skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Certainly:

Person A tries to do something, fails, and in order to not fail again givesup.

Person B tries to do the same thing, fails, then tries again and fails, and tries again and fails, each time learning something more until on the 100th time they succeed.

Person A failed once, person B failed a hundred times, person B is better off for they have learned how to succeed rather than given up.

If you avoid doing something for fear of failure you're worse off than if you fail at it until you get it right.
Works fine on my android phone.
What about when you want to find all notes that was made a specific day last month (say for a report)?

Traverse all notebook documents and look at each notes date? Good luck with that.
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Without more context graphs like that is pretty useless.. For all we know they just invented those numbers. I'm not saying they did, but you get my point..

Those numbers seem way to low for running on the same machine, and if not shouldn't the network be the bottleneck and show similar results for both?

I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation, just as I'm sure they picket benchmarks that makes themselves look good.
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A factor in the prevalence of compression in popular music that is not often mentioned is the effects of the music production technology, specifically the cheap akai samplers that were used a lot in the 1980s and 90s. They only had a 12 bit sample rate and so had a very small dynamic range. This led to a fetishisation of the "chunky" sound it imparted on samples, especially drums. Then producers seeking this effect further compressed their samples to make them sound even chunkier. Here's an example from 1995: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fkWMrw4nFY#t=1m39s and another from 1993: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu9Ml51vDrM

In these scenarios, over-compression is a legitimate artistic choice: it's meant to sound like that. The problem is obviously when this expectation bleeds out into the rest of the music industry and is forced upon other types of artists by their labels.
We aren't talking about programming languages. We are talking about teaching math in school. In most of school mathematics, there are only 4 infix operators (well, and also the comparison operators).
I've had something similar happen to me (maybe not 300%) and I'm aware of the higher money but mentally I keep myself on my lower rate and standard of living, because I don't want to do this job forever. The sooner I can get to passive income funding an 'acceptable' life the better. Not everything that's worth doing takes money, just time, which you just don't have in a 9-5
So Google is not evil because forcing Adobe to remove flash support from other 'vendors' browsers is actually a good thing? Basically Google knows best and anyone who thinks that they might actually want to continue to use flash on Linux in a non-Google browser (or at least without installing Chrome) is wrong?

This looks like the sort of heavy-handed monopoly activity that made Microsoft so great.

It's possible that Adobe were intending to cease all Linux-based browser support and Google prevented that by buying back Chrome support; in which case Google has slipped in their PR big time.
Yes, this would violate the CAN-SPAM guidelines.
But do companies really care?
I've contacted several sites who do the same thing as LinkedIn, and no-one seems to care.
Oops - the link is missing a trailing /

Please go to http://www.makeleaps.jp/blog/en/2012/02/english-hacker-news-... for the English version of the post.
Microsoft patent on PageRank (kind of). Patent troll?
Do PageRank on hosts, then descend host hierarchy to fine-tune. DOn't forget to equip your computing device with at least one CPU and some memory. The latter might be RAM or ROM, as you feel more comfortable.
EnterpriseDB (who sell a commercialized version of Postgres) have a couple of MySQL vs Postgres white papers on their site, but hidden behind a registration wall : http://www.enterprisedb.com/resources-community/whitepapers-... .

Robert Haas, a Postgres committer , occasionally blogs about comparisons : http://rhaas.blogspot.com/search/label/mysql

Theres also http://www.wikivs.com/wiki/MySQL_vs_PostgreSQL

Historically , MySQL has been more widely available on low end web hosting plans, so its what a lot of people first use when they start using databases, and a lot of web apps, such as Wordpress, support it exclusively.

Until a year or two ago, only MySQL had built in (if occasionally fragile) replication which made it popular for that reason alone. Postgres now has robust replication, with new features coming down the pipeline soon : http://www.depesz.com/2011/07/26/waiting-for-9-2-cascading-s....

I prefer Postgres, but oddly enough under Oracle theres been some interesting features added to MySQL, which is good for both.
When the fear of failure prevents innovation ans progress. Which is too common in the corporate environment.
The YouPorn Chat leak revealed a lot more than email addresses and passwords
Looks good and very useful. Any chance you can stop the keyboard popping up on the iPad when you touch the menu?
That's not a real-world example. It's still pretty abstract.
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"not-especially-creative professions" ...So Graphic Design is not creative. Apart from the excess use of Helvetica, calling Graphic Design uncreative is a sort of oxymoron.
Have you considered that this pattern may be a result of camera internal structure rather than structure of objects?
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it's a welcome move by the Government..!
I think the people flailing their arms and dodging virtual stuff is not going to be the main use though.

I could imagine several less-intrusive, very useful things.

Go to an airport/train station etc.. and have a user-specific glowing arrow showing you where you need to go next.

Go to a conference and have a social network overlay telling you everyone's names and what they do.

Or Sims style public intent-bubbles - say a waiter surveys the restaurant and can see who's ready to order/pay.
Missed the timeline. In five years, Flash should be gone for good.
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Exactly, http://osmf.org anyone?

EDIT: Make link a link :-)
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For now, that is.

The robots came for the content creators last decade. They're coming for the educators now. They will come for programmers, too, eventually.
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Did you really end up using buffer overflow? I've been trying to overflow a different quantity all this time, and I'm quite sure you can't buffer overflow..
As I understand it, the client plugin and the proxy are different programs. I don't think you have to run an "exit node" to use it. Though it obviously wouldn't work if no one would be running one, but that's a different issue.
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The linked paper shows how the klein bottle maps onto the space. Basically, grids which have an orientation (horizontal or vertical stripes) are more common and join together to form a klein bottle. That tendency towards orientation might be an artefact of the camera or might be because cameras are usually held horizontal or vertical relative to the sky.
I think a lot of people will want it, followed by a recession due to it being strange. Then google will make it more aesthetically pleasing for all consumers. If consumers want to dodge objects of fiction, there's an app for that (of course we will hear of the random person who trips and falls under a car or a bike or whatever, and google will be blamed) Then there will be busier consumers who will want to their hands free and be moving but still want to be able to see the stocks/news/messages etc. Some of them will likely be used as remote viewing, maybe it would come with a camera. One could stick this camera on the back of their car, or directed towards their blind spots.

I agree initially it will be awkward, but overall even the strange good things eventually become normal good things.
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It's turning a single sheet of paper in to a mini-book - they have an application for download that will convert a pdf in to "pocketmod" physical format. You basically concertina fold the page and make a couple of cuts.
If you were to use MongoDB, wouldn't this just be a case of adding an index to the field of the nested child document (i.e. the note within a notebook) you were interested in and then querying on it? e.g. db.notebooks.ensureIndex({"notes.date": 1});
I'm no expert, but as far as I'm aware the Apache grants the user a license for your relevant patents. The GPL3 goes a step further and grants the user a license for any patents you have a license for whether its your own or one you licensed from somebody else. Since neither situation likely applies in your case, the BSD and Apache licenses are basically functionally identical. However, by choosing the Apache license you are telling potential users that you don't have any "sleeper" patents, so you might get better uptake.

If somebody later asserts a patent against your code, both you and your users are screwed no matter what license you choose. But the choice of license might influence who might help you out if that happens...
The klein bottle is relatively uninteresting. The technique which identified it is the interesting part here. The linked paper explains a method to take a high-dimensional point cloud and compute a 'bar code' which encodes fundamental geometric features of the solid of which the cloud is an approximation. Its a way of visualizing high-dimensional data without using dimensional reduction.
Old fashioned detective work is expensive and labor-intensive. Which means it will be only used when there's really something at stake. Also, your contacts might tell you that they were interrogated later on. It is visible.

Data mining is different because it can be used against everyone at the same time, and because it is completely invisible. This has never been possible in the past, at least not at this scale.
We are the ones making the robots, though.
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The big thing is that we are connected into a chroot that has neither /proc nor /sys mounted, and which itself is on a read-only filesystem.
Ask HN: How to handle acquisition offer from a competitor?
Recently we got an acquisition offer from a company that is a potential competitor. They are strong in a different segment of the market and we feel strongly that it would be very hard for them to get our part of the market without our acquisition.

We are not prepared to sell if the offer is under certain multiple but they dont want to disclose the bid unless we provide them with detailed information. We are worried that its just a fishing expedition to get more details how our business operates. They supplied NDA to sign which should protect us. In theory, but in practice I am not that convinced.

The sale price would be in 7 figures. I am toying with an idea to get from them like %0.5 sale price nonrefundable deposit and disclosing the minimum multiple they need to offer.

I am aware that it may put them off, but we are not looking to sell and just worried about disclosing information if it does not lead anywhere.

Has it ever been done? Is it a mad idea to ask for this? Am I better off just giving them information and proactively trying to contact other potential buyers to drive up a price instead?
You wouldn't need any new hardware at all. The existing wireless bt keyboard and mouse, combined with airplay video out gives you everything you need.
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Yes, i have not been able to benchmark the performance, write test cases (which i will do in the days to come), yet i would like to know your take on the project.
"I am not at all anti-redis. Its not at all redis's fault it gets misused either; I say so that in the blog-post, even."

Yeah, you actually do.. sorry.

"So why would you compress something that you can only decompress if its recently-reused?"

Not sure I understand your questions, and I've just started looking at Redis. But I guess you could do it the same way, but the added latency may make it infeasible. But the better answer is probably that you don't: You would modify the implementation to fit Redis' (or whatever) strength and weaknesses.
You're right, Reddit does not use a similar mechanism. My bad.
FYI: the worker process for level05 isn't working anymore (I'm pretty confident it was not me that broke it, btw ;P); even with the simple "hello friend" example (exactly as given in the MOTD on the account), the server always returns "job timed out" (it is now about 3am PST).

(edit:)

...and as of almost 3:30am PST, it is no longer possible to log in to the server. :( (...and while typing the next paragraph, I finally got in, but spawning processes is now taking forever, and the two-second job timeout has worked its way up to almost 5 seconds. Maybe another sill attack.)

(Regardless, overall this has been rather well put together, and quite fun. I taught a freshman class at UCSB/CSS today on "how absinthe, the iPhone 4S jailbreak works", and got a few of the students interested in trying out the CTF to see what they might learn by working on it.)
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The WorldWideWeb application is now available as an alpha release (1991)
The sense of solidarity between the robot makers and the lower ranks of the profession might not be a strong as you might like.
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Same here, I guess we are done. Not my fault ;)
Right, but the establishment of privileged reference frames like that doesn't just overturn Einstein, it overturns Galileo.
It helps that they have a perfectly shardable product I guess.
The analogy to start-up success is startling.

Taken from that perspective -- thank god for re-submissions.
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Wow. This is absolutely brilliant and has SO much potential.

Go guys!
I give up.

I wasn't able to get is into the compact folded shape. As far as I can tell, I have the correct folds, but I did some guessing to follow each step.
There are other reasons to choose NoSQL
For example, when Craigslist was using mySql and they had to change their schema, it took MONTHS to facilitate the change across all their slaves.
You can also have a mixed strategy of using both RDBMS and NoSQL to achieve consistency while being able to be flexible to architecture changes.
Lastly- have you looked at total overal cost? Setting up a large cluster with mySql will have a large operational cost and it may not be partition tolerant so if the wrong servers go down, it may cascade to your whole data store.
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It's amazing how when you focus on proven (but supposedly boring or old) technology that just works, and works very well, you can devote a lot of other resources to the actual product and usability.

Maybe it's the 30 year old in me showing, but I'm sticking with the 'it just works' crowd. Until some other approach provides a staggeringly overwhelming reason to switch. I find scaling up with MySQL to be ridiculously easy, allowing me to focus my time elsewhere. Ram, bandwidth, and fast storage have gotten substantially cheaper in the last few years, making it that much easier and cost effective to throw hardware at scaling up. For 99.9% of the Web, those hardware resources are expanding in value much faster than traffic is increasing.

(It's understood other developers find it just as easy to take a different approach)
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Any subtle--no spoiler--hints for level03? I got the mem address for run() but can't seem to find the correct index for it.
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I am surprised by the attitude against what he did, both on reddit and even more so here. Afterall this is "hacker news" and the submission is called "hack your way...". Any definition of hacking that I know includes cleverly exploiting the limitations and boundary cases of a system. I see this attitude as part of a larger trend of "sandbox"-ification, "theme park"-ization of computing.
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You're assuming that the person interviewing trusts your absolutely in your statement that that code is yours.
They can't assume that. It would be irresponsible of them to just assume that that is proof of your abilities. Whilst fizzbuzz doesn't prove anything either, if you fail it then they know that you are lying. It's better than just blindly accepting it.
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> the expanded virtual address space enables us to mmap everything

This sounds like a disaster waiting to happen when a node's working set is larger than RAM. Have you considered the impact on performance due to excessive I/O resulting from this kind of overcommit?

Redis performance, for example, suffers tremendously when its database size exceeds the available RAM, which is why the authors advise implementors to cap its database size. The only real difference I can see here is that Redis allocates its storage anonymously, while Hyperdex uses file-backed pages; in either case, performance under memory pressure will largely be governed by how the VM chooses to move pages in and out of its backing store -- behavior the application has no control over.

Optimizing the performance of working sets larger than RAM is hard. Redis had a (thankfully) aborted attempt to do so (the VM is gone in the most recent stable release); and the InnoDB buffer pool in MySQL has been refined for many years and is subject to quite a bit of tuning for specific workloads. (See also http://blog.kennejima.com/post/1226487020/thoughts-on-redis for some thoughtful discussion on the subject.)

You claim on the one hand that Hyperdex was designed to work on data sets larger than RAM, but on the other hand you admit that all the benchmarks were performed with a working set smaller than RAM. I'd like to see comparative benchmarks where the working set is larger than RAM to be convinced.
I'm not so sure. People sure look silly (well crazy, really) when they talk into a bluetooth headset walking down the street.
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I believe it's an attempt to assure there is no logic in the template code.

...which I think is retarded and anal, since the important part is separation of business logic and presentation. There is bound to be some level of display logic, which is why most template languages have loops and conditionals. But if you are going that far, why not just use PHP? It is arguably a very good template language.
Well that's the problem everyone has with competitor acquisition; how much of it is a business info harvest and how much is real. How about sitting down with them to talk, getting a feel for what they're actually about (asking if they have the money, what the terms might be etc) and then if you're still unsure, "sell" them exclusive rights for a period. It's not ideal and a lot of this is done by feel to be honest as for some companies, initial contacts are a daily thing from competitors and some are rejected outright.
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Ask HN: Credit Card honeypot/canary service?
Is there any company that provides a credit card canary/honeypot? i.e. I sign up, they give me a credit card number. If this credit card is used, it is declined, and then I get an email.

This could be an(other) way to detect data breechs, but I can't find anyone doing this.
So who will make the machines to disrupt the robots?

Makers are always going to be at the top of the chain.
Does this allow for better compression, for example?
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The higher ranks of the profession are still the bearers of all the keys. We will probably go all Luddite and smash the tools before this happens.
I am no expert, but it appears that Telstra had the ability to block the kind of erroneous BGP broadcast that Dodo made.
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the competition wasn't "DOS the box", it was "capture the flag". this is charlie sheen "winning" at best
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I'd like to point out that the service that was hacked has nothing to do with Youporn itself, it was run by a third party.

So please stop calling it the Youporn leak, nothing has leaked out of Youporn itself, just a careless third party.

"YouPorn chat, a service operated and hosted by a third party, failed to take the appropriate precautions in securing its user data" - Kate Miller Manwin Spokeswoman.
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How expensively does the developer value his time? Has he already made in investment in learning certain technology?