skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great stuff, but please normalise to UTC in future. Everyone (reading this) knows their own offset from UTC and can probably makes sense of the data directly in that format. For anything else I have to go and lookup the offset between that timezone and mine.
I've had sort of a different theory on that. When explaining something from my field to someone without the background and knowledge needed to understand the precise terms, I reduce the explanation to terms and context that they're capable of understanding but still get the general meaning across. I'm not religious by any means, but I've always understood that the Bible is the word of God as interpreted and written by the various disciples. Why couldn't the same apply there? Combined with various translation approximations and differences over the millennia [0], I don't feel it's that far of a reach.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom
Artificial Intelligence Review channel: AI, chatbots, conversational commerce
Yes. I remember it from 2008, when gaming press for iOS was trying to become a thing, some guys have published a great and expensively produced video reviews of iOS games, and this was one of the best games they ever reviewed.
Your source seems to be a random Facebook comment who quotes a source but does not link to it. Any actual evidence?
Exactly this. The writeup is excellent, but also shows exactly how hit-driven the app market is. The dev made one game (based on already-successful IP) that generated a lot of revenue, and then the subsequent games are only modestly successful.

I think one of the big "do's" from the article is very good advice: don't spend huge amounts of time working on an app and expect it to provide a return. The dev says 2 months of part-time work should be a target, and that seems about right to me as well. Beyond that you're just asking for negative returns if you value your time highly.
“Blissfully happy” or “ready to fight”: Varying Interpretations of Emoji [pdf]
Mapping the right algorithm to a real world need is lot more difficult as real world needs always have differences with the problems that the published algorithms solve. This is my experience. So, I end up most of the time devise my own method to solve things. When you are hard pressed for time, it is often difficult to run through books and find the right ones. The mind to read and understand complex algorithms is often overtaken by the mind to just go and solve the problem in hand in your own way.
It's useful if you're planning to interview at a place that cares about it, which includes Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. If you want to work at one of those places it's undeniably useful.
This is politics. The point here is that Trudeau can't pretend to know about QC and then make huge cuts to science without it being terrible optics. It's easier to go with a Palin/Trump stance of "science is sometimes right, but often wrong, especially when it's inconveniently opposed to my policy" when you plan to defund science.

After the last Canadian PM took a hatchet to non-energy sector science funding, this and other recent trips to science centres like the McGill Neurological Institute, is about bridge building with the Canadian public.
I actually lost them. However, after an hour of digging through Schneier's blog, I found some of them. For analog and PCB, there's this:

Electronic Principles 8th Ed Malvino
http://www.amazon.com/Electronic-Principles-Albert-Malvino/d...

Note: Look up the 2nd edition or something as I got it for $2. Principles of analog don't really change. Super-easy to read with more heuristics & diagrams than theories. I didn't know until today it was being updated.

Circuit Designer's Companion... for free!
http://diagramas.diagramasde.com/otros/The%20Circuit%20Desig...

Note: High-assurance engineer told me this guy was a master and this book is all-in-one most of what you need to know. A reviewer said it's mostly for digital, not analog, stuff but that's probably your goal.

Digital stuff is highly opinionated on whether it's "good" or not. So, read the reviews to determine if it's good for you personally.

http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Design-RTL-VHDL-Verilog/dp/047...
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0131678442/?tag=stackoverfl08-20

Note: These were said to be nice for beginners on Verilog, etc. Good tutorials online, too, with practice code and help on StackOverflow. I suggest getting a simulator and/or cheap FPGA then just experimenting.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1461186293/?tag=stackoverfl08-20
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0470054379/?tag=stackoverfl08-20

Note: First is a cookbook for FPGA designs. Second covers things like floorplanning and resets.

http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Systems-Engineering-William-Da...
http://www.amazon.com/VLSI-Test-Principles-Architectures-Tes...
http://www.amazon.com/Comprehensive-Functional-Verification-...

Note: Books on Digital System Engineering, VLSI testing, and functional verification to top it off.

Endnote: I don't guarantee quality of any of these except Electronic Principles and Circuit Designer's Companion. The rest just had positive reviews plus what I assessed to be decent information for their target topics.
Here's an example of notable research, "Why most published research findings are false" - note that it's been cited over 3000 times:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=15681017780418799...

In my opinion, the event you references is not notable research.
I have been using a non-commercial, 8GB CompactFlash card with my pfSense install for 2 years with no problems, and I run the full pfSense rather than the NanoBSD version.

I do not run extra services like Squid or Snort, so most of my "writes" are probably within my massive 1GB of RAM.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11515190
Eating 4D Polytopes
We don't need super-solutions/magic bullets for electric generation. Tidal could fill in where its best suited, such as Newfoundland. Imagine if we had:

20% Nuclear (been this for decades)

25% Natural Gas (27% now)

23% Wind (4% now)

22% Solar (1/2% now)

5% Tidal (none now)

5% Hydro (6%-7% for decades)

and no coal at all. (35%-50% for decades)
The bike itself looks quite neat but this kind of website grinds my gears.

Is it possible to buy one? I could not tell from the website. I'm no customer expert but I guess that many visitors want to know two things 1. is it possible to buy this now? and 2. how much does it/is it going to, cost?

I understand there are several models, but still someone just wants a rough costing. Does such a bike cost the roughly the same as a traditional bike of the same quality or is it currently much more expensive? So, can one such bike be had for somewhere between $500-1000 or is more like $5000?

The lack of any price makes me assume the latter, and I just get out of there before I find out any more information about the actual bike.
Or, alternatively, people (like me) who don't like a witch hunt. I have no affiliation with Uber, no affiliation with ride-sharing or taxis, have never used them, but I think the entire situation is being blown way out of proportion. Uber certainly doesn't need me jumping to their defense, but it annoys me when people read malicious intentions into something that has a perfectly reasonable non-malicious explanation.

Sure, malice does sometimes exist on these things, but most instances of this stuff in major apps turn out to be entirely benign. Ill-planned perhaps, but not malicious.
I was just searching this exact thing last week, and couldn't find any analysis. This is a terrific, thanks!
Jesus... I was hoping atleast HN wouldn't give Trudeau a press blowjob. I'm from Canada and he is the most incompetent PM we've ever had. If you want to know what the future has for Canada with him as PM, look no further than the most indebted sub-sovereign in the world: Ontario. These guys are corrupt as fuck
I agree. Thanks to everyone contributing ideas!
Not everyone knows the difference between their timezone and UTC. I always end up looking up the difference, and it really doesn't matter to me what timezone people use, so long as they state it.
My early submissions to HN all hit the front page and were upvoted quite a bit, sometimes reaching #2 overall. But in the past couple years, nothing I submit ever hits the front page, even if it gets more points initially than the submissions before. Not only that, it doesn't appear even on pages 2-20. I wonder if there is a way to check if I'm being suppressed somehow as a contributor on HN.

Source: see my past submissions.
That's not an entirely fair assessment, at least in this case. He ported a popular Web game with about 3 hours of content to an iOS game. He made about $700,000 gross on that. He then followed up with a few partial attempts at similar games that were either a) built to be exceptionally hard (The Ensign) or b) unfinished and barely playable (A Noble Circle). I'd say the unsustainable part for him is his entire (lack of) business plan. It shows very little other than the fact that very little sticks when you throw random things at a wall.
As someone who has looked into this area for Reddit and HN data, here are a few additional notes before everyone starts submitting their blog posts and marketing pieces to HN on weekday mornings:

1) After everything, the analysis is probabilistic. You are not guaranteed to get onto the front page just by submitting on at a high-probability time.

2) There are game-theoric implications; the more people submitting at a time (weekday mornings), the less likely people will see your post on /new before it is pushed off the first page, and it is highly unlikely to get upvotes once it has fallen off the top 30 slots. (hence the repost/second chance rules)

3) For obvious reasons, don't submit if there is important news occuring. (e.g. Apple/Google/Microsoft event)

4) Above all, if your submission does not get any upvotes, don't interpret it as your post being low quality. The median score of all submissions is 1-2 points regardless of time submitted. (http://i.imgur.com/SN5BuAJ.png)

The OP is impressively throrough regardless, especially since working with ranking data-over-time is much better than working with raw data.
> The details that emerged about Harper-Mercer’s online life made it difficult not to resort to stereotyping. On a dating site, he had listed pop-culture obsessions typical of “beta” shut-ins, including “internet, killing zombies, movies, music, reading,” and added that he lived “with parents.”

Movies, music and reading as hobbies? Yup, that's a killer alright. /s

Man, the media hasn't really progressed since 1991 has it...
Archaeologists deal with this by defining the "present" in "before present" as 1st Jan 1950. It helps that that's before widespread nuclear testing messed up the radioisotope levels.
I'm impressed. This is possibly the only article I've seen about 4chan whose author actually understands enough about the discussed subcultures to make interesting analyses.
Is Vice Media's 4.5B valuation an illusion? (Updated)
Note that the ranking algorithm has changed over time; which is why it's a good thing the OP's analysis is limited to a year.
There are two important points I think the author of this article doesn't really understand.

1. "4chan" is not a person, a club, a worldview, or even a reputation-based comment aggregator. 4chan is website with a constant, ephemeral stream of anonymous comments, and the "culture" between different boards varies quite significantly. This system makes it especially prone to misrepresentation by a media that does not understand it. One could easily write an article entitled "The New Man of Reddit" about disturbing subreddits that exist with deep misogynistic hatred, but people understand that one subreddit does not represent the views of everyone that visits the site as a whole. It is even easier to portray 20-30 4chan users as representative of hundreds of thousands because they all post under the same name, "Anonymous". I know several friends who frequent /g/ (the technology board on 4chan), and the discussion is on technical topics virtually all of the time.

2. There are obviously pockets on certain boards (e.g. /r9k/) with groups of anonymous users that have disturbing thoughts and views. That being said, I think it is a mistake to frame the problem as a website being "like Uber, but for violent misogyny", or making a broad analysis that includes references to decades-long gender dynamics theories. I am NOT defending or endorsing the actions whatsoever of these users.

However, if the author were to engage in conversation with some of the more extreme users, she might realize that what many of these people need is help. If she were to read personal stories threads on /r9k/ she might find that a large portion of those people are there because they are not "doing well" in life, at all, and have not "fit in" to society for a very long time. They are often clinically depressed, or have any number of debilitating mental illnesses. There are people there that are in poverty, have crippling anxiety disorders that prevent them from leaving the house, who are addicted to substances and cannot hold a job, and who have never done so much as held hands with a romantic interest even decades into adulthood. There are a disturbing number of people on /r9k/ that were physically and sexually abused as children, and those stories are excruciatingly sad. I don't exaggerate about the prevalence or severity of these problems, I have seen regular popular threads about child abuse and significant social impairment on boards. Misogyny is often not a calculated tactical hatred on the part of these people, but an unhealthy and abhorrent outlet for their desperation.

Again, I am not defending their actions and I don't think that those 4chan boards are positive places for people to seek refuge. But I think it is important to recognize why many of them are there, and proceed from a point of compassion for another human being, no matter hard that may be. It is easy and tempting to demonize a group of individuals that engage in repulsive misogynistic commentary all day, but that won't solve any of their problems or those of society.
True words. I'm currently in a part of the world where internet is really slow (I can chat with individual bytes while they are queued up for sending..). Without disabling javascript, aborting page loads when the content is there and plainly ignoring links to notorious sites (like the mentioned NYT) I could not get anything done.

HN is btw a notable exception.
Wow. That's some crazy stuff. So, the scary, trial-and-error is unavoidable then. Thanks for the feedback. Btw, I just recommended a few books here based on feedback from other EE's...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11515190

Any thoughts on them? Particularly, a combo of something like Malvino and Circuit Designer's companion to get a good head start on analog and PCB's respectively. Or do you have other references that kick ass in teaching practice more than theory? Gotta build up links for new people to accelerate hands-on part of their learning just like others did for programming.

Note: Art of Electronics is usually in my list but that link was for digital learner. Not sure if it's needed there.
(Disclaimer: I'm in Europe)

For a website with a US centric audience, I think it makes perfect sense to use a US timezone: The graphs match up well with the sleep/wake patterns in the EST timezone. This makes interpreting the data a bit easier, i.e you can easily tell that there is a morning rush, a lunch rush, etc. (although interestingly, the HN audience doesn't seem to have well-defined break hours as there is just one large peak per day).
AUTHOR NOTE:
I discovered news.Y from traffic statistics to an earlier version of this article. The article remains a "work in progress" but has been significantly updated.

http://vicemediakit.com
redirects to
https://medium.com/thoughts-on-media/vice-media-kit-warning-...

If self-posting is banned I'll delete this. Otherwise I'll try to answer any questions.

SUMMARY:
Print circulation numbers multiplied by 10, traffic multiplied by 4-10 times and dodgy hiring practices. All these corporate shenanigans, to me, add up to the largest house of cards in the media world.

ABOUT ME:
After getting my M.Arch I realized I was in a unique position to write a book on Vice Media. I wrote it because I believe click-fraud and anti-competitive practices are drowning out the honest players in the media world.
Handmade Bracelets from Istanbul
We kitesurf in a river mouth, the river is tidal. Behind the beach are a couple of pools that are huge, these get filled and emptied by the tide twice a day. The volume of water that slooshes out is amazing. Staggering. We love to kite there cos we convert the energy into speed.
Managing dotfiles with GNU Stow
Lottery security director hacked random-number generator to rig lotteries
But doesn't that have to do with different countries having different regulations and laws? I mean, I don't really know anything about the thought train behind geo blocking, but that would be my first guess?!

This is probably only marginally related, but just the other day I had a conversation with a coworker from Morocco. We were talking about the fact that in his country, every purchase you make involves bargaining. That makes me think now that what we in the Western world have come to think of as the norm -- fixed prices on products, being the same for every customer -- is probably a fairly recent phenomenon if we consider the history of mankind. And if I think about products like airline tickets, that principle is not even true in our culture: you may have to pay vastly different prices for the same product, i.e., for a seat on the same flight.

Now, my next sentence was going to be "... but at least the different in price is not because your nationality is being discriminated against", but now I'm actually not so sure any more that that is true?! I mean, I guess no-one who's in the air fare business made a business decision along the lines of "let's charge Germans 20% more" or so, but if factors like your locations (and hence with a high probability also your nationality) are factors in the data mining which is the basis for what determines the price of a ticket, isn't that de facto an implementation of discrimination in a sense?

And how about the pharma industry? The same medication can sometimes cost orders of magnitude more depending on what country it is sold in (think Africa).

So coming to think of it, I think at least in the globalized world, different selling conditions depending on the geographical location are actually not that rare, even for non-digital product. Minimally, wouldn't all produces that target large markets at least adjust for things like average income / purchasing power in the respective regions?
Found via the Runtime-Compiled C++ blog [0], which also pointed out that all the chapters from the first volume in the Game AI Pro book series (published in September 2013) are available for free download from the bottom of the main Game AI Pro website. [1]

[0] http://runtimecompiledcplusplus.blogspot.com/

[1] http://www.gameaipro.com/
Despite getting very close to the best possible case for an iOS game (#1 on app store for a more than 0 days), am I the only one that is pretty dissapointed at how he was compensated? He didn't actually make $700k -- after Apple took theirs, and the gov't took theirs, he was left with ~$150K in his most successful year...

I guess the freedom to do nothing while your app just rakes in money is great, but it seems like the probability of hitting this case is very low, and a stable job (though he would have possibly not liked the monotony) would have made him much more money.

All this said, I'm about to strike out on my own with a one man LLC, so as others have said, this information is golden.

[EDIT] - Many have pointed out that I missed the ~$280K that he gave to his partner (the content creator) -- so in his most successful year, he stood to make (had he been truly solo) ~$430K, which actually is pretty substantial, for a one time effort... But what is the probability of someone's iPhone game getting to #1 on the app store?
Ok, that's two seconding that one. My references are overloaded as is but I'll add Nani Quest to give to anyone starting with Prolog.

Note: Your alias is hilarious. Nice one.
مشاهدة مباراة برشلونة وفالنسيا بث مباشر يلا شوت بث حي
Study Reveals Stubborn Kids Make the Most Successful Entrepreneurs
trudeau just smoke weed all day and surf reddit... probably /r/atheist. of course he has some half arsed explanation about everything.
It has. Doom was released in 1993. Video games have been the leading cause of murders ever since. /s
The solution has been found, is in action and you should be cheering. It's called global capitalism. We are witnessing the greatest decline in absolute poverty in the history of our entire species. Moreover global inequality has been falling.

"The number of people living in extreme poverty around the world is likely to fall to under 10 percent of the global population in 2015, according to World Bank projections released today, giving fresh evidence that a quarter-century-long sustained reduction in poverty is moving the world closer to the historic goal of ending poverty by 2030."

You're right; nothing to do with politics. It's just letting people do business.

http://www.theglobalist.com/the-real-winners-and-losers-of-g...

http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/george-monbiot-says-were-to-bl...
Thanks to the author for sharing this info. That said, the app's downloads peaked in 2014, which was a different App Store.
He could have done an S Corp or something to keep more of the profits in the business and avoid paying personal income taxes on all of it, no? Depends on long term play I guess.
All that tax...
TECHNO? Pretty cool, but quite too geeky, isn't it? ;-)
Okay, here's a stab at it:

• SIGIOFIN works like SIGIO except it fires when the IO operation completes (is on the disk; has left the network card, etc).

I should be able to use signalfd() to collect these. Let me use TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT on regular file descriptors -- basically let me make sure there are n bytes before being woken up on a fifo, and n events in my signalfd() before waking up.

Here's another idea:

• all() returns a file descriptor that is initially readable.

• on(POLLIN,f,d) while poll(f,POLLIN) would block, d is unreadable

• POLLSYNC added to poll(), etc which is flagged when all previous writes to the file descriptor have reached the disk (has left the network card, etc). To get multiple checkpoints use dup().

I'm not sure which one I'd like better. If we didn't have to make it "primitive", we could simply copy what windows does[1], since they figured this out years ago.

What do you think?

[1]: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/windows/desktop/aa3...
I think Gett (a Black Cab app I use in London) improves upon tipping somewhat as well - your choices are 0%, 5%, 10%, or 12%. That's it. No giving a 20% tip (or a 100% tip because you were drunk-typing or whatever).

I've always just set it to the maximum tip amount, because I figured (a) It's not that much, and (b) it would result in me getting better ratings, though after what GP said, maybe they have no idea how much I tipped :-/
EdTech must escape the clutches go high-stakes testing
This feels like no news. CFL lights come on in electromagnetic field? Known phenomenon and can be observed under high voltage transmission lines easily. Also, I have been "building" lines from metal shavings with a magnet 30 years ago. So what's new?

With this narration style feels almost like Onion story.
Andrew Jackson to Be Removed from $20 Dollar Bill
the leaders of a populace have arguably already "made it"
Caroline Lucretia Herschel – Comet Huntress (1999) [pdf]
You mean building on interest and exponential growth lessons? That would be a great way to incorporate into the school's curriculum. We are aware that schools are a great distribution channel for building these family communities.

I remember seeing compound interest as a topic at elementary o junior high but, as many academic topics, we couldn't see a tangible aplication.