skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
D is a fun language, and some friends and I (mostly my friends) have been/were writing an exokernel in it[1], but between the weird licensing, D1 -> D2 transition, dual standard libraries, and a few other things, it's been really rocky.

I hear it's a bit better these days, but my "better C++" interests lie in Rust nowadays. That said, this link is one of the ways D is strictly better: since it's been around a while, there's more educational information out there.

1: https://github.com/xomboverlord/xomb
Yes it is fraud, organized fraud. I assume they don't need to advertise because it's likely to be a word-of-mouth thing.
Sure, let me know when you put it on github.
thanks !
If you have a reader, download the ebook from https://github.com/joshleitzel/rawthought. I read it not long ago, and it's one of the most interesting books I've ever read.
Because it costs nothing, which is very important to those companies.
For what it's worth, I haven't been able to get the fan to spin up at all, even when running a GPU benchmark for 10 minutes or so. It might just be there for some worst case scenario when something could reach dangerous temperatures.
You spin, fire, no bullet.

I now have 1/5 of a chance that there is a bullet in the next chamber, if I spin I have 1/6th. The odds gets more and more favourable towards spinning, the more people fire the gun.
You should not be surprised, those people are stuck in the 12th century. I wish the rest of the world stopped buying oil from those idiots.
This is nice, thank you!

Other people have mentioned some filters. I agree that it'd be really nice to see all "Show HN" posts, or "Ask HN" posts.

I'd also like a filter like the Lessmeme site (http://lessmeme.com/less.html) which filters out some common domains that get posted to HN.

It'd be great if these filters could be built into extensions and be used on the regular HN site, I guess.
Maybe they are trying to avoid the fate of the first generation xbox360?

There is no official info on the technical cause (some people say wrong type of solder that would get too hot and develop hairline cracks, some say the graphics chip dissipated more heat than expected, etc) but it was definitely related to heat.

People often put these devices inside mildly enclosed spaces (media cabinets, etc) with poor natural airflow, etc.

This tends to work okay if you have active cooling (since it's not totally enclosed), but gets amazingly hot otherwise.

This is not normally how tablets are used, and maybe after testing it (or thinking about it) they realized the safest bet was active cooling?
it has not been said here, and i certainly don't want to discuss this here.

having said that, silvio gesell, the spiritual founder of freicoin, was very anti-semitic and there are substantial claims that the whole concept of schwundgeld is tainted by structural anti-semitism.

i don't know any english sources, but for those speaking english, have a look at the book "Schwundgeld, Freiwirtschaft und Rassenwahn" by peter bierl.

http://www.konkret-magazin.de/konkret-texte/texte-archiv/kon...
Actually the chance of the 6th person getting the bullet is initially no greater than the chance that the nth person gets the bullet, since you have to take into account that the gun fires before the first person gets the gun, which happens to be 5/6.
Here is the original source of this story:

http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/05/11/google-play-games-le...
Optimize your code, save the environment
Have you considered seriously talking to your friend about this?
Funny you should say that, last I checked, oil exports as % of UAE GDP was a surprisingly small number.
How old is this list? The first two links[1] I picked at random are dead.

1: http://hntop100.com/ and http://hn4d.com
Interesting, that ties in with my observations of around 700 visitors per hour on the front page - http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2012/11/whats-the-front-page-of-hack...

While I didn't track engagement time, I looked at number of comments (both here and on my posts, and shares on Twitter and Facebook) to try and figure out how much of it was "real" traffic.
I suspect that if you only make one page view, Google will assume your visit was 0 seconds. Most HN visitors will read the article and close the tab.
Google's new gaming service leaks out ahead of I/O: Cloud Saves,networking etc.
FaltyDL makes (great[0]) dance music. His inclusion is most odd.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI4A8xtwpGQ
As a student, that seems to be right (qualification > learning). It is the university's job to make sure qualification <--iff--> learning.
"The scientists used cross-pollination and seed embryo transfer technology to transfer some of the resilience of the ancient ancestor of wheat into modern British varieties."
If the article is long, I usually add it to instapaper or pocket to read later. The time spent on the actual site is low but I still engage with the content.
I concur with all the Kudos to Jeremy, this is another very nice piece.

Bezier curves show up in some unexpected places. I was pretty taken aback when I traced through Java's 2D library [1] and saw that it uses them for circles instead of doing the more processor-intensive sin/cos or r^2 = x^2 + y^2 math.

[1] - http://cautery.blogspot.com/2010/09/bezier-curves-as-ellipse...
Yes the whole use of hats and there demiss is a interesting one. I suspect a corilation with mens hair styles and having a hair style becomming fashion in the England. The whole decline of manufacturing perhaps also played a part and with that work health and safty - cleaner working enviroments.

Probabably numerous factors but I would say music-fashion-trends played a big part, thinking beatles and then the rockabilly era on this one.
"You call BSD a kernel, it technically is a set of APIs"
If you read that in context of the Mac Os X operating system, then it would be true, as there is a BSD "layer" or "part" in the XNU kernel. So if it had been written in that aspect/context, it would have been correct.
This is helpful, but not sufficient. At the same time it has to be engaging and still look solvable i.e. the player must always have the feeling that "next time I'll do it!" or he will just stop playing.

One of the last bosses in Zelda is an interesting example. It starts as a dragon with three heads. One which is only killable by fire, the other by ice, the last one is invincible but tries to bite you. When the outer heads are dead the third head transforms to a fast moving snake which you have to hit at a specific point to damage. Each time you hit it it gets faster. Now, if you die something interesting happens: The next snake will start slower i.e. easier, so players should be able to kill more parts of it. This repeats itself every time you die. I noticed this when my mother (who loves Nintendo games, but isn't a really good player) died 20 times or so at the snake. Every time it was a bit slower and every time she was like "Well I did manage to kill one more part. THIS time I kill it!" and ran in again. In the end she killed the boss and was happy.
Ask HN: Best note taking software?
I've been on a hunt for the last few days for some decent note taking software for my computer. I need to be able to take notes for school, which will involve a mix of typing, images, equations, attachments, etc.

In my search, the only two that seem to come up as remotely usable (emphasis on remotely) are Evernote and OneNote. Are there any other alternatives that anyone knows and loves?

I need it to run on either Windows or Linux.

Kind of surprised to see this is evidently an under filled niche
at this rate, I'm now hoping that I can do an analysis of the analysis of a viral post that also have gone viral. how awesome would that be? :)
Very nice, but I'd appreciate it if graph types/options were declared through HTML attributes rather than in text or in adjacent elements.
The heatsink is mounted in an odd, sub-optimal way.

Chimney effect means you mount the heatsink horizontally so that hot air flows up, drawing cooler air through the heatsink.

I have no idea how to use words to describe what I'm trying to say, so here's a really bad diagram.

(http://imgur.com/QQ2UByr)

EDIT: Not criticising, just curious!!
good point, I'll keep an eye on returning visitor metric over the next few days
Analytics calculates the time on page by the time difference _between_ page hits. One hit: 0 seconds on site. Because of this, it isn't an accurate metric to measure engagement for a single blog post.
$500 an hour.
... you might want to read up on monad comprehensions :)

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/MonadComprehensions
These data are not being interpreted correctly. Analytics calculates time-on-page based on the time between loads of the google JS embedded in your pages. Any visitor who 'bounces' - that is, only visits a single page - only loads the JS once, so their time-on-page is recorded as 0 seconds, regardless of how long they actually spent on the page.
I assumed they have some fancy javascript thing to take care of that? what would you suggest to use to estimate actually readership?
Because it is cheating. The chance of the nth person getting the revolver (with no spin) is 1 - (n-1)/6, so the chance of the nth person dying is 1 - (n - 1) / 6 times the chance of a bullet in the chamber which is n/6.

You spin and the last one becomes n/6, which means that the game is biased in favor of later starters.
> In the time since that comment was written (just under 5 years), Linux replaced most graphics drivers with ones based on in-kernel modesetting and the DRI2 interface. This was done without breaking applications. So, the assertion that changing the video driver model would be disruptive is kind of disproven by reality.

mjg59, I could not disagree more. Without working drivers what good are working apps? I can run my Radeon x1900 under Windows 7/8 with Windows Vista drivers. Runs StarCraft2 and newer FPS games just fine.

The Linux kernel devs are so determined to break binary compatibility, I haven't been able to run with ATI's proprietary binary drivers for years. While AMD was a good open source citizen and released the specs, the open source drivers for my card are useless for anything other than 2D. That's about as disruptive as it gets.
> "stunning the medical and tech communities"

Well, the tech community is certainly stunned, but not for the reasons you think.....
Agree it was too blunt and not appropriate. The cause was that he was upset after various bugreports and private emails accusing him of all sorts of things. At one point it'll get to you.
Exactly what I came here to say. Those people could have spent 10 hours really absorbing that one article and their time would have still been recorded as 0 seconds.
Well, there were a couple of good episodes. But overall no, it's not funny. Plus all the comic-book geekery made me cringe.

When will we get our own show where a vim user and an emacs user, both contributors to the linux kernel, have to share an apartment next door from a frontend web developer writing ruby in SublimeText?
Call your Mom

This is the best advice you will ever get here or anywhere else. So do it.

I called my mother almost every day for 30 years. It I missed, she was sure to remind me. No matter what else happened, it was pretty much the highlight of both of our days.

We talk about a million different metrics to measure just about everything here, but I just can't get pass HowYouTreatYouMother as the #1 binary metric of you.

More about my mother here: http://edweissman.wordpress.com/2013/05/12/betty-weissman-19...

Please call your mother for those of us who no longer can.
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You can check out the history here https://github.com/cheeaun/hackerweb/wiki/Hacker-News-apps/_...

I generally always find and add links to new apps, but didn't check the old dead links. I probably should clean up the list one day.
I apologise for my naive misunderstanding of the Analytics metric. I've updated the post to point this out at the top of my post. Thanks for the explanation!
As long as they don't nuke anyone, I believe North Koreans have every right to live as they want, no matter how strange/hilarious/unmeaning/suppressed their lifestyle may seem to us.

EDIT: Explanation-https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5694012
Wow really nice work. I have a strong feeling you need to raise the price.
200%, 300%, 400% look fine, the in-betweens not so much.

Chrome 26.0.1410.64 m loses accurate scaling once it gets big enough (400% on my system), then can't get scaled back down to 100% accurately.
what if i told you they use the onUnload event?
Interesting. I posted a link to my shithole of a site in a comment a hundred deep in a post that had reached the top of the frontpage and had fallen to pretty much the bottom when I posted in the thread.

I got a extra 300 visitors that day and about 50 the next. The average visitors per day is around 25 so this is a big and noticeable spike.

I guess I am kinda shocked a random link in the middle of a dying thread generated that much traffic while something hitting the frontpage only generated about 53 times more traffic.
So you felt entitled to publish the personal emails you had with him?
Ask HN: How do you book hotels?
RecycleBot: waste plastic extruder creating 3D printer filament
HN could use a killfile feature.
I told my mom personally because... umm well, because I live with my parents.
It's worse than that for clothes sizes. Manufacturer A's large is not necessarily the same as manufacturer B's large.
Before distributions switched to initramfs, you had to have at least one filesystem compiled in, for bootstrap reasons, so that the kernel could mount the initrd.

I don't remember exactly when did initramfs get introduced, but I remember it was a relatively long time before major distros switched to it. TFA is old enough so that might have been the case back then.
Here are my stats for two of my blog posts that made the front page:

http://syskall.com/how-to-roll-out-your-own-javascript-api-w...

3051 visits
00:00:16 average visit duration
98.9% less than 10 seconds

http://syskall.com/yc-w12-startups-hosting-decisions/index.h...

3920 visits
00:00:14 average visit duration
99.1% less than 10 seconds

Somewhat depressing...

(edit: according to lenazegher's comment the average visit duration stats might not be as bad as they look since my bounce rate was pretty high, ~95% on both posts)
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It's funny how the number is both really long and sort of easy to remember due to the repeating patterns.
maybe visit mom?
I read daring fireball pretty often and I didn't know this, so no, it's not obvious.
they track heatmaps might as well count that + 100 other hacks.
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I`ve checked how it works with "Real-Time" option of the Google Analytics. When i closed a tab Google Analytics knew that i stopped reading the page (the on-line user counter was updated -1). Maybe it works different with a standard report (i didn`t read the code), but maybe not? They could use javascript browser events detection and i don`t think such a bug would remain unseen.
The weather never actually hits "boiling".
Social Media and Free Messaging Apps, Creating a Borderless World?
Apart from the elite do any North Koreans actually want to live the way they do?
I use http://skimhn.com to quickly filter submissions by domain/author/keyword.
So, I called my mom today and said: "Happy mothers day mom". And she was supprised she missed it for her mom.
Than I realized that mothers day is in two weeks in France.
You should put your site in your profile so you can see how many people come after you post an offhand reference to the fact that you may have once written something interesting elsewhere.
Using the GIMP 2.8 to Design RV35MM.com
Well done, precisely the quote I was going to give :-)
Good author. A bit, elitist in their prose and a bit rude with the reader. He makes you read a lot before getting a bit of emotion. In Il nome della rosa he does a masterful work, to me.

I really liked Patricia Highsmith with the sequels of Mr. Ripley. I also love the french book write Jean-Christophe Grangé with their beloved black novel books. Love the all of them.
This is a fantastic resource, thank you.
Came here to say this. Defibrillators sensitive to magnets != apple killing children.
Are you sure you're not allowed to post Show HNs through the Ask HN form? I'm finishing up a project that I'd like to post as a Show HN, and I was actually just about to post an Ask HN to find out if I should post my Show HN as a link or an Ask HN (I feel like I'm in Inception - We need to go deeper!!!)

It seems to me that it has more to do with tradeoffs than an actual policy against it. Ask HNs are much less likely to be ignored outright, and they linger on the Ask HN page, which is great. However, they tend to drop off the front page much more quickly than a link submitted with a url and no text. I've never seen officially stated rules on how to submit Show HNs, so let me know if you've seen something different.
"The magnet mode is a feature of ICDs which allows emergency suppression of defibrillator therapy when a donut magnet is placed over the device ... With the removal of the magnet, tachycardia sensing and therapy are restored" [1]

If this applies to all ICDs equally then the risk is limited to the time that the iPad2 remains on their chest (e.g snoozing, reading in bed, etc).

I think projects like this are cool. If there was a 30% chance of a relative's pacemaker being affected by an external device, I'd think twice about buying them said device.

[1] http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rCTdTU9L12EC&pg=PA221...
Since they have a fan, they don't have to care about hot air rising. It's often enough to get the hot pockets out of the fins and average out the temperature within the case. The case itself can transfer heat to the outside via its larger surface.

Finally, there needs to be some profit made, so this is slapped together as cheaply as possible. Bleh.
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The biggest threat for new technology like google glass is that there is another advanced technology (social networking) that feeds on stimulating people's narcissistic/voyeuristic nerves, which is most likely to abuse the new content.
As other commenters have mentioned, 0 seconds doesn't mean anything. Meanwhile, those 18 visitors who spent more than 1800+ seconds on your page? Probably they just opened the page in a new tab and only got around to reading it a few hours (or days) later. So data at both extremes are useless.

If we ignore the 0-second anomaly, it looks like we've got a nice bell curve peaking between 180-600 seconds, probably closer to 180 than to 600. That sounds about right for a 670-word article.
Show HN: Glean - Package manager for human curated datasets
"have you tried turning it off and on again" was popularised by windows 95 and having to turn it off and on again when something failed. Or when you changed your IP. Also, the day there's nothing left in corporate IT to laugh at is the day we have neither corporations nor IT any more. I'm expecting some smoking hot episodes about clouds.
Chromebook can make a surprisingly sweet machine for a developer
1 Cubic Foot = 7.48051948 Gallons [Fluid, US]

1 Cubic Foot = 6.42851159 Gallons [Dry, US]

1 Cubic Foot = 6.22883545 Gallons [UK]

meh
There is one. It's called Phusion Passenger (https://www.phusionpassenger.com). At this time it supports Ruby and Python. More languages are planned.
It's awesomely cool, but it also defines a global method_missing, which puts you in for a world of pain before even considering the overloaded operators.

It's one of those hacks that are cute and great to play with and awesome proof of concept for new features, but if I saw it in a production codebase, I'd want to strangle someone.
There is already https://news.ycombinator.com/ask
i don't think any of the elites want to live the way they do, too. but they're stuck in the loop like everyone else.
There's less traffic on weekends, so it takes fewer upvotes to get to the frontpage just because there's less competition.
> Analytics calculates time-on-page based on the time between loads of the google JS embedded in your pages.

Source?

They may be using JavaScript to track that more accurately.
How to write your own native node.js extension
Okay, as much as I hate syntactic sugar... that's pretty freakin awesome.
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Are you absolutely sure this is how it works? I have a 1 page website where the average time is 1:36, shouldn't it stay at 0 since the users are not clicking to other pageS?
"D is great but lack of tool support (proper intellisense) means we're all stabbing in the dark trying to figure out what function to use, where it comes from and what its parameters are supposed to take."

Some people like to read the documentation and not let their editor figure out how to program for them.
> sperglords

> 2011 + 0b10

> spilling /g/ memes on hn

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A tool to record which portion of the screen was visible for how long would be interesting.

Using something like this for example: http://larsjung.de/fracs/
Dropwizard Database Migrations
Most of long articles are just a waste of time, the actual information can be condensed into a single paragraph or less and the rest is just redundancy or useless information.
A large portion (but not all) of the Windows 2000 source code was leaked a few years back.
Some of them are actually meta-circular, by being implemented in Java itself.

Oracle's Project Graal plans to replace the C++ JIT by a Java one. This is based on the work of the Maxime VM.
I would stick with GA and just trigger an event via javascript once the body of text is scrolled through.

If I didn't know how to do that, I would probably use a scrollmap tool like CrazyEgg.
I believe North Koreans have every _right_ to live as they want

Do you realise that this article is highlighting the point that they _don't_ have this right?
> In-memory computing is a very important trend and garbage collected languages just don't work. You can't have the system stall for seconds or even tens of seconds unless it's purely a batch workload.

Nice omission of pauseless GC algorithms there.
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I do not know, do you?
My guess is that a small percentage of users refresh the page after a while (if the traffic is small, maybe you're weighing in on that yourself)
The ask section was probably not created to give people an additional opportunity to promote themselves extra hard, it was probably created for putting actual questions in front of the HN community. People who abuse this facility know this and do it anyway because they think their links are deserving of more visibility than those poor schmucks who just post a Show HN URL on /newest and watch it disappear with 0 upvotes within 30 minutes.

Posting an Ask HN to query whether you should do a Show HN strikes me as incredibly superfluous at best, and at worst it comes across as a pretty obvious scheme to post your link twice.

The answer to "should I post my project on Show HN" will always be "yes", so there is absolutely no legitimate need for an extra ask thread.

> It seems to me that it has more to do with tradeoffs than an actual policy against it.

At no point was I talking about policy. I was talking about decency, humility, fairness, and restraint.
Are you sure you know what the language runtime does with your delete or how long a new takes?
I have a book called Games, Puzzles, and Computation (Hearn & Demaine). It discusses and proves the hardness of various games and puzzles. Not the scale of AAA titles, though.

It's an interesting read. Not too mathy. They make clause gadgets in the same way as the example here for Super Mario Brothers and use that to prove things.

Edit: Realized the author of this book is actually one of the authors of this paper. So, yeah, if you found this article/paper interesting be sure to pick up the book.