skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I searched for my own username expecting a flatline, but there were a few hits in the last few years. Flattering, but I'm fairly certain that hackers have not been talking about me. ;)

Perhaps you should only query titles and text, not usernames?

edit: for example, searching for pg would include his own submissions as well as mentions and Ask PG subs.
Nice work! I had the same exact idea for the contest and bought the hntrend.com domain 2 weeks ago, too bad I was too lazy to finish it :)
Well, I did not say that I really wanted to support other formats. Here are my reasons:

JavaScript has always possessed an inner, lisp-like beauty. CoffeeScript allows that beauty to shine through the surface of the syntax. I have tried in Smooth CoffeeScript to let the visual design reflect that in the way the code and text is presented.

I mentioned that I have tried converters and realized what the problems are (beyond lacking support for hyphenation, kerning and ligatures). The book's text is interspersed with code in a fixed width font. Line breaks and hyphenation marks has to be avoided as much as possible in inline code, because they can be highly confusing - does it mean a minus there or what? Then comes CoffeeScript's whitespace awareness, that means that code blocks have to be scaled, it is very confusing to use word wrapping. I have had to hand manage the typesetting by sometimes tweaking the code text, the font sizes or rewriting sentences to avoid formatting issues.

All my devices are capable of presenting pdf quite well, so I have also not felt the need to produce other formats. I checked at http://ebook-reader-review.toptenreviews.com/ and it seems all ebook readers have some support for pdf.

If the reason for other formats is to avoid Adobe, then on the Mac there is a built-in preview utility with excellent pdf support. On Windows Google Chrome has its own pdf support built-in. With this book Chrome does say that there is something it could not render correctly, but I have not been able to find what that something might be. It looks good to me.

Creating the book in pdf has been quite labour intensive - maybe due to my lack of experience in this kind of work - so the prospect of repeating that a couple of times for HTML and EPUB does not appeal much to me. If someone else feels strongly enough about this to dedicate their time and energy to it - and uses freely available tools to do it - then I will be happy to host the result on the project site.
Content is always king. Both engineering and design makes no sense without content (in most cases).Design and engineering are ways to work with content.

Design is how the cup looks, and more importantly feels in your hand. Engineering is making sure the cup don't fall apart, keeps the cofee in the cup and don't leak. The coffe is the content.
Yah, you could easily do it by total # of posts to account for the growth. Cool stuff man.
Show HN: Make Firefox competely dissappear and reappear[Linux & Mac]
Since this could have undesired side effects while quick browsing here is the url:
http://www.christopherwoodall.com/peekaboo

It has something to do with either OS widgets and/or GTK(resizing a window >65555 pixels). Nothing special, i.e. code execution, but interesting to say the least.

I think the fact that the window and task bar item "disappears"(process is still running) then "reappears" after the timeout if neat.
Official Docs - best official project documentation I’ve read. It’s actually so good, that I never (well - almost never) bothered to look for anything else. All my questions were answered by the official documentation.

I have a different opinion. The Django docs are good, but not great. Here's how I see them right now:

- Combination of overview, how-to, and API reference.

Instead, I'd like to see it split up like so:

- Overview section.
- How-To section.
- API reference.

The overview section should cover general concepts. "This is what a View is, how it relates to URLConf, etc...".

The how-to section should show you how to do certain things. "Here's example code of how you can configure settings.py, how to handle an HTTPRequest in a view function, etc...".

The API reference, just a list of Django objects (showing inheritance), their attributes, functions, and parameters. Excellent example: http://api.rubyonrails.org/ . Currently some of this is documented, but some of it is only visible in source code.

Right now, everything in the Django docs is semi-bunched together. This made it really hard for me to initially learn the API; I'd imagine others' have similar issues. Since then I've gotten use to the docs, but it's still frustrating at times.

I do like Django very very much, but this is one of its pain points for me. It goes away with experience, but for new users it likely poses a bit of a challenge.
Came to say exactly this. The chart seems to start (by default anyway) at the beginning of 2007. I'm guessing the user-base and thus activity of HN has increased considerably since then. So yes it would be good to be able to re-normalise in some way. By the number of registered users would probably be the simplest. By number of comments posted would be another, by number of submissions or even number of words would all be interesting.

Btw - my suggestions got me thinking - I assumed this is looking at posts and comments. Whether just submission titles or if includes comments will affect best way to normalise.
They were hashed using the standard php crypt() method, it generates a salt for every password encrypted. I'm in that database and was able to generate the exact hash. Luckily I use one-time passwords with such things...
Probably. I regret each time i comment here, but I attribute this to the cultural differences between California based NH-users and the rest of the world.
I keep getting a message saying that forum post is inaccessible to me.
Mt.Gox itself was hacked not just a guy. That's a bit like Wall Street being hacked, with due proportions. Also, Mt.Gox reaction to the episode is apparently pissing off a lot of users, as per comments in linked page.

I don't think this is the end of bitcoins but surely enough is quite a ouch moment.

Lesson I've learned today: given that bitcoin wants to be a better currency, they have the chance to provide a better service. A good bitcoin marketplace should enforce two way authentications, maybe with yubikey or even just GPG keys.
If you feel like complaining, check Complainr:
http://complainr.syx.sk/

Some people already started :)
You can see a preview of the Privacy Policy that you can generate. I hope this helps you give us some sort of advice, if you'd find it useful, beautiful, crappy and so on :P
Sure, i don't understand it, neither the people who brought bitcoins.
Seems to me listing "Various types of data" defeats the purpose of informing users as to what is being collected.
Strange, I didn't expect the search API to return results for a name that's in the by-line of a comment, but it sure does:

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/comments&q=pvilch...

This is something I should definitely work around in the future. Thanks for bring it to my attention!
The hacker wasn't trying to get money. He was trying to undermine the system.

What makes you think that?

Heck, I've been undermining bitcoin for weeks just for fun, but I'd much rather have a thousand dollars.
I think there are advantages to each.

Rubygems combined with bundler is an excellent way to package up functionality, specifiy dependencies and have things play together nicely.

pip + virutalenv is similar, but not quite as good at this part - but python having module namespaces makes it far easier to write packages which you can be sure wont stomp all over each other.
Password hashes are standard php crypt() ones. I'm in that DB, was able to generate the hash using the DB entry (in contains the salt for each password) and my one-time password from mtgox. One-time PWs ftw.
for me the window dissapeared and never reappeared, every time I killed firefox it restored an invisible window, I was close to wiping my profile before it suddenly went away.

If you are really curious then I would use a new profile to try it
مدونــه مملكه الحب
Pick up the red phone and call Bruce Schneier.
The author of the paper, Lowry, is also funny enough to literally make me laugh out loud. I'd point them out, but why spoil them? Read the article.
On an IPad1 the charts render so slowly it's watching a race between brightly colored snakes. Very suspenseful.

Please do normalize the results.
Design isn't anything you want it to be, but it certainly includes programming language design. It includes API design. Any situation where you are creating an experience for a human you are doing design.
It wouldn't be even necessary.

The 1000 USD is relative to the current price I suppose. So if I have access to an account with 500K bitcoins and I sell 400K bitcoins so that the price drops to 0.01 (like it did), and then I transfer the 100K bitcoin left in the account to my bitcoin address(and I can with the driven down exchange price) when the price goes back up I would have made a killing.
http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=android%2C+iOS
A Memory, in Memory
If you're a "production person" or "front end developer" it's not an issue, however if on the other hand you're selling yourself as a "creative professional" it's a bad idea. The only exception might be if you used a super minimal theme and re-designed it from the ground up so it doesn't look anything like the original.
And Zed found it from me on Twitter, and I found it on this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2671576 (Just setting the record straight as Zed attributed it to me)
Storing passwords in plaintext should probably be illegal and carry a hefty fine.
http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=fuck%2C+shit%2C+cunt%2C+co...

I put in 5 of the 7 George Carlin dirty words. Looks like 'motherfucker' has a recent surge.

http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=piss%2C+tits%2C+cunt%2C+co...

If you want to see it without the top two words dwarfing the other five.
7 Facts Every Webmaster Should be aware of About Links - Cheap Domain Names
That's not entirely true.

For example, the first thing I searched for was "Haskell", curious to see if it had gained or lost popularity in the past couple of years. The graph has an upward trend, but without knowing what the trend for total volume on HN is, that information is useless.
I'd love to see it - been considering them myself.
Good point! Actually, those "various types of data" are explained within the complete privacy policy (http://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/www-iubenda-com/legal/...), but we are working on a more clever way to show the privacy policy summary. Do you have any other advice on it? To me it should look more compact, with icons and groups (similar to Facebook Apps' Authorization popup).
> Hacker News or Stack Overflow are good examples of very successful sites that have horrible visual design.

Yeah, to my mind this is bullshit. Reddit is another oft-quoted "horrible" design. Yahoo, msn also. It almost seems as if all the most popular sites on the planet are "horribly designed". Almost by definition this can't be true.

Personally I find both HN and SO great in terms of design. They're extremely easy to navigate, functionality and calls-to-action are clear and obvious. Data is presented in a meaningful and easy-to-read uncluttered manor. I'm not a design student (by any stretch of the imagination) but for the life of me I wouldn't be able to begin to guess what's so bad about either of these sites, unless it's the lack of super-whizzy glossy css3/js/ajax/flash magic that's the problem. Which is absurd, and only really relevant for "creatives".

Disclosure: I didn't read the article, so if it states why they're so bad I've missed out!
Not true: Here in the UK the BBC have a quiz show hosted by Stephen Fry - QI which featured the Gömböc. Fry placed it in front of him to show it in action, albeit on a mirror, but it certainly wsn't a dust free environment.

Here's the actual clip on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCAg5_vHFmI
I asked it about ios and android and it broke :(
http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=ios%2C+android
Paul Graham On Why You're A Mosquito And How Airbnb Is Worth A Billion Dollars
Personally, I think history is best taught when it has a narrative. Hence, textbooks are not good at teaching history

I disagree. Teaching history as a narrative is the most dangerous thing you can do with history, because there's always the temptation to shoehorn it into a narrative. Good guys vs bad guys. Heroes and villains. Plucky underdogs vs arrogant empires. The human mind is stupid, and there's only a certain number of narratives which "feel" right to us, and the moment you start reducing reality in its vast complexity so it sounds like a good story, you've lost most of what was going on.

For example, what you just said:

What Halberstam makes abundantly clear is how dangerous what they were doing was. Simply, they could have been killed. Some of them very nearly were. And there were people killed, but they obviously weren't around for Halberstam to interview. The corollary to that is he drives home how naked some of the violence against the protestors was.

What about the violence committed by the protestors? Were there no evil acts committed by folks on the "good" side of this conflict? I assume there were (there always are) but these get left behind in the search of the simplified one-liner version of the "Civil Rights struggle" narrative.

History as narrative is more entertaining than real history, but it's also a lot less accurate. You might as well just watch Star Wars.
Also consider that the privacy policy is generated by adding the services (Google Analytics, KISSmetrics, Facebook Social Buttons, etc), and the rest is completely automatic. One of the features we are working on will allow more customization (e.g. adding the "scope" parameter for FB Apps)
As a note, when markets get really freaky, rollback of trades happen. I think the usual term I've read is "declared invalid".
Yes, my thoughts as well at that point. Last time I checked, Ubuntu was offering Django 0.96 - installing through the package manager is bad advice when it comes to installing Django.

Installing from tar.gz isn't at all complex or difficult, either. The article would have been much more helpful if the author knew more about Python and Django.
DDD in a Functional Programming Language
That's a bit of an exaggeration, but yes, it's fairly safe to say that the Japanese view of World War 2 is a little... well, foreign.
Implicit vs explicit social graphs
Should be back now. I had to restart the heroku process. Sadly, no indication why it crashed :/
And you're basing this statement on what evidence?
I'm on record here as saying a few weeks ago that a BTC bank needs to be established.

I reiterate my position. A BTC bank needs to be established, with appropriate data protection features.
It's cool but doesn't always seem to chart the trend. I have to force a refresh. Using Chrome stable.
Actually, a gram is a unit of mass.
<CorvusCorax> poor bot had a division by zero when trying to calculate the mt gox exchange rate
As I understand, there is also a 50 BTC withdrawal limit.
The most inspiring thing you'll read all day. Check it out y'all and Happy Father's Day :]
Thanks for the tips. I'll make sure to be cognizant of the perks I'm getting. Any advice on how to survive a workplace like that and keep your mind in reality?
Legally, they're not. Bitcoin just isn't actual money in any country.

Someone should buy sealand and change the national currency to bitcoin...
Exactly, someone sold a huge amount of Bitcoins. I.e., this was the first time it was hacked by someone stupid enough to call enough attention to his crime to have most of what he stole taken back from him. What do you want to bet someone smarter got in there first, and is maybe still in there? There are subtler ways to steal money than grabbing a huge amount all in one chunk and trying to cash out.
False; there were many trades executed near $0 (see http://leanback.eu/bitcoin/plots/20110619195756-mtgox.png).
It's not cultural differences between California and the rest of the world. It's simply that your statements indicate you're commenting without an understanding the subject matter.

This incident occurred because (a) people with large amounts of bitcoin do not always store them securely, and (b) the bitcoin market is very small, and therefore can be destabilised by relatively small amounts of money (a few million dollars, for instance).
So if you had already done a legitimate trade it's gone? "Sorry you made some money there, but someone else got affect by something else, so we've undone that". So much for "There are no chargebacks on BitCoin"
You know it's old when the innards look like the inside of a Nortel Meridian Option 11c PBX.

http://corporatetelecom-ca.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/image...
The charts are SVG and iOS's implementation of SVG is stupid slow.
open that file and search for the most famous MD5 hash - 5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99
Due to some US law, they restrict withdrawals to $1000/day. That includes bitcoins. Presumably, they do that to make sure they are well within the law.
I watched a video of one of the Snap developers a couple of days ago and just tried installing Snap and playing with it for a short while. Definitely a light weight framework, but looks nice enough.
What would be the point of doing that?
The trends on multiple terms are actually easier to read after normalization anyway. Right now the power-law curve growth of HN in total is making it hard to read the difference in growth between, say, FB and twitter. Easier for our brains to process if you took the ln() of them - which is definitely the fastest way to fix the charts - or normalized in some other way.
You seem to be talking about different things.

I read "golden handcuffs" as extending a line of credit to employees to support and _encourage_ living beyond their actual means. This is very very different from being pampered and spoiled as you describe.
The civil rights movement was rare in that the protestors did not commit violent acts - at least not the ones that were followed. These were people who were committed to non-violence as a principle. Why this is true is an interesting discussion unto itself; they spent months studying non-violent protest and had to mentally and physically prepare themselves to be attacked and not retaliate. While I did not agree with their reasons all the time, I have to conclude that in this instance, the tactic of non-violence was extremely effective. However, I think it's only possible when there is already an existing culture of the rule of law - or, at least, lip service to it.

He does, however, give rather complete biographies of many of the people involved, and they were not saints. Several suffered from depression, one's behavior with women earned him scorn, and another's naked political ambitions were distasteful to many others. (That "one" was Marion Barry.)

Reading one narrative is potentially dangerous. But when you read many books on a single subject, it allows you to compare and contrast what different authors say about the same thing.

Anyway, history textbooks are distilled from the kinds of books I'm talking about, so I find your complaint rather odd.
Sega was responsible enough to not store passwords in plaintext. The email I received stated:

We have identified that a subset of SEGA Pass members emails addresses,
dates of birth and encrypted passwords were obtained. To stress,
none of the passwords obtained were stored in plain text.

Of course, they could still have been hashed inadequately, such as with plain md5.
Doesn't seem to be normalized at all. The easiest way to fix would be to chart the y-axis on a log scale.
You can exclude authors by setting the weight to 0 in your API call:

&weights[username]=0.0
Not to sound paranoid, but if the hacker had a vested interest in bitcoin being undermined (government agent?) then money wouldn't be his main motive.
Though they don't have their own console, they're a rather large software publisher and developer at this point. Sega has a more than a few of their own popular game franchises, and also still does the arcade hardware/game business.
Anecdotally, it seems that practically every billionaire in the US comes from an upbringing in the comfortable middle class.

This is basically what we'd expect, given that:

a) Folks who become rich are generally pretty darn smart.

b) People who are smart generally have smart parents.

c) The vast majority of smart people are in the comfortable middle class. (Not the poor, since they're smart enough not to be poor, but not the very rich, because statistically there ain't that many of 'em)

Therefore, if you're rich you probably had comfortably middle class parents.
Thread is locked - anyone who can provide a mirror?

Edit: Just Google for the URL to find the respective Rapidshare link.
While I agree that that will probably happen, the "solutions" politicians would have in mind will almost certainly mean regulation in areas that will make things difficult for most of us.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungian_archetypes are a very common thread. Connectivity, etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_processing in actual thoughts.
Redis or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the unstable version
Not to sound paranoid... (government agent?)

Uh, sorry, that's pretty much textbook paranoia.
> In the real world you also don't carry your money with you all the time, but store it on a bank.

In the real world, the banks are subject to regulation.
For a currency invented by a bunch of cryptography geeks, it's astonishingly insecure.
I think this title is a bit link baity. Yes, clean code is important. So is efficient code. To say one is more important than the other is needlessly oversimplifying things. How about this? They're both important; and sometimes one takes precedence over the other depending on the situation and context; but most of the time, you should just strive for both.

Clean code requires less resources in terms of maintenance, bug fixes, and extensibility, because it's easier to understand and modify. Efficient code requires less resources in terms of server maintenance and bug fixes, because it actually requires less maintenance and is less likely to catch you off guard by taking your server down.
Google reminds users to "Call Dad", makes users angry
No, I mean that the speed increase you get is from a change in the algorithm.
argh. i knew someone would post that.

it is not anything like as smart as it looks. the "formula" simply generates a bit-plot of whatever parameter is given. so the image is encoded in the bits of that particular value of n.

it's no more "self referential" than using some program that displays images to display a screenshot showing the program's source.
Surprised Erowid has not created a iPhone app, or an enterprising HN user, for informed, "realistic" drug education, as our own US system is completely flawed. I'd like to see something made, if only to prevent poor experiences and iterate the dangers of TRULY dangerous drugs.
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=meth+use+rural+community...
we may be in a bubble about talking about a bubble: http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=bubble