skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, the stars were very likely created together. The star that made the black hole was likely much more massive. More massive stars have shorter lifetimes than less massive ones (because the luminosity and consequently the rate of fuel burning goes as something like M^3.5), so it died before the companion.
Thanks for sharing.

A couple of details - icon (as someone else mentioned). Another thing is - you're a textbook example of promoting "features", and not "benefits". Instead of writing "Using Oscilloscope", which nobody cares about, you should've written "The smoothest shooting experience there is (thanks to oscilloscope)".

Also: get a graphic designer. Your graphics are not that bad, but a good painter could really make this app work much better. People buy good looking games.

As for your trailers - they aren't that bad. As a tech person I'll say: wow. It really looks smooth, I'm impressed. BUT most people aren't technical - aside from the screen they should see a happy person playing, and they should see someone really TILTING the device - now it's barely visible (perhaps even exaggerate the moves so they can be seen on the camera). Look at one of the Kinect trailers. You can't do as good, but you can get close. Oh - and remember that there should be a link close to the end of the movie, directing to the app store.

Anyway - these are just a couple of things for a good product / landing page. Doing this alone won't increase sales though...
I'm trying to buy it but the app store isn't working right now. At any rate, here are some ideas from an iOS developer with nothing shipped yet, for what it's worth:

Be way more explicit with your branding and marketing about exactly what the game is, right down to the name, if you're willing to change it. Looking at the top charts right now, there are games that show you exactly how to play just with the title and the icon: Fruit Ninja, Cut the Rope, Flick Golf, Feed Me Oil. You want to be the gyro shooting gallery app. So, something like Gyro Shot or Gyro Shooting. It's sounds lame but it seems to work. It may also give Apple a reason to feature you, since you are demoing a hardware feature.

I think you also need a more fun look. The game looks really drab right now. A grey factory is not a terribly exciting backdrop and the balls are pointy. Choose a look that you can execute at grade A level. This is where the "glowing neon" look came from -- programmers who can't do art. Use shaders to make the balls perfectly round and give them some sort of cool effect. The screenshots should be attractive on their own.
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"looking at the source" defeats the point.

he was talking about documentation.
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Here is the output after trying to convert one of my projects:

9-slice scaling is not supported. (11 occurrences)

Pixel hinting on strokes is not supported. (10 occurrences)

Filters are not supported. (100 occurrences)

Shape tweens are not supported. (2 occurrences)

ActionScript 3.0 is not supported. (2 occurrences)

Advanced text rendering using continuous stroke modulation is not supported. (3 occurrences)
Wasn't me! I have a strict policy of either down voting or responding but never both. If a comment doesn't contribute to the discussion, I down vote it and move along. If it merits a response, it clearly is doing something of value to engage me, and the back-and-forth may uncover something else interesting.
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It actually is an immunity (maybe not from suit, since as we know you can sue for anything, but it is an immunity). It's a limitation set on the copyright holder to protect the party using the work fairly:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use

It's a major reason for the outrage; even if Baio's use of the image was fair use to the letter, fair use law couldn't have protected him from the weight of the financial burden needed to protect his rights.

Your insanity defense analogy doesn't validate because fair use isn't supposed to simply act as a plea when you're forced to defend yourself. It's a protection that we all have currently.
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What popular encryption library does this? Also: what would you do specially in your allocator? It seems wrong to me that the users of a library should be expected to know (for instance) the precise incantation required to clear cache footprints on Core2 processors; that seems like an internal library concern.
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That's a great example. Thanks.
Good comment; I agree with almost all of it. I would add, though, that it would also be possible to invent a legislative solution that's not absurdly narrow, for instance by providing an inexpensive and reasonably prompt means of arbitration.
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first paragraph of TFA:

Last summer, an engineering intern named Pieter Senster joined the mobile advertising team to explore how we could display Flash animations on devices that don’t support Adobe Flash player. Pieter made such great progress that Google hired him full time and formed a team to work on the project. Swiffy was born!

what an awesomely productive intern! now that's a way to secure yourself a full-time job!
I know some is lost during the explosion, but I thought the mass stayed roughly the same and just the volume significantly decreased.

The first part answers the second. A lot is lost in the explosion.
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I could really care less about penises and vaginas when I'm working through a math or engineering problem and I'm absolutely not alone. I've done a tonne of workshops and conferences and the sex of the other students hasn't even popped onto the radar. Either my professional circle is full of Unicorns, or the issue of requiring a dedicated space to foster female solidarity in the face of insufferable male 'intimidation' is one of political invention.

I tend to view intentional partitioning of communities, rather than inclusive interaction, as counter-productive.
this is MySQL specific, but we do this and it is a HUGE win for us

MySQL doesn't support descending indexes, so for a large class of problems you will have to scan the entire index to find the last 10 items, especially when sorting by items in two directions. This is really slow when you have one hundred million entries (a huge events table). Looking up by primary key is very very fast in MySQL with InnoDB. If you profile this query you can see MySQL spends most of its time figuring out the IDs, and almost no time reading them back to you. Using Redis in this manner is very memory efficent, easy to update, and gets you 95%+ of the potential performance gains. It means we don't have to keep Redis up to date with edits or changes, because the PKs are set in stone.
>Women stand a far better chance of learning to program when they are in a non-intimidating environment where they don't have to put up with a bunch of condescending jerks (take your pick): staring at them, competing with them, putting them in "their place", patronizing them.

Hidden in that is the subtle assumption that women need to be protected. Particularly in the clause "competing with them," I find protectionism evident.

Now, I'm not saying these groups shouldn't exist, or that they're wrong, or that a group of mostly men can and often does create a hostile environment for women.

But your phrasing makes me uncomfortable, internally, as if I feel you're not quite leery enough of how much you're using sexism to combat sexism.

There is nothing wrong with that, it is very pragmatic and a good chunk of the 'ism' reasoning behind affirmative action (which I generally support). But "Reverse the roles, and this would be just as true" is essentially saying "If men were women and women were men, we'd still be playing with standard gender roles, so it's fair!" which doesn't quite compute.
Computing without Processors
Great example of misuse of the HTML5 buzzword.
If I was looking to move into a new office space, I would strive to hire an architect of the sort who designs buildings and would start with the exercise of architectural programming (essentially writing the specification for the design). Poor design decisions early on are like poor code - pernicious and painful to fix.
I challenge anyone to name an event where the sex of its attendees is of primary concern.
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Not Github. Back then I was using RubyForge.

Fair Warning: I think I as far as I got was logging in. I don't remember if I got any commands working at all.

http://rubyforge.org/projects/textualize/

I will probably move it to GitHub soon as I've been thinking about working on it again.
It sort of depends what you are looking for: a partner or someone to execute?

* If you are looking for a partner describe your big vision, your near term goals and how you you are thinking of implementing them. Ask for suggestions, make sure you both believe the big picture and talk through the details.

* If you just want someone to build your vision give as much detail as possible. Show wireframes/designs of every screen with annotations.

I also like using product backlogs to define the functionality for projects. Make a list of every feature ranked by priority. Ask your tech partner to fill in the difficulty for each item to help you prioritize.
I'll have to mark this on my long list of "books to buy when I have money."
That really depends on what you want to do. The drawing performance for the canvas element has been dramatically improved in the last few months - for desktop browsers at least.

And then of course, there's WebGL; even if you just use it for 2D stuff (shameless plug: http://www.phoboslab.org/xtype/ ) it's way faster than Flash. I have no doubt that in a few month the the 2D canvas context will have the exact same performance (if not better) as WebGL for 2D stuff.
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My experience of HTML5 is that it blows Flash out of the water. Flash on Linux is (still) an absolute disaster while HTML5 is making progress every day and has long surpassed Flash in usefulness for most tasks.
Only until we win.
Thanks! Do they have Twitter? I'd love to chat with them about it. Looking for feedback on the project too!
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What I get from this is that Redis is so powerful that its best to not use it as a simple read-cache where the database is still the cannonical source.

Its better to use it as the write-cache for complex datasets with the database being the backup.
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How does this compare to Gordon? https://github.com/tobeytailor/gordon/wiki
Yes, that's the advantage. Redis is a memory-based DB like memcache, but is more than just a simple key-value store.
I recommend Emily Short's fractured fairy tales (Bronze, Glass) and Galatea. They're all well-written and pretty well-programmed; Glass is funny and the other two are a bit trippy/strange. IIRC they all have multiple endings.
I don't think a nonce would work, because the server wouldn't be able to verify whether the hashed value you sent was correct or not. The whole point is to never send your 'real' pwd to the site, because they're going to do something idiotic like store it in plaintext, and then you have to change it everywhere.
decompiling swfs seems like it could run into copyright laws.
"A photo of a person is derivative. A photo of a crowd is unique. A photo of this building is a trademark violation, no matter how artfully done."

Solid point.
because their idiots
Isn't this what Gordon did? https://github.com/tobeytailor/gordon/wiki
The Google+ project: Real life sharing, rethought for the web.
You can actually use Flask from within Tornado's WSGI adapter.

http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/deploying/others/

This lets your leverage Tornado's high-performance IO loop while still developing your web application using Flask.
My understanding is that these contract terms have teeth in California, just like everywhere else. An enforceable contract doesn't mean you can't sue Dropbox if they cough up your data to an attacker; it just means you sue for a tort instead of breach-of-contract.
It's been a while since I used an IDE (instead of vim), but don't most of them support code-folding that provides a light gray bracket for a block of code (usually with a collapsible indicator at the top)?

Or is the effect you want slightly different?
Google launched Google+ - is this "Circles"?
The confusing thing is some people refer to VPSs as 'cloud', which sort of makes sense when you compare them to EC2. EC2 seems more 'cloudy' because... um, we don't know what kind of hardware it's running on? I don't know. I was trying to explain what 'cloud' means to my tech-savvy, but non-industry brother and was puzzled by the issue of whether Linode is a 'cloud' service or not.
OCZ's RevoDrive 3 X2 PCI Express SSD Offers Up Crazy Fast Storage Performance
Just another brainfuck implementation, but with macros
You can roll out your own or use one of the existing translators which translate from haml to jinja2 syntax.

Do you use slim templates? I recently wrote a hand rolled recursive decent parser which translates slim to jinja2 - https://github.com/thoughtnirvana/slimish-jinja2. Jinja2 supports extensions and after adding this extension, you can write slim templates which will be translated to jinja2 on the run.

The lexer and parser are simple enough - you can make code changes or roll out your own if you want to.
Yeah, it's looking like a lot of people agree with you that the icon needs work. You've been contacted.

I'm definitely not in love with it, but it's better than the other ideas I had. The problem I was having was trying to depict the in-game action in such a small space. 3D stuff just seems to get cluttered or lost.

Anybody have any suggestions?
I'm sure they still accept donations
Right. I believe we already have plenty of read-caches out there. Our web servers can implement them, we have Varnish and MemCache and ~100 others.

What Redis appears to do great is that it is much more than just a key-value store with CRUD operations. You can model sets, lists, queues, counters, and do complex operations on these in-memory values.

It looks to me like it is best thought of as providing an interface to data-structures that are well optimized and persist across requests.
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If you're building a product that you hope will get you to that point, this book might be a good investment right now!
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I'm very excited to try this out. Context (AKA "Circles") is the biggest feature Facebook still hasn't gotten right. By mirroring the way we think about our social graph in real life, Google is making a huge step toward converging Online and Offline identity. It will be very interesting to see how Facebook responds to this... they might finally have a competitor.
I get a 403 forbidden (check your permissions maybe?)
Would you consider facebook's move to the news feed a "pivot"? They certainly changed the fundamental way you interact with the product and shifted its purpose (a directory of your friends vs. updates about what they are doing) Most tech businesses that has survived, one could make the argument, have "pivoted". No matter what you call it, it's just good business.
A lot of people are calling the Stickybits move to turntable a "pivot" - but wasn't their purpose this entire time to create a new way for people to interact with media? Different interface, same purpose.
Make stuff people want, right?
Unlike on Facebook, people do not have to agree to be friends with one another. They can receive someone’s updates without sharing their own

So it's like a reverse twitter, where you choose who can follow you?
Enterprise tech startup (YC W11) hiring in Palo Alto - (Front|Back)end engineers
Holy shit, another Q&A startup? Wow, I bet this one does things WAAAAY better than Quora, Yahoo, Hipster, Facebook, and the 15,000 other sites where I can pose a question to a community of users.

When will "entrepreneurs" start solving some real, actual problems instead of figuring out dumb little sites with different ways to display the exact same data?
Choosing the perfect auto transport companies
There are innumerable auto transport companies which provide proficient services to their customers. Several companies are providing so many facilities so that their customers are satisfied. With the assistance of these auto transport companies, it is simpler to move their autos to any destination of their choice. .
Your first point raises the question of how to approach someone with an idea, when I don't necessarily have funds to back it up. Is there an accepted protocol for this? In spending time on this site, I've noticed that's a pet peeve of most developers.
A typical house would require extensive retrofitting to meet the applicable codes (e.g. structural, egress, fire suppression, and accessibility) due to the change of occupancy - never mind zoning and other land use regulations.
From plus.google.com:

> Google+ is in limited Field Trial
Right now, we're testing with a small number of people, but it won't be long before the Google+ project is ready for everyone. Leave us your email address and we'll make sure you're the first to know when we're ready to invite more people.

WHY?! WHY are they doing this again? They did this with Wave. Google, you cannot launch a social network while explicitly disallowing social networking! This is so frustrating.
For a web framework(non async run of the mill), I would say Flask has an edge. My Flask stack is:

1. SQLAlchemy for ORM.

2. Jinja2 for templates (flask default).

3. Flask for basic web framework functionality.

4. WTForm for forms.

5. Other extensions as needed.

Flask itself is built on werkzeug which is a clean, high-level wrapper over WSGI. Basically Flask is assembling working components into coherent applications. I have done some applications in flask and I can say it's suited for applications of all size.

Tornado, on the other hand, implements its own templating and orm.
Apologies; there was honestly no snark intended.

I happen to think the conduct of the asbestos industry is a strong argument for a corporate death penalty. And executives who knowingly exposed workers to dangerous materials should be in jail.

My point was that legal ads are prominent because there is a lot of money at stake, not because everybody loves lawyers.
I think I liked "Receivd" better... but I definitely understand that "Kicksend" would sell better.
Worst part is their sign-up page has gone MIA - 404
The hangouts feature seems like a big win to me. Group video chats in the browser from someone like Google can really change things.
Some more errors here, just so we can start compiling a list of what is unsupported:

An unsupported SWF tag was encountered. (1 occurrences)

The global ActionScript property _quality is not supported. (1 occurrences)

Character glyphs aligned on pixel boundaries are not supported. (4 occurrences)

The #initclip pragma is not supported. (23 occurrences)

An unsupported audio codec was encountered. (1 occurrences)
That's a very elegant way of saying: "Communication in math is just as fucked up as you'd think."

As an outsider who only ever needs to use maths as a "tool" for very specific things, maths books and general attitude by professors and teachers is just nightmarish. Somewhere behind that curtain of inaccessibility, it has to be their fault. Especially, since once you actually do understand certain mathematical concepts you suddenly realize they're easily explainable with a few words of plain text or --gasp-- a "childish" drawing to illustrate.
Well, I'm glad there are some significant new features that Google is trying to use as leverage. Group video chat comes to mind as something that most people don't like to deal with, but as an integral part of a social network, I can see it making more sense.

Its clear they've tried not just to 'clone' Facebook, which I appreciate.
This thing is pretty neat though:
http://www.google.com/intl/en/+/demo/
Using sound masking strategies in conjunction with sound isolation is typically preferable to sound isolation (e.g. a dripping faucet which keeps you awake).
Is there a market for paid Django apps?
You probably want Safari extension
I find that HN in general is getting prickly. The paranoia-posts about becoming reddit are on the rise. The hacker news mindset is defensive and a little elitist, which means that throwaway posts or posts made a little thoughtlessly get quickly shunned.

Which is fine, actually, in moderation. But there's some sense in which it's passe to be casual, it's uncool to be enthusiastic about HN, and in general we can't just be chill with each other.

No more do I find this evident than how we make SNs green for newbs. It's almost the definition of elitist. If we truly care _only_ about post quality, it shouldn't matter whether someone is new.

But the 'circle-the-wagons' mentality leads to intentional alienation.
I disagree. Social networking, unlike skype or email, requires low cognitive load--you come to hang out on your own terms. While group video chat is a convenient feature when you need it, it's not going to fundamentally change the game.
Don't apologize; I'm not taking you to task. And sure, there's a lot of ads because there's a lot of money at stake. But that's also in some ways a good thing: it ensures that everyone harmed by (say) asbestos is aware that there are remedies available to them.
Cool, I have one from a while ago that I got about that far as well. I was thinking about working through the Mud Game Programming book to get a working foundation going, but send me an email (in profile) once you start working on it again.
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The illustrations themselves are all okay, as far as I can tell; I've tried to make sure that they have enough contrast even on a greyscale screen like the Kindle's. However, there are some formatting issues with a few of the pictures on the regular-sized Kindle's screen. I'm not sure if these issues also appear on the DX. They might not, because they seem to occur due to the Kindle's small screen width.

I'll talk to my publisher to see if we can get these problems fixed.
Yes, plus Circles. Circles are vital.
Plain Flash SWFs are trivial to decompile and decompilers have been available basically since the beginning of the platform. Anyone who really worries about that sort of thing is running their Flash output through obfuscators/minifiers similar to the ones available for JavaScript. With such obfuscated swfs you can still extract the code but it'll be basically an unmaintainable mess. I'm sure the output of such obfuscated code with this tool is just as bad as it would be if decompiling the bytecode to ActionScript, if not worse.
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and ~50% of your participants are female? if so, congratulations, you're doing better than most of the tech events I've attended.

My experience has been that (a) women are a minority in almost all computer communities and events, and (b) how large a minority they are correlates strongly to how much effort is made to encourage their participation. Activities like the Boston Python Workshop are effective
Thank you for writing up your experiences. I hope that things improve. I've experienced much if not all of the things you have gone through with Infostripe http://infostripe.com. Was to be an iOS app but lives as a HTML5 one. iOS to return eventually.

I guess what I am saying is that you have to keep going, market, iterate, try things and as said not give up. At some point hopefully your product will begin to sell itself enough for you to improve or version 2 it.
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