skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
General McChrystal, was a big proponent of a single meal a day. http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2009/09/25/mcchrystal-...
The Christian right, which although maybe isn't a majority of Americans is a significant fraction, unconditionally supports Israel for a number of reasons, from Israel being necessary for the Rapture to it being better than its neighbors, to simply being anti-Muslim.

See http://www.patrobertson.com/Speeches/IsraelLauder.asp for their own words, and http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/north7.html for an non-evangelical viewpoint.
wow, awesome visualization.

I always wondered how scientist determine the position of earth in our galaxy and the center of the galaxy. can somebody throw some light on this ???
The consumer market is changing everyday.Sony don't want to change,still sell TV is a problem.
This is a pretty good take on what being a small indie dev is like. I've been through that exact cycle, of building a portfolio of games, having some big hits fund growing the company, then taking on bigger projects before the inevitable collapse. In our case that collapse actually came from our primary platform disappearing (thank MS for buying Danger) and our failure to pivot well enough into the new hyper competitive iOS market.

So I totally hear his rationale from a game developer's point of view, I really do. But though I'm a developer, I'm also a customer, and I just can't swallow the coin model for games.

I've played Triple Town and thought it was pretty cute, and yes, I'd probably pay 99c for it, maybe even up to $2.99. But I'm not signing up to a lifetime of paying coins to continue playing it long term.

One fundamental issue is that by design, coin based games are going to be 'gamed' to encourage the use of coins, and fundamentally I don't want to participate in a game dynamic where I'm paying for game experimentation with real dollars. It is like me playing a game of chess and having the constant option to drop $20 to buy another queen. Sure it isn't absolutely necessary to win, but it sure helps. Having that dynamic in games just turns me off.

Now I understand the problem of running a sustainable business all too well, having had my own game company go under, but I don't believe this is the solution. I'm not sure what the right one is, and on that front I applaud them for experimenting, but as a customer I personally reject it.
They are all about challenges. We use them as Initiation to show who's legit... There's much more to be unveiled.
Ethnicity would be a better word than race, I suppose. Or nationality.
VMWare Player is free (AFAIR for non-commercial use, whatever that is)
care to expand? who was doing the occupation? what were the "tactics".
please provide reputable (meaning not random websites, government websites are okay as long as they're not from involved parties, ie Hamas' website is not considered reputable) sources while you're at it.
Agreed. Spending hours fiddling around with old VM's to test horrible old browsers sounds depressing.

Saucelabs looks good cheers.
refunds to the 10 paying users shouldn't break the bank.

kidding. they are right around the alley from us and i liked the game art. i wish they'd had had better success...
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>>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.

If you think that's analogous to what happened in Palestine you need a history lesson.
Actually yes. Innocent bystanders killed in targeted attack of some foreign national or just regular criminal are often referred to as "collateral damage" in CIA, FBI, and Police reports.
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This is a really interesting story: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/11/03/how-natural-selec...

An alternative way to get a continuous stream of revenue is to develop a fan base so devoted that they are happy to donate money or preorder years in advance just to keep you afloat.
So... what's the business model? Do his games have ads in them? Upsells? Something else? "Free-to-play" doesn't sound like a compelling long-term standalone strategy, given my (non-gamer) assumptions about that term.
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Another alternative is using an application virtualization solution. In that case you can run IE6 directly in Windows 7. It works as a sandbox and you don't nees the whole operating system. My company is providing this technology to Symantec.
>I have never considered Apple to be a solid software company.

What does that even mean? That they make bad software? For one, they make the most popular certified UNIX OS in the world, and one of the two most popular mobile OSs. Their professional offerings are great too: Logic Pro, Aperture, Final Cut Pro, etc. In fact, FCPX aside, they are professional staples, with few competitors.

And huge number of desktop and the majority of mobile users use a browser they developed to the best game in town starting from humble open source origins (khtml -> webkit).

And that Clang thing, that FreeBSD recently adopted? Their work too, along with other LLVM infrastructure.

>Their software, however, often leaves much to be desired. I say this both as a developer and a user.

Care to mention any substantially better mobile OS than iOS?

(One might argue that Android is better. But substantially better, no way in hell).
Since this is HN let met just say that I hope you don't apply the same sort of oversimplification to the code you write. Technically Gaza may have been under Egyptian control historically but Egypt doesn't want it back. Israel has no presence in Gaza. So there's no occupation in Gaza and no apartheid in Gaza any more than there is South Korean occupation and apartheid in North Korea. That doesn't mean everything is right in that region but unfortunately there are no simple solutions that satisfy the wishes of both sides.
I love hearing this, it's all about a clean experience... Expect more of the same, we'll keep it coming!
California has been "invaded" and the existing set of people "driven out" what, two times going on three now? (The Spanish driving out the Indians, Americans driving out the Mexicans, and now Hispanics immigrating at record rates driving out white Americans).

This narrative about driving people out is an oversimplification at best, though, just as much for Israel as for California.
Here's an easy clue: if your comments never get above or below 1 point for days, that means you are hell-banned.
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Surprised anyone's from FL at all. XD

I'm currently North Florida, but I didn't apply to this class.
OOP vs FP is better seen, I think, as a duality rather than as a dichotomy. Sort of like wave-particle duality. Sometimes you find it convenient to think "wave", and at other times "particle", but the reality of the system is neither. These are just convenient and equivalent constructs we use.

Some other such dualities are - code vs data, data structures vs algorithms, closures vs objects. Enlightenment lies in seeing the false nature of these dualities. (Now, say "Om" people :)

For another fun view on data structures, checkout the "numerical representations" chapter of Chris Okasaki's "Purely functional data structures" [1] where he draws parallels between number representations and data structures, which I found fascinating.

[1] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/theses/okasaki.pdf
Lovely, insightful article.

Tiny nitpick; I think his characterisation of Minecraft is missing the cult aspect:

> (And before you say 'Minecraft', let's give it another decade. :-).

And immediately after:

> Imagine free-to-play games as practiced by a private company that makes games with long term retention for passionate players in a tightly knit community.

Now simply snip the very first part of the first sentence:

> > Imagine <snip> a private company that makes games with long term retention for passionate players in a tightly knit community.

.... that's Mojang, right?
And people said developers would not make money on OUYA since it only allows the free-to-play model, when in fact these type of games have been topping the charts in grossing income for a while.
It really hinges on whether the game is a discrete artwork, kind of like a book or a movie, noone wants to have to pay to see the ending(pay $10 to defeat the boss), or whether it is a developing story and the Pay to play choices are analogous to something which makes sense, i.e. pay your taxes or else you become an enemy of Captain Hector.
Is not so easy to get to this meeting from other countries.
Galapagos targeting 180 million rodents (1 rat per square foot)
Any volunteer organization risks running into this at some point. --You generally don't have any sort of contract because you're not paying anyone.

I used to help run a convention, and one year the person who had designed the program book decided he deserved compensation and demanded a similar amount of money to let us use the design. We were left with only a couple of days to come up with a new design.
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True, very hard to shutdown a startup. But done properly in this case.
>Is it just me or are apple making more dumb mistakes lately? There's this and that ajax caching issue from a month or two ago. Perhaps I'm just having selective memory?

No, it's not just you. It's the whole tech pop culture sector that has selective memory.

Apple did as much mistakes on the old times. It's just that it's not the underdog anymore, and all the hip kids are looking to fry Apple for those, instead of understanding that, heck, mistakes happen in every software/hardware offering.

The iPhone 4 antenna issue? Not even a blip compared to the iBook G3 logic board fiasco. But everybody forgets those things and adds it to some all-encompassing theory of decline...

Same with the notion of the "non-innovative update" for iPhone 5, etc.

The forgotten that less than a decade ago Apple did even far more minor incremental updates to the iPod line (a new click wheel, some more storage, a little thinner, now with a color screen, now it plays video, etc) and everybody was overwhelmed everytime a new device came out.

Suddenly they expect miracles out of every Keynote.
The problem is that the West Bank isn't exactly sovereign territory of anyone. If it was, settlements would be a non-issue--some Israelis want to move into Palestine, it's up to the Palestinian immigration authorities, just like if some Egyptians wanted to move into Israel today. But there are no Palestinian immigration authorities, just the Israeli government, and since that government is democratic that puts them in a bit of a pickle.

If Israel is serious about holding the West Bank as a future homeland for Palestinians, they should be more restrictive about building new settlements and gently push for closing existing settlements. It's hard to do that when the settlers are your own people and they vote, though.
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I've seen more and more research on the benefits of fasting and skipping breakfast. I've actually not eaten breakfast in over 3 years and I have to say, I actually prefer not eating it. It took some time to adapt, but once I did, I actually felt better.

I've found it easier to maintain my weight, actually put on muscle (combined with other dietary changes needed to add muscle) and also increased my concentration and focus.

What do I do? I have a couple big glasses of water, a cup of coffee or two with heavy cream or butter and that is it until lunch. If I'm not trying to put on muscle I generally eat very low carb and that further gives me more focus and concentration.

Basically, my n=1 experience is quite good and I recommend others experiment with it.
Do you have any example where innocent american bystanders, in american soil, are referred to as "collateral damage" in "CIA, FBI, and Police reports"?
If Israel has no presence in Gaza then why is the municipality not given access to the sea and to the air. Is there a sea port in Gaza?

Attempts to whitewash Israels treatment of the Palestinians falls short the minute facts enter the argument.
Why do you think that the CPUC's mission is to protect customers?
How are these for reputable sources?

The United Nations:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Nations_resoluti...

Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_territories

US State Dept:
http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2002/18278.htm

Israeli soldiers:
http://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/
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Condos and Clouds - Constraints in an environment empower the services.
You don't have to buy coins to play Triple town in the long term. Playing the way, I naturally do, I accumulate coins over time. At this point, I have basically an unlimited amount. I've never spent real money on them.
Microsoft sued over the Surface’s storage capacity
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Yes they use competition, but its not about that, its the context and how it's used that's important. It's a fundamentally different approach, just wait for our next step...
It's not available on OSX, they provide VMWare Fusion instead, which costs 50 bucks
Does anyone know of a downloadable program that can do this?
Funnily enough, I have the same complaint about those types of games.
It's fairly uncontroversial historical fact that the Jews are originally from Palestine.

Why don't you do research on the early Zionists, if you're actually curious about the subject and not just trying to score points in an internet debate? Probably most of the early Zionists were very secularist.
Bootvis used to be the go-to tool before Microsoft discontinued it. Good to see there's an alternative now for win 7 & 8, but why on earth does it need to be bundled into a 5 gig download?
Apparently (free) VMWare Player can import VMC/VPC files now for those that prefer VMWare.
1. wikipedia =/= reputable
2. Look at the contents of all those "resolutions" and you come to realize that none of them stand or are unbiased.
2a. A lot of those Resolutions are contradictory and self referential.
anything else?
I use DDG, as when the Chinese results far from your desire, you can easily add some key words like g! to invoke google's engine for help.
There are ways to be critical of the Israeli government without being antisemitic. You could be critical of, say, something relating to unemployment insurance.

But that's not what people are usually talking about when this argument comes up - instead, they're criticizing Israel's right to exist or Israel's right to defend itself (which amounts to the same thing). When they're not being so explicit, they want Israel to embark on a policy which would lead to the end of Israel (accepting indefensible borders, the 'right of return', etc.)

In short, they're making the 'anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism' argument. Personally, I think anti-Zionism is just the first type of antisemitism to try and simultaneously deny it's antisemitic. Let me try to explain with an analogy.

Let's say I was anti-France - that I believed French national identity was somehow illegitimate, and that therefore France shouldn't be a country. Since France shouldn't exist, France also isn't entitled to defend itself from external attack. However, I have no problem with French people! Great wine, great cheese - they just shouldn't be able to have a country. If a French person objects, I'll just patiently remind him that I'm not anti-French, I'm merely anti-France. Perhaps I'll criticize him a bit for inappropriately throwing out the anti-French card.

Sound ridiculous? Well, that's exactly how it sounds to me when someone argues that my people can't establish a state (in the same imperfect way most states are established) and then can't defend our state from attack. Everyone else's national self-determination is fine, but ours is somehow not.

So yes, when people make this sort of argument against Israel - a type of argument they would never make against Sweden or France or Mexico - in that case I do believe they're being more than a little biased against my people in particular, and therefore antisemitic.
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I have 3 coworkers in the city that all ride their bicycles to work, and each of them have been involved in an accident with a car on there way to or from work. Walking through downtown is bad enough with cars running red lights and being general asshats on the road, but I wouldn't want to share the road with them on a bicycle.
I'm not an incredible tea fan, but Lupicia has a special place in my heart, and the customer experience is probably better because Lupicia doesn't pay commissions -- ergo, no need to hard-sell.
I spent 3 years as a CTO and Executive Producer in social and children's games.

The world of gaming is surprisingly unreceptive to the premise of a "minimum viable product". It is EXTREMELY difficult to "pivot" a game. The level of polish and extent of gameplay required to meet consumer expectations for a game requires a commitment well beyond the bounds of any typical B2B or B2C product.

From my experience, the best approach to a gaming company is to build many, small games, taking on client projects to fund the company while building company projects with bench time. It's sustainable, but painful, and is an inferior path to success relative to most other startups.

The bar of quality in gaming has been set too high by companies willing to lose money on failures to make the occasional hit. You might as well start a movie production startup.
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Because if they had that access, they would import weapons to use to kill Israeli civilians. Are you forgetting which side of this conflict tends to strap bombs onto their chests before walking into a nightclub?
Interesting that almost none of these devices are shipped with Google Account integration. What does Google get out of this huge market share?
The question should also be "why aren't the Chinese all using (at least) western toilets?" :P
Mountain Tea: http://www.mountaintea.com/ is excellent.

I started drinking tea after reading "A Hacker's Guide to Tea": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1934051 a couple years ago. That article was written by the guy who ran the Chicago Tea Garden, but he closed a couple of months ago.
landslide in what fashion? Innovation or income?

Steve was awesome, but Apple wouldn't be where it is today if it wasn't for Tim, or actually all of the upper level execs. Pretty much all of Apple's upper level are rockstars; at least in comparison to their peers in most other companies (excepting Musk).

Can they keep it going with Steve gone? I don't know, but their chances are good as long as they recognize cover each other's weaknesses. From what I've seen of Cook so far, I have no doubt he is well aware of what his strengths and weaknesses are so that's hopeful.
Why use this instead of the setup that I use for years?: a WinXP virtual machine and this IEs collection: http://www.askvg.com/how-to-run-multiple-internet-explorer-v... - you end up with one VM and IE 3 - 8.

...and since I use Win7 for work I was tempted to try http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage but ended up using my old solution out of fear of messy installs/unistalls that such software could do on my "clean" work OS though I'm curious if anyone tried it as it still seems more comfortable and I'd switch to it if I could...
I suppose my experience was similar, but what really lost me was that this "revolutionary" game that was supposed to be so different from the standard fare was running on Flash taking up all my CPU cycles. Even back in 09, I was sick of it (but I was sick of all Flash in general). And of course, that's one reason they cited for their closing, and possibly a large reason.
Sadly, no. But you can start your own! And we'll be there in spirit :)
I agree that calling the Israeli government Nazis was way out of line, but I don't see how it's antisemetic. I did not say anything about the Jewish people or about Judaism - I said something (tasteless) about the government of a country. Very tasteless, because many of the people of that particular country are the descendents of those who were persecuted by the Nazis. But how is the comment, in itself, antisemetic? There was no ethnic or religious undertone at all.

Fair point though about the football supporters. Their behaviour show the worst in any people. That said, if Ajax had happened to be associated with Catholics instead of Jews, the rival supporters would've come up with something horribly offensive to Catholics. So I'm not sure that this was real decent antisemitism: more like a very inappropriate form of anti-Ajaxism.

In fact, the way I understand that incident, it's much like using the term "Nazi" to criticize the Israeli governmen. I don't see how that's antisemitic, but it's still ridiculously offensive. When I wrote that, I lowered myself to the standards of mindless hooligans.
>1. wikipedia =/= reputable 2. Look at the contents of all those "resolutions" and you come to realize that none of them stand or are unbiased. 2a. A lot of those Resolutions are contradictory and self referential. anything else?

Yes, the UN is "biased" and "does not stand", Wikipedia is not "reputable". Conveniently sidestepping the US State Dept and Israeli soldiers accounts too.

May I suggest that it's not the UN who is "biased" but you?
>It's sad.

It's also the result of ignorance. I did this for a long time because a) nobody around me knew differently and b) I never thought to ask if it should be done differently. So I simply thought I didn't like tea. Only after reading "A Hacker's Guide to Tea": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1934051 did I realize what I was doing wrong.
re: 1 & 3, have you ever ridden in a SF cab?? This is not the case at all.

re: 4, so when people can't take a cab they just forget about where they are going and don't go.

These arguments are nonsense.