jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Abstract:
"Social networks help to bond people who share similar interests all over the world. As a complement, the Facebook "Like" button is an efficient tool that bonds people with the online information. People click on the "Like" button to express their fondness of a particular piece of information and in turn tend to visit webpages with high "Like" count. The important fact of the Like count is that it reflects the number of actual users who "liked" this information. However, according to our study, one can easily exploit the defects of the "Like" button to counterfeit a high "Like" count. We provide a proof-of-concept implementation of these exploits, and manage to generate 100 fake Likes in 5 minutes with a single account. We also reveal existing counterfeiting techniques used by some online sellers to achieve unfair advantage for promoting their products. To address this fake Like problem, we study the varying patterns of Like count and propose an innovative fake Like detection method based on clustering. To evaluate the effectiveness of our algorithm, we collect the Like count history of more than 9,000 websites. Our experiments successfully uncover 16 suspicious fake Like buyers that show abnormal Like count increase patterns."

http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.05414
I think you're right. There's a small place (co-op?) in Seattle that sells frozen meals that are quite healthy and delicious. I wish I could remember the name.

I mean, heck, anybody who's ever cooked extra food and frozen it themselves has proved this... right? :)

What we like about the non-frozen meals, though, is that preparing the meals together is a lot of fun. Of course you could do this without a meal delivery service too (and we have) but we found that we didn't do it very often. The meal delivery service kind of "forces" (in the nicest possible way) us to do it.
How about the first subsequent load after the TTL for the previous load expires?

Admittedly, not much of an issue if you're a big site with hundreds/thousands of requests a minute but it is an issue if you're a less trafficed site and have a low TTL.
Well the data is hosted on s3.amazonaws.com at least once, judging by the urls. So they either use it as a complement, or exclusively.
Patiently waiting for villain troll, link troll and picture troll to work this thread.
No, you can't single him out like this: Since Mavericks, OS crashes are very often reported, and Chrome tabs seem to be often reported as a cause. I myself have never had crashes with Snow Leopard and I see them often in Yosemite. That's exactly why we see articles reporting the Apple has lost the Quality ground.
Notably, using a similar tactic, the 'Gävle goat' survived this Christmas from arsonists because the town set up a taxi rank around the wooden structure:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/christmas-201...
Honestly, I don't know. I'm thinking mostly of "active" coins, not those that haven't moved in years. I personally think that Satoshi's coins will never move.

So even if it's a minority at 20%, that's a pretty substantial number, and I can't imagine why it won't grow. Bitcoin's success depends on mass adoption, and I can't imagine a scenario where Jane Public would rather learn the technical skills to secure a local wallet versus trusting a company like Coinbase or Circle.
Actually, the ideas for LTS Haskell came out of conversations I had with Duncan and Mark at ICFP. The original idea was to create a GPS Haskell that would encompass a "best of both worlds." LTS Haskell is a first step towards that, and I'm hoping that Haskell Platform and Hackage ultimately fold this stuff back in.

I went into more detail on this history in the previous blog post: https://www.fpcomplete.com/blog/2014/12/backporting-bug-fixe...
I worked at a company in the 90's that did stack ranking. But the team I was on was 10 people. Each with 10 different roles and skill sets. My boss was European and told his boss and HR to pound sand.
Renaming would be even worse!
This wasn't really a two sided bet, Archegos bought a lot of stock and essentially borrowed a massive amount of money to buy even more stock, then the stock lost value.

If Company X is worth $60B on Monday and $40B on Tuesday then some people who were short could make a lot of money, but in general $20B of value has been destroyed and the world is poorer on Tuesday.
Short story: in 1953 Jacobo Árbenz of Guatemala initiated a land reform program. Large uncultivated holdings were expropriated, the owners compensated as per the value they themselves declared on their tax forms, and redistributed to the landless peasantry. Previously, 2% of the population controlled 72% of the arable land (with the United Fruit Company alone owning 42% of arable land!), poverty was widespread, but at the same time much of the land was unused. Practices such as labour-as-rent meant that much of the population, especially indigenous persons, were effectively serfs in a feudal system. Health outcomes were also very poor.

After the reforms poverty was slashed, The government also created a line of credit for the newly landed farmers to get their things going: it dispensed $3,371,185 in loans during 1953. By July 1954 $3,049,092 had been paid back! An success almost without parallel in history.

Cutting to the chase, the US didn't like that, so they initiated one operation to boot him out and install a sympathetic dictator. It failed, so they tried again, and it succeeded. The new establishment proceeded to revert all those reforms, give back land to foreign hoarders. The US also placed death squads through the countryside to enforce the change, paving the way for decades of civil war.
Even if we assume that to be true, the fourth of those statements still sucks. No free software license denies use to people who have the wrong political views. If you manage to get software patents outlawed in one jurisdiction, your patent license expires in all other jurisdictions. Imagine how much the FSF would love to have a clause saying, if you weaken the GPL in court, your license to use any GPL software expires... but they don't.

And even if we assume that to be true and assume that both parties believe in patents want a robust, well-functioning software patent system, that clause still sucks. If Facebook and I both invent something at roughly the same time and apply for patents, and the Patent Office misreads our applications and grants them both, and I point this out to them and I had priority (thereby invalidating some of Facebook's claims), Facebook gets to terminate all my patent licenses.
I wrote an article about this a few months ago, and wrote a little code test to see whether the iPhone touch based system correctly handled touch events by triggering both onhover and ontouch for touch events:

http://experimentgarden.blogspot.com/2010/02/touch-based-web...

So theoretically on touch devices such as the iPhone/iPad a touch is the same thing as a hover in cases where there is no onclick handler, but in elements that have both an onhover and an onclick handler the onhover handler will execute extremely quickly, then the onclick handler will be called, so hover effects could be missed completely.

The best bet is clearly to avoid using onhover for important things.
One important issue the article doesn't address: do these scores have any meaningful correlation with success in the sciences? The ability to do research and the ability to do well in exams are two quite different things.

On the face of it, a pretty shaky premise.
If it doesn't support Windows then it shouldn't be called "Cross Platform", no?
I'm not sure why you are getting down voted. Your explanation is logical and the lack of iPhone carriers is a big issue for marketshare. Up voted.
http://i49.tinypic.com/ws0boj.png

I have midori identifying as safari - it works well enough for google to at least not give me crap for using something different, and I still see the "you need quicktime to view this" stuff.
Is this confirmed? I understood (from the OS 4 intro a couple of months ago) that the whole ad was cached on the device, which obviously makes opening it faster.
You're stealing my analogy. But I believe Bing is Pepsi and Google is New Coke.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1400311

It looks like Apple takes 20% market share by size and 80% by revenue. Android takes 80% market share by size and 20% by revenue. The carriers are giving away Android phones to price sensitive customers.

That looks like Apple's strategy with respect to iAds, too. It looks like iAds will be focused on large, mainstream consumer brands and AdMob will be focused on affiliate links for boner pills.

Big advertisers don't want to advertise to price sensitive customers and App developers can't sell to them.
Thanks. Yes it is only one page right now. I had originally planned a whole site with different sections and pages but it seemed a bit wasteful since the current integration guide is: • have jquery on your site • add a line of code linking to your JS file

But behind the scenes how it works is that JS file (ie. usecharm.com/mmelin.js or something) returns different code depending on the cookie of the visitor and the configuration of the project. So if you launch a test, the goals and changes will come out in that file and it is also based on what page it is requested from, so the change could be different when requested from the homepage of your site vs a content page. By default it just has basic analytics stuff like referrer-detection and measuring demographics.

Do you think I should add a "behind the scenes" or similar section that explains all the technical stuff going on?
I've written code under the influence of various substances over the years, although I rarely imbibe much of anything these days.

I've found marijuana nice for doing "exploratory" or more "recreational" coding -- the shape of some of the work I'm most fond of(both in music and in code, unsurprisingly) was initially formed while high and then refined over however long implementation took.

I don't feel like I can do much of anything creative under the influence of alcohol, and the few times I wrote code drunk it was very very bad code.

I've tried to code on various hallucinogens, and generally just ended up thinking that the plastic and metal shiny boxes were pretty ridiculous and that it was about time to go for a walk.

As far as what you're calling "akimbo", generally no. If I go to social events, it's to socialize. If it happens to be a party filled with programmers, then yeah sure, but it would presumably be a group activity. I might leave a party and go code something, but not at one.
XKCD humorously references the "Ballmer peak", where a slight alcohol buzz confers superhuman focus and programming ability:
http://xkcd.com/323/
Intent would be difficult to prove, versus "Its a convenient tied down point."
Too bad there was nothing about using color for anti aliasing.
Another reason to not buy Apple and get a proper PC laptop/desktop.
Yeah, its weird because I was subscribed to a much lower email plan anyway. Somehow, that gave them the okay to auto-upgrade my account and 'release the hounds.'

Also, this was a reputable email provider that many of you know of (i believe it went thru one of the incubators).
Was it just disabled?
It matches the CSS equivalent feature, image-set().
I sorta agree.

I don't think there's anything inherently awful about 100+ hour work weeks (in that I would never want to do them, but people know what they're getting into when they join a BAML internship), but anecdotally the culture of working long hours at an IB is much more destructive than, say, working long hours at a hospital -- there's a much more pervasive drug life, and the long hours are borne much more out of showmanship and capriciousness than actual necessity.

It's a pretty shitty industry that attract specific personalities, but it's not going to go away anytime soon -- mainly because of the massive amounts of money.
It seems to be spelled out pretty clearly. The NSA was collecting internet messages through ISPs. These messages were supposed to be to, from, or about specific non-US targets, and the systems were supposed to have "minimization procedures" that would keep them from collecting other messages that were to/from/about US citizens. These procedures were found to be insufficient: the NSA collected tens of thousands of messages about US citizens without their consent, which the court found to be in violation of the fourth amendment.
So you mean set of people who are yet to join the army are the same as the set of people who are already in the army? :-)
Some folks are so lonely, that watching some stranger watch tv can be a nice distraction.
I don't really get that. Why would someone need an estimate if the estimate is wrong anyway - what use it is.

Then if I'm forced to give an estimate, I usually add an order of magnitude precisely because I know there's a lot I don't know yet, and the worst and best cases of underpromising and over-delivering are better than vice versa. Yet many people's intuitions (also engineers') appear to disagree with that.
This isn't really an area that I'm super familiar with but why wouldn't a Mario speed run be kids friendly? That seems like the type of thing I would have watched when I was 12.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedrun
Just another example of the .org domain being eroded - they’re not an NGO, not a non-profit - they’re a for-profit limited company, and therefore shouldn’t be using a .org.
HN probably not the right crowd for your organic growth. But
+Post snippets of video on YouTube/Facebook
+Do tutorials of difficult steps
+Do teardowns /reviews of ballet in movies and other shows
+Sell subscriptions( building something that can help here )
+ Talk to the best in your niche of the arts and release as podcast
+ Engage ballet twitter
>through keywords or something

The whole point is to avoid this. Currently in many languages you could trivially generate method stubs that throw errors or some such thing but that still slows down iteration and opts you into far more baggage than necessary.
I see a lot of people accessing a map/dictionary using the “for (key in)” pattern, not realizing they are inheriting any method/prototype names along with their basic dictionary they’ve defined. Using Object.create(null) is an easy way to not only save memory, but reduce issues if using dynamic key names.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/500504/why-is-using-for-...
That website looks and reads like they’re selling some high end Breitling or Patek Philippe
ive exploded my life so many times its unreal, the key for me at least is to look back and take stock of what youve actually achieved. i was a very early bitcoin miner, and i mean when it was worth less than £1, i spent every one, had i saved even 10% of whats passed through my hands id be set for life, people often ask me if i have regrets, i dont.

the reason why is that i look back on my life and realize ive managed to do so many things i never thought i would, ive been simply chatting about things ive done and had people worth millions say "id love to do that" i always ask why and they make excuses, usually "work commitments" despite the fact they already have more than enough to retire on, they have success but got so caught up in it they forgot to live along the way.

so you made a bad choice, write it off, put it behind you and move on and remember to have fun along the way, id rather die broke with a head full of awesome memories than on a pile of money with no worthwhile experience.

theres probably a balance in there somewhere but ive never been much good at finding it. its dark times now sure but youll get things back on track again and if life treats you anything like it treats me itll probably get ripped apart again at some point but if you dont take chances youll never get anywhere, id rather regret something i did than wonder what may have happened had i not taken the chance

but then im probably no example of how anyone should live their life
More crazy ideas and apps. Less cynicism and punditry.

More hardware hacks like - http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/12/save_sensor_data_to...
The posts definition does essentially agree with your definition, because it is concerned only with software.

You write parallel software (use parallel algorithms), when you want to exploit hardware parallelism (usually multiple CPUs) to do one thing. While you write concurrent software to do multiple things at once, that require same resources (CPUs, Memory, etc.). There is theory of parallel algorithms that is concerned with extending of big-O notation to multiple processors and performance effects of inter-processor communication, while concurrent algorithm theory deals with synchronization problems.

In essence one can illustrate the difference by looking at synchronization primitives used: while concurrent code mostly uses locks, parallel code uses barriers. And on many parallel supercomputers of eighties, synchronization of parallel code was implicit, because all processors had common clock and thus you could do all synchronization by simply knowing that what given processor is doing when.

This is relevant to this "threads are useless" debate by the fact, that threads are meant for concurrency and not parallelism, because they implicitly share resources (memory) that is mostly not required to be shared. Large part of complexity of modern multiprocessor hardware (and operating systems) comes form effort to detect which part of memory is shared and which is used only by one processor (or thread). Because sharing whole memory array incurs non-trivial contention and precludes you from doing any meaningful caching.
The RSS is good, the Opera mail is good... the IRC and bittorrent, on the other hand, are not very good at all, which is sad, because it would be very nice if they were!
github has been profitable for a while now because of people like me who give them money for a great service. If something like this happened, they would stop being profitable.

It's hard to imagine what they'd find in a private repo that would make them more money than what they've got in https://github.com/github
It's too old school to expect people to have their own personal default style settings for their browsers. There are barely any sites these days that don't define their own styles.

It's actually a neat idea of the original web, but it's of little practical value today.
If we had a dollar for every starry-eyed wanna-be game developer we get at our service, we'd be profitable by now! :-) We make cloud services for mainly Flash multiplayer games, and most of the developers are programmers and only need a little help to use our services, but there's always the occasional "Hi! I have a great idea for a game!" or "I want to make a game, but I don't know where to start lol".

I mean, we want to help them, almost everyone I know that works as a professional developer today started as a kid, wanting to make something. But where do you start with someone that doesn't know anything, and more importantly, someone that seems incapable of just downloading a development environment, ANY environment?
Next time you go into a store, look at the price of 12 packs of coke. Stores usually buy them for around $3.85-$4/12 pack now (but a 'case' is 2 12 packs), and that price doesn't change much from state to state.

You'll notice they typically go on sale below that right around the holidays. It's so they can advertise to get you in and buy other stuff.

Stores like Winco and Costco usually sell coke close to cost. They don't actually get it cheaper than any other grocery store. In fact, most grocery stores will outsell costco when it comes to 12/24 packs. The cost/profit ratio is usually more constant at these places.

I've noticed that Safeway is particularly bad at inconsistent prices (hugely varying cost/profit ratios). They're sales are decent, but everything else is super inflated to make up for it.
But it will be unreadable when most people want to read it. Sure, the 200 hundred readers that normally read your blog in the course of the month won't be much disturbed. It's just the 20000 readers that tried to reach it in in a couple of minutes that you will lose.
There's hope that companies that have to be competitive from poorer countries will push correct technologies. I see it happening in UK, Brazil, Russia etc.

But it's no good to be big company when Whatsapp can be build by one person you missed to hire.
Could be. But men rated women very closely to a normal distribution which makes it not impossible but unlikely.
Yeah,just like Intel saved AMD from bankruptcy.
And Microsoft saved Apple.
I agree that I would prefer they don't add in landscape home page. As it is, most people have developed a certain flipping technique for rotating their phone in their hand, which is much harder to do with an iPad. And once you introduce a landscape home screen, then you can't use spatial memory to launch apps anymore. Personally, I would prefer that the iPad used a 4 x 4 set of icons for just this reason. Icons are always in different positions and I need to search rather than know where they are using memory. In contrast, My finger is on the correct icon instantaneously on the iPhone.
You are making choices on behalf of other people. Because you don't need it, doesn't mean that everone else doesn't need it. It's everyone's personal choice to use bitcoin. Everyone on this planet can use bitcoin. It's completely open system. You can also choose to not use it.
Been using it for 3 years. Loving it. Let me know if you wanna see the configuration files.
Thank you! Appreciate the words of encouragement! :)
Those activities only fit the definition of rent-seeking if you consider the value of labor as only what the market will bear. By that logic, if I offer a job at $5/hour and someone takes it, any attempt by that employee to get paid above $5 is "rent-seeking".

But that brings us right back to my original point: if my choice is starvation or $5/hour, I'm going to take the $5, but that's a coercive choice. I was forced into it by the threat of death. Now explain to me how that's different from holding a gun to someone and forcing them to work? You didn't determine the value of my labor, you determined that I don't want to die.

So an attempt to increase the cost of labor (minimum wages, credentialing/protectionism) is an attempt to extract the true value of labor, even though the threat of death-by-starvation remains. Like a previous commenter said - unless we want to radically re-org our society - that threat of death is irreducible. For example, if every person was granted enough arable land to subsist off of by the state, we'd see a very different labor market.
I would be more charitable to calls to destroy the gig industry if the proposals were coupled with any realistic path to retraining or alternatively-employing the employees.

When the comment is just "this job should not exist" I just know there's no intellectual consistency behind it. They want to punish employers they don't like, and don't especially care who is hurt in the process.
Possibly. Who could have guessed in 1939 when Germany invaded Poland that the US would invade Greenland in response?