skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, how convenient that your sexual insticts matche the law of the very country you happen to live in. That way you won't feel a slave of the system, that commands you what to do, what to think, and how to feel.

Though I wonder if you would be able to tell whether you like a girl before knowing her age. That would be an interesting experiment, and you would probably learn something about yourself.
Just because a book makes a claim doesn't make it so. It is ridiculous to claim that you cannot have peaks or shortages because there's always a replacement - this is nonsense. The physics and chemistry involved is fixed. As a famous Scotsman once said, you cannee change the laws of Physics Jim. Economics and physics are not interchangeable. Sure, with certain kinds of economic utility you can interchange the underlying mechanisms used to achieve it, but with chemical reactions necessary to sustain life, as one example, you cannot just swap on a cheaper element. Likewise you cannot change the energy density characteristics and EROEI of supply on one material because petroleum is priced out. This is a fundamental misunderstanding of the science behind the problem.
YUI has a pretty nice console.log wrapper with tons of extra functionality. I don't use all of its functionality, but it does have the nice feature of not breaking IE when calling console.log without first having the Developer Tools window open.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3326650/console-is-undefi...

http://yuilibrary.com/yui/docs/console/
"And immersion is effectively the number one thing we can use to help you buy into the world."

I agree wholeheartedly with this statement. However, the devil is in the details. There are a plethora of ways to ruin immersion in video games, and the list is different for each player.

One of my personal immersion breakers is the appearance of the characters. As someone with brown skin, it gets hard to immerse myself in a game where the main acting character looks and sounds so different than I would imagine them myself. And in the rare event that a game has a minority main character, it's common for them to be laden with negative stereotypes.

The reason I can become immersed in a _book_ has a great deal to do with the freedom to envision characters a certain way. For _games_, this counts even more because we are often asked assume control of a character's actions, but have little control over much else.

For the majority of male players, this might not be an issue. But for females and minorities, this is so common that we really have to do some mental jujitsu just to get past it to the point of true immersion.

I think this phenomenon also explains why basketball and football games have a much higher amount of minority gamers than, say, adventure games and RPGs.

This isn't just an issue in video games-- Hollywood mirrors this to a degree. It's why a movie with all black characters (or a black lead) routinely draws large black audiences, often regardless of the quality of the movie.

One of the things I liked most about playing Crysis 3 was being able to identify with the main character more-so than in most FPS games.

Sometimes people want to be able to see themselves in the heroes, the side-kicks, the minions, and even the villains.
I guess I wasn't reading it closely enough, because the first time I realized that was the mention of John Lennon's assassination.
Yeah honestly I've learned to repress my need to be informed due to just how depressing the news is in general. I don't find out about politics or world events until they are so big somebody IRL relays it. I keep it to HN, tech news, science, Nat Geo, etc, informative and positive (mostly).
If you think that HN is neutral, need to know, or even concise, you're crazy.

Though on the subject of neutrality, humans aren't neutral, so expecting their publications to be is itself insane.
Storm Framework links to Hadoop, just an FYI.
There's no reason to believe that current prognostications about the future will be any more accurate than past ones, and many reasons to believe that they aren't.

The demographic transition can be viewed as a failure of our adaptations, made during times when birth control and sex education were unavailable, and children were useful workers instead of expensive luxuries, to the modern world. Some people's adaptations have failed harder than others. The people who have 0-1 kids are being selected out; those who have more than 2 are expanding. Future generations will be descended from the latter group, not the former. Unless you believe that fertility is completely invulnerable to selection, genetic or memetic, this must lead to increased fertility, just as selecting for bigger dogs would lead to bigger dogs.

There are already groups which are immune to the demographic transition - Hasidic Jews in the middle of NYC who have ~8 kids per couple, for example - and there's no reason to believe that they're going to change.

And if evolution did turn out to be false and the demographic transition turned out to be permanent, there's no reason to believe that fertility rates would magically converge at 2.0 (replacement rate). If they stayed below replacement rate, eventually the human race would go extinct. That's a far more dire prediction than any Malthus ever made. If they started going up again, is there any reason to believe that they would stop at 2.0?

And having read Malthus, I'd also bet that the author never has.
Most of those reasons seem exaggerated, except one: News wastes time. It's just to easy and effortless to click on news stories and bam - there goes 45 minutes of time.

Does anyone know a good program that blocks you from e.g. wasting more than 25 minutes reading news each day? Browser tools are too easy to bypass to be effective. (Editing the hosts file works, but then you can't visit those sites at all.)
Then they taught it to make paperclips, and ended up with one of these:

http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer
Bad Cat
So the same argument as (say) YAML, Lua tables or TNetStrings. Or, if you include binary representations, stuff like Thrift, XDR and ASN.1.

You can embed a JVM in PostgreSQL and write the functions yourself (or use PL/Scheme I suppose), but I would be basically amazed if anyone decides to do it for you.

JSON gets the nod because it's understood by billions of systems. Other formats are going to struggle.
‘Hacking’ the college admission process, and reaching startling conclusions
How a simple experiment reveals that colleges could care less about personal curiosity, and why they should care more.
Graphics Are “60% Of The Game”

It pretty much depends on the genre. For some hack-n-slash or RTS that may be true, but let's say for a good RPG - the depth of the story outweighs the graphics factor.
Me too. It is both exciting and disturbing. For me it also calls to mind Carl Sagan in Pale Blue Dot warning against developing the ability to move asteroids around.
I would think the trouble lies with the fact that, with some frequency to be debated, a high school drop out commits to startup career, fights through years of slow growth, relentlessly resourceful in finding new ways to keep afloat, then doesn't have a break through. It's not clear that a break through always happens, and we risk into getting no true Scotsman territory with "well, if you were resourceful enough it would have happened."

Winning the lottery (by buying a lot of tickets, trying to find patterns, fighting through years of middling returns, relentlessly resourceful in finding new ways to not go bankrupt) is great if you do it, but expected outcomes are better for just plain working.

Of course, the whole VC scene is based on getting people to try to win the lottery...
Is This The Subway Car Design Of The Future?
It is a relatively straight-forward CRUD-type system, it's the amounts of data it deals with coupled with (I am speculating) high volume of traffic what makes it tricky to continue to look like a simple CRUD app from the outside.

The complexity could have been reduced dramatically if they were hosting on a modern dedicated hardware configured for their workloads. Successfully reaching this kind of scale on AWS (or any other massive cluster of exhausted and unreliable virtual generics with limited I/O) requires this kind of software wizardry on the back-end.

It would have been even more complicated if all of AirBnB was running on a cluster of randomly dying first generation iPhones.

Want to avoid layers and layers of software complexity and paying for brainy guys to run it? Pay for a nicer hardware then. Sometimes it's cheaper (and easier), sometimes it's not.
This has Alan Kay and Steve Russell, and uses 'hacker' right, and predicts that the ARPAnet will kill both newspapers and the music industry. Talk about a lost classic!
In addition to the other points made on this thread, I think a big factor is that winners don't gain much from war, so why bother.

Historically, when economies grew at the rate of population, the only way to become wealthier is to conquer more land. Now, with the global/knowledge based economy, you can become wealthier without having to take over someone else's land. In fact, the costs of the war probably outweigh the spoils.
Though there is no such thing as a neutral source, http://www.nytimes.com/
You're right. It will be fixed in the next iteration.
DF has some graphics, it's not a text-based game (as in Zork et al). It uses planar ANSI graphics, not 3D graphics, that's all.
Most of those reasons seem exaggerated, except one: News wastes time. It's just to easy and effortless to click on news stories and bam - there goes 45 minutes of time.
At least, but then you also need to know what's happening and not every second can be monetized, we'd become robots. I wish I could limit it to 15 minutes in the morning (Earthquake in ...; shooting ...; health care law ...; ....), 15 midday; 15 at night and then just chill looking at special interest sites like tech, archeology, history etc.
For me, the matter of deciding between OS X and Linux is one of responsibility. When I buy an Apple laptop, Apple accepts responsibility for things like making sure that the hardware and the operating system work well together. Apple also makes sure that updates are (generally) compatible with existing hardware, up to a point at which they no longer support the hardware, but that line in the sand is clear. It's easy for me to understand where support ends.

Apple is very good at this. Yes, you will hear gripes from people about issues with Apple hardware/software, but relative to the rest of the industry (which is the pragmatic measure), they're way ahead of the game.

Contrast this with Linux. Yes, I can get a laptop that has good Linux support, but ultimately, I'm responsible for compatibility between hardware and software. I can pay for Canonical for support, but I believe a large part of Apple's success in building great compters has to do with the fact that they own responsiblity for both the hardware and the software.

At the end of the day, OS X is unixy enough (it was "UNIX certified", at least at one point) to make it a suitable development environment for Unix-like software. Combine this with the opportunity to not have to think about hardware and software compatibility, and the combination keeps a significatn number of users from making the switch to Linux.
I think the analogy is quite apt. Even more apt if you include visual fx.

A lot of the most popular movies rely heavily on lush cinematography and advanced computer generated visual effects. Just as many of the most popular games rely on advanced graphics. However, not all do. For every Minecraft or FTL there's a Clerks or Blair Witch or Primer.
I totally agree, hardly ever read the news even with a slight background in journalism. But I have to say the title alone sounds a tad Nineteen Eighty-Four. News does have a purpose as a balance of power.
"News is Bad For you" by Guardian News.

What's their angle here?
I like bitcoin as a robust, validated communication network with the currency function incentivizing its operation and creating noise to mask the murmur of its true purpose.
Petroleum isn't magic. It's just mixed random hydrocarbons.

Use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasification to turn the tree into useful feedstock gases, then use the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer-Tropsch_process to turn those gases into the exact same mixed hydrocarbons found in petroleum.
Depends on how you define "graphics".

To me, graphics constitutes aesthetics, and usability. Good art direction combined with great user interface = 60% of a good game.

If in this article, they're talking about as many pixels, particles and polygons as possible, it's a bit of a rough statement; it might be true for their games, but not for all games.
freedom and equality are not opposed. Meritocracy can accomodate both.

To follow your example, if the brain-damaged child strangled by his umbilical cord achieve just as much as the normal child, he has more merit.

That's the 2nd principle of political liberalism: "Social and economic inequalities are to satisfy two conditions: first, they are to be attached to positions and offices open to all under conditions of fair equality of opportunity; and second, they are to be to the greatest benefit of the least advantaged members of society."

In that case, let both brain damaged and normal children compete.

But I agree with your case, most admissions system are poorly disguised racism. Life sucks sometimes.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rawls#Political_Liberalism
A quick check on wind turbine design for power generation [1] confirms to my satisfaction that all wind turbines should be throttable down to zero electrical output and then with good mechanical brakes [2] taking away the remaining kinetic energy sufficient to stop then lock the rotor. I've read elsewhere (sorry, no reference) that stopping the rotor can be necessary in emergency windspeed conditions. Per [2]:

> Let’s compare the emergency braking requirements of a
>1.5 MW wind turbine under maximum wind conditions with
>those of a 40-ton mining truck. Imagine driving a
>fully loaded truck down a steep gradient of 25% (1:4)
>at 85 mph when a road sign warns of a cliff a quarter
>mile ahead. The engineering required for effective
>braking in both cases is much the same. Braking for
>the wind turbine is, in fact, more demanding.

Beyond mechanical brakes, the available control strategies and actuators normally applied toward maximizing power output per [1] can instead be applied toward bringing the power output to zero and the rotor to a halt, such as:

* Apply generator torque control (dumping power to the grid) sufficient to slow the blades down to near zero

* Then or as the blades slow down, stall or furl the blades using pitch control

* Apply the brakes to lock the rotor

* Yaw the whole machine 90 degrees off the wind

OK so if they're stoppable, what is up here?

Others more familiar with Danish market, operators and regulatory conditions might speak better to this, but I'll surmise that the turbine operators get paid when they produce energy, whether Denmark needs it or not. So the turbine operators never stop their turbines, night nor day.

When that creates an excess of energy the grid engineers must do something. The article mentioned slowing hydro output elsewhere and heating the water used locally for district heating.

This creates an environment where there should be a financial incentive to create technologies for storage or highly variable use of this nightime and other times highly variable excess electrical energy.

Hundred-megawatt data centers [3] with quickly variable compute capability come to mind, but making stored hot water hotter (the district heating 'dummy load' approach) seems to me a lot simpler, cheaper and immediately practical, if a bit wasteful of the low-entropy energy that electricity is.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_turbine_design

[2] http://news.altramotion.com/?p=242

[3] http://gigaom.com/2012/01/31/the-era-of-the-100-mw-data-cent...
Not neutral at all. I believe that certain companies have their employees come here to flag or to ^ certain stories. Maybe not organized, but it happens regardless. I have noticed stories go from being on top to page 3 within minutes, simply because it was bad PR for a certain online monopoly.
Cheers. Crazy, or maybe just misinformed. Thanks for enlightening me. (no sarcasm)

Guess I'll think twice before posting something positive about HN from now on.
I used to read HN all day and felt good, elevated, enlightened ... pretty soon I was trying to learn every new language, trying every new framework, trying a new todo regime - needless to say I was getting no where. Soon I was very unhappy ... everybody was doing something cool other than me! Every Show HN: makes me feel I'm wasting my life in school ... and should dropout and start building what I've started sometime back ...

But then someone told me, "Believe what you are doing is cool, inundating yourself with what others are doing won't get you anywhere other than giving you the false sense of wisdom!"

Now I spend a lot less time on HN. And since it has the best content of the net .. I don't need to look anywhere else.
Yes! Definitely! It is such an incredibly excellent book. I listened to the Audible version twice in one month (26 hours in total). I think everyone should check it out, at least for the alternate viewpoints on doing things. I actually wrote about this on my own site (link in my profile).

On topic, I absolutely love the part in the book that says "Replace reading the newspaper over breakfast or dinner with activities like speaking with your spouse, playing with your children, etc."

It's funny but this book has made me better at relationships, and even life. I wholeheartedly believe in the notion of not reading the news. It makes you more present, and more engaged with your own life.
I would recommend developing some hobbies, and joining some groups and clubs. I was involved in my university's outdoors club, in karate club, and in several types of social dance. I recommend all of these, or any other activity that piques your interest. But try something genuinely new, not just a computer club, gaming club, or other club populated by like-minded people.

These are all great ways to meet a diverse range of people. They are not just about "hanging out" (which can sometimes be awkward for an introvert), there is something to do, and something to focus your attention on if you don't have anything to say.

Volunteering can also be great, but pick some volunteer organization that does actual work, like Habitat for Humanity. (Beware of volunteer gigs with a lot of volunteers but very little work. These are fun for extroverts, but perhaps not for you.)

Also, as other posters say, just try inviting random people to do random things. You will learn the pain of rejection (don't try to avoid this). But sometimes the responses will surprise you, and open doors you never knew existed.

I understand exactly what you're thinking. You can succeed. Good luck to you!
How NASA brought the monstrous F-1 “moon rocket” engine back to life
Here's a paper about Valgrind that includes some details on how it differs from Pin: http://www.valgrind.org/docs/valgrind2007.pdf.
I originally thought it would be a cool demonstration of the html5 video tag.

Unfortunately, it was implemented poorly. This will be the first thing I fix in the next iteration.

Sorry for the annoyance
May I recommend http://typing.io for the typist in the video? Disclaimer: my webapp
It seems like the problem is more that it can't look far enough into the future to see that grabbing lots of points now (by stacking blocks) is canceled out by losing (that is, not gaining) points later.

It would be interesting to see how it responded when the 'Pause' function was disabled. It seems like it would need to track 'past future' state to find a solution.

Edit: Or maybe try to filter out 'constant' sources of increasing value. Treat the stacking points as noise.
I'm amazed to see an article trying to inform me that, indeed, ignorance is bliss. While I think people should watch their garbage intake, I'd certainly not encourage tuning out world events any more than I'd encourage running with both earbuds in. In either case one is likely to be taken off guard.
You have got to be kidding
See also Thoreau.
On the other hand, when my own personal problems seem immense, sometimes it can give me a lot of perspective to see the problems the world as a whole has to face. Surely in doses too large or too often, it can be a major detriment to my ability to work (especially when there is a news "crisis" going on, real or imagined). However, I'd say overall the net effect of regularly ingesting the news has been to make me feel closer to my fellow human beings than before I read the news often and had only the things and people in my immediate surroundings to ponder about.
This AI has access to all of the ram of the game.

There are Guitar Hero Bots taht "OCR" (your words) the screen to play the guitar. Not such a hard trick to read a score or see a turtle. (you know we have self driving cars right?)
It's a reason.com right-libertarian sky fantasy. Please make the distinction.
I've come to a similar conclusion. Because news emphasizes the dramatic over the contextual, they're always providing me poor information in an even poorer context. That's just the way the business works.

I've done something weird, though: I switched to plaintext commentary. So each day I scan my personal news site, http://newspaper23.com. It only does commentary.

I find that by scanning the titles I can see what news items are hot in the world without getting so wrapped up in them. If I like, I can always read commentaries with opposing views on a particular issue. But the kicker is, somehow once the material is slanted, once I know it's spin, it no longer has the high level of emotional engagement. Writing an Op-Ed along the lines of "We must do X!" is simply a different art form than news fearmongering.

Seriously, if you haven't given up MSM news, you need to. That shit will rot your brain. It's crisis-of-the-hour stuff over there. And the pundits just make it worse.
MtGox can currently process about 1 trade per second, which is utterly pathetic... https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=174598.0
>> (the comments suck however - they basically try to deny the fact that for humanity as a species, the last century has been the best ever)

Part of me says that the added stresses from never being happy, always want more, do rain on that parade. Maybe being "a dumb peasant" somewhere with a full stomach but otherwise no larger goals is best.

>> The basic idea stands - too many people have more comfort, want too many things, and are harder to control - and now than ever.

Yeah but they are not organized, at least not in USA. Those making bank are kicking back to the politicians that decide what system /laws us suckers have to follow. The greatest investment ever is in the political process, a million dollar donation can easily yield billions.
Sounded more like you were interested in slapping my wrist.
I add this to my hosts file to speed up browsing and avoid these issues: 127.0.0.1 fonts.googleapis.com
CRUD REST Demo using Nodejs, Restify and MongoDB
except the wealth that could be created if the brilliant guy spent the year on other pursuits instead of noops
Inside the Bitcoin economy
"New has no explanatory power. News items are bubbles popping on the surface of a deeper world." Which news is this? weather.com has some rather shallow "news" but it's a pretty big blanket statement..
Congrats on launching your product.

Who do you imagine using this? What is your ideal use case?