skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So Satan was the angel that made reality work by using global variables. He was cast out by god for violating the coding standard. All the evil you see in the world is the result of errors caused by the use of global variables and a lack of sufficient testing prior to release that was the result of an unreasonable schedule that was pulled out of God's ass simply because he wanted to prove he could make the angels ship something in six days.

We need an update to Time Bandits.
Growth hacking: Leading indicators of engaged users
Memory interface and core interconnects are another differentiator, just look at how much they vary on Cortex-A9 SoCs for instance (1x32 bit to 4x32bit, to say nothing of the frequency or memory type)
I have always felt that it was a weakness in Siri that there wasn't a direct connection to a world class search engine. The whole "I don't know, Google it." exit point in the interaction flow was is really such a huge hole. The question then is can iOS voice assist compete with Android voice assist if Android comes with a readily accessible search engine? Its an interesting marketing challenge.
Steve Jobs wasn't ever really a "creative force" at Disney.
It uses the client's 'Accept:' header which specifies which media types it prefers for the response (eg. 'text/html', 'application/json')

Browsers will indicate that they prefer HTML, so that's what REST framework serves them.
Looks like Home is the home button and End is the lock button. (on Mac fn+left = Home and fn+right = End)
Even more shocking:
"That will be followed by Episodes 8 and 9 – and our long term plan is to release a new Star Wars feature film every two to three years"
Marvel, Pixar, LucasArts, ABC, ESPN, A+E, Disney Channel, and associated merchandising. I'm not sure how much "control" over our "public dialog" this really implies. I'm the parent of two very normal middle aged children and, while they're certainly exposed to some of this IP, I'd contest that it has much "influence" over them.

Google has much more control over our public dialog than Disney does.
Framerate isn't a comparative measurement. You have to measure elapsed time.

Instead of spending 3 weeks wrapping data structures in mutexes for a 15% framerate increase, you could probably get an equivalent speedup by reducing shader detail, texture size, or any number of other options. This kind of measurement is not meaningful without additional information: Is this improved performance for low-spec GPUs? High-spec CPUs? universal performance improvement for all users? Low end machines typically do not have lots of cores; will they actually benefit tremendously from parallelism? As I said before, a high-spec machine already runs Doom 3 fine, so I question whether the gains here would actually be significant at all.

EDIT: Also, gains of this size can easily be produced by changes as simple as turning on Profile-Guided Optimization in your compiler. We'd also need to know what settings they used to compile the game to know whether the results are actually realistic.
Because we want them to have a level of understanding of those fields, even if it's shallow. It's good for society if as many people as possible understand algebra or World War I or how to read and write at a high level. If for no other reason than that as a democracy, we need our citizenry to have a certain base level of knowledge of how the world works.
The many world's interpretation is based on the assumption that both the observed system and the observer is modeled by a wavefunction. In that case observation is entanglement, which seems weird to us, but which makes perfect logical sense.

Other interpretations of quantum mechanics start with the assumption that the world is fundamentally like our naive experience leads us to think of it as. Therefore when we observe something, we couldn't really be thrown into a superposition of states, each of which observed a different thing and which cannot meaningfully interact due to quantum mechanical principles. If we can't be thrown into such a superposition, then there must be some sort of underlying reality, or quantum collapse, or other weirdness that is not explained by QM.

All of the weirdness of interpretations other than many worlds can be understood as the conflict between how they would like to understand the world (there is a reality that happened), and how quantum mechanics described things.

All of the weirdness of the many worlds interpretation can be understood as, "We can't perceive the process of quantum superposition, so it seems really, really weird to us."
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Take that one step farther and you'll arrive at the conclusion that if we take QM seriously, then there is never a collapse, and the many worlds interpretation is a logical consequence.
Most of these companies are a conglomerate of entertainment subsidiaries - i.e. Viacom (Paramount, MTV, Nickelodeon), Time Warner, NBC Universal / Comcast.

That said, Disney has seen a pretty steady increase in revenue (~5-6%) over the past few years.
That's what deposits are for.

We generally get a pretty sizable chunk of our fee up front (25-50%) and before we first hit design reviews. If crap goes sour during design review we're already holding their money. Now we can still have done more work then they've paid for but at least some of that risk is mitigated while we settle the rest in the courts.

I should note that we're kind of young, but this has never yet happened to us.
"You were repulsed by the above description of this imaginary site."

No really, no. Everything described already exists (except the sex-cred, and the geo-tagging is rather manual); simply not on the open internet.
I don't see the resemblance. Isn't everyone doing large blocking, http://chartbeat.com/ has something similar.
I found your meta-meta comment more useless, better to just let it be. OTOH this meta-meta-meta comment is fantastic, especially this sentence.
I'll make one final attempt to bring this discussion to specifics. Here is a test from CA: http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/sr/documents/cstrtqmath7.pdf

Can you be specific about what "test prep" means and how it differs from "education"?

Again, many larger companies (e.g., Google, Goldman, MS, DE Shaw) do attempt to standardize their hiring procedures and evaluation methods. But I suppose they are all "insane", right?
It means they bought LucasArts too. Not that LucasArts were great in the last decade or so but Disney sucks as a "parent" for game dev companies (RIP Blackrock).
Thanks a lot for the response.

1. I'm glad that you get the minimalist/non-pro feel from the site. That was my aim so that's good news.

2. I hadn't thought about Masonry-like layout, but I'm thinking that could be a good idea so that people can see the diversity of content.

However, the reason I avoided Twitter-style scrolling was because I often find myself on other sites wishing I could just hop to a page from a long time ago, but instead having to press "More" over and over again. Haha. I always have an open mind though as I get new info/feedback.

Thanks again for your input and definitely come back if you think of anything else.
Are general requirements in college a waste of time?
You need to get excited. The creative folk at Pixar and Disney have been killing it in comparison to what's come out of Lucasfilm lately.

Watch The Pixar Story (streaming on Netflix: http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/The_Pixar_Story/70083532?l...), and tell me you're not more comfortable with Star Wars in their hands then in Lucas'.
> Instead of spending 3 weeks wrapping data structures in mutexes for a 15% framerate increase, you could probably get an equivalent speedup by reducing shader detail, texture size, or any number of other options.

I see why we differ in opinion here: you feel that regressing backwards and sacrificing visual quality is a better approach than parallelizing the same exact engine with the same quality. I don't think we're going to see eye-to-eye on this one.
I'm disappointed to see that there is no option for students to waive the entire fee. Microsoft does this on the Windows Store (students get a free year), so it would only make sense to carry over to Windows Phone 8.

Of course, that would require actual inter-department consistency at Microsoft. And we all know how impossible that is.
Were you guys inspired by AppJet at all? I'd love to see JavaScript support.
This isn't called webscript.io. It's called "webscript". It's beyond pretentious. The words "web" and "script" are extremely generic and common in software development. To put them together and not only use it as a product name but try to introduce it as a new term rubs me the wrong way. (The phrase "Webscripts are a fast and easy way to receive those webhooks" gives me the idea that they intend to do just that.)

Going past that, the video takes way too long. The best parts of the API are quite similar to request and express in node.js land. The website is vanilla Bootstrap with a few supported customizations to make it stand out more. There's little in it that shows that the team has the level of skills needed to write a platform.
What does it take to survive an EBS outage?
Designer-in-Progress
Ha, yup YU Grad here. Everybody in the jury is biased...the key is to collect information and make the best possible decision.
Neat 1.0 is out
massklin is not complaining he can't use an old browser to navigate a 3D maze of blog posts jurassicpark style.
That sounds completely doable for 99% of internet users! Surprised my grandma hasn't already been using this exact workflow.
> This works well for commodity companies that sell fizzy sugar water.

Why can't you just say soda, pop or whatever regional dialect you prefer? I don't understand why any time anyone ever says this it has to phrased in the most condescending way possible.
Yup, I meant "killed." (Edited, thanks.)

We figure that copy/paste is a good enough way to get your scripts out, but if there's demand, it wouldn't be too hard for us to build an export.

Once you create a subdomain, you own it, but you can have whichever ones you choose. (There's no overall subdomain for a user... a user can have as many subdomains as he/she wants.)

A lawyer wrote the Terms, not me, and I probably shouldn't try to interpret them. If you want to discuss it, send us email (support@webscript.io) and we'll help.
Simple: Because the strategy is to keep Apple out of the content biz, as owners. It keeps Apple as a customer, while the TV/Cable's themselves vertically integrate. This sets up the Tv/Cable-co's to to extract rents. Now Disney <controls> a Pixar, Lucas ESPN, et al; Comcast <controls> Universal & NBC. This Apple TV?...etc.
Ok, as far as I can tell, this all just a rehash of EPR paradox and the weirdness of the Copenhagen interpretation of QM. The many worlds interpretation resolves everything with full locality. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation

Just consider, if I take a black marble and a white in hand, shake them up and put them in two boxes so I don't know which marble is in which box and put the two boxes on two sides of the world. Then, when I open one box, I instantly learn the state of the marble in the other. The information is "transmitted" to me "faster than the speed of light" but all because the actual switch event happened in the past. Now, as far as I can, QM entanglement is pretty much the same thing as these boxes. The only weird thing is that the standard interpretation (not the standard theory since it is not necessary for any meaningful measurement), the standard interpretation is that in QM, the equivalent of our marble switch happens when the final measurement happens.

There's nothing in any of this research that involves any concrete evidence whatsoever that faster-than-light information transmittal happens, (feel free to counter-references that), but as far as I've read, all the "transmittal" is "transmittal" the sense of above.
Why doesn't Google release such a thing for desktops? Voice commanding my PC or using it as a kind of a personal assistant has been my dream for like 10 years. I've tried quite a number of apps and nothing compares to Siri or Google's voice search.
Apple Delays iTunes Refresh
Did anyone else search Google to see if this was a joke? (it's not)
This must have something to do with the upcoming Angry Birds Star Wars.
ITunes 11 delayed into November in order to "get it right"
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Lua is a lightweight programming language and has good reputation among game engines. In this article, you will learn how to install and use the latest version of Lua (5.2.1) on Mac OS X Mountain Lion, Lion or Snow Leopard.
In Oregon. If I was in NYC, I'm not too sure if I would venture out into that weather.
Three words that scare me: "Disney's Star Wars"

(for context, note that they've been explicitly tagging their name on all their kids fare, especially stuff based on public domain or historical sources)
nice to see someone from ece on hn :)
If you want to mention some recent searches that disappointed you, I'm happy to pass that on to the quality team here.

If you're unhappy that Google is trying to autocorrect spelling or add/remove search terms, you might try the verbatim search tool: http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2011/11/search-using-your-t...
iTunes 11 delayed until November
I loved AppJet, and yes, I'd call it an inspiration for what we're doing.

A number of people are mentioning JavaScript. We don't have any plans yet, but we're paying attention to the feedback.
Does anyone know what the largest modern transaction for a sole-owned company is?
Science off the Sphere: Yo-Yos in Space
Here is an actual CA standardized test:

http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/sr/documents/cstrtqmath7.pdf

Please explain why you feel it doesn't adequately measure the ability of students to "read, write, and compare rational numbers in scientific notation (positive and negative powers of 10) with approximate numbers using scientific notation" (as well as the other topics listed).

Or, similarly, can you explain specifically what "teaching to the test" means and why it is suboptimal for learning the aforementoined topics?
PC game development is about delivering a good experience for users on a wide range of hardware configurations. A given game is not going to automatically run perfect on every hardware configuration.

When considering performance issues for a particular customer, you have to weigh the cost of improvement. 3 weeks of an engineer's time for 15% speedup (even if it were in elapsed frame time, which it's not) is NOT an easy decision. Those 3 weeks could be spent doing far more valuable things, like improving the tools used by the rest of the development team, fixing crash bugs, or working on downloadable content that will bring in more money for the studio. They could also be spent making architectural changes that provide much larger performance wins through design improvements that require actual knowledge about the design of the application and the significance of the choices made.

When you're doing performance optimization in game development, you go for the biggest, cheapest wins first, based on actual measurements and an understanding of what's wrong. Given that the optimized version of the game is not running at 60fps (and the demo video contains obvious rendering glitches) I don't think it's unfair to question whether CPU parallelism was the most obvious bottleneck here.

Lastly, dropping texture size or shader detail when running on a low spec machine is not a regression. If the machine is not capable of running at max rendering detail due to GPU constraints, no degree of CPU parallelism will overcome this.
Fortunately, corporations are pretty shitty at deliberately pushing a cultural agenda. I dare you to find a consistent agenda in any media conglomerate's output.
Supposedly Lucas himself at one time thought about eps 7-9 as another trilogy.

There is also the extended universe (which has traditionally been recognized as canon) that is quite clear about what happened after Return of the Jedi, so there's plenty of material, assuming they don't toss away the entirety of the extended universe...
Yet it would seem that Disney has a lot more to lose if IP laws are not kept in their favor, as evidenced by the Life+70 copyright extension they were able to successfully lobby into existence.

Google and Disney clearly have two very different set of influences, but to imply that Disney has little control is simply wrong. Ultimately the buck stops with our various representatives, but Disney has some serious skin in the game of keeping the status quo intact.

Suffice to say, their "Disney Vault" promotional tactic couldn't exist in a world where (what most people consider) sane copyright laws existed, and I've yet to see an argument that reasonably suggests that kind of behavior is good for our culture.
Show HN: Shirts for Sandy - Raising money for the relief fund
No, Alan Horn's in charge of Disney Studios, which includes Pixar, Disney's regular animation division, and live-action movies.

Check out the image on their corporate site, it looks like Lucas is worried about his cat being held hostage to force him to sign: http://thewaltdisneycompany.com/
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Movie studios aren't like startups.
Tales of Creation
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In the usual experiment used, if the two electron spin detectors for the two entagled particles are tilted the same, they'll get opposite results always. But if you tilt them differently, however, you no longer get results that are exactly opposite each other all the time. Therefore the electrons are in a superposition until they hit the detectors. It isn't decided yet what they will be.

Keep in mind we're working with quantized values. Spin is always completely up or down, no matter what angle you measure it from. Measuring it at that angle locks it down, but tilting another detector in the chain after means you go back to a non-linear probability calculated by quantum mechanics (cosine of the angle in this case) to if it is up or down again at the new tilt and locks it down to that new tilt. There isn't any pre-determined value the electrons can be set to beforehand that matches the observed number that deflect in the detectors up or down at all measurement angles.
Disney acquires Lucasfilm Ltd. and plans to release Star Wars 7 by 2015
Let me make it worse.

Ever heard of chaotic systems? Any dynamic system that shows extreme sensitivity to initial conditions is chaotic. For instance smoke curling from a cigarette, planetary orbits over time, weather, water dripping from a tap - all of these show extreme sensitivity to initial conditions.

Here is the fun thing. In quantum mechanics everything evolves linearly. Therefore extreme sensitivity to initial conditions is entirely impossible. We only think that we observe that. Yet the world is full of cases where we can demonstrate such sensitivity!

See http://www.iqc.ca/publications/tutorials/chaos.pdf for some of the attempts to reconcile observed classical facts with what we think are true quantum truths.
There's that carbonite process he looked into a long time ago.
I really don't need to know who's the local Mayor of Anal.
I tried the same test.

Google got the translation right first try, and the first result, which returned in less than a second, had "over $20 billion in damage" visible.

Siri took ~8 seconds to return "Ok sports fans, the Hurricanes appear to be in first place in the Southeast right now" followed by AHL team standings.

Apple has a lot of catching up to do here. They're going to have to start translating client-side, which Google has obviously figured out, and they're going to need a data source as rich as Google. It think the first part will get done at some point, but how will they match Google on the data side?
I hope they are doing the Thrawn trilogy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrawn_trilogy
Equinix datacenter in NY metro had a water leak that impacted a customer
>in excess of 1000 key/value pairs

Tiny! You should have tiers, and not "unlimited, but only where that means enough for a small amount of single-users"
Hm; to me personally, one advantage is that I immediately understand the idea and usage method of their service, while reading the links you provided I can't grasp what they're trying to communicate, unfortunately.

Also, I know Lua and value it very highly, so seeing it mentioned immediately focused my attention.

Thirdly, "free" "unlimited" "renewable 7-day" trial sounds great, and $5/month for persistent does too.
Remember that Disney owns Marvel, who made Avengers. SW7-9 might be more of a popcorn movie, but I think they'll steer clear of outright stupidity.
Ok. Point made. But if this ends with JJ Abrams doing a "reboot" of ANH where Han is a genuinely nice guy and Greedo was just 'misunderstood', I shall be very put out.
YAML, encodings and binary strings in Ruby
Sarcasm? I can think of one...

EDIT: News Corp was what I was thinking.
Saving phone battery power (JIT was done on the phone every time an app started) and using green energy no less!

"With the new code generation approach in Windows Phone 8, apps are compiled in the Windows Phone Store with AC power generated from the Columbia River in Washington. That’s a better battery to use than yours! As you can see, we’ve removed an entire category of battery use on end-user devices."
Perhaps now, Han can go back to shooting first?
I don't disagree with just about any point you made...my point is that I don't think simple games...and for that matter, any kind of web app, is a great way to start learning to code because of what you said.

While you will have to learn multiple API's and libraries to do anything money-generating, I think it's not an efficient route when first learning programming...why not do a simple project that will be immediately useful to you as soon you complete it?
That's exactly what I experience on a daily basis too.
Star Wars has long been envisioned as three trilogies.

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

Yes, I'm a bit of a nerd. Please don't get me started on Star Trek.
I think this is orthogonal to the argument that I responded to upthread. The idea I responded to is that by rolling up so much of our popular culture, Disney has reached a point where it bears some kind of responsibility for vouchsafing our culture. Strong disagree: just like buying OMGPOP didn't reward Zynga with a mortal lock on the market for iPhone games, buying up the most popular media properties won't reward Disney with control of our culture.

Disney in reality has much less control over our culture than many other companies, including many other media companies. The fact of their purchasing Lucasfilm doesn't change that. It's alarmist to suggest that owning Star Wars is going to give Disney some kind of undue influence. If anything, it's likely to improve that terribly corrupted and besmirched franchise.
Hi HN! I know this isn't the usual HN project, but I remember seeing something like this posted for a snowstorm a while back. I'm in CT and since I was locked in my college dorm yesterday as Hurricane Sandy made landfall, I decided to get some like-minded people together and design and sell a T-shirt to help the relief movement as the storm continues its path. We will be donating 100% of our proceeds to charity (currently we're looking at AmeriCares[1], but please let me know if you have any suggestions).

Technology wise, I set the entire thing up in a couple of hours with a static page and put it up on an AWS S3 bucket. We're collecting the orders in a PayPal account now to build up a large order and then getting our shirts printed, allowing us to minimize our printing costs as much as possible.

We're selling our shirts for $14 (free shipping) at http://www.shirtsforsandy.com. Even if you can't buy a shirt, we would greatly appreciate it if you donated a few spare dollars to the relief effort or if you could spread the word about what we're doing. Our Facebook page is at http://facebook.com/ShirtsForSandy.

[1]http://www.americares.org/