skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think one can assume that the funding comes from the IDEA from this sentence:

>This research was conducted
as part of Carnegie Mellon University’s Initiative for Digital Entertainment Analytics (IDEA).

The IDEA is apparently a think-tank to help "groups like MPAA and policymakers [to] navigate the changing digital media landscape."[1]

Interestingly, funding for the IDEA has been made possible by "an unrestricted gift from the Motion Picture Association of America." [2]

Edit: From one of the author's blog it looks like the study has been submitted for peer review: "The study is currently under peer review at a good econ journal." [3] It seems that the SSRN where this paper is currently hosted is to social sciences and economics as to what arxiv is for natural sciences: a repository for yet unreviewed drafts of papers.

[1] http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/blog/innovation/2012/1...

[2] http://www.techtaffy.com/carnegie-mellon-launches-digital-en...

[3] http://brettdanaher.wordpress.com/2013/03/12/megaupload-shut...
purchased mine immediately following the email, maybe too soon...however Google has a history of running out of their exclusive devices quickly
To frame it with something people are a little more familiar with-

"I'm going to revolutionize the automobile industry by offering a car that gets 4x the fuel economy, by doubling the efficiency of the engine and cutting chassis weight in half. The car will be zero emissions, get excellent safety ratings, and offer best-in-class comfort.

Really, I don't understand why no one has thought of this before."
New Healthcare.gov is Open, CMS-Free
Automatic Link (YCS11) brings your car's on-board diagnostics to the iPhone
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3911687

It appears to be dead.

EDIT: Another one that appears to be among the living.

http://hackerbra.in/
Is it really so far-fetched that closing down a major piracy site would increase legitimate downloads by 4-6%?
Brett Danaher: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=w7W3zn0AAAAJ&hl...

Michael D. Smith: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=rzPlMfQAAAAJ&hl...

From the paper:

Our [Megaupload] Internet penetration data is based ... Google AdWords estimates of the total number of unique visitors ... [and] ... the total number of Internet users in each country in our sample...

As such, the shutdown of Megaupload influenced the policies of several other cyberlockers focused on piracy, and our results necessarily measure the “net impact” of the Megaupload shutdown across the cyberlocker industry, as opposed to just measuring the impact of Megaupload.
Once he got to 100-250k installs things started to take off but that did not happen until two years in so this success is not that long ago. He also started to build more polished apps at that time and stopped consulting to pay the bills and worked on his own stuff "full time."
Awesome. tmux is not on my SSH but screen is so I will be learning to use that.

If I use the mySQL database/webclient that my webhost (bluehost) offers on cpanel, do you think I can install Chive at a later date and make the switch fairly seamlessly.

and pardon my french but WTF HOW DO I NOT KNOW ABOUT HOST FILES? That's awesome.. Can I maybe do something similar to that using router hoodoo?
I think that with most products, there are at least some people for whom trying out the product would be a win-win. The issue is finding those people.

Your comment is really validating; thanks for your input!
from what i read elsewhere, they run a little small, 2X it is!
You're a good guy, Paul. And I agree that things get too cynical and too negative.

Please continue to foster an environment that is positive and provide a good example, but if people feel like they are being manipulated, they are going to get pissed off. I used to get more pissed off than I do now, but I still get upset. I wish I didn't. I wish that everyone could live in peace and work together.

Maybe if HN we're self-policing via ability to flag comments and posts where enough flags means that it shows as username only with no post title/comment show unless "show" is clicked, no downvoting (a flagged and hidden post or comment could rank at the top), and without the user banning/ghosting stuff...
Well, no. A linear scan over a large memory array is going to crap all over the CPU caches if you have to do it more than once.

Break into blocks < CPU cache size, perform multiple stages on each block.

Having all that handy control-flow stuff makes it easier to get the block-oriented behavior you need to maximize performance, which in these cases is all about memory bandwidth.
Well, the Clojure repl is way better. Not being pervasively lazy makes it easier to reason about many things. Not strictly boxing IO in the IO monad makes it easier to debug (debug by println is still useful!). Macros are much easier to understand than Template Haskell, and since you don't have real typing you can have heterogeneous collections, or values where the type of one part depends on the value of another part, easily.

Also I think it really is easier to get started with Clojure than with Haskell, even for the (very well thought out!) concurrency primitives, though obviously that doesn't matter if you're already up and running with Haskell.

I use Clojure exclusively at my job, but for some things I really miss something like Haskell's type system, even though I freely admit I don't really understand the type system at its higher levels (specifically related to GADTs, existential types, type familes, etc.). Applicative functors would make some things so much nicer.

and you don't have to understand dependent typing to do it, either. I know there are heterogeneous list implementations for Haskell, but I can never understand how they work.
Pointless article written by someone seemingly without even a wikipedia-level knowledge of the issues involved in what he's suggesting. Has no place on the HN front page.
There are a lot of things that can be said about the "average" programmer in such-and-such languages, what they do and don't do, what habits they have, etc. But I'm not interested in working with merely average people.
Opens eyes to unicode for me!
Not so far-fetched, but I do feel that it will be very difficult to have conclusive evidence to prove as such.
I don't know about you, but I can clearly distinguish between conscious decisions and instinct. You can argue about how all decisions are just chemistryy anywa, blah blah, but my decisions and my instincts clearly don't come from the same place.
The Computer Chronicles: Unix (1985)
How to integrate Psychometrics it into your recruiting processes?
True, Maxis probably isn't doing much computation. rz2k is simply pointing out that Fargren's argument is incorrect. Same as what stcredzero said, "Your conclusion is probably right, but your theoretical basis for it leaves a lot to be desired."
I think it's interesting that everything seems to be introductory level[1]. I wonder if over time higher level material would be added.

[1]: Don't get me wrong, it's still useful and imo, great.
Not affiliated with namecheap (except hosting domains there), but this deal seems really good (esp. since google started charging for Apps domains). Has anyone tried it?
The problem with this type of research in particular is that these deep learning networks shine when they are trained for a very long time across many machines, and on huge quantities of data. In other words, serious engineering muscle is necessary that goes beyond what a few graduate students can do in a University setting.
Yes, thanks so much.
Put another way in a huge compeditive landscape the people at the top generally cheat in one way or another. Yes people at Harvard are smart but at some point the only way to pull 30 hour days in high school is to fake something. Because there are a lot of smart hardworking people that don't get in.
No firsthand experience, but I've been hearing good things about Pagoda Box (https://pagodabox.com/).
Anyone that read the 26 pages (sorry, I'm lazy), can you comment on whether they take into account timing of releases? In other words, if the best and biggest movies come out right after the shutdown, sales could have increased due simply to that.
tl;dr: I tried Go, but it wasn't like Ruby, so now I'm trying Scala.
Yes. It is IMPOSSIBLE TO BELIEVE.
Go's lack of parametric polymorphism is an abundant source of Internet debate; proponents of Go say that it keeps the language simpler and find that they don't miss it in practice. I won't get into that debate (it's too late anyway), but I'll say that if you are writing an application, that kind of polymorphism might not be as useful since you can know all the types of your application. Why bother making a generic function if you know you are only ever going to use it with strings? When you are writing libraries however, you don't have this sort of freedom.
I'm sorry, but reading "I tried a Show HN for one of my projects. It's now dead." made me laugh so hard I spit out my tea.

You owe me new boxers, sir. And some burn cream.
Huh.

My childhood consisted of doing this with a five dollar product that's been around for ages.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003L264JA/

I mean its great, but this product has a lot more in common with the glue guns that I've known and loved for my entire conscious life than it does any 3D printing technology. I'm surprised that neither this site nor the kickstarter even mention glue guns.

Judging by the fact that most of the video is sped up, I imagine it takes almost as long to 'dry' as it did when I was a kid, too, though it may cure a little faster because its a thinner glue stream.
Sounds like this would be a good software for you: http://lurst.github.com/Pendium/
You could work for a startup for sure, . You mentioned Python, a number of positions are available if you can show previous work in Python.

I would recommend in the future posts that you include a github account and/or any way to show previous history (like past employers)
Not disagreeing, but whenever there is a study posted where the funding comes from a source that has an obvious interest in the outcome of a study there is always a comment like this one pointing out the conflict.

I understand providing information beyond that would be likely very difficult, but having never been in a similar research situation, could someone outline what this influence is like? If there an underlying pretense during the research that they have to reach a specific outcome? Is it more subtle/obvious? Any additional insight would be appreciated.
Paul Allen's Living Computer Museum
Show HN for original project, then iterate on the idea with new one (http://searchco.de/) and just keep going.

I got a lot of initial traction by being one of the first people to work on DuckDuckGo's ZeroClick info (donated a lot of the programming documentation) which provided some initial back-links and referral traffic. Kept this going by adding more things through DuckDuckHack.

Everything from there has been posting on comments (where relevant), posting in StackOverflow, building relationships with those using it and improving things. There is quite a bit of SEO mixed in there but mostly I just keep pushing and making something I want to use.

A few larger blog posts seemed to work too. Some of the more in depth ones that took quite a while to write helped quite a bit. This was more about adding discover ability and SEO value though.

EDIT - Also a lot of directly targeting people complaining about lack of code search over twitter. This was especially effective when Google Code Search shut down and Koders.com hadn't got its act together. I had planned for this, but it was not as effective as I would have expected.
I would take the presence of flower remains in some Neanderthal graves as counter evedence.
Soulless? Now, look. O'Reilly has gone downhill, but so has just about everything. The economy made people cut corners and care less about quality or customer service (where the customer in this case is you, the writer). But if they kept the same standards they had before while book sales dwindled, they would be bankrupt. That is the cold hard fact of it, and it is sad. We'd like to think that quality is always rewarded, but paper is becoming less relevant, and ebooks can be hacked and torrent'd + magnet'd or just plain shared. Any data based business whether it is books, music, or otherwise, is in the shitter and looking for a new gig. I by no means think that litigation and DRM are the answer; fear and bad cryptography are never the answer. But, these people don't have many options, and they are going to make bad choices.
I am not sure, but I think the IDs count posts and comments. So I think that means about 4 million submissions and over a million comments. Not all submissions draw comments.

Can anyone verify this?
Is there a problem with the body content of an http response being compressed, or is it mainly a header thing?
Go is from 2009. Ruby is from 1995. Although it took about 10 years for Ruby to really start to be popular in the English speaking world.
Pimp your shell with screenfetch (zsh & bash)
How Apple Gets All the Good Apps
I'd like to understand more about why you think it's a 'nightmare'. I set up a merchant account with St George in 2009 for my startup at the time and the whole process was fairly straightforward and hassle free. The fees were about $50/month + 0.8% of each transaction.
Well, I'm less lazy than most devs and have worked in lots of languages and did it just the other week -- maybe I'm just not that bright :)
What of the hypothesis that Neanderthals had larger brains than us? Or is there not much evidence for that?
The relevant section of the video is between 0:30-3:30.
http://www.livingcomputermuseum.org/
Only r^2 the r^3 is volume. That said your optic nerve does most of the resolution dependent processing well before you reach the brain so I don't think resolution increases would be vary demanding.
Try a Lisp. You'll be humbled. In my opinion, anything resembling C is easy stuff. Pointers, threads ... it's all pretty easy, really. Truly breaking out of that C mold is the differentiator though, in my opinion. Anybody can learn C, Python or Javascript.
The talk that I gave just before the one linked above talks about testing: http://vimeo.com/53221558
Yeah Joel was born to demo/present, wasn't he. I saw him at Webstock some years ago and it was a fantastic presentation.
There have been things like this for a fairly long while on Reddit. Mostly, they have been along the lines of organizing a study group version of self-study following, doing something like a course on OCW.

They predated Coursera, and the first three pre-Coursera/Udacity courses for ML, DB, AI got a lot of buzz in that community.

However, in general, the problem has had less to do with the need to moderate, and more with the slow decline in enthusiasm when there is insufficient follow through.

Perhaps one of the ones that has been the most successful, "carlhprogramming", benefited because it wasn't only lead by someone who wanted to learn along with the rest of the class, but filled the role of instructor. If so, that might not auger well for groups of peers learning together.

However, I haven't checked any of these out recently, and I could be completely off base about how ambitious this is and how likely it is to really help a lot of people learn new things.
Rust, not Ruby.
Big eyes? Last week it was reported that bunny rabbits caused the demise of the Neanderthals.

I forget what it was that caused the demise of the Neanderthals two weeks ago. Maybe that they had red hair and sunburned easily.

I guess that means it's been three weeks since the last announcement that another "nearby earth-like planet" has been discovered.
Uh I think I love it. Easy to learn language and awesome performance.
https://code.google.com/p/gomock/ works well.
You can say that again. It was definitely disheartening for peers of mine I knew to be frequent cheaters get accepted into a college I was rejected from.

This is made worse by how absolutely rampant it is—to the point the reporting it seemed futile. I actually had high ranking peers inform me that they didn't believe I had never cheated in high school. They actually could not understad the concept. The social risk for reporting any time of cheating is quickly amplified when you realize:

* It's more common in high school to cheat than not to cheat

* Administration has no time to pursue cheaters except in the most widespread and obvious circumstances

* It's very hard to prove cheating outside of an anecdotal "This is what I saw" story, and there is no court system for high school students

Honestly, it sucked.

P.S. Based on an American public high school experience. And, for what's it's worth, ~300 in the College Board Top 1000 Challenge Index schools.
It's pretty typical of the Plan9 mentality. See this post on the Acme text editor: http://9fans.net/archive/2008/08/134
This is most certainly not a biased funded study with links to the MPAA guys. Without-a-doubt it is definitely an independent study performed by real people with no links to the entertainment industry. Now if you'll excuse me guys I'm just going to go to the cinema to watch a $30 per ticket blockbuster movie because the entertainment industry needs our support. I'll be back later.

Definitely not suspicious!
Rails is not for API,why not use eventmachine?
Bypassing Coinbase's Bitcoin Limits with Node.js
Not in the math section. Intro to Representation Theory and Intro to Category theory seem like grad level classes.
@dubcanada we are not a giant company or a tiny startup. We have great engineers who move fast and meet tight deadlines. Believe me, our customers and partners appreciate it.
Google's 1000 new jobs in Seattle
How about catching the packets before SSL? I have no knowledge about modern Windows debugging, or how Simcity might block a debugger. But I guess you could pinpoint the location of the messages just before SSL encryption, and just dump them out?
That's because at university the researchers are being evaluated mainly on the number of papers they produce. Google has other options for evaluation.

Source: some bozos count my papers every couple of years and write an evaluation which displays complete ignorance of my field.
I did a double take on first reading this. I wasn't aware there was an "elite" airline status for fliers, and I thought you were saying something else....
A much more interesting effect is putting water and cornstarch on a woofer connected to an oscillator [1]. No special camera tricks required!

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zoTKXXNQIU
Assuming that the 5% increase in sales is real - I wonder if the total costs invested in lobbying, bribering politicians to create favorable laws and all the anti piracy pr campaigns are worth it in the end
I've only dabbled a bit but I haven't seen a DSL that easily creates a mock that implements all the methods of a given interface, verifies that methods were (not) called with expected arguments, and returns or throws canned values. It's not difficult to write mocks from scratch, but it's very repetitive and hard to skim what the test does.
I became suspicious because the writing style of this paper was very superfluous, yet the conclusions were very strongly worded. Here is an example in the very first page:

for each additional 1% pre-shutdown Megaupload penetration, the post-shutdown sales unit change was 2.5% to 3.8% higher, suggesting that these increases are a causal effect of the shutdown.

This does not suggest causality. You need more rigorous inductive reasoning, and randomized trials, if you want to conclude causality.

Edit: Just found out that SSRN is not even a peer reviewed journal! ( http://www.ssrn.com/update/general/ssrn_faq.html#no_paper_su... )
Ha. Is there a high performance, compiled, and concurrent friendly language that looks like Ruby? Please share. :)
1. Clicked "try draft"
2. Got taken to login screen.
3. Abandoned.
If anything, the bias would be that the funder tends to choose people whose views are compatible with their own.
Regarding 2, I'm not sure I'd want to see the results of pressing a human at 16g against a kevlar mesh, especially considering it's mainly our squishy bits that'd be up against it.
It seems someone else was reading What If[1] today as well...

[1]: http://what-if.xkcd.com/36/
Although I am not to crazy about this design, I am happy that there isn't any text on it. Personally, I would never wear a shirt that has any text or anything I would have to explain to anyone, especially if it's from the internet.

My ideal shirt would be the warm grey background with an orange colored bar going around the chest area. Seeing as how much time most of us spend on HN, those two colors should be enough for your brain to trigger a relation from the shirt to HN.
Lego is the best example of the trust one has on his startup
I'm inclined to agree there is likely a substantial increase in input, but I'm not sold on the idea we lack the bandwidth or capacity.

In fact I'm kind of on the fence, we humans tend to approximate a lot of information not under our direct focus with memory and perception tricks? I guess you call them. I'm not sure whether this means we are maxing capacity as it is and have to approximate in order to handle the information, or if its simply more efficient energy wise. Anyway, my point is, while there may be more information coming in, it doesn't necessarily mean they used it all, or cost them anything in the way of processing power elsewhere.

I'm still holding onto the idea we were simply better looking and got all the chicks. (interspecies breeding)
Don't worry! 75% of people have never even heard of SxSW
Out of curiousity, what made you pick skip-lists over a trie structure, such as crit-bit trees?
I assume the answer is no, but there's no mention on any of the articles I've read as to whether this was cosmetic.
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Yet, different, and sometimes more complex words can have entirely unlike connotations, that much more effectively describe the message the author is trying to convey. Sometimes, simpler words are just that—too simple to properly describe the concept the author would like to capture, and the emotions he would like to encode within it.

That's not to say complicated is always better. Like it programming, the best set of tools are those suited for the job.

In the end, you consider your audience. Can I add more to this sentence to better capture the feeling I'm trying to convey, without detracting from it's ability to be understood? The parent most likely decided that on a forum like HN, the answer was yes.
Comments like this are weird. Go does not like exceptions. They've built a whole idiom around error returns. When you said, "I need exceptions", what did you expect them to say? "Oh, sorry, we forgot that, we'll get right on it"?

I also don't understand what you mean by "interactive debugger". What is gdb if not an interactive debugger? Gdb is my go-to debugger for Ruby as well.
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