skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Piggy backing on this to plug our game as well: Fleet of One [1]. Retro 80s space shooter with an original soundtrack composed by a SAMA (South African Music Awards) nominated musician, original artwork by a professional artist, a lot of time spent on level design with classic bosses. Have a look, there's a free demo as well. No IAPs. Real love went into this.

We didn't even make the development cost back. We actively fought against the idea of IAPs and trying to hook whales, even though it would have been easy to introduce mechanisms to do it (on the hardest level it's almost impossible to beat).

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Different windows have different good sizes.

For example, I don't run my browser maximized, because I don't want web pages in landscape; acres of margin or very long lines - neither choice is good. The viewport of my browser is nearly square (1500 x 1300).

Terminals don't work great with very long lines either; man, less etc. adjust to terminal width making lines harder to read.

My scratchpad app I keep for notes is generally notepad shaped, i.e. taller than it is wide, but not as wide as a terminal window.

My password manager (KeePass2) is the only other really common app. I don't interact with it very often other than via hotkey.

I keep Emacs/IDE maximized on a different screen.
Brake heating is not a real issue with emergency braking, only with frequent braking which race cars do. That's why "upgrading" to "big brake" systems on passenger cars is usually a waste of money and reduces performance: unless you're driving on a track where you have to brake a lot, and the cumulative braking keeps the brakes hot, you're not helping. Even worse, the brake pad compounds used for race cars are different, and are designed to maintain performance even when very hot, whereas passenger car brakes have to have great performance when cold.

The bottom line is: a single panic stop on the highway isn't limited by your brakes on a passenger car, it's limited by your tires. The more friction your tires have with the road, the faster you'll slow down.

So yes, if you want a 40 ton truck to stop faster, it's completely doable: just increase the amount of rubber in contact with the road. Adding more wheels will do that quickly. However, more tires means more rolling friction which means less fuel economy and fuel economy is critically important to long-haul trucking. Also, adding more axles causes maneuverability problems in the city. Notice that on standard trailers, the rear axle set can be moved forward and back. They set them in the rearward position for long hauls, and in the forward position for shorter hauls.
If bitcoin enthusiasts were capable of rational discussion, then why did you just build up the 'troll' straw man and knock it down?

They're not making a blanket statement or even saying that bitcoin enthusiasts are incapable of rational discussion. They're talking about biases around the bitcoin industry, and as a self-proclaimed enthusiast, you ignored it and went straight to name calling.

Edit: Your massive wall-of-text edit doesn't can't hide the fact that your immediate response was incredibly biased.
Uber's coming downfall – a prediction :(  :)
In relevance to latest news of Uber's launching a Yacht service. source: http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/28/sport/uber-yacht-launches-dubai/index.html

I've been watching this for a while (but as a passive bystander, not as an active analyzer. however I trust my judgment enough to still make conclusions).

Firstly, I am a believer and a proponent of share economy. It is here to stay, and it is the future. Lots to say here, but let them be told in silence.

The early companies working in the sharing economy space (Uber, Lyft, TaskRabbit, Fiverr, Skillshare, Tradesy, JustPark, Bla Bla Car, Leftover Swap, Streetbank, Feastly, RelayRides, Cookening, Peers, Collaborative Consumption, Yerdle, Postdates, Favor, Instacart - please ignore inappropriate exclusion/inclusion) have shown a susceptibility to the enormous profit-making opportunity in this space (as expected any time a new technology opens up a new industry) and have been making terrible business decisions.

This is one of them. Discuss!!

post script: my on topic reasoning - very early attempted horizontal integration within transportation space.

Please excuse the horrendous(if it is so) structure of my post. :D

edit: substitute "poorly conducted" with "very early"
That's very true, Bitcoin doesn't solve many problems for people with access to credit banking. However, billions of people don't have access to Visa or a bank account. They only need a phone to send payments internationally.
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Somebody can also check who this "scientist" really is. Those making such claims often represent themselves as much more qualified than they really are.

The claims in the article are annoyingly unscientific.
Which, to be clear, is about studios making it appear that they never make a profit so that they can minimize their payout in bonuses, royalties, and taxes.
I judge neither you nor her.

I make observations. I then compare those observations to previous observations to better understand people. This helps me understand others better, just as it helps me understand myself.

We all have moments where we look back and realize we made bad decisions. It takes no effort to think "I should not have done that." Ditto for other people. Does that change anything? No. Does it inspire better decisions in the future? Maybe, if one is willing to learn. But simply judging what someone should or shouldn't do instead of listening and learning solves nothing.

We are all human beings. We all have hopes and fears and strengths and flaws. Just remember that the next time someone is not very nice to you.
Exactly. In general, relating things to the persons behind them gives a lot of context and clarifies why things end up as they are. Although it doesn't only touch these, "Connections", from James Burke, comes to mind. There was a link here a couple of months ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11075430).
And those miners know the minute they start to censor transactions the price of BTC would probably suffer greatly.
Suspect who won’t decrypt hard drives jailed indefinitely
It's not. They are free to make up their compensation. People are free to say negative things about that compensation. And the company is free to fire those people.
That's not a slippery slope. That's a cliff. If all it takes is a forensic experts "guess" that there might child porn on there somewhere to access everything you've got without even filing charges then kiddie-porn is just the quick way to say that the 5th has been repealed.
I think its more about building new stuff or maintaining legacy code. The first is more interesting than the second.
I've posted my results with using their speech-to-text system:

https://github.com/dannguyen/watson-word-watcher

I think it's actually very good and could be of great use to people needing to mine and organize audio -- not for perfect transcriptions, but as a first pass solution...but I don't think that's the small vision that Watson purports to cater to...that is, if you fed the results of the speech-to-text into Watson's various language processing APIs, you'd get diminishing returns, though to be fair, I haven't really used those other APIs in bulk programmatic fashion yet [1]

[1] http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercl...
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Data races in Java/C# races will result in incorrect values (which may be serious if your program is doing anything important and subtle to find, as you say), but they will not ever result in "undefined behavior" in the way ISO C defines the term. Specifically a data race in Java/C# will not cause your program to do out-of-bounds memory accesses or use-after-free or corrupting unrelated objects because other parts of the respective VM specifications prevent such outcomes.

For the details see e.g. http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se8/html/jls-17.html...
> we're calling it cp

;)
Have you hired someone in 1 day?
Wondering how many you have hired someone in a day within 1-2 hour of interview or seen someone get hired this way ?
> The McKinsey study focuses on U.S. and Western European stock and bond markets and doesn’t take investments in emerging markets into account, largely because of a lack of reliable long-term data.

Wouldn't that imply that their predicted returns are much lower than they'll most likely be? Assuming that majority of growth over the next X years will come from emerging markets, if they're leaving emerging markets out of the calculation then their estimates are going to be low.
I think this is the same link as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11588946 I realize multiple posts are totally legit here just mentioning it because they are with a few hours of each other and neither has much traction yet.
I glued stabilo pen caps over those leds - instant goa uld spaceship fuse box look
>Network access and presumably some centralized key hierarchy.

How is that different from what is used currently?
The Revelations of Lady Murderface
Not to be a Debbie Downer - but about 5 years ago my two good friends were driving in a medium sized car in Brooklyn, when an Expedition crossed the double yellow going about 60 miles an hour and literally ran over the entire drivers side half of the car, flattening it.

The driver sadly died while the passenger went unscathed.

The next day, my Dad sold my sister's tiny, low-riding Saturn and got her a higher-riding CRV. I don't blame him, and now riding in low-sitting cars frightens me a tiny bit on the highways.
Not necessarily. More, smaller trucks will mean your transport costs will go up because you get less economy of scale. Eliminating the driver helps mitigate that of course, but going to smaller trucks then eliminates the savings you got by eliminating the driver. Having more, smaller trucks would be more versatile however, if you don't need to transport full truckloads of cargo between certain points.

Also, drivers as I understand it aren't paid monthly salaries, they're paid by the mile.
How do you quantify quality discussion?
Hmm, this seems like a pretty big bug in connection draining. I feel like one instance per AZ is a pretty common scenario. Great article!
They shouldn't have to, there's nothing life-critical about watching TV shows that the government needs to split this company up, or get any more involved.

So what if you can't watch Two Broke Girls if you don't have Comcast? Two Broke Girls is not critical for a happy, fulfilling life.
I don't think anyone believes that Go is somehow more complex than the universe it is a subset of. The point is that enumerating all cases of Go is impossible and always will be, so more sophisticated analysis is required.
There's a great Isaac Asimov essay on this topic: http://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm
Related story, though because this was a high-school job, it didn't threaten my ability to live or anything, but could have happened to anyone...

I delivered pizza as a job, and the car that I had to do the job broke down. I couldn't afford the repairs, but I also didn't want to lose my job, so I junked it, and took my savings and managed to find a 12-year old car with 255,000 miles on it for $150. Rural areas have lots of old junkers lying around.... that car lasted a month, until the engine overheated and destroyed itself mid-delivery. Before cellphones, I had to hitchhike back to the shop. But in that month I managed to make a couple of hundred dollars, and buy an okay car that lasted me another year or two...

I am glad that I was lucky enough that my hobby turned into a profession that pays well.
Yes I think this guy goes too far. But to take a more moderate stance, I think it's really interesting that while we can perceive EM waves and sound, we can do so only within limited frequency bands. The reality we perceive is a subset of the available data. And we are also much more sensitive to motion, for example, than gradual change. So I think a much weaker version of the article's point is true and interesting.
Yeah, that why I Was surprised by the term "fan film".

So what exactly does qualify as one? just as long as you don't have the copyright I guess? I mean, at which point is "fan fiction" illegal? is the legality status correlated with the production values and budget?
Time diversion versus what?

The lack of dedicated controls is only a negative for games that require precise inputs (like classic arcade games). There are so many fantastic games that don't require that at all. Strategy, turn-based RPGs, puzzles, adventure games, etc. For certain games, a touchscreen can blow dedicated controls out of the water if the interface is designed well.
On the flip side, there will now be lots of talented and creative people available to potentially work on more interesting projects.
For some reason it's okay for developers at tech companies to get paid market wages for their skills but not okay when it's CSRs.
That is exactly what unwrap() is...

(More specifically, it's a method which uses `match` internally to do this)
Thank you for the link!

I found 'Return to the Cave' particularly interesting.

The prisoners, according to Socrates, would infer from the returning man's blindness that the journey out of the cave had harmed him and that they should not undertake a similar journey. Socrates concludes that the prisoners, if they were able, would therefore reach out and kill anyone who attempted to drag them out of the cave.

That's the sort of quote that inspires one to study philosophy. It illustrates perfectly the difficulty we have as humans in informing each other.
And I don't want the next two Avatar movies to get made, but I'm not the one advocating we get the US government to enforce such a thing.

It makes zero sense for the US government to get involved in this deal.
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i'm pretty sure they're talking about adding these "layers" at the C++ stdlib level, not at the language level. So it will remain portable.
We also need to ask ourselves why the purveyors of cartoon animals are the wealthiest people in Western society. Is their contribution to society really that pervasive and important?

People will often explain this away by saying "Well, people are paying for it, so they de-facto deserve it." But these people neglect that our legal structures created this market and necessitated that people pay. There is no natural right to intellectual property. Naturally, intellectual content cannot be protected or maintained; naturally, intellectual information is possessed in equal part by all who observe or perceive it insofar as their memory and/or recording device allows, and all are free to share this as they see fit. IP is inexhaustible, an infinitely renewable resource. It is not a physical chunk of land that you can wall off and guard.

Thus, any "ownership" of IP is purely based in the legal grants we've given. And IMO, if you look at the disproportionate amount of wealth that goes to IP holders as compared to their social value, our laws need to be recalibrated. There's no reason that a cartoon mouse should continue to print money for a company 50+ years after its original author died. That doesn't encourage innovation.
Held without charges and without evidence on the suspicion that the drives contain something relevant.

So if his protection against self-incrimination is upheld by courts, can he turn around and sue for this blatant violation of his constitutional rights?
If ever there was a indictment of the quality of forensic evidence, this would be it. The expert "guessed" the contents of the encrypted drive? With what, magic? Did the arrangement of the encrypted content hint at the presence of child pornography?

Actually surprised that arstechnica didn't call this out - maybe they knew their audience was sufficiently technical to get the implication.
Backbone+ES6 implementation of “Thinking in React”
Maybe the next step in the process could be a period for those interested to go back and read through the applications. This could be followed by a brief period where the threads were reopened for relevant questions and answers. This could be followed by the polling.

My take is that this would sort of parallel the regular YC process of application->interview->selection except that it would eliminate "rolling selection". My gut is that the implication of "rolling selection" may have encouraged problematic "Apply HN" strategies. Not to mention it's too late for it to be part of this cycle anyway.

Good luck.
I felt like that long list of complaints about the discourse around bitcoin hit home and did a pretty good job of justifying that claim. Moreover, it was full of examples that contributed meaningfully, so it's weird to say that it contributes nothing. If you'd rather call people names than respond to their points, aren't you doing exactly what s/he condemned?
> The other was a forensic examiner who testified that it was his "best guess" that child pornography was on the drives

I'm curious how on Earth one arrives at that "guess" for an encrypted drive other than reasoning "why else would he not decrypt them?" In which case his expertise as a forensic examiner is irrelevant.

Edit: I'd love to see the original testimony, but I haven't been able to find it. This article has more information though: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160428/07395434297/so-mu...

> The government’s second witness was Detective Christopher Tankelewicz, a forensic examiner with the Delaware County District Attorney’s Office. He testified only that it was his “best guess” child pornography would be found on the hard drives. (Ex. J at 346). According to Tankelewicz’s understanding of the Freenet online network (in which he admits having no training), there were signs on an Apple Mac Pro computer seized with the hard drives of a user accessing or trying to access message boards with names suggestive of child pornography. (Ex. J at 306, 311-312, 339-340). In rather ambiguous testimony, Tankelewicz did not appear to say this meant any image traded over these boards was on the hard drives. (See Ex. J at 303-317, 336-340, 345-350). Instead, he identified a single image he believed there to be a “possibility” was on the drives. (Ex. J at 308-309)

However this appears to be the testimony in which the All Writs order (https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2783581/Granting-...) establishes the following:

> Here, the Affidavit of Special Agent David Bottalico, supporting the application for a
Search Warrant, establishes that (1) the Government has custody of the electronic devices; (2)
prior to the Government's seizure, Mr. Rawls possessed, accessed and owned all the electronic
devices; and (3) there are images on the electronic devices that constitute child pornography.
(Affidavit iii! 13-31.) Therefore, under the "foregone conclusion" doctrine, requiring Mr. Rawls
to assist in the decrypting of those devices does not violate his privilege against selfincrimination.

In other words (in my understanding), under the foregone conclusion doctrine, the government needs to show that they know the document exists and what it contains. In this case I believe that would mean that they have to provide evidence that they know there is child pornography on the devices. And the testimony above seems to be the only thing they are putting forward as evidence to invoke the doctrine.

One of those cases where you kind of want the government to look inside the hard drive in this case (since the accused is only objecting under Fifth Amendment grounds, meaning there probably is legitimate evidence against him on those hard drives), but I can't support it because of the precedent it sets.
As someone who had a similar (but less climactic) realization, this is amazing.
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I built a crowdsourced version of that general idea: http://www.slant.co/topics/3480/~ios-games-without-in-app-pu...
I personally thought their tradeoff api was pretty interesting, but until I hear/see some real world results, I will continue to be skeptical. If anyone here could shine some light on something that would be awesome.
Why add a language feature when a library feature does the same thing?
A polled ranking sounds good but that may not be a reliable gauge of a project's ultimate "interestingness" or viability, just a gauge of HN community's preferences. E.g. a project with great potential (market, usage, etc) may not seem so simply because very few HNers find it interesting. Activity and discussion also dropped after the first couple of days - I reviewed and asked questions on some then forgot about it. I'll take final run through the list now. For future iterations, some sort of opt-in notification system might help.
The thing 'size' gets you is crumple zones. A bigger vehicle has a lot more material that can be engineered to deform and absorb the energy of the impact

Not the only thing. Recall your high school physics. Crank through the basic motion equations for inelastic equations. The more massive object experiences less change in momentum. All things being equal, passengers of the more massive vehicle are going to experience lower g-forces.
I think that the context matters. While his actual statement is now false, he was really talking about a "solution" to Go, i.e. an algorithm that can compete with any opponent (and back then, Go programs couldn't "even" beat humans). Google's algorithm is (probably) nowhere near a "solution" to Go, but an algorithm that can beat currently-living human opponents. I.e. it is quite likely that a rather simple algorithm would still beat Google's program, only that people's minds don't (or can't) employ that algorithm when they play.