skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a good insight. I endorse your reading strategy, if only more people used it!

I think our society is still struggling to deal with the fact that the information distribution just suddenly stopped being a concern.

You just spent 150 grand on an education you could have gotten for $1.50 in late fees at the public library.
- Will, Good Will Hunting

It is much easier to grasp the network of knowledge that exists when you have Wikipedia and forums like HN. Having context is important because it helps direct you. Being part of the tribe is immensely important if you're to be motivated over decades.

The main problems now are motivation and focus. I am confident these are solvable problems but there's a lot of people out there who haven't even heard of Wikipedia. They're not ready for it yet.

I am much less worried about the Net than what the Television did to us. The Net is intrinsically deeper than the Television.

There is a sports commentator called Joe Rogan who expresses this well. He often exclaims how much of a knucklehead (his own words) he was before the Internet. It opened up a new vista to him. Not everybody will be as immediately perceptive as Rogan but I see even people who limited technology skills gradually enhancing their comprehension on a range of issues. It won't lead to utopia but it will definitely make the future more interesting, and ultimately that's all I ask of any technology.
Desalination is also being considered, though it is expensive.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/aurangabad/Govt-mull...

There are some projects running in Chennai, currently.
No, and there had already been an accident with this very core. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_K._Daghlian_Jr. Sadly, there was no good reason for this, just a young cocky guy. Not a bad man, and we've all made stupid choices, but his sadly was a bit historically significant.
Meanwhile, there are multiple F2P games with
over $1b in revenue

True, but at least the folks at ustwo games still have their souls.
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BTW, cheaper than a paperback copy of SICP on Amazon. Yep, hack whatever interests you.
I downloaded my data from Facebook and found everyone I unfriended in 10 years
This is nice, a bit similar to DIA or Visio, relatively intuitive.

Would love to have a web-based system that can generate worksheets and grade them.
From Canada here. I grew up somewhere where you see -40 degrees (where Fahrenheit and Celsius meet) during the winter is not surprising. The purpose for wearing two sets of gloves is not really for temperature reasons.

The first set is usually a mitt (no gaps between fingers). These are much warmer than gloves because your fingers are together. However, mitts make normal things nearly impossible like zipping up your jacket, tying your boots, etc. So you wear much smaller gloves underneath that allow for the needed dexterity but don't expose your skin to the outside when you take off the much bigger mitts.
I'd argue that you are conflating implementation with semantics. The semantic meaning of const is 'this value will not change from here on out'. The C# compiler implements this by doing a substitution, but that is not mandated by nature of it being 'const'. Calling these variables 'config const' says 'this will be instantiated by some configuration parameter, but from here on it it will cannot change'.

If someone were to patch your C# compiler such that it didn't substitute, and instead pulled from a read-only memory location, would it in any way harm the correctness of your code?
It's really not fair to keep citing the "F2P is evil!" meme nowadays.

If you haven't played a F2P game in 2016, I strongly recommend taking a look. Game like Clash Royale, Hearthstone, and Kingdom Hearts are fair and are not aggressive/condescending toward in the goal of generating revenue. Mostly because developers finally realized that making a good game is just as important as monetization.
Cool idea, and as long as your connection was completed before the port number changes, you'd be good to go.

Except..

* you're sharing a TOTP secret with one (or more) servers (probably all of your servers), or else you'll have to track multiple TOTP codes for each server

* throughly defeats legitimate automated scripts (i.e., backups, fabric, security scans, etc) that need SSH for automation

* hard to fix (increased complexity)

We recommend fail2ban or denyhosts at Userify[1] (plug: ssh key management), which do a pretty reliable job of blocking inbound traffic after a few (configurable) failed key attempts. They watch failed login attempts in the log file and then block the originating IP.

Still, as recommended in the article, consider running your sshd on a high port (standardize across your org), since it will definitely keep your logs cleaner, perhaps the same port throughout your org. It's amazing how many script kiddies this simple trick blocks. This is also handy on a jumpbox[2]. The time cost does represent a real increase in time for scanners (depending on the scanning pattern, possibly thousands of times slower), and so actually ramps up the time cost in attacks. It's kind of like blocking spam... this trick might seem like security through obscurity, but it will dramatically slow down/eliminate automated attacks against random targets of opportunity (which is what most attacks are). Also it truly does almost completely wipe out the random attack spam from your logs, leaving room for the good stuff.

Of course, the author states this TOTP trick was really a joke and a cool experiment. Don't actually do it in production. :)

1. https://userify.com

2. https://userify.com/docs/tips/jumpbox/
It's ok, everything worked out in the end. US & Japan turned the whole relationship thing around.
I get that there are lousy cyclists, and I am truly embarrassed by them. But that is no excuse for drivers to behave recklessly around them.

w/r/t the notion that cyclists sharing a sidewalk with pedestrians (a practice I would never condone) is "just as bad" as drivers sharing the road with cyclists, that's just stupid. A two ton machine can kill people. Pedestrians being killed by cyclists is nearly unheard of. It happened once in Central Park last year and the event was so extraordinary that bicycle blogs were talking about it for weeks.
I was hoping to use a few for kiosk-type info displays "out of the box" with minimal hacking, but there doesn't seem to be a simple way to disable the sleep timeout.

See: http://www.amazon.com/forum/kindle?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx...
The link lists interesting stats about their revenue. Does anybody know if they've published estimates on their costs (team size, developer hours, etc)?
It's even worse than that. ustwo isn't a small studio. They're a digital product studio with offices in London, Sydney, Malmö, and New York. They have a few hundred employees.

Their games are basically marketing for their real business.
I have been using sslh (http://www.rutschle.net/tech/sslh.shtml) on my servers where it is just myself logging in for a while and it works great for me!
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Does Chat Belong in the Enterprise?
I don't follow what you mean, normal users are moderators, just they're just users with sufficient karma.
From the Saljuk period. Is this a history quiz :)?
Ehhh.

I work at a company that has a similar policy. What ends up happening is:

1) Everyone becomes conflict-averse for fear of looking like an asshole, so bad ideas often go unchecked

2) People find other ways to be assholes when they want to be, they're just passive-aggressive about it instead

3) It becomes a conversation-terminating cliche. Want to stifle someone disagreeing with you? Accuse them of phrasing something in a way that might be considered remotely hostile.

I'm not saying it's a bad policy, but I don't think it necessarily solves much. It trades one set of problems for another.

What you really want is a "no assholes whose behavior interferes with business," which doesn't really roll of the tongue quite as nicely I suppose.
Original one [0] says 55 weeks / $852,000 for original and 29 weeks / $549,000 for the sequel . Team size : 8 core team members

[0] http://blog.monumentvalleygame.com/blog/2015/1/15/monument-v...
He does not have any good reason, he is just spewing BNP nationalist rhetoric. India has shared waters fairly even with Pakistan following international frameworks. Its just a common practice in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal to piss on India. Its their insecurity towards regional hegemon talking rather than the policy itself.
Like any 1.0 product. The technology evolves so rapidly it loses 90% of its value in a few years.

It reminds me my first digital camera, 2000$ and 3 years later you could get better for 500$.
Interestingly, there's game theory in play: some developers nowadays are switching to premium games (Assassin's Creed and Crashlands for recent examples) because there is too much competition in the F2P space. Even super polished games with premium licenses get left in the dust if they do not catch on immediately. (Star Wars: Uprising and Marvel's Avengers Alliance 2 for examples).

Whether or not that's a good idea is hard to determine without hard numbers, though.
Sort of unrelated, but any suggestions for experienced backend developer who wants to get into VR? I'm working on learning 3D graphics and c++, but could use a bit of direction.
This is old news that was extensively discussed when it happened. For example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11348798
I am sure there is a perfect recipe book for solving fresh water problem for millions of people and animals that India is not following.
obviously Tesla is the front runner for spearheading the insudtry by virtually every metric & subsector (except maybe price). Look, I love Tesla and have been bullish on the company for a pretty long time, so I am biased, but why can't other car companies have quality cars and aesthetics.

* Fisker Karma: The car looked super sleek, was super sexy and from an engineering standpoint it was a heap of shit.

* Chevy Volt: Was an ICE car that had the worst of both worlds. Not particularly attractive.

* Rimac Concept One: Ok this car was fucking brilliant but it was like $1M USD.

* Prius: Pretty decent as far as hybrids go. Aesthetics are lacking what many might consider: the ability to not look like a cross between a golf cart and a mobility scooter.

* Chevey Bolt: Seems to have pretty amazing specs. Aesthetics are sub-par for sure.

Yes, Tesla's thing was making a compelling electric car, however other manufacturers seem to be doing alright in actually making the car. They just need to bend the metal in a way that doesn't look fucking horrible and Tesla will have a bit harder of a time of it.

Edit:

Here is a quick album I made. Nearly every car looks the same:

http://imgur.com/a/HEsyf

edit 2:

Here[t] you can see Tesla's offerings. The roadster is omitted. However, of the 4 cars, they made: roadster and the
models s,3,x,y* you would be hard pressed to confuse them for any of the cars in the above album. However, those in that album are very close to one another aesthetically.

[t]http://st.motortrend.com/uploads/sites/5/2016/05/2017-Tesla-...

* they haven't made y yet....
My unease with India's river-related behavior is outlined in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11750933

India's relationships with its surrounding countries aren't exactly equitable and fair. Nepal and Bhutan have been reduced to servile client states; Bangladesh gets the short end of the stick with every new agreement. The less said about India's relationships with Pakistan and China, the better.

They're a big fish in a small pond. There's really no reason to believe that they'll do anything other than what is in their own best interests as far as this project is concerned.
I just want to say thank you for making zerotier. I actually love it.
This reminds me of Amy Goodman and Allan Nairn's story when they were doing journalism in East Timor:

"Allan suggested we walk to the front of the crowd between the soldiers and the Timorese, because although we knew that the army had committed many massacres, we hoped that we, as foreign journalists, could serve as a shield for the Timorese. Standing with headphones on and microphone and camera out in full view, we went and stood in the middle of the road, looking straight at the approaching troops. Behind us, the crowd was hushed as some Timorese tried to turn away, but they were hemmed in by cemetery walls.

The soldiers marched straight up to us. They never broke their stride. We were enveloped by the troops, and when they got a few yards past us, within a dozen yards of the Timorese, they raised their rifles to their shoulders all at once, and they opened fire. The Timorese, in an instant, were down, just torn apart by the bullets. The street was covered with bodies, covered with blood. And the soldiers just kept on coming. They poured in, one rank after another. They leaped over the bodies of those who were down. They were aiming and shooting people in the back. I could see their limbs being torn, their bodies exploding. There was blood spurting out into the air. The pop of the bullets, everywhere. And it was very organized, very systematic. The soldiers did not stop. They just kept on shooting until no one was left standing.

A group of soldiers grabbed my microphone and threw me to the ground, kicking and punching me. At that point, Allan threw himself on top of me, protecting me from further injury. The soldiers then used their rifle butts like baseball bats, beating Allan until they fractured his skull. As we sat on the ground, Allan, covered in blood, a group of soldiers lined up and pointed their M-16s at our heads. They had stripped us of all of our equipment. We just kept shouting, "We’re from America!" In the end, they decided not to execute us."

Excerpted from http://www.democracynow.org/2006/11/13/amy_goodman_recounts_...
page load time is the big killer for me
"Explicit is better than implicit"
How is that worse?

Most of their employeess are making other things than Monument Valley making money in many other ways.

Not sure what the problem is.
Posted ten times already:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Programming%20Talent%20Passion...

Discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11721535
P =? NP Poll (2012) [pdf]
They have also invested many many many times what UsTwo have in marketing budgets and development of the game.
Having lived in Japan for around 10 years, in my experience, the vast majority of mask wearers are doing so because of allergies (particularly Sugi). It's pretty rough for a lot of people - particularly in the early spring months. Also why air purifiers are big business here.
So Supercell, Blizzard, and Square Enix/Success are not awful. That's great, but what about all of the others? Kabam, Big Fish, Machine Zone, King, Playtika, EA, and the list goes on.
May I ask if you are able to visualize things using your mind's eye at at what levels (size, detail, color/brightness)? Just curious about correlation with the subject matter.
Other commenters have voiced objections to various bits of this argument which I won't repeat, but I want to highlight a point that is extremely important in cases like Snowden; we agree that his action was unlawful, but this says little about it being immoral when the relevant laws are condoning immoral behavior.

He certainly did things that in general people shouldn't do, and that the law doesn't allow for; but he did them for reasons that, we'd contend, outweigh the reasons he shouldn't have. Absolutely, the law doesn't work in a "does the good outweigh the bad" fashion, but morality often does (namely, if we ascribe to the view of moral utilitarianism, which is extremely popular both in everyday intuition and academic philosophical circles.) So morally speaking, there isn't necessarily a serious problem with Snowden or Manning's grab-everything approach, either- the damage from what they shouldn't have released can be judged less important than the benefit from what they wouldn't have made available if they were going more carefully.

Snowden getting pardoned would be an individual act of some politician(s) intervening on the legal system, and different from institutionalized whistleblower protection as discussed in the article. The latter is an attempt to get the law back into sync with morality, both directly and through allowing a legal channel for individuals to spur changes to existing immoral systems. There's definitely a tension between whistleblower protection programs that would satisfy both the demands of morally-minded government agents and also the necessities of secrecy-centric government capabilities.
I think the Chevy Bolt looks ok, fairly similar to other current small cars. The BMW i3 is hideously ugly. The Nissan Leaf is growing on me, but maybe that's just because I bought one and now have some form of Stockholm Syndrome. The headlights are stupid looking, but I like the rest of the car.
This is amazing. It's one of those moments where actions of a single person change the course of history in a better way. I mean, I'm sure American companies might disagree. ;) Yet, I'm glad they showed up knocking down our industries' garbage with higher quality or effectiveness. It was a nice, reality check whose individual cases could've been endured and/or countered earlier if American executives weren't so arrogant. For auto's and such, that is, as Nintendo's offering was pretty forward-thinking.

More amazing is the founder also invented the Raman concept and motels dedicated to pimping in a small span of time. Plus, really cool toys. Innovative guy and company. Very unique.

EDIT: Forgot to add a piece about absolutely hating Nintendo for their contribution to DRM and lock-in. Sometimes I want innovators to think less. Bunch of A-holes. ;)
Hearthstone is a unique bird as its playerbase is used to Blizzard and Magic and so expects to pay something like a AAA game price for card unlocks. It's not really necessary for Blizzard to sell the idea of paying in Hearthstone.

Clash Royale is very aggressive about getting money. It does appear passive because it's better for revenue if non-enthusiastic players progress slowly, but trying to do anything but play a few games a day without spending money is intentionally made difficult as you'll run into progress blocks faster that way. It's quite clever. It also benefits from increased sophistication of players in that it can signal when to make the premium purchases more subtly than was necessary a few years ago.

I haven't played Assassin's Creed, but it makes sense to me that a AAA game franchise has a better chance standing out on mobile as a premium game, rather than associating with less prestigious IP. I certainly think Ubi has learned from its poor attempts to milk its lower-priority IP by farming it out to F2P developers, so a transition has been made in the company overall.
https://github.com/h4cc/awesome-elixir
Areas immediately around the Ganges are already experiencing drought because so much of the river's water is already used for irrigation.

Is North India and Bangladesh as screwed as this makes it sound?
Dota 2 has an interesting f2p monetization strategy: create a competitive game, then sell a $9.99 "compendium" each year. It's basically a virtual goodie bag. Of each $9.99 sale, $2.50 goes towards increasing the prize pool of their yearly tournament, The International.

With that strategy alone, they're likely to surpass a $20 million prize pool this year, which means $60m in pure profit for Valve.

The impressive part is that none of the compendium affects gameplay whatsoever. It's solely things like cosmetics that make your character look cool.

It's tempting to call Dota a one-off, but I think this model could be followed by many other games: make your game competitive, then fund a yearly tournament. The reason Dota is so huge today is because Valve personally seeded the first International's prize pool with a million dollars, which was simply unheard of at the time.
Atlassian sold $320M worth of software with no sales staff
Hegemons can comport themselves gracefully in their relations with putative allies and neighbors, or they can ride roughshod over everyone just because they are more powerful. As far as South Asian diplomacy is concerned, India is more USSR than USA right now.

In any event, thank you for making my point for me.
FYI, Professor Sutton from Stanford wrote a book about this very same idea: https://www.amazon.com/Asshole-Rule-Civilized-Workplace-Surv...

I didn't know about Sutton's book at the time, but we used the same rule when raising our seed round. We rejected more than one VC firm based on this rule.
The next big problem is the lack of a unified charging infrastructure. Yes, you can buy a trunk full of adapters.[1] Teslas use their own plug, for which there are a CHAdeMO adapter, a J1772 adapter, and adapters for standard 120VAC and 240VAC outlets. A full set of adapters is about $700. [2]

The Chevy Bolt uses Combo Cord, which supports J1772 and CCS.

Looking around Silicon Valley, almost all charging points have J1772. Some are free, some require payment, and some require membership in a charging plan. Higher power stations are mostly CHAdeMO.

There's a big retail markup on electricity. $0.59/KWh at some stations. And there are payment "plans", which look like cellular phone plans. Tesla's "Supercharger" is supposedly unlimited once you've paid your $2500, but apparently if you use ones near your residence, they send you nag messages saying it's really for travelers.

[1] https://www.evseadapters.com/
[2] http://shop.teslamotors.com/collections/model-s-charging-ada...
Do you keep mental tabs on the claims of users? What's my file say?
Immigration pushes back the social welfare Ponzi scheme time bomb. That's it--and that assumes that the imported people aren't net tax eaters themselves. At any rate, you can set off the bomb now or later, but the longer you wait the more explosive it will be.

Back on planet earth, a smaller population is almost always better than a larger one. The only real difference is that a smaller population has more natural resources per person.
Visualizing VR Data
Alright then. Time to crack open XCode and get to work on my incredibly mediocre game which will not even pull 0.000003% of these numbers. :-)
The lockout chip mentioned is detailed in wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIC_(Nintendo)#10NES

Some highlights include unlicensed cartridges using a "voltage spike" to knock out the chip, and the patent expiring in 2006.
I wonder if the author of the article above has looked into Sinatra? It seems to be the solution he is looking for, in a sense.

I have used Padrino (http://www.padrinorb.com) a lot recently, which is really a framework on top of Sinatra that make things like testing, ORMs and renderers easier to integrate into a raw Sinatra base.

I especially love that I can use 95% of gems written for Rails in it - about the only ones I can't use are the ActiveRecord specific ones. (Note: I use DataMapper in most of my projects, but looking at Sequel as the ORM for my current app).
When the bosses wanted iPhones, the company got iPhones. When the bosses want to plug in their electric cars, the parking lots will get charging stations.