skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a fair few, it's on going;

Laser scanning ore sizing systems to infer size distributions of reclaim "over ore" on high speed conveyors to optimise SAG Mills (these operate 24/7 @ roughly $36,000.00 per hour in super sized mines).

Better targeted exploration techniques; eg: Holden / Kovesi / Dentith - "Using fancy wavelets on aeromag data to find teh colour" (obligatory deadwood reference).

GPS enabled fleet management to optimise usage & maintenance & avoid million dollar tyre fires on the big tonka toys.

Robot fleets with either autonomous or remote drivers.

They'll be plenty of discussion, boozing, whoring & two-upping over these very issues @ Diggers & Dealers 2013 I'd guess.

http://www.diggersndealers.com.au/
Vulnerability Lets Hackers Control Building Locks, Electricity and Elevators
Jesus. Is it bad that I recognize exactly two of those proper nouns?
Maybe it was just because I was blown away by Portal, but I didn't even finish HL2, just too boring.

You are not alone in this opinion.
It's in the best interest of Office to be on every platform possible. It's in the best interest of Windows for Office to be an exclusive. That's the tension that's been there for years.

But Office, especially with its growing Web and sharing underpinnings, may be a more enduring product than Windows. If this is indeed the case, it makes sense for Office to be on every platform possible, making it the standard for document creation and sharing.

Microsoft is weak in the smartphone and tablet space. It makes a ton of sense for Office to go here; it's not like strong Office products on iOS would hurt Surface sales. And now with subscription plans and Windows becoming less ubiquitous, why not Linux?

It's not Office's job to protect Windows, especially if Windows can't protect Office. If Office doesn't go on more platforms, people will switch to other solutions because they are using non-Windows devices all the time. Windows alone will kill Office in the long term.
I didn't want to imply that. It was only the reason for winamp version skipping.
Imagine a "Half-Life" film composed of one continuous shot from the first-person perspective.
We're doing just fine without them. LibreOffice!
And after you cut off your nose to spite your face, how do you keep your sunglasses from sliding down?
You know, as much as I would like to love this game, I simply don't understand the ridiculous amount of grind and repetition with respect to trying to collect resources. Especially when it's attempting, on some level, to be a reality-analogue.

If I need a branch to make something, I go up to a tree and I break off a branch. If I'm sitting in the middle of a forest, acquiring vines, branches, and kindling are easy and straightforward things to do. If I am in rocky terrain, finding round rocks or sharp rocks is also easy.

The interesting gameplay should come from choosing what to combine, not mindlessly thwacking at something until you are lucky enough to get an item from it.
I'm not a huge fan of infinite scroll for things like this either. I always lose track of where I am in the list as new things keep being added. And then when I navigate down a level and come back up, my browser tends to lose track of where I was.
Two extremely difficult film techniques, there. One would be a lunatic to try such a thing.
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Believe me, I'm no stranger to flaming service providers, but I'm inclined to blame the user for not being sufficiently disciplined here. The service provider shouldn't have to make all these kinds of guesses about what you can access and within what timeframe.
Except for when they show up at all-white country clubs.
1. By posting it to HN you have already launched.

2. The landing page needs to explain what you do in a clear manner. Its empty on the top and has some very hard to read explanations once you scroll down.
At my former place of employment -- I won't bore you with the "consolidation" memo and the unannounced reshuffling of titles and the change to generic job descriptions in the name of "flexibility." After the reorganization, I had to work for a smug, platitudinous, self-important, patronizing, repulsive know-nothing. I left within a couple months of the reorganization. In just about every case I've left jobs because I detested my boss. I tend to dislike bosses in general, unless they are exceptionally intelligent.
Seems like there are a lot of war stories on this thread. I disagree with the article based on my personal statistics. When I have decided to move on, in all but one case it has been that either we weren't shipping or the overall product path got stale (beyond the control of day to day engineers).

I like working on things and I like working on things people use. If we aren't shipping, I have to ask why. Periods of development are certainly reasonable but at the end of the day you have to ship.

Where I have moved on due to management? An alpha presence who treated everyone under him as a contractor, yet we weren't hourly, and we weren't compensated for following up on inane decisions. I ended up stepping up, guiding two mis-managed resources, and pushing back on some very dumb decisions (a few were backed by the CTO). However, at the end of the day, when I stepped back anded look at the energy I put in and what I was getting out, it was time to leave.

Decisions to leave are complex.
Gabe Newell: reflections of a video game maker.
Oooh! I got aggregated. Thanks for the nice discussion
So its closer to JVM than LLVM (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/454720/what-are-the-diffe...)?
incredibly misleading title. This wasn't even close to an A/B test.

Correlation != Causation

Repeat until understood and unforgettable.
This was more or less exactly my experience when using the Transformer Prime in laptop mode. Touchscreens give you much more space and comfortable gestures compared to a typical laptop trackpad.
Oh. Ok. 2 days is actually at the high end of what I do, and this is for a 50min presentation. Of course, the visuals are usually based on work I already did before - instead of designing stuff with pen and paper I usually begin drawing my ideas directly in a quick Keynote presentation, that way I can show it to other people / at internal meetings easily.

I'd be interested to see one of your presentations though, in case they're not all confidential. I think your approach might make sense for product launches for example - where it needs to look even more professional than the junk I do. If you're interested I could also send you an example Keynote file if you have a mac, just to see the quality difference.
Yep, it was a joke. I didn't know HN had no sense of humor. My bad.
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You had me nodding until

>4. Also, yes, touchscreens are on laptops are stupid. This is a stupid idea.

Sure, touchscreens aren't going to be your main form of input in a laptop, but I wouldn't say they are stupid. Once you start playing with a touchscreen laptop, you'll begin to use the touchscreen occasionally, and in these moments it's really nice.

For example, when I'm browsing the web in my bed, it's awkward to use the touchpad to scroll, so I'll just reach out and scroll like I would on a tablet.
And yet, it pains me to say (ouch!), mindshare is a function of version number. User confusion? It's already out there, in the form of misinformation.
If it's anything like Portal: No Escape (Live Action Short Film by Dan Trachtenberg)[0], I think the Portal movie could be quite successful.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4drucg1A6Xk
Office is great and all, but I transitioned to Google Docs a long time ago. The one thing holding me back from Linux as my day-to-day operating system is lack of Adobe software. The day Photoshop and Fireworks comes to Linux (heck, the whole entire Creative Suite) I'll jump the Windows ship so fast. If true, this is a smart move for Microsoft because if the tide changes, Microsoft would already have a foothold because open source equivalents of MS Office just aren't as good as Microsoft's offering. When was the last time you ever saw a business using OpenOffice over Microsoft Office? Never.
Next Xbox May Not Play Used Games
Office for Android could be pretty potent, but also extremely damaging to the Windows ecosystem.
I've never personally watched Lost, but I've been told that in the first episode they explain the concept of a plane crash several times. "We were up there...and then the engine failed...and now, we're down here!"

If this is an accurate characterization, it says a lot of things -- none of them favorable -- about the show, the director, and the audience.
I'd say your bigger problem with the signups is the contrast on the email capture field and its placement. Size 10 font, below the massive heading? Don't do that - http://i.imgur.com/eEC0Awg.jpg

Also, bad title on this post as others mentioned. Don't do that as well.
Good response.

I've been basing my opinion on earlier uses of security images which were as I described, but I should not have called that the 'default' as I have no idea what is the most prevalent type. I know BoA had a system like that years ago.

I will say now that if you are _only_ showing the image to cookied users, then I don't have a problem with it.

I just reread the blog post to see how it is described there and the author doesn't make the distinction. But I can see both the username and the security phrase in the screenshots and you say that they come from Ally Bank (or another bank using the same software, I guess). So my criticism stands for the system _described_ in the blog post but not the one depicted.

As for the charge of cynicism: fair because I didn't go into any details. For the compliance angle, I was relying on this comment further down [1]. As far as marketing goes, it's similar to the little SSL padlock/shield icons on the bottom of a page. It's just theatre. Well, in fact they are supposed to be links to authenticating sites, but in practice it's all about assuaging users' concerns. (OK, that's my inner cynic again).

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5158212
It's not that hard to make money giving away an OS when you're the one selling the hardware it runs on.
Yeah, this is basically my point. You're more likely to find Harry's kind of silliness among CS people than math people.
But conversations are nested anyway. In real life you rarely have discussions with more than ten people at once. Even when you do, it's frustrating as you have to switch between topics instead of following the "threads" of the conversation. (And inevitably someone doesn't shut up and derails the conversation in a particular way.)

So what do current systems do?

* Go for broke, go full threading (eg. HN, Reddit, Usenet).

* Ignore it (eg. phpBB). Just like real life, everything gets muddied, but you have far more people in the conversation that would be practical in reality.

* Track it but try to hide it (eg. Twitter). Discussions have tree structures, but you can only have a flat view of them. You have to manually sift through replies to find the branching points and then trace it from there.

For example, these are two discussion trees branching from the same conversation starter:

https://twitter.com/lgarvey/status/279088834115940352

https://twitter.com/nitecoder/status/279088173743747072

In any case, I suspect Discourse's threading mostly stems from Jeff Atwood's dislike of threading: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/12/web-discussions-fla...
doesn't seem to be working
Games Workshop Bullies Author Over Use of the Words 'Space Marine'
Nah they're not product launches. They're client-side reporting that is presented.
I don't see where this whole "Windows is becoming less ubiquitous" is coming from. Maybe market share has dropped a bit, but, Microsoft still rules the basically the whole desktop market.

Sometimes in the startup world with all the glowing Apple logos, we lose sense of the rest of the world (heck, even the rest of the United States).
[nod] To be fair, I am fishing for folks who have been injured by fake DMCA takedowns, and injured monetarily at that. Recent 512(f) cases focus (unduly) on direct economic injury (Rossi v MPAA, Lenz v UMC) so finding claimants who were financially significantly harmed by shitty takedowns are going to be the ones for whom a lawsuit is going to be most likely to succeed.

Personally, I'm not trying to monetize it (IANAL), but I'd love to make some lawyers rich suing lame companies who deliberately issue fake takedowns. I was a plaintiff in OPG v Diebold (the first 512f case!) but didn't personally financially benefit even with a six figure judgement.

Would love your thoughts on how to reword the copy.
I was taking a deep look at Xero when I submitted this thread actually...it just seems to me that 90% of the features of Xero are unnecessary for a SaaS app and the remaining features you need don't really address what is unique to a SaaS.

Care to share any specifics of your workflow? Are you tracking each individual payment as a transaction/sale? Are you creating customers in Xero that match up with your customers in your own app and then attaching their monthly payments to their Xero customer record?
That's true, but (and I may be misreading it here) I feel like the piece speaks to an even deeper element of chance: the chance that you even find your true passion to begin with. If you're in love with a discipline and know you want to excel in it, then you're lucky to have solidified a purpose in your life. Some people take years, decades, maybe their entire lives to discover what it is that truly makes them tick. I'm sure some never do.
I like Google Docs, but, I find that it is nowhere near the "quality" (well, maybe just features) of Microsoft Word. In fact, I don't think it is even meant to be.

I for one would do fine on Google Docs, but, there are many for whom that would not work.
I dont want to discredit the whole article based on a few things.
There were some things that he says either didn't impress me or seemed inaccurate
<Quote>These are huge obstacles, and is probably why there hasn’t been a new major auto maker in the United States for 90 years </Quote>

Kia - Founded in 1940s.

Also its not clear why US is the only country that is being considered?

<Quote>
Tesla’s strategy for overcoming these obstacles is ingenious; Start at the top and work our way down. </Quote>

Thats how its been for many businesses. Cars in general had a similar history. It was only available for rich people initially!

<Quote>
If I was General Motors I would be afraid. Very afraid.
</Quote>

Statements like this are too generic. What time frame? No quantification? General Motors was about to be bankrupt a few years back. Their business is already being threatened by many things, I dont know if Telsa is their biggest concern!
BlackBerry says Z10 Canadian launch was best in company history
Hey...relax. It was a thought experiment. No need to blast it.

What you are apparently so shocked by, and what you describe as "unbelievably dickish," is actually fairly common throughout the United States. A concurrent problem is the difficulty older people have in finding jobs after such a thing.

Do I agree with it? No, I'm not saying that. But your other examples are much more outlandish and, frankly, not on the same level of injustice. You seem to be crying out against this with the same passion that consumed many people during the Occupy Wall Street protests - this has been happening for a long time, it's not a recent development, and just now you are demonizing it to a much greater degree than it needs to be.

Again, I'm not saying you should be happy about it. But your parallel examples aren't parallel at all. It's age discrimination, yes, but what are you changing by posting this huge rant? And whose mind are you changing?

The author of the blog post wasn't trying to implicitly advocate for ageism. He wasn't make it a de facto axiom of proper business protocol just because he included it in his example. It's just a real world example.

My underlying point here is, in your shock at what is really a common phenomenon, you seem to have missed the point of the post itself. In fact, you have the opposite reaction...it was actually supposed to be a bit amusing, my friend.
This reminds me of Peter Thiel's lecture on the question of luck.[1]

A focus and care for topics like what this article discusses often falls into the optimistic indeterminism quadrant that he outlines -- ie. we're optimistic about a future that we find largely out of our control, ie. is approaching fairly randomly but we feel good about it. The worry he outlines is that we may be at risk of falling into "pessimistic indeterminism", where Japan has existed for some time and much of Europe, ie. we don't feel good about a future we can't control.

I agree that yes many things are indeterminate, and perhaps I can use this knowledge and attempt to take actions to mitigate the bad-unknowns, and not get too angry if things don't always work out, however beyond this what are the lessons to be learned here? I always fear that confirmation bias will take root and a common reaction to articles like this become, "oh, they were just lucky, so my current course [probably of inaction] could also lead to similar success given random chance..."

No, that's not what it's saying. Perhaps I'm a deterministic pessimist?

[1] http://blakemasters.com/post/23435743973/peter-thiels-cs183-...
I'm referring to operating systems as a whole. People are spending less time using Windows devices and more time using smartphones and tablets. I'd love to use Office with syncing on my iPad, but that's not an option, so I have to find other ways to do these tasks. OS X market share is growing, but that's not what I'm referring to.

Ten years ago, almost everyone's computing time was spent on Windows. Now even people who use Windows desktops/laptops have iPads, Android phones, etc.
I'm curious how they plan to monetize this. It's hard for me to invest too much into the "open web" for browser games when there's not a very clear way of monetizing browser games that doesn't mean "ads".

I feel like ads would affect the user experience. I'd rather be bringing your attention more to the game, rather than distracting you with things to click on that will take you away from the game.
But what the guy is saying is that Community doesn't just stop the ridicule. It swings the pendulum to the other extreme. And this is applauded by the target audience.
Recursive fury: Conspiracist blogging about research on conspiracist ideation
How so? If they want to program in nano or use a dvorak keyboard, let them. It's about what makes YOU happy and productive. Who cares what other people use?
XOXO 2013
Does your experimentation require you work on blades and not on virtualized environment?
I want to play Psychonauts but it's just a mess, runs like crap on my fast-as-hell PC.

This game gets so much nostalgia cred, someone should really clean it up.
Apple wants to turn people into cash machines
If iOS is your platform. First you have to decide if you want to do a desktop game or a mobile game. Pursuing both at the same time is a bad idea for an indie developer.
As much as I'd love to see this happen, there's no way it's going to.

Linux has what, maybe a 1-2% desktop market share? Can you even begin to image the support costs Microsoft would have to endure to make this happen?

Assuming the article isn't just link-bait, I have a feeling the "meaningful look" is really one guy in a cube somewhere who drafted a position paper that he is desperately peddling up the chain as far as he can go.
Any more information? The website gives me nothing.
You can skip data-binding, the update pattern and SVG for this kind of step-by-step animation. I use Canvas to render these and just a few d3 functions (scales, extents, json). Here's another example to learn from that uses similar techniques to get good performance out of Canvas:

http://www.jasondavies.com/maps/transition/
> so maybe I'm way off kilter.

You're not. I replayed HL2, and it was a dull experience. HL2 fellates the player way too much; part of what made HL1 intriguing was that Gordon was a nobody caught up in something bigger than himself.

In HL2 the "mysterious" aspect of the non-plot feels forced in comparison.
Congrats on that MIT degree the NPCs will remind you, now kindly plow through 6,000 bugs/zombies/cycloptic humans as we tell you what to do.

That's a good point. I replayed it recently and it wasn't until close to the end (when you've had your weapons taken away in exchange fora souped-up gravity gun and you're basically dealing with puzzles and combat simultaneously) that the science-fiction feel was properly re-established. I was so sick of zombies by the time I got to the end.

I also agree about the glass-tunnel feel of the game, but that seems to be an almost unavoidable problem with FPS games.
Many companies will pay for training to enhance your value to them but may not always pay for training which enhances your value to you, in part because occasionally (good! ethical!) companies have a plan for your career which is not the optimum plan for you. In this case, it makes sense to pay for training personally when the day job won't subsidize it, or otherwise invest in one's own professional development. (Via side projects, OSS contribution, yadda yadda whatever capital-building exercise you can licitly do outside the confines of 9 to 5.)

For example, my old day job happily dropped $10k to fly me to JavaOne so that I would more effectively map XML files and JavaBeans together, but "Most efficient cog in an Enterprise Java consulting shop ever!" was not a long-term career aspiration of mine. They were pretty understanding about providing for career growth during work hours but when they didn't I did it on my own time. That eventually cost them my services but, hey, capitalism happens.

Generic career advice for everyone: You are the captain of your own ship. You will have mentors, employers, and other folks who you are to some degree reliant on, but at the end of the day you have both responsibility for creating and authority to mandate forward progress.
If it's fair for you to benchmark this, it's surely also fair for me to point out that in a lazily-evaluated language (Haskell!), Tom's approach is O(n) and equivalent to Dick's. :)
There is a special event that happens in the lifetime of a growing company. That event is the first time a person walks into an office, picks up a computer, and leaves without anyone particularly wondering why someone they have never seen before has just walked off with a computer.

At least one place I worked, that was when they decided to get everyone official company name tags.
>I like the alliteration!

Good! If you really like words and want to get some copy edited you should check out http://www.edithero.com/
I'm really hoping this whole article is satire.
How to find the perfect product to sell
I thought it has a lot of interesting ideas. Although much of them can be emulated by any other platform, if BB proves to continue innovation especially in the business/corporate sector it could gather quite a following.
To get true understanding of what you're working with you need to be able to trash the configuration of your gear at will. I learned a lot buying up some big old Cisco Catalysts and EMC Clariion SAN boxes back when I was doing data center work. Later on though, when I was in charge of buying new stuff I'd rack the stuff up first and go crazy with it before it was in production. Either way works. I don't miss having those fans running in my house though.
Linux's Capabilities framework is one such fine grained permission system. That, AppArmor, SELinux, or a similar system could be used to sandbox apps and games.
Google's New Offices in Tel Aviv
Going through the online version now. Very pragmatic writing style and wastes no time in getting to the point (Kernigan/Ritchie influence is seen).

Very nice. Thank you for sharing it with one and all.