skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone I say to myself "Gosh darn it I'm switching my main desktop so that it boots Linux by default today!" it never ends well. Example: I like to play LoL, I got it to run under wine (though nowhere near Windows performance) and just say screw it and go back to Windows. That and the fact that patches like to break things a lot. I am really hoping that Steam for Linux pushes a lot more companies to port their games to Linux so that I can finally switch over.
I am so glad someone wrote this up and shares my frustration.

I've been through this exact battle so many times, git pull should only ask you for your branch if you've told it you want it to (as a safety measure i guess)/
A Conversation on Culture with Ben Horowitz and Steve Stoute
The spill occurred in 1981, so your pizza was most likely fine.
I stopped reading right here:

"Many continue to claim the Always-On function in SimCity is a DRM scheme. It’s not. People still want to argue about it. We can’t be any clearer – it’s not. Period."

He's flat out lying. I have no interest whatsoever in what he is saying. SimCity can technically run offline, gamers want to run it offline, but EA won't let you run it offline because you could then pirate their software. They should just demonstrate some courage and admit it.
True, outsourcing companies such as Infosys, Wipro, Satyam, Tata etc gobble up majority of H1B visas for sending cheap labor to US.
http://www.businessweek.com/table/08/0305_h1b.htm
"Bitcoin is interfering with the ability of the government to stop consensual transactions between adults."

UH OH
press for us (and we've gotten quite a bit) has mostly been useful in getting over the 'never heard of you' hurdle which i think is absolutely huge for just about any business conversation. the power of name recognition is astounding. we're a small app - we count our users in thousands units not millions - but our userbase is highly engaged, using our app every time they go to work and our most valuable user segment (bar staff) generally doesn't care about the press and certainly not tech press. mainstream press is mostly a fleeting adrenaline rush and ego stroke for us, it's primary value is street cred.
Your ISP "deliberately" routes child pornography over their networks all the time--that doesn't make them distributors of child pornography.

HSBC provides a banking service. Unlike with ISPs, they are responsible for overseeing how their service is used, to prevent money laundering. Failing to oversee the employees who failed to follow the regulations designed to prevent HSBC's service being used for money laundering is not the same thing as actually money laundering (juicy reporting aside).
Sadly, push message spam is legal on iOS too. Of course you can disable notifications per-app or not allow the app to send them in the first place. But uninstalling the app is easier and The Right Thing :)
Isn't the standby mode appropriate for power switches that are momentary toggle switches that started in ATX cases, as opposed to the on/off button which would be appropriate for the AT cases, where the switch is an actual power switch?
It doesn't need to be redesigned. I hate this trend of getting rid of very clear text and using nothing but "intuitive" icons that are "universally" understood, and only sometimes making the text available on hover/hold. Using both icon and text is fine, but text is way more important and unambiguous and should always be visible. Especially with the resolution and screen real estate modern displays have.
While there are a few valid points raised, by and large this screed reminds me of the last time I worked in IT in a large bank, and took the annual employee satisfaction survey.

The IT function had the poorest scores across the entire bank, and the CIO took quite a bit of heat for it from the rest of the CxOs.

His approach to tackle the poor employee satisfaction scores was to call an IT-wide "town hall" and explain to each of us why we were wrong in being dissatisfied...
Spin 101: Muddy up the legitimate complaints about Origin and the fumbled SimCity launch with anecdotes about conservatives carpetbombing the company with hate mail regarding LGBTQ playables. Notice that was the last bullet point; you move forward to the next paragraph thinking "wow, that's terrible," and you're shocked enough about that to start forgetting the first bullet points. The next paragraph then doubles down on the LGBTQ hate. You've completely forgotten the SimCity bullet point now.

Oh yeah, and without you realizing it, he just lightly compared your complaints about SimCity always-on to gay bashing and not liking the choice of a cover athlete for a sports game. Apparently, EA considers all of them equally frivolous. How 'bout that, huh?

This is a pretty good example of how to tell your customers that they're wrong but not leave them feeling like you did so (he did get pretty direct on the DRM point, though, which is interesting). Just look at the love pouring in on the comments over there already, which shows you that it's working in the general case. Not to mention completely omitting what you're going to do about the problems, but cleverly disguising the omission itself.

A final thought, all of that aside: If I were Will Wright, I'd be genuinely sad about what happened to SimCity regardless of the circumstances of the Maxis sale. He left EA in 2009, which makes you wonder how long this SimCity has been in development; I'd wager about three years. That's a hallowed franchise in gaming, in my opinion, a unique IP that stood among the ranks of Civilization in its own way for many years and spawned really fun games like SimTower and SimAnt, and after this it will never be the same.
you need to read "Git for dummies"
Icons representing 'obsolete' technology work as ideograms because the form factor of that old technology was unique enough to express a concept in a few pixels, whereas everything now is just some form of a nondescript box which chances are does multiple things. I ran into this problem a couple of years ago when I had to design a television graphic for my company... you know how difficult it is to convey "television" without rabbit ears? I wanted to add them just because that said "this is a tv."

Icons don't have to keep up with the actual technology whose function they represent... they just have to be immediately recognizable.
Very awesome analogies to process and approach to design. I wonder though, at what point does the "build order" approach break down? At some point you need to evolve/differentiate in design. I wonder if there's a repeatable process/approach to drive that progression?
I suspect the argument is more "It's not DRM, it's amazing social interaction, that benefits everyone!" (read: Nobody would use it if it was optional)
Thanks for the clarification [redacted]!

I already sent the request about week ago. And they replied just today. Unfortunatelly too late. I think it was good thing don't waiting for them with my arms crossed. I probably avoided a lot of new unwanted connections.

The funniest thing is that they said I have still have 50 pending sent invitations that I did not withdraw. But Linkedin's sent invitations page says "There are no sent invitations.".
Using animation is a good idea, but do we really need a redesign?
> Anyway, if skeumorphism is bad, and the floppy icon is so unrecognisable as to be abstract (which appears to be the 'problem' these designers think needs solving), doesn't that mean the floppy icon is now good?

The short answer is "No."

The long answer is that the skeumorphism is bad argument is generally that trying to imitate some kind of physical analog of the computerized process you are doing isn't an effective way of presenting a UI, in part because it imposes additional constraints that aren't native to the medium you are using (limiting your ability to fully utilize the medium you are using) and that it relies on experience with the particular physical analog to provide user understanding of the UI.

An icon that is functionally abstract because it references something that is outside of most users experience would be an example of the problem, not something that somehow flips it on its head and so becomes good.

(OTOH, the use of the floppy-disk-image-as-save-icon is so ubiquitous in software that it is probably a useful image that is well recognized, but that's neither because it originates as a skeumorph or because it is abstract now, but because it is ubiquitous in the digital realm, independent of its origin or current relation to user's non-digital experience.)
Pure CSS speech bubbles
100 Weird Facts About the Human Body
is there a way to signal to the browser that I'd like all of my JavaScript to be compiled as best as possible and that I don't mind my users waiting while this happens? Could this be useful for complex games where start-up speed may not be deemed as important as runtime performance?
Good question. Iframes (currently) share the process with the parent document, making it possible to DoS the page. They're also bound to a single node in the page, whereas the Workers exist outside the lifecycle of the DOM elements (and can serve multiple areas of the DOM).

The kind of gains we're looking for are the kind that you get out of unix's small programs and pipes. URLs are a fairly powerful primitive-- they can represent remote endpoints, local endpoints, and pieces of data (with data-uris). So, for instance, with some artful configuration/linking, you could have the same webapp write to local storage, remote storage, or the filesystem-- and make it easy for the user to choose, not with a premade choice, but with the ability to load software.

Program-sharing can also continue the gains made by Ajax, where you can deliver programs to the client which understand a remote service's API. For instance, if my profile links to "send-pfraze-a-message.js", you pull that down and load the interface next to your files interface, drag in the file, then hit send. Then you load "send-pfraze-a-message.js" next to your strategy game interface, drag in a battle plan, and hit send. In both cases, your existing programs didn't have to understand whatever service I use to receive messages-- they just had to bundle data for click-and-drag.
All that and no mention of _Rescue at Fractalus_, _The Eidolon_ (An 8-bit FPS 11 years before Doom), _Koronis Rift_, or _Ballblazer_? I'm getting old...
And sometimes, despite a complete lack of interest in being acquired, people spend time having such discussions simply because they don't understand what the conversation is about.

I was contacted by someone I highly respected a couple of years ago, who spent half an hour half an hour telling me that he thought I was doing great things with Tarsnap, and everybody at his office thought I was amazing and wished they could work more closely with me... and it was only after hanging up the phone that I realized that he was probably trying to find out if I was interested in selling the company.
I agree. The whole letter is one of the best documentations of large-corporation dysfunctional defensiveness I've ever seen.

It's perfect. And not in a good way.

The sad thing is that by putting something so self-deluded and defensive out in public, he's guaranteeing a death spiral for corporate morale and corporate recruiting. It's awful leadership.
a folder's a folder. Go into an office depot and you can buy boxes of them. people still use them all the time.
I see. Money must not be explicitly trading hands in these commercial data-sharing agreements, because you're very serious about that one detail (and nothing else). I obviously don't have insight into these commercial data-sharing contracts - actually, you do. So I'll assume I'm wrong about dollars being exchanged directly.

But I'm not wrong that data is shared liberally and unnecessarily in these data-sharing agreements, which was actually the point. And I'm not wrong that those agreements are commercial in nature with Facebook receiving something in return. Or are you saying Facebook's data-sharing agreement system is a giant charity program. So I'm still okay with calling commercial data-sharing agreements "selling user data."
Last week on the front page of reddit: "I was cleaning up my office today and I found a bunch of 'Save' buttons" -- http://i.imgur.com/0R9EUmx.jpg

http://sl.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1b22bl/i_was_cleaning_...
Twibright Optar stores 200kB per A4 sheet, or 25 seconds at 64kbits/s. 64kbits/s is high quality stereo audio if compressed using Opus. Most music sounds great at this bit rate. 64kbits/s is also 8kHz µ-law PCM, which is the standard for telephone lines in North America--so, terrible but intelligible. Opus can be turned down to 6kbits/s, which gives you about 4.4 minutes of muddy but intelligible speech per page.

By extrapolation, we can calculate density for microfiche. Assuming a resolution of 120 lp/mm, microfiche has about 5 times the resolution of the paper used for Optar, and the dimensions are exactly half. This means that microfiche has 6.3 times the density of A4 paper, measured in bytes per sheet. This gives us one high quality, durable recording of "Ring of Fire" on a single sheet of microfiche.

I wouldn't bother with uncompressed PCM. (You use the term "wav audio", but WAV is a file format.)
Click the red triangle near 101 / 237 interchange in Sunnyvale on the google maps link from the footer of the article, you'll get this page:

http://geotracker.waterboards.ca.gov/gama/gamamap/public/clu...

It's sorted in descending order by max level of TCE detected at each well, ever. The top three wells are 140k (ca 2006), 110k (ca 2009), and 100k (ca 2007) micrograms / liter.

There's a similar site by the Sunnyvale Fry's on Arques, but that one's peak detection was 74.7k ug/L.
This website is considered aiding and abetting copyright infringement which is a serious crime. They will DMCA your hosting to take you down, and then sue you regardless of the fact that you live in canada...should've made this site anonymously with a prepaid credit card at a coffee shop...not very smart bro. I suggest hosting in norway since they don't bother with DMCA. In addition you don't have a DMCA agent which means you are not protected under DMCA. It is very easy to register a DMCA agent but most people that do something illegal knowingly such as yourself have a lawyer register for them. If i were you, i would probably shut down this site since it's not worth the trouble it will cause you and your friends. Relaunch it anonymously with another domain...it's your best protection.

Also remember that when you buy a new domain, make up your contact information and never ever use your real info even for a second because there are many whois data providers that scrape and save whois info changes. You can buy historical whois data for $10 bucks.

Another tip is never respond to DMCA emails from your hosting provider if they forward you one and won't turn your site back up until your reply. They will ask you state your name and declare under perjury that you will remove the infringing content from your website. In most cases, they will share this information with the person that filed the DMCA request and that will blow your cover. When something like that happens, just move your hosting. Never buy hosting for more than 3 months at a time.

Take it from someone who has been in the porn business for a long time.

Relevant link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_liability
http://www.chillingeffects.org/linking/faq.cgi
FTA: Taxation: How do governments collect taxes on transactions in Bitcoin? The answer is they don't, and they can't.

Though many Bitcoin fans don't quite realize it, Bitcoin's radical transparency could in fact be a tax-collector's wet dream. Every public-key, balance, and transaction is public.

A government that wants to coopt and efficiently tax Bitcoin could announce the following policy, based on the idea of 'tainted' or 'clean' balances:

"You can make your Bitcoin legal inside our jurisdiction by registering your public keys. (No, we don't need your private keys.) All transactions between registered keys are great, just make sure they match up with your tax filings, because we can see the endpoints.

"You should not receive money to your registered address(es) from an unregistered address. If you do, you can file a disclosure with 30 days, identifying the origin and nature of the transaction, paying all applicable taxes, and then the balance is yours to keep."

"If you do not, the entire amount that's mixed with the unregistered-origin balance is subject to forfeit. Your registered keys with any such balance will be blacklisted, making your previously-registered balances unspendable until you come back into compliance."

Any above-ground business would then stick with clean balances. Both clean and tainted coins could circulate in the same blockchain, but rarely mix... and would have different de facto values. (Would a clean or dirty satoshi be worth more? I'm not sure!) Trying to buy above-ground things with dirty money would face the same 'laundering challenge' as today: making it look like legitimate income via front operations.

Except, the blockchain would be a perfect record of earlier related transactions. That means big-data traffic analysis, and occasional meatspace busts discovering the identities of unregistered keys, would create a very strong map of unsanctioned economic activity -- much better than is possible with physical cash.
They were well written because they were written by educated people for educated people. The thing that trashed video games the most is that gaming went mainstream and now the whole industry want to reach as large of an audience as possible and that brings down the level to crap.
My father was laid off last February when Fisker did their first round of layoffs on the east coast. What a terribly run company, which is sad, because the car really did look good (from some angles...)
I appreciated the thoughts behind it, the relation between interest rates and incentives for investment is not something I thought about. It makes a lot more sense to me than bitcoins.
Funny, I have never before seen or heard of the "pawnbroker's symbol". I looked it up and I guess you mean the three circles hanging from a line. Is it a regional thing, I wonder? Here in the western USA, the only sign I would associate with a pawnbroker is "dingy neon". I wonder if the traditional sign is still used in areas which had pawnbrokers before the invention of lighted signage.
This is a pretty good question - mostly because the heart of good security, good airline safety and good surgery is a checklist.

And I don't think I have a checklist thats uptodate, even the one in my head.

ShowHN: using HN as my personal todo list cos I actually look at my threads list daily...

https://grepular.com/Protecting_a_Laptop_from_Simple_and_Sop...

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Security

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4018426

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/fi...

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/security.html

That site on secondary GPGkeys I keep failing to find
I completely agree. And I should mention that it's not that I don't think it's possible for an entrepreneur to know more about investing than I do, just that it shows hubris.
Built-in Full Disk Encryption (FileVault 2) was really the only big OS X innovation since Snow Leopard in my opinion. It made making a notebook computer's data safe against theft with minimal frustration.
The physicist, the glamour model and the suitcase of cocaine
I think the idea of "save" may even go away. For example, there's no save button on google docs.

Computers should never lose your work, you shouldn't have to instruct it.
HSBC knew what they were doing, that is things were explicitly illegal, and profited from that.

Who actually launders money then? Hint: it's not mobsters since their craft is illegal by itself and therefore no separate law for laundering would be needed.
"Also, the blockchain data doesn't tell us much"

This is precisely why I give numbers from BitPay, SR, casinos, etc, to show that these transactions are associated to actual spendings on goods and services.
I totally agree that this is surprising behavior. But git did try to tell you:

! [rejected] master -> master (non-fast-forward)

And once you've invoked the gods of `push -f`, you're on your own.
Collectible markets are not liquid and very whimsical. They are a place for rich people to show off their money, because when you have enough money, the money isn't important, it is buying something new and unique.
Poor form not crediting Homakov, GitHub. Credit means a lot to security researchers (that is all a lot of us are working for).

If you aren't even giving simple credit, you are asking to be compromised the next time an issue is found. GitHub is large enough and prominent enough where it should have an entire bounty program, let alone giving a blogger a link.
You might have a point here. This really started out as a social experiment, and then it took off, so I started charging so it could be sustainable.

Looking at unedditreddit through the harsh prism of business, it probably isn't that great of an opportunity.

I just got ruffled by the idea of somebody forcing me to shutdown because it didn't fit with their interests, and it made me want to fight. I probably just need to make the rational decision to work on something with more potential.

Thanks for hashing this out with me.
Thanks -- I didn't know that. But routing it by way of businessinsider.com only tries to get around a reasonable action to keep trash out of HN (and I understand this isn't your submission).
But you don't know you're not supposed to be there, you must have at least visited their site first, clicked their terms of service, before you can find out.

Terms of service are typically very long documents and are time consuming to read. Do you read terms of service of every site you go to, to make sure you are permitted to be on that site?
Communist-era video game museum in Moscow
I agree with you that there is a level of experience required for using wine on the command-line and tuning it to work for certain games. However, the PlayOnLinux project abstracts the details of setting up wine and configuring wine for games by having a list of popular games with predefined wine configurations and an intuitive GUI for installing and running games. While there are compatibility issues and performance issues with wine that are a legitimate issue, tools like PlayOnLinux allow anyone to play wine games to the best that wine can. I've had some luck with it in the past, but I personally don't mind just using wine on the command-line (if I have to).

http://www.playonlinux.com/en/
Cougar Night in Silicon Valley
The basic message seems to be: We're doing fine in terms of strategy, if not execution.

The mea culpas are limited to basically fumbling implementation details: games falling short of expectations, server end-of-life schedules, the botched SimCity launch. But not the fact that SimCity is always-online (which we're told is not DRM), or the question whether games need to be set up in a way that EA has the ability to disable multiplayer functionality.

Those are strategic decisions, which like F2P games and micropayments and building their own online distribution platform, they are on the right path. Putting those issues along with different sorts of controversies such as LGBT content in games seems a bit odd.

All in all, the opposite of an apology, really.
Do we know that they can't have different behaviors if you're on mobile or desktop? I wouldn't assume that - it does say this only works on a few mobile platforms.

It would be amazing if we could link to a "share page" for our product if you're on Twitter on a desktop, and the actual app if you're on mobile.
I hope (and believe) you're wrong... I want to have the option to chose when and where to save my work. Not having this choice seems to imply a future in which no one has any real control over a filesystem or their files.

... which I suppose one can see coming from a mile away, but I really hope it doesn't become ubiquitous.