skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The current knowledge of jellyfish intelligence is "we've figured out they have memories." Jellyfish are extremely simple creatures; the "brighter" ones are known for their ability to avoid obstacles. [1] These are not particularly sentient creatures.

[1] Coates et al. 2006 "The spectral sensitivity of the lens eyes of a box jellyfish" JEB
Dark matter reminds me of the ether.
In a Budget Gesture, Obama Will Return 5% of His Salary
We all know "Zuck Fader" is better
You're right. Judging from the recent releases and the upcoming ones, Lucasarts joins the likes of Bioware.
Exactly. There's no point being "functional" for the sake of functions. It's for the benefits this style brings, an important one being composability.
Yes - the origin of the name "MtGox" is "Magic: The Gathering Online Exchange"[0].

[0]https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=16982.0 (CTRL+F "Dude65535")
My thoughts exactly—minus the Appleverse, which to me, is still not good enough.

Not Good Enough—I want a subscription to all TV shows, delivered to my television when they air or after, on-demand, at any price. I will pay over $100 per month for this subscription, if it's a good user experience.

No one does this yet. Pirating is not a cheaper alternative, it is a higher quality alternative. People are still paying to pirate television, not because it's cheaper than cable, but because it is far better than cable.

Come on networks! Get with it. People want this.
Top contender for "worst publicity"
I agree with Estel. What you have written here is no reflection of the reality I grew up in.

There weren't a lot of games. There were just under 1000 NES games for both the US AND Japanese market (combined), and the total clocks in at about 200MB in size. The 30+ games you saw were probably the entire library of unique games for the platform.

The games we had yesteryear sucked. Really, really sucked. Most of them were bare derivatives of each other. For every Super Mario Bros. 3 there were 5 clones of Arkanoid. The controls were bad, the artwork was bad, the framerates were bad. We just didn't know they sucked because we didn't have better games yet. Look at some of the best games on the market back then, games like Megaman or Star Fox, and they are are only popular as nostalgia pieces today. I don't consider Golgo 13 or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the NES; PilotWings or DOOM on the SNES; Driver or Grand Theft Auto 3 on the PlayStation; to be anything close to playable games today, but I remember playing all of them for hours and liking it, because that was really all we knew.

And the games were not cheap. The NES retailed at $300 in the US when it debuted in 1985. That'd be almost $650 today. Super Mario Bros. 3 (the pinnacle of the series, IMO) debuted in 1990 at a price point of $60--over $105 in today's dollars. Chrono Trigger on the SNES debuted at $80 in 1995--over $120 today. I remember paying $70 for Yoshi's Cookie in 1992 (because I was 10 and that was all the Christmas money I had and I really, really wanted. My mother and I played it together for hours. It was great). That'd be $115 today for a puzzle game I could rewrite in a weekend now. I don't know what you're talking about with "$5 games".

You're praise of Sega Channel just further underscores that you were probably too young to understand money back in this time. It was $15/mo in 1994 when the only subscription services anyone had were telephone and TV cable (and you were "rich" if you had cable). I remember my father freaking out over a $20 telephone bill one month in the 90s: I regularly pay almost $100/mo for my cellphone today. The downloads constantly failed and you could only play the games for an hour before they reset.
Given the recent trends in Bitcoin values, yesterday's spare change was today's real money.
In general, yes.

Before a grand jury, you don't have as many rights as you do otherwise.
(For example, they can use evidence obtained illegally)
You could try selling it via Apptopia http://www.apptopia.com/
"There are only two hard problems in Computer Science:
cache invalidation and naming things."

-- Phil Karlton

Always helpful to see how someone else is solving the problem at scale.
Ask HN: What are some current crypto-currencies?
What other crypto-currencies are there besides Bitcoin? Similarly, what are some of the well-established websites on which users can buy/sell the currency?
At this point the onus seems to be on the asm.js-specific-optimizations-aren't-needed crowd to show that they can get performance that's even remotely close to optimized asm.js when using only non-asm.js-specific optimizations. If so, yeah, implement that! That'd be the best of all possible worlds; but it seems unlikely that loosely-constrained language X is as optimizable (with a roughly similar amount of resources) as tightly-constrained language Y. To my understanding, it's not a matter of current JavaScript engines needing to be "fixed" so much as just that they operate on a different class of problems than asm.js optimizers do, and thus the range of possible achievements is different, too.
If you see mention of "typestate" in Rust, the discussion is probably so far out of date as to be useless in learning Rust as it is now.
I'm amused by that joke even though I managed to read GEB twice in the 1980s. I've seen more people try & bounce off of it than make it through. It takes patience and tenacity.
Why big companies didn't jump into open data but will open APIs
Minecraft.

I win.
There have been quite a few games in the Humble Bundle that are commercial failures, having sold thousands of copies on Steam, etc. instead of millions. In those cases the Humble Bundle is often the biggest revenue source for those developers, enough to fund the creation of new games.
I probably could have used this recently when I had a project which required a close encounter with extracting data from PDFs. Fortunately the PDFs were generated as a report by a VB6 application (!) so they had a fairly regular format once I figured out the quirks of PDF, as the authors describe here.

I did learn a few neat tricks by doing it myself though. The library I used to extract the text was none other than Mozilla's own PDF.js, so in the final version my users could just drag and drop the PDF onto the browser window, and my little algorithm parsed the tables into arrays, with AngularJS rendering them as HTML tables.

Obviously computer-vision assisted, general purpose reconstruction of tabular data is the secret sauce in this project, but if you have the right use case you can do some cool things in the client. You do have to dig into the PDF.js internals a bit to figure out how to use it but I'm sure that it will improve in that respect.
not suggesting this is what happened as it's the first time i even hear about them.

but i've seen people do worse illegal risk/reward decisions before. much worse.
Just imagine how many "analysts" work for Reuters et al.
Here's one way to think of it. Suppose you're working on a new product, and you have to decide whether to spend 30 hrs or 60 hrs / week on it, over the next two years.

If the difference is between failure in the first case, and success in the second case, then it's either a bad product, or you're bad at planning. If you work half as much, then maybe it will have less features, but a good product should still be viable. And everyone knows predicting how your software will adhere to a schedule is impossible, so the chances are good you wouldn't even get it to work at 60 hrs/wk.

Obviously, an order of magnitude difference in effort should produce a qualitative difference in your product. You can't replace ten good programmers' time with just one.

But picking startup ideas that require you to be working 80 hours a week, is just bad planning -- it's waaaay too risky. When you live in a first world country, and are doing this out of choice (not survival), it's insane to sacrifice your health like that.

If an idea is really good and really sustainable, truly a good business idea, then there are much healthier ways of finding success than working 80 hours weeks -- finding partners, networking better to get investment, etc.

I'm not advocating anything silly like a 4-hour workweek. I'm just advocating realistic expectations, realistic risk management, and realistic work-life balance.

You might get hit by a car two years from now. You don't want to have neglected all the wonderful things in life, like relationships and experiences with people, in exclusive pursuit of a startup over those two years. Even not getting hit by a car, there's a large chance your startup will fail. Don't throw away your life in complete pursuit of a single thing -- healthy balance is key.
And, in the past decade, we've seen the web browsers make significant leaps in security and capabilities. I'm happy to have more of the same.
The hashing is not for security though, so why not keep a store of your hash + key. Again, added overhead but you wouldn't have to hash twice and you could just use the mapping table for debugging, rather than in operational code at the expense of resources.
April fool's day is past...come on people.
Work smarter, not harder.

One of the things I quickly learned when I started working from home was that if I listened to my body, I was massively more productive when I was at my desk.

Tired? Go nap. Restless? Go run. Stuck in a rut? Go hang out with a friend or play a video game or watch a movie or find something to get your focus off your work.

I found that I could work more and be more productive simply by stopping working when my body(/brain) said "hey, quit". We're not built for 8-5 shifts.
Your list could get pretty big, but I think it's a decent idea.

Some merchants don't give a shit, AKA "it's your own fault if you get robbed," but lots of people don't like to help thieves.

It's been a while since I looked at the protocol -- can you "reject" a payment? Or return it?
"Modulo illness. They are both currently coming down with something and it's going to wipe out at least two working days."

After kids, there is no time to be sick. You need to save sick days for the kids. :-)
The same ID appears in all the different forms of the Amazon links: 0596517742
What’s the Best Data Modeling Tool?
So far no commenter has mentioned that this piece appeared in The Baffler, where Aaron Swartz was a contributing editor.

The announcement of Swartz joining The Baffler was previously linked here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3298445

While Morozov's essay to some may appear to be coming out of left field, it's actually appearing in a venue that takes ethical concerns in relation to technological innovation quite seriously as evidenced by whom it associates with.
I'm not Zuckerberg
Well, entertainment industries are always a bit like that. Same with startups in general.

It's just that you hear more about the losers when they are multi-billion dollar publicly trader companies.
there's no reason for this
This year at the Game Developer Conference, Chris Hecker had an entirely wordless rant about the state of creativity in the AAA space, essentially using AAA's PR to point out how little real innovation is happening in that space. [1] It's received quite a bit of attention and agreement in the industry.

[1] http://chrishecker.com/Fair_Use
Michael Arrington’s Abuse Allegations: ‘Worst Kept Rumor In The Valley’
Can we stop with the seemingly hourly Bitcoin status updates already?
Did they follow a road paved with good intentions?
If it was intentional a more informative error should have been used. I'm sure the ops team at mtgox is quite experienced but these basic errors pages seem like a big oversight once you are running a fairly high trafficked site.
NXDOMAIN is hijacked on Virgin Media for sure, unless you are using some other DNS. I haven't noticed them injecting ads though.
Most jellyfish are barely even animals, many are in fact several colonies of highly interdependent species that happen to work together in the form of a jellyfish. As long as you feed them and keep them warm/cold/lit/dark as appropriate to the species you have, it's no worse than having a pet plant.

Cephalapods on the other hand are significantly more intelligent that previously though, and therefore unless you could provide a sizable (like med-large house sized) enclosure for several of them... Don't keep cephalapods.
Recognizable titles did that, sure, but you could grab a used copy for less than half of that, and I recall buying plenty of games for under $24 new.

Counter Strike for me counts as a childhood game, though. I was early teens when it came out and I played it on the order of thousands of hours. It was developed by a relatively small player, Sierra, who also had some other awesome games I enjoyed prior to that, and the game was initially awesome.

I enjoyed everything up to and including 1.3, and even dabbled in competitive play. I've played every version of CS since and nothing is even comparable to versions 1.3 and below. I guess all good things must come to an end, and while I really hoped to see the efforts behind cs promod take off, nobody really advertised it (it was a re-packaged v1.3 when 1.6 and later source were basically killing the competitive scene).
It's the same in France. Simple. No arguments, no stress, no fuss.

The complexity in the US tax law is largely due to the kickbacks inherent in the system. People donate money to congressmen, who shove favorable tax clauses into legislation.

The result is a tax system even the IRS can't understand.
I have filed as a 1099 independent contractor for years and I resent the time wasted on filing taxes. Of course we have stopped to consider what might be better, it's a regular topic at election time. The reality is that a lot of people have a vested interest in exploiting the current inefficiency and invest money in keeping it that way. Change is possible, but it's going to cost.
For me running my own development business gives me the problem of; 1) finding the work, 2) doing the work, 3) manage meta stuff like tax etc.

I'm not a sales guys so for me finding the work is really something that is out of my comfort zone. However, when I finally do get the work it's usually heads down because this client want's it yesterday. So while you're heads down there is no finding work being done. This can become problematic and a downward spiral if you don't actively conscious of it.
I think I could do a pretty good job keeping wallets secure. But it would need to be a full-time job, not a side project, and it would need a big budget.

You don't bootstrap a bank.

(Plus I did some basics with Bitcoin a few years ago and got pissed off at the protocol and moved onto less annoying things.)
I doubt HN implements it, but this explanation would make sense: to prevent people from easily masquerading as other users, the system forbids the existence of user names that are too similar to each other (e.g. in edit distance)

Ideally, 'too similar' would use some smart metric that knows that a l looks like an I or a 1, an O like a 0, etc.

It certainly should disregard letter casing, as humans are good at ignoring it, too.

You would still have to enter your exact username, though, as your username with a few changes could be closer to another username. For example, is Gertug a double typo for gertig or for GerdaG?
Perhaps we could just get rid of income taxes altogether? No forms, no fuss. Instead, just have a sales tax. Income credits could be used for any social welfare issues.
> Go does have green threads with M:N scheduling, which is a significant feature of Erlang.

And Go also has integers, a significant feature of C...

Goroutine's semantics and implementation are nothing like Erlang's processes: the latter are shared-nothing, preempted, monitorable and messageable whereas goroutines are shared-memory cooperative black holes.

Basically, the one and only commonality is that they're mapped M:N on OS threads, which is on par with comparing a wheelie bin and a CAT 797F on grounds that they both have 4 wheels.
If this was happening on a 56k modem over a phone line it would clearly be wire tapping. I encouraged the op in another post, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5484850, to contact the FBI. If you see a downside to this let me know, but until I realize one, or have one pointed out I encourage you to do so.
Frankly, more complex tax systems are fine if most people don't have to do the calculations themselves
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay-as-you-earn_tax
Did you give them your license, though? That seems to trip every single "identity theft" alarm I have.
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this is neat. i'm also doing pdf rasterization and pretty extensive document analysis in html5 <canvas>, not just tables. unfortunately it's for an internal tool which will likely form the core of our business but the base library i wrote and use for it is open sourced at https://github.com/leeoniya/pXY.js

tute and demos are here: http://o-0.me/pXY/ , some recent commits like radial scanning aren't documented very well yet but i'll devote some time to it if anyone needs those. they're mostly useful for interactive analysis.

with some creative algorithms, typed arrays and web workers the speed is pretty amazing (for something built in js at least). a 1550x2006 pixel document page analyzes in 1.1s in chrome.
My fav is Look to Windward, but you needed to be entrenched in the world to get a lot out of that book.

I still haven't been able to make myself finish Matter yet.
> Every time it gets simpler to file, it also becomes simpler to add more taxes and people don't notice the difference.

Can you point out a time where complicated tax forms prevented a new tax, or are we just saying it's better for people to bitch about every tax they have to pay instead of just some of them? Basically I can't see where this statement could come from.
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Well yes, that is basically what happens. It was actually the UK Ministry of Treasury that said in a statement, that after you give money to a banker "that money is for all intentions and purposes owned by the banker. The banker is now in your debt and should repay his debt upon your request. He is, however, free to invest that money however he wishes, as long as he is able to repay all the debts".

But as we all know, sometimes investments(high-risk loans especially) sometimes don't pan out and the banker literally cannot pay you back.

There is a EU law that says that a bank needs to always have enough money to repay the first 100 thousand euros to each of its customers - but there is no such guarantee for any amount above this, so if a bank goes bankrupt you won't get anything above 100k, until the bank regains financial stability or its possessions are sold and debtors payed off.
For a nice exposition on how to do some really neat distributed joins that make even more interesting use of hashing / bloom filters, this exposition by Edward Kmett is a nice read: http://comonad.com/reader/2008/linear-bloom-filters/
Canada gets serviced fast compared to the rest of the world.

In (most of) Europe, Rdio has little impact. Same goes for iTunes video. Netflix and Amazon digital are still missing.

iTunes Music is the only exception, but only because of the full weight of Apple and the tie-in with Apple's playback devices.

Canadian bitching about US services being unavailable is a bit of joke if you consider the rest of us are still waiting for Netflix for over a decade. There aren't even any decent alternatives because the copyright mafia makes it impossible.
So you want to open a bank account but you don't want to identify yourself?
Maybe use the knowledge accumulated in the charity sector to raise awareness. Present personal stories, with cases that people can relate to. Help people understand how copyright laws affect individuals, not corporations, or this vague notion of culture. And, aligned with the common good premise, try to tell stories of very diverse individuals.

And, please, go find real individuals actually affected directly by these laws, not generic stereotypes.
Er, I wasn't trying to claim that the system behaves more intelligently. The performance degradation is just an emergent consequence of gradually adding more nodes to the routing tier. This post might be useful for some context: http://aphyr.com/posts/277-timelike-a-network-simulator
That can't be serious.
Hi rianelli, if you don't mind I'd love to take you up on your offer and bounce some questions off of you. I can be contacted at hn.torvid at recursor.net

Thanks!
I'm more interested in mining them. Is it too late to start jumping on the BTC train ? Do you need special processors? Last I remember, you could still mine Bitcoins using GPUs.
Because $mynewbitcoinservice will realize, "whoa, we should make sure we are hack-proof," and then use HTTPS to make sure they are hack-proof.
Is there a downside about notifying the FBI of this? I encouraged the op to do so in another post, encouraged. If this was happening on a 56k modem over a phone line it would clearly be wire tapping.

I do not see any downsides to contact the FBI about the matter, if you think of any please let me know.
Oh, I've been using EC2 + S3 for five years (2007). I was looking in to the newer stuff (beanstalk, dynamodb).

Please add your feedback to the details pads so other people can use it in the future. That is why I posted it on hackpad and not my blog.

EDIT: thanks for the feedback.

Sorry if I wasn't clear of the purpose. I don't love the Amazon documentation and wish people would use Hackpad instead because it would be more up to date.

This is my effort to bootstrap that step by providing and overview and details rather than googling old blog entries ever time I want to setup EC2 with ubuntu.
North Korea Blocks Workers From South at the Border
Building Faster Mobile Websites [pdf]
Linux Command Line: Day 1: Unix and Linux, an Introduction
I stumbled upon this lecture series and found it really helpful.
Fairtax.org
Redditor invests $30,000 life savings in bitcoin a month ago when it was $25
Hah, great catch!
5k+ using jQuery but only 3k+ using JavaScript?
The question is how much capital is required to start. At the moment, you need to either be a huge corporation or (like Tesla) market yourself well and get a ton of investors to start making cars.

If the price of building a small factory dropped enough, maybe your local library/school would have an open factory space where people go to print custom cars.

If you don't want a custom car, it'd probably be cheaper to buy one though (partially because the availability of such printing would force manufacturers to drop prices).
You do enter into agreement (usually), but do you have a valid contract when using those connections?
That's what happens to all the gambling sites
Sure, but it's all independent now. They used to be small game studios with the resources to push out high quality games at a pretty rapid pace. I'm not saying the people building indie games today aren't talented, but some of them spend years polishing a single title, only to have it make a few hundred K, with a few massive outliers (Braid, Minecraft, Binding of Isaac, etc).

I remember playing crappy games back then, too, but so much more of it felt like today's indie scene. It's like some big business machine marched in and bought all the "pro" talent to produce the same few games over and over again on different engines, while everyone who gives a shit about actually building fun, innovative games just started their own few-person ventures.
The bar chart is sortable, but the table isn't, as far as I can tell.

Also the default sorting for compensation isn't that good. It should be in numerical order, but it's in some sort of alphabetical order.
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Maybe about 2.000 people don't know jQuery IS JavaScript...
Bitcoin Plunges By Nearly $30 As Largest Market Suffers Outage