skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His current Kickstarter project, Thimbleweed Park, looks very similar in tone, humour and gameplay. I really have high hopes for it. Maybe if it's successful it will prove that there is still a market for "retro" adventure games and help give Disney a prod in the right direction.

That was certainly my hope when I backed it, anyway...
Free Online Math and English Practice
Found this on my Dad's Compaq Portable (can't remember if it was an original or a model II but it was around 1986/87)

Comedy story: I didn't know any commands, but know that I wanted to list the drive contents in a specific format...
I was so lucky to have grown up during this time and I hope it's not too pretentious to say it affected my life in many positive ways.
Mysterious Russian Statue Is 11,000 Years Old
How to plan an android app?
Hey HN. What planning goes into a new android app when the idea has been finalised?

As a first time beginner, do you look at the libraries that one could use or start on whatever technology you know and sort out the challenges along the way?

Further, do you plan the releases and the features you want to include in the subsequent releases or that also happens on the basis of the need of the hour?
if you are a vim person then I can recommend ptpython: https://github.com/jonathanslenders/ptpython

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jonathanslenders/ptpython/...
The problem with getting old is that one-by-one all the things that you dreamed of as young and you got to try when got older, feel old and demystified. Suddenly you look out and see less "magic", less mystery, less things to make you excited, fewer major surprises around the corner.

I'm only (//already) in my early 30s but it scares me to think how it might feel, at an older age, to not be able to see anything in the same exciting eye that a teenager does. And the things that might still feel exciting, to not be able to try, due to constraints that "grownups" have (health issues, family, work, other responsibilities, lack of friends willing to participate)
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The recent Paul Graham essay (and discussion) is worthwhile reading on the topic of naming:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10030863
As this was created mainly for a "landing page builder" tool, the assumption was that classes are added dynamically with a scripting language so its not that big of a problem. I did think quite a bit on how to minimize the clutter and I either had to do a colossal CSS file with all the permutations or a smaller css and a bit more text in the html. Sadly I am not aware of a way how make both of them reasonably small (few css rules and few css classes in the html) - if anybody has an Idea I would be very grateful.
I've glanced at the code now. You are absolutely correct.

Wow.

There's some good reasons to think this approach won't work at all. If I understand it correctly I think it is attempting to predict part of speech using previously observed values.

That's an interesting idea, and might be somewhat valuable as a feature to use in a text generator, but on its own won't be enough to ever generate sentences that make sense (because some specific sequences just don't make sense).
I had a ZTE Monte Carlo and used it for 3 years. It's surprisingly durable as a device. Everything works and there're minimal physical damage after my careless use for 3 years. Whereas my other Chinese brand phone (Umi) had more and more problems as it wears out just 1 year after.
Piacenza has the roman squared city center intact in layout[1], lots of other small towns as well, but the fact is the old town parts are likely too small to actually matter when you look at the whole city layout - hard to notice from just looking at the urban map!

then you have places like Turin that were built with a ruler [2]

https://www.google.it/maps/place/Via+Camillo+Benso+Cavour,+3...

https://www.google.it/maps/place/Turin,+Metropolitan+City+of...

edit: some more samples, with cardo/decumano marked when known

naples
https://www.google.it/maps/place/Naples,+Metropolitan+City+o...

parma (barely visible, linked plaza was the old forum)
https://www.google.it/maps/place/Piazza+Giuseppe+Garibaldi,+...

verona
https://www.google.it/maps/place/Via+Rosa,+7,+37121+Verona+V...

firenze, you can even see the old walls

https://www.google.it/maps/place/Piazza+della+Repubblica,+10...
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Are they running a non-Google version of Android? Because in these market share charts what I really see is just Google vs. Apple
No.
People have the same problems with patterns as with passwords. Patterns are even more predictable then passwords because a human is lazy and will create an 'easy' pattern.
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Agreed, as a kid with a short attention span MI 1 & 2 must have been pretty special to have kept me glued to my Atari ST every night for weeks on end. I still haven't found a game series that appeals so much to my bizarre sense of humour. Or maybe it was MI that made it what it is today? ;)
I commented on this a year ago or so: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8154909

My opinion on this is unchanged and I'm still disturbed by the greed behind this lawsuit.
This really looks like Dashing from Shopify http://dashingdemo.herokuapp.com/sample

Which doesn't need 16 css classes :)
It's not about difficulty, it's just fun to try and do it with only web elements, and bonus points for strictly CSS
There's also gridstack.js
I wish I could do that, but having an iPod forces me to run a windows virtual machine just for iTunes.
2 Gbps of true random numbers:

https://qrng.anu.edu.au/
Let's stop comparisons period.
>Why human intelligence and AI will co-evolve

They probably will but I doubt mucking about with our DNA will make much difference. If human intelligence increases it will be mostly through interacting with computer systems in some way. At the moment using google for example helps and in the future we may have sci-fi stuff like implants and uploading.
As an app developer, that may make sense, but I don't think consumers see it that way at all. Perhaps that will change in the future, but the skins applied by HTC & Samsung, especially (Sony's & LG's aren't too overdone) make the UX completely different between brands, even if the underlying OS is the same. Add in the ability to use custom launchers and you very easily could end up with someone customizing their Android phone to the point where only they know how to use it.
I'm not talking about buying, I'm talking about engineering expertise.
You may enjoy The Fallacy of Relative Privation - http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Not_as_bad_as

"Look, none of you were actually murdered, so it's unfair of you to complain about the beating you received."

I'm also curious as to why the greed of the companies doesn't disturb you?

To everyone else - join, or form, a union.
> Facebook has really, really good people working on machine learning.

Being good at machine learning does not imply they are also good evaluating how their ideas will impact society, nor does it imply they don't have other motives (intentionally or not).

Unfortunately, too many people only consider the intended results when they create something, and rarely consider the larger impact their creation would have on other aspects of society.

> more accurate

It's questionable if this is "accuracy". They are doing very precise calculations, but the result is still going to depend on the assumptions in the design (e.g. that you can infer anything about default risk from someone's online "friends"), and the quality of the input data.

However, those technical concerns are not the main problem, which is redlining. Laws are slow in responding to changes, which allowed a lot of racists to maintain de facto segregation by simply claiming that someone "didn't qualify" for some loan. This was easy, because the complex nature calculating someone's default risk makes it easy to hide something that "just happens" to target a certain group of people. This becomes even easier (and provides more cover) when it starts to feedback on itself: (i.e. you're a risk because you're from $bad_area, but you have to live in $bad_area because we denied loans in the past). I highly recommend reading Ta-Nehisi Coates essay that explains this in far more detail[1].

Using a social-media "friends list" to judge loan risk is data with a very poor signal-to-noise ratio. That same "friends list" is also data that can be easily map to race or class, just like "current address" did for the lenders that redlined segregated areas to limit "mud people"[2] to subprime "ghetto loans"[2]. Which of these sounds like a more likely cause? Even if the developers at Facebook believe this is about "more accurate loans", someone has other plans.

The complexity of modern technology has made it even easier to hide the real decision-making process, and machine learning techniques are the worst, where "I'm not denying you a loan, the Magic Machine is! (even though I designed it and decided which data it gets to see)". These tools can certainly be useful, but it is incredibly important that you're not just creating a proxy (both software and legal) that hides the underlying decision making process.

As you say, the government absolutely has a role here, but governments are slow to change. In the meantime, it is important for the people implementing to remember that code is law[3].

> actuaries already use all sorts of information

Which is why some of them have had to pay discrimination lawsuit settlements in the $100M-300M range in recent years, with more lawsuits pending.

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case...

[2] These terms are from the affidavit[1] of Wells Fargo loan officers

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_and_Other_Laws_of_Cybersp...
What's baffling is that Reddit is not considered a better business model than the zombie that is Twitter.
afaik mocp is it's own daemonized process, so you can close the client and the music keeps on playing; cmus is a standalone client that just reads from the filesystem and URLs and does not daemonize. cmus unfortunately skips and segfaults at times on the latest Debian packaged version, which is of course a few versions back (2.5.0 vs 2.7.0 iirc) and so I'm relying on mocp much more now.

To answer your question more directly, again afaik, mocp is not accessible over MPD (separate daemon altogether) and does not play nicely with Spotify, but I'm not a user, so wouldn't know. Neither is mocp accessible over the network (afaik!).
I am not referring to archive.org as insecure, I am referring to JS as insecure. And it is. Look at the percentage of exploits for FF or Chrome that require JS and/or are in their JS engines.

Trying to write a language that is compiled / JITted quickly, is executed quickly, is powerful, and is secure, is doomed to failure. Look at Java. Look at Flash, look at JS.
It removes a line from the known_host file. When spinning up a new VM/container or reaching a machine that has an IP/hostname you've used before (happens a lot in dev environments/NATed networks), you'll get a warning about a possible MITM attack.

ncurses is not involved though.
Yeah that was my thought process: "Wow there's a lot of CSS classes. But the drag'n'drop builder makes this number irrelevant."

I'm actually working on updating a landing page builder today, so the timing is perfect. I don't think you can reduce the number of classes in the HTML but that's fine. Maybe have a Sass mixing to generate the CSS cases.

In the end, the size of both the HTML and CSS are negligible considering everything is auto generated.

Great tool. I love it!
How much of a financial hit do they really take? Apart from their salaries and associated office costs (covered by past cases presumably) what other costs do they have?

Their only excuse is that most businesses do the same thing. Payment processors, freelance agencies, telecoms providers etc, all taking extortionate cuts in relation to the costs incurred providing a service, which comes from our paychecks.
>Also it's interesting the 7.75% decrease in Gold after in Aug 2015,

I'm from Europe. Earlier when the USD was weaker vs the EUR I was more liberal with buying Gold. But since the Dollar got stronger I have bought maybe 2 Golds.

I don't really care for that Reddit drama with Ellen Pao and Victoria Taylor, etc.
The download button has a typo in it: 'Downlaod Latest Release.'
I would, except that I couldn't without JS. Interesting catch-22 there.

(Like people looking at website statistics collected using JS and then saying "see? Everyone runs JS")
Oh my, I'm quite behind. I feel embarrassed now :)
I used to sync my iPod with foobar2000 on Win7 to avoid having to deal with iTunes - I'm sure there are a few other Linuxy options to explore too. Vive la résistance :)
I bought a bunch of cassette tapes earlier this year from Tapeline (tapeline.info). Based in Stockport, Cheshire, UK. Bought both custom-length blank cassettes (for replacing broken ZX Spectrum game cassette tapes), and cassette boxes (single and jewel case).
Love the idea! Been thinking about this myself for a while. Not having tested this fully, how well does this work in a chromecasted tab?
Stealth Electric's Motorcycle and Mountain Bike Hybrid
beet (https://github.com/sampsyo/beets)
Orpheus - an MP3 player. http://thekonst.net/orpheus

I used to love Wordstar and wordperfect. I'm a bit surprised at the glut of curses / cli text editors and the lack of curses / cli word processors.
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I don't know the most recent, but it's probably been awhile since it was usable.

The first UNIX I programmed on (SVR2, circa 85-86) still worked that way (no opendir/readdir) since it had the classic V7 filesystem. Each directory entry was just a fixed-size 16 byte chunk; 2 bytes for the inode number and 14 for the filename.

Of course, this meant a limitation of 64K files per filesystem -- that was still OK for us (40MB would be a large disk) but was already would have caused problems for bigger servers. It also was the cause of the "classic" UNIX 14-character filename limit.

By that time BSD4.2's FFS filesystem had already removed both of these limits (which I assume is when opendir() and friends arrived) According to wikipedia that made it to the AT&T world by SVR4 in the late 80s, which sounds correct.

As someone else mentioned some UNIXes may still let you open() a directory. However, since we're long past the days of there being just one "UNIX filesystem" it would be impossible to interpret its contents in a portable manner.
GNU Emacs is not a Lisp Machine. It's an editor written in C/Lisp and extensible in Lisp, that's all.
suddenly? are you serious? it was dead from the beginning.

that is like saying, o my god, i think the rotting corpse that has been lying in here for 3 months is dead!
The short answer is that you must identify the minimally viable product first. The way to reach this MVP is not easy, but you must do it in order to keep focus and build the most important thing at the start.

As for libraries - You wish to avoid re-inventing the wheel (as it's not moving you forward vis a vis your MVP). So invest time and research for SDKs/Libs that can boost your productivity.

Other good rules to follow:
1. Build a user testing focus group and see if your ideas got a true connection with reality. You will learn A LOT from this.
2. Plan for multiple releases - Don't try to do too much for the first release. Iterate quickly and build your service/product in layers.
3. Measure and analyze your users' actions - It will give you a powerful tool to decide what to do and how to improve your releases.
4. Monetization plan - https://greenido.wordpress.com/2015/07/31/app-monetization-c...
(disclaimer: this is a course I've helped to build)

Good luck!
<rant>Yet another grid implementation that requires jQuery.</rant>

My last search on responsive grids (June 2015) has not turned up anything without jQuery. That would be a cool new "feature", that none of the existing solutions so far offer.
How an Xbox hack became a weapon of war in Syria
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Unfortunately this isn't just a US-centric issue. The UK seems obsessed with comparing itself to the valley.

There's even a wikipedia page for this stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_with_%22Silicon...

My personal favourite (in an face-palmy kind of way): http://i.imgur.com/WKYF1o9.jpg
None of the NES games seems to work for me they just show the first screen (not even completeting the shade-in animation) and freeze

edit: I'm on Opera 31 and Windows phone 8.1 (I know, weird)
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Staggering? I'd call it a pittance. The companies should've been fined much more to make an example out of them so no tech firm attempts something like this again.
Idea ppl on Hackathons??? What amazes me with havkathons is... The level of apps complexity. Some times its crystal clear that the team was working on the app for at least 500 hours BEFORE the hackathon even began. Sincr its so obvious why do these projects get accepted?
Hi guys,

I built getlostinside.com a simple travel guide that shows you what you can do in your vicinity. The idea is that instead of listing existing places, the site shows you what you can do for a given budget (e.g Enjoy the view from the highest mountain in Berlin for 0€). I also want it to be 100% user curated. It’s currently limited to Berlin, so i’m looking for feedback from travel experts on this project. My idea is not to create the next tripadvisor, instead i want to partner with travel blogs to have a smaller expert curated selection of things to do. What do you guys think?

Important: It's a simple prototype atm, only featuring things to do in Berlin currently. If you are interested you can leave your mail on the add button.
I am more disturbed at the greed behind the original injustice. The tech companies should be punished, the greed of the plaintiffs is completely irrelevant.
Yeah, for one of the largest communities online, it's a small income.

But, they have advertising and sponsored submissions, and I do believe they make more money from that.

Gold is practically user donations as far as I see it, it doesn't provide much benefit to most users...
Paid by advertisements and sponsored posts, I believe...
I like it, but I would prefer a plain oscilloscope function, and being able to connect it to a Web Audio source of mine.
I was suspicious of this, too, as I am anytime a seemingly-popular article suddenly vanishes from the front page.
Just tested it, I see no difference. I agree a very good integration of technologies.

Similarly, my LG TV is using my smartphone touch screen as the smart remote control.

Slowly, we will be able to control/play everything from our smartphones or smart watches. My pet peeve: remote controlled washing machine.
The fight over “no religion” on the 2016 Australian Census
Jobs was far from perfect. However, his contributions _far_ outweigh all his transgressions. The iPhone has (and will) ushered in an era of unimaginable prosperity for, in the coming years, literally the entire planet.

Whether or not his work could have been achieved without his faults is an open question. One which the counter factual isn't possible.

The key thing to remember is that there are no solutions, only trade offs. Jobs was an unedeniably overwhelmingly positive force on the world.
Pretty sure thats a sarcastic use of the word staggering
Where is disk 22?
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The police still use them a lot: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20556330
That would be a cool new "feature"

Why? jQuery is a popular, useful library. It makes lots of things simpler, and in most cases isn't an additional dependency.
Wierd how the article states that Über doesn't solve "real" problems.
Having somehow avoided much Perl for most of my working life, I've recently done quite a bit of it (Perl 5 this is), and I have found it, syntactically, a painful experience when compared to Ruby and Python. The one thing I have loved compared to those two though is the performance. If Perl 6 retains that performance edge it may gather mindshare, but otoh my impression of Perlists that I work with is that they are quite content with Perl 5's warts, so I am not convinced that 6 will have much of an impact.
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Yeah I was thinking about removing the jQuery dependancy, as I don't "really" need it here - all of the heavy logic is implemented outside of jQuery and I used it mostly for easy event delegation and data attribute handling. I might work on a version without it, but I wanted to get this working as soon as possible and jQuery does help in code size reduction and ease of development.
Also this grid works without any javascript (pure css) so you only need javascript for drag'n'drop reordering
What kind of extensions would you like to use on iOS. Can you give some concrete examples of things (either existing or wishes) you would like to see?
Not trying to start a fight, I just don't understand your solution. What does git do with orphaned entries in the refs directory when it garbage collects? Does it delete them? How would you synchronize your database pointers with garbage collection? Presumably when this happened you'd have to interrupt it or you'd have to delete those records from your database. Then they'd really be lost right?
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We use the IDE only for Java so the bundled pricing has no appeal for us. We have delineated development roles with no fullstack developers per se.
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Recent remakes of Monkey Island 1 and 2 are really nicely done with superb voice acting. Played through them last summer with my kids on the iPad and enjoyed every moment of it. Highly recommended.
io.js does follow semver, that's why it's at 3.x, because certain changes required the major version bump.

Node v4 will be the first Node to follow semver.

I get that you don't like Chrome style versioning, but that's not what's going on with Node.
Eclipse. That's where we came from. We'll keep current perpetual licenses without updates for those who are welded to Idea, but for new hires it's going to be Eclipse.
Taskwarrior - www.taskwarrior.org, best CLI todo list manager.
Not all class-actions result in a settlement or a verdict and even then not all of them are rainmakers. Saw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Civil_Action several years ago and it stuck with me.
Speaking as a woman myself, I wholeheartedly agree with your comment about women not showing that they are interested in a man. I have been in relationships with three or four men who had no idea I was interested in them initially; I was expecting them to make the first move, which they did after a long while. I hate to think of the number of potentially wonderful relationships I have missed out on because I never made the first move.

Seriously seriously seriously OP, you've got to try to make the first move. Women, regrettably, are inherently passive about this sort of thing.
git, ranger, cmus, byobu (I shifted to i3 though)
The value of writing comments intended for your future self was confirmed in a strange way for me: I once found myself googling some faintly obscure question of systems programming, and soon found an article that answered my question perfectly. At that point I noticed with considerable surprise that I was reading a web archive of a Usenet posting I had made myself, some 10 years prior - of all the people to randomly run into on the Internet, your past self is one of the strangest.
Moto G seems be my baseline for what I expect a good enough phone to be. That honor used to belong to the Galaxy S III US. Ver.

I expect others like ZTE and Alcatel will catch up at some point. But probably will also face some fearce competition from the quality direct-to-customer type companies like Xiaomi, OnePlus, Wileyfox.
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