skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Display new posts on the front page of users with high karma.

Put random new posts that don't have any votes on the front page of those who meet a high karma threshold. Currently a single vote in the new queue is a gigantic step towards hitting the front page and being noticed. When that one vote matters so much and there's so much luck involved in getting it before even newer posts come in, it's no wonder people are creating voting rings. I think this could hugely reduce the luck factor in quality posts getting noticed.

Here's a preview of what I'm imagining: https://i.imgur.com/ZNQTn7q.png
Looks like the license states it's unrestricted for individual developer use, which seems reasonable to me.
Outside of Auckland, it's reasonably affordable. In Auckland, the average price is quite high relative to incomes.

Most of my friends who entered the market recently were looking at prices of between $650k-$850k for something smallish in an OK area.

This was for houses which were not new builds (70s/80s) and would need a bit of work to get up to scratch (insulation, plumbing, kitchen/bathroom remodelling).

So I've just been sitting and building equity and cash reserves. Who knows when/if it will return to earth, but I don't feel comfortable leveraging up that much, so as a single buyer, I'm sitting this one out.
These are great! Any chance they'll be added to the FAQ so more people can learn about them?
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You linked to the Daily Mail, which is a British tabloid and not really known for its factual accuracy.
I like Hadoop tonnes so I would love to get an injection of reality and perspective: what are the insanities of Hadoop?
Are you calling Anandtech a mysterious, unnamed source?

"What's interesting to me is just how quickly Qualcomm has shifted from not having any 64-bit silicon on its roadmap to a nearly complete product stack. Qualcomm appeared to stumble a bit after Apple's unexpected 64-bit Cyclone announcement last fall. Leaked roadmaps pointed to a 32-bit only future in 2014 prior to the introduction of Apple's A7"

- The Fine Article
Is it just me or is this just a poor re-implemntation of half of knockout.js?
Define much, earth is more than half the age of the universe. And another possibility is earth life came from off-planet - quite possible if life is common in the universe.

Punctured equilibrium is a good theory to explain particular species diversity and morphology. It may or may explain increases in complexity as such and there may or may not be a tendency for the various jumps to even each other out over time.

I'm arguing I know such a theory is true, just that things are so complex that no theory is definitive.
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* It's extra hassle/paperwork.

* Employees have less incentive to stay because they won't run into the AMT "handcuff" situation (where if they leave they have to exercise their options or lose them, and they can't afford to pay the taxes to exercise the options).

* More employees will actually exercise their options before liquidity, which means more minority shareholders.
which is funny, because cryengine and udk were not even in reach for indies just a few years ago. Those have now reacted with dramatic pricing and philosophy changes while unity basically cost the same as they always have. I expect unity to make a move soon, especially the extra costs for multiple platforms does not seem to be competitive anymore.
A table that also functions as a source of energy.
I wasn't ever anything close to a professional Flash developer, I'll take your word for it if you say that was the best time to be developing for it.

I was thinking about the days of Homestar Runner, Weebl and Bob, Newgrounds, and so on, when flash cartoons and games were (for kids, at least) a huge part of internet culture, and everyone wanted to be a Flash animator. Youtube kinda killed the Flash cartoon medium, sadly. Sure, videos are simpler and don't rely on a proprietary binary blob, but there's nothing like loading up a Strong Bad email and clicking random things (or, uh, holding down tab) trying to find secrets.
You can see more at https://news.ycombinator.com/lists (linked at the bottom of every page)

There are a decent number of hidden pages, such as https://news.ycombinator.com/classic (only counts votes by users > 1 year old IIRC) and https://news.ycombinator.com/topcolors (most popular top bar colors). I figured most of these pages were hidden because 1. They weren't amazingly useful. 2. One should expect them to disappear at any time.
personally i am most excited about the html5 export they announced recently
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If people actually start doing this, it'll make getting anything off the new page even more difficult.

Besides, I don't think the articles on the front page are a problem here. And if they are, it's often the highly voted ones! Really interesting technical posts often don't catch eyes quite as well as controversial posts about news or politics, so I think a threshold like this would filter them out disproportionately.
An article I may have upvoted, but you didn't link it correctly so I had to fix the URL myself. You might consider deleting this and submitting again with the correct URL.
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Can heartbleed be used to defeat Cryptolocker ransomware? If so this would be like making lemonade out of lemons.
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What are the benefits of make-kpkg over the kernel's own 'deb-pkg' make target?
No it's creepy IMO. (But cool.)
This is quite dated from a modern chip development perspective. If you are interested in learning more of where the industry is today on functional verification look at things like SystemVerilog and Contrained random verification. Things are moving to use libraries/methodologies on top of SystemVerilog like UVM (or OVM and VMM before it).
Doulous has quite good introductions:
https://www.doulos.com/knowhow/sysverilog/uvm/
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Hrm. /under doesn't seem to work. I think that might actually be more interesting. I've probably seen most of the 'over' stories already, and I'd rather have new stuff bubbling up quicker.
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Here's a bunch of vectorized maps in a variety of common formats: http://speckyboy.com/2010/05/03/25-free-vector-world-maps-ai...
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Don't forget that the translator knows just as well as you or I what the Spanish means - he also understands what it means when you take a child to see something - an expression that almost without exclusion means taking a child to see something for the first time.

"To get to know" takes us further away from the meaning, not closer.
I don't think I've ever seen this. I don't downvote all that much but my karma seems to stay the same if I do.
why ?

at least i remember they didn't recommend it for database until the backup funcionality was done
However it will prolong interesting discussions.
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Linux doesn't have a good culture of security. Local root bugs are dime a dozen. Security fixes in the kernel are not flagged as such. There's no systematic effort to stop the most common types of security bug (memory bugs in some driver ioctl handler). Linus doesn't have much patience for or interest in security improvements - look at http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/706950 - Etc etc.
"Preview Mockups on Devices in Realtime" - Does this say exactly what you want it to say, because it's the very first thing I read, and I need to understand it before I read any further. What this said to me, on first impression, is a way to see final renders of a URL on different browsers and running on different devices. Only later am I thinking this connects to Photoshop actually?

Scrolling down, I don't understand the huge picture of a bird. Switch the white to transparent, the blue to white, and put it small in the top-left corner I think. But you know it looks too much like twitter, you probably will want to change it. One random suggestion to make it distinct; add a tablet with a wireframe, and the hummingbird is feeding off it.

"Hummingbird lets you preview designs and webpages from your computer on devices in realtime." Did you consider adding the word 'target' almost anywhere you say devices? Is it "designs and webpages" or "webpage designs"? Is it devices, or browsers? I guess "devices' browsers" actually.

Maybe a table with what devices you support. I think that would make it immediately clear what you were doing. You could also have a 'Preview' which shows how you used hummingbird running against your own site.

"Hummingbird works on Android and on any browser that supports websockets (Safari on iOS, IE 10 on Windows Phone, Chrome and Firefox on desktops...)." OK, now reality is starting to sink in. I'm going to need to possess each one of these devices... and have it setup and configured... It's not really HTML Preview Service.

It would be nice to mention you are releasing under MIT license on the main page. I looked for the source for Android and iOS builds, but it's not up on Github yet, so I guess at this point it's not quite fully released. But everything is brand new as of today, so no problem to wait and see when it comes.

I'd love a screen capture of the installation process, and example output. Even better, show me how this fits in your workflow and how it makes you work faster. If you can fit a compelling demo in under a minute, I would put it at the top/center.

I think it would be cool on the site to tell us if this is a hobby project, MVP, or what are YOUR goals with this? Just switch into first person and go for it :-)
What should a self-taught programmer study?
I found this interesting question on Quora ( http://www.quora.com/Computer-Programmers/What-skills-do-self-taught-programmers-commonly-lack ).

I, personally, am a self-taught programmer. I've no background for formal CS Studies at University. I've no knowledge about Algorithms, Data Structures and Design Patterns, Compilers etc.

I always feel there's a need to know such topics to become better a better programmer. If so, how can I pursue such topics ? Do I have to go back to University and attend a CS degree ? Or take online courses (and which?) Where do I start ?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7602854
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In many cases, in order to achieve a Sale, to pocket their commission, an Agent may find themselves trying to persuade the Owner into agreeing to a lower Sale price so that the transaction can be finished. In these cases, after the Owner has invested thousands of dollars in Advertising, Signage and stress of Open Days, they will agree to a Sale Price which they aren't 100% comfortable with. By Listing your property yourself, you are in control of the situation and you always have the final say to a Sale Price that you are 100% happy with.
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Some work has got to go into the MonoDevelop environment. I had many problems with javascript autocomplete...
For "/under" you may as well just go to the "/newest" page. Can you think of any significant practical difference?
I'll agree that's rather disturbing.

However, does it detract from his technical works? I didn't find TAOUP to be a work of someone that "doesn't know what the hell he's talking about."
Yes, I think so but it seems to limit the results to last 8 days.
I think most of the CS programs will just waste your time --unless you attend to a very good university. Given that best hackers I've met are self-taught programmers, you can definitely work it out yourself. I think these are amazing times; there are many pretty good online courses & materials, places to get help, etc.

I recommend Programming Languages course on Coursera. But if you are impatient, you can start from learning Python (it has a very low learning curve): learnpythonthehardway.org/book/
I agree, though my HN bookmark is for points over 3 points so at least a three other people thought the article wasn't totally useless:

https://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=3
Warehouse is the re-reimplementation, also done by the same guy, which will eventually become the new pypi.python.org
Can I add videos from Vimeo? I love the Microconf videos on Vimeo, quite suited for the HN audience I would think.
http://vimeo.com/search?q=microconf
The AMA by Peldi Guilizzoni (Balsamiq) is an excellent one.
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Same. The conversion funnel on getting someone to download an app is ridiculous compared to web, nothing better than just click.. you're in.

That and Firebox (HTML based VR metaverse, so you can change server and download new content just by walking through a doorway) have me pretty excited about 3D at the moment.
Does anyone know how you actually use this? I built the project and ran it then enabled Bluetooth on my Mac and iPhone somewhat expecting to receive a notification of the iBeacon but got nothing. Does it have to be coupled with an iOS app to work or can it send notifications even without an app installed?

EDIT: Figured it out - You need an iOS app as well. There's one that can locate and display iBeacon info here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/locate-for-ibeacon/id7387090...

I'm a little disappointed. The use case I had in mind was: Customer walks into a store with iBeacons and is given a notification that they tap which installs the app. I suppose this would have too much potential for abuse though.
I haven't gotten a chance to learn UVM yet; is it as awful as VMM? VMM is (arguably) better than nothing, but there's a lot about it that's really broken [1], which can be very frustrating if you're trying to build large-scale exercisers.

If you're interested in the subject, I also recommend reading the book "SystemVerilog for Verification" [2]; it is "the book" on the subject, and although it teaches VMM, it's an excellent reference on the concept of verification to begin with. (It suffers some from the same problem that Kent Beck's Test Driven Development book has -- it verifies excessively simple things -- but IMO, the techniques that it teaches scale much better than Beck's techniques inasmuch as they're actually possible to use in real world applications.)

[1] For instance, for some laughs, take a look at the API reference for the channel datastructure, vmm_channel: http://www.vmmcentral.org/uvm_vmm_ik/files2/vmm_channel-sv.h... -- there is just so much bizarrely wrong that I can't even list it all. "Sneak" is a good place to start, though...

[2]
http://www.amazon.com/SystemVerilog-Verification-Learning-Te...
I don't believe in everything michaelochurch says, but I do believe there are real problems at Google pointed out by often not just michaelchurch (eg. rachelbythebay, Piaw Na). I believe Vic Gundotra should probably be fired for example.
Yep, well, only supporting IE9+ unfortunately makes this unusable for production websites at this point, as a huge portion of users is shut out.
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seems the right one
In case anyone here hasn't seen it yet: I'm producing a couple digests by scraping the site.

Hacker News Daily (10 highest scoring stories appearing on the front page each day, which have not previously appeared on Hacker News Daily): http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/

Ask Hacker News Weekly (10 highest scoring stories appearing on https://news.ycombinator.com/ask each week, which have not previously appeared on Ask Hacker News Weekly): http://www.daemonology.net/hn-weekly-ask/
we've worked with upt to 25bn records (small size) in crate, that was about 3TB (without replicas). if you have larger records or blobs, you're soon in the 10th of TB.
Unfortunately, the Android color conversion functions in Adobe's Flash Player code are all closed source.

But Mozilla has some Android color conversion functions, including some quirk workarounds for specific devices, for Firefox on Android and Firefox OS:

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/582b2d81ebe1/med...

Google also provides libyuv, which is also used in Firefox:

https://code.google.com/p/libyuv/
Implement stuff like linked-lists, sorted binary trees, ... in C. That's 99% of all the "Data Structures" you'll ever need.
That world seems pretty pointless to me. What should the public do when tomorrow's high is forecast at 30±3 degrees but it's actually 35 degrees? Why was the hedge an improvement?
we're unrelated. but we keep some redirects and subdomains from the "old" crate.io. see https://crate.io/thanks-dstufft.
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we took crate.io over in december. some people still haven't updated their links. that's why we keep some subdomains and redirects up and running (https://crate.io/thanks-dstufft)
Oh boy VHDL, got my final on that on Tuesday.
Nice to have learned it, but personally I appreciate the abstraction provided, by even C.

What is the applicability of this skill in the modern chip development industry?
The parent comment was(pretty clearly) referring to what you're calling "flow-level logs"... Quite obviously you can delete the router's logs(it's mentioned in the article and by the parent comment); the ISP's traffic logs on the other hand?

> those are so voluminous that they probably aren't kept long.

Bold assertion.
As a self-taught developer myself, I too am lacking in these areas and to be quite honest, I think the best way is to continue to self-learn the areas you believe you are lacking in. I've been doing courses over at Udemy myself to learn about algorithms, structuring data and other things. You should go browse the courses over there, you might find something that'll help you out like it did for me.

The problem with studying a CS degree is you're made to learn a lot of what I deem to be useless information. I have friends who have undertaken CS degrees and the general consensus is they learned a lot more when they left university and are quite envious of the fact I took a shortcut in path to employment without any kind of student loan debt. I work with people with degrees mostly and I feel as though I am on the same playing field as everyone else.
If you should ever visit Nova Scotia's North island do not miss the Alexander Graham Bell museum in Baddeck.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell_National_...
Question for university-trained hackers: do you find your theoretical knowledge of algorithms, data structures, etc. has made you more enlightened? E.g. do you look at a problem and, because of your education, think to yourself, "wow, this problem could clearly be solved by algorithm x" or "that would be so much more elegantly represented as data structure y?"
Android's Stagefright does include CHECK()s that are unrelated to hardware decoding, such as MP4 demux parser code that could easily just return an error code but instead aborts your process.
Cool! Would like know how did the landing with legs go. By the way, here's the launch video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65zDaDSvIww

"Dirty" water "geyser" rose up as high as the rocket itself :) Looks like water from acoustic suppression system had created a puddle under rocket?!
sorry for my ignorance, but Crate and "SQL on top of Hadoop" fulfil quite different needs. How would you handle tens of thousands concurrent queries on a Hadoop platform? Read and write at the same time? On the other hand side - crate will never be able to batch-oriented, complex map/reduce workload.
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It would be great if you could set the points threshold on the RSS feed link too. That would allow all the stories that only make it onto the front page for a tiny amount of time to be skipped from the feed.
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bummer! good catch. video was taken before this bugfix: https://github.com/crate/crate/blob/master/CHANGES.txt#L160
we'll re-captchure it: https://twitter.com/burndee/status/457256576345448449
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Another way to describe them is "well-aged", or "conservative".

I absolutely agree. I am 100% in favour of being conservative when choosing cryptographic primitives.

All the alternatives you've mentioned have arguments in their favour. But unless you need to have signatures which are 32 bytes instead of 256 bytes, or you need to perform 10,000 private key operations per second instead of 1,000, or you need to build an ASIC which uses a few thousand fewer transistors, my recommendation is to be conservative.
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AskScience and AskHistorians regularly delete comments. Both are intended for the serious discussion of the topic at hand. Hell, they'll even delete comments which are serious but don't reference their sources. I've had this done to a few of my own comments. The mods are fair-handed about this, and point to the rules. The result is a good experience and high level of discourse.

The tune's a bit different in /r/economics, where while posts aren't deleted, there's a very strong bias toward economic orthodoxy, despite the many, many, many flaws it contains (full disclosure: my degree is in economics).

For my own subreddit, the focus is on intelligent discussion. I make no bones about deleting trolls, or even just vapid comments. I'm not looking to win any popularity contests.
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