skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I don't care too much about money. For me it's been more difficult to cope with the fact that there are so many people who are far more clever than I am. What's one's purpose if so many people can do it better?

Who said man's purpose is to "do" things?

Life's purpose is to just be here, have fun, be kind to others, and read a good book from time to time. And raise some kids if you want to see humanity continue onwards.

Anything else is like saying that all these people who did just that and didn't cure cancer or sold their startup for 10B are not worthy humans.
The source code is available anywhere? I am interested in used tracking algorithms.
It's a nice article, though for me, the Arch wiki is clear enough.
Whatsapp VoIP Implementation: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Reddit is fudging displayed votes and shadowbanning (the poster can't tell he has been banned) for similar reasons, iirc.
What social pressure is there in the voting booth? What do you mean by voting "properly"?
Why It’s Important to « Close » Prospects in B2B Customer Development
Getting organized can be that simple
I guess it depends on which language/environment you develop for. I use a Macbook Pro and it seems to cover all your requirements.
Cherry G80-3000 is one of the cheaper mechanical keyboards. Sure it has cheap plastic terrible case, no special features. The key caps are just key caps. It's not marketed to gamers, but it's a good office keyboard with mechanical switches and it's available with a lot of different layouts.

Check the product codes for different variants: http://deskthority.net/wiki/Cherry_article_numbers
I can't find the case file online and the details in the article are sketchy.

There have been cases where used books, worth less than $100, were being sold for over $23 million because two sellers are using the same automated pricing strategy which was to price 10% higher than the lowest price [1]. The software just kept moving the price up since they were the only two sellers.

My guess is that there was evidence of collusion in this case. It's the conspiring to fix prices that's the problem.

Still, the feds coming down on the little guy seems silly.

1 - http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2384102,00.asp
Ask HN: What do you think of my app [2]?
Last month, for the Android version, we have gathered a lot of feedback from various source and we have been working to improve the app and the global experience. We had 700 new downloads. We have fixed a couple of things on the back-end and the app has been stable for few weeks.

The iOS version has been released after all. It's still a MVP and we are working on an update to keep up with the Android version.

For those who don't know Jungl, it is a place to share and discover mobile apps with your friends and people you can relate to. Everyone selects their favorite apps. You can browse other people's selections and see their discoveries. Like Tinder, Jungl is a swipe left or right and learns from your habits.

We are working at putting out new updates as people find things the app needs, so please let me know of any feedback!
I've never had a more wonderful reading experience than "Gravity's Rainbow". Your words seem hollow and noisy by comparison.
Luckily mechanical switches and ergonomic layouts aren't mutually exclusive. IMO you can get a lot more comfortable than the MS Natural by ditching the archaic row-staggering for a more finger-friendly vertical stagger.
And so the cheaters would pick longer durations.
I've had your experience, but I've also had the experience of content which has been posted multiple times suddenly skyrocketing to the frontpage. I wouldn't be so quick to think that the fickleness you experience is your content's fault.

In my experience so few people visit the /newest page, and so few in general vote, that there is a disturbing amount of chance involved.
> Maybe I'm missing something, but this seems like a fairly academical scenario.

No, you aren't missing anything. I merely used the example to illustrate the difference between the two VCS's. Like I said: they actually have a fairly equivalent set of features. The prime user-visible difference is in interface and implementation.
What I like about this: I can buy it with Bitcoin! That is not something I feel should be overlooked ..
Athens asks Germany for 279bn euros for Nazi occupation
At some point, a decision has to be reached, right? You can't just decide ten years later that you changed your mind on some election issue expect to take your vote back.

So if you're an evil person looking to pressure people to vote your way, you would make people prove their vote to you after it's too late to change it. Or, if it's not possible to verify the vote later (I believe it is possible in the estonian system), you'd make them vote at the last minute.

Am I misunderstanding something here? I don't see how this issue has been solved.
I'm relatively new to HN and I dont understand how your article gets to the FP, I don't know if is the upvotes, karma, comments, etc.

I had a submission for three days in the FP and that was the only time I didn't ask any friend to upvote me over IM.
Startups being pitched by Techcrunch
A variation of Campbell's Law?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell%27s_law
Just by looking at the whos is hiring posts over the last year you can see that HN is growing fast and gaining a lot new readership.

I wonder how long it will be before front page submissions become a commodity? How long until usernames with high karma can be sold?
Is this place going to turn into digg and reddit with constant manipulation under the thin veil.
* But if you're an average person eating the Standard American Diet, you are currently insane from a health standpoint, and switching to Soylent would make you a lot less so. And among all the options you might have for improving your diet, it is among the cheapest and lowest-effort.*

I have been skeptical of Soylent's claims, and I'm often troubled by the concept that we need to somehow "fix" food, but this comment makes quite a bit of sense. I would rather a person suck down Soylent instead of Twinkies, Doritos, and other highly-processed, barely-food stuff that is sold these days.
25 Suspicious Code Fragments in CoreCLR
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jungl.andr...

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/jungl/id966840643

FAQ: http://www.jungl.com/wp/?p=338

Here the link to my previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8984047 Thanks to all the guys that tried the app and gave me their feedback. It is very much appreciated !
would love for someone to challenge you on this statement
Hey,

I'm staying in Amsterdam, in Bajesdorp :)
My username works for Facebook/Gmail as well if you want to find me :)

(HN should have PM functionality)
I find this very interesting. A bit of Googling found a number of sites that attempt to calculate the best vegetables to grow at home in terms of cost-to-buy[1]. It turns out that lettuce is a pretty good choice, since I suspect it sells better than the few items above it on the list.

[1] eg http://www.cheapvegetablegardener.com/most-profitable-plants...
There's value in a shorter more targeted tutorial, but the canonical install instructions for Arch are instructive and detailed: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners%27_guide

Also, if you want to use Arch in a dependable way, subscribing to arch-announce is important[1]. It's a low traffic mailing list that notifies you of any manual steps you may need to take during a package upgrade.

(I've been using Arch for years, both at home and at work. I love it.)

[1] - https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/arch-announce
I wouldn't miss him too much, he was full of schist.
To me, the fact that he gets strongly polarized reviews means he 's interesting. Give me more like him.
I have to agree with you on one point though: the continued prevalence of the conventional 104-key row-staggered layout is baffling. Up to the mid-80s keyboards used to exhibit gradual evolution in the layout, (function keys on the left, arrow keys in a + shape, etc) then one design happened to take hold and everything else basically died out.

We can (and often do) come up with much better designs, but nothing seems to stick.
How Google Hires
The difference is that this would cost hundreds of millions of dollars and require a flawless conspiracy of thousands of people.

Versus one guy and a SELECT statement.
Clara.io – 3D modeling with Javascript
Monopolies are great. Almost everything awesome in computing came from companies insulated in some way from market forces, either because of outright monopolies, network effects, first mover advantages, etc. Bell Labs and the ATT monopoly. Xerox PARC, which gave us the GUI, OOP, email, LAN, was bankrolled by the Xerox copier patent monopoly. Google continues to use its network effect advantage and above-perfect competition profits to bankroll stuff like self-driving cars. Perfect competition is the current PC industry. Lenovo and Acer and HP. Nobody innovates because they can't take any risks with their frighteningly narrow profit margins.
Next Chrome Update Will Block SHA-1 Certificates
So you managed to botch a two step process that requires a slide gesture that has the singular purpose of deleting messages, and then instinctively pressed the large, red button that said "Delete" without thinking about it? I believe that instead of being critical of Apple you should be critical of yourself for being impulsive and lacking care for what you do.
Would not Linux From Scratch get even closer to "do it yourself"?

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
Didn't mean to be condescending, sorry if it came over that way :(

Anyway, FWIW I've had similar troubles with documentation with this and OpenShift Origin.
Stripe, Multi-Currency, and EU VAT Fun
Poor people are likely to have other issues to make them depressed - bad upbringing, lack of education and skills, etc

Also a lot of people just haven't found something that they truly love doing.

There's plenty of rich miserable people, and plenty of miserable poor people. If you have very little, you've got very little to worry about...
This is cool, I'd be interested in reading a writeup of this if one existed.
Much like switching to Dvorak, moving to a better key switch isn't about speed; it's about comfort and satisfaction.
Wicker Outdoor Furniture
That really does not sound like a quality issue at all. Or do they encourage providing power via their PoE-like solution over such long distances? Ethernet is specified for 100 meters, I think, but proprietary powering over the same cable not necessarily so.
A few centuries ago England used number of water channels for transportation. There was a law that owner of channel could not be associated with user in any way.
Google teams up with major Japanese film studio
Facebook's Phone Company
His thoughts are sometimes controversial and I don't always agree with them. However, I find them to be a refreshing and thoughtful break from the hyper politically correct discourse so widely practiced in the US.
VC Says It's Better to Burn Cash
Training users to ignore SSL warnings. sigh
I have come to appreciate that enjoying the craft you do is the most important thing. After family and friends.

Indeed... This reminds me of a dialogue in Iain Banks' Use of Weapons, between a stranger and a woman from the Culture, a society technologically advanced to the point that machines do everything better than the humans:

“Can’t machines build these faster?” he asked the woman,
looking around the starship shell.

“Why, of course!” she laughed.

“Then why do you do it?”

“It’s fun. You see one of these big mothers sail out
those doors for the first time, heading for deep space, three
hundred people on board, everything working, the Mind quite
happy, and you think; I helped build that. The fact a machine
could have done it faster doesn’t alter the fact that it was
you who actually did it.”

“Hmm,” he said.

(Learn woodwork; metalwork; they will not make you a
carpenter or a blacksmith any more than mastering writing will
make you a clerk.)

“Well, you may ‘hmm’ as you wish,” the woman said,
approaching a translucent hologram of the half-completed ship,
where a few other construction workers were standing, pointing
inside the model and talking. “But have you ever been gliding,
or swum underwater?”

“Yes,” he agreed.

The woman shrugged. “Yet birds fly better than we do,
and fish swim better. Do we stop gliding or swimming because
of this?”

He smiled. “I suppose not.”

“You suppose correctly,” the woman said. “And why?” she
looked at him, grinning. “Because it’s fun.”

I think it's a great answer to the question of why do things,
but it doesn't address the problem of one's purpose...
Keeping tabs on Vivaldi, the startup that wants to give your browser a boost
Ask HN: Couch Surfing
I'm thinking about going to Hamburg, Germany and I will probably use couch surfing as a cheaper way to get hosted, as well as a way to meet new people.

I've never experienced couch surfing, so are there any advices from whom already tried it on how to choose a good host and being a good guest?
I have one. There is no set frequency to how often I post. I post when I have something interesting enough that I can sit down to write a few hundred or thousand words. Over years, it has collected a few interesting articles. Like sarahj said, it is a space on the web to call my own.
Both you and your parent post are very considerate people, and your colleagues are lucky :)
"down-vote more aggressively "

I can't (as an interlocutor), and I can see that nobody else has either. The prediction seems to have survived at least this one test.

"If you choose to release under a license which doesn't require releasing source of any mods"

...and there's nothing wrong with that. I'm not saying non-copyleft licenses are bad. I don't believe that. Even if I did, I don't have time for another round of that debate. I'm just pointing out what the practical difference is. People who care about the security aspect of Ubiquiti's behavior, or about the lost potential to install an alternate OS on their hardware, should be aware that permissive licenses give them zero leverage toward affecting a remedy. Those people might want to consider software licensing as part of their router purchase decision, even if they don't like GPL for their own code.
Knowing when it "works", including polyfills and graceful degradation, is more useful, but may involve more human input to decide.

(The country you target can have a big impact on support numbers too, due to differences in browser usage)
I see that this project mentions an "ORM" for Redis. I have two somewhat naive questions:

First of all, as far as I know, Redis is not relational, so ORM seems kind of dubious. Secondly: is Redis suited as the main, persistent storage for an application?

I had the impression that it is more of a memcached replacement with more complex data structures than an actual database.
The reason that red switches are popular with (some) gamers is that they can be pulsed quickly right at the actuation point with very little rebound between presses.

The tactile switches, on the other hand, have to be allowed to return quite a bit more before they can activate a second time. Whether of silent design or not, they have to unclick before they can click again.
In Australia the ballots are counted multiple times, including an initial count at each of the booths. They're then physically relocated to Electoral Commission offices for recounting, usually twice.

All ballot boxes are numbered and a tally of votes cast is kept. Each box is sealed in the presence of party scrutineers with numbered tags and signed for. It's sealed and tagged again before shipment. Each is opened and signed for in the presence of scrutineers.

The number of ballots is compared to the number of names marked off the electoral roll at each booth.

If a sufficiently large irregularity occurs, one of the political parties will take the matter to the Court of Disputed Returns, which can force fresh elections. This happened recently because several ballot boxes for Federal Senate votes in Western Australia were lost by the AEC. The number of votes in question were enough to leave the 6th Senate seat in doubt, so the Court voided the election.
Few options: make system more complex, add randomization, increase moderation effort or make it less open.

I am fan of adding randomization. It was previously proposed: show few random new items on a front page in random places, maybe with a little threshold.

I was thinking about community page destined to fork. After community reaches certain threshold (size, activity) there is automatic fork and 2nd generation community is created. Some algorithm adds accounts for certain users and blocks some other users from account creation. It's just a pipe dream...
hmm...I'm running out of ideas. Which country are you in?
The Political Economy of 3D Printing
After try to login with GitHub to have early access, i back to page and get one "Error 502".
I can report roughly the same thing.

However, I'm sometime quite disappointed that what I submit does not get traction because I really think it is interesting to the HN community and the discussion here would be even more interesting. I guess the time of posting and luck plays a big part in what is upvoted.

I sometimes link my newly created posts to friends or IRC (some of them have HN accounts and may upvote) but it doesn't seem to make any difference.
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Show HN: Use REST APIs? Test them!
This is one of those truths that I know is true, but forget from time to time.
Hm, maybe. OTOH, I'd think (hope) that not adding a note to the documentation when you add the code (ie, while it's still fresh in your mind) would require at least slightly more sloppiness than succumbing to poor dev practices over the longer term would require.
Once Greece go bankrupt, all the Belgian IT companies near-shoring there will score :)
Possibly worth clarifying: the false positive rate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_positive_rate) is "probability that a test will return positive, conditional on the hypothesis being false". It's the rate of false positives within the set of negatives, not the rate of false positives within all tests.
How to Use Email Segmentation to Increase Your Conversion Rate
An Acceptable Tool
Australia - you could contact Cloudflare and let them know - they can shuffle the CDN if there is a dodgy node.
Without zero-rating, ISPs still have a strong incentive to make the effort to peer with service providers because it cuts their transit costs.

The article points out the big downside: Zero rating takes away a strong incentive to raise bandwidth caps, as low bandwidth caps makes it more attractive for content providers to negotiate zero-rating deals.

The net result is a market heavily distorted in favour of a small set of major content providers.

> it discourages passing on savings made by peering with companies to consumers.

Cellphone data costs rarely have much relation to transit cost. Ex. my provider in the UK offers 2GB at 20 pounds a month. The actual data cost from a really expensive transit provider in a non-carrier neutral data centre for 2GB is about 7p. 0.07 pounds.... With some peering, decent volume, and sourcing bandwidth in a carrier neutral location where there's decent competition would bring that down to a tiny fraction.
A repository of modern C++ code samples curated by the community
How Americans Destroyed Indoor Plumbing
Yeah, I'm not trying to say it's all like that.
depends where you look I guess, I think in east asia it's cheaper, but that might be because they're mostly produced there.

remember to not include USA because they do not compute sales tax on the list price, only after check-out.
XMonad has been my window manager of choice for years now.
I especially like that the code is short and easy to understand, so you can easily modify it (or write an extension) if you want.

If you don't have previous Haskell experience, then other window managers like i3 or bspwm might be more comfortable.
"I don't feel anything has changed over that time."

Approaching 3000 days on HN. The things I notice most:

* increase in users has increased the churn rate of new submissions.

* the new page is dead because of the submission rate. good stories disappear off the stack quickly.

* the up-click is not a good indicator of story quality. I now see stories with up to 80 votes sans one comment. I used to read the comments BEFORE the post. This has now changed because of limited comments.

* the rate of high vote submission decay, means some good stories are lost as the HN crowd chew over some interesting post(s).

* also interesting to see users comment/post ratio. A lot of ppl have limited or no posts yet they comment. If you look at my post profile, in the last 60 days I've posted 100 posts. Approx 1:25 hit > 100. It would be interesting to see how this has changed over time. cf: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=bootload&next=9025...

The biggest problem is the dilution of good posts/actual posts. Slow the rate of posts and might influence the quality of posts.
Thank you for your feedbak. We'll look into this.
> "It doesn't mean Facebook causes depression, but that depressed feelings and lots of time on Facebook and comparing oneself to others tend to go hand in hand," said Steers.

It's pretty explicit that they're not claiming causality.
Wait until you set up printer, scanner, samba, virtual box, graphics card.
It's very good that you're in the sort of position where you can make a stand on that sort of thing - but I'm not quite there myself. In any case I do like a shared space ("office" was maybe incorrect in my original comment) but for people to be productive everyone needs to be just a little bit more considerate than if they had their own office.
Yes, there is a method to verify your vote. But as i said, e-voting is in advance only. On the voting day only traditional voting is possible, traditional vote voids e-vote. E-vote can be changed only when e-voting is active, not later.
And yes, one could prevent someone to go and vote traditionally, but this is out of the scope of e-voting. There are myriad of methods how to manipulate traditional voting. And your hypothetical case is really a kidnapping, criminal offence, not scalable.
Contrived examples are contrived.

1) Sibling post mentioned forgetting to include notices in the documentation. Which is a valid counterpoint, but I would assume requires more of a one-time effort than a permanent change (improvement) in work procedures.

2) Assuming they can even find the right version.