skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to say that I do prefer RTS, my first one being Ancient Art of War waaaaay back :)

However, I did get in my share of turn-based games. I remember when I first played Civilization, it was over Christmas break during college, and I didn't go home because it was too expensive. I ended up playing Civ for 3 days straight, and my Christmas dinner was toast, 6 boiled eggs and peanuts... whatever I could rustle up quickly without taking too much time away from the game.
>With pass, each password lives inside of a gpg encrypted file whose filename is the title of the website or resource that requires the password.

Is the filename cleartext or encrypted?
In nuclear power plants you just don't walk in and install new equipment. When upgrading control room to digital, you pretty much also need to upgrade the automation of the plant to be digital and qualifying it to be used in NPP is a real nightmare. In mainstream software markets you can always release bugfixes and add new features afterwards. In NPP your system must work the right way in every possible situation right from the start. I don't think, there are many software companies writing fail-safe programs of that size. And what's even more difficult, you have to prove it to be fail-safe to the regulators.
The USA is like an app platform, nobody built an app on their own
Broadcast Live video to Facebook wall 
Try, Broadcast Live video to facebook wall via airgol iphone app http://www.airgol.com/ - a startup based on noida , also winner at sillicon India mobile app 2012 award.
Khan Academy has a good lesson on the law of large numbers http://www.khanacademy.org/math/probability/v/law-of-large-n...
Awesome tutorial! A nitpick: Your use of "it's" is incorrect. When used to convey possession, you omit the apostrophe.

Also, this is my first time seeing cssdeck, and I must tell you how fantastic it is! The experience was great.
I just put a KeePass file on my DropBox which automatically syncs to my devices.
Oh wow im an idiot. I kept looking for cssdesk (note the "desk"). All good :)
BigDog gets a speedy sibling (Wild Cat)
Thanks :) Will keep it in mind next time. My English starts to suck when I record something...
How would mobile phone usage work? Are there plans for an app? Or some easy way to use it when you don't have a full keyboard.
Agree with your premise, but fault the probability of your conclusion due to the written record left by Hebrew scholars who described pigs as "unclean". Its easy to see how an animal that eats human feces could be viewed that way.
If nothing else, VR can pave the way for AR by making head mounted displays unexceptional. People may be more comfortable with the idea of wearing AR glasses around in public if VR gaming headsets become as ubiquitous in the home as game consoles are now.
I agree its definitely feasible but there's other things that would need to be in place for it to happen .. e.g. an automated way of ordering your entire trip beforehand and paying for it. Where to stop for a pickup if its a busy street with no legal parking spots. What if the passenger changes their mind about where to go mid journey.
What kinds of systems are in place to make sure private information stays private? Facebook invites so many people to spill their personal lives on the internet, and many of them are under the impression they have privacy and control over their data. When this trust is gone, everything about facebook will go through a mental-filter consisting of "What happens when Facebook's permissions bug-out, and my boss has full access to my profile?", and conversations will go the way of small-talk. I guess that's what people should be asking, but it seems only the tech-savvy realize there is no privacy.
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Europe’s premier games-only accelerator first batch launches
This really is excellent... shows an amazing level of creativity and skill.

Just bear in mind that these effects will incur a huge performance hit compared to bitmaps.
This is a bad idea. Any customer who really likes & uses your app as-is will eventually become unprofitable for you. Your "best" customers will use resources you have to pay for every month, but you only collected N months of revenue up front. You'll eventually have to decide to pull the plug and screw your users (like Joyent/Textdrive's forever hosting). Even before that, your financial incentives will be at opposites to the people who like your app the most, which is a bad place to be.

Ideally, you want your customers' usage to align with more money to you over time, not less.

If you need money now, offer your customers a discount for quarterly/annual prepayments. You're more able to predict your costs out 12 months, so you're less likely to make a fatal mistake here.
Ask HN: Find Me a Charity Worth Receiving $100/Month 
I want to donate $100/month to a charity addressing fundamental problems such as health, education, energy, wars, etc. Help me find one that is run with low financial overhead, that truly solves the underlying problems, and if possibly has a proven track record.
I think we're talking at cross-purposes here. I don't think any of us are suggesting that merchant accounts should be made available without any checks at all.

It's reasonable to ascertain the identities of those running the company. While I'm no expert on US law, certainly here in the UK company directors have some basic responsibilities for acting responsibly and so forth and could be on the hook if they've been severely negligent, so you have that the moment you're dealing with the company itself.

But the point of a piercing agreement seems to be to put the company's controlling people on the hook personally even if they aren't grossly negligent and the business just doesn't work out. The fundamental point of setting up an independent legal entity is to sever that connection, and I personally believe that everyone should treat negotiations accordingly.
Nice, succinct article and good examples. Very helpful.
Dan Weinreb, Rest in Peace
In the beginning yes...
I would expect "entrepreneurial solutions to government" to be at best neutral on human rights. Protecting human rights requires a great deal of political will to codify and then enforce. And it usually goes against the perceived best interests of the powers that be. It took a hundred years after the Emancipation Proclamation (and the 14th Amendment) for the US to codify equal rights for minorities. On a cultural level, we still have way too many people who pine for the days when they could lynch a black man with no repercussions. I see no reason to think this enterprise would be able to muster the kind of political morality and will to go out of their way to protect human rights.

Yes, the Framers were a sort of political entrepreneur. They were the type of political entrepreneurs who allowed slavery to exist and came up with the 3/5ths compromise.
You're unusual (no offense, so are most/all HN readers). The vast majority of smartphone buyers with a choice choose the subsidized (more expensive LTV) phone.
Their ability to eat everything is actually an asset, they're relatively easy to raise. Cows and sheep not so.

Any health issues are seen as a cost of doing business, after all they are a million ways to get sick and die in the third world.
Cheetah Robot runs 28.3 mph; a bit faster than Usain Bolt
Beyond Computation: The P vs NP Problem - Michael Sipser
You're still allowing all tags that can load flash, applets, custom plugins for media playback.
about the 'impossible square' on the button, you can use content:'◻'; // http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/25fb/index.htm
and then just position it into middle, you ll know the rest
Fixed; thanks.

PS: you wanna be my CTO? I think this things going to blow up.
Obviously you'll have to work from my garage with no pay for a few years, but you'll get a huge payout when we exit.
> I am writing a simple financial application in a language without a decimal type (Go), and my workaround for this is to multiply by 100 when storing currency. The thought process was that at least cents will be represented exactly.

Yes, that will work -- until you need to compute taxes, discounts, or any other quantity that involves amounts less than a penny during interim computations. Then you're back to square one.

> Things like currency exchange would still benefit from a proper decimal type though.

Yes, but binary floating-point doesn't really pose a problem if handled carefully. The classic solution is to store all amounts internally in double-precision floating-point and only display the rounded values -- never truncate the values to the nearest penny as student programmers tend to do.

In the system described above, that used in all major financial packages, amounts like 0.1 simply aren't an issue, and every number base has amounts it can't represent exactly.
You are assuming government is immune to all of the exploitation desires that businesses are not, and that is not true.
Odd-sounding request: Is it possible to have an option to not use gpg, or any encryption, at all? I only store my passwords on a LUKS loopback file, which I mount/umount as I need to access some information on it. The double-encryption does not really add any better security, but does add another password to type. I'd love to make use of the nice looking pass interface: A password generator, copy-to-clipboard, and simple management operations.
If possible, use APC instead of eAccelerator. eAccelerator is not that active anymore.
You don't need best of the best to modify, most likely, one line of code. I'm pretty sure anyone who can code would modify it correctly. You need the best of the best who won't do this sort of issue in the first place.
Do Sweepstakes Actually Help (or Hurt) Your Facebook Page?
War_dump: web-console for PHP var_dumps and errors
They blurred out the 345KV error annunciator panel and the names of the contacts on the phones , so clearly they tried to censor some stuff. A password seems like a logical candidate that was simply forgotten.
Great article, but does anyone else have the irritation of the links looking like the words have been crossed-out with green line through the middle?
No, PayPal is almost the opposite extreme: they do very little in the way of checking up-front, and that's why there can be problems later when their aggressive fraud checks kick in.

I'm not looking for anything so dramatic, just that merchant account providers should recognise that they are dealing with a separate legal entity. Identifying the key personnel is reasonable, and so is wanting to check them against databases of known fraudsters etc. Asking to see financial statements, business plans, projections, etc. is all reasonable too. So is requiring a cautious degree of funds retention until the trading patterns become clear is reasonable. I really don't have a problem with a merchant account provider wanting to know who they're dealing with and to have some confidence that the company is a viable business; that's only fair.

I'm simply arguing that putting members of the company on the hook personally is not fair. If you're going to have companies at all then you have to protect them against such arrangements by law or you've devalued the entire concept and undone whatever benefits you were hoping to achieve in terms of incentivising entrepreneurial behaviour in your economy.

For the record, I'd add demanding direct control of the company bank account as a red flag as well. Aside from the glaring potential for abuse or error by the merchant account provider (for which, by the way, the company directors will once again take the heat), this has obvious implications if the company ever fails: it allows the payment company to grab whatever it decides it's due before the usual legal mechanisms for dealing with corporate bankcrupty get a look in, for example. And what if there's more than one payment service involved? Do they get to race to see who can empty a company's bank account first if anything does go severely wrong?

IIRC the US has a concept of bankruptcy protection to isolate a company that's in trouble if they have a reasonable plan to extricate themselves rather than failing. Not running a business in the US, I don't know all the details, but it seems a reasonable premise. But what happens if that company has signed over direct access to its bank account to a merchant account provider, who is risk averse and doesn't like the chapter 11 filing?

The bottom line is that these are all worst-case, doomsday scenarios, and even if a company is going to fail, it's usually not going to fail out of the blue and to that extent. I think you're obsessing over a fraud risk at the expense of making it much harder for people to run honest companies. If the system is set up in such a paranoid way, it's hardly going to be surprising if legitimate entrepreneurs are put off starting up, obviously leaving a disprortionate number of fraudulent applicants.
9,100,000 * 12.99 == 118,209,000

So, unless my math's off, I think that's pretty close.
I would LOVE to see source maps implemented into Rails CS compilation. Any idea how to do it/when will this be added to rails?
This is how most photo shops operate nowadays. You know, the photo shops where you back in the days used to leave your roll of negatives and come back 1h later and have your photos developed.

Many of them now have internet services where you can upload a set of photos and get them delivered to your door within a few days printed in various ways and binded as a professional book.
Ryanair's CEO loves Dark Patterns
Agreed its rare but I wanted to reply here because I did just this thing myself last week. I had a ~6000 line TCP/IP sockets and serial port application (command line) written in C# on windows. I needed to port it to run on a Raspberry Pi (running Debian Wheezy). A rewrite in C was the initial plan/expectation. But got it working in Mono, with only a handful of changes to the serial port code.
> I don't think, there are many software companies writing fail-safe programs of that size. And what's even more difficult, you have to prove it to be fail-safe to the regulators.

That's not possible. It is not possible to prove a nontrivial program to be fail-safe, any more than it is possible to prove a nontrivial axiomatic system to be internally consistent -- and for the same reason: Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems.

The Turing Halting Problem, and Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems, are deeply connected. The second cannot be resolved because the first cannot be resolved.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6dels_incompleteness_theo...

A quote: "The first incompleteness theorem states that no consistent system of axioms whose theorems can be listed by an "effective procedure" (e.g., a computer program, but it could be any sort of algorithm) is capable of proving all truths about the relations of the natural numbers (arithmetic). For any such system, there will always be statements about the natural numbers that are true, but that are unprovable within the system. The second incompleteness theorem, an extension of the first, shows that such a system cannot demonstrate its own consistency." (Emphasis added.)

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

A quote: "Alan Turing proved in 1936 that a general algorithm to solve the halting problem for all possible program-input pairs cannot exist. A key part of the proof was a mathematical definition of a computer and program, what became known as a Turing machine; the halting problem is undecidable over Turing machines." (Emphasis added.)
Do JS styleguides reflect how popular open source code is indented?
Having lived in Mountain View, I can attest to the openness of Stanford.
You are awesome, I just tried with '▢' character and made this: http://cssdeck.com/labs/wsuol0ff/0

Perfection!

Edit: I updated the codecast, check it now..

Edit Edit: The square is ridiculously big in Firefox... :-\
Google buys Online Malware Multi Scanner VirusTotal
I probably mostly hear from purists and those people that don't want to look at the facts because "records are better than CD's" and similar arguments. I didn't know they were competing with medium format film now. That's .. saying something. o.o
Coursera has launched Coursera-Placement service
This feels like one of those eonline stories.

The fact that pg actually took the time to explain himself on HN (even though he didn't have to) is enough explanation i think. VB wrote the article, it was inaccurate, but everyone went on with their lives. Now mike comes back to stir the pot again.
> Help me find one that is run with low financial overhead, that truly solves the underlying problems, and if possibly has a proven track record.

My favorite charity that meets your description is Planned Parenthood. While many charities address philosophical issues or try to change the public's mind about various issues, Planned Parenthood actually does something -- they offer young people reproductive choice, sometimes in places where no other choice, or even the idea of choice, exists. Many young women, whose lives are about to go off the rails, owe Planned Parenthood a debt of gratitude that they can compete their education.

I've been involved in many charitable activities over decades, but when I invested in a Planned Parenthood clinic in rural Oregon, I finally found out what "charitable activity" really means -- people regularly threatened my life.

When people call at midnight and threaten you with death, you realize you're making a difference.
Have you seen http://givewell.org/, specifically http://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities ?
Haha, you just reminded me the classic "So A Blogger Walks Into A Bar..." http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/21/so-a-blogger-walks-into-a-b...
In any case I still count it as an attempt.
The problem is that "designer" can mean very many different things to different people. There's a large chunk of the world that always read "designer" as "graphic designer". Mixed up with this is the problem that the various communities of practice are, I think, searching for a more common identity.

In the development world we have "developers" or "engineers" - which include all of:
* back-end coders
* front-end coders
* devops
* folk focussed on building automated tests
* folk focussed on tool development to support the rest of the team
* database experts
* etc.

... and we're also quite happy to have people be good at bits multiple categories and be

In the UX community we have:
* interaction designers
* graphic designers
* UI designers
* content strategists
* usability testers
* user researchers

And like the dev world there are people who are good a bits of multiple categories, but there isn't really a good general identity. As I said "designer" is often seen as just graphic design. UX Designer is a ghastly clumsy phrase, but at least it doesn't suffer that problem.
You can play a starter version of SC2 for free, if you're interested. It lets you play online against others, but you're only allowed to play as Terran, and you're not allowed to play ranked matches, only custom games. You might have a hard time finding people to play against if they haven't updated the map list from the link below, but I suspect they have. Worth checking out if you think you might be interested.

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/3250656

As for missing the boat, a lot of people still play SC2. They're going to be coming out with an expansion soon, so the game should see an influx of new players when that happens.
Yes, but not only that

Vegetables should be properly cleaned before eating

If you eat contaminated pork, you won't get NCC (or other cysticercosis) , you get a worm.

You get Cysticercosis when you eat food contaminated with human faeces (sorry about that). Because then the human is "playing the part" of the pig.

Cooking and basic hygiene goes a long way.
Splendid! I am thinking if there is a way to get wood-grain effect similarly?
I don't care who does it - but doing usability testing, user research and user feedback isn't failure. It's validation. It's testing. It's closing the feedback loop.

That's not putting "design" in the middle of "development". It's making sure that we're actually doing what we think we're doing - building something that works and gives value to the user.

What's the alternative - just hoping that we got it right?
> So you've made your third biggest mistake; you've vastly underestimated what you are in for. You have never "learned" to program, you are "learning."

I am afraid your comment is even more mistaken. Even more it is discouraging in a really bad way. Read carefully and I'll explain. Even if your HN score is 10 times mine.

In my opinion you are creating a false dichotomy between having learned and learning. Someone who has just started to walk/bike etc has still learned to walk/bike. They are by no means near entering Olympics for the next few years but they have made their own life very much simpler and more enjoyable. (Father of small children here.)

Comments like yours are discouraging at least one specific subset of people from doing the one thing that can possibly help them increase their skills, namely use them. I even think that for most people even if they can learn a lot about coding by just reading, reading and immideately applying it is by far a quicker route.

Anecdata: I once told a 16 y.o. intern how to use basic perl and Visual Basic for Applications. After 14 days where he would run his scripts, check, check with his supervisor, fix the code, learn more perl and vba and so on he came back with a report that would have taken weeks to finish by hand. He is now on his last year on a Bachelor with Honors study and this was his first useful program. Still makes me happy.

(By the way, I also started coding at age 12. Having programmed for both $100+ million companies as well as startups I am not one of those struggeling to learn the basics. Anymore, that is : )
Just to be clear, until 2009 Honduras had one of the most stable governments in Central America. My experience was in 2008. I found that while Hondurans are generally warm, anyone I interacted with in an official capacity was officious and unpleasant. It's like an entire country run by the DMV.

My closing comments when I left Honduras are here: http://www.advrider.com/forums/showpost.php?p=8366876&po...

(you can browse a few posts earlier for more pics - sadly I didn't take a lot during my customs experience)

I guess what I'm saying is that it's not clear you can separate "the people" from "the government" here. The cruft that is the Honduran civil system just accumulated over decades - it wasn't imposed by a dictator or anything like that.
"tree" command on MacOSX
I assume that the problem isn't so much being played on the radio but rather not wanting "my works to end up as cash in someone elses pocket". For example, being broadcast by the not-for-profit and no-paid-advertising college radio station sounds like it will be okay.
Maybe 35mm, but I'm still not sure have we passed the quality of medium and large film sizes. An old Hasselblad can still take pretty good pictures.
Awesome ending to an awesome tutorial. Great format for learning.
Still I think his point is relevant. For a lot of people the fact that something is useful contributes a whole lot to the motivation for learning it.
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Foreign enterprises and Central American states don't exactly have the healthiest history together:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic#Exemplar_republ...

Even if this experiment succeeded, it would be under different circumstances from previous stories. Even though Hong Kong and Singapore were British colonies, it seems like that rule had greater legitimacy than the current Honduran government, which arose through coup.