skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that most people working tech in the valley haven't hit a lot of significant roadblocks, this is a great parable for HN to find compassion - we too often write off the less fortunate as merely less talented or hard working.
I am not a gamer but I love the resident evil movie series, very entertaining (have never even seen the game!)

Why the heck is JJ Abrams the only person Hollywood can go to though? That's crazy and I am kinda exhausted from his style.

Now if they can make a mystery movie based on portal, I'd watch that.
Unsure since I don't have a larger laptop. Though I'll say that I don't find the Surface's trackpad lacking for what I would use it for - and yet I don't always use it. It's mostly unconscious like one of the other people said.
Such as?

It seems absurd that someone could intend to seek employment in this industry (and likely spend 4 years studying it and it's related fields) without producing anything real.
We've created a place to find the latest bug bounty programs and submit reports
I spent a week or so playing with a leap device recently, and had a great time developing a sort of Minority Report style interface for some display screens in our office recently. I did end up writing all of the gesture recognition from scratch which was a bit more difficult than I expected. :)
That first mil seems to be all work. Then all the millions thereafter seems to be all luck.

Or is it the other way around...
How to translate an app
On the smart city; A call for smart citizens instead
Shapeways Talks 3D Printing at the US Patent Office in Washington DC
I don't care for nesting much either. While it may be more like real life one-on-one conversations, I find it more difficult to follow an entire thread and very hard to scan through. I can enjoy a segment, but that's one of the problems I see: it segments a conversation greatly. I think things stay more on topic with a flat discussion, and I discover things I would have missed in a threaded one.

I'd love to see some innovation in the forums space, it's been a while. I still don't see it, but I'm hopeful.
For Mac OS X. I remember they created WLM for classic Mac OS back in 1994 or so.
So... GIL?
Hey! You forgot Order of the Stick! (Even if it is more a parody)

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0001.html
Microsoft Announces Initiative to Empower African Tech Ecosystem
A Wired.com reporter was first to register mcdonalds.com (1994)
Online Class on How To Teach Online Classes Goes Laughably Awry
Microsoft doesn't lose money on Windows.
What people never seem to get in the Minority Report is, it’s not cool because he used his hands.

It was cool because it had kick ass software behind it that could do all the work.

I see this continuously with things like glass/mirrors that can be touch screens etc

They look awesome because the (imaginary) software demoing it does awesome things.

Leap could be a cool device, but you’ll need to think outside the box to see how.

My fat ass is not going to wave at anything that it can do with a mouse let along the quicker speed at which we can type/shortcut/mouse compared to physical movement.

Personally if I was a developer I'd look at things totally new.
It's interesting that the adaptations of both Mortal Kombat and Resident Evil were directed by the same person.
On the desktop - a consistently good experience with a common application/document format is key. The assorted office options seriously lack in many ways -- both in usability and feature compatibility.

I prefer to look at this as, Office is seeing the desktop as becoming a diverse platform, so being more available benefits Office. Linux and OSX are becoming more accepted as compute options in a number of large companies where Windows once ruled.

Office 365 for the cloud, another step towards ubiquity.

Will it work? Who knows. But being open to adapting to changes in platform demographics is important in the application space.
(subtitle: and it should be)

I share the pain. I'm using the executable instead - works well enough as long as you don't need high throughput public key encryption (if you do, you're doing it wrong), and you don't need high throughput public key signatures (that's actually a reasonable use case).

Anyone know of an alternative to gnupg?
Doesnt mention what the current status of topaz is with respect to http://rubyspec.org/
I've never visited San Franscisco & seen this 'start-up world' you speak of, but the widespread use of Macs surprises me a bit. In all my IRL interactions with developers, it's always free software variants of *nix with a minority of Macs. I guess I interact with the FOSS/Security/Privacy community a lot though. I guess if your customers use them it's good to use them.
Pocoo.org was missioned to make a BBS in 2004

http://www.pocoo.org/history/#history

Python community should be familiar with pocoo.org. These guys made Flask, Jinja 2, Pygments, Sphinx and Werkzeug
Npm install java
That's in infamous Australia tax that is put on everything down here. Expect to pay double for any software, even if it's download only.
Atwood has previously been a big proponent of OpenID[1]. Why no implementation here?

After signing up for try.discourse.org I now have to re-register to post on meta.discourse.org as well.

[1] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/11/your-internet-drive...
Yes, there have been some incredibly good movies based on comic books! Perhaps more than have been based on novels, actually. Comic books and games do indeed share the important quality of being highly visual. However, unlike a comic book a game is also interactive, immersive, and involves you in a (generally) non-linear story. Perhaps most important of all, a game gives you a chance to solve problems and have your answers evaluated; a movie (like a comic book) treats you as a passive participant, taking away something that you may want.

Come to think of it, there is one game I think would make a good movie: Grim Fandango!
Combining citizen video journalism with HTML5
Between this, Windows Phone 8, Firefox OS, Open webOS, and a resurgent BBOS, 2013 is going to be a race for third place on mobile.
Amazingly detailed and layered!

I'd love to know more about how it was created. Too bad I don't speak Japanese to ask directly. :-/
Enter the Void[1] was basically three hours of this. I enjoyed it, but it's definitely not for everyone.

[1]http://www.avclub.com/articles/enter-the-void,52931/

Here's part of my favorite comment on that article:

"The whole thing plays out like a video game cut scene that never ends, or a rail shooter in which the controller has stopped working; first person, limited third, floaty bits-- it seems to borrow a lot of gaming grammar for its visuals, intentional or no.

Old-timey comics used to throw around adjectives like "mindbending!" all the time. I think Enter the Void truly is, though. It ate my brain and shat it back out in my skull... and I think it gave me insomnia. It's either a weird, pretentious mess, or a goddamn masterpiece, but it's definitely worth seeing."
Canadian Business Groups Lobby For Right To Install Spyware on Your Computer
Could you point me to an example of Chrome "UI rearranging itself at random"?

The only time I've had issues with chrome, is when I switched to the dev stream... Stable has always been, well, stable.
Shoot me an email.

The useless website is on purpose.
I'm pretty sure my weekend (or likely next weekend) just got planned. I'm going to strap one of these to the bottom of my hobbyzone super cup and take some HD aerial videos of the neighborhood. Thanks Raspberry Pi!
That's true if you pick the right sort algorithm. I'm not sure if it is true of whatever happens to be in Data.List; I wouldn't be surprised either way.
A similar article was discussed yesterday on HN here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5174334 (some good comments there for people who missed it ):

My opinion is that success is always accidental. You are the product of your DNA and your environment. There are no great men. Only great situations (see multiple origin of inventions/scientific progress/businesses).

Life's a crapshoot. It's all luck.
Seconded.

Article is link bait.

I don't see any comments actually thinking through what such a move would mean for MS.
The downside is that it's nearly impossible to go back to a thread and continue where you left off. With a linear thread, you can go back to the last post you read and continue from there -- with a fully threaded forum, I basically get one pass at the comments and then can never view that page again without huge effort to reconstruct my position.
It's not difficult to pick up a new web framework. The skills that matter transcend the flavor of the week.
I had a look at these two applications. I couldn't figure out if they do anything that Vim's ':X' doesn't do? Partial key-sharing? Access delegation?
I agree and disagree, to varying degrees.

HL1 was definitely better than HL2 (which I still liked), which would make a terrible movie.

But HL1 as a movie? It's already been made. Half Life is Die Hard with aliens as a video game. "Fairly regular guy is put into an unpexpected situation where is is forced to kick ass and crawl through air-ducts in the ceiling." We don't need a Half Life movie.
Java’s virus: technology that gives both headaches and chills
Do know that a lot of people are just too afraid to even try. Society has put them down so much that they cannot fathom standing up for themselves. Its really sad. Many talented people waste away due to how we decide to run things. Still, survival of the fittest applies here too. If you cannot make your own luck then bad luck. Someone else will.
Yes, I think this is the spot on point. You don't need a home lab to do your current job, but you are going to need a home lab to prepare for your next job. Because your employer certainly won't be shelling out so that you can leave (well, probably won't anyway).
But a horrible place for tech jobs. So fly there for the ribs.
For me it was the first thousand. For some reason I was blocking myself from making more than that. But now, well, I am not blocked anymore. :)
So to summarize, the Wall Street Journal and two talking heads (apart from Mark Shuttleworth) are skeptical of Ubuntu ("a Linux-based operating system used to run servers and other infrastructure in many corporate IT departments") on phones for the following reasons:

1) Ubuntu's "popularity among open source developers"

2) Ubuntu is all-or-nothing and "switching to an all-Ubuntu-based environment wouldn't make sense for many organizations", unless you "employ large numbers of Linux developers" (see 1).

3) "[T]he real challenge is overcoming this very large BYOD phenomenon" since bringing your own device precludes bringing an Ubuntu phone.

4) "It seems overly complicated to me"
Could secure boot lead to Linux v Linux strife?
At the very end, the person so chosen turns out to be the CEO. Does that affect your appraisal?

I share most of your sentiments and I see why this article triggered this response from you, but I think it's out of proportion to what's actually being said in this particular article. This is 99% thought experiment, 1% bad humor, and yes, you have to read the whole thing to get to the joke.
The author implies that GnuPG should work the way he wants it to work. Now to be fair, it would be nice to have great GnuPG integration everywhere, including on iDevices.

But some perspective is needed here. GnuPG works fine in a POSIX environment. All popular platforms can handle that. This isn't the first command-line tool that needed to be integrated into a GUI. Seriously – that's all his complaint amounts to.

There may be a need for a library wrapper around GnuPG, but this complaint is not the need.
I'm not sure who Scott is writing to as almost no one is in this situation. Though, if you are in this situation, just having yourself put in charge of a big division is not always feasible either.

If you are not a CEO or owner of the company being acquired, your survival guide is to find a new job immediately, like immediately after the all hands announcement.
Hands on with Google's new Chrome message center
"No true Scotsman" and all that. The dual major in my FP group is the only one besides me that cares about category theory. The rest are CS majors and don't care. Just so you know.
I feel like the best way to attack this problem would be to use GnuPG as a guideline to constructing an entirely new open-source library standard for PGP that can finally serve as a practical basis for widespread PGP encryption. It should also be under a permissible license, because otherwise we'll just get a repeat of everything that's happened with broken proprietary implementations and impossible to use open-source ones.
I don't think its unavoidable but I do think its a hard problem to solve. Still I can think of a few games that did a very good job.

I haven't played these sorts of games in the past few years so most of these won't be modern, but off the top of my head I think Deus Ex 1 and Human Revolution (the new one), System Shock 2, Thief 1+2, BioShock all did well at making me forget that I was playing essentially an on-rails shooter.

Gameplay can be linear and that's fine. Novels are linear and they surprise us all of the time. When gameplay is linear you can still feel like what's being done to you isn't, and that's important and I think HL2 just plain skipped it.

All the game above are more or less linear, but they feel very different in terms of intrigue, character development, consistent pacing, and expressive emotions. Also, in every one of these examples who your character was mattered a good deal to the game.

Instead of hand-held waypoints, all of them offered an interesting world and we knew that we knew little about it, but we could feel that it was so damn large and scary.

The Thief universe for example was just plain incredible. Medieval setting with a small dash of newfangled machinery and magic, but unlike space robots or typical games with mages, both were powerful forces that are not well understood. You don't get to play badass wizard. You can't control these forces. But they're there, lumbering and wheezing.

There appear to be gods, but they are not all-powerful and somewhat stay out of the way of humans. For all we know there were once hundreds of gods, and they have been beaten into submission by mankind and no longer show their faces. You get the feeling you're not let in on everything. Moral ambiguity abounds.

You creep around looking for entrances, secrets and information. Most of the story development is gotten by way of eavesdropping. Nothing is just plopped in front of you like I felt for the entirety of Half-life 2. There's so much intrigue, and at times you really feel like you're in on something, part of this crazy, wide world filled with wonders and horrors. You get to fear it, but at least you have your shadows, so it still gets to fear you.

Half Life 2 was a joke in comparison. You're treated like a kid. You walk into a shitty house and some clown colonel (Odessa Cubbage) hands you an RPG, and lo' a gunship, go nuts kid, there's infinite ammo in the box over there. I'll wait out back.

Can you imagine storyboarding that? I hope to god it was more interesting than "well we got the car plot device out of the way. What's the next thing the player needs to check off?"

But the end result wasn't.

(all this criticizing leaves a dirty taste in my mouth. I promise to only be positive on HN for the next month.)
This is par for the course, sadly. If you're not aware of this side of GW, well, you just haven't heard.

Cred: I have two Warhammer tattoos on my forearms.
Awesome short film. I hadn't seen that before so thanks for the link!
This evening would have been better if I hadn't been reminded of that film. I respect that some people enjoy it, but yeah, I am not a fan.
An uptodate browser OS booting from a USB key
I just saw several insightful comments, you saw none?
After the first episode (and definitely after the first seasom) JJ Abrams had no involvement in Lost. You can blame Lindelof and Cuse if you hated Lost.
I was actually just trying to set up mutt with GPG a few moments ago. As a person who hadn't used GPG before, yes, it is a nightmare. Email encryption and signing should be common --- more common than not --- and the most prevalent tool for doing so being so daunting isn't helping.
Apple has always sold the hardware and they never gave the OS away, until the new OS came bundled with an App Store which gives apple a 30% cut on each sale.
I think it would be possible if the forum tracked what you have viewed and then greyed out or made it noticeably different than what is new.

local storage would be sufficient to store the viewed pages without cluttering up a db on the server.
It might not be hard to make money giving away Windows if you're the one selling Office.
discourse's design entirely misses the charm and feeling of community that "ugly" forums like phpbb offer. This just looks bland. Maybe it can work for technical or support forums but not real communities.

In general it seems like a lot of design fails to understand the difference between a clean bathroom and a charming but messy living room. You do not want the former.

It makes me think of Spolsky on what a singles bar designed by Nielsen would look like: clean and the menus would have 16pt Arial type. But it would be empty because everyone would be at the gross dive bar across the street having fun.
Meh, Freelancer :(

While this is going to be a rant of sorts in itself, it won't be about this particular case so please be gentle.

So, from what i've gathered from this post is that Freelancer has acquired ScriptLance as well as vWorker/Rent-a-coder, which is what my rant will be about.

I've previously done a few freelancing-gigs here and there on vWorker and due to them recently being acquired by Freelancer i'm more or less forced to do my business there - and seeing another competitor has been bought out by them i'm leaning towards more...

Anyways, as a part of the acquisation, my profile and all my work-history has been transfered to them - or, should have been would be more correct.

What seems to have happened is that i've once in the past on vWorker have renamed my profile so that there where two names associated with the account. This must've completely confused the import system, sometimes displaying my complete work history and ratings, sometime not.

Also, getting the system to even let me login was already quite an undertaking - it won't let you log in with an account name starting with a number (guess what my accountname started with..) and yet, at the very same time, will happily let you password reset your account and will log you in initially after doing the password reset dance - i've gotta admit that had me pretty confused for a while.

So by now i've been able to log in to my account - which is, as of now, still pretty useless as much of the chance to get a freelancing gig depends on your ratings and positive reviews of previous employers (needless to say). The account i now can and could use hasn't had anything attached to it - it was just as empty as a new one, so i figured i'd ping their support staff to ask them about it.

I've contacted them on 3rd January about it and after them giving me the "you sure you typed your password correctly and this is how you reset it" routine i've since tried to explain to them what has happened.

After a few tickets back and forth i've chosen a new name and told them about the old accounts which needed to be merged which was still on the same day (props to them for that).

However, things got quiet quickly and after asking them twice, once on the 5th (still hoping for a quick resolution) and once on the 20th, my accounts still haven't been merged as of today - over a month later!

Their last non-automated response also was on the 20th January and i've since more or less abandoned all hope to get years of work history and positive reviews from happy clients reappear - hopefully this will get someone (mattbarrie?) to look into it :( (Ticket-ID: MCK-898-44151)

If you got that far, thanks for reading and letting me vent my anger a bit.
Yes. Check out LXC (Linux Containers). I can clone a full Linux system, boot it and be at the prompt in well under a second. It can be a read-only root system, with vastly restricted permissions, easily shapeable/QoS-able virtual network interface, resource guarantees (disk I/O, CPU, memory, etc). Works kinda in to the OSX-style '.dmg' (distribute a "disk image") notion. I think the future of Linux consumer-oriented software distribution may be something evolving toward this area. IIRC ChromeOS under the hood uses this stuff a bit, havent taken it apart yet.
You've never watched, but been told what some characters apparently said in the first episode of a six season long show, and are happy to judge it on that basis?
I might be wrong, but it's just water, I don't think it can go bad unless it's got bad things in it. And keeping it sealed would keep away the mosquitoes. If that ever even becomes an issue.
I know people from Google read HN.

All I want is a Retina screen in an ARM Chromebook. Thats it. It doesn't have to look nice, it doesn't have to have good speakers (or any speakers, really), it doesn't need USB 3, or a touch screen, or more than 4 hours of battery life (although more is always better), and it doesn't need any real storage space because I won't be storing large files on it.

The Samsung Exynos5 Chromebook is lacking exactly one thing: a Retina screen. Otherwise, I would have bought it by now.
Well, the company obviously got the domain in the end. Any one know if there was a follow up to this story?
Life's course can be explained by agency and environment. We all know environment, including luck, is important. But what motivates people to write agency out of the picture? Agency is what makes us distinctly human.

Perhaps by belittling agency, people feel better about their own disappointments?
The (Not So) Evil Strategy Behind Everything Google
i actually use vim and dvorak. nano just makes you sound silly(although i know what your intention was).

But rubymine is a way awesome ide. The whole jetbrains stuff is actually.
Good recommendations, and a good good insight. I'll re/play a few of these for comparison over the year.
> If your job is that shitty, and you're that smart and good, quit and find a better job.

That's the crux. If you really are that good, it shouldn't be too hard to leverage your skills somewhere better.
MIT Cold Fusion Course Summarizes 24 Years Of Experiments
Up-or-out is supposed to prevent the Peter Principle.

When the PP is active, people "rise to the level of their incompetence", and then stay there indefinitely. In Up-or-out, if you stop rising, then (after some suitable attempts to help you get unstuck) the company starts encouraging you to leave (with increasing vigour). They get the benefit of your knowledge at every level that you can operate at.
Many people create games as an artistic venture rather than a business one.
Is Netflix Smart To Dump Its New Shows in One Big Chunk?
Sooner or later someone is going to tell you to put this in your .vimrc:

inoremap <Up> <NOP>
inoremap <Down> <NOP>
inoremap <Left> <NOP>
inoremap <Right> <NOP>
noremap <Up> <NOP>
noremap <Down> <NOP>
noremap <Left> <NOP>
noremap <Right> <NOP>

This will get you to stop using the arrow keys for moving around, use either hjkl, or faster combinations such as "f" "t". Hope you get out of insert mode soon!
Microsoft Attacks Gmail Over Privacy In Latest "Scroogled" Campaign
I was using "specious" as a synonym of "flawed." Perhaps that was the incorrect usage.

But in the case of advertising a new library/project, which is arguably one of the main functions of the frontpage, flawed benchmarks (though not so far as outright lies) at least give me an objective reason to investigate further.

With no benchmarks, generally I'll open the page, mutter "that's nice" and move on with my business. I'd imagine I'm far from the only person who does that. Young projects don't help themselves when they don't effectively advertise themselves.