skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I've learned is that if you find someone honest, hard working who can learn from others and his own mistakes, it may be worth fostering that relationship. Today it is him that needs this; tomorrow it might be you not knowing what to do in a technical situation and having to learn. What this does mean is you being clear with him about where you think he stands and guiding him along. If he is a learner(which is a prerequisite to making this work), you'll get a nice high once you see his growth on a regular basis.

It is a whole different thing if you and him are on a differen page about what is considered good work and bad work. But if you are on the same page and you both trust he can catch up, I'd give it a serious thought given you state that he has a good heart and is hard working(you'd be amazed how many highly skilled people are neither; it's hard to get everything in one person from the outset).
+ Privacy.

+ People don't know how good it would be until it's actually used, so adaption would be slow.

+ No real financial gain- health providers just add the cost of bureaucracy into the bill.

So yes, it would be cool/useful, but there's not exactly a huge need for it (and many potential problems).
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> people will leave the big cities seeking better life quality in smaller, country-side cities

"quality of life" is subjective. I've lived in the countryside, and while it's nice to sit on your porch and sip wine and watch the sunset, it's also nice to have a wide selection of nightlife.
> The technically illiterate

I can assure you, those people can and do pirate content just fine, in many cases being easier to copy it from torrents than it is to purchase it ;-)

> People who have made a conscious decision to support the producer of the content

There are 2 problems with these kind of people: as such purchases are all about giving-back, they are easily pissed off by DRM schemes and they are a minority, because we are talking about an economy based on artificial scarcity here.

> People who fear enforcement of copyright law

Also a minority, especially because the probability of being prosecuted as an individual for copyright infringement is smaller than being hit by a car tomorrow.

> The whole piracy political movement is manifestly obviously just rationalisation

You cannot hand-wave facts.
First off, 'Conquering' is not a natural right.

Second, personal property and real property are different categories. Real estate is somewhat artificial, but the ownership of personal items that you can carry around is a very natural right. It comes naturally from possession and autonomy, and does not need laws to exist.
Cartoon about Consumer Trends and Screen Culture
Piracy is Progressive Taxation, and the Evolution of Online Distribution
The "weird stalls" can be attributed to GC on lower end SSDs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_collection_(SSD)#Garbag...
People can barely navigate in two dimensions; I think that self-driving cars are a necessary prerequisite for flying cars.
In Pursuit of McAfee, Media Are Part of Story
Well, you could utilize more precise operations but, according to Wikipedia, games rarely took advantage of it:

"The Nintendo 64's central processing unit (CPU) is the NEC VR4300, a cost-reduced derivative of the 64-bit MIPS Technologies R4300i. Built by NEC on a 0.35 µm process, the VR4300 is a RISC 5-stage scalar in-order execution processor, with integrated floating point unit, internal 24 KB direct-mapped L1 cache (16KB for instructions, 8KB for data). The 4.6 million transistor CPU is cooled passively by an aluminum heatspreader that makes contact with a steel heat sink above.

Clocked at 93.75 MHz, the N64's VR4300 was the most powerful console CPU of its generation. Except for its narrower 32-bit system bus, the VR4300 retained the computational abilities of the more powerful 64-bit MIPS R4300i, though software rarely took advantage of 64-bit data precision operations. N64 game-titles generally used faster (and more compact) 32-bit data-operations, as these were sufficient to generate 3D-scene data for the console's RSP (Reality Signal Processor; see below) unit. In addition, 32-bit code executed faster and required less storage space (which was at a premium on the N64's cartridges) Though powerful, the CPU was hindered by a 250 MB/s bus to the system memory; not only that, but in order to access the RAM, the CPU had to go through the RCP (Reality Co-Processor), and could not use DMA to do so (the RCP could). This problem is further compounded by the RDRAM's very high access latency.

Emulators—such as UltraHLE and Project64—benefit from the scarcity of 64-bit operations in the game's executable-code, especially when running with a 32-bit machine architecture as a host. These emulators perform most calculations at 32-bit precision and trap the few subroutines that actually made use of 64-bit instructions."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_64
This is cool, but I don't like the fact they've essentially forced you into a particular key layout with this design. I thought the whole point of an Arduino board is how modular it is?

What if I'm trying to build out a controller for a PS2 emulator on my phone? I don't have all the requisite buttons. I also don't have them in the layout I'd expect. That's kind of a bummer.
"There must be areas in which native catfish are hungry and in proximity to birds. Maybe it occurs there too."

Its the combination of birds being available and regular food not being available and then one has to be successful enough at it to survive. Catfish are pretty opportunistic feeders, which is perhaps why they would consider birds to be food if they were otherwise starving.
I agree that being honest is the most important thing to do at this point.
Beyond that, I think that the first question you need to ask yourself is : "what do I want, long term". Obviously we don't know what your project is about, but do you need a non technical co-founder?
If your project is a Dropbox (pure tech product) or even an Instagram (social network), I am not sure. If it is a SaaS or marketplace type business, then maybe. And I say that as a business/product co-founder myself.
In general, I would recommend being able to answer these questions: onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/99/Important-Questions-Startup-Co-Founders-Should-Ask-Each-Other.aspx

If you cannot, talk about it with your co-founder, and if you can't find satisfactory answers, consider splitting.
I just wrote a lengthy review about a site that I feel could be improved but after clicking Submit the button went into a loading state and nothing has happened since. The comment field was blanked out after I pressed "Add comment". Any way to get my review back in the JS console?

Re the site itself, I think it's a good idea but I agree with the meta-scoring. Add a point system that levels you up both by writing a review and later by reviewing reviews of the same site/commenting on them. The higher your level or the more points you have, the more your sites will be reviewed.

And please make https sites fail more elegantly. It's okay that you can't load them in an iframe, but make it look less broken. I submitted an https site and I doubt many people will review it when they are met with a huge screen saying "http only" through no fault of their own. Instead say "This site is using https (learn more), please click here to open the site in a new tab"
Non-linear film experience / unique every time you play
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I recently bough an ipod and set it up with a new apple id. I didn't have access to a computer at the time, and my god, it was such a pain.
Not only are the password requirements utterly stupid (at least one digit, one capital letter, you know it), I was continously prompted to set up three security questions to make my account safer. The one I'm just trying to set up so I can download some free apps (I didn't have any sort of payment options associated with the account at all!). Of course it isn't enough that I have to input my Apple password separately to every single app that might use it - Facetime, iMessage, iCloud backup. When I download a free app, it still prompts me to input my password. Why? What's the risk here?

All in all it took about 20 minutes only to be able to download a news app. Not exactly user-friendly.
Upsample audio with the Fast Fourier Transform
The funny thing is that you didn't make any genuine arguments in the prior post to refute, just several non-arguments and vague complaints like "manifestly obviously just rationalisation".

>However the legal system doesn't exist to just enshrine and enforce basic rights. It's also used to shape societies in ways we (or our representatives) feel are beneficial.

There is no benefit in IP except to the holder of the state-granted monopoly, and perhaps the politicians who get MAFIAA money. You enjoy the copyright system and feel entitled to more than you would have earned without it.

There are slews of studies showing that patents hamper innovation. I challenge you to find one showing it aids it. You are repeating a falsehood, something people "feel is beneficial" but really isn't.
I like this take. Business plans should be thought of as the Constitution; a good rough idea, but a living document that is edited to reflect changing landscapes of technology and monetization. It's ok if it's not entirely realistic at first, as long as your partner is ok with adapting it as your product takes shape.

One of the best ways to confront it is not by "being open and honest", but by challenging it like an investor would. Imagine you're pitching it to Mark Cuban or PG; how would he challenge it, what questions would he ask, etc. Ask those to your partner, and see how capable he is of navigating that.
RTFA please. The reaction time task was phony, there was no competitor. What they actually measured was the punishment that the "winner" dished on the non-existent loser. The punishment was allegedly more severe for the aggressive game group.
Your post office in 2023
This is purely a thought experiment at this point, but it would actually be a pretty interesting project. I wonder if it's true that longer sentences would be more secure -- or perhaps entropy decreases with larger inputs that give more data to analyze. In the cipher world this would be true, but for O(1) hashes, I'm curious how this could be tested.

Edit Ultimately security from these types of attack would be with unusual/non-sensical adject/noun, adverb/verb pairs etc -- which your example does reasonably well. Picking a bible verse (for example) would be bad, though.
Ask HN: How do you keep your address book up to date?
There are plenty of startups trying to solve the problem of keeping your address book updated. Some phones have built in features, and even Facebook and Google seemed to have scratched the surface to this issue. With so many options available, I was wondering if there is a method that is most widely used?

How do you do stay updated with the information for your contacts, both personal and professional?
The Nazis invented rocketry.

Are you saying that the moon missions were a hypocritical endorsement of the values of national socialism?

Mechanical tools and politics are generally orthogonal.
I am not trying to offer my own "interpretation" of reality. I am trying to figure out how to share my best understanding of what worked and why. I don't assume it will merely stop there. And I am trying to figure out how to cross the chasm of communication. However, when I make sincere efforts to try to find out what I need to do to get there from here, the most common result is dismissive and hostile personal attacks, not useful feedback.

I realize that is not your problem to solve. But when you accuse me of not even trying, the only meaningful reply I have is that I can find no path forward since I am constantly attacked and shut out. For now, I remain at an impasse, unable to develop the site in a manner satisfactory to those who feel it is inadequate and feel that is sufficient justification for ugly ad hominems.

Your willingness to talk to me about this is essentially a first. Most people either wish to paint me as a potential savior, who can magically get them well without this communication process, or evil and insane. I want neither role. So I have intentionally stepped away from situations where I was given no other option. I believe it is far better to not share the information than to have people trying things on personal faith in me with no understanding of the process involved. I view that as deadly dangerous. Educating people is hard work. It is impossible work when they want salvation rather than education -- when they want me to tell them what to do, not how to think and problem solve on their own.

So thank you for taking the time to talk to me.
These are the innovations from the OP:

- Supply Lines

- Variable Height Terrain

- Walls

- Player created landscapes: (Walls, base building, supply lines, and advanced terrain modification)

Disclosure: The last RTS's I got into were Age of Empires II, Total Annihilation, and a little of Warcraft 3...

The innovations above don't seem like innovations to me...they seem like features that got ditched because of limitations (still present today) in AI and game-testing:

* Walls made it too easy to turtle against AIs and more importantly, play havoc on pathfinding AI. They also make no sense whatsoever in games that take place after the age of (gunpowder) cannons.

* Deformable terrain has the same issues as above...it's a good feature because it adds realism, but ultimately, it seems to require a much higher level of programming sophistication and game mechanics to implement in such a way that it didn't make the game too cumbersome to enjoy. I personally don't think it would add much to a RTS unless terrain deformation was the focus of the strategy...that would be an interesting game. Adding full-featured terrain deformation to a standard RTS? I think it would just make things unnecessarily complicated.

* Supply lines: I think this was essentially handled through the use of "peasants" traveling from the townhall to the town center (in Warcraft and AOE). In Total Annihilation and other such games where mines/power generators wireless send you resources...you still had to allocate resources to protect the lines. In any case, it was a welcome form of streamlining.

* Variable Height Terrain: It seems a lot of games do have this, even Age of Empires (hills and such).

For me, if we're mining old games for innovation, I wish designers would be more open to incorporating more turn-based mechanics instead of making everything real-time twitch based. I still go back to X-Com and Jagged Alliance time and time again.
I meant that it was not down.
But I think the crux of why your argument is incorrect is your overly narrow definition of ownership. Everything else is daisy chained from that.

> Ownership is the right to do with your property whatever you'd like, provided what you do does not affect or threaten the property of others (including the property they have in their own persons)

Ownership doesn't intrinsically preclude you harming others. Ownership is about exerting exlusive control over property. If you own a gun, you can do whatever you want with it because you exert control over it and it's in your possession.

The part that precludes us from harming others is part of a separate legal framework. You also can't use your wood to build a fence around the forest, or a barracade to impede other people's movement. There is a lot more you aren't allowed to do with property then "affect or threaten the property of others "

So the fundamental issue is that you're conflating the two into a more narrow definition of ownership and then you're claiming IP "destroys the internal consistency of property rights in general"

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As for "threshold pledge system"... The problem is it's a non-capitalistic mechanism that relies on the altruism of the wider population. Altruistic systems don't scale (see communism). Not to mention it rewords free-riders. If a bunch of people fund a movie, and then I come in and pirate it at the end, then I end up being better off than them (b/c I too get to see the movie and I also get to keep my money). This will probably lead to disenchantment.

I just can't believe that you think like a big budget movie like say the latest James Bond could be funded through a threshold pledge system and then distributed for free. It seems rather naiive
I think this is for people rapidly prototyping robots and devices that need RC-like functionality (hence the name "esplora") -- judging from that, this is meant to be a time-saver for a very specific purpose: creating remote controls for vehicles, which generally only require a similar button layout. I think it will be a success, mainly because that seems to be a common task for people using Arduino boards for robotics-type projects.
I think it's fair to say that any major service should be offering two factor authentication. Amazon does, Google does, Dropbox does, Facebook does. Why not Apple too? Why not Twitter?

Somewhat related, if anyone wants to get two factor auth working for their OS X login, instructions are at the bottom of this page:

https://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/wiki/PamModul...

Though I can't speak to how well it works (if at all) it at least makes me hopeful someone will implement it more sensibly at a later date...
And then we have artists like DJ Kariu (http://www.youtube.com/user/Kariu) who have been producing content for years, have ~30k views on their big songs, produce consistently, and are still surviving with a separate shift job because they didn't get picked up. Even if you're noticed, it's still these labels that are creating a majority of the jobs.
The problem is that those predictions are about taking the current trend line and extrapolating it ad infinitum, while nature and history shows us that most patterns are cyclical.

Just in the past 100 years, my country (Brazil) has seen people move from rural to urban to rural again.
So reword 'number' as 'ID'. Sure, you can't get around content being content by reframing it as a number. But this number is not content. It is solely an identifier. They are trying to make it illegal to mention the ID code of files.
For it to be useful, I think it would have to lessen the bureaucracy of patient records, and decrease medication mistakes by being more searchable and accessible than current record systems. If it were done correctly, I believe there would be a financial gain. Maybe not for the patients, but for the medical care providers.
Humans are much, much better at pattern matching than computers, they just don't scale.
Net Storm only had internet multiplayer in a time when internet multiplayer was very unknown. It is, to me, hands down the most skill involved RTS ever created - requiring both clever maneuvering and fast, correct reactions.

It's a shame it didn't take off more than it did. A re-release with better graphics would likely do very well in current competitive RTS game circles, though. Well as long as it had sufficient marketing and very good tutorials. Free to play with in-game purchases for different tower skins would probably be the way to go...
No. You could probably find a washing machine that has specifically what you are looking for.
There is some precedent for left-for-dead tech being brought back to life: the Firefox Web browser, now one of the top browsers, was built from the open-source version of Netscape Communicator, which battled with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

If there was another open source web browser already leading the market in the late 90s, then Firefox probably never would have happened.

Anyway, kudos to these hackers and I wish them luck. WebOS is great.
Nothing you state is in contradiction to the hypothesis that my symptoms are caused by the immune system misidentifying targets. Stressors or nutrition might have something to do with it, they might not. Maybe it's excessive hygiene and lack of exposure to certain infectious agents (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis)

The proper treatment of the root cause is allergen immunotherapy, which completely consistent with the false-target hypothesis. I'm just too lazy to do it and I'm fine with treating the symptoms or suffering through them for a few weeks a year.
Exactly. The (stealthy) thing we're doing doesn't have much data at all since we're not doing anything with images or video.

Data for 1M users would be ~40GB, of which only 8GB of that would be relevant at any single point in time. Well within the realms of in memory caching.

DB writes (our writes are batchy based on external events that we're not in control of) would be our biggest bottleneck but we offset them with MEMORY based mysql tables to hold the 'in progress' data and then update the disk based tables for all users in off-peak times.

We can speed up DB writes with more spindles, and then by an order of magnitude by moving to SSD(s). A single DB server at ~$5000 to handle the data for 10M users and, if necessary, a number of mysql slave servers. Subsequent scaling is just sharding.

Compared to the serving that data via HTTP[s] the DB side of our application is easy.
Thanks for the nastiness, Google employee.
The high traffic is preventing me from entering an idea of mine. The problem is one I personally experience: I don't have time to archive and manage all of the content I want to have digitized.

Mass-media conversion service:

Send in DVDs, CDs, tapes, records, hard drives, iPods, photos, documents, books, (almost anything), to have digitized. Make all digitized content browsable on a web interface.

Allow multiple data export methods such as web availability, as well as hard-drive send-in/purchase. Make data as accessible as possible. Think of the service like Earth Class Mail for digital archives.
Hey now. That's not very nice.

Here's an edit just for you. Better?

I read this the other day and completely fell in love. What a fantastic thing to be doing - but, as jaysonelliot says, from the perspective of the person running the unofficial restaurant. It's worth noting that by the end of the article, he's opening a real restaurant. This was his way in, and it was very effective, probably because his enjoyment of his work shone through.

I wonder, though, if the same trick could be repeated by creating an unofficial restaurant aimed at diners who like good food but wouldn't think of trying to get into a fancy restaurant, or paying for one. Could you arrive from outside the restaurant "scene" and make a name for yourself in the same way?

Meanwhile, the movie Jiro Dreams of Sushi is on a related topic, and very good.
I don't think TFA works well for securing mobile devices, because the entire premise is that it sends the second authentication token to your mobile device.
FTC: Most mobile apps for kids secretly collect and share information
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