skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While it's possible that more breakups happen on Monday, I postulate that Monday is actually just the day that people are most likely to report a weekend breakup. People who break up aren't rushing to Facebook right away. A breakup can be a hugely emotional event. If it happens on Friday, Saturday, or Sunday morning, it is likely to be followed by spending a lot of time with family, very close friends, or generally being in denial. When Monday comes around, it's back to the daily grind, it's time to face reality, and telling everyone you know is one way to come to grips with the situation.

I would also argue that the pre-Christmas spike likely isn't because people are cheap. I think the main factor is that most people spend the holidays with family. Two possibilities come to mind: 1) one or both of the people in the relationship decide that the relationship is not worthwhile enough to take each other home to Mom and Dad, or 2) meeting the family over Thanksgiving leads to a breakup (it was awkward, the family didn't like the S.O., the S.O. didn't like the family, etc.).

All-in-all, I agree with the sentiment of several comments here that between the poorly-ripped image and the unjustified conclusions they jump to, the article is mostly crap.
I have a netbook that I use for development when I am on the go. It's quite small and light and has a long battery life. I have apache, coucdb, mysql, php, etc. all loaded. I work on two web sites with it. I back up to a usb stick with mercurial, so in a couple of strokes everything I do on it is backed up to my dev box when I get home.

I have always loved the idea of a tablet since I had one that was supposed to read my handwriting and automatically convert it to text (never really worked well). But they have a ways to go before I could use one instead of a netbook.

Now, if Santa is good to me this year...
It's funny, because that one of the "obvious" things to try that instead shows no correlation with academic performance. At least that's what it's said in "Freakonomics".

Anyway, I'm doing it with my two years and half son. He loves it and helps him to relax and rest(he's very active).
"nothing I have used in my career was learned from my computer science classes."

It must have still been useful, at least as exercise for the mind - I'm sure most people who go to the gym don't need to bench-press 200 pounds in real life too often.
I didn't know Luke personally, but having certainly followed The Nerdery for a short while and having met some of its cohort, I am grateful for the legacy Luke built. May he rest in peace, even as his work continues.
Thanks for taking the time to read.
It would be interesting to be able to segment the graph by how long the relationship that was just broken up--mostly as a proxy for how long someone takes to recover from having broken up. Thus, you can find the best times of the year to be looking for singles.

If everyone took the same amount of time to get over the last relationship (which is not true), then we can just start looking for singles just a couple months after the spikes.
Thank you, but you respond with no point. You're saying that I should be forced to do something, or else fined or possibly even put in jail for not doing so...but you don't even justify why you're willing to do that to me.

If you support my right to write-in Mickey Mouse or select "None of the Above" or void my vote, then you're saying nothing more than that you like people being punished for not filling out what you acknowledge to be meaningless paperwork.

(Also, last I checked, there's more than one "Western society" that doesn't have compulsory voting.)
If RMS is getting so popular, how about creating a special section just for that type of posts?
Inside a Chinese iPhone Factory
Contains pictures of the dorms where workers live.
here's hoping this isn't against some rule or guideline. good idea, though!
Not sure if this is kosher, but lots of people were curious. Please don't hurt us.
No. I calculated the revenue per user per month for the NY Times a while ago and based on 2008 figures, it was about 71 cents per user per month.

I was using numbers from several different sources when I made that calculation so I can't guarantee its accuracy.
We all are. Thanks for taking the time to read and respond.
We should totally have done a video of this. Like was said in the chatroom, it's like watching Hacker Ants at work.
I'm upvoting partly because it seems a cool idea, but partly because I'm scientifically interested in what'll happen to goog docs with multiple concurrent users; valuable for knowing how it responds re using in live environments for user feedback.
I don't know... Schema migration is rare and something I want complete control over while the debug toolbar is something I use constantly. I definitely would have submitted a vote for the toolbar.
>What I'm interested to see is how other sites traffic went up as people left the Times site as the pay wall was put up.

I can give you a single data point - I used to read The Times online most days, not generally very much. I'd skip to the letters to sample the public mood, pick the top stories and view the World and UK front pages. I have missed it, but I can't afford to pay, i.e. it's not a high enough priority to warrant the money (but I'm an outlier with respect to payment power).

I use Google News now, kinda. It doesn't really hit the mark, I do occasionally look at other papers - Guardian, Telegraph, Mail (rarely), Independent - but generally I'm relying on social sites to get news. I miss The Times, I grew up reading it, but Google News is OK along with one of the other broadsheets.

The BBC bias always annoys me. I expect commercial interests to have, well, commercial interests but somehow the BBC never really hits the mark. I do read news there about once a fortnight and find their news reviews to be very thorough.
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thanks, g. been a rough week around here. we're all thankful for the chance to get to know him, learn from him, and carry on the legacy. more so, we're relived the family finally has closure.

to the HN community in general, please use this as an opportunity to keep things in perspective. we're all out trying to do amazing things, and those things can pull at our resources -- time with family, friends, and other things that keep us centered. luke was incredible about supporting our life work balance, and i hope you guys and gals on the front lines remember to do the same. take care of yourselves.

last, to your point about the thanks site, this one really stuck out: http://thanks.lukeandginger.com/index/detail/id/324
Firesheep, Week+ later
Nearly 500k firesheep downloads in 1 week. Microsoft, Facebook, others, have still not deployed SSL, granted this might be a complicated deployment.

But they didn't warn users either, how can this be justified? a warning is simple enough.
I don't think "The Times" has ever been a 'young' newspaper. I'd expect its reader demographics to be heavily skewed toward 30+ year olds. So I don't think this is much of a change from that.
Not my cup of tea - that infographic turned me off the content. Everyone digests data differently, I guess.
I was thinking on this recently myself:

Throw out the TV (He watches some DVD's on a laptop)
Buy Lego/Duplo/Kapla/Puzzles
Read to him every night / let him (learn to) read

On a side note: Anybody have thoughts on leveraging KhanAcademy.org ?
Rules? I don't understand.
Apakah NCX itu?
Did you update any DNS records at the same time maybe?
The submissions are missing the most important part - founder bios.
This totally changes how I look at Lanyrd.
Previously it was just a place to see who was going to or had been at a conference.

Now it is a place to find all the videos, notes and slides I would have missed out on.
I'm an aviation enthusiast and I've been watching this situation pretty closely. Thanks for bringing this to the HN community.
Close to Cheesecake Factory too! Good times.
I think it's normal split testing using a normal cookie.
Here are the rates I get in Opera (with flash disabled) while clearing cookies between reloads:

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3.10 4.49 4.34
3.50 5.09 4.84
2.70 4.09 3.94
2.30 3.59 3.54

And here's Firefox (with flash enabled) and clearing session cookies between reloads:

new used refinance
2.70 4.09 3.94
3.10 4.49 4.34
2.30 3.59 3.54
3.50 5.09 4.84
It's so sad to see people earning a living and digging themselves out of poverty by building things and selling them to others. It'd be far better if they kept to their more authentic heritage of powerlessness and impoverishment until such time as they are magically transformed by the charity of the west.

Silly folks. If these Chinese laborers continue on in this fashion they could end up like Japan or South Korea or Taiwan or Singapore or Chile. And who wants that?
I've been on Twitter for about 20 months and tweeted 1000 times.

Using that ratio (50 updates/month), we can estimate that their 10,000 status updates cover 16 people over a year.

My first instinct was "why not?" but thinking about this more, that looks kind of thin. Of course, I'm assuming a lot of things away...
Seems unlikely, given that Techcrunch which is heavily monetized made about $10 million from 9 million unique visitors.
That's a difficult question. I like Debian because I can build it up piecemeal from a minimal install. A lot of that is down to the package manager. Fedora might have similar functionality these days - though I didn't have a great time the last time I used Yum.

I like to drive my computer with the keyboard. I tried to avoid Gnome on my last install, but it's keyboard config, theme manager and Nautilus won over other desktops. I use metacity, which is boring but good.

To be honest I'm not totally enamoured with any Linux distro. But I like the ones that try to remain free. Oh and the ones that work with my hardware.
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Until Scott Brown's election last year, the Democrats could have ended any filibuster attempt immediately. Democrats had a free run for a year. For the a year and a half now, the public has been screaming for them to stop. Brown's election was the first shot across the bow, but the Democrats paid no heed.
I'm sorry, I really dislike this answer.

Obviously this guy knows that he should love his kid. He was looking for specific answers on how to introduce the kid to computing. And you gave him this glib, content-less, greeting card answer.

I cannot believe this is the top comment.
Poor for stopping spam. It's pretty easy to write a little bot that just logs in to ycombinator on an active basis. Data would be good though.
I wants mines for free.
NP. There's a lot of good out there from HN heading the way of the Nerdery. Let the rest of the guys know.

Thanks for the support, HN.
On my french keyboard, both sides are equally handicapped, because the M too isn't on the same line as on a US keyboard : utterly unplayable :)
How about a column for Intro Videos? Was that purposefully left off?
I'm terribly sorry for your loss, and for the enormous shock to Luke's family and friends. My condolences.

I run the risk of getting flamed for this post.

This seems to me to be a perfectly appropriate place for a memorial.

Apropos of which: Is it inappropriate, in a memorial for a wonderful hacker, to point out that the web is obviously incomplete because it doesn't yet contain an obvious, recognized spot for memorializing wonderful hackers? Or, for that matter, memorializing anyone else?

Since I myself would be honored if people spent a portion of my memorial service in a design debate, preferably one fueled by high-quality pizza and beer, I'll go ahead and plant this idea here. May someone wiser than I make it work.

An online memorial site is a pretty tough challenge in social media design. It poses big moderation and privacy problems, and it would have to be monetized... delicately. Very delicately, lest the ghost of Jessica Mitford haunt everyone involved.

http://www.mitford.org/nytimes.htm
YC might not love us making public a list of applicants. Less so promoting it on HN.
There they went again
No newspaper has strong under-18 readership, even under-21 readership is fairly small for most papers. Most newspaper readers don't start until they're in their mid-20s.
Ask HN: Is SEO a possibility for me?
I am a lifelong entrepreneur who has moved to Silicon Valley (Palo Alto) to sell luxury real estate and develop a strategy to angel invest.

This question is related to my real estate business:
Is there a SEO campaign that can be created & sustained to give my website & brand prime visibility when consumer's search for bay area/silicon valley real estate?

It seems many of these firms are a scam.....How do I find an expert with integrity? How much of a monthly budget will be required?

Reading & being inspired by HN is one of the reasons I moved to SV, your wisdom on this question is much appreciated!
Looks like Markdown is only supported inline rather than a first class citizen. I think I'm after something lighter-weight than this, but I won't know until I come to try and write the publishing stuff :)
Unfortunately, its difficult to side with plaintiff's here but rulings like these can impact privacy laws later and may force online business to retain data for much longer than users want.
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Sadly I agree. I'm hoping that projects like Gnome Shell or Ubuntu's Unity could propel the Linux desktop out of the dark ages.
I don't disagree with its use per se, I just think it's horribly inefficient for people to do it. There is a cost to switching focus.

Please note, I am completely unqualified to make this observation, being only a software engineer, but it seems to hold true in my own life, so...

There are tasks which can be done simultaneously, due to the fact that they use different parts of the brain. Starting at a low level, e.g. breathing and driving a car; changing gears while steering your car; listening (and paying attention to) a radio program while driving; etc.

But this gets inefficient when the tasks start to overlap cognitively, e.g. talking on the phone while driving (which is why it's unsafe to do those two things at the same time -- has almost nothing to do with hands-free vs handheld IMO).

I'm not saying you shouldn't context switch. I'm not saying you shouldn't do two things in parallel. I'm only saying that you should know the cost.
Calling it "poorly thought through" when you haven't taken the time to understand it is not a compelling argument.

Neither is saying the OP hasn't taken the time to understand it.
You're welcome. Thanks for reading and taking the time to respond.
> High voter turnout is really really important to making the the election a legitimate process.

This is exactly why I am not voting; I'd rather not contribute to the illusion of legitimacy.
What advantages does your approach have over simply sending an anonymous email? Your idea looks to break down as follows:

pain: sometimes telling someone necessary causes an interpersonal friction because the recipient of the feedback is aware that the sender is observing / judging him on certain qualities.
solution: give a margin for error so the feedback can be sent/received, but both parties can pretend as if the message was never sent.

So again, what does your idea offer versus an anonymous service like http://www.sendanonymousemail.net/ (or any of the others; that was just the first google result).

While I would encourage you to continue to develop this, the fact that you're unable to easily and clearly describe your idea tells me that it's a little vague to you, as well. At least that's how it comes across.

Maybe you could try to explain by analogy? E.g., "ever wish you could send someone an email they could pretend to forget? well, try [blah blah blah]"
I have a git repo that seems to do fine handling binary files of 1-200 megabytes that regularly update.

The downside is that the repo grows by that much every time I update the file. The upside is that I get a version history if I need to back out to an older version!
EDIT: Sorry if I sounded whiny, but you had to click on the link so a smiley face would have spoiled the joke
Purely to avoid the humiliation in my case ;p I'll probably add it soon.
It's not the highest scoring one, by far. How is the algorithm determined?
"isn't this making a lot of assumptions with regard to memory locality and the organization of the hash table?"

Well, yeah. Always.

But if you want to talk about how Erik is right, you probably want to go looking for an algorithm specifically designed for storing alists in a cache aware manner. Not sure what such a beast would look like, but something could probably be constructed and probably has been.
Is it possible they really meant "over 10,000 status updates" that include one of the phrases in question? Broken down yearly, 10,000 samples is an average of somewhere around 25 samples a day, and I'd imagine that on average far less than 1/25 of Facebook status updates are about breakups, so there would be only a handful of days with any hits, let alone enough to pick out a "Monday effect" or anything like that.

If it's 10,000 that match the query, then that's a more reasonable amount of data. Of course, the interpretation is still pretty shallow, and mere regex-matching for those phrases could be getting a lot of other crap, but at least it's a (just barely, given that they want to break it down day-by-day) decent sample size.
Play the board game Go. It's simple, tactile and astoundingly complex. I've found wrapping my head around that game is a similar experience to wrapping my head around programming concepts.

Your son will come to you to play board games, whereas teaching programming is something where you'd be driving what your son learns.

Building a Go game on the computer is also not that difficult-- but developing AI for it leads deep into math and computer science.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Go
I still believe South should be included in Django itself, but the South devs wanted to keep it as a separate app.

I remember when I first started learning Django. You follow the tutorial, write your models. Then you start playing about and want to add an extra field to a model and....oh wait, I need to either add it manually to the database or use a 3rd party app to do it.

To my mind it's part of the workflow as you build an app.
How do you mean? People still used browsers to make requests over http, didn't they?

Actually, I guess there was a lot of text-based interaction going on, come to think of it. Telnet, etc. Hm.
The original source (well, not quite, but I can't find a link to the actual source) has an even better copy: http://mathiasmikkelsen.com/2010/10/amazing-facts-about-face...
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I agree about the pensions. 100%. My point was about the comparison between ND and CA.
Walkman to Facebook: How Tuning Out Led to Tuning In
The answer is "badly"

Around 50 or so active concurrent users it really starts to fail. No doubt some of the others can better quantify/qualify my general remark.
Please add any columns you see fit
The Human Side of a Company
AFAIK, those patents expired a year ago or so.
Ask HN: Review my 6hr project, StartupFollower.com
It was a modified credit report of mine, but I killed it because I got scared of having any of that info out there. Thanks.
We should rename this "Google Docs Scaling Performance Test" and watch the upvotes grow.
Many local elections can be very close.

Regardless, if you don't want to vote, that's fine. That just gives my vote more weight.
It sounds to me like the 10,000 "status updates" include only status updates containing the keywords, probably from the Facebook search function.
Agreed - based on the first slide, I thought, "that's an awesome idea". The rest of the slides killed it.
if anything it showcases the hacker/startup spirit. i'm sure if it's a problem we'll find out somehow
Since you launched before Nov 1st, you have to start another one now for the November Launch project. ;)

Alternatively, validate and pivot your existing project. ;)
I watched in semi-real-time as it switched into simple-viewing mode due to high traffic; the threshold appeared to be roughly 120 to 125.
This reminds me of the other thread where pg wants to moderate more strongly RMS posts ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1861577 ).

Maybe have RMS implemented in a way similar to the Ask HN section: they get a penalty, but also a dedicated namespace where people can up-vote them inside the HN voting system.

This is as close you will get to using HN as an online interface in order to rank the entries in this spreadsheet.
Brief, and to the point, literally :) Thanks for reading.
Agreed. This is one nice thing about rails, the migrations are part of the framework.
If more people genuflected to the civic religion and thought the right thoughts, a miracle would happen.

Honest.

(Not really.)
This could be interesting!
Not sure what your confusion is, but here's an explanation ...

A Bloom Filter lets you know, for each object I feed you, whether you've seen it before or not.

You could just take a copy of each one and compare the one I feed you against all the ones you have, but that has some disadvantages. (I'll leave it as an exercise to name some of them)

An alternative is to take a hash of each object I feed you and then keep the hash. Then when I give you an item you hash it and see if you have the hash. There's always a chance that you'll say "yes" because of a coincidence, but you'll never say "No" when you shouldn't. That also has disadvantages. In particular, for example, you don't know how big your storage space will have to get, and lookup times can get very inconvenient.

So here's how a bloom filter works. Take a very long vector of 0/1, and set them all to 0. Also choose 10 (for some value of 10) hash functions that map an object to an apparently random place in the vector. When you get given an object, set all those semi-random places to a 1.

Now when I give you an object, you check to see that all the places are set to 1. If not, then the object I've given you can't be one you've seen. On the other hand, if they are all set to 1, then very likely that's because you've seen this object before. It's not certain, but you can make the probability of error really, really small.

With any luck that will let you read and understand the wikipedia entry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter
Build it. Make all statistics on everything available.

License it out to game theory/behavioral economics programs.

Let them access other users analytics just as other users will be able to access their analytics.

That could be a really fun and informative unit... or even the subject of an entire class. Actually using real world data and how users interact with the uncertainty of having their message sent balanced against the necessity of having their message read.
Anecdotal, I know, but the smartest guy I know (13 courses one semester at Waterloo, qualified to major in CS, actuary science, accountancy, pure math with minors in psychology and business. Currently working on his law degree, actuary tests, and CFA (certified financial advisor) while working full time as a chartered accountant) was taught baby sign as an infant. His younger brother was not. His younger brother is so much more creative and broad thinking whereas the eldest is a Spock like linear thinker. Trade offs.
Still doesn't hold. Idaho is neither a separate country, nor, more importantly, is it home to established organizations with ties to the government of said separate country, overtly dedicated to terrorist activity founded on extremist beliefs. Renting trucks isn't particularly analogous with flying to such a place. Policemen are not customs agents at a border crossing.