jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I also found the assertion about demos interesting, and it seemed somewhat unintuitive to me. I can think of two possible reasons for the correlation:

1. Demos provide enough of the gameplay to satisfy your curiosity
2. Demos let you discover that you won't like a game without buying it

However, I'm not convinced that the sales study actually includes enough data to establish correlation at all. Simply breaking down sales into groups (trailer/demo+trailer/demo/nothing) overlooks other differentiators that can have a major impact on sales.

The biggest one to my mind is simply the budget of a game. An indie game has no chance of selling equivalent units to a AAA game with a giant marketing budget. A demo may seem more prudent to an indie developer (or not), since it can be done on spec rather than requiring money to actually change hands. Yet, demo or not, it will never touch the sales level of a trailer-only AAA game. A more informative study would account for these factors.
> Biological organisms are machines.

No, I think we're arguing two different things here. I don't mean machines in the sense of a deterministic mechanism, I mean machines in the sense of a non-biological computer.

Machines do not have generations. Machines are not alive. I can simplify this: we do not yet have computers which are alive, thus they fundamentally do not operate the same way humans do in terms of evolution. This circles back to what I said about leaving machines alone to develop in an evolutionary sense - they won't, they'll die.

Machines do not yet improve themselves after a certain "age" of maturation.

The natural/artificial divide is not unsound, because artificial means something which is created by a human, and natural means something which is not. There are definitions of these terms and philosophical schools of thought that make this divide unsound, but colloquially, I don't mean those in this context.

Here is the basic point I'm trying to make - human beings arose naturally with no apparent intelligence to guide them into existence. Machines did not do so. You can argue they did because "everything is natural", but that's not my point here. They are fundamentally different from human beings and only exist because human beings existed first.

You can't compare the relationship between an Intelligent Design and human species and the relationship between machines and humans for this reason because they are the opposite. Humans apparently have no guiding force that opted to create them or guide their existence, whereas machines do - us.

That is what I mean by natural. I think an intelligence can arise naturally, but only if it follows the natural conduits that would form conventional intelligence, which is via biological organisms.

In order to replicate what happened through evolution using a completely different "container" if you will, you'd need to be able to understand intelligence completely, or at least enough to implement it.

Ultimately, intelligence never arises from non-organic components (at least not on Earth). To make it do so where it would not ordinarily happen is what I mean by artificial versus natural. And to do that is to essentially reverse-engineer intelligence itself, which would require understanding it.

I apologize if I'm still not being clear, but does this make my point any better?
There are at least three levels of claim that can be made here.

1. The NSA passes along tips to FBI.

2. The NSA regularly passes along tips.

3. The FBI relies on NSA tips to do its job.
> homogenous populations

What I think you mean to say is "populations that are treated with equal discretion and respect by police, and, when they are very young, by school discipline."

Otherwise someone might think you are a racist.
The lack of intelligence displayed here is a big reason why I don't place much of the blame on the TSA agent or police officer. There is something deeper that is the actual root cause of this behavior.
Dropbox, Drive, iCloud, etc are not in any way 'personal clouds'. They are very much somebody else's cloud.

Proper personal clouds may be on the horizon when you don't have to become a sysadmin to run one. FWIW, I'm working towards this - http://nymote.org/blog/2013/introducing-nymote/
> Their not understating

;) I wouldn't usually point it out, but since we're discussing writing workshops...

Clarion always sounded fantastic. I wonder how much of it is simply that it gives you the opportunity to live-and-breathe something, day-in, day-out, for six weeks. Regardless of what you're trying to do, if you manage to do it solidly for six weeks, you'll become good (or at least markedly better) at it. For most of us, even if we had that time, I imagine the biggest hurdle would be motivation and becoming discouraged if we tried it on our own. So I wonder how much of the success of these programmes is perhaps not the expert advice per se but more the creation of a healthy space where people are able to throw themselves into their work like that. (Is this not fairly similar to Y Combinator's model?)
It's in its early days, but it has a working compiler, garbage collection, etc. It was announced on the Freenode #lisp channel; start reading at http://log.irc.tymoon.eu/freenode/lisp?around=2015-01-25T15:...

Screenshot: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/46753018/Screen%20Shot%2...
Can we first kill the walled gardens? Then we could talk about platform coverage.
No, it's like saying that it's bad or strange that for example godaddy.com is a large DNS provider. They are just a popular provider of a decentralized service
Of course it was a bit more complicated than that, that's why I recommend the book :)

I can believe the rabbit story in that link. ECM radiation is nasty.
Actually it would be more like the owner of the subway saying that you can't speak about that topic on the subway.
> I just think it's somewhat arbitrary to say that software is nothing but information.

As opposed to what? It is nothing but information. It has no corporeal existence. Even if you put it on a disk or a piece of paper, encoding information into a medium doesn't make it not information (and shouldn't cause it to become patentable when it wouldn't be otherwise) any more than it would for other information like a song or a photograph or English text.

> Sure, you could work out software problems on a chalkboard, but I would say doing so is different than creating a piece of software that does the same thing... in the same way that a story that is told verbally from one person to another (and not stored say, via video) is different than a book.

OK, so one exists in your mind and the other exists on paper. You can draw that distinction if you like, but what is it supposed to change? You can't patent the verbally passed down story or the book. And I think the attempt really exposes the charade of software patent claims that attempt to avoid unpatentability by claiming the physical encoding: Can you really patent the information in a book just by claiming it as a physical object encoded with that information? It seems ridiculous. But that's apparently how they justify software patents.
Especially coming from my experiences as a camp counselor, I totally understand the value of separating boys and girls sometimes. I can't think of any circumstance when it would be useful to separate a group of adolescents by sexual orientation, but I won't say such a circumstance doesn't exist.

The problem is, unlike gender (currently disregarding transgender/gender queer/intersexed folks), you can't determine someone's sexual orientation - especially at this age. So it's not so much that the world is a heterosexual mens' club, but more that the heterosexual men think it is. As a result, they speak and behave based on that assumption. This assumption further marginalizes those who may already feel like outsiders within their own community.
I've been in that situation before though, with some outside vendor/supplier a manager has hooked me up with. discussions go back and forth, I have an idea, and "Hey, let me see If I can get a login for that for you".

And then you actually try to get it done and you get stalled. But you may not have a "No" yet from above so you stall. It's a reasonable thing, but it seems like this guy was pegging all his hopes and dreams on this, and got over-excited.
I learned to err on the side of "doable" in case of science fiction technology. With our current tech level, we can already do pretty much almost anything; usually economics is the only blocker.
everything but a good text editor... :P
We do here where I work. We're running Bitvise SSH server on Server R2/2012 and you can use bitvise tunnelier or putty as the client(maybe others, just have used those two myself) and then connect via management studio once the SSH tunnel is connected. We also require both key and password auth. We also do RDP over the SSH connection as you can't remote to those machines directly.
Is CB compiler a typo for VB?
Maybe you could contribute to Eve (http://python-eve.org) instead (which is awesome) and already includes some of the features on your roadmap.
You are confused. The NSS bug you're referring to was in False Start. Mozilla found and fixed the False Start bug before any release of Firefox (which is not the only user of NSS) could be impacted. I am not talking about the False Start bug. The PKCS1v15 parsing bug had nothing to do with False Start. Which makes your comment a little silly.
It's a pity I can't answer on the SE but I have experience in this matter, I came to the US (through Newark) once with a visa to stay for 6 months, without proof of financial support, without contact information for somebody in the US, reluctance to tell my purpose, and a tent as my means of accommodation. I was taken to a back room where they were going to deny me entry, but I manage to persuade them that I had an uncle living in Texas and a friend in Oregon.

So my advice is, go there without money, accommodation, contacts or purpose, and they won't let you in.
This is definitely true. I say this as someone who has performed classical music in various venues like Carnegie Hall etc. (http://magarshak.com/piano) I started as a kid when I didn't feel much stage fright at all, and after a break of a couple years I remember the stage fright coming on. I was a pianist, so what if I would make a mistake? Feeling like I needed to calm down and concentrate caused the jitters. Whereas traning to express yourself and just perform in the moment takes it away.

In general, accepting some kind of discomfort helps the body to accept it and deal with it. I discovered this a few years ago when walking through biting cold and deciding to EXPECT the sensation and accept it. My body kicked up the temperature production, and I felt a bit like that guy who can regulate his body temperature naked in the snow. Although of course less genetically adapted than he is :)
The BBC article that's further down the front page at the moment brings it down closer to my level:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11773791

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"Atoms are neutral - they have no net charge - but they have a little magnetic character," explained Jeff Hangst of Aarhus University in Denmark, one of the collaborators on the Alpha antihydrogen trapping project.

"You can think of them as small compass needles, so they can be deflected using magnetic fields. We build a strong 'magnetic bottle' around where we produce the antihydrogen and, if they're not moving too quickly, they are trapped," he told BBC News.

Such sculpted magnetic fields that make up the magnetic bottle are not particularly strong, so the trick was to make antihydrogen atoms that didn't have much energy - that is, they were slow-moving.

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So, basically, magic. I'm just curious what the specific limitation is (but realize it may not be trivial to explain without understanding the entire containment process better).
Two of those three have been fixed now. The first (around expectations) requires a larger tweak which we are making.

The point to keep in mind is that we are at the infant stage of automated content. Unlike most writers, our content will get significantly better over time.
If they bought the bonds from the treasury instead of the market, the newly printed money would be in the hands of the treasury. They want it in the hands of the private sector - which makes sense.
PostScript was Turing complete. Imagine having a fractal-drawing program in a PDF, and you're not far off from what it can do:

http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~andersr/fractal/PostScript.html
(since I had to look it up what a SVM was)

"Support vector machines (SVMs) are a set of related supervised learning methods... The standard SVM takes a set of input data, and predicts, for each given input, which of two possible classes the input is a member of... Intuitively, an SVM model is a representation of the examples as points in space, mapped so that the examples of the separate categories are divided by a clear gap that is as wide as possible. New examples are then mapped into that same space and predicted to belong to a category based on which side of the gap they fall on." [wikipedia]
If they have 100 shares of stock and are selling 2 at the IPO for 50M then the valuation is much higher than 50M. Just because it is the IPO doesn't mean 100% of the stock is for sell. If they are putting out 20% of their stock then their valuation is 250M.
Just bought it because I literally play this game all the time! Except we do it with whiskey, two random topics (one start, one end) and drinks go to the slowest person to click their way to the second topic.

Edit:

My thoughts: first, great site design and conceptualization (both in structure and looks). I could see the site alone becoming somewhat viral by sending puzzles to friends. Why not let them sign-up/play in a browser too when they hit your landing page? In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if this was on your to-do list because it seems super obvious.

The app's design is minimalist and gorgeous. It's well thought out. I am super impressed. It may (at the moment) be my favorite app.

Perhaps you should consider adding a random mode... How neat would it be to have a small database of the top 10,000 Wikipedia articles and generate many thousands of 3-degree connections from it. I wish I were you so I could work on this, it sounds fun!

More will come I am sure...
According to the BEA, the Personal Savings Rate has increased significantly in the last few years and hasn't been negative in at least the last 6 years.

http://www.bea.gov/briefrm/saving.htm
I used A4NM4YEYP6W7 and left a review. Very cool app and an awesome polished UI. This is going to be my go to time waster now.
Have you tried the autossh utility? That's what I use to keep up long-term tunnels.
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I think downloaded public repos were never blocked.
So should the American island.
A cure for aging is not necessarily a cure for beheading-by-guillotine
Why?

If they'd intended to shut this down, they would have a locked down boot loader like on iOS. Instead they deliberately built a boot loader which supported things like this.
I would also add that it's possible for this dynamic to change as a company grows.

I speak from personal experience - successful e-commerce startup where I am director of web.

Year 1 was about fast growth. We built a home-grown e-commerce platform, and made it scale. Lots of interesting challenges for hackers and a strong technology focus - improvements to the platform contributed directly to the bottom line.

Year 2 has a different emphasis. Many of the technical challenges are now past us. We did such a good job in Year 1 that we don't have to do much WRT scaling, UX optimization etc in Year 2. Year 2 is more about sales and marketing - continuing to find channels to acquire members and getting products into the store that people want (at good prices).

This has much less of a technology emphasis than Year 1, and indeed while Year 1 was very exciting, in Year 2 I find it difficult to motivate my team when the tasks at hand are things like "ok guys so we need a modification to our internal admin tool so that marketing can...".

Sure, there are constant improvements to be made. We do regular tweaks. We think up mini projects ("site looks weird on Android. ok lets fix that this week"). But the dynamic has most definitely changed and that is just a factor of the type of company this is (it's a sales company) and the stage of growth it is at (nearing a B round of financing).
I think you'd be surprised what a small variation there would be on pupil location given a mounting point like a nose and a pair of ears. I'm guessing the standard deviation for normal people would be very small, and a fudge factor added to the blackout spot would cover 95% of the population. This could also be also catered for by a range of say, 3 sizes, narrow, wide and normal. George Bush gets a narrow, Uma Thurman gets a wide. It would be a snap to try on each size and work out which one was best.
If anyone wants to try out APL after reading that, NARS2000 is a pretty good free option: http://www.nars2000.org/
easy.
They want Google to index that content and they want to show up in the search index. At one point I think some sites tried showing one thing to Google-bot and a pay-wall to the rest of the Net.
But Google realised that was a terrible experience for users -- I've googled somethign and now when I go to the page that google recommends to me - I can't see what I'm looking for.

So Google effectively laid down the law -- If you want to show up in Search Results -- then users who have found you via Search need to be able to read what you are showing..
"But in interviews, people familiar with the case said the department appeared to be attracted to the possibility of prosecuting Mr. Assange as a co-conspirator to the leaking because it is under intense pressure to make an example of him as a deterrent to further mass leaking of electronic documents over the Internet." - Emphasis mine

I thought laws were supposed to be enforced for justice, not to intimidate the people.
It's not your family that clouds your judgement, and I'm not saying "you" as in you, I mean the generic you.

One's judgement is clouded by his own sense of responsibility, it's common for SJ types[1][2] to value stability over enhancing the human condition. "if it works don't fix it".

Even more so when one feels he has an immediate, real, concrete, practical, measurable responsibility to provide for his family.

This could cloud one's judgement because:

The immediate need of his family seems real, while the need of society for better working conditions seems "out there", not really as important or as concrete as the need to provide for his family.

This is what I mean by the OP's judgement not being clouded. He can think clearly about the large-picture issues.

[1]: http://www.mypersonality.info/personality-types/sj-temperame...

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardian_temperament
Here's my solution to Poisoned wine.

48 hours, and a prisoner will die 24 hours after drinking from the poisoned wine. you only need one prisoner, and a decent stopwatch. Have him drink from a barrel of wine every 6 minutes, watch the exact moment he dies. Take the time in minutes, divide by 6 and that's the wine barrel that's poisoned (zero indexed).
Interesting but possibly flawed exercise. It would be good to show the entire set of brands sorted from bottom (i.e., good) to top (i.e. bad).

I sorted the data and present here two groups:

1. This is a sample of supposedly the most satisfying, from the best on down (er, up): TGI Fridays, Best Western, Zenith Electronics, JVC, Chili's, Denny's, Hampton Inn, Olive Garden, Applebee's, Sams Club, Yahoo, AOL.

2. By contrast, here is a sample of some of the worst, listed from the top (high dissatisfaction) on down: Wikipedia, Apple, Nokia, Facebook, Volkswagen, YouTube, Amazon, Nike, Sony, Ikea, Range Rover, Rolex, Porsche, Google, Netflix, Louis Vuitton, CNN, American Express. Wall Street Journal, Intel.

Group 1 and 2 do not overlap in their scores.Meaning that Intel (the best of the worst) is at 404, with a higher dissatisfaction rating than AOL (the worst of the best).

This grouping does not make sense to me, because if you showed me the two lists above and asked which of these two sets had better satisfaction scores, I would have picked Group 2 over Group 1.

What could explain this? Perhaps there is demographic skew, in that down-market brands (Dennys, Sams Club, Zenith) are not talked about as much among upscale social media people, who would rather complain about Apple, Sony, and Porsche.

Or perhaps there is a mismatch of expectations. People expect the premium brands to deliver more, and complain loudly when they fall short in the slightest. And conversely, perhaps people expect a mediocre experience with downmarket brands.
"How I taught my dog how to market twilio.com"

SMS is all very interesting but it is not 2013 any more so there is no need to send an SMS (paying people on the way) when you can just send an email. It still pops on the person's phone as a new message (at least in Android world, no idea how those iPhones work). Email also has better delivery, speaking as someone in a poor reception area I cannot reliably receive messages, however, wifi works pretty good at home and I can get emails with that whereas wifi does me no favours for SMS.

A few years ago I did have SMS for my own version of an uptime monitor, however, when my credits ran out I didn't miss the SMS messages at all (my script also emailed). That led to my 'discovery' that being able to send an SMS from a bit of code might be impressive however it is also not that useful in the first world. Maybe this product is better suited to dogs in the developing world somewhere.
Article not behind paywall: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/googles-cfo-70m-d...
Instead of just hoping, why not be the disruption?
Is there an RSS feed? There is a very select group of feeds that I read daily on my iPad and this would be a great addition.
And how did 'give everyone a home loan never mind if they can't afford it' worked out in 2008?

Sometimes I do wonder if people who present the argument you just presented realize that that is exactly how we've been doing things, and it just keep making the problem bigger.

Maybe I'm too much of a romantic, but I still harbor hope at some point they will realize it and begin to contemplate trying something different.
lol, yeah thats what it is. the implication here is they'll go down afterward yeah?
Ditch GoDaddy. We did and we're much happier.
I've been a lifelong fan of Calvin & Hobbes, and I have all of the books, but I both don't have the time to revisit them, or when I do, I binge way too much.

Is there any way to get a personal, daily comic via RSS or similar that starts from the very beginning, without having to wait for one of the syndication sites like gocomics to wrap around back to the beginning?
It's not her job to make a mob happy. It's also not her job to make users and contributors sad because it looks like she is callously dismissing their concerns and calling them "haters". There are other, better ways to make oneself feel better than making other people feel worse.
Do you have an example of that? It's a pretty niche topic to decide he was being curmudgeonly. A lot of people think that about modern art whether they're wrong or not they're usually pretty normal people.
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