skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you'll take his word at face value, the father didn't really have any motives aside from making his daughter happy.

"My three year old daughter and I play a lot of old games. Her favorite is Donkey Kong. Two days ago, she asked if she could play as the girl and save Mario. She's played as Peach in Super Mario Bros. 2 and naturally assumed she could do the same in Donkey Kong. I told her we couldn't in that particular Mario game, she seemed really bummed out by that. So what else can I do? I'm up at midnight hacking the ROM, replacing Mario with Pauline."
is it related to http://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/pr6423-12 and the subsequent collapse in volume http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/e0c9eea0-7ae4-11e2-915b-00144... ?
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Exactly. I remember the days when Infocom called their text adventures interactive fiction.
While they are not equivalent, they serve to achieve similar goals, and it's fair to compare one to the other. Github may be better, but it's not the point. People will be using github to do the same stuff they used to do on SourceForge. Where's the innovation?
Anyone saw this dotdotdot app before? Anyone tested?
It's booming in some circles, millions a month probably:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Category:Gambling

sealswithclubs.eu should be mentioned here too.
I have a friend who works as a QA tester on this Sim City EA game. He's demoralized about his job. I can see other employees getting pissed off enough to post on Reddit.
I don't think your argument is inconsistent with the argument you're countering. There is room for both emulation-enhancement of analogue instruments - a very useful function and one which the makers of this seaboard seem to be leaning towards - and the creation of brand new instruments through synth (and new interfac) technology. Indeed these two functions come closer together as we create new interface-noise style hybrids.

Additional points of interest which do not affect your actual argument, but which are good for clarification: the most responsive pipe organs use tracker action, which being mechanical allows much more control than the more "modern" but less responsive electropneumatic actions necessary for the very largest instruments. IT makes the action from pressing key to opening the pipe faster - much of the latency in the organ is often in the pneumatics - but of course cannot change the distance issues.

also Attack makes a huge difference to the sound on a well-voiced instrument, and this makes a huge difference. Subtleties in duration are of course also as vast on the Organ as they are with the piano and other instruments.
I assume the 8% commission average would then be being split with the user?
Running anything with an affiliate model is though and getting tougher. Some people running that are essentially spam do well but the higher quality stuff ran by a small team or individual is struggling, from where I see it anyway.

Edit: Out of interest: your best customers, how were they mostly generating commission? Quality Content? Personal Networks? Existing Traffic?
I'm pretty sure I am free to dismiss your contribution "simply" because you don't know what you're talking about.

But let's not get caught in the weeds here; I don't think you're correctly conveying the level of certainty with which we understand quantum mechanics. There's a ton we don't have the slightest idea about in this area of science, so let's not forget that.
I'd never thought of that, but yes, the lowest of the high-pressure reed pipes do sound later on the Organ, and you do have to allow for that. And at the bottom of the cello. Well, remarkable the things I'd not consciously noticed all these years of playing!
Yup, Crystal Nights by Greg Egan

http://ttapress.com/553/crystal-nights-by-greg-egan/
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Nice! Good luck with the pivot. We just went through one and are pleased. Sometimes coming out of something like YC is like being a child star. You don't really get the chance to grow up normally. It's all bright spotlights. Given we didn't come out of anything like YC we didn't have that one extra layer of pressure.
Whoa.

There is a huge gap between my disagreeing with clearly sexist based policies and saying that sexism, even so called benevolent sexism is a bad thing, and your claiming I am misogynistic or that my point of view is insane, or even idiotic.

That I do not agree with any form of sexism makes me egalitarian, not misogynistic. You are way out of line, bub.

And while I do not know Danilo Campos or whether he/she is eager to grasp the role you assign, the notion there is some person whose role it is to police the discussions at Hacker News to whack people with sticks that disagree with him is well, downright creepy.

Not a way to run a discussion forum if one is interested in dialogue, and conversation.
Streak as in my CRM/Deal flow Gmail add on? Power user. I'm worried now that our deal flow is increasing in depth and complexity and we have more outside interest if I'll have to ditch it for something "more complete" (reporting/analytics) I think you should keep it brutally simple like you do but how do you tackle that issue? Is that the "Premium Plan coming soon"?
This is what is called a false dichotomy. I could for example point out that Dennis Richie gets more attention than say… Norman Borlaug.

Life and dying is not a competition.
Not to rain on the parade of this post (I'm in support of more people learning to scrape, and more services out there giving us easier to access data). I'm someone who loves web scraping, but I'm also someone who believes that if you don't know what the library is doing, you shouldn't be using it.

You can give a brief overview of how to use it and what to look for in the page to extract from, but you're giving a very simple cheat sheet to people that may not understand HTML (trust me they exist... unfortunately). As soon as your example breaks, or they reach a limitation with the library, they are going to throw their arms in the air and deem the library broken, or the task impossible to do because the example said it would work. The only reason I'm writing this is that I know of these sorts of people, I deal with them on a regular basis, and I have to explain to them every time to look at what they are doing on a lower level to get a better understanding of their problem to find the solution.

These sorts of people will stumble across this article after their bosses told them "We need to pull Company X's product information into our sales screens so that we can compare the competitions prices while making our price adjustments". Knowing that they don't even have a clue on how to do that, they will Google for it and retrieve this article. With no experience, and an boss behind them, they will just blindly use it and pray that it works, but due to their inexperience with the subject at hand they will fail.

Sorry to be so negative, I just had to say that. It's the same as any other tutorial out there, just Scraping is something that I feel you need to know what you're doing before you do it.

Personally, I write my own scrapers from scratch (or using libraries I have written over time to make certain aspects less painful) for years. I know, I know, there is a myriad of ready-to-go libraries out there that will do the same thing and probably better for me, but where's the challenge. Sure if you're time restricted, then go forth and grab a library and start scraping, but please at least try to understand what you are doing at a lower level.
It's nice to see the difference between someone who sees something wrong and actually does something about it just because and someone who asks the Internet for money and deliver a video 9 months later.

Also, for something that took 9 months and loads of money, there isn't really anything new there that hasn't been said before.
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It's trivial to fight. Just raise the amount that the first-level registrar pays ICANN to something like $10/year. ICANN gets a huge pile of money and speculative domain squatting becomes, with rare exceptions, uneconomic.

Domains probably get more expensive for the rest of us, but I can live with that.
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See I think it is the end goal and it's going to replace CDs and iTunes really soon. I personally don't like Spotify but Rdio and Mog are incredible. And to have the major labels pulling the strings, which sounds like is happening, is probably a really bad thing.
It's very much the Nigerian letter as you said b/c it's definitely preying on the weak or naive. I've gotten 100+ of these just in the past 3-4 years for my company and they are all bad deals. Is it a scam? I don't know. I've followed up by phone with the first one that came one. We were fundraising at the time and I didn't know any better. You will get 1 a month then 2 a month then 4 a month as you grow. "Business capital" is the key phrase they all use.
It's kind of hard to overuse something the first time you do it...

That said, I think that the "overuse" and the reasons for it in this case is in the mind of the beholder. Are we just calling this into question because it's now hip to call anything and everything to question on the grounds of some percieved slight to gender "equality"? Or are we having a larger conversation about the overuse of specific tropes in general in media?
The right answer - won't stop another 500 HN music industry threads alas.
furthermore, a non-fretted instrument such as the cello, violin, fretless bass etc does give you good haptic feedback.
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Donkey Kong was written by Shigeru Miyamoto, a junior developer who came from a product design background.

How's that for deep-pocketed corporation? :-)
Plus timeline: the Curiosity software was being written starting in 2005(?) and completed in 2008.[1] WindRiver released its first version of linux in 2005... and that was its "Platform for Network Equipment", not a suitable candidate for Curiosity's RTOS.[2] It wasn't until 2007 that they acquired FSMLabs and thus acquired an embedded real time linux (RTLinux). [ibid]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Mars_Science_Labora...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_River_Systems#Wind_River_L...
Sourceforge is to GitHub as Friendster is to Facebook.

Yes, they are kinda the same idea, but GitHub realized that the social element was key, and managed to create a community around open source the way that sourceforge never did (and, I would argue, didn't even know to do).
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Rigidly defined gender roles.
It can be, with some games (Zork, GTA4, Bioshock) a lot more than others (Pong, Tetris, Tic-tac-toe, Chess). At the extreme end of games-as-literature is the Interactive Fiction world, which has been dealing with how the 'literature' and the 'game' aspects interact for decades now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_fiction

Read this essay for an introduction to the concepts:

http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/info/Craft.Of.Adventure....
> We would never vote up a article where "father writes bedtime story for daughter, Sleeping Prince rescued by Princess". Because it is commonplace because literacy is commonplace, as are pens and paper commonplace and as are the legal frameworks to be allowed to alter the published version.

It's also _considerably_ easier.
If you read the quoted sections further:

The proposed gTLD will provide Google and its Network with the ability to customize domain and website name application offerings to signal to the general population of Internet users that .app websites are indeed managed by Google. The specialization goal of the proposed gTLD is to extend the Google brand and reputation to each .app second-level domain. This specialization provides a mechanism by which Google and its Network can easily link and manage their applications and related services. This specialization makes it clear to Internet users that this is the authoritative and designated space where they can find Google’s and its Network’s applications offered in association with the Google brand and accessible via differentiated and streamlined web addresses.

So all .app domains would be Google branded? That hardly bodes well for "all mobile applications on other platforms".
Why do people insist on foisting "software literacy" on the general populace? In terms of skills, financial planning, cooking, interpersonal skills are all more essential than reading and writing code.

The writing analogy is off anyways: not everyone can write very well. People would upvote -and buy- a children's story by, say, neil gaiman. This is not the equivalent of a throwaway story made up on the spot.
I hope you understand that global usage is totally relevant, when as a web developer you don't have a specific audience to target.

Can you elaborate on usage stats of "public businesses" and where you got those from?

If you have usage stats on your audience, then use them. Otherwise, go with the global usage, or at least your country/continent.
Impressive!

Is there a reason you decided to implement a WebGL UI, instead of using HTML for the user interface elements?

Is native browser compositing too slow with multiple HTML elements on top of the WebGL canvas?
The primary association most Americans have with sit ins is the civil rights movement, but it seems likely that almost all cases where someone refuses to leave an establishment after being asked to leave by the manager the person is being an asshole, exactly like the average DDoS'er.

The default assumption when you see someone unwilling to leave a bar is not that they are noble, and neither should it be the default assumption for a DDoS. That said, I don't think it is reasonable to say no DDoS could ever be noble, just that the vast majority of the time it is just someone being an asshole.
> If you'll take his word at face value, the father didn't really have any motives aside from making his daughter happy.

But the author is dead, so we're bound to analyze this in terms of Theory and come to actual conclusions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_the_Author

(Whether I'm being sarcastic is entirely up to you.)
What exactly was intrade?
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Yes, that Streak. So that we don't derail this topic shoot me an email omar@streak.com and we can take the discussion there.
Neither one could have done what the other did, and trying to downplay what one did to pump up the other is really not fair to either of them.
Up to a point. Most of your argument I love, but The pipe organ was developed to make sounds, music of its own and particularly to accompany choirs, not emulate them. It wasn't really until the Victorian era that the orchestral organ was a thing, with stops deliberately created to emulate and even replace orchestra sounds (some fairly realistically, especially with the clarinet and flute families for obvious reasons). Pipe organs are excellent at both analogue simulation and their own sounds and performance! And, no two of them are the same, most remarkably.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction_market
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrade
Miyamoto certainly wrote the story behind the game, but he had help with the rest...

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/134790/the_secret_hist...
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Perhaps thats part of the issue. Next time someone tells you about their Instagram clone, laugh at them. An alternative to government intervention is a cultural shift, a change in what society holds in high regards. If we all start laughing at clones, people might stop making them.
Yeah, so by that standard you are evil.

Here's how you call someone evil:

"You are evil."

There! Massive simplification! We don't need to read between the lines and feed our paranoia.
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To be fair, Google did not get this either; this deal does not give them the power to sublicense H.264 royalty-free.

It gives Google the power to license VP8 to others without fear of patent suits from the MPEG-LA. But VP8 was already Google's codec to license. And they have spent years claiming it was not patent encumbered.

So basically it looks to me like Google is paying to do something they always claimed they could do anyway.
Totally agree about flaming out hard. I wrote [1] after my last startup failed. It was actually two months between when it failed and when I could face actually writing it. However, it's professionally one of the best things I ever did.

[1] http://blog.paulbiggar.com/archive/why-we-shut-newstilt-down...
They could have left the product/site/branding alone, and hired a part time marketer to push it.
Thanks for sharing the link, I am glad that you both liked it! :D

as you might know, Technically it's really hard to determine the main logo element in any web page, since HTML coding styles differ from site to another, and there is no standard for such a case.

So to overcome this issue I made some assumptions on how can I find the logo element ( the dance Starter element ).

I assumed logically that I should find the keyword "logo" in 3 possible Locations on a visible HTML Element
1- in the "id" attribute.
2- in the "class" attribute.
3- in the "src" attribute of an html <img /> tag.

if I found any, I will simply get the First element found.

But for some websites non of the assumptions will be correct, for this case, I wrote a simple brute-force like solution to try to find an element that is currently visible on the screen view area and has a size between ( 40x80 and 380x380 ), again I assumed the size range here since the logos are usually in this range; based on a simple test that I made.

And I didn't include elements smaller than 40x80 because animating a small element alone is not as cool as a larger one.

So apparently for Hacker News' website, all of my logo finding assumptions failed... I fixed it by adding a code block that handles special cases based on the domain name, and that's by specifying hard-coded jQuery Selectors :)

So it should work fine now, try it again here: http://bit.ly/ZcxOIc
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How would you responsibly disclose proof that p=np?
suppose you find a proof that p = np, and with it, a simple process for solving np-complete problems. given that such a process would allow you to break all kinds of cryptographic protocols, how would you responsibly make this proof public? or would you?

if you announce that you have a proof, and provide evidence that you do, you're saying something like "in one week i will provide all computer users with a skeleton key that can open any lock" - what manner of chaos would ensue?

if you go to a trusted authority, which authority do you go to?

this sort of thing keeps me up at night.
I didn't say Nintendo, at the time Donkey Kong was created, had already overused the "damsel in distress" trope. What I said was of the set of games Nintendo has developed or published in the past 30-odd years that ostensibly demonstrate their overuse of the "damsel in distress" trope, Donkey Kong was the first.
Ah, gotcha. I just misread the first sentence.
Organic social shares drive real traffic, but everything I've spent on fb ads has been a complete loss and grossly underperformed all other internet mediums that I've tested.

Someone needs to get the goal posts moving over there...or wait, we have another newsfeed update for better photos --ads.
This is probably easier for a computer to crack than a well-built traditional CAPTCHA. Recognizing a pre-defined small set of images (the chess pieces) and performing a search for the winning move seems much easier than beating the image distortions in CAPTCHAs with OCR modifications.
I totally agree with you that there are many problems here. I have also seen the research on male literacy and numeracy rates, and agree with you that there's a problem there that needs to be tackled.

That does not invalidate this problem.

And back to my original point: even if the problem of women in tech were solved, I still don't see the beef with having events held for particular subgroups of people. There's no cost here. Nobody is disadvantaged if we have a Geek Girls night, or a Gay Coder Hackathon, or the Left Handed Sysadmin Support Group.

Equality of opportunity is one thing, forcing everybody into the same cookie-cutter mould and insisting we all do the same things with the same people? Ick.
Write a paper, get it peer reviewed in a reputable math/compsci journal (preferably math).

I'm not kidding
10% week over week on a key metric or you're failing?

jesus, stop talking to private equity
I used Delphi for a 16-bit Windows game ages ago. However I skipped all of the UI builder stuff (which is the primary reason you'd want to use it in the first place) and coded directly against the Windows API, with the help of some inline asm.

So why not just use C? There were good reasons. In 1992 C/C++ compilers on the PC were slow -- pre-compiled headers were still mysterious -- and Delphi's handwritten compiler and integrated linker made the edit/compile/run cycle very very fast. It made small, fast, completely stand-alone (no MSVCRT.DLL or anything) binaries -- a feature which still supposedly makes it popular with malware authors.

The UI builder was excellent and perfect for knocking off one-off tools like the terrain generator described above. As long as you stuck to Windows, of course.

I don't know if I would necessarily go back though. While I sometimes miss some of Pascal's features like ranged types and sets (and bounds checking on arrays) the performance advantages of the specific Borland implementation have become less important, and there are other contenders that cover a bigger problem space than the delta between Pascal and C.

BTW, here's where Google Trends says Delphi is popular nowadays: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=delphi&cmpt=q
Scrapy is awesome and we have been using it without any problem so far.
The main rule to remember is that a journalist, even if they behave in a friendly manner, is not your friend.

Everything you say to a journalist is, by default, publishable. Stuff that is in a normal context clearly meant to be kept private is not private. The journalist will publish it if there's a good story.

So don't make lame jokes, they will be published. Don't waffle, it will be published. Before you talk to a journalist, know what you intend to say and say it. There's no obligation on you to do any more than that.
Nice, can you go ahead and watch that 1:20 minute talk again to find out where someone says something that will back you up.
To be clear, I'm saying if you have never hit it you are in trouble - not that you have to hit it every week. For example, if even on your PR day (launch, etc) you didn't hit 10% growth for that week then I'd worry (this does happen).
"The theory is that many of us rarely or never touch the earth with bare skin, and certainly not for extended periods of time. This leads to a build up of positive electrons in the body from electrical energy, electromagnetic frequencies, WI-FI and more. The earth acts as a ground, just as it does for electrical outlets, reducing the extra positive charge."

Is this asserttrue leaking through again?
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