skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being an EVE player and lover, I still think this would be even more awesome with the good old knights and mages... If this gets to that, it'll be a very worthy game to play :)
> tldr; Don't make assertions about stuff you don't understand.

Yes, that pretty much covers your comment. It's not like they won't just investigate all wallets intermediate to major exchanges/merchants as leads. It's not like FinCEN doesn't have decades of experience tracking mass flows. It's not like they won't invoke guilt by association for any of the four horsemen.

Please, take a look at the properties of Brands's blinded signatures for an example of an actually anonymous currency (it has other problems though).
Is this javascript only?
Even rich people here in SV often take investment for their new startups after the first. It's silly to go it alone, risk everything, and not recruit people with skin in the game. Even if he didn't need the money, it's worth it for the PR alone, which will benefit everyone into the game since it will take longer to die a lonely death.
I started on V but VI was really a leap forward for me. There was an Electronics Boutique in the Fairfield Mall (a good half hour from where I grew up) which was an amazing experience as a kid: you would walk into a store and learn about 50 new games, no trailers, just your imagination fueled by box art. The internet has kind of destroyed that sense of wonder/mystery, I feel sorry for future generations. :)
I don't have much biology experience, but if you can keep the blood stream clear of HIV, wouldn't that prevent new T-cells from getting infected, allowing the count of healthy T-cells to start growing as the body makes new ones?
This is the origin of "you can't con an honest man." I was a victim of a very weird kind of con once, and I'm not ashamed to admit that my ego played a huge role in getting me to fall for it. Con men play to the mark's ego because because it works!

(Luckily in my case I escaped with little loss, and didn't end up in an Argentine jail.)
HTC Facebook Phone Specs Leak, Mid-Range Device With FB And Instagram Pre-Loaded
Trouble downloading and installing the game, massive login queues (that recheck the queue once every 30 minutes), trouble creating cities, troubles loading creating cities, disconnections, features have been removed to help handle stress, etc.

Basically, it's hard to get it downloaded and installed.

If you do that, it's very difficult to login to play.

If you manage that, it's very difficult to do the tutorial or claim a city or load your city.

If you manage that, it's very difficult to play the game without experiencing disconnects or server-related dysfunction that directly affects gameplay.

Basically, it's nothing like the experience they wanted to deliver.
You have to be connected to their servers to play it, just like you would with an MMO style game. Unfortunately, just like an MMO style game at launch, their servers are totally overloaded right now and many people are just completely unable to play the game.

The uproar is because the online requirement isn't inherently necessary to the gameplay (although EA has done their best to add some multiplayer aspects). It's primarily a business decision intending to make it more difficult to pirate or buy the game used.
If anyone could achieve a decent launch, it's blizzard. They have a lot of money and talent, and a real attention to detail. They're willing to wait to ship games "till they're ready"

But launch still eludes them. I've purchased every game through Diablo 3, but that put me off the whole thing. Heart of the swarm will be the first Blizzard game i just don't bother with. The launch will be a disaster. Since they've taken away any reason for me to get excited about the launch, i've found that really leaks over into my excitement about the game.

Good luck to EA, good luck to Blizzard, you've committed your businesses to a technical infrastructure you're just not competent to build or manage. Seems like a risky strategy to me. Especially because games aren't really that important. It's not critical like food. There are a bunch of other offerings available.
I hacked together an open source VNC viewer which can run on the ARM Chromebooks[0] earlier this year. Source code at [1]. It't far from perfect but it did what I needed it to do.

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vnc-viewer/ekheahf...

[1] https://bitbucket.org/saljam/vnc
Yes. However, you probably give up 10-15% of the current iOS market as you can see on that page who are using iOS 5.x.

There are also considerations like the most active users would be on iOS 6.

Also consider iOS 6 is on 300 million+ devices (as of late January 2013).
The site is impossible to use on mobile.
Just for argument sake, what's the difference between being recorded on video or being watched by someone's eyes?

If you don't do anything noteworthy, no one is gonna care to re-watch that video.

How many hours of youtube videos already go unwatched today?
Well, I agree - I once filed a DMCA notice, but in that situation, the person actually copied some of my icons, instead of being deeply inspired. While I do agree there is a difference, there is a fine line - I do agree however that in this case, that the majority could easily be fixed. Even though it's not exactly a 1 on 1 copy, it's too inspired from the examples I saw, mainly being the design news icon.
And the millions of dollars he made owning origin while they produced hit games.

>none of which he should have to risk on a venture that fans are willing to pay for.

I am amazed at the amount of anti-entrepreneur sentiment here on HN of all places. How do people seriously suggest that an entrepreneur should not have to invest anything in their own venture?
node.js (backend javascript), and frontend javascript and css. Looking to support more backend languages in the near future (Ruby, Python, PHP, more)
Can someone confirm that the online mode offers nothing but DRM? The fact that they had to disable Cheetah speed makes me think they really are offloading some of the game simulations to the servers. It certainly feels like a much speedier game then SimCity 4 (when it works).
Ah the sweet sweet workings of the streisand effect. This new fork now has more forks and stars than the original ever had.

How's that DMCA thing working out for you LayerVault?
Exactly. Having been involved in the H264 process (as well as On2/VPx), I saw first-hand how the big guys abused the process at every turn. Their attitude was not "we're doing this for everyone", but rather, "cool, with this patent pool thing we can collude on pricing and it's totally legal!"

Then they spent the rest of the time jockeying to get their allies into position to ratify their precious patent-protected IP into the standard so they could reap the royalties and remain in a position of control.

To their credit, the people who actually ran the standards process attempted to thwart this behavior (they even tried to produce a "royalty free baseline"), but the powers that be were just too entrenched and committed to their predatory ways for it to succeed.

I was there, I saw.
Learning from Big Data: 40 Million Entities in Context
Ask HN: Next steps once business concept is verified?
I could really use some pointers on what my next step should be. A B2B service idea dawned on me from my experience as a consultant. I vetted the idea with ~10 professionals in the field. All of them really like the idea and had a lot of questions and interest. I am not a developer. Do I hire the development out or should I work on finding a co-founder? Honestly, I prefer a partner, but have reservations about approaching someone with an idea, vision, and options/share.
yeah, we're working on that! we rushed the marketing site.
That said, it's going to be kinda funny if this was simply a minor bug that was discovered when scale went up to a few hundred BETA-testers to a couple million players. Maybe whatever load-testing code they had written that said they were good-to-go missed a single (or few) "insignificant" functions that ended up, because of this bug, over-running the server.

I certainly don't like EA's DRM practices and some of their other practices, but now that I'm another day into the future, I could easily see this happening to any company as well-used as them.

Addendum: Startups that claim they don't/wouldn't have these sorts of problems are probably because their load comes slowly, steadily, and these problems are caught early, or refactored out for efficiency, and the developers miss the potentially catastrophic results. When you get hit by a LOAD of traffic all at once, or other similar thing, bad things happen.

See: Diablo 3, Starcraft 2, Half Life 2: Deathmatch
I don't know about his beliefs nor I want to question them.
That's why I tried to be as much impersonal as I could in my reply, while linking to what he said, because it's a relevant context.

It very common to have holders of any belief system (whether theological nature or more mundane stuff like ecology, organic food etc) to cheer when some scientific proof supporting their views is presented to the public, and almost always with very little doubt over either the validity of such proof, or the actual meaning of the find.

Let's see this particular example. The existence of a common ancestor means that we went through a bottleneck.

Imagine that tomorrow all the males in this planet become sterile or die, all but one. If this guy manages to reproduce (well, what would be the odds he wouldn't?), in a relatively short term the human population will raise again.

If you sample the population you will find that they all have something similar, because they all descend from a single male, and apparently it's possible put also a date to that event.

Does this mean that tomorrow is the start of a new humankind? That we are not the same humans as the children of this guy?

Of course not. Neither TFA says that the father of humankind's father wasn't human (i.e. that we found genetic proof of Adam)

My argument is that if you hold some kind of beliefs, you tend to be less critical about stuff and jump to wrong conclusions, even assuming complete lack of malice.

I think it's a very human behavior. I'd really like to know which kind of beliefs (or to use a less emotionally charged term: opinions I take for granted) in other topics make me prone to having wrong judgements about stuff.
EA asks affiliates to 'stop actively promoting' Simcity
I'm mixed on this. I really dislike online DRM, but one of the greatest weaknesses of SimCity 4 was that the average home computer had no hope of simulating a large city.

This is still true today - while most computers could handle the graphics engine behind it, the simulation engine would still eat your machine for lunch.

Moving the city simulation server-side certainly has its justifications - it opens up the field to more players with weaker machines.

That being said, it's hard to imagine that, given the ginormous increase in CPU performance between SimCity 4 and now, that they couldn't have made a simulation engine fast enough (and optimized enough) to run offline.
Does someone know how the test suite works? The way I understand [0] there currently 66 failing tests for the 5.5 line. Is this correct?

[0] http://gcov.php.net/viewer.php?version=PHP_5_5
My 0.02c: you should change the name. If you already have to append "(kout)" to explain it to hackers, it will be 10x more difficult marketing it to a larger crowd. Or you can start printing stickers that read "you know, without the 'k'" ;-)

Apart from this, great design!
This is a demo of what it looks like for me:

http://imgur.com/a/Mja3r

Dunno what to tell you. :/ It does need mouse focus, but I imagine you tried that. I did not need to use Ctrl.
Sorry, but your site uses a gears icon:
http://iplaws.info/img/mechanical.png

Clearly this infringes on LayerVault's copyright.
hmmm, you can do that if the folders are close to each other in a directory. How do you do if each is nested deep in different paths? On Windows explorer you can drop down the folders to open any folder in the left side window to drag a file from the current folder?
Its a fucking disaster, for 3 days im looking at "server busy" message, in that time i only managed to play for about 1 hour total and it lost my city somewhere!

grrr fuck you EA
What % increase have you seen specifically?
+10 points for introducing me to Sight. This is amazing.
I feel your pain. It can be hard to get out of the building if you're just "searching" for an idea. If you're passionate about the idea And/Or you have to make it work - those help. Depending on your concept and the target demographic, it's much easier to put yourself where they are - and just ask questions. (B2C products are great for coffee shops, B2B at lobby area of a conference [so you don't have to pay to get in]).

I like putting myself into the flow of traffic to force it. Cold calls can be difficult, but the fear goes away after a while.

If you're looking for something formal, the Lean Startup Machine is a great experience that helps encourage you. (Not affiliated at all).
Interesting thought ... have there been any _high profile_ Windows OS vulnerabilities in recent times? I mean, I'm sure there are, there are still tons of patches rolled out on a regular basis. But they're not getting nearly as much media focus as they once were; at least, not in any media that I'm consuming.

Is it a case of the OS now really being way more secure than it once was? Lost interest by malware writers? A bigger focus on vulnerabilities in specific products (ie. Browsers)?
That's a great idea and we plan on adding a sample page very soon.

For now, you can view the video under the "Beautiful Checkout" section on the main page. It will show you a sample page and flow of the checkout.
there is no "offline" mode, its all online and it all doesnt work
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The problem with gsm is that it eats batteries. For many "internet of things" applications , a long range , low speed, low power network might be a better match.

For example [1].

[1]http://www.coronis.com/en/key_features.html
Great work. Did you ever see these?
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html

Also, there are a few collectors over here: http://www.cpu-world.com/forum/

Maybe they can get you a lead on one.
Not really, webshell looks like there are trying to become an All-in-one API of APIs. Runnable is trying to be a platform for sharing code examples for APIs, modules, and any other full-stack code snippets.
I would like to add this to Chrome just in case I may use it but Chrome already has a 400MB memory footprint on my laptop. So I'll stick to teamviewer...but nice to know this is available if need be.
This kind of thing could be interesting. I've often bemoaned the use of HTML/Javascript as a "poor man's X server" and argued that a browser is not necessarily the best way to remote out a UI. VNC, on the other hand, is designed for pushing user interfaces out remotely, so integrating the two could be a very natural step.

What'll be interesting to see, is if we can get to a point where there's a very natural handoff mechanism between the browser and VNC. Will there be, for example, urls like:

vnc://myhost.com/some_remote_desktop

that will seamlessly start a VNC viewer? If so, that starts to become really cool.

Of course, I freely admit that I don't know well VNC works over public Internet / WAN links. That was always one of the arguments against using X, that the latency of WANs / the public Internet, screwed with it and made it fairly unusable. Not sure if VNC is better in this regard or not.
How to get the latest tweets of a group of people with Twitter REST API
Sounds easy right? I had to dig a bit to know how to do this. Let me show you.
An iPhone Lover’s Take On The Nexus 4
I don't believe that an online game can be a quality RPG until I see a finished product and reviews.
Higher order function in zsh
That money from the NCSoft lawsuit was to make back money is lost from stock investments [1]. It's hard to say how much he came out ahead or behind on that lawsuit (after lawyer fees and whatnot).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabula_Rasa_(computer_game)#Lit...
And what is even more absurd is that if we decided to transform to a woman the main character of GTA5 (the next title of a very successful franchise) the outcry would be for the opposite thing; "Why is the main character of such violent video-game a woman? Such violent behavior is a thing of men". That means they don't want more presence in video-games, they want presence in very specific videogames where "she" should be undoubtedly good.
Question: why would you use this instead of Back to My Mac on OSX? Isn't that all the same?
+1 for running my projects. Seems like this has all the pieces already, at least for Node stuff.
So can I pirate this bad boy? What's the status of the crack?
A for loop will have bounds checking removed, for one. Also, the JIT does better inside single method bodies. Compare:

1: for(i = 0; i < arr.Length; i++) sum += arr[i];

2: foreach(var x in generate(count)) sum += x;

In the first case, you end up with a small, relatively tight loop (the machine code has a lot of extra stuff I don't quite understand).

In the second case, you're literally doing a virtual call (and I don't think the CLR inlines interface calls) to get_Current() in a loop, followed by MoveNext(). So there's 2 function call overheads, not to mention the actual code that get_Current and MoveNext have.

Here's the sample program[1]. I get about 600% runtime for the enumerable version versus the array. Given all the extra work, I'm sorta impressed it's only 6x. The 32-bit JIT is a bit slower doing the array method than the 64-bit, which surprises me. Here's the code for the loops[2].

1: http://pastebin.com/GAg3RiNx

2: http://pastebin.com/index/a1eC8sX9
Open Salaries, is this ludicrous? (senor...no flames, por favor)
1.we have open sourced up and down the stack
2.some of us have opened our lives on social networks
3.openstack, openflow, democratized CRM.

some of us are hooked to gadgets that didnt exist a few years ago, some of us bear it all out on social network and some of us believe privacy is irrelevant. so then why.....

our salaries be any different. And why is this important......... well this could play some meaningful role in the immigration debate. and we all can see what our peers and bosses are paid.
Well, you can sort of already have that with a bit of JS and NoVNC.

http://kanaka.github.com/noVNC/
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The iPad 1 was effectively the most memory-constrained device that was supported by iOS 5. It had the same amount of RAM as the iPhone 3GS, but about 5x as many pixels to drive. It really needed to ship with 512MB. Not too surprising that iOS 6 left it behind, but as you note, annoying.
That document bolsters the notion that this game project is ideal for Kickstarter, as they're not using Kickstarter as a store.
IE10 for win7 was released last week.
Being patent holders doesn't imply they must become money extortionists and racketeers. Just because they have tons of patents doesn't mean they should bully everyone around. And they do, just making threats and FUD, without actually saying what patents are supposedly violated. That's protection racket and a form of patent trolling.

And personally I think software patents don't deserve to exist, and don't respect those who use them to extort money or to prevent competition.
Calculating rolling cohort retention with SQL
It's an interesting case study. This happens with nearly every MMO and people grumble but accept it. Within a couple weeks, the server issues are mostly resolved and people don't think about it anymore.

And yet, people are pissed about this. The fact that people see the game as single player seems to make a huge difference. It seems the lesson is that, if you want to do the always-on thing, you need to design your game so that it doesn't even make sense to play it alone.

I'm really curious to see what SimCity's sales are like in a month though. I wouldn't be too terribly shocked if people just sucked it up and bought it anyway as long as the servers are stable. If that happens, then maybe EA didn't make such a mistake after all?
This is not a realistic option. I'm not going to abandon my quite large collection of games - some of which I play weekly to say in touch with distant family - and then start the lengthy, costly and time-consuming process of suing a company that lives on the other side of the Earth.

The cost of Sim City is literally half an hour of consultancy work. This means the lawsuit would cost me more than I could hope to gain from it, and I would only be doing it to spite the publisher.

If that is my goal, it is a more efficient use of my time to accept the sunken cost, give some negative reviews, and badmouth the publisher.
Permadeath sounds cool, is great for many to boast about around the virtual water cooler, but in the end suffers from the simple fact, things go wrong and people cheat.

You can self replicate perma death for yourself in any game you play but I know most people would not, they would rather be water cooler hard cores.

Having recently played XCOM which has a perma death for your troopers I lost my taste real quick because of bugs. Players certainly won't pay for a perma death MMO where they died because of bugs or cheating; there will be cheating. A free to play perma death MMO might survive but even then its a fine line before the bugs push them over the edge.

I really don't want to be in another MMO like Eve, where areas of the game are off limits or worse, certain groups go on nerd rages and just grief people who are no threat/not even interesting but convenient.
I've had a few suggestions for timezones, or preferred hours. I'll definitely consider it.
Virtualenv's `bin/activate` is Doing It Wrong
I'm sorry for being so bold, but this is plain stupid. I don't know any Android users that 'fear' downloading apps. I don't know where exactly did you get your statistics, but are clearly wrong.

I use both Android and iOS and I never installed an app that crashed my phone or did something bad to my device.

Maybe it helps that I don't download random stuff off the market.

If you use a smartphone you should probably tell if a app is worth downloading or not. If you can't tell, maybe you should use a Nokia 1310.
Make your code runnable
Not sure about operating system's other than Windows, but gmail (opens a compose window in a new window) is my "default" handler for mailto: links.
It's varied based on the iteration, but almost double our original conversion rate currently.
Change.org Petitions EA to remove "Always Online" DRM from all games
VNC servers can run on Linux, Windows, OS X. This is more similar to running VNC client as a native binary for your OS, except this lets you do it in Chrome.

The biggest benefit I can tell is if you can run this on Chrome OS now. That, and pushing the technology forward.
Fog Creek :D
Drag-and-drop support for files is coming really soon :)
This won't add much either. I was kind of hoping for a flame-war but the feedback proved to be much more interesting than reading old clichés.
I'm yet to get on. 80 minutes and counting in a queue.

...

Then I got in. And got booted from the tutorial because I couldn't visit another city due to the servers.

Color me unimpressed.
The example you gave with PSD and app is not clear to me. Can't I sell my app through Gumroad ?
If the insurance market trusts it then yes. This isn't a hard concept. The same lines of reasoning govern planes with autopilot, or even automatic fridges. Insurance + engineering standards = alignment of incentives and economic growth.