skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This guy needs to come out to himself as a theist

The guy has his doubts about science explaining everything, and he's now a 'them?' Is that how this works?
Well, we already know DRM is a pointless expense, look at all the piracy it is stopping, according to ubisoft no less.

But i think this could easily just be seen as users using piracy to try-before-you-buy.. and that most users might not like your game?

I strongly doubt 95% of users who play a significant amount of game X are pirates.
Barclays extends P2P money service to international payments
I cannot understand the responses from people here and on reddit stating that the figure is totally made up and it can't be that much. reddit specifically is filled with people who are proud of how they pirate all ubisoft games because of the "terrible DRM". Indie games that have no DRM and great prices[1] have reported very high piracy rates, published games that have no DRM and very high ratings also have bad piracy rates[2].

Most people seem to suggest that piracy is a result of having a crappy product and the only way to stop piracy is to improve their product, so surely making their product free (therefore removing any need to pirate) solves exactly this? Why aren't people applauding Ubisoft for adapting their business and products to their audience (people that want to play games but don't want to pay -- and those that do want to pay, can)?

It seems most people on the internet want to think that

A] Piracy is not a problem
B] DRM causes piracy
C] If you have no DRM then your game will sell well
D] Free to play is a terrible dis-service to gamers

I don't understand what gamers want from companies like Ubisoft?

[1] http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2008/11/acrying-shame-world-of...

[2] http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/11/29/interview-cd-projekts-ceo-...
>(partition-by #(> % 60) [49 58 76 82 88 90])

Yeah, a less noisy way to do it in Clojure would be

(partition-by (partial < 60) [49 58 76 82 88 90])
You realize that much of what you have to say in this is based on a leap of faith. You've limited your view to what you can learn from only your 5 senses and that nothing else exists.

If anything science DENIES that as a truth with the discovery of the non-visual light spectrum. Much of science denies exactly what you claim.

Science is a model to explain data and experience, while predicting what can happen. There are many theories, many of which change. A thesis (or leap of faith) is examined and DISproven. They are never proven to be 100% true.

Math has proofs, not science.

So please understand that it is important to realize that there is ALWAYS another explanation for something. You are irrational in your defense of Science.

I do not know that there is a God. I think people who claim such things are fools as you said. I have faith that there is one. It is a thesis of mine and as of right now there is no disproof.

To have doubt is to be logical :-)
As an embodied cognition guy, I disagree here pretty strongly. Gestures are a powerful form of communication - consider deaf signers, scuba divers, even in time sensitive operations like military and sports. Gestures likely have a deeper evolutionary history than spoken language too. They are intuitive. Babies mimic long before they speak or manipulate.
The website was showing a 404. It works now...
Microsoft says don't use PPTP and MS-CHAP
I'm in love with this idea, pretty neat and functional.
Google ordered to disclose all paid commenters
Yep, as your typical weekend hacker I was completely oblivious to the real torrent that is the HN front page.

The awesome guys at http://www.nodejitsu.com/ are helping me weather the storm. Alas it seems to be my backend code that just isn't cutting it!

Would love for some helpful hackers to point me in the right direction (https://github.com/filearts/plunker).
well, Unity already runs on iOS and android; having coverage of all major platforms is hardly a bad move.
For those who wish to see the non-minified source:

The code has not been minified, except perhaps for the replacement of the (carriage return+indent) by semi-columns. Most variable names are semantic.

For sure, the 16 LoC thing is misleading, but the whole thing weights around 3.5 KB, which is impressive for the amount of functionality packed in it.

Let's take the first two lines:

[J,M,duc,euc,n,e,w]=[JSON,Math,decodeURIComponent,encodeURIComponent,((p)->p.replace(/\/*$/,'').replace /^\/?/,'/'),((d,s)->d[k]=(if d[k]instanceof Array then d[k].concat v else v)for k,v of s;d),(s,c)->s.split(/\s+/).map c]
[http,url,qs,fs,async,WS,E,haml,ejs,mime]=w 'http url querystring fs async faye-websocket vault/node/aes haml ejs mime',require

For iOS readers, you can scroll the code box using two fingers.

So:

[J,M,duc,euc]=[JSON,Math,decodeURIComponent,encodeURIComponent]

is quite obvious. So is the second line except perhaps for the use of the w function. It splits the input string on spaces in an array and maps the callback passed as second argument (in this case, require, if you didn't scroll til the end of the line). We'll come to its meaning later.

n = (p)->p.replace(/\/*$/,'').replace /^\/?/,'/'
# normalize?(path??) not sure about his one.
# p is also used elsewhere as a generic name.

e = (d,s)->d[k]=(if d[k]instanceof Array then d[k].concat v else v)for k,v of s;d)
# extend(destination, source)
# k and v are obviously key and value.

w = (s,c)->s.split(/\s+/).map c]
# w(string, callback)

In Ruby, w%foo bar baz% is a shortcut for creating an array of strings ["foo","bar","baz"]. The w method here is enhanced version of this, and a nod to _why, who often used it to require a bunch of libraries at the top of his scripts. See for example https://github.com/camping/camping/blob/ddea5760289a4de3c270...

For those who don't know about him, _why is the author of Camping, the grand-father of golf Web microframeworks. The current version doesn't use the w trick anymore because the reduction of dependencies made the normal method shorter. Here's the code (possibly NSFL for some...):

https://github.com/camping/camping/blob/master/lib/camping.r...

and its heavily commented (but as terse, codewise) version:

https://github.com/camping/camping/blob/master/lib/camping-u...

Camping used to be the go to ruby microframework until _why's disappearance. Then dev stalled for a while and Sinatra took its place. It has since been revamped and is actively maintained.

Neither Camping nor Berliner are meant for professional use, obviously.
Has any consideration been given to making sure the AGI is designed and built to have goals that won't lead it to improve its intelligence vastly beyond human levels, and then do something very bad to humanity? Like, say, use the atoms that make up our bodies to make more processors to increase its computational capacity.
Starbucks using pay-by-name will be a breakthrough, assuming that's where the Square partnership is going. Since Starbucks is already asking for your name when you order coffee, it could turn into a great customer experience that would build broad momentum for pay-by-name.

Is this PayPal agreement just adding a new and more complicated option to the existing terminal base? Will retail clerks even know what it is, and will there be any reason for a consumer to migrate from credit card use?
Introduction to PostgreSQL as Object-Relational Database Management System
A graphical explanation of how to determine sample size of your A/B test
Okay everybody - time to change your pitch decks.
It's an estimate with a solid base: http://2dboy.com/2008/11/13/90/
I was hoping for the same thing. It'd be nice to see some good FLOSS fonts in the stacks.
http://elite.so/tpp/proxy.txt URL used by the script to get the IP.
For two months the regular mayor, Sufian Shadid, and his team of councillors have handed the reins of power to a group of teenagers. The adults are on hand to advise and guide, but the decisions are made by the youngsters.

What a great program! I wish the US had a similar program in place since it would expose more people to the nuances of civil government and possibly raise the level of civil discourse above "Taxes BAD!"

Of course, on the other hand, Palestine kind of has a "toy" government anyway due to the occupation (they don't have control of their borders or land or citizen movement, Israel won't release tax revenue the PA has collected, etc), so the effects of this experiment failing could have less of an impact than if it were to fail in other countries.
I'm disappointed that this is mostly a joke. I really like the docs and have been looking for something along these lines lately.
This is pretty neat, but it's not something I would enter my CC details for and pay for each month. I would however drop a one time ~$25 fee and self host it on my own server, and maybe use it. At least this way, I will see it running on my server and periodically update it.

I'm just one person of many, but when I see neat little apps like this I would always much rather pay for it outright than pay for it each month. I don't know why more people don't sell cool services like this. Chances are I am going to just cancel it after a month anyway.
You could also get a T-Mobile Monthly 4G for $30
Mathematically, the only values for the other box are $5 and $25. Lol
They look fine to me and it also look good written in Perl :)

use List::Util qw(sum max min);

# 1
map { $_ * 2 } 1..10;

# 2
sum 1..1000;

# 3
my @wordlist = ("scala", "akka", "play framework", "sbt", "typesafe");
my $tweet = "This is an example tweet talking about scala and sbt.";
grep { $tweet =~ m/\b$_\b/ } @wordlist;

# 4
my $file_text = do { local $/ = undef; open my $fh, '<', 'data.txt'; <$fh> };
chomp( my @file_lines = do { open my $fh, '<', 'data.txt'; <$fh> } );

# 5
say "Happy Birthday " . ($_ == 3 ? "dear Barry" : "to You") for 1..4;

# 6
my ($passed, $failed) = do {
my @p; \@p, [map { $_ > 60 ? push(@p, $_) && () : $_ } (49,58,76,82,88,90)]
};

# 8
min(14, 35, -7, 46, 98);
max(14, 35, -7, 46, 98);
Your age on other worlds
Very nice! I know you said it's for non 9-5 work but if you added a 'jobs' category on there too, for me to show past work experience, I would definitely use this.
AT&T: FaceTime is Preloaded so We can Limit 3G Access
Already the idea to explain a self-explaining comic was giving me clues about what I would read here. Wasn't disappointed. If one thing of something is bad, it becomes good if you throw 2 of that at your users. Sounds like a solution.

And the comic is also explained now. Thanks.
I'd have to say that they are different sorts of food. Science is a food for your brain. It stimulates you and helps you to doubt everything.

Religion is a food for your "soul" or inner well being. It is meant to make you into a better person and to help you enjoy this life in a different way.

Our brain needs both types of stimulation. Some of us get stimulation by proving our theories.

The religous get stimulation by thinking about abstract concepts that have no solution. You can consider it like a game, the better you play the "happier" you will be.

I'll admit that religion does not work for everyone. For some it tastes like garbage and gives no nourishment, I can see why you'd view it as a pacifier in that way.

To others it helps them to cope with being on a rock, flying through space. It helps me in that way. In this case I say to each his own, I prefer to separate science and religion and get my nourishment from them both in equal parts.
"Precisely because believing is lot easier than thinking"

It took me 20+ years of being a skeptic to realize this. I remember on a SGU podcast there was a politician who refused to believe in evolution and was trying to get creationism back into schools. When he was asked why he didn't believe in evolution his response was "I just don't understand it. Creationism makes sense". It dawned on me it had nothing to do with any rational argument this guy put together, he just didn't like feeling there was a topic he didn't understand. While he understood creationism just fine, evolution came along with a heavy array of questions that he was not ready to deal with. I've had a discussion with someone who after a death in the family responded to the question of "Why do you believe in an afterlife" with the answer of "I'm not ready to deal with the fact it doesn't". People like easy answers, not going to the moon makes a hell of a lot more sense than we did. The fact that 'natural' or 'organic' are words that do not simply mean 'good' but also come with a heavy array of questions are just things some people can't be bothered dealing with.
Religion as an institution, or religion's effect on each person?

Separate the culture from the spirituality. Most people never do, and suffer greatly for it. I am almost certain you're arguing against the anti-intellectualism of American religious culture, and I find them to be a harmful, misguided force. But they do not constitute the whole of the religious experience; in fact, I believe they only partake in a truncated form of it because they exclude certain types of knowledge.

I ask you to consider the fact that there are counter examples to your assertion, even if they are harder to see. I wouldn't think you'd be happy with half-truths (especially those that seek to demonize).
I am the founder of Architexa, and have been pushing to make this happen for a bit.

I am glad to have made this happen.

Let me know if you have any questions.
Quite. It's not faith. It's not even close. It's the temporary granting of a small amount of trust that the theoretical physicist hasn't cocked up somewhere.
I've never been able to even book a plane ticket more than a week in advance, because plans always changed.

Fix that if you can.

From your comments on this thread, I get the sense that you've let your business get out of control a bit. You think that it's all normal and part of the deal because it's all you know. But lots of people here are trying to tell you it's not.

If you can't mold the business you created yourself to fit the pattern you want, that's a big red flag. Now, it's likely that the pattern you want actually is to be occupied 24/7 and pour your whole life into your thing, in which case you've succeeded.

But know that it doesn't need to be that way. It's entirely your choice.
The movie Requiem for a Dream is, to me, a perfect example of a high quality movie that I will not watch twice.

The acting, directing, cinematography, pacing, and sound design are all excellent. However, the film is such a grueling emotional experience, I don't foresee myself sitting down with it again.

Contrast that to, say, Airplane. It's a good movie. Funny. If I'm bored in a hotel room, I'll watch it again. However, it is emphatically not a "great film."
There's Clear Internet http://www.clear.com/ but I've heard mixed reviews.

4G for home/office is at http://www.clear.com/devices/hubs
The Next IT Killer Is… Not SDN
Kudos to the tech team!
Yeah, I only use PayPal for overseas transactions as well. I don't trust PayPal, but I trust overseas businesses less and sometimes its the only way to make a transaction.
I think it's for people who are less enthusiastic about the "/yr" part.
How about a one-time fee? Think outside the box ;)
Sorry, wasn't able to find that from the original link. I take back my last comment.

I guess it boils down to how many of those pirates you think were ever potential customers. Assuming piracy was theoretically impossible, how many would've purchased it rather than not play at all?
>f I had a iPhone jack in my car, I would listen to my iPhone's music. If I had an iPhone receiver in my garage, I'd listen to my iPhone's music. If I had an iPhone receiver in my office, I'd listen to my iPhone's music.
I don't, so I listen to radio and deal with the ads because there's nothing Apple can help me with on that front.

You know that all of those "problems" are solved with like $50, right?
How does a VC "give away a 'co-founder' title"? Investors don't set titles.
Do you not consider reddit a win for YC?
One often hears the argument that science never can give a why, and only religion/philosophy can give that. In my opinion, this is simply not true. In this case, the Higgs mechanism explains, in some sense, why particles have mass (N.B., most of the mass you interact with is not generated by the Higgs, but by the dynamic generation of mass inside the nuclei). Of course, the next question is: where does this field come from, etc. etc.

But the same you could do in religion. God created the universe. Fine. But where did God come from? And why? The only way religion can end this by postulating that these questions are "forbidden"/impossible.

The other thing I am always wondering about is the mental step from accepting the existence of god(s) to following their perceived wishes. Most of us prefer democracy over following a king. Still, many choose to follow the indirect words of their god.
I think you misread (or didn't read the entire article). The article states that the majority of the "branches" will live as long as humanity itself. I am currently childless and did not find this a consoling thought (quoted from the article):

"In fact about 80% of the people at that time in the past will be the ancestors of everyone in the present. The remaining 20% are those who have had no children, or whose children have had no children, and so on - in other words, people who were genetic dead-ends.
[...]
A few thousand years after that, 80% of us (those who leave children who in turn leave children, and so on) will be ancestors of all humanity. What an inheritance!"
Bootstrap Based UI for Logstash (Open Source Splunk)
PayPal recently turned off my account because I was unable to verify my address with a call to a landline ( don't have one ). I have little faith for their future. This discover partnership is something that should have been done years ago. It's too late now IMO.
It is not on the internet, so it doesn't exist?

I happen to have that bundle somewhere in my basement but won't bother to dig it up. I remember that joke-publication quite well.

Even if it's not to be found on the web, it's at least referenced by others. That's an easy find.

http://acacia.atspace.eu/papers/FeelOlder.pdf

Note that that one was published in '91, so before the article by Professor Pi.
What I'm curious about is whether or not DRM actually reduces their piracy levels.
> At the end of the day, their job will only be transforming my thoughts into code.

Technically, part of their job is transforming your thoughts into requirements, presenting options and recommendations about how to resolve problems (or even a different problem to solve), determining what's even possible (and what other possibilities are), and determining what code actually needs to be written.

Someone who is good at those parts is no more easily replaceable than a brilliant business mind with tons of contacts and much more difficult to replace than the vast majority of "ideas and thoughts" that they're working with.

For a high level software developer, "coding" is the least of the responsibilities; it's the easy part.
RobotQuest: An MMO programming game API written in Haskell and MongoDB
Sure, but science says "I learned it like this, you can learn it this way too."

Religion says "You can't know this. You can't ever know this. You just have to trust me on this."
Watson is not "built on" Hadoop. From http://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/23...:

To preprocess the corpus and create fast run-time indices we used Hadoop. UIMA annotators were easily deployed as mappers in the Hadoop map-reduce framework. Hadoop distributes the content over the cluster to afford high CPU utilization and provides convenient tools for deploying, managing, and monitoring the corpus analysis process.

The online parts of Watson use UIMA: http://uima.apache.org/
What I love about this concept is that it's a simple way to share what you have been working on without the appearance of overstating it's importance. It also allows you to update your status quickly while you find the time to write up one of those blog posts that never seem to get written.
Building an ASP.NET MVC4 Application with EF and WebAPI | Nettuts+
Calltrunk interview - Record and manage all your Skype calls
I like how the opening point is ageism. Really classy.
Fixing Hacker News: A biological approach
>Patents don't kill other products, products do. I could make a patent for a magical frosting generator cannon but until it's on the shelves in a way affordable to consumers, who cares?

Captain Obvious to the rescue.

The write of the article of course takes for given that when he talks about "a patent that could kill radio" he means "a patent that when developed into a product could kill radio".

The second part is so obvious it doesn't even need to be stated.
IBM is shutting down its research groups

That is not a true statement.
A working demo is here: http://urly.stackgeek.com/C2v. Author of Logstash is here: http://semicomplete.com.
why down voting this? I just said nice.
Author here. What do you do with a project you haven't worked on in months? I don't know if I'll ever "finish" this, but it's an interesting project regardless, so I'm putting it up anyway.

There aren't many open-source web applications/APIs written in Haskell and MongoDB, so hopefully it'll be valuable for that alone.

Note: I am a Haskell noob, but I'm proud of what I've done so far.

I'm planning on writing up some detailed blog posts. What would you like to know more about?

Server is currently live at: http://robotquest.tk
Michael Phelps Could Have Lost Medals Over Leaked Louis Vuitton Campaign
Neat but I'm not sure I'd try to push that into my resume (as suggested by the author). If anything, resumes tend to be too noisy, hard to pick out what really matters.

Nice to have a place to keep all that stuff though.
I find it hard to feel sorry for Ubisoft, really. I still enjoy playing SCCT from time to time. Due to the retarded Starforce that won't receive an update for Windows versions above XP / 2003 Server, I find myself in the odd position of using a "no-DVD" patch for a game that I own.
I did this once on Verizon Wireless when our DSL went out. I got a bill for $700 in data overages.
Empowering the Community Key to Stack Exchange Success
Very cool. This is a great tool to understand for large codebases.
What a coincidence that I would run across this post while taking a break from struggling with exactly the problem this could solve.

I'm in the process of trying to summarize my real work and "value" to someone in reference to what could be a dream job. A job that my traditional resume doesn't quite fit.

It would be wonderful to be able to provide a recruiter or similar with a link to a not necessarily public status chart to demonstrate myself.
Time for a Phone Call Armistice
Matrilineality is mostly from the Talmud , a collection of Rabbinic opinion.

The Old Testament / Bible allows both parents to determine Judaism in the child.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talmud
I don't think it's ageism. It's a good observation.

Unfortunately, as you progress up the ladder in the industry, you're more likely to be attending conferences in a management capacity. I know this as I'm right there now.

The younger people here are doing, not attending conferences.
At its core agile leads to being able to ship at small intervals and be... uhm... agile enough to adapt to market/business changes. What's not to like?
Quoting the article:
"And one can, of course, project this model into the future, too. The maths tells us that in 3,000 years someone alive today will be the common ancestor of all humanity.

A few thousand years after that, 80% of us (those who leave children who in turn leave children, and so on) will be ancestors of all humanity. What an inheritance!"
France's Cloud Startups (series): BIME Analytics & A closer look at We Are Cloud
From the article, "...a lot of smart people have been questioning the accuracy of our 90% estimate, and with good reason, it’s a very rough estimate and the measurements are flawed."