skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i believe there is some unconvencional value in the advice in the article for the intraverted dudes with low self esteem like me. Given any hypothetical opportunity people like me will evaluate the chances of the positive outcome of the opportunity lower than extravert dudes with higher esteem, and will reject the opportunity outright. While your advice suggests the default behavior, the advice above stresses the need to increase the number of attempts, irregardless of whether they are successful or not, and by the law of large numbers, this might result in higher probability of positive outome/s.
Therefore, setting the goal of being rejected more often, might be more productive than waiting for the "right" opportunity to acieve the desired outcome.

p.s. usually I'm not that wordy.
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You are in fact correct. Typing a name and then clicking on the Search button will take you to GoDaddy.

But you do NOT need to click on the Search button at all to use the site. I used in the past and I did not even notice there was Search button.
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There are also import/export tax issues, not to mention potential conflicts with prices set by local Amazon operations.
I don't want to come across too harshly, but I've looked through the site for about ten minutes and couldn't figure out what this is. This app is a replacement for the default Android home screen? Or does it replace lots of other UI elements on the Android phone?

FWIW many phone already come with non-default Android UIs, for example my craptacular Motorola CLIQ. Also, I have to agree with samuel1604 - if all the site offers are direct download links from servers in China I wouldn't touch this app with a pole. Sorry. To be blunt I wouldn't trust any application on my phone with that much power. Taking a look at the permissions required on their Android Market listing their app has permission to access and modify absolutely everything on the phone!

What's strange is that their app listing in the Android market is actually far more enticing (https://market.android.com/details?id=com.jb.gosms&featu...). Why didn't they invest more attention in their front page? At least a little two or three minute video showing what the app offers...
Why not? It's fine for me.
He could have separated the book into different volumes and alloted different books for different topics. Would have made his and the reader's life easier
After half a day this post with 379 votes is no longer on the front page, it's barely on the second page (it's currently at position 50).

I think that suggests there's something wrong with the rating algorithm. Maybe the penalty for self-posts should be removed ?
Not really sophisticated by any means. It's more in the "Good to know, now move along..." territory if you ask me. I guess someone, somewhere will find this tutorial useful though.
PPC Companies
One of the leading PPC companies in India which offers PPC services.
This is so corny.
From his webpage at Surrey: "We have received hundreds of emails asking for the source code ranging from practitioners, students, researchers up to top companies. The range of proposed projects is exciting and it shows that TLD is ready to push the current technology forward. This shows that we have created something "bigger" than originally expected and therefore we are going to postpone the release of our source code until announced otherwise. Thank you for understanding."

Also, the message where he states the source code is under GPL 2.0 dissapeared. Seems that he chose to leave Richard Stallman empty handed and go to the dark side.
Not sophisticated but informative. Nice article and examples.
Can you give some more details on the language/libraries that you are using? I am just getting started on a 6DOF game...

I am planning to use C++ to code up the engine. So the easiest option is to use Boost.statechart to implement a Hierarchical Finite State machine based AI. I can always switch to a hand coded state machine later on if the performance of boost is not good. See an old article on Halo 2 AI: http://www.gamasutra.com/gdc2005/features/20050311/isla_01.s...

Havok Behaviour seems to be a game middleware covering the same area. So it might be an option if you are targeting PC (See licensing details of the same) even if it is not open source. I am not considering it as most of the features of it seem to be targeting the FPS game type which is a bad fit for a 6DOF game.

Apart from the high level AI functionality that can be implemented using Boost.Statechart, there is also the need for good pathing. For a 6DOF game reduces to a problem of generating non intersecting B-Splines a between source and target. Space is mostly empty ;) This is relatively simpler compared to the pathing algorithm needed for an FPS. Off the top of my head, I would use something like Boost Graph library to do an A* search on a Nav nodes as the simplest solution for an FPS game. You should be able to provide various heuristics using multiple vistors to customize the A* searches. Another option is to use a dedicated pathing library like Path Engine ( http://www.pathengine.com/ ) or Havok AI ( http://havok.com ). Unfortunately both are paid libraries. A Nav Mesh based pathing provided by Path engine or Havok AI will be much better than the Nav Node system, but with adequate coding and good level design, it should not too different from a nav node system. Eg: Left 4 Dead 1 & 2 seem to be using a Nav Mesh based system versus Alien swarm which seem to use a Nav Nodes based system for pathing.

Planning of AI is a hard problem without having the constraint of being real time. I would instead use strategically placed volume triggers (Ghost/Phantom object of your physics library) to customize the AI NPC behaviour (triggering AI HFSM transitions) or to trigger a preset sequence of scripted actions (Cinematics, sort of). Combine that with a decent nav nodes system and some randomness, we get sufficiantly 'intelligent' behaviour. This, however, becomes a data heavy approach to game level design. A full planning engine becomes a code heavy approach. The trick seem to be to strike a balance between the two :D
Agree with the points of article, but one question remains open. Who's going to make the innovative products then?
There is a very clear distinction between IP and 'physical (real?) property', we can at least agree on that, can we? There is a great drive to define IP in the same vein as physical property, in order to derive the same kinds of protections. But they are fundamentally different and so IP belongs in a category of its own.

The problem with monopoly for inventions is that people can come up with the same ideas independently and some developments are merely logical engineering solutions to a given problem (other engineers may solve it the same way and independently).

As for drugs, the real costs come from the regulatory procedures and less from the R&D itself. And even then, why should a company be granted a monopoly for simply following a logical series of steps (which any other company could do)? There is no clear idea what 'truly novel' means and how it's distinguished from an 'engineering solution' as defined above.
At least it will not tell you that you have a virus because of a windows\SL folder...
Great stuff. I think there are some potential tricks here to reduce the number of comparisons - maybe do a parallel subtract by k to pull down 'A' to -128 (smallest possible byte) then do your comparison against (ord('Z')-k). Or maybe push up 'Z' to +127..?

That way you can get a single comparison and can replace a pcmpgtb and pand with a single subtract. Then switch it to SSE2, unroll and you're good to go.

Alternately, http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/asmexample.html in section 11 ("Converting Uppercase") contains a brainsmashing version of this entirely in SWAR ("SIMD Within a Register"), which could be adapted with a certain amount of pain (largely due to the absence of a double-quadword bitshift in SSE2, which is retardlepated).
Same experience here with LuaJIT. My submissions using low-level types (byte arrays and such) were put into 'interesting alternative', too.

Almost all other languages can use byte arrays, when they are the appropriate data structure for the job. The C submissions make heavy use of GCC extensions, Haskell gets to use mutable (OMG!) byte arrays and Free Pascal has about as much in common with Wirth's Pascal as the name.

But Python and Lua are not allowed to do that? Apparently not all languages are treated equally. Dismissing submissions by resorting to a flawed definition of 'standard' and then suppressing further debate is really lame.

I contributed almost all of the Lua programs to the shootout, but I do not feel particularly encouraged to continue contributing any programs.
There is one system and it's called 'the market'.
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Programmers are a very different crowd, they will give you throwaway accounts to get past e-mail barriers. They will mark you as spam in Gmail, lowering your reputation.

Don't push programmers stuff they don't want, let them reach you easily (RSS, twitter).
I have two rules when searching for domains.

First, I never search for a complete name. I use www.namedroppers.com that allows partial name searches. E.g. if I'm looking for 'coolwidgets', I'd search for "olwidge".

And second, if I see a potentially interesting domain, I grab it right away, without any worries about the cost -- I'll just drop it a year later if I don't need it.
Being able to plug his site on Jimmy Fallon will surely help with traffic.
Fully half of these "Chennai" escorts are clearly European or American! What a ripoff!
Is this actually a significant problem anymore? No doubt front running was a pretty significant practice historically, but I haven't run into the practice in quite some time. At the peak of tasting practices more than 9 in 10 domains were given back during the cooling off period. That number has dropped dramatically since the rules were changed.

While I'm sure a bit of front running must still go on, it's hard for me to believe it happens to the average joe much if ever. In that light the rules that page lay out sound pretty over the top, and I'm generally a pretty paranoid person. I'd only worry about front running today if I was a known high value target, one who buys or holds a lot of domains. If that was me, I'd just take some mild precautions. Don't use my registrar to search for domains, clear tracking cookies before searching. The implications that you can't trust your ISP DNS system, search engines and certain whois services sounds like '06-'08 logic to me.
Hmm... so what can we deduce from the quality of the commentary here? ;-p

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1
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You could say that a lot of energy is being wasted because it's converted into heat via simple decay and not fission. Fissioning the available uranium and thorium would produce vastly more power, enough to push the human race up a few more decimal points on the Kardashev scale.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale
I'd rather keep some of the barriers - the one about having no RIAA, for a start - hence my comment about increasing market size to make it more worthwhile to scale them.
He could sell it in the iBook store no? Link from the web page directly to the iBooks store, done.

Don't forget the Kindle Store aswell.
This would be a great piece of content if one were to divorce it from the New Age "Ashtanga Yoga Mother Earth" overtones and just give us the list, free of dogma.
IT Offshore development company in Madurai.
For a different axis, see also: http://booktwo.org/notebook/wikipedia-historiography/
MSR probably paid for itself with ClearType alone.

But that is a foolish comment; AT&T really was a monopoly, it had the government enforcing that on its behalf. It was effectively a branch of the civil service and its lab an academic department. Windows/Office cash-cow is really no different from IBM's mainframe cash-cow. They're in a dominant market position, sure, they're cash-generative, sure, but if they don't do research, their position becomes ever more uncertain.
Is there a solution to this multiplayer prisoner's dilemma/coordination problem besides government-run research labs? I've never heard one.
If the submissions using low-level types would be included in the total score, LuaJIT would show at around 1.5x instead of 2.5x.
>Now, go to your nearest insane asylum and see if we're any less barbaric today. Be prepared for disappointment.

Erm, care to back that one up there my friend?
I was with this until they started talking about "God" which I thought was very disrespectful to people who don't follow their beliefs.

Then I saw the "vogue cover" and realized how disconnected the whole list was - who values themselves based on the judgment/mimicry of mass media? Ego is the spirit killer.
You can buy the Kindle from Amazon.com, just not local in .ca. And yeah the book selection.
While appreciate Zed's effort, I think he tried too hard to differentiate from Dive into Mark's one. I found the book mind numbing. It's Python the boring way, the first 70 pages are dedicated to displaying strings!
I didn't know that but it can't be that hard to fix -- all you would have to do would be to disallow outgoing port 80 connections with the firewall, right?
How to avoid NULL pointers
So while the shuttle program was canceled with hundreds of flights left on their frame lifetimes, the military gets practically unlimited funding for their toys and wargames.
But I want to see it turn!
What matters today is what Google, Facebook, or Twitter say about your business.
...Not what YOU tell people. Just something that got into my mind last night...
Incidentally the most recent World Cup was available for free streaming in Canada from CBC.
Saturation in Web Design
Over the years, web designs and layouts have increased in complexity. Yet, while our work becomes ever more polished and interactive, moving away from the static boxy layouts that dominated the ’90s, the central goal has not changed. Visibility is as important to designers today as ever. It’s about our ability to focus the user’s attention on the meaningful content that helps to sell goods and encourage subscribers, and it helps websites gain regular readers.
The BBC iPlayer website is pretty easy to fool.
I just set up a squid proxy on a UK VPS and created a .pac file that redirects all bbc.co.uk requests.
The final video stream won't be on that domain, so it will just go over the "normal" connection.
Exactly right, hence the instant part. I never noticed it either.
lost when I moved on from TW . Sorry. :-)
Ask HN: Please help with feedback on my app (Adioso for vacations)
I finished an app (www.sunscanner.co.uk) a few days back after 2 weeks hard at work that that tries to address the problem of "I've got a week and amount X to spend for vacation, where can I go?". A lot like Adioso, or Kayak Explore.

I'd love some feedback on it from the HN community because I'm frankly at a loss as to what to do next. I spent $30 to advertise on Stumbleupon last week, obviously 300 users isn't a lot but the bounce rate (75%+) told me it's not really hitting the right note.

Grateful for any thoughts and constructive criticism.
Yes. Our business name got nicked on Aug 14, 2010, between us handing in the bus reg forms and us getting the certificate a week later, cos I typed it into a domain search site..

we made nametoolkit.com and don't buy domains, ever, not counting nametoolit & name-toolkit.
Here's a track I generated that should provide interesting results if you use it to fall asleep to at night:

http://naturesoundsfor.me/TooCreepy
I didn't like TRON Legacy at all, but after reading this I'm going to watch it again. Several times even.
This isn't something they want? LPTHW is perhaps the best regarded intro to Python book I've heard tale of anywhere, and there's been 300k+ downloads of it in digital format.

Also worth considering is that it's probably newer programmers downloading it at this point. I know when it was first released EVERYbody downloaded a copy, to see what was what, but now that's worn off, I suspect the demographic is more 'those who need it', and are less experienced.
It's curious how shuttle-like it looks; without a crew to accomodate it could be literally any shape you wanted, subject to aerodynamic considerations. Reusing the design or scaled prototype for a next generation manned craft?
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Simple and easy suggestion: above the textbox on the reply page, add some guidance on tone and behaviour. Like,

'Please refrain from making mean-spirited comments,
we like to maintain a positive atmosphere at HN;
and if you are planning to crack a joke, you might want
to think twice as jokes here are usually downvoted unless
they're *particularly* amusing.

Or whatever you think's more appropriate. The problem to me seems that general bitchy behaviour is the norm on internet IT forums, so people come here thinking it's ok. Maybe they just need a little guidance.
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I once wanted to undelete some files out of an ext4 filesystem and I can assure you there is no such thing as an undelete command...
Why wait? Smart lights are DMX controlled, and computers control things easiest these days with USB, so google up DMX and USB and hit ebay and then write some code to have your laptop control lighting. Once you have a computer controller in the loop you can do almost anything.
("Color Kinetics" is one brand of interesting computer controlled light I have played a bit with. I'm sure there are many more options out there also.)
So, ideally, an office in a motorhome!
I don't know about you, but the prevalence of this has made "picking a domain" something I only do when I'm buying the domain these days. As in, from search to buy, it's a few seconds.
"Think of the trees!"
-Unless
I think that a part of the reason nobody's receptive to that idea is because we've seen the community quality at Reddit.

Without trying to insult them, I know that it is a very close-knit and strong community, but the intellectual barrier is very low. The comment quality is very low. The notion that there is anything there that can help us is likely being spurned because, right or wrong, that's not what we're striving for.

While I was a little shocked to hear PG clarify that HN is a place for hackers and not startup founders (I kind of expected the opposite,) I think we can all agree that this isn't meant to be a site for the lowest common denominator.

I personally believe that quality control starts with the submissions. The higher quality submissions, the higher quality comments they'll attract. But that's just me, apparently.
> it doesn't match up with the timeline.

A couple seconds later in the movie, the hero is disintegrated by a laser cannon behind his back, scanned and transfered to virtual reality environment where programs break apart when they hit hard things. Suspension of disbelief is a requirement.

OTOH, I am quite surprised Disney got to name its first Tron villain the same as Burroughs mainframe OS. It's worth noting MCP's sidekick name sounds a lot like MARC (the Menu Assisted Resource Control).
Yep, correct. My approach is not the only approach. The reason I documented is because I wanted a manual for doing a startup from scratch if I had to do it.

I usually get goosebumps thinking what I would be working on if I had to start today! Now I am relieved that I have a blog post to read whenever I need to do it.
Kinect used to make teleconferencing actually kind of cool (video)
Second that. But I would would settel at least for more angles of this.
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Setting OCSP checking to best attempt doesn't really solve anything because, if you're assuming that an attacker is MITMing your HTTPS connection, it's not too much more to assume that they can intercept your OCSP checks too.

http://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/03/18/revocation.html

On the other hand, setting strict checking means that large parts of the web become unusable when a major OCSP server goes down and that would immediately make them juicy DDoS targets.
People who don't agree with my point of view! I am sure a large % of people are willing to take risk and make innovative products.
Indeed; the word "Energy" is being used in its New-Age meaning.

"Faith in pseudoscience is rampant. Everywhere you turn, intelligent people fully accept the existence of anything from psychic phenomena, to angels, to new age healing techniques, to ancient health schemes based on mysterious energy fields not understood by science. Most of these paranormal phenomena rely on "energy," and when the performers are asked to explain, they'll gladly lecture about the body's energy fields, the universe's energy fields, Chi, Prana, Orgone, negative energy, positive energy, and just about anything else that needs a familiar sounding word to explain and justify it. Clearly, there are too many loose interpretations of the word energy, to the point where most people probably have no idea exactly what energy really is."

From: http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4002
No, but ten of those stacks might be a lot closer. Check your math!
I think it has quite a positive impact on the community that this suggestion got absorbed into the site in only 7 hours.
Patents are the solution our society seems to have chosen. I don't know whether they're "the" solution.
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DANONE Group е глобален лидер в следните две изключително динамични и бързо разрастващи се категории продукти:
- N° 1 в света при производството на свежи млечни продукти;
- N° 1 в света при производството на бутилирана вода (в обеми);
The story is predictable, but, come on... It's like Star Trek (pre-2009 at least). You know it will probably not live up to your expectations, but you just have to see it anyway.

BTW, the original Tron movie has its fair share of problems.

It's a very ambitious goal to visually depict the world our computer programs see in ways non-trained humans can relate to it and to build an interesting story out of it.

I would, most certainly, fail in this task.
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No, I've used it for more than a week, and I don't love it. In fact, it's my biggest complaint about 11.04... like I said above. I didn't come in with any preconceived notions about Unity. In fact, coming in, I thought it might be an interesting change and I largely like it, but I really don't like Dash at the moment. Also, I didn't say Launchpad and Gnome-Shell were better. I haven't used them, I wouldn't know.

Taking up 25% of my screen real estate for 6 icons _is_ ridiculous. I'm not really complaining about how much of my screen its taking up, I'm complaining that it's really inefficient about it. If you're taking up a quarter of my 24" monitor, show me more than 6 icons at time. Show me a search bar that's got text the same pixel size I selected for the rest of my desktop. At the very least, let me configure it to something I like.

I didn't say Unity sucks, I hate it and no one will ever use it, I made a complaint about how it stands currently.
The pitfall in platform predictions
Gavin Andresen on BitCoin and Virtual Currency
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Zed did an awesome job. If I'll have a chance, I will do my best to deliver this book to my university's CS faculty, where newcomers are still being taugh with Delphi (d'oh).
Agreed. I was one of those downloads, but I wouldn't have handed over an email address for the privilege.

One thing though... if I do opt-in for something, I wouldn't mark it as spam in a web mail client. That is strictly non-programmer behavior.
Objectivism
Could use some way of voting/sorting generated tracks. But otherwise awesome.
Just sent an email your way!