skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gold was also deflationary, when it was used as a medium of exchange, so you can't say that "Economists' understanding of deflation is based on government-controlled currencies, where manipulations are expected."

Well, you can, but you'd be wrong.
Who ever said that it was better?

No online wallets are secure, nobody should be using them, but unfortunately the bitcoin system is still a bit too complicated for a lot of people.
Oh, and Aaron Swartz wasn't threatened? I see... Eye for an eye they say.
You aren't.

Personally, once Rust stabilizes as a language, I plan to write the bulk of my "low level" at-home code in Rust. After tooling support gets up there (providing things are still awesome), I plan to use it professionally.
"if everything that is needed can be implemented"

I've never seen anybody proving that. Asm.js guys however proved that using the declaration that specifies the very fixed assertions, it's simple to achieve significant benefits. Once again, ignoring the precise and explicit information which otherwise is too demanding to be deduced simply doesn't have sense unless you're motivated by some non-technical reasons. So why you resist something that's technically better?

Nobody says that you need "a lot" of new code, you have only to introduce the implementation which uses the fixed assertions promised by the "asm.js" declaration. Note that in the approach you propose not only that same functionality has to be implemented but much much more code that would be just there to try to deduce what's otherwise obvious from that one single line.

So engine developers should implement asm.js support now, it's independent of whatever they'd want to introduce for any other optimizations. This simple approach is already there and it's proved it's effective.
This says more about you than the quality of the project.
What data do you have to show that the random selection algo has superior performance to a round-robin algo?
> Can anybody think of any geo-tarded service that successfully rolled out in other countries later?

Rdio, iTunes Music Store, iTunes Movie/TV Store, Netflix, Amazon's digital services, etc were all unavailable in Canada on launch and successfully rolled out later on.
A documentary about the creator of the JW Player
10 months is a long time... you could try to hire non-rails experts and then train them...?

I'm under the impression that it's not only recruiters but also companies who try to hire people with the exact amount of experience for the position; but a good Python dev can certainly pick up Rails fast, no?
Fix HN: Unknown or expired link.
I know what it is about. I read the answer from pg [1]. I read other threads about it [2]. I understand why it works in this way but anyway it is not an issue it is a bug.

I have this bug every time when I visit HN site. I do not believe that it is hard to fix. The ycombinator has top-hackers on the board and they cannot fix this issue. It is so sad.

Paul, if you are busy or you do not have free time to fix it, please open source HN and I will fix it for free!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3098756

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3623268
It has nothing to do with the CRTC and everything to do with licensing agreements and the intransigence of the Canadian rights holders.
I have two main use cases in my mind right now.

1) Making it easier to write tools for testing python code, like sure[0] and freezegun[1]

2) Prototyping new features for python without touching the C code.

[0] http://github.com/gabrielfalcao/sure -- where forbiddenfruit started)
[1] http://github.com/spulec/freezegun
Thats not bad. I can't wait to try this tonight. If I can rent out a whole season of some show for 3-5, then we have something.
Actually, knowledge workers are even more affected by >40 hr workweeks.

Read this fascinating history of the 40-hour workweek and its demise: http://www.salon.com/2012/03/14/bring_back_the_40_hour_work_...

One of the author's (more interesting) premises is that individuals with mild forms of autism like Aspberger's, who came to typify the sorts of personalities drawn to tech in the early years, may be able to effectively work excessive hours, but ordinary individuals will experience diminished quality of work, just like everyone else.
I find it interesting how many people in this thread are saddened over the closing of LucasArts speaking of the classic games they loved from their childhoods.

Please keep in mind that the development studio that closed down is not the same thing that made the classics we all cherish. What we know as LucasArts died a long time ago.

I'm more saddened at the thought of developers losing their jobs and I'm hopeful that many of them had opportunities to get out ahead of time.
Amen. And jamming people into little veal fattening pens...I mean, cubicles...doesn't exactly make the use of space more effective either.
cyprus doesn't have its own currency, which is why they had to resort to doing what they did

they could have otherwise printed a bunch of money and deflated their debt, which is what the US gov does
"The only way to make money from games is what Disney have done, license the IP to other companies and get them to pay for it."

Not completely true, Disney has their own dev team and they licensed Temple Run to make their own versions. Still though, it's not a risky bet as it's licensing something successful already.

Edit: also not in the AAA part of the industry
you didn't want to own hundreds of games

I wanted to own hundreds of NES games because they didn't have remotely as much replay value as good modern games such as Counter Strike. (Heh, Counter Strike is the best example I have of a good modern game because it's the last game I played regularly.)

even though you could because most were priced very reasonably

Most of the NES games I bought cost $49.99 plus tax. I specifically recall that Double Dragon cost me $54.99 plus tax.
The best part is that you can replace "bitcoin" with any other form of currency, and all the arguments remain equally valid.
That Star Wars license won't come cheap. Would the $4 million they raised on Kickstarter for Eternity even cover the licensing fees?
> The only way to make money from games is what Disney have done, license the IP to other companies and get them to pay for it.

I think it's worth noting that Disney Interactive has posted a loss every single year of it's 18 years in existence.
Great article, Mr. Andon. We at AutoMicroFarm are in a very similar boat, as you know.

It's fascinating that the barrier to further growth is breeding jellyfish to fill the demand of a cheaper aquarium, once it's released to market. Is Jelly Fish Art (the company) focused on researching the science of scaling the process? Have you looked into selling other exotic aquatic animals that fit the aquarium you've developed?
An equivalent game for PC (say a Telltale Games Sam & Max episode) costs U$ 9. The Sims 3 costs U$ 19.

You're comparing the adventure games to the massively expensive FPS or RPG or other stuff with awesome graphics and all that :) .

And, to be honest, I never paid U$ 50 for any game upfront (PC, console, boardgame, anything), and I believe 99.9% of the gaming population in my country (Uruguay) hasn't either :) . That's the realm of US and European teens that can afford them (well, their parents can).

I did buy secondhand console games and other stuff :) , and I've paid far more for my M:TG collection, but on 4 to 10 dollar installments :) .
> Because my hours are limited to a standard working day I never burn-out, and I'm motivated and ready to go each and every day.

I've done this naturally for years (since I was quite young), but most people just don't believe me.
As noted above, you guys are both right (and wrong) regarding intent.

Intent applies to every material factor of the crime, for most crimes. Thus, for cocaine possession, you must (a) intend to possess the substance at issue, and (b) you must know the substance at issue is cocaine. If intent is not met for both of those factors (aka sub-elements), then intent has not been proven.

For SR, it's different. You must have intended to commit the sexual acts at issue. However, intent is not required as your knowledge of the age of the other party. In that sense, SR is strict liability. But note--many legal scholars and judges are of the opinion that SR as a strict liability crime is unconstitutional. For CP, the issue, as discussed in another comment, is similar--the intent to possess is a required element, but not knowledge that the possessed content is CP (though some states require intent as to both).
Sigh, I still remember Lucas arts from the days of Grim Fandango. This is obviously sad news :'(
There are such things as "big days". If you have a degree to finish, a conference paper, a demo, a seasonal feature, a lucrative work project, etc. Those are the times when I might neglect my body for 1-2 weeks, sometimes up to 4. Sure, you do have to return back to a normal, stable life after that and maybe have a little break.

In all aspects of life, success is about performing at your peak at just the right time.
God, I hope this is true! Wife and I just had our first kid a month ago, and I can tell ya it's hard to find (or justify) time for side projects with that little bugger* wreaking havoc on my shut-eye! :)

* I do so love him
It's totally worth it
Tesla Model S involved in brutal head-on crash in California
Looks like the Model S is a very safe car. There have been 2 accidents in the past week, both times the passengers walked away. The latest one unfortunately demolished the other car, killing two passengers. The S driver walked away.

http://jalopnik.com/tesla-model-s-driver-veers-into-oncoming-traffic-kills-466292380
This what i don't get. Banks can secure themselves, large e-commerce sites as well. Do any of these guys run Hardware security modules and use them to manage encryption of the keys?
clickable: http://jalopnik.com/tesla-model-s-driver-veers-into-oncoming...
Special Effects: Before & After
You're only speaking of the big boys of the industry that have been on this downward trend for years. The smaller guys that are getting more creative in how to approach their market and how they develop their games are most likely doing just fine.
It's a dirty hack - therefore, fun.
There's a great interview with Jellyfish Art on Mixergy from November 2011, with a lot more detail on their pre-YC history:
http://mixergy.com/andon-jellyfish-art-interview/
Right, that was my point. It doesn't really matter where it started, whether it's entirely original or not. Otherwise, IE10 should be considered a bad browser, which it isn't.
I know it's been said many times before, but we're only going to see a rise in bitcoin thefts. With the price being over $100/coin and you're stealing virtually untraceable currency, I'm honestly just surprised that there hasn't been more thefts. I'm sure the security team at Mt. Gox is top notch as they probably have dozens of hack attempts per day.
Well, it's so small compared to "real" runtimes, it might as well not exist.
Your profile appears to be blank. (I am not the OP).
Well, I disagree, with the interpretation of events known as Great Depression as a deflationary spiral.

Yes, there was a deflationary event. As there were many before, and the last one before in 1920-1921, when the wholesale prices fall by a whopping 40%. But a deflationary event does not make a deflationary spiral.

There were also a lot silly activism both from the part of the Hoover and Roosevelt. The later speaking, beside other things about outright nationalization, and driving thus the busyness investment into ground..

So a lot happened than which make the Great Depression Great but deflationary spiral is not THE explanation.
TDoS Attacks Used To Hold Emergency Phone Lines For Ransom
Looks like the address isn't all that was burning...
Dangit. I was really looking forward to Mickey and Goofy's epic light saber battle with Kermit and Sith Lady Piggy in "Disney's Magical House of Star Wars: Attack of the Muppets"
When depositing to Instawallet, your money would be stored in a common pool, so upon withdrawal you'd get different coins back. So it functioned as a "mixing service", which helps improve anonymity for those who need that. And it was super easy to use, which made it popular with newbies with little understanding of how foolish it is to give a service like this full control over your money.
If you think that's the only way to make money from games then you must not have heard of this thing called Minecraft.
How about refunds? Isn't that the normal response when a company screws up in a way that causes the customers to pay more money?
"Can anybody think of any geo-tarded service that successfully rolled out in other countries later?"

As someone living in the US, I can only imagine the frustration people must feel not having access to content in their home countries. It would drive me nuts as well.

But as someone working at a company who also tries very, very hard to make services available to people around the world (the goal is 100% coverage) I also know how hard/impossible it is to negotiate with the rights holders in every nation simultaneously.

So services like Rdio or Vdio need to make a very tough choice: delay their launch, perhaps for years, perhaps forever, to negotiate the rights in all ~200 countries and territories in the world, or launch in the biggest markets first, and hope and try to iterate from there.

I don't know if there even is a right answer. But I do know for sure that it's not Rdio/Vdio's choice not to launch globally. They want it the other way, too.

(As an aside, the phrase "geo-tarded" doesn't sit well with me. Perhaps use "geo-challenged", which says the same thing without the additional connotations.)
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My last semester of college, our capstone course saw me at the head of a team of 5 CS students building a video game. Some of the other teams frequently pulled all-nighters trying to meet the course's ambitious deadline, but the whole semester my team and I never did need to work through the night. We ended up doing better than most teams, too. In fact, the team that "won" spent even fewer hours working than we did.

Anecdotal, to be sure, but I found the inverse relationship between hours worked and quality of product quite interesting.
Instawallet always made it clear that no one should keep anything more than spare change there.
Sure, and if you want to go down the road of constructing metrics for language, you can. I should warn you that you will likely find it fruitless and arbitrary.

Your point about how every variation makes a language is correct. The term is idiolect. Language (like 'English'), is an abstraction over idiolects. But getting people who want to argue about "correct English" to an understanding of idiolects is more work than I can put into a comment during a work day. I'll try and dig up a general description of the issue and link it here.

Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiolect#Idiolect_and_language is the best I could do on short notice.
Your movie industry comparison is probably spot on in many ways. Especially the part about the number of non-developers at a company that actually increase the cost of development even though they are not directly involved.

The other aspect I'm curious over is if these AAA titles don't meet their sales quota is an attempt by publishers to get out paying royalties and bonuses to developers. It's a common tactic in Hollywood and there's evidence of it in the gaming industry already.
Should I rewrite the whole PHP codebase to Python?
The codebase is about 100K lines, and it is a private internal website for a publisher company. It is getting harder and harder to maintain the codebase and add new features into the existing system, simply because I have some bad designs and also some bad implementation in PHP. In another way, I think Python is easier to write code and easier to maintain than PHP.

And to refactor the existing code might not be an option, because I want to redesign the whole system from scratch. If I had an opportunity to rework on the codebase, should I rewrite it again in PHP or rewrite it in Python?

Thanks a lot!
I'm... not sure you understand how the sunk cost fallacy works...

If anything, what they did was the rational decision.
I expect nothing less from Instawallet. Previously, they used to keep private keys in the URL and allowed google to index these URLs. It took a lot of pestering and hand-holding to get this fixed. I should have figured this would have happened sooner or later, given their incompetency regarding security.
logo link on this notice page points to localhost:3000, looks like dev/prod mixup
How many more times do we need to go through this?

People: Only keep an amount you are willing to lose in an online wallet. Keep the rest offline and encrypted.
Those with more experience (and/or older) spend less time on StackOverflow, and/or less time answering surveys.
Given the fact that instawallet was rarely used in the previous few years, I doubt this will have much of an impact on the Bitcoin market: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/instawallet.org
iPad sensibility?
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This has been one of the hardest lessons I've had to learned. Really, I'm still trying to get it right.
As with most laws, the intent is usually lost along the way, leading to rulings that have nothing to do with the original reason for writing the law in the first place.

I have vague recollections of the case that decided that simulated images were legally equivalent to the real thing. It was a pretty hot topic at the time with a lot of debate going on. Had the people involved come with a different interpretation of the law at the time, I don't think it would be considered illegal today.
exactly.. it would fade your text with a color gradient for the aol chat rooms. I wrote some with visual basic when I was in high school.
Also troubling is their logo links to localhost:3000. Why would you hard link that in the first place?
Ugh, I hate that attitude of "Macs can't get malware" that this guy exudes so smugly.
I think it's the order. The primary action I want is the one that connects two columns, but it's second in the order. I click on the first button without thinking what word is on it.

I'm not saying you should switch the order, though. In some way, it makes sense that you should first Describe a column before Relating it to something else. But I think some usability testing would be useful.

I also didn't immediately understand that the different actions would 'stack up' on the right-hand pane, showing everything you've looked at so far. That's really useful, and the pop-up tips were good too, although I had to restrain my instinct to automatically close/turn them off.

It would be nice if, in the Describe summaries, you could sort/order the data. E.g., I'd like to sort the Job Title by Count, instead of alphabetic order of Job Title.

After clearing the data, I wanted to relate three different things together. It wasn't clear how to do that; the Relate button was disabled. I tried Describe, then figured out that Relate To Each (which is clearly labeled!) was the right option. I think I would have preferred not splitting the Relate button into two, Relate and Relate To Each.

It's a neat site, and I hope you continue providing demos.
If you are doing this for testing, it's already a feature of pytest: http://pytest.org/latest/monkeypatch.html
Random routing will work fine so long as the operating system has the ability to intelligently schedule the work. The problem is that the dynos were setup to handle request sequentially. Unicorn will help mitigate the problem, but the best solution is to not try and serve webpages from hardware that is about as powerful as an old mobile phone. The 2x dynos are a step in the right direction, but I have no idea why they don't offer a real app server like a 16x dyno.
This ranking under-states mobile companies quite a bit. I'm not sure the best way to improve it, but I guarantee you that Bump and any TinyCo game has broader reach than App.net or Viki.
Interesting that the groups that get to define what makes an "AAA" game are the groups that can afford making such games as defined. Gamers need to get away from the AAA quality labeling as it means next to nothing these days. For instance, what's an A or AA game? Seems to me these days the number of A's only suggests the retail price but not the quality of the game.

Personally, I would put Super Meatboy or Mark of the Ninja up against any of these so-called AAA blockbuster games any time.
Ionic wind thrusters may be efficient alternative to conventional jet engines
over 3,000 views now, and growing - which is surprising since there are no pictures of cats on the site.
Strip is rolling out to other countries.

TBH there is no reason for a company to not roll out so long as it is financially worth it.
Instawallet's only form of a login was a URL, which Google indexed 1,000s of just last week: http://www.adaptiveglass.com/?p=656

Honestly, I am curious if the security researcher (who alerted them to this problem and then griped out lack of payment in the article) is the person responsible.
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Which is going to be a huge limit on sustained value/adoption, for better or worse. Bitcoin's rooted in the community most capable of stealing it.
> I would be THRILLED to get an email from someone who said "I love what you do, here's three things I would like to work on with you to make it better, are you hiring?"

What's your company? I'd love to send you that kind of email. :) (My email should be in the HN profile)
I don't think they said that on the homepage, they advertised themselves as a bitcoin wallet.

They did say so at one time or another I believe, but that was long long ago.
What are the license implications of using GPLv3 code as part of a test suite?
I love this index series, Danielle! Does this have any link to what's next for refer.ly? :)
For your case this is all what you need:
function replace(str, data) {
for( var i in data )
str = str.replace('{'+i+'}', data[i]);
return str;
}
>The only language that does not have a runtime is called Assembly. And even in the case of CISC processors there might be microcode playing the role of a runtime. Why don't people learn about compiler design nowadays?!

Because the C kind of runtime isn't what people regularly mean with the word "runtime" -- much less cpu microcode.

That said, does Forth have a runtime?
Congratulations - mine's a year old. It gets easier :-)
> Those salaries should be at least 3 times higher.

Why? What about supply and demand? Do you mean salaries shouldn't be determined by supply and demand, or demand "should" be higher?

If demand for these skills should be higher, but isn't, that is an opportunity for entrepreneurs. Your or anyone else, if correct, could make a killing using these skills at low prices (salaries). The more people who do that, the more the prices of their skills rise.
On the monitoring side, we're shortly moving into private beta for Stackdriver. Ping me if you want early access. @whirlycott
>> If several claims have been filed for the same url, we will process those claims on a case by case basis, under the presumption that the claim we received first belongs to the legitimate balance holder.

Is this a joke? They can't be serious.
That's a shame. I guess you'll just have to stay poor with the rest of the patronizing adults.
Tabula is also the name of a programmable logic company doing fpga-like "3PLDs" where the design implemented varies over time to increase effective size of the logic fabric. (tabula.com)
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> Most of the NES games I bought cost $49.99 plus tax.

Wolfram Alpha says[1] that's ~$90 today.

1: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=50%20USD%201990%20in%20...