skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True. I often use text-based applications because I can usually expect them to have a sensible and efficient interface which does not require the mouse. There are graphical applications which follow the same spirit, but they are pretty well hidden.
It surprises me how much the argument that those anti-Real Name believe this way because they "don't understand and have never ran their own business" or are old-fashioned. This argument is used around here to explain away anyone that doesn't agree with your favorite startups's angle...

Its so much more complicated than that. The clearcut assumption that those who express this particular ideal are immature and inexperienced is ridiculous.
Lasers are completely different. Ever heard of fiber-optic communication? This is about using light for both illumination and communication at the same time.
Yeah, I was thinking of the people who are violently opposed to it. And, man, I have to admit I really don't get that attitude. There are some well-designed libraries in there, and you can pick-and-choose which libraries you want to use.

I respect people's decision, I guess I just don't understand it.
This could be intentionally unclear, defined by the group instead of declared by Facebook. I mean, the "Poke" is intentionally undefined, so various friend groups use it for different things. Maybe the answer is more illuminating when you give people room to interpret the question.
… well, I don’t think hyperbole is the right way of approaching this. Mojang is most definitely not a small developer. Not by any stretch of the imagination. It’s bad enough as is, there is no need to exaggerate for dramatic effect.
Why don't they change it to "romantic interest"?
This argument is used around here to explain away anyone that doesn't agree with your favorite startups's angle...
Its so much more complicated than that.

The clearcut assumption that those who express this particular ideal are immature and inexperienced is ridiculous.
BS.

I have a patent on some work that I was proud to have done, because it contributed a substantial amount of the company's revenue. However, I didnt consider it valid, because there was a substantial amount of prior art. The company went ahead and patented it anyway. The others on team WERE excited.
That is a good point. I didn't think about how I made a lot of the connections with my friends on the Internet.

Most of my Google+ connections are from email addresses I knew beforehand or links spewed out on Twitter. How I got a lot of these in the old days were probably through nicknames.
The legal issues are solved by Betable (http://developers.betable.com/developers/signin). Betable already has gambling licenses which have been issued to them by the UK Gambling Commission (http://bit.ly/mSX3kN). They act as the backend to your game and handle all gambling related activity and compliance. Because the game just acts as a pass-through front end, and never handles any of the gambling activity, it is not a gambling operator, and therefore, it doesn't need a license. Instead, Betable acts as the operator and is licensed.

Betable supports virtual currency, so if you wanted to market your game to players in the US, you can create a virtual currency version of your game, market it everywhere in the world, and only expose the real-money gaming functionality to players in legal jurisdictions (e.g. those outside of the US, Turkey and Holland).
All the quasi-dating stuff in facebook profiles is kind of awkward anyway, they should probably just get rid of it. It's mostly good for a laugh when a facebook noob signs up and fills it out like an online dating profile. I know people use Facebook to meet people, but they usually do so in a more discrete way since you usually communicate with friends and family on the same channel.
Edison only had you beat by 100 years

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Photophone
is not-a-toad from kipper?
What about the disadvantages?

- It doubles the number of flags of the program.

- It allows invalid or ambiguous combinations: is `myloc -i -x` valid? If yes which flag takes precedence?

It seems these must outweigh the benefits or it wouldn't be so uncommon.
This could be the answer to the European's latest fear mongering scheme!

http://www.businessinsider.com/cell-phones-cause-cancer-2011...
At least since Alexander Graham Bell and the optical telephone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photophone
$ may-aw<TAB>
my-awe-inspiring-tool my-awwwww-how-cute-program my-awesome-version-control-prog
my-aww-yeah-tool my-awchoo-i-sneezed-program my-aw-long-your-names-are-grandma

Also, please don't make me hit the - character when I call your program.
This would be useful for some ad-hoc broadcasts (whatever that would be), not sure about any other use.
Sorry Jack, we're in our pre-launch phase so we're still aggregating partners and the best deals in your city. We won't have a beta version until November. Thanks!
Does it means every light source is connected to a network cable ? If so, where is the security ? All it takes is to find a network cable and intercept the traffic. And there will be thousands of network cables in every building (at least as many as power cables). For me 'security' sounds like false advertising, in practice.
(gcalcli) Google Calendar Command Line Interface
Yeah, even in "dense mode" the padding is still way to much. In the old version I could see 32 files vs 20 in the new version. That's a major step backwards.

And I agree that the lack of visual page structure makes it hard to look at and use. I generally favor a clean look but this is a bit extreme.
A high-speed pulsing current running nearby.... Should throw off radio and/or magnetic waves along with the light.
Yes.

But it would have to be restricted to a specific type of product - i.e. you aren't really trademarking the "word", but particular uses of it, for particular purposes.

e.g. "coke" is trademarked.
> … well, I don’t think hyperbole is the right way of approaching this. Mojang is most definitely not a small developer. Not by any stretch of the imagination.

Really? Mojang AB is 8 people, no sales, no game officially released yet. How is that not "a small developer"? Because they've already accrued millions of sales due to making something people like?
That's why I mentioned that I hadn't tried Erlang. It was one of my first choices, but the library support wasn't there. Tolerant HTML parsing is a requirement for the project, and there doesn't seem to be any good parsers for Erlang.
Great point thank you, we have AB tests currently to track conversions and see what the most optimized copy can be with different wording/text. Let me be absolutely certain to you and our audience this is NO way affiliated with a pyramid scheme. Thanks for the great input!
> So are Bethesda's lawyers taking a page from Monster Cable's play book

So far, it reads like Langdell's book more than Monster's.
Accidental Code Complexity: Common Anti-Patterns
Having lessened reliability is ok until the 2 that fail are the 2 you had in your truck as you're driving down a hostile road. Or if they won't work in the rain, that's ok until you have to go on patrol in the rain. Or if they won't work in harsh desert conditions... oh, wait.
This says a lot about the ISP's ethics if they are shown to be consenting to this. One thing I didn't see in the EFF article is something a user could do about it: use SSL! This may eventually force these companies into more nefarulious and active techniques of hijacking, but it should alleviate the basic technique they are employing now, if i am not mistaken.
'The Objective of Education Is Learning, Not Teaching' - KnowledgeWharton
Even the dense version is still much less dense than classic.

All the other Google redesigns have the same problem so I'm not sure that it is a preview matters at this point. Someone at Google really likes the wide spacing and a I presume the dense option was a compromise (that didn't go far enough).
Examples include cd, calling it with no arguments returns you to the home directory.

How did I never know that before?
As is "windows".
You need to practice more in making your ad hominems more subtle and try to provide at least some actual reasoning for the things you claim, and if you're going to call people stupid you can at least try to do so by referring to things they actually said.

Anyway, what your users want is a program that they can figure out how to use, and one that they actually can get on their computer, and that does the things they need them for - all of which have absolutely nothing to do with whether you used a quick sort or a bubble sort. Being fast, solving "hard problems" (methinks you're a bit full of yourself - when was the last time you heard someone say 'man, if only I had software that would solve a hard problem'?), and being maintainable are all secondary to the actual use - i.e. having a user interface they can understand, provide output in terms they understand, etc.

In your second paragraph you are actually making my point for me, but you don't seem to realize. What users want is a program that does something for them, like extracting links - and they don't care if those links are stored in a linked list or array. Maybe in some cases they will care at some point in the future that, when they download 10's of thousands of links, that happens a few seconds faster in some cases than in others, but that's not their main concern.
Police: Mock us in Cartoons, go to Prison
While we're on the subject of nationalities -- "interested in" is pretty clear for people in the UK too. I imagine Irish people, Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders, and many South Africans also know what's meant.
I agree that it seems like a lot of work for little reward. However I think you ignored the fact that the OP made multiple calls that lasted over 6 minutes (in the comments section he also mentioned that the phone numbers he was calling were fairly similar to each other). So $15/hr0.1 hours6 calls = $15.

The fact that all of the coordination is done through e-mail means that the scammer could have multiple people per day doing this. Which would add up to a small chunk of change, enough to keep his operation going, especially if business is slow.

It is almost like an old-school version of click fraud.
LoL Don't fill the potholes? Who the fuck fills them then!?
Of course, Google will probably have an easier time keeping the trolls out - and selling personalised ads - if people do mostly use their real names.
Just because they are effective doesn’t mean they are not big.

They certainly are one of the smaller developers. What they are not, however, is a small indie developer. They are a huge indie developer.
Same for BugMuncher, I do love CodeIgniter, shame development of it seems to have slowed up recently. Ellis Labs is focusing all fire power on Expression Engine at the moment methinks.
From the EFF article:

"And the best protection against the privacy and security risks created by this type of hijacking is to visit sites using HTTPS rather than HTTP, which can easily be achieved using EFF's HTTPS Everywhere Firefox extension"
Tapsqaure and DS Media Labs team up to launch iPad pro DJ app.
Did you see the video? This still works when the light is made so dim that it's invisible to your eyes.
It's occasionally helpful to explain to people why they're being downvoted. Comments that consist of pop culture references usually aren't treated kindly.
Who's printing anything much these days, by the way, unless you run some sort of a business? I'm down to maybe ten pages a year which I could do at the local library at 10 cents each if it weren't for ruthless abuse of my employer's printer. I've sometimes thought about buying one of the cheapo laser printers just to have one, but never got around to that because I just realized I haven't had a real, continued need for printing for maybe a decade.
1) That is a good question. I would like to think I would because I would want to prove to those who stereotype that I am not an exception but like any of those difficult scenarios I will not presume my ideals would hold.

2) The only other pseudonym I've ever used is my gamer handle of Warmain. I would say that whenever I made a friend on a video game and we got close enough that we thought to exchange real names it forged a closer bond because it seemed to humanize you a bit more. But then again in video games there are names like xxxDragonSlayerzz. I think the pseudonyms people are complaining about using are not so dehumanizing.

4) My name is Reid. Pleasure to meet you.
Thanks for that clarification :)
Your address may be on yell or some government website but of course the only way one can identify a certain address as being yours from the millions of addresses that yell or the government provides publicly is by knowing your real name.

You said you do not post your address online, but by posting or using your real name, you are effectively posting your address also.
In other news, Blizzard sued Mojang for using the word 'craft' in 'Minecraft'

This is ridiculous.

I'm going to trademark the letter 'E' and sue every company whose's software product includes it in its name.
Gambling used to be a big business in Second Life (the virtual world), until Linden Lab banned it outright.

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Policy_R...
While this is not necessarily untrue, the prediction has been made a few times before, most notably during the early-20th-century wave of automation. Even the rather intelligent Bertrand Russell wrote a book in 1923, "The Prospects of Industrial Civilization", which spent a good deal of time worrying about that problem (though some of the other stuff he worried about did come closer to being true, like the prevalence of hyper-regimented work among the remaining jobs).
I've started adding an option to output a complete Galaxy tool config file for some CLI apps.

-- http://wiki.g2.bx.psu.edu/Admin/Tools/Tool%20Config%20Syntax
That is probably the worst advice ever. Wonder how this guy can sleep at night. Here's some good advice:http://appsumo.com/sivers/
Hackers Cruise In The Wake Of Booming Square And Facebook
Would they have to use it? Even if they had the trademark, they currently don’t seem to use only “Scrolls” anywhere. It’s always “The Elder Scrolls”. I’m guessing (but don’t know) that a trademark has to be used to be upheld.

(This is obviously separate from the issue of whether a trademark for games called “The Elder Scrolls” also covers games called “Scrolls”.)
Now, they could piggy-back on Betable's licenses and legally offer a casino in Second Life.
Just use the library. It's a solved problem!

Indeed! In fact it is so solved that the Python standard library has solved it differently 3-4 (I've lost count) times already, let alone the dozen or two extra packages at PyPI ;)
You're right, sry. Was on my mobile and must have glossed over that. Next time I will RTFA fully.
It's not immoral to obtain a patent. Sure, your company's patent portfolio might end up in the hands of a patent troll. On the other hand, your company might be sued into oblivion in a year because you didn't obtain your patent. In that tradeoff, I'd file the patent. The fact that something can be used for immoral purposes does not make that thing immoral.

Your slavery comparison is also ridiculous. It is only valid to someone who already believes patents are terribly immoral. To anyone else, it comes off as Godwin-lite. I think a more apt analogy would be if you know that a university was a paper mill, but the accreditation board refused to revoke its accreditation. What would you do in that situation? You might obtain your own degree from the institution so that you can say with certainty and with credibility that the university is a sham. It would indeed be immoral to obtain a fake degree for the purpose of defrauding an employer. It would not be immoral to obtain a fake degree to strengthen your argument.
I had not known about Tim Langdell, yes this is definitely closer to his shenanigans than Monster's.

For the others who don't know Tim: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_Games
Isn't that exactly the reason why there is a mandatory period for objections to trademark applications? In this case, both are in the same business sector and the names sound indeed confus-able to me. Bethesda is probably right.
It definitely narrows the search quite a bit. The concern would be if you posted stuff online that alluded to your physical location as well.

Or if you name is so unique that there are only a few people who share it.
I just did this about a month ago, and it couldn't be easier to get from London to Bletchley Park, it's literally right up the road from the Milton Keynes train station, maybe a two minute walk.

Getting to Down House (Darwin's House) from London, on the other hand, while totally worthwhile... what a hassle!
I didn't mean to let this go off into a discussion on when something is 'art', but by this definition playing soccer is an 'art' too. When one leaves the notion that fighting is the goal, then I guess it can become an 'art'; but that's not what people mean when they say 'martial art'. They like to still have it be associated with effective fighting, yet at the same time also have it float in a cloud of mysticism.

What I'm saying is - either some style is a dance or stylized movement form, or it's a system to fight effectively. The first I don't mind calling 'art', frankly I don't care much about it. The second is not 'art', it's science - it's about finding (through hypotheses, falsifying them, empirical testing, the whole yadda yadda) the most effective way to inflict various forms of damage to a human body (one can debate how far the use of tools can go in this - if swords are OK, why not landmines; but that's a different discussion).
Please move here, but remember there can be only one!
Known that what doesn't scale? Threads? Sure they do. I could have made Ruby threads work, I guarantee you. Move the network requests into a giant thread pool, and then do everything else synchronously. It was the context switching that was killing me, but you can use threads in such a way that that's not a problem. It's just a lot of work. More work than just using Node, which pretty much does exactly that for me for free.

And on a side note "your education has failed you"? Seriously? You can't just preface something with "I don't mean to be offensive" and then say whatever you like. I don't mean to be offensive, but get yourself some social skills.
OK, so the New Scientist article is based on

THE DISCOVERY OF GEOMAGNETICALLY
TRAPPED COSMIC-RAY ANTIPROTONS
Astro. J. Letters 737:L29, 2011 August 20
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/737/2/l29
http://iopscience.iop.org/2041-8205/737/2/L29/

The key sentence from that abstract is

"PAMELA data show that the magnetospheric antiproton ﬂux in the SAA exceeds the cosmic-ray antiproton ﬂux by three orders of magnitude at the present solar minimum, and exceeds the sub-cutoff antiproton ﬂux outside radiation belts by four orders of magnitude, constituting the most abundant source of antiprotons near the Earth."

The cosmic ray flux is estimated in another paper on the PAMELA results:

"PAMELA Results on the Cosmic-Ray
Antiproton Flux from 60 MeV to 180
GeV in Kinetic Energy"
Physical Review Letters 105, 121101 (2010)
DOI:	10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.121101
http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v105/i12/e121101

After eyeballing Fig. 1, I'd say they measured most antiprotons to be between 1 GeV and 10 GeV, with a flux of ~2x10^-2 / (GeV m^2 s sr). (sr=steradians.) The flux peaks around 2 GeV.

Rough multiplication gives an estimate of total flux:

[2x10^-2 / (GeV m^2 s sr)]*[9 GeV]*[10^14 m^2]*[4 pi sr]
= 2*10^14 antiprotons/second.

If we ignore the kinetic energy of the antiprotons, and assume there are plenty of available protons to annihilate with them, we get about 2 GeV per antiproton. This yields

[2*10^14 antiprotons/second]*[2 GeV/anitproton]
= 6x10^ 4 J/s

The space shuttle orbiter weighs 69,000 kg empty. The escapte velocity from earth (which doesn't change much between the surface and the edge of the atmosphere) is 11.2 km/s, so the minimum energy needed to get it out of the earth's atmosphere is

[1/2]*[69,000 kg]*[11.2 km/s]^2
= 4x10^12 J

OK, so it would take about 10^8 s, or 3 years, to collect enough energy from antiproton cosmic-ray rest mass to lauch a space-shuttle size object out of Earth's gravity. And you'd have to scoop up from the entire surface area above the earth.

Now, the magnetospheric antiproton flux in the South Atlantic Anomaly

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

is said to be 3 orders of magnitude larger than the normal antiproton cosmic ray flux. By looking at the wikipedia page, it looks like the SAA covers about 10% of the surface area above the earth. If we were able to scoop up all of the antiprotons in the magnetospheric belt, it would then take about 10^6 s, or 11 days, to get enough energy to launch a space-shuttle sized object.

I am highly, highly unsure about these number and the assumptions that went into them, but it at least suggests it's possible to do. Lemme know if I did something stupid.
Self-driving dumptrucks.
Yes, the article says so explicitly. I'd expect right-to-left readers to essentially mirror left-to-right readers' movements, and a quick look at the design of e.g. www.al-jazeera.net supports this. (Amusingly, the only thing in the top left is labeled "English".)
I think minecraft is past the bar of a "small indy game".
On a silver plate...for you guys
Tap Square
It's funny- my initial response was going to be "use the Google DNS servers! 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4!", but I suppose they could be logging all sorts of information about me, too...
"Interested in" might also mean in an academic sense, as in "I'm interested in the study of men and women, as a sociologist."
No, I really only want my real name tied to professional activities and a few other areas where name /matters/. Honest.

Everything else, I am content to slip away from the Big Search Spotlight in the sky.
This is a great library for doing those sorts of things with Node: https://github.com/caolan/async
I think some of both. Many sites that accept comments now encourage commenters to log in with their facebook accounts, so that can be a major factor. I hve not seen it yet, but I suspect something similar will happen as G+ leaves beta and becomes more established with it.

Also, as I have read in other commenters, a social network is only valuable if your friends are on it, so while alternatives exist it may be hard to find the people you need to find on them.
The worst advice EVER came from a cab driver at the Las Vegas airport who told me his winning strategy - play blackjack and every time you lose, double your bet until you're up.
There's really nothing less personal than a machine generated email. Which is essentially all I get from recruiters.
Paul, what's the story behind the fairly different sites [1], [2] and [3]?

[1] http://webintents.org/
[2] http://www.webintents.org/
[3] http://www.webintents.com/
Privacy: Mad crush
The privacy policy for Google's public DNS servers is quite reasonable, actually:

http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy.html
Well stock exchanges offer tangible value for people who participate. The value of virtual good is limited and is basically a consumption good. Adding gambling to social games allow users to extract value from their favorite games.
Unless the test subjects were looking at a blank screen these results are misleading. Most websites are designed with visual focus at the top left (logo) and middle of the page, therefore people look there first because the design leads their eyes there. If there is no visually leading content on the page, I imagine the results would be much more random-looking.
I think the requirement is that it is not confused with an existing product, but confusion is open to interpretation.
Funny... if one spends enough time reading Hacker News threads about Facebook, you'd get the impression that it's the ghetto.