skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope Sony are planning on investing in many international mirrors/cdns to make this work. Australia and New Zealand traditionally get excluded from this kind of thing, which makes me wonder if this will be one of the first consoles where your location drastically affects the quality of the service. Lousy pings in multiplayer games are tolerable, but laggy single-player games would be pretty miserable.
Supreme commander 2 used flowfield for their pathfinding. Flowfield does an ok job, but it actively tries to group units together by giving them little pushes in the correct direction.

As a result, in competitive play, players would leave one or two units at home, when they advance they would select all their front line units and move forward, when they retreat they would select all their front line units plus the units at base, and flowfield would cause the front line retreat to exceed unit velocity!
> It's like Poland, for example: I love this country and it feels incredibly more "new" and even sometimes more "hi-tech" (e.g. in big cities malls) than western europe...

wow, it's nice you say that, but could you elaborate?
The title led me to believe that they were trying to fix the loss of nutrients and mineral content in vegetables like the tomato [1].

I was sorely disappointed to see it was just the taste. I would guess that fixing the mineral content by good farming techniques will enhance the flavor too.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=soil-deplet...
what sort of things business guy do before and during the development ? I would like learn more about it.
Little side webapp project - Vine Finder - view/search vines in real-time
Really? A bad experience you went through suddenly means PC gaming is going to be obsolete?

Steam wouldn't start is a vague statement, care to elaborate? Steam.exe wouldn't run, or the window wouldn't show, or...?

And which game took 30 minutes installing on a not-too-ancient PC (one that we're lacking the specs for, keeping in mind not every PC can game well).

Losing the activation code is just as likely to happen with consoles especially with the increasingly amount of games that require codes for online gaming.
They could have made it a blockchain-based merged mining altcoin, then it would be compatible with Bitcoin and far more accepted. The fact that they are using a centralized issuance model should make you very suspicious.
I was homeschooled (just through highschool), yet maybe not a "traditional" homeschooling - I basically chose my own classes and went to community college, etc. I would think that any studies done on homeschooling from the more religious aspect would be hard to interpret.

I feel more socially awkward and that I have to fake it, but I think in reality I do quite well. Sometimes I wonder if what I'm experiencing is the fact that I have a low-tolerance for sophomoric, highschool-like drama and BS, because I never had to experience it :)
Happy birthday HN! (and thanks for building it, PG)
From the article: "... With that fascinating segue, he explained the logic behind his writing ..."

From wikipedia: "A segue (i/ˈsɛɡweɪ/) is a smooth transition from one topic or section to the next.
The term is derived from Italian segue, "it follows"; the pronunciation in English differs from the original Italian pronunciation."

Oh, the irony.
It sounds silly & cliche but having a significant other will really help him out in this department.

Someone that you have to commit to. Someone that'll be there long enough to see all your bullshit and hypocrisies and call you out on them.

If you're alone, it's easy to commit to doing something only to later "forget" about the commitment when it is no longer convenient for you.
A partner that you've made a commitment to won't forget it so easily.

The same goes for business. Maybe that's why startups often have strong co-founders.
Craigslist for iPhone on WSJ
Craigslist gets a makeover on iOS and Android, from the app dev who worked on Hipster, Sidecar, SimpleGeo, and Threadflip.
>I really hope I don't ever have to go on a date with some girl who's getting conversation tips from Google's magic headgear.

Not so fast. I think that would mark the tipping point between tech/hacker culture being a "guy" think to being a "feminine" thing.
Bullies who were also victims were particularly troubled: they were 14.5 times more likely to develop panic disorder as adults, compared to those who did not experience bullying, and 4.8 times more likely to experience depression.

Where do they find people who weren't bullied or bullies during childhood? It's like finding people who haven't lived around EM radiation or males who haven't ever viewed pornography.
How are the ripples exactly put in circulation? There's a giveaway on bitcointalk.org, but that's it? Or people just buy them from OpenCoin?
DUST 514 has support for keyboard/mouse controls. Is that the only issue, or is it something else?
Depends on the type of contract.

But in general, yes, UCC and other state law statutes often supply default terms.
Sony fails to show PlayStation 4 console at PlayStation 4 event
One example: http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2008/11/what-is-custome...
I would imagine The Holidays wouldn't be a moving target as much as "soon" is, however.
Assuming that you're fluent in both languages to the same level
And that you're talking about raw performance (and therefore ignoring anything to do with development time, not having to track down dangling pointer bugs, having multi platform codebases, individual platform support etc).

- There'll be little or no perf difference for GPU between the 2 as the underlying drivers will be the same.
- C# can call c++ which can in turn call assembly so if you really need bare to the bones performance you could probably manage it....

So really...for me it really comes down to garbage collection, currently you have no real control over when it happpens and how long it takes; and that really is a killer in games. If you have 16ms to render a frame and then suddenly GC kicks in for 10ms then you might as well pack up your bag and go home.

If I could specify when and how long the GC goes for with some sense of control over it then I'd love to use C#.

But without that control it's a pain in the bottom.
Game streaming is popular because of the personalities and explanations. Without narration, the vast majority of videogame clips are just cold and sterile, and not at all 'social'.

"Look at this cool thing I did" is the go-to example in this kind of demo, but in reality nobody cares. We want a human voice.
C++, Ruby, CoffeeScript: a visual comparison of language complexity
They didn't talk specifically about processor architecture during the event, but the leaked specs were showing that it (as well as the next Xbox) will have a 8-core AMD x86-64 chip. I can almost guarantee that it will not be plain 32-bit x86.
The images are all showing as broken links...
Yeah there are a few stand outs on the graph... would love to hear what caused them.
- Dec 2011
- Jun/Jul 2010
- Aug/Sep 2009
Dart with GWT
Space Tourist to Announce Daring Manned Mars Voyage for 2018
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Cell was pathologically bad to write code for--the architecture on the 360 was practically suburban by comparison.

I watched the Killzone trailer and couldn't help but think, "Man, Insomniac folks have got to be so goddamned happy about this."
Ummm, what irony? 1) The article doesn't say that Thomas used the word. 2) The word is hardly a "ten-dollar" word, since many foreign imports are standard usage ("gung-ho" is Cantonese). 3) Finally, I would expect that he would indeed use the word in his writings, since there really isn't a good substitute ("transistion" is rather too vague).
I'm not convinced there's a real problem that you're trying to solve here. What's an example of something you were going to buy on Craigslist but didn't because of trust issues ?

A substantial part of the second-hand car market is done via anonymous classified, and they're probably the highest ticket item regularly sold on classifieds.

The next tier down is probably electronics, bikes, etc. where a substantial part of the market is stolen goods, where for obvious reasons the sellers aren't going to want identification.
so your managers have figured out that the best way to sustain ad revenue is to make a product that people enjoy using. that's why the focus is poon user experience and not on add visibility. making ads more visible or numerous is a short term gain but a long term loss. Google is doing exactly the same.
My dad remembers watching the moon landing in Bangladesh, and someone commenting on how it couldn't be possible because "you can't punch a hole in the sky." I don't think he could tell you when he switched from Altavista to Google.
5D cinema!

http://www.aboutpoland.net/2011/10/10/watch-5d-at-fort-wola/

;]
Carrot, the Sadistic To-Do App
Not being snarky but is there a profitable website who's primary source of revenue is based on data mined from their users?

I keep hearing about this "data mining" revenue stream but can't think of a place where its worked. That being said Pinterest seems like one place where it might.
The PS3 does allow screenshots, but the game gets to decide whether or not to let you do it. Press PS button and browse over to the Photos section. There will be a screenshot option if the game OKs it. Sadly, most games don't seem to have it enabled.
> You don't have to worry about offending me. I'm the biggest asshole the universe has ever seen. I assure you that I can take more than what I regularly dish out.

On the off chance you don't realize it, this probably affects your employability more than the rest of the factors you mentioned.
Yeah, my parents were all scared about gift taxes when loaning us money short-term for our downpayment... then we read the fine print - and the loan was well south of the lifetime tax-free limit.
I had dedicated PDF plugin installed [1]. They had no reason to switch to Firefox-native PDF rendering as the default for PDFs before getting some maturity to it. The very first PDF I encountered [2] won't render fine in it though it does very well in the dedicated PDF application [1].

[1] http://www.certifiedmastertech.com/1410/mechanicssecretspdf1...
[2] http://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer
Eh Id say its somewhat of a minor point - I think the only business that will recognize an MS in any real way (salary/title/etc) is perhaps a big company like Google. I believe some positions within Google require an advanced degree (if coming from the outside). I have to say though that I personally have never seen anyone get a thumbs up based solely on having an MS. From a financial perspective Id imagine an MS will rarely pay off if you already have a BS in CS.
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That's a problem for the banks (who insure all that money for fraud), not really a problem for the individual (who are insured).
Speaking as a lawyer, this is entirely false.
The reason most legalese exists is because most lawyers are bad at writing, and reuse blocks of text from other lawyers who are bad at writing.

It is entirely possible to write plain and understandable english that is legally unambiguous. As someone mentioned above, there has been a huge movement towards this in law schools. It has had some impact, but it's still going to be a long time.

That said, even some of the older folks in the legal field hate legalese. When I clerked for an appeals court judge, we used to do two things:
1. Read every single opinion out loud to all the clerks in order to make sure it sounded sane and was understandable to the other folks at the table, who had no idea what the case was about.
2. Remove all unnecessary words and anachronisms. The judge used to pull out his copy of strunk and white and beat us over the head with it.
Here's Hacker (Startup) News from 6 years ago:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070221033032/http://news.ycombi...
http://i.imgur.com/ok2p05b.jpg
Because technically[1] the US comprises 50 independent states[2]. Each is free to conduct its affairs freely except for specific powers reserved for the federal government[1].

Today people think of "the United States" as both a singular noun and a singular government, but that's not the formal legal structure.

Your point is well taken, though: All laws ought to be open and freely available to the public. Anything else would be Orwellian.[3]

[1] If you hold the 10th amendment and its juridical descendants to have meaning.

[2] In the 18th-century sense of the word, i.e. a sovereign jurisdiction.

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch-22 [4]

[4] Yes, I know Orwell didn't write Catch-22.
> where they have a very human-understandable summary and some clickable (albeit relatively simple) legal writing underneath.

OK, let's say someone relies on the human-understandable summary and does something the legal writing forbids.

Their understanding of the human-readable part is defensible, at least, but it obviously is not what the person who wrote it intended that part to mean; the legal writing, on the other hand, is constructed in a way that the courts have had a lot of experience interpreting, so it is, at least to a lawyer or a judge, perfectly clear and well-written.

Obviously, if the plain language part and the legal language part are deliberately at odds, that's likely fraudulent and the court should construe the contract to the detriment of whoever wrote it. (This actually happens in real life to some extent.) But in this case, the difference in meaning is arguable at best and certainly not intentional. Which part did the person agree to? Which part should be enforced? Can't you just feel the judge's blood pressure rising?

So, yes, there is a reason OSHA, banks, and Congress can't do that.
UC Berkeley Starcraft Lectures
What's ironic in it? He took the story from a quadraplegiac friend who had trouble with a curb and "transitioned smoothly to another topic" about dense language being a curb-like barrier for some.

Or you refer to the word "segue" itself? Justice Thomas is claiming simplicity; The Atlantic author is not.
It's surprising to see so many people on HN of all places arguing that Sony is not competing with mobile. The previous poster used the term "disruption" for a reason - this is straight out of Innovator's Dilemma.

Sony and its advocates will argue that their focus is on serious/hardcore gamers, not casual/mobile gaming. Casual gamers don't pay premium prices and there may even be a smaller margin on mobile sales, such that it currently makes business sense to yield that market. But the PS is locked into long hardware development cycles and the platform needs to support games for years into the future, while mobile hardware is updated continuously such that the difference between the platforms will shrink - stealing away increasing numbers of consumers and development shops.
No, I understand this very well. My question was more about whether there are fundamental workflow issues that GitHub solves that Bitbucket does not?
they got their tariffs, and made life generally harder for their competitors. That's something.
There will be giveaways of tens of billions of ripples. By the time the giveaways end, there should be a plentiful supply.
This question seems important if the startup is the first to move into a specific area, but ones that improve execution IMO dont really answer this well. For example, what would the answer have been for Google?
The answer is 1), but anyways:

1) Most engineers do not work at Google, and
2) I have plenty of friends who do/did, and, guess what?: They still write code all day! Most of which does not do neat things like drive cars, but rather: increases AdWord click-through rates! Or: manages address book contacts. Fun!

I don't care how much free pizza and foosball you offer me, nothing can match the freedom of pursuing my own interests.
It seems to me that when your boss, the person who jumped to your public defense immediately when criticized without first checking the facts, and the person who's businesses reputation is made or destroyed by the public perception of your trustworthiness - prints this about you, you've just been thrown under the bus:

"I’ve also had a number of talks with my brother, a physician, car aficionado and Tesla fan, who has helped me balance what might have been a tendency to unconsciously side with a seasoned and respected journalist – my own “confirmation bias.”

My own findings are not dissimilar to the reader I quote above, although I do not believe Mr. Broder hoped the drive would end badly. I am convinced that he took on the test drive in good faith, and told the story as he experienced it.

Did he use good judgment along the way? Not especially. In particular, decisions he made at a crucial juncture – when he recharged the Model S in Norwich, Conn., a stop forced by the unexpected loss of charge overnight – were certainly instrumental in this saga’s high-drama ending."

To me - that's like responding to a phone call about a reference for someone from a recruiter/employer with "Ummm, they're punctual, and, umm, they fit in OK socially - most of the time".

You wouldn't jump to employ a guy who can't arrange a much more glowing reference than that - and you wouldn't believe much of what Broder writes - at least not without expecting to read poor judgement and results of flawed decisions.
I don't know if the article is real, or if someone has been
suckered (including me). A while ago there was a fake rumor
about a transparent iPhone going around due to a spoof video.

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&pws=0&safe=off...

The similar transparent spoof/concept video "iPhone 6" commercial
is here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xXuSMFGnlk
> We have a very limited sense of space and an all too focused sense of self. But we have a lot of oil and we can dig shit up and drive around real fast and think we are really important.

We can also appreciate these things as no other species on Earth can, to the best of our knowledge.
Decoupling: Events vs. Dependency Injection
This thing would make a great server. Though, I don't think Sony will ever change their stance on Linux support.
Well, it breaks the Page Down button. :(
Same here. It doesn't feel like that long.
How are you publicizing the site? Through Craiglist? What's the clickthrough rate?
First-grader creates mobile app video game
Awareness of the opportunity cost and likely outcomes has been hitting me hard lately as I consider dropping out of my top-5 science (not CS) program 2 years in. I've gotten to a comfortable place with python/numpy/matplotlib and am wondering how hard it would be to break into web development as somebody who has only programmed in a scientific setting. Besides Python, I also know enough R and statistics to build linear regression models, do significance testing, make pretty plots with ggplot2, and other things you learn in a first year grad data analysis class.

Those of you in the gallery: Have you or somebody you know successfully made the transition from (non-computer) science into a tech career? In the current economy, what are the chances you'd hire a highly motivated science dropout with programming competence and basic stats knowledge? Would something like Dev Bootcamp be worthwhile for somebody like me?

I hate buzzwords like "data scientist", but I think that might be my best angle. What I'd really like is to apprentice in a Django shop, or possibly wear a little of both hats as a dev and a "data scientist".
You're looking at Ripple as if it were a currency rather than as what it is, a payment system.
No, it suggests that it is not in the interests of the powers that be to make things easy and efficient. A hypothesis for which there is much independent evidence.

For example when a regulated group achieves regulatory capture, it is in their interests to create new regulations of great complexity. See, for instance, the way that under Bush regulations on the financial industry increased, at the same time as the amount to which those regulations kept incumbents from doing what they wanted to decreased.
Agreed. While I feel Broder _did_ set out to do a sensationalist hatchet job - Musk certainly hasn't come out of this smelling of roses either.
Maybe but it's more traffic - ten units can find Independant paths to a goal. If paths intersect on a pcb you must reroute. If the units paths intersect t one waits till other moves then continues.

Maybe it's too simplistic but in the vein of the outrageous hack I like it.
AFAIK all code books are like this. I've never seen one that is free but I might be wrong.
Those are about Ryan Fugger's Ripple, not the new Ripple. The new Ripple does include the peer-to-peer credit of the original Ripple. But there are major differences. For example, the new Ripple is positioned initially as a payment system competing with things like PayPal and checks.
Code Word “Hatefulness”: The Great EBS Scare of 1971
> I thought this was a board full of hackers.

Complete opposite. This board is full of people interested in startups and looking to get a better grasp of technology. But only a tiny minority here actually code, if you're looking for that you should probably try a more specific coding board or group.

Also, people around here are obsessed with, what they call "playing devil's advocate" or "offering a counter point". Which, in other parts of the planet would be called "trolling". But here that's encouraged as long as the post is well formatted enough to not immediately remind you of reddit.

Put those 2 together and it's very easy to understand the illogical negative posts on the top. It's just people trolling without technological insight. In fact, you'll hardly find any thread about a new technology on HN, which the top post isn't contrarian.
A Factory on Your Kitchen Counter
How is that different from every other console release in the history of consoles... they are always behind. But they are different markets.

It's like saying: "The iPhone X is years behind the latest PC chips"
Yes, the word "segue" itself.

Not arguing about Justice Thomas, but the Atlantic author writing about that subject, then showing no empathy with Justice's POV? I found that a bit ironic.
I disagree. Very much a problem for the individual who has the hassle of dealing with the banks, is exposed to identity theft and all the other numerous repercussions of having your personal information stored insecurely online.
I doubt it will get anywhere this late in the game unless they also wake up the DoJ and get on the case of Apple, Google, B&N, and Kobo in regards to DRM. And DRM is only half the issue. Kindle books can only be read on Amazon-offered hardware and software, unlike ePub which can be used by Sony Reader, Kobo's devices, and B&N's devices. So it's not just DRM, it's file format too. And I've railed for years about Amazon not going with ePub but have accepted they've basically won, although now with iOS devices in the half billion, they have some actual potential competition. (And I say potential because iBooks is an optional download, made that way by Apple to thwart EU regulators who otherwise would have quickly awakened to a Windows-MSIE type bundling restraint of trade issue.)
What about all of the people that startup people systematically excludes?
"an offer they can't refuse.".
Are you sure about this?
As far as I know Royal Penguins also can call each other by name. And can distinguish a call from afar in the noise of hundreds of other penguins calling each other. There must be a lot of redundancy in the call, I guess.

Also penguins sound totally like one of these old 14400 baud modems ;)
Yeah, just like Apple did with the iPhone. It's just a branded PC, with a touchscreen, and a low powered CPU... What were Apple thinking!?
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