skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely. And maybe the edges in my first picture are crisper. I guess it's all a matter of how you look at it.

But I found the names a little counter-intuitive.
Not only that, but even if you weren't chronically underpaid and mistreated, working on games isn't all that much more fun than working on other stuff. It's still work, and having a good manager, good tools, and good comrades matter a lot more than the domain you're working in.

Also, there's burnout. I spent around a year working on a turn-based strategy game, and I now hate turn-based strategy games with a passion.
They're not concerned about Windows 8's "usability", they're concerned about the integrated App Store and Windows RT.
The $10,000 coffee machine
Once again, it comes back to the meaning of the word "union" in the US versus Europe. Labor unions in Europe usually have less focus on enforcing a monopoly on labor and more focus on having good, safe conditions for sustainable work, arranging courses and sharing experiences, etc.

For example, pretty much all Norwegian IT workers are organized either through Tekna (union for Masters degree holders in technical subjects) or NITO (union for engineers and technical personnel). Being organized in such a community is a huge bonus when it comes to bargaining power and decreasing the leverage employers have due to ignorance or lack of information on salaries, etc. This comes in addition to all the advantages you get for having easy access to like-minded professionals.
It's great that Mozilla has made Persona open for everyone to develop with. While I still believe that Firefox has a lot to gain with Persona, I also agree with your vision that this is a good step towards a safer web (only time will tell if this takes off). I'll take it a step further and argue that if Firefox lead the charge with Persona tightly integrated, it'll make the web even SAFER for the average user, because it will force other browsers to tackle the issue of security as well, benefiting all users regardless of browser platform.
"High Fidelity Visualization" is an interesting term they've tried to coin, but I've had enough experience to know that just because you come into a meeting with a mock or prototype, doesn't necessarily make it a "nuclear" weapon that lets you build automatic consensus. When I'm presenting to a room filled with talented people, I would hope they would be smart enough to see through such a gimmick.
In my honest and not-so-humble opinion, that's a load of motherfucking bullshit. I don't give a rat's ass how intelligent or uncultured I sound; my arguments and opinions stand on their fucking merits, not some lame-ass attempt to suck the collective cock of so-called "civilized society". I think if you were able to take a look at who, throughout history, actually built our civilization, you'd find a lot of people who say "fuck" (or its local equivalent) a lot.
> Games that are sparse, minimal, and full of atmosphere and character?

I'm sure you're familiar with them but all of Valve's first person shooters fit this mold (maybe not minimal...). The Left 4 Dead series especially has the atmosphere down.
It's a question of degree. Video game development does have a very different supply/demand environment going for it than other kinds of software development. Where I am (both geographically and in my career) I'm treated pretty darn well.
"If there's one thing I've learned in life, is to never listen to people moaning about the 'good old days'"

You're just being a reverse curmudgeon. Creativity thrives in an environment of diversity, and San Francisco became a mecca for creative software people because it was already a mecca for artists, hippies and people of all races and creeds, not because it was packed to the gills with iPhone developers in ironic t-shirts. Maybe there's nothing that can be done about it, but I think there's definitely a loss when a place becomes homogenous due to gentrification.

I've only been here since 2008, but even on that limited timeframe it's been pretty damned annoying to see useful places (like hardware stores, markets, dry cleaners, etc.) shut down so that room can be made for yuppie bars and overpriced restaurants. So we replace shops with co-working spaces and bookstores with boutique dealers of objets d'art and we pretend that it's "progress", but we make the neighborhoods less attractive to the people who made the neighborhoods attractive.

In short: if you're giving me a choice, I'll take "stabby" neighborhoods over luxury condos. At least the former gives an artist or a musician a place to squat while earning nothing and doing something truly novel; the latter gives a software engineer a place to live while working for Zynga.
>The New York Times will parse and redact the information that they feel could endanger people from any classified information that they may publish or use in an article. They notably published the Pentagon Papers, which showed that the US had been misled regarding Vietnam.

I'm sure if wikileaks had co-operation from officials in this regard, they would have rededacted the information prior to release. Actually, it was publicized before release/after the point was made by officials that they weren't even going to consider cooperating with wikileaks.

Link: http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2010/11/wikileaks-and-state...

>This information did not endanger anyone.

Meaning Wikileaks data did? Sources???

>Wikileaks, at least with the initial major leak, does not redact or edit information to protect anyone. This has been one of the reasons major journalist outlets (such as NYT) didn't cooperate with them regarding the initial leak.

Initial leaks? Oh you mean initial AMERICAN leaks. The many first leaks pertained to a Swiss bank, the 2008 election campaign specifically Sarah Palin emails, a corrupt Kenyan leader, Scientology secrets, and a member ship list of the BNP. Also, while true major outlets didn't want to work with them (in the US), they did anyways, because Assange used them against each other pretty intelligently I might add. They may say he's a horrible person and dick in one column, but they (NYT + The Guardian) were his two biggest collaborators in these HORRIBLE leaks.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks#2006.E2.80.9308 / http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/julian-assange-the...

>They simply serve as a clearinghouse for leaked info.

Yup agreed. Definitely not a mainstream media outlet. It's been coined the first stateless news organization for a reason.

You should really read this though: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:iK8J7-6...

Also it's hard for an NGO to hire workers to redact information when a nation state attacks them economically: http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/12/mastercard...

Sorry if I've made you upset or offended you. My sources are an index on censorship article (40+ org advocating free speech), wikipedia..., a rolling stone article with Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, A Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review Article (best source of info IMO), and TPM (12+ blog/)
Check out cocoacontrols.com

(just looking at 1 of my projects...)

AFNetworking (Amazing Networking Framework)
https://github.com/AFNetworking/AFNetworking

CocoaLumberjack (Robust Logging)
https://github.com/robbiehanson/CocoaLumberjack

IIViewDeckController (Facebook/Path Sliding Drawer Nav)
https://github.com/Inferis/ViewDeck

EKStreamView (Pinterest-Like Collection View)
https://github.com/ekohe/EKStreamView

SDWebImage (HTTP Image Loader)
https://github.com/rs/SDWebImage

SVPullToRefresh	(Great Pull-to-Refresh)
https://github.com/samvermette/SVPullToRefresh

DLStarRating (Star Rating UI)
https://github.com/dlinsin/DLStarRating

JSTokenButton (Tagging/Input Control)
https://github.com/jasarien/JSTokenField

LKBadgeView (Pill Badges)
https://github.com/lakesoft/LKbadgeView

Facebook iOS SDK (Duh)
https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk

TestFlight (Remote Deployment, also.. Magic)
testflightapp.com

Flurry (Analytics)
flurry.com
The web problem, and solving it from Haskell
As a user I definitely appreciate the emphasis of privacy first as well as its clear responsibility for identification. However, from how I see it on the surface, it currently doesn't have the market reach as, say, FB Connect or Google, and I don't want to "flood" my users with too many options for authentication. What's the practical arguments of rolling out my own authentication (Rails + Devise) vs using Personas?
SEO and analytics are not the same thing
I moved to SF in the midst of the dot-com boom, looking for a job writing, only to soon find myself working at a dotcom. For those who didn't live it, it's hard to explain how much money was floating around and how arrogant many "dotcommers" were and how many oozed an entitlement to IPO riches. The crash was in some ways a relief for many, who then pursued careers they really wanted.

It was a complicated time, and we're in another one right now. I just hope the newest wave of dotcommers - who thankfully include way more programmers and fewer smarmy bizdev guys -- finds a way to avoid feeling entitled.
This reminds me of when veteran professional poker players play complete novices. They often say that beating a brand new player is harder than beating a mediocre player, since a novice player will do things that make no sense seemingly randomly.
Recently on HN:

"Exercise Does Not Make You Less Depressed (bmj.com)" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4446400
Those were virtual gifts. These are physical gifts.
Different sources will quote different numbers of objects.

The reason is that there were millions of debris particles. So you find counts of different sizes.

I got 10% by comparing the number in the Wikipedia article over a certain size with the number of objects that NASA is actively tracking. If NASA is actively tracking at a different size threshold, that would explain the discrepancy.

Regardless of the exact numbers, this Chinese test is clearly a significant part of the problem by itself. And the altitude chosen means that it will continue to be a problem for a very, very long time.
Yup, there was an agreement in place that Kasparov could see the analysis that Deep Blue output. The outcome has never been decided, in my opinion, because of IBM violating the terms of the agreement.

When K requested it, he was put off. This went on, and I tracked it closely at the time, waiting for IBM to give it up. They kept saying they would, but never did to my knowledge.

Kasparov was concerned that IBM could encounter a bug, or simply a losing situation, and would have the chance to intervene with Deep Blue's calculations without anyone knowing. Deep Blue made more than one move that made Kasparov suspicious during the match. (Years later, humans interacting with computers was shown to produce much stronger results than just computers alone, even when the computers were much stronger at chess than the humans assisting them.)

Many Grandmasters have pointed out that at top-level matches, particularly world championships, psychology is the MOST important factor in deciding the outcome. This makes IBM's behavior all the worse, regardless of their reason.

(My friend Mike Valvo, now passed away, was the arbiter at the match http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/full_record.php?iid=stl... When I first met Mike, I said "There's something I always wanted to say to you!" He said "What's that?" and I said "e4" to which he responded "c5" and we proceeded to play a few moves of a Sicilian. Mike was one of a few people who had played and beaten Bobby Fischer in casual play.)
You & I aren't going to agree on this, but hopefully we can just live with that fact. I don't think you're a crazy person for thinking this stuff.
> used for things like the track in Mario Kart and F-Zero, or the worldmap in Final Fantasy 6 (while you're in the airship).

Even the 3D plane effect in F-Zero and Mario Kart requires an hblank interrupt routine that changes the scale and scroll registers for the tile map. Without such trickery Mode 7 technically only does 2D rotozooming. That said, in colloquial use "Mode 7" tends to refer (somewhat inaccurately) to that 3D plane effect.
>Games that are sparse, minimal, and full of atmosphere and character?

I'm not certain what type of game you want. The obvious suggestions in terms of well-crafted atmosphere and high-quality narrative might be Portal and the follow-on to the above, Deus Ex: HR and Bioshock.
There is nothing wrong with attending pro-Wikileaks demonstrations as far as I can tell, and to the extent that the Air Force is trying to criminalize advocacy on behalf of Wikileaks, I strongly agree that they're irredeemably in the wrong.
This is definitely true, and the exact point I'm building my arguments upon. Are Rust and Go better languages than C and C++ for solving lots of problems, in many, many cases yes! But we can't use them. How frustrating is that!?

Of course there's a difference between being able to use a language and when mainstream starts picking it up. Considering for example C++, it wasn't only until mid 90's when it really took off, a bit more than 20 years after it was named C++ from C with Classes. Perhaps Go and Rust have their place in the stack sometime in 2030.
Apple makes their money selling hardware, not from the App Store (where they mostly break even): if they aren't doing it already, it would actually be in their best interests to promote free software over paid because it makes users happier with their device purchase.
A number of people don't think that a journalistic organization that then tells the world about the information rises to the level of treasonous behavior.

-- The question is inducement. Context is relevant.

Eg, Is it ok for the "XYZ press" to pay for people to <leak> "official" secrets? What about foreign press? What about foreign governments? What about foreign State press? Quite quickly you end up in the edge-case of pretexting bad behaviour in the name of otherwise legitimate activity.
Ack! I posted speculative garbage. I feel dirty.
A while ago I wrote that perhaps the greatest contribution the Bitcoin experiment will make to humankind is to teach you and me and our neighbors more about the realities of economics. And now I will add that the Bitcoin experiment will also contribute to greater understanding of how nonprofit industry associations are organized to protect the economic interests of for-profit businesses. A lot of new industries have discovered that a few bad actors who screw up early can damage the reputation of the entire industry, and there are many previous examples of "competing" companies in a new industry banding together to promote consumer protection, as they say, and to promote the growth of their market. We'll see how this goes for Bitcoin.
this is exactly what I am thinking these days :)

I signed up, feel free to hit me up and tell me more about what you are doing. zeljko at gmail
CloudSpring | Liferay in the cloud using Cloudbees
Do people seriously run out of ephemeral ports before they run out of server memory?
Why wouldn't they just do a deal with Amazon?
Some tasks - such as implementing kernels - are poorly suited for garbage collection

Right, but we have C for that. I also doubt that Rust would be suitable for hard-realtime applications, due to the fact that it has garbage collection. Even task-local garbage collection is still garbage collection, and not what you want for hard-realtime applications.

Of course there's a bunch of different definitions of "hard realtime" floating around, and rust would probably be suitable for some of them. I fully expect that someone will reply to this with something like, "Well MY definition of hard realtime is playing movies, and Rust is suitable for that." :) But when I think of hard realtime, I think of applications where you must have absolute determinism.
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If you're willing to sacrifice sparsity and minimalism to play a game that's full of character, I'd try the first Metroid Prime game.

Probably the most authentic sense of wonder I've felt since Riven.
It sounds like they should let you update your privacy settings to automatically reject gifts if you dont want to share your address... Something like "sorry, this person is not accepting Facebook Gifts".
One famous example is the Apple team getting a demo of the Graphical User Interface at Xerox PARC. The Apple engineers mistakenly believed that the Xerox interface had a bunch of things it did not, in particular being able to drag overlapping windows on top of each other. The Xerox engineers were supposedly amazed when they saw the results. This isn't quite the same thing - Xerox wasn't staging a fake demo, the Apple guys just mis-remembered or mis-understood what they were looking at. But they still put an insane amount of effort into getting this working, much to everybody's surprise, because they thought that someone else had already done it, so it must have been possible.

Source: Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography. You can probably find this story somewhere on the folklore website.
Mars rover Curiosity finds proof Mars had water
Speaking of change of plans. Does anybody remember blizzard warcraft 3 pre-release version? See screenshots [1][2]

That was entirely different gameplay, with more RPG and less strategy. I remember how I read about it in some magazine and was greatly excited. When it came out, I liked it even more than I expected, that was one kick-ass game.

And then I found World Editor. Needless to say, I was stunned, I spent all my free time playing with JASS (wc3 scripting language), and that was very probably a deciding factor in me becoming a programmer. Hell, even now, I think I could make a decent map if paired with a good landscape designer/storymaker. I haven't finished many maps and projects in my time but the process of creation/programming was so incredibly enjoyable, that end result didn't even matter.

I wonder if there are any other world editors on HN.

[1] http://www.scrollsoflore.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=...

[2] http://www.scrollsoflore.com/gallery/albums/war3_prerelease/... also click arrows on the page, there is more.
> I think most people, including myself, search for apps either by name or icon

I think that's the problem. It sounds crazy, but for most of us, the icon is actually one of the most important deciding factors... A shitty app (with horrible usability and UX) with a nice icon sells an order of magnitude more than a decent, pretty app (UX-wise) that couldn't afford a great designer for their icon.

This is (I think) the reasoning behind the change. How much have they succeeded? That's a whole other issue. But I think they aimed for the right thing.
Social Marketplace
Wikileaks socially engineered Bradley Mannings?
I use ATH-M50s (over ear) and shure s115 (in-ear). Both sets sound great to my casual ear. The ATH-M50s work best when my surrounding area is quiet. If someone is talking I can't hear what they say but I can hear muffled sounds. The Shure in-ear buds are fantastic in isolating you from external sounds. I relied heavily on head-fi.org for guidance. If you are thinking of full size headphones go to a music shop and see if they'll let you try on different pairs. I found that the Shure over-ear pairs felt heavy and uncomfortable, so I went with the ATH-M50s. Also I do not use any external amp at work for either pair, just straight plug in to the stereo out on my machine.
Here's something anecdotal: my wife updated to iOS6, and immediately complained that she couldn't stand the new App Store search result style.

Cut to yesterday, and she was looking for a calendar app. She mentioned that she'd decided she preferred the new style after all, because seeing the screenshots directly in the search results was just so incredibly better for what she was doing.

So it might be one of those changes that grows on you.
There are a fair number of browser based strategy games such as evony.com where latency is not really an issue. It's mostly a question of how to handle communication between back end servers and 'world' chat that's the real scaling issue.
Not being familiar with the DDR4 spec, I wonder how much performance benefit DDR4 brings without increasing the size of the processor's cache line? As others have mentioned, the latency for random access is quite high, and DDR effectively just multiplies the bus width. For DMA and filling cache lines DDRx is a win because you usually want to grab all those bits anyway (although in those cases, the addresses tend to be contiguous anyway, so it's not as slow as "random"). But if your cache grabs bunches of 512 bits, having a memory that is only faster when transferring a contiguous group of 1024 bits isn't an obvious speedup.
You're right, we are going to agree to disagree :-)

I think the US Military has every reason to be terrified that Reuters might successfully social engineer entire databases of sensitive data out of them in pursuit of a story.

We disagree on the response, I'd advocate the State department and Military need to give better training and supervision of their staff. Not, if Reuters is successful, declaring Reuters an enemy.
Well thing is. The PokeNet client source code is under GPLv3 and the server source code under AGPLv3.

They are distributing the client binary to everyone who want's to play the game and GPL requires to distribute the source code.

Then again AGPL requires them to distribute the server source code, even though they do not distribute the binary to the players.
New York hasn't grown nearly as fast as San Francisco, so most of the existing housing stock is adequate.

Everybody has a price at which they'll sell, and as more people arrive wanting housing more property owners will get offers from developers that are too good to turn down.
Don't get discouraged - look at it as validation of your idea. Not everything Google does turns to gold and there may be plenty of opportunity in doing something vaguely similar, but different.

So, launch, listen to your users and iterate! Good luck.
An enemy of restrictive building codes is converted to an ally the moment the ink on the title is dry.

In fact, the person most harmed probably becomes the more ferocious defender of the zoning restrictions. Because they paid the highest prices, they stand to lose the most by voting away the restrictions that contributed to those astronomical prices.

Actually, this may be how policies like the mortgage deduction or prop 13 can get so entrenched. They may be unfair, but the only thing that seems even more unfair to new buyers is that the benefits would be taken away only after they've paid the heavy toll.
Fishonomics
Well, the thing of importance would be the enemy knowing a strike is coming (for example). If the military is having people come to a meeting, the subject of that meeting is already determined. A mole could release the details on Wikileaks, saying "they're meeting in Tent 123 to prepare for the attack on Kabul National Bank". Well, now the bank manager knows there's a strike force inbound.

Not that this is a problem inherent to Wikileaks; you could use any service to communicate the same thing. I'm just giving an example of a time where publishing sensitive documents could be done ahead of time to disastrous consequences.
Unless that professional athlete has been replaced by a machine, the same bio-logic remains. All humans are error prone. This isn't something you can remove with practice. It's built in so to speak.

What you talk about in Go is probably more in line with dispelling the "Fear aura" that happens on higher level.
Man, I couldn't disagree with this essay more. Once I read it, I went out and wrote my retort. Enjoy! http://bit.ly/Sdr9Zl