skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>They make games, and people criticize them for it.

First, Zynga is not criticized for making games, they're criticized for making Skinner boxes and passing them off as games. Quality, in other words.

Second, just because you think they make games doesn't make it fact.

Definition of a game per Google:

A form of play or sport, esp. a competitive one played according to rules and decided by skill, strength, or luck.

Zynga's "games" (with very few exceptions) lack any form of skill, strength, or luck. Push button, receive reward, pay us cash or spam your friends and you can push the button more often.

That is literally all there is to most Zynga games. I'm not even engaging in hyperbole here! Compare with even the most grindtastic MMO's out there, even the most rehashed FPS or football franchise you can think of, and there's still a skill component that these wannabes can't grok.
Facebook Q3 revenue beats expectations
Great tip, thanks.

Here is the full path, pretty straight-forward.

Local Computer Policy
+ Computer Configuration
+ Administrative Templates
+ Windows Components
+ Windows Update
+ No auto-restart with logged on users for scheduled automatic updates installations
+ Enabled
ARM cores tend to be more power efficient for three main reasons: they operate at a lower clock frequency, they don't have the CISC legacy baggage, and the low-level software guys have spent a lot more time on power management than on x86.

It has to do with the evolutionary heritage of both systems. Most x86 systems are still sold to individuals or small businesses that will plug them into the wall and forget about power dissipation. A typical x86 desktop machine will draw between 300-500 watts. ARM evolved more for the cell phone and tablet market, and typical power consumption for one of those systems would be under 5 watts.
SimFarm was a classic but rather I'd hesitate to call FarmHappy a SimFarm clone. SimFarm is perhaps the most complex Sim game, I had an easier time with even SimIsle. Gameplay wise there is almost no intersection.

What disappoints me about the current social gaming genre is how many games what would have otherwise been decent tycoons are ruined with slot machine mechanics.
I haven't owned or operated a Windows machine in almost a decade, and have ten terminal tabs open as we speak; pretty sure my Unix cred is intact, thanks. And I thought the Unix philosophy was to do one thing and do it well (Wikipedia agrees: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_way#McIlroy:_A_Quarter_Cen... ). Separating the thing that paints the screen from the thing that pushes pixels over the network seems in perfect keeping with this philosophy. Bash isn't network-transparent; if you want to use it over a network, you use SSH.
Google/Amazon/B&N will be certainly happy with this, but it's because it will make people consume even more internet/books.
Try CURLing even a 100 of these URLs and see what happens.

Also, this doesn't give you the email.
They got a free thumper from Sun through the "try and buy" program, loaded it up with customers, and ... failed to operate it properly. IIRC, it wasn't just a service outage - some data was irrevocably lost.

ZFS on Solaris was a non-beta, prime time product at that time, so it's not fair to blame it on "a ZFS thing". Deploying customers on loaner hardware is scrappy and admirable, in a way, but Sun wasn't giving those away two by two - there was no redundancy.

The joyent blog, in those days, alternated between enterprise cloud bullshit-bingo posts and facebook game development. I thought it was a clown operation back then and I suspect it still is.
Encapsulating State in CoffeeScript
thanks for open-sourcing this!
Final Debate Fails Cybersecurity
I manage to rely on the fact that there's a wi-fi enabled coffee shop every few yards or so, but I guess not everyone lives in Seattle.
H.264 was already well entrenched when On2 was bought. Whether or not it was a good purchase will be seen more by a) how H.265 fares, b) how well AAC holds up against patent free mp3, Vorbis and Opus, c) how IETF's proposed Internet Video Codec and VP-Next fare (and they may potentially become a single project), and d) how many people are still paying for H.264 licences when it's no longer technically impressive, software-based companies in particular seem poised to jump off the upgrade treadmill early unlike earlier hardware based generations that could be milked for far longer.
At least some books mention that "At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied." in the book description field. For example: http://www.amazon.com/Pirate-Cinema-ebook/dp/B0089LOEBS/ref=...
When Margo Georgiadis joined and then soon left GroupOn before the IPO, that said a lot. I'd imagine she had a hefty equity path lined up that she walked away from, so she must not have been pleased with what she saw. Unfortunately the markets tend to be pretty irrational so I didn't attempt it but we all could've made some extra $$$ shorting GRPN stock.
How Does Apple's Fusion Drive Work?
Flash uses Perl Compatible Regular Expression Engine (PCRE) http://www.pcre.org/

Ruby uses Oniguruma http://www.geocities.jp/kosako3/oniguruma/

While the average regex will probably work on both, you should know there isn't a 1:1 correlation between the two.
Ask HN: 13" Retina MacBook Pro, is it worth?
I tried 15" Retina on Apple Store several times and liked it but now 13" MBP Retina (8gb ram + 128gb ssd) is $1700 which I consider pretty affordable. (I'll return my brand new MB Air to buy this.)

How would 13" Retina look like, what would be its resolution (specs not available on Apple online store afaik) and do you think is it worth?
Why don't you read in full screen mode then?
Actually, it was very much the Itanium. At the time, Intel had no plans whatsoever to introduce a 64-bit x86 architecture - they were the only game in town for a long time, and believed that they can force the 64-bit market to be Itanium. HP and Compaq/Alpha had already given up on their 64-bit offering at that point, and either blessed Intel as the 64-bit heir (HP) or sold it to them (Alpha). The only other game in town was SPARC, which Intel wasn't really facing in the 32-bit market.

While it is true that the P4 was going nowhere, it was the 64-bit market that forced Intel to reconsider their road map; If it wasn't for AMD, 32-bit might have sped up to Core, or stayed at P4, but we'd be nowhere close to where we are today.
Not quite - they both just happen to be farm themed.

Happy Farm was legitimately a social game - even further than Farmville ended up being. In fact, almost two thirds of the Chinese population that played admitted they did so only so they could steal crops from their friends.

It's almost a case study into the Chinese culture unto itself.
More like, "if you have trouble with customer service, please contact customer service."
Increasing wireless network speed by 1000%, by replacing packets with algebra
Lifetime provision, or its counterpart: flat rate provisioning (unlimited X for $5/mo) puts the customer into an antagonistic relationship with their provider:

http://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2009/11/flat-rate-stora...

If your needs for service are serious, you should avoid such arrangements.
I cannot say I have had many problems with incorrect HTML. Since using HAML, I have had tabbing issues, inline javascript issues, a new syntax to learn (and translate). The last one is my main issue. 80% of your time spent with HTML is in the browser, the mental translation is more of a tax than anything.

I have used HAML on three projects and it always feels like it gets in the way more than it helps.
I guess that is why I am not a fan of their products. I just don't see a premium UX experience. The hardware is great, but the software is mediocre especially when compared to Windows 8. I know many would disagree, but I just don't see it.
really gutted for the talented people who work there. 100 people have to find jobs tomorrow, that's never easy.
The rule is that apps should have 100% of the screen devoted to them, and not persistent system chrome. It's a promise they want to be able to make to developers. The app gets every pixel, not the system.
From the submitted article: "Zawodny has designed a stamp-size array of metal tiles to test the theory. According to Larsen’s paper, the properties of some of the tiles should make it easier for electrons and protons to merge and form neutrons. If Zawodny observes evidence of neutron production, then he plans to do a follow-up experiment to see if those neutrons are fueling radioactive decay. Even if he gets the expected results, though, it would take several years and many corroborating experiments before LENRs could be considered confirmed."

. . . .

"So far, Larsen still has only a theory and some circumstantial evidence."

In other words, the operative word in the subtitle of the submitted article (used as the submission headline here) is "may." There doesn't seem to be any strong evidence yet that the process described in the article actually produces net energy output.

P.S. I heartily approve of (and have upvoted) the first comment this comment received, pointing out that there isn't even evidence that the speculated process described in the article even exists.
This looks like it is directly pointed towards AWS EBS and EBS PIOPS offerings so here some quick cost comparisons:

- Rackspace standard storage vs AWS EBS (for 1TB of storage with 100 IOPS)
-- AWS US-East = $126/month
-- Rackspace USA = $150/month

- Rackspace SSD vs AWS PIOPS (for 1TB of storage with 1000 IOPS)
-- AWS US-East = $225/month
-- Rackspace = $700/month

http://blog.planforcloud.com/2012/10/cost-comparison-rackspa...
Some of the tools we used in my computer engineering curriculum were HDL Designer from Mentor Graphics and some tools from Xylinx that were similar. If I remember correctly the reps from Caterpillar said they invested in HDL Designer pretty heavily as it was used widely there. I mention Caterpillar specifically because their world headquarters was about an hour and a half down the road and they recruited pretty heavily from UIUC.

HDL Designer was cool but it was pretty outdated looking even 5 years ago when I was at school. It was all motif running on Sparc Solaris boxes.
Nah, that has always been the case. What happens if you mod your xbox? You get banned from xbox live, MS don't brick your device or remove your games.

Amazon is just doing their best to fuck their customers, and boy they are good at it. I can barely conceive a workplace so fucked up to come up with something as ludicrous as this shit.
Hello, fragmentation.

Resolution might be the same as iPad 2, but pixel density is different. Therefore an area that is clickable on iPad2 or iPad3 may become too small to click on the iPad mini.

So we had two platforms - iPad2/iPad3 with one tap area size, and iPhone 4/iPhone 5 with another, and now we have three.
And also state to state, which is why I said pending a Judge doesn't throw it out.
My thought exactly. Is that something Google Play provides developers?
Apple’s Crazy iPad Naming Scheme
When my macbook pro died and I had to get the logic board replaced I tried using my iPad (3) to replace basic web maintenance for the week.

I couldn't add a mouse or command-tab between programs. (without jailbreaking).

I'd pay for an update for these software features.
Completely agree. I drive for a living, and while I'm not the best I'm well above average in my driving competency.

What I see on a near daily basis is terrifying. I almost t-boned someone because they decided to pull across oncoming traffic to get into a parking lot of a hotel, whilst towing a 30ft boat trailer, on one of the rainiest days of the year, with oncoming traffic coming down a very steep highway overpass. I slammed on my breaks as soon as I saw the idiot start turning. I laid on my horn and basically had to sit there as my ABS chugged away hoping I don't hit him, and hoping my work trailer's brakes don't lock the wheels, lose traction and jackknife into an adjacent lane. I missed the guy by literally less than a foot.

What trumped it, the guy had no license plate on his trailer! I couldn't report the moron even though I wanted to.

This time of year is seriously the worst, when all the cyclists stop biking to work and get back in the car. You get people running red lights and stops, no clue how a 4-way stop works, etc. etc. Speaking from experience once those bikes disappear crazyness on the road increases 10-fold. I know correlation /= causation, but it sure as hell is the biggest coincidence I've ever seen.
The only possible evidence for this would be either an internal email or an admission from Amazon.

Based on the email she got I'd say from Amazon's point of view the matter was closed. There had to be some prod to get them to take another look. If not the publicity, what was it?
>you can only do a few things before you run out of energy and need to harrass your friends or wait 24 hours

This is a theme that exists throughout most Zynga games.
Because brudgers talking about speed, specifically?
>And people often criticize Zynga for making games

That's not why people criticize Zynga, and I think you probably know that.
You aren't making it better.

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http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rross0227
Windows 8 Heap Internals (PDF slides)
Are there any examples of using this as the renderer for an Express application?
Ask HN: Where / How do you find designers for your projects?
Finding a designer to work with,is a constant headache for me. I have been using bootstrap for the project I'm working on, but feel as if I need a designer to just give the whole thing a more professional look. Where should I go look for one?
<%= content_tag :div, "some text", class: 'foo', html: attrs %>

to keep it consistent with your haml example
Because Microsoft sees tablets as a type of PC, not an overgrown phone like Apple and Google. They want a unified experience.

Also? With the "metro" interface as part of the core OS, they're basically forcing manufacturers to start including touchscreens in laptops and to start selling touchscreen monitors. Which isn't exactly bad for manufacturers since it means people will want to upgrade.

Those are my opinions, at least. Personally, I agree that without a touchscreen, the new interface is annoying.
Facebook earnings slightly above Wall Street estimates
I just started a project of scanning in and OCR`ing old school news-papers. Tesseract [1] works very well. The result is almost always completely read-able, with a few obvious mistakes (that seem like could be reduced to almost none with a fairly simple post-processor). In terms of usability, it is a terminal program that is run as `tesseract srcFile.jpg dstFile`. It also has a list of gui front-ends on the site (none of which I have looked at).

[1] http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/
Microsoft's Plan to Bring About the Era of Gesture Control
Very few Zynga employees were from Austin, many are from CA/NY.
QuickTime? Wow - that's a blast from the past. Are you sure they're not using Real (TM) Player?

I'll double-check my Eudora for that e-Mail, after I fix my PPP which has been flaking out on me ever since my dad got call waiting on the house phome^H^Hne.

+++ATH0
According to Apple, iOS is capable, on the iPad mini, of recognizing whether your thumb is resting on the narrower border, or tapping on the interface.

"Rethinking the screen meant we also had to rethink the software behind it. iPad mini intelligently recognizes whether your thumb is simply resting on the display or whether you’re intentionally interacting with it. It’s the kind of detail you’ll notice — by not noticing it."

Source: http://www.macstories.net/stories/ipad-mini-our-complete-ove...
You've never been embarrassed or cringed as a result of someone else's actions?
A Reason to Write Android Apps First
They're attempting to bridge the gap between a tablet and PC using 1 operating system. If played right, it could be a huge advantage to people really only needing one device for everything. You can see this in the new OEM devices coming out (ASUS Transformers, Samsung, etc..)

Why would I want 2 different operating systems if the underlying goal is to reduce the complexities of needing 2 devices... one for 'play' and one for 'work'?
When the OS forces a reboot after 3 days of an update if you don't manually do it yourself it can be important.
Who in their right mind, in the chips industry would consider taking the CEO job at AMD? In order to thrive, you'd need to be smart, lucky, and able to convince Intel to let you. Intel, on the other hand seems interested in the survival of AMD, but only inasmuch as it keeps the FTC and Justice Dept. from sending nasty letters about monopolistic business practices. Add to that, they both have to worry about ARM eating their lunches.

tl;dr Nobody with any sense would take the CEO job at AMD.
I wasn't concerned for this exact reason. I have a secure desktop password and take adequate precautions to ensure security.

The only real risk is with work computers, and anyone who doesn't have their desktop go to screensaver with password unlock after 5-15 minutes activity is just an idiot.

When I was in the bank getting my mortgage, I noticed their computers stay on for ~2 minutes before going back to a password screen for very obvious reasons.
"Having a union that endorses members will create a professional body that is superior to non-unioned workers" looks (to me) like an assertion that the value is in the union endorsement (and that it thus create the professional body), as opposed to the workers themselves.

As I've asserted, information workers are valued for their knowledge and problem solving skills, so unless this hypothetical union were going to certify people as having certain knowledge and problem solving skills and include/exclude members based on that certification (or give them a grading level), it will be meaningless as a value indicator to any employer. If I think the level they give me is too low, I won't be likely to stay associated with them. If employers think they rate people too high, they'll avoid them also.

If the "professional" union is just a middleman, I'd prefer not to have it, and I'm fairly certain sure employers wouldn't either.

Of course, professional bodies (outside of trade organizations) exist like this, but they are called consulting companies.
Thats different within the EU. If you return it within 14 days and its worth more than 40EUR Amazon has to pay for shipping. Its called "Distance Selling Act" (Fernabsatzgesetz in Germany). It applies to all non digital goods sold online except Software and Music.
I hate to admit it, but the fact that casinos continue to exist goes to show that the Zynga model will probably hold true.

Both employ game dynamics to get participants to part with their money - the only difference being that casinos require you to pay up front, and Zynga doesn't have the same level of overhead.

The company will only face a race to the bottom, though, as others enter this space and competition for user time ramps up.
My reaction was "I want a giant phone." I love reading with it and it's the perfect size to hold but it's an ironically poor size for typing. Too small to use with more than two fingers (like an ipad) and too big to type like a phone. Maybe the ipad mini's extra inch makes it a little more typing friendly (for people with smaller fingers).
I dunno, they could put out another iPod HiFi :D
Commercial EDA vendors have solutions starting from C, Matlab and LISA for synthesis of HW logic into FPGA or ASICs. One such list of products is here:

http://www.synopsys.com/Systems/BlockDesign/Pages/default.as...
(Dsiclosure: I work for rsync.net - we've been providing cloud[1] storage since 2001)

We've always positioned rsync.net as a premium offering at a higher price, but it appears this is not really the case anymore - rackspace is 15 cents/GB, per month, and while that matches our 1TB annual package, our 10TB[2] annual is down at 7.9 cents ...

Zero IO cost has been our policy from day one. No disagreement there...

[1] As most on HN know, it's not really a cloud storage offering, since we give people real UNIX filesystems with no abstraction layers between ... but "cloud" will do ...

[2] Live, ZFS filesystem ... so you can just go ahead and send us a single, 10 TB file if you feel like. No weird limitations...
I hadn't heard this expression before: "Hurt People hurt people"

So simple, but something great to keep in mind when you are hurting others or when others are hurting you.
1. It's not less relevant. I hate using a lot of the apps on my N7 because they are obviously phone apps stretched out—and there's no thought to the tablet interface. The only ones that are even remotely good (and barely, at that) are those that tend to replicate an iOS interface in Android. (And the gmail app on the N7 is complete crap. I can't read half of the emails that I get because its view pane is too small regardless of the orientation.)

2. There are, supposedly, a few thousand large tablet apps. I've been using the N7 since it was made available in Canada and have yet to see a good app that takes advantage of the N7's size advantage over phones, but recognizes the smaller area than larger tablets.

The iPad mini will handle this much better.

Your edit, BTW, is nonsense—you have always been able to make a Universal app for iOS. The layouts remain separate, but this is where Android gets it completely wrong: app makers should be taking advantage of the sizes available and stop pretending that automatic layout actually works (we learned that it doesn't with Swing; why the hell are Android developers having to learn it all over again?).
If anyone is interested, I've found Eugene Mallove's "Fire from Ice" to be a fantastic read in documenting cold fusion and its troubled past.

http://www.amazon.com/Fire-Ice-Searching-Behind-Fusion/dp/18...
One of the best windows 8 articles I've read to date. This actually has me considering an upgrade for the anti-virus/malware as well as the faster boot, leaner run-time, and Hyper-V included.

I'll definitely go check it out at some retailer to see if I think I can get over (or minimize) the horrid multi-tile slate touchpad-friendly floating window interface.
I have a current iPad 3 and wouldn't mind a Mini. Wish it had a retina display though but I think between the two, the Mini would be better for me.
Looks like a typographical error to me, a native speaker of the American flavor of English. You are correct that the article is required here.
If games consoles do well in the next few years AMD will do okay. The Wii U has AMD graphics, the PS4 will and the XBOX successor is rumored to have AMD too.
same resolution, scaled down by 20%.

so if you designed a button to be as small as a finger for the ipad, it's now too small.
Why Chicago Is One of the Best Cities for Entrepreneurs
We've funded several.
So what? Tech startup journalism is barely even related to Journalism with a capital J. Why should a glorified press release network be held to the same code of ethics? It shouldn't.

You should read non-technical tech blogs through the same lens as you read the magazines in the grocery checkout. Could you ever take seriously a complaint against People about a conflict of interest? I hope not.
DOJ Railroads CIA Torture Whistleblower Into Reduced Guilty Plea
Ceefax Final Broadcast: 'Goodbye, cruel world.'
I dunno, I like Chrome's zoom tap ability, which activates when the tap covers too many inputs.

It's much nicer than accidently hitting a link, then have to hit back after a second or two.