skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, and I also have a possible theory as to why this is.

Game developers are, for the most part, quite smart.

When a game company, or any tech company, for that matter, runs into a problem that needs solving, they generally try and solve it in-house to start with. The normal traits that make a developer good at his job (problem solving skills, intelligence, confidence in his/her abilities, etc) sometimes are their own worst enemy, as they feel that they can solve that particular problem.

Very rarely have I found smart developers that understand and recognize their limits to the point that they suggest bringing in outside, professional help, rather than tackling the problem themselves. This makes them look bad to management and their peers, and can damage their ego. And it may seem like a fun challenge as well. They honestly think that they can figure out a solution to just about any problem, even if that problem is way outside of their skill set or experience.

Personally, my experience is in architecting large, scalable, fault tolerant systems, like online banking, offshore gambling, government stuff, and online global gaming systems.

I've been brought into more than a few situations where this has been exactly the case. Sure, the in-house devs have come up with a solution, and they're doing everything that a smart person would do for the first pass at a solution, but they don't have the experience to know what will or won't work down the road.

Their first iteration ran into the same problems that every other first iteration had, but their timeline, budgets, and marketing pressures don't afford them the luxury of improving it to where it should be.

I have the luxury of the experience to come in with knowledge of the 20th iteration of a solution, and can apply them early on in the process.

My current contract is just like that... I made design and implementation decisions early on that seemed to make no sense to the devs, even after I explained the reasoning, but now that we're 8 months down the road and they see those designs in action, they get it. And a lot of that also has to do with the devs lack of experience and understanding of what an operations team needs to run the system.

Anyway, this has been some of my experience, and it wouldn't surprise me to find that it could quite possibly be the case here.
A couple of friends on anoher forum have reported they are pretty major.

I'm inclined to think it's not completely cracked. I played a little with the network traffic and it's definitely encrypted/signed. Also one of the gnomes in the office had a go at reverse engineering it and as far as he's got so far he says it is pretty solidly done.
OSX runs Posix compliant core, so they can use programs made for Linux. They have collaborated in the past with Konqueror developing team to make Safari the browser it is. And yet they don't offer Quicktime for my Linux. They would surely get help from Linux community if it's too troublesome.

Then they make adds that are only on Quicktime format. To me this seems like Apple is admitting that Linux is superior to their operating systems, so why bother advertise to us.
I'd be more interested if the underwear on offer wasn't such lousy quality. I can see that they're looking for hefty markups, but it makes no sense to me to set up a service like this and then sell really crummy socks. From the link:

Hanes Classics Comfort Cool Ankle
Fiber Content: Cotton/Polyester/Acrylic/Nylon/Spandex/Other Fiber

I don't know about you, but I have a general policy of not wearing anything made of "Other Fiber".
Depending on the Mobile Web
FYI: They are sold out while they work on upscaling their production process.
Here is a restaurant website for a UK based chain that we just launched (in Dec 09).

http://giraffe.net

I feel its both attractive and functional. Its primarily supposed to be a website (i.e used from a normal web browser) but will work fine on your iphone.

There is no flash but we've used jquery extensively for 'flashiness'.

There is also prominent twitter/flickr and facebook engagement throughout.

There are menu's (web based and pdf choices), offers and locations. Try googling for 'giraffe menu' - the menu is the top hit.

We spent a while fine tuning the location finder http://giraffe.net/restaurants which uses the google API to provide 'a nearest list' functionality. Once you chosen a restaurant it will also provide you with a list of other restaurants close to your choice.

The site www.usabilitypost.com did a feature on the location finder as we've also done something cool with the location search box.

http://www.usabilitypost.com/2009/11/30/search-dropdown-hybr...

The idea behind the site is simple. Get people to the restaurants. We've had a lot of feedback that suggests that it does just that and we're quite proud of the result.
If you're lucky enough the first time, you don't need to worry about the second.
how about an "inverse" graphing calc that takes an arbitrary line drawing and gives me a "nice-looking" equation and not just the vectorized representation?
I feel very comfortable that this bubbled to the top of HN. Not because of their malapropism but because at least somebody is meticulously reviewing stuff passed by government.
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There might be something in that. I believe I am in the supposedly affected area and was able to play the game all weekend when I tried.
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Plus, first class functions can be shown with mere high school mathematics. Lambda are really easy: the

f: R -> R
x |-> blah(x)

you find in high school would be

f : (float -> float)
= fun x -> blah x

In Ocaml (and probably F#).

The composition operator can easily be seen as a function with two arguments, which show "first class" functions:

o : (R->R), (R->R) -> (R -> R )
(f , g ) |-> (x |-> f(g(x)))

And poof, you can introduce currying:

o : ((R->R), (R->R) , R) -> R
(f , g , x) |-> f(g(x)))
I hope this isn't a DDOS attack. I hope Ubisoft just fell on their faces.
If you read one manga, read Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, by Hayao Miyazaki. Yes, that's the same Miyazaki who is the famous animation director. It's after midnight and I'm not feeling particularly eloquent, but it will be worth your while.

Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausicaä_of_the_Valley_of_the_W...
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Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1168969
A truly depressing story, but not surprising when their CEO is on the record as saying, "The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks that we brought into Activision 10 years ago was to take all the fun out making video games. I think we've definitely been able to instill in the culture the skepticism and pessimism and fear that you should have in an economy like we're in today."
I hope they get a big ass settlement and start an awesome new studio and make more awesome games (with dedicated servers please).
Could very well be, since the remainder of 'ogicals cited are actual scientific disciplines. Which prompts the question, why not phrenological?
Whoa, I didn't that realize Ada was still being used. My dad used it in defensive programming, missiles I think.
The poor guy was stuck because he though: how do I build my sub-list? Without side effect and this way of thinking, of course he was stuck. The example you have shown demonstrate you wondered what would be a simpler equivalent expression ("simpler" meaning "eventually trivial", of course).

If you think "what", recursion is easy. If you think "how", recursion is magic. I think that is the biggest leap. I forgot how I made the jump, however.
This article is (1) a dupe, and (2) not particularly insightful.

Heck, I outright disagree with half of them.

> 4: Always squeeze the hell out of the other guy’s hand while shaking it.

BS. Hand-killing is how weak people try to assert themselves. The highest quality people are very gentle when shaking hands. Bill Clinton and Richard Branson, for instance, are both known for very loose handshakes. When I meet a hand-killer, I file him into "weak and powerless person desperately trying to assert himself in the world" category mentally. I used to be a hand-killer, but started shaking hands more gently and loosely once realizing this.

> 7: Do not seek the spotlight. Only idiots want to be famous, and they get ripped apart by said fame.

Martin Luther King? Gandhi? Ben Franklin? Idiots?

> 10: Have goals. If you have a goal, you will achieve it eventually. You simply need to have that goal.

Fuzzy positive thinking. Have the goal, and works towards it! Contrary to romantic comedy wisdom, goals do not magically happen without effort on the part of the goal-seeker.

Some of his points aren't bad, but none of them are particularly good or insightful or new. "Think positive! Have goals! Be happy! Be nice to people!" We can find better articles to submit and upvote and spend our time with.
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"I know that I love booze and meat so I'm not going to relocate to Bangalore any time soon."

Plenty of Booze and meat in Bangalore. Good Pubs, not so much.
I love the fact he earmarked $2 mil of the $9 mil investment to then go and pay back-pay to his employees. The right thing to do.
From what I've read of his work, Tufte has almost a compulsion to force data to tell the truth, and do so in an effective manner.

Which makes me fear that his career in Washington will be politically disastrous and end rather quickly...

I sincerely hope I'm wrong about that. We could use more people like him keeping the government honest from the inside.
You could always just cover it in something protective? There is no doubt in my mind that someone is going to make it some "armor."
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We can do it at tinychat.com and give you raw access to the FLV's. Send me a ping and I will set you up with our private API.
The website was exactly what I thought it would be, based on the URL. Awesome.
"Wal-Mart makes their employees do this every morning, and they are the largest private employer in the US. "

On my way to my office here in Bangalore, I once saw a team do the "Walmart cheer" ("Give me a W" ...) in the lobby of another office in the same building. All the offices in the building were sw dev companies I am not sure if they had a sw dev team here or outsourced some stuff (probably the latter) but it was quite early in the morning and most of the people looked half asleep and the rest acutely embarrassed. I'd rather quit then take part in such nonsense. Starting every work day feeling like an idiot must be quite draining.
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I usually just use HTML for my docs these days. It's a lot easier to get things to look the way I want than a WYSIWYG editor, and much more portable/easier to use.

I like LaTeX too, but have found it's too much work for the simple documents I need to write.
I know what you are saying and this might be the attitude of people who own one restaurant. But when you start dealing with chains and bigger businesses they are much more interested in using the site to engage their customers. It needs to be a delivery method for offers and competitions and like the other commenters point out, SEO is a massive consideration.

Bums on seats is the bottom line.
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The actual list list seems to have a fair mix of high, middle, and low-income countries, though not really proportional to the income distribution of the world's population: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Egypt, El Salvador, France, Germany, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Philippines, Portugal, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, UK, USA.

See http://globescan.com/news_archives/bbc2010_internet/
Assignment is evil (most of the time): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1117217

That's because it's relatively rarely needed: http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/paradigms.html (I don't recall the HN submission.) The paper says that any feature in a programming language makes it more difficult to analyse it. First class functions are one of them. Named state (with assignment) is another. So, when such a feature isn't needed (for, say, modularity), the complexities it introduces are unnecessary.
And we all knew that with the publicity surrounding the new DRM, something like a DDoS at release shouldn't have been a surprise. Ubisoft really should be prepared for these attacks.
In case anyone missed it, Sarah Lacy did a TechCrunch article & NBC video interview last year:

http://techcrunch.com/2009/09/25/pandora-from-near-death-to-...
I don't think so. Google's UI is actually a well designed one,the Google's brand too. By design here you're meaning fancy graphics.
I tried to read the paper, but it's behind a paywall so I am unable to confirm whether it gives any possible mechanism for solving rivers. But it seems highly unlikely because the alignment of word gaps from one line to the next, the cause of rivers, is entirely unrelated to getting nice word spacing on the lines themselves. The abstract makes no mention of trying to solve the problem of rivers or lakes. How does the algorithm solve rivers?
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(slightly OT) I was under the impression the DIN was public domain?
Razwar has the same model for razor blades : http://www.razwar.com/products/blade-subscriptions
" I almost always went because it does help you get to know your boss and co-workers (it was only about once-a-month). I don't really see a problem with it."

I made it a point never to go for one after my first experience. In Bangalore these take weird forms, usually wasting a holiday or a weekend, landing up in some god forsaken "resort", where you can do exciting things like play badminton or carroms, Quoits or Dumb Charades (I kid you not!), or quietly get drunk in a corner, with some of the really bad companies throwing in a few "mission and vision" style speeches from the powers that be.

Once I got a letter from a VP telling me to report to his office and explain why I didn't attend the "office party weekend + mission and vision session" over the previous weekend and I explained (quite diplomatically) that I didn't give a fuck about these things and had no intention of ever attending anything like this in the future either. He seemed completely shocked and speechless and was almost in tears when I left.

My immediate superior later gave me a veiled warning that my " career progress could be affected" by such "unorthodox attitudes" but, strangely enough, it wasn't. I got regular promotions and raises and was "on the leadership track" when I left because work was too boring. They didn't believe my reason for leaving either ("I am bored out of my skull"), because I was a "senior person" (I was 28!!) and was "poised on the leadership ladder" (yes they actually spoke like that!).

These were large companies though. Small (less than 20 people) company parties were often a lot of fun. I am so glad I don't have to work for large companies anymore.
Rule of thumb for when to submit seems to be: whenever PST people are awake, and not eating meals.
Ok, sorry. No more complaints about moderation.
It actually doesn't matter how the building was brought down for the people who are in it -- what matters is that the building is down and they can't get to work/get out of the rubble.

We have this benchmark of "reasonable expectations" for designers of things. Sure, you could whittle endless years away contemplating and preparing for every conceivable eventuality, but we don't expect that of people because that's crazy.

However, we do install security in buildings because we know from experience that every once in a while you'll get a loon trying to blow the building up with a truckbomb or trying to shoot up the lobby. Security isn't perfect, but they perform reasonably in most situations.

We ask our architects to consider disaster resistance in building design because we know that it's plausible that the area may one day be affected by earthquake or some other calamity.

If either security or architects and engineers are found to be negligent of their duties to provide reasonable protections against violent crazy people and/or natural disaster, they are ostracized as seen fit by society. While they didn't cause the earthquake or the explosion, they knew, or should have known, that an earthquake or a violent assault might occur in the building they had designed and/or were assigned to protect.

If they were found to have prepared adequately and still failed, they are generally "let off the hook".

Now, in the case of a highly unpopular, highly publicized DRM scheme, do you think it's reasonable to assume that some out there might be interested in negatively affecting its operation such that people don't buy your game? A lot of people want to gob up the debut. I would say that it is reasonable, and that Ubisoft doesn't get any kind of pass for inability to ward off a DDoS in such a case.

Ubisoft is a big multinational company, publicly traded, with a lot of money. There's no good excuse to let their servers die from either DDoS, non-malicious overload (effectual DDoS), or other standard calamity.
I learned the terms from somebody who is involved in book publishing. I do not know much about publishing software. It struck me that it might be an interesting unsolved problem to automatically reduce the incidence of lakes and rivers.
xxxHoLic is, ironically, not porn or even racy. (Never read, but know the fact offhand.)
> American corporations do make people do some incredible bullshit, but nothing on the level of the official greeting he mentioned.

While I agree that the way they shout good morning might be a bit strange, it does make sense. It makes everyone more polite, instead of rude. And speaking of politeness, Americans are way too informal compared to other cultures. As for greetings, I hate the "How do you do?" question which I think is pretty stupid/useless as this video shows -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p8u2LSyEwc
>Martin Luther King? Gandhi? Ben Franklin? Idiots?

I don't know if I'd say MLK, Gandhi, or Franklin really "sought the spotlight". Their fame was mostly incidental of their deeds and wasn't particularly sought after, as a movie starlet or other pop-culture would-be icon might seek after fame.

Full disclosure on this, I guess, is that I also can't see much appeal in fame. All semblances of privacy are lost, constant rumor-flinging about the lives of yourself and your family, etc. There are much better ways to get recognition than becoming a household name, imo.
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Which is why the current 9th CCA of Vernor vs Autodesk is a fairly important case in regards to this.
Would love to read that... please can you repost if you do find?
They had no product except news.

They sold a means of delivery, information transport - both news and product information. It just happens that the internet is also good at information delivery.
Here you go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuppers_self-referential_formul...

I hope your day is made now :)
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Everybody knows that lime juice cures scurvy, and that the English navy figured out the whole thing centuries ago, and like most things "everybody knows", it's largely wrong.

Thanks for submitting this - it was a fascinating read.
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It's a usability NIGHTMARE!! difficult to navigate and written entirely in flash.

Jeff Bridges site is cute, and a really noble idea, but you'd think he'd hire someone who actually knows something about usability design also. Bring in some jquery and make it rock!

USABILITY!
(from 2003)
I'm not sure what's "different" about this. Google "subscription socks" or "subscription underwear", you'll find about 10 startups doing the same thing. One of them was even featured in the WSJ last year.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=534330

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/03/19/socks-dont-match-how-...
Why 3D pie charts are bad
And now I'm sad too.
The article is a bit amusing even for a native Japanese, but too lengthy for me to read it through.

I happened to work at a big-business cubicle farm (or kind of) in Tokyo, but there is no such obligatory parties. I have heard of that kind of stories but they are almost caricaturized and exaggerated. If any, he was just unlucky about it.

However I agree about smoking. That's so pervasive and annoying. But I found our situation better than some of south European countries, and smoking in public space is being illegalized.

It's totally okay for him to moan as he likes, but of course, don't take it as he writes.
What pathology do you ascribe to lack of formality? What practical problems does it cause, outside of seeming odd / stupid / useless to those less familiar with it?

Excessive formality, on the other hand, has been implicated in e.g. plane crashes, where inferiors hesitate to criticize their superiors when they may have made a mistake.
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While they didn't cause the earthquake or the explosion, they knew, or should have known, that an earthquake or a violent assault might occur in the building they had designed and/or were assigned to protect.

That is irrelevant to the fact that the idiot with the bomb wasn't doing anyone any favors, which was the point I was trying to make in my original comment. I guess I should have omitted the part about "what's harming the consumers" or changed it to "what's directly harming the consumers" to avoid all these knee-jerk responses from the anti-DRM brigade, which incidentally I consider myself to be a part of.
uh... why? I could see that the red part was bigger than the blue part.

THAT Pie chart was bad because of the legend being self representational, not the isometric projection.
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"Some music lovers dislike Pandora’s approach to choosing music based on its characteristics rather than cultural associations. Slacker Radio, a competitor with three times as many songs but less than a third of Pandora’s listeners, takes a different approach. A ’90s alternative station should be informed by Seattle grunge, said Jonathan Sasse, senior vice president for marketing at Slacker. “It’s not just that this has an 80-beat-a-minute guitar riff,” he said. “It’s that this band toured with Eddie Vedder.”"

I always thought Pandora did this, but never admitted to it. Their stated reasons for what music they play don't really add up--when I have a certain band defined as the seed for my station, it invariably plays songs from the various solo albums, side projects, and former members of that band.
Google offering free "Backups", nothing of the sort
I don't get it. So much for user experience design.
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Of the four conditions he mentioned (depression, autism, hypertension, obesity), I don't suppose there is evidence to suggest that, I don't know, regular exercise would cure at least two?
I think his point is that when you include the pixels which represent the thickness of the disc, you inflate the apparent size of that slice.

So while you can clearly see the size of the elements, it requires thought and interpretation. Compare to a 2D flat chart, which is very clear although not so pretty. Shouldn't a visualisation require as little thought as possible?

I blame PowerPoint.
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