skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps this is the nagging doubt I have about Facebook in general: with mainstream acceptance, it functions not as a platform for 'connecting' with one another, but instead as another vehicle of conformity and norms enforcement.
Not working for me in either Firefox or Chrome.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=419166
+1 you as it is true, yet only half of it. This consumerist culture fueled technology development so it become possible for the millions of people also to get excited by, for example, seeing Hubble photos and discussing the screwdup of CERN/Gran Sasso scientists across the world - the details of SR and GR application in this case became normal topic of discussion in wide audiences.

>Apple is like the Vatican of consumerism so they are able to sustain this emotional euphoria in their customers for much much longer than most brands.

the rest of industry is following them thus driving technology development, wide accessibility and price decrease. It isn't Apple who is to be blamed that human race can move forward only through consumption economy. (Btw, before you object (if) - i come from the country that made huge attempt to move forward bypassing the consumerism and we all know the results of the experiment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union . "mladenkovacevic" - if you aren't too young, it sounds like you may be familiar first hand with how it looks like when country tries to bypass the consumerism driver)
Wow, those are almost the exact same criteria I've adopted since having kids. My list of games that have hit the bar in the last 10 years or so:

- Half-Life Series

- BioShock Series

- Fallout Series

- Deus Ex Series

- Elder Scrolls Series

Those are the ones that immediately jump to mind. I'd hate to have missed those. There are plenty of awful games out there, but there are also some wonderful storytellers advancing the field first mapped out by games like zork.
Red Orchestra 2 is pretty good, but it is super buggy and the community is small. If it didn't suffer from so many game breaking bugs on release it would easily be the best FPS of the last 10 years.
I think the reason why many find it useful is the speed at which you can work because of all the shortcuts. I'm still faster on Geany though :-( need to use Emacs more to remember all the commands
If you set up the phonetic first and last name, Siri will pick up on them the next time your data is shipped off to Apple (yes, your data exists in the cloud when using Siri), also, I have set nicknames for certain friends, and saying "Call <nickname>" works exactly as one would expect. This is a killer feature, I have nicknamed my dad, my step-mom, and various other people so that Siri knows to call my Dad when I ask it to.

I've already gotten better at asking Siri questions, yes it may seem unnatural at first, but overall the benefit I gain from using a little less natural language is enough for me.

I've had my new iPhone 4S for all of one day now, and it remains to be seen if I will continue to use Siri, but this morning when I woke up and couldn't find my glasses I was still able to find out what my boss texted me about, send him a reply and all of this using my voice. That is fantastic and I absolutely love it.
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I really like the Australian accent, but as soon as I turn that on Siri will no longer find any businesses that are close to me since that is only supported if set to US English.
Think hard about making peer review work well. My piano teacher (bless her) sometimes has to show me two or three ways to think about something and then BAM it clicks. Some sort of reward system to fight the natural urge to show off and be the 'best' student.

If you can trick people into being helpful via gamification, it almost redeems that concept. :)
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>Sometimes I still forget what inverse means in math.

I think your interpretation is actually the more correct one, here.
Squaring and square-rooting are the inverse of each other.

They are really talking about calculating the reciprocal of the square root of X. They are calling it the 'inverse square root', but thats just them abusing terminology, which people do all the time, rightly or wrongly.

But you weren't wrong to be initially confused by this abuse of terminology, and it doesn't have anything to do with your native language not being English.
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He actually stated in an interview that his contract requires Bethesda to allow him to work on mobile projects every year. He enjoys mobile development because it reminds him of what game programming was like before the $100 Million budgets existed.
Set a nickname, that works from my testing.
I imagine the reason why free-ish games tend toward the unfun si that "fun" is defined in a business model as a profit center. For them to be fun, you have to pay, and I'm guessing this is actually a specific goal in these companies. Any feature that is brought up to be introduced has all the fun elements methodically shunted into the pay-zone.
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So, congrats on launching this, but I have to say, it's going to be very challenging for you to compete against lynda.com at this price point. They have a terrific iOS instructor and a broad library of professionally-produced videos on this, and their cost is $25/month.

There's plenty of room to compete (and I wouldn't suggest that you attempt to compete on price, since video-only learning becomes commoditized quickly), but if you're going to be competitive you will have to convey some sort of value other than "learn how to code in iOS with our video!!1!"
Yeah, I wasn't trying to answer the question prematurely because there are indeed "a variety of reasons," and we don't know jack about the company. My point was to recommend asking the question.
I cannot check this, but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCard#vCard_extensions seems to indicate that is for alternative Japanese spellings, not for truely phonetic entries. If it is for phonetic entries, I would expect that one would have to use the international phonetic alphabet for entries there.
still haven't sold me on that one...
This is epic!
Tracking down an attacker may not be possible or worth your time. You can do the basic geolocation and rwhois stuff on the IP, but more than likely it's not the origin. The attacker probably is bouncing through TOR or another proxy solution.

Also, I believe to change a password on Google you have to reauth with your current password, which never would have been transmitted in cleartext. Unless you had a MITM attack with one of those compromised certs in the wild, but you've removed your diginotar certs, right? It's more likely that your password was guessed or taken from somewhere else. I would change any other accounts which might share that password.

Steps for now: turn on 2 method authentication!! Check your outbox and deleted folders for any shenanigans, although if the attacker knew what they were doing they would have deleted any trace of anything they would have done.
I don't like when people try to find a single reason for decisions, especially in that case.

Generally there's a couple of reasons spread over time that eventually trigger a decision.

The worst part is that it's very difficult for us to make a list of these reasons because:

* We don't remember all of them

and

* We want to believe we are rational and therefore exclude the irrational reasons

That being said I think it's paramount to be able to explain your business and why it will work in few words because that way you can spread the idea within and outside the company easily.
Maybe some ambitious person could do an HTML5 or Android version and put it on github?
Steve Jobs explains object-oriented programming
Then play old games. I still regularly play Doom whenever I need to think about a solution for something. It's fun and the gameplay is instinctive, so you can let yourself think about things while playing.
Another explanation from him (skip to 2:04): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaJp66ArJVI&feature=playe...! [video]
Nothing... in Chrome 14.0.835.202 on OSX 10.7.2
Looks like there are only a few thousand people. If HN'ers add themselves, we'll probably skew it. In fact, it might become of a HN Globe.
interesting, what could smart clothing do? GPS location? Detect dirtiness and tell you when it needs a wash somehow?
The suits in the novel "Dune" do that as well. But there is no ocean or other open bodies of water on the planet in the story.
I mostly agree with you. Quake II was a decent game, but it didn't leave a lasting impression. The original quake was the last single player Id game that mattered.

I think Id was able to recreate the magic for Q3A though. When it released it wasn't considered phenomenal, but now that I look back over the years, it is one of the top 3 shooters of all time.

I think Id could be great again if they got together with some of the designers from fallout or the elder scrolls. Some cross training would be beneficial to both parties. The character animation in Bethesda's games are terrible; Id software can't write a decent story.
A lot of Windows users do consider themselves power users even if they have minimal knowledge of other platforms. For example, it's quite frustrating to participate in PC building or gaming communities where every schmo thinks they're an authority on computing.
Works beautifully - really impressive organic feel to it. I love this actually!

✔ On Chrome 14.0.835.202 - windows 7

✔ Safari 5.1.1 - works but with lag

✔ Firefox - 7.0.1 - works great but seems to constrict the canvas more than on Chrome.

IE - Nothing, just loads the sharing icons.

"Grabs iPad"
Your kidneys can only excrete 1L/hr under optimal conditions. So you were a victim of water intoxication, but were very lucky you didn't die. People died for drinking much less water than you did.
I feel like they almost get bored with projects and then just let them stagnate. It seems like once they launch something, that is pretty much the final state of that project. I am not sad to see them narrowing their focus a bit if it means they'll continue to improve on and advance their current offerings instead of launching a new initiative every week.

However, the way that they can just toss projects aside like this makes me wonder once again why I should bother becoming invested in Google Plus... how long will it be before I get an email telling me Plus is being shut down and I should go download all my content?
Can we please stop this meme? It's speculation at best unless you were looking at his actual medical records -- and unless you've got a time machine it isn't going to change anything.
>> Google can arbitrarily and capriciously exclude them from their index.

As a web developer on SEO forums, I hear of these cases all the time, but when you analyze these sites, usually 1 of 3 things is happening:

- Web developer(s) made a mistake, causing a (search engine) accessibility problem.

- The site is in violation of the Google webmaster guidelines.

- The site lacks (unique) content, or otherwise doesn't contribute at all to a healthy search engine index.

I never read of a case of Google arbitrarily or capriciously excluding sites from their index, offering them no way to appeal. In general, I also think the advice Google gives is far from inconsistent.

This could be a popular position for a web developer who got a site de-indexed, but maybe apply Occam's razor first. A mistake? A trend? An algo change? Worthless content? Blackhat SEO? Bad architecture? Got hacked?

Or do you want to jump immediately to Google arbitrarily removing well-intentioned sites from their index? I guess then you can blame bad luck of the draw.
Thats no different than Microsoft in the 90's. The business goals are different but the strategy of getting there is the same.
My point was that you can recreate the nostalgia (REcreate, so it's twice removed? heh).

But yeah, they are fake, and one thing I always notice is how these kinds of filters seem to have an obvious loop in them. Are there any filters that are more dynamic and feed from an RNG or something to lessen the perception of looping?
Clickers with a webcam, and a 2D barcode on paper.
Reverse osmosis is getting to be a viable water purification method even if you are not an energy rich middle eastern oil producer. Back in the 90s I lived in a community of about 160 homes in the mountains above Woodside CA. We had our own mutual water district. We had good water quality, but were pestered by the county to upgrade our treatment facility because our reservoir was subject to contamination. There was a gas station with leaking tanks about 50 feet from the edge. We finally installed a reverse osmosis filtration system, not to create fresh water from salty, but to remove any possible contaminants.

The town where I now live is planning to install a desalinization plant because the main water source was contaminated by MTBE contamination from the Chevron station. It is being held up by an over zealous coastal commission.
I agree. I like going out to eat at good restaurants, attending a concert, maybe watch a game at a stadium. These cost money. Ultimately, to a certain extent money allows you to do things that give you enjoyment. If you can afford it, then go for it. After all, we have only one life to live.
Are there lots of people who like JavaScriptMVC? I used it but soon moved to Backbone.js. And now I'm considering moving to Spine.js, which looks more advanced. (Or, at least more "rails-like" with its Model API.)
Why isn't Siri on iOS 5 for the iPhone 4?
But why cells are so finicky about salinity? Why can't cells operate properly with some salt present?
It sounds like you experienced water intoxication and/or hyponatremia.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyponatremia
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If you had an economic argument to make, you would make it.

Your reliance on ad hominem backed by the fallacy of appeal to authority where the authority is non-existent shows that you are making an ideological political claim, not an economic one.

The comparison to global warming is also hilarious, because, like the political ideology you're espousing it too has been disproven by science. I can do it right here: IR absorption of CO2 is less than water vapor. If you understood the science of global warming, you'd be devastated.

The thing is, when you understand a subject, you can defend your position with arguments. You don't need to rely in the low form of characterizing your opponent or their arguments in derogatory ways. You can simply make counter arguments, presumably, if you're right, superior counter arguments.

That you have chosen not to shows that you've replaced ideology for thinking.
Aren't those index exclusions done by algorithms? If that's the case, just telling you why they removed you from their index would be a huge disclosure on Google's technologies.

Example: "Your website has been removed from our indexes because it displays too many X's.", when no other search engine has thought of filtering websites based on X.

And because the decision is probably based on many, many parameters and weighted, it would have to tell you the values (and descriptions!) of each one of them, making the message even more sensitive.
Off topic but in response to your conjecture about the Google Translate API:

My own is that they are protecting against the harvesting of their AI algorithm's output.
Your work assignment for today – Photo Scavenger Hunt
Not Quake, but Quake 3. That's one and half generation of engines ahead.
Sharing music is inherently social.
Put an email in your profile. You are complaining about the right things, in a constructive way which shows you want to improve the system. There are a number of people hiring on HN who value that.
I assume by obfuscation you mean browsers accepting self-signed certificates in some cases. To do that would require everyone to be using a browser that accepts them, nearly all don't. On the other hand, StartSSL is free and already accepted in some browsers. It seems more promising that eventually nearly all browsers in popular use will have StartCom as a root CA.

Of course, there are other problems preventing small and large sites from using SSL, like the requirement of a dedicated IP address (which SNI fixed, but is again not supported in all popular browsers) and the overhead.
We already have Wi-Fi Protected Setup, which allows you to press a button on the router to connect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Protected_Setup

I think it's legitimate to want encryption even if you can't verify identity. Man in the middle may be trivial in that case, but it's still harder than just sniffing packets.
Cool, but an awfully small sample size. The really exciting thing will be when DNA sequencing is cheap enough that we can sequence thousands, even millions, of genomes just to see what we can find out.
Drawing attention to downvoting never results in much of anything. It's always pointless to waste keystrokes on it.
>For a professional result you would need to control the cameras completely manual and take a lot more pictures in different settings (light, reference colors, tripod, ...).

Well, it's also worthwhile testing how well the automatic settings work -- that's how most folk will use the phone.

(All I really want in a camera phone is non-shitty low-light photos.)
you have to wonder if the beta tag has been applied purely because of scaling the servers, artificially holding back to the 4S rather than iphone 4 and ipad 2 probably makes capacity planning a lot easier!
agreed, #1 reason I use emacs...
Hasn't been a problem. We have a mail service and US phone numbers, and so most of the people we have to formally do business with assume we're in the USA.

There is the impact of pulling up roots and moving to another country... and when you're working really hard there's a lot less sightseeing than there would be otherwise.
Actually if you're dying of dehydration, chances are you're somewhere exceptionally hot, because it's rare that you wouldn't be able to find water in 3/4 days in a temperate climate.

If you're in an area where you're perspiring a lot, then occasionally drinking sea water would actually be beneficial as there aren't many readily available sources of salt.

I work construction, in the longest heatwave of the summer I was putting tablespoons of salt into my water jug as it's quite easy to become nauseous when drinking a gallon of water inside a work day. Not to mention you don't want to get disorientated or light headed whilst 30ft in the air.

Long time survival in a hot environment requires a source of both fresh water and salt. The ocean is a far easier source of salt than searching for anything in nature.
I just tried this.

"I want you to call me Gorgeous"

and from that point on Siri calls me Gorgeous! haha

"Ok Gorgeous what do you want to do!" :D
Thanks to the author for taking time to write up his experience. That said, this is really basic stuff. How in the world could a home/index page have so many queries that it took 9 seconds? Oh, no indices... Then how could you have built a DB-backed web app and not considered indexing? A better title for the post might be "Scaling Mistakes I Made While Building Our Website and How I Fixed Them".
To be fair though, the quality of almost all of the end-user software available via apt-get is far below that of the iOS or Mac app store. Developers and users have voted with their wallets for Apple's model. Ideologically I'd prefer that this were not the case but it's hard to argue with the numbers.
did you work for another company then?
Reminded me of this : http://norvig.com/21-days.html
A lot of people don't know that you can move the cards around so that you can arrange two cards to be right next to each other, if you could speed up your workflow that way. I also don't like how you have to keep the home button pressed pon android, may be it is just my phone, but I would rather have an instant response to pressing home button rather than a timed one.
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> Are there lots of people who like JavaScriptMVC?

count me one of them. i am really a fan of it. it gives my apps structure, it has fixtures build in, and when i want to go to production it compiles my app down to one css file, one js file and one html file. and all that in a nice package, with no need for me to get all this stuff done by hand (thinking about some directory structure for my app, setting up fixtures, downloading google closure compiler, setting all up, ...).
A fanatic can't change his mind and won't change the subject. That's why every internet argument eventually turns into a debate about the merits of some popular fanaticism, be it libertarianism, feminism, or whatever else.
With the rise of cloud services, and their relative inability to serve naked domains, there are a couple of easy fixes for this.

The first is to create a vhost in your webserver that serves an index.htm page on your NON-www url. The contents of that page would simply redirect users to the www.yourdomain url.

If that seems like too much work, an even easier fix (truncated for brevity) is to do something like this:

var url = window.location.href;
if(url.indexOf("http://www") != 0) {
window.location.replace("http://www.yourdomain/");
}

You'd obviously want to capture the remainder of the querystring and add it in, but that's the general idea.
JS version of 'Still Alive' credits from Portal
Oh, I wouldn't say it took expert knowledge in the past. I've been able to download ettercap for years. It'll sniff switched networks. I just need to plug into your LAN.

>why isn't the POTS network encrypted?

Because I can't pick up the receiver and listen to my neighbor's calls. That's exactly how ethernet doesn't work. I hear all, even on switched networks with a simple tool. Wireless? Even worse, it's the equivalent of using a non-switched hub. I'll even toss in that POTS should be encrypted point to point, but if you would have attempted it before Phil Zimmerman trail-blazed strong encryption for us commoners, you would most likely have ended up in a federal prison if you used non-trivial encryption.

So, to address the original question:

1. Encryption really was expensive in 1996 or so, but in the age of multicores, its questionable if there's a real cost now.

2. Performance hit. SSL handshake is long and annoying. We could use a replacement here.

3. Legacy. The hackers who slapped together networks and the various protocols we use weren't interested or couldn't properly secure this stuff. Thus the legacy of spam, plaintext everything, etc. Retro fitting security is hard. Its good if its there from the start like GSM.

4. Standards are hard to change. Imagine telling all the browser makers and open source projects that we should all switch to something that won't add to the bottom lines/download rate/market penetration, but instead cost them time and complexity as well as add server load. Google can't get anyone to care about SPDY. Who is going to re-architect this stuff? We're essentially living in a world convcieved in the 70s, implemented in the 80s, and made popular in the 90s.

The easy answer is to stop allowing non-encrypted wifi. I'd love to see the wifi consortium just default to a random key for non-authenticated guests in whatever the newest version of wifi will be. It'll be transparent to the end user and probably stop all these local attacks. It won't help you past the gateway, but right now between the client and the gateway is the problem area. Heck, why not make all networking gear do this, even on wired networks? We have the processing power.
Whether or not his websites are still online doesn't erase the built-up brand. The "Dive Into..." books are still mirrored and generally respected resources.
I've shamelessly stolen it from reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/lcxw6/portals_still_...

The JS is not minified and nicely written, so check it out!