jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The Asteroids game!

The graphics, music, and fluid motion are awesome.

But, I cannot stand the controls. I play games like this laying down in bed at night, which automatically disqualifies this, due to its use of my phone’s orientation. Also, the modal disconnect between throttle and direction controls (one orientation and the other button press) is too much to tie to muscle memory.

If you added an “old fashioned mode” with a dynamic joy stick (appears where ever I put my thumb within one bottom quarter of the screen) for direction and throttle (touch to engage and drag a small amount in any direction to turn and go that way), that’d fix the issue. NOVA 3 for iPhone got this 100% right. Then, a small section on the other bottom corner could house a few small buttons to engage hyperspace, etc. Just let the user pick right or left handed.
That's what I thought too. Though guys from Volatility Views podcast rarely have an episode without mentioning '50 cent trader' always assuming that it's one trader behind and arguing his/her strategies,..
I've used LibraryThing since my senior year of high school and have always loved it. As others have noted, unlike Goodreads, LibraryThing isn't a social network. I'm an obsessive about what books I own, how to categorize them, where/when I bought them, where/when I read them. I don't care for my friends to know what I've been up to and I don't need their recommendations (at least not through the web).

As an aside, I vaguely recall that at some point their memberships were pay-what-you-can. Super curious what the distribution of payments looked like.
Like https://nugget.one/ideas?
I'm a little surprised that SSH authentication methods can't be easily disabled using the sshd_config file. Almost all the other security algorithms can be easily tweaked. I thought this article had just made a mistake, but I read over the man page and it appears there is indeed no way to modify this using the config file.

This isn't a protocol weakness. Reading over the SSH RFCs, the server is allowed to specify which algorithms it supports, so this could easily be a OpenSSH configuration option.
Have you tried turning on "noprocrast" in your user settings? (and possibly fiddling with the related values below it) Works for me.
I've been very happy with it, but I'm also happy to switch back. Alfred routinely forgets my pref-panes, and sometimes applications as a whole, and I do miss substring matching and explicit defaults (ie, "a" always does activity monitor for me).
Wait a minute. The owner of a start up that helps other startups gain early adopters is asking for advice on how to gain early adopters?
I didn't notice much difference in default guesses or training in LaunchBar compared to QuickSilver
> I have been a Mac user for over 15 years and those that say Mac's are only good for iOS and Mac specific stuff are sort of naive.

Well, are you going to back up your statement?

> You can run Windows or Linux as well. There are also Virtual Machine possibilities.

I'd rather build a Linux box if virtual machines are the "attracting" features of Macs.

> I think that good tools help productivity and a MacBook Pro is a GREAT tool..

Again, define "good tools." I've never owned a Mac, but I find it hard to believe its hardware is the main reason for success. I thought the software takes much of the credit.
I believe the subtlety there is that the RIAA represents the interests of their corporate members, which almost wholly differ from the artist's interests.

I also believe that is one of the main reasons they are labeled as "the boogieman," in addition to some pretty boneheaded PR moves.
I'm sure something will happen and the date will be pushed a little further.
A good VIM keybinding plugin is a must for me as well. The one available for LightTable, for instance, simply wasn't sufficient IMO. I can't specifically remember what it lacked, but it was enough to throw me off.

Vintage mode in ST2/3 isn't perfect, but it's pretty solid.

Atom looks interesting. I really look forward to trying it out.
> getting contacted doesn't guarantee an interview either

I think this is the part that bothers me most. If a headhunter contacts me, why am I not given the inside-track for the interview?
Yours is not so much a legal question as it is a negotiation question.

I think you're probably right, but brinkmanship would be incredibly time-consuming, stressful, and distracting. They have more important things to worry about right now.

If your question is, who would win the battle in the court of public opinion? For sure Watsi would win. No doubt in my mind.
I find it interesting that there is little to no conversation about the integration with git. In one of the the screenshots I saw a branch name and icon in the bottom status bar. I assume this is an important motivation for GitHub.
I love this idea and want one!
Just to clarify, the bug wasn't fixed in IE, but we were able to work around it in Cappuccino.
And those people are called white-guilt liberals.
Food Stamps.
To be fair, I don't think the blog post is even attempting to explain what a monad is. Its audience is the people who keep making misguided posts that attempt to do so badly.

Sure, maybe that's a little unfairly meta if you really want to know, but it is what it is.
No, of course. That's why he had to specify a country. :-)

Sometimes we're being racist even though it's not on purpose. Unfortunately we're all racist up to some extent; myself included.

// Unrelated fun fact after checking your profile (I was trying to get some context for the discussion): If I'm not mistaken you're a Brit living and working in Barcelona. I'm from Barcelona, but living and working in Britain :-D
Although he left out all the details, after the first paragraph you know enough to decide whether you want to read the rest of the article or not.

The "inverted pyramid" someone else linked to here means that the information is presented from most to least important, so you can stop reading the article anytime when it starts to bore you, and still know you have read everything you want to know.
Arguably they don't even need to pass such a law, since national security letters already enables the same thing.
It wouldn't be fair to judge non-native english speakers this way.

It's sometimes possible to discern a poor writer from a non-native writer, but to be fair, I'll try to find out if a writer is non-native before commenting on their grammar or judging the post based on a mistake.
4) Provide Grandfather’d Pricing for long-time customers, or give them exclusive benefits

Something which seems to be missed by nearly every cell, internet, electronic, etc. company in existence. You'd think you'd want to keep customers, not just incentivize new ones.
Every morning I habitually turn on the radio, which is tuned to white noise to drown out the streets.
I heard a figure somewhere that something like 1/4 of all jobs shed during the recession will never be replaced due to automation...
Awesome, now the US can power our gas/oil-based cars with Iraq and our electric battery-powered cars with Afghanistan.

(regarding the supposedly huge lithium find there)
What happens when robots can do more worthwhile tasks than a wide swath of humanity? This point doesn't seem very far away. There are tons of jobs that don't require creativity, and those don't seem long for this world.
This seems like a dangerous opportunity for a China-U.S. confrontation.
And here I thought the only reason we were in Afghanistan was for the [opium](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Afghanistan_opium_poppy_cu...) and the potentially lucrative [oil pipeline](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Afghanistan_Pipeline). Now that we've discovered mineral riches, I'm guessing it's time to bring some Haliburton-style capitalism (I mean democracy) to the Afghan people.
It looks like we'll be there for a very long time.
Are you suggesting that we Asians aren't minorities? That we don't get or understand what is it to be discriminated against?
How do you tie a phone dial-in client into a web pki? Because that’s one of the features that zoom offer: regional dial-in numbers that you can use with any ordinary phone. And it’s really really useful.
> 1. Target specific articles with advice for older runners in running publications.

Who reads running publications these days? Unless you meant online blogs etc, in which case:

> 2. Target Italian recipes in cooking websites only for users located in Denver.

That is targeted advertising, IIUC. You are targeting users based on their geolocation, which should be banned as per the article.
Location: Birmingham, AL
Remote: Yes (Remote preferred, unless in Alabama)
Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies:
• Languages: JavaScript, GraphQL, Python, Ruby, HTML, CSS
• Frameworks: Rails, React, Redux
• Etc: AWS, Heroku

Latest side project: https://highlighter.online
a browser extension that saves "highlights" to an API,
so readers can collect notable passages of text.

GitHub: https://github.com/smcalilly
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-mcalilly/
Email: smcalilly@gmail.com

I'm most skilled at frontend engineering and can pull my weight on the backend.
Looking for a Ruby on Rails job.
I like building things, but also looking to get into InfoSec.
Perhaps in this case that's enough because the infringement is so blatant. Generally, I'd like to see any IP violations pass through the proper channels for deciding who's legally in the right.
Great idea. I've read about Scanwell before.
Does the accuracy of the results vary at all with the quality of the camera (newer vs older iPhones)?
Also, if a patient is someone who is colonized with bacteria, and doesn't necessarily have an acute infection, would the app be able to inform them as such?
The whole talk is worth watching, but I'll just point to Lionel Shriver's segment, where she beautifully sums up, what most people – especially in the underclass – know already: https://youtu.be/ddBKQIomyYI?t=2200

Today's western progressivism is taken hostage by the elite.

Disturbing as it is for itself, it is even more freightening what this might lead to. What happens if the bottom 50% effectively looses any political say, because their choices by whom to be represented become completely blurred. If you are like me and considered to yourself to be under-/working class, none of today's "leftist" ballot options are even remotely relatable, the more radical their representatives are, the more they reak of privilege.
It's not only a valid argument, it's exactly what the California court of appeals held in this case. From the law review article I linked:

> While the public trust doctrine can protect access rights over private land, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to extend that protection to private land certified under the 1851 federal law implementing the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, where the federal or state government had not asserted an interest in title proceeding. Therefore, the court of appeal in Friends I found that, because the Martin’s Beach property had been certified under the 1851 law without any mention of a public interest and never passed into state ownership, there could be no common law public trust easement over the land to the water.

> And while California courts hold that Article X, section 4 of the California Constitution affirms and codifies “at least in part” the public trust doctrine of coastal access, “absent clear legislative intent to the contrary,” the access requirements do not apply retroactively.26 Applying this constitutional principle, the court held that section 4 could not protect public access to Martin’s Beach since it was passed decades after the property became privately owned.
Cancelling the sale if you don't like the price sounds a bit unethical :-)
It's a good excuse to visit someone in person.
My opinion: it looks terrible. In particular it doesn't match the contours or shadows of any of my other desktop items.

As for the google favicon, am I the only one who still misses the old G?
> If you want a great example of how it can be useful and how clear and elegant it can be, check out how it's done in Elixir [0].

If you want to see what it _really_ should look like, see Erlang, and then look at Prolog.
Disclaimer: I learnt Python from one of Zed Shaw's books in my teens.

I followed Zed Shaw on Twitter for a long time and, while he comes across as a colourful guy who rants a bit too much, his books have been boycotted for years and he has been personally attacked several times in an unprovoked fashion.

His C book was even placed in some "don't read" lists and had snippets cherry picked as examples of bad advice. Some people in the industry have tried to bully him out of his livelihood for a while, just because they don't share some of his technical opinions, and they have some grudge going back to the days when he maintained some old projects. That's just unacceptable.
> Consider the alternative that while it is infuriating to you, macOS users aren’t “missing” anything because we prefer it this way.

LOL!
> Admittedly it has a rubbish camera but I don't really take pictures so that's fine with me.

That makes me sad to hear. One of my favorite things about the old Nokia (especially the Lumia series) was that they cared about having good camera hardware. The low end stuff was better than most of the other brands I tried, and if you got something with PureView...
actually, it's more like within a factor of two of the pressure at the center of the earth.
To me, sbt is confusing as hell.

I no longer program in Scala, but I used to for my previous job and I regularly came across build files I couldn't understand -- and when I asked the person who wrote them, they couldn't explain their build properly either.

And this happened in enough cases that I wouldn't consider it an exception or a problem with a particular developer. SBT used to have two entirely separate syntaxes, and it was a mess translating from one to the other. I don't know if this is still the case (I know one of the two syntaxes got deprecated, can't remember which one now).
The most egregious violation I've seen is weather.com's cookie process. Go to https://weather.com/en-GB/ and click "Proceed with required cookies only". It's almost theatrical: first a spinning loading wheel, then the message "We are processing your request, this could take up to a few minutes to process." Then wait for their "Processing 0%" countdown take a few minutes to reach 100%. Anyone would think they are trying to discourage people from choosing that option?
I do hope that there will be a Y combinator for tv shows and maybe even movies. Of course, there are some things like Campus Movie Fest that help find good budding talent and then that could be used as an application even to get funded.
If there is a big surprise, speculation I've seen elsewhere includes...

Pentaband GSM for maximal worldwide compatibility

CDMA

WiMax

FM Radio

...or simply hiding incrementally-improved specs like the recently-uncovered larger (512MB) RAM.
> Bar = Foo#foorecord.bar, Baz = Foo#foorecord.baz

#foorecord{bar=Bar, baz=Baz} = Foo

Readability depends on what does your brain process, when you see "=" ;)

> since they're a compile-time trick you can't use them in the console

Check the `rX` commands from http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/shell.html You can use the records just like in normal code, but you have to load them explicitly.
Interesting comment. How would I upvote it?
For any Unix: Grab source from python.org, unpack, run "configure", run "make altinstall". The result is a "python2.5" binary that doesn't stomp on the standard install.

For Ubuntu 10.4, you could also do this:

http://www.codigomanso.com/en/2010/05/google-app-engine-en-u...
"[L]iquidity offerings followed by an eventual sale transaction",
Can someone explain with that means?
I've seen companies request blocks of addresses solely to enable remote access to their workstations, when a single address could do the job (with port mapping or a VPN).

As individuals, there's not much we can do. IP addresses are cheap, and business won't care how scarce they are until it affects the bottom line.
I seem to remember something similar that was an erlang VM running (I think) directly on Xen. The underlying idea in that case was each request causes a new VM to boot, service that request, then terminate.
Thanks. I've decided that I will talk to my doctor about this and I will ask him about going to a behavioral therapist. I can see that speaking to someone that understands will help me stay accountable. I've read material on social anxiety in the past but that hasn't had much of an affect and this thread has helped me realize that there is no need to continue to try and go it alone.

Thanks to everyone for their comments, I've read them all and I really appreciate the support. I'm determined to make this the turning point.
Yet they are all still watching "South Park"?
Android 2.2 is currently the only one that enables the file input.
worked fine for me with those settings. Fx 3.6.12 OSX 10.6.4
"We uncovered all these riches just 10-15cm under the floor slabs. It was completely unexpected."

They never did any scans? I remember being a kid and learning about how some old churches would entomb people directly under the floor (not catacombs).
Interesingly enough Homeworld 3 which is space rts is being made with Unreal 4.
I'd love to have a site where I could create a profile and specify all the board/card games, pen-and-paper RPG's, and video/computer games I like to play, and my geographic location, and then find other folks with matching game/location interests, and have them find me, contact each other, etc. If this already exists, nevermind, unless there's an opportunity to do it better.
Very interesting, but I'm surprised that Android's market share is so weak considering that I've seen reports that Android based web traffic surpassed iPhone traffic last month, while your survey shows Android/iPhone to be at about the same level in terms of usage in the past 30 days.

I wonder if android owners aren't aware that they are running Android.
i remember coming across conet before via wilco, fwiw. curious subject.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee_Hotel_Foxtrot
I don't fly to LA.

By far better I mean the procedures are faster, better explained, and the operation is more professional.

My point is not to advocate government run security, but to point out that all this reactionary criticism of TSA is unjustified and it's crowdthink going on right now.
Useful? Why would I care what xXNinjaGuy2938Xx's opinion on foreign policy is? Twitter strikes me as a very anti-intellectual medium because of the 140 character limitation. How do you convey a nuanced, complex opinion in such a fashion?
That's not what he's saying at all. He's saying your chances aren't good if you're a startup trying to compete with Facebook. This is provably true.
From looking at the ads that appear on Scribd, this isn't the case. I haven't seen a flash ad that uses an iframe coming from Google.

Here is an example of a typical flash ad that I've seen from AdSense: https://github.com/scribd/flash_heed/blob/master/test.html

But yes, if the flash is in an iframe from a domain you don't control, there's no way AFAIK to fix the z-index issue.
Sure, send over the business plan, I'll look it over and it if looks profitable I'll let you use my S3 account for 50% of the company.
What about a Jeffery Jalaluddin?

As an adult white American-born male who's subjected to the same "security theater" idiocy, I have to discount this sort of racialist argument.
The hotels lobbying against airbnb and its likes in NYC comes off as cowardly to me.

Yes, there are health and security concerns and yes, they can be addressed by some common sense procedures such as checking ratings before you go and sending a friend the address of where you're staying, and maybe let them check in on you by phone if you're that paranoid.

Furthermore, the "craigslist killer" was also suspected to have been involved in three cases of assault and murder in actual, major hotels: Westin, Mariott and Holiday Inn based on similar criminal characteristics. Prosecution was stopped when he committed suicide. Crime can happen anywhere. Also, have you never heard of bedbug cases in hotels?

Viva creative destruction.
The source doesn't matter as I'm providing quotes from a range of well respected economists, including Nobel laureate Paul Krugman, and Christina Romer, former chairman of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers.
NASSCOM may not be important. But, I feel that the times are changing in India. In the last few months, I have seen people dropping out of their so-called safe jobs and choosing to work on what they like (that includes me too). My feeling is that only people in the developed countries do it.

But, the majority is still happy with the virtual safety of the job in service industry. With hundreds of thousands of people still talking about the dowries they can get if they hold on to the 'IT job', what else can you expect?
Douglas Crockford has said that he considers Lisp and Javascript to be similar languages. For that reason, I think it would help those confused/frustrated with 'this' to read the chapters of SICP that relate to the environment model, and to 'eval' and 'apply':

Environment model of evaluation, http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-21.html...

Metacircular evaluator, http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-26.html...

The environment model is crucially helpful. Applying it to Javascript, think of bound functions (ones which are methods on instantiated objects) implicitly having a 'let this = instance' statement prepended to their bodies.
See "Graphics Improvements" on http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/future/

That's all there is to this story. WebGL competes with Silverlight, and real-world WebGL adoption isn't very high yet. Microsoft therefore feel they stand a chance.
I think OpenGL and Direct3D performance was roughly equivalent (given appropriate driver support) until Vista came along with its new compositing system. Also note that Windows NT 4.0 only ever had the (highly embryonic) Direct3D 3.0, whereas 95 went up to DirectX 8.0.
It's highly unlikely that there were any members of Antifa among the rioters, and there is also no evidence of same.
I feel that there is more than simply impact on the readability but also on the semantics.

When I feel clueless about a topic I look to comments with up votes to get a general feel for the direction of the discussion and hints how to educate myself on the topic.

On your first suggestion: Maybe it is hard to work with absolute thresholds as the amount of votes is probably proportional to how long something stays on the front page. Maybe there is some measure to determine when a thread has begun to "settle" down and that would be the time to make votes visible.
It's not my argument, but I do see some validity. You suggest 'enjoy it while its there' which is excellent advice- but at the same time, simply put, life-changing decisions aren't going to sit around and wait 3 years for limerence to wear off.
You sound like a smart guy. Your failure thus far is an amazing and truly educational amount of experience that will benefit you short- and long-term. You really have a great deal more experience than many, and clearly you have drive and passion.

You're valuable and hardworking, so get the hell out of that shithole.

With your experience, you should be able to make some incredible contributions to any other startup that has a good product/service and actually cares about their employees.

$26,000 a year is ridiculously low... absurdly low. Hard-to-fathom low. If you feel like renegotiating would create hostility then that is far and away the biggest alarm that you need to get out of there.

As coffeemug said, "run, don't walk."