skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah "here and there" is easier to work with. You, sir, simply need to execute some kind of arbitrage.

In college, I would buy trivets and wallpaper borders from Dollar General and sell them on EBay. If you just want money here and there, then selling physical things is not a bad racket.

Whatever you choose to sell, there must exist an uninformed market ready to buy. Turns out, this isn't hard to find.
Online-only play is exactly what I am talking about as the (dystopian) future of gaming. Pushing more and more of the game into the cloud, so it becomes SaaS instead of worrying about DRM.

Freemium versus pay-up-front are both flavors of that.

Do we know that SimCity "flopped"? It's gotten lots of people angry at it, but that's not at all the same as not making money.
What version of Chrome are you running? It needs version 25, which is fairly recent.
I would argue that plenty of "less" is "more".
- less inefficiency
- less duplicate programs
- less intrusion upon personal liberties (drug war, EPA)
- less government power ~= more personal sovereignty.
In that case whats the incentive on a manufacturer to build driver less cars at all? They sell plenty of cars right now but with none of the increased risk in liability.
What I miss is the old school spatial finder [1]. I never liked the Next Workspace Manager, although it was very popular among a certain Unix set Back In The Day; but at least it was consistent and adhered to a certain worldview. Ramming it into the classic Finder just made both types of user miserable; Apple's been backing that decision out slowly (and in favor of the Next-style manager) ever since.

[1] An oldie, but a goodie: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2003/04/finder
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Spore: Open source, Open standards encrypted VOIP client and network for Android
I was hoping the daemon from Daniel Suarez's Daemon novel had been located.
MySQL Replication Monitoring
why not just make this a real thing? adopt a cat from your local animal shelter.
robbery and fraud?
When did Thiel say competition hurts capitalism?
Seconding step 2 -- vim environments, to vim-heavy developers, are a little like office spaces to me. Each has its perks; each person likes a different desk calendar; I like my door open and my coworker likes his closed.

It'd be awesome if you extended your site such that I could upload my vim configuration and plugins to share them with others -- and then discover someone who has done me one better!
Finally I can disable syntax highlighting in vim!
>Robots are going to replace human workers in lots of factories; jobs that do require human labor are going to continue to move to the lowest-cost place. But that’s ok, and these sorts of jobs are not what will generate economic growth for us anyway.

This is all very true, but automation doesn't remove jobs just at factories. We will continuously figure out how to automate more and more jobs. Capitalizm should dictate that these jobs would fall into a ranking where the highest paid, easiest to automate jobs should be replaced first, that might mean traditionally very "safe" jobs like Accounting (see: InDinero). What happens to those who are unskilled an can not assume jobs that really promote growth?

I think it is very important that the government can react to these changes quickly, and while entitlement programs may not be investing in growth, it prevents a very large class of US citizens from being very very unhappy resulting in a very harmful situation for all of us. I do think in the end, you are right, if we can hit growth, everyone will benefit. The consequences lead to an extremely complicated problem and every idea I have to solve the problem is pretty porous.
"There is no DRM in an MMO"

Thus explaining why people need to do things like patch the game and/or modify their hosts file in order to connect to third-party servers. If trying to authenticate the server you connect to and leaving you with no options for connecting to third party servers is not DRM, what would you call it?

"What stops you is the lack of them giving you the server software."

Nope, the protocols are reverse engineered and people create their own server software.
tldr: && has higher operator precedence than "and"

Significantly, "&&" > "=" > "and", which can lead to unintended results when refactoring "&&" --> "and"
Sounds great, sent you an email.
"In its first three weeks on sale, the game sold 2 million copies, according to Electronic Arts."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spore_(2008_video_game)

Unfortunately, the citation link is dead on the article. I don't know if this answers your question about commercial success. Maybe someone knows more about this data point in context of the industry.
$6 per piece is high for NYC if you plan on expanding here. You would do well here if you followed the seamless model and just provided the tech. Most of the time it is very difficult to understand dry cleaning staff over the phone.
So a competent employee who is a bore, is rude to coworkers, makes sexist/racist comments is fine. Okay.
SnapLogic: Making Connections at the Zuora Subscribed Roadshow
After reading the byline, that is what I expected this to be. I was a bit disappointed when I clicked the button and all I got was an animated gif.
The point was that they're not planning or interfering with production and consumption, merely passing along financing.
I.E.: why you should always use && instead of "and".
You must have misread my comment. I stated that the connecting pieces are the only hard part in generating such a cube, not that connecting pieces weren't used in the cube shown.

The next time you feel someone is in error, consider presenting your argument in a nicer tone. The use of "did you even" and "obviously" makes you seem like a dick.
Warning - that webpage tried to give my computer several types of herpes on page load.
Not for mistaken so much but if you can prove mal intent, yes there are penalties.
I've been laughing uncontrollably for over a minute now.

This is quite brilliant.
Another theory other than sbov's theory is that there is calculation done on the server side, but only for cities in a region not currently being played. As long as someone is playing in a region, the other cities are basically on rails, so nothing really changes for the players, but they still will correctly interact with cities currently being played.
Nah, all you need to do is have a number that alternates between 1 and 0 and it'll be close enough for all practical purposes.
zprezto, 'nuf said.
10k in a Backpack: What LookoutGaming Does To Recruit The Right Talent
It is somewhat interesting that an online multiplayer game is having more difficulties raising funding than Torment, a single player RPG.

Both seemingly have similar old school appeal, though the Planescape Torment audience is maybe slightly younger (5-8 years?) compared to fans of Ultima.

I'll admit, while I threw a good chunk of money at Torment, this Kickstarter is less appealing to me just because it is Online.

I also feel that there is some ambiguity over the vision of this game. The FAQ says this isn't an MMO , but you have online property you can buy and it has PvP? I am seriously confused as to the genre of this game. Confused people don't pledge.
Mycelial dev here..
full disclosure: Ive been working with guardian project on a few things including the Open Secure Telephony Network. This project and beta OSTN network are intended to test the capabilities of the telephony software available to us. It is our belief that private telephony is abundant, should be free, and ubiquitous. If you think so too, we invite you to download and test Spore... for SCIENCE!
That would be pretty funny if rather than just "Meow meow" the cat was advertising for animal shelters. You could be totally shameless and it would all be part of the joke.
Use SQLAlchemy.
I am only speculating here but the server may be verifying a client's simulation to prevent IAP/multiplayer cheating. (Who hasn't played the old SimCity games with infinite cash?)
Seeing "and" or "or" in Ruby code now leaps out at me with danger signs. I've decided it's just not worth it.
This is a nice effort. I'm probably in the tiny majority of people who have been using Vim for ~15 years but have never bothered with any customization or plugins (I'm also a philistine who uses the arrow keys for navigation).
There are countless games coming out that don't use draconian DRM. "The future of gaming" is a lot less monolithic than the two of you would suggest.
Jitsi 2.0
I wouldn't want to try and use cocaine to focus. While I've tried it once, I don't like the typical routes of administration, the lack of quality control, and financially, supporting the drug cartels.

The only drug I use regularly is caffeine, also (coffee) =).
Mobile Startup looking for Hustling Biz-Dev & Sales Interns
Eleven Theses on Clojure (2009)
I've never actually seen "and" or "or" in Ruby code. I very frequently see it in Perl code.
People are still putting up Google+ buttons?
Surely someone must be conspiring to steal the fruits of their labor and allocate it to the 1%

That's not necessary at all, and I think everybody knows it. The thing I think people often perceive as unfair is that there's a level of wealth beyond which you don't have to do anything at all, and you will continue to gain wealth - often at a rate that's much faster than people who do work very hard. I can see that feeling unfair. I tend to think in more pragmatic terms personally - I don't care too much if it's fair or unfair, I care more about whether it works (and on that, I'm undecided).
America needs a societal change. You cannot have a celebrity obsessed, self-serving, lazy, first-world problems obsessed, narcissistic society and believe that all the problems can be solved. I'm obviously making a rash generalization but have a look beyond your zip code. It sounds harsh but it is what I've seen as an outsider for the past ~8 years.
Stop Heroku
Not to start a language war, but this blog post demonstrates two things Python got right that Ruby got wrong.

First, in Python, there's only one way to express a boolean "and". The && operator is left out.

Second, this post demonstrates a danger of allowing assignment via '=' evaluate to an expression (granted with less weird precedence rules it wouldn't turn out as bad in this case).
demagoguery of the national debt as a result of excessive costs

If you look at government revenues as a percentage of GDP (your first link) over the last century, they've actually stayed within a fairly narrow window between 15%-20%. With the expiration of the "Bush Tax Cuts", they're up to average levels.

If you look at expenditures, historically they've hovered in the same range. Recently, they've climbed to over 24% of GDP.

How can you look at historical revenue AND expenditure levels and call the unsustainability of spending "demagoguery"?

We have a spending problem.
I saw Up In the Air, also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9N9OUDZM7c
> "So eventually keeping a game 'alive' starts generating negative money"

When a game nears that point, the publishers can theoretically push a patch that removes the "must be online" components and/or allows connection to self-run servers, so the community can keep it alive.

I'm aware of a few companies actually doing something like this. Years ago, Parallax/Outrage/Volition (of the Descent series) went out of their way to give the community the assets they'd need to keep the series alive.
This site shows up on HN front page every 2 days.
Me too. They should link to adoption shelters and such.

Just for fun, I typed WOOF WOOF, WOOOOOOOF, WOOF WOOF! into the chat box. There is a Kevin Smith joke that follows, but that's left as an exercise to the reader.

They missed a few joke opportunities. Here's hoping they keep adding to it.
Specify Connection Pool Size in Active Record
> When I first started learning Ruby, I was excited to discover that Ruby has the keywords and and or as boolean operators. I quickly got into the habit of writing all of my boolean statements with these, instead of the more conventional && and ||, because my code became so much readable

pry(main)> a = true && false

pry(main)> a = true and false

Hmm...I dunno, I don't think the latter is necessarily easier to read than the former. The use of the symbols helps, for me at least, to delineate between value/variables and operators. Those symbols aren't pretty but their ugliness can serve a purpose.

I don't mind using them in SQL, but only because SQL is case-insensitive and I can stick to the style of making all syntax uppercase.
Yes. My issue is that the unkindness towards this particular company (EA) comes in the form of a philosophical argument about why DRM is fundamentally broken.
Is that what the story suggests? My impression was that it concludes that the prof probably knew he was smuggling drugs, but was still doing it for his love interest?
I don't think he did. If I remember correctly, he said you - as an individual entrepreneur - should seek out markets where you will not have to compete.
Do you have an eta on that integration? That sounds very interesting and the type of service we are already researching.
You have one on your blog, for example.
PrivExec: Private Execution as an Operating System Service
> you can't con an honest man.

Unfortunately it's not true. There are a number of cons that apply towards people wanting to do the right thing (and usually mixing a bit of greed in as well), to make the pull twice as hard to resist.

Check out the Glim-dropper scam[1]. I've heard it described in multiple variations (diamond ring at a gas station, wallet on the street, etc). Importantly, the mark is both making money, and providing help to someone who needs it.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_confidence_tricks
sure would be great if nobody mentioned ninjas or zombies ever again
This is appearing in the upcoming IEEE S&P conference:
http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2013/program.html
Beyond that level of wealth, you can also lose incredible fortunes very quickly. That's probably more common than gaining without doing anything at all, don't you think?
I think someone pulled it off the frontpage already.
Flagged for spam b/c of new account and this sentence: "I'm wondering if there are ways to make to make money off the internet?"
This is basically the author finding out something in Ruby that was copied from Perl. E.g. it allows one to do:

$fh = open() or die("File did not open")

Instead of:

$fh = open()
die("File did not open") unless $fh
But they exist, and take a salary and benefits, do they not?
Needs autoplaying sound.
Show HN: Techendo - A Tech Show
Hi Everyone,

I've started a tech show called Techendo. It's just some startup guys from YC/Elsewhere that will be talking about things going on in the industry. It will be shot every other week and try to be as entertaining as possible while talking about tech and startup life.

I'd love to spotlight startups/projects, have guests on the show, and shoot some skits. It's still a work in progress, so if you want to help out or just give feedback, it would be great to have any help I can get.

Also, if you have topics you want us to talk about let me know.

Thanks for your help HN.

Check out our first episode here:
Techendo Episode 1 - Secret of the Droin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_JPD96XOPI
> We should understand that as a consequence of technology and an economy of ideas, the gap between the rich and the poor will likely increase from its already high-seeming levels. There is good and bad to this, but we should be careful not to legislate against it, which will hurt growth.

Oh, it was going so well, and then, BOOM!, the whole essay explodes into flames and plummets to the ground in a ball of fire and greasy black smoke.

Hey! Who's going to buy your startup product? Hint: it is NOT people who are working 25 hours per week at Walmart for $8/hour. Government action to put more money in those people's pockets and take it away from these people...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732466240457833...

...is purely beneficial for ANYONE who wants to do ANY sort of business with or in the United States. You can't charge $19.95/month to the whole population of North America (or whatever your made-up business plan shows) if they don't have $19.95/month to give you.
Matchist Meddling with Client Deals
Clickable: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_JPD96XOPI&t=0m0s
> And the internet is just a playground for the technological elite too

The internet is not a playground for the technological elite, not any more. It's a place where my mother in law trades baby pictures with my mother.

As internet use becomes ubiquitous in the real world, and the boundaries between "meat space" and internet space evaporate, the anarcho-idealism of the technological elite that got onto the internet early is evaporating too.

This is to an extent lamentable, but you can't expect the "wild west" to continue to exist after the land stops being the frontier. That isn't to say that anonymity isn't important, it is, but it's just one concern to be balanced against many.
I returned mine because the 3 nights I used it my phone was dead in the morning. The connection is very sensitive and if the phone slides a millimeter it loses the connection and you have to manually nudge it to gain the connection again.
I really like the blog article. You tried to cover a lot of ground, and I think you did a good job being objective. The analysis on growth of GDP was something I haven't seen presented in quite that way.

It got me thinking. Thanks!
Intel used to make posters available (back in the Pentium-II days) and they were really cool. I used to have one that I had to leave behind at a previous job.

In the current copyright environment, I'm not sure they could be made available. Which stinks, as just looking at them & trying to figure out what the sections did (ALU, cache, registers, etc) is sort of inspiring.

Intel, AMD, Freescale, etc. should partner up with art.com or someone else who can print out large posters (and ship them wrinkle-free) Maybe donate any profits to a engineering-for-teens program of some kind.
Avoid Drowning: Swim your way through a new code base
If you're using a connection pooler with Django — or really, anything SQL database related in Python — please be mindful that the Python DB API is implicitly transactional. That is, if you say:

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM users;

DBAPI says:

BEGIN;
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM users;

...and leaves the COMMIT or ROLLBACK of that transaction up to you.

Aside from the severe risk of resource leaks, that has implications for which pooling modes you can use. Particularly, you can't use statement-level pooling, and unless you're scrupulous about managing those implicitly created transactions, transaction-level pooling is pretty much the same thing as connection-level pooling.

Adjust your expectations accordingly, or turn on auto-commit.

(EDIT: clarification.)
Makes for an interesting blog post, I guess. But precedence for "&&" and "||" in Ruby are similar to precedence for "&&" and "||" in C, Java and others, and they are similar to precedence rules for "and" and "or" in Python. Precedence rules for "and" and "or" in Ruby are an anomaly not just in the Ruby world but in many (most?) mainstream languages.
It also appears to be instanced. After digging into the game info - it's not an MMO. Travelling between towns will be in a different mode/mechanic.

Hope crushed…
I just started looking at putting together a tutorial, so this is quite timely.

Would have been nice if it had a little more meat.

Thanks.
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Indeed, I might write a new version from a more technical standpoint. I can do a little bit of answering here and now, though. Pretty much every part of the process was home-grown. We track our own metrics with our tools, and the tutorial itself was made with pure JS and jQuery.
Calling it "Webvan for drycleaning" might not present the best image. :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webvan
Written in Obtvse ( style copied from Svbtle ) for dramatic effect?
It was an interesting experiment while it lasted, but I don't think they make sense.
How did I not know about this site...
They basically generate the SSL certificate for your domain for you. Their SSL CA partner (GlobalSign IIRC) is basically trusting them with it since they manage their certificate and the domain owner is trusting Cloudflare (this can also be checked in Whois). So you just activate SSL in the options and bam, your site works with SSL within a couple of minutes.

BTW: they use certificates with multiple SANs, so many different domains in the same certificate (and without SNI). This allows to terminate SSL on a single box for many different domains/customers. If you look at certificates details, you will see many unrelated domains in the SAN list.
Why I'm Mad at Apple
Were women unhappy with him?
Yikes! I never put that there. Sneaky Google... disables navbar
Regarding XP support; i'm not invested in this discussion, but the code has #defines for NETWARE[1], riscos[2], and even CRAY[3] in it... The last NetWare and RISC OS releases were (surprisingly to me) only 3 years ago, but surely XP is even now a much bigger deployment target? How often does the CRAY code get tested?

1. http://lxr.php.net/search?q=&defs=&refs=NETWARE&...

2. http://lxr.php.net/search?q=__riscos__&defs=&refs=&#...

3. http://lxr.php.net/search?q=CRAY&defs=&refs=&pat...
The publishing deal is we'll give an author 25% of what the publishers gets for an ebook which is 70% of the list price, or 17.5% of the list price, and your agent will take 15% of the 17.5% leaving an author with 14.875% of the books list price. And publishers only pay out the 14.875% twice a year. Even if a guy like Hugh who's sold hundred's of thousands of ebooks gets the same rate as everyone else. The upside of big publishers is they give you cash upfront which you don't have to payback, but your future royalities go to pay down the upfront cash.

Or you can self publish and recieve 70% of the books list price, and you also have to invest money in cover art, editing, marketing etc.

I currently have a MVP rolling right now to cut authors into the 30% that a retailer makes for selling a book that will be public in April.
you can be a competent solo developer and still leave a team strictly worse off with you than without. i've seen it happen - people who subtract so much by the sum of their bad interactions with people that it outweighs any value their work adds.
iOS isn't a full open computing environment, any simple interface is just as "intuitive", compare to android or WP8.
Ask HN: Can you help me find a certain web product?
Hi, everyone. Several months ago, I believe someone made a Show HN post about a startup that allows a person to submit a press release to more than 100 news sources at once. With this startup you fill out one form and pay a fee, and then the application submits your press release to lots of news sources at one time. Does anyone know the name of this product? Thank you so much!
Monit is another standard program, but I think these these things being compared are really not similar. Aren't upstart and systemd replacements for init.d runlevel scripts? While God & Monit make sure programs are running. I suppose there is overlap.
I notice that soft-tabs setting is a dropdown adjusting size. Does this not support a standard tab configuration?
LinkedIn Endorsements: Reputation, Virality, and Social Tagging (Strata'13)
The bases in Germany were certainly "necessary" after WWII, but 70 years later, do we still need so many and do they need to have so many personnel? Especially with all the "force multiplying" technology that's been developed since WWII.
These two things do not sound great together:

Nanoparticles carrying a toxin found in bee venom

developing a vaginal gel

I'm just sayin'...