skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no idea why those links are being made, but you can take steps to try to stop them affecting your site:

First, register the website with Google Webmaster Tools (GWT) - http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/‎

Then use Google's disavow links tool to tell Google you don't want them to take any notice of the spammy links to your site.

The tool - https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/disavow-links-main

A help page about disavowing links - https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2648487?hl=en

Note that you can add comments in to the disavow file, mention in there that you have no idea who set the links up or why.
How come its legal for musicians to do cover versions and pay a fee to centralized songwriter organizations to do so, yet this doesn't exist in other copyright spheres?

OK, having things enter the public domain would be better but if it were possible to pay a certain amount for every X pageviews of a Mario "cover version" and that makes it legit.. that could be pretty interesting and allow for things like this to live on safely via donations or sponsorship.
Often enough that when people go skiing in the mountains around there, they bring along suntan lotion.
I like to think of DevOps as one of those cheap, 3-in-1 printers that you buy thinking that you'll be saving money and desk space.

Then you discover it does a mediocre job of each of those tasks as compared to a dedicated printer, scanner and fax machine. Sure, they'll take up more desk space, but you'll get higher quality results.
It sounds to me like he was just exercising a bit of morbid humour to cope with having gone from professional photography to burger flipping.
The system might use python for other task, making python 2. as default may bring issues. I remember that installing python 3 on a version of ubuntu an making a symbolic link /usr/bin/python to python3 wrecked apt and the updating system.
Thanks mofeeta, for this post.

I'd really recommend people seeking to increase their willpower (and productivity) read Getting Stuff Done by David Allen. I'm a lot more organized after reading this book and the author does talk about the scientific basis for 'limited' willpower.
and has little resemblance to the real story somewhat unsurprisingly

which is a shame because the truth is way more badass than the movie
Responsibility is not a binary proposition.

And I would argue the moral paucity in the story is more of a 'death by a thousand cuts' sort of thing.
Pinboard is a nice example, I have an account there.

Ethical criteria are not high on my list, but I try to apply them to the best of my knowledge when two competing services both meet my needs. E.g. LibreOffice vs Microsoft Office, and Starbucks vs local coffee house (if you count that as tech related), I tend to have an ethical preference for small and/or local businesses: I think it benefits me to support diversity and the local community.

Some nice tech companies that I'm aware of:

* Hog Bay Software

* 7 Generation Games
The linked page is entirely empty for me. It keeps being so when I reload.

Also, it's the first time that I see something on /r/funny that lands on the Hacker News front page a few hours later.
No, I'm not an RMS disciple but here I said GNU/Linux for a reason. Chromebooks aren't GNU/Linux. Torvalds doesn't seem to be saying that Steam will help with Chromebook-like devices--and why would it? The manufacturer will do what it takes to get the drivers working on those devices.
Thanks! It's a shame this isn't the default view of the poll results on HN.
It should have read "Competition forces companies to adapt to market demand". Fortunately, there's a lot of competition in the automotive industry; less so in the production of LCD panels.
they should already fixed it, the file that they are mentioning, this "userprefs.js" does it is not harmful
Too bad it's open-source.

http://files.benbristow.co.uk/archive/FullScreenMario
Why is there such a big difference in patient price between a CT and MRI scan?

My doctor told me to have a CT scan done but I am worried about the radiation. I feel that if an MRI was cheaper, then I would have been prescribed an MRI.
I wouldn't mind some more information, either on the startpage or under `About`. Right now I have no idea what I'm downloading, what I can use it for or why I should use it.
A few graphs would be nice there...
Microsoft Exec Calls Apple Apps 'Struggling' and 'Lightweight
How a Lisp course helped my JavaScript
Anonymous gets rape case reopened
Elm 0.10 — faster strings, colors, bug fixes, and searchable docs
yes, simple things that are very important and related with our "normal life"
Many of us love the Super Mario franchise and SMB has made a huge cultural impact, but that does not entitle people to use it as a base for their own work.

Take inspiration from Mario and create original games!
I'm the author. I've tried on FireFox, Chrome, Android, and it seems to work. Do you mind if I ask which browser you're using?

Also, if you'd followed me on Twitter, you would have seen this 19 hours ago ;-)
https://twitter.com/edent/status/393050827570421760
It will not work.

I'm pessimistic like that.
It's very heavy handed. It has not been 100% verified that the site was compromised, and a lot of very technically smart PHP community members are looking hard at this. It may prove to be a false positive or otherwise, but in the meantime:

1. Google is blocking access to the site in Chrome.

2. Firefox is warning users that php.net is not to be trusted (it uses the same list of infected sites provided by Google).

3. Google is warning users on Google Search that "This site may harm your computer.".

4. Google's appeals process is slow and cumbersome.

So yeah, that is a lot of power for one company.

If this happened to your website due to, for example a false positive, you would be pretty unhappy. Only a high profile project like PHP gets this kind of attention, but I'd happily wager that many smaller websites suffer the same faith every day.
Ian Bell's site has the source code and various disk images for your perusal:
http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/bbc/index.htm#src

Though having the source code is only very very marginally better than looking at the raw machine code. It's very terse and written for a quirky assembler.
At yarışlarında türkiyede tek
What do you think we want? LOL
Most people who work like dogs don't attain greatness.

My thesis advisor chose work over family. He left his lover and hardly ever saw his son until his son was forced to move in with him at the age of 14. (At which point you've really missed the chance to bond with him)

Back in grad school he was often the only professor working on Sunday -- I worked Sundays most of the time but I usually took Saturdays completely off. I still go by the physics sometime on the weekend and his door is the only one open with the lights on.

He got a tenured professorship and a defined benefit pension but his work as a physicist has been solidly average (like the average physicist)

A lot of hard work cost him his family and won him some kind of security which is hard to find today, but he definitely didn't achieve greatness.
How about in winter? :-)
Easy database migration using Taps(-taps)
Thanks @marcocampos & @bhhaskin.
I have read this book, it is definitely one of the best socket programming books out there.
But I am looking for books that talk about Raw sockets & all those internal stuff.

Thanks!
Fedora is very much bleeding edge as far as stable distributions with set release cycles goes. First in the category of Ubuntu/Debian/openSUSE, not in the category of Arch/Gentoo.
at yarışların efsane kurgunun sahibi, hipodrom gazetesi, her gün ikitekli kurgularıyla takipçilerine kazandırmaya devam ediyor
$80K a pop when you are buying a few a year. When you order a million of them I'd hope economies of scale would kick in and they'd get a lot cheaper.
I don't think you're screwed.

I'm 32 and in debt (fortunately my country provides for healthcare and has mandatory retirement money set aside), and I'm in a company with a toxic environment (like you said your old one was).

Yet I don't think I'm in a bad position, and I don't think you are either - as others said: we're in a well paying profession, with almost no unemployment. You're not tied to a city either (no emotional attachments).

If you're making customers happy, I'm pretty sure you can make more money. A good and reliable consultant is worth it.

I'd take it as an opportunity to reshape my life and realize my goals (if you don't know what those are, to find them out :) ). If I were you, I'd use the opportunity to be adventurous. Do you like traveling and startups? There's for example Startup Chile - http://startupchile.org/ .

You can travel with very little money by US standards too.

I'd try to meet people - is there a HN meetup or similar where you live? Meeting people face to face will probably help. Or if you have some kind of interest outside programming, meet other people that share those.
Thank you so much HackerNews. I was waiting for this article. Its really great, easy to read, and smooth.
That's the nicest I know as well. You could use `mapped` instead of `_Just` to make it more generic

nested ^? foo . mapped . bar . mapped . baz . mapped

Which is also a bit closer to the nature of `>=>` chaining. I actually really like the _Just descent since it makes some of the failure modes for this lens very explicit.

And then it should always be said that the lens has setter properties that the `>=>` chain does not.
Google doesn't notify anybody, you have to find out for yourself the hard way.

And after that, it forces the owners of the site to register with Google and use Google services just to even figure out why, and to get their sites unflagged. And that is after the owner even figured out how and where to contact Google.
Debugging a crashing app without the stacktrace
For me, this prove that Apple really sucks when it comes to targeting the cheap devices market.

I can't wrap my head around their thinking this entire year. Apple doesn't want "cheap devices" - that much is clear.

* The "cheaper" iPhone comes in at $600 instead of the $700 real iPhone (in the US at least)

* The iPad 5 is 8x faster than the iPad 2 (according to the press conf footage) but is only $100 more

* The Mac Pro has doubled or quadrupled in price over previous iterations (and maybe even higher). $3000 for the base model but that doesn't include internal storage (256GB is not enough for video/audio/pro use), 4K monitor, keyboard, mouse, external media drive, firewire converters, etc. The true cost of the Mac Pro is going to be $4000 - $5000 once you add in taxes and external components.
Most of the page is loaded dynamically from cloudfront.net - if this is blocked (e.g., you have disabled js for them), you won't see much.
It'll be because he has javascript disabled, I would imagine.
for a candy hack :D

this.candies.accumulated = 1000

this.candies.current = 1000

this.candies.max = 1000
Save up more than 30 candies. Start requesting features. It gets better.
Installing python 3 as default on current centos reportedly breaks yum.
No, PHP minor versions are not necessarily compatible with each other. When I worked in web hosting, we had to deal with quite a few issues resulting from changes between 5.2 and 5.3, and later 5.3 and 5.4.

At least Python has a sane versioning scheme, where breaking compatibility increments the major version number or is a bug.
you do realize that this is a javascript exploit? just sayin.
> making python 2. as default may bring issues.

Who's suggesting that you change the system default? If you want to make your python scripts run on a certain python version, set their shebang accordingly. Changing the default interpreter for system scripts because you want your scripts to run on a different version is crazy.

If your lamp is too bright, do you swap the transformer supplying the whole street's mains electricity supply for one with a different voltage and hope your neighbour's computer doesn't break, or do you turn your lamp down?
Here is a gripping account of the Norwegian heavy water incident. It's a short and excellent read, very strongly recommended: http://www.damninteresting.com/heavy-water-and-the-norwegian...
Video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbWOQWw1wkM

The site is just a container for ads.
64-bit OllyDbg is here ...almost.
Blank for me too. View source shows the text.

I use NoScript and RequestPolicy. I'm thinking the page is another one of those that depends so much on javascript that it can't do anything without it. That's bad for the security of your readers because practically every known browser exploit in the last decade has had javascript as a necessary component - so over-use of javascript forces your users to choose between exposing themselves to increased risk or not reading your content.

Also, javascript performance on mobile is terrible, frequently 10x slower than desktop, so even if you don't care about the security of your users, the user experience of your websites is probably going to suffer on mobile.
what would you consider is a reasonable amount to pay for a domain that's on auction or is already owned?

That's just not a reasonable question to ask without more specifics. Which is more valuable: stocks.com or agfag08u24tji.com?

There is no value on a .com aside from (a) what the seller will sell it for and (b) what a buyer is willing to pay. You can have all the appraisals in the world but they don't mean anything if the seller won't sell it for that price or the buyer is willing to purchase at any cost.
FYI, in the US, the thousands-of-dollars list price for an MRI turns in to a few hundred if Medicare or an insurance company are paying (and no, I'm not talking about what the patient gets charged out of pocket--the actual total amount charged is reduced that much).
The point is, if it weren't for disney et al, SMB would be public domain in the next couple of months.
False positives are the life of security. Microsoft Updates (update.microsoft.com) was just blacklisted by malwaredomains this week. It happens. Algorithms are not humans.
It's a Linux.
The Japanese men who prefer virtual girlfriends to sex
For the non-Haskeller audience, let me just copy the money quotes. This tutorial eventually shows how we can write the following Python

> str = '[{"someObject" : { "version" : [1, 0, 0] }}]'
> it = json.loads(str)
> it[0]["someObject"]["version"][1]

as the following Haskell

'[{"someObject" : { "version" : [1, 0, 0] }}]' ^?
nth 0 . key "someObject" . key "version" . nth 1

while keeping type safety, composability, and purity. That's the wonderful part. The rest is explaining a lot of how the magic works via Maybe monad chaining and thinking about what Lenses and Prisms are.
The manufacturing processes shown in the video have been commonplace for 25 or more years. Amazing, no. Interesting to those who are not familiar with manufacturing automation, perhaps.

If the general public thinks that video is amazing, then perhaps the general public has no idea how advanced the manufacturing sector really is.
Just checked iOS - no funky reviews there, just a load of people saying how the app is broken.
I have had some cases where recruiters gave me an easy way out of a bad job. I've had some recruiters place me in a position that doubled my pay and challenged me towards greatness. Another recruiter gave me a really hard sell when I owed the IRS a lot of back taxes... If it wasn't for me they might not have pared down the project plan to something achievable and the might never have gotten the i's dotted and t's crossed and got the product in the hands of the customers, but my boss very specifically denied me recognition for my success.

The average recruiter, however, is filling a hole that is left behind by somebody who burned out. He's hoping that you can hit the ground running without any training, which is rarely realistic, particularly considering that 80% of programming work is doing what management expects to deliver 20% of the value. Because they haven't trained any of the other people working on the project you'll find that it's difficult to get any questions answered of the order of "how do I get this build consistently?", "how do I get this to build in less than an hour?", "which module is the right place to add that functionality?", "which applicationContext.xml file actually gets deployed to the assembly and how?" and stuff like that..

In a case like that you're set up to fail and you need to "think different" and start with the 80% of the work that gets you 20% of the way there, and then when the special job comes around where you're the best in the world you can sprout solutions like mushrooms.
They can cover songs because they reach an agreement with the license holders and Nintendo obviously isn't interested in that kind of business.

I can't blame them, because Mario is one the main drivers for sales of Nintedo consoles in the last decades.
The Mechanical Transmission of Power: Endless Rope Drives
"Life is not just work and family, and nobody should be a slave of either."

I might have this tattooed on me somewhere. Thank you.
It seems the home page is quite clear...no?
I'd say skiing is predominantly a winter activity...
To be fair Apple did take a cheap shot at them in their presser yesterday...
> the general public has no idea how advanced the manufacturing sector really is.

I feel this is likely. I know of no-other company that regularly releases videos (or marketing material) of how its products are made.
It's mainly amazing because in the US it's cheaper to have a $75k robot do a job than a human.
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Wait, but requiring G+ Accounts for comments and ratings on the Play Store (TM) improves the quality and makes sure that only _real people_ can participate and share their opinion. Because people with a Real Name and a picture aren't as likely to act in a morally questionable way!

I cannot comment on stuff I buy, stopped buying apps for that reason among others. Ignoring the shills that praise BBM, the Play Store ratings aren't better than YouTube comments for a long time now and mandating a G+ account didn't change a damn thing.
BBM on Android is pretty broken in terms of functionality and UI design. Which is embarassing at the very least. Installed for nostalgic reason and quickly uninstalled.
What if it's a Windows app with a seamlessly integrated web-browser - something like Awesomium? What about NaCl Chrome apps? HTML5 is a language, maybe a technology but not a platform. Web is probably something different as well as it can't exist without some other actual platform running underneath.
The making of the fancy, hip Mac Pro is really-really simple compared to a much less fashionable Korean car. Except Hyundai users usually don't spend their time watching videos on car manufacturing. :)

Sometimes, however, simple things can require a lot of expertise: during the '90s, many jet builders went to Shimano and Campagnolo and sought help in manufacturing small, but reliable metal parts for airplanes as the bicycle part industry was quite ahead in this field.
Yes, they do. If you've signed up for Webmaster Tools, you'll get notified by email.

They don't force anyone to sign up. If you do nothing other than fixing your website, eventually Google will check it again and remove from blacklist.

Seriously, what's your complaint? If you don't want to get blacklisted, don't let your site be hacked. If your site is hacked, and you're complaining that Google blacklisted it and notified you about it, you're dumb.

And guess what -- they provide this service (and also pay the real person to review your re-listing request) for FREE.
Including the IP of the "mario" character?
Just wait a bit. Damn, i wish i could live that first moment again :)
I must admit that's actually quite a cool solution.

I'm still not totally convinced by font abuse though.
It also turns into a few hundred if you tell them you can't pay thousands of dollars, but are willing to take any free slot.

MRI is a classic example of high fixed cost, negligible variable cost. Once they buy the machine, it pays to make sure it never runs idle.
That's a fair point. The site should run fine on low end mobile (tested on an ancient BlackBerry, ironically). I'll see if there's a way to stop reduce the amount of JavaScript and / or make CloudFlare work in a slightly more sensible manner.

Thanks for the info.
It looks amazing and like sci-fi to me; a general public perspective, apparently :)
This book "Backroom Boys" is thoroughly enjoyable.
There are large working Python 2 code bases in a lot of organizations. It works great. Fabulously reliable. Extremely well-tested. Been running great for years. They have no desire or need to upgrade and will run Python 2 and pay devs to maintain it forever.

Welcome to the real world.
Indeed, this implementation let you cheat: while the program tries to learn your behavior, you can learn the program's and outguess it. The random sequence should be provided blindly, and the program should process it a posteriori, for the subtitle to be relevant.
I have the same issue. Of course, sometimes they get conflated. DON'T waste time on Hacker News is indirectly a problem with DO work on your project. But once I decide, 'start work on the project even if you don't really feel like it', that part is easy.
I can't answer that, but my above point is the premise of the linked article.

Nintendo is reaching disney-level reliance on their cartoon hero, (probably worse) so I wouldn't be surprised to see them becoming another copyright-extending villain over the coming decades as they struggle to survive with their seeming lack of creativity.
As someone who was on solar you should realize that 200W is a _lot_ of power. Especially if it's 24/7. If you hadn't heard people have moved away from incandescent bulbs because the energy use is considered unacceptable.
Only a minority (< 10%) of web developers develop for Chrome Store/Firefox Marketplace. Why would that be?

One of the major advantages of developing for the Web is the platform neutrality. You can rise above OS wars and browser wars, and provide something -- one thing -- that almost everyone can use whatever other choices they make.

Given the above, why is there any advantage for a developer in having a platform-specific store for web apps, and why would any user want to access web-based software via a store instead of just going to the site? What is the value proposition here?

The only thing I can think of is marketing, but I'm not convinced they offer much benefit there. Despite being a regular user of both Chrome and Firefox since they were new, not to mention a professional web developer, I don't remember ever hearing of Firefox Marketplace before this thread and only just read up on what it is. Although I'd seen references to Chrome Store when starting Chrome, I had immediately ruled it out as clutter that didn't belong in a browser and hid as much of it as possible so I could go back to visiting web sites. Certainly no client has ever asked me about using either of these channels for a real project.

Of course this is all just personal anecdotes, so it's possible that I'm an outlier. However, it seems like these channels aren't exactly Apple's App Store where most people get all the software they run on a given device. So I come back to asking why any web developer would develop for Chrome Store or Firefox Marketplace. What's in it for them?
I work at Google and was the one who posted on our forums about this.

What our systems found was definitely a compromised JS file, and others on this thread have posted something similar to what we saw. This is not a false positive.

We have detailed help for webmasters in this kind of situation:

http://www.google.com/webmasters/hacked/

One thing that I strongly suggest to any webmaster in this situation is to look for any server vulnerability that allowed this file to get compromised in the first place. We sometimes see webmasters simply fix the affected files without digging into security hole that allowed the hack, which leaves the server vulnerable for repeat attacks.

Happy to answer questions.