skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see this as nitpicking really. I definitely don't see it as negative. Sure there is a bit of nitpicking but the author seems to have laid down some genuine comments about the movie on top of it.

To be fairly honest, if I noticed something like this I'd crack a big grin and I'd wanna share it, like I just cracked a big grin whilst reading the post.

I think, overall, this a compliment to the detail in the movie. They're using real technology and (kinda) believable commands/code. It's only after deconstructing the scene it's been found they haven't got it 100% right. Most of the time, when someone is 'hacking' at a computer it's a load of nonsense and usually makes me cringe seeing it. I remember one totally shocking clip where a guy was 'hacking' and you could plainly see it was Windows Media Player. Let's not even mention Hackers.

Things like this make me smile and I find them really, really interesting when I either notice them or they are pointed out to me. I could probably waste a whole day reading an archive of these.
> "The Chromebox is a fast, compact home or office device." That means nothing to me.

Fast, compact device used in homes and offices. A microwave maybe? Or maybe a novel type of stapler?
Fghh45sdfhr3, what did you dream lucidly?

When I could control my dreams I would probably just stop whatever my brain is trying to figure out and start a sex dream.
What do you mean by taste in a programming/business context? Software scales and works in a way that restaurants don't. Gastronomy != running a food business != programming != business.

Metaphoric thinking is dangerous.
Erika Sawajiri Akhirnya Kembali Tampil di Sebuah Movie Berjudul Helter Skelter
Kernels: Making linear data algorithms less linear
FB stock down to $27 dollars
New Product: Google Apps Password Sync for Active Directory
"This, of course, is unusual in our industry. Many of our competitors, and nearly every company that sells enterprise software, charge per user (or per seat, in industry parlance)."

Could be also be a case of being the fool at the table. If everyone in your industry prices a certain way and you don't, sure maybe you are inventing a new model and not taking advantage of people.

But maybe there are reasons they do this that you don't understand yet or haven't experienced?

One example is what I would call "the rule of large numbers".

If I have 200,000 people using my service there are going to be more problems that show up then when I have 10 users.

Let's say I offer webhosting to a single customer with 10 employee email boxes for a total of $20 per month so then I have one set of customer support issues based upon the number of people that could potentially have problems.

Now let's say I offer a webhosting reseller account for $20 per month. And the reseller can offer 500 sub users each of which have the potential to create 10 employee email boxes per account. So potentially there are 5000 email accounts that are now setup.

And you don't think there will be more support issues with 5000 email boxes then with 10? And you don't think if there is a service interruption there will be more pressure to get things restored when 5000 users are having problems rather than 10? And more legal liability?

More "seats" creates more potential issues.

I've had equipment service contracts in the past where the service provider only authorizes a single point of contact. They don't want to have to deal with a bunch of newbies using the equipment each time it jams. They want a person who will ride over those newbies and already be able to intercept any cases that they have already been trained for.
you never read the book, which has named the apple notebooks and some shareware software (product placements which are almost gone by now). The main character(s) explicitly saved up for the given machine (although the movie isn't accurate down to the model)
Hey corporations, free the slaves, the bananas are not dangerous anymore
Totally sympathise, I have the same with archery in movies. I can normally ignore the typical Hollywood stuff in LOTR or whatever, but really can't take it when they pretend to be modern + realistic (current worst case: Blade Trinity).
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was tempted to stop reading when I got here. Computer Science is fascinating...and an incredibly broad field. The notion that the author could make the sweeping accusation that it is "unquestionably the dullest" of the mathematical sciences leads me to disregard his opinions in general.
Can win8 become popular
i have some win8 domain name
win8top.com
win8join.com
win8fun.com
Anyone intersting?
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Most of these latencies were measured and written up for a bunch of systems by Carl Staelin and I back in the 1990's. There is a usenix paper that describes how it was done and the benchmarks are open source, you can apt-get them.

http://www.bitmover.com/lmbench/lmbench-usenix.pdf

If you look at the memory latency results carefully, you can easily read off L1, L2, L3, main memory, memory + TLB miss latencies.

If you look at them harder, you can read off cache sizes and associativity, cache line sizes, and page size.

Here is a 3-D graph that Wayne Scott did at Intel from a tweaked version of the memory latency test.

http://www.bitmover.com/lmbench/mem_lat3.pdf

His standard interview question is to show the candidate that graph and say "tell me everything you can about this processor and memory system". It's usually a 2 hour conversation if the candidate is good.
Teen solves Newton's 300-year-old riddle
Printers are either fast or compact, but not usually both. So that would be quite innovative.

I bet it makes a mean espresso, though.
Feynman had it right: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL4wg6ZAFIM
The thing I find most amusing about this article comes from considering the source. The writer is a right-wing economist whose current job is for the George W. Bush Center.

One of the right's favorite techniques for pushing against regulation is by giving people the right of private action through lawsuit. But now we see that if you actually use that right, well gosh, you're hurting women everywhere.
> Shocked moviegoers will have been left wondering
> why a genius-level hacker would outer-join to the
> Victims and Keywords tables only to use literal-text
> filter predicates that defeat the outer joins,
> whether MySQL has a LIKE operator, and why none
> of the victims' initials are 'R L'.

For the record since you never see the entire query so it is likely that the SQL is not as wrong as the author suggests. There is an extensive use of ORs in the query so the conditions that are said to defeat the outer joins are not mandatory and the 'R' and 'L' checks are clearly not required to pass. I think it is pretty good representation of how you might build up query from scratch, piling up conditions in OR clauses to finally get what you want.
Yes, provided the table that starts with V is aliased as v the v.SEX condition does defeat the outer join, but that might be exactly the sort of thing you would stick in after you had already established a working FROM clause and not bother changing the outer to an inner. Solving the case was after all by definition a one-off.

I enjoyed this article because it points out an occasion where a movie really did try to get it right. Someone who knows something about databases had to have made those screens up.
Care to elaborate on what you mean by "mentally exhausted"?
I've noticed quite a few companies seem to be astroturfing hacker news recently, it wouldn't be so obvious if it wasn't the same people commenting on every single article that's critical of there company or trashing on their competitors products.

Even Mozilla isn't innocent of this but Google is taking this to the next level; I wouldn't be surprised if they have there own 50 Cent Party specifically targeting (social) news websites.
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But this statement is made as if this paradigm shift happened 6 months ago, instead of 15 years ago.
From that link, this brilliant visualisation: http://i.imgur.com/X1Hi1.gif
I don't see any point on putting FB's stock value on HN everyday.
Did you watch hunger games, and how did that archery look? Apparently the actress spent 6 months+ practicing but I'd be interested to hear an informed point of view.
The data on attention economics that everybody in media needs to see
Will it run Windows 7?
A surprisingly multifaceted and savvy article from the NYT. Well worth reading.
That's seriously underpowered. My phone holds more than that and considering the expectation that they've set (not mentioning cloud storage at all) horribly low for what looks like a home computer.
I don't understand. Happiness doesnt matter, but the ultimate virtue in your philosophical schema is scientific progress to make things "better", which is presumably aiming towards happiness, no?
> Finally, he jumps straight into 12 reps dumbbell press @ 30kg (66lb per hand). Riiiight!


It was the power of the Iphone that allowed him to do so.
See http://hackertyper.net/
I regularly experience sleep paralysis and find it very easy to go from that to lucid dreaming, especially as I can force myself into sleep paralysis (I discovered that it triggers when I am too warm at night). Personally the only benefit I've gotten from it is that it is fun to do occasionally.
I find it interesting to see the major carriers jumping into the prepaid game. For me, a person who doesn't need "unlimited" data/voice or cell coverage everywhere I go, prepaid plans are a great value.

Prepaid is even more attractive now with most of the carriers offering smartphones (and pretty good ones, at that).
Don't forget "Makers" by Cory Doctorow, which discusses some of the legal implications of personal 3D printing as both an attraction and as a way of cheaply producing a variety of things.
http://craphound.com/makers/download/
Now that you pointed this out, I notice similarities in writing style to the first chapter of American Psycho.
If it looks like a computer, people will think it's a computer at first glance. There's nothing on that page that makes for particularly compelling reading, so why would I read first, instead of going by the picture?
Great. Now how about getting around to outline view, which just celebrated its 10th birthday in the OO bug database?
There's a follow-up here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4034487

This to accompany some previous submissions:

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4028756

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4029599

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4029676

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4031332

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4031625

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4034225

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4046994

Consensus seems to be that he's found a closed-form solution of a 2D projectile with friction proportional to the square of the velocity:

* http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/u7551/teen_solves...

* http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/150242/teenager-solv...
I won't get into the nitty gritty of how much faster it is, or how that kind of speed improvement should be calibrated. All I can say is it loads a heck-of-a-lot faster than it did previously - and also add a big thank you to the folks at LibreOffice.
Even when this blog post gets into the technical inaccuracies it's just trivia, not nitpicking.

Movies want to keep you in the suspension of disbelief (that the storyline is real) and as a programmer it's been hard to do that with most "hacking" scenes in movies.

The only other blockbuster movie I can think of with a reasonably believable hacking scene was when Trinity used an openssl exploit in one of the Matrix sequels.
Well thank the FSM it's not DB2
You haven't had any lucid dreams then - it's not like wishy-washy pseudo-spiritual nonsense. It's nothing like astral projection. You're just fully awake inside your dream. You know 100% that you're dreaming, and that you are lying in your bed and you can control what happens in your dream (maybe "steer" is a better word than control).

The websites I've seen about it make out like there is a spiritual aspect - but that's just hippies trying to make it seem important.
>Don't forget, there's a comparable number of people who claim the ability to "astral travel".

That is a rather uncompelling argument. How many people claim to be able to do something has very little to do with whether or not that thing is possible. Many, many people claim to have been helped by homeopathic remedies, and none of them have. Relatively few people claim to be able to walk on their hands, but many of them can.

"Number of claims" is evidence, but it is such weak evidence that its effect on your beliefs should almost always be overwhelmed by the effect of your prior. The plausibility of astral projection and homeopathy is incredibly low, and the weak evidence given by "number of adherents" doesn't significantly budge the needle.

On the other hand, having had personal experience with lucid dreams, your appraisal of the plausibility of regular, practiced lucid dreaming should be rather high. If, then, you encounter even a dozen people who claim to have done this successfully, you should believe that is probably possible. That is, of course, unless you have some appropriately strong justification based on your understanding of neuroscience for why it should not be possible.

>When you wake up in the morning, how can you tell whether you were lucid dreaming or just dreaming that you were lucid dreaming? I don't mean that distinction as a joke; in one case you have conscious control over the dream while in the other case you don't have conscious control but dream that you do.

I don't think the distinction is meaningful. The part of your brain that perceives being in control is not the part of the brain that issues commands. So if we allow that it is possible to believe you have control over your actions without actually having control over your actions, then we must accept that this is in fact always the case, even while we are awake. The belief that you are an atomic unit which simultaneously perceives and manipulates the world is a form of essentialism which we can pretty well rule out by now.

Edit: I should also add that "lucid dreaming" doesn't technically imply control; it just means you're aware that you're in a dream.
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On the one hand: yes, I hate brand manipulation too.

On the other: you have to triage. If you want to establish a morning routines like this, then you can't worry about every optimization or you will never get anywhere. I'm impressed as hell at his consistency.

When the price differential between 7-11 and Costco becomes the biggest problem in his life, and when he has plenty of time and space to screw around with inventory management, he can surely come up with a plan to fix that. Until then, 7-11 is solving the stocking problem for him.
Do people really and actually concern themselves with <$5000/year habits? I mean, why not focus on something important?
(Natural) Scientists: study nature.

Engineers: study how to build. This may include original theorizing pertaining to methods of building -- they don't just ape scientists' theories, they create their own. Engineering is itself the science of building.

Developers: Engineer vs. developer is an arbitrary division. In truth there is a continuum from the most scientific of engineers, who use abstract theorizing to create new technologies, down to someone comparable to the person who installs your water heater.
http://www.apple.com/ vs http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/

http://www.apple.com/iphone/ vs https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromebox.html

I'd say Google's doing a better job.
> The rug absolutely must be pulled out from under the feet of the manner in which material objects are created and distributed, hopefully diminishing the number of have-nots in the world.

I don't necessarily agree with this statement. I believe that even though overpopulation IS a pressing issue at the moment, its effects aren't as devastating because half of the world's population does not have access to a lot of materials.

If everyone in developing nations suddenly manufactured their own parts, we would see a huge strain on non-renewable resources really quickly.

I'm still curious if we have enough copper available to keep up with the demand for housing, electrical components and all the wires we are using to power our devices.
Knowing HN, someone will surely deliver, and the front page will have 4-6 variants of "Why you should/shouldn't learn computer science"
If said coworkers are actually trying to improve and can take the advice peacefully, I will deliver it peacefully.

The others I will be pleased not to work with.
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I can't tell you how much I learned on the job vs. what I learned at school.

I don't think the difficulty barrier is the issue.

The issue is the code you write out of school. Your sense of style is driven by the fact that the TA would mark you off if you didn't write a comment before your function. Your experience working with other developers is confined to that one terrible semester long project with the one idiot and the other guy who wouldn't do anything until the week it was due.

I don't mind so much that I had to learn QuickSort every year for 6 years or so. I do mind that I left school not really grokking a thing about object oriented notation. I left school thinking objects were nice and they could have methods, and you could create other objects that got those objects for free - maybe some sort of polygon class with subclasses "square" and "triangle".

But in practical terms of course it was one huge main() function for most of the "hard" problems they had us solving.

I understand not wanting to be a "trade school". Computer science is harder than that. You want people who can understand big-O notation. But teach them how to code, even just a little bit.
No, he just wants the short version. Are you unable to empathize?
> so you can buy, download and "print".

If we're already scanning it, why not just replicate the original?
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Music and movies used to only be available on physical media until internet connections became quick enough to be able to download files from geographically anywhere.

One could say the same for CD/DVD/Blu-Ray burners...one needs energy to run the burner and a laser to inscribe the data onto the physical media.

I think the same logic applies to 3-D printers.
I think you missed the point of the article. They were mockingly critiquing it, as the people behind the movie went above-and-beyond typical Hollywood technical gobbley-gook. The point is that it was accurate enough that they could critique it.
Except physical goods have a real cost associated to it. This is how Microsoft got to be one of the richest companies on the planet and IBM and Apple did not. The per unit profit of one license of Windows is infinitely higher than selling beige box PCs.

Yes, compared to content, duplicating physical goods is expensive.
The &lt;header&gt; tag is an expansion on HTML4’s &lt;head&gt; tag.
Corporate copyright is 120 years after creation or 95 years after publication, whichever is shorter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_Sta...

Can somebody please explain to me how this is not insane?
Is that what it is? That's certainly not clear from the "landing page". I assumed from the form factor that it was some sort of Home Theater PC (HTPC). Honestly.
The only thing that Google didn't fail with was search. Stop pretending there is anything else they've made which can't be labeled as mediocre copy at best.
Yeah, as if it mattered. It's like checking today's weather to decide whether climatic change is true or not.
This is a symptom I feel of people getting hung-up on specific "quality" or "performance" indicators.

For example, for years people would judge the quality of a car by the "thunk" sound on closing the drivers side door.

Now car manufacturers have teams of people who engineer that specific sound (same with exhaust noise).

See also weights inside speaker cabinets.
So, I agree with this article in spirit. Lots of programmers could've benefitted from a more programming centric approach rather than a CS approach. However, this bit gave me pause.

" I cannot tell the difference by watching them develop software."

I can't disagree with this more. While this may be true of students who were middle of the road students in CS programs. I can't definitely tell the difference between people with a formal cS background and those without in my daily work. I work with a handful of extremely talented self taught programmers but there is definitely a difference between the way they attack problems and think about coding versus the CS folks. Not to even mention the programmers I've worked with who have EE degrees. Those guys think about things and code in an entirely different third way.

All of these people / approaches are necessary... and none of them are better than the others... but pretending like they don't do things different because you want to feel like you don't need a CS degree is disingenuous.
The author could have done something useful instead of this.
BEST way to leverage the world's most powerful engine.
Not a V6, V8, V10 or V12. The world's most powerful engine is the Search Engine. Agreed?

So, to all you brilliant Hackers, Electrical, Mechanical and Software Engineers out there. Why can't we design a way to leverage the search engine to create truly renewable and pollutant-free energy? It would be the ULTIMATE in "Going Green".

Somehow harness the power of "searches" to actually create energy, or to design a website program such as Groupon, that bases your discounts on Energy costs to Gas and Electric companies on what you search for and how often. Kind of like an ebates.com for energy, and based on searches.
how about this: copyright is a moral right pertaining to the creator (or group of creators). it cannot be transferred. it cannot be sold to a corporation. it cannot be inherited. it lasts 14 years without fee, and you can renew it up to 2 times for a fee (as was the tradition before, if i am not mistaken).

my assumption is (roughly) that if copyright is intended to encourage and support creative output, then only the actual creators should be the beneficiaries of it.

(i don't know if i really think this would be the best -- or even a good -- system, in a way i'm trying it on for size and want to hear what others think.)
> PC + Windows + Office + McAffee + a large desktop support organization, you just have ChromeOS devices and Google Apps

I think if you put a Chromebook/Chromebox in front of most business users, the organization has to be using Citrix. Google Apps is not even remotely viable as a replacement for Office except in cost or for very basic work.
During the Apollo program the accuracy with which reentry could be predicted got to be very good. Initially, the practice was to sail an aircraft carrier to the projected splashdown point and wait for the command module to hit the water some miles away. This had to be changed due to the growing risk of the spacecraft hitting the carrier. Instead, the carrier parked a few miles away.

I don't know if the increase in accuracy was due to improvements in trajectory control during reentry, better aerodynamic modelling based on experience of real flights, or other factors. I assume that SpaceX would be pretty confident about their accuracy, but this is only the second flight of a Dragon.
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