skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a case for performance mostly. A character hidden behind a wall will be likely to appear to the player very soon.
The client then gets a chance to pre-load any necissary rescources into memory and download from the server any information about the other character it might need.
If you didn't do this then for example the page containing the player character model might have been swapped to disk and the delay caused in bringing this back in might cause a lag which will give one player a disadvantage.

Also you may be able to hear the person behind the wall , for (even though it may only be a very quiet sound from the other character walking slowly). The client application will need a location in order to play the sound correctly, this information could be used to make a wallhack.

The other alternative would be to pre-prepare all sound on the server and stream it to the client , but this would put extra stress on the server and more demand on bandwidth.
my reaction was the exact opposite. I hate being with friends constantly checking in everywhere on their phones when I want to hang out with them, but still like writing reviews & helping others find good places to go. The gowalla pivot seemed to work towards that.
You are correct although there are a myriad of reasons why this doesn't work in practice. Perhaps I should have said augmented overlays, task queuing (macros) and so on instead -- they better illustrate the point.
You need to do some reading up on the subject. You are also comparing apples with oranges with your KitchenAid example.

Even through legal and established channels Artists dont make much money through the actual music. Its all the stuff around the music which is profitable. Merchandise, concerts etc.
The content creator? Can't pay them, don't want to pay them, don't like the price? Then you don't have the right to consume the content.
What about JavaScript makes it inherently single-threaded? I would describe it as more of a counter-example. There's nothing preventing a multi-threaded JavaScript except for the implementor's choice to avoid it. When the need for parallel computation became strong enough, Web Workers were created with a shared-nothing, message-passing design.

I'm no fan of GILs, but I've been burned enough times with explicit locking that I respect any attempt to find a Third Way. And why provide a lock facility if the third way is a truly usable alternative?
Sorry, but I can't help but feel that it wouldn't be that difficult to get similar performance by setting up a free AMI for people to do exactly this sort of thing using their own EC2 instance. What kind of value does zencoder actually add vs. running an ec2 instance with ffmpeg handling the transcoding?
I think you are confused. You are comparing completely different things.
I agree. The whole thing sounds like "It should have worked but, for an unspecified reason, didn't."

Unfortunately, I wouldn't be surprised if it never really comes out. Company proprietary information and all that.
As an expression of "a lot of land in the U.S.", you can buy a habitable dwelling in Nowhere Unincorporated, New Mexico for $100. Would you take this option?
I would like to apply... but I can't.

You need to be a Facebook user to apply. I find it discriminatory: you discriminate against privacy concious people. I'll never get a Facebook account the way Facebook is right now. And I would like to fix this, but I can't; you won't let me.
A doctor doesn't go to heal the healthy, but the sick. If this channel really does broadcast propaganda, where better to spread words about freedom?
> "... provides no value to offset that."

That right there, tells me that you have never actually used git in a team environment with a good workflow enough to actually learn about its advantages and disadvantages. Sure, git is not perfect, but to boldly say that it offers no value in a centralized environment is, ah, how shall I say it... self-assured to the point of trollishness.

I, and many many other people have used git for years, both in centralized environments and not, and I can tell you that git (and more broadly, any decentralized VCS) has tons of useful features in a centralized environment compared to SVN/CVS and their ilk. Just off the top of my head, features I could not live without now:

- much more powerful branch merge tracking

- much better conflict resolution compared to CVS/SVN.

- partial commits

- history rewriting (massively useful in cleaning up before pushing)
- ability to work without network connection

- ability to cherry pick commits between branches

The problems you described are failures of workflow due to bad process and/or bad developer education, _not_ failures inherent in the design of any given distributed VCS. I have never had to deal with any of those issues, because we have always ensured that we have a good workflow in place.
Wha? That's ridiculous.

Mostly, Facebook just copies Google's playbook, usually because so many of their managers came from Google. And a part of Google's playbook is that not every good developer wants to live and work in Silicon Valley, so you simply can't hire enough good developers if you only have one location. By the time a company has hired as many people as Facebook, they've failed to hire hundred of others who, for one reason or another, don't want to leave New York. Maybe their wife is in medical school or their husband is a quant on Wall Street. Maybe they like the arts, or nightlife, or walkability. Whatever it is, Silicon Valley is not for everyone and at the rate that Facebook (and ebay, and Google, and Twitter, and Microsoft) need to hire programmers, they have to consider a few out-of-town campuses.
Indeed, it dehumanizes us and treats us as statistics.
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Right now the problem is supply. The problem is not people being unable to pay $x more for the treatment.
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great point. too bad more people don't realize that. money is only a representation of value. the reason we had a recession is too may people were focused on the leverage method, rather than creating more value.
right around the corner? It's going to be 15 years before that thing is generating graduates. But yes it will be a good thing!
Yes, it's not like ATC are suddenly going to start installing every random nightly release on their production systems.

I would imagine they would stay safely (maybe even years) behind the cutting edge. But common availability of the source code would make it easier to share information that may be able to speed up acceptance testing or flag up issues.

You could argue it's actually more dangerous for an airport to rely on software that is opaque, for all they know there is some edge condition in there by accident (or on purpose) that could cause mayhem.

I am going to assume however that ATC software source code is rigoursly audited by a trusted partner of the airports using it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BCbler-Ross_model

Stage 1. Denial
> The content creator? Can't pay them, don't want to pay them, don't like the price? Then you don't have the right to consume the content.

What kind of "right" are we talking about here? Moral, whose? Legal, in which jurisdiction?

Under your definition of right, do they have the right to deny me their content they won't sell to me, if my consumption causes them no loss?

If a bar won't let me in because I'm underage, but they position their TVs to be perfectly viewable by someone standing on the street, do I have no right to stand around and watch the TVs?
I've been using one medical for the last few years. I have to say it's a really good deal and a great service. I didn't realize they had an internal team doing development. What kind of stuff are you building?
I totally agree. The author actually did great work in exploring what students need to improve to be able to write the types of essays that pg was talking about. It's too bad the author didn't actually realize that.

I also wish the author had basically eliminated the first two paragraphs. I almost didn't read the rest of it simply because the first part looked to be setting up a trivial "someone's wrong on the Internet"-style post instead of the well-thought-out piece that it actually was.
Congrats guys. It seems like Andreesen's participation in the Start Fund deal has significantly improved (doubled? tripled?) their deal flow with YC companies.
> If you have lots of name recognition, what's the best way to look for work?

Well, you could just submit your resume to Hacker News, and it would get upvoted a lot.
Well actually, they probably have everyone's email address and they probably wrote it for him... using key presses on his mobile.
Apple is likely still leading.
Kinect Coming To Sony TVs, Windows
Dexter? Why didn't I know that? A2 here, but Hi5.

I think this one is almost more effective. Maybe a mix between the two.
I find myself using more and more for smaller (than usual) blog posts. If I felt like doing something expansive, I'd write it on my blog and add a link to it in G+. Primarily, it's because there is an audience there. The ease of building up networks of circles makes it X times efficient to gain followers of your content.
Seems excessive and clearly obvious to consumers. This case indicates seems to indicate that retailers - Walmart, for example - would need to place signage in front of their products announcing that they make a profit on a sale.

The point of business is to make money. Consumers actually need to be reminded of that?
I would think that if a site is still running on ASP they probably aren't currently maintaining it and won't care enough to fix it?
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NearlyFreeSpeech is wonderful. I drive people to them whenever I can.

Along with being trustworthy and protective of their customers, their web panel is simple and no BS. I don't know how people put up with other registrars with their upsell-threw-up-all-over-the-page web panels. Even "good" ones like NameCheap are eyesores.

I hope NFS never lets me down, because I talk them up like they walk on water.
I'm not sure what you were referring to, but to be fair, the software equivalents of Avatar are big blockbuster video games. Like Call of Duty, Gears of War, Skyrim... They're awfully similar to big, blockbuster computer animated films.

Ultimately I think this is just a bad analogy.
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The poor are disproportionately pressured by every market, obviously. In my experience being poor, all the pressure pretty much stems from one issue: needing money and not having any. The only way to relieve that pressure is to either make people not poor or make money less important. Taking away options without providing alternatives does not help, it just backs people into a corner, making them more desperate and more vulnerable to exploitation.

I don't see how my proposal could be much more compassionate. Everybody gets free and equal access to organs, and the trade is exclusively between donors and the government, subject to whatever concessions and protections the public at large has it in their heart to offer the donors.

The alternative is what you described, and what we have now: we either get lucky, die waiting for a transplant, or buy our life saving organs from criminals who rip off the poor for their body parts. Does that really make you less sick? If not, what is your solution?
Darn. Was just up there at Thanksgiving. I'm down in NYC myself. TNLNYC at gmail

Ping me if you ever come down in NYC...
A very nice guy that supports hitting women ;) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FgMLROTqJ0
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Fair enough point, but I don't necessarily agree with that view. Why wouldn't you want to focus on building an audience on a site you control? You can link out to Twitter or Google+.

Like I said, the short pithy comments have their place too, but for me this strategy is what I prefer. Also, I haven't seen solid evidence that people are building larger audiences on Google+, unless you're someone like Robert Scoble. You have to have an established name in your industry, or at least that's the trend that I've seen thus far.
I'm usually a tight arse but in the case of gandi.net, I have no problem paying a premium so I don't have to put up with all the bullshit that customers of other registrars have to put up with
it should be interesting to us, for you and only you to be able to see who downvoted you.
gun.io gets linked on HN often, but I didn't know it was a service. Thanks for the link, this was what I had in mind essentially.
The problem with the idea being ascribed to Paul Graham (writing about whatever you are passionate about rather than English literature) is that it's a strategy for teaching smart, passionate kids — and they're not the kids the education system is most egregiously failing.
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Its not for life if he eventually sucks. But now he doesn't want to work for you anymore!
Isn't the natural solution to something like that just to do some redundant computation? I think that's how people deal with similar problems in services like Mechanical Turk. It would, at worst, make the computation three or four times less efficient but would limit both active meddling and errors. Also, relying on a closed source for security is a bad policy anyhow.
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Though I haven't done any Linux programming, I can definitely see your point. A abstraction seems only as useful as it is consistent.

You're right: HyperCard and Excel aren't a small set of interoperable tools like UNIX is. I would argue, though, that they are close: a walled garden of interoperable tools. Rather than guide you through steps to a specific end (the extreme example is a wizard for, say, a mail merge), they present you with tools you can use to get to that end. Obviously, they don't work particularly well outside their garden, and the great advantage of adding tools to your toolset is cumbersome at best.

I do wish I understood the UNIX philosophy better. Perhaps I'll learn more over time.
Netflix was not originally an internet streaming company, that came later. I'm not sure I could call Netflix a "perfect communication of what the company does", given the name came around when the internet was only used to select your next mail-received movie.
That fact is 100% right.
As a designer Im aware that design won't save the world.
Foursquare had a huge moat since ever, and thats all that they need.
It's about time they started supporting the Android brand so customers can recognize it. I think it's long overdue. On the other hand now they get to promote directly their most polished and intuitive Android version so far (4.0).

I'd like to see some TV commercials with it, too, so they can actually promote the "Android ecosystem and OS", and not leave it to the manufacturers to mostly promote their phones and Android as a bullet point in their list of features. They should learn from how Windows became a brand that everyone can recognize. Plus, promoting the stock version, will give the manufacturers the incentive to stay as close to it as possible, so they can take advantage of the branding done by Google.

While they are at it, maybe they rethink the whole "Android as a toy" theme. I see no connection whatsoever between Android the OS and Android the logo. Shouldn't there be one?
I have a blog. I even wrote my own blogging engine. But it's not part of anybody's habits to go to it. Most people don't understand RSS.

I could post to my blog and then throw links on G+ (earlier buzz), but the extra friction of clicking on a link caused comments (and therefore, I think, reads) to go down. So I need to put some thought into putting some content next to the link. But at that point the effort suddenly seems prohibitive for a short post. Far simpler just to throw it directly on G+.

I've tried twitter, but I don't have many followers and there's just too much attrition due to people just missing my tweets. Friendfeed/buzz/G+ have fewer longer posts, and so there's less churn on people's streams and less attrition. Posting something on them is less meaningless than on Twitter.
I'm not an educator and I don't think of myself as a good writer either, but when I look around, I believe that I'm above average. I'll still permit myself to throw in an idea or two, that may help educators tap into new sources.

Are you looking for material to instill interest in your teenage students? Well, Youtube and IMDB are full of opinionated people in that demographic, with things to say. The message is often naive, the form usually bad, but the desire to express oneself is there. This to me is a sign of an opportunity to take something rough and refine it.

Make a game out of this. Mimic forum threads, organize teams, with the objective to come up with the best rebuttal in 500 characters. Forcing them to be creative in the language, while staying clean and to the point.

You want to steer them away from the emotional and moralizing narratives? Expose them to manipulative writing and show them how they fell victim of it. Explain phenomenon such as groupthink and ad-hominem attacks. Show evidence of it in real life and how it's used to steer the mass. Explain that if they're unable to address issues with rationality and analysis, they are being led like sheeps. Nobody wants to be a sheep. They'll be more careful with their arguments.
Google is Creating an Amazon Prime Competitor
Yes. Ask Stallman, Linus et al
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For me the cartoon, 'the knot in the founders stomach', in the comments was priceless. I'm thinking of framing it.

When someone says what it like to be an entrepreneur I would just point to it.
One long response deserves another =)

Yes, you are right that you adopt a lot when you pay for the Kindle: the device, the store, the DRM, the acceptable formats, etc. A realization that helped me overcome by hesitation is that I don't have have to love every aspect of the ecosystem -- I just have to like it enough to value it at $100 for the device and ~$10/book. (And I do value the ecosystem that much). I would rather pay $200+$15/book for DRM free, but I would also rather pay $10 to read a book I don't "own" on the Kindle than pay $5 for a book I physically own because I prefer convenience to ownership. So even if Kindle eBooks were marketed as "You pay the same price as the paper copy, and after you read a book once we automatically delete it," I would still buy eBooks for the convenience and portability(except I'd view the purchases more like renting than buying).

So to me, what is under-reviewed is the way in which consumers get to buy, trade, sell, borrow, lend, and use the content. That seems to me to matter much more.

I am guessing we both agree that the #1 purpose of the Kindle is to read books. Where we might differ is how important the nonprimary purposes are: lending, trading, etc. I used to think they were important, but at one point I realized I was more interested in the "potential ability" to use those features than actually using them. For example, I wanted to be able to lend books to friends, and it really bothered me that I wouldn't be able to do that with a Kindle. But when I did the math, I realized that while I recommended books frequently, I lent them rarely (due to logistics of living in different cities, forgetting to bring a book when I'm meeting up with someone, etc.) Similarly, I used to resell my used books, and it bothered me that I couldn't resell a Kindle book, which means I could never recoup any monetary value from it. But then I realized that I spent a lot of time listing books on half.com, I rarely recouped more than 20% of their value, and the whole process was a giant pain. The alternative of just buying the eBook at a 5-10% discount no longer seemed like a bad deal -- even if I could not resell it.

That said, for me lending and trading are distant seconds to reading. I'm sure there are many people, possible including you, who view those things as a very close second to reading. In that case, maybe the Kindle and other DRM-laden readers are not for you.

Finally, regarding your point that circumventing the Amazon store sucks: you're right. But part of the point is to figure out how much you value convenience vs DRM. If you hate DRM, then perhaps you embrace the extra effort required to buy books outside of Amazon. If you don't like it, but don't really care, then you just buy on Amazon. I think it's similar to how most people use Windows, a few people use Linux so that they can have more control/transparency, and then there's RMS who is happy to not use anything that is not GNU, even though 99.99% of the population thinks that would be a miserable (online) existence.
Ask HN: If I Release a (Good) Mobile App, Will You Use It?
Hey all,

I've been working on a personal project - a mobile app to browse Hacker News. Originally it was just for myself, as I'm frequently mobile (like right now), but I figured other people might like it as well (as there isn't a mobile app yet).

So my question is, would you be interested in a mobile app? I'd make it free of course, and if enough interest were drawn I'd post the emulator pictures of its features and design when its finished before it hits the app store (along with code on my blog for the impatient).

It isn't finished, but here's what I can confirm it will do when done:

1. Login Page for Profile Editing/Commenting/Submitting

2. Search Tab, which will run a keyword search using HNSearch API.

3. Front Page tab, self-explanatory.

4. Newest Page tab, self-explanatory.

5. Submit Page tab, for submitting new links/posts.

6. Ability to upvote comments and links. Not sure about downvotes or polls yet, working on it.

7. Threads tab with push notifications when someone comments on your comment.

If you're interested, tell me a feature you'd like (or dislike). Updates to follow.
We’re talking about high school here.

It has never been the case that serious university-level courses in, say, history or political theory or linguistics didn’t require serious paper writing.
You could make the same argument about Tumblr or Posterous, really. Fact of the matter is, there are huge benefits to meshing community and long-form commenting. Commenting systems like Disqus just aren't all the way there in terms of fluidity. If you don't have a platform of a certain size, your comment threads can look awful bare with the wrong kind of audience. G+ encourages commenting — and really intelligent commenting, too. In fact, it works almost like a hivemind at times, allowing users to build relationships in new ways.

Look at the issue less as one of ownership and more as one of friction. The reason why platforms like G+ are desirable is because they take away a lot of the friction that a thousand non-centralized platforms create. If someone figured out how to efficiently remove the friction from decentralized blogs, I'd eat my hat because that's how impressed I'd be.

I look at G+ as a supplement to blogging rather than a main outlet, however. I actually think it's better for longer thoughts, while I prefer shorter comments on my Tumblr site.
I like them too. I buy something via the ads about once a month. In fact, I bought the Kindle with ads just for one of the ads which was a few hundred dollars off a TV. The Kindle was essentially free.
Congrats! There's been lots of buzz about Science Exchange from the life science community so far.
Doubtful this is real. Only source is this blog?
No, PEP 3333 is just an adaptation of the old WSGI interface (PEP 333) to Python 3 (mostly bytes/unicode issues). PEP 444 will be the next version of WSGI and will include some asynchronous functionality.
I'm speaking from the anecdotal evidence that most engineers I know in finance are pretty miserable sans the fact they make barrels of money.