skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But then how do you explain the colonization programme?

I don't especially like the settlements, actually, and neither do a lot of Palestinians. I'd be happier if the lot of them were either removed or simply abandoned to the jurisdiction of Palestinian authorities.

Sharon actually closed a lot of them awhile ago, but just like any democracy, it's hard to get away with alienating any constituency. You'll notice that even though Sharon pulled all the settlements out of the Gaza Strip, it didn't seem to improve matters there any. Also, the settlements provide a lot of jobs and economic benefits to Palestinians. It's a complicated issue, much more complicated than this bullshit of yours about "the Israelis are Nazis" (which itself is pretty fucking racist, BTW).

As for the bulldozers, do you have any good sources on that? As far as I can readily find, most demolitions are either carried out because structures were constructed (often in Israel itself) without proper building permits (though this is allegedly enforced unfairly), or because there are terrorists actively holed up inside them. Interestingly, Israel also demolishes a lot of the settlements.

This is probably a good time to point out one of my simple ground rules about this issue: I think any criticism of any party, or any policy, is reasonable, as long as one accepts that both Israel and Palestine have a right to exist as independent states.
Right, good point. I see I've been mixing those up. So it's a single-race state? Or not that, either? (not intended in any offensive way - I'm just trying to understand what you're saying)
Where is there fiber in Minneapolis?
I only wish entrepreneurs doing any social/mobile/web app would read it. (I think the lesson, evaluating different sources of income, applies to more than games.)
Ask YC: What time will Y Combinator announce the results for W13 applications?
His points are well taken, but as I player I refuse to participate in this business model. On the other, I would buy this game for more than one dollar, because it looks like it's worth more than that. Too bad.
I totally agree.

Dev Bootcamp gives out our own custom prep material about a month before a cohort starts. You're interacting with other students and staff online starting then. Our prep material covers everything from the basics of programming up to simple object-oriented programming.

Some students will be farther ahead, but one thing we make clear to students on day 1 is that they're as responsible for creating the learning environment as we are. In fact, they outnumber us, so in many ways they're more responsible. :)

We emphasize patience and empathy, so students who are behind get mentorship from the students who are ahead. It reinforces the learning for the more advanced students and shores up the less advanced students.

Starting Jan. 28th, we're moving to rolling cohorts, where ~15 students enter every 3 weeks for a 9-week program. This way there will be a "senior third" expected to mentor students in the "freshman third." You'd be able to seek out that struggling student and give him the help they needed right when they entered the program.

Also, Dave, who is a badass at every level, joined the DBC team last month. I love that man and his squirrel-as-a-running-back t-shirt.

Scroll down and check it: http://devbootcamp.com/learn-more/
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I don't know what you mean by 'the colonisation thing'. What are you talking about specifically?
I'd say that's a nice gesture, really. The company's founders have excellent street cred. The game had a lot of hype/visibility. It did not fail for lack of technical prowess. People will (and, I bet, are already trying very hard) want to hire the people that worked on the game. The management team is simply facilitating this behavior. What' wrong w/ that?
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho.

King, Warrior, Magician, Lover by Moore and Gillette

The lean startup

Paul Graham how to start a startup

Mark Hyman Ultimate Mind Solution

Tribal Leadership

Wheel of Time

Think and Grow Rich

Superior Man David Deida

The Fountain Head

Eckhart Tolle New Earth

50th Law

Good to Great

Jed Mckenna

Earl Nightengale

Long Walk to Freedom

Outliers

Good to Great

Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz (Self-image)

Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven Covey(Being awesome)

Wealth of Nations

Wayne Dyer The Tao

System of the World

Origin of Species

Brave new world

Thank you economy

Crush it

Built to Last

Who Moved my Cheese

Stillness Speak Eckhert Tolle

Mastery George Leonard

Steve Jobs Biography

The Last Lecture

Steve Pavlina Books

Iacocca

Striking Thoughts Bruce Lee

Carlos Castaneda

Ghost in the Wires

Richest Man in Babylon

Way of the Superior Man

Losing My Virginity

Think and Grow Rich

Delivering Happiness
What is the difference between DatabaseThreadSafe and DatabaseSuperThreadSafe?

http://labs.codernity.com/codernitydb/design.html#how-it-s-b...
Until now I had not seen this video, but thank you.

This really puts in to perspective the brevity of human life and how little we have achieved so far, from leaving the primordial soup to firing Glee across our television network to entertain teenage girls and travelling to and from the moon.

We are irrelevantly small and unimportant and yet we have already done the hardest thing, of what we know for sure, there are 8.5 million species on the planet and we are the only constructively intelligent one present here, there are 400 known satellites in our solar system, if you assume that every solar system in the milky way has a similar amount of planetoids on which some minor form of life could have grown, placed around 300 billion stars. I'm going to take a complete guess that only 1 in 10,000 of those contain a similar amount of life, which could be light years off, or could be spot on, or could even be far, far less tan the actual number - we simply don't know yet.

The maths is breathtakingly overwhelming:

(1 / ((8500000 * 400) * 300000000000)) * 10000 = 0.000000000000000098

Our significance in the Milky Way is 0.000000000000000098.

We account for only 0.0000000000000098% of potential life in this galaxy.

But we survived. We made it this far. From here the only way is up, or down, or left or under (depending on the location of the camera when we finally make it far enough off this rock to consider it interstellar travel.)

Disclaimer: This maths was about as well as I could do at 5.30am and is the product of a Google search of the accumulated human knowledge of the last few thousand years
More in the series of bizarre UEFI bugs
I suppose a difference would be that in Diablo III you don't feel like you are just walking around and clicking.
Could you please spare us from the anti-semitic card? HN is not the mainstream media and many here are not ignorant, so this tactic doesn't work here. It also betrays your lack of objectivity on the matter.
I don't think that free to play is necessarily the answer. And I say this as a developer of a free to play game.

The key, I think, is in two things.

The first is having more control over your ability to distribute the product in the long term, and cheaply. The retail model meant that old games didn't have any opportunity to continue to get sales. Digital distribution means that old games continue to be available, and they can continue to make quite a lot of money.

The ability to distribute titles yourself means that you don't need to do a big hit all-on-day-one launch to make a sustainable living.

The second thing is the ability for some players to pay more money than others. The free to play model is great at this, but it isn't the only way I think that this can happen.

We have the ability for someone to pay $1000 to become a "Diamond" supporter which gives someone the ability to design a unique item (with guidance from us for balance reasons). They do not get given a copy, it's an item that is now available for the entire player base and enriches the game by providing more content for the players.

This kind of piecemeal support for specific purposes is an interesting area that I think could grow in the future.

The overall message I guess is getting away from the need for a big launch then slump, and moving to something that grows and is sustainable for the long term.
Man's Search for Meaning - ViktorFrankl

Endgame (Biography of Bobby Fischer) - Frank Brady

Walt Disney - Bob Thomas

The Given Day - Dennis Lehane (Fiction)

Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane (Way better than movie)

Michael Lewis - The Big Short

Churchill - Paul Johnson (faster read than the others)
Considering that the answer to the article's question is essentially "no," this is a weak putdown.
Do you believe the dirty water coming out of the opening will leave more shit on your bum than the crude white paper you use to rub it off?
One thing I would recommend is trying with a different USB cable. I have found that microusb cables are often flaky, and a flaky cable produces very weird and hard-to-diagnose errors.
Phil, thanks for clearing this up. I stand corrected. (hey, now, the IDF tweet didn't change my mind about the situation, but blvr and you did! dialog rocks - and thanks for your patience)

As a sidenote, I agree that the Nazi reference was over the top and I regret using it. I do not agree, however, that it was "fucking racist", since I called a government something, not a race or a nation's people.
> (This, of course, assumes that by antisemitism you mean actual hatred of Jews, and not "being critical of the something the Israeli government does or did")

Well, for example, there's being critical of something the Israeli government does or did, and then there's literally calling them Nazis.

There's also that charming little incident in your country where football supporters, specifically of Ajax, took on a "Jewish" identity for some reason, which was cute until rival supporters chanted "Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the gas". Oddly enough, this kind of racist abuse doesn't seem to happen in the United States. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9404E7DB153FF...
Well the argument has always been:

1. Safer cabs
a. mechanical inspections
b. limited hours - safer driver
2. Prevent price gouging
3. Prevent circuitous routing
4. Limit congestion by reducing vehicles on road
>>Zionism is the idea that Jews need a Jewish nation to take Jewish refugees fleeing persecution.

Makes perfect sense. If you settle a persecuted set of people on a totally unoccupied land, which would be totally harmless. What I don't understand is the need to persecute one already existing set of people to accommodate another set of people who just got persecuted.

If a persecuted tribe in Africa decides to settle down in Antarctica people wouldn't have a problem. But will it be OK, if they invade California drive out the existing set of people there and settle down.
> Do you want to enrage your enemy into more violence

Yes, in a "go on, make my day" kind of way, to justify even more future military action, since Israel is likely to win any future conflict.

> This is why the US military didn't release anything

US military's goal was not the same as Israel's goal.

> or do you want to win?

They want to win, but not as you think.

Their definition of "win" is to ethnically clean Palestinians from biblical Israel, so yes, engaging them in more and more and more violence is the way to go.

> You're just setting up the next wave of violence.

And the next wave of violence will lead to the next way of Israel wins, and the next way of Israel wins will lead to the next way of settlements and land expropriation. Mission accomplished. The Israeli far right loves it when a plan comes together.

> It's not a fucking game.

Your problem is that you dont even for a second consider the possibility that Israel is the bad guy in this game, i.e. the Nazis, so youre all the time "wrong move, wrong move, WTF are they doing?!?!". From a bully's point of view, Israels tactics fully make sense. You start a conflict and then you win and you take your victims toys and chase him from the playground.
His land was being occupied -- and with deplorable tactics at that.
Memories of an Unconnected Era: Searching for Sugar Man
(nice trick!)

Aie, damn. Lost in translation. I meant the settlements. But people have been elaborating about those in other comments by now. And I've come to stand corrected that even if the settlements are horrible, they're less horrible than suicide bombings and the likes.
Thorsten Heins: BlackBerry 10 Will Eliminate the Need for Laptops
Thumbs up!!!!
Ever since I tried a Toto in Japan, I've become fascinated with these bidet seats, and have since become an expert on them, after building my own bidet seat review blog and bidet seat store to resell Brondell products (which are among the top brands). I've learned that most of the top end bidet seats have complex nozzle retraction and sanitization systems. The Brondell Swash 1000 we sell has stainless steel nozzles treated with "silver oxide nano particles" that resist bacteria, and most models have systems that rinse the nozzle before and after each use. The nozzles typically retract when not in use so that they're not in the line of fire of human waste.
Such a beautiful demo. I was (am?) really looking forward to this "making it." I do think it's going to take a pretty massive development effort to make it work well though.

For starters, you're going to want to be dealing with objects or structured data rather than raw strings. So you'll be rewriting or writing wrappers for a lot of Unix. Powershell hasn't really been ported to Unix yet, presumably because the "unix greybeards" as he puts it are dogmatically attached to plain text as the communication medium, and not without reason. Maybe if you made HTML or JSON the medium you could simplify this? I suspect you'll want the opacity only live objects can provide though, and that probably means you're opening yourself up to the usual parade of problems.

He mentions that Unix's execution model makes this kind of a non-starter. I have no idea which things here were actually the problem, but I can definitely see how building on very early Node exacerbated the problem. OTOH Node seems like the "correct" platform—Lighttable is also arriving as essentially a browser bundled with embedded Node.

In all, I hope he does pick it up. I would bet that part of why this hasn't happened before or since is because there are many ways to approach the problem that would work but they all probably involve deep changes to the OS—or at least lots of new code. Microsoft can get away with these kinds of things because they also have the whole OS and VM, and they could throw a lot of people at an inelegant solution and still make it work. One guy, working on it in his spare time probably can't produce that volume and there will always be the nagging sensation that if approached from another angle it would be less work. I don't think it's true, but I could see falling into the trap.
Some old that I have re-read, some new, all worth your time:

Old Man And The Sea - Ernest Hemingway

IQ84 - Haruki Murakami

The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch

On Writing - Stephen King

When Bad Things Happen To Good People - Harold Kushner

Catcher In The Rye - J.D. Salinger

Notes To Myself - Hugh Prather
I think it's the people saying that Android is not the Windows of smartphones that will be considered crazy at this point (unlike before when it was the one saying it who who were considered that).
I find your argument unconvincing, but reading more about it did lead me to this page, so at least I can now say I understand Israel's official position on the matter: http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Peace+Process/Guide+to+the+Peace+P...

Paraphrased, their position is: we won the 1967 war, and because there was no formal country in the West Bank prior to that, we can keep the land that we won in that war legally. Since we own it, we see no reason to keep Israelis from moving there if they want to.

It still seems hard to justify, saying on one hand that the "right of return" would threaten Israel's identity as a Jewish state (I agree; this is an unrealistic demand), but simultaneously arguing that Israelis are free to continue moving to the West Bank if they so choose, as if that doesn't threaten the identity of a future Palestinian state.
I think israel war tactics are better. They are creating phobia amongst all the Hamas leaders and members. They are deliberately showing their superior discipline and power and challenging the indisciplined hamas members.

Good thing is they killed a well known military leader and a terrorist . Just to send a message , I mean striking terror in the heart of enemy is the single most accurate technique that has worked since the origin of war. I think those who volunteer for Hamas now will think twice about it.

Frankly enforcing religion in military used to work when people fought with knives and swords . Here most wars are won with discipline and intelligence . No religion led military will ever win , they are just a bunch of monkeys jumping here and there and are too emotional to think with their heads .
Short term, this site is helpful:

http://simplynoise.com/
Big spenders or "whales" are much ignored when considering how to make money with a game. There really are people out there that are willing to spend thousands a month on a social game. You could even think that all the other players merely exist in the game to entertain that small slice that really brings in the money.

In my own apps with virtual currency I could see this only in a small way as the incentive was low to spend a lot, so this is more based on the experiences I have heard from fellow devs.
This is the most sane part of all IE testing I've done. Love it.
Michael Lewis Profiles Barack Obama in Vanity Fair
It is not true that all races have equal rights under Israeli law. Try immigrating to Israel if you are not Jewish.

The message is clear and simple: Don't mess with us, we will fk you over. Whether it is nice or not is a different matter.
Yea right. Are you saying that Zionists locating Israel in Palestine has nothing to do with their 3,000 year old holy book?
The deck is stacked against Uber, Lyft and Sidecar. You have to realize that the taxi industry is a government-cab collaboration, with the customer getting fleeced. It is not as simple as "government grants license to cab operator, cab operator runs his cab and makes money". No. The government takes a cut from the daily action too. Use a credit card in the cab? The government takes a cut. Want to rent your medallion to someone else? The government takes a cut.

Right now, the financial impact of these outfits is minimal. But when they seriously start impacting government revenues, expect the lawmakers to come out swinging. They'll tag-team with the taxi union(s) and make life hell for the Sidecars, Ubers and Lyfts of the world.
Like Japan, in India people prefer water over paper for cultural reasons, we dont have bidets but use health faucets
"Our constitution has failed" - Ron Paul, upon retiring
From my experience, the ad blocker is actually blocking the ad coming from the incoming server, so no impression is counted.

If you are using something that replaces the ad with another image (Add-Art for example), the underlying ad is likely being served.

The latter is good for the publisher, good for the user, not so good for the ad network or the brand / utility purchasing the ad space.
Well, who said the video captures the whole of the attack?

Now, slightly off-topic, but I don't like words like "collateral damage".

It's not a building demolition we're talking about, in this context collateral damage is newspeak for "innocent bystanders murdered".

If someone did an attack on some target in the US, even a deplorable one (like some bloodthirsty third world dictator living there to avoid prosecution in his country), would anyone in the media dare to speak about innocent nearby people killed as "collateral damage"?

It's equally bad, and very racist to use this word exclusively in the case of third world, middle-eastern, etc people.
Two hours? You got some real patience. I was in the early pre-beta and they lost me few minutes in, right after I was given a "pet rock" that I was expected to talk to.

(edit) I also got a strong impression it was a single guy's visionary pet (for the lack of better word) project, and he had some spare money from a previous exit to throw at it. So he kept pulling it in his own direction. I might be and probably am off here, but that's the impression I formed by hanging around the project for a bit.
"See, this is how much spam you'd see if it was the default option to show all page updates"
One of the things that has always fascinated me is how much of our culture is a modern affectation rather than being some deep pattern of human behavior. You don't even have to go back a few hundred years; there are things Americans perceive as having been that way forever that did not exist at the beginning of the 20th century. Most of our eating and sleeping habits have been shaped by the Industrial Revolution.

Regarding the article, I've experimented with a lot of different eating schedules and structures over the years, largely out of idle curiosity to see if it makes a difference. To be perfectly honest, I can't eat three meals a day. My typical day is eating something very light in the late morning, though I skip it a few days a week, and an early-ish dinner. I've kind of arrived there randomly but it suits me. I don't have time in the middle of the day for a Roman-style big lunch even if I wanted to have one.

A big difference between historical eating patterns and now was the lack of massive quantities of refined carbohydrates and sugars in the diet a couple centuries ago. The insulin response to many foods common in modern diets encourages repeated meals. The fact that my diet is typically quite low in refined carbohydrates probably makes it easier for me to eat only one significant meal per day.
This reminds me of a similar BBC article, The myth of the eight-hour sleep.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16964783
My objection to this model is that the way it's usually implemented means that I can circumvent any challenge in the game by spending more money. This completely upends the effort/reward equation for the game and makes me feel like I'm just a monkey playing a slot machine.
WebGL would be extremely tricky for them -- they'd first have to port their OpenGL render pipeline to JavaScript, which would be "doable I guess" especially since they could just port their GL ES (mobile) render paths, that's mostly identical to WebGL. But they'd also have to port their entire runtime library to JS, which would exceed a major rewrite in terms of effort I believe. And then they're calling .NET / Mono APIs everywhere in their own runtime/core code, I'm sure. And then there's the thousands of Unity projects out there calling said APIs. And then, and then, and then...

Next, asset loading but since you're on the web, ideally you'd have smarter on-demand streaming of compressed assets, rather than a 10-minute-long "Loading Game Assets" splash-screen page...

Next, user code. Uh-oh... I give up.
Well yeah, that's true. Jews have a right to immigrate to Israel that other peoples don't.
What are some ways the founding fathers could have prevented what Ron Paul sees happening to this country?
It's the #1 on Bing and DuckDuckGo as well, though interestingly you can still see links in the .com in both Bing and DuckDuckGo results, but Google has eliminated the .com completely from their results.
As an aside marathon equivalent would be telling everyone why they should be using barefoot runners.
Now it's sure to fail.
I realize there are serious health implications, but I can't read this thread without getting the giggle fits.

This would be such an awesome first-world problems meme :)
Can you elaborate on the absence of Korean electronics in Japan? I'm curious about this - is it a cultural bias or is protectionism more formal?
To nitpick just a little, didn't Blizzard have significant success producing packaged hits for over a decade before WoW?