skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The green is used to give an indication for potentially low-quality content.

I wouldn't say that at all! It's just interesting to know what's new.

We've been displaying new sites in green to moderators for a while now. When a high-quality story comes from a brand new (to HN) site, that's interesting. The converse, too: it's interesting when you can see that an obscure site isn't new to HN (because it's not green). Often someone posted it like 6 years ago and it got no upvotes; or sometimes there was actually a major thread. Now you can click on the domain to find out. HN has a rich history that's fun to explore.

Edit: I'll give you, though, that green sites and green usernames have higher variance. The good ones are really good (think of the author of a story showing up in the thread to discuss it), while the bad ones are more likely to be spam. I think it's fine to call attention to it in either case.
1. How is that good? Personally, if I learned that one of my customers is selling DDOS-as-a-service, or other illegal stuff, I would drop them right away. Would you not?

2. Splitting hairs here - I never said that CF itself is performing or relaying DDOS attacks. But CF helps DDOSers stay up & in-business. This is kind of important for DDOSers as they tend to try and eliminate competition by DDOSing competitors, plus there are whitehats trying to DDOS DDOSers (lol here). CF helps them stay up. I can't imagine that you approve of that kind of stuff - that is, protecting illegal activities.
I was an extra in this movie - some of the school scenes (eg. the hallways during the sprinkler scene, which was great fun to film!) plus some interior classrooms too - were filmed on a sound stage at Pinewood Studios in London [1].

[1] http://www.pinewoodgroup.com/production/hackers
+1 for plant uml, also for that rose color scheme (for those who rememeber Rational Rose)
But, like I said, most people wouldn't pay for any of those things. They're "valuable" in that they're amusing and silly and free. Charge anything for them, and they would practically disappear overnight. Even people who don't explicitly block the ads are used to ignoring them at this point.

I'd like to see the overlap between people who click through web ads with people who respond to or click through spam email.
I agree the snark about your first source's name was a bit uncalled for. I can disagree with your position without being rude.
Rather than everyone throwing their own half-correct answer into this thread, just read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof-of-work_system
What's delicious is the fat, salt and seasoning added to the meat; a raw animal carcass is not appetizing to humans. Since the same can be had with a plant-derived food, especially without associated health risks of eating meat, why celebrate "bacon" and other animal products?
The "past" link is a nice feature, but what I'd really like to see is a way of weeding out duplicate stories before they're posted. For example, today there were 9 similar stories posted (so far) about Facebook's new "dislike" button[1], causing none of them to receive a significant numbers of upvotes. Could we have a feature in the "submit" dialog that displays similar stories in the last 24 hours and then asks the user if they really still want to submit theirs?

[1] https://new-hn.algolia.com/?experimental&sort=byDate&prefix=...
> Something like Uber could never have come out of Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlaBlaCar
The +1 is probably the best option there is, you can +1 something even if you completely disagree with that is stated or think it's completely horseshit but you think that It's important enough for other people to see.

The whole like/dislike or up/down is really a big issue on many cases since people misuse that (not counting intentional abuse) and think that it's a way to show support or disagreement with an opinion.

Reddit has it bad, HN probably has it even worse since only a few downvotes will actually silence a comment, and too many times you see comments that do not violate any rules on HN and are actually quite well written that get downvoted because the opinion that is expressed in them might not be popular enough or PC enough, heck even if something is factually wrong it's sad too see the comment being buried especially when there are replies provide fix the factuality of that original comment.

I would not mind to see HN move to a +1 system and just leave the flag option for comments that violates the site's rules.
I read Vol. 1 on an audiobook from Audible.com, while out on walks. It was slow going at times because of Gibbon's style, but it was entertaining. One of my favourite lines was:

"...it was an inflexible maxim of Roman discipline, that a good soldier should dread his officers far more than the enemy."
I don't really think he was going the thought experiment route. He seems to genuinely believe what he writes. For example:

"The NSA was most likely able to penetrate Hacking Team's network and steal the same data. The agency probably did it years ago."

Nothing too ambiguous about that assertion.
A very good point.
Global Burden of Disease is a very impressive database. For those who read the recent submission about Bayesian cutoffs for FDA drug approval, the cost-benefit part drew all the relevant weights from GBD.
Oh, yes, I agree. And when I was tired of writing macros like this: https://gist.github.com/in4lio/9102547, I wrote yupp)
Works fine for me since the story was posted. In Beijing here.
I would assume this is something that the poster will have to set? Because if not it would be quite funny to see "sympathy" floods on posts like "I'm getting married" or "I just had a baby".

Would actually be nice if Facebook had the ability to show support or disagreement with a content of a post, as well as some sort of "not interested" button.
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That family's got enough influence and money, I'm surprised this managed to stay up so long. With the resources they have access to I'd expect better. No surprise it got taken down without a word though, hundreds of thousands of emails being exposed to the wild should probably be reported first. I suppose this will lead to a quicker response time.
> Cox then proposes a hybrid engine that can be quicker when capture groups aren't needed.

Capture groups aren't the same thing as backreferences. You can do capturing groups fine in linear time (or at least, something close to linear time).
DIN is timeless! I think that it is beatiful font, with its cold appeal (it's the coldest font I think). I think Conduit also have this feeling a bit...
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Definitely agree.

In terms of raw "national security" net gain, it's likely it would be more useful if kept secret and used offensively than if it was revealed and patched. Vulnerabilities are dime a dozen. Patching one zero day says nothing of the 10 more that are floating around at any given time.
Hackers is pretty much The Craft for people in my trade: very silly, very 90s faux-edgy, and very fun. Originally I hated it, but then I was a dormmate in college with a skinny Russian kid who looked like he could walk straight off the set of this movie -- and he used the handle "Phreak". (He was into the MOD/tracker scene.) So eventually I came around to see its validity as an artifact of the cyberpunk zeitgeist.

And in a few ways it was accurate: it predicted (perhaps inspired?) the rise of case-modding.
This is a matter of taste, in this case, IMHO. Thanks for advice)
Perhaps, if one asserts IQ is some quantity defined and birth, and not amenable to influence through education, diet, living conditions etc.

Then one might be justified in implying that black people are worse off because they are fundamentally, genetically limited.

But that assertion re: IQ is not at all well founded. And this is setting aside how well IQ even captures "intelligence". Let me just point out that your statement "Intelligence is correlated with long term planning and academic performance and is anti-correlated with lack of intelligence" means absolutely nothing, as in the statement itself is non-sensical. Of course "intelligence" is anti-correlated with "anti-intelligence". You go back and forth between "intelligence" and IQ as if they're interchangeable meanings.

Even if I allow you that assertion re: IQ, and join with you in believing that blacks are fundamentally, genetically limited, then that would put them in the same camp as people with down syndrome.

From there, the implication of your view is that perhaps we should just place all the people with down syndrome in ghettos and leave them there. After all, they can never compete in the modern world. Do you think that's acceptable social policy? That that's an acceptable way to treat your fellow human beings, no matter how disadvantaged they are?

Why are you not looking at these circumstances and weeping for the way in which this genetically disadvantaged branch of humanity has been treated?
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What about a way to merge stories that are duplicates but with slightly different URLs that didn't get caught in the filter? Perhaps comments from all the articles could get merged together under the post with the most upvotes.
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I don't disagree with a word you are saying but I don't think I was implying that you shouldn't do cost benefit. It just wasn't what the article was trying to explore. I am saying both in the beginning and the end that I am not even sure it make sense to focus on unicorns for Europe.

But given it's importance on many things after all I wanted to understand why Europe didn't have more than they do.
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I meant integrity protection, i.e. ensuring that no one can unilaterally modify the information afterwards. Hash chains and trees are at least 35 years old.
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> Most of the greatest inventions of the past 100 years have come from large businesses that had the man-power and capital to invest in significant R&D departments.

Your narrative leaves out the huge sums of public dollars that underpinned those innovations.
There's no proof or mention that they didn't. There never will be, ever. Yet we have to make decisions, even in the absence of evidence pro or con. Given that they don't disclose "wittingly" what they do, given their mission, and given what appears to be their interpretation of their mission as revealed by Snowden and others, we have to assume the "worst" within the realm of possibility.

They did it, until they show me otherwise.
I wonder what it would take to create/put-together a minimal window manager and stripped down version of Linux wired to run Windows software as its default mode or purpose. Would it rival ReactOS or is Wine simply too unstable to truly serve as a "whole" OS?
Not just paying friends, but things like selling books etc.

If you campaign with free money you are basically marketing your book with free money.
I believe it was a point of pride at the old HP (pre-Reagan years) that they never did employee layoffs. The company my father worked for, DuPont, had the same policy. Seems like ancient history now. I must be getting old.
Very good improvements, thanks.

I think the dupe detection would be even more useful if done during submission.
I assume he was talking about worker's rights.
We do exactly that when users find the duplicates and link to them from the thread, as well as when we find the duplicates ourselves.

Making higher-octane software that can automate more of this has been on our list for a while, but it's hard to know when we'll get to that.
I don't see any way to ping you. Do you have an email?
A suggestion to anyone who's interested in logic languages, like prolog: Give The Reasoned Schemer by Daniel P. Friedman a try. It's an easy, fun book, with surprising depth if you give it some effort and thought. .
Sweden: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tratex
If Wikipedia doesn't satisfy you, maybe try the "complete works" book. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frutiger_(typeface)
Looks pretty great!
"A photograph is something that the artist creates, not something that he takes of a particular thing."

To be pedantic, it can be either.

I do hobby photography that I take fairly seriously ( http://gmcbay.com/ ), but sometimes I really just take a snapshot of a thing just to document that thing, without thinking about the lighting or the composition or anything -- just want to post it up on ebay or facebook or whatever for illustration, not trying to have it be "art".

Many (probably most?) photographs are in the "taken" group as opposed to the "created", I'd think.
interesting they had a previous cut of 5000 people and again an increase in the cut of people and a split in the company and then a merger with small companies aruba connextreme lets see how this goes
>And there's a lot of weird hate towards bank on HN. I know they're not great, but it's really not helping the conversation to just say things like "woooo banks are scary!"

Well, in fairness, one of the last times a bunch of banking organizations joined forces on some shiny new innovation was MERS, the Mortgage Electronic Registration System...which facilitated the fraud that helped cause the housing crisis.
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http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2013/04/states-fight-back-again...
It's cool that you like Texas and all but the stats speak for themselves. It's SV way ahead of Boston which is a little ahead of NYC. And Boston has tons of enterprise VC which is unique. I have no problem hiring talent in Boston, and the numbers I snag engineers for are high, but nothing like the "500k salary and 2 million in stock" articles I hear about happening in SV.

Also, the whole argument that it's harder to raise money if you are in [insert any place except Silicon Valley] is suspect. My company raised money from investors in Boston, SV, and overseas, as investors were most concerned with our business, not where we were located.

As long as you can hire good talent and have a solid business, you won't have trouble raising money as long as you can jump on a plane. The issue is when you are chasing dollars for a failing business, or have no revenue.
The dupe detection software, of course, does run during submission. Clicking on a search link is something that humans have to do, though. That's for catching duplicates that escape simple URL matching.

Writing software to identify which URLs are really about the same thing and which URLs are not is a nontrivial problem. I'd love to work on solving that in the general-enough case to be useful for HN, but we shouldn't let that stop us from doing incremental things to make life easier in the short run.
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I would have guessed Obama
I think that low level of emotional expression favors the kind of personality with great technical creativity--think the quiet (dare we say, Aspie) nerd, vs. a similarly driven but relationship oriented personality.

Is it better to be in world where the CEOs are wearing power suits, crying, and throwing things to negotiate better and the engineers have to keep up, or a world where few emotions are expressed and the CEOs dress down so they don't upset the engineers?

I don't think that management all got together one day put out a memo to say no emotions at work, because they felt like it. This article doesn't address that low expression has to be actually beneficial or the stoic Northern Europe / North American economy would not have become dominant over more Southern Europe / global south, which was probably a bigger economy at the time the article identifies as the start of the emotion suppression shift.
Yep there's still a good bit of atmospheric drag even at the ISS's altitude. Once you get beyond the atmosphere you get solar wind creating drag too. The ISS is periodically reboosted into a higher orbit by engines on one of the Russian modules.
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Ask HN: Is webgl a good idea that will never quite make it?
For a while it seemed that all webgl needed for widespread acceptance was mobile Safari support. That hasn't happened. I'd like to take advantage of the capabilities it offers but the risk of losing any investment made in the technology seems very high at this point.

Is webgl a good idea that will never quite make it?
Banks do operate on trust, which is actually how VISA and Mastercard were created (because the trust became a problem)

https://medium.com/shekel-magazine/odd-bedfellows-the-strang...
It's fascinating the number of plausible arguments people come up with for this behavior.

One that occurs to me if that someone has unlimited tosses, then the number of correct guesses doesn't matter that much for their "expected income stream" - if they want more money, they can just toss more coins instead of cheating. And oppositely, if the experiment is coming to an end, the only way to get more money is by cheating and so now the incentive to cheat becomes a factor.

This isn't fundamentally that different than kazinator's approach [1] but it is a little different.

The position I take on all this is that psychological experiment always involve some particular, reproducible series of behaviors that are then given an abstract intuitive interpretation (distorting heads-tails results becomes "cheating-in-the-abstract"). But naturally any particular behavior actually can have legion abstract interpretations and explanation. I suspect only a much large collection of behaviors and abstraction interpretations could serve as a real compelling explanation. The problem is the intuitive human "toolbox" of abstract explanation - such as "cheating"(in the abstract) might not be the real toolbox we need to use to explain human behavior.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10223289
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Second this. I feel like I've seen more dupes lately as people rush to get a hot story in. The past and web links will help for sure but it won't stop the submitter unless they're prompted.

That being said, these are all great features. More information access without being overly cluttered is a huge win for everyone.
I disagree, dichotomies aren't always the natural way to do things. Facebook was never meant to be a discussion space like Reddit, it's an echo chamber where you can share things with people who will only acknowledge when they enjoy it. Some people might dislike that facet, but it's something unique that sites like Facebook and Twitter always provided. It makes people feel good about themselves.

Few people post a news article to facebook because they want a healthy debate on it, they do it because they want to get general agreement from their friends and family. The people who go on and start arguments in the comments are pretty universally hated in my experience. Nobody likes scrolling through the news feed and seeing drama drama drama.
Is it still a reason when the NSA clearly don't care whether they break the law?
Young people on antidepressants more likely to commit violent crime
To be honest, I'd consider the entire benchmark void.

It really depends on how heap allocation is implemented, so it's hard to compare. By using memory pools, you can allocate a huge block of memory at once from the OS (a small initial cost), and lazily initialize the values. Which brings you: 1. Cache locality. 2. A lot less fragmentation.

I'd rank it as:

1. Stack allocation (essentially free)

2. Memory pool (a small hit every once in a while)

3. Heap allocation (significant overhead compared to the other ones)
I agree it's a barrier to have such crazy prices, but there are free resources available, especially on a topic as popular as Grammar of Graphics. Hadley Wickham (in my mind, synonymous with the concept, since he implemented Wilkinson's ideas in R's ggplot package), for instance, has numerous materials on it, including a short primer (http://vita.had.co.nz/papers/layered-grammar.pdf). It might not be as exhaustive as the Wilkinson text, but surely there's enough material out there to implement GG in JS, especially considering there's successful implementations in other languages?
The firmware update should be signed by Cisco and verified before being applied, whether the person signed in is an admin or not.
I believe newer Ciscos do that, I know newer versions of Windows do that for sure... admin or not, you are not overwriting certain critical components with unsigned/unverified stuff.

Chromebooks work like that, too. Like, if you want to change shit on it without verification (say, to install Linux), you need to switch to "Developer mode" which cannot be done remotely, you need to push a pencil into a hole on the Chromebook or something like that.
Yes, the market for NN based products is still in its infancy. It can explode if Apple or Samsung decide to do image or voice processing locally on a smartphone, by using a coprocessor/accelerator chip alongside with CPU/GPU. It could make sense considering the expense (power, time, bandwidth costs) of sending every image off to a datacenter for processing.

I'm curious, have you considered using analog weights (e.g. floating gate transistors, or DRAM capacitors)? This could reduce multiplication from 32 transistors to just one!
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My experience of gdb asm-level debugging is that it is incredibly buggy and dumps core at the drop of a hat. It's not fit for purpose. I've taken to using it to get a disassembly listing of the problematic code and simply analyzing it in an editor, rather than risk doing anything in gdb.
I realize this sounds like I'm ducking your question, but it starts to get into the oversimplification comment I made earlier. The answer depends on what exactly you mean by dot-com bubble and banking crisis. The late 2000s recession was certainly worse than the early 2000s recession, but both involved a lot more than simply the banking crisis and the dot-com crash respectively.
Wild! In English, this seems to be a "blind wedged tenon" or a "foxtail joint": http://www.craftsmanspace.com/knowledge/wedged-tenon-and-mor...

I wonder if this might have useful application for 3D printing, since creating the wedged mortise would can be done easily. Possibly the tenon could even be created with the wedges in place?
I suspect what kawera meant is if the submission form notified you that the URL is a dupe via ajax, so that then you wouldn't have to bother to copy and paste the title (which can be a pain on phones and tablets).
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Which parts are refuted?
I've never heard of ocean engineers (probably an artifact of living in Kansas). What do you do?
That really sounds less like a lead dev role, and more of an actual management role.
When a story gets posted in many versions, most are knockoffs. If a knockoff has made it to HN first, I wouldn't want someone to hesitate to post a more solid article. I'm also not sure how to define "similar stories". Your link picks out the word "dislike" to search for, but that essentially encodes the answer to the hard part in the question.

I do agree that it would be good to weed out variants of the same story (or better, merge them), and we're open to working on that. But today's features are more modest—nothing more than a way of easing the manual work that many of us are already doing. Not least yourself!
I feel like having Swordfish in there at all skews your "weak side" of that list to the gutter. Not fair to Hackers to be so closely associated with Swordfish.

Edit: typo
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