skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just played 17 games using this strat, in the Gold League 1v1 and Bronze league 2v2. And some of the 1v1's where against Diamond league players. 12 wins, 5 losses. Trust me, it works.

1. Against Toss it's almost always a win, especially if you go all in (attack using queen and half your drones). Unless he's got a closed wall with cannons, he can't stop you. In my experience, no-one does this in just about any league.

2. Against Terran, it's very succesful, if not quite as succesful as against Protoss. If they put up a bunker with marauders, or they micro 2 or 3 marauders behind a wall, you need to fall back. But in general, it works amazingly.

3. Against Zerg it works very well, as long as they don't six pool - if they do six pool and you haven't scouted it then you are in trouble. But in general, it worked well.

Bottom line? Although it seems like it's similar to the traditional zerg rushes, it's actually a very impressive rush. I would say that well executed it's got a 90% success rate on maps with short to medium rush distances. So definitely give it a try :)
Android Captures Smartphone Lead In U.S.
2/3 of the reasons you mentioned are a result of idiots. and I'd wager that the other 1/3rd is probably somewhat related to idiocy too in some form.
Ask HN: Should a CEO be able to code?
I've worked in places where the CEO is basically the technical co-founder and also in places where the CEO barely had a fleeting grasp of common HTML tags (both were web-oriented companies, both were small startups). The biggest guys like Google, Facebook, etc. seem to put people with CS/engineering backgrounds at the helm... I've even read that Zuckerberg occasionally commits some production code himself.

Obviously that's far from the core responsibilities of a CEO. My question is oriented towards whether a CEO being able to grasp the technical concepts on a deeper level actually makes a difference to the success of the company.

Interestingly enough, the company I worked for with the non-technical CEO actually made a lot more money and is AFAIK much more successful than the other I mentioned. I'm just curious about other peoples' experiences with this.
Yes as you've stated it is easy for China to be efficient and that was my point, that they have efficiencies in ways we may disagree with (human rights violations, yeah the Olympic village) but you can't deny in the secular sense their economic growth rate and the feats of industrialization going on in the country. Comparing them to the Soviets is a straw man; Soviets didn't adopt the capitalist means that China did. I think you're mixing one party rule with communist/socialist. China's government is one-party but it's no longer communist in anything other than name.

I never said that Chinatowns are a net positive; I simply stated that you're generalizing on a group of people unfairly. My dad immigrated age 20, lived in Chicago Chinatown for some ten years, and he's just fine. The people he became friends with were primarily other chinese immigrants helping him out. Yes he had western friends; but it's very difficult to gain acceptance.

I mean, as a college student I've had two immigrant roommates in the past two years. Both have found it difficult to make friends outside of other immigrants. Even when I actively befriend them, my friends often find it difficult to communicate with them. If they go out with me, they're usually very quiet and uncomfortable because they don't know how to act or what to say. You can't really fault them for that.

If you did move to China you might not restrict yourself to English enclaves, but if you tried to party with a bunch of Chinese they might not get what you're trying to say. Also I apologize, because moving from China to America is very different from the other way around. In China they'll pay white people to stand outside their shops to get more business. It's not like that here in America...an immigrant with an Indian or Chinese accent isn't really sexy, you know what I mean?

"As to asian american bias this argument is weak since out of all emigrants (except europeans) Asians face the lowest amount of overall discrimination." Bias is bias -- this is a weak statement comparing levels of discrimination. It's really hard to quantify bias because bias is exhibited in different ways to different cultures as you yourself have demonstrated in the above comment. The kinds of bias that Chinese face are simply different, and what I'm trying to say regarding that is that the kind of bias makes it hard for asian immigrants to make friends with many westerners. Sure Americans trust the chinese to pay money for a taxi ride, and they trust Chinese competence in business perhaps, but the fact that they won't vote for an Asian gives you an idea of what their attitude toward Asians in terms of friendship, loyalty, etc looks like.

Also, I guess you're from the east coast but you've never been to a k-town? Brown town? Malays and Japanese you see less of because their population densities in the states are lower, but I think your generalizations may be influenced by some bias of your own.
Hey, I'm one of the programmers working on this project. We actually have a feedback form ready to go, we just ran out of testing time before the launch today. We'll be pushing that change in the next couple of days.

Thanks for the feedback!
Logitech launches its first solar-powered keyboard K750
I play Angry Birds by physically dragging the birds around the screen. How exactly do I do that when the trackpad is somewhere different than the screen?
I have a busy month, but this has inspired me to build the Android app I keep thinking about...
You could also see it as a goal focused towards the quality and maintainability of the codebase, properly defined and communicated tasks, CI- and QA-processes etc. that make it possible.

There's nothing inherently different between a website and "real" software that makes being agile (which this is really about) more possible on websites.
Odd; we just registered the domain and we've really tried to keep the porn to a minimum, so... :)
Ask HN: Has anyone heard back from YC yet?
Just wondering if anyone has heard back yet from the application process?
I just got back from a trip to Australia and New Zealand, and this is one of the things that I noticed while I was over there. Neither of those countries seemed to have pennies. If they did, I didn't encounter them while I was there. The lowest denomination I saw in Australia was a 5-cent coin, and the lowest I saw in New Zealand was a 10-cent coin.

I remarked while I was over there at how much sense this made to me and wished that the same would happen in the United States, because I feel like pennies are worthless. I'm glad to see someone experimenting with it in the US.
if you see that go hard into broodlords. A PF in a home base is a giant waste of money if not used, especially considering the additional building armor upgrade and range upgrade he spent on it and the lost time-income of no mules. You will easily out macro him.
How did they arrive at the figure 3313.7?
We don't want any kids building awesome apps. :)
1. Wouldn't a sentry forcefield ramp block off do just well? Stalkers have superior micro.
Encodings unabridged
Also, the USSR wouldn't have used them one at a time.
We are launching our private beta for http://eyeclash.com/ this month.

Eyeclash is a video-chat based social network where users can play games, watch videos, and run applications alongside video chat. It is 100% browser-based. The product is still really raw and buggy right now but we're pushing it no matter what.

More news to follow.
Not really, my watch (A large automatic spring movement) has more metal in it than a 7.62mm cartridge, and I've made it through a metal detector a couple of times with forgetting to take it off. While you could kill someone with a single bullet by constructing a zip-gun, that is about the extent of the damage you can do.
The last 5 year plan i made is to creating my own religion and currently i'm down to last year. It take a tonne of research to pull it off in the allocated time but somewhat doable. Since, my interests have gone off tangent the goal i set 4 years ago hardly matters. Now i'm hoping to get my startup realised and hopefully get taken in by the next few cycles. In a way setting goal(s) never work for me because i'll always look to something else to lust over. The only goal that's been consistent so far is to marry a supermodel.
I think that's the same conclusion Patrick reaches in his postmortem.
I just pay for my $3 order with a credit card. They don't even need a signature if it's under $10.

Electronic commerce is what will really kill the penny -- because no one will care anymore.
For some reason I totally misread your description and got it into my head it was an app where you took a photo of the tea-leaves in the bottom of your cup and it "statistically" gave you a "reading" from them. Maybe that's a possible extra feature? :)
The co-opting of the Tea Party movement by the "personalities" is what I personally find threatening. I identify myself ideologically as libertarian of the progressive flavor (which, from what I've read, is what the Tea Party originally claimed to be), but I still would not go within 50 miles of a rally being sponsored by Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin.
Just a little project I whipped together now that I don't have time to read TechCrunch every day. You just add any startup you're interested in using an autocomplete form hooked into the CrunchBase API, and it emails you daily if there are new posts on TechCrunch about any of the startups you're following. Just an experiment right now, but would love any feedback you have.
Do you really think the terrorists that pose a real danger to the U.S. are so inept that they'd carry a burqa, "Osama bin Laden" candy, and a round of live ammunition on a plane?

Which do you think is more likely? That a terrorist secretly plotting against the United States is willing to risk capture over a package of propaganda candy? Or that an American abroad found the candy notable enough to bring a pack back as a conversation piece?

The terrorists we ought to be afraid of (if we ought to be afraid of any at all) are not the ones bringing Osama bin Laden candy and burqas on planes. They're the ones who blend in perfectly, the ones we would never pick out of a lineup, the ones who would never make amateur mistakes like bringing a Qu'ran onto a plane. Customs agents aren't going to frazzle the dangerous terrorists by yelling at them. No, to catch the dangerous terrorists, we need real intelligence gathering and analysis. Customs agents on power trips will not suffice.
3133.7 = eleet
I suspect people who tend to buy 300 rounds of ammunition at Walmart know more than average about gun terminology.

Most of the population's knowledge comes from 24 and TV news reporters.
Yeah Dave Winer tends to always get details wrong.

But, could not Apple make a super set of the iOS UI APIs that eventually become a new UI set of APIs that a future version of MacOSX uses?

Or am I over simplifying it?

My apologies I have not programmed on mac platforms for 10 years..so my assumptions may be wrong
If you weren't technical, wouldn't you be surprised that none of your Facebook games work on your expensive new toy?

I think the people who buy an iPad and return it just don't post on web forums.
Educate me - what's the difference between a cartridge and a bullet? What's the difference between a clip and a magazine?

Edit: found answer to my first question below. The bullet is the inert mass. The cartridge is a bullet plus casing plus gunpowder / other energetic material.
The Al-Qaeda that we have any reason to fear aren't idiots. The idiots will be caught whether or not they have Osama bin Laden candy in their carryons.
Are they naming the winner before-hand? A quick Google search seems to indicate that there are companies besides Microsoft that sell Microsoft BPOS. Presumably those companies can bid on this job.
Is it worth trying to work for a startup if you aren't a coder/MBA?
I've been looking for a job at a startup in the Boston area for a while at this point. I am not a programmer nor do I have an MBA. I have a degree in psychology and recently graduated but would love to work at a technology related startup. I just love the entrepreneurial spirit and I love working in small teams on important projects. I don't really want to go back to school because I believe my time would be better spent learning directly from someone or a company.<p>Should I keep applying or should I go back to school and get another degree or MBA before even thinking about it?
In the desktop software world it was often cited that in the lifetime of a PC on average only 6 pieces of software are installed.

I wonder if this number is arbitrary, or there is something to it.
Facebook games are also really bad in my experience at just not working on the iPad. No error message, no suggestion to try their standalone app, no nothing.
Swype is extremely resource-intensive-- too much for older phones (such as my MyTouch 3G). If 8pen is less of a hog, and it seems like it probably would be, since it doesn't have to guess at what you wanted to type, it will be a great addition to the alternative input landscape.
No, they go there to buy things. Most of them don't care whether the goods come from Amazon or not, just that they get a good price.
I'd say it simply reflects the work environment. It's a lot more fun to go home after your first day at work and have something to show for it. You, after 8 hours of working at Company X, have already created or improved something for them.

I'd say it's a lot more fun than going home thinking "Damn that was a lot of paperwork. I hope I can get a computer tomorrow and start to work.."
"There are forces outside your control"

This one is huge. You have to persevere and not let things get to you. At a micro level this will cause all sorts of unexpected and frustrating challenges for your new venture and you'll just have to roll with the punches. If you're the typical OCD entrepreneur, you'll have to be extra careful to avoid digging too deeply and for too long into why one of these happened.

I'd say this is one of the primary causes of entrepreneur insanity.

You got scored on. Forget it and get ready for the next challenge.
To start, I agree with your post. He was definitely suspicious, and one-sided accounts are not reliable. However, I do take issue with one of your incidental comments:

>> "...but there are folks trying to kill us (all of us)..."

Either this is not true, or it is true and our enemy is inept. If we had a competent enemy who was trying to kill us, then there would be a lot more of us dead.

Just this last Saturday presented and excellent opportunity to strike terror into the populace in our nation's capital. John Stewart's "Restoring Sanity and/or Fear" rally saw thousands of people densely packed in what had to have been--judging from the amount of alcohol consumption going on--a very loosely secured area. I've been to other events of similar scale that have been open season on comings and goings. There are opportunities for our enemies to hurt us, hurt us very badly, every day, and they do not take them.

I think this is an important issue to point out because fear of a bogeyman is still fear. Richard Nixon said, "People react to fear, not love--they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true." Rahm Emmanuel said, "You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before." Bill Clinton identified the soccer-moms as the most important demographic in America, and he was right: they way to vast policy change is to connect it to a threat to a soccer-mom's babies.

There has been a resurgence in fascist and totalitarian ideology within Western government, all based around a hyped-up version of a nebulous, nefarious "them". We continue to play this security theater because it serves a purpose. The classic answer is that security theater instills confidence in the system. But I think it goes deeper. I think it gives the people a target, something to hate, something we can all agree sucks, and then see the futility of trying to change it. It's an indoctrination system to make "us" accept that the "right" way is a militaristic way.
GOOD, they are doing their job!
That's a great resource, thanks for putting that list together.

Some ideas for the next version:

- Paginate the book listings. Most people probably aren't going to be looking way down in the list anyways, no need to give them results they won't see.

- Add a small blurb to the main page telling visitors what the site is about. It doesn't need to be as detailed as the FAQ just something like: "Find great books recommended by hackers!"

- Give users some indication of how the books are sorted. It doesn't matter that the ranking is opaque and subjective, even a small label that said "Sort by: best" would be helpful.
Having an alarm go off at the right time is a relatively small usecase? That's a bit surprising, as alarms seem like a pretty basic feature.
Would make sense. I wonder whether its feasible to emulate a 1ghz high end game on a 2.4ghz dual core macbook though.
I don't know if they're flouting it as "impressive" so much as "This is a fact that is not true for many other start ups."
You can buy exclusive rights to any logo that was previously sold for $199. So, you could buy an original logo there.
"Here we have one of many incidents where a uniformed representative of the United States government is giving the clear impression that they perceive Islamic beliefs is inherently suspect."

As an outsider (neither Muslim nor American), I have to ask: how is that an impression and not a policy? The customs agents are government employees that, I assume, are ordered to act that way.
I'm a color junkie so I started poking around in the 1920s and it's really cool to see there have always been ads to become this or do that to make more money.

Rollerblades are in this issue too.
Sorry, I don't know - don't have one. Large comedy finger pointer perhaps? I do remember the last Stevenote having something about why touching monitors wasn't going to fly and how the pad would all be ok (waves Steve's magic field over joezydeco)
Best Web Design and Web Development Tutorials Roundup [October 2010]
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I'm With the Hunter-Gatherers
I'm not so sure. I mean, I picked up Tcl/Tk at college not because it was ever taught in any course, but because I needed to make GUIs for my own code on AIX (rather than generating a .ps graph on the command line, printing it and looking at it on hardcopy!). It's entirely feasible that an undergrad at a Windows institution would pick up VB on the side.
Scalability Trend: Move Behavior To Data For A New Interactive App Architecture
On the other hand, the anecdotal evidence from AT&T stores (which offers both iPhone and Android phones) is that iPhone massively outsells Android. That makes me wonder what it will be like if/when AT&T loses iPhone exclusivity in the US.
GAs are less likely than other learning techniques to get stuck at a local maxima because mutations and crossover can cause to them to search entirely new areas in the space (unlike ANNs for example).
I started out at 17 with a retail store which quickly grew into distribution and manufacturing of action sports products. this upset many people in the national (i'm in europe) industry and i was cut off from all my suppliers. we did some groundbreaking stuff in and around that area but a bad choice of VC and co-wnership (rings a bell on HN?) stopped that expansion. i ended up with lots of debt within two years while trying to get by with graymarket imports and alternative product.

by that time i had missed out and sacrificed on many things regular people enjoy in their 18-24's. knowing that my business would by fine without the (probably illegal) interference of my competition i fought on.

i grew up with the photoshops and illustrators, wrote BASIC and Pascal in kindergarden, and laughed at the first web bubble. so i went to work in the IT industry (and ending up on HN). this all barely allows me to pay off my debts, get by with life and carry the extra cost of maintaining my "old" business.

my "new" portofolio and overall cv gave me a solid perspective going forwards and it works well as a financial insurance (i can always go in fulltime and pay off debt quickly). so i keep taking risks and do it for the overall story of it.

i have probably thrown away a a six figure sum over that time, but i'm happy i did it and thankful for all the experience and perspective it gave me at a very young age. it pays off everyday by now in work, life and yes, relationships. but it cost me 10-15 years of my life. no holidays, no relationships for a long period, many business and personal conflicts, eviction notices, reposessions, lawsuits, reduced social interactions, etc. stuff you wont risk taking if you had an initial choice.

by now i live two extremeley different lives at once so some of the bad stuff can mix up. at the bottom line you truly got to love what you are doing to stick through it. as cheesy as that.
Sure, we'll be sending out a recording and summary after the event to registrants.
Hit a bullet hard enough with a hammer or other hard surface and it will (at least sometimes) discharge.
Sleep Cycle for iPhone - WakeMate without any additional hardware.
Clip vs. magazine: http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2009/02/21/clip-vs-magazi...
It sounds good in theory: the more eyes there are on the code, the less bugs there will be in the future.

The reality is that a good percentage of the people using the app will never actually fix or report any bugs (or even look at the source for that matter). There are usually a small amount of people that actually do make changes. If you had 1000 developers making constant updates, the project would be impossible to maintain.

Many of the open source apps that I've used in the past don't even have bugs discovered for months or even years after they were in the wild, which tells me that it's not that much more efficient at finding and fixing security issues than a closed-sourced app.
Sounds like a suitable way to get junior developers started. As a senior developer, it would never work for me. A document telling me how to set up my development station, step by step? I'll find out how to set up my development station and if I want to use vim instead of Eclipse, that's my choice.

Ofcourse, I'm not desperate for a job either, and I am used to setting the terms revolving my development environment and the way we work, as opposed to the other way around.
In New Zealand the smallest coin is a ten cent coin:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coins_of_the_New_Zealand_dollar#Current_coinage
Aside from the 'buying tickets in cash' that sounds like me. A couple changes of underwear in the laptop bag and I'm good to go. quite often I get somewhere and end up needing to buy a jacket or something.
This occurred immediately after his passport was stamped, indicating that it actually took place at immigration, not customs. (At almost all airports, you go through baggage claim after immigration (but before customs, obviously).

So the bullet was probably carried on, and thus went through security, but small items like this are missed all the time in the x-ray scanner.
Jon Stewart to Reddit: you don't matter
In case anyone misses it (took me a bit to find), there is a weapon selector under the bottom left edge of the map to choose different sizes of nukes.
For a startup the CEO has to add a lot of value. Usually in startup mode this means creating something i.e. code.
If the CEO isn't coding he better be selling.
Here's one view on the matter:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-case...

and there is plenty of reason to be afraid of an idiot if they have access to bombs.