skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sweet game, nicely done!

Enjoyed figuring out what the hats are for, and how to use them.

In no particular order:

- with the blue hat, keeping c pressed will turbo-toggle invisibility. It looks like it does something, but it doesn't

- when you are in the air while doing a big jump (green hat) and then switch to speed (pink hat) you suddenly lurge forward and miss your jump. Ouch! In the same style, when walking to a cliff and switching hats (to get to the green one) you enthusiastically run into the cliff the moment you equip the pink hat.

- having two different jump buttons with the green hat is confusing. It's also not consistent with the pink hat. The pink hat makes you run even if you don't press c, but the green hat doesn't "upgrade" your normal jump with x.

- I haven't been able to figure out what the yellow (music?) hat is for.

- I only discovered by accident that you can use the dead bodies of the bigger enemies as plateau.

- touching the spikes with a toe kills you instantly. Not very forgiving.

- it took me a few levels to figure out that you have to walk _past_ a door to trigger it, that standing in front of it and hitting some keys doesn't work.

- having to switch quickly to the right hat can be frustrating. Especially if you see enemies approaching from both sides and you accidentally cycle past the blue hat.

- I got stuck on the level where you have to scare one of the big guys into a cliff with the red hat. I can stand on the body, but I can't make the jump to the exit because the avatar either hits his head on the ceiling or doesn't jump far enough. I suspect there's some kind of floating ability I missed. Hrm.

Nice game though. Congrats!
For the comparison you seem to be interested in choose the measurements where the programs are forced onto a single core

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all...
Water Vapor Decline Halted Climate Warming?
What are the combined resources thrown at gaming Google's search results? What are the combined resources thrown at preventing people from gaming Google's search results? The webspam team is big and staffed with some incredibly intelligent people, but there are probably millions of people out there that are all trying to figure out how to rank highly in search results.
Oh, no sorry. Using Chrome which isn't supported. Apologies if I was wrong!!
Google to launch its own App Store for Google Apps
Oh yeah, definitely. Like I mentioned in the post it could be pretty easily converted to bash (except for the RPROMPT), I just haven't gotten around to doing it.
The Splinternet means the end of the Web's golden age
Yes, and this is why I am looking at a Nexus One and perhaps one of the Android tablets.

On a related note, why is it that the position of "I don't like the closed environment and will thus invest in Android" causes such fevered responses by so many people? Is it really necessary for the author of the original article to insult people such as myself by calling us "snivelling" and to tell us to "put up or shut up"? I find this article a little embarrassing for gizmodo.

The situation is simple. If an open software platform really does produce better software, then likely Android will win in the long run. Some of us are buying into the model we think is better. We will likely recommend the same products to friends and family.
What is your confusion? Do you understand binary representation of numbers? Can you given us the binary representation of 11? 12? 25? -9?

Do you know what the logical operations are? AND? OR? XOR? NOT? What are the answers to these:

1 AND 1
1 AND 0
1 OR x (where x is 0 or 1)

Without that knowledge you have a problem. With that knowledge the problem lies elsewhere and we can explore that. If you can work on this is slow time then I'd be happy to get an email asking questions.

ADDED IN EDIT: Can you give an example of a case or calculation you don't understand?
I guess you stumbled past the places where the benchmarks game website links to "Overall Performance: PHP is rarely the bottleneck (HTML slides)" http://talks.php.net/show/drupal08/7
I have always been under the impression that the primary sticking point with Apple with regards to Flash is that it would allow the implementation of everything in the App Store without involving Apple.
I really like how we understand where his mindset was at that time. Toy Story wasn't released until 1995, so overall he was literally at a crossroads in his life, with a glorious past and a somewhat unknown future.
I think IQ tests sound arrogant because they are always given as rank in the population, rather than in absolute terms. "I can recognize any of 9 fundamental patterns in less than 10 seconds, perform 0.3 FLOPS and know the 10 most common heuristics for beating IQ test problems" doesn't sound nearly as arrogant in my opinion.
Yeah, I've seen vcs_info around before. It's exactly like you said -- it supports more VCSes and it's quicker to set up than hand-rolling your own, but it's less flexible.
Quotes Every Geek Should Know
http://www.haxney.org/2009/08/its-alive.html

and of course:

http://emacs-w3m.namazu.org/
The Making of an Expert (2007)
What are some of the tasks you've had a bad experience with?

I work in Google Search, and we actively try to identify areas that people are having difficulty with and then come up with ways to make their search experience better. Unfortunately, most of the low-hanging fruit has already been picked. If we knew precisely where the pain points were, we'd be much better able to solve them.
We're all cyborgs now
Nintendo actually started a component based operating system using mostly ECMAScript. It's now being developed by Google.

It's also open source:

http://code.google.com/p/es-operating-system/
>What about the freedom to peacefully assemble? That's in the first amendment as well.

You want to extend the right to peaceful assembly to private property? So if your partners ex- doesn't like you they can picket your bed?!
Zune Phone to Debut, Will Use Nvidia Tegra
This is highly unsurprising considering the law and the attitude of the public (including HN). The first amendment has no bearing on "private" places, even if a public figure such as the President is involved.

However disagreeable this may be, it seems that most people on HN would agree with the ruling as evidenced by highly voted comments such as this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1068959
It's interesting they haven't extended the language in the same way Fog Creek took VBScript/ASP, wrote a compiler for it and then started improving the language (a.k.a. Wasabi). I suppose PHP already implements practically every language feature you could think of (though the quality often divides the minds to put it lightly), so making it even bigger isn't going to make things better.

Or maybe they have and it's kind of got lost in the hype.
Your partner can't picket your bed because that would be trespassing.

The people in this article had the rights and invitation to be at the speech. There was no trespassing involved. They weren't even picketing before they were forced to leave.
Why your friends have more friends than you have
ECMAScript Operating System from Nintendo and Google
I generally go by the "how would I feel if my boss walked by and saw my screen" test. While it's not huge, it is fairly obvious, even from a distance, exactly what it is. To be fair, I didn't really understand the subtitle, particularly where it mentioned "risque".
> power users, who will always prefer Firefox

Why do you say that? Chrome has extension support, I'm not sure what unique feature Firefox will have left shortly.
Nobody has the right to assemble on someone else's private property. Moreover, even with public property, the right to peacefully assemble seems to be not without restraint. For instance, the courts have upheld laws creating "buffer zones" for abortion clinic protests. Likewise, a lot of cities require you to get a permit for demonstration purposes.
GCC's non-standard extensions are typically compiler features, whereas Apple's "C blocks" involves a substantial addition to the runtime. IMHO the GCC folks have good reason to avoid runtime extensions.

Apple does provide the source for their blocks environment... But it's the type of code that probably has subtle platform-specific ABI dependencies. Who is going to port and verify it on all the platforms GCC supports?
Markets to students of the humanities: "Don't bother."
Ask HN: What's with the Spam recipes in Gmail´s spam folder?
Does anyone know the story behind the "spam" recipes in the Gmail Spam folder?
If Google switched to anything like that, I'd be tempted to GreaseMonkey it back to how it was. It looks a bit like Bing. Just to start: Not every result has the domain showing (unless you mouseover) which makes it hard to filter the crud at first sight and results are spread too far apart. When you do mouseover, the URL is in a realllly bright, hard to read green. I thought fades, pastel colors, and stupid mouseover effects went out in 2008.

I take back what I said about Google not having enough creatives on the other Google story today. At least the engineers have made something that's usable..
I realize that this doesn't exactly address the root cause of your issue, but if you right click on selected text in Chrome, one of the menu entries will be to google for it in another tab.
Short phrase becomes more complex when examined... some history here:
http://blogs.adobe.com/jd/2009/07/opening_the_flash_file_for...
Amongst my scientist friends, xkcd is a favourite.
While the winning design is nice and quite devoid of visual noise, I did find the mouseovers that display the "Cached" and "Similar" links along with the green URL to be distracting precisely because they would appear during mouseover and catch my eye more than if they were just there to begin with.

Also, there are probably millions or billions of other web pages in greater need of a redesign than Google's results page. This contest feels like trying to come up with a more exotic flavor of vanilla: Tahitian, Indonesian, Madagascar, etc.
What does iPOS stand for?
Is it time to dump the iPhone and go Google?
>It looks like they gave him full credit for this. Unless he was selling access to this blog post, I'm not sure why this is an issue.

Perhaps you missed the quite important point that Ajaxian was using this post to drive traffic to their site effectively and selling advertisements based on its, and not their own, merits? They're not just linking to something and showing it to their users, they're getting his paid-for account to serve the content so that they can make advertising revenue off of his work. I think the ethical issue with such an action should be clear.
Okay you need to be a bit more specific - since I, for one, do not have spam recipes in my Gmail spam folder (the spam musubi recipe definitely doesn't count as, err, spam).
You lie.
http://www.google.com/search?q=filetype%3Aswf+%22contrary+ev...
http://www.asual.com/swfaddress/samples/
http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/products/flash/
There's also Quercus from the Resin folks:

http://quercus.caucho.com/
The link is blocked by our proxy at work.
Link to a demo of the winner: http://www.injectiondesign.com/google/
Lee does a lot of travel and presentations, working on sample files, blogging, customer interaction.

The frothiness of the "'HTML5' VIDEO" talk requires a significant amount of research to determine the reality-of-the-week.
Google spends a lot of time tweaking their front page when they really should be working on their results page, which has stayed the same for about a decade now.

Actually they spend a ton of time tweaking the results page, and there have been a lot of changes in the past decade. Most of them are fairly subtle: fonts, spacing, colors. Some of them are quite obvious: the Comment, Promote, and Remove links, for example.

They've also integrated other forms of search into the results page (maps, shopping, twitter), and put a lot of work into optimizing the load time. There is at least one (fairly large) team working basically full-time on the results page. They do a lot of A/B testing; only design changes that "work" are released to everyone.
Video comparison - HTC Nexus One vs. iPhone 3GS
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Well, the problem is: Write a program setbits(x, p, n, y); which returns x with the n bits that begin at position p set to the rightmost n bits in y, leaving the other bits unchanged.

I've tried to solve it.

To answer your questions; Yes, I understand binary representation,
11 is 1011
12 is 1100
25 is 11001
-9 is 1001010 (where the leftmost bit is set to 1)
Another great one:
http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/031208/how-many-digits-of...
Faster than Hyper-Personal Home Page, anyway.
Personally, I find this incredibly unpleasant to use. The URLs and other hidden information is actually quite useful to me. Rollover just isn't fast enough.
I need a web based wiki/concept-map hybrid.
Try to build something that deals with the amount of data that Google has, as quickly as Google handles it, with everything distributed, replicated, load balanced, and with failover to keep the site up when bad things happen anywhere in the system. (Which happens more often than we would like.)

Before you're done you'll have built a lot of pieces of software that do different things that have complex little dependencies on each other.

Now iterate that through many generations of development, and build some other systems that tackle similar problems.

Do that and you'll discover why Google's infrastructure is complex.
>I hesitate to call something like this an operating ....

<humor>
Why not? If Microsoft can call Windows versions before Win 95 an operating system, I think this qualifies. ;-)
</humor>

In all seriousness, if there's no task scheduler or multitasking capabilities in this software (and I must admit I haven't poked at it enough to determine whether there is or not), it's not much of an operating system. It kind of reminds me of when I was 12 and thought I'd make an "operating system" using QBasic. (What I ended up with was little more than a glorified text-based, menu-driven program launcher. But, hey, I was 12.)
I've been a big firefox fan since phoenix, but already moved to chrome for only one reason:

Fastest...browser...evar
Reminds me of:

If she weighed the same as a duck... she's made of wood.
And therefore...
...A witch!
The kind of person that truly doesn't need a co-founder doesn't need to spend this much time worrying about it.

Just do your thing, and let other people realize how right your choice was for your situation.
Improvement is in the eye of the beholder.

My personal experience of search got a lot better when they started suppressing mirrored content. For me to go back to what they had 10 years ago would be painful. Another improvement that I like is the ability to use search to find stuff on a particular site.

What change would make it better for you?
I've unsubbed from their feed.
Reddit has a new [comment] rendering engine
They promoted him. They showed the same content he did, plus a strong endorsement, minus some of the bandwidth costs.

And he's mad that they might have earned a few dollars from their ads?
Hmm. I'm a mathematician/computer scientist and I know significantly more than 1 digit of pi. What does that make me, hmm? :-)

Offhand (mentally recites pi) I can come up with about 10 digits without using a calculator. If I ever need an approximation to pi to do a calculation, though, I go with either 22/7, 355/113, or 3.14159.
Well, -9 isn't 1001010, but we can explore that another time.

The real help would be if you showed what you've tried. However:

How can you extract the rightmost (least significant) 3 bits of a number x?

How can you move the bits in a number to the left (make them more significant)?

How can you turn off some bits in a number?

Can you puzzle out how these questions/answers can be glued together to do what you want?

Have you tried doing it by hand on paper?

Here:

x = 1010101010101
p = 4
n = 5
y = 11111111

Show us what you actually need to do, step by step.

PS: This probably isn't the forum to have a tutorial on such questions, and I'm going off line in a few minutes. If no one else answers your questions, email me.

PPS: Where does this question come from? What resources do you have?
There is no "'HTML5' VIDEO".

AAPL and GOOG can use VIDEO tag for H.264-encoded video.

Mozilla and Opera can use VIDEO tag for Ogg Theora encoded video.

There are two distinct implementations: VIDEO/H.264 and VIDEO/Theora. Neither supports the other.

You got suckered by the "'HTML5' VIDEO" talk. Not your fault; even its proponents didn't address such video basics until it became too late.
Agreed, but I think there's not as much need with linode & rackspace. I believe they pretty much work as you would expect, and they're sufficiently open that if you asked questions my guess is that their default position would be to tell you (in contrast to Amazon.)
Tiny bee brains could serve as models for facial recognition systems
Played for a few minutes, couldn't get past the first guy.. as in, the guy you see within 5 seconds. I tried shooting those clouds but they don't seem to affect him, and if I try to run through him.. I die. So.. HTF do you play this game? :-)
X makes you invisible - notice how your opacity changes? Just go invisible and let them zombie walk by you, the continue on your merry way :)
Is flash really the only good language to write web games in?

I started writing a game in Love/lua, which is really great. But you can't write web games in it, as far as I know. Any other options?
Depends how much they add. Like most people, I think, I don't have a high opinion of things that could be described as knockoffs. E.g.

http://money.cnn.com/2007/10/02/technology/kopy_kat_kids.biz...

Whereas if the idea is significantly transformed, it starts to be a new idea. If someone started a YC-style operation for funding films, I'd think that was cool. In fact I've suggested it to several people.
With the sort of tech they're working on, a PHP -> something-not-evil compiler seems like a pretty reasonable solution.
Just curious, how does something like TGIF work with remote offices? Does everyone attend the meeting with some sort of video/audio conferencing?
I take it you are referring to the Google-style plain text ads for Spam (the meat product) recipes that appear if you look into your Gmail spam folder.

I think Hormel

http://www.hormel.com/

simply has a sense of humor about Spam.

http://www.spam.com/games/Museum/default.aspx

I presume Hormel and Google have some kind of business arrangement (maybe just a conventional online advertisement contract) by which the ads appear on Gmail. I think it's amusing.
The fact that it's tasteful art doesn't change that it's nudity. If 1% of the population will get offended, it's best to at least put up a warning.
Unfortunately the colour spectrum is unfriendly to those of us with red-green colour blindness: it's hard to differentiate between positive and negative percentage changes without looking at the tooltips. Aside from that, nice treemap.
The Simple Truth
Yea, they can video conference in. There is also a web based system for asking Larry & Sergey questions. The large majority of Google's engineering force is in Mountain View though. If you ever do work at Google, go to Mountain View... all of the other campuses get similar perks, but Mountain View gets the best.
HINT: the one digit ain't in ASCII
Chrome extensions are OK, but they're severely limited compared to what you can pull off with FF extensions: http://conkeror.org used to be implemented using only the FF extension mechanism. Chromium extensions cannot alter built-in UI elements, so you're stuck with the standard WIMP UI. It's the only thing keeping me on the Gecko platform.
Fish Oil may prevent severe mental illness
Then what is stopping someone from designing a better experience?
It's a reasonable counter-argument, but I don't buy it.

1. All those millions of people are competing against each other - many of them will cancel each other out.

2. It doesn't seem at all like google can't control spam, but that given well-funded companies (ideally from California) they look the other way. It seems less like a lack of resources and more like a lack of integrity.
One thing that should immediately pop out at even the casual observer: the traditional bugaboos of the right (social services for poor people, welfare, etc.) are a tiny, tiny minority of the budget. You can cut them down to an expenditure of 0, and you won't really change the bottom line.

If we're going to come to terms with the national deficit, we're going to have to accept the fact that military, social security and medicare expenditures are going to have to shrink. The problem is not poor people: it's old people and wars.
I am not a lawyer, nor do I play one on HN, nor am I going to resort to "Hell in the US you can probably sue for anything - but you're not going to win", much as I am tempted.

The legal definition of libel is a false statement published with the intent to defame a living person.

Now, affirmative action is not a statement, true or false, about a living person. If you are hired somewhere because of affirmative action legislation, this does not equate to Congress or your employer saying "you are a moron, have a cookie". Whether you agree with it or not, the purpose of affirmative legislation is to statistically address socially-derived shortcomings in the performance of a minority by temporarily stacking the deck in their favour. This is commonly misunderstood by some people, who think the purpose of affirmative action is to benefit a particular individual.

So for example, causing a person from a racial minority to be admitted to college by enacting racial admission quotas is not intended to help that particular person; it is because the largest determinant factor in whether somebody will gain college admission is a college educated parent. So in this case, you are stacking the decks for a group of people now so that you won't have a disparity in the next generation. In other words, even if you have benefited from affirmative action, it was not done for your personal sake. It was done for reasons of social engineering.

It's a complicated issue, and I doubt HN is the place for it.
Stress hormone is key in finding new way to treat diabetes.
Ask HN: How to compete with a large web company for a gig?
How do I compete with a large web company, for a client?

I was approached by a potential client about developing a website. He is not tech savvy at all. He has an expansive spec in mind, which is technically challenging. Basically a social network + ecommerce site + beautiful web design.

Working in my favor, I showed him a previous social network that I built.

However, I am competing for this client with a larger design shop with a large portfolio. Their focus is on ecommerce and slick design. I believe they are a PHP shop.

I don't think price is the concern with the client. He values low risk and safety and full-service. He is also interested in hosting and security.

I showed him the work of my web designer to whom I subcontract, which is also very beautiful and slick. I also pointed out that my competitor might not have much experience with building a social network, which means it could be months before they deliver anything.

He responded that they showed him a huge social networking site that they are building. Also, that they have a big portfolio and are "a company", whereas I am a single person. (I do have collaborators with whom I subcontract, though.)

What can I say to sway the decision in my favor?

I don't want to compete on price, because I don't think that is the deciding factor.

[edit: I'm already using a Python open-source social network, Pinax, which is very good.]
> On the iPad, it looks like developers won't be able to write applications in Java, .net, Python, Ruby, Perl, or any number of other languages (including Flash).

Aren't there cross compilers for some of this? And why can't you use the Flash-to-Objective-C cross compiler Adobe themselves made for the iPad?