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by foob 10y ago
That's an interesting point. I hadn't even considered the possibility that a single user would have the power to drop a story by hundreds of positions. If that's the case then those users do have a lot of power.
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by foob 10y ago
Good points! I use the official Hacker News API [1] and my requests come from an ip address that is completely disconnected from my personal account. Even if the API usage were a red flag, there would be no way to automatically connect it t
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Stories that Hacker News removes from the front page(sangaline.com)
1274 points by foob 10y ago|314 comments
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How many people will actually die this week because of Daylight Savings Time?(sangaline.com)
3 points by foob 10y ago|1 comments
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Reverse Engineering the HN Ranking Algorithm(sangaline.com)
70 points by foob 10y ago|7 comments
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by foob 10y ago
If you're not familiar with it already then I highly recommend checking out Songs for Drella. Lou Reed and John Cale put aside there differences after Warhol's death to record something of a eulogy for him. It offers an interestin
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by foob 10y ago
Open `~/.config/htop/htoprc` and modify the line: left_meters=AllCPUs Memory Swap to be left_meters=CPU Memory Swap That will replace the default CPU monitor with a single meter for the average across all c
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by foob 10y ago
Your forgot Nihonium after Japan :-). It's fairly common for them to be named after places (often where they were discovered). Some other examples are Americium, Berkelium, Californium, Darmstadtium, Dubnium, Europium, Francium, and Ge
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by foob 10y ago
One of the most notable things about this election has been how strongly disliked the two main candidates were. They famously have the lowest favorability ratings of any candidates in recent history. Putting aside any corruption and favorit
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by foob 10y ago
If you're considering upgrading then you might want to ask yourself whether you really need a laptop instead of a desktop. If you work from home and currently have a laptop that you can use while traveling (or for miscellaneous web bro
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by foob 10y ago
I personally agree with you but this is how they attempt to address that point on their website: > The token shows the location in such a way that a future civilization will be able to interpret its correct meaning. This will require a t
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by foob 10y ago
There's really no way to preferentially differentiate between the image being flipped one way or the other once the one pixel wide columns have been shuffled. The order of the first pair that you put together determines which orientati
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by foob 10y ago
First off, thanks a lot for posting this and you did a great job with it! It was fun to play around with and it obviously inspired me enough to dig into the code and try my own variation. You're right about them not matching exactly; I
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by foob 10y ago
This is a fun demo but, as others have mentioned, simulated annealing really isn't necessary, or even that appropriate, for this specific problem. I threw together the same demo with a very trivial algorithm that I think does a more ac
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by foob 10y ago
These are all good tips but most of the anti-patterns seem to skew towards beginners ( e.g. don't use the arrow keys, don't navigate in insert mode). One that I think is more common among intermediate, and even advanced, users is
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by foob 10y ago
Firefox's extension system was powerful but there was next to no chance that XUL based UI was ever going to be adopted in the other major browsers. I'm sure that tapping in to the Chrome extension ecosystem was a big factor in the
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by foob 10y ago
Slightly tangential, but on the topic of browser extensions: the Chrome extension API served as the basis for Mozilla's somewhat recent Web Extension API [0]. Many, if not most, Chrome extensions can run in Firefox out of the box right
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by foob 10y ago
You would typically use something like nginx as a proxy, in conjunction with uwsgi for managing a number of workers, and then offload slow operations to a task queue via redis or something similar. Caching obviously helps if it's appli
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by foob 10y ago
For neovim users, you can get something almost comparable with deoplete [1], tern_for_vim [2], and ternjs-deoplete [3]. I set this up recently and have been very happy with the results. This also supports ES6 and JSX in case you use either
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by foob 10y ago
A lot of people here have been mentioning Postman but my personal go-to has been Advanced Rest Client [1]. It's open source, has Google Drive integration, and seems to have a pretty impressive development rate. For me, it's a defi
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by foob 10y ago
It seems like sampling based inference approaches are the most common. Could you possibly comment on the current state of the art regarding more analytical approaches? I sometimes deal with problems where it's possible to find closed
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by foob 10y ago
It's interesting to see that real name policies can actually make trolls behave more aggressively. On the other side of the spectrum, I anecdotally find that they actually prevent me from posting constructive things. I frequently ref
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by foob 11y ago
I personally think that Shankar makes a great companion to Sakurai. Shankar is less rigorous but it explains things in a more accessible way which can be extremely helpful if you find Sakurai too terse on some topics.
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by foob 11y ago
Ads and analytics. We're considering adding a paid ad free version that won't need access to the internet. Also, the current version will just skip the ads if you don't have a connection. By the way, are you on Android? It li
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Show HN: Treys – Like solitaire, but fun(playtreys.com)
1 points by foob 11y ago|2 comments
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by foob 11y ago
You could also do a three month free trial or something of that effect. That would let people get a feel for the full offerings and if they think it's worth it then they'll likely end up being customers for a long time.
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by foob 11y ago
Are the referral links really necessary in this context? The fact that you don't even mention the CD names makes this feel like click bait for Amazon referrals.
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by foob 11y ago
This is an awesome feature, I love how browser dev tools have been continuously improving in recent years. Taking screenshots of DOM elements has been something I've dedicated a lot of time to recently. Most of the extensions available
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by foob 11y ago
It does redact names linked within comments. It even redacts names in the comments that aren't links as long as they belong to people who posted in the thread.
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by foob 11y ago
I wrote a little utility called svganimator [0] which is relevant to this. If you're just in a hurry to get something going it can be used to combine a set of static SVG files into one animated SVG file in the same way that you might c

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