skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree with your point about both the size of the country and the funding they are receiving. That said, when I visited Estonia in the early 2000s, prior to being in the EU, their broadband infrastructure seemed better than that of Finland and Germany (two countries I spent time in). That may have well been due to it's overall size.

What is interesting to me about Estonia now is the lack of overall diversity in the tech sector there. The biggest tech employers seem to be the government, the banks, and Skype.

Maybe Skype buyout V2 will inject more in the way of a startup culture there.
Why "the Cloud" isn't really a cloud, and should be called "The Core"
And certainly not when that platform makes it easier for more interesting games from indie developers to make appearances on the system.
In three years it's going to be too easy to compare the specs and quality to the latest and greatest pcs.

And people couldn't and can't do that if it isn't x86 hardware?

The "weakest link" of most consoles right now is the GPU, and those GPUs are branches of the current gaming GPUs, just as they were with the prior generation. People have long been comparing the two.

But it's irrelevant. The target market for an Xbox 360 isn't going to get a triple-SLI GTX Titan PC.
Put an email address so people can contact you.Thanks.
Not a lawyer, but is that really true?

When I lived in NYC I heard from a lawyer there that a lot of landlords don't like to rent to lawyers, because lawyers know what parts of their rental contract don't actually have legal force. This suggests that there are a lot of contracts out there signed by a lot of renters where the landlord didn't intend to give you the rights that you have under the law. But you still have those rights, and those are still valid contracts.
Law is only meaningful in so much as it can be understood by those obeying, enforcing, and judging it -- otherwise you may as well have simple arbitrariness.

Source code is a rather off analogy to use here for that reason: judges can read and understand plain english but compilers can't understand comments.

There's probably a lot to be gained by having the dual model approach that (eg) Creative Commons uses, where they have a very human-understandable summary and some clickable (albeit relatively simple) legal writing underneath. There's no reason OSHA, banks, and Congress couldn't do that too.
"...including transaction data and historical information."

I don't know how much more clear that can be.
Yay, hypocritically using currently trendy counter-culture politics to market super-violent video games! It truly is the future!

(Game’s no doubt gonna be awesome, though. So I forgive their dumb marketing shenanigans.)
After a bit more reading I realize where the misunderstanding is. The proxy is just a regular HTTP proxy. You coerce the client into using it using some sort of forced auto-discovery protocol which would be transparent to the user. Then the 407 trick makes sense to get JavaScript to execute in the "secure" page's context, since an HTTP proxy wouldn't have access to the response content of a request made over HTTPS.
Ironically the experience of using a modded PS3 (not connected to internet) with multiman (a PS3 homebrew app) is pretty nice. It's sad when modded > default.
Lots of people read HN without creating accounts.

Quite a few people hit HN as part of a Google search.

One of my blog posts gets a steady stream of visitors every day from people looking for comparisons of Chef, Puppet and cfengine; they come across from a link I made in a HN thread.
I think you're on to something there. I'm not very excited about next-gen consoles, but I think could be due to the fact that I'm 26 and not 19 this time around.
I'm 23 and laughed when the OP talked about "remembering junior high" and how "people never did this shit back then, because they couldn't." Yeah, you probably couldn't find a middle schooler with a smart phone back in 2005 (the year the OP was in 8th grade), but you damn well know they were playing with Game Boy Advances and, later, Nintendo DSs. They were on Myspace and Livejournal. They were exploring EverQuest and Battlefield 1942.

It seems the OP is suffering from a severe case of nostalgia to think a mere 8 years ago people were somehow immune from being antisocial.
So you're saying ... you didn't bother to read before deleting your own data, and that's somehow someone else's fault?
One of the things that I really love about Vim is that it's the same on every platform, including Windows. Hell, it's the same on my Android device.
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I bet you can guess. Hint: $
He's referring to the center button on PS3 and XBOX controllers that goes to the xbox dashboard or PS3 dashboard, or the home button on the Wiimote, etc... at least, that's what I assumed. That button does count.
Yeah we'll all get super good at stalking each other on facebook.
Not just modern culture, but really for the history of civilization. In fact, discoveries like these are starting to make us more empathetic, finally. During the 18th century, not only were all non-humans considered mindless automatons, many humans were too. The early descriptions of indigenous people by the European whites are pretty appalling.
There was a fun bug with zerg in the early days of Starcraft where you could build everywhere on the map even your drone wasn't there. I don't remember exactly how, but I know it was using a mineral path-finding bug :O
With console cycles getting longer and longer, the PS4 needs to be competitive for a decade. Even if Ouya and their ilk don't take off in the near future, tablets and phones will keep chipping away at console gaming.

Microsoft may be the competition right now, but they can't count on it staying that way. When the PSP and PS3 came out, the iPhone didn't exist yet, but things change.
Hacker News, well that kind of says it all. self serving article. Enjoy the bacon fat, gotta be good for ya.
It's certainly not easy to, but when the other person actually understands the concept you're trying to convey, you should also remember this is a strong indicator that you have a very solid understanding yourself.
I would love to see the pitch deck they had for this round.
Seems to be. In my experience it flags the domains, not just you.
The Steam box is competition whether or not it's out, since it's on the horizon and people will potentially not buy a PS4 so they can wait and see what the Steam box is like.
It's been that way for a while, from what I can tell. You fight back in the second half of the console's life cycle with the extreme optimization you can do when targeting a homogeneous platform.

You lose in the end of course, but the goal is just to keep the momentum going until your next release.
> Specs are good but they will not look so good in 3 years time.

Are you sure? My brother's got a 3 GHz Core 2/8800 GTX/4GB RAM system. Judging from the release dates of the parts, it would've come out in 2007 (5-6 years ago). That could still probably run some great games if developers continued to optimize for it. 3 years ago would be more like Nehalem core i7 and GeForce 300 graphics. Still very serviceable, again assuming game companies continue to optimize for it.

PC hardware improvements have really slowed dramatically since the 1990's and early 2000's.
That's only part of it.

It seems this "affinity data" model is the basis for the high hopes and high valuation: http://gigaom.com/2012/03/24/pinterest-weve-got-a-business-m...
"Day by day, however, the machines are gaining ground upon us; day by day we are becoming more subservient to them; more men are daily bound down as slaves to tend them, more men are daily devoting the energies of their whole lives to the development of mechanical life. The upshot is simply a question of time, but that the time will come when the machines will hold the real supremacy over the world and its inhabitants is what no person of a truly philosophic mind can for a moment question."

~ Samuel Butler, 1863

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_among_the_Machines
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That's the whole point of the flashing. It tells you when it's too late to start walking and make it across the street before the light changes. Some cities have a little quick-reference guide stuck to the pole to remind you of this.

Here in Seattle it used to be quite common to get a ticket for jaywalking. Now it only seems to happen if you block traffic flow on a downtown street during rush hour.
I do not understand how the company is being valued at 2.5B. It doesn't look like even the business accounts at Pinterest have any type of fee associated with them.

How do they make money? Or is this valuation most likely based on the possibility of making money down the line?

EDIT:

According to this post, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5254498, it seems like it is based primarily on potential revenue from data mining.
slow weekends, eh?
I'm not even sure that all tenured professors are doing research as they would define it.
Nobody wins by just using programming language Y or framework X. Product, features, design, execution etc is what make you wins. Facebook won in social-networking using php, some other social networks were build in Java and failed. Amazon won using Perl. Instagram used python/django and got acquired for a billion. Yammer used ruby/ rails and was acquired for 1.2 billion.

In reality most companies are polyglot using different languages, tools and frameworks for different features in their stack.

I am personally tied of unnecessary rants. There is no perfect programming language or framework.

Abandon the notion that there's a "right framework," and just choose one and get hacking.
This is actually the list of questions I'd ask the person:

What is your name?
What is your story?
Where do you come from?
What are your interests?
Are you a party-person or a couch potato?
Do you like hackernews/designernews?
Are you a geek?
I don't know why you're saying that. These systems are completely unproven in a way that traditional consoles are not. This seems like looking at those little joystick consoles they sell at the mall that play '70s arcade games and declaring them "disruption."
this glass is a prosthetic device ...
"aug·men·ta·tion", please.
Am I really supposed to feel the same way about Google Glass as the way I did about the iPad? Seriously? Because I don't.

Apple takes existing commercial products and makes them better, sometimes remarkably so.

This is a case of an entirely new product, with possibly drastically different uses. If there's already something commercial out there like this, I haven't heard of it, and it must suck hard to not have people jumping for the chance to get one.
Your website is all sorts of messed up on my computer. I'm using my monitor in portrait instead of landscape which may account for it but theres overlapping text and a few other quirks. I took a picture for you, see [here](http://i.imgur.com/0I0INwl.jpg).
Ha, wow, thanks for sharing. For some reasons, I thought hacker news happened before you guys started funding startups. Please feel free to share other documents from the early YC or HN.
1_COOL_GUY was #1 on bnet for a long while using the reaver drop coupled with the map hack. Not sure if he invented this either, but this was before Zileas (a legit player) came along.

(Can't believe I remember these details.)
You're giving Google credit for internet uptake when the snowball was already rolling down the hill by the time Google became a substantial force in the industry. You and I and most of the adults we knew already used the internet. In the U.S., it has been the younger people, poorer people, older people, and rural people who have driven increased uptake, and I don't think you can attribute that to Google instead of more widespread wireless internet service, cheaper computing devices, etc.

Indeed, the massive social changes from further internet uptake since 2000 seem much more attributable to everyone having 24x7 internet access as a result of smart phones, and I'd give Apple and Verizon/AT&T credit for that. It was Apple that kicked off the trend of putting an internet-capable smart phone in everyone's pocket and Verizon and the telcos that put in place the infrastructure to service them.
Succinct.

The other piece he mentioned is "Products are also Services".

Take Square, who released that Business in a Box thing: https://squareup.com/register/hardware/shop

That comes from a fundamental understanding that Square are in the business of "Helping businesses charge money", they're not just in the "payment technology business". If they were, they'd stop many steps earlier in the process. They know where to "draw the line" http://insideintercom.io/where-to-draw-the-line/
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So if they don't claim copyright on the law text itself, why not copy it? I'm confused now.

Who cares if they copyright the design, annotations, citations (dubious!), or database structures?
Read a "plain English" document from 1850. Special constructs ("terms of art", or "programming languages"), are very useful.
I think not, especially given the rise of JIT compiling. In 5 years we will be able to run JS at compiled-c-performance.
Stay strong pal. You are clearly a gifted and talented individual. However, more often than not, individuals such as yourself tend to be extremely critical of themselves. Change is hard to accomplish, especially when you're set in your ways. But I think you have solid achievable goals. FWIW I'd be your friend :)

On a side note, I didn't realize HN was becoming more and more Reddit-like every day. This is probably the first submission I've seen that reads almost like an AMA...perhaps it is a sign of things to come.
We've been constantly killing and enslaving sentients while gathering food and resources ever since humans became sentient themselves. Still do.

On the other hand, one could say that a species killing and exploiting their own is internal problem of that species, while doing that to another intelligent species is morally worse on some level.
The problem is the "AAA-title console market" is a subset of the "home video game market" which is of course being invaded from both ends.
It is worth pointing out they are using AWS. Gave a really interesting talk at PuppetConf '12 [1]. Talks about the stack and how they use it. Seems they used AWS to their advantage, to keep up/ahead of the hunger for computing power.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU-bCbBq8zs
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That seems to me a fairly consistent ratio of 10 pages per ip (per day).
So your conjecture is we have doubled the number of pages each person views but doubled the number of devices viewed on too, so no overall change to the ratio.

Is there any way to see growth of registered accounts over time - it might serve as a proxy for "lurkers" and might indicate the proportion of actual people to unique IPs? Ie if accounts has grown half as fast as uniq IPs it's reasonable to assume we all have two devices and look at twice as many pages. If it's a similar growth pattern, we spend less time on HN.

(of course if you track accounts and IPs that would help more:-)
Challenge accepted.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6768395.stm says there's a 30km/h speed limit and an accident in 2006. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments_for_Drivers says there are 1,000 cars in Vatican City.

A-ha! Here's a description of the people who drive in Vatican City: http://mes.stparchive.com/Archive/MES/MES03141997p05.php . It's at the bottom, along with a description of the parking problems and congestion. Based on http://www.slate.com/articles/life/welltraveled/features/201... , these roads are not open to the public.

Lol. The joys of automatically generated text. http://www.expedia.co.uk/Compare-Cheap-Car-Hire-In-Vatican-C... claims "However, most car hire vendors will also have pick up/ drop off locations within Vatican City, so if you are staying in the city then you may want to consider this as an option ... If you plan to hire a car and drive around Vatican City to take in the sights, it's worthwhile taking a bit of time out and stopping off and visiting the historical Casina Pio IV (Villa Pia). The big advantage of hiring a car in Vatican City will not only allow you to enjoy the scenery within the city boundaries but will also makes it much easier to explore beyond the city."

Casina Pio IV is "home to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas." I'm pretty sure it's not on the top things to see while in Vatican City.
You were dismissive. That's not nice.
The missing half of this article is the failure on the part of academic departments to even acknowledge this problem publicly in their recruitment process.

I was an astrophysics Ph.D student at a fairly well-known program until last year when I left with an M.S. to go full time for the web development shop I started. It was a good decision on my part, for sure, but what really struck me is that after I broke the news to my advisor, he was quite open with me about how poor the job market is (not that I wasn't already aware). He and many other faculty members in the department sung a very different tune to me and my classmates during the recruitment process, as did my undergraduate mentors. This is an endemic problem throughout astronomy (at least) and probably many other disciplines in the physical sciences as well.

Even the students often seem to have a sort of Stockholm syndrome about the problem. I still hear from lots of my former classmates that a.) they're well aware of the extreme shortage of jobs in astronomy, b.) they're not seriously expecting to get an academic job and are aware that there are virtually no non-academic jobs doing astronomy and c.) they'll figure out how to get a job "in industry" (i.e. what the rest of us call "having a job") when they finish.

Many students in these programs seen to labor under the assumption that if academia doesn't pan out, their programming skills or quantitative knowledge will make them good candidates for a software or finance job. This is not really as true as they think, since as most HN readers are aware, good developer jobs entail knowing about a lot more than just a programming language, and the sort of programming and quantitative analysis you do in Ph.D research is really pretty far from what those of us in the private sector do with our programming skills.

Nonetheless, a lot of these same classmates would go full-out with their encouragement of prospective students when they came to visit. In my last year at grad school, I remember going on a long rant at the prospectives about how bad an idea a Ph.D in astrophysics is, and the looks of horror on my classmates' faces.
I'll be more interested when I see actual games running on it. Sony is well known for showning cut scenes of games running "in real time" on the PS<insert number>. I am sure that the PS4 can play pre rendered movies really well in real time but I'd like to see the actual game.
If I'm not mistaken, #2 and #4 are mutually incompatible: you auth people through your app and then your website can make API calls. If the only one it makes is the "get basic info" call that's fine, but it's still an app.
> User-driven tagging would be a boon

You're right, it would really help with the spam and making sure that you find the right product easily.
Trying to sell my car with a bootstrapped website and an idea
Im never ever going to play a FPS on a console. I'm sure many like it, but for me, that's a PC exlusive experience
Use WordPress as an Evernote replacement
As long as you don't distribute chromium with this file, then it will be fine. (You do it yourself).
A library referencing a favorite movie from my childhood automatically has points for the name. On that note, it could be called the_land_before_timeofday() for all I care.
>"Hand-wavey" is not a term that ever comes to mind reading Scalia's opinions (except when talking about drugs or gays).

I'd say his opinions become "tortured" when he is forced to address issues that he and the US constitution are at odds over. He practically refuses to admit the 14th Amd even exists. Have you read his views on the 9th Amd? He thinks it only protects the right of the states to recognize some sort of second-class "lesser" rights. His opinions may be thoroughly reasoned, but by god they're certainly not always rational.
But that button also powers up the Xbox from a cold boot. The dashboard part is just adding some extra functionality to a button you already have.
"... inventing a decentralized way to send and exchange non Ripple currencies over its network. The latter enables two things which will truly allow Bitcoin to flourish: 1) Most Bitcoin transactions can be done through the Ripple network, only to be settled on the blockchain when absolutely necessary. 2) True decentralized Bitcoin exchanges will now be possible via trading on the Ripple network."

I still didn't quite get how does this work but the fact that the technology enables you to do it besides the fact that it has its own currency is pretty interesting.
People still enjoy Tetris and PacMan. That's not the point. We're discussing the latest tech.

PS4 is doomed to be years behind PC. Even at launch, PS4 will be at least a year behind spec-wise.
I think we'll only ever have that for a specific subset of JS applications, where they are written in a way that lends themselves to very aggressive JIT optimizations. Other than those, my gut feeling is that there's too many high level abstractions that JS allows to expect it to get too close to C, who's abstractions map fairly closely to hardware.
Interesting. I find non-heirloom tomatoes taste great as long as they are fresh. This means I can rarely get good tomatoes and only in the summer and early fall. My dad's garden and farmer's markets are the best, Costco tomatoes are a distant (but viable) second. Almost all the tomatoes I've bought in grocery stores are terrible - bland and pulpy.

I've read that the bananas our grandparents ate aren't the same as we get these days due to a blight that wiped them out. I'm not a huge fan of bananas but maybe these researchers should focus there as well. I would probably eat more bananas if they had a little better taste.
The Internet graveyard is full of the bodies of people making "Craigslist killers." I'd really like to see one, but it is a much harder task than it seems
When I was at NetApp I got to work a bit with the WETA Digital guys (Lord of the Rings vfx) and I was amazed at how cut throat this business was. I saw them bringing something that was absolutely critical to the success of the film and yet they had no pricing authority at all on their services it seemed like.
Something I find interesting that I don't see immediately mentioned in the comments is what a "shut-in" or "hermit" really means when you have the internet. The author has a prolific Twitter account, and in writing this is interacting with people.

Yes, online interactions are different, but a modern-day "hermit" with access to the internet can't really be viewed as such.

Also, I may get downvoted for "armchair psychology", but I did notice elements of what seemed like thought disorder in the post. It's also diagnosed often in autism spectrum, not just with schizophrenia. I do think diagnoses generally mean very little, and "personality disorders" generally bother me because it seems like broadly defined, you could slap that on anyone - which is also the case with thought disorder. It's not like everyone who goes off on a tangent is "crazy"! But I've interacted with enough non neuroptypical type people (myself being one of them) that I did notice a similarity to others.
Mechanical to Electrical back to Mechanical is not efficient unless you can turn off the mechanical at idle.. thats not possible with a turbine...