skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a game developer, when making a new game, I will only focus on a few details that might seem small but if they don't turn out the way they were imagined, the game just will never work/feel right.
Just like someone might need to see the right font on the page to see how it all ties in together, in games sometimes I just have to have a pretty polished reference animation for a character to tell if the controls are going to work.
...except in this case a complex custom algorithm will make the decompressor bigger which will count against your total size.
I did look at this before doing testing for this article, but I assume not many blind users will use this setup. When I tested websites I tried to make my experience match the majority of blind users.
I'm not only partial to TouchEvents because they're better supported across browsers. IE makes you handle all the pointers independently, which is great for toy demos of drawing apps, but really cumbersome for actually implementing gestures with compared to simply iterating over TouchEvent.targetTouches.
rumored to be running Linux so definitely 3.
> if not I'm going straight to hell...

...said the future J2EE developer...
North Korean students show Google chief how they search web
Yeah I agree, it's useful as an absolute bare minimum. But you shouldn't just get the green tick and rest on your laurels
How Much of the Web Is Archived? Truth Is, We Don't Really Know
I forgot about that. Wonder when/if it will land in Chrome...
Adding an option to boot directly to big picture mode would be a huge problem and the Steam Windows client automatically adds firewall exceptions etc for games that you install.

Since I mainly use Linux my Windows 7 PC is basically a Steam box already.
Post from yesterday: !!!!LAUNCHING IN 48 HOURS!!!! PLEASE READ THIS!!!!!!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cesarkuriyama/1-second-e...
The problem isn't that the program runs for a long time, it's that "likely" doesn't cut it. It would have to be deterministic to live up to even the most informal definition of "decompress".
I was sad because it was disturbed when I try to login my VPS(Burst) from mainland China with Mosh, after I was so happy to find it and installed it on all my Linux OS.
i would have been impresses if it had a PS/2 port :)
301 redirects.
...so this whole thing is just a thinly veiled marketing scheme then?
Sorry, but that makes no sense...
Numbers look incorrect (or at best out-of-date). .ie numbers are much higher now as are .at domains (hit 1m last year)
grep -rs

or (more commonly for me):-

grep -rsi

(The -s supresses errors about unreadable files that may clutter the output. -i for case insensitivity.)
I have a suspicion that it's actually a kind of targeted example-advertisement for the clippy thingo ;) and did somewhat work for me actually, I do now feel interested in learning more about the site
You absolutely nailed it... and you made me laugh :)
Finish dishwasher tabs. £10 for a 39 box in the Co-op. Thats where the real money is if you ask me :-)
Disoccupazione giovanile al 37,1%: record storico
I think the last time we played, one of my teammates came up with 'detractors'; i.e. 'stay away from here, it's bad news', once a bot was sure that a place was not good for pathing, they would drop one and it would make its way around to the other bots.

That actually worked surprisingly well. Our implementation had briefly stupid behavior in a few scenarios, but after a lot of testing it was clearly our winner.

It looks like this year isn't as big on the pathing, as 'every square on the map is traversable, and there is no longer any distinction between ground and air units.'

That's mighty unfortunate. I thought that was one of the more interesting challenges.
Thanks for the TL;DR version
This is correct for the general case, but I think his argument is that for any specific file you can (almost certainly) find some redundancy and so find an algorithm to compress that specific file.
How The Supreme Court Helped Stomp Out The Public Domain
I guess it might be a little bit more complex. For example I have todoteria.com (shared todo lists service + app). It is up for 5 months. I doubt that extra 7-19 months will change anything for me. I have ideas/plans but it would be interesting to hear your opinion on that.
They could always have an in-app purchase item that can be bypassed with a code.
I don't sell software (yet) but I do Sell Things On The Internet.

200 views to 1 conversion is a little high, but not completely impossible. 1000 views to 1 conversion may be a bit more realistic. However, if you've got 40 uniques a day, that still means you're selling more than 1 copy a month, and are thus in profit!

(This is why SEO plus software or other product sales work so well, btw - the CPM you're getting off your views with a well-targeted match between content and product is far, far higher than you'll ever see anywhere outside of poker blogging. )
And how do you discover these edge cases if you don't have comments? The point of the comments is to point out common issues, use cases and potentially, common misunderstandings.
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That is exactly my argument.

But now I think I'm wrong because what if you take the new data (i.e. the decompressor plus the compressed data), and try to compress that.
I thought a video of 1-sec clips would just be glitch and confusion, but it's actually pretty cool. I bet if it were my own life it'd be really fun to watch at the end of the year. This year I'm doing a phone photo a day at least.
I think we're about to be in for a whole new console wars, except this time, instead of pushing more bits, it'll be a battle between ecosystems. It won't be a console war, but an ecosystem war.

By and large, with the exception of a few exclusives, the 360 and the PS3 have more or less the same set of games. Both were incredibly advanced and were a logical progression of the course that these systems were going. But they both more or less have the same software ecosystem. Most of the library available on one is available on the other.

Yet the Wii outsold both of them, using far less advanced technology and offering far inferior on-line play. Many people credit the control scheme, but because of the controls (and an incredible first party development house) Nintendo offered a truly unique software ecosystem.

So this current generation we've really had two software ecosystems, the 360/PS3 one and the Wii one.

So today we have three new consoles about to hit the market in the upcoming months, Valve's, the Ouya, and Project Shield, right after the Wii U.

Valve is going to offer the PC gaming ecosystem and probably the strong on-line offering that PC gamers enjoy, the Ouya and Shield are offering Android (plus some exclusives on either side), and the Wii U will continue to offer Nintendo's ecosystem. This leaves Microsoft and Sony to respond, probably with announcements this year and releases before Christmas of next, with their next offering.

Back in the 16-bit days, the market showed that there can really only be two console players. Third place was a very distant third (PC Engine). But it's worth it to keep in mind that the Megadrive/Genesis and Super Famicom/SNES had wildly different software ecosystems as well.

In the generation following we had a plethora of platforms as well, and it rapidly shook down to 2 (with 3rd place so bad that Sega made one more go of it with the Dreamcast then exited the business entirely). Nobody remembers the CD-I, 3D0, Jaguar, CD32 from this generation.

Following that we had the PS2, XBOX, Gamecube and Dreamcast. It shook down to an unusual 3 this time, but the XBOX was artificial in this environment with Microsoft willing to lose tons of cash on the investment and if you look at the numbers they really just split 2nd place with the Gamecube.

Today instead of two major consoles, we have two major ecosystems. 360/PS3 and Nintendo (in transition to the WiiU)...and we're about to add 2 more to it. I don't think it'll work. Somebody's going to exit the market. It just can't sustain 4 (5 if you count iOS which is kind of stretch).

The Console business is hard and the public is fickle.
Why it's Great to be a Developer in 2013 (UK)
I hope it has something to do with bypassing the USB's 6-KRO.
I prefer:-

tail --follow=filename

to:

tail -f filename

The former will spot inode changes and reopen the filename if the file wraps (or has something else done to it to change its inode). The latter will just sit there seeing no new input in such cases.
I'm not forgetting that. It's just that any specific random file will have (with high probability), patterns that can be exploited. It's not guaranteed to work on all files of course. The theoretical limit (per bijection argument) is that at most half the strings of length n can be losslessly represented in strings of length n-1, because there are half as many strings of length n-1 than of length n.

So if, for example, 2% of files can actually be reduced in size (I don't know what the actual number is, and if it is even computable) that's still positive EV in a $100 vs $5000 bet.
You are recreating Kolmogorov complexity there. Kolmogorov complexity is defined as the minimal amount of program (for some programming language) to recreate the given string. By the definition, your strategy will compress the data no better than its Kolmogorov complexity. In this aspect, Kolmogorov complexity measures the data's true randomness. If the random data has been generated correctly its complexity should be near its length, however, so your strategy won't work. (And there is enough evidence that this was the case.) It does not matter whether the data is already known or not; it is the data's inherent randomness prohibiting you to compress it.

To be sure, of course, Patrick Craig did not compress it in the pure information theoretic sense. Mike Goldman failed to equate the goal to that information theoretic compression however.
ROOM for thought is a similar app that asks you to make a photograph every day at a random moment. The app (iOS-only for now) is free:

https://itunes.apple.com/nl/app/id585556618?mt=8
Overcoming Customer Inertia | The Intercom Blog
For ads: no pop-ups, no pop-unders, no floating page elements, no flash, no animation, maybe no images at all, no sound and no javascript.

For the companies: no tracking, no cookies, no storage of identifying information.

For the social networks: no share buttons that track people even without clicking on them, actually delete content when the uploader instructs you to.
No, it's not the same, just as a bus, a sedan, and an suv are not the same even though they are functionally "identical".
One big advantage I would hope for would be "The games you can see for sale will all work on your graphics card and controller, and you won't have to play around with resolution settings and 2xFSAA, or whatever, trying to find an acceptable level of prettyness you computer can cope with".
On LinkedIn Skills Scala grew 30% and Clojure 48%:

- http://www.linkedin.com/skills/skill/Scala

- http://www.linkedin.com/skills/skill/Clojure
The Backbone's connected to the...
You might be right about my moral and ideological grounds, but who are you to say effectiveness is what matters?

Effectiveness without morality and ideology is just Sociopathism. To quote an old saying "The trains always ran on time during the Nazi regime".
Hi, I'm From the Government and I'm Here to Help
I assume that isn't allowed by Apple. EDIT: It appears that it might be (or something functionally equivalent) -- see the post by bhaak.
Winamp. I'm basically looking for player which has separate concepts of a playlist and a media library.
GlusterFS: Distributed Replicated Storage Across 4 Storage Nodes On CentOS 6.3
does solve only the annoyance part (wrong www URLs by journalists), not the shitty URL parser & marketing people and DDOS issues.
http://www.everytopicintheuniverseexceptchickens.com/
Bitcoin is anonymous if you aren't an idiot about it. I mean seriously, all you have to do is generate a new address everytime you send or receive coins. Which is a click of a button.

If anything, this "Bitcoin isn't actually anonymous" is the real misinformation.
It would help your argument if you cite misleading, plain wrong, out of context or misinformed parts of the article to make your point.
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There is another way to achieve this (but apparently the developer didn't do this).

Make a second version of the app that requires a login. Give the login information to your supporters. IIRC you can even put an app into the store and set it not to appear in searches(?), then you need also to hand out the iTunes url.
How to change the number of rows in ASP .NET GridView
Hm, it seems I stand corrected, the list doesn't work like I thought it does.

However, I still don't understand what it's supposed to tell me. See for example (randomly chosen): https://github.com/peterb

According to Github his fork of "carrierwave" is his repo with "the most stars and watchers".

Well, it has 1 star. And I apparently can't see the number of watchers.

Neither can I see the list of commits/issues/pulls that peterb made to this repo, or which of his commits were merged (if any). Github shows me absolutely nothing that would let me gauge the quality or quantity of his contribution(s). Perhaps he's on the core-team of carrierwave, or he just corrected a typo in the README at some point - I'm none the wiser.

The key mistake here is to rank the contributions by the popularity of the project that was contributed to. Fix a typo in the README of Rails and that will likely remain your "top contribution" forever [unless I'm still misunderstanding how the list works]. It's the definition of vanity-stats; figures that can make you feel good but are ultimately misleading.

PS: If peterb is reading here: Sorry for using you as an example, I just clicked a random name on the list of rails-forks.
ssssssh ! When proxying over DNS becomes mainstream, it'll be shutdown !!
Well another thing is that it's easier to setup GEO-ip stuff in a CNAME (so www) instead of the root A records, for now at least in PowerDNS (used by Wikipedia etc.). You're completely right, but if your sites ever scales to something big you're not in the best position with a no-www, in my view having a www record (and no-www redirect) has more benefits that a no-www.
Content warning on dismembered human being in background image, kthx.
Is Java Losing Its Mojo?
Likewise, my Windows 7 PC runs Steam only.
Deleting and Updating Records - Introduction to jQuery UI - Part 30
I'm also confused by the form factor. Presumably, one of the reasons it's so (comparatively) expensive is that it's an extremely small device (so a lot of R&D money has gone into it with lots of custom components). But does that really add much value for a gaming console? If it's going to sit in your living room, would anyone really care if it was, say, twice as big? Or a different shape?

And for all the talk of a modular, upgradable design, it looks like you more or less have to dismantle the entire thing to swap out components. In fact, it looks harder than doing so for a regular PC.
Does anybody know if there is a command for creating an infinite stream of the character "y" + carriage return ?
> I find it enlightening that the post was not read (which takes very little effort to complete), YET google was opened up and queries commenced.

This is exactly what terrifies me when the mob starts baying for personal information. I've seen it go wrong too many times now (personally I think HN should follow Reddit's example and add a rule about posting personal information)
And yet, I find no-www so much cleaner. With 301s it's generally not a problem, and link parsers will look for the protocol anyway. I think the only valid point is mitigating DDOS attacks, but I don't know enough about that subject to comment.
I don't see what the difference is apart from this runs Linux so has 1% of the games.
Ask HN: Really awesome chair for computer use?
Curious if there is a known brand or some specific chairs for home/office use tailored for us hackers who desire a bit of extra comfort? I am talking about something like dentist chairs or something like this: http://videogames.techfresh.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Emperor_1510.jpg , does anyone here use similar at home or in the office?
An ugly hack for #2 is to run "firefox -no-remote -private -ProfileManager". This will pop up a new session of firefox that is in private mode. However, you will have to choose a profile other than the one you are currently using.
I like the wikipedia DNS text lookup - I work in a "firewalled" environment where the unices are only allowed DNS queries. If only wikipedia could provide central switchboard numbers in their text fields as well ...
Configuring A Fresh Install Of MySQL On CentOS
> If you are about to die and the only person who could save you, offers to do so, but asks you to agree to something reprehensible in exchange for saving you, what do you do?

I see it differently: if you are walking down the street and see that a shop is closing its doors, do you help the owner to stay open knowing that he can sue you later?
Just a note of marginal importance: I'm pretty sure that speeding up movie 1.5 times would bring its runtime from 2hrs to 1hr:20mins (not 1.5hrs as mentioned). With 24 frames per second 2hr movie has 172800 frames. Speedup brings framerate to 36 fps, and dividing we get 4800 seconds, or 80 minutes.

Edit: Thank your for pointing that out leberwurstsaft!
Aeron chairs seem to be the preferred chair around here, nowhere near as crazy-looking as the chair/desk thing you linked though. They cost about $1000 or so but if that's too much you can get them second hand for around $500ish. I have no idea if they're worth it or not but a lot of people swear by them.
Clearly not everyone is, plenty of calls in the comments here for the real name of the person in question to be exposed (so that they can - potentially illegally - avoid doing business with them or hiring them)
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A bit unfair to say that these days, given that on Reddit posting personal information is now a bannable offence, and Hacker News has no rules against it.
System Monitoring for Developers : Basic Architecture
OhLife is interesting, but I feel weird sending my personal info to OhLife. Thanks for this suggestion though, I guess I could always just forward the answer to my own address instead of them.
If anyone decides to change the release channel, you can do it now by modifying 'app.update.channel' in about:config to nightly, aurora, beta...

Update: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/940799
It might or it might not. In theory, we don't have software patents, but some tend to still slip through (maybe this one did? I don't know).

It's totally beside the point anyways because the moment as a browser maker has an office in the US and is distributing the infringing software there, they can be sued there.

MS, as far as I remember, has an office in the US :p
Security is much more dependent on the site itself though, it's not as "general". Do you have forms? Then watch out of SQL injection. Do you have user input of any type? Watch for XSS. Admin login page? Consider HTTPS. Something like a favicon can apply to every site, not so much with security practices. The idea of just having a "security checklist" is a bit worrisome in itself. The developer in charge should be familiar with the potential dangers as they program a feature, it shouldn't be an afterthought from a checklist.
One screenshot every day.
Which is exactly what a console is. I do not understand all these "but if you would pay x more you could get this and that and ..." here - yeah, you can do this, but people still buy a X-Box/PS3/whatever. The value of a console (or Steam box) is the _standardization_ i.e. all models of the Steambox are exactly the same. You test one, it works on all of them. Contrast this with the millions and millions of configurations that PCs have which are all subtle different. People can test as long as they want but can never be sure that a game will run on _your_ (or my or anyone else) PC.
> On the other hand with the Mindstorms set you have these precision milled parts...

From the video it looks like the regular old injection-molded plastic Lego bricks - are there new milled parts being used in the EV3 kit?
Except, that 'specific compression algorithm' could be "attach an x86 program to your compressed data, which I will run", which then covers all algorithms you might care to submit.
The price point is very interesting. It's way above console prices and will probably slow down adoption. That said, it might not matter to Valve. The console manufacturers _have_ to get a certain scale quickly to be able to establish an ecosystem, so they discount the cost of the hardware. Valve doesn't have to do that, the ecosystem exists i.e. Steam, so they could afford to go a little slower which means that their supply chain will be easier to manage and they'll make money on the hardware.
This girl takes a photo daily:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgxxxKwlra8
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> (don’t worry, no death by Powerpoint here)

well, technically PP wasn't used here, but the unnecessary transition effect makes me feel like it was.
The point is that it has now passed i386 as the most popular architecture (at least for Debian squeeze installations as measured by popcon). Certainly it was inevitable and expected, but it's still noteworthy that it happened now.
Yes, it's all about the upvotes.
This might not necessarily have bearing on their ability to create decent hardware for running Steam, but if I'm not mistaken ISYS Technologies (the company behind the Xi3 brand/architecture/model) started selling computers running beta versions of the Google's open source Chromium OS under the name "Chromium PC" and then sued Google for trademark infringement when Google launched the Chromebook.

I feel like that kind of behavior is probably worse than being a patent troll.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromebook#Trademark_dispute

http://www.isys-tech.com/xi3-architecture.php
The article doesn't say a lot about the app. But, for people with a "creativity through technology" mind, the current tech climate is great for these sorts of ideas. Documenting is something we can do more of. It's valuable. It can be fun. Maybe all we need is better tools.

How about better ways of documenting your children growing up. Documenting yourself getting old. If we want to get really into it, maybe there are ways of finding lessons in our life that can be passed on.

I've heard interesting anecdotes about taking a picture of all food before you eat it leading to much healthier eating.

There have always been great diarists. Sometimes their benefit could only be seen years later. Maybe we can do it beter now with apps and web and video cameras in every pocket.
This is a big problem in Europe as well. In the UK increasingly the building regulations refer you to British and EU standards which are very expensive. Want to know the EU standard methods for designing drains for buildings? Be prepared to pay £720(US$1160) [0]

[0] http://shop.bsigroup.com/en/SearchResults/?q=gravity%20drain...
It's cheaper, duh.
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More like death by kittens