skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the wikipedia page on gun-related deaths statistics since some people are writing "where's the beef?" comments:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-re...

US has a score of 10.27 per 100,000

Canada has a score of 4.78 per 100,000

Australia has a score of 2.94 per 100,000

England/Wales has a score of 0.46 per 100,000

Japan has a score of 0.07 per 100,000

(edit: formatting)
Would there be huge audiences if they were not broadcast? Does mass media primarily serve mass interests, or create them? If the promoters of sporting events didn't have automatic channels into everyone's home, would people seek out those channels if they had to directly bear the cost and effort to do so?
No they absolutely didn't. All the team needed to do is put a fresh coat of paint on Digg, similar to it was in the beginning, and capitalize on the traffic before they wanted to make drastic changes.

Digg's whole problem started with when they tried to become the Twitter of news. That's not original intent of the site. If you purchased all that data, all that SEO linking, you'd have to be absolutely crazy not to migrate over at least the stories into your new design.

These guys completely dropped the ball.
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I had similar experiences in managing facebook campaigns. The numbers simply don't add up. Also, many people are using several facebook accounts, especially when using games.
It looks like a plain version of yahoo. What is their goal here?

If I were digg, I'd just hire a bunch of engineers, and let them put out a new product under the old name. Something not directly related to their past. Though I would keep their archives online for SEO.
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Also your mobile phone number - http://www.alexmuir.com/2011/10/facebook-reveals-who-has-you...
For a government hiring req, this is shockingly well written.
How many squares can you find?
If you're getting it done and you still love your work, then there's no problem. Caring about something as a hack to get it done does not imply that getting something done means you care about it.
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As much as I think the new design is great. I do not believe it's going to solve anything let alone Diggs fundamental problem.
for the people who are arguing "but what about the right to bear arms"?

The wikipedia page has some interesting discussions about the history and analysis of the 2nd amendment.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
People still write demos for C64(and for other platforms too, for that matter) and it's been the most active demo platform ever since it's birth. Now, the question stands... Why isn't writing demos(or any code, for that matter) considered interesting or exciting for huge majority of people? I for one have always loved the low-level hacks and creative problem solving needed when programming these 80's machines.

Why, HN, oh why, "none" of you write(or even watch!) demos!?
Same here. Looks like a good front page for general news, whereas something like reddit mostly shows it benefits when you get actively into the subreddits.
I agree that world champion level aspirations are not realistic for everyone. This doesn't mean the people who do not have innate talent are leagues below world champions though. In my observations, talent causes an athlete to become proficient faster, and to end up being very slightly better than untalented people who work very hard. Of course, at the level of world champions, very slightly better is the difference between first place and middle of the pack.
> Either buy OUYA (...)

Buy, what, kickstarter mindshare?
That's a legitimate approach:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphenomenalism
How often do you have to log into your dropbox account? I hardly ever have to log into the website, and you don't have to log in every time on your phone.
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Now you have introduced suicides into the mix. The great majority of gun related deaths in Australia are suicides. More than half of them in the United States are suicides.

Also, the grandparent claim of 400x does not stand up to scrutiny. The rate of gun related homicide in the U.S. is approximately 4 or 5 / 100,000. In Australia, it is about 0.5 / 100,000. That's 10x. Which is still quite a difference.
Another piece that is scary: I've seen two 504's out of the five times I have refreshed the page.
I agree on that. Likely they may consider banning you from posting for violating their terms of service. I was just trying to refute that if users cross-posted, they, and not the site to which they posted would be in violation of the agreement.
Why all the hate towards Craigslist when HN is the same way? Try to delete your account. Better yet, ask PG if he will. Nope. All yer data r belong to them.

Pot, meet kettle.
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Cool or not cool is not the question. The problem is that FB feels like some shady scam to me. It's all about extracting personal information and make you click on pixel cows.
No one is listening.
And the latest post to the mailing list provides some numbers for the other side:

http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/rtcweb/current/msg04980...

"To summarize, using a single core of the iPad3's dual core processor, software decoding of HEVC (forthcoming H.265) at 720p30 resolution and 1.5 Mbit/s bitrate is possible. A fully charged battery is empty after 8 hours. This compares to 10 hours when decoding H.264 using hardware acceleration.
My take from this data point is that battery life is not all that much affected by hardware-based decoding, at least not for tablets and larger devices. If your screen and battery are considerably smaller, but your processing demands similar, hardware decoding may become more beneficial, relatively speaking. However, if you scale down video resolution with screen size, things ought to be approximately in the same ballpark.

While at this discussion, let me reiterate two other points made in the meeting. First, AFAIK, there are no hardware-accelerated encoders in today's products that could meaningfully be used for conversational applications; encoders run software-only, and their complexity is necessarily considerably higher than that of a decoder (because an encoder includes all features of a decoder exept the entropy decoding, plus all the search/mode decision mechanics, forward transform/quantization, assorted filters i.e. for motion compensation, and the entropy encoder). And second, today's hardware based decoding is not well suited for video conference decoding use, as it does not offer functionalities such as error control or concealment beyond re-sychronization after IDR pictures—and one should avoid IDR pictures in conversational applications because of their size and resulting delay."
Ask HN: What does Jobvite look like on the employer side?
I am currently looking for a job and already had to do two applications via Jobvite.
Now, when I upload a resume, the entire content gets dumped in a textbox.
Is this what the employers see when they read through the applications?
I've written my resume in LaTeX and it really isn't very readable after the content has been dumped. Then again, I do want to upload a nicely formatted version of my resume and not only a plain text file. Do I have to first upload the PDF file and then replace the content in the text box with a plain-text resume?

I find the whole procedure very confusing. Especially for jobs that include visual aspects I find it important to create a visually appealing resume and cover letter.
With Jobvite it seems that people who do that get punished because they just dump all the text as it is and thus mess with the readability.

So what is it that employers actually see when I apply via Jobvite?
Thanks for the unique perspective Mike :) Next time I'm in NYC I definitely need to buy you a beer.
Agree. It is very intentional. I think the pretext is that younger blood will have the least amount of personal attachments and responsibilities. They would have laser sharp focus on building the product.

If you have a product, have you tried approaching angel investors?
I really like the way they use text in the user interface instead of graphical symbols. When Google introduced their new buttons it took some time to get used to remember which one did what.

Google has been probably quite successful in monetizing their web mail. It can be sometimes annoying for users, but I believe in the long run it is better to be using a system that has a viable business model behind it.

One thing where Microsoft could compete would be support for third party apps. I think there could be some possibilities for innovation on this area. Something that would strike a balance between security and flexibility. With GMail the options seem to be either gadgets (pretty limited) or giving full IMAP access to 3rd party apps (too much power).
Design wise. It's clean, and lacks personality - which I presume is the point to impartiality.

The makes me think of the phrase 'go big or go home.' This is not a big enough departure from the last Digg to really warrant a whole rewrite and losing the original posts.

To be honest; it seems only a step away from traditional newspaper websites - which have the benefit of the zero-hour news feed. They need to inject yet more community back into this.

As someone who's spent a decent amount of time leading the redesign on a newspaper site - I remember putting far more innovation into a traditional newspaper site than this has.
What about when you click the "x" next to that permission and you don't have to worry about it anymore?
Looks like http://www.likabl.es and http://dropula.com. I still prefer the Reddit/HN style layout. Feels like reading a magazine (no sense of rank) now rather than a list of ranked articles.
Something like this already exists: http://www.modelscience.com/products.html?ref=home&link=...
Cool idea. Screw learning QM - let's rediscover it on our own!
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"So what do you need a system for? You need it for chores."

Agreed. My system is simple: Have my wife do half of the chores while I do the rest half. If she forgets, I remind her and vice versa. We motivate each other to do the thing we don't want to but have to. This is one area where tools/software has not worked for me well. I got plenty of to do lists and action item tools but i usually end up snoozing them anyway :)
All the points mentioned are relatively easy to Fix Later (TM).

Sure, they might become a problem eventually, but fixing them before launching "just because" is be premature.
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They say they know it's not perfect. But if you cut corners like using style attributes, you'll never get the code into a proper production-ready state. New features will always win over cleanups.

Start right, it's really no extra effort to use CSS over style anymore. It is in fact quicker.
You can generate hydrogen with tap water and electricty. You can generate chlorine gas by trying to use bleach to clean up urine.
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Wow, great memories.

I got my C64 on 1984. A few (boring games) and all of the English manuals. A problem because I did not speak much English, nor did I know how to properly read ( I was 5 ). But my oldest brother would write down the typical Basic program:
10 PRINT "HELLO"
20 GOTO 10

After about two years of playing around with it, learning how to read a bit more, and watching a ton of TV in English, I was able to start writing down my own little short programs. Then I discovered that I could load and save stuff to a floppy disk. Then after some time, I kept learning and reading some of the manuals (what I understood), and wrote programs that were up to 50 LOC long. Which for a kid who is 7-8 years old is pretty good. Then the damn thing broke, and I was without a computer for about six long years. A 133mhz speed demon that my brother bought to connect to the internet. I did not know what email was, much less the internet. But I sat down with Win 95 and started poking around. I haven't stopped ever since.

I constantly find myself searching ebay for old C64s and 6502 chips. Never have bought anything, but one day I will.
> assuming the US Citizens on HN reflect public opinion

They're not a very acccurate reflection. For one, their demographics are very different.

> then that would reduce support on HN even further than I estimate above.

Reduce support for what? My claim suggests that the more folks know about US gun laws, the less they support current law and the more they support less strict laws, and I didn't even address the folks who want more strict gun laws. (When you ask them the same questions, many of them have the same reaction as "status quo" folk. They want "more", but they don't want things as strict as they already are.)

BTW - That's why the whole "assault weapon" campaign is political genius. The guns in question are "military" in the same sense that the cars that you can get at a Chevy dealer are race cars (that is, not at all). It plays on ignorance.

Then again, a large number of folks think that "tactical vest" means "bullet proof". (It means "lots of pockets"; think fishing vest, only black or camo fabric.)
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Ask HN: (Update) What Karma Unlock New Features
I am wondering if there is a resource to what features are unlocked as you gain Karma in HN.

From this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=438936 I have gathered the following results, but it is 1291 days old and some of these point totals seem out of date (for instance I am at 60 but can't downvote)

20 Karma - Flag Posts
50 Karma - Downvote Comments
200 Karma - Make Polls
250 Karma - Change Top Color Bar
Yea, I was super excited until I realized it was FF3 in the Japanese series. Chrono Trigger is also an absolutely wonderful game; I totally agree. I just happen to like FF III a bit more :)
I see 40
Because amending a constitution is a dangerous thing that should never be done!
Australia's upcoming NBN supports it, specifically for streaming TV.
Kijiji is pretty popular here in Canada.
> military-style weaponry

Please stop.

All semi-automatic rifles with detachable magazines are functionally identical.

The suspect had a rifle, shotgun and handgud. that is 'loaded up'?

Since when does 'requires federal background check' == 'nearly unregulated'?
40
Hope I'm not missing any.
The problem with NoScript is that it intentionally breaks the intended functionality of a website. I just went into the Firefox element inspector and deleted the code for the list of links on the HN homepage. Now they're gone! How dare PG not cater to my will to randomly disable parts of the website?

You're free to browse the web with parts of it turned off. But you should expect that parts of it might not work, and if they don't work it should be immediately obvious why. Could Digg make it fall back? Yes. Should they? Only if they really want to. It seems they don't really want to. No one wants to cater to IE6 users, either.
41 edit: I amend to 40. I was double counting 1 square
Not worth keeping your brand looking right? This is not about code, this is about their brand and how they protray themselves. If people see a broken website (for any reason, be it cookies, JS, or whatever), they will think less of the brand.

Like you said, "...you compare the cost of the effort against the value added". It does not add anything to the brand, but not having a fallback takes away from it. And given Diggs current reputation, they need all they can get.
me too, are you crowd-sourcing an IQ test?
Re-read what I said. If you amend the Constitution it's a highly deliberative and drawn-out process. If we just decide that the Right to Keep and Bear Arms in the US Constitution means what it does in the English Bill of Rights though that's not the same thing.
> why trust a third party with the keys?

For the same reason that people choose Facebook web hosting over their own privacy protected servers. They are not tech savvy and know little to nothing about security. They don't even know what keys are. 10 years ago, they just knew that Hushmail offered encrypted email. It was the first service anybody heard of that did that. The non-tech savvy crowd is the niche that services like Hushmail exploit.
I'm at 169 and I have the ability to flag. But that is it.
Cannot down vote, make polls or change my colour bar.

A friend is also at 260 and he cannot down vote either. He has indicated to me in the past that he believes it to be closer to 500 before you get that ability now. But I'm not sure where he gets his figures from.
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Because its all doublespeak, protect and serve, while attacking and exploiting, just word games, trying to spin the NSA in to a good light. The Defcon talk by the NSA head guy was pretty much the same, doublespeak all the way. In the UK we have GHCQ trying to do the same things their advert was a little more interactive http://www.canyoucrackit.co.uk/
It's not anti-competitive any more than a book publisher not allowing you to serialize your novel in some other company's publication.

No one is forcing anyone to use Craigslist. You are free not to post and free to not agree to those terms. Why should a publisher (which is what CL is) grant non exclusive rights? It's a business. If you don't like the terms, you aren't forced to sign the contract. You can always post a newspaper ad, or start your own site. Just because CL has the user base doesn't mean that they are preventing competitors from entering the market any more than Stephen King's publisher is stopping other writers from writing and publishing novels. Stephen King is well known and sells lots of books, but that's not a monopoly, it's a competitive advantage.

Should all companies be forced to give up their competitive advantage to make it easier for competition? Of course not. Competitors need to create their own advantage. It's like suggesting that FB has a monopoly on social simply because they have the most users. You can start your own. Facebook (and CL) aren't preventing users from visiting your site, nor are they preventing sellers from writing a different post for a different site. They're claiming rights to the specific ad posting. It's exactly like the publishing industry.

This anger seems to stem directly from Padmapper blatantly stealing CL data and acting as if it was perfectly fine. I'm no fan of CL, but they have the right to do whatever they want with their data, just as users have the right to not use CL. Don't like the terms, don't do business with them.

The Padmapper guys could take on CL and likely succeed I they had any clue about business development. Instead they spend their time trying to game CL instead of building their own business. If they started hyper locally and focused on a small area or neighborhood, they could easily dominate in that neighborhood with just the cost of some kinkos flyers (assuming they have a great product.) they need only contact landlords in their area, offer to post their ads for free and then flyer the neighborhood advertising 'Park Slope Apartments for Rent' or whatever neighborhood they choose. They'll start to build users. Then they add another neighborhood until eventually they reach critical mass in a specific city. CL took years to get where they were. It takes hard work and getting out from behind the computer screen from time to time. In the rental listings market, the code and UX is easy, the hard work is getting out there and building the business.

I din't get why CL has any obligation to help a competitor short circuit CL's 10+ years of hard work. Do some hard work yourself -- CL is beatable. Look at MySpace: millions of engaged users suffering through a horrid UX, yet they fell to some geographically marketed site called Facebook. You want to build a better CL -- learn from Zuck and Co how they beat MySpace. It's a hell of a lot more than just code.
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I'm surprised (not really) how people complains about how this will cause the last remaining Digg users to leave.

As I see it, this is not just a redesign of the old Digg, but a whole new site with a diffrent concept. Much like "Dig is dead. Long live Digg!"
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This could end up in a lot of industrial type of projects. The raspberry could replace the mini2440 for a lot of things. Heck, even prototyping something with the Pi and Android would allow industries to iterate their equipment faster. Cool stuff.
41 is the correct answer.
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It's not a screensaver it just looks like one :)

Screensavers aren't saving any screens these days - their function is merely to provide pretty pictures. And xscreensaver provides LOTS of pretty, if retro, pictures.
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Thanks! Very insightful! I admire what you and your team have done at stipple and I think it will be huge. With similar aspirations to 'disrupt' an already proven industry away from the norm I am inspired by your progress and feedback! Much success!
I was unaware that Verizon couldn't charge for tethering over LTE, but I did find it strange that the Verizon iPad has tethering included in any data plan and the AT&T version does not. I ended up canceling my AT&T order and ordering a Verizon iPad once I discovered that fact.

That said, it's been almost six months since the new iPad came out and AT&T has yet to include tethering, so I don't think they see tethering to iPad that huge a selling point. (in fact, I don't think they even have a way of letting you pay for tethering if you're on an iPad's prepaid data).
> craigslist is the exclusive licensee of this content, with the exclusive right to enforce copyrights against anyone copying, republishing, distributing or preparing derivative works without its consent.'

> I have an original photo and publish it as part of a listing ('the content'). The photo is not a derivative work.

No, but if someone uses that photo (from the listing) to make something else, that something else is a derivative work, and thus covered by the craigslist license.

I suspect that the craigslist wording isn't intended to be restricted to derivative works. That is, I think that they meant to include content as is in addition to derived work from said content.
They can't really expect to compete with Reddit on the exact same concept. They need to niche themselves.
Does 20 ~ 25% coefficient seem about right based on your experiences?
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Erlang syntax maybe jarring but one benefit of it is there is actually very little syntax relative to languages like Java, C++, Python. There isn't that much to hold in your head. I can switch between Erlang and another language pretty effortlessly because the context switch is so small.
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Why would you ever put your private key within reach of a computer that is not your own?
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