skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I said I was more excited about the Steam console, not that I would buy one instead should MS lock down the 720. I'm excited because Valve has traditionally made some truly excellent games. If they can translate that excellence into the hardware arena then we could see something interesting and new.

The 720 is a generational upgrade, but is not, strictly speaking, new. The Valve console, on the other hand, is from someone whom I have developed a good deal of respect for over the years. I'm curious to see what they come up with.
Another WC3 glitch is Shades (invisible scouting units) that triggered collision but you couldn't target them due to being invisible. Eventually players caught on and lined Shades up to create impassible and invisible walls.

To combat this you had to devote significant resources to units and buildings that could reveal invisible units, and eventually Blizzard patched it. Very interesting.
As someone with a very dominant "inner voice", I have to say that, at least to me, it is exactly as having a voice echoing in my head, constantly. More precisely, I happen to think exclusively in dialogues. I imagine talking to a person, and I hear the conversation I would have with that person in my head, and their counterpoints.

It gets tiring. Recently I've taken up drawing; when I draw my head is finally quiet.
I think what really excites most people about SETI is not just the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, but extraterrestrial life that's more advanced than we are.

Not sure what 'advanced' means though :)
4 years?
OnLive has that button (combination).
Can someone shed light on how Pinterest and Instagram can be worth billions? But Reddit is only worth 400m?
You're speaking a lot of romance. "we stood on another world for the first time"... and shortly after, we packed up and went home, never to return. Sure, it was a milestone in human history, but it's not like it really changed the way our societies work. Please give some examples of some fundamental changes if you disagree - "Seeing the moon landings on television changed people's lives": How? What was new in the way we conduct our civilisation?

Edit: I also find it weird that you're characterising the social effects and fallout of WW2 as being less powerful in terms of civilisation change than a photo from the moon. Really, this is just geek romance talking.
Not necessarily.

Most of the time the people think about how cute is a dolphin is misunderstanding the animal. If a Lion shows you the teeth, you don't think is a cute kitty, is angry!, but, hey, this dolphin that show us the teeth "is smiling"!. This "smile" is in fact an agressive display in the wild.

Being faster, well armed, and better fitted for water, a dolphin can avoid dangerous humans in the water any time he wants. In fact a lot of alone exemplars search for company, actively, even if is from humans, and are curious. Some dolphins simply like the human company, or the benefits derived of this, other not... at all.
I usually play Sim City by finding the unlimited money cheat and getting a large amount of money before I start. I can then build whatever I want. I enjoy the city design part of the game, not the economic part.

I doubt that this way of playing will be possible in the new Sim City.
Pinterest Confirms Massive New $200 Million Series D Funding Round
"...dangerous, vindictive and controlling..."

I think the low end of human "intelligence" is something other than what you are talking about here. I think the low end of human "intelligence" would generally be associated with something more akin to mental retardation. Whereas what you're pointing out is more... like the behavior of a sociopath.

Dangerous, vindictive and controlling is not a sign of a lack of intelligence... in fact... it's probably the opposite I would imagine.
Wake me up when Madden and Fifa run on these.
Or 1 bit flip could corrupt and entire 128 bites block of AES encrypted data. Openssl would complain when trying to decypher the file giving a "bad magic number" error.

BTW, keep up the great work guys!
Helping your children pay for education doesn't make them a "trust fund baby", it just makes you a good parent.
With the exception of the steam box, you listed mobile gaming platforms.

Mobile games thus far can be placed into one of two categories:

A: Ports of obsolete PC/Console games with terrible control schemes.

B: Casual games.

The last time around, Sony tried to position itself as the platform for hardcore gamers. It appears that they are doing the same thing with the PS4. Hardcore gamers only play casual games either when they are away from home, or when they don't have time to play on their platform of choice. I'm not sure who technically won between Sony and MS, but it wasn't a landslide victory.

Don't get me wrong, casual games are great. Nintendo, Apple and Google have proven that there is a huge market for casual games, and it probably has a larger market than there is for hardcore gaming, I don't really know. Even if it is, that doesn't necessarily mean that traditional gaming is going to die.
I only expect that at least in 5 years we will choose the language and not be forced to develop in Javascript.
Many people recommend books that describe how to write using simple words. I recommend reading E. B. White's "Charlotte's Web". E. B. White is the White in Strunk and White. "Charlotte's Web" illustrates the ideas in Strunk and White while being an enjoyable story.

In the story Charlotte saves the pig's life by writing the words "Some Pig" in her web. I've always thought that sentence exemplified Strunk and White's suggestions. It's just two simple and short words.
My guess would be that if the offer is similar, Mozilla would be inclined to stick with Google. I'm sure you know how irritating it is to realise you missed a checkbox and now your homepage and default search are set to Bing - it's probably a user experience Mozilla was happy to avoid.

Plus, there are probably some advantages to having Google 'on side'.
There's a guy onstage playing games.
I figured much the same way with mind's eye; much like my thoughts, I "visualize" in a very abstract fashion. I don't see the object, I just know it. So there are in fact people, who see it?

I do. I don't really know what to say about it, so if you have any specific questions, feel free. I'll try to explain what it's like.

Example: when I see a math expression x times y, I mentally see a rectangle with side length labeled "x" and perpendicular labeled "y". So understanding (x+h)*(x+h) = x^2 + 2xh + h^2 was totally natural for me. It's not abstract symbols to me, it's pictures in my head. I see a tiny square in the upper right labeled "h^2", and a big square in the lower left labeled "x^2", and two rectangles along the edges labeled "xh".

I never memorized the derivatives of sine or cosine. I just figure them out whenever I need them. Takes a half second or so. Basically, when I need to know a derivative like sine, in my mind I pull up a function plot of sine. I look at the origin (x=0,y=0) and visually see that it passes through the origin and slopes upwards. So I know "when it starts out, sine is already sloped upwards, and as it goes along it slopes less and less, so therefore its derivative starts out as some large positive quantity and decelerates, which is exactly how cosine behaves. So the derivative of sine is cosine." For the derivative of cosine it's similar. I pull up its graph in my head and go "oh, it starts out with zero slope, but then as it goes along it slopes downwards, so it has a negative derivative. Sine starts out at zero, and negative sine would slope downwards as it goes along, so the derivative of cos is -sin." The process isn't as clearly separated as the words I'm using though.

When someone's talking with me about a program's architecture or about a design concept, I picture nodes in my head representing the components of the program. If he mentions a module, I create a new node and label it. If he says it interacts with another module, I draw a connecting line. Eventually I'll have a mental picture of the full system as we're talking.

I usually have a crisp mental picture of each function I write, before I write it. Not individual lines of code; just a clear understanding of its structure, the steps it will perform, and all possible side effects.

My favorite time is just before I nod off to sleep. Laying there with my eyes closed, a dark "hallway" seems to form in front of me, and I start to float forwards through it. Shapes begin to emerge toward me out of the blackness, and I morph them into animals or goblins or whatever I feel like molding them into. Sometimes I lose control and my mind generates horrifying faces or misshapen bodies. I see all of this with the same clarity as waking vision, and the colors are just as vivid. But it's a very narrow field of view, as if I can't see more than a spotlight's width at a time.
Colonizing another planet is a hedge against a destructive event (asteroid, bomb, etc) completely extinguishing the human species.
Pinterest is millions of people freely marketing consumer products to each other. The potential for both referral commissions and data mining is huge. Reddit is a fancy meme and porn sharing forum (the main subreddits dwarf all the 'intellectual' ones combined), which few advertisers are interested in, and which has been unable to produce enough revenue to maintain more than a skeleton staff with self-serve ads and premium accounts.
Pinning indicates purchasing intent, and mediating purchasing intent is the most lucrative thing anybody has ever found to do with the web (search advertising being the all time greatest example).
I guess Valve isn't a AAA publisher.
Nice. just checked mine -- I was here 3 days after it was created.
This reads like someone just learned what big words are. This is one of the least communicative articles I've seen in a long time.

I couldn't even get through it because everything was over-elaborated and dramatized.
My impression is that most pitches that happen at that stage are simply growth rate followed by revenue projections, no real magic when you're seeing the growth that they are.
I have to agree. I used to love rails in the beginning. I kept the source code to both Ruby 1.8.x and Rails (and Merb) easily available for browsing and it was all "understandable" at some level.

Maybe it is just laziness but in the last few years I have used almost exclusively much simpler libraries/frameworks like Compojure/Noir and Sinara - and I have lost interest in seriously reading the source to these libraries.

It seems better to have to write a little more code, but layer on top of much small libraries/frameworks.
Source: http://www.kaspersky.com/about/news/virus/2012/Oracle_Java_s... (Chrome uses its own PDF system, not Adobe Reader, so it's not even close to the threat level of Java).

Java has had multiple drive-by exploits discovered in just the past few months, which by definition don't require confirmation.

I was inaccurate, however. Java is almost certainly the cause of most exploits, but I daresay that user inexperience (to put it kindly) is probably the source of most infections. Touchè.
So rather than the opportunist/capitalist/democratic solution of bitcoin, we have a benevolent dictator handing out 'money' to whoever would like to be on the network?
In theory this seems like an excellent idea. But in practice its a bad idea, for the very same reason as doing this for all your US employees is a bad idea. Generally if a person works exclusively for a company on an ongoing basis then they are an employee in the eyes of the law.
Chrome's built-in PDF plugin is actually from a Chinese company called Foxit.

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/08/google-chromes-pdf-...

Now start China bitching.
First, your answer is why I almost never criticize people's code:

This is (was in Sun's time) an actual possible certification question and you are wrong, this CAN return false:

Object obj = new Object() {{ System.out.println(false); System.exit(0); }};

System.out.println(obj instanceof Object);
Really interesting read. That is the first time in a while I have read something that long on the internet without skimming. A couple of thoughts:

You mentioned that your last close friend was when you were 12 and that you were in a distance high school. Do be sure that you realize that middle school was as bad as it gets in regards to social pressure to be normal. This is a different world now. Immediately out of college around your age (22?), nerds like us become pretty cool because we have interesting jobs and make a lot of money. To some extent, almost all programmers have a few social idiosyncrasies and for the most part we share these in common. So what that means for you is that those idiosyncrasies which previously got you bullied are now the same that people associate with success.

While I realize that for you it might be the only way, I think your plan in the 're-life' section is a bit misguided. Learning to be social is a fundamentally different thing from learning a new skill. There is no sense in focusing down and trying to find the core problems because social behaviors generally exist below our stream of consciousness (somewhat related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introspection_illusion). If you approach this in a way that you would learn a new programming language, you will also quickly find that the difference is that learning to socialize is NOT interesting or fun in an academic sense and you will quickly lose motivation. Instead, since you seem to have a lot of varied interests, I would start with a Meetup. There should be hacker or entrepreneurial groups holding meetings near you (unless of course you still live in Idaho!) The important thing is to go out and try to do things you are interested in with other people no matter how painful or awkward at first. Social behaviors will eventually be picked up subconsciously.

Measuring your progress is always a good way to motivate yourself and stay on track. But I would avoid measuring "all the human things" and instead focus on metrics like, "how many people did I say hi to today" or "how long was I outside of my room".

To make this easier for yourself (and therefore increase your chances for success), you might not want to change your name to K-2052 just yet. I think it is great move and I agree with your logic but put it to the side until you are a bit further along on your quest. Then, you will have the ability to rock the name.

And suggestions on where to move? Being in a big city is important more than anything else. I live in San Francisco and a great thing about this city is that weirdness is embraced more than anywhere else I have ever spent time. You might also think about moving to a abroad if you know any foreign languages. People will tend interpret social differences as cultural differences and you will be get a bit more wiggle-room with your weird behaviors while you come out of your shell.

I would venture to say that most of us here (myself included) feel empathy towards parts of your story so just know that you are not as different as you think you are!
you need to be at peace with being young and not having all the solutions.

Err, don't you mean "you need to be at peace with not having all the solutions"? :)
Steam, or platforms like it, are the future if not already the present of game distribution on the PC. I can't really state why you've had problems installing Steam as I have done it on three of my PCs, but I will say that the installation of games purchased through Steam is almost seamless. On Windows, it means you punch in your password for UAC and let it run. Steam's primary use isn't installing games purchased on disc - it's a marketplace and a community that will hold purchase history in the cloud for easy downloading.
First officially licensed craigslist app for iPhone and Android
Do the math again :)

The receipt printer is $300. I boggled at that too, and then looked around, and that's really what it retails for (or close enough). I have difficulty understanding why it's so expensive, but do keep in mind that it's designed to work for years on end in a retail environment -- it's got to be overbuilt to last.
Mojolicious is featured more extensively in the Part 1 of my article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5159452 ;)
Huh? When is modded NOT better than the default? Why would you even do it otherwise? The issue is that modding/hacking is questionably legal and often dangerous for your console or its software (whether by the mod/hack's nature or because of the host company actively bricking the changed consoles).
Again, you're only giving credit to google for the first year of their product. NASA was nowhere near the moon in 1959. Where's the level playing field here?

Similarly 'access to the internet' isn't the same as use of it. Those 100 million weren't using the internet with any degree of the pervasiveness we see today.

It absorbed all the highly talented engineers

All of them? Wow.

developed the technology that defined the time

Sure, if you co-opt anyone who used steel at all into "the steel industry" and hence make them defacto members of US Steel for your argument.

made the billionaires

I guess I really am fighting a losing battle in calling Coke something other than a tech company...
the world is moving towards Open Source software...

I'm not so sure, and if it is, it's happening slooowly.

I've read other (insightful) comments of yours about Flogbeam Labs and you sure are passionate. So much so you might be seeing trends that aren't there.

All I'm saying is beware of that cognitive bias.
I hate to be a Negative Nancy, but I genuinely don't give a shit what Sony does. After their persecution of Geohot for having the audacity to crack their perfect little box, I refused to patronize them at all and a shiny new widget isn't going to change that. Sony is not the kind of company hackers should be patonizing. Please don't let the new toy make you forget what they've done in the past.
People have been moaning about how we're all becoming socially isolated since the publication of the first novel. The art of socialising has been declared dying ever since the first VHS was available to buy and watch at home.

You're not offering anything more than an assertion that they're wrong, though. That is, you're using the same anecdata standard of evidence that they are: "My friends and I have cell phones but we talk to each other..."

More serious thinkers than you and I have made actual measurements that show our frequency of in-person, in-public type socializing and civic engagement really has been in long-term decline for many decades. VHS would be one of the culprits, yes, and now so would smart-phones, tablets, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Alone
Mozilla has been saying for years that they will use the best engine, and take that engine's money if it's available. If Bing were clearly better than Google, they'd switch and be taking Microsoft's money.
Timelike 2: everything fails all the time
I'm actually quite surprised how offended some people are getting over this. It seems like a pretty reasonable article trying to bring awareness to how some of the things we laud thoughtlessly can be used as tools against us or others and actually not further our ideals. I had assumed HN was more open minded and deep enough to accept a critique and learn from it. Instead I see it getting flagged, and people dismissing it and being offended.

For a culture that's supposed to love disruption, have anarchistic tendencies and be counter culture, it seems everyone's pretty easy to hurt, easily offended, a little close minded, and not at all open to anything questioning them.

A little disappointed in the HN culture. We should always be reevaulutating and in a state on constant flux. Status Quo is death because then we become the old and some new group who isn't us will out innovate, out manoeuvre us. Being status quo by definition means you aren't disrupting or innovating any more. Why should we only focus on technology and not culture? It seems a big weakness.
It's surprising that you talk about "learning" Rails though.

I am not an entrepreneur so take this is a shovelful of salt, but I wouldn't venture into creating a business on a technology that I have to learn along the way.

Also, I am now confused that Rails is turning into Java, yet you recently saw a beautiful piece of Java. Rails is just like Java and its "darker" Enterprise Side ™, you get to pick and choose what you want to use, no one is forcing RefineryCMS and Devise and whatnot down your text editor :D
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I think the promoted items model like twitter's business model suits them quite well.
The Ouya is a console with a controller. It won't just be casual games and it won't suffer from terrible control schemes. I have my doubts it will do much to Sony, but I'm glad to see the additional options coming.
or possibly sarcasm :P

and demonstrating the point. Life can rock. it doesn't have to be a grind.
Preventing Mercury Poisoning with a Smartphone App
All of that, and they store your credit card info in plain text.
A lot of people are under the misconception that Firefox and Chrome are rivals, but the opposite is the case. They both have the motto of "furthering the web", however you want to interpret it.

As for Reader, Adobe probably don't really care if others come along. Acrobat is the main product, and the fact that other PDF readers exist just gives people more reason to buy it. PDF is also an incredibly large specification, full of crazy features, and I think Reader might be the only one that implements all of this functionality.
We're doing the bootstrapped / self-funded approach as well. It is frustrating sometimes, to look around at some of the opportunities that we can't pursue due to lack of resources, but so far I don't see a big need to go and jump on the "institutional capital merry go round".

On a somewhat ironic note, however, we recently applied for an NC IDEA grant[1], and didn't get accepted... one of the reasons cited in the feedback letter was something like "concerned about the commitment of the founders as they have only invested ~$5,000 to date". Um, hello... we hadn't needed more cash up to that point. It's just the two of us sitting in our homes, or coffee shops, writing code on our laptops. All the expenses we have had so far were basically: 4 Slicehost slices for various purposes (a demo server, our wiki, SugarCRM, website, etc.), a paid Github account for code, and a little bit of printing and random stuff.

So, somehow, the fact that we've run lean and been very capital efficient so far, is seen as a negative. I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

[1]: http://www.ncidea.org/content/grant+program/956
I've been to graduate school and disagree with your comment about expecting a tenure-track job. When you get to know them, PhD students are not poor deluded souls slaving away in the misguided expectation of a plush, secure position at the end.

I have too (see here: http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/what-you-should-kno... for some comments, mostly job-related), and I think most grad students—at least during the first half of their experience—do think they'll be the exception.

They are rather intelligent, motivated individuals, who choose to work on projects that are more interesting/important than optimal ad placement or crafty financial swaps, and who are prepared to sacrifice some Caribbean cruises and latest model cars in return.

I think we'll have to agree to disagree. Most seem to be pointlessly delaying adulthood. Note that there are exceptions.

Without data the rest of this discussion might be pointless, but the prevalence of articles warning against PhDs seems to me to point in an important direction.
All the console devs I know are happy they didn't do a stupid hardware platform this time.
Very true. Actually, I've been trying to do a "craigslist killer" for quite sometime now.

Everyone complains about cl, but it seems like people don't really like other alternatives that pop-up (most probably because of the lack of sellers and buyers...)