skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems that you're talking about two different things. On the one hand drawing a technically competent picture and on the other producing interesting and 'good' art. While I agree that everybody can probably find mediums in which they feel comfortable and can grow within those mediums into competent artists, I'm still not convinced everybody can master the largely technical skill of drawing. Many good artists aren't very good at drawing.
The DB setup in Drupal is very join heavy - on the new site many things that are joins in Drupal will be single table - many things drupal offers one-to-many on we only need one-to-one, so can avoid the join.

Plus, with the modules we're using we're more or less forced to use MySQL.

Rails site will be using Postgres.
Are there not already 8 million games almost exactly like this on iOS?
I went to their exhibit last year which featured Dwarf Fortress (as a mural) and Passage (playable)...there were a few other games too, including he PS3's Little Big Adventure...I think Katamari is actually on display as part of their Century of the Child exhibit right now

http://tumblr.eyeheartnewyork.com/post/9525690645/at-the-mom...

I hope the games are playable...what better way to cement the idea that gamess are art in the mind of kids who may see art initially as just paintings and Greek sculpture?
I like the turnip analogy. Sometimes it's just a matter of approaching a piece of art on different terms.
Ah the dating life of HN
Yep. After a couple weeks of traveling I get sick of generic restaurant food and want to be able to make something myself.
they did and then they shut it down :\
I love Passage. It really is a game as a piece of art, even if it is not fun by traditional gaming standards. But I've seen few games so effectively show how the viewer's interactivity can add a whole new, thoughtful dimension to experiencing art.
Post recession intellectual property strategies for start-ups
Post recession intellectual property strategies for start-ups http://tinyurl.com/c842m3a
From the article: "For example, exercise 37: symbol review. There’s nearly 100 different symbols to look at and the exercise suggests “Spend about a week on this, but if you finish faster that’s great.” – too much, too long."

From the exercise itself: "Finally, use each of these in a small Python program, or as many as you can get done. The key here is to find out what the symbol does, make sure you got it right, correct it if you do not, then use it to lock it in."

The conclusion in the article: "For me, the easiest and most pragmatic way to learn Python is not by reading through pages of reference documentation and syntax, but to just start coding."

:golfclap:
Unfortunately, many "historic" buildings in China are not. They are not reconstructed but destroyed and cheaply rebuild in concrete and then painted. Be it historic pagodas, city walls, monuments, temples, etc. Quickly build it so that it looks old and then make money from tourism. Its a shame.

[Lived in China six years, traveled the country for another six months]
I completely agree with your "just start coding" approach. When I decided I wanted to learn Python I used it to scratch my own itch (nerd alert: I wrote a MSPA update notifier for linux). In the process I learned some basic python (including how awesome the docs are), about parsing XML in python, about the libnotify system and how to read the file system.
Scary from an intellectual properties perspective, but I love how you switched to the "Star Wars" context as way to motivate using the (required) concepts of "push", "pull" and "clone".

The "fork" I'm not so convinced about, but being innovative is of course cool and I do love my 3-way from ancient arcade games which it made me think of.
This doesn't seem correct. Has iOS revenue ever shown even the slightest hint of contracting in the past? Plus I saw a great revenue boost in November thanks to Thanksgiving.
Found pricing at https://supportbee.com/pricing

Unltd agents on all plans,
* $19 for 300 tickets/m,
* $49 for 1000 t/m
* $149 for 5000 t/m
* $349 for 15K t/m
I'm super curious - have you considered getting out of RDBMs totally for this use case? I have personally wondered about graph databases or something different for the backend storage. The problem of storing these deep and dynamic hierarchical relationships keeps leading to what I'll call "weird-fit" solutions. I can't decide if that is a design smell that a different solution would be better or if this is just one of those messy problems that you have to deal with sometimes.

BTW, if there a rule somewhere that all of us who get into grid and batch processing must write our own workflow management systems? We all seem to do it . . .
I agree; very clever use of the context.
Very nice!

Two minor control issues: waiting in place with . does not regenerate health and force like movement does, and non-numpad number keys don't work for movement (useful on a laptop).
The best prompt I've found for zsh is agnoster. I highly recommend it: https://gist.github.com/3712874
I've run into the same issues. My solution is to reach a sort of balance between portability and usability.

My xmodmap + XMonad config is designed to be reproducible on Windows via AutoHotkey and OS X via SizeUp + PCKeyboardHack, that way I'm always in my home environment no matter the OS!
Based on the sales people I have known, most would pretty much say anything to close a deal. Though the really good ones seem to be able to convince themselves that the product they are selling really is awesome. As soon as they stop selling that product they go back to their old opinions on it being a POS.
It's an innovative solution to a common real-world problem. This is exactly the kind of content HN is built for.
USG eliminates Verisign's ability to increase domain prices in new .com contract
From close to the end of the article:

"some of the games we have acquired (for instance Dwarf Fortress and EVE Online) take years and millions of people to manifest fully. To convey their experience, we will work with players and designers to create guided tours of these alternate worlds, so the visitor can begin to appreciate the extent and possibilities of the complex gameplay."

(Dwarf Fortress is clearly more about the "years" than the "millions of people", mind you.)
> We know that as a species, we are hitting the limits, in resources

False. See "The Ultimate Resource" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ultimate_Resource and the Simon-Ehrlich wager.

> our impact on the natural world.

As our technology and wealth grow our impact on the world decreases. Which is dirtier - the US or Nigeria? Which takes better care of its parklands and natural habitats?

> We know that exponential growth in a closed system is dangerous.

We're not in a closed system - the solar system is VAST.

> We know that we must reduce the impact of our society immediately or face widespread systemic failure.

I know no such thing.

> We have to apply the power of the web to make change happen at all levels of society, transforming businesses, governments, and citizens on a massive scale.

Eye-roll.

I love listening to people with limited understandings of the world deciding that they not only (a) understand the world, and (b) understand what the world should be changed into, but (c) think they know how to get from here to there.

Take two Milton Friedman books and call me in the morning.

> Beginning today, we will dedicate ourselves to this mission. We will work on projects with true meaning, that make the future a better place to be, rather than creating illusory short-term value.

As opposed to - what?

All of that "illusory" progress that people have been creating for 500 years? All that short-term value like clean water, better medicine, instant communication, affordable food, indoor heating, music on demand, the exchange of ideas across thousands of miles, awesome video games, great movies, fuel efficient and safe cars, more comfortable rugs, better mattresses, ovens with good temperature control, medicine for our pets, more ethnic dining choices, and safer house furnaces?

> We hope you will join us. We have a lot of work to do.

The normal operation of the market is to (a) find out what people want, (b) deliver it to them for the lowest price.

The cubical drone at Caterpillar working on a slightly better bearing pin for a dump truck, the guy stocking foodstuffs at the grocery store, the purchaser at Costco, the engineer writing a better video game, the material scientist at Intel working on faster chips, the executive trying to figure out how to sell you car insurance for $4 less than the next guy - all of these people are improving the world, bit by bit, every single day.

Grand manifestos like this are masturbation and self congratulation.
This is a flesh wound for Facebook, but IMO will probably be lethal for Zynga. Without the "virality" (read: spamming) offered by Facebook their games have no hope of any sustainable user base.

They can pivot into actual casual games (a la Popcap), but that space is already crowded and Zynga has no real advantage over anyone else, and plenty of disadvantages.
> A TB of traffic will cost at least around €2-3 from most european (and other) ISPs with VPS

The average bandwidth price I got from all the ISPs I used in the past was ~1 dollar/megabit. The ISPs I used for my Tor relays were ISPs I was using already for bandwidth-intensive HTTP hosting, so I already had quite a few deals for dirt cheap bandwidth.

I've been paying ~600€ per box (1Gbit, of which I was using at least 60% 24/7, getting to 100% during day hours).

> you basically claim to have enough spare change lying around at the age of 15 to pay €2000-3000/month just for Tor traffic because you're an idealist

Yep. I got it mostly by selling iOS Tweaks on Cydia Store, private consulting with a few companies, freelancing, and sysadmining.

> and after buying all the stuff a 15 year old normally buys first? ;-)

The only thing apart from my tech equipment and servers that I'm interesting in buying is weed anyway.

> (and btw., WW was not running the ISP, he wrote somewhere in this thread that he is just a normal employee)

Thanks for clarifying that he was not running the ISP. I misread it, probably.
They could just resort to actual email spam, would anyone put it past them?
I have some demo units sitting on my desk; one 'brake caliper' type bracket we received can be tossed 15ft. in the air without structural damage, and hardly a dent.

to answer your questions:
1)The parts feel equally dense to an Objet polyjet print, more dense and rigid then most SLA process parts I've seen. On par w/ ABS from a FDM, but definitely less brittle. One thing worth mentioning is the part does have "twist" as in, the layers will move the slightest bit allowing you to effectively twist a part. Think phonebook.

2)I've broken one part (a chainlink) now, from two layers spreading apart. This was after me and several people I know had loaded it up w/ 20-30lbs force, twisting and pulling on the chainlink.

3)If I put the same load on a VeroWhitePlus Objet chainlink, I would have broken it quicker. I cannot speak to many other technologies, but I know that much is true.
Win my $10 bounty: Facebook Auth Redirect Issue
The Data Vigilante
In place wait is probably a bug and should be fixed soon. Not sure about non-numpad numbers though; their topology is far from being useful...
So what Ruby or Python framework offers out of the box for the end users:

- Worflows

- Content of management, publication dates, input formats

- Integration with multiple types of data sources

- Easy WYSIWYG manipulation of pages for content editors

- Out of the box integration with multiple notification mechanisms

- Click tracking for report generation

- ...

A CMS is much more than building a frontend with some set of templates and DB plugins.
This announcement came as a total surprise to the domain industry. I should have known something was afoot a few weeks ago when analysts started calling looking for the inside track on rumors and news. They usually don't do that unless they've got a reason to dig further - well, this definitely would have been a reason to dig. Verisign was off 15% in pre-market trading and will probably dive lower. I found their comments about "exploiting their patent portfolio" to be pretty interesting. Is Verisign a troll-in-waiting?
Reflecting happens with 50% chance. Which is far less than what we see in traditional franchise :-)
Pac-man, Tetris and Vib-Ribbon are also Japanese.

Their "wish list" includes many more Japanese games, like Donkey Kong, 2 Super Mario Bros. games, The Legend of Zelda, Street Fighter II, Chrono Trigger and Animal Crossing.
"Land of the free, home of the brave"?
That's not a bug.
Of course it's dying. There is no acceptable solution that isn't on by default, and advertisers will never accept that because nobody would ever turn it off. Their business model would dry up and die. So they block it at every opportunity, because what else are they going to do? Change to a business model based on things people actually want? Ha! What an idea.
Sorry. I just realized that the button at the bottom of the page should take people to the site and not to the signup page. I will update it and push it up now.
Most providers setup bgp sessions over loopback addresses only reachable from the remote router.. So no, being tcp doesn't imply the should respond to ping.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateralization_of_brain_functio...

tl;dr: it's way more nuanced than "left brain math, right brain art".
The quality of production is high and Nathan's food knowledge is excellent. Definitely worth the support!
Show HN: Push/Pull Factory. My Github Game Off game
That is correct. Right now you can only write apps in ruby. We will update the documentation.
A clickable guide to the world's energy use
Heart Gadgets Test Privacy-Law Limits
Learn Python the Hard Way should really be called Learn Programming the Hard Way Using Python. If you're a good enough programmer to make a living programming in PHP you're probably not the target audience for LPTHW. On the other hand I've had success getting people whom wouldn't know where to start, or even what what I meant, if I asked them to write "Hello World" started on Python programming using LPTHW
Voordelig feesten in vakantieparken van Sunparks
nice idea. the gameplay is not too thrilling, but still it's quite funny to play for let's say 2 minutes...
Ridiculous. Dell is trying to overcharge people for wanting a free OS. It should be the other way around. It should be $100-$150 cheaper because they don't have to pay for the Windows license.
FabFriday: Sharing Info Once Again, eh
You should checkout the jQuery timeline plugin. I could see that being a very effective with the horizontal scrollbar to control playback at a macro level.

Cool project. The sample you have makes it easy to see the uses. It would be cool if people could submit "fun" or good examples of great timelines. I think that would bring the social aspect into the project. Most people won't have the time to put together the criteria to produce the "query" so having a set of samples would be helpful in gaining traction
"Mr. Khan conjures an image of a new campus in Silicon Valley where students would spend their days working on internships and projects with mentors, and would continue their education with self-paced learning similar to that of Khan Academy."

Because of course the entire world centers around SV and tech. And even if you are just trying to work as a manager at a regional chain in Kansas there is something you can learn from Silicon Valley.

"Mr. Khan writes that he admires the work of Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal, who set up a fellowship program for college students to drop out and pursue entrepreneurship with the help of financial backing and mentors"

The entire world is not cut out to be entrepreneurial. In fact most of the world isn't and can't (not everybody can be a chief we do need indians as the saying goes).

Noting also that Kahn takes the traditional route of publishing a traditional printed book (by Hachette Book Group) to get his views across. And will most likely go on a typical book tour and do the usual media publicity route. Nothing wrong with that. Just like there is value in traditional universities and things like Kahn "Academy".
I added a presentation as a download to the post. This presentation is done by geoff watts for upcoming seedcamp recruits. I really love the presentation as it goes into several really good details - hope it is useful
Mac vs. PC - The Dilemma of a Small, One-Man-Band Production House
This could turn bad if the proposals are put to a vote, although ITU has said they don't want to ask for a vote, as then there will be winners and losers, and they want everyone to agree to the changes. I hope that wasn't just talk.

Even if EU loses this, I doubt they have to listen to ITU. They can just legislate that ISP's are not allowed to do that, and actually put net neutrality into law EU-wide. But content providers will still have to either pay or block their content from being seen in other countries that agreed to it, though. So it would still be a pretty bad outcome.
Totally second you on _start coding_ approach. If you know any of the language then it's not difficult to start a new within hours. In presence of forums like Stackoverflow it hardly takes time to write your first HELLO WORLD kind of stuff.

Recently I took initial steps in world of Python by accepting a freelance project in which I had to port a Coldfusion based Middle Tier into Python. I worked on CFM 12 years back so that was the only help for me otherwise for last few years I have been working on Java and PHP.

Needless to say, my client loved my work
Thanks, I've been dabbling with Python for a while and I thought your article was informative and pretty well written!

Keep it up :-)
He's spot on I think.

* mentors
* hands on experience and dives into theory/standard learning
* live "on campus"

I was lucky to have all of these at a standard liberal arts college, albeit not in the exact doses that Khan is talking about. It made my education great.
You're right, though my objection is mainly that I don't consider it a "game" if it isn't actually fun. :) I could call it "interactive art" instead, but now we're just arguing semantics...
Why I Sold My Startup Instead Of Taking VC Money
So in the article they say "Zynga's stock fell 13% on the news" - my first reaction was how can you go 13% below zero?. Is that wrong? (actual drop was $.17 since they are trading at $2.50)
Selling Results and Regret
You downplayed child pornography as just someone "jerking off to a picture." So yes, you apparently don't see the other consequences of it, and don't think it's a big deal. That's what you don't seem to understand: It's not the 'transfer of data'. Abuse of children might still happen, but this promotes it. You're creating a 'market' for it, where as before it might not have existed.

Now, would I get rid of the internet if it meant getting rid of Child Pornography? Obviously not. I wouldn't get rid of handguns if it meant attempting to stop murder in the United States as well.

Here's the issue with your outlook: You act as though it is one or the other. You must take down the internet entirely or you must allow all child pornography to flow freely through your computer. Your outlook on the law isn't balanced at all. You won't give up any civil liberties because you feel you shouldn't compromise on it.
>At this point there is no need to raid the ISP because the traffic can be traced back farther than the ISP to a more specific place.

It seems like you're still not distinguishing it from the exit node: In order to set up a wiretap, the ISP is going to know about it (it's their equipment). If the ISP employees are the criminals then getting a wiretap for the customer's IP address that they've been spoofing is going to tip them off. If you're not worried about that for the ISP then stop worrying about it for the exit node -- in which case you could do the same thing, require the exit node operator to install wiretapping software on the exit node and trace the traffic "back farther than the [exit node] to a more specific place" (i.e. the next Tor node in the chain). It still doesn't get you anything, but neither does a subpoena to the ISP that just leads you to an otherwise-clean exit node.

>Obviously running a TOR exit node, open wifi or ISP can't be a blank check to get away with crime.

People keep saying this -- it's wrong twice. First, just because you can't do a smash and grab police raid doesn't mean you can't do an investigation. Digital forensics are crap anyway -- way too easy to forge. (Criminal installs remote control software on some poor sap's PC to do dirty work, secure removes it when finished and everything ends up pointing to the sap.) Try doing some actual police work, interview suspects, look at the illicit materials to see if there are clues from the background, on and on. And after you've done your homework, if the evidence still points to the exit node operator (instead of just the exit node's IP address), then you do a raid.

But perhaps more importantly, how is it the operators of the anonymizing thing who we are worried about getting away with something? If you know enough about Tor to set up an exit node and you're a criminal, you can just use somebody else's exit node instead of setting up your own. Or hop on some public wifi, or break into some sucker's PC to use it as a proxy, etc. If the police have successful methods to catch those criminals, then use them against the criminal who hides under an exit node instead of raiding it.

And if not, well, that's life. A police state is very helpful to the police. The cost of not having a police state is that some criminals get away with it. It's the cost of doing business in a free society.

>That's obviously wrong, but it happens all the time, often totally benignly, in this case much more maliciously.

Which is why they ought to be stopped. Government malfeasance is all but universally a more serious problem than private malfeasance, because a good government can often save you from bad private actors, but almost nobody can save you from a bad government.
> Right, so your prompt is composed of nothing but the hardcoded character `>`

Hey that's what mine is! Actually it is simply the ')' character. I went from full on prompt-porn to nothing. For the most part this was just to see how much of the prompt I really needed on a daily basis (how often do I really type git branch because I don't know what branch I'm on, how often do I type pwd... stuff like that). Turns out I rarely use those commands, but to each their own.
When you try to put a hand/elbow/knee down on the mattress, there's a good chance you'll slip in to one of the slits in the mattress.
We're getting there, that's why this is so exciting!
I've always had the impression that Nethack had pretty much the best attention to detail of any roguelike game, and the most thoroughly developed game world (though much of that only becomes apparent about halfway through the game). Rogue clearly would have been a great choice from a historical standpoint, but I can't argue with their choice that Nethack is pretty amazing as a work of art. (I can't comment on DCSS.)
Startups for our Parents
Maybe because Guile is not a programming language, but a Scheme implementation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Scheme_implementations
...aaand fixed!
This manifesto only commits people to good intentions (possibly with a lefty bent) - it doesn't actually commit anyone to anything. It's not even really clear what a Cleanweb would be
"Cuddle More" is a great idea for a t-shirt. Too bad the proposed design looks so industrial.