skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that it's a bit surprising that a company like say SEGA or EA or whoever hasn't got together and put out a gamer-oriented Apple/GoogleTV type device. Think Apple TV size that used existing bluetooth PS3 or Wii controllers or controllers designed for the system.

Certainly with dual/quad core chipsets, we are close to or past the power of the Wii and if there was a better industry standard around such things you could even create a kind of built-in "meta console" platform within TV's. Then you don't even have to buy a separate device, your TV just plays games as long as you have a controller. That would probably sell more HDTV's than 3-D TV technology would.

All I know is if you can get an ARM chipset that can reliably spit out 720p games at 30fps with reasonably good quality, built into a TV that had say 10,000 games available for under $10 (I'm looking at you iOS and Android), parents woudln't buy their kids 360's or PS3's. They'd just buy apps that run on their tv.
It is what I use too.

It just blocks everything which comes from an external domain.

So in most cases it will also block malware, because malware authors seem to wait to use a 2-stage system.

They let different hacked websites point to one where the malware will be downloaded from.
It would be more accurate if the directors of a corporation had the power to arbitrarily give out dividends to certain shareholders and not others.
There are still physical limits with battery power and overall heat dissipation. Perhaps they'd be overcome with a new power source, like a fuel cell.
The pre-requisite for that to happen is an electoral system that advantages larger parties, such as fptp. I've seen enough politics in different electoral systems that I honestly believe that most of the problems prevalent in America today would really be solved with a better way to elect congressmen.
> Why is it that in this day and age that we still implicitly entrust another person to make decisions on our behalf?

We don't. Congressional approval is always horrendously low.

The alternative just sucks more.
Once again though, you're trying to impose your views on others.

If people want to read the bible, and believe it as factual "news", they should be able to.

As I say, if people want to live in blissful ignorance, they should be allowed to do that.
IRC and anonymous or pseudonimous fora are still out there, and there is no trend in forcing gender choice in them.

Those of us who have been here for long enough to play with online personas and to enjoy intelligent use of anonymity are bound to feel nostalgic, but I honestly don't see a trend so much as I see the real world's biases finally catching up with the internet, where's the space for everyone and then some.
The key issue at hand is the culture. A cultural change must be effected such that everyone understands that the 'government cheese' (bread, circuses) brings the system down. Individual effort must be rewarded, and lack of effort must not be upheld. History records this over and over, providing a clear description of the effects of government cheese. Britain lost their dominance in part due to it.

It was not until the communism of China was mitigated that their economy began to take off.

I understand that the same thing happened with India and their socialist policies, but I am not as versed in India's history.

There are heavy negative effects that come into play when large-scale growth happens. The Industrial Revolution is the history of the West's large-scale growth. It's taking place in China now too.

Let us not delude ourselves that sunshine, rainbows, unicorns and world peace will suddenly come about. Futurama provides a humorous glimpse into that sort of future.

People are always self-interested and selfish, in the governmental scale. While we might not like that... we always prefer better things to happen to us and our little domains.
Are you saying that usage is common or are you showing me the exception that proves the rule?

I Don't think I'd ever use a "They" in a way such as being described here.

"John was late for dinner. They were caught in traffic."

Or is it "They was caught in traffic." ?
But aren't citizens both customers and shareholders? And aren't non-citizens who buy our debt shareholders too?
If the mail server which stores your email is doing this:

https://grepular.com/Automatically_Encrypting_all_Incoming_E...

Then the person running the mail server couldn't hand over your email even if they wanted to.
Why is the language matched by /(.)\1/ non-regular? Isn't it finite (aa, bb, cc, dd, ..., zz if your alphabet is the lowercase letters a-z)? And all finite languages are trivially regular.

Maybe he meant /(.*)\1/?

Note: I know that backreferences make Perl regexes capable of matching non-regular languages, but this doesn't seem like an example of that.
And when they read the bible and decide that being gay is a crime, or one of the many other terrible things in that book, you're OK with that?
Some musicians would exist without the labels, others need the push / image machine.
>Forget having your computer stolen, what if your hard drive dies?

That's what the extended warranty is for! /s ;)

Seriously that's what I ask when told about extended warranties when buying a laptop or similar item that would store data, I ask how does an extended warranty magically make my data reappear?

Also most non-technical people I know never make a restore disk right away when they buy a new system, so if they lose the HD and the hidden partition has to only copy on it.

Anyway, Dropbox, Zumodrive, Ubuntu One, Wuala, plus an SSD RAID setup and I back up to two 1TB external drives weekly rotating them out to my office at work.
Wow -- some of those pictures show CRT monitors on employees' desks.
Start to wonder about what? Please finish that thought.

Unlike with patents if you don't defend a trademark you will lose it. Trademarks and patents are different and I'm curious as to why you're relating them here.
That's a nice quote, but it's misattributed.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville#Misattrib...
"The predators (rapists, stalkers, etc) are highly attuned and skilled at identifying WILLING victims."

There, fixed that for you.

"Hiding gender in that case could create a dangerous, false sense of security."

It's even worse. Exploiters and stalkers build a relationship with a delusion. Maintaining ongoing contact using a mystery persona gives their imagination free rein, ungrounded by contact with reality, building up a fantasy relationship that does not exist. The solution is to use your real persona, and end all contact the moment you start getting creepy vibes.
I don't personally like the Apple twist to this article. I think webdoc (having never heard of it before reading this article) is doing some cool stuff with regards to "sharing content" (I can't bring myself to say blogging, because blogging to me means words, whereas this had an emphasis on media). is it perfect? of course not. but I think it would be interesting to see some cool things created using the tool, and perhaps convince other tools to add similar features to compete. it's all about innovation and competition!

EDIT: apparently grammar flew out the window when I tried to write that last sentence.
http://socialstatistics.com/

https://plus.google.com/111091089527727420853/posts/5VJd6Wuu...

https://plus.google.com/117702410245683101961/posts/Sf43DmUp...
Unfortunately, most people don't care enough about encryption to put in effort using it.

I'd love it if when people sent me unencrypted email, their mail server noticed that I have a published PGP key, and encrypted the email with it before passing it on.

EDIT: Also, as for your P2P idea, IIRC there are Usenet groups where people post PGP encrypted messages for the intended recipient to pick up.
Forcing your users to lie is not a good starting point for a relationship.
The total revenue of RIAA members in 2009 was about $7.7 billion. At their peak around the turn of the century, they were doing a bit under $15 billion. And that is revenue, not profit. The entertainment industry is tiny. Top artists make a lot of money for an individual, but it's only millions, and there aren't a whole lot of them.

That 2009 music industry revenue would pay for, what, 70,000 programmers? And there are a whole lot more programmers than that earning good money.

(Note: I'm only looking at RIAA figures, and ignoring independent artists, so it's understated to a certain extent. However, I believe RIAA revenue still makes up the majority, probably the vast majority, of total music revenue.)
I may have missed it in the article (I didn't think Carmack mentioned this), but I think the main reason mobile gaming will surpass consoles is the speed of mobile device hardware evolution vs the consoles. iOS devices get major changes / upgrades approx every 2 years, while Android devices get major changes / upgrades every 6 months or less. Compare this to the traditional console hardware life cycle where you only get major changes at a minimum of five years, but typically at 7-8 years before they retire something after a decade.
The application fee is to pay for the team of lawyers that read the application, and to discourage frivolous applications.
It's more about negotiation tactics than being taboo. Employers don't list salaries on job ads.
I'd be the one executing the person who stole my stuff.
Now, invite your friends.

http://www.tutkiun.com/2011/06/how-to-invite-people-by-email...
It seems like foo.app would be better than getfoo.com or fooapp.com style names that people are already using.
May be Randy really bet to be Amy's hero. We (Men) tend to do a lot of stupid sh*t to impress a girl.
I hear a lot of "fans" that download all of their music and think that they support the artist by going to their show. This is not the case.

Well, it's not like their ticket purchases are for naught - it still offsets the cost of touring for the artist. The artists would be worse off doing the same tour with less fans attending.

What better choice do the fans have anyway? Buying the records supports the record label, not the artist.
Invite a bunch of friends by sharing posts with them. It seems to work...
No One Forced Me to Drop Bitcoin Trademark Application, Lawyer Says
Nearly 10% of the earth watched the lunar landing. But IMO the problem is that the "space race" was initiated & presented -- well, as a race! The goal was to beat the Russians, and once we did, interest waned.

The most depressing realization comes from comparing our actions between the Apollo days & now. As a response to Sputnik, this country managed to go from an insignificant investment in space to putting a man on the moon, and we did it in just over a decade.

Today? We don't seem to pay attention to these challenges.
Interesting number, thank you.
It would be awesome if http://robohash.org/google.jpg generated a jpg, and http://robohash.org/google.png generated a png.

It would be even more awesome if http://robohash.org/favicon.ico generated a .ico file.
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If the band's income exceeds 1000% of the advance, it will get 10% of the income as an extra bonus.

Isn't this paying the advance back?
I see this as the open source equivalent of firing your customer.

Just as there exists a certain kind of customer who increases the difficulty in running a business, so too there exists a certain kind of user who increases the difficulty in running an open source project. The project as a whole will be much healthier in the long run with the small percentage of users who generate the largest amount of grief removed from the equation.

Richard is deliberately making things difficult for Firefox. It doesn't matter that he's "taking the time to highlight a bug". It doesn't matter what his street cred is. He's behaving like a spoiled child throwing a tantrum. If he started stomping his feet and screaming at someone in my house for serving the potatoes too soft, I'd throw him out.

For reference (firing your customer): http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2006/04/the_customer...
Mobile Industry is Now 2% of the World's GDP, Analyst Reports
Of course -- however, the default used to be "On the internet, nobody know's you're a dog." There were very few sites, especially online communities, that would require your real name; of those that did, very few of them would require its disclosure to, say, search engine crawlers.

That's becoming the exception.

(edit: minor grammar fix.)
This just in: Apple protects proprietary IP with a patent and a blog confuses that for a product roadmap.
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NASA's last space shuttle blasts into history
It was a horrible failure. It was projected for 75 launches a year at about 25M$ (thats million dollars, not a software company in Seattle) per lauch from 1977 until the late eighties when it was scheduled to be replaced by something better. Instead it was 135 launches in 30 years at 1.6G$ per lauch, and it totally crippled NASA's capabilities to develop a replacement.
"Again, lack of introspection."

You are repeatedly criticizing a woman for her lack of logical insight into female emotions. This suggests you lack the same insight.
Holy moly, that is awesome! I'm going to look into this.

EDIT: Oh, this is so cool - a true UNIX utility, it just reads from STDIN. I don't even need to play with my sendmail config. I can integrate it with my .procmailrc. This is fantastic!

EDIT 2: Overall - it's a very cool idea. I love playing with procmail stuff, but from a security point of view it's encryption after the fact. Most e-mail is transported in the clear. I'll probably use it as part of a cron job to move stuff from my inbox into an archive.
Yes. In principle, the shareholders are the people to whom the profits flow.

If you follow the money, you discover it goes to government employee's unions, old people and various other special interests. They are the shareholders in government. Not ordinary citizens.
Due diligence has already been done by NASA. Contracts have already been signed. The Dragon is a go for ISS service.

I know at first this seems like a big and very risky and very uncertain change. But it's not: The private sector aerospace companies have been engineering and building our spacecraft all along^. This is evolutionary, incremental.

LEO is a solved problem now. By letting the private sector take over this tier, it frees NASA to work on advancing the science and state-of-the-art of further exploration.

^ Yes, of course NASA engineers were in the drivers seat, especially in engineering the systems, with private companies focusing on particular components. But my larger point of evolution v. revolution is the context I was getting at.
I've said it many times: Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony need to be worried about... Apple. The iPad (more than the iPhone IMHO) is becoming and will become a massive gaming platform.

The move towards 3D realism on modern consoles (Xbox360, PS3 and successors) has driven up costs, driven down release cycles and basically given things that many (if not most) people don't actually care that much about.

The App Store has proven there is a serious market for lower-priced games with wide distribution, something the content industry as a whole has failed of grasp over the last decade or more in spite of the mountains of evidence to the contrary.
Monitoring Sucks. Do Something About It.
"Besides, lexing HTML in 234 lines grand total, most of them being whitespace, (169 SLOCs according to sloccount) is impressive."

I mean no disrespect at all to tchrist, but it isn't impressive at all; not because tchrist is wrong, but because lexing isn't hard. If you understand the problem, you can almost literally read the lexer right off the standard; indeed, that's part of the purpose of the standard. Look at it (taking HTML4 here as it's easier to see): http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#h-6.2 You can literally read off the lexer expression for ID and NAME right from 'must begin with a letter ([A-Za-z]) and may be followed by any number of letters, digits ([0-9]), hyphens ("-"), underscores ("_"), colons (":"), and periods (".").'

Generally, if you're having a hard time putting a lexer together for some language you're creating (bearing in mind this includes the broader definition of "language" beyond just "programming language", which includes things like JSON or text formats you may create ad hoc), that's a sign that you've got an overcomplicated language on your hand. (Hi, C++! I see you over there!)
the metaphor overwrites the reason why governments are formed - for the public good

Money isn't the only way to represent wealth. The ideal government would ensure proper infrastructure(justice, defense, interstate transport) to the country without concern of profiting from it & for the benefit of all citizens. Money goes in, "shareholders"(citizens) earn dividends based off the infrastructure/programs they get back.

For example, why would a country raise tariffs or raise trade barriers?

Why would Verizon put an early termination fee on a contract? Is it because the customer benefited from a subsidized phone, kind of like how business benefits from subsidized infrastructure?
My bad about Green Day -- it was the Offspring I was thinking about (can't blame me, they're almost interchangeable as bands). On the other hand, rockers with PhDs:

Dexter Holland from Offspring (molecular biology, but dropped out with a masters)

Greg Gaffin from Bad Religion (zoology, 2007)

Brian May from Queen (astrophysics)

James Lilja from Offspring (medical degree, not PhD)

Sterling Morrison from the Velvet Underground (medieval literature, 80s)
you're right, I'm sorry, I'm confusing the two. I'm just not too fond of the whole owning-something-intangible concept, i.e. patents on processes or trademarks on words. in my distaste for them, I guess I mixed them up.

but yes, a trademark is representative of a brand, and it's important for companies to control their brand image, especially companies who are constantly under surveillance by the media like Apple.
How Running A Business Changes The Way You Think
> It doesn't matter if the developer uses polite wording, I'm still insulted.

The drama you generate inside your own head is not the developer's responsibility.

Closing a bug as "NOTABUG" is not an insult. Closing a bug as "NOTABUG" means the developer does not think there is a bug. If you take it as an insult, then take responsibility for your own feelings. Don't blame the developer.
Isn't this already the case with NCLB? Higher test scores on their own don't "fix" the problems with education.
How Delta's boarding pass can used to spoof your identity
Business wants all upside (even when it conflicts). As discussed yesterday: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/06/business/economy/06leonhar...

The problem is that nobody has a long term sustainable point of view. Why worry about the eventual cluster#$%@ when you can stuff your pockets today?
Why does this populist nonsense get so many votes? Typical generalized politicians bashing. If you feel that you rep. is so evil, than just don't elect them. Better still, stand yourself and do a better job. Or at least help the guy you think will be doing a better job. It's all about the participation of the Demos, that's why they call it democracy.
I'd expect better from Charles Stross.

"Superhuman intelligence" is like "Superhuman strength"; in some ways a bulldozer has superhuman strength, and in some ways a pocket calculator has superhuman intelligence.

Computers can play chess better than people today -- there was a day when that was a pipe dream, now it's a reality. We've attained "Skynet" when computers can play "the game of life" against people and win.

The route of simulating a single human intelligence has been overdone by sci-fi writers and others who speculate about the singularity. We'll be able to simulate a statistical model of a person, derived from the output of millions of people, much sooner than that. The "human memome" required to do this already exists in everything we've written about ourselves -- it's a matter of learning how to mine it.

The simulation of human faculties, on the other hand, is a business that's steadily progressing because it's useful. No business really wants to hire thousands of call center workers or expensive legal research aids. If we can simulate human faculties we can replace workers by machines, so it's an entirely practical affair.

I don't care about consciousness, souls or any of that. If a system can perform, if a system can pass, that's good enough. It's good enough for engineering and it's good enough for business.

As for critics of A.I. their main tactic is the conceit of moving the goalposts over time. Years ago, Charles Dreyfus would have said that the ability of humans to beat computers at chess proves that computers are stupid. Now he can point out that this is just simple combinatorial search and is nothing special. Once anything becomes practical, it's no longer magical or A.I -- it's just simple.

I can think of three directions of "superhuman".

One obvious way to improve on human is to be faster... It's clear that this is useful. Another is to have a larger capacity, both in terms of short and long term memory. It's not so clear what the limits are here because a human-like system might not scale well to a larger capacity.

Another way to improve on human is to be better at statistical reasoning. People have certain systematic biases that cause them to make bad decisions. This is particularly obvious because Poker is a good analogy for the "game of life" -- ultimately you've got to make guesses about what you can't see, what will happen in the future, what people think about it, and how they'll react.

So don't laugh because in a few decades, better Bayesians will be taking your job, eating your lunch and hopefully being better stewards of the world than we've been.
Anchoring. By giving the client an estimate, you anchored their expectations. Considering also that you're in a competitive environment where competitors are systematically incentivized to underestimate projects in order to get work, and the reality is you will end up eating some hours.
I think the parent is talking just about economics. There are very few post-industrial-revolution examples of nations benefiting economically from war. America in WWII is the most notable exception in my mind.
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(2) is simple to hide...I have a ton of friends in Facebook who have never entered their full name into their profile, only initials. i.e. 'MS Jones' or 'G Johnston'
Also, private debt. The Great Depression and the recent global financial crisis were caused by an explosion of private debt. And nobody pays any attention at all to aggregate private debt.
Google.jpg does generate a jpg, but it's not the same as google.png;

The reason for that is that I'm hashing whatever you send in, including the extension.. Otherwise, if you passed file.txt and file.mp3 they'd come to the same hash.