skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article:
"seems to reinforce Google's intent when acquiring Motorola in the first place: It's not the people or the products, it's the patents."
...
"Along with this round of layoffs, Google is expected to further pare down its Motorola division by selling off its set-top business, which employs an additional 7,000 people."

But "don't be evil"...
> Multiplayer Online Game - which can also be played solo player / offline

I remember when UO came out...I never played it but I wondered if it would be the end of good single-player RPGs. Luckily, it wasn't, but it was basically the end of Ultima as a series, though arguably it wasn't a causation. In any case, it's hard to imagine an RPG world that could be designed successfully to be a MMO and a good single player experience.

Good single player experiences are bespoke storytelling affairs...and to abstract it out to accomodate MMO interaction would seem to necessarily dilute it.

Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I'm not at all against games that just end, rather than try to shoot to be a world in which you can fully "live a life" and in which the world is infinitely evolving. It's not that such a prospect isn't interesting, it's just that it inevitably leads to the kind of feature creep that leads to bugs and outright brokenness (insert reference to SimCity). I'm OK with games ending after 50-100 hours (or even 10, in the case of the Portal series), if those hours were fantastic.

I'd contribute if Lord British were going to make a modernized version of Ultima VII. Even though the limits of its world are obvious in retrospect, it really was way ahead of its time in creating a believable digital world for the single-player, and the constructs it used to maintain that facade (and have a story arc) would not have worked if it were a MMO.
Not exactly the right solution to a DMCA takedown notice...
> it's a lot like saying that hackers spend their time doing "pointless tweaking"

I'm a hacker and I think most hackers (including myself) often spend too much time pointlessly tweaking things.

Your emacs shortcuts are okay. Promise! Just get to work.

Your linux kernel is fine. Yes all the network drivers are configured well enough. Yes samba shares are working, yes rsyinc is copying stuff around. Just get to work.

Yes, X is perfectly configured and compiz is doing its thing. Yes it is! Just get to work.

I promise your IDE has the perfect amount of widgets in just the right place! Start coding.

And so on :)
I'd argue that Google does updates right as well. Both my Nexus 4 and Nexus 7 were updated a few weeks ago within a few days of the update being released.

It's Samsung, HTC, etc. who are doing updates wrong (though carriers may have some part in that).

Edit: I should say Google is getting better with updates. I'm still a bit disappointed with how they handled the Nexus S update to 4.0.
What would another framework need to do to truly be able to compete with PHP for people like yourself? As far as I know, you still have to install something to get PHP to run, or are you talking about hosted solutions?
I wonder what the best course of action would be in such a situation?

Ditch the suitcase and risk the attention of some fairly unpleasant people?

Go to the police and risk being arrested anyway?

There was a TV series a while ago called "Banged up abroad" which documented a number of cases like this.

It was quite scary the lengths some of the criminals had gone to in order to find drug mules, in one case they had got an attractive woman to date a guy for a year and gain his trust before getting him to mule for them.
"Too Big To Jail" = venue moved to Court of Public Opinion.
Verdict = guilty.
Sentence = ?
Designers live in a world where their work is questioned and picked apart every day. If you're sensitive, you're in the wrong field.
There isn't just one OS in these cars running a monolithic instance of DRIVE.EXE.

If one sensor sees a person and another sensor does not, the car doesn't flip a coin before driving through that spot. It doesn't drive through that spot.

The real failure mode for automated cars will be how easy it is to make them stop in their tracks because someone fooled just one of the sensors into seeing a human.
2013 Chevrolet Volt review: Great daily commuter car, but still too pricey
Make chart images from CSV file (C#)
Try s3 + cloudflare. You will have to pay for ssl but barring that s3 + cloudflare will let you host a naked domain for almost free. Suppose you want some cheap static publishing, set up a dev heroku instance (free) and have it publish to your s3 bucket.
When I notice a stranger wearing a certain brand of shirt I don't walk up to them and start asking them if they want to buy an array of similar shirts from me and whip out a credit card reader. In what way is this "how human vision works"?
Amazon marks SimCity with Issues
StartSSL is free?! Has anyone used them before? Are their certs widely accepted/trusted?
Will he have access to power and a laptop? Or will be compiling in his head?
You can also not keep logs at all, so there is nothing to subpoena.
try CoffeeKup: https://github.com/mauricemach/coffeekup or Teacup: http://goodeggs.github.com/teacup/
it's up for me
You do understand the reason most people think it's creepy isn't necessarily that it's recording, but that it's recording and sending video to a company who's had so many run in's with privacy laws and wants to store as much information on a person as possible? Right? Not everything is about Apple vs Google.
Not really, read-line is more or less equivalent to python's input method. It reads raw input and tries to evaluate it. Passing false makes it safer for reading data structures, but it will still try to execute Java constructors so that your data is correctly initialized. To be safe you need to use other methods i.e. edn(extensible data notation).

edn limits what is allowed to a safe subset of what read-line will allow, all of the base clojure types and collection types (maps, lists, sets, vectors) are allowed, Java isn't.
Nope, they don't pay relatively high fees for the strain they produce. Although "relatively" is a very loose term I guess.
This reads like a child's rant to me.

It misses all the fair points everybody is arguing over and jumps to his conclusion that 'being mean is always bad :( why is there conflict in the world?'

pff, yes, I'm mean.
What's wrong with facial recognition? It has numerous positive uses. Automatically annotating family photo albums being one, trivial example.

Even "lethal" drones--it's not like there's one software developer who makes LethalDrone OS. There are many components to it that have very positive possibilities, for example auto stabilizing flight controls, which can and will end up being used in search and rescue drones.
So, http://www.cloudflare.com/plans shows that to get your custom SSL, you need a "Business" plan at $200/month... so about 20x more expensive than GAE in this case.
Maybe in the future there will be communities set up in secluded locations where stuff like this is banned.

I'd love to live in a small town where everything from mobile phones onwards had to be left at the gate.

Of course you then have all the usual monocultural problems with gated communities.

Like people have said, we're already all watched by CCTV anyway, especially here, so if I really cared I'd be looking for that community already.
The big thing will be because CCTV is used (generally) to record video and store it for X months until it's taped over by the store, Google on the other hand is a datavore and will quite happily use the information in a completely different way to CCTV.
"Any designer" is a bit of an overstatement, but your point about being open is true.

Designers at the caliber you speak of rely on, and can articulate, their (timeless) fundamental principles more than your average designer, who heavily relies on their moment in time where their work is relevant before fading into obscurity.
I spent some time playing with kinect sdk and was surprised to see how mature it looked. Easiness totally depends on what you are trying to achieve.
I registered many SSLs with them and never had any issue :)
And I forgot the best of all tips: good theory leads to good programs.
Still needs to hit 15k EUR for TextMate/Sublime bindings.
I would mis-quote Linda Hamilton from Terminator 2:

"The [car] would never stop. It would never leave him, and it would never hurt him, never shout at him, or get drunk and hit him, or say it was too busy to spend time with him. It would always be there. And it would die, to protect him."
> I got tired of sshing into a new box ...

I've got a public repo of my dotfiles, so the first thing I typically do is "git clone git@github.com:pavellishin/dotfiles.git && cd dotfiles && ./install.sh"

After that, I launch tmux, and it's all hunky dory.
They should have used www.bountysource.com!
$12,000 Bitcoin Heist: Hacking, Persuasion, or Stupidity?
And you're telling me at no point did any software engineer write the code that allows the pilot to fire a gun, or do calculations to account for the impact of "kickback" from firing a projectile on a drone's flight path, or...
Ah, I see what you mean now. That was an extremely confusing sentence.
Sun used to go after companies using "Java" in their names. Even events haven't been spared: Javapolis (in Belgium), where even Gosling came to speak, got renamed "Devoxx" due to trademark issues.

I somehow doubt that the french person who registered java-0day.com is in compliance.

The idea isn't bad but it's a bad sad that everything is put together: mixing Java applets exploits with server-side exploit with regulard client-side / Java desktop exploits.
Is there a (non-malevolent) reason for this clause? It seems to be something put in to deliberately slow down proceedings and apply a penalty to the accused regardless of what happens.
That's debatable, to be sure, but do you have a similar example from an HN discussion?

I don't think I've ever seen a mean post in the context of an HN discussion that wouldn't have been improved by removing the meanness, or simply deleting it.
It's true that in general, people need to understand what is dangerous in each language they use.

However, as far as I can tell, the problem here has nothing to do with homoiconicity. The "get string" vulnerability, as you call it, comes out of Clojure's (excellent) JVM support, and not from the Lisp side of its family tree. A "read" is not just a read only because reading Java means creating and compiling arbitrary classes and objects. That, in turn, is largely because Java is not homoiconic.
The key here is that it is within a few degrees, which make a huge difference over long distances on the sea.
Actually, I would call 5.3 as a fairly major jump - namespaces, closures (Lambda/anonymous functions), late static binding, const's allowed outside of classes. There are several popular PHP frameworks that require v. 5.3+. Some people even go so far as to call the 5.3.x branch “php 6 without Unicode”.
Yes, their domain-verified certs are free. I've been using them for a while now and haven't had any problems.

See this post for browser support: https://forum.startcom.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1802
I remember fondly Ultima 7 and Ultima Underworld 2.

Incredible titles, way ahead of their time.

Ultima 7 has probably more sophisticated interaction mechanics than 99% of the games today.
All of that is part of the reason why I will never own a robot car until they hammer out those details. Currently, when I buy a car, the manufacturer/dealer specifies what they are responsible for and how long. The rest is on me. So I have to purchase driver's insurance.

A robot car? I'm not the driver. The manufacturer is, by robot proxy. So, perhaps the manufacturer should be insuring the car. After all, at that point, I'm just a passenger.
That is not the Flat UI icon.

I remember it distinctly from launch, the cogs were more inside the circle and in a different orientation:
http://venturebeat.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/screen-shot-2...

The three icons removed were the cog, the map, and the twitter face.

Edit: Here is a comparison image from further down the page: http://imgur.com/IH1osAD
I grew up on the Ultima series - in fact it is exclusively the reason I became a programmer and game developer. I do not know how good this recent iteration will be, but at least it looks like Richard is keeping a close ear to his community. In all honesty though I would have settled for a 2D/isometric non-MMO (in the spirit of Ultima 7) -- I think that's where his original fans lie.
SARLOC: Mountain Rescue app to help locate hill walkers in trouble (2012)
I'm also a litte perplexed about why anybody needs tagging in photos. If you take photos of your family, you already know who they are. Same thing with pictures of your friends. It seems like the only reason anybody uses tagging on Facebook is to alert their friends that they're in a photo.

To me, that use case for facial recognition always felt like a front. It's an edge case, used as a justification for technology where the base case is surveillance agencies using it to identify whoever they might be after in public.
I suppose it's possible that he thought being a drug mule was just one of the tasks he had to do to woo this woman. Which would be even more boneheaded than just falling for her innocently.

From reading the texts he sent from the airport, and the calculations he scratched out on paper at the same time, it seems that this is actually what he was thinking.

As far as I can tell, he planned to steal the cocaine from Bolivians, fly to Europe with it, and then share the proceeds of selling the cocaine with his new bikini-model Czech wife.
I don't know a lot about road building, but I always thought that is the point of jointed concrete roads.
Oh, I'm sorry, I should have attributed a higher level of journalistic integrity to a site called macgasm.net
Well this is good news, I've started working on an app and couldn't find any good stats on iOS6 coverage but if it's hit 85+% then that's more than enough to make it a good decision.

The upside of Apple really, really pushing updates out like this is developers can keep iterating with the newest API choices and refine their products, which is good for devs and good for app quality.
I used coffeekup back in the day, but I just can't stand the jade-style declarative html. I also used eco for a while, but it got pretty messy too. I'm picky, I know :)
Yes, my experience compels me to agree. The best compromise I've found are Diablo-style co-operative stories, where multiple people can go through a very engrossing story as a group of adventurers, and progress to the game's final end. I argued that the great failure of SW: The Old Republic was that it removed the one element that made Knights of the Old Republic such a success: the engrossing single player story.

Massive online environments, by definition, prohibit a single character from being important. The natural solution is the instanced single player game, allowing large party sizes which scale difficulty based on the encounter. A corollary of this is that any true, persistent MMO must be sandbox type, allowing individual players extreme freedom to write the stories. The best example of this is EVE, and a lesser known korean RPG Lineage: The Blood Pledge, which allowed players to control castles of each kingdom, creating incredible game histories due to player competition alone.

It is clear that the single player co-op and the MMO are now distinct genres, catering to different play styles. Attempts to bridge this gap have generally failed from a storytelling perspective, even in great games such as Guild Wars 2 and The Old Republic.
There's probably a dozen clauses in the game's EULA that prevent a class action lawsuit.
Eh, Bazaar has cheap local branching as far as I care about. And yes, I don't have to deal with git checkout.

Window management can be funny -- I think there's a bug in compiz where a display will "reject" windows if they're too large (when minimized) for the display. This causes the drag-to-top motion to hit the display the window is currently on, and so it goes back to the original display. Using control-alt-numpad5 works, as does unmaximizing your windows and making them smaller than your smallest display.
I can't pinch zoom this site from an iPad? Why do sites go out of their way to disable useful features?
I doubt Google as an organisation would accept Bitcoin unless the adoption was overwhelming. Google Wallet is yet another data mining tool for them, and they won't give that up easily.

Single reason I don't have a Nexus 4 is that I have to use Google Wallet and I won't give Google my real name to link it to my account no matter how hard they try.
There's a bunch of unaffiliated sites with "java" in their domain name, http://www.javaranch.com/ for one.

I think the difference is when you try and trade commercially using someone elses trademark.
If Google wanted just the patents, why didn't they just shut the entire Libertyville campus down? Why did they just lease half a million square feet in downtown Chicago?

http://www.chicagorealestatedaily.com/article/20121106/CRED0...
CCTV is (and has been!) subject to virtually every abuse I can imagine Google Glass being used for. Glass will "generally" not be used for privacy invasion either, so I don't see how this logic works. (And the "won't be stored" point seems silly given that you can trivially store a surveillance camera record...). Obviously both can be abused. So why the one-sided outrage?
Don't they already have that light? In fact, isn't surreptitious recording illegal in jurisdictions like Japan?
I don't do it in protest, and if you look in my history, my attempts at humour are rare. I'm also not trying to start a thread.

Look at my profile again, and you should see that I'm far more passionate about the inane, arse-backwards moderation system.
Yeah, I've always wondered about that...

I have a small number of games in my library, maybe 12, and I only have 3 of them installed on this computer. If they went out of business, it would be physically impossible for them to send me the files.

Yes, I know they could have some sort of "graceful shutdown period", but what if I don't hear about it?
Ask HN: What do you do about your allergies?
During the spring season, I usually start dying with my allergies. I'm one of those where no drugs are effective.

I began taking aller-max (a combination of stinging nettle, cayenne, quercetin, and some other stuff), and am wondering whether it actually does anything or not.

For the allergy sufferers out there, what do you do about your allergies?
http://istherejava0day.com/ should really link to the 0days for reference. just saying "there is a 0day" with no details is pointless.
A trademark doesn't give you exclusive rights over all use of the mark. You can use it to prevent others from implying their products are associated with yours, as was presumably the case for Javapolis, but it doesn't give you the legal right to prevent others from criticizing your product.
You've completely lost me here. Are you arguing that Google is grayer than 7/11? Can we have that argument instead, please?
You can't tell if it is recording, except for the red LED on the outside of glass that lights up to tell you when it is recording.
There's also "towns" which looks interesting http://www.townsgame.com/ though I have not yet played it.
All browsers were compromised last Wednesday (except Safari on ML)

http://www.zdnet.com/pwn2own-down-go-all-the-browsers-700001...
The article is a bit misleading as it's clearly not an app but a website, but it's an interesting application nonetheless, and has apparently been used with success. Noticed it today in a report of a mountain rescue on Ben Lomond.
IBM moves Power Systems manufacturing from Minnesota to Mexico
Interesting point of view.
Although a bit dramatic I do think the two think differently about their work.

To the point, we actually started a repo for Sketch.app Templates, and the Sketch team is working on making their files non binaries so that we can better merge.

https://github.com/sketch-templates

R.
"Fly, you fools!"
How To Measure the Success of a Blog
Tutor Marketplace Advice
Okay - I created a new tutoring marketplace. What's your advice on having new tutors sign up for my free service?
I'd pitch in if they promised to base the engine off Ultima 8.
you must read a lot of their work to know what level of 'journalistic integrity' the site operates on...
There is not one company that has access to all the CCTV cameras placed in restaurants and stores and workplaces and public venues.

If there were, that would be way creepy in and of itself. However, this is worse: the world's most powerful advertising company is turning consumers into spies.

It was bad enough for Google to track users' interests and whereabouts using its online services. Then with Streetview and its apps on Android, it started massively gathering physical information as well. With Glass, it'll have a cheap workforce that gathers the information of others as well.

Even if you've never consciously used a Google product or service in your life, if you live in a developed nation, Google knows about you and it already uses that information to influence your behavior [1][2].

Imagine how your life will change if only 1% of the people around you start using Google sponsored video cameras that are stealth, have high quality imaging, are always on, location aware, and always connected to the Internet: that's what Glass is.

[1] http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/eli_pariser_beware_online_f...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/technology/29stream.html?_...
Is SimCity playable?
Thanks! I've had my Mac less than a year, and stuff like this really helps. (I tried both of those tricks, and they indeed work as advertised)
Wheat proteins, "Leaky Gut," and Schizophrenia
> Besides, the fact that the article's on a website called "Macgasm" doesn't lend much credence to the opinions expressed in it.

This shows your bias as much as it does the website's.

Also, opinions are not to be believed, you agree or disagree with them, both are options.
I have the exact same experience. Ultima7 made me a developer, and was my first dive into editing bash scripts (that fucker was impossible to get working in windows95). Enabling the debug mode and hacking on gumps was my favorite pass time.
Won't someone correct the title?
This is a terrific story. Not terrific for any parties involved, but a well-written and well-told _story_. For any of you that just skimmed it - it's worth going back and reading the whole thing.

With lots of journalism these days it's terribly easy to give up on the storytelling part and stick to dry facts. Sometimes the case calls for that, but other times the weaving of the tale can be the best part.

Here, the reader is brought along for the ride - we're led to believe one version, then learn some dramatic differences that arose during the trial. Fun and worthwhile.
I thought account was referring solely to the Sim City account. I didn't realize that there was a whole infrastructure in place.

The lack of a refund is easily explained by EA's short term greed and having franchises that people really like.
Why's the name a problem? Aside from assuming it's a witty zing from an Apple loving fanboy that Google's new product is doomed, I can think of quite a few other sources that have been discussing Glass in terms of privacy in the same terms. Not everyone who likes Apple products hates Google, and vice versa.
Why not ultima 7? Ultima8 wasn't as interactive as ultima7 imho.
To me it seems the OP is calling it that because it borrows the column view, which Finder inherited from NeXT.