skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not entirely mysterious: because of the way votes are weighted, the timing of the first two or three really matters. If you manage to get them while you're still on the new page, you have a good chance of getting on the front page which is the only way to get much exposure. If you fall off the new page without that, your article is essentially forgotten.

This means the success of your article falls down to the whims of the few people browsing `new' at any given moment. If you're lucky, there are people interested in your topic there; if not, your article might easily fall through the cracks. Moreover, since `new' has a very bad signal to noise ratio, most people do not spend very much time there. I certainly don't! So this means it's even more likely for an article to fall through the cracks there.

For better or worse, this means HN misses out on good articles as they fall through `new' without getting votes. To get anywhere your article needs to be both good and lucky.
I love DC
Even with ideal information, humans takes conscious decisions in the order of a second, computers can drive below ms, I believe this changes everything when dealing with complex physics like jetfighters flight.
Point me to a particular comment, because as far as I can tell Occam's Razor suggests that if Google, Bing, and DDG are all returning the "computer" page on wikipedia for searches for "computer", then it probably isn't some sort of industry conspiracy to make Dell shell out more money to appear on the top, while also somehow involving small businesses... or whatever your personal angle is.

There is no reason to "follow the money" here because there is nothing here to doubt. It isn't fucking strange that wikipedia is featured so prominently.
If your business depends on Flash, have an exit plan ready
Selecting element types rather than creating new classes is what causes bleeding styles.
See my response to tikhonj. No, of course not, because you're naturally good at PL theory.

Or maybe artificially good at it. Whatever the reason, you're good at it. But I believe it's clear that most people, even most programmers, aren't naturally good at it. And a lot of effort have been invested in trying to make them artificially good at it, without much result as I can see.

The number of extremely smart people I've met, who nonetheless think Haskell is too smart for them, is considerable. This is quite simply a UI problem. If you have a UI problem and you either don't try to solve the problem, or do and fail, you get an adoption problem. Haskell has an adoption problem, n'est ce pas? So where does my reasoning go wrong?
OMG! I'm so embarrassed! Yes I'm a non-English speaker and I can see my mistake now but I didn't last night when I was falling asleep. And yes, I'm showing admiration and curiosity because I feel stupid reading programming books and so when I don't know how this guy went that far without reading that much English books/sources. Because I'm almost sure that the most of information is available in English only.
The issue is simply: do they count "editions" or "new editions"--that is, editions which were only recently released? It follows that older books would have more "new editions" than newer books.
Apple support does mail-order instead of store appointments. They'll send you the empty box too. just call UPS.
Hey guys, just wanted to get some feedback on our site. It's not perfect, but it is useful. And I don't think there's anything out there that does what it does. (If I'm wrong, please let me know!) Hope the site is self-explanatory. If not, the http://biggestpricedrop.com/about page should be helpful.
I am now trying to move into the marketing phase and it's clearly not my forte. Any tips? I am hoping I can promote this solo without hiring a PR or marketing person. Is that realistic? Should I consider spending serious money to get us out there?
To anyone wondering, this is kind of the typographic equivalent to "by the way, this JS library was written by John Resig."
The NRPE Protocol Explained
Equality is entirely untyped in Hoon. You're just comparing the nouns - "S-expressions without the S." So there is no type error at all. You'd say

&(=(a b) =(5 b) =("foo" a))

and it'd work just fine.
>Branding is one. They can't use a typeface another commercial OS used.

Well, if the license permits it they can.
Larry Ellison snubs 60,000 at his own conference for the America's Cup
One thing that occurs to me is how "sticky" it might help make your product. Today I downloaded the new version of the JetBrains python IDE, and I'm a longtime SublimeText user. My first reaction was to be really uncomfortable (not surprising.. it's a pretty huge new tool for doing something I'm very familiar with)... however, I was suprised at how much comfort returned once I was seeing code in my familiar font again.

I wonder if this is a useful tactic in making users of your platform continue to feel especially comfortable with it, by making other platforms feel particularly uncomfortable.
Are you making the general argument that automation is bad because it removes potential whistleblowers? Should all government tech have limitations on automation, or just ones involved with killing?
I agree heartily. Also the combination doesn't even make that much sense paired with the Nest, especially without any real cooperation between the two mentioned in this article. At least use the new devices to gather more temperature points and maybe even to see if anyone is present, which would pair nicely with the Nest's away feature.
For those who are not familiar: Guido created Python.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_van_Rossum
Curious, why misleading?
The spec defines the semantics, not the performance. I think that's a pretty concrete distinction.

But in practice, at a certain level some kind of informative or even quasi-normative convention will have to creep in if you want to define the question "computer X can run program Y reasonably well." It's a qualitatively different problem, but it remains a real problem. Not one we have in the early days of the system, though.

I am happy to solve most but not all of any problem...
And since we're at this, perhaps you meant c _between_ 448 and 1024, according to the sec level?
Kozmo is relaunching
Why I Moved My Startup to Oakland
The dot on the lower case 'i' is so high! Outside of that, it looks alright, but still needs some work.
>For the same reason that it's OK for me to push in my door, but not to push in yours. Or why it's OK for me to type in my password, but not to type in your password.

Okay, I'm confused by your analogy. I was thinking of the situation as having a single door at the entrance to the establishment. I don't think it makes any sense at all to treat each page as a separate household on private property.

And I meant explicit. There is explicit permission to contact the web server.

>I also don't see where you've made the case that get-the-employee's-SSN SQL injection attack is relevantly different from the send-an-id case.

If I send a non-secret ID into the system and get info back, the system is working as designed. If I use SQL injection, the system is not working as designed. I think that's important. In the former case, I may be doing something unexpected, but I am not exceeding the authority given to me.
I was thinking as I was writing the comment that it would be embarrassing to judge his English and make a mistake myself since I'm a non-English speaker but still I didn't double-check the comment because I was falling asleep. Ups! :P
Box - kinematic art with industrial robots
sudo apt-get install aptitude :-)

OT: I programmed as a hobby since I was 10. If you have never done that, it's a bit indicative of lack of interest in the subject if I may say. However, if you did, then you've all it takes. Interest and curiosity get you anywhere.
For $5 Digital Ocean gives me 20 GB of storage. But Dreamhost shared hosting gives me UNLIMITED disk storage for the same price. Does this mean that I should write off VPS/dedicated servers since they give such poor disk space?
> The degree to which it's successful in doing that compared to the degree to which it actually hampers the availability and diversity of content is measurable. And once we measure it, we can set the period non-arbitrarily.

I've seen many claim this ("we can measure if the law is producing a net positive") everytime copyright law, or any controversial law, is discussed. Can you back this up, or is just blind positivism?
Answer Set Programming, specifically via the Potassco tools: http://potassco.sourceforge.net/

Combines the solver goodness of modern SAT and CSP solvers with the modeling-language richness of classic Prolog.
Great... Now I really can't choose between PyCharm vs Sublime+iTerm2+SourceTree...
Under the hood Youtube channels based on Google+ Pages actually belong to a separate Google account so its unlikely.

Even if in the universe where they lost there heads and did do it, G+ pages are designed to support multiple owners so you're not locked in since you could just chuck it over to another account.
I always put new fixed-width fonts in iTerm to see how it looks. I cranked the vertical and horizontal spacing down, and it looks like I could have went another notch on the vertical.

Fira is on the right. It doesn't look bad, but it's a little cramped and thin for what I like.

http://imgur.com/GOi50xC
The economic value of GitHub is in making team collaboration and communication, the primary bottleneck in team development, that much more efficient. That is hugely valuable, as it increases the economic productivity of companies writing software, and allows teams to organically form (and dissolve) without much organizational overhead. It is a huge improvement from the days before SCMs (let alone SCM-based project management cloud-software), and even a large improvement over the days of CVS, SubVersion, and SourceForge.
The music is great. I stopped watching and just listened while continuing to get work done.
I'd assume that target dummies are usually airframes that are either outdated (an A or B model when we're at D, E, F, G etc) or past their useful (human operated) life, i.e. too many hours, damaged, cracks are forming, etc.
You should be programming in your spare time.

You should be well-aware that much of the knowledge that is necessary to start programming/learn to program is not locked up in labs on college campuses, but is actually freely accessible throughout the web...

If you really want to start, then start, there's nothing stopping you. You generally will be better at things you like to do (since you'll get more practice) -- and I think that will be the best indicator of whether you'll be good at it -- there's usually something very long if you love something (like programming) but are bad at it after months of doing it.

Really, what colleges are there to teach you (or force you to ingest, if you want to think about it that way), is the algorithmic, high-level side that can be applied no matter what language/framework/etc
They're fairly common these days, especially considering all dwellings in California are now required to have CO detectors.
Bing Search Now Delivers Anywhere From 4 to 14 Results
Since it's on Github, consider filing a new issue if someone hasn't gotten to it already:

https://github.com/mozilla/Fira/issues
The Man Who Cured Ageing?
Standard 500 apple tax. Its worse elsewhere, in nz the 5c is fetching more than 1000nzd.

Please don't vote me down its pretty well known you pay for the design, build quality, brand and community or perhaps better said ecosystem on top of the bare hardware cost when you buy apple. This "tax" isn't exactly a bad thing especially compared to alternative factory junk that comes out of Sony or Samsung.
Yeah, Keccak-224 specified c=448. I was trying to simplify things by sticking to Keccak at 256 and 512 bit fixed output lengths, which specified c=512 and c=1024 respectively.
> I think that's backwards. A bank is required to hold $100mm cash if it has $1b of demand deposits.

Yes. So it can loan out the other $900 million. Or, if it holds $1,111,111,111.11 it can loan out $1 billion.

> But it can hold all sorts of no-reserve-requirement deposits (like CDs) ... From that it can lend out whatever it wants

Yes, but in either case, it needs to have that $1 billion available to it in order to cut a $1 billion check. In neither case does a bank with only $100 million available get to loan out $1 billion, which is what it sounded like someone was suggesting.
But you don't need to understand any of the H-M algorithm to understand how to use a language with a H-M type system. You just need to understand that every expression in your program must be able to be statically assigned a non-union non-dependent type.

If an expression can't be assigned such a type (e.g. it's sometimes an integer and sometimes a string (in the same function call); or it's a non-empty list, etc.) then your program won't type. Otherwise it will.

Importantly: it doesn't matter how you come to this conclusion; the compiler will use the H-M algorithm, but that doesn't mean you need to. You can just look at your "if" expression and realize that you're returning an integer in one branch and a string in the other and that that violates the "non-union non-dependent" requirement above.

(This, BTW, is an example of the difference between a spec (what I outlined above) and an implementation (what the H-M algorithm says to do).)
>This kind of post annoys me. It's driven by the fact that the author has some theories about UI design, and wants to share them with us. There's nothing wrong with that. But this post pretends to be like a real usability audit, which it is not.

Wrong on all counts. What the author complaints about are examples of broken standard usability guidelines that all experts agree upon.

Like consistency, affordances, the principle of least surprise, color coding actions, etc.

The excerpt you provide is characteristic: "When I tap it, it turns red — but wait — it doesn’t give me the visual feedback. Did I break it?"

The similar looking button in the Timer screen DID give visual feedback when pressed. In a consistent UI, either this button would do too, or neither would.

>These comments are disingenous. You didn't get confused by these things. You, as a person who's analysing a UI, have an almost totally different mindset to someone who is just using the thing for real.

Wrong again. Even a UI expert, or someone like me, who's been using DOS, Windows, SunOS, HPUX, Linux, FreeBSD and OS X UIs for 20+ years (and has designed some apps' UIs) can be confused by a UI, even in the most common app and in the most basic actions.
Just to add...DuckDuckGo also use re-directs in their search results. Unlike Google, they clearly explain their reasons:

https://dukgo.com/blog/https-on-by-default
> Staff software engineer at Google. I work on making infrastructure fast.

Do you really believe that your job would be involved, or even have access to, the business process that weights the effect of algorithmic changes to Ad CTRs? And then approving or disproving those changes based on those factors?

Think about it -

You're telling us that if a algorithmic change improves the relevant search score by 3%, but at the same time has the effect of decreasing Ad CTR by 3%, it will go through!.. Because no one tracks this, and no one cares.

That might be an engineer's take on this, but no one at a higher business level (that deals with money) would be so naive about it.

I also don't see how this could even remotely be classified as a conspiracy theory considering it's about as standard of operating procedures as it gets... You don't fuck yourself nor your revenue numbers.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not insulting you or your job. I just don't think you are seeing the bigger picture and the place Google is right now (search market domination), and how this affects the direction they have to go to keep the desired revenue growth projections, stock prices, etc.
Thanks, and you're right about both problems.

One, it takes a good bit of work to boot Arvo beyond a merely correct nock interpreter. The Hoon type system, for instance, is enormously painful if not jet-propelled.

Two, the kind of bug you're describing is in fact the nastiest class of bug. The best way to get around it is to always make sure you write the pure code first. But this isn't possible in a variety of circumstances - and it sure wasn't possible when making Hoon first compile itself. So, as inevitably in the real world, there is no substitute for not screwing up.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6133932
I think/hope it's the Firefox OS hinting, I've noticed the same with screenshots of the device.
Maybe it will finally make use of Nest's unused Zigbee radio (https://community.nest.com/ideas/1115)
http://www.huluwa.org/imessage/download.html
Delivery costs have plummeted because of the enormous amount of machine intelligence being used by courier companies. Better routing algorithms reduce fuel and staffing costs, better machine vision technology allows package labels to be read and sorted at high speed. Mail-order companies and delivery services have formed a symbiotic virtuous circle of business development - greater volumes of mail reduce per-unit costs, which encourages an increase in volume. Amazon are the prime (no pun intended) example of this, with their progressive diversification into selling bulkier and lower-value items.
Is it alright if I link this elsewhere? Or did you want this to be an HN-only server? How long will it be up?
I live in San Diego (where a huge Intuit campus is located) and have known lots of people who work there, but none that work remotely with any regularity. I'm curious what #7 (let employees telecommute when they need to) means at Intuit. I wonder what their definition of "need to" is.
But they are addressing it:

If you Follow Bill Nye or Neil deGrasse Tyson, putting them in a Science circle, for instance, and they comment on a YouTube video, you'll see that at the top of the comments.
And I could point to lots of counterexamples like Deepwater Horizon.

Yes, clearly we should... um, do what?

What's your point, that you would be happier with a riskier aviation industry?

My point is that many of the things that annoy passengers don't have anything to do with quantifiable risk. Suggest reading some Feynman, specifically his essay on "Cargo cult science."

As I said, get a PPL

That wouldn't give me any special authority on the subject. These questions must be answered analytically, not with fearmongering from bureaucrats or anecdotes from pilots without RF engineering credentials.
Have you tried recently? I don't remember the steps, but they let me create a public page for my YouTube account. I still have one Google/Google+ account, but all my YouTube stuff (videos, playlists, favorites, etc) is tied to that public page, which I've locked down on Google+.

So my channel still has my original YouTube name and comments won't be made with my real name.
BTC2 - set of BLE services designed to make Bitcoin transactions between people
Reminds me of the punchline, "consider a spherical cow"

> To a Pascal purist, to anyone who thinks mathematically, this seemed hideous. C isn’t really a high-level language at all - it’s a glorified macro assembler. Mankind retreats to the cave.

Leaky abstractions are hideous too, don't you think?
A broad reading of the language could include even classic target-seeking missiles. A heat-seeking missile is a rudimentary heuristic "AI agent" that makes "decisions" on direction of travel based on looking for hotspots. Sometimes this hits the target the person shooting wanted dead, but other times it hits a different target, because the "AI" made the wrong "decision".

It's easy to use scare quotes here, because the automated behavior is so direct and understandable that we don't really see it as AI. Even when it does something other than what the human intended, it doesn't seem like a rebellious robot, just a heat-seeking missile that happened to be near an unexpected heat source, which it of course followed, and therefore hit the wrong thing. The general idea that the human is giving high-level orders and a robot is making local decisions in an attempt to carry them out is not that different though. The main difference is that the local decision logic is nowadays getting more complex than "find hot thing nearby". But that too is a gradual trend: even old heat-seeking missiles started getting more complex logic, to try to avoid being misled by flares.
Yeah but does it really help the average home? If you have one thermostat in your house more temperature data doesn't really help, it can only set one temperature for the whole house.

If you have a multi-zone house then yeah, your bottom floor and top floor could be set to multiple temperatures, but those houses typically have 2 thermostats already and if you're using 2 Nests for that they already talk to each other to make that efficient.

It would be cool to be able to wire up individual ceiling fans or something to the Nest and then use the fire detectors to figure out which rooms are running too hot/cold and fire off fans individually to normalize the temperature.
Hey, man, that's all on Google as I see it.

And besides, I can't Google for "go." And yet, Go seems to be doing just fine...
Governments can only spend money to conduct war when either (a) their citizens knowingly give them money; or (b) they can print money.

Bitcoin is a potential solution for (b), were it to truly become dominant and replace non-government demand for Federal Reserve notes.

I fully support the US defending itself, and in that regard, I'm not sure that "the citizenry" would make better decisions than the Bush/Obama war complex. So I'm not saying this is a perfect utopoan solution. Just something to think about.
While I'm not quite your target audience genderwise, the site looks pretty good to me, pretty minimal, loads well,etc.

What I think you could maybe emphasize more is the clothes/pictures of the models with the clothes on. If someone's really going shopping, they're really going to want that visual stimulation to make them want to buy the product -- and I think that's what's going to drive sales, rather than lots of small information (like the graph, description,etc that you have on the right and left sides of each of the items going down the page)

I know it's quite overplayed now, but a more pintresty UI (or at least something that emphaszies less stuff, maybe JUST the product picture, price, and discount percentage) might be better... At least something to keep the person looking from dress to dress, rather than box with information to it to box with information in it. For example, when I went to the page, I barely registered the discount prices, but I did register the striking pictures of the stuff that was on sale, like the model pictures -- personally I looked at some of the pictures to see if the model was the same, haha, but I want to say that the visual stimulation maybe should be played up a little more.

Also, maybe you should post on /r/fashion? or some fashion blogs that you know about? I'm not sure what it's really like to market to that crowd, but HN (or maybe even reddit) is not neccesarily the best place to get traction
Yes, definitely think about that stuff. It's a very cool idea, but a lot of the places that could use it are handling PHI, PII, and other sensitive data.
Thanks for the info. Do you have a plan for hardware upgrades? I guess hardware from 4 years ago can serve plenty of websites for a long time. But eventually an upgrade will make sense. Will you upgrade entire servers, just a few disks, RAM, etc.?

How hard is the KVM virtualization to set up? That also seems like a fairly big task, or at least a specialized one.
But WinAPI has excellent documentation on MSDN.
I would, too.