skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a gamer, and I will be a gamer in a couple years when I'm over 30. But one mistake that I've seen a lot of gamers make when getting riled up over this issue of perception, including the author of the linked article, is making a faulty jump in logic -- from "The average gamer is over 30 years old [according to a variety of sources]" to "People over 30 years old are more likely to be gamers than not". I have yet to see a credible source come out and directly say this. Take a look at the ESA stats in the article comments from Lea Hill -- they're given in a way that tries to imply it.

In this regard and many others, the rhetoric around social acceptance, identity (including age, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, political belief, and ethnicity or nationality), and maturity is really twisted. Most people are defending opinions instead of examining realities... I've been a lot happier since I stopped following the discussion in any serious way.
I can attest to that, both from reading and writing code with Docco documentation.

It's also great IMHO for getting an uncluttered view of code. In many cases, no matter how well written, the documentation is not enough. And while Docco is all about documentation, it shines even then.
Literally nothing happened when I entered my handle and clicked GO. (Chrome on OSX 10.6)
When you say you merge sort from the log servers, do you mean the logs on a given server are written & stored in-order?
How about smoking a joint with your future manager and development team in a hotel room at a conference?
Khan Academy iPad app
10 hours videos on youtube, now possible
I, to this day, believe the whole thing was a test to garner interest. The screenshots on the website look like photoshop mockups of what the app could look like.

I've yet to see an actual video demo of the app working, and i've yet to hear of anyone actually using it.
Because the idea is solid, and I like making useful tools ;)
In the US, the legal concept of necessity applies. To oversimplify, you can do something otherwise illegal to prevent a worse outcome than the results of your act.
And yet, what does the data say about US patents and prior art?

It says: We developers are #^¢&ed!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click
Why would you replicate something that already exists? That's what Evernote has done, with very minimal spin. It's pretty close to empty marketing crud.

A superior solution would be any version control client and regular files. I'm not intimately familiar with Evernote but I'd wager that there are at least ten major features of good version control systems that Evernote doesn't have. Features like decentralisation, transparency, open source, mature security model, mature fork and merge model, commit hooks, etc.

Failing that, even rsync would be a good solution for a single user. I'm sure it's probably more on-wire efficient than whatever system Evernote use.
The neighbor from hell "spent two weeks cracking the Kostolnik’s WEP encryption"? I thought this was supposed to take only seconds now...
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BOOM! Good stuff, guys!!
Tell HN: Why I attend conferences
Yesterday I went to a conference (around mobile marketing) and despite having been to many of these and listening to talks that can be repetitious and include things you know and hear over and over, I'm very glad I went.

I won't make this into a blog-post entry so I'll be succinct on the reasons:

1. I go for the epiphanies. Sure I've heard the same stuff over and over but sometimes a particular string of words cracks the creativity crack and you get a solid, validated idea or improvement.

2. I go for the inspiration - the case studies are enough to make you want to do shit better.

3. I go for the people - My online persona (esp Twitter) is that of an asshole and I'm very much misanthropic but the interaction at these events and the forced friendliness leads to genuine connections sometimes. I was offered a job after meeting someone for the first time IRL that I've been following and have been followed on Twitter.

4. You never know who you'll meet and where conversations will lead. I was offered pitching time and genuine interest (in me and not a single one of my ideas, which weren't even discussed) by a VC.

Do you attend conferences? Why?
If you have a 100 amp power feed, then you should be able to use up to 100 amps. If you have a 100Mbit feed, you should be able to use up to 100Mbits.

The big difference between electricity and bandwidth is that electricity has to be produced and this involves considerable expense. Bandwidth is always there so long as the equipment is powered on, which ends up being a marginal cost in the scheme of things.

Look at how power is priced: $/KWH. Bandwidth is priced at $/Gbit. Not Gbyte, but Gbit. You pay for capacity and usage comes along for free.
While there are plenty of ISPs in Seattle, in many places Comcast is the only option for better than 1.5Mbps DSL.

Qwest owns the lines and although has announced greater speeds planned for the Seattle area, few have received them. [1] Verizon tried to bring fiber-to-the-home, mostly on the outskirts of Seattle, and has since abandoned the market. [2] The city of Seattle studied fiber in 2005 but decided they need a partner. After Qwest and Verizon fell through, the mayor applied for Google's Fiber for Communities in 2010 [3], but didn't get it. Now in 2011, the only company delivering fiber in Seattle is... Comcast. [4] Qwest, now becoming CenturyLink, doesn't have any publicized current plans to improve service.

I'm not arguing that highspeed broadband is a right, but Comcast definitely has a chokehold on the majority of the Seattle broadband market.

[1] http://westseattleblog.com/forum/topic/whats-the-status-of-q...

[2] http://www.examiner.com/information-technology-in-seattle/ve...

[3] http://mayormcginn.seattle.gov/seattle-applies-for-google-fi...

[4] http://www.seattle.gov/broadband/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

If certain Monopolistic practices are directly illegal, what about more laws directed against Regulatory Capture?
No, though it's helpful to have some exposure or be eager to learn in the later chapters.

The authors explain how several MSF modules work, show you how to create your own, for example.
I never said anything about affordability. I don't know why you and silvestrov are trying to argue that point. The fact is that most people do not have high-quality surround-sound systems in their homes, nor do they have truly large screens. Even in the home, truly large screens involve projectors.

And no, 55-inch doesn't compare with the theater. 42-inch certainly doesn't, unless you're sitting two feet away from the screen. Modern theaters have very large screens, and even considering the seating distance they are still relatively much larger than a flat-screen TV a typical family might install. A decent theater will have screens large enough to completely or almost completely fill the field of vision someone sitting in the middle of the theater. You'd have to be about 3 or 4 feet away from a 55" TV for the same effect. (Or else the theater you're going to sucks.)
> Your electric utility service is capped, but they use a different method because electric utilities are metered. You have a fixed capacity feed to your house. For example, our home has 150 amp service. I cannot exceed that draw or the main feed breaker trips and everything goes dark. I can request installation of a larger feed, but I have to pay the build-out, and there are hard limits based on my local zoning.

> One thing is certain, in no way do I have "unlimited" electricity available at my home.

By that metric, uncapped data is not unlimited, and thus does not need a cap.

> This whole notion that unlimited internet for $60/month is some kind of "right" is just preposterous.

It's not unlimited since it's (by your own account) 15/3. That's a limitation right there, identical to your 150 amp service. And you can not exceed that limit period (you won't even get close to it, really). No need for a breaker.
Surely you see how there may be a problem when the solution to a local monopoly cutting off service for overuse is to throw more money at the same company with absolutely no guarantee that service won't be terminated again.
If you got two cables to your house, you could pay $140 with a 500GB limit :)
If it were easy, everybody would be doing it. It does suck that now independent developers have to also worry about patent litigation. However, it will not stop the most resolved developers from continuing forward.

On the bright side, patent trolls are patenting the most obvious patents right now. In 20-30 years all of those patent will expire. I'll be amazed if 20 years from now we will still continue to patent obvious things like one click button transactions. If so, we all deserve to go down the ship of financial failure since it is us, society, that allows such things.

Meanwhile, if we could only find the best ways to make patent trolls' lives more painful... At least it would dissuade the casual patent troll.
This is great news. Finally able to manage all of my twitter accounts with the native app.
Would you be skeptical of a chess player above a certain age as well?
Whooo.

One less thing for linode sysadmins to worry about. This is a good move, up there with offering bullet proof DNS services in my opinion.

Edit: shame that the API doesn't look like it supports alarms/thresholds.
Report the incident to people with authority to act on it. Law Enforcement, his ISP, his data provider... anyone really, who has a legal right to stop the behavior.
I was just wondering, what would you use the gamma function for? I'm not that far enough in the mathematical field to know, so that's why i ask. Maybe a real world example? Thanks.
Change in education.
Man Hacks Neighbor's WiFi And Tries To Frame Him For Crimes
Of course Google shouldn't be singled out, they're just like any other company only more so. And of course there was no substantial evidence in the article that Google would refrain from using the patents offensively had they acquired them.

In the context of the article Google's motives for bidding were attributed to nobility of purpose, a disinterest in the offensive use of patents and purity of heart - o.k. maybe not purity of heart.
Indeed. I should create a patent that describes the use of a patent to block patent trolling.
Apps may contain viruses? FUD pure FUD
Making electrons dance with a really big laser
Most likely they would be using Nginx. I find the offering interesting because most of the companies in need of a load balancer would be able to configure Nginx load balancer quite easily. Not knowing underlying technology and not being able to go deep into modifying the algorithms and other aspects of load balancer makes me slightly uncomfortable, so why should we go with it? The only positive aspect of this offering is automatic health check but Nginx does that already.

I think this offering is nothing more than a GUI for generating nginx configuration files.
A very smart former former boss of mine liked to say, "The greatest engineering marvel ever created is sitting under a tarp in somebody's garage because the engineer didn't bother to find out if anybody wanted it."

I agree. IDEO's Design Thinking, which puts emphasis on desirability (people) helps avoiding problems with great engineering of undesirable stuff.

Still, Google does satisfy desires for a billion people. That ain't bad.
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> Your electric utility service is capped, but they use a different method because electric utilities are metered. You have a fixed capacity feed to your house. For example, our home has 150 amp service. I cannot exceed that draw or the main feed breaker trips and everything goes dark. I can request installation of a larger feed, but I have to pay the build-out, and there are hard limits based on my local zoning.

It sounds like the analogy here would be having an internet connection that has a maximum throughput of X. If you want X+Y, where Y is larger than zero, then you would have to buy a larger throughput connection. Once that's done, you'd be free to use it as much as you want, provided you pay for that usage.

That doesn't seem to be the case in the linked article here.
Guess I was right about the cipher used.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2753903
All businesses have risk.

Even if you are an indie one man shop you are in fact a business and there are risks. Same thing goes for being a lawyer or accountant or contractor. If you screw up, it could cost you financially in a very big way, even if you didn't intend to do anything wrong.

Even successful businesses can crumble, even billion dollar businesses can get beat up by litigation to the point it isn't even worth continuing.

To say that the sky is falling for indie devs is a bit silly. There are plenty of places you can build, innovate, distribute, and succeed. Sure, the iTunes App Store thing is big today, or maybe Facebook, or maybe Steam, or maybe Wii's downloadable channel, it doesn't matter. Any one of those could be gone in a year or two.

Here's an example, there are people out there who make millions of dollars selling e-books and mediocre/overpriced software on Clickbank right now. Some of those people get sued I'm sure for their products. More people show up. You could take the same ebook and sell it on Kindle or Nook if you got shut down or you could sell your software on the Mac App Store or Chrome Web Store if CB went under.

There are so many platforms to distribute and build software and businesses on now, it really is hard to complain about the death of the indie developer because there are so many new companies getting started every day on all these different platforms that didn't exist even 5 years ago.

As a business owner you can't control all risk, but you certainly can and should plan around them.

If one channel gets shut down, move on to a different one or a different product.

Great devs and great companies aren't built on one hit one time wonders.
We're not staying in the same space so I don't think we'll want to spam our current set of beta testers with our new product. If you track me down on Twitter though (sean_lynch), I'll send you a heads up when we launch.
I agree. However, In my worldview, due to life being short one should eventually learn to think past value as presently defined by the US market, because the cracks in that particular form of economic rationalism have grown far too great to hide.

J. Krishnamurti: "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
Nice going! I remember getting this app as soon as I got the twitter from @jonosapien that it was hot stuff! Didn't regretted since then!
I thought that looked really interesting, but then I did a double take. Is this app an interactive exercise app that's tied to the Khan Academy videos on the related topic, or is it just a portal directly to said videos? What exactly can the student do with the app?

From his description, I see 'interactive transcripts', but I'm not sure exactly what that means...

I think there's a big difference between showing a student how to do things, and giving the student the ability to clearly demonstrate an understanding of the things you're trying to teach. I don't know what the ultimate goal of this app is, but I hope at some point there will be student interactivity such that exercises can be attempted and directed, specific feedback can be generated...

edit: oh look, it says exercises are coming in the next release. I'm not sure how I missed that! I'm looking forward to seeing what they come up with!
It is indeed. One of the amazing things about the YC program is the amount of support we received from the partners and other companies when we were facing the decision.
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Partially. But you also said that:

>Treating these like talking greeting cards is like treating art as paper and ink.

Which is pretty clearly implying talking greeting cards are not art. And since I doubt you're claiming novelty == art, and the only other thing you mentioned was scarcity...

A weak connection on closer examination, I'll admit.
Cool---since this is developed by Resig himself, it will become my main benchmark for fluent jQuery mobile/HTML5 on the iPad.
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From stud -h:

Encryption Methods:
--tls (TLSv1, default)
--ssl (SSLv3)
-c CIPHER_SUITE (set allowed ciphers)

Edit: Though, you'd need to set DHE params, as another commenter said below. Stud doesn't do this atm, but I'm open to a patch!
tucows used to be Canadian, IIRC (Toronto?). Rebranded or sold the domain business to Hover; not sure about them.

Hover seems to have a decent reputation, and are fairly price competitive. Not as cheap as e.g. Namecheap, but close.

With all the seizure BS and whatnot, I'm thinking of moving some things really off-shore. Maybe Switzerland? Or I recently read that the Bahamas are good at telling various law enforcement agencies to f-off. Not sure I believe it, though.

(I'm not actually running anything gray, let alone black. I'd move partly on principle, and partly because things only look to get worse.

For me, it would be more a matter of free speech. Perhaps also free and anonymous speech (at least, anonymous to most private and commercial interests).

P.S. freejack, I just noticed one of your other comments. You're with Tucows? Are you still (really) Canadian? Are Canadian registrars holding their own against Washington (and, these days, Ottawa, I guess)?
>What site do 4chan users look down on?

All of them. With the caveat that when most people refer to 4chan they're referring to /b/, and that that isn't accurate, there really aren't many sites that /b/tards like. They tend to believe (rightly, imho) that every site takes itself too seriously and every community has an unwarranted sense of self-importance. That was generally the motivation behind most of the raids they did. At least, it used to be. It's summer right now so average quality is expected to be low, but a perusal of /b/ really does leave the impression that there aren't many original /b/tards left.

The sites /b/tards hate most:

-reddit (although there's a huge overlap in users, many /b/tards see it as a "sanitized" /b/ where funny things are reposted without anyone doing the work of making them in the first place)

-ebaumsworld (back in the day)

-knowyourmeme/icanhazcheezburger/all the other sites capitalizing off /b/'s memes

-facebook/myspace/deviantart/twitter/every other site whose primary use case seems to be people stroking their ego
In my experience most of the best Java learning resources are books - I got the most out of Joshua Bloch's Effective Java Second Edition which assumes some familiarity with the language. Bruce Eckel's Thinking in Java is an excellent introductory approach, particularly if you're new to OO, but you could probably give it a miss.

I don't know if it would apply to your development situation, but also consider investigating other JVM languages like Clojure and Scala - these two languages probably represent the future of the platform.
That means any app that adopts the new TwUI that Twitter released for OS X will have the same problem, no?
Does any of this have anything to do with Matt's post? Adam's first post says the same thing Matt's does: DHE is expensive.

The "tradeoff" in security vs. performance you're referring to irrelevant to almost everyone building on nginx. If you've lost your RSA key, you are well and truly fucked. DHE is interesting, but sniping at people for not using it (in your case, implicitly) is unfair.
Doesn't Sound 'Sober' to Me
A friend of mine was working in the Hustler store in Cincinnati in the late 90's/early 2000. You know how Larry Flynt opened a store in Cincinnati, despite the legislation passed specifically to exclude his businesses? They had boxes of butterfly, rainbow, and unicorn stickers in the basement. Every single sticker was inventoried separately, so legally, the Hustler store didn't have a majority inventory of adult items.

There's nothing preventing a sufficiently large company from being some fraction X and another fraction Y.

All systems have bugs, which is why simpler systems are easier to manage in the long run.
The other scenario is that keeping prices reasonable means there isn't as much demand for an open source version. Developers who balked at paying $150 a seat wouldn't be sufficiently motivated if the cost was a more "reasonable" $20 say.
Really? Can you point to a link about this? I'd love to see what the rules actually say.

NOTE: What I wrote above sounds kind of confrontational - it's not. Badly worded, yes, but I believe you and am actually interested in seeing the rules.
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What's the purpose of these patents?

To stop other people doing it, would be my guess.

If someone were to patent troll you (other than IBM, I guess) you could say that they were performing a practice that they didn't have the rights to practice. Essentially "hey, only IBM can patent troll me".
Blast; See any JS errors?
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Proggit's in the top 10, so I'm pretty sure it's opt-out, unless they treat it like r/atheism and display it in r/all but not on the default frontpage.
Single-cell biological lasers
I think you're confused about the difference between Gbit and Gbyte. One Gbyte is eight Gbits.
I don't think it matters if he gets 'partners' or if they get him.

Partners dropped Windows Mobile for Android and quickly because that was what would sell. The 'partners' are about selling products, and will go with what they can sell to consumers.

Microsoft needs to be leading and providing their partners with the best technology, not getting ideas and feedback from their partners of what the market wants. The reason is that by the time Microsoft gets the feedback from partners and implements whatever the partner wants and gets it to market, they've already missed the boat.

Microsoft needs somebody who is going to the partners saying 'in a year, this is what the market will want, and we'll have a beta version for you to build prototype hardware in 4 months, which gives you 5 months to design and test and 3 months to ramp up manufacturing so we're the first to market with the newest and best technology.

I love my WP7, but there is no question they were late to the party, and it may continue to cost them in the coming 5 years.
I am not chiding him for acting. I am chiding people for praising his actions.
Very true, and that is also where their streaming service is reasonably good. Although, there are still holes.
This hides your API key from other people.
I think 'seiji's right, and OpenSSL won't actually do DHE handshakes unless you give it parameters, which is another 2 lines of code that aren't actually in stud.
I'd also like to see a median age rather than an average. It's one of those times when one direction of the average has a limit (how young you can be and still be a gamer) while the other side of the average (maximum age) is far less limited. Lets say the average starting age for a gamer is 7, that means they can only be 23 years younger than the 'average' game, while someone who is 70 years old is 40 years older than the 'average' gamer. I bet the median is lower than 30.

Not to mention if you time weight it. When I was 15 I spent a heck of a lot more hours playing games than I do now. I'm probably still a 'gamer' because I have Starcraft 2 installed on my PC, but I havent played it in 5 weeks. When Starcraft 1 came out, I was lucky if I saw the sun in 5 weeks because I was playing Starcraft.
When did I ever say anything about standing by?
Hopefully gonna fix that tonight; who has time to worry about onerror handlers in this day and age?