skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically, yes. Those are silicon chips, with alternate layers of glass (SiO2) and metal deposited on top. The metal layers connect transistors that were built in the silicon chip proper in the first steps of fabrication.

They are called integrated circuits because, instead of using a board to connect many pieces of silicon, a single piece of silicon has the whole circuit. More at the usual place, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_circuit
I'm not sure you can call DRM "Defective by Design" then. It works for Valve and they are making a lot of money by stifling piracy with it.

The problem with EA then isn't DRM but badly implemented DRM.
Looks nice. Spotted some glitchy behavior if you click multiple nav dots at the bottom in quick succession though.
One use case would be windows with a QR printed on them.
Looks useful, signed up. [also finally signed up here at HN :)]
Canucks 40th anniversary jersey
Ok, thanks. We will check these out.
They picked the scale of the problem too.
Nightly builds of Firefox are starting to get support for the Web Audio API, hidden behind a pref 'media.webaudio.enabled', which can be set in 'about:config'. At some point when it's considered more useable someone will blog about it and the state it's in.
It's interesting how over time this situation has reversed. In the
distant past, people hid their computer and technical skills from their
peers in order to avoid the now popular labels like nerd, geek, dork,
and similar. This morning while eating breakfast and checking the news
on the BBC, there was an advertisement for a new program called, "The
Nerdist." --Perceptions and views have certainly changed.

Every time a subculture becomes popular and goes mainstream, much is
lost. Tech is no exception.

When people underestimate me based on my looks or mannerisms, I smile
quietly; they just gave me a huge advantage. I now have the luxury of
surprising them whenever I want.

"YOU'RE a programmer!?"

"No, not really... I'm actually technically advanced alien lifeform
disguised as a human being, and I'm just here on vacation having fun...
By the way, do you want to get probed? Oh, don't looks so concerned! If
you say 'no' then I'll make sure you won't remember."
HTML5 ran faster for me as well. "Faster" as in "everything was sped up at 2x".
That page has been up since before this debacle. The actual package itself (the HTML download) is hosted on Github and subject to the takedown.
How to Start Reading Less and Doing More
Robots are generic, but that 50s style robot looks pretty similar to this 50s robot: (http://fineartamerica.com/featured/robot-from-50s-carlos-mon...) (t-bar eyebrows, analogue gauge on chest).

"The Son of Man" was painted 1964. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Son_of_Man_(Magritte))
My first pass, I thought Albert Perry lived 340,000 years ago too. I think this article needs an editor. :-)
What alternatives are available for Europe?
Societies was not made by Maxis which is why I discount it as a SimCity game.
People need a "common ground" of "spirituality". Even if you say "but not for me", I'm sure that (unless you're either an aspie or a psychopath :) ) you also get some sort of "mystical/spiritual understanding", probably from science and technology itself (like I do, and it took me years to understand that part of the "hard drug" that drives me to technology was actually a very "mystical" thing)... you can replace "mystical/spiritual" with "imagination/intuition of something more than self" if it's more atuned to the vocabulary of your mind. But this sort of thing satisfies a psychological need in a way that doesn't bring people together, while classical social religions, in their retarded and distorting way, actually bring people together. That's why I think there's an "untapped religious market" in the middle of these things :)
That is the very thing it has been designed for, from the beginning and through every step. The huge image on the linked-to site is of a 3D-printed object. Also, the site (Thingieverse) is a widely-known repository for 3D-printable object designs.

So: yes.
If they did they could just stay in churches. If people are moving away from churches, maybe there is no such need.
You missed the context: Enterprise model. The costs come with overcomplicated solutions.
I admit my expression wasn't clear. I've just fix it. Thanks for comment.

Of course there are a lot of great F/OSS projects.
I saw the intro, then a blank deep blue screen. Nothing happened. Boring.
The only problem I had about your initial comment, is that someone unaware of the risks would be encouraged to do the same things that caused a gazillion hacks in the past.

The option of just having a small hot wallet and a cron script (risking just the amount in the hot wallet at any given time) is probably good enough for most people, and it's a lot simpler than the kind of crypto needed to set up a wallet that can be safely operated in untrusted media. That much is fine.

Still, hotwallets combined with limited human resources (can't have someone constantly checking the balance, cannot automate the loading of the wallet and keep that in the server for obvious reasons) usually end up in cutting corners, getting robbed and essentially financing crooks.

Cannot go around saying safe, home-made BTC wallet support is trivial for a newbie. If you think so you live in la-la land.

It's just unrealistic and conveys a dangerous message, that's all. 99% of HN's readers would be much better off using any of the already put in place payment processing systems and pay them for their years of expertise.
"It's not as if drones just fly around killing random, innocent people."

I'm sure our friends in Pakistan would disagree.
Don't be mean, it's stupid
Although the servers did not melt at that time, the Amazon ratings and reviews are similar.
It is neat that C# has some standard macros defined. It would be nicer if it was more explicit what is going on behind the scenes. I would love to see the equivalent of c-macro-expand. [0]

Also, although it is possible to extend C# using stuff like custom linq providers, [1] I still prefer lisp style macros.

[0] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2821
[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb546158.aspx
That's a work of [philological][1] investigation, and I'd like to see something like that too. Could it be good project?

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philology
Looks like it's available again
Ask HN: statistical significance on group of Adwords keywords
I am trying to optimize my adwords campaign, and running into the 'statistical significance' question.

I read this great post from Paras Chopra here:
http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/ab-testing-significance-calculator-spreadsheet-in-excel/

Though in my case I started my campaign with many keywords (about 400 keywords), and I now have the following:

Keyword group A (10 keywords - the "best"): 47 clicks, 16 conversions

Keyword group B (390 keywords - the rest): 244 clicks, 18 conversions

If I apply these data into the A/B Testing Significance calculator, I obtain a 99% confidence that A is better than B.
But does it really work with a group of keywords, or is this calculation meant to be used only for strict "singular" test cases?
While some genetic characteristics can be considered Jewish, not all Jews have those characteristics, so it could also be considered "anticulturalism". As a Christian and gentile, I don't understand what it is like to be discriminated against on so many levels. Christians have only been persecuted for < 2000 years, and we span the globe in radically different races and cultures. Only certain faiths have as strong tendency to intermarry as Jews (almost always marry another person of faith X)- Mormons and Scientologists come to mind (note: that is the truth, not meant to be a slight against Mormonism).
http://i.minus.com/idrgWk.gif , for the easily intrigued.

P.S. The TC article (http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/11/screenhero-yc/ ) commenters compared screenhero with http://www.multimouse.com/ , https://www.yuuguu.com/s/home and others.
I'm really excited about the price reduction and the reserved throughput possibilities. Over the past six months I slowly but surely migrated most of the core data storage for the startup I work for to DynamoDB and I have been very satisfied with the performance. That said I agree with the post that DynamoDB isn't suited for every use case, just like MySQL and other relational databases aren't suited for every use case. We are still using MySQL for log tables and other tables in which we need to do complex queries over time ranges with tests on multiple properties.

The sweet spot is combining DynamoDB and a relational database into a seamless system that lets you use the power and scalability of DynamoDB when all that is needed is a simple lookup, and the complex queries of SQL when you need a detailed time range based report.
What about inviting other people to contribute to creating courses? They will hopefully promo the course for you in exchange for a cut I guess... that should start to bring in more traffic the more people you involve.
This is also how mifare security was reverse engineered and broken. If I remember correctly they sanded down each layer and used image recognition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJyxUvMGLr0
With child rape scandals I was merely referring to the wording "sex scandals", which seemed very euphemistic.

With the churches/religion dying I mean that atheists are the fastest growing 'camp' concerning religion. The catholic church might not die within the next 5 years, but I'm pretty sure will fade into non-existence. Every statement about the future is speculation of course.
If you run a successful business in holland, and pay yourself a salary out of it, your tax rate is over %70! And on top of that, you have %20 VAT. And this isn't even going into the manifold fees and other types of taxes you are subjected to.

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This comment is not spam. It had a nice positive score until the socialists arrived. Of course, socialists being unable to deal with reality (or history!) must censor those who point out simple facts that undermine their ideology. And so this comment has been downvoted to obscurity (-15 at this moment) to make it less likely others would be made aware of the high tax rates in holland.

This kind of dishonesty and censorship is why you can't have fruitful discussion on hacker news. The site is overrun by ideologues and moderated by ideologues and anything that doesn't strictly toe to the fascist modern ideology gets the boot.

Ok, just accept, though, that you're anti-intellectual in a very profound way.

When you can't tolerate people stating inconvenient facts, it's time to admit you're an intellectual coward.

Frankly, I think you're all shit. You've elected a guy who claims he has the right to kill any american with a drone strike, in america, without any due process.

And you're so proud of it! It's astounding. You should be ashamed. Profoundly ashamed.

But know this, it is your cowardice and intellectual dishonesty that caused the state of affairs we find ourselves in. Run away to amsterdam if you like, see how long it remains nice.
"no mention of SVG not really being supported that well on iOS 4 or lower)"

I'm guessing the author felt it doesn't need to be mentioned, as usage share for iOS <v5 is negligible (estimates range from 1% to 4%). In contrast, Android <v3 makes up more than 50% of Google Play users.
No. Linode use IP space provided by the upstream they use at each location.
Flash on linux is dead, The only updated standard implementation comes from Google Chrome (note: not Chromium)
Yep. The C# design attitude seems to be that the compiler-writers have the ability to define such macros, but the C# compiler users don't. Compare with F#.

Though that may change with C# 5 and Roslyn (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Roslyn compiler as a service)
In the book 'Emergency Navigation' by David Burch ( http://www.amazon.com/Emergency-Navigation-Improvised-No-Ins... ), the method is explained more clearly. With a clear Iceland spar crystal 1 to 2 inches on a side, the direction of the sun can be pinpointed to within a few degrees. You can also get the same effect using a piece of cellophane and the lens of a pair op polarized sunglasses. You do need a patch of clear sky at a 90 degrees angle from the sun direction to observe the change in intensity.
I don't think we need a spiritual element in our life, rather a "knowledge", concept or other form of understanding of what our place in the world/universe is. But even with that I can't speak for everyone. What is nice about churches are rituals. My need for rituals is satisfied with raves, awesome atmosphere with a lot of friendly, tolerant people who are just enjoying themselves and the music with everyone.
I tried both on my Windows 7 laptop from work, which runs on a first-gen i5 and HD2000 graphics.

The HTML5 version runs smoothly, the Flash one is barely playable and has lots of visible tearing from the lack of VSync.
Well that's the thing, I actually thought my backup strategy was decent enough. Multiple versioned copies in multiple places.

My desktop was being backed up nightly to a remote source. Though it was the laptop (which wasnt being backed up) which I was doing the work on / changes to. But I saw that layer vault was syncing the changes to the desktop so figured it was fine.

So it went Laptop -> Layer Vault -> Desktop -> Remote Backup. But of course everything that passed through Layer Vault got corrupted. And eventually it 'resynced' all that corruption back to the laptop and the file went completely dead. So there ended up being no good copies of it.

So yeah in hindsight can say it was my fault for not doing nightlys of the laptop. But at the time I thought my strategy was fine, trusting that while at worst I'd lose a few versions or something if something terrible happened, not for it to actively destroy the file.
Growing markets drive new generation of high-tech entrepreneurs in China
20% of your net income, so it's half as bad :)

Plus, if your cool startup should not succeed and you get ill: Don't worry, everything will be fine :)
Sounds like you would be better picking up a decent transit locally to you with a good blend of upstreams.
It's possible. For example, if all living Australian aboriginals were to have a European explorer as an ancestor.

(I'm not trying to suggest that this is the case, I'm pointing out how they could have jumped the tree, so to speak)
It's like Seinfeld at the car rental place. "Sure, you can request a refund..."
Flash - http://imgur.com/fj0AH2r
HTML5 - http://imgur.com/dLmHfbE

I'd say HTML wins with my browser configuration.
The self-healing road
> Still, you are comparing this to flash, which has only one complete implementation at all which is only available on a subset of platforms

Huh?

A flash swf or flash compiled app is available on _all_ platforms. We aren't talking Flash on the iPhone, this is Flash _compiled_ to native for the iPhone.

Haxe NME and Unity3D are similar in that they let you write once and deploy to many. They also in fact let you "deploy to flash". They do this because if you know your audience, you know you need to still support IE8 and while you get IE8 you also get IE7/6. Believe it or not businesses are locked into these horrible browsers. Going 100% HTML5 is cool and trendy but why would you elect to cut off a subset of your users (who you are trying to make $ off of)

Haxe and Adobe (not sure about Unity) are also allowing you to export to HTML5. This would be interesting if they compared performance with that.

We are all looking forward to HTML5 taking over, but we are far from that place right now.
Islam.

Muslims are often serious about their religion (encouraging converts) and they actually procreate.
PHP 5.5.0 Alpha 6 - Released
Why is Ruby on Rails more popular than Django?
Aye, holding people to different standards is a way to discriminate.
Wonder how sustainable Digital Ocean's pricing is in the longer term.
Acme vs emacs vs vim
That case was in Britain, which is different both in copyright law and underlying philosophy. The DMCA is US law.
If you base it on scientific facts, yes. But actually science is not about facts but about a method of understanding that produces "factual knowledge". Yeah, as you say, even the understanding of understanding evolves, but we just need to learn to "design things that evolve"... and I think it's orders of magnitudes easier to do this "in the world of pure memes" with something like a philosophy, than in the physical world with something like a self-replicating mutating robot. Yeah, just as with such a robot you'd have to give up things like "control over it", with such a philosophy-religion you may have to give up things like "moral values", but that's ok imho, since you can have those separately... The only thing that makes a "cult" "bad" is lack of freedom and flexibility, and this is "by design" for most cults.
I absolutely agree that that's a loss, but that argument would seem to apply equally to all online games. But a game isn't less worth playing because it's online, right?
Did you read your link?

"Disadvantage or unequal opportunity arising from the cultural dominance of one gender over the other."

Women do not have cultural dominance over men.
So why isn't their repo put back up? I thought the standard procedure was notice-takedown-counternotice-restore?
You can't just add percentages like that...
Given the two hour wait I had to talk to a billing advisor to try and buy SimCity yesterday, people are still buying this game in their droves. The problem is that there is no incentive for EA to listen to their customers - the monopoly that they have on many of the best franchises allows them to act in such a petulant and anticompetitive manner.

I hate to be the one to say this, but I really can't see this issue being resolved without regulation.
Tax rates in continental Europe can indeed be steep compared to UK and US. In the Netherlands the top rate is 'only' 52%, not 70%. Most people, especially company owners, pay much less.
When I moved to NL I was really amazed by this system (no more writing checks!). Since the bank itself is in charge of the payment form, the incentives to fix security are in the right place.

Of course, this is easy to do in a small country with less than 10 banks, which all trust one another.
Do they have some sort of startup visa in Netherlands? Something like UK's Tier 1 Entrepreneur perhaps?
I wish Digital Ocean supported IPv6.
Why would you include corp taxes in that.

I looked at Amsterdam as a move and it was about the same as the UK and other European states, and as I have the max years in for the uk pension scheme I was temped to move to Holland to buildup a second pension there.

The lack of a VCT's, CGT exemption and taper relief is an issue for smaller investors - Seems to me that the ducth have a lot of german style Mittelstand companies and cgt/taxsystems is trageted at that .

and the 30% rule ie 30% of you salary is disregarded for 10 years for migrant workers is an amazing tax break(http://www.expatax.nl/30ruling.php#.UTnYdjfRqE8)
Let's see how long that lasts. It sounds like this time around is different from being unable to cancel subscriptions, or a multiplayer server going down - people who bought the game at release actually cannot play it, or encounter major functionality breaks while doing so.

I know that it may be unlikely, but I do hope that this affects their bottom line. EA is a toxic company inside and out.
Ask HN: Where do you buy images for your blog posts?
There are quite a few sites like istockphoto and fotolia - but the cheapest images are about USD 2 each (and the ones I liked were USD 9). There are other sites like "Flickr's Creative Commons pool" - but I did not find really good pics here.

Where do you guys buy cheap (or free) pics for your blog posts?
MobShop, a Group-Buying Site, Drops Its Consumer Business
mlent is saying that discrimination is not enough to constitute sexism, and specifically that discrimination against men cannot be sexism.
Surprisingly, you don't have to wait for Roslyn.

The technique exists now [0]. It is kind of a pain to use and seems kind of dangerous to use as a web app. But it is there. I messed with this a few years ago.

[0] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3111190/compiling-net-cod...
Will be happy to answer any specific questions :)
Show HN: US Government Open Source Projects
I've got a brand new combine harvester...
Unfortunately this seems to be the way the world is working. People who like what you did do not speak up. People wo do not like it complain as loud as possible. Maybe it's because complaining is more likely to lead to responses. Or because when you have a negative feeling about something you feel more urge to speak up.

I know this should not necessarily result in mean complaints, but often it does. So, what can we do against it? Simply ignore mean comments? Take care to write better comments? Or should we just shut up when we have nothing to say?
So, although I found the article a little bit light, I'm fascinated to hear anybody's experience of Amsterdam for solo entrepreneurs and creatives. I've been considering it as a place to live, work and play for a while.

E.g. what are the pros/cons of moving there for 3–6 months, assuming there are no plans to raise funding, hire staff or rent an office?
One kind of anything is a single point of failure.

Well hindsight is always 20/20, but your backup strategy still relied on a single service (that wasn't your own). Backup is one thing no one should completely rely on a third-party. Whether it's a USB drive, good ol' DVDs or what have you, anything else "of your own" is crucial at least weekly if not end-of-day.

The effort going into your backups must match the value you place on your data.
> Haxe NME and Unity3D are similar in that they let you write once and deploy to many. They also in fact let you "deploy to flash".

I think you're distorting my argument a bit -- I wouldn't invest in developing new flash app or game, but if you can get flash support for free through "compile to flash" I don't see any reason for not supporting it as extra option.
If you can explain your program to a rubber duck it's probably OK
On one side, valve's DRM is far less intrusive than EA's and on the other side valves efforts to curb piracy involves a lot more than just slapping DRM on. I remember a large post (interview?) where the gist was:

* Treat all markets equal and release the game at the same time. Not having access to a game that's released elsewhere is a huge driver of piracy.
* Support your games, release follow-up content.
* Actually make the DRM-Service a service: I can buy a game on steam and if there is a mac/windows/linux version, I can actually play all three of them.

It's all give and take. It's annoying that Steam games are DRM protected, but OTOH, I get added benefits. Just taking functionality from the user won't get you far.
People will have to steal the server side code or reimplement the parts of the gaming engine. I don't see this one getting cracked. EA will probably see that as a win even thought all of the paying customers can't play.
If Super Hexagon is a good example, Flash compiled to native iOS is quite sluggish.

edit: It uses Stage3D, so maybe not a great example.
There is a minimum waiting period after counter-notice (10 days I think.)
Let's not make up numbers... Income tax is high here (not 70%) but you know, you get what you pay for. If you're American the 30% rule kicks in as long as you are here on a dutch american treaty visa or sponsored by a company. Any American can start a company here and get a 1 year visa. That's a pretty low barrier or entry compared to most countries. Corporate tax is also incredibly low, with a ton of benefits for the first 3 years you are a b.v. (dutch corp)
Your landing page and the game are both amazingly well designed and fun to interact with. Some of the best work I've seen.