skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I checked out Triple Town, curious what sort of game someone looking for both strong ties with players and recurring revenue would produce. What I found was a game with a single $4 purchase that unlocked everything. That definitely suits me as a player, but I don't see how it constitutes recurring revenue. It looks and feels like an option to just buy the game. If it turns out not to be, I'll feel betrayed.

Am I misunderstanding the model here? Is the 'recurring' aspect supposed to be from players as a group--a certain percent converting on a monthly basis, without publicity events? Is what clearly looks like a 'purchase game' to me not intended as such? Will I sit down to play some evening only to find a warped experience that's grindy and lame without an infusion of coins? Or is all this talk of free to play really about fully functional trials--asking me for $4 after I'm sure I like the game rather than $1 on a hope? (Something which seems sensible, but I don't see how it would help with a boom/bust cycle.)
Is it really so hard to understand that there are projects people don't like or can discuss in public?

This does not mean that it's not public knowledge that lots of people have made substantial amounts of money on software written in assembler. Most games written in the 80's for example. Lots and lots of business software written in the 80's and before.
There's nothing unusual about that.

And lots of software people won't want to or be able to talk about in public.
Sorry, but what "profound revolution" followed SICP?

It was a mighty fine course and text-book. But where's the revolution?

Where are the guys that were taught SICP that went on to do "revolutionary" things?

And if they do exist, how do they compare to a control group that just learned with UNIX/C/C++ and the like?

(Downvotes? I thought we're taking compute SCIENCE here. Where's the science and the proof? If one didn't know any better he would have thought I was stoned for insulting some holy scripture...)
Facebook stock jumps 12.6 percent as share lockup expires
If you want to do secure boot, Microsoft won't sign your boot loader if it claims to be "Windows Boot Manager".
Yeah, misleading title. But it really surprised me that IE10 wins the Sunspider test. I guess all the IE-bashing has lowered my expectations of IE way too far. It is a wonderful thing for the internet that IE10 isn't completely worthless.
Dude, he played the fucking nazi card before i said a word. And you're defending him, and saying I'm super PC b/c i think calling israelis "nazis" is not ok. wtf is your problem.
Aperture a professional staple? This is funny because I can see Adobe Lightroom installed everywhere but no aperture in sight. I'd say, the vast majority of pro photographers favor Lightroom.
The one thing to remember about ethics is there are no absolute moral rules.

Is that an absolute? ;)
I just checked some of the London neighbourhoods I am familiar with and I have to say that the information is surprisingly accurate. It seems more like an honest guide than a marketing leaflet. For Whitechapel, for example (https://www.airbnb.co.uk/locations/london/whitechapel-brick-...), it accurately shows some of the gritty bits, as well as the hidden gems.

It seems to be mostly written by the community as well. Another step towards AirBnb's vision of making traveling more intimate. I am really curious to see this from a traveler's point of view!
Using VDB to dump an executable's IAT
Actuaries need to do the same things all the time e.g. - probabilistic value of remaining life for life insurance settlement/pricing.

Yes it feels weird to discuss these things - but it doesn't make you an evil person or anything - life insurance must be priced, taxes distributed and money donated.

The problem with "hands up in the air - everything is precious!" thinking is that you can't make any decisions. If you assume that - all your money should be flooding Africa.

You'll notice that this isn't the case.

You'll also notice that people only pay lip service to their morals - but they never back it up with cash - and that's where actuaries and economists come in.
What is the value of life? Clearly we find the idea of financial value just a tad too cynical.

Do we have any other measures? Something we can use to establish that all lives are in fact equally valuable?

Also, as soon as we start claiming all life to be equally valuable we get into the moral issue of comparing somebody like Mother Theresa to someone like Ted Bundy and saying they were both equal in terms of value. I doubt many people would agree.
Dude, you called them nazis and then you assume i'm mad about any kind of criticism? you can't figure out it's actually that specific statement that's a problem?

the excuse that "i am only criticizing israel (which just happens to be the jewish state, what a coincidence), not jews" is an extremely common statement of anti-semites. using it without further elaboration only makes you look more anti-semitic.
Some of the high schools in Poland had classes* that were specialising in preparing students for algorithms competitions. Back when I was in this age, we had additional weekend tutorials focused solely on solving topcoder kind of challenges. A lot of guys that did well went to the Warsaw University afterwards and kept on scoring more contests.

*Structure of educational system might be a bit different there, so by class I mean a profiled group of people stuck together for 3 years of high school.
Agreed. Didn't know there was a name to it :D.

But I'm always careful with utilitarian theory - it's so easy to get wrong - if any one of your assumptions are wrong. That's why I try to make sure that the final result complies with other theories (empathy etc.).

Playing with value theories is like playing with fire.
More than that, if all lives are worth something, some people are worth more than others, even if purely because some people can improve others' lives MORE.
> not on scientific facts

But yes - all these guesses are the scientific facts as far as we know them. You can complain about nutritional science being absolutely immature and probably highly corrupt, but it's still the best we have, and people who follow it aren't sheep anymore than I am for believing that there are atoms just because I was told so.
I plug my android phone and it works as a USB modem. I can use it in OS X or Linux (as /dev/ttyACMx). Am I missing something?

(My old Nokia used to do the same thing)
Thanks for the feedback! The favoriting bug should be fixed now.

For twitter integration, right now I have it so that if you use someone's twitter name, a tweet gets sent to them. Beyond that, not sure what I should do :)

And thanks for the encouragement! Haha yeah, "the angry place" would be fun to make :D
A co-founder's guide to Biz Dev
Regarding point 1), they trust AMD and Intel because they receive errata documents from these vendors and can therefore learn about and work around CPU bugs that would affect them.

It still seems an extremely paranoid stance to take.
Actually we can deny Israel has committed atrocities or done anything else bad or worse than other countries. in fact it has not.

you're now making factual assertions, which are false, and which you have never researched, you've only heard them from biased unscholarly sources like CNN. and you just believed them, without adequate questioning of them.

is it a coincidence that you believe false factual statements condemning israel, but not ones condemning france? or what?

and that you're so damn sure israel is guilty that you insist no one could even dispute it, even though you're highly ignorant on the topic and do not provide any factual arguments documenting any atrocities. (there are many purported documentations of such things. i've seen them before. they are not exactly high quality or persuasive. they only convince biased people or people who don't look too closely.)
>And I think it's an ok practice.

I don't. I suspect the 'whales' aren't the 1% that Occupy Everything talk about (the richest 1%), but rather a mix of people who may be able to afford the addiction, but many that are not.

It's probably akin to dealing addictive drugs or promoting irresponsible gambling. It might be legal, but I think it's slightly predatory and on the grey side of ethics/morals/karma or whatever you like to think of as 'do good things, not bad' to others.
The best (relatively) short, online history of Israel:

http://www.settingtheworldtorights.com/node/74
I think the idea that all lives have equal values, while it sounds good, is paradoxical.
If a life has a potential to save plenty of other lives (for example : healthcare worker, great scientist on the verge of discovering a new cure, engineer working on a more efficient way to get drinking water), doesn't that mean that their lives are worth more ?
On the other hand I can't help myself thinking that a surgeon isn't worth more than an unemployed guy who does nothing except watching TV (for example), moral isn't always about logic.
p7Zip?
The Unarchiver works for me: http://unarchiver.c3.cx/unarchiver
Ask HN: How to write the perfect creative brief?
I have been working with creative people for around a year now and I am often asking them to create items for me. These can range from imagery, to video, to UI designs all the way upto game designs (I work in the game industry.

I wondered if anyone else had any decent resources, articles or standard practices to writing good creative briefs that get the best results from a range of people?
Thanks for your feedback, I appreciate the thoughtful response. I actually agree that generalized message queues can often be complex and perhaps even unnecessary when dealing with asynchronous processing at a small scale depending on your needs.

I think the important thing is to understand your requirements, the volume of jobs, etc. In my series, I also plan to introduce much simpler lighter work queues that are a perfect medium between a 'heavy duty' generalized message queue and trying to wedge a queue into a database.

But as with everything, people should evaluate the available options for themselves. My goal is just to provide people with a framework for understanding the tradeoffs.
>They bought Logic and most Logic fans will tell you that they've mostly just dumbed it down and dropped the price since then, turning it into "GarageBand Pro"

I'm a Logic Pro user (and my brother is a Logic Pro, err, pro). Logic today has nothing at all to do with Logic at the time Apple bought Emagic. It's extremely more polished and powerful, with far more capabilities (from amp modeling, to flex audio manipulation, to several new builtin plugins instruments, to 64 bit operation, to multicore enhancements, to OSC support). It's not even close.

And it's not like Emagic is out of the loop. Apple uses the same engineering team, based in Germany.

Anybody who says anything about "dumbed down" is more likely a dilettante relying too much on bloggers and pundits. Apple has only _added_ features to Logic and streamlined the interface. Nothing has been taken out (unlike, say, FCPX, where some features were cut due to the rewrite from scratch).

Logic Pro always comes with top scores when reviewed in trade mags (Keyboard, Electronic Musician, Future Music, Mix, etc), and if you read those, you'll notice the vast majority of professional musicians uses either that or Pro Tools. Cubase, Sonar etc doesn't even register, and Live is mainly used by electronica/live acts for it's particular strengths.

So, the "dumbing down" is just the BS meme that spreads around based on misunderstanding the FCPX situation, and from reaction to whenever Apple makes the changes to their pro UI look to match their latest UI schemes.

>Not really much of a feather in their cap, particularly if you compare it to what the competition has been able to accomplish in the time timeframe.

What exactly have they "been able to accomplish in the timeframe"? Logic Pro 9, 3+ years old, is still on the top DAWs around. Pro Tools is not even 64-bit yet, and just recently got support for native operation. And Cubase, is, well hardly touching Logic in plug-in power and workflow.
Vimeo now has movies / Announces pay-to-view service
Digital Notes: Music Stars Criticize Pandora on Digital Royalties
I'll start and let you know what I currently use.

1. I map out on paper my ideas, I either write a spider diagram of words or I try to story board with simple line drawings.

2. I then either use these directly and talk my ideas through with the artist. If they are on board and understand then that it.

3. Say the feature needs more logic or is not fully defined I start a google doc, where I take a picture on my iPhone of the art and then I use each slide to talk about one aspect of the design.

4. I then open the doc up to other product or management people who contribute.

5. When we are all happy I invite the artists.

This works OK, but I feel it could be better? Any tips.
Sure about that? You can buy feature-phones for ~$20 from China via Aliexpress.com that mimic iPhone 4's look very closely (including directly copying the UI), as well as a bunch of low end Android phones that also look like iPhone's at slightly higher price.

It also doesn't mesh with income levels, unless you're only walking around in very affluent areas, which is why anecdotes are pretty useless to establish popularity.
(2005) Masters of their Domains
How To Make Your Business Really Stand Out
So you're suggesting two almost completely undeveloped technologies (light sails and extremely high-powered lasers in space) and telling us that interstellar propulsion is a solved problem? That's a tad optimistic :)

Btw, if you'd read 'Accelerando' you'd know that Charlie is fully aware of the possibilities offered by laser powered light sails.
"The problem isn't just government's size, but its use of force, both in starting preemptive wars and as it coerces U.S. citizens with police power. To Paul, this is the fault of Americans who no longer prioritize liberty, and it will lead to the unraveling of orderly society unless people change."

1. At the time the Constitution was ratified, the US had effective control to the Alleghanies and in a few enclaves beyond along the rivers. By 1852, California was a state. Yes, the Missouri Purchase was a purchase, but there was a lot of warfare involved in getting control of it. Yes, various other tracts were bought, but usually with the implicit threat of force, or in settlement of a war. So the founders were pacifists only to the extent that it suited them.

2. Jefferson's administration found itself minutely regulation coastal trade to enforce the embargo. Jefferson had been in great sympathy with the Pennsylvanians during the "Whiskey Rebellion", but the embargo was his own to defend.

3. One suffers from a kind of optical illusion if one considers the Constitution per se. It set out the rules for the federal government, not for the states, which were a much larger presence in most lives.

I am not saying that we should be happy with the state of the union, just that imagining a splendid past has its pitfalls.
Hackers don't search for easy solutions ;) You can use any hex editor to cut the PE file: just cut from the beginning to the point where the Rar! signature starts and rename the extension to .rar.
hard work anywhere has never guaranteed success. I'm amazed people still fall for this (and it's consequence, that failure is caused by laziness)
Well hold on. We have seudah shlishit, I thought, precisely because on days other than Shabbat people ate only two meals.
>Aperture a professional staple? This is funny because I can see Adobe Lightroom installed everywhere but no aperture in sight. I'd say, the vast majority of pro photographers favor Lightroom.

I use Lightroom myself (part-time professional photograph). Lightroom just got better, faster, plus is cross-platform.

So, yes, Aperture plays second fiddle to Lightroom, but still Aperture remains the major competitor to Lightroom, and is used by many pros. Plus, it came out before Lightroom, and paved the way for this kind of photography workflow app as opposed to mere editing.

Not bad for a company that makes "bad software".
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I can crunch, but once I start losing sleep it's just damaging.
> If lives were equal value then taking the life of a child would be equally as bad as taking the life of an 80 year old - but most people do not think that way.

?

So is murder of an 80-year old worse, or murder of a child? I'm confused, because I don't really think that way.

I'm also not buying into this self-obsessed view of "value". Americans and Europeans do more damage to the world per capita than anyone else in terms of of energy consumption, pollution, and creating economic inequality. Their charitability does not really make up for it.

For me the only distinction is that I value people I know more than people I don't know. However, everyone is someone I could get to know.
How do you know that Forstall was the person advocating a yearly OS upgrade cycle? It seems just as likely to me that this rigid schedule was forced onto him and he couldn't deliver. Things like OS X Lion (a huge change under the hood) and the Maps places database just aren't things that can be built to a deadline.
So the store manages its items for sale. The first thirty days are free, and it is $79 / month after that.

This info is available on the tour page [1]. I almost think it would be better if the tour page were the homepage. Would probably lead to more conversions.

http://change.io/tour
Show HN: Directory of side projects - written in Golang
Greetings HNers,

I've been working on splst[1][2] since 15 days ago when I read Sacha's newsletter[3].

For someone who spends at least 3 months on a project it's a big move I guess.

I would be grateful to receive any thoughts and suggestions.

[1] http://splst.com

[2] https://github.com/armen/splst

[3] http://bit.ly/W9l8Ut
Yeah, and he seems to ignore Id Software too
you think saying your position being right is "well known" and that Noam Chomsky agrees is an objective, rational argument that will persuade people who don't already agree with you...?
With "in the future" you mean "currently, in a restricted subset of C that runs on massive numbers of very simple cores". Massive parallelism is also possible with somewhat less simple cores; CUDA and OpenCL also started from the "bare subset" philosophy but gradually expanded to allow more flexibility because developers demand it.

And of course massive parallelism is also possible with normal CPUs, in a cluster or in the cloud, and there an entirely different set of restrictions hold, not so much on the programming language but on higher level design.

Whether or not you need to restrict yourself to a subset of C completely depends on your requirements. The future is heterogenous, not homogenous [1].

1. http://herbsutter.com/welcome-to-the-jungle/
Is 2012 a Good Time to Buy Property?
are you disputing facts like these?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01...
Comparison Of The Top Financial & Accounting Apps
If The Kindle is Sold at Break-Even, Why Doesn't Amazon Sell ePub?
The domain name is what I like.
And what did you make of their reply?
Slightly deeper philosophical point I think you're getting at there but I think reducing the number of people born is not equivalent to not valuing a life.
Yeah it was a really nice change to just jump straight in.
I have always considered Android, to be Windows 95 for phones. I am a happy Android user.
So now closed source software is immoral?

I really love first world problems.
I was a bit put off, but it's mostly basic JS and Googleable for the sticky parts.
please let them fail and make Mistakes
More choice is usually a good thing, it's a pretty nice project and it's still early days so it might fit somewhere.
Unless you are a fundamentalist or some other sort of "-ist", yes.
I'd be interested in knowing what the github metric is calculated off as I was moderately surprised at getting 800ish for my mostly slim GH account.
This is modules, not core. Core was last year: http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commit;h=36ab287e77e9df...
New search operators in Gmail: by date & by size
I have my own ideas about what you call "big concepts that emerge from experience in actual production", but I'd be fascinated to find out about yours.
Your position is disturbing because it allows for one human being to degrade another quite freely without guilt. That is morally heinous.
You can change the nameservers of a locked domain all day long. The lock status only prevents a transfer attempt, not updates to the domain's WHOIS or nameservers.
That's not what that link actually says. it doesn't say Israel as a country owns the place b/c of the (defensive) war. It argues the place has a status such that there's nothing wrong with individual israelis choosing to build homes there. it also makes some important points you left out, e.g. that trying to kick all jews out of the area would be ethnic cleansing, and that whatever you think of this issue it cannot justify terrorism.

the issue with millions of hostile persons becoming israel voters is not paralleled by any similar issue with some settlements in palestine. first, isn't the population figures of the settlements more in line with the amount of arabs already in israel than with trying to take over? second, the israel settlers are not, as a whole, hostile/violent/dangerous to have in your country, so there's no reason to mind them. palestinians, while some individuals are decent folk, as a group they are dangerous, like it or not it's simply a fact: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01...
Last month I read "Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert M. Pirsig and just completed reading "Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions" by Dan Ariely. I would recommend both of these books. I have just started with 'Thinking, Fast and Slow' by Daniel Kahneman.
Congratulations to Jean-Baptiste, that's been an incredible arduous piece of work for him.
What! They don't do this already! Mind blown!

Have you seen human history?
Which AppStore? Isn't it already available on Google's AppStore?
Still does. They've got almost every European budget airline, actually. And I hear they have pretty good coverage of the Asian market, too.
Making judgments about theories or actions only by comparing the outcomes is called Consequentialism [1]. I'm not saying it is always wrong, but it is just one of a range of frameworks that can be applied.

Applying consequentialism to ethical judgments about people is often problematic. There are various criticisms listed in [1], but they are kind of theoretical. Let me give a practical example instead. If we allow (as you say) that "protect and help the poor to make us all better off" is the best way to form a judgement about this issue because it turns out that it actually does make us all better off, then what do you do if it emerges that protecting some sub-group of the poor (say, poor people in South America) actually makes us worse off? Are they out of luck, or do you revise your judgement even though, in your terms, it was correct?

Basically, this limited world-view can instrumentalise people and is vulnerable to dangerous unforeseen consequences that lead to real human suffering.

And I'm done. Unit tests to write.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequentialism
I wasn't trying to summarize anything - I just pointed out something that struck me as dissonant while looking at that info graphic.

Personally, I think you're sounding defensive.
I'm not sure I like the areas. I'd feel more comfortable indicating what languages I know, rather than where I apply them. I think that's a better way to present Domain knowledge when talking about code.
The really interesting story is the how(linked from main article):

Part 2 (probably the more interesting):
http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2012/How-to-properly-relice...

Part 1:
http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2012/How-to-properly-relice...