skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What part of my response did you think was the equivalent of flipping them off? I wasn't trying to be malicious to anyone personally. I have my own beliefs on IAC and they're negative, but I don't think I said anything nasty to Brian.

I felt the need to correct the stats since they were part of a point I was making. The data I cited doesn't look at a certain group of web sites specifically, which skews the data.
It's strange that I've never heard of .io until github.io. What else am I missing out on? :(
People who say this dont understand what a UI is. If that was true, then God would not have invented the eye.Flowers wouldnt have color. Trees wouldnt have texture. Jony Ive was great because he kept the window minimalistic.If you kept OS UI elements minimalistic and non skeumorphic, you would end up with Windows 8 Metro. But,Yes I agree there needs to be a trade off.
UI is all about tricking a user into virtual reality.
How Google Glass Can Fix America
I've figured out a simple way Google Glass can fix America once and for all.

Make it MANDATORY for all elected officials wear Google Glass, streaming audio and video 24/7 365 days a year.

From the President of the U.S. on down to local politicians or the lowliest government worker on the ladder. Cops, too. No more lies and true government transparency.

What do you think? If I get enough comments I'll put a petition on the White House web site.
True, some gadgets stay at certain price points, but you keep getting more and more value for your money. We could rephrase "electronics getting cheaper" as "your purchasing power towards electronics increasing", if that's better.

> In some future world where no one wants the new gadget the price of the old one will stop falling!

What's the point here? It's not like the old gadget would get sold at the same price for ever and ever.
You are a good guy. But there are bad guys too. You dont want them watching every move your government makes :)
And Sorry, Google cant make out good from bad yet.
Why do you think the browser would be a better vector than Skype?
Sliding Messaging Pro: Great New Messaging App for Android in Beta
URL are for computers too !
What stops you from using nouveau drivers?
Maybe it will be manatory that everyone wears google glass. Google Glass or DIE! lol
I used to have that curiosity to want to know why competitors were reaching out. I've seen the pattern enough times that I just know, so I have no interest anymore.

You seem to support my point with your story. You said you thought they were interested in buying you at the end of it. Are there other reasons you've encountered, where competitors wanted to talk and there was another purpose behind it?
> your tone is unnecessarily aggressive and dismissive

I take it you're referring to the word "retarded"? It was meant to criticize the idea of a "deflationary spiral", not the poster.
Can you add a readme for what it's meant to do?

It seems opinionated to the point of being meaningless.
This must be why hackers never write these kind of polemics. If they take such a strong position on something like this, they end up seeing other perspectives which falsifies that position. They would have to tack on a "...Maybe" at the end of their title, rework their premise or otherwise end up sabotaging their article's readership.

It reminds me of this Calvin & Hobbes:
http://jurassikparc.tumblr.com/image/8226642015
Evil...and yet I'm a bit disappointed it doesn't try to use the computers GPU instead of CPU.

(and yes I'm aware this wouldn't work in all cases).
This is an utterly bad idea! Having every minute of government officials may make public very critical or in some cases very preliminary information.
To point a few:
1. Government policy updates.
2. Court proceedings
3. Covert operations
4. Military developments
5. Personal situations
> After a thorough SOX compliance effort (which was ridiculous - one recommendation was "print out all source code and file it"),

If they found that rogue accountant it wasn't all that ridiculous after all. That one requirement was (probably, I don't know the context) ridiculous but the compliance effort apparently wasn't.

On another note, I have had a customer a while ago that would have been extremely happy if they had had a printed, filed copy of all their source code.
1. > During workshops we don’t have time to learn people how to use software

"teach"

2. The inventor of the PalmPilot used a prototype made of cardboard for months, to see if it was usable. He would bring it to meetings and "use" it to take notes like it was the real thing! Here's a pic of one of those prototypes in the Computer Museum in Palo Alto

http://bambax.smugmug.com/Other/2012-10Californie/27080082_g...
Generally I agree with you, but in some cases a government does interfere to limit, inhibit, discourage, or prevent purchasing to varying degrees. They make it very hard. Controlled substances for example.

They can even do it automatedly, such as freezing the ability to withdraw or deposit funds electronically.
No need to apologize, you're just fine.
We've got a list of security researchers who have disclosed vulnerabilities to us responsibly (including Homakov) on our help site:
https://help.github.com/articles/responsible-disclosure-of-s...
A story about being rejected 3 times by YC up voted to the front page of HN. You don't see that as a large indicator as to the culture here?

And I have no problem with non-technical people, or anyone learning to code, I just thought it odd that the startup idea was for a non-coder to learn programming in order to 1) teach it to others, 2) ?, 3) profit.
> Patent trolls are on the right side of the law

What side of the law you are on is largely influenced by money. Even when you very clearly are on the right side, fighting the patent war is extremely expensive.
Nokia’s Verizon-Bound Lumia 928 Spotted
Why filing? As method for backing up IP?
Open Source or Free Software?
The point about having a fixed upfront cost/ceiling is valid. This is the reason why we have pricing plans with a fixed cost based on the customer's estimation of their usage. If you signup for a $19 plan, you will not be charged more than $19 per month.

Companies are able to roughly estimate their monthly conversations based on the number of conversations they have in a day. After this estimation if the number of conversations exceed their monthly limit, we currently do not prevent the extra conversations or charge the customers more.

We hope to have a open conversation with our customers who consistently exceed their limit and figure out the right model for the customer. The underlying philosophy about our pricing is, we want help our customers succeed by enabling their support and sales conversations, and not be a barrier ourselves.
Your good old financial audit. Debits must match credits, and all debits must make sense.
rorrr, you are hellbanned.
plura?
If you compiled immediately you would probably find that your games performed much worse, because the compiler would have very little information about the functions and the kind of arguments that will be passed to them.

Once a function has run many times, the compiler can use the gathered statistics (such as knowing that the arguments were always floats) to produce better optimised machine code (such as using float-specific ops, and eliminating code paths that expect arguments other than floats).

This is a common tradeoff for all JITs; Should I wait longer to produce better code, or compile sooner to run the faster code earlier? You can play with this number in most Java JVMs (OpenJDK or Sun/Oracle) using the argument "-XX:CompileThreshold". This sets how many times a function should run before it is compiled. It defaults to about 1500 for a client VM and 10000 for a server VM.

As mentioned in a sibling comment, asm.js is a partial alternative to this tradeoff, as your asm.js code specifies all data types ahead of time, and hence they can be compiled up-front fairly well.
A little story on Java Monitors
Update the Go example to use 1.1 :D
...and for good reason too. Go back and read his comment history before you warn him.
> They managed to squeeze emotion out of orders of magnitude less pixels than the standard game today. And you've got to admire that.

It always confuses me when people are impressed by low-res graphics having an emotional impact.

I read novels. I played text games. Graphics merely seem like yet another genre to me, not something exceptionally challenging.
I think they like filing because it's immutable storage. An engineer can't write code to change the filed-away code as easily as they can the on-disk source code.

I don't know much about SOX, but based on how I've seen it implemented at various places it seems to be a law that says "it is illegal to write computer programs, so don't let anyone do it! have a good day and have fun running a business!"
http://crashlog.io a real time exception handler for one.
I've been heavily involved with direct marketing and email marketing for years, I can tell you this is not a rule that is set in stone. Yes, generally spoken, the opening rate is lower on Fridays. But that doesn't mean conversion is lower, too. I've sent mass emails on Saturday evenings that converted like crazy, only to fail miserably the next week at the exact same time.

Plus, if nobody sends emails on Friday because they 'don't open well', you're the only one sending them.

Keep your content quality, relevance and value to the subscriber as high as possible, and the time won't matter.
Wait until you see what happens when you type "rm -rf .git". Oh noes, the rm tool lets me DELETE HISTORY!
OP, what are your motivations behind this?

Anyways, this is right on the money. Finding the problem is an art in itself. It's only once we find the root problem that we can design the holistic solution, otherwise it's a whole bunch of patched held together by desperation and neediness.

Example: if it turns out poverty is related to global warming and for the past decade we've spend resources trying to rid poverty in isolation, we are all sorts of screwed.

This is exactly the job of a Product Designer.
"A&R" apparently means "artists and repertoire", which is a standard department in a record label (and analogous to a tech company's R&D department).
At $5+/ea, that quickly adds up and difficult to parse in large numbers in duress. Whereas an IR camera is rather effective and perhaps cheaper.
If your source code is your life, a printed backup in ocr font isn't that insane. $100 in printing costs? Cheaper than most long-term backup.
This seems to imply that most people who die are burn victims? (It feels like this is a stupid question, but I'm not sure of the answer so eh. Asking anyways.)

Would people at risk of a inhalation injury actually pass through you often? You're in a burn unit, so I'd assume that means you mostly get burn victims, and inhalation injuries would be pointed somewhere else?
You just call yourself consultant. The billing is high enough to justify the income.
Is it also stealing people's local wallets too?
PostgreSQL's transaction system
It looks like their demise was due to fraud/embezzlement. Not sure how bitcoin would help here.

Also, users of such an exchange would be heavily exposed to the volatility of BTC/$major_currency when making long-term bets. Unless one doesn't care about currency risk, but it's not easy to ignore it unless as long as one's future expenses are still pegged to $major_currency.
How do you handle line length limits? Or are there no line length limits in any of the codebases you work on?
Top Problems with Surveys
I've been drifting away from electronic games to board/card games for some time now. My cards will still be there if the publisher goes belly-up. I don't need to have a constant internet connection to play, just a few friends and a table.
> .. they never took themselves too seriously. From a guy called Guybrush Threepwood wanting to become a pirate

How they chose the character name is an example of this:

> The origin of the name "Guybrush" comes in part from Deluxe Paint, the tool used by the artists to create the character sprite. Since the character had no name at this point, the file was simply called 'Guy'. When the file was saved, Steve Purcell, the artist responsible for the sprite, added 'brush' to the filename, indicating that it was the Deluxe Paint "brush file" for the "Guy" sprite. The file name was then "guybrush.bbm", so the developers eventually just started referring to this unnamed 'Guy' as "Guybrush".

The Monkey Island series are my favourite video games. Loom is up there too.
Ask HN: What innovations have come as a result of high bandwidth?
What innovations have changed the world as a result of high bandwidth through e.g. fibre optics?
public keys are only available after you make a transaction and usually the bitcoin clients create a new address for each new transaction such that the public key for the account which actually holds the coins is never revealed.
There was an episode on the topic of resurrecting the adventure-game genre (and what exactly made it so special to us) this week on Extra-Credits:
http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/raising-the-dead

I highly, and wholeheartedly recommend checking the rest of extra-credits series, for anyone interested in game design, gamification, and the gaming industry in general:

http://penny-arcade.com/patv/show/extra-credits

And specifically those of you creating experiences:
http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/gamification
TechCrunch Founder Michael Arrington's History of Abuse Allegations
I'm old enough to remember DHTML, it was terrible.

It's quite remarkable how far front and back-end JS development has come since then.
One is malware, the other isn't. When I open their "Generate Bitcoin" page it won't run because I don't have Java, not JS, in my browser. If I did it would ask me for permission to run and if I said yes it wouldn't be persistent.

The Skype malware is classed as a malicious IRC-bot so unless it's very specialized it's safe to assume it includes other features as well, like DDoSing, searching and mass uploading of files ("wallet.dat"?), mass downloading and running of files (so the backdoor could be extended at any time), login form reporting and what have you.
Okay, I very much dislike them too, but being afraid of a partnership with a hardware monopoly based on two mistakes is a bit of a stretch.
Mt.Gox to accept Litecoin Virtual Currency
Alienware X51 Gaming PC with Ubuntu OS available
Lately, I feel that our species has come to an end....
We need to talk about Facebook - nadir.org
These were very linear too though. Sure: some like Monkey Island had a map that gave you the illusion of having a whole world to explore, but there still was a fixed sequence of events that couldn't be broken.

None of the decisions you made had any effect for the future or could just flat-out prevent you from finishing the game. Some (Sierra) called that a feature, others (Lucas Arts) a bug.

Maniac Mansion 1 and The Fate of Atlantis are the only two Lucas Arts games that provided a little bit of nonlinearity. Maniac Mansion with its different ways to solve the game based on character selection and Indiana Jones with its selection of one of three quite different paths through the game.
wow. what? what's all this stuff about alligators and pac-men? Isn't the side with two lines just bigger than the pointy side? how do these new entities help? I'm really confused by the small side being the alligator that wants to eat the big side (or did i get that wrong?), let alone the stuff about 4s and 7s!
What if you were, say, Facebook, and had lots of visitors, good time-on-site metrics and you were still searching for ways to grow revenue? Might it make sense? Seems like their entire userbase could combine to mine quite a few bitcoins.. But I'm not a miner, so perhaps I'm wrong? A quick search turned up a Fast Company article that claims (http://www.fastcompany.com/3005269/facebooks-daily-mobile-us...) 618 million daily users. Assuming that most of those folks aren't logged on all day and many (more than half!) are logging on via mobile, you'd probably only be able to convert a fraction of those to effective miners, but even still it sounds like a lot of bitcoins per day. Perhaps they might offer users the option in exchange for better privacy controls and/or an ad-free experience?
Certainly that circular whumping noise can be digitally removed to allow the voice to be heard more clearly?

It seems to be a precisely repeating pattern, prime for filtering?
While reading this, it reminded me of interesting paper on javascript privilege separation, what do you think about it?

https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity12/privilege...
I'm really excited by Rust because it seems to be one of the most sensible language designs I've seen in a while. Go is nice but has some pretty odd syntax in places. I'm just waiting on Rust to hit 1.0 before I start playing with it more seriously.
Y'know,

That GCC is six years old.[1] Go, Rust, Dart and V8 didn't even exist when it was released. Maybe update that if anything?

[1] http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html
Set a vertical bar that indicates the column that shall not be passed. I use 8-char wide tabs on the few codebases at work that use tabs, while everyone else seems to use 4 (because these particular projects obey "tabs for indent, spaces for align" either displays perfectly). I obey my vertical bar and always fall short.

Other peoples code will sometimes go over on my screen.... but who cares? If I found that a particularly offensive situation, I would just adjust my settings accordingly.
A blind iPhone user: Switching to Android full-time – an experiment
MtGox response - It’s been an epic few days: What happened
i won't work in popular browsers. subdomain is another origin and passwords cannot be stolen
Searching python related open source projects actively looking for developers
Please suggest some python based open source projects (relaed to the scipy numpy family) that are looking for volunteers/developers, and which does not have a steep learning curve.
Quick Now is Slow Later
A keylogger would be more lucrative than a bitcoin miner.
You use spaces because of how github renders tabs in code when you are viewing it on the web?
We're all on a journey and there are phases where some of us loose the way.. and end up thinking others can predict our fate.

" Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. " - Said by Cassius in `Julius Caesar' Act I, Scene 2
Logjam, I apologize for replying to your comment in another thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5501739) in this unorthodox way, but you replied to one of my comments in a recent thread and before I could reply to yours, the originator of the thread killed it, which action prevented any more correspondence and might have led you to believe I had no reply to your remarks. But I do. Here's your comment followed by my reply:

>>...you're only adding to the perception that women lie [emphasis added] about sex crimes. And they do [emphasis added]...20%-40%...are simply false... blah blah

> Oh. My. Lie. Speaking of sleazy, do tell us more about your oddly worded little insinuation, when the article you linked goes on to say:

> "First, the category of 'false accusations' does not distinguish between accusers who lie and those who are honestly mistaken. Nor does it indicate that a rape did not occur, merely that the specific accused is innocent....Third, the 1-in-4 figure has 'fuzzy' aspects that could influence the results. For example, Neufeld and Scheck mention only sexual assault cases that were "referred to the FBI where results could be obtained."

First, your comments aren't a reply to my comment, but to yours -- your having edited my remarks, and added emphasis not present in the original, changes its meaning. I never said that 20% to 40% of sex reports are lies, as you insinuate in your edit of my remarks, I said they are false, and they are. My claim is fully backed up by the FBI report.

Second, when a woman identifies a man as a rapist in a criminal trial, but is not certain of her identification, in a legal sense she is lying, because to offer testimony in a criminal trial, a witness must be certain -- and judges and juries assume witnesses understand this responsibility. If the witness is uncertain, saying under oath, "He's the perpetrator" in a criminal trial is not an "honest mistake", it's a separate crime. Therefore a witness saying "I was mistaken" after the fact, after the legal system makes the assumption that the identification was certain, is unacceptable, and the original testimony constitutes a lie.

The responsible-adult solution is obvious -- it's a criminal trial, someone may lose his freedom and be marked for life with the vilest kind of stigma, therefore if a witness is not certain, she absolutely must say, "I am not certain". Therefore the 20% to 40% figure quoted in the article consists of (a) liars and (b) people who are being criminally irresponsible.

And believe me when I tell you, the prevailing FBI statistics can only hurt women who come forth to report real sex crimes. The fact that 20% to 40% of such reports are false is often used by defense attorneys to ruin a woman's chance to receive a fair hearing. As Wendy McElroy says in the article I linked, "False accusations are not rare. They are common."

When a woman chooses to accuse any convenient suspect, she may feel a temporary vindication that some man pays for another man's crime, but in the long run, all women pay the price for that irresponsible act.
A nice ML influenced system programming language, that even has generics, who would guess that?!
is there TL;DW (too long didnt watch)
I came to the US as a student. I believe this is a very common background story for foreign entrepreneurs.
Apple pulls app discovery app, Appgratis
And since it's a Mac, it is probably llvm-gcc (GCC with an LLVM backend).

A colleague/friend who is developing neural network software recently switched from gcc 4.2.1 to 4.5 (which is still old) and got a 50% speed increase without touching any code.
Didn't know Steve Purcell (for me, of Sam and Max comics fame) was also an animator for LucasArts. Neat, this explains some things... And why S&M hit the roadway was so close to his comic style
Wait, this is talking about something which was posted to HN.

HN -> CNN -> HN? Please, no.
Your title seems to say that there are scientific python related open source projects actively looking for developers. But in fact you are looking for such a project. Maybe it would be more constructive to say that instead.

As to "a steep learning curve", given the field and the possible applications, I think that goes without saying.
Java 1.6 is more than 6 years old now too. I half expected to see a Turbo Pascal 4 benchmark mixed in there before I realized I was joking.
Unplug to save your love of music
So you want to Startup, Go fishing first...
The past, present and future of Mojang as seen through Notch's eyes
Show HN: my project
I have been working on my project for quite some time now. Been doing everything from coding to design on my own. Doing this has made think different and learn a whole new set of skills. At first starting this project was all about start up and making a million dollar business. But it seems that has change. At this point in my project I have become more emotionally and mentally attach too than ever. It's pass that stage out of me that I want to make millions and just really want to help people and reach out to them, and it's fun to work on something that makes me think I can change the world. It's a cheesy HN post but thought I'd share it anyways. Please share your story if you have one.