a bogus sentiment for a ton of reasons.

And to be fair, a lot of research was showing that repeat offenders were a problem for society, it has been shown that the harshness of the prison system and the after effects are why, but if you don't know that link then saying "well they keep doing it so lets take care of the problem" while simultaneously discouraging repeat offense makes sense. Again underlying those things is falsehoods and three-strikes is a terrible idea, but it doesn't take much thought to see why it became so popular.
It's harder to point to specific items in those areas and say, "this feature X saved us $Y", whereas the sales departments have easy figures to point to.

Sadly, this whole "cost center" versus "profit center" exists at all types of companies. I used to work in food manufacturing, and the incentives in play there were beyond strange. The sanitation budget was constantly being slashed, because Quality Assurance as a department doesn't bring in a profit (that they can see), whereas hordes of "process engineers" would come in and rearrange boxes and claim that they have just eliminated 10 steps out of the workflow and calculate this to be saving $92/day. They quickly get promoted before anyone can actually see if this made orders any faster. Another common tactic was to cut positions on the manufacturing line, claim the reduced headcount as a savings, and move on before the problems of fewer headcount (slower throughput) became apparent.
>What Shiny does to get around this is natively 'evaluate' the plots on the backend, creating a rasterized PNG file

I don't think that's the case for D3 charts, because that would kill the interactivity that is so great about D3. I use RCharts to inject D3 into my Shiny applications, and have ran into into performance issues with just a couple hundred data points. I think this is because all heavy lifting is done by the client (browser), not the server.
I think the top post is intended to be Steve's assessment of the rules as they are (see footnote [1]) and to solicit feedback for potential changes. Really the only new thing mentioned is the non-porn NSFCivilization category, which he pretty clearly distinguishes from the rest of the post.
I have played around with this database I am looking forward to using it on my next project! This is great news but I would love if they wrote a Erlang/Elixir driver. There is one that that the community wrote but would love to see someone full time on it.
There might be some validity to that, but I think you are blurring the lines between a private key being issued to someone and others knowing their vote, which would only happen if other know their public voting key.
Could I or could anybody? Funny you mention ad hominem and targeting the question to me, implying that I use slurs and ad hominems. :)

I seriously don't care if somebody is smart and I have something to learn I will regardless of her style, slurs or whatever. I learned that in primary school where I was exposed to underpaid teachers who hated everybody who was smart. :)
No, I don't. I'll submit to the Reasonable Person Test here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_person
They're essentially powerless to do anything but placate every time it comes up. The longer they're in business the harder they must comply with government censorship. And the more popular they get, the more they are subject to democratic outrage.
This technology is old, its been around for years - its just the first time that companies and telecoms are coming together to bring it to something other than Apple SIM. This is good for consumers if it actually comes out like it should, which means "OPEN" and not closed off for the rest of those manufactures that might be interested in it.
AA sold these tickets for a long time after interest rates came down. They didn’t even both to prohibit people from selling their companion tickets to others, or making multiple booking that could be cancelled at the last minute. This was not a well thought out idea.

Even if it was a good idea, the way they went around trying to break their own contract was not very good. The best way to handle something like this is recognise you made a mistake and buy back the tickets from their owners at their current market value.
Personally I'm all for harsh sentences for violent offenders, but once your sentence is up (for any crime) that should be the end of it. You should have all the rights non-incarcerated people have - free association, voting, gun ownership.

On the jobs side I have no idea what the right thing to do is. On one hand if people with criminal records can't get jobs you're pretty much forcing them to return to a life of crime. But on the other hand... if I'm hiring people I'll only hire a guy with a serious criminal record if I can't find anyone else. That's just self preservation.
Coontown makes Reddit an attractive place for racists to congregate. As the overall userbase of Reddit starts to include more racists, it will inherently lead to racist users voting and posting comments on other posts. Coontown doesn't necessarily need to promote users spreading their ideas to other subreddits, its mere existence helps to accomplish the same.
Most likely then the bar for basic needs increases.

If all needs are fulfilled regardless, then we have moved from scarcity economy to abundance economy, in which case capitalism breaks down (and that's the basis for communism/socialism actually). Note that the main importance of capitalism is a way to efficiently distribute resources, in an abundance economy, we don't have to do that efficient either.
> If they'd kept it all in FPH they'd have been fine. And there's a clue in all the other FPH-style subs that didn't get banned. Identical content (ideas), different behaviour.

Ah ok, I didn't pick that nuance up. I browse Reddit a bit but stay away from the main subs, and try to ignore the drama as well.

I still don't know my opinion on this issue - while I fully support 'free speech' (as it applies in this context), if companies don't want hateful speech and groups on their platforms then I think they should be able to remove them. But it's a slippery slope :/
You're correct that without low-latency trading, markets will be less efficient in that bid-ask spreads will increase. However, I think of that efficiency as an architect optimizing a skyscraper's earthquake tolerance. Sure, on a regular day we want to save money, but a prudent person will "waste" on redundant systems and excessive tolerances.
The most compelling reason is being able to write way less code. When I write in C# I'm constantly annoyed at how pointlessly verbose it is. I feel hampered, like I'm trying to talk to a 5 year old that doesn't really understand English.
This seems almost like a scientific way of stating Murphy's law with an addendum: anything that can happen, will happen..eventually.
Yeah, that's a really good idea and makes totally sense!
Thank you!

The "Something went wrong" was a little problem we had during a deploy but everything works as expected again.
agreed: I also learned a lot from nltk too, esp. freqdist/probdist as well as the classifiers in nltk and sklearn
> Personally I'm all for harsh sentences for violent offenders

Why? There's no clear evidence that particularly harsh sentences actually reduce recidivism.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Light sentences for murderers? I couldn't support that.
Technically it could be translated from more traditional pictures. (Instead of being an original creation.)
Worked for me. Thank you! I'll post some feedback, after I read it of course. :)
Misfit’s New Flash Link Activity Tracker Dubs as Smart Button
One of the crimes being committed on the Greek populace is the financial system blockade, with blocked access to basic banking services and electronic transactions. The ECB has decided that Euros in a Greek bank account are worthless (apart from a very small daily cash allowance), similarly to what happened to Cyprus recently.

If anything, banks should provide at least money-handling services and should be separate from the more speculative, financial engineering side. Money residing in accounts is not borrowed and does not belong to the government or the ECB, it's not an emergency piggy bank for the state.

Access to modern financial services and online transactions should be a human right. Without those modern business becomes impossible and so does a modern economy.
I see another issue. Have I ever gotten to the bottom of an intermittent error only to determine it is a synchronization error? Yes.

The problem is I have also gotten down to the bottom of a problem and found it was a stale data problem. In a system that was performing gymnastics to keep things immutable. To the point that fixing it was not a simple matter of just updating the variable.

Worst were the Multiversion concurrency control (MCC) systems I have seen rolled to "help keep all facts of the system immutable." Suddenly, we had to have database implementation experts just to run basic software...
Those are just Scala unicode operators
http://scala-lang.org/files/archive/spec/2.11/01-lexical-syn.... They are equivalent to <- and =>