skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brunson will cost you a lot of money now. Sklanskys theory of poker is WAY too tight and conservative (Note you havent seen him on any tv shows playing or in any tournaments for ages). Ed miller for limit is good but you will get so bored playing it. Tournament is fun but you need a gigantic bankroll to play games with people who can play ... The theory of poker evolved a lot since those books and is now about hand ranges based on prior action and stats you have collected (Well it hasn;t but the way it is expressed has and the language to talk about it has developed massively). Brunson, miller and sklansky never get into how you use software to systematically destroy people (because they were live players). The best advice is to visit two plus two forums and start reading there. Its better than any book - and i know i have bought and read a lot. Brunson, sklansky et all (ie 10 years old+) hurt my game. Assuming you intent to be someone who makes money and not gamble. Especially if you are playing at micro stakes (0.1-0.25 and under). the TAG style is good to learn but after 20k hands at 4 tables you will be bored - especially full tabling. Also tournaments vs cash game are entirley different games. In tournaments you have to play sometimes beacuse of the blinds, in cash games the value of deception and lying in wait is much higher. In a tournament due to blinds vs stack size you often have no choice at all - well you do but only 1 correct play. In cash you can be a lot more patient. Also be aware that you need 20k+ hands before you can draw any conclusions about your play (assuming you didn't just go broke - but even then doesn;t mean you played bad)
Yeah, the iPhone app is sweet. I mainly use it for capturing tasks when I'm not at home. It's nice to finally have one place to put things.
My guess is that Microsoft might get profit from this "feature". They don't think it's a bug or a vulnerability, it's just a "tool" they may provide to thirdparties. They must be annoyed by all those crying nerds.
I've got to +1 the "try some other games and be amazed". I'd recommend some cooperative games for family entertainment.

Pandemic is excellent (Forbidden Island is more light if your kids are younger), Ghost Stories and Arkham Horror for the more mature crowd.

7 Wonders and Stone Age are also fantastic "gateway games".
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Yahoo's Inspirational Flickr Success Shows the Power of Believing in Your Work
I thought pardons - even posthumous ones - were about undoing a false conviction based on later evidence (or good connections). Of course, the pardon of Nixon does not fall into this category.

Then again, I agree with your analogy of pardoning Gandhi.
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it is working here. you can still use a non secure connection removing the s. it should work
Maybe check out Puzzle Strike? David Sirlin claims to have sidestepped several of the problems Dominion has (slightly nsfw pic at beginning):

http://www.sirlin.net/blog/2010/11/28/puzzle-strike-and-domi...
"Rather, mathematics is a tool for understanding phenomena in the world: the motion of the planets, the patterns in data, the perception of color, or any of a myriad things in the world that might be understood better by manipulating equations."

^---So true.
Cool I made the list! =)
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Cracking is extremely harmful to the environment. Might not be right now, but future generations aren't going to thank us!
New account and first comment here, just to post that NSA can look at your e-mails if they want? I wonder if you're just someone working at NSA and FBI, and who's pushing for these laws. We know that they use "persona management" software to be part of the public conversation.
I think it's a fantastic idea. The most difficult things for me to learn were always those which I don't know how to apply or those which I don't know where they came from. You can't reason over something that seems like magic.
> dramatically improved the security of their system

yes they did, but their perceived image is still badly damaged
Are you taking this Coursera course, in April?

https://www.coursera.org/course/ggp

It looks really interesting.
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tl;dr

teens still use texting quite a bit (even though they were not around when it was invented). girls use it more than boys.

reason? because it's easier than calling.

there is also an infographic. fascinating!
I thought responsive css-frameworks like foundation or bootstrap make this easy to implement.

And indeed, I also prefer a written tut, it's just faster and easier to digest.
HTML 5.1 specification published as first public working draft
I love him, too.
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How is this PR? This is not a pro-Amazon article in the slightest.
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You're missunderstanding my point: big companies have tons of bad ideas internally, but the ideas they try to copy are ones that are rapidly gaining traction.
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Why would the banks enable hashing on their unique stuff? It would be their security flaw, not the design of the system.
Google News gets a mobile friendly facelift
GitHub Link: https://github.com/iamcal/PNGStore/
Another mobile site fail, forced to use portrait mode and then you can't scroll down. I really wish I could block mobile sites on my iPhone.
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Why 10 though?

If there's one more that is as good as the other 10 then I'm happy with 11.

If there're one or two to make it a round number, I don't want to know about them.

The poster is taking the role of curator. Having 10 makes me think they haven't been disciplined, an important activity in curation.
You should care because it'll lead to removing your own personal freedom sooner than you think. It's been said that he who would give up his privacy to gain security deserves neither privacy nor security. And it's true. When you hand over your privacy, you hand over power to someone else to turn you into a "person with questionable character" or a criminal even if you never were either. Read Mr. Schneier here: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/01/security_vs_pr... - his gist is that these all-encompassing activities don't buy us improved security. If they don't get us improved security, they're nothing more than a risk to individuals.
He's not ignoring the growth. He's dismissing it because growth by itself is meaningless. Profit is what's relevant, and unless you can improve your earnings, you're not functioning efficiently from a capitalistic viewpoint. As he discusses, Amazon shareholders are expecting that at some point, Amazon will be able to somehow ratchet up their profit margins, and the subsequent earnings boost will provide value to their shareholders. If that never happens, AMZN is a bubble just like tulips.
> For parents, there's a pretty serious downside to all this teen texting, however. A full 28 percent of polled teens said they had sent fully nude photos of themselves over SMS. About a quarter of American teenagers participate in "sexting," according to Wilson's sources, which include research firms like Nielsen and Pew, as well as media and government organizations.

What is the "serious downside" for parents now? I convinced two girls when I was 14 to show me their boobs. We didn't have smartphones back then. You think about nothing else when you hit puberty and is totally normal behavior.

Btw how do you send a full nude picture over SMS?
I assumed he meant you shouldn't take things like "Calculus for the liberal arts major" classes, but now I'm really not quite sure.
If You Have Nothing To Hide... You Still Have Something To Fear
Aren't all of those sexting teenagers "sex offenders" according to the inexcusable USA laws?

Which really makes me want to stand up and go burn a church or two.
I concur about Intrigue, but I don't mind the Alchemy set. During one game with the Familiar, my brother-in-law and I actually managed to deplete the Curse card supply.
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"Simply put, Eurogames tend to focus on streamlined, well-balanced play, with a mimimal theme and more abstracted game mechanics, while Ameritrash focuses more on theme and dramatic gameplay." -- http://boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/Ameritrash

Sounds like a reasonable definition.
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Or create a memorial. It is in fashion at the moment in the UK. If all you are offering is a gesture, it may as well be something tangible.
This seems like a pretty good idea; was it difficult to get used to jsFiddle on the phone?
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I made no such reductionist argument.
"serious downside" may be that the pictures can remain around forever, and can get shared with 10,000 people in 2 seconds. The two girls you chatted up were exposed just to you for a short period of time, and had you not told us, no one except the 3 of you would ever have known.
The big difference is, sending a picture puts it out into the world where it can be forwarded, saved, uploaded to the web, shared with the entire school ...

It can get way out of hand.

It's much more of a Pandora's box than the private "show me yours" that you describe.
I like the svblte look, but I'm stuck with WordPress. So, I use the Open Source wp-svbtle[0] theme on my blog[1].

Gives me the looks and feel of svbtle for reading and posting without needing to abandon WordPress.

[0] https://github.com/gravityonmars/wp-svbtle
[1] http://shkspr.mobi/blog/
Sounds like you're living with your parents still. If that is the case, you have to take their wishes into consideration more strongly than you otherwise would have.

I would wait until you have some sort of product, even if it's an MVP. Otherwise you could be doing yourself a great disservice - if you do fail, your parents may never support you again.
The entire buleting stands for:

"We take these risks very seriously. We analised it, and concluded that we shouldn't take this risk seriously."
Canadian camouflage company claims to have created perfect invisibility cloak
While agricola does have significant luck in the inital game state, this is lessened by drafting the initial cards which almost all advanced players do. This ensures that at most players will only have 1 extremely powerful card, and adds another level of skill with managing the draft.
The game itself is extremely skill based, to the point that an experienced player with a poor hand should be able to beat a less experienced player with an awesome hand most of the time.
Unlike in caylus, the best players are only able to win 60-70% of the time
i still use rememberthemilk for this purpose. once you get used to all the keyboard shortcuts on their site it becomes a second nature to rock your list.. i love that i can "u" to add url, or "d" to add/remove a date.. j,k to navigate, 1,2,3 to prioritize, email into my inbox, and make some of my lists public.

i suppose Trello would be better geared if your lists were shared among multiple people, as that's more of their domain
Show HN: My 4th failed startup (2nd due to user acquisition costs)
Hello HN,

Later today I'll be shutting down the servers and moving on. This is my 5th startup and the 4th failure. The reason is very simple: I understimated the cost of user acquisition. This is the second time this happened. The dozens of users actually love the software and are using it on a daily basis. I'm ruthless when it comes to coding and money.

So, if you are building a startup: do not ignore how much money you will have to spend to get a user. If you are not able to find that number, something could be wrong with your model.

Maybe someone smarter than me could write something elaborate about user acquisition costs.

RIP https://www.condoly.com
Show HN: Musi for iOS Lets You Stream Audio From Youtube
Hey HN!

Just thought I'd let you all know about my application that's been months in the making and was just released on the iOS platform called "Musi".

Musi is an iOS application that allows you to stream audio content directly from the popular video sharing site, YouTube. With Musi, you can stream your music even when your device is locked or closed. Managing your music is also simple with infinite playlists and simple reorder and delete controls.

Here's a link to download it: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/musi/id584593128

Here's our website: http://feelthemusi.com
Thanks for clarifying. I understand the decision better now.

How about an option (disabled by default) that allows self-signed certificate per fetched account, e.g., in the "edit info" dialog? I guess everybody would be happy with this one right?
What's a whale phishing expedition?
Nice with the one-line descriptions of all games.
I use Trello as my planning tool but my setup is pretty "light".

I have a "Next" board which is basically my daily TODO list (I mostly use a notebook for this but move the stuff I want to do the next day to Next in the evening) which contains TODO and DONE

I have an "Ideas" board to capture long term/random stuff. The Lists are topics like "Programming", "Writing" etc

Then I have a "Personal" and "Work" board with topic lists to do the midterm planning. The "Work" one has a list for each programming project I work on for example.

I also have a "Self Investment" board that contains my couple of items I want to get better at during the next 6 month (Lists will be something like "French", "Erlang")

I also have a "Books etc" board where I keep track of interesting books ot buy (and track progress of mostly technical books I read usually with chapter checklists). The etc. part is interesting blogposts, youtube videos, TED talks and so forth

Lastly I have a single board "Dissertation" which should be self explanatory :D

I use a notebook to capture stuff on the road, I'm pretty low tech for a tech guy. It's a small one that fits in my pocket and basically I create an entry for each day with my stuff to do. I use the last pages and write in reverse order on them to capture ideas (those are then transfered to Trello and crossed out)

I actually combine this with the Promodoro technique so each entry in my notebook will have a couple of [] that are 20 minute chunks.

I'm always looking for ways to optimize my time management so any suggestions are welcome. I don't really use tags in Trello, I tag my books with them into owned, owned digital and want to buy but there has to be better ways of using tags :D
Undoing a false conviction is fine, but they really ought to use a better word. Exonerate. Vindicate. Absolve.

(Then again, I don't understand the idea of the President 'pardoning' a turkey either. What's the turkey done? Headed a Wall Street investment bank?)
Lo-Dash, an alternative to Underscore.js
Svbtle was apparently "released" as a technical solution, but it quickly became clear to me that Dustin was more interested in the prestige of the invite-only "network" than the platform itself.

I haven't dug into Simvla enough to see if it has some of the interesting backend features—I hope so because otherwise this seems to be an academic exercise (pointing out on simvla.com that "there're many publishing platforms out there; hosted or non-hosted solutions are popping out like snails after a storm").
He must have meant MMS, where you can send photos, which functions almost exactly like SMS.

Agreed on this being a terrible article, but it does highlight one thing; punishing teens for this is not the way to go. I think diluting the sex criminal database with a quarter of the upcoming generation is a little counter productive.
yep, I'll probably order it when it comes out ...though it's definitely not a "crash course" :)
There are quite a few. From the top of my head: Pandemic. Even non-European is not unheard of. For example my all-time favorite: Robo Rally (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboRally)
I got accepted into my dream school (MIT) and couldn't afford to go. Two sides of the same coin, I suppose.

The reality is that you are who you are, and you are a person who was not accepted in to Harvard. There are many other good and great schools that would be happy to have you. While you will be missing out on a Harvard education, at the right school you could do just as well, or better.

Don't let this discourage you. While it seems like a huge deal right now, in ten years where you went to school is going to matter less than how passionate you are about your work, who you decide to spend your life with, and where you decide you want to be.
Clickable:

Here's a link to download it: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/musi/id584593128

Here's our website: http://feelthemusi.com
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I'm a Linux / UNIX sys admin and developer by trade. Web development is more a hobby than anything. So I tend to avoid frameworks because I enjoy the "fun" of creating things from scratch.
Looks good!

Just a heads up: the "defined in: ..." links in the documentation are broken (http://larrybattle.github.com/Ratio.js/doc/classes/Ratio.htm...).
How do I check the formatting before it's sent? How do I add a company logo or change the styling (colors, fonts, etc.)? Do I have to go back and forth through email if corrections are necessary? How do I send out a test survey then delete the results from my data set so they aren't included with the real one? Can I track who failed to respond and needs a follow-up email?

I'm (unfortunately) the one who gets stuck creating and sending out surveys for my company whenever it's necessary, and those are just a few questions I have after glancing at your demo. Right now, I can't see any situation where this would be preferable to SurveyMonkey. It might be acceptable for a quick and dirty internal survey, but I couldn't consider sending a questionnaire to our vendors or clients without having full control over the format and styling. Either that or I'd need to see evidence that your final product will be professional looking -- including some screenshots of a finished survey would help with that.
Do you drink a lot of coffee or energy drinks?
why do not give it a try? there're many nice features in the backend. btw this what the editor looks like: http://faaa.at/ObJ7
Marc Andreessen denies existence of middle class
He's saying two things:
1) I am the only one who knows about this terminology I invented? ("maybe under some other name?", well, how could people know for this name? You invented on your blog, for christ's sake. Obviously you are the first result on Google. Egomaniac.)
2) Then he talks about this abstract Idea, which he thinks is not well known.
About the first topic. WTF.
About the second topic, not sure if it's such an ignored aspect, but ok, it's a valid point.
There is a third option, and that is to extend the same privilege to all on record who ever violated the unjust law.
While I'm sure you can find many church members who would say it's wrong for teens to send nude photos to each other, I doubt you're going to find a lot of support for harsh, punitive government actions in response.

For that matter, I suspect you can find a lot of non-church members who would agree on one level or another its wrong (or at the very least a bad idea), but also would not agree to harsh punitive government actions.

This is out of control government and policians fearful to be seen being even remotely soft on child porn lest they get smeared by their opponents in the next election, not the ever-less-Puritan American public or any portion thereof.
"He doesn't seem to know what he is talking about."

HN has this sort of innate skepticism that is just adorable. I assure you Matt Yglesias knows what he is talking about.

"There are P/E ratios between "massively overvalued" and "massively undervalued" and there is no rule that you have to jump from one territory into the next"

He's making a general point about share price and profit not saying that unless you have giant profits you will be bought out. Low profits are normally punished by wall street, Amazon is an anomaly.

"Who has the generous shareholders now?"

Probably the company with a 3600 P/E ratio.
this isn't what we wanted to achieve. we love the idea behind svbtle, but we hate how is it run. so we build our own.
While this is an awesome list of 112+ games, I don't really have too much time to go through and play them all for awhile. Any specifically that I should check out or are worth giving a shot? Thanks, and thanks OP for making this awesome list! :)
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I'm a little unclear on how was the +/- 11 minutes variation measured throughout the year? Huygen's clocks lost about 15s/day, which would give them around an hour and a half a year.

source: http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/huygenss-clocks-...
They mention that texting is on the decline.

I wonder how much of that comes from iMessage on the iPhones, which as I recall, doesn't use SMS but rather data to send messages.
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Tumblr has a JSON API [1] that is fairly usable, and provides access to the essential parts of blogs (and terms of use explicitly allow building data portability applications on it, which is a nice touch). It's not instant-export, and I get the impression nobody uses it so it might not be rock solid, but if you need to export data, it's possible.

This tumblr2wordpress tool is probably built on it. So is Jekyll's tumblr importer. Honestly, the lack of export tools for Tumblr probably comes less from a lack of demand than anything else.

[1] http://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/api/v2
[2] https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/blob/master/lib/jekyll/mig...
Thank HN: You helped the FreeBSD Foundation raise over $43K in three days
They don't have a clue what they're doing because they've never been where they are before.

Pretty much since the first newspaper was printed, the industry's entire business model depended on being the main source of distribution of general information to a geographically defined audience.

Now that the internet is here, the model of distribution they've spent hundreds of years refining is practically useless and their audience is no longer clearly defined, but they're still saddled with hundreds of years of processes and experience.

In reality, it's actually very impressive that an organization like the Guardian is willing to try, fail, and try again the way they are.

I, for one, hope they can figure out something that works.
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I like rememberthemilk too. Trello seems to work well for visual people (that's me). As Merlin Mann says, the second your tools start being fun, you've gone too far. The key thing is the process: making a contract with yourself to do the work and then defining small physical tasks that you'll actually do.
On the other hand, when I talk about the problems with exceptions in C++, the C++ zealots come out in force. Rather than admit that C++ does exceptions the wrong way, they (a) point to other languages as having the same problem (b) claim that exceptions should not be used in cases where the problems are problems and (c) accuse you of not really understanding what exceptions, destructors, constructors, and object oriented programming are about. Rather than fix the problems with C++ exception in C++11, the standards committee further cemented those problems.
Actually, in that case you would use wxWidgets instead of any MFC&Win32.

Or some Qt with its non-standard metacompiler.

But yes, that can be considered bad legacy stuff.
Can somebody tell me what is technically interesting about Svbtle? How is it different from, say, Tumblr? It seems to be just a normal CMS with a minimalistic look. It does attract a lot of prominent bloggers in tech, which, to me, has more to do with Curtis's personal connections than any technical merits.