skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Where is all the web traffic from China?
Hey all.

I help run a small web blog and have been messing around in the analytics a bit. Despite getting a good amount of traffic from all over the world, we get almost no visitors from China - social, organic search, or referral.

So what's going on here?

- Is it possible our site is blocked by the Great Firewall of China? How can we check?

- Does Baidu not care much for indexing US or English speaking sites?

- Maybe web dev isn't as popular in China as other places in the world?

- Language barrier and lack of site language options?

Thanks guys. Any suggestions on how to improve this would be helpful. Would love any insight on the topic.
An upcoming Flask screencast series that saves you 500+ hours of dev time
Brown noise (unrelated to the brown note...) seems to be really good at cancelling out background conversations if you're in a crowded office too.
Erlang/OTP: http://www.erlang.org/faq/introduction.html
JQuery turning 3.0 (alpha)
Something I've always struggled with is getting a good quality score, even though my website hosts highly relevant content, mentions the search keywords numerous times etc. No matter what I do I can't get a quality score above 5 or 6.

It's annoying having to pay $3.5+ for clicks :(

The 'Below first page bid' messages are also highly misleading - I have them showing for keywords where I consistently rank around 1st place.
that's the case for me (a sign of loneliness)
Uhh... Why not? Generally speaking, password managers are pretty good at encrypting secrets, considering it's their only job and all.
Getting strong Vaporwave vibes here
I meant Erlang/OTP.
All credits should go to George Marsaglia (who died in 2011).

He invented the XorShift method (2003), the LCG with good hyperplane behavior (1968), and the modern method of combining multiple poorly behaving RNGs (via function combination and output mapping) to create modern RNGs, not to mention the "diehard" tests he developed which are used to evaluate the performance of RNGs (1995).

This "PCG" algorithm, which is just xorshift(LCG), is just a typical implementation of his methods, which he even explicitly states in his papers.

Sadly Marsaglia home page with all his papers is no longer online, but they can be found scattered around the net.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Marsaglia
Probably not, because the relevant bits are probably too disconnected. I've often dreamed of running down the road at ~50mph, complete with proprioceptive cues that I am running, and I can't say I've seen an effect.
Ask HN: What project are you currently working on?
It's that time of the month again to share what HN'ers are working on! Have you taken on new side projects that you'd like to share with the community? How is your current side project going?

I'm currently re-designing one of my side projects - sideprojectors (http://sideprojectors.com) - yeah really. What can I say, I love side projects.

FYI, here's the previous month's
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9696274
That could be considered equally, if not more amazing.
I love working as a NK scientist. We get to work with some of the smartest people pushing the bounds of science to help good people. Any harm is only done to bad people who deserve it (and we are sure because we are the good guys and they are the bad guys). Who would be against it?

(Note: not actually a NK scientist doing human experimentation.)
I like the idea, but I'm not real sure about the price and the shipping cost. It says you get a breadboard every month and I assume this is a decent part of the weight. I already have a couple breadboards and how many breadboards does one really need?

Maybe just have a breadboard as an add-on or a separate item? I'd be fine never getting a breadboard in any of the kits.
I guess he means Open Telecom Platform which is a set of libraries of Erlang.
Getting into Linux Kernel Development
This looks cool.

Also, because I'm interested: I wonder why your average HN comment section seems to generally enjoy or recommend ambient café noise, and yet "open offices" tend to be thought of so poorly. Is it that the café ambiance usually does not carry a sense of work-related stress? Does working outside of your office make ambient noise more tolerable?
> staring straight ahead

More like staring at their phones. But seriously, there's people talking. Turn the volume up!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect

Not that I necessarily agree with that position, but saying that minimum wage raises unemployment isn't (necessarily) being dismissive of the moral issues behind minimum wage. It's just saying "it won't work out the way you want".
You're talking about a Luhn check? I still see it as common practise, particularly on the client side.

Interesting that the article didn't mention it as a validation point (only card number length), but testing their demo it does do the check.
Does WeWork pay to have these sorts of articles written? Because there are a lot of these sorts of places and they never get mentioned in these articles about WeWork. It makes it sound like WeWork is single-handedly reviving a concept that died with the first dotCom crash, yet it's really just the latest.

The only other places they mention are Regus--making it out to be a shambling zombie form of its pre-dotCom bust self-- and Industrious in Chicago, which is only 2 years old, making it sound like a me-too. Come on! Almost every major city has at least 5 of these places. Even Philly has had IndyHall since 2007, and that's just the one I know off the top of my head.
Show HN: Morning Routine Statistics and M.G. Siegler's Morning Routine
Fantastic - I'll definitely be subscribing. I imagine that having a forum for users to discuss projects would be a good idea, have you considered adding one?

I'm having trouble with the order form, however - it doesn't seem to be loading at all, clicking 'Subscribe' does nothing for me.

I'd give you more diagnostic info but I'm occupied at the moment - perhaps later. In any event thanks for sharing and best of luck.
Awesome! You wouldn't remember me (I don't even remember what name I used), but I was in the clan for a while. You taught me how to juggle people after flipping them. Hope you're doing well.
I use my family as my baseline. It is a much easier sell to my family to use LastPass vs 16+ random characters (16 for MSDN).

So as a whole I think now it's an issue of education. Yes I know LastPass is controversial, but it is still better then password1 or 1234.
Great combination! I might finally get some work done today, thanks!
I've been publishing morning routines for over two and a half years, and earlier this month we launched a statistics page combining all the data from our 135 (and counting) published routines:

http://mymorningroutine.com/statistics/

We'd love to know your thoughts! If you're interested, our interviewee this week is M.G. Siegler:

http://mymorningroutine.com/mg-siegler/
Tying up lots of capital in long-term commercial leases seems very risky and difficult to scale. It also seems like the barrier to entry is low. I'm not sure there's anything fundamentally different between WeWork and the 3 or 4 other nearby co-working spaces. I share the WSJ's apparent skepticism about this sort of business.
Hey, man, I've exchanged email with Chomsky. As I said, not disagreeing, just surprised to see this stated so glibly.
Cherry picking is allowed in contentious political questions.

Apparently.
Hey all! I'm one of the devs @ StackHut and am here to answer all and any questions/rants/ideas/feedback. Cheers!
Did anyone actually get any good deals from Amazon Prime Day?
After weeks of hyping today as "bigger than black Friday", Amazon seems to have dropped the ball in a major way. Where are the deals on items you actually want to purchase? Did anyone find anything good?
It’s not quite the same. In the US, the shares are legally owned by Cede & Co. on the books of the corporation. DTC then has a database that says the shares really belong to various brokers, for the most part. Finally, the brokers have a database saying which client owns the shares.

This is a legal fiction that you can ignore sometimes, except when you can’t, as in this case.

In many other countries, and I’m not sure about the particulars in Brazil, the central book-entry system is the definitive record of who owns shares. There’s no entity like Cede & Co. that is even nominally the owner. (Sometimes brokers are still listed as nominal owners, eliminating one layer compared to the US.)

Whoever is in the book-entry system is the owner, at least from the point of view of the corporation. This is more similar to the way ownership of Treasury bonds is recorded in the US.

In the countries that I’m familiar with, China has direct recording of ownership for individual brokerage clients, while Denmark has a mixed system where some ownership is recorded directly, but “street name” also occurs. Danish securities owned by foreigners are often held through Euroclear or Clearstream, which does operate more or less like DTC/Cede & Co. in the US.
Backprop is fun. You may also enjoy a look at the generalization: reverse accumulation http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2010/07/gradients-via-reverse... .
The article definitely needs a (2009) on it. Who knows if it had that would it have drifted up? No point it speculating, but it does need the year tag.
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I am working on a habit building app in Meteor. It's really an excuse to get my hands dirty with Meteor, which I am loving.
There's something incredible about a 9 year old spacecraft carrying a 1 megapixel camera into space an having it work flawlessly 4b miles away. The LORRI team must be ecstatic right now.
You are required to buy prenatal care because it wasn't fair for young women to have much higher insurance costs then young men just because they get pregnant more often...you know it takes two to tango.
Spoken like someone who has only learned languages from a single paradigm. “Programming languages are built on a common conceptual foundation.” This simply isn't true. The conceptual foundation of Java is quite distant from the conceptual foundation of APL, which is itself distant from that of Haskell, which is itself distant from that of Prolog. If you know one, you don't automatically know the others.

If you're only talking about mainstream OO languages, the point holds, but those are really more like accents than they are languages. Speaking in a British accent won't let you communicate in a fundamentally different way, but speaking in Mandarin actually will.

In short: It's not about the syntax, but it is about the semantics.
I think people are all different and what helps one person focus may not work for someone else. I focus better at a coffee shop and/or with music playing. It has nothing to do with loneliness, it's just what makes me more productive. If sitting quietly at home works better for you, do that.
In the case of the place I go, WeWork is different in that it's significantly more expensive.
People don't try to talk to you at a cafe.
​SUSE to Deliver SUSE Linux for ARM Servers
As I said, in Haskell "unquantified type variables are implicitly universally quantified" i.e. type variables (which are always lowercase in Haskell, to distinguish them from concrete types which are uppercase) are always generic.

So it's true that in the Swift examples, you would need a convention to distinguish type variables from concrete types, or else you need to explicitly mark them as generic.
When I look at the logos on the top of the form, I feel like I should click on the one (Visa/Mastercard/Amex/Discover) I'm going to use to tell the form which one I'm entering the details for. Although this can be deduced from the number, most online forms require the user to select it explicitly (although most commonly with radio buttons or drop downs). This minor friction and confusion could be avoided by just saying "We accept " followed by the logos.
I don't have a source right now but I think people have written about it since the ancient Romans!

I think it happens to pretty much everyone, we as society just don't talk about sexuality or depression enough to put the two together.
Something's wrong here, because the out of pocket max for a year (which for BCBS of MI is not the same as the deductible) cannot exceed $13,200 a year for a family. By law.

See https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/out-of-pocket-maximum-li...

I had a BCBS/MI family plan through the marketplace up until last month. (Silver Multi State) It cost $1,000/month and had a $6,000 (family) deductible, after which BCBS pays 80% of all costs until you hit that out of pocket max. It also allows you to bank $6,500 a year in an HSA pre-tax, which basically covers the deductible.

[edit] Forgot to mention that this plan included medical, dental, and vision.
> Since I do not have any pre-existing condition, and have never smoked, that $84

I'm almost 40 and never had use of my health insurance - if you are like me you can save 124$ per month !

Think of all those years I would have been able to save. Same thing for my car (never stolen, no accident), house insurance (no theft), professional liability insurance, travel insurance (no problem so far), life insurance (still alive), payment protection insurance (still employed), critical illness insurance on the mortgage (thanks god).

Don't be bitter about it. I don't regret it for a second all that money spent. I feel lucky every day if the little premium I pay prevent me to see a friend in misery. And by the time you get my age, you will have seen a lot of stuff happening around you (to me it started around age 28, shit happening somewhere is sadly too common nowadays).
People also typically tend to have less one-sided conversations at cafes; or if they do, they tend to do it more quietly.
Two typos in the second sentence and it's been online since 2009? Solid QA work.
Ask HN: Talk me through the acquihire process
I need your advice, guys.

Angel-funded startup isn't going to make it to its series A, will be going on the auction block soon. I'm an employee with a significant equity stake, but not a founder, who invented and implemented the software which is the company's sole salable asset. (In hindsight I am very aware that this was a lousy situation to have put myself in, but here we are anyway.)

The software has real value, good market visibility, and actual sales. I don't think we'll have much trouble finding buyers -- but most of the likely acquirers are larger corporate types I have little interest in working for long-term. (This is at least partly burnout talking, but I'm kind of done working for other people at all at this point.)

So I know I need to get out in front of my management team before they make a deal I'll walk away from, but this is new territory for me and I have no idea what would be reasonable to ask for and what would get me laughed out of the room.

I know there are a lot of variables here so I'm not asking for dollar amounts, just a general reality check on what I can expect from the next few months. In particular: what's the shortest transition-the-product-to-new-ownership period I can reasonably look for? Is there typically any short-term payout for acquired employees or will everything be in salary and slow-vesting options? Is there any likelihood of an acquirer being interested in purchasing the product but not its developers? Assuming I do stick it out as an acquihire, what's the likelihood I'd be allowed to remain in charge of my product vs having to execute on someone else's vision? When, if ever, is it appropriate for me to ask to be included in negotiations with acquirers? Most importantly: how do I best stand up for my own interests here, without being the asshole that ruins the deal for everyone?
I'm the same. Any noise breaks my concentration.
What other realtime techniques would you recommend besides SSAO/HBAO?

I personally don't dislike the look of SSAO, but I would compare the abuse of it to the overuse of bloom ten years ago. It felt like there was an arms race to see how much of the screen you could cover with a sickly glow. The same is true of any Unity game. If you crank up the SSAO intensity it starts to look absurd, but keep it at a subtle level and (IMHO) it adds a nice depth to the visuals.

Oh and, can't wait for The Witness!
the increase on employment have been negligible or even positive

Very interesting.

So the supply curve is sloped the other way than what microeconomic theory supposed?

Really?
Are these loops ? They are quite short, not a good thing as the brain tends to focus on the loop timing.

edit: I may try it out in the evening when reading a fiction book though.

My 2ç:

I don't understand how one can concentrate in the noise, pardon me, ambiance of a café with people chatting, glasses and cutlery jingle belling and chairs creaking.

On a physical level, these sounds are distracting by themselves.

On a social level, these sounds remind us that we are in a place where it's okay to relax and engage in typical homo sapiens activities such as : gossiping with friends, hitting on each other and having a good time. I believe it's not a good thing to mix those signals (eg: invoking a cool ambiance to work. Work is hard, it's supposed to be harder than relaxing. Both aren't opposite though.).

I said that as someone suffering from tinnitus and regularly using white noise to fall asleep and getting literally enraged by cpu fan whistling noise.

I used to listen to music to motivate myself (laundry, etc.) but then I found out I was way more effective working )and getting in the zone) in silence without using audio crutches.

I still use music when running though but not for the whole run.
> Not to mention that this has been shown on HN numerous times.

Yes, and submitted by different users at that. I flagged this. Apologies to the submitter if I'm wrong about this, but since he isn't even here to answer questions...
Did we read the same article? I really doubt WeWork is happy about the WSJ pointing out how much they look like a company about to take a spectacular fall. That wasn't quite a hit piece, but it was not a favorable article.
I am male, early thirties, married with children. We have a high-end ACA-compliant plan purchased directly from Florida Blue. At almost $1600/month, it's really freakin' expensive. But we have various health issues between us that make us uninsurable for any reasonable amount via individual plans, and that also mean we use a lot of health care.

Prior to ACA, we had my wife and kids on a COBRA plan out of Maryland from when we lived there (God bless Maryland for making COBRA last as long as you want, and making it last even when you leave the state) and me on a separate individual policy. Together they were about as expensive as our current plan, and they had higher deductibles/OOP max and poorer coverage.

Still grateful for the Maryland coverage, though, as I would have had to have a normal job once we moved to FL otherwise.
(big imho-post) Oh, I wish someone could explain to me how I can practically short many of these bubbles that come around HN daily. China, the many tech-unicorns, the housing market in Canada. Enough chances to short something succesfully.

That whole 'private-IPO' thing makes the 'valued at' so much less worth, since you can't short them, information is private, no efficient market hypothesis in play (if any).

I only hope my pension funds isn't one of the suckers tunneling money into the VC-firms doling out such valuations.

It really is the 2000's, but this time around it's even harder to spot the suckers (in the 00's it was stock holders). Ok, Chinese small time investors and Canadians buying a house at 10+ times income I can spot from a distance. But who supplies the VC's with money?
"It's not mainstream, but there are people finding it worth using."

Remember where this discussion started. They're trying to get Hurd mainstream. A person made a suggestion on that. It uses something that failed to mainstream almost every time and is mostly hated by mainstream programmers. So, I suggested not to use it if the goal is making something very popular. In light of that, LISP can have as many tiny communities as it likes: won't help this use case.

"Python is not at all inspired by 'LISP' and not even by Lisp."

My bad. Misremembered: it was ABC.

"Common Lisp compilers do that C code generation for me. No need to write macros for that."

Compiling a functional program to efficient C isn't the same as writing inherently efficient C in a functional language. An amateur like me threw together one in a short time while the other took many PhD's worth of effort to get in good shape. Most of them still don't outperform my old system because they try to solve a harder problem.

"That has been tried already. Doesn't interest Lisp developers much. For a Lisp user there is little benefit of using a mix of Python and Lisp. Either use Python without Lisp or use Lisp, especially since Lisp has the better implementations and allows a wide range of applications."

Makes sense. Appreciate the review. :)

"The Lisp to C options exists already in multiple forms (GCL, ECL, MKCL, mocl and a few in-house implementations). Another Lisp to C++ is under development: CLASP."

"The Lisp to C options exists already in multiple forms"

I think you misread my comment. Your list are all LISP implementations with C or C++ support. My tech was a C/C++ implementation on LISP. A subset, more honestly, as I never needed the whole thing. I macro'd useful patterns to make it more like a BASIC-style 4GL. Those macro's had straightforward mapping to highly efficient C. The rest, much like BASIC, had straight-forward mapping. My style was imperative, the constructs were imperative, the target was imperative, and data types etc were all consistent. The result was a productivity boost over developing in C or C++ with interactive development, better debugging, less coding, automated checks at the flip of a switch, & automated generation of all the source & makefiles.

I haven't seen anyone post something similar in years. So, what do you think of that kind of tool as a compromise between highly efficient, portable C and the safer, higher-level languages that aren't efficient enough for eg operating systems? Is such a thing worth rebuilding until functional compilers are good enough to wholesale replace C/C++ in their niche areas?

"Python in Lisp also exists."

In one paragraph, you say it's pointless and nobody is interesting. Then you give me a link to an implementation in another. Puzzling you are. Thanks for the link, though. :)
I haven't found anything I wanted. I mean there are great deals, but nothing I am interested in. To be fair I am only really interested in buying cheap books.
Yay, more wood behind fewer products!

And no wood behind things people actually want or use!

And the wood behind the ones we liked ended up all warped and weird!
Strapped with photography equipment, a Google employee scales abandonments
My company worked out of a wework for a few months. Never used the beer once—when we wanted to grab drinks, we'd want to get out of the office and go somewhere else anyway.
I'd much rather be in an open office with colleagues working on the same thing I am than in a noisy, distraction-filled coffee shop or at home with a screaming kid and a dog barking every time something goes 'bump' outside.