skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're probably being unfair there. The programmers who work on games are often very smart, very capable people who genuinely want to make a good product. A lot of so-called professional programmers could learn a thing or two from games developers about everything from writing high performance code to co-ordinating large development teams via the value of developing in-house tools to make development work more efficient.

But the games programmers are screwed by the simple fact that the market will accept games that are buggy/require insane hardware/etc. and pay for them, will usually not attempt to return them if they simply don't work but will rip them apart in on-line commentary if the game sucks, and will rip them off at the first opportunity if the game is cracked.

That means the business guys who are, quite rightly, calling the shots, are interested in basically the first few days after launch and nothing else. That in turn means there is no need to bother with things like code quality and long-term maintenance. Better to spend the money on a cinematic trailer and DRM that takes one more day to crack.

This will continue as long as people continue to accept buggy games, dubious policies like shipping incomplete games and then filling in the blanks with paid-for DLC, and so on. And right now, while there are clearly plenty of people like me who would spend a lot on good games that worked properly and didn't come with pseudo-malware attached, it seems there are plenty more people who just don't care.

You want them to write games for people like me. (Thanks! :-)) Unfortunately, most of the big games shops are going to follow the money.
I can personally recommend Amankila as well. It's one of those places that leaves you alone all the time, except when you arrive and leave. The management is there to greet you and send you off. They very graciously helped me arrange a number of things outside the normal purview of hotel staff, including a large shipment of custom furniture. They give you the feeling that you are their "boss" while you're a guest there.

I also have similarly great things to say about COMO Shambala in Ubud, Bali.
After Class, Skimpy Equality
I like the phrasing "for best results". "Cryptography. For best results, use random numbers."

(Ping me [see profile] if you want a sticker for finding that issue. They're neat!)
OK, but most people are never going to see that. I didn't.

Most people are going to wonder what google plus is, and end up here, where Google is actively telling potential users a particular story:

https://plus.google.com/up/start/?continue=https://plus.goog...

Nowhere in there does it say it's an identity service. The closest it comes is to talk about putting different people in different circles.

Nowhere does it say that services that worked perfectly well for you are at risk if you run afoul of the name issue.
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May the best teachers win: www.forgetthetextbook.com
Physics, collision, animation, and certain types of compression also use a lot of math. I also found that just plain gameplay programming in 3D games required a pretty decent command of matrix math and analytic trig.
If you've gone through this book and want to learn more ways to use statistics and probability, you should look at the videos from mathematicalmonk[1] on youtube - he's like Khan for Machine Learning and more rigorous probability. It helps learning Machine Learning and Hidden Markov Models pretty well, at least from my experience.

http://www.youtube.com/user/mathematicalmonk
Can you email me? I'd love to make it prettier.
Hacker News needs you to be logged in to your account for upvoting and does not provide a programmatic way to do that on your behalf. I remembered from earlier experiences that a resubmission (once per user) counted as an upvote.

Yeesh. I know this is Hacker News and we all appreciate a good hack, but what are the chances of having a real api for this type of thing? For instance, is there a way to programmatically get the list of all articles I've ever upvoted (the "Saved" page)? Or to put "You like this" alongside the HN like button if you've already upvoted it?
I like how the proof isn't proof -at all-.
It's worth thinking about the question of whether this will make HN better or worse. I'm inclined to think worse. It will bring more random people to the site, and (to the extent it works) it will mean that an article's score on HN will depend partially on the completely random factor of whether the author included this button.
I always have the same dream since childhood. however the cloner machines could be sold to everyone. and we could copy all manufactured goods to friends.
I practiced at Yoga Tree Castro for a long time, and found the instruction to be excellent and worth every penny.

Have never been to Mission Cliffs, so I won't claim it's not better still. But my perspective is that any yoga class which is worth my time, my sweat, my hard work, and the trouble of going there, is worth my $15.

And, if you buy the 20-class passes, it comes out at $11 a pop.
Ant colony optimization algorithms
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_colony_optimization_algorit...
> Sometimes form _is_ more important than function.

Agreed, I have zero problems with this statement when qualified.
See also: backscatter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_(e-mail)
Bottle's API easy to understand and has sane defaults. It also doesn't require any boiler-plate code and isn't saddled with any dependency baggage. I found it trivial to wire in the Rocket web server as a replacement for WSGIref which had the added advantage I could wrap the startup in a small hunk of code I found over on the ActiveState forum to turn my app into a Windows service. Which, after half a day of beating on Flask, I wasn't able to figure out.

shrug

For me, it's all about fitness for purpose. In the end, the prototype consisted of four files (Bottle, Rocket, the Service wrapper and my code) with no other dependencies. Made it a lot easier for the overworked Windows admins to deploy. Flask was completely unsuitable for that.
hackernews-ed! i cant reach the site.
I forgot the most important lesson I've learned:

-- The reality most people live in, is a complete and total fiction. Most people just have no clue. They operate at a low level of awareness and understanding. The "Jay Walking" segments that Jay Leno used to do illustrate this well. Those are not stupid people, they just aren't aware. To use another movie analogy, they're still plugged into the matrix. Intrinsically, with becoming an entrepreneur is to disconnect yourself from the matrix a little bit. You do want to find out how deep the rabbit hole goes because it is very illuminating. Don't look down on the people still plugged in. The people who google for Facebook so that they can get on Facebook are the market. They're your customers and they may seem stupid, but they aren't. They're just trapped in a narrower perspective than you have. Most of them don't want to be freed. Do your best to help them out with your products, but understand where they're coming from.

The thing about these different perspectives that is really profound is that people who are operating from a different perspective often don't even realize it. That perspective is reality to the best of their ability to understand reality.

Being an entrepreneur means understanding their perspective at least enough to be able to produce products that benefit them... but that means that you've got to break out of it if you're starting from the same perspective they are.
Interesting! You say you invest: Do you invest in the stock market or in startups?

I would like to invest in startups, but I have no idea how to find them.

Living out of a backpack - would love to hear where you are traveling! Isnt it lonely to travel fulltime?
That's a possible side-effect. But it has benefits (for e.g. better content discovery) that I think out-weighs the side-effect.

On the other note, if vote count is the measure of content quality, the ease to vote should not adversely affect the system but improve it.
Because they believe in statistically low probability of that happening.

What they don't accept is that it might hit them in the worst time possible, that a backup of such information will also suffer the same problem, that after an upgrade an important part of the new kernel might have the same hash as the beginning of Morissette's "Ironic" mp3 you already store, etc.

But come on - it's only small probability...
If you find/start that forum, I'd join. I think there is more than enough room on the internet for HN and a site/community like the one you're describing. I've learned more from HN than I have from almost any other single source, and I would love to find more communities with that same/better level of discussion.

Are there any other places you've found that come close to what you're looking for?
Flask is clearly a better framework than bottle. I started with bottle and hit a bug. (https://github.com/defnull/bottle/issues/192). I had to switch to flask to avoid it.
Thanks for taking the time to reply.

I'm currently planning to do a comic. I have a blog on the same site (long story) and I have a couple of other sites that are old and rarely updated. I have a parenting/homeschooling site and a health site. But I get reactions from people like I'm an effing messiah or something and they want me to save them, which is all kinds of trouble. Messiahs end up dead (like crucified, burned at the stake, etc). Alternately, I get the crap kicked out of me by people who think I am a charlatan, because their problems are too hard to solve, all the experts say so. This is apparently another means to get burned at the stake, not make money. Sigh. I'm good at solving personal problems -- real good -- and after much thought have concluded that there are two venues for that (for the "wisdom" schtick): 1) religion/personal messiah (no thanks) and 2) humor/entertainment. So after much suffering over the strong reactions (both positive and negative) that I get out of people, I have decided to go into the humor/entertainment business.

There might some day be a product (a game) on one of my sites. But for now, I would like to just get the comic going (trying to decide on the exact starting point in the story) and make enough money to get out of my day job. Then other things can happen.

BTW: I happen to be 46 and am not the typical demographic for this site in other ways. (I'm female, not a hacker, and so on.)

As for naming the forum: I am actually hoping to at some point find someone who knows how to make money who will talk to me (probably via email) and help me figure that out. My story inspires lots of attagirls and head patting. Some folks have tried to give me feedback. For whatever reason, things have failed to click so far. I keep rolling the dice, hoping that will change.
As it happens, in between first reading about ZFS dedup, and finally trying it out, I seem to have forgotten that the verify option existed. I just did "set dedup=on" - beyond that everything was whatever defaults you get on OpenIndiana build 148.

Were I to ponder that matter to any great depth, I suspect I'd find it rather difficult to get a handle on how concerned I ought to be about hash collision. Perhaps that's part of the answer to your puzzlement.
Vaio Z with it's 13" 1080p screen for 2 kilobucks.
The alternative to using last-mile transit is for everyone to have a virtual server somewhere.
Even this seems to be a bit off since 90% of all people only ever consume content and can't be bothered with anything like creating their own content.
My gawd, that page took all my CPU. Bailed.
Pousada Santa Catarina
Swebbo social bookmarking
swebbo social bookmarking,natural backlink
I agree that this will lead to HN point inflation which in itself is not bad. The community has to decide whether the features out-weigh potential content quality degradation. I have maintained so far that I'll build this service IF the community desires it.

In any case, a button that displays the HN points (without upvote feature) for a given content is useful. The question is whether to include the upvote function in it or not.

update: there already is a bookmarklet and a Chrome extension for it so this is only an addition to the list in this regard
StackOverflow might be a better place to ask. http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=python+parse+ics
Thanks. I've spent much of my life getting unplugged from the matrix. It's one of my strengths. Still trying to plug into the "how one makes money" mental framework. I did the homemaker thing for a long time and now have a day job. I actually was good at recognizing opportunities to make money as a kid and always had money as a kid. Then I got married and was basically treated like chattel property. Still trying to recover psychologically from that, if that makes any sense.

Really enjoyed this last point. Thanks for adding it. It gives me hope. I have spent a lot of time solving very large personal issues and this seems to convince other people I'm not really competent because of the financial issues left in the wake of that. I find that highly annoying when it comes from other people but I'm human so I still wrestle at times with wondering if I really am some lame, incompetent dolt. So this was nice to read.

Take care.
Even if just a small minority of people had VPSs that were on some P2P network it would be better than the current system of monopolies.
Orange.fr hacked, Database and site source code leaked
The thing is, actions speak louder than words. If the BBC is repeatedly doing things that are clearly against the law -- and in this respect, the evidence shows that they are -- then it is not the ignorant front-line responder who is irrelevant, but the senior spokesman who claims they have a different policy when they aren't actually implementing it.
Too bad I haven't earned a downvote button in my account yet. :( Please don't spread misinformation, it's clearly Spanish, not "Portugeuse" (sic), and Portuguese looks nothing like French, at least no more so than Spanish. I can't even begin to imagine where you got these impressions.
I see the Bluth model home has expanded.
Cockpit crisis
absolutely, there are alignment issues as well
Internet is already GSM-based which is much much worse.. ^_^
I don't live in a 'startup area' quite honestly.
that sounds good actually.
"Democracy works because we assume that communication can be done freely and anonymously. If these assumptions don't hold true for major communication platforms such as Facebook, Twitter or Google+ we do have a significant problem."

Face to face communication has always been available freely and anonymously. I'm not quite certain that any other form of communication has ever been either freely available or remotely anonymous for anyone remotely like an average person.

What communications platform has it ever held true for?

1.) Telegraph -- cost money, not universally accessible, open, message assured to be read by at least 2 3rd parties.

2.) Mail -- costs money, need a registered address, handled by a quasi govt agency, can be read by 3rd party.

3.) Land line Telephone -- costs money, not universally accessible, requires registered address, every action is logged including recipient and duration. Calls can be listened to by 3rd party.

4.) Cell Phones -- costs money, not universally accessible, burner can be had with no address or name. Calls can be listened to by 3rd party. Location tracking available.

5.) Home Internet -- costs money, not universally accessible, requires registered address, everything routed through ISP who keeps user logs, network that can intercept.

It's unclear to me why the service layer attracts so much attention, when the underlying network layer currently makes it largely impossible to have what you want for the average person. Having anonymity at the service layer is almost confusing when the underlying framework guarantees it is largely not real. There are all sorts of options already available at the service layer that can give all sorts of false appearances, many fewer at the network layer to make those false appearances turn real. Twitter and Facebook and G+ are trivial issues in comparison to getting around the fact that backbone and access points are a network owned by 3rd party intermediaries (just as with all the previous communications platforms above).
New projects launched at Garage48 hackathon
In the USA investing in startups requires becoming accredited, though it seems in recent years the requirements have maybe been loosened a bit. Outside the USA you can invest in more risky investments, (like canadian warrants often on companies small enough that we'd call them startups) ... but for the most part, I haven't. It is a shame, because I would have liked to be an angel. I'm very well aware of the risks involved. I had a couple bad investments in the past where I lost an amount equivalent to an angel's part of a funding in the stock market... yet I can't risk the same amount in a startup? That's just wrong.

I do invest in the markets, I tend to do very aggressive options strategies. I like to take something fundamentally sound or strong, and then use options to increase returns while reducing risk. Specifically I use spreads. Options are a very rich area of exploration, and I'm always working on seeking out that perfect arbitrage or no-risk strategy, but mostly I just buy LEAP spreads in "sure things".

We started traveling around the USA, just to make sure we could get work done while doing it, and to make sure we could live out of our backpacks. It was a bear getting rid of all of our stuff before leaving- that was probably the hardest thing we've done. Since then we have been traveling in the european area. It isn't lonely because I'm not alone.

But, if you are single, and you start traveling seriously, and do the hostel thing where you find yourself with other travelers regularly, it usually isn't that hard to find compatible fellow travelers, especially if your itinerary is totally flexible. I took some time off in the past and did this, and found that after awhile on the road I started hanging out with people for segments of travel... it was easy for me, and I'm normally not someone who is social at all.
If you outsource lead generation then you could as well become an OEM
Hm, interesting thought. I'm sure there's a startup in there somewhere. Categorizing and managing data. Because really I don't need that paper I typed up 2 years ago on how plants grow, but I would like to keep that report I did on xyz. Having a system to assign certain dates to something...

Interesting thought.
If you're implying that the social media editor was lying, I'd be curious to hear why you think this is so clear. I can easily believe that the BBC staff would like to do a lot of things that don't fit into their deadlines.
If you are planning to have a lot of functionality, i.e. routings, you need some way to modularise. Bottle does seem to have a more pythonic way. Flask creates new concepts that seem counter intuitive to me at the first look.
This is true and I suppose with more virtual space, less physical space we will be able to store more on less but even then it will be interesting to see. Do you know of any statistics of common data usage of people?
Can't you just use an off-shore DNS?
I've been reading hacker news for maybe two years (not much I know) without registering. It is noticeable that hacker news is becomming more of a so-called social marketing tool and less of a news source.
This is not a blindly negative critique, I'm simply stating what I can observe.
Possibly this is a milestone for what hacker news can become. I'm not sure that's the right direction either. Personally, I wouldn't mind if hacker news would put the foot on the break and become more content centered rather than community focused. It is my understanding that the site guidelines kind of state this too with different phrasing...?
Qminder que management app wins Garage48 hackathon
Have you looked for it? It's pretty tied in with their Google Apps offering which is where I've seen it, despite not being in the market for it.

It's no surprise that they concentrate on marketing their business software to businesses though. That's who's going to pay for it. A CS department is going to use whatever the school uses and a non-profit is better served by Google Apps (which is discounted heavily for non-profits).
A lot of people hated the most toilet-like car I can think of, the 1998 Fiat Multipla. It still sold a whole lot, and I personally liked it. Making design pronouncements is a tricky business.
I think maybe we should try starting one. I'd be cool with something really small, invite only to get culture in place and then expand.

Maybe something like Ning?
I came in this thread to say exactly this. The value of HN is the thoughtfulness and conscious submissions people make to this site. I'd hate to imagine what would appear here if people just had to click a button in between the +1 and the Facebook like to submit and upvote articles. It'd become a different version of Digg.

Great idea, but this makes me scared.
I'm old enough to remember party lines, so your point is well taken. But even with the advantages of the telephone, it soon became obvious that people resented the constant eavesdropping of nosy neighbors. It's frustrating to have to fight that battle all over again, especially when someone like Eric Schmidt says, "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." [1] I get it, the Internet is turning the world into a small town, but sometimes living in a small town sucks.

[1] http://gawker.com/5419271/google-ceo-secrets-are-for-filthy-...
Try again, I had to take it down due to spammers, but I made some flood controls.
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This is the Node Knockout entry for team upallnight, and we were :)
Exactly.
All these claim memory is "cheap" are misguided. The hardest thing is optimizing your program for appropriate usage of non-CPU resources (inter-processor communication, memory, disk, etc.).
Look, github is great and all, but will linking to your github repo really entice me to use your library? If its brownie points you're looking for in using github, you lost them by not providing a demo of the library and only a tiny bit of code that explains what it does.
Yes, they bought best of breed spam filtering technology and gave it way for free to the whole world. It was a great acquisition.
Can Leadership Be Taught?
A waterdrop world with industrial processes would be a Culture-like bauble since there's nothing to base the processes upon but water. In any case, they can control gravity and therefore pay little heed to my calculations.

By the way, the pressure in the Mariana Trench is about 108 megapascals. The 7MPa I calculated is therefore about the same as 700 meters of depth.

Humans now, with the Atmospheric Diving System, have dived to 610 meters, and free divers have made it to 265m. We could probably make a (nuclear) sub that could cruise through the entire thing. The max depth for a steel sub is 250–400 meters and titanium to 1,000 meters.
Sure, and there are a lot of other things you don't /need/, but that will make you more valuable to employers, or to your customers if you're a business owner.

Everybody has to choose things to learn and not learn, but my experience has been that putting math in the "not learn" category can make your life/career more difficult in some job markets. If most game devs decide they don't need to know math, that's just more opportunity for me, so I'm not too bent out of shape about it. :)
>>For instance, is there a way to programmatically get the list of all articles I've ever upvoted (the "Saved" page)?

I always thought part of the fun was having to hack together an ad hoc script to grab the data you wanted. That's the "hacker" way, isn't it? ;)
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