skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most games are trainwrecks inside. They are /just good enough to ship/ and often no better. They are fragile, fickle things that for the most part have a market lifetime much shorter than the time it took to develop the title. You get your money back -- if you do -- in the first few months of sales.

Games are pragmatic and hard, cheap bastards that chew up teams and spit them out.

It's fun. :-)
Flask also has more features and unless you find a way to accurately rate features for their usefulness and compare all those somehow the LOC metric has practically no meaning.

It would be much more interesting for potential users if people started comparing lines of documentation(LOD) and showed the quotient lines of tests/lines of code.
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You caught me in mid edit. I'd continued from that point in my post in a frank manner, and while I was not rude, I know that I'm too politically incorrect for this site and have to self censor. So, I rewrote the rest of the post to try and convey what I was saying without using the specific examples I'd used in my original draft (since I know bringing them up would get me down votes and likely start debate on those topics rather than the OP's main point.)
The advantages and disadvantages the author cites seem more pertinent to his own idiosyncratic preferences than to more general features one might look for when doing interactive data analysis. They also seem easy to address. For example, an hour of time spent building a few quick functions would address most of his complaints about Python. I've personally used python, matlab, R and Stata in my research and view the first three as about equally capable. In my opinion Stata is less comparable to the others as it is more a wysiwyg collection of tools and functions. Matlab has good support for large data sets via memory mapping, has mex extensibility for building your own fast functions and is very good for interactive plotting, but doesn't produce publication-quality finals. Python is great for no-niggling fast idea to functioning execution and can push data into matlab is mlabraw. R has well developed stats packages and a huge user base. I disagree with the author regarding documentation for R--maybe he is right for the core, but depending on the package you may have trouble finding documentation beyond a man page. Ggplot is excellent but eccentric.
I use a system76 pangolin, and battery life is my only complaint. I got mine when they offered a 1680x1050 screen.
You don't really need to know 3D math unless you're working on graphics.

It helps. But you don't /need/ it.
Indeed. So awful you will never want to use it and will just use the keyboard instead ;-)
I can appreciate that thought, but I think you are overlooking that we are moving from the primary medium of the telephone for these types of communications. Telephones certainly weren't anonymous, or undetectable. In fact when they first started they weren't even private but quasi public (to the operator and others on the party line).

I'm not arguing with the ideal, just pointing out that we didn't transition straight from face to face, anonymous and undetectable to the internet. We passed through the telephone phase, which last many decades, and arguably had less tools available to do what you wanted. Internet communication is an outgrowth of the telephone and its network, but arguably with some work is able to provide more of what you want.

Your home phone was the equivalent of a gmail address. A pay phone was closer to a home email server, or an anonymous internet cafe web browsing session. If its shocking that this debate isn't larger about web decentralization, it should be doubly shocking that it never seemed to occur at all, so far as I can tell, during the phone age.

But regardless, your ISP will always be present, and your packets will always traverse many dozens of pieces of networking equipment, owned by several dozen big faceless institutions, along the way. Services can be eliminated, the network cannot. True point to point communication in the manner the OP and yourself seem to want truly requires point to point communication. Maybe we need some innovation in the ham radio space.
I'd have a hard time believing that style would be the main consideration if it's going to be a work laptop. Though I suppose to be fair, the OP never specified.
And sadly, in both cases they have little control over it.
I routinely make $3K/mo from my technical blogs, and I post infrequently, dedicating a couple of hours a week to them. I'm writing a book to teach people how to do the same (http://technicalblogging.com). I'm not saying that making $3K from blogging is easy, but it can definitely be done if you are serious about it. And if we are in the realm of full time writing done by a professional journalist (as per the original article) it's not that hard. You just need a solid idea, plan, and execution.
You can write Flask applications without ever having heard of the term blueprint. I don't see how they could complicate things.
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I'm looking at doing a webcomic. There are webcomics that support themselves. I do not know of details on exactly how they do that. I have looked at some webcomics that support the author and they have ads, sell t-shirts, take donations, etc. I would still be interested in seeing any articles with harder info that anyone might happen to know of.

Thanks for the feedback.
One of my clients is swapping all of their sales people out of their windows laptops and into MacBook Airs because the sales people just need office and a web browser and the airs are far more impressive looking.

I have another client where the sales people have windows laptops, but they're not allowed to bring them to client meetings, instead they have to bring their iPads.

Sometimes form _is_ more important than function.
That is a great idea. Brilliant app for loving parents who don't want their kids spend time in front of TV. Perfect for introducing kids to books and encouraging to read. I regret I cannot test it myself (don't have an iPad). Good luck!
Well, that will depend on the user. In my case, I carry my laptop for probably an hour at most (round trip) and then set it down and use it for 2-3 hours at least.
Facebook group:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_114326995294656

Discussion about the above:
http://hackerne.ws/item?id=1765203

Bay area facebook group (in discussion above):

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_157421747614365
As much as I would have loved to get awed by him going for game changing technologies, it appears that reason behind him relocating to Belize is to escape lawsuits in the US, and his focus is hardly on research.
See the link in the wikipedia article: http://www.fastcompany.com/node/1615167/print
Interesting paragraph from the FastCompany article:

"As all this information [about the wrongful death lawsuit] unfolds for me, many things that had seemed odd begin to make sense: McAfee's publicity campaign to promote the idea that he'd lost 96% of his wealth; the fact that he told me he has sold all of his U.S. assets; his having given away all the companies he set up in Belize; and his quorum-sensing research, a topic that gave his relocation to Belize a noble spin, even though in practice he seemed to devote little attention to it."

So is the ABC News story one of the results of that publicity campaign?
Thank you. I am looking at your blog, but I am not a technical person. I have other strengths. Still, it's a resource and I appreciate it.
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My favorite references on statistics get to an idea that I think you will be inclined to emphasize: DATA is what matters in statistics, more than mathematical manipulation. See what you think about these, and best wishes for further revisions of your interesting online guide.

http://statland.org/MAAFIXED.PDF

The first link is a BEAUTIFUL and thought-provoking discussion of what's dangerous about having a new mathematics professor choose the statistics textbooks for an introductory college class in statistics, with advice on what to look for in statistics textbooks.

http://escholarship.org/uc/item/6hb3k0nz

The second link is by a very famous statistician, with discussion of how the statistics curriculum could be revised to better emphasize the most important ideas.

Put the key ideas from these two resources in your own words, and you will have a good guide to programmers about how to think about statistics.
I've never noticed this to be an issue with mac laptops.

You've two thumbs for a reason, I never had much issue using my thumbs on the trackpad.
Indeed. The whole concept of when a framework starts or stops being micro is quite arbitrary.
When I use Windows I feel like everything is inside a damn context menu that's difficult to access with the keyboard.

(imo of course) OS X beats Linux for keyboard shortcuts because they are more consistent. My ranking is: 1. OS X, 2. Linux, 3. Windows.

I'm a keyboard junkie, to a fault sometimes, but I find that I use the trackpad on my MacBook quite a bit because it's so useful with all the gestures and such.
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> This doesn't look like anything that may compete
> with Macbook Air in my book

> design is reminiscent of old laptops from the year
> 2001

1. The age of the design shouldn't necessarily say anything about how good it is. Would you claim that we should just get rid of art museums because everything in them is just 'too old?'

2. The ThinkPad was praised for it's industrial design back in it's day.

3. There are many people that prefer the ThinkPad design over the MBA unibody.

4. If the X220 surpasses the MBA in all aspected except looks, then does it really not compete in your book? Is the design of the laptop so important that you would be willing to pay more for less functionality just for your laptop to look nicer?

5. I don't quite understand how you can reply to someone saying that they went with a X220 due to features that it had that the MBA didn't (and which were important to the poster), with a "it's not even competitive because the design is not pleasing to my eyes." It comes off like this:

poster1: I bought a NASCAR because I need to go fast for
work.
poster2: How could you even claim that a NASCAR is a replacement
for a sedan?! The external looks are horrible!
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This is what I've been suspecting after reading dozens of tutorials and examples on all manner of game-related APIs and libraries. It seems like game programmers as a whole care less about code organization, style, and all the other values that are exalted in other fields.
A bigger related problem: the argument that browser crypto extensions should be high-level (autogenerating secure keys, automatically MAC'ing ciphertexts, picking the block cipher mode for you) is not winning the day. So what we're going to end up with is an OpenSSL-style interface:

x = new Cipher("AES");
x.blockmode = "CBC";
// defaults to all zeroes
// x.iv = "ABCDABCDABCDABCD";
x.key = "YELLOW SUBMARINE";
x.encrypt << "This is my plaintext";

In a sense, this is great news for me, because it means I get another 5-10 years of crypto vulnerabilities to get paid to eradicate. But if you're hoping for simple, usable cryptographically strong security in common web apps... well, keep hoping.
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Yeah the Asus UL20FT-B1 is out already and has more features than the air, and it's only around $400 at some places. Weighs 3.3 pounds.
Then caveat emptor.

"You are not required to use your Real Name to use the Service provided by Google. However Google makes no assurance that your true identity cannot or will not be disclosed even if you make use of a Pseudonym to use the Service."

... or words to that effect in the TOU would address the matter just fine for most people. For those who truly require military/intel grade anonymity, there are alternatives. For those who just want to engage with the general public without revealing their real name to all and sundry (absent hacking or subpoenas), the above should be sufficient.

If Google wish to go the extra mile and provide assurable anonymity, that's another matter.

Otherwise, this is a case of the perfect being the enemy of the good.
I don't think this code protects against even the e=3 broadcast attack, because it doesn't verify the padding (as someone downthread noticed; I owe him a sticker now too).

Of course, not verifying the padding also means the signatures are straightforward to forge.

(Ping me with a shipping address and I'll send you swag).
I think it's something that would need to be built from scratch.

One thing to focus on, would be to manually verify all members before granting access.

Unfortunately, it would have to be made by someone who has the connections to make it happen. Because otherwise it won't it'll be dead.

Although, if you've made it, you got the cash to pay for advice from experts. Instead of asking a bunch random people about tax law...you can just hire a good accountant...instead of asking which vacation spot to go to, you can find a good travel agent. etc etc
In large companies, they're easy and pay very well.

I'm not sure why you think you're in the position to make a statement like that. CEOs of large companies work almost every waking moment, not something I think correlates well with an easy job.

I used to play a lot of poker at relatively high stakes. What I found was the people who didn't play at this level were the ones who were the most confident in their analysis of the game. How could that guy fold in that situation? Ah, if only they could scrape up enough money to play they'd show us how it's done. So they would borrow money from friends or grind the lower stakes games until they had a big enough bankroll to take a shot at the big game.

And then we'd take their money. Because their confidence was based on the fact that they didn't even know what they didn't know.
And as we both know, the "passive sniffing attacker" is a myth. If you can sniff packets, you can intercept traffic. We don't reason about security mechanisms by tying the attackers hands behind their back.
that thing is 3x the cost of a macbook air... and I thought apple products were expensive.
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I think that article meant "milling machines." Lathes are for parts that have a generally cylindrical shape. 10,000 is a lot. I really can't comprehend the amount of space that would require. These things are the size of a large bathroom.

Also, the production of Apple's laptop cases have to be a drop in the bucket compared to how many other CNC items are produced. I am skeptical of the article's claims.
To be fair, the author (appears to) work for Canonical who has had success working to make idealistic software more approachable. So it appears to me that he isn't some Ivory Tower FOSS advocate, and is merely stating a personal preference.
Hopefully I'm not being rude, but I thought I might try my hand at some as well.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/103004/hnlike.html

edit: I can't reply below yet, but I think I'm done at 4 so feel free to incorporate them into a sheet!
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Video games are an interesting phenomenon. They manage to pack many of the most interesting problems of computer science into one of the most superficial, yet profitable, applications. They're kind of like the warping of space time, an anomaly of extremes that manages to relentlessly suck brilliant minds away due to its siren call.

And yes, I love video games, and considered working in the field. But, stepping back you realize there are more important things to work on, and more useful ways to spend your time. That doesn't mean the temptation on both fronts (playing and creating) ever goes away.
I had the same thought. you see yourself at the bottom of a bowl with ridges above you yet you know the surface is flat. If you take away the gravity then there is no wicked climb, ergo no mountain: the world suddenly appears flat. I know little physics but I think you're right! If true then your insight is greater than the authors.
Its pretty good except for the battery. If you need decent time on it then you need to get an additional battery slice which makes it more expensive and bulkier but it also gives you a great keyboard angle.
but if your car looks like a toilet with wheels it is no fun to drive. everything matters, function, form, feeling.
I've this laptop. I quite like it, the screen can go very bright so you can use it outdoors.

The downsides: super sharp edges make it uncomfortable to rest on oneself, the power socket is flimsy and the charger easily damaged, awful drivers for the Broadcom WiFi chip.

I tend to give laptops a rough treatment lugging them around (my ThinkPad was continually damaged and had bits shattered off it on a regular basis). My last laptop was a Toughbook which bravely survived years though a few screws came out of it. The Samsung has done very well and the only damage is to the charger and the screen getting bright patches from being squashed in transit.

The SSD is very fast, maybe faster than the Intel X25M I had before, and I'm generally pleased with it. I use Ubuntu without major issues.
What interesting blogging academics do you read? Finding alternative sources online is still left to chance. I like reading the economist but it's not always available everywhere in my country (France).
This is a sensible post but note that there are interesting and important applications for overlay networks that are not "peer to peer" (ie, that do not use last-mile bandwidth for transit).
Powershell is like Eclipse:

* usable for the task at hand

* inferior to similar tools that are 20 years old

* slower / more resource hungry than it should be
if you're looking for a good-specced ultralight, the main contenders are the lenovo x220, hp 2560p, panasonic s10, and sony z something-or-other (i don't think anyone else has mentioned the s10 which is why i am adding this post - see http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/10/panasonic-outs-toughbook-... for example).

if you're considering a macbook air then i suspect the s10 or sony are closest to what you want. personally, i'd go for one of the other two...
UK Police Charge another alleged Anonymous member in Hacking Cases
I was only peripherally involved in trade systems. My understanding is that the amounts of money to be made, and lost if you're second, completely drown the arguable maintenance and personnel costs of C++.
Nice, Perhaps we could put them all onto a single sheet? Have a submission deadline, then voting time?
It doesn't look like it; maybe you spotted something I missed.
We recently implemented the lowess smoother in statsmodels (pending pull request: https://github.com/statsmodels/statsmodels/pull/5), so it will work its way into the mix soon.
if it's anything like earlier x series, it's actually a cast metal base.
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Good to keep in mind in these times when you start feeling too old at 30: "twenty nine, past my prime; I feel so behind the time"
It's even funnier with the OP's other post in context: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2933277
Hm.

I agree with you about the comment you replied to. That comment is so bad I flagged it. So the idea that anyone would downmod you for calling it out is dispiriting.

But, much as I like 'Alex3917, I downmodded his yoga comment. I thought it was so reductionist that it sucked all the oxygen out of the room.
Ask HN: Biomimicry in software?
The title is pretty much self-explanatory: do you know of any algorithms/solutions that emulate nature to solve problems? I know of neural networks, and chaos theory (think plant leaves and algo-trading), but I'd like to find out about specific implementations of this.
New power wave heads out to sea
We don't write comments like this here.
But of course. Preaching to the choir.

Management made the decision that my trivial change to eliminate replay attacks was "too much effort". I am inclined to agree, since even with such a change the effort required to circumvent their entire so-called security is minimal.

Next quarter they're introducing e-commerce solutions. Dear god.
I've built the equivalent to most of the plyr and reshape/reshape2 packages inside pandas (http://pandas.sourceforge.net, note I am in the midst of overhauling the documentation for the upcoming release). I plan to write a decent amount of side-by-side code comparisons, should definitely be useful for folks with R experience wishing to use Python for data analysis / statistics. Feedback from savvier R users than myself on pandas would also be extremely helpful.

Building a plotting library with the ease, sophistication, and beauty of ggplot2 in Python would be a big deal. A number of people I know are interested in venturing down that path (ggpy, anyone?).
It also seems like putting everyone's information in one place makes it easier for hackers to harvest, as well.

Google dreams of being able to handle all that information on one server.

Besides that, it's not incredibly common (albeit not impossible) for people to steal information by actually hacking directly into their servers, especially with someone like Google. More likely ways to get at someone's email is through XSS or phishing attacks.
Postini is widely used. I wish Apple would slap it onto me.com. My Apple email is a spamfest.
And this store is even worse than the apple and google store. Eeehhhh.
Just curious - were you using the verify option (not related to your point I realize)

I'm puzzled why people in general aren't more worried about data corruption due to hash collision.....
That would not be discoverable.
LOC and LOD suffer from the same problem: You can write (or generate) lots of code or documentation that does not help the user. You can even write docs that confuse the user, repeat a lot, to not get to the point and so on. In that case, more is even worse than less. There is no number to measure the usefulness of a framework or the quality of code. And there is no point in comparing frameworks just by numbers.
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Eh. As far as I'm concerned, if the only difference is the syntax, what's the point? But I'm comfortable with the Erlang, K, Lisp, C, and Forth syntax, so "I grafted Ruby syntax on X" is pretty underwhelming.
And the lid plastic is slightly rubberized.
Ah, a person advocating a position I agree with, but using terrible+inconsistent arguments. :(

For instance: it was always perfectly clear that the BBC's "outrageous statement" was the result of contacting someone within the BBC who didn't know what they were talking about. There was never the slightest indication that it was an official position. Quoting it does nothing to further the actual, real point that can be made about the problems a "little guy" faces when attempting to enforce their copyright.
If you have a good story, you will go to hackernews and post it. I think this "innovation" is going to lead to a lower post quality.
Writing crypto in dynamic languages is hard but not impossible. Writing crypto in dynamic languages with content-controlled code is probably impossible.
ZFS is designed to have lots of horsepower and memory thrown at it.......big servers, available CPU power, lots of ECC ram. If there's going to be an SSD allocated as a cache disk, it's probably expected to be huge and enterprisey too.....

ZFS is awesome, but some features will be disappointing unless you are dealing with adequate resources.