skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right but up to this point the "power users" who use Twitter on a daily basis haven't thought twice about possibly being forced off the platform.
http://www.hackerdojo.com/About
really worth-reading research
> What's up with the official Go binaries being incompatible with RHEL 5? I might have another look in about a decade or so.

Go runs on RHEL 5.2 and above (released in May 2008, and there have been 7 further point releases since). If you REALLY want to run it on 5.1 and have gcc then you can build your own Go tool chain in about 2 minutes.

Your whole post is FUD. You don't know anything about Go yet offer a negative assessment. Why bother?
thanks for the explanation, I liked your example :)
And now the circle is complete. We have advice about advice about entrepreneurialism.
Well I was thinking more towards the possibility of them entirely discontinuing third party apps.
"I want Sandy" was the biggest one I remember. The company closed/was acquired by Twitter (https://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy/topics/a_fork_in_the_...)
Congratulations! Writing a book is insanely hard.
I think this is the first time in my life I laughed out loud at "Error establishing a database connection".
Every Thursday I'll work for free
Full Show 7/10/12: Voting Rights for All
If that's the democratically decided priority and it can be achieved without cutting other budgets, raising taxes or running a deficit, then that's a good thing.

Conversely, fighting a bloated military by wasting money on IT boondoggles is not a strategy with a whole lot of long term potential IMO.
I see what you're saying here, but I think you are exactly wrong. There are a large number of people who target others specifically because they are women, and I think it directly results in women being under-represented in some significant portions of the internet/tech world.
Of course you're right, but surely there's a balance to be found between delaying the launch of this product vs. maximizing profits. If the company involved is more interested in money they'll tend to err towards delaying release, if they're more interested in the impact of their product they'll tend to release sooner. Clearly, at a societal level, we'd prefer to have this product sooner, so we have to constantly question the leverage that patents afford large corporations and question their methods and motives.
UN 'reliant on private security firms'
Just visually gets in the way? Or actually causes an issue?
I'm interested to see how this turns out if you pursue it. We actually applied to this past YC with a very similar concept. We got rejected, and were later convinced by a former YC founder that it was too much of a big change for most email users, so we pivoted.
I am one of the Directors. Hacker Dojo is a non-profit community center--a hacker space. It has a Board of Directors to keep the lights on and the IRS happy, and its members vote on operating policies. The Dojo is currently running a campaign to raise money for expansion. Part of the money has already been raised. We are located in the same neighborhood as Y Combinator's HQ, but are unrelated.
well, i don't really know.
It might be interesting if they use some of the over-target kickstarter money to fund some indie titles themselves.
I love my friends, but I don't take purchasing cues from them, and certainly not because they 'like' it on Facebook.

Sure, there are edge cases. But generally, 99.999% of the time I don't want product updates from companies whose products I use.
It's an alternative spelling. Language drifts, and we can't stop it.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cancelation
I predict it will end up just like every other "successful" petition on whitehouse.gov:

"We hear you, but you're wrong and we aren't going to change a damn thing."
Total employee cost is much greater than just salary.
I agree that code evaluation is a valuable feature in the language. But to be accurate, I wouldn't call CoffeeScript an entirely evaluated language, since it's mainly meant to be used by pre-compiling it to JS. (From CoffeeScript website: "While it's not recommended for serious use, CoffeeScripts may be included directly within the browser") Anyway the ability to eval code on the browser is awesome for trying it out or for building an IDE.
You describe the situation well up to the point that it blew up the economy. But what happens after the crisis is a different matter. Anyone with any sense can see that the "it's so complicated none of you can possibly understand it" defense hasn't a leg to stand on after it led to catastrophic failure. Regardless of whether one bought that before, financial engineering forfeited its right to call the shots when disaster struck. Yet there has been no fundamental reform, something that is easily explained by Durbin's remark, so I believe Occam is with me here.

There's close to a consensus among the sources I read (Simon Johnson, Nouriel Roubini, Martin Wolf, William K. Black and other apparently credible experts, as well as the usual muckrakers) that political influence is the reason why, for example, the too-big-to-fail banks are bigger than ever despite the systemic risk. Ron Suskind's book even claims that Obama ordered Geithner to wind down Citi and Geithner just ignored him.

It's not as if there weren't major players advocating for such radical ideas as "bondholders should take losses when an institution fails" (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/magazine/sheila-bairs-exit...). They just lost politically. No?
Having worked at a company that's top 20 in the Fortune500 and having a good friend who does government contract work... you have absolutely no clue about what you're talking about in terms of the relative amount of waste exercised by government vs corporate entities.

The fundamental reason why there's such a difference in efficiency between private efforts and government ones is this:

Private companies that are horrible at managing efficiency go out of business. People in private companies who are horrible at managing efficiency lose their jobs.

Government agencies that are horrible at managing efficiency get bigger budgets. Government employees who are horrible at managing efficiency rarely lose their jobs. The GSA scandal is the only one in recent history that has received any kind of real attention; and that's only because the idiots at the GSA made videos the went viral.
It may be 18 months in the RAM world but in memresistor world it is as long as you like and still holding the 18 months value :).

That all said you are right and sadly come 2014 it will still not be available for your PC to replace your RAM as it will take that long again to define a standard and then that time again to have chipsets that support said standard.

So for a consumer PC, i'd say 2017 is when you can look at replacing your RAM and by that time PC's will probably be reduced to devices were you can't change the RAM and as such you wont know what you have got inside. But who knows for sure and if they do then they would proabably get done for insider share dealing just by telling people.

Only think we know for sure is the here and now and that any dat that has no product release date set in stone is a date that has not had the engineering factor of x2 and is a marketing factor of x.5. IE Engineers double the amount of time it will realy take and markting will half the amount of time it will realy take. Even then Engineers thesedays need to realy use x3.

Still - once we see a prototype working in a form factor we can identify with and running windows or a comercial OS of any form, then and only then can we feel that it will be available within 2 years. Anything else is pure marketing by people who will be working elsewere in years time.

Though I would love to be proved wrong on this, truely.
You're operating from a premise that misunderstands the nature of money in a market. Money is just a measure of value, a metric of human endeavor, and so it's traded on that basis. Publicly traded for-profit corporations have a fiduciary duty to maximize shareholder value. It only happens that we measure value in, say, Dollars or Yen. We could measure it in ounces of gold or bushels of oranges. For-profit companies transcend currency, and could exist in a barter economy.

So it's not that money (as used to mean currency) is a defining characteristic of for-profit business, it's that value is. If a for-profit business existed to "maximize shareholder value in terms of cows", they would try to maximize shareholder NPV as measured in cows. The reason that for-profit companies exist is because the economics-theoretic ideal point for production in an economy (the point that benefits all consumers the most) is at supply-demand equilibrium, which is where profits are maximized for an individual company. The fact that there are non-profit companies is simply indicative of market inefficiency--in a "perfect" market, all companies would be for-profit. That doesn't mean that nonprofits shouldn't exist right now; in fact, it means that they have to.

So let's change "money" to "value" to be more specific. And then yes, value is indeed a defining characteristic of business, no matter how you measure it: currency accumulated via industry, children vaccinated, or political points spread. That's because humans tend to take action to maximize what they value most, humanitarian or self-serving, and business is the systematic application of human action.
I don't know who went crazy first - tech support or these fellows. But it was interesting to read, for which I thank them.
Yes, best practises were more what I was looking for especially since I'm a noob at gamedev. Having lots of code samples does help to address that however.

One thing I noticed when comparing libGDX to XNA was that the basic game framework that you can extend from in XNA has 2 "tick" methods in it's main class, update() and render() (or something to that effect). Also the Java library "slick2D" follows this convention. This makes it simple to seperate out rendering code from logic updating code.

LibGDX on the other hand only provides a render() method which confused me a little. Should my render() method be handling logic updates? Should it call another method that does, but check time deltas on each loop to decide whether it should run, or should game logic happen in it's own thread?
Who are you to say what people should enjoy doing in their free time? You know what's bottomlessly tedious? Doing things you wouldn't normally do simply to appear more interesting to people who don't get you.
And why is around in the first place? I can imagine a future where html5/js combo is enough to convert a set of html pages to a nice offline-supported readable format.

Same deal with MP3 vs other formats. PDF is a sort of gold standard in being able to precisely lay out text and know it'll render mostly right on most devices (even if the format/layout is wrong for those devices).

HTML5 and EPUB are getting there but vary so much between different platforms that till now (and EPUB 3 is changing this) the quality of books in those formats has been hideous production wise. Compare the typical EPUB book against the typical PDF book in terms of whitespace, layout, fonts, and how the author and publisher intended it to look.
"There’s a lot more money being spent on understanding and modeling the market than on any of the research.” - what the shit
Most of my "unit tests" are functional by your criteria, at least as far as things like file I/O and database access are concerned. Maintain a reasonable separation between UI and the rest of your code, and this remains fairly straightforward even without any tool more fancy than xUnit and a collection of SQL scripts to automatically set up your test database. I've also found it easier in many cases to maintain a single parameterized test loop along with a library of sample data and corresponding "expected results" than lots of little tests in code. This is especially true in situations where you're changing code (and adding tests) directly in response to specific inputs your system failed to handle. And you can frequently re-use the same test loop on larger collections of sample data for other sorts of testing.

More comprehensive testing including multiple servers, client user interfaces, and so on, tends to be labor intensive to set up and maintain even with good tool support, so here I suspect most of the answers boil down to time and money.
I'm waiting for someone to close the loop by complaining about the cost of FOIA compliance as a contributor to overall project cost.
The topic of this discussion is garbage collection and memory allocation. The graphs on that page show Go beating Java in memory usage in every case. I'm not sure what your point is.

Scala is a statically typed language but it must do runtime type reflection to implement some of its features on top of the JVM. That comes at a cost (and in fact we decided not to implement Go on the JVM for this exact reason). I know of a certain well-known company that uses Scala heavily and their JVM instances spend >80% of their CPU time in garbage collection.

The JVM has had a tonne of optimization done to it. The Go compilers and runtime have had barely any. There's plenty of low-hanging fruit: recent changes to the gc code generation have yielded as much as 2x speedups in certain operations.

My observation, from watching very skilled Java programmers build and deploy programs, is that garbage generation and collection latency cause serious problems. My observation of similar Go programs is that these kinds of problems don't really come up.
"Federal budget" is a multivalent term. It's more likely that 2.5 billion was .5% of discretionary spending for that year.

When you take the prior obligations of Social Security, etc. the budget gets much smaller.
Maybe I'm missing something, but wouldn't it be possible for Google to take the Q, add more of the Android experience including the full Google Marketplace, create a nice bluetooth controller for it, and completely squash this thing? They'd probably need to come down in price about 100 bucks, but I bet that's doable.
They have my snail-mail address. I won't be sad if a package arrives.
Umm, the whole point of bathroom breaks -- especially those, you know, much "longer" ones -- is that they're tremendously ineffective compared to the ruthlessly efficient standards of that absurdly hypermechanized, functionality-obsessed, and generally speaking, hopelessly hung up and inverted society "out there."

They're about quality time between you, and that one tender, capricious, profoundly sensitive ring of muscle... and nothing else.

If you can't use these short, precious, and deeply personal moments to fully and utterly detach, zone out, and get off the damned grid... then woah man, you're in trouble!
For many many years it has been. People'd get picked up fresh from college and they'd be part of the companies "family". Nowadays, especially after the financial crisis... not so much. Companies now only hire part-timers so they can fire them at will. Youth unemployment is skyrocketing as in many other countries.
I think you're misreading the quote. It says foreign aid is 1% of federal spending, only half of that is true humanitarian aid, and the country that receives the most aid, humanitarian and not combined, is Israel.
You could give Capistrano a try. Works wonders for deployments
> I was told by the Ouya official twitter account to just "develop on another Android device", which is a very shallow answer

Well, how deep of an answer were you expecting on twitter?

Instead of trying to infer what the 140 character limitation suggests, maybe email them?
Thanks so much for this. For the longest time I've found it irritating that I couldn't preview plaintext .nfo files with Quicklook.

I didn't realise Quicklook plugins were a thing...
media coverage of a non-event

There is no cultural study involved here, someone is making a series of videos where she reads tvtropes pages.

That's what I meant. You clearly don't care about this study (yes, it's a cultural study) or about its author.

Beats me how someone who doesn't care about something can be so invested on it, and I usually don't try to give advice to strangers, thing is, I'm tired of seeing people like you hijacking debates about misogyny, by completely missing the point from the top of a pedestal of "I'm beyond all this" yet injecting negativity in the discussion with a disproportionate amount of energy.

Maybe I'm projecting a way too big and way too ugly pattern on you, which might be unfair. But then, tough luck man. You're all over this thread (17 comments, you must be going for the record) basically pounding the same key.

If you want me to post less, why did you also directly ask me questions?

You might find it liberating to not reply to every reply, even if they contain critiques and/or question marks.
I think that money might be better spent producing a very solid and simple game development framework or engine to help encourage developers onto this platform.

It would also be nice to encourage a culture of developers providing tools for their games (level editors etc) so that games could get large re playability on this console vs XboX where you are mostly restricted to pay-for commercial DLC.
Happy to answer any questions anyone may have here. I am on the team building storyteller :-)
I'd love to chat with you some time if you're available. Just to pick your brain, and see what advice you received.
>What I don't understand is why isn't Google TV more like this and for that matter Apple TV as well?

Yup. Apple just doesn't seem interested in 'lowering' itself to selling anything that might be considered a game console.

But Google? They spent how much effort trying to shove Google TV down everyone's throat. I bet they are kicking themselves they didn't launch a Google Play console instead that was just like this. It could have done most of the things that Google TV did ANYWAY.
NYTimes paywall cost $40m. Heard bank software refactor can easily exceed 100m and take many years. I've personally seen 25m project fail and the code thrown away. Its not uncommon especially when you have 3 to 4 "support" people per developer especially when dealing with a bunch of stake holders aka executives with fragile egos.
well, so did i. Irritation is the root of all hacks :)
Joseph Lenton was sick of PHP error reporting, so he built this
Well if you have standing, take them back into court (you know, the place where the government is actually willing to listen to you). Petitions are meaningless.
It shouldn't cost more than $0.50 when you're building millions of units monthly overseas. This group is obviously not there yet. Do you understand the economies of scale and geography at work here?
I think any serious audiophile would just get their own better sound amp anyway and most people won't care enough as long as their speakers are loud.
Is this yet more proof that Google doesn't understand open source licensing?
On the other hand if you join a startup in the EU vs. the US, you're nor forfeiting a health plan, and even if the startup goes bust you have the social welfare system to ensure it doesn't put you on the streets.

So I imagine it hinders people from creating startups, but at the same time it helps hire people into them.
Yes, it can, actually. Rendering graphics is slow. AI is slow. Doing either one of them inefficiently punishes the other.

AI code can easily eat any free cycles you want to give it: you can always crank up your pathfinding distance or the number of turns your AI looks ahead.

The problem space of a roguelike is massively larger than chess and that can certainly keep a supercomputer busy.
Xabber Android Jabber client open sourced if Xabber_XMPP gets 50k followers
I agree with what you're saying, but I'd also be remiss if I didn't quibble with this bit:

> For code evaluation I only have to direct you to the creation
> of Coffeescript (an entirely evaluated language) whose
> innovations have directly influenced new versions of the
> ECMAScript language.

The standard way to use CoffeeScript is to compile it to JavaScript first, and then deploy and run with that. There's zero "eval()" involved. Or rather, doing direct "eval()" of CoffeeScript is possible, and on occasion fun, but is discouraged for all the usual reasons.
So you think only highly prosperous countries can afford vacation days? I believe that among western countries it's more about priorities and who is pulling the strings - if it's the regular folks who have power through their vote or the company owners, who use lobbying firms, campaign donations and control of the media to abort any legislation mandating vacation days, etc.

Western europe has used its economic prosperity to get more vacation days over the years, maternity leave, free education and other social goods. While in the US it seems to work in the exact opposite direction.

The extreme case is France, where they seem to be on constant vacation (>60 days!), get free university education, excellent free healthcare and all the good wine to the great dismay of the Chicago school economists that keep predicting its imminent collapse year after year.

Israel's history is also a counterexample, as it was very poor in its early years (1948 - 1980s) and much more socialistic than it is today. Surely Israel can afford MORE vacation days and other social benefits today than it could 40 years ago. But the trend is exactly the opposite. Unfortunately we have a US educated prime minister.

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About the magnitude of US foreign aid to Israel and its role in the economy, here are some numbers:

Total US foreign aid to Israel: about 3$ billion / year. [1]
Total israeli budget: about 100$ billion / year. [2]

Even though this is serious money, canceling the US foreign aid would not make a huge dent in Israel's budget. e.g. 3$ billion can be taxed by increasing the VAT from 16% to 18.8%. [3]

In addition to that, as someone who watched how this foreign aid budget is spent in the military, one dollar of foreign aid is worth MUCH LESS than one real dollar. Since goods must be bought from a specific purchasing catalogue, and this catalogue is both limited and has highly inflated prices. e.g. more than 2500$ for a standard IBM desktop PC.

I think this follows partly from the requirement that at least 50% of the manufactured goods must be made in the US. So many products are made in China, then shipped to the US for repackaging (where their price is doubled) and then shipped back to Israel.

Note also that a large part of US foreign aid goes to purchasing very expensive fighter jets (F-15, F-16) and spare parts. A hugely important goal of the Israeli air force is to have more F-16 planes than the egyptians have. But the Egyptians also get their aircraft from US foreign aid. My interpretation of this state of affairs is that main reason congress is backing both sides of this arms race is in order to take taxpayer money and give it to the military-industrial complex.

Sources:
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93United_States_re...
[2] (sorry, hebrew only) http://budget.msh.gov.il/#00,2012,0,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0
[3] http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4234752,00.html