skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't read too much into that. In that vein, I think it makes more sense to look at culture as the lossy compression we use to store value judgements of our experience -- accepting that we can only store a fraction of the "raw" data.

The best way to combat the natural narrow-mindedness that any culture forces on you, is to travel -- and if possible live for a long time (6-12 months) submerged in a different culture. The best time to do this, is probably before you fully become an adult -- living with a host-family as the "child" of a foreign culture allows/requires a degree of acceptance that is very valuable if the goal is to widen the idea of culture. Having two cultures that are sometimes contrasting, but also accepted as "real" allows one to introspect -- and realize that one really have to question everything -- there are very few universal truths.

For those that are, or have, teenagers in the house, and have the means -- I strongly advice to look into international volunteer inter-cultural programs, like:

https://www.afs.org

https://www.yfu.org
But isn't inability to remember much because of pain/shock the point? That fragments of actual memories of places been and instructions given might be a little stronger than a torture subject's capacity to invent alternatives, or even recall why they were so keen not to give that information in the first place. Useless to establish guilt or complex plans, but quite possibly better than nothing for a few elusive details, assuming that "nothing" is what more acceptable interrogation techniques have yielded.

Of course, it's even easier for the subject to simply agree with the torturer if the torturer actually has a narrative they want agreed to, but in those case actually obtaining information was obviously never the reason for the torture in the first place...
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c'mon, really? Did anyone say anything about reducing coding style to indentation? Standardizing these things is actually what gives you a platform for your beautiful and unique coding style to emerge for everyone to admire and coo over. If everyone is always arguing over tabs vs spaces and which charset to use, no one will notice how your beautifully styled guard statements have changed their entire outlook on writing code.
Steve Wozniak helps Basque startup Sherpa launch its ‘Next’ app for iPhone
Are there any scientific resources about how almost every mainstream success is based on a rather "direct" copy of something that already existed?

Like here with WarCraft/StarCraft and Warhammer/Warhammer 40,000.
Yeah I have that first issue exactly. While the touch pad is a fun addition, it's annoying when accidentally triggered. Might be good if they let you lock and unlock the remove by giving it a little shake.

I also accidentally hit the Siri button, but it's enabled here so it just triggers the Siri tutorial overlay. Which is less annoying than what you experience.

On keyboard input, that's probably the only place where a smartphone becomes valuable. The old Apple TV remote iOS app was good for entering usernames, passwords and search terms.
Similar, but on another level, is how we can't see our mind very well, because, well yeah...

That's one of the things meditation leads to, a sort or meta-mind state where you can observe the workings of your mind. A very subtle yet profound experience.
It's no more pay-to-win than eve online, where you can also essentially spend $$ on virtual spaceships. I see a lot of people bringing this up but in a game where you don't actually "win", more money doesn't actually make you win.

> What's sad, there are other ambitious (and actually existing) games, like Dwarf Fortress that could've easily used all this money.

I've never seen the lost sale fallacy and the fallacy of relative privation combined like that, that's fun. Anyway this is completely irrelevant - it's also money that could have gone to cancer research.
How about politicians listen to and communicate properly with the population? If the target of the politicians is to reduce CO2 emissions, they should say so. If the target is to get rid of huge, ugly, oversized SUVs in cities, they should say so.

Secretly embedding stuff in unrelated other stuff is bad politics, yet the trend to do this is rising :/
It was originally released with PowerPC binaries on the disk, and then later re-released with Intel OSX compatible binaries, the only reason it doesn't work now is the requirement of 256 colour mode which was removed in like, OSX 10.5 or so. Starcraft 2 was released on OSX, same as all Blizzard games I'm aware of. This is a Cider wrapped OSX binary so not truly native, but works well enough that nobody seems to complain.
Then allow them to go at night and put some street lights up the trail. Also not impossible.
If on OS X, you can probably run it inside a virtual machine (Windows 98 images can be downloaded for free from the MS site I think).

Performance-wise it shouldn't be an issue on today's hardware.
It is mentioned in the article that the Minister for International Trade, Chrystia Freeland, wanted Canadians to send her comments about it.

Here is her tweet about it:
https://twitter.com/CanadaTrade/status/662397645722361856

It would be nice if there was a website breaking down what exactly is bad about the TPP, complete with links back to the draft text and if people just replied back with that. I think something like genius.com would be useful for this purpose, but I don't have the knowledge to highlight what is bad.

Edit: Well, I'm getting started putting stuff up on Genius.com: http://genius.com/albums/Transpacific-partnership-tpp-negoti... .

Here is where the PDFs are: http://www.mfat.govt.nz/Treaties-and-International-Law/01-Tr...

Another edit: I am just dumping the text for now. Not sure if I will get to formatting it nicely.
title should rather be "no more hype for Graphite".
And yet I shy away from Dota, LoL, etc, because it wants me to learn the stats of a hundred heroes before I can play it somewhat competitively.
From the press to the public, yes, but insufficiently. From him to the press, which is where the barrier of classifiedity was actually breached, there was no discretion at all.
The tax breaks are built in for the life of the wind farms, so they don't really expire until the farms are retired.

The culprit is not actually the PTC, it's the combination of the PTC and insufficient transmission capacity from the wind farms to the rest of the state. When additional transmission capacity is added the wind generation will be absorbed (and paid for) by a much larger region and the incentive to under-price will go away.
It screws over Americans too, but it benefits certain large corporations.
Seriously? Look, it is plain rude to park directly in front of someone's drive. There's no two ways about that.
I should not have to be go and park my car somewhere else because people can't be bothered to not be rude.

I have plenty of property in front of my house that they could have parked (it's 25 extra feet they would have had to walk). That's what plenty of other people were doing. There's plenty of open space on the other side of the street as well.
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I first heard of trout trickling when reading Roald Dahl's Danny the Champion of the World. I'm surprised to know it's actually a thing - I thought the author made it up. Of course, as others mentioned, highly illegal and discouraged in modern times
The same reason he was retarded enough to give up his career and home to leak classified information to the press.
Rather light on details.
You're on a losing game trying to argue your case with the Wikipedicians. Lets see some notable characters that do past the notability test:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpongeBob_SquarePants_(charact...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pee-wee_Herman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lurch_(The_Addams_Family)
Related:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolls_from_Olgino

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html?_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbian_Chemicals_Plant_expl...
Running games in a VM is always a totally crappy experience, running it in wine is better but still not completely perfect. With Yosemite there's some graphical glitches which make it effectively unplayable, most of it runs at about 2 FPS.
So I have a story about this.

Back in 2007, my friends and I were at a 4 month co-op internship at Qualcomm. One weekend, we decided to drive up to LA from San Diego.

We drove as close as we could to the Hollywood sign, and got to a cul de sac where we saw a few cars parked, and a few families hiking down a hill from the sign.

We parked, and walked up the hill, noticing a sign that said it was illegal to hike to the sign. We questioned whether it was a good idea to ignore the sign, but seeing as whole families were ignoring it, we thought it would be fine.

We hiked for a few minutes, and then saw a security guard pull up in a car near our cars. I wasn't sure how legally I was parked, so we went back to avoid a ticket.

The guard ignores all the families, and targets us, asking us what we were doing hiking up there. We said we just wanted a picture, and he yelled at us about the sign. We said we didn't see it, and he called us idiots. He asked to see our IDs, at which point, my friend started talking back, saying no way. Being that we were Canadian, and on work visas, I didn't want to push my luck, being a minority too. I knew that if this guard called the cops, I'd be in a bit more trouble, and I thought I'd be in jeopardy of getting shipped back to Canada. It didn't help that the friend mouthing back wasn't a minority; I don't think he realized how scared we are in general of cops.

My friend kept mouthing off, saying that the guard had no right to talk to us like that, and we were going to leave. At this point, the guard says he's calling the cops, and that we have to deal with them.

At this point, I jumped in, asked the guard to calm down, and that I'll talk to him privately. He told me to tell my friend to watch his tone, and I pleaded with him to let us go, since I really didn't want to deal with the cops over something minor on account of us not being American. He copied down my info from my license, gave us a warning, and let us go.

Now, I did know my "rights", and I knew he had no grounds to detain us. But I didn't know those signs were fake, so I really thought we might be in trouble. Also, I didn't know if those rights applied to us as non-Americans. My friends said I was an idiot for giving my ID, and I agreed, but I just wanted to get out of there. I was 22 at the time too, so I probably was a bit more naive.

Reading this article brought back this memory, and now makes me realize how we were bamboozled. Live and learn I suppose.
I play blizzard games on a MBP, and they're working quite fine; but, I'm not expecting alienware-like performance either.
Indeed. An unfortunate dilemma of espionage.
I would say it's 50/50 between Warhammer 40k and the Alien franchise when it comes to StarCraft. Both StarCraft and WarCraft steals from a ton of other franchises and glues them together, reaffirming the saying "Good artists borrow, great artists steal!"
You can try it for 60 days and there's an easy way to remove your account and data for good.
Blizzard pretty good recent track record with supporting OS X. World of Warcraft, StarCraft 2, Hearthstone, and Heroes of the Storm all run under OS X.

Unfortunately, Blizzard's latest game, Overwatch, will not be coming to OS X. That question happened to be the first one asked by a member of the audience in the first Overwatch panel on Friday, November 6 at the BlizzCon 2015.
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I already have - that's called sending email.

I am of course a hypocrite, as are we all, I'm sure. But I don't see how that's relevant here.
Can people hear you crunch?
I could swear that it was at #3 when I posted, but perhaps you're right. Anyway, there was no flame war or excessive incivility it that thread...
Actually that's not a stupid idea. Why can't I use my iPhone as keyboard input? We can already use the phone for other stuff.

Sounds like it's so obvious that Apple is probably planning it :)
Downvotes can just mean 'I disagree'. It's stupid and wrong and confuses everyone new since it ghosts the comment, but it's the sanctioned action of HN since time immemorial. The argument has been had many times before, but it's acceptable HN behaviour. If you look in my profile, you'll see a screed against the moderation system that was written about four years ago...

Basically just suck it up and don't read too much into the "I disagree"s.
That's subjective :) I much prefer Independence War 2. It's superior to the old Chris Roberts classics imho:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_War_2:_Edge_of_Ch...

* https://www.gog.com/game/independence_war_2

* http://store.steampowered.com/app/359630/
Interaction design is a craft, and gaming is the subcategory of interaction design that most often ventures into the world of art. But the thing that most constrains the artform is this "little brother" mindset. Instead of waiting for society to understand and comprehend the medium, those who craft video games work to make their medium more like film or novels or music or other "high" artforms.

So I get a little twitchy when a gaming website does a story about a franchise like StarCraft and features the writing as the game changing aspect of it. StarCraft is not great because it's a sci-fi game. Warcraft is not great because it has ogres. Super Mario Brothers is not great because it has a chubby Italian plumber.

Interaction design often requires some metaphor - some analogy to inspire your first interaction with the system. The plumber, the ogre, the Zealot. But once you push that first button, and the system responds, the analogy is no longer the inspiration for delight, for frustration, for joy or pain. The interaction itself becomes the driving factor. And the most perfectly crafted interactions can inspire the full range of emotions without relying on a coherent plot, orchestrated sound, or ten minutes of FMV.

And StarCraft is one of the greatest examples of this. I don't care what a Zealot's motivation is, I only care about how much ground he can cover before the Hydra destroys him. My pulse is rising because the HP of my units is falling and my army is shrinking faster than my opponent's, not because I feel bad that the Zealots didn't procure the glory their race yearns after.

If gaming is ever going to take its proper place in the pantheon of higher artforms, it needs to stop acting like something it's not. Video games aren't movies, and they never will be. I hope the video games industry figures this out someday.
There's an MS Research demo site that does a decent job. http://how-old.net/
No need to be so defensive.
The good and the bad of a Chrome OS/Android merge
Technology marches ever forwards.
Sure.

dvh was commenting the variety of ways the f phoneme can be written down in different english words, and for the purposes of the discussion, elthran's conservative line on where does the english language end is not really super useful. Having 5 or 6 different symbols for a single sound is irrelevant; the point is that the article is considering letters as whole symbols for a sound, when they might be part of a symbol, not the whole symbol, for a sound. If gh is /f/ in a particular word, then using that word as part of the g cancellation is wrong.
No, I'm not. No clue how you got there.

If you have an unpopular view, speak out. Be oppressed. Fight back against the oppression if you can, and roll over and die if you cannot. If you win, your side is and always was right. If you lose, the opposite.
Let's take Grand Theft Auto 5 as a comparison point as it's probably the only game at the moment with a scope comparable to Star Citizen - out of the two Star Citizen likely has the larger scope. GTA 5 cost $137 million to develop and, due to the comparative scopes, it can be estimated that Star Citizen would cost more.

People are unbelievably ignorant about how much a AAA title costs to produce. SC is going to need much more money if it is ever going to meet Robert's grandiose plans.

However, Chris seemingly has virtually no discipline in terms of product management. The scope of the game is accelerating in the face of decelerating sponsorship.

Where has the money gone? Probably to the features that he has promised - sadly, not enough to any one single feature. $94 million simply isn't enough. If Star Citizen doesn't get more money it might end up being a bag of half-implemented features and is going to be a text-book example of runaway scope creep.
correct prior news.ycombinator link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10517936
Reminds me of something you'd find in a copy of 2600.
> contains “troubling” rules on intellectual property that threaten to make Canada a “permanent underclass” in the economy of selling ideas

Why?

> He fears it would give American firms an edge and cost Canadian companies more money because they would have to pay for someone else’s ideas instead their own.

What?

> On top of that, Balsillie believes the structure could prevent Canadian firms from growing as it would also limit how much money they can make from their own products and services.

Again why?

I don't think this article ever specifically explains why TPP is bad for Canada.
"Oh, and BTW: Nobody complains when Blizzard runs late with their games :)"

To be fair, they're not charging you years before the game is actually released
No, they're saying that unpopular, unfree DVCSes are less new.
CS:GO works on OS X :) http://store.steampowered.com/app/730/ OS: MacOS X 10.6.6 or higher

It'd be interesting to know if it was economical for Valve to do these OS X ports. I guess they wanted to spread Steam usage to other OSes. I'm curious if it worked and if it was worth it.
Do not work with it, why?

1. average electricity spending in total much higher than value of bitcoin. Basically bitcoin causes more co2 emission.

2. In its current form, bitcoin is not feasible in the future to mine, are tou going to download 10Tb of chain into your PC? if no than after 10-20years other average person will think alike. other solution is centralizing some of the data, than its not P2P.

3. Satoshi left the community, who knows maybe he is/they are working with their real name, but anyway they probably found some issues with it and its not leaving without reason.

Why learn?
Its amazing piece of technology, logic and how human brain create such solutions.
"Queue is just Q followed by four silent vowels"
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If everyone can code we will automate the economy to such an extent that goods and services will be practically free.
Diseñando un prototipo de tu app (antes de que sea demasiado tarde)
Or how about, let's say, a full-concrete birdbath on a column?
> My grievance is that it looks like they'll never "port" to the most recent versions of the oculus SDK/DK2

I recall some hearsay on the Horizons stream about them updating their DK2 support, possibly before SDK 1.0.

There is a runtime switcher[1] which has overall positive feedback, but I haven't bothered to try it as I can't make heads and tails of the ambiguous installation instructions - might work out for you, though.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/3paivl/rtu_package_...
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Why education is productive – a parable of men and beasts
Actually, Starcraft is almost 90% Starship Troopers. From the armored exoskeletons (why do you think there's a "Marauder" unit in the game?), to the bug-like Zerg and the skinny-like Protoss.
Africa's coming along but from a low base. See Hans Rosling's 2015 visualisation. Asia in red, Africa blue, Europe yellow:

https://youtu.be/_JhD37gSNVU?t=55s
Archaeologists were Dead Wrong
thr more likely scenario would be:
"...a [suspected] terrorist is captured and you have to put a stop to [an unkown but potential] operation. [a] cell [he is thought to be affiliated with may] kill a hundred or so people in the next month...."

My point is the chances that you know everything with certainty except x or y and all you need to do is torture this guy to find out x is alsmot never the case...are you ok with "we think this guy might know x, who we know is a bad guy, lets torture him to find out"

Let's for a second say it WAS the case, the proverbial ticking time bomb, do you propose tortureing innocents that may have tangential information that may prove useful but they are with holding I.e. Children, parents, siblings, friends?
Here is a documentary which could shed more light on the issues Non-US countries face with TPP:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0LOwmwgkdA

I researched some of the issues they mention, and so far the film makes some excellent points.
Blizzard has a tradition and a history of saying
"It's released when it's done"

They don't charge or promise anything. You do realise that? You do see the difference right?
Reading is tech: He quickly left to start a string of his own businesses, in sectors from coal to mobile phones.
Time+Tracker+for+Linux:+What+if+your+Contractors+Prefer+Linux?
I think the comments of the FBI revealed wrt. the CIA torture programs shows that CIA officers a) don't know how to interrogate people, and b) do need to be reminded what a lie is.

I agree that if what you want is some concrete information that the subject is reluctant to give up ("Where have you buried the guns I need in order to kill the rest of your family?") -- you could probably get at that via torture. I don't know if that would typically be the fastest or most reliable way to get that information (Consider, eg: Staging an escape, allowing the subject, helped by an under-cover agent, point you to said guns).

I think people get hung up on the "bomb plot theory" too much. My impression is that while such simple cases make for great TV, that's not the kind of real-world questions intelligence organizations really are concerned with. So if we say: "ok, use torture to save the children!" -- if that was taken at face value -- it means: "Disband most (all?) large-scale operations that allow torture today, such as the CIA programs."

I also think there's a bit of a hang-up on "effectiveness". If you're fighting an illegal war, kidnapping and killing people that are clearly innocent -- it's hard to accept an argument from "effectiveness". At least if there's no indication that atrocities would stop if you "won".
Well, the BnF might not consider Stanford's usage as commercial, especially since they say it's a "collaboration".

Besides, as mentioned on the BnF website, the law allows public administration to charge for license or usage, regardless of commercial or not, of material they have collected, produced or provided at cost, as long as it doesn't make a profit[0].

I still think individuals should obviously have free access to it (citizens or not), but I don't see the current situation as as outrageous as you want to make it, and definitely not as abuse from the upper class (which is very real, in other domains).

[0]http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTE...
Agreed, and it's basically like watching Battlecruiser 3000AD [1] happen all over again...

"Battlecruiser 3000AD (also known as BC3K on Usenet) is a science fiction computer game, noted for its long, troubled development history."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlecruiser_3000AD
You can make anything sound nice if you couch it in vague enough terms. Spying on other countries is in fact, the entire point of the NSA. Domestic surveillance is not, and it was right to expose that. However, that does not excuse the things he inappropriately leaked any more than the NSA's lawful data collection excuses their unlawful programs.