skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, I'll bite.

I bought Street Fighter 4, and I expected the game play to suck on iOS without a D-pad. The graphics exceed any fighting game I've seen on the DS, and the game play is true to the original.

As for the market for DS games, a lot of the big winners for the DS were casual games (the DS legitimized "Brain Games"). Much of the Brain Game genre is easily/faithfully reproduced on iOS.

The driving games I've played on iOS seem better than the DS, and even the hockey game that I got on iOS (I believe it's 2K sports) plays surprisingly well.

Beast Boxing is a pretty good rendition of Punch Out too.

Yeah, all the casual games on iOS get the glory, but there are deep console level games for iOS that can rival games on the DS.
Any files and folders that haven't been specifically made public by users through the existing "Public" sharing model and/or the new shareable link model are Private and inaccessible to anyone who does not have direct access to a user's Dropbox account.

The new sharing model allows you to create links to folders and individual files outside of the "Public" and "Photos" folders. The feature is currently still being tested and it has only been enabled for a subset of users. The links created by this sharing model utilize SSL, they can be revoked at any time by going to dropbox.com/share (in the "links" section) and they only provide access to the specific folder or files that the users creates the link to.

We also have specific policies with regards to intellectual property. More information about this and other Dropbox policies can be found here:

https://www.dropbox.com/terms
how do you bring objects to the front?
All good points, and I live by them when setting up meetings. The author recommends freeconferencecall.com, and I use them as well. Just be aware that your calls will be preceeded by an advertisment unless you specifically request it be removed.
Heck, there are even more issues - just ponder set design and many visual effects. You can't fake rain with a little water falling just in front of the camera anymore when you can tell it's just some water right in front of the camera. CGI it? You need those CGI raindrops in three dimensions. Etc.

But it's not that 3D will never work, it's that we're clueless about how it will be made to work.

3D films are a distinct medium, not "films++". Right now, we're at the equivalent of the, "I know, let's point a single, unmoving camera at a stage play!" stage of early cinematography. At that point in time, you could come up with an analysis as good as Murch's for why this "filmed stage play" thing was just stupid and could never be satisfying - and it would be just as completely correct.

Just like you can't just point a camera at a stage to make a movie, you can't just throw three-dimensionality at a movie production to make a 3D movie. We need to develop a new craft. We need a good decade or more of people poking at this technology in a real, innovative way. We need lots of directors and cinematographers experimenting with this. Hell, we need a horde of film students making inane, pretentious shorts with rented or borrowed equipment - or even people who've never been near a film school. We need this sort of work just to get started in this new medium.
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I have to assume you're trying to either be sarcastic or trying to make some point that eludes me. The language is really pretty clear for anyone with grade school education. This being a generation gap thing is insulting to both the younger and older generations. Just being dim isn't something that should be blamed on age.

from:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/when

when
At what time.
They were told when to sleep.
A third risk (technically subsumed by 1): your local economy tanks, driving down both your income and the value of your house.

Buying a home to live in is a form of un-diversification.
The one thing that Dropbox fails on, together with just about every other version control system, is that novice users (or your business-type cofounders), easily create conflicts with Word, Excel and other files.
There's no easy way to handle it, but the current way is very annoying at best. Most of the time I guess it, and delete the one I think is wrong, but one day that will lead to the loss of some important changes.
It's hard to merge every type of document, but atleast give me the best info, or a list of conflicts: who created it, when the versions were each last edited, file sizes, etc. Often a user will edit an old copy of the file and wreak havoc.
Finally, dropbox syncs _everytime_ I view an Office document. Must be Word's fault, but it's annoying.
You've misdescribed intersectionality [which isn't only about discrimination] and oppression theory [which doesn't necessarily have any morality embedded, and is very broad in its applicability]. How much do you do know about any of the topics you're being so dismissive of?

If somebody without any apparent background in your areas of expertise numerical wave propagation and exponential asymptotics described them incorrectly and said that they weren't as important as other areas, how would you react?
[Qwiki's] $8 Million round was led by primary investor Eduardo Saverin, a co-Founder of Facebook.

Through my extensive knowledge of The Social Network (watched it twice!), I'm pretty sure Saverin was that guy whose girlfriend lit his bed on fire. This may shed some light on why the author thinks Qwiki seems poised for failure. I think.
My lying eyes have seen many great 3D movies that did work. I respect Ebert because he has great taste and is right about movies far more often than wrong but on this issue I think he has 'cranky old man syndrome', ignoring the baby for the bathwater.
The "you'll be forced to give away the code" fallacy is not just FUD spread by GPL haters. I've seen plenty of GPL advocates make the same remark, except they say it's a good thing.

I mention this because the linked article strongly implies that only evildoers would ever spread untruths about the GPL. The GPL is long and complex and the FSF's own guidelines to "clarify" things are anything but clear.
Bought the pdf/audio book combo. Great stuff without the fluff, as promised.
I have a professor who does the same with me, it's really nice.
There's also Bone which implements SET, GET, and KEYS over HTTP(S). It also uses something similar to the Amazon S3 request signatures for authentication.

https://github.com/solutious/bone
Well, it gives careless users more rope to hang themselves, but I'm not sure it changes anything in principle. The Linux version at least works by running a binary that they ship you, which runs with your uid and communicates with their servers. Short of building from source yourself (if you can get the source!), you already have to trust them to ship code which looks at only the stuff that they're supposed to be looking at, and not to be rifling through your firefox history on the side.
What worries me more is that a purely "meta" comment becomes the most upvoted one.
>nutrionists

Most of those people aren't scientists.
But opera mini is HUGE.
It's certainly a useful technique, but for best results you should spend most of your time in a more positive space: looking for things that work and how to get them to work better, leveraging your assets, etc. etc. Asset-based thinking suggests a 4-1 ratio; I remember reading a book once that had a complex model that claimed the optimum ratio was 3-1. Your mileage may vary.
Including Verdana is a mistake. It's only in there because it looks OK on current low resolution screens. When retina-style displays are ubiquitous it's just going to be puzzling to people that it's keeping such good company.

EDIT: OK, I've RTFA now and I see their point (it's a historical curiosity). It still think it's too boring to be in the list, but it does make some sense.
The sibling thread of my comment seems to imply this is proper grammar. And, English not being my mother tongue, I won't disagree. (and I'll be happy to be corrected)

However, it doesn't sound quite proper to me and I haven't heard it before. Instead I use and hear/read "Let me know what time/day works for you".
Tonido Android app offers over the air file transfers, offline viewing ...
Should companies only be highly funded if they are similar to popular companies already making huge exits? Wouldn't this sort of be "missing the train"?
you must have clicked on the rent vs buy article
You know, I used to dismiss the iPhone/iPod touch as a gamer device, but I don't any more.

I think your argument is a little inaccurate. The "gamer" market segment may not settle for casual games, but there are plenty of deep gamer quality titles on iOS, they just don't get the same attention as the casual titles.
If people find them useful then that's good to know :) I guess the possibility of Google allowing individuals to have a domain/site blacklist would be a good idea since you're right that I find some sites unhelpful whilst others find them useful.

>> I have a sneaking suspicion that you are a webmaster who sometimes finds that your site(s) rank below the sites that you bash.

Honestly isn't the case :) I'm not a fan of monitoring the SERPs for a bunch of keywords and seeing where I rank. I sometimes do it for a few choice keywords and I've never seen WiseGeek, About, eHow rank above me (or have pages written on the searched-for topics). So that's not the case.

I pointed out BizRate since their site is mainly auto-generated and they have a keyword stuffing section, neither of which seem to provide much/any value to users.

As for WiseGeek, they might have some useful content, but I've seen plently of pages with almost as many words of adverts as text, which clearly isn't desirable. And some of its (no doubt quickly written) content is either unhelpful or in some cases wrong.
Frankly, I don't think I could do this. I've been a nite owl since I was 8 years old and it's quite difficult to change a 21 year habit. I've actually tried before. In college I had a 7:00AM(it was the only time the course was offered) math class that I barely made it through because I was always exhausted. So if it works for you, congratulations, that's awesome. But for me, I'm going to continue to keep the hours my brain likes.
Agreed. This problem isn't ACM's fault. Professional societies are too dependent upon journal publishers to force significant change. It is Congress that needs to step in and demand that all journal articles produced as a result of any federally-funded research project (not just NIH-funded ones) be subject to the 1 year post-publication open access rule. If Congress does that, then the journals have no choice but to comply or else the authors who supply the content will publish elsewhere.
I don't live in SF so this may be a bit ignorant, but it's possible the market is simply saturated out there. You may see heaps of opportunities, but you may not be seeing a horde of people who are actually looking at the same heaps of opportunities and are better positioned for them or simply luckier than you are. 4 years of mobile development seems to plant you pretty strongly in the mobile realm, as you would have gotten on board back when OpenMoko was still relevant. Are you looking to switch away from that? That might be rough in a saturated job market.

Are you currently unemployed? That can also send a pretty rough message and make it harder to get a job than it would be otherwise.
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It seems to me that Linux usage is growing nicely, just not in the traditional setting. Everyone assumed that for Linux to catch on, it would have to hit the desktop first, but that view now seems backwards.

Linux is now on the phones that people are buying. It's on the thin clients that serve up their favorite websites. And at the elite end of technology, a variant Unix sold by Apple is directly challenging Microsoft's hold over the desktop. Apple has made a Unix-based OS trendy.

And for the first time that I can remember since the mid 80's, regular people are buying computers not loaded with Windows. That seemed unthinkable just a few years ago, but again, Apple made it not just possible but cool.

It takes time for the general public to switch to new technology, but it is happening. Ubuntu and Mint Linux look pretty competitive now and are situated to provide a nice alternative for people looking for affordable OS X.

Linux will continue to gain traction on the desktop. It just may be that the desktop gets adopted last.
I think the answer is a bit more simple than that. Where else should people put their money if not in high tech?

Industrials correlate to GDP, and GDP is projected to be flat. Same goes with consumer products and volatility is too high in media. If you have capital to put to work, Tech appears to have the highest risk/return profile.

Phrased differently: if you had $10mil, where would you put it?
The insight you're trying to capitalize on has a direct expression in the market already: it's called the price/earnings ratio. At 95, ARMH has roughly 70% of the heat that OpenTable does, and 270% of the heat that SolarWinds does; those are two of the hottest tech IPOs of the last 18 months or so. It may in general be true that basic knowledge of how stuff works gives you an edge, but here you're overplaying your hand: ARMH isn't a dark horse stock.
Given that Scott's article recommends a 100% stock allocation to everyone >= 10 years from retirement with half of that in emerging markets (which only represent a small percentage of the total stock market), I take his advice with a large grain of salt.

Keep in mind this is also the guy who thought ISDN would win the broadband wars.
Why cannot people just assign the required width to the proper elements without polluting markup with those .grid_x classes is beyond me. One may just put some .top_left_red_link and .orange_button there as well then.

If you do it properly and want your .features element to take more space you just go to your CSS and adjust width: accordingly.

If you are using some "grid system", then you go to your markup and change .grid_2 to .grid_4. And when you change markup to change presentation instead of modifying CSS—you are doing something wrong.
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It's not dropbox I'm worried about, so much as the fact that a system that has the ability to make public any file at the owners direction, could be potentially exploited to make public any file without the owners direction.

Are non-public files now accessible to third parties who have the correct url? Is there code that maps encoded url's to every file in my dropbox? If so, this is a security vulnerability that is not present currently.
It's likely that my understanding of the situation is at least partially confused. The "SuperFetch" branding covers a lot of systems with some observably complex interactions. From my recollection of the XPerf traces, we saw misses 10+ MB back in the DLLs and just ascribed it to "SuperFetch" on the front half.

If you could tell me if that's causal, it'd be awesome = )
I'd say they are created (by their parents) and then born (in a hospital).
Ask HN: any designers available for work?
I'm a single founder working on a startup. A classifieds site for residents of Edinburgh. Initially, it'll be for local people to buy and sell their second hand items.

I have a budget of around $1000 which I know isn't a lot. I'm also willing to do some programming work in exchange. I'm experienced in django/python, php and java.

I'm doing the development myself, but I need some help with the design. I'm looking for something clean and tidy. Light on graphics, images, gradients and shadows. High on white space, good typography and consistency. I like the idea of text-as-interface. The design I envisage is what ebay might look like if it was designed today (without any web 2.0 nonsense!). Just a clean and simple interface.

If you're interested, please send me an email on the address in my profile.
Yeah, it's annoying if I'm installing something and the installer treats the GPL (or MITL) as a EULA. I don't have to accept/agree to the terms to use it.
> Microsoft helpfully provides the government of Tunisia with a trusted root CA in their products

Isn't this rather huge news? Why did they do this sort of downgrading hackery when they could do a more elegant (and slightly more transparent) man in the middle?
> Arrays simply do not model any problem that I have at all well

Then don't use arrays. However, arrays (vectors and matrices) do model problems that scientists and engineers have, and nothing else models them as well or efficiently. So to call arrays harmful is to exclude a large and important class of applications simply because you don't happen to work on them. It would be more reasonable to note there is a need for immutable arrays not met by our current languages.
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BND is not really that safe. I've owned it for the past 2 years or so. There are occasional price swings (likely caused by interest rate speculation, but not sure) that can knock out months of dividend income gains. I would say that more diversity than just BND is needed for the bonds allocation.
WYSIWYG any webpage bookmarklet
javascript:(function(){document.designMode = document.designMode === "on"? "off":"on"})();

Toggles between edit/non-edit mode.

This is good for quick iterating on wording while developing or responding to feedback. Also good for tripping people out with news headlines that have their name inserted into them.
Or what, the Grammar Police will lock you up?

It's a perfectly understandable turn of phrase, and trying to insist that it's "not in my English" is pretty silly.

What's up with "turn of phrase" anyway? What are you turning?
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Yes, you are correct. It is very easy to link all this data together to create a profile about a person. They probably have more data about each of us than any of us realizes. I think even I might be surprised by how much a company like Rapleaf has put together about me.
Phrased differently: if you had $10mil, where would you put it?

25% stocks, 25% bonds, 25% gold, 25% cash?

(That's literally what the "Fail-Safe Investing" book boils down to. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail-Safe_Investing)
In some cases. In others, you might be starting with a simplified wireframe (and these remove identifying brands, colours, etc) or you would screen capture and use it as a layout base in PhotoShop.
I disagree. If it hadn't been built for 3D with amazing effects it would not have had the hype, people going to watch the movie several times, etc that really pushed it to the next level.

You are underestimating the marketing value of the 3D effects. Of course the DVD sales will be great, because it has been on everyones radar for the last year+. 3D effects were a big part of that.
Thanks for this. Will update the post to explain that the main reason people should stop saying it is because it might be grammatically incorrect.
Couldn't the change have resulted from simply living in a different, more puzzling culture?
There are two meanings of the word "America" in common usage. The restricted meaning, used by the article, refers to the political entity USA. The general meaning refers to the continent(s). I don't think many people who saw the title were expecting data on, say, Buenos Aires.
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Arrays are a perfectly good tool when you need a fast, random access, mutable data structure with dense indices.

When any of those qualifiers is not mandatory, some form of indirection-based data structure will probably be advantageous in some way, such as offering persistence, more flexible index types, more efficient access patterns, or lower risk of incorrect usage.

In practice, most situations do not require all of those qualifiers. However, the culture around many programming languages still promotes arrays as the default choice, rather than encouraging developers to think about alternatives and choose the most appropriate one in context. It's not arrays that are harmful, it's using them when they're the wrong tool for the job.
Thanks for the reply.

I'm currently contracting, I'm not sure that saturation is the problem, it was like this a few months ago but now things look different.
In my 40+ years of speaking English, I've never heard this phrase used this way. Call me kooky. And I've been through a very nice set of elementary, secondary, and undergraduate schools.

Maybe it's the "works for you" that throws off my grammar sense.
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I'm confused about the populations. For example, it mentions the population of Kansas City is 143K. Wikipedia says 482,299, and "greater" KC is closer to a million. What exactly is measured here?
Ask HN: Anyone know of a client package/dependency manager for javascript?
As time goes on, I seem to collect utilities libraries like underscore.js or jquery. For any project that I work on, I'd like to have the dependencies for these libraries tracked and then have them automatically added to the project that I'm working on. It seems that I end up having copies of different versions of each utility in different directories all over the place. Doing any kind of development on the underlying utilities ends up being even more painful as I end up copying things around (or using symlinks).

It makes a little bit of sense to just put everything on a central server and load them from there, but then I end up keeping track of what depends on what.

Ideally, I should be able to specify a dependency and have a package manager download the files, keep them in a central location and allow easy development (just the normal package manager features you've come to enjoy).

Does anyone know of a project like this?
Dropbox works in china partially. Even though it is blocked, you just need to connect to the VPN shortly, and even if you disconnect, after that it works fine.
Cutting a fair deal with seed stage investors
Of course, but this is extremely common. Most money changing hands in the form of investments isn't very productive. Ultra successful hacker startups are the exception, not the norm.
Can you see the flag on the Moon with a telescope?
Out of the 10 conferences I spoke at in 2010, they were the only conference who made speakers pay. Also, many of the conferences I attended covered the ticket price and subsidized part of the lodging and transportation for speakers.

That said, all of the conferences I attended were very similar in size, sponsorship, subject matter, audience, and price, so this may just be a result of which conferences I attend. (In which case, I count myself as fortunate to find generous organizers.)
Ask HN: What posts-filter would you like to have? 
I think most of people see a lot of useless information every day.

I am curious how do folks (would like to) filter unwanted information?
(for example, in your RSS-reader)

By keywords in the text? By links? By authors?
> and broke into the cool people first.

They didn't get there first... They got there when the people and the technology was right.
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Non-shared files are inaccessible to anyone who isn't logged into that Dropbox account... if it's not shared by the user, it's not accessible.