skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've slowly stopped going to reddit and primarily use HN. Once in a blue moon, I'll scan the reddit homepage
Ok folks. It's back up now. I will keep my eye on it, hopefully it doesn't get hugged to death again.
Worms meets Lost Vikings meets Metal Slug meets Linux
If you have verified the source code and the build process is sound and you produce the exact same binary as the distribution, then yes. But you're right that it's unlikely you'll produce _exactly_ the same binary. If you don't trust the source, the best way to be sure is to compile yourself.
It's a really interesting question. I'm looking askew at the coffee cup in front of me. I suppose it makes the most sense for studies to begin prior to first exposure; to have data on subjects going back perhaps even as long as it takes for them to become tolerant. I suppose factoring out the effect of learning for a long-term study which involves cognitive tests is it's own challenge as well? I'm enjoying http://www.gwern.net/Nootropics#caffeine now :)
If anyone is interested in how this site gets used, here's an idea:

http://stackoverflow.com/search?tab=newest&q=url%3a%22http%3...
Maybe he didn't have the money to try to appeal this in court. The original article makes it seem that money was a factor here.

I guess it makes sense, but weird that you need to pay a nice chunk of money for someone to determine you are indeed actually alive...
I "use" it, as a link aggregator. I find it's a nice way to discover new music, for example.

The noise-to-signal ratio is just too high for making me want to contribute, or even read a lot of comments. There are good contributions on small/specific subreddits (for example r/netsec), but once you leave those...

Then again, I'm not really active here too (but it's different, I find the bar really high here, so I don't post anything unless I'm totally sure it will be at least a decent post. I consume HN every day, several times a day).
Extending it to interviews doesn't work partly because the findings are so unsurprising.

Permitting "I don't know" doesn't actually seem to help candidates get more correct answers in the study
(looking at the actual paper, the group discouraged from saying "I don't know" actually got a slightly higher number of questions right at the first time of asking)

It simply means those encouraged to say "I don't know" guess wrongly fewer times - no surprises there - whilst still revealing their ignorance to the interviewer.

Applied to job interviews: interviewing people for a job by asking simple factual questions the interviewer knows the answer to is doing it wrong. If they're indiscriminately negatively marking "wrong" answers that aren't prefaced with an explanation that guessing is inadvisable, they're doing it even more wrong - how candidates answer questions they don't know is valuable decision making heuristic.

A more usual interview will involve many questions where
there is no clear "correct" answer, in which case "I don't know" will usually be one of the worst possible answers. Even where the questions are fact-based, a decent interviewer should usually give more credit for how a person guesses than an admission of ignorance, in which case "I don't know" is neutral at best. Sure, some candidates that aren't good at guessing or are especially bad at bullshitting will appear worse than if they're encouraged to say "I don't know", but that's valuable information for the interviewer which lost by encouraging everyone to give a non-answer. Same applies if humility is a key requirement and "I don't know" actually is a decent answer.

TLDR: Since correct answers are unaffected, allowing candidates to say "I don't know" only improves the interview performance of weak candidates.
I think it's more "you're going to buy this product anyway, so why not go with the model that will help a charity?".
If you guys are reddit fans, the Reddit Enhancement Suite (http://redditenhancementsuite.com/) is a great free add-on, and allows you some really cool features like tagging, subreddit management and other widgets.

As L_Rahman also mentioned in the comments here, customizing your subreddits is key to enhancing your experience. Some cool non-default subreddits I've subbed to are bitcoin, explainlikeimfive, bayarea and cringe. I will say, however, that the default front page experience has been significantly better since politics and atheism were removed.
Reddit, and I mean, Reddit once you log in to your account, and thus only see the subreddits you like, is more of a community discussion board platform and aggregatior than a community discussion board in and of itself. To compare two entertainment subreddits, check out r/adviceanimals, and juxtapose r/askhistorians. The culture is completely different. The mods on askhistorians are brutal about deleting comments that are low-quality or off topic, and the content that remains is usually pretty good. I enjoy reading askhistorians and am not ashamed to admit it. r/adviceanimals, on the other hand, quite often has bad advice that isn't funny. It's the sort of place that if I did enjoy it, I would be embarrassed to admit that I enjoyed it.

Generally speaking, for a positive experience, after you create your account, you want to unsubscribe from all of the 'default' subreddits.

I've hired a person who approached me based on my comments on reddit, and he turned out to be pretty good.
Ignoring psychological priming, that's basically the same as Yes/No/Abstain.

Of course, we probably shouldn't ignore the priming :).
Is there a list of good, high-quality subreddits somewhere? I would like to update my homepage to filter only the best ones.
Please test it on low-res devices like netbooks (1024x600, Google Chrome on Win7). You might want to use CSS media queries to allow a first-time visitor to fully read the intro and the help text.

Also, I'd use AJAX fetching of the feed contents so that the site can be cached... and use MySQL associative fetch instead of numeric-based arrays! This way you don't have to remember the indexes of the columns in the JS code like you do with scoreurls[i-1][8]... (would become scoreurls[i-1].name instead).

If you want to grab some code of my own RSS aggregator, head over to http://github.com/msmuenchen/skynetrss.

Oh, and please split off the CSS and JS into its own file. Seriously, your server load will become MUCH lower as the JS and CSS can be cached (and if you're good, try out ETag-based caching for the feed content, but this is really complex).
Queries where Searal is better than Google
These queries failed in google and i have found better results in Searal.com

1. Where is a good place to eat dinner? – I have found a direct place name in search engine searal, according to my location. Google just sends me to another url .

2. JBAS014688: Wrong type for max-threads. Expected [EXPRESSION, INT] but was OBJECT – Yahoo and DuckDuckgo has better results. And google has not even understood the query.

3. 2013 Nobel prize winner - Before finalizing your answer, check out the results in DuckDuckGo tab at searal.com. DuckDuckgo is providing live results.

4. Unknown lifecycle phase “checkout”. You must specify a valid lifecycle phase or a goal in the format <plugin-prefix>:<goal> - Google failed completely here. I have found results in bing search.

5. Remote EJB communication cluster hangs with load - Now if you cannot provide answers to this query. Then what is your use ?
Do you specifically want it for sale if you don't expect it to sell many copies, or are you just looking to have your music out there? There are sites you can put music out there for free on. Shameless plug for my own site: http://www.audiomack.com. It is predominantly used for hip hop so that's what comes up in the top music charts, but there's nothing keeping anyone using it for any genre they like.
Probably passed out with their masters whips on their back after working 120 hour work weeks.
If his being dead exempts him from paying child support, does that also mean he can't be convicted of a crime?

This guy has inadvertently circumvented the legal system! He is currently robbing a liquor store while streaking and littering.

He's untouchable.
What's wrong with old software. If it works, why change? Just because something is "new" and "cool"? C'mon.
Feedback on Internet History Visualization
One of my first forays into a real d3 visualization, seems like a suitably scoped project to keep occasionally hacking on it. I'd love some feedback and direction on that.
Kilroy, I'm the author of this post -- if you're a software engineer interested in space, maybe we should stay in touch (email in profile). I definitely had a hard time figuring out how to "break in" to commercial space and I get the sense there's a shortage of higher-level software talent in the industry. As commercial space matures, there is greater opportunity for people like us to get involved.

I agree that a lot of aerospace seems Dilbert-esque. I think (and hope) there will be opportunity to change that in the long term.
Blog about your technical issues! Yes!
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The question is... Can you make yourself less intelligent by indulging in the antithesis of the authors five principles? (viz. Seek Novelty; Challenge Yourself; Think Creatively; Do Things The Hard Way; Network)
I think Prolog is a much better analogy than Lisp. Like Prolog, the Makefile declares relationships, which go into a rule database, and then when you need to make something, the runtime scans the rules looking for what matches. This will imply other dependencies, which are satisfied recursively.
Yeah, but if humans came from monkeys, why are there still monkeys? I bet you can't answer me that.

(cough)
Everyone I know who has disliked reddit was because they didn't know about all the subcommunities that exist. CGPG explains reddit rather nicely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlI022aUWQQ
>Just getting on the front page of HN means he got 10k+ views.... You can't really claim the blog was a bad idea when it just succeeded wildly.

Ugh. I have no idea how you get such success with marketing (e.g. HN front page), beyond... wait for it... telling people how you were successful with marketing. If you're so lucky, more power to you.

And for the record, I never said a blog was a bad idea.
Probably the case, but I assumed it was because they wanted a change of pace.
My threshold for the number mornings the cat on a diet begins the wake-up call is rapidly approaching the point at which I get around to building some sort of time-release RFID tag access-controlled (two cats, only one on a diet) feeder.
I appreciate the link to the talk, I learned a lot. It just reinforces my beliefs though; so much of the talk is about having to work around the idiosyncrasies of the JVM. Quotes from the talk:

4:15 "The main moral of this talk is that things are never what they seem, and they are increasingly not even close to what they seem as we have more and more layers and systems. So there's you on top of core libraries who live on top of JVMs, and the reason I know all the JVM folks so much is because I yell at them pretty much all the time."

10:30 "Oh my god, [because we derive from java.util.Collection] we have put more lines of code into supporting a method that nobody in their right mind would call for a concurrent queue, than almost everything else combined. Between iterators and interior remove, that's probably 80% of our concurrent queue code. The algorithms themselves, they're maybe 20 lines, they're cool but they're not a lot of code."

0:57:10 "How do you get a good CAS loop? CAS until success? Don't do while, do do/while! Why? Safepoints! Remember safepoints I mentioned long ago? Yeah, they're not your friend. [...] You know the great thing about JITs is that they work so well, and the bad thing about JITs is that, you know, sometimes they're idiots! [...] Boxing, oh my god I hate boxing. Classloading appearing at mysterious times."

Maybe to you the JVM gives enough benefits to be worth giving up all this control, but to me it it's just nuts that you'd put yourself on top of a platform that you have to work against so much.

And I still don't buy that GC makes for better lock-free data structures. Lock-free data structures may need to have a GC-like scheme internally to memory-manage their nodes, but I can't see any reason why this requires the entire program to be subject to GC.
Seven-Year Club here. I've been on Reddit since the first week, right after Spez and Alexis got it hacked together. After HN went live, my use of Reddit tailed off a lot. When it became more like 4Chan (after Conde Nast purchased it?) it tailed off even more.

These days I never see the front page and rarely comment, only browsing the subreddits.
One thing to consider is that some people don't use "Reddit the site" but instead essentially use it as free hosting for a forum. The Haskell sub-reddit is a good example of this: it's a popular forum for talking about Haskell and somewhat central to the community, so there are people who use it but don't care at all about Reddit in general.

Since HN doesn't have anything like sub-reddits, this doesn't happen here (or at least not as overtly). While having something like Reddit is great, I think the fact that HN doesn't do this is good for HN as a site.
List your interests/hobbies/favorite things. Chances are, there's a subreddit for each of them.
Can someone explain how leaking a traceback is a security flaw, considering it's a lot less information than just releasing the source code (which we do all the time and don't consider it a security flaw)?
Looks like it's set up to email them on errors and the email is throwing an error too.
Turning Education Upside Down
<rant>Have to admit, this is really really really annoying</rant>

Still .. interesting article!
I don't think there should be a limitation on this at all. What if someone was taken by someone else and then escaping ten years later and trying to get their life back.

This situation is definitely not that, but this could definitely cause some unneeded stress on someone...
If you were in charge of Accenture hiring strategy...

...then I would be well compensated for not changing a thing. They've had this model since they were "Andersen Consulting" (the rest of us on project teams with them called them Androids, before "android" was cool [this was also before "Andersen" became exceedingly uncool]), and they bank by the truckload. Apparently there is a type of customer that wants legions of safety-school graduates with lots of highlighter in the first three chapters of their "For Dummies" books.
But they could count the "majority" vote as going in either direction, and it would still be true :)
Ask HN: Freelancers, how do you handle IP ownership of your work?
So you are working for a client and wrote a bunch of code. Most likely, some of that code could be re-used for another project (E.g. Users, Sessions). How do you handle this with multiple clients ? Is there a way to do standard IP contract for freelancers ? How do you assure the client that even if you retain IP for certain modules/plugins, they are safe.
I quit recently. I uninstalled the app from my phone and setup a redirect in /etc/hosts to send me to Google. I was spending too much time reading really interesting stuff, and not actually doing anything.
I agree with your point about Levison's own politics for refusing the initial limited request getting him in this situation. I also think he could be considerably more honest that this is what happened. But even by that standard, the headline is still very inaccurate.

He may have been willing and needed to log everyone's meta-data to get what the FBI wanted(assuming he wasn't doing so already), but the FBI only wanted the data on Snowden and that's all he probably was going to handover after extracting it from the logs. Certainly it's all he was originally required to hand over.

Fundamentally, the headline makes it seem like Levison was willing to sell out everyone for money and that FBI explicitly wanted everyone's data. Neither of these are the case. The FBI just used a very large sledge hammer to get data for one account because they felt Levison was jerking them around in part because of his demands for writing code to get that limited data.
You should post these results to /r/dataisbeautiful !
Re: 2) Some day when I have a huge amount of free time, I would like to migrate to Groovy on Grails. Until then - CF is what I had used for over a decade, and it was the easiest thing for me to use to build with at the time (Jan 2012). I was more interested in getting something out there than using whatever the latest trendy tech.
Not a list, but if you don't know where to start, check out r/bestof and dive deeper when you like the discussion on a particular subreddit.
I get the feeling that it has more to do with protecting Robin Miller from having to pay back the SS benefits received because of Donald's being declared dead. I really don't think the article has the whole story.

I believe in logic first, but it looks like a judge trying not to punish the innocent.
In his defense, it isn't the judge's primary responsibility to change law, it's the legislature's.
I spent a lot of time on reddit in the early days - so much that I ended up blocking it in my hosts file so I could actually get some work done. I've tried revisiting every year or so since, but I haven't found any subreddits that aren't eclipsed by more active, dedicated forums elsewhere.
The person you let crash on your couch for free is likely someone you know, who is at least somewhat socially beholden to you.

The person who paid you to sleep on your couch is just some person with cash. Especially if you are not around, they're much less likely to feel socially obligated to treat the place like their own.
Already taken care of. ;)

http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1nzg27/acti...

http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1nbryg/perc...
Get it out there and get people using it, then listen to their feedback. Personally, I found it a bit difficult to tell what the point of it is. It looks like an interesting "reddit analytics" tool, but it also looks like it would be very cumbersome and unintuitive for actual commenting.
No matter how it's explained, I still can't wrap my brain around how evolution produces complex systems. How do systems with interdependent processes and parts get produced by a process that seems to proceed stepwise?
I’m afraid I can’t edit the link any longer, but let’s see if any HN admins will do it.
Outcome of airbnb subpoena + what one should do about it?
Eventually, I assume that airbnb is going to have to give up information to the state regarding NYC residents who have rented their house/apartment not in accordance with the Illegal Hotel Law.

What will the likely consequences be for people who will be for people that are "prosecuted"?

How can one minimize the likelihood of their data being in the set provided to the state?
In the FOSS world,there exists FOSS solutions that work with truecrypt formatted encrypted volumes.

tcplay[1] is a BSD licensed CLI tool that can be used to create and open truecrtpt volumes.

cryptsetup[2] is a GPL licensed CLI tool that can be used to open truecrypt volumes.

zuluCrypt[3] is GPL licensed CLI and GUI tool that can be used to open and create truecrypt volumes.

arch linux users can get zuluCrypt from[4]

[1] https://github.com/bwalex/tc-play

[2] http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/

[3] http://code.google.com/p/zulucrypt/

[4] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/zulucrypt/
Not really. These days the Guinness Book mostly just makes up new record categories to suit whatever the hot new media product is so they can get free advertising.
This is an extremely weird and interesting case, and it'd be especially curious if he's no longer afforded the Constitutional protections of a natural, living citizen.

The closest legal analogue I can think of is the (now outdated) concept of "outlawry," whereby an "outlaw" was someone legally excommunicated from a society. An outlaw could be deprived of property, liberty, and even life by any legal citizen of that society.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlaw
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We (rsync.net) use reddit as an advertising venue ... specifically /r/programming and /r/linux ... and maybe /r/sysadmin from time to time.

One interesting divergence - a month or two ago we offered this to the HN community:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5640700

... and then at some point we offered something similar to a decent chunk of reddit ...

We get a very, very big response - lots of people took us up on it from HN, but almost nothing from reddit.
There's another famous, possibly apocryphal, story about an IQ test with the question:

Which of the following doesn't belong:
a) Basketball
b) Polo
c) Hockey
d) Billiards

The answer is obviously Basketball, since it's the only sport that doesn't use a stick to hit anything. Except the answer is obviously Polo, since it's the only one with horses. Except the answer is obviously Hockey, since it's the only one with a puck instead of a ball. Except the answer is obviously Billiards, since it's the only one without a team.

In case you're curious about the RIGHT answer, the test found that Canadians and Americans living in colder climates were slightly smarter than average.
Same here... Want to start a support group?
I didn't mean he should have sold his time to another company..
ha, I came here to say pretty much this, except I'd finish with 'fortunately' - I was reluctant to engage when I was first introduced, but Coldfusion has been pretty good to me.
Obviously, not as much as they expect it to make in sales, or they wouldn't have done it.
From the article:
>"One of my first clients was a little boy w/ PDD-NOS (Pervasive Developmental Delays-Not Otherwise Specified), a mild form of autism. When we began therapy, his IQ was tested and scored in the low 80s—which is considered borderline mental retardation. After I worked with him for about three years— one on one, teaching in areas such as communication, reading, math, social functioning, play skills, leisure activities—using multimodal techniques [pdf] —he was retested. His IQ score was well over 100 (with 100 considered "average", as compared to the general population). That’s a 20 point increase, more than one standard deviation improvement, by a child with an autism spectrum disorder!"

As a parent of a PDDNOS child this put a lot of noise in my mind. When my son got his diagnostics, the psychologist couldn't finish the IQ test because he couldn't focus on the questions. Now three years later, all people who know the case agreed that he is a brilliant boy. So was that a huge increase on his IQ? or Was just a noisy measure of the IQ at the beginning?
BeOS was super responsive. I had the opportunity to test the last release on some early MMX I had and was blown away by how responsive it was compared to Windows, or even to my Slackware installation.
Just curious- are you using the API or no?
its not a fixed rule and clickbait should be reworded to something neutral in my opinion.
Thanks for the link, that is some interesting info. I've only skimmed it, but yes, I'm aware that DHCP requests can be made without a discover phase (I've had to read the RFC to implement DHCP in NCD ;).

I suspect that it's not actually directly doing some low-level ARP magic; rather the DHCP client may just be sending multiple DHCP request packets to past DHCP servers, and only the one whose automatic ARP request succeeds actually gets sent out. At least that'd how I would implement it.