skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doing the math roughly is actually easy.
Every tweet that doesn't come from search endpoints has the user details inline. The user details include the number of followers.

So just consume the filter streaming api with your chosen hashtag. You will get all the tweets, or at least some and a measure of how many you missed (limit notices).

For every new user in said stream, add the number of her followers.

It's so easy you could write the code in the length of this comment. Of course, if you want to avoid counting duplicate followers, you'd have to do an average of 1-2 additional calls per user.
Why is this opinion Hacker News? Does the system need to be hacked? Do people think the system has been hacked? How is the presence of this story on HN different than the presence of the same story on reddit?
Is hacker news becoming a place for people to bitch about problems in their personal lives?
You make a good point, but in my experience a company deluded enough to prevent their devs from programming outside of work is just systematically broken in ways that a mere cog cannot hope to rectify.

I concur with the top comment: run, don't walk, to the nearest exit.
I did! I live in Northern DE. I'm a Python/LAMP person looking for projects, so if you know about anything, please pass it on. Also, even though the GM/Boxwood Road plant shut down, it was rapidly purchased by Fisker Automotive, the Finnish/American firm that produces low-emission vehicles:

http://www.fiskerautomotive.com/
Characterizing the incident as involving "a phone" is like saying that Ms. Gonzales lost 3 mammals: true, but bereft of essential detail.
You're effectively saying, I hope that Apple becomes such a minority platform that they're forced to open up. But why would you want to develop for a minority platform, even if the stop actively chasing people away? It's a catch-22.

This stance benefits Apple now, when they have the early mover advantage, and delays the advance of Android but unless they're very quick to change strategies and smooth things over with developers then it's only going to accelerate things when (and it seems like a when, not if) they become a minority platform.
Nice knowing you, HN.
When the finder failed to take adequate steps to return the phone and then sold it to another party it was no longer lost, it was stolen.
I think rockets are cool, and racing is cool, but I don't see this being that much different than pylon racing with faster planes.

Now, the thing that really bugs me about RacketRacers is how they try to compare themselves to NASCAR. I think the reason NASCAR has become popular is because just about everyone has driven a car and can imagine what it would be like to do it on a circle, banging with other cars. Not many people have had the chance to drive a plane, much less a jet or rocket. It's cool, it's novel, but I don't think it will get the following they hope.

As for the last part of the YouTube video where they guy says this could be the first time virtual racers compete with real racers (soon, not here yet), that reporter should probably check out:

http://www.iracing.com/ - real race car drivers are racing normal people almost every day.

http://www.nascar.com/trackpass/about/raceview/?sc_cid=hp53 - NASCAR's RaceView, which is realtime race data visualized in a sim racing type environment.

It seems to me, it's only a matter of time before iracers can compete, in realtime with real racers.
not sure, depends if its successful. cool device tho, want one :)
Remember the college iPad ban? Yeah, not so much
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I found Appel's _Modern Compiler Implementation in ML_ to be better-suited to self study, and more modern. I've used OCaml but not SML, and didn't have any problem following it.
My generation grew up in a world where employers have never shown loyalty to their employees. We're a (human) resource, as subject to the whims of management as any piece of machinery. You show us loyalty, real loyalty, and we'll show it back.

If you're paying us peanuts and make it up in stock options, we're going to cash them out when it suits us. If we have no guarantee of more than the minimum redundancy pay when you lay us off, you have no guarantee of more than the minimum notice when we quit. If you cut costs on furniture and equipment, we're going to cut corners when recording our hours.

A select few companies demonstrate loyalty and get it in return. I'd wager that Joel Spolsky has no trouble retaining employees. Plenty of Googlers seem to me like they'd take a bullet for Larry or Sergei.

I'm from an old industrial town - a town largely built by "The Corporation" that employed it's citizens. "The Corporation" mended the roads, ran the amenities and the social clubs, sent your wife flowers when your child was born and guaranteed your child work when they left school. If your pipes burst, "The Corporation" sent their own men to fix them. For over a century, they demonstrated absolute loyalty to their employees and got absolute loyalty in return. My generation missed the boat - "The Corporation" sold out to foreign owners and left town ten years before I was born.

It's the boomers that dismantled this apparatus, who broke up the trade unions, who coined 'downsizing', 'human resources', 'creative accounting' and any number of other vulgar euphemisms for stiffing the workers. Personally, I can live with all that. What I can't abide is the hypocrisy of expecting respect where none is due. You'll get from me what you have paid for, and not an ounce not more.
The conclusion of this article seems dubious to me.

"Losing sleep may increase appetite and, as a result, weight."

If you lose sleep you are, by definition, awake more which, it would seem to me, would cause your body to require more energy for functioning. Logically it would ask for this energy by stimulating appetite. Eating more is not strictly correlated with weight gain, you have to look at the types of calories being consumed.
He may not have quit Mahalo, but he clearly quit his job as CTO of Mahalo. You can spin that if you want, but it's not generally considered a good thing when the CTO of a tech startup resigns his position.
Of all the apps I use on a daily basis I can think of only one that has AdMob ads running. I think what this says more than anything else is that the apps being written for Android are being forced to rely on ad sales as their revenue model more than the apps being written for iPhone.
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Interesting trivia from the good micro-history book "The Immortal Game" is that the classic stylized chess piece shapes that are still used today were adapted from more representative figures specifically to be less offensive to Muslim leaders who didn't approve of the realistic depictions.
Well said OldHippie. It is about Respect.

There are several Muslim artists who would love to draw the prophet, but they know they can't and respect it.

What is so hard about respecting someone who says "Don't draw pictures of my leader"? There are millions of people you could draw.

I guess some people like a challenge. I like a challenge. But you can bet your salary I would not mess with some people who have proved to end lives if they don't find you funny.
Minor correction: my last name is McKenzie.

If you'll permit a minor bit of information architecture geekery, I think this list could be thickened out substantially into a hub about traction with a spoke about each "traction vertical" (I suggest rebranding that into something more instantly comprehensible). Then you could go into substantial detail about each without totally overwhelming the visitor. Think of the classic wiki structure (tiers with reference nodes and progressively detailed leaf nodes, with interlinks where appropriate), although it doesn't have to be a wiki.

For example, SEO is a pretty deep topic, and there are facets within facets and multiple competing approaches to it. Rand Fishkin and the guys at SEOMoz do great SEO, but they tend to use a different bag of tricks than I do. You can better do the compare/contrast thing if you're not trying to encompass the entire subject of online marketing on a single page.
I meant Javascript. I just typed the wrong name, but I didn't confuse the two languages.
Here's the original: http://mehack.com/map-of-a-twitter-status-object
I'd like to know why you have the opinion you do — how is it good for the Internet in the long term? I don't see how this is possible.
MongoDB is great. I use it and often vote up stories pertaining to it, but this doesn't seem to be newsworthy to me.

It doesn't provide any use to people who don't use MongoDB — even if they are curious about it or interested in using it — and those who do are likely to find out about the release through avenues other than Hacker News.
And a theist would argue that being theistic is more moral. This devolves simply to the question of whether theism or atheism is correct, so the question of the morality of either position is largely beside the point.

EDIT: Hacker News is not allowing me to reply to you, so I'll ask my question here: If a group of atheist people shared a set of contradictory beliefs, requiring vile and immoral actions, would that make atheism immoral?
This just means Android users have crappier user experience than iPhone users.

More ads = crappy user experience
I've got to say that I think as far as online news reporting goes, the major weakness right now is forums and comments. If there were a better way to collate ALL the comments on a specific incident or even on a general topic, and then filter them out according to anecdotal relevancy, it would add so much more to the ability for people to find out what's actually going on.

So, for example, for the Arizona immigration story, I bet there are comments on a bunch of news sites and personal blogs that give fascinating anecdotes about run-ins with the Maricopa County Sheriffs, or about seeing illegal immigrants passing through some rancher's property, or about some local leader's opinion on the new bill.

But one comment may be on Huff Post, one might be on some small regional news site, another might be on someone's personal blog.

Those comments get buried and no one will ever find them.
Last year my Languages instructor mentioned that there was some problem or incompleteness with closures in Python because Guido didn't want to fully implement it or something. Perhaps I'm mistaken.
I know HN is largely male and single, so here's my hindsight advice that I'd give myself if I had to do it again (I'm married and went through some #@$%):

The girl that ran off with the other co-founder? Just by reading that blog post and not knowing any of them, I am willing to bet there's something in her past that has not been resolved with professional help (i.e. therapist/psychiatrist), and that I am also willing to bet that the co-founder that she ran off with - they probably did not sail of into the sunset and lived happily ever after.

If anyone knows for sure that I am wrong - I would be very curious to know, but I'm pretty sure about it. At the surface, humans make their own choices, but there's usually a pattern - as much as we won't like admitting that we can be predictable - being shaped by our parents and upbringing.

Some advice that I wish I was told, that I had to learn the hard way:

* (Very) Red flag: F'd up parents or f'd up childhood upbringing. You'd think that you're marrying her for what she is today and what she will be tomorrow - but no - all that stuff in the past needs to be dealt with first - and I mean, professionally (therapist/psychiatrist). Maybe obvious, but it's easy to be blinded when you're love. If you meet a woman in a bar for the first time and she casually mentions about this fact in her past: RUN. Move on to the next girl while you have not invested anything in the relationship, before you've now sunk in time, energy, money and emotion.

* Go for the outspoken / confident ones. Or at least, do not be fooled: the quiet / shy / low self-esteem types .. could mean that they're just hiding a lot more than you know. The ones who blabber and talk to much? Well, at least you know there's less that they are possibly hiding (generalization of course).

* Anyone who's had this happen to them before? NOBODY saw it coming. If this happens, you will always be blind-sided. So therefore, pay serious attention to your due diligence.
I fail to understand why people don't get that point.
Oh, also, anything that gets FAR more people to comment with their own stories would be better. For any given event, all those spectators could have something interesting to add, but few people are trained/interested in being sensors or reporters. Most lurk.
Give me an idea what to do. If I have to prove all my stories, it limits the types of stories I can write. This story, for example, I could not have written, because the person may not want this information linked to him.

I have the choice between writing stories about people vaguely, and getting to select the interesting stories that fit, or writing stories I can source, which limits me to only a very few stories.

If I don't use any stories at all, then the posts are less interesting. Your comment puts me in a bind - I'm not sure what the way out is.
The biggest flaw with the numbers is that it doesn't include iPod Touch or iPad traffic, as they are not smartphones. A second issue is that, because it is US numbers, there is only one carrier with iPhones, which will limit their numbers (presumably in exchange for a big bag of cash).
unrelated, but kind of related http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salman_Rushdie#The_Satanic_Vers...
I agree.

I could come up with some uses that law enforcement could use the street view data combined with logs from access points to guess the user for a particular MAC address.
You think that thedailywtf examples are phony?

You don't want to come around to the company I work for, then (heck, I've ADDED some of the WTF-worthy code myself :) )
Sadly, grain removal is a matter of debate. I personally like grain, but apparently some people (even serious reviewers) are fine with post processing. Also, a quick search yielded me no mention of U-571 grain removal. Lastly, I personally saw no "major blocking" during action scenes of Transformers 2.
Look up the definition of Tourettes tics; this most certainly does not count as a tic. The popular condition people who are "brutally honest" (aka: an asshole) claim is Aspergers. Aspergers is not in fact an asshole syndrome, but internet assholes have adopted it as their self-diagnosis of choice anyway.
Kind of unfortunate that the maligned co-founder didn't end up making it big in Country Music. That would have made for a better story.
I stand corrected. There are some edge cases though. Here's a case (from the same site) what can happen (again, in Dutch): http://blog.iusmentis.com/2008/03/08/in-eigen-tijd-gemaakte-...
Likewise. I think that JGC's campaign (a) shows us what it really means to be without prejudice; and (b) reveals that others in the business of civil rights persist in viewing the world through those same old goggles.

That said, I think that JGC breaks from this in the essay. He says:

as a geek I empathized with the idea that being different from some societal norm brings enormous pain.

To me, that destroys, at least partially, the idea of a completely independent bystander fighting for truth. It brings us, at least partly, back to someone campaigning for a fellow in his own group -- it's just that the dimension JGC chose to sort by is different from the one that most of society would choose.

I wish John had simply said because Alan Turing’s treatment was wrong and left it at that.
It's funny that there are people who won't put ARCO gas in their car, but will gladly put AM-PM hot dogs in their stomach.
Two-Sided Markets: Density
I believe this is both configurable and not the OpenSSH default.

Your distro likely enabled this, some enjoy messing with the sshd_config. (I believe Redhat and Redhat derived distros tend to enable this setting, but it is not the openssh default behavior.)
I don't remember Gray Powell ever making a statement to that effect. That was Gizmodo side of the story.
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We (NewsTilt) are actively encouraging all the journalists to comment on their own stories. If you ask them a question, they'll give you an answer. Try it - http://newstilt.com
I still keep a floppy drive around in case of bios flashing failure on older machines.
It's using the type system to encode an arithmetic expression, with unique types for every distinct subtree; and then using statically-dispatched calls to inlined methods to get the compiler to embed the tree in-place, so that the optimizer's constant folding can evaluate the tree. The amount of code and data that's being shifted around and manipulated inside the compiler to generate a rather trivial end effect is what's offensive to me. If C++ were slightly more expressive, the technique would be unnecessary; but some C++ acolytes actually extol these kinds of techniques as a feature!
Chocolate linked with depression.
George Carlin is a clear thinker and very funny, definitely one of my favorite comedians. I like heady comedy. He simplifies things though, and this is a good example. Humanity is causing geological-scale effects on the planet and we need to address that.

It's not as if the planet were being damaged already and we just came along and tried to stop it, we're the ones causing the damage. He's correct to say that '90%' of species that have existed have already gone extinct(actually, I believe it's much, much higher than that, I think 99.9%). However, if Bill Bryson is to be believed, the rate of extinction has risen dramatically due to humanity, I believe Bryson said that it is 5 times greater than what it would be sans-humanity. There are times in the earth's past where there has been a much higher rate of extinction for a short time, the most recent event like this took out the dinosaurs. I believe the first one occurred when the atmosphere was 'poisoned' with oxygen from the first plant-like bacteria. As thinking entities, it's our responsibility to not allow our effects on the planet to have such a catastrophic outcome.
Brand Identity Process - Foehn & Hirsch Identity Development
Pure capitalist libertarianism like that works really well if you live in a society willing to stand back and let people die as a result of different decisions or even circumstances outside their control.

History has shown that's not really the society that civilized humans want to live in.
I checked again recently, and no computer language was handed down to use by an ascended being. Thus, I believe that all programming languages involve trade offs.

I like these sorts of comparisons because he actively discusses what he gained and lost with each language, and where the other language would have done better or worse.

I think the conclusion was fine, but just not as strong as we might have been used to. Ultimately, it comes down to a preference, where a preference is defined to be the sum total all the different axes on which you want to optimize, from LoC to IO efficiency to prettiness to just-makes-sense.
a) My 2008 era blackberry is routinely hung doing something. Apps take minutes to load. I/O on it seems like it's about half as fast as other modern smartphones on the same network. For example, by the time I get a nice app like google maps up (I'm not even talking loading a map), I may as well not even bother, I can just ask somebody the directions.

b) I'm complaining that I can't find the setting to change it...anywhere...

c) Yes, I have 2 MB of space left on the internal memory, but 1.8GB of space left on the hot swappable microSD. I actually can't install another app. The microSD card, from where it's at, is as about as hot swappable as the PCB of the device. It's like saying the system RAM of my laptop is hot swappable. It's about as accessible. Shouldn't being able to install to it be my business?

d) I have an 8310. Some time on my wife's 9700 seems to indicate none of the issues I have with mine are solved.

There are good parts, the keyboard is the best I've ever used on a device like this. I can tether relatively easily (if only the network connectivity didn't suck). The device has been beat to hell and back and still functions pretty well. It uses normal mini-USB connectors. Phone quality is good, speakerphone quality is far superior to an iPhone.

I don't hate it, I'd just like it to be better.
Control-A F*** You, Dude.
You even left out the part where they disassembled it, which crosses the line even more blatantly.
Open source phone by NOKIA
The problem is that the issue is Comedy Central censored this material, not necessairily that there were death threats. I don't think it's either smart or intelligent to deliberately provoke the people who are trying to promote fear through death threats - it just gives them more media coverage.

The South Park episode was clearly a fine piece of "offensive comedy" - not deliberately targeting Muslims (because of the context of the episode). However this is saying "hey you want to send us death threats, fine. Here's some more content designed to be offensive to you". It's a problem because then it begins to escalate (perhaps someone gets beaten up - so everyone prints T-Shirts with the cartoons, then a bomb goes off.... etc etc.)

Does this show us as not being scared? I think it actually shows fear - and crucially is the kind of reaction the extremists are looking for! It increases the media coverage; I'm sure there will be more threats appearing if this makes it "mainstream" and they will all be reported. And it is the response they want in a "war" where making us do offensive things wins them support in the Islamic world.

Not being scared would be to continue as usual, make our comedy as normal, including Muhammed when required - and ignore the death threats and extremism. Don't give them the platform. That seems the least fearful thing to do! :)

Not showing the scene was bad on the part of Comedy Central - and I feel it is censors like that whom we should be taking to task over this. Not the extremists - because if you do that they will delight in fighting back :)

Historically ostentatious shows of "no fear" never end well.

No, I can't support this. :(

EDIT: rereading there seems a slight emphasis on the idea of using all kinds of religious iconography. That's something I could get more behind - simply because it's no longer about the extremists, but about Comedy Central being censors. That is a good cause.

So long as this doesn't promote targetting religion or the idea of entering into a fight against extremists (rather than the censors) then perhaps it has merit.
ErrantX and I weren't claiming organic farming has no benefit. We were only making the point that side-by-side comparison of nutrients for a (e.g.) zucchini grown using organic methods vs. one grown using pesticides yields little difference.

Another important point is that the term organic has been distorted so that you can't buy a product claiming it is organic and actually be sure it was grown using completely organic farming methods using seeds derived from an organic growth.
http://www.fakesteve.net/2010/04/gruber-wants-to-make-a-citi...

Fake Steve Jobs: "John, dude, I love you like a son, but you’re letting this get to you, it’s getting under your skin, you need to let it go"
Except, theistic philosophies (religion), being based on set of contradictory beliefs, allow, no, even require actions from humans that we now consider vile and immoral.
Selling an extra ticket math puzzle
Also Trivial for anyone who doesn't speak English :) But I hope the point hasn't been missed.
So it's better to go it alone, as Eric succeeded the second alone but failed with a cofounder.
UK Cyber Security Challenge
Should students be taught to lie and cheat?
Absolutely - I don't think any of this justifies a killing.
The biggest flaw with the numbers is that it doesn't include iPod Touch or iPad traffic, as they are not smartphones.

Why is that a flaw? Why should the numbers include those devices?