skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can usually get around that by using a joystick to keyboard mapper.

I usually use Joystick Mapper on Mac and JoyToKey on Windows.

Now you can waste your entire afternoon!
Djs Classic Tv & More: Emergency The 1970s Tv Series
Almost 11 months you say? Well any self respecting hobbyist hacker at home should be able to whip up an upgrade in a week. The rest of us are trying to run a business and don't appreciate quickly deprecated products with no support less than a year after it is deprecated.

Windiws XP was released 12 years ago, has been deprecated for years and only recently stopped support by Microsoft.

If Google isn't willing to provide the same level of support they shoe just admit they're for hobbyists.
Criminal Flash Mobs
Building A Hacker News Clone On A Free AWS EC2
It wasn't my intent to doubt the potential of local developers. China has a lot to offer and I actually strongly believe, as the end of my post implies, that we'll see a rising participation of Chinese developers in the OSS community. Heck, most of my teammates are Chinese and they kick asses.

That being said, on the ground it still feel very fragmented and insular. Some of the fundamentals of a healthy and self sustaining local culture are still missing.
Wow no kidding; I hadn't come across that one and it does look pretty swish.
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Ask HN: How long before we require mobile programming ability?
We live in an increasingly mobile world. My question for you is, how long do you think it will be before we as programmers will need to know how to hack on mobile platforms (iOS, Android, etc.) in order to stay marketable in the industry?

I didn't make this a poll because I didn't want to lock you into a limited number of choices. All answers welcome
I haven't used activate in years, I just call the interpreter directly.
It's always the same damn thing with guns. Headlines talk about 3D printed firearms, but then when you actually read the article, the entire extent of the worry is "eventually hobbyists hope to print almost an entire component with a 3D printer." Shudder.
...not resisting the temptation (deleted my other com because it pushed things in a whole wrong direction...): second law of thermodynamics applies to a finite closed system. We know incredibly little about the universe, it may very well be infinite (not just as "time and space" but also as matter and also as complexity of matter - yep I even accept the fact that there may be no fundamental particles, just infinite complexity somehow "simulating" order at our level, and this leads to the fact that we don't really know how little energy do you need to sustain human-type intelligence and it may be very, very little actually) and the "universe" may very well contain "gateways" that inject or subtract energy from our own to other infinite or finite universes - our primitive astronomy neither proves nor disproves anything. Oh, then there's the complicated problem with mathematics and logic - you can't really use the latter as a sound base to explain all of the former according to some so you might have all sorts of interesting consequences like "infinity of logic" or "mathematics" itself - the kind of problems that you can't even dream to tackle when limited to a human lifespan and a human body or brain... The fact is we are incredibly small and stupid at the scale of the universe! The point in living more is the pleasure of discovering more, always more - the pure and beautiful greed and hunger for more and more life, knowledge and power, the hunger that fuels everything.

And the second law of thermodynamics itself... well, we don't have "general" definitions for neither lifer nor consciousness so the truth is we have no freaking idea how something like the second law connects to anything about us. Then again the universe is so big that by the time we think our offspring will have to ask themselves these question in order to survive, they will probably even laugh at our primitive minds and the stupid questions they asked.

EDIT: some intellectual hard drugs for those that find it hard to "believe in the future": http://thisisjasonsilva.com/ - nobody expresses my view better than this kid.
This is around the time that Clear Channel bought up lots of stations. Combine that with piracy which I think caused people to seek out old/existing music they were previously familiar with, and it stagnated the new music. You simply can't have Clear Channel and media conglomerates choosing the hits and expect good results. I think the Internet now does a much better job of generating organic growth of talent and hits, and AM/FM is largely irrelevant.
I played World of Goo pirated.

One year later I bought two licenses in Steam.

I also have heard lots of similar anecdotes, I would be very interested in an study about this phenomena.
"If the product of your willingness to pay and unwillingness to pirate exceeds some amount of money, you buy HBO to watch Game of Thrones."

If you're allowed to. Being non-US my money isn't good enough, apparently.
And they're catering to people who either (a) don't know how cheaply you can run a database or (b) know how expensive it is to run a database well.

The number of times I've seen a database go down in production either because it's solitary mirror failed with no one noticing or because it wasn't consider "mission critical" enough to have a mirror... you're not just paying for the hardware, you're paying for the guys managing the hardware. If you're a company with databases and you don't have someone on staff whose primary job is making sure your databases still exist from day to day, one day they won't.
The YC W13 cycle must be keeping him busy!
Yes, I can tell that you are prejudiced against people suffering from mental illness from what your wrote, and I'm sure this is due to what you experienced.

Often prejudices are due to personal experience. Many people think that women are less capable in tech roles due to personal experience. Many people are prejudiced against other races due to personal experience. And many people are prejudiced against people suffering from mental illness due to personal experience.

Just because of your personal experience, does not mean it is not prejudice. Even though I'm sure your intentions are admirable, ultimately your message is incredibly negative towards a subset of the population based on anecdotal evidence, and this is why I am calling it out.

Anyone should think carefully before embarking on a startup and be aware of the huge trials they will face. However you should not be dissuaded from trying solely because you are a certain gender, a certain race, or have a certain illness. This is why I disagree with what you have written.
Building a full-text search engine in your browser
Next to my first Basic attempts on the ZX81 and AMOS on the Amiga, Delphi was the most fun I've ever had programming. Oh to have something like that again!
this is a pc game, and an mmo as well, why would you want to play with a gamepad? besides you could say the same about any pc version of bomberman ever made, i doubt any of them had gamepad support, because people rarely use gamepads on pc.
> Four letter words of a naughty nature are also banned, as well as contentious areas of the world like Scunthorpe.

That is hilarious.
I suspect this will turn out to be a "dead cat bounce"[1]. The record industry still hasn't figured out that its customers are actually the musicians, not the audience. Musicians aren't expendable laborers, they're businesses that need various kinds of services in order to deliver to their own customers (audiences). If the labels really want to make a meaningful place for themselves in the post-filesharing universe, they first need to correct this perversely inverted relationship.

[1] http://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/deadcatbounce.asp
First, I think your assessment of TF's readers' position on piracy is excessively uncharitable.

Second, Steam is an example of a DRM-capable platform that gets things right. Steam reduces piracy because Valve made it so easy to part with your money. They also release their games internationally ASAP. People who object to the treatment of potential customers by media companies praise Steam.

Finally, your use of the WoG piracy rate is disingenuous; as I recall, the developers released those numbers along with the sentiment that it was nothing to worry about.
Nobody seems to say it: There were phishing/malware scams that propagated by sending links to all your friends, and banning common page names was Microsoft's way of combatting that.
Android GMail app won't be able to open zip attachments "in the near future".
I think it helps to understand investing. A lot of the emotional hangups I hear from founders is that they are afraid to let down their investors.

It sounds harsh, but you shouldn't care about investors because they shouldn't overly care about your success.

You should care enough about the start up to want it to succeed and do almost anything for it without having the investor breathing down their neck. On the other hand the investors should know this is a high-risk investment and not have their financial survival depend on it.
I don't think it's possible to measure and avoid the "as long as it is not done by getting money with the free work of others". To get our tools for free is a result of the very nature of the computer and the Internet (copying costs practically nothing).

I think it's absolutely moral to write commercial software by using Emacs. All the people who have collaborated (at least enough to have any impact) have gained commercial rewards for it. For example their work on Emacs has improved their skills, was used on a CV to find work etc.
By only using it (making it more popular) I contribute to their commercial success (if they at all try to achieve it). By having donated to the FSF, I contribute even more. Heck, even by having donated to Wikipedia I may have contributed to their commercial success. So no, I absolutely don't have any moral problems with using emacs to write commercial software.
> I'm going to assume everyone experiencing this issue is using M/S. Upgrading to HRD will solve your issue.

This is the reason I abandoned AE and part of why adopting a platform that isn't standardized is incredibly dangerous. The problem is technical debt constantly accrues even when you aren't making changes.

Even though the API was unchanged, HRD differs subtly enough that breakage can occur on any non-trivial project. Edge cases (how indices behave within transactions comes to mind, but there are plenty more examples) will see new semantics compared to M/S, and so this "upgrade" involves not only thorough testing and auditing, but likely also code changes and potentially significant engineering hours.

http://goo.gl/HVuaC: These techniques are not needed with the (now deprecated) Master/Slave Datastore, which always returns strongly consistent results for all queries.

This means a project written and signed off circa 2011 requires mandatory engineering costs just to continue running in a functioning and supported fashion. An AE app will never quite resemble that ancient perl5 behemoth running uninterrupted since 1997, as the underlying implementation and recommended APIs are constantly modified and replaced (Datastore, NDB, Python major version).

"A strong test suite will save your soul!" I hear you say, tests that a small project might have survived without if targeting any other platform, and testing on AppEngine is also yet another moving target (for example, testing nested subrequests was all but impossible using the SDK until relatively recently).

The promise was a carefree life for a project willing to code against their proprietary APIs; the reality is a constantly moving target, "not quite free" autoscaling and the threat that while you're asleep an unannounced change will take down your app (I could name a few, but as many will attest this has happened regularly since launch).
Too Much VC Love Could Cause an Enterprise Software Crunch
Phusion Passenger 4.0 Release Candidate 2
Interesting. Freescale's original press release didn't mention that the chip was designed for swallowable computers: http://media.freescale.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=196520&p=irol...
All the meaningful transaction are likely done through another server. Mine craft is just a way to interact but once you select your bet that could be sent to another server to log your bet and that server could send the results of your bet back. So your account size in mine craft doesn't matter. Also mine craft wouldn't know ahead of time the correct answers. Which also explains the delay in the video when digging for mines. All that matters is that log recorded on the other server for payment, so mine craft is only serving as a Interface to place bets and see results.
The Transfer of Power with Pope's and Startups
Why we chose the Apache license to open source our SDK
For some reason, I find this to be a very disturbing story overall.
That should be illegal. It probably is, at least in the EU. And it's counterproductive.

Imagine Robbin Williams being turned down by every major record label: "Sorry, Mr. Williams, you suffer from bipolar disorder, we can't take the risk."
Those implementations have quite weak garbage collection implementations (boehm conservative, but I'm not sure), which would just kill the performance. Hotspot JVM has a very sofisticated Incremental Generational garbage collector, which does have a _very_ good performance.
I'm pretty sure they had their reasons for not using Java (I actually do have mine too), but, garbage collection is not one of those.
The Definition/Etymology/Irony of the word "founder"
isn't "easy to parse for anyone who has done some code" an advantage?
Exactly. I live in France for several years and there is virtually no way of watching TV series and movies with the original sound (everything is dubbed here). The only workaround is to create a bogus SKY account (if you have a friend with an address in UK) and setup the antenna yourself... and even so it would be a breach in the sky contract... so the only solution I know is wait for the dvd to be released or torrents. I believe that the the media companies have no idea how much the expats play a significant role in the torrent dissemination/seeding, it would be interesting if there were statistics about it.
The myth of working from home
I think the most effective DRM systems are those on consoles like the Xbox and devices like the iphone/ipad. In other words when you have a "Don't run by default" policy. Because here you can actually block binaries from running on an un jailbroken device. As soon as you allow execution of user specified code it's game over for DRM.

This present a sort of problem in that there is still a need for computers which can run software that wasn't bought through some particular channel such as an app store, therefor there are still computers that can run pirate content.

I have a bunch of games on Steam, I have no idea which ones use DRM but I'd wager strongly that every single one of them is available DRM-free on a torrent website.

Speaking personally the main incentive not to pirate games is the Steam sales and humble bundles which give me games so cheap that I'd really feel like a bit of an idiot jumping through whatever hoops in order to get the games for free.
This article assumes that depression and difficulty coping with failure are one and the same. When in fact depression and difficulty coping with failure can be two pretty distinct personality traits. I'm sure there's some correlation but many of the depressed friends I've had seemed depressed no matter what. Their depressive state having no causal relationship to whether they were doing well or poorly professionally.
Where do you get the information that you wrote about? I'd be very interested to read into it further. Anybody know any relevant works off the top of your head that you could share?

Unfortunately this is from anecdotal experience. I was living and working in Japan for some time so I saw first hand what services are offered and how people behave.
You picked the wrong input to prove your point.

That image has too much noise. You need smooth gradients to get banding. The pony, the smoothest part of the image, has a lot of sensor noise (more chroma than luma but still) in the 3-6 pixel frequency range.
I think it depends on the person.

Some people can leverage extreme stress / being busy to suppress whatever issues they have. (At least for awhile -- suppressing things usually results in an explosion later.) Other people's depression manifests as an inability to make effective decisions or motivate.

Either way, it's a ticking time bomb, unless that person has well-developed coping mechanisms and a support network. I wouldn't want to invest in or work for a founder without that.

I think the risk of battling severe depression while operating a fledgling company is that by its nature, you're kind of on your own. Anyone -- even someone NOT suffering from depression, needs to have super strong support networks.
I handle this issue (and a bunch of other environment variable issues) with a little utility I wrote.

https://github.com/timtadh/swork

It basically figures out the pid of your shell and dumps the environment variables into a file in /tmp/swork. Then you make custom activate scripts for all of your projects. It has really helped me deal with a lot of projects. It also has convenience functions for quickly cd'ing to any project.

When you want to get back to the original configuration it simply restores the original environment vars.
Show HN: 404Engine's remotely hosted error pages, and scratching my own itch.
A few months ago a friend made a joke about a service that remotely hosted error pages. I stopped whatever I was yammering about, and told him I thought it was legitimately a great idea.

As someone whose built a bunch of different web apps over the past few years, nothing is a bigger pain in the ass than creating error pages. Its the only part of your app that has literally nothing to do with your product - only your product failing! Whats even worse is people care about them now. Everything from blippy's double rainbow (remember that?), to the fail whale, to tumble beasts.

Error pages have become important, they've become a part of your product's branding. This is especially annoying when you're building an app you want to launch fast, because its just one more thing you have to care about and spend time on, when all you want to be doing is shipping new features.

So, thats why I felt quick and easy custom remote error pages was a good idea. And I built it (no worries, I also asked my friend to build it with me).

404engine has a nice little feature where you're emailed if an error page is seen over X times in one day. AKA, ALERT: go solve the problem!

Eventually I'll ad more features, but for now I really wanted to get something out the door.

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Pricing is as follows:

* $1.99/site you have (only charged once the site is activated)

* 200 requests per site per month, each additional request is $0.01

The thought behind the pricing is this - if you have people seeing more than 200 error pages per month, something is really wrong #1, but #2, you're getting a $0.01 motivator to fix that error every time afterwards.

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You can create a page here: http://www.404engine.com

You can see a demo of a live page here: http://guzzed.com/test/404.html

Anyway, I'd love feedback on the concept / pricing / ui / implementation etc!
pg answered one about 8 days ago here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5242957
Excellent product. Keep up the good work!
Why the hell does it take 14 years to come to this realization, when ALL SIGNS were pointing towards digital saving the music industry?
6 Reasons Why Yahoo's No Remote Work Policy is Good
This was a very informative post. Thank you for sharing. Learned a lot!
The Wikipedia page talk compensates though http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ankit_Fadia

There's added a Controversy[1] section

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankit_Fadia#Controversy
They can't print every bit.
"Online piracy is like fouling in basketball. You want to penalize it to prevent it from getting out of control, but any effort to actually eliminate it would be a cure much worse than the disease."
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/small_business/2012/0...
Today's TechCrunch whine: they should know that it's spelled the "Apple II"; I failed to understand what the "Apple 2 phase" referred to until they explained it.
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A pain to read on a mobile device. Reminds me of the early 2000's.
Race to win on big and small screens with Chrome Super Sync Sports
Waze Adds Road Closure Reporting Feature, Says It Now Has 40M Users
We need to treat HTML5 games like games. We need to market them and release them and form a community around them, and then we need to release updates and make them moddable.
APT1, that scary cyber-Cold War gang: Not even China's best
I will say, though, that OSS on Windows has really come a very long way in the last ten years. I use a normal OSS toolchain (Mingw32 and Strawberry Perl) end-to-end now, and that wasn't always possible.
Australian customs reducing confidence in Silk Road in Australia
I've used the word "founder" countless times to mean founder of a company, but have never remarked that the primary definition is "to fail."

This isn't a coincidence it turns out. The root of the word is bottom ("as in foundation"). I thought it was interesting how "bottom as in foundation" can go two ways. 1) Failure, as most fledgling pursuits don't go very far and 2) Prime mover, because all things must originate with a dedicated person/team at the base.

The parallels between the etymology of "founder" and the nature of starting a startup are fascinating.
There are at least 2 people on HRD that are experiencing this issue too, per TFA
"Sometimes people get screwed (famously Peter Jackson) but this seems to happen to few makers with critical jobs"

Film director here. I'd recommend spending some time Googling "Hollywood accounting".

It's EXTREMELY common for directors to get screwed out of profit deals on films - so much so that the default advice to new film directors is "assume that you'll never see any money from your points on the deal, no matter how profitable the film is."

Peter Jackson's case is not unusual because he was screwed, it's unusual because he fought so hard and so loudly.
Yes and fiberglass or even carbon fibre takes one hell of a lot less time to put together as well.

TVRs spontaneously combust as well thanks to the fiberglass which is rather flammable.
Seconded; with #999, I it irritates my eyes in a normal office environment. I quickly changed it in the browser, and anything from #AAA to #CCC looked fine.
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