skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the story! I was interested in this company early on because the products were great - I was playing the progenitor to this game, "Draw My Thing", four years ago - so I agree that there's more than luck going on here. For all their talk about "trying for years", it's telling that a search for OMGPOP on the App Store basically only yields three games.

Their main aim seemed to be to become a platform (albeit consisting of their own games) more than making hits. So they were reluctant to build iOS or Android-specific things (their early efforts were half-hearted compared to their impressive web games) and they were slow to build on Facebook as I recall.
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So he recommends Go but has never actually used it? The only reason he looked at it again was the potential to use it for a small project he never finished or did I miss something?
> It suggests that whoever coded this part of DuQu was conservative, precise, and wanted 100 percent assurance that the code would work the way they wanted it to work.

That limits possible authors to all programmers in the world.
We're working on improvements to the language (namely, regions and dynamic arenas) to make it possible to not use the reference-counted pointer type at all if you don't want it, while retaining the type safety. Regions have their own set of costs, as we're finding out (mostly due to the annotation burden if you start doing complicated stuff), but I think we'll be in a nice sweet spot. Rust gives you three basic options:

(1) Regions, when you want safe, low-overhead allocation. The downside is a more complex type system. (Usually you don't see the complexity unless you're returning pointers that contain references to the stack, at which point you have to convince the typechecker that you aren't creating dangling pointers by doing so.)

(2) Safe, garbage collected heap allocation. This gives you maximum flexibility at the cost of runtime overhead.

(3) Unsafe pointers. This lets you manage your memory manually, like C++. Of course, this is unsafe.

Also, I suspect we're going to add fixed-length vectors; we've been discussing this quite a bit lately and I think there's general consensus that they should be present in the language in some form.
So, how are you supposed to pronounce the name of your project?
> Goose actually writes all images to disk

What on earth for?
C is perfect. It's low level and compiles on every platform in the world.

I wonder why this "research" hasn't been shut down by various governments. Yet. Unless it leads to a red herring.
+1 from me. Even though I use git a lot and would consider familiar with the commands, I rarely do a plain "git push" because I'm never sure exactly which branches it will push to where.
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> That actually works against the argument of US parity, since our tax system is less progressive than most industrialized nations.

Actually, the US system is more progressive. It gets a much higher fraction of its revenue from higher income folk than do other countries.

In terms of revenue per person, the US is right in the middle, between Germany and Canada (Canada is lower).
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Looks good, this will make push/pull more easy to grasp.
Personally I pronounce it as if the 'y' didn't exist.

It's definitely an issue though. I didn't have this tool available when I came up with the name!
+1 I usually change my settings to do this anyway.
It is not just about high discharge. In return you also get fast recharge. Something that can suck in a large chunk of power, hold it for a short time, and then dump it out again rather quickly has certain advantages. Consider the energy storage system for regenerative braking, for example, which needs to absorb a lot of energy quickly -- the trick is then figuring out what to discharge it into, starting a vehicle rolling is the prime candidate but there may be other uses of an intermediate storage device like this.

In most cases I think that this will not displace Li-ion but would instead augment the existing battery setup.
Nothing prevents the shareholders from taking the dividend and investing it in cold fusion or flying cars. Then you don't even need to take a vote. You just give people their money and they decide what to do with it.
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aka "I'm just temporarily poor, I could be a millionaire in a few years"

It can happen, like the amazing story of Spanx, but no-one ever sees the exception as an actual exception to the rule.
Everyone here is missing the real goal of this dividend: removing uncertainty;

In much the same way that the stock was held back while Steve was alive because there was so much uncertainty about his health, but since his death the stock has been on a $200+ rampage. There's been speculation about what Apple might do with it's cash hoard for so long and the uncertainty has always been weighing on some investor's minds. By actually doing something with some of it, they've laid a path and removed the uncertainty.

Investor psychology is a really crazy thing.
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But, to viggity's point, what does the rate of increase of the average income of the top 1% of earners have to do with people who aren't in the top 1% of earners? If you agree that it isn't a zero-sum game, how does one party being better off imply that some other party is worse off?
A friend of mine just mentioned http://startram.com/ to me this weekend; apparently sending something into orbit from a ground-mounted rail gun is possible in certain parts of the world. They also propose magnetically levitating the end of the railgun by a few thousand more meters for a later version that can use lower G-forces. Last year I did some calculations about mounting the railgun on a dirigible: http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-tol/2011-August/...

The usual way to power railguns (or particle accelerators) is with giant high-voltage capacitors, which can discharge their energy very quickly. I forget the term of art used for this particular kind of capacitor, unfortunately. Startram suggests using superconducting magnetic energy storage, which has apparently become practical recently; and giant homopolar generators with flywheels are another (low-voltage) alternative.
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Different Bill Gates. The income tax advocate is Bill Gates Sr., the father of Bill Gates the software magnate.
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I agree with this. We have been able to absorb displaced workers because the economy had been growing at a rate higher than natural growth (population/inflation). But the us economy has matured, it is no longer growing dramatically as it once was. While some technological advancements can create new markets and growth for the economy; Many technologies are designed to address inefficiencies in the market or business processes which will ultimately result in a net decrease in employment.

Also, technology is also a poor business decision if it costs more than existing methods taking into account increases in productivity.
So we basically use the runtime for three things: (a) the task system, which features lightweight threads like Go or Erlang; (b) stack checks and growth; (c) garbage collection. We used to use it for more, but lately more and more stuff has been moved out of the runtime to be written in Rust itself.

I'd like to see a "runtime-less Rust" myself, because it'd be great if we could implement the Rust runtime in Rust. This might be useful for other things too, such as drivers or libraries to be embedded into other software. (The latter is obviously of interest to us at Mozilla.) Rust programs compiled in this mode would disable the task system, would be vulnerable to stack overflow (although we might be able to mitigate that with guard pages), and would require extra work to avoid leaks, but would be able to run without a runtime.

If anyone is interested in this project, I'd be happy to talk more about it -- we have a ton of stuff on our plate at the moment, so we aren't working on it right now, but I'd be thrilled if anyone was interested and could help.
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One of the articles states Draw Something started as a web app, and wasn't that popular until it went mobile. Important lesson.
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It turns out that the "really high" part of getting things into orbit is actually considerably easier than the "really fast" part. Getting a rocket out of the atmosphere is one thing, but getting it to miss the entire Earth when it falls back down, which is what "orbit" means, is something else entirely.
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> I believe religion in general does aid in providing some sense of moral compass.

Moral compass in its simplest form. 'Thou shall not murder' - I'm not sure there is an argument in terms of "right v wrong"

> crucial in the abolishment

Perhaps a Western view, but looking at the countries who lead the charge, they were strongly influenced by 'the church'

> Sources

Thank you.

I only had a few minutes to quickly skim thru the articles but found a lot on inconclusive data in the studies. Comments below my article:

1) "pretty non-religious" does not equate to atheism

2) Atheism seems to represent non-JudeoChristian, non-Muslim. The countries that are mentioned here aren't exactly 'athiest'.

Wikipedia suggest, "84% to 96% of Japanese adhere to Shinto and Buddhism"

Norway - Norse Paganism

Germany - 55M between Christianity and Muslim

Dutch - Christianity still dominant, 39% being religiously affiliated

Brits - is there a question here?

3) Comparison of crime statistics between Czech Republic and United States offers very little to support the argument. The USA has a plethora of issues driving higher crime rates than solely religion.

4) Could have some merit but 'belief in God' does not necessarily translate to 'Religious'
Yes, different rates of taxation and government benefits absolutely mean that Sweden, say, comes off a lot better vs. the US than this graph would suggest. To my mind that's a good reason to look at consumption inequality rather than income inequality.

Just a note on terminology, though. Whether a tax code is progressive usually refers to the shape of the income/taxes graph, rather than its absolute level. If you just look at that then (including VAT and social security etc) US federal taxes are a bit more progressive than in Sweden, though I believe that if you add the (usually regressive) state taxes Sweden comes out ahead with respect to most US states. But Sweden's overall rates are higher than in the US, and it spends more of its money on helping people instead of the military, so Swedish taxes do do more to reduce inequality than taxes in the US.
Awesome I'd like to hear more. You can contact me at jlccc81@gmail.com (new email address set up for HN... trying to maintain anonymity for this thread).
> most of the people in the Red Army were atheists.

Orthogonal. The Red Army, nor Nazis used their atheism as a "guiding light" or a
tool to get people to do what they wanted – they used military force.

> They instead developed new rituals and mythology to serve the same purpose.

Yes. It's called a religion.

> Gods are not needed to make people kill people.

God and religion aren't the same. Scraping religion doesn't remove the possibility
of a god, or the belief in one.
Personally, I would recommend moving to a country where you don't have to worry about such fears. Any non-US first world country will do.
There's nothing "immediately obvious" to that Haskell signature at all. You need to understand the [] syntax for list typing. You need to understand that the language defintion has a built-in notion of "list". You need to understand the idea of functions having types themselves (a huge hurdle if you're new to functional languages). And you need to understand that weird "Ord" decorator gadget and that it means the types can be compared. Basically, you can't understand that line noise at all unless you know Haskell. Duh.

Likewise, if you're truly confused about C++ STL iterators you're just waving your own ignorance around. They're a simple concept pervasively applied in the library. No experienced programmer is going to be confused by that function declaration.

Look, very good cases can be made for functional languages. But this is just surface-level stuff that frankly isn't going to help anyone. Expressing a sort simply isn't a complicated thing in C++ or Haskell and trying to claim otherwise is just dumb.
Some methods of wealth creation are positive sum games, like a free market trade between two parties that enriches both. Some are negative sum, like "rent seeking" behaviors.

The problem is that the positive sum creators (e.g. Warren Buffet) aren't as many as the negative sum players (e.g. George Soros).
I built fetchful.com a while ago which is an attempt at this (as well as generating preview text). After a lot of testing, and a few hundred thousand generated previews, it can be quite hard to get consistent results for thumbnail, it obviously is very simple if developers plan for this and use appropriate metadata tags for their content.
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I don't think this hits their warchest at all. The # I heard on NPR this morning was about 2.5B/Quarter, but their profit is about 13B/quarter. Even with a 10B stock buyback plan, that's not quite a quarter of profits. Disregarding the buyback, they should still be adding to their warchest. I believe it's only when they announce a special, one-time type of dividend that it signals they don't think they will have anything to do with the money. For example, Ford basically did that a few years ago (although in retrospect 10B in electric research or something might have been wiser).
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Well put, I think that Apple has been working on this for months and they have a pretty good idea of what they're doing. They have worked out a very conservative amount of money to give back, and still have plenty to keep in the warchest for any R&D or M&A. With $55 billion around, they could outbid Microsoft on any acquisitions that they want (I think MSFT has close to $40 in their chest, but don't quote me on that). And before you mention that Apple is not known for acquisitions, they're also not known for buy-backs and dividends; Tim Cook might be shaking things up how Apple is doing this from a business perspective
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> Pixar didn't enjoy iPhone-like profitability.

Personally, I'd say Pixar seems to be the Apple of the movie industry. A few products, done right, and hugely profitable:

> As of February 2012, its films have made over $7 billion worldwide, with its $602 million average gross by far the highest of any studio in the industry. In addition all the films produced by Pixar are among the fifty highest grossing animated films of all time, with Finding Nemo (#26), Up (#43) and Toy Story 3 (#7) all in the top 50 list of highest-grossing films of all time. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixar

> My point is that (1) no, they really can't product another iPhone-like hit (that's a once-a-generation thing)

They've already put out three in a generation - iPod, iPhone, and iPad. Lumping those three distinct systems into one is intellectually dishonest.
+1 from me. I don't actually benefit from the new behavour much more than the current behaviour (my personal usage pattern results in me wanting to always push all branches), but it logically makes much more sense.

As noted elsewhere, it's good to see the folks at git are willing to make breaking changes for the greater good.
I'm not sure how you could make social bookmarking different enough from existing products to be interesting and useful. One idea would be to have topics to which people suggest links; no one person owns any board or topic. That means that if I want any information about chairs I go to the chairs topic, and there they all are. i don't have to follow eight different people who have a chairs board and who may be posting similar links. Add in some kind of voting and you then have a directory of trusted (but, obviously, it's exploitable) links.

Calendars and diaries could be made useful. There are a huge number of very similar calendaring / diary softwares, and they all have similar limited functionality. I'd want something that made it really really easy to add stuff to; when someone emails me I want to be able to select and right-click some text and have that parsed and added to a calendar. I don't need to break my days into 15 minute segments. I want to be able to view the next week, or month, or whatever, per page.
Downvote for a boatload of unsupported assertions. Extraordinary claims require proof.
What's the point of a MacBook Air that's x86-incompatible? Unless they abandon x86 they'd either need to emulate it or fragment their product line, neither of which is an appealing option.
Although git-push's behaviour never bothered me, I feel I must support this since it would set a good precedent.
In a comment above, I mentioned the nature of these references at being weak at best. There is an inherit problem with sourcing this kind of data and/or being the "front man" for it for obvious reasons.

The very nature of having a large group of people thinking the same way, executing their lives in a way pre-determined is a very bad thing. You can label it however you wish. An atheist is basically someone who has identified what they are not. When you talk about "pretty non-religious", you're talking about unlabelled or not completely adherent atheism. That's still a great thing. Nothing wrong with believing in some thing as long as someone else didn't tell you to.

The argument "It's good that a large group of people believe in a single ideology and adhere their life to it" will never have wings among intellectuals. Now, if you take that argument and apply it, you won't go far down the road when you'll invariably have to talk about religion. Do you excuse it? Or accept that it is one of those groups?

Excusing it is callous and hypocritical.
Link on how the demo is created is here http://www.webdigi.co.uk/blog/2012/using-an-ios-device-to-co...
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when I first started using git this is what I thought the behavior was. it took a little while to work out what it was actually doing.
Echoing parent, in different words:

English is left-to-right. (And gravity is down.)

Is the slash "leaning forward" or is it "leaning backward".
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Hopefully this is just the beginning of the Git project attacking usability problems with the command line client.
There's GoCardless (https://gocardless.com), currently UK only, but their FAQ says they're planning a European rollout by mid-2012.
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Yes, and no. Android is also known to appeal to more technically inclined people, as opposite to iOS/BB/W7.

http://www.theesa.com/facts/index.asp
Apple didn't exactly stuff that $45 billion into mattresses or anything, it was already "in the economy". Large corporations keep cash invested in securities.
Market options are sometimes adjusted for exceptional dividends, but I don't know about employee options.
There are significant similarities between DuQu and Stuxnet, agreed. However, I don't think that necessarily means they share the same author. Stuxnet has been widely distributed and analysed. There are a lot of smart people/groups in this world and one of them could have decided to use it as a starting point for other purposes. I also agree that it isn't alarmist to believe Stuxnet had a national interest behind it, there has been significant research and evidence to support that, but that is Stuxnet, not DuQu. Again, since DuQu came after Stuxnet it is quite possible that another group is responsible for DuQu that is not related to the original. Although, I do also think that being wary of DuQu until more information is uncovered is wise. I just don't like how the comment about it being created by a nation state is thrown in there casually as if it were already an accepted fact when it is not.
1/2 of a nice article.

Anyone here hire management consultants? Here are the issues that I've found:

1. Sometimes they are hired to solve a problem. For this case, they do not have to live with the mistakes that they made which arise after they're gone.

2. Sometimes they're hired for political cover. When they recommend tough medicine, the existing management team thinks they have confirmation about tough decisions, or worse, lessened guilt. Run, do not walk, from such teams.

I'm trying to think of a third reason why they get hired, and can't come up with one.
Because it's a moronic statement. The US military budget is 0.8 trillion dollars a year. As programmers we should know that no other budget items need be considered until this one is brought down drastically.
> I've always felt the better question is "Why is the UNIX path character "/"?

Just a guess, but it's probably because \ is used for character escapes in C (and the Bourne shell). Given that the history of Unix is inextricably tied to C, it kind of makes sense to use / over \ so you don't have to do lots of \\ to escape path names.
+1 I have this set in my global config. push.default=matching can have unintended consequences when doing push -f.
No - leave as-is (push.default=matching)
Yes - change to 'upstream'
Yes - change to 'current'
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THIS IS TERRIBLE.

Toyota is a huge company with serious technical and process chops and it wasn't out of the realm of possibility that they had done something interesting with C++.

Instead, one fucking dumb joke?

I'm sorry if I missed something awesome here but can someone please edit the title on this? "Car company uses obscure pun to sell cars" would do.
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Hm ... I thought the model was really called the C plus plus, but that seems to be just a sub-page. There's also http://www.toyota.ca/toyota/en/vehicles/prius-c/features-ben... playing on "C sharp". Weird. Are they trying to target programmers?
+1 ... The title totally confused me. I use Tesseract already, and it's a popular OCR project.