skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It perfectly captures the mindstate of someone who's been debugging for 16 hours straight only to find out it's someone else's fault.

EDIT: That's not to say it's professional. It is amusing to read though.
Prisoners in Monaco (there are only a few and mostly white collar criminals) receive a gourmet diet, medical checkups and daily exercise routine. It's a pet project of the local prison director to make it the best in the world - there is a documentary about it but can't find it back right now.
I use http://ihackernews.com/ on my phone. I saw it posted on here a while ago and found it useful.
(I'm sure there's going to be a plethora of commenters in the near future roundly criticizing the author for his tone)

I strongly agree with the author on the rampant disconnect between Mongo's actual quality and its marketed quality.
It would be interesting to know how popular Google's prediction API actually is. They don't show off any testimonials or customers' success stories. The traffic on their forum seems rather moderate: https://developers.google.com/prediction/docs/general_discus...
Regardless, I do believe MLaaS makes sense, not necessarily as a fully automated black box thingy, it could and probably should be backed by a consulting service - this is, I think, where startups in this space will have an edge over Google.
Hi Matt, the original post author here.

Our site WAS affected by Penguin indeed, even by the first version of Penguin a year ago. Because we sell web-forum software and ticket-software - that both have a "powered by" link at the bottom, our SEO agency advised to add that...

And we're still trying to recover... I'm contacting our clients one-by-one and we're changing those links to "nofollow".

We have never paid for links, the only paid ADs our agency buys are CPC-campaings on download sites like "download.com" etc... Can this be a reason? Should I tell them to stop doing that?

UPDATE: anyways THANK YOU MATT for commenting this and letting us know we're penalized by Penguin... Not many people are lucky to have Matt Cutts look at their issues!!
PS. I guess we should fire these guys, remove/disavow all links and start over...
Yeah, reminds me of http://sergimansilla.com/blog/swipeselection-in-an-afternoon.... Development of new features (and bugfixing) in the core of Firefox OS is bliss.
Amazing stuff, feels really good to see that it is exactly the same as we read in textbooks.
When governments adopt electronic currency.
I would also dismiss those with proprietary software or "cloud" software if that's the only way to operate them.

It's a tad more sophisticated but they're trying to tie you in just as much.

I don't oppose if it's optional tho. It's a fair way to monetise. But if it's the only way to realistically operate your printer, then you've basically been duped.
Hey, thanks for the info about port80, perfect way for me to get some intel done .. so next time I'm in Perth I'll be sure to include a Wednesday meeting in the schedule.. alas, it'll be a year or two yet (young un's) but the time will come .. ;)
That looks like a very bad list.

Some great scientists, some ho-hum and some that are there mostly for political or other reasons. I mean Wozniak in 1979? What had he done at that point to be in the same list with Knuth or even Bill Joy?

Since you invoke the list, are we to expect the same great stuff from Kurzweil in Google, as we got from Wozniak post 1979, Richard Stallman past 1990 and Stroustrup past 1993?
Allow me to be the first. The tone is appalling.
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My Latte is Worth It - No Fun Allowed
>They can't. I don't know if there are quantum complications at that scale that change this picture, but my basic idea from classical physics is that Newton's Third Law says the probe can't have a force exerted on it by the sample (action) without also simultaneously itself exerting a force on the sample (reaction).

Well, that goes without saying. The question is if that "force" used to measure had any, well, measurable impact.
I appreciate your candour - it's useful to see another point of view, and I will take it into account.

Having said that, I usually don't see the reasons for the down-votes, and I genuinely do want explanations. I don't mind the down-votes - whether or not I can "afford the karma" is beside the point. Down-voting people is a part of how the site works, causing comments and submissions to bubble up and/or down, and I think that's a good thing. Not being given the chance to learn something or to see an alternate point of view is disappointing.

But when someone disagrees with a comment and just performs a "drive-by down-vote" I think it's of negative value to the site, and I'd like to discourage that. Sadly, I suspect that ship has sailed.

So again, thank you for the feedback. If we're ever co-located, and you think you can stand my company, I owe you a coffee. FWIW, I've upvoted your comment, even though I (obviously) don't agree with it.
Exactly.

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3D printing with the mind: objects from thought
From http://caminobrowser.org/blog/2011/#mozembedding

As a purely community-based open source project, no one is employed to work on Camino; all Camino developers are volunteers, working on Camino in their spare time, as a labor of love. While maintaining embedding in a fork of Gecko is theoretically possible, we don’t have the manpower for a sustained effort of that kind
>>he doesn't seem to show the actual results for the page he was talking about

(post author here) I did post the screenshot of the results page, it includes my page, not hiding anything
I will join the others saying as me: as someone who has been in the situation of debugging something for hours only to find out the cause is someone's else incompetence, I totally find his tone acceptable.

At the same time, MongoDB is a free, OSS solution. While it's true it's marketed way above reality, you both don't have to pay for it (beyond support) and can contribute to it if something doesn't work as you wish it did.
Possible attack vector here? Developer is malicious (or their machine is compromised), plugin is updated to include naughty JavaScript on Hacker News. Or already does something malicious.

Running any executable code on my machine is a risk, and should involve a cost-benefit analysis.

In this case?
Benefit - makes Hacker News look a bit nicer.
Cost - I have no idea, without spending a time looking at the source code and Chrome's security policy.

So my analysis makes me think it's just not worth installing.
You take cash out of bank, each of paper have uid and is assigned to your history.

You buy stuff on coffee shop with cash, it goes to bank eventually, bank sees you bought something in coffee shop.

And why these 2000$ you took out of bank are now spent by Joe the homeless person who hangs around park after 5pm ?
Actually I parsed this differently. I parsed it as "the intersection between class and (intellectualism —or geekishness, if you prefer—) can be especially invisible".

I.e. "geekishness = intellectualism", which I think the case could be made for. He is right about Americans having trouble seeing class, since there is so much propaganda against seeing it (e.g. as soon as anyone anywhere mentions class, some republican is going to start screaming "class war").
Camino has been open source and developed entirely by a community of volunteers for most of its life. There were extensive instructions on getting involved on the website for many years. There was even a specific push to recruit new people a year ago to make the transition to WebKit so that it could continue to use a modern engine, which is the only way it could have survived once Gecko stopped supporting embedding.

If there were a community of people with the time/interest/skill to develop it further, the project wouldn't have shut down in the first place.
Yes.

In order for a transaction to enter the block chain, it needs to be relayed by bitcoin nodes and picked up by a miner who is willing to add it to a block.

Bitcoin nodes have criteria that need to be satisfied before they relay the transaction. For example, version 0.8.2 of the reference client will not relay transactions with outputs smaller than 0.00005430 BTC. There are also rules for calculating a minimum transaction fee, and a 15000 bytes/minute cap to the amount of free transactions relayed.

If your transaction isn't relayed, you can still circumvent this by connecting directly to a miner. But the miners have their own rules for prioritizing transactions and limiting block size.
Well, Kickstarter is hosting mostly pre-order businesses.

This project for instance is just being advertised as a cheap alternative to things that already exist (claiming they don't would be a big stretch of the implementation details).

Kickstarter would lose most of its business by not allowing these kind of projects. People are more likely to bid in stuff they can easily figure out, rather than completely novel and seemingly far-fetched ideas.
As kids we used to believe that if you manually turned the knob, it would force the lights to go green.
Sorry, english is not my first language.
There's a few other features of Postgres indexing that are interesting:

- Indexes over expressions (e.g. upper(value)) are very helpful.

- You can add a WHERE clause to an index to index only part of the table, which is fantastically useful.

- on a non-C locale, LIKE won't (ever) use indexes. varchar_pattern_ops can help you with this to an extent, but it's not perfect.
I guess the tone may be disturbing, but I hope that the MongoDB team will do the right thing and thank the user for the detailed bug report, fix the issue, and don't focus too much on the noisy part of the message. After all he tried to use the system, found an issue after debugging for a long time, and contributed the finding back instead of sharing it only with his friends to crash random servers on the internet.
The l33sp3@k as well as the [attempt] at humor at 10gen's expense is fine.

Anyone who thinks that publicly attacking an individual at this level is in any way acceptable should work hard at being more empathic. No long hours of working justify this.
I don't understand the "eat that" part of the title.

Android and iOS are the de facto standards against which Firefox OS should be measuring its progress.

Other than that, winphone will never be the third ecosystem.
Just FYI - the article mentions dating your proof of concept / idea / whatever in case you are late to file a patent.

To my knowledge there isn't any major government left that recognizes 'first to invent' anymore, only 'first to file'. So you probably haven't saved yourself anything.
I like it, but I agree with the complaints here that it causes a large loss of information density because it's so spaced out.

So, I had a play around in Chrome Dev Tools and came up with this: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/41899939/georgified-hack...

This involved making it wider and reducing a lot of padding, and it increases the number of visible items on the front page by 50%. (Rough numbers: in the same space, mine shows 14 items, original Georgify shows 9, default HN shows 23.)

I think comments pages would be better if they were wider, but had a max-width applied to comments, so nested comments aren't squeezed so quickly.

Side note: Whenever I look at HN's HTML, I am horrified. Today's revelation: The first paragraph in comments are wrapped in a <font color="#000000">, the rest are <p>s.

Edit: There appears to be a bug that's causing comments that should be horizontally aligned to not be. The top and bottom comment here are responding to the same parent, but aren't indented equally: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/41899939/georgify-commen... (I drew the vertical line).

Edit 2: 32 points in one hour, yet this story is off the front page — this must be getting a lot of flagging.
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Everybody, quick! Let's rain down condemnation on somebody!
Exactly. And we all know how it feels. WTF MIKE?
It is the 3rd ecosystem now.
[John C. Dvorak] Woe is Linux. Woe is Me.
Robert Scoble: "Price and utility of Google Glass beats the fashion cost"
Elon Musk is the last big industrialist alive, after Jobs passing. If his endeavors succeed he'll be remembered alongside Edison, Franklin, Ford, Jobs etc. It's admirable.

I just don't think it has anything to do with Ayn Rand and her philosophy.

Strangely I just had a discussion about rational thinking and I kind of failed to make a point. Rational thinking is better than irrationality and crazy Bible-thumpers, but you really need to get over that. You need to see past this, you need to pass it by and leave it behind as a neat idea born out of the greatest misconception there ever has been: "I think therefore I am". The reality is - I am, therefore I can think.
When I looked at chemical symbols before seeing this I had always assumed them to be a sort of vague outline of what was really happening. It's amazing to think that the way chemicals bond is the same in reality as drawn in textbooks.
Ex-Microsoft Exec Plans Marijuana Brand
Wikipedia and MathWorld[1] define the cumulant-generating function to be the log of the moment generating function, i.e. a Laplace transform, rather than a Fourier transform. This is (essentially) just notational since the proof still holds, but it does mean that the i's and -'s disappear, e.g. with the Laplace-CGF, c'(0) = μ, c''(0) = σ², c'''(0) = σ³ γ.

This proof also works with directly with moment generating functions and characteristic functions (which are the same as the two forms of CGF's without the logarithm), which avoids the slight issue of ln(cos(k)) when cos(k) = 0.

[1]: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Moment-GeneratingFunction.html
Two more questions then; is this speed-up achieved on a single core or also due to parallelism? And have you compared WiseRF with Random Jungle (http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/26/14/1752....)?
"Anyone who thinks that publicly attacking an individual at this level is in any way acceptable should work hard at being more empathic"

YAWN. Or people could just get thicker skin so we can actually have fun? This is just banter.
Not without accepting microsofts terms of service you can't..
It's nice to see that this idea becomes more widespread. Some time ago I started a small JavaScript tool "Bitcoinproof" which performs the necessary calculations automatically for you:

http://vog.github.io/bitcoinproof/

Unfortunately, it didn't receive much interest from the HN community:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5501077
Not to mention the stupid top bar that moved around the page. Websites don't get to have chrome!
Interesting. I've installed it and will try living with it for a time to see which I prefer. Sadly, I can only install it on two of my five systems, but that will give me a chance to switch between them and compare.

Quick feedback, I don't like the white text in the top bar, and you seem to have shrunk the width. I do like the different font, and am undecided about the blue links.

But I'll certainly give it a go. Thanks.
Stylish does very little (and you don't need it at all in Chrome), if there's anything wrong with the matching/styling, that's a fault of the userstyle/userscript, which have been around since, well, forever.

The chrome extensions pointed to by the OP link has a long list of domains it matches against in its manifest.json file. Looks alright to me.
On non-associativity of Floating point arithmetic
I think you fail to grasp what solitary actually means in the prison tense. It's not a few hours of sitting on the floor meditating. It is 1 hour of sunlight, you don't go anywhere, there are no computers.

I used to think like that when I was younger, "going to prison getting raped?! I'll take solitary." Then someone that was released spoke at our college about what solitary really meant. I'll take my chances with the rapists.
Most decent printers already do this, except for material constraints. You cannot print the electro-mechanic parts, and things like rods and belts can be printed but have sub-par performance that will lead to lesser precision (inadequate rigidity or flexibility).

But yeah, a fair share of my 3d printer was printed by its same model. And this indeed is why good 3d printers like the Prusas, Mendels, etc are getting cheaper (this and cheaper filament prices). These are printers that provide good precision and use parts that are mostly cheap to produce or directly printable by a similar printer.
Only because Blackberry's decline was so dramatic [1]. WP is growing very slowly. Plus, "3rd place" doesn't just mean "only one place behind". It means at least 15% market share behind, which is about 5 times what WP8 has now. Pretty big gap.

FF OS or even Ubuntu Touch could easily surpass it if they find the right partners, and especially if they focus more on the low-end, which FF OS seems to be doing right now.

[1] http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/5192a95969bedd70220...
Welcome to the Australian banking cartel

Somehow through one of the worst banking crisis in the history of the world the major Australian banks still remained some of the most profitable companies in the world.

The banks in Australia are a huge tax on the economy but politically nobody will raise the issue - since despite getting shafted the Australian public is too shallow to see past the fear mongering of job losses in the banking sector and having to protect it.
Sadly, it is also terrible. When something is that bad and marketed so strongly, it being open source and free is less of a saving grace.
At many of the crossings in Ise, Japan there is a button to call for assistance crossing the road. Or give more time to cross for old people. Or something like that, which I didn't quite understand.

I remember going there with a friend who was absolutely furious with me for pressing the button, twice in fact. This was on one of the most sacred days of the year to visit Ise, one of the most sacred places in Japan, and it punctuated a long string of hilarious/egregiously-insensitive etiquette blunders I had made throughout the day.
One of the few DRM-related problems I've had was with Steam - more specifically, with Portal 2, which used some kind of new improved version of Valve's DRM that was apparently incompatible with my anti-virus software. Naturally, the error messages were pretty much useless since informative errors would help crackers. I think Valve finally documented - but didn't fix - the issue several months later.
You can easily do that browser-side.

There are helper tools for this, too. Like stylebot for Chrome.

In Firefox the usual way is just to create a userContent.css in your profile folder, then add sections like this:

@-moz-document domain(whatever_domain.com) {

// your site-specific css comes here, use !important for overrides

}
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Yes, it's "first to file", but there is also the concept of "prior art". You cannot patent something that has been published before you filed that patent. Although this other person won't get your patent, you won't get it either.
I guess a lot of people have seen Oz or documentaries about prison life in USA. I think the legitimate question would be - is solitary punishment not preferable to the life in general population?
Accelerating to Mach at 1g takes 35 seconds during which you've gone nearly 6km (3.6 miles).

That's a long tube...
My own experience is that I would skip it but not because it is an possible ad. Especially if I'm looking for a product I will look at the ads, sometimes the ads are better than the actual result.

But there is a problem with the SERP, and that is that the result under the ads (if any) is sometimes a related sub search.

So if i'm looking for some thing scientificy it will show me some sub search of Google scientific results. Or if I'm searching form some thing that has been in the news recently it will show me some Google news results. Now unless I'm looking for papers or news I will skip over it. Since it shows your face next to the link it looks like an news sub search result or indeed a blog result.
I can't get this article to work on my nexus 7, the whole browser just freezes!

Thankfully Pocket does the job.
I personally don't fault the author too much for his tone, because I understand his situation (been there, done that). Something like this is on the verge (and probably over) of being unacceptable. In inherited a project with MongoDB as well and even though I haven't run in to many problems except for MongoDB 2.0.x (debian wheezy) removing the journal file somewhere during a shutdown but only removing the lock file later, which can and does lead to a race condition and a database that refuses to start up unless removing the lockfile manually)... I sincerely hold my heart I don't run into things like this. Luckily Mongo is only used for some kind of persistent object storage for a PHP webapp. (the db is all of 10MB...).
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Before I even get to the tone of this bug report, I'd like to ask the guy who made it - are you aware you just put many many users in risk here? Besides making their services unavailable, this might lead to further exploits. There is a way to disclose this sort of stuff. This is not it.

Now, about the tone - be a human first, programmer second. Even though it seems 10gen screwed up big time, everyone makes mistakes. You could inform them of what seems to be a major issue privately and politely, not ridicule them in public. I wouldn't want it done to me and I'm sure neither would you.

As said by Chazal (old timey Jewish scholars):
"Proper behavior precedes the Torah ... and whoever humiliates another, it is as though he killed him"

EDIT:
I'd just like to add that among the companies affected by this disclosure and which are now totally open to attack are Craiglist, Firebase, MTV, SourceForge, Codecademy and others. Here's the full list - http://www.mongodb.org/about/production-deployments/
Well, because I have been waiting for global screen orientation lock ever since I got a Lumia 800 (1,5 years ago). Still nothing to be seen.
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>That's because Home and End keys on the Mac, like in the original UNIX, mean the beginning and the end of the document not the beginning and end of a line which is a Windows thing

Is it? I'm used to them going to the beginning and the end of lines on Linux.
Had same problem. Works with Firefox though. Must be a chrome issue.