skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on a thoroughly scientific glance at the white keycaps on the Apple keyboard I use at my desk at work—which get amazingly dirty amazingly quickly—the most used key's when I'm working are largely punctuation: some set of 9, 0, [, ], backspace, \, enter, shift, and /. Surprisingly, my left shift key is cleaner than my capslock key at the moment, which I didn't expect at all given how much I hit shift-9 and shift-0 in particular.

But this is probably horribly biased because when I get a snack I eat it with my right hand, which I assume makes keys on that side get dirtier quicker.
summary: Click-bait title, content-free article, great language, excellent conversation in (HN) comments.
I was forced to use it for some time. I used to bang my head in frustration working out how to wire something up that I'd know how to do in two lines of code.

That, and I was using the built in fitter to fit a straight line, that would randomly screw up the fit on data almost identical to that which it worked on the previous iteration.
As are Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock (they even share the same Bacon liaison).
Well put. Yes it's sad that half of Americans think the best response to most offenses is shoot-to-kill, ask questions later. My city has a professional police force; I don't think it's a big coincidence that we also have a relatively low crime rate.
Holy crap.

We are indeed getting old, heh.
> Mainly to see if it would have better GC ability than Cassandra.

Considering the naïvety of Go's GC (a non-generational, non-compacting, conservative, stop-the-world and broken-on-32b[0] mark&sweep)... I would tend to bet against it way sooner than on it.

And remember that goroutines use shared memory, so you can't have an emergent concurrent GC as in Erlang.

[0] http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoLang32... https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/golang-nu...
My python solution:

print "\n".join(["Fizz"*(i%3==0)+"Buzz"*(i%5==0)+str(i)*(i%5!=0 and i%3!=0) for i in range(1,101)])
I think the simplest explanation for it is that HN is large and contains multitudes.
The C Programming Language - Part 8 - cpp (& the end of this series)
I never used any type of case for my iPhone 4S. Getting new product with new features is always a craze for some people.
Just stop X, easy. Or don't even start it in the first place

Use Mutt or Alpine for email
And people are worried about oil? Not in the Bay Area!
The Winklevoss Twins on Facebook IPO and the Dictator's Dilemma
Hence the context of being magical. It is more of a sleight of hand trick than actual supernatural. The author of the post is misusing a development term to convey a different meaning.
Serious question: given that you purchased a case and then dropped the phone in the case, how can you possible claim to know whether the case saved it? All you know is that you dropped your phone with a case on and it didn't break.

I see this correlation = causation logic all the time about phone cases, and I find it quite bizarre. I've had an iPhone for 3 years now (3GS, then 4S). I've never used a case (or screen protector). I've dropped my phone before with no case and it survived. I've dropped it on pavement a couple times. I even lost it in the snow at a ski slope last winter. Someone found it and returned it. Works fine.

I don't doubt that cases reinforce phones, but I do think that people regard them as much more necessary than they actually are. Sure, if you have a kid in the house who loves to play with your phone, you should probably get a case. But as long you're careful with your phone for the most part (i.e. you're not consistently dropping it on pavement or something, you don't carry it in the same pocket as your keys, etc.), you probably don't need a case or screen protector. The phones aren't THAT fragile.
Gender, Sexuality, and Difference Amazons
Many people take 4.8 grams of Piracetam twice per day. I personally think that is a bit much, and I think 600-800mg two times a day is optimal. I'm surprised to hear of you getting sick and vomiting as that is a a rare side-effect of racetams, the most common being a headache due to lack of choline...
For most Americans, that is full cost for an iPhone.

Not really, thats the full price of a phone and a plan, its still a subsidized price, and Apple is still providing a discount by offering replacements for $199.

Try losing a phone while 1 year into a plan and its going to cost you $300-500 to replace it.
I'd bet it can be done with just about everything in our consumer culture.

Can average people on the street spot the difference between a 2013 Ford F-150 and a 2012 model?
Can I clarify this once again:

You feel offensive, because Twitters' data analysis isn't sophisticated enough to understand your personal interests well enough?

I want to give you my heart felt apologies. I am one of these people responsible, who try their very best to sabotage these profiling systems and putting effort into creating distortion and unrelated data. I hope you can wait a little longer for that day, your when all the ads shown to you are echo-chambering your believe set and reaffirming any (political) biases you have.
Conversion of cheap optical mouse to robot odometer
How dare you put the last two decades in perspective like that... :-S
Why photoshop the logo into images? (like in the gallery). I think that's a horrible thing to do for the brand.
I'm also curious to see what the author thinks about how Twitter should go about monetizing their model.

Looking at the author's revision to the Twitter Quadrant at the bottom of the article, it may be this:

1. Fun!!!
2. ???
3. Profit!

---

I've been noticing a trend in backlash towards advertising over "social" platforms (e.g. App.net), but other than the Public Broadcasting Station model, how else can they cover costs?

The bit.ly model is what the Twitter Quadrant reminds me of - providing service A for free, then providing service B (analytics of service A) for a price.
Google Analytics Bug — Negative Value Analytics or User Double Counting
No offense but that would look horrible from a design perspective, and would take up too much space in terms of internal components. Apple is trying to reduce component size to get bigger batteries in, anything that can be cut down in size is going to be.
This would be far more accurately titled "Keyboards are heavily left-handed". Any analysis of the language itself would clearly indicate it favours the right hand (from being written left to right to the actual shape of the letters and their flow).
My substitutions:

in out

x n

n e

b r

l a

f y

s o

c t

i f

j h

v u

z w

o g

u s

d v

h d

k j

m c

p i

q k

r m

a p

g b

Not sure if it's my mistake or their mistake, but there are two typos in the cleartext.
Seriously? How often do you need to reboot Rails? In dev mode it reloads code as it's changed, so pretty much the only time you need to reboot Rails is when you change the configuration or update your gems. Maybe once a week, say. The startup time is a couple of seconds, so you switched frameworks to save a couple seconds a week. Hardcore.
In other news ...

House Approves Sweeping, Warrantless Electronic Spy Powers:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/09/house-approves-spy-...
You think it would have worked better if they had gone for a pure HTML 5 experience?
What would happen if you made Pi = 1, then adjust all other numbers accordingly?
Unfortunately, companies are not legally allowed to discuss or mention in their marketing materials the "Nootropic" effects of these substances due to the FDA. This pushes a lot of the reliable information regarding Nootropics into forums and other areas on the internet. It is pretty interesting to see the communities that thrive around Nootropics. Just trying to learn the basics and build a stack, I have spent hundreds of hours researching.
Related and worth watching... http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/rory_sutherland_life_lesson...
I'm not worried about it, I'm just curious what your value proposition is and you do it.
"36 seconds is the average boot time that can be saved by a soluto user"
[Taking stimulants] can, over time, permanently impair your mental faculties.

Does anyone have citations for that claim? (Any non-anecdotal evidence.)
Wow... I don't understand diving into a language like this without reading about or looking at other source code already written in the language. This is not a bug! Golang enforces certain formatting, it is very opinionated and the authors are very upfront about that. http://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html#formatting

Also, you can use the `gofmt` tool (when running Go on your local machine) to help you learn what Go prefers if you don't want to read all of the excellent documentation on the site. [EDIT: I see you already know about this tool but I'll leave this comment here for others]
"Beating" Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books is still to this day one of the funnest reading experiences I can remember. The other was House of Leaves (http://is.gd/njTgTf) which borrows a lot of concepts from the former (at least in terms of how you feel when you're flipping through pages frantically).

I know there have been a few attempts using wikis to recreate the experience (http://is.gd/GNwcAR), but the format just isn't quite right.

Maybe just thinking aloud, but the idea of being able collaborate with multiple people to create fractured stories that could be played by others sounds really promising. Curious to see how this evolves.
If you've got the time, any references would be appreciated.
Gardening + Arduino = Garduino
i want this in js for a long time
The ABC Conjecture And Cryptography
In what way is a pre-flight checklist not prescriptive?
May I politely suggest you read the article. I am suggesting that Twitter is being run by MBAs and that (some) MBAs are as useless as French Windows on a submarine.

I don't know where you get the impression that I linked to someone who did tweet The Sun. I linked to a screenshot I had taken.

Finally, Twitter is selling itself to advertisers as knowing about its users. If it doesn't, it better get to some of the fancier universities around the world and snap up the computational linguistic majors.
Sweaterdresses.
Show HN: Scratching My Own Itch - All The Top Tech Feeds In One Place
Possibly... I don't remember the tool I saw using an LD_PRELOAD, and I think it operated on post-make-install files (like a DESTDIR staging directory).

Anyway, the mini script I provided below is like half the functionality you would need after the source is compiled to a PREFIX of /opt/package/version/. Perhaps i'll write a tool when I get bored :-) The tool and method i'm borrowing from a proprietary tool I saw once, but obviously other people have implemented it too.

Paco has a great idea though, and that's a meta-format and wrapper for different system packages. If you have to support five different production operating systems and the same software on all of them, switching between package managers is a pain in the ass. An extra tool to cross-reference paco to the OS's packages could make it really handy for resolving software updates in a unified way.
PHP 5.5 should reduce password sloppiness
Well, to be honest a hardware-accelerated X server (which you'll get with even something as lowly as a 10-year-old S3 card) is faster than the framebuffer. What you might want to do is run X with a minimalistic window manager. Try "fluxbox" or "blackbox", both of those take about 1mb of memory :)
Yes, the cognitive dissonance is staggering. But we are able to see it because we don't worship Apple. This makes me wonder what cognitive dissonances that I might have, that I am completely blind to, which others can see through right away as they don't subscribe to the same world-view.
Malware inserted on PC production lines, says Microsoft
Shrinks fear math, not people with master's in E.E.

http://www.losethos.com/files/ASU_Transcripts.pdf

I got an A in nonlinear controls. Nonlinear differential equations are the hardest thing in math, the most impressive. (I'm explaining to a shrink.)

Actually, nonlinear PARTIAL differential equations might be the hardest. Inseparable nonlinear partial differential equations... controling them. Yeah. Good enough. ROFLMAO

It dawned on me that fuel slosh in a rocket might be tough.

Download SimStructure http://www.losethos.com/files/SimStrSetUp.ZIP for fun with control systems. Use L00-W10-M70 as product key. It has my first C compiler built into it. Took a year to write SimStructure 2000-2001. LoseThos took 9 years.

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Statistics--suddenly fuzzy numbers? Economics? Federal Reserve. God said He is most better than us in Economics.

God says...
appointing itch comprised Behold Lovely innate unteach adulterous
equipment tongues meat processing loosen depend sat psalm
fingers littles glide smelleth author incurable projected
My toss masters argument paying cheeks insolently lingering
undertook all Verity delusions haled faculty disperseth
tire suggests mountain bought maintainers grievous Turn
associated lesson deeds limits urged ornamenting formless
Psalms Jerusalem unwearied receive unknown slaying tread
nominally fresh

My professor said Kalman of kalman filter fame went into economics.
This is purely anecdotal, but learning Perl is currently on my backburner in part due to its reputation. I did use it a bit in a bioinformatics class, and I have edited a few small Perl scripts, but Python simply works for me. Perl's reputation, if you could call it that, has negatively impacted my desire to learn the language.

(Maybe I'm worse off for it? Who knows. I mean no harm and don't want to impinge on anyone's feelings. I just don't see myself picking up Perl anytime soon. Just my own two cents, FWLIW.)
I agree that fashism makes me sick too. That's why I threw away all Gucci and Versace away.

Now, fascism, on the other hand is whole different matter!
Javascript performing well on mobile is NOT magic, its just good engineering.

The big problem I see with Firefox OS is that it is not going to take much to make the entire "App Store" full of app's that perform horribly, and in return that will make Firefox OS look bad as a result.

Abstracting away all the complexities of making JavaScript/HTML/CSS perform well on mobile into a set of API's that anyone can use regardless of skill doesn't seem feasible to me but I could be wrong and If they have actually pulled this off, great! But it's still not magic.
The point of doing it is to focus ads to generate revenue and provide a unified experience.

It might not be creative, but it's not exactly uncommon.
>>Only if you place a high priority on thickness.

Most people do. This is why smartphones have been getting thinner with each iteration.
Chinese reporter goes undercover at Foxconn on ‘iPhone 5′ production line
Also this is a piece on a late night comedy show not some random sampling of people outside the sets of the Jimmy Kimmel show. Edited to make it funny as well (as they should btw).

I'm wondering how this is being extrapolated to mean "Nobody can tell the difference between iPhone 4/4S and 5".
Steve Wozniak on Samsung patent verdict: ‘I hate it and I don’t agree with it’
I am surprised how closed-minded HNers are being towards this topic. Thank you for having John write this, I have been working on an article on Nootropics for a while now, but the topic is so deep and complex that it's hard to sum up in a short article. I think John did a good job writing this as a basic primer.

Thanks for the effort! I think the article will make aware the people who are truly interested in the topic and get them on the right path, although the dissenters are more vocal and visible here.
Revised GRE scores by intended Graduate Major.
We're going to need a lot of image stabilisation for the coming wave of POV videos shot from Glasses.

I can't wait.
Macaulay Culkin Dead Rumor
Heroku Partner Program
It's an interesting double-edged sword. On the one hand, I don't want to see adverts for dog food (not owning a dog), on the other hand, I don't (necessarily) want a company to know that I have a cat.

If a company is going to do advertising - they should do it well.

I'm not sure if you're British, but rejecting The Sun doesn't mean I reject their political viewpoint - it means I reject their sexist, homophobic, lying, and (allegedly) criminal actions.
I'm not convinced that it is a useful tool. Anyone disagree?
Every time I see a super-cranky tech. article from Slate, it is written by Farhad Manjoo. I'm all for the contrarian viewpoint, but after a while, it just seems like trolling--or an advertisement for antidepressants.
I was doing servlets and JSP in the mid 2000's when Rails came on the scene. I remember how Rails was the new hotness and Java was said to be slow, stupid and for idiots. I'll burn some karma to say I'm slightly vindicated watching those same Rails people get beat up by kids drinking the node.js koolaid these days ;)
> For example, they moved from a Java based solution to JS using v8 from webOS 1.x to 2.x.

Wow, you may want to do some basic checking on your assertions there:

* webOS never used Java, Luna (webOS-to-be) was a skunkworks alternative to the Java-based Prima project. there was java stuff below from Prima, it was not the application core and was never made available to developers

* webOS always used both Webkit and V8 for its application runtime (Palm was the first company to ship a mobile V8 port)

http://blogs.gurulabs.com/dax/2009/06/palm-pre-webos.html

http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/5/3062611/palm-webos-hp-insid...
Of course. My point is only that people don't all have the same priorities. If you strongly value thickness, a case is not a good choice. If you don't care, then a case is a good choice. Making a blanket declaration that a case is "pretty costly as far as insurance goes" regardless of personal preferences is stupid.
Thanks for the link to the rules! I wasn't aware of those.
Yes. Both critics and proponents of nootropics give caffeine short shrift. Critics don't want to admit to chemical enhancement of mental function and proponents are always eager to propagandize the latest fad nootropic.

This is true in general. I haven't noticed these behaviors among the brighter critics and supporters (e.g. many comments here on HN are pretty thoughtful).
They are not some magic drug like Limitless, but they are closer to that than to placebos. Do you not notice a difference in your mental and physical state when you take caffeine? Caffeine is a Nootropic and it works, but Caffeine is just the tip of the iceberg.
Seeing as how the article considers (and rightly so) caffeine as a nootropic, I'd say the numbers are probably more like 70% rather than 7%.
Ron Jeffries did the Sudoku Solver.
I'm thinking they're using something like wikipedia movie entries as the source. Something that just lists topline cast. As some other threads mention, cameos from even well-known types may not be factored in.
Ask HN: Best practices for a bilingual blog?
Hi everyone,

I was wondering if anybody has any feedback about running a bilingual blog.

I'm a freelance developper, so when I write technical posts, I do it in english to reach as many people as possible.

But I also write articles with random thoughts, short stories, etc. and I do it in french because this is my native language.

What are the best practices in that case? Should I split my blog into two separate domains? Does it really matter? What do you think?
I've been using Balsamiq for 2+ years. I use it a lot for mobile apps. Unfortunately, Balsamiq has been painful to use lately for mocking up mobile screens. It doesn't have the latest mobile ui elements so I have to build them up from scratch. This update doesn't change this.

There's a market for an easier way to mockup mobile app screens and Balsamiq is barely addressing this segment right now. I am waiting for the day a new product comes out specifically designed for mocking up mobile apps.
Libyans use social media to apologize for embassy killings
Thoughts on Exploit Sales
I have to agree. If I set on making a web app like this, I would spin it to be more of a "bucket list" or list of goals rather than to dos.
This Is What IMDb.com Looked Like in 1990: A Unix Script On A Usenet Newsgroup
Ask HN: Why is everyone bashing Tim Cook?
With the release of iPhone5 there are two things majorly in discussion :

1. No new features in overpriced iPhone5

2. Tim Cook is no show man.

But why do we need to compare two people? Two versions of the same things when compared seem fine. But why is everyone expecting Tim Cook, to deliver what SJ did?
Convert Markdown to a Word Document
Looks good! The tutorial is probably great for some class of users, but I thought your UI was self-explanatory enough to not need it, at least beyond knowing to drag-and-drop fields. Maybe add an "exit tutorial" button somewhere?

Bug report: my form seems to be stuck in an infinite loop on the first question ("what's your email address?") -- after answering it, it flashes the next question ("what's your email", which I added), but then goes back to the first question. This is on the web; haven't tried the mobile app. https://www.getformly.com/forms/821084b0-73c8-4b96-a85e-53db...?
The cartography of 9/11 New York
Two orders of magnitude? That can't be explained by the difference between C and JS. There must be some other difference, like which algorithms are used, or that the C one relies heavily on inline assembly or such.

The expected difference between C and JS should be more like one order of magnitude in the worst cases (and much better in the best).
Anonymous member Barrett Brown Arrested by FBI
The url, in case you would be interested: http://miximum.fr
Yes, clearly because I disagree with your premise I haven't read your article. Somehow I magically knew what it was about enough to engage you in a conversation...about an article I didn't read.

>I am suggesting that Twitter is being run by MBAs and that (some) MBAs are [...] useless

Then say that. The pointless jab is just that: pointless.

>it better get to some of the fancier universities around the world and snap up the computational linguistic majors.

Is this a joke?
Actually, I don't mind advertising. I worked for a mobile ad start-up for a year.

The problem is, the advertising isn't separate from the editorial.

Having a promoted Tweet is the equivalent of a friend turning to you at dinner and say "Man! I could sure go for a Duff Beer right now. With its clean filtered taste and low alcohol rate - it's the Beer that keeps on giving. Duff!"

I've sketched out some ideas in the comments here and on the blog. I'm but a lowly geek - I don't profess to have the cast iron formula to help Twitter get an ROI.

I just know this way leave me (and many others) deeply dissatisfied.
Now if only they'd wield this power in relation to OEM's who seem intent on crapping up good phones with horrible addon software (MOTOBlur, I'm looking at you...)
Oh, and here's a pretty good comment on the article regarding static vs dynamic typing:

eamonnerbonne Thursday, September 13 2012

It’s a night and day difference. Let me try a writing
analogy with Word + Notepad.

Say you’re trying to write a text for a particularly
picky client that will reject your text if you make any
mistake or use any unclear phrase. Then dynamic typing is
like Notepad: you better be careful, have lots of
proofreaders, and expect to have your text rejected
often. And when you print it, it’s in a slow-to-read
monospaced font.

Static typing is like Word with all the grammar checking
turned up to 11 (it won’t let you print or email any text
with what it thinks is an error). It’s harder to learn,
and sometimes your PC runs slowly, and the grammar
checker will find lots of irrelevant stuff, and to keep
it happy you might need to change your style, but it
*will* make certain types of error irrelevant (e.g.
spelling), and occasionally catch more complicated
mistakes too. Also, as a bonus that might or might not be
relevant, word prints in a font you can read much more
quickly.

The point being: they’re totally different ways of doing
things.

[http://gigaom.com/cloud/will-go-be-the-new-go-to-programming...]