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Here's how it should work, IMO:

(1) An upvote signals a positive sentiment

(2) A downvote signals a negative sentiment

(3) A subject's "newsworthiness" is measured by the sum of upvotes and downvotes (i.e. 5 upvotes and 5 downvotes = 10 newsworthy points)

(4) A subject gets buried by measuring the square of the difference between downvotes and upvotes, divided by total votes squared (i.e. 5 downvotes and 1 upvote has a newsworthy score of 6, but it will have a "bury" score of (5-1)^2 / 6^2. This would only apply to subjects with more downvotes than upvotes.

Currently, upvotes end up being a mixture of "positive sentiment" and "newsworthy" -- there needs to be a method of distinction between those.

Odd that I got 2 downvotes for "great idea."

Great idea.

Also, a couple other things...

(1) You might be better off writing a small python script for this. That is one heck of a query you wrote. I used to have a job where I regularly wrote queries like this, and they took up to an hour to run sometimes. When I discovered python I never turned back.

(2) This type of analysis has a flaw, so be careful what conclusions you draw from it. What you are doing describes the data, but it (a) does not identify a causal relationship between keywords and submission scores and (b) would likely hold very little predictive power. If you were to form a new set of data from simulating a random walk process to generate titles and upvote/downvote submissions, this analysis would also yield apparent "hive mind keywords" but obviously there is no underlying causal relationship in that case.

You should look up the topic of "cross validation". The easiest thing you could do and the best "first step" would be to take the reddit data and split it in half (while maintaining consistency obviously) so that you have two groups of data. Then perform your analysis on each group, and compare results.

Another method would be to take repeated random subsamples and perform your analysis. See if you get consistent results.

I think this type of analysis would be more telling if "phrases" were looked at instead of words. I.e. 2-word and 3-word combinations.

What is the point of having a human "database operator" who carries out simple tasks like deleting an index when it shows up in a work request log? Is this how most companies structure their dev teams?

If you have a human there to perform tasks, then it would seem natural to allow them "human advantages" such as the ability to communicate with the person who created the request, or the ability to have some of their own checks and balances before performing the index deletion (ex. let's take a look and see if this seems safe based on the current schema and codebase).

I am also surprised how easy it was for a single dev to make a request that subsequently results in the modification of a production database.

"nobody will either attend or work for a university" -- universities will never disappear, at least not in 20 years because (a) there's too much business, cash flow, physical infrastructure, etc currently and (b) professions such as lawyers, doctors, accountants, etc. will still require formal education whether you call it a "university" or not.

Those are 2 reasons off the top of my head.

The concept is a little ridiculous. First, there is this link which actually shows that men receive more online bullying than women do:

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/06/01/the-darkest-...

Second of all, the concept of policing every piece of content that appears on social media is also ridiculous. With this line of thinking, why stop at just social media?

Our e-mails, and in fact anything that can be deemed as messaging/communication of some sort should also be monitored. Sending a private google hangout message, a private facebook message, etc.

The policing of content should also pertain to individual websites, news organizations like the washington post (before any article is published, a government official should have to approve it), and perhaps we should even be forced to allow random inspections by the government in our houses to prevent domestic violence.

Obviously this concept is completely ridiculous, and I think the general public will agree.

I have the information that is public, and nothing suggests they are doing anything different than what is already being worked on by others.

The old Apple would set out to create a paradigm shift in how humans travel and view transportation (instead of just jumping on the EV bandwagon).

I disagree with that sentiment. I think the best startups solve really large, difficult problems that affect the world around them.

This is the definition of racial discrimination.

You need to get with reality. Look at the fricking photo of what the kid brought.

It's inside a small case, with exposed wires, and a digital display. You're really naive if you don't think that's going to raise any eyebrows.

If some kid is passionate about cooking, should he bring in his homemade flour in small unmarked plastic baggies and start selling it to all his classmates? Completely within anybody's right to do that, but OBVIOUSLY a stupid idea. That's the category this kid's homemade clock falls under.

The takeaway?

Don't use standard e-mail (gmail or otherwise) for anything that needs guaranteed privacy. Once you send an e-mail, it is not within your control what happens to it or who sees it.

That's why, for example, in healthcare -- messages are commonly wrapped in secure message "containers". The e-mail simply has a link that takes you to a third party where the actual message is stored, encrypted, has an expiration date, and you must authenticate to view it.

Convenient? No. But privacy always comes at a cost of some sort.

You have really terrible reading comprehension. The comment I replied to said "what happened to him was wrong. to suggest otherwise..." -- I did not suggest what happened to him was RIGHT (which would qualify as suggesting otherwise). I said it was PREDICTABLE. Do you understand the difference?

Second of all, I labeled my analogy as "extreme". Perhaps you missed that, or once again maybe it's just that your reading comprehension skills are lacking. I used an extreme example to illustrate my point clearly.

The common sense to not bring a hollywood-macguyver-homemade-electronic device into a school knowing full well there are incompetent, conservative-minded administration who will judge you based upon your name, appearance, and the fact you have a bomb-looking electronic device. Right or wrong, it's PREDICTABLE and puts yourself at meaningless risk with no upside.

Once again, this might be WRONG. But it is PREDICTABLE. This is the concept of idealism vs realism. The way the world is versus the way the world ought to be. Perhaps this type of conversation is above your head though.

Did I suggest otherwise? Re-read my comment.

Oh come on, you're extremely naive if you couldn't have predicted some type of negative reaction by bringing that project to school, in Texas.

It's a bad idea because pretty much ANYONE with a little common sense could have predicted that there would be a realistic probability of a BAD outcome by bringing that to school. Even if it's just a little homemade clock project.

I find python's multiprocessing module to be simple to use. I would be interested in hearing the author elaborate on why he feels it is clunky and has not had a good experience with it.

May I ask...to those who are so deeply opposed to sharing your personal data with corporations and their partners:

Let's assume, worst case scenario -- you enable every single data sharing option on your Android phone as well as let's say, Windows desktop. And you use chrome browser, logged in, etc. All the time.

Now, the question is: explain to me, what you expect to be the negative outcome and how it affects your daily life.

I am genuinely curious. Or is this just a fear of the unknown and projecting into the future all of the bad things that may happen (or also may not)?

You just described the movie Vanilla Sky

These are all cons of zooming not enabling zoom (except for the tap-to-zoom. If the user wants to zoom, they take on those risks.

What are the cons of enabling zoom? Are there any?

If we operate under the assumption that with free services like facebook, twitter, instagram, gmail, etc -- can and will delete our content and revoke access to the service without warning at any point in time -- doesn't that make the service somewhat useless?

Most users operate under the assumption that there is some sort of guarantee that their account will continue to exist and they will have a consistent day-to-day experience. That is a BIG part that makes the service actually "useful".

For the service to be valuable, users are led to believe that when they create a username and a password for themselves, their username will not simply disappear and access revoked at any point in time. That would be quite a useless service wouldn't it?

With enterprise sales, at least in my industry, I would never get through the corporate procurement process in order to become a vendor -- without being a legal business entity.

Local businesses operating physically inside the city consume resources to some extent. They use the roads, sidewalks, buildings, cause people to walk/drive to certain places, etc. They pay for rent and other expenses, but also use/benefit from city resources that they aren't directly charged for.

But netflix obviously doesn't have any physical presence in chicago.

How does one write an article which summarizes the process of building a machine learning model, and not discuss cross validation? Not a very good article, to be honest.

Anyone out there using Angular and Firebase? That's been my go-to "stack" for achieving 3-way binding of the UI, javascript model, and remote database. The only downside is that you're locked into using firebase as a service, can't host it locally, and you're limited to what their API supports. It's amazingly fast in terms of ability to churn out features.

Meteor seems to be the only thing that comes close to giving offering the same amount of productivity as I can get using Angularfire.

Has anyone used both, that can comment?

Most of these articles / experiments focus on the perspective of being the observer...

What is the conclusion if you are the thing being observed?