skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generally speaking, I agree with the author of this post. While the language is at times intentionally inflammatory, the core point still stands: people who have talents, skills, and ideas should get to float to the top.

We work in a hyper-logical field (the only thing more logical is math). Why can't people involved in the field see that the only thing that truly matters is furthering the progress of our craft/art/discipline/whatever-you-call-it. I don't care who wrote my framework/language/IDE/whatever. I just want it to be quality.

This is the same problem that plagues things like education. No child seems to be allowed to be special or exceptional anymore. Everyone wants a damn participation ribbon. Screw your participation ribbon.
Would this prevent a third party from digitizing the records and putting them into a online searchable database?
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As someone who works in the Canadian Government I'm not surprised at all that a deputy minister would have no interest in helping you iterate your product, at that level it's all about politics and to have a product fail in front of them and their coworkers is a big problem it makes them look bad which could have a negative effect on their job.
"But being in school is not something I truly want. I love creating, innovating, pushing myself with real-world challenges and projects, and the amount of satisfaction you get from pushing something out there is tremendous."

I've seen this type of sentiment before - it's quite common for people who don't go through school.

University level education (quality ones) give the student exactly the same feeling that the author is describing as enjoying. The only difference is that the pace of learning and achievement is far higher then it is in the real world in which you are subject to daily demands for return on investment and stability.

I've been through both University level education and real world work - I'd take University any day of the week. University provides an environment in which experimentation and play is encouraged - I have yet to find a work environment that does the same, even among small start-ups.
Is SCUMM really better than Lua?
Do you have any recommendation about essays on this subject? innovation vs capitalism.
> every other sign in that airport reads "death for drug traffickers"

Yeah, a few signs and only a light touch of enforcement. Coming in you show your passport, glance at the sign, and walk straight out. Done. On return, you show your passport, and a quick shoes-on bag screening at the gate. Queuing is rare and short.

Compare that to USA airports where you queue for hours, get 20 questions at immigration (admittedly by cheerful and well mannered staff), and go through more queues. On return you queue for hours, take various random items of clothing off, get irradiated, and generally pushed around and looked at suspiciously.

Yeah, I'll take the signs.
> the minimum viable product preached by Lean Startup has limited practical use. Customers aren’t interested in funding your “learning.” They want reliable software that delivers value consistently. You must build the minimum desirable product, and if you don’t have a good understanding of what’s desirable before you start, then, don’t.

Oh, how I wish I could tell myself this five years ago. Maybe it's the industry I do most of my development for, but users I interact with very rarely want to hear "that will be in 2.0!" The ones that even let you finish the sentence before hanging up/walking out usually respond with "That's great. Let me know when it's done, then we can talk about signing up."

MVP and incremental development is great when you're a VC-funded startup in Mountain View, but when you're a real business you either have a working product that people want, or you don't.
I came to post the same sentiment.

His approach will hopefully force developers to focus on useful utility rather than trivial novelty with the goal of extracting money from the first waves of users.

This should be upheld for two generations of the product. Figure out where glass can augment rather than distract and make those augmentation offerings so compelling that people will want to adopt glass.
Of course, prohibiting third party developers from displaying ads in Glassware won't necessarily keep Google from displaying some form of advertising, like including 'sponsored results' or 'shopping recommendations'. Google already has a dominant market position in online advertising, this policy will only strengthen it.

As for developers, perhaps they can make Glassware that requires users to sign up to a mailing list or paid service, or that requires users to promote products via social networks.
I think the question you meant to ask was: "Is SCUMM really better than Lua for the rapid/(agile?) development of 2d adventure games?"

And according to one experienced source (OP): The answer is a resounding "yes"!
Muslims != Race.
Jeez.

There are iranians and arabs arguing against islamic fundamentalists getting into Swedish politics. You know, those homophobes who "like" al-qaida on Facebook
What you see as a problem, I see as a positive. This is clearly an edge case - it's not the norm by far. The norm is that sellers make darn sure that their product is "as advertised" so that they've set the expectations correctly. This results in higher feedback for the seller. Sure, you have some slime ball sellers there who say, "Give me 5 stars!" but that, again, is not the norm.
If these ads intended audience were grown-up, corporate they could have featured business trip and family time, but these ads targets a different demographics altogether.

These ads depicts turning boring into fun, features interruptions every few seconds, showing people unhappy with life looking for a way to escape it and wanting to be entertained. In the center is the phone.

Now what demographics has a short attention span, a low tolerance for boring, is unhappy with life because it sucks and constantly want to stimulated ?

So facebook is targeting teenagers as loosely the 10-25, to the surprise of OP who's an investor, it actually makes a lot of sense.

Teenagers are going mobile, sometimes mobile only at an unmatched rate and they are the major driving force of any so called "social networking website", as demonstrated with pretty much every of those websites in history. I believe it is a known fact that facebook was losing users from this vital demographics and mostly due to a shift of usage towards mobile.

The unexpected part in these ads is that they seem to be truthfully honest, to me the ads shows facebook home as disruptive, obnoxious and unwelcomed constant feed void of interesting content pushing people towards not living in the moment which pretty much sums up facebook IMHO.
I tried to read it again, but I see a lot of value judgement into it. One possibility is that it maybe not a judgement of how Tim is managing it, but a critique to the Kickstarter model as a whole. Either way, I don't agree with him.

If a Monkey Island is going to be created in this manner I wouldn´t support it as a crowdfunding project. But I would certainly buy the game after it is released! And pay good cash too!

I don't think Ron is doing something bad by stating those things, I just think he doesn't get crowdfunding the same way I do.
Thanks for this. I manage security consultants and constantly have questions from people who want to get into the field. I'm going to just send them to your site and call it a reading list.
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I disagree. I love that model of crowdfunding and I think he hit the nail on the head: the stretch goals, crowd feedback, demos, etc are a hallmark of a blockbuster Kickstarter.

But, as he admitted, he's not interested in breaking records. He's interested in making his game the way he wants.

That's totally legit and I totally support someone making that claim.

It's up to each and everyone of us to assess that claim and decide if we trust him in that endeavour.

I strongly resist the idea that Kickstarted games MUST follow one model or they are wrong or bad. Not every creative mind works well with the chaos and bile that spews from the crowd.
Android gets 97% of malware. Apple iOS 58% of enterprise.
Since it seems that the voting record is the only transparency we'll get for now, this was passed with unanimous consent by both the House and Senate, and it was signed by the President yesterday (src: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d113:SN00716:@@@X ).

Shameful.
>That's just not true

Yes it is. I can forgive someone for being ignorant of the way the eBay feedback system works, but when you push that button, you are not just "notifying other perspective buyers of potential problems". It hasn't been that way for years. Not since eBay removed the ability to leave negative feedback for buyers, anyways.

If I were the seller in this case, rather than going to court, and negative feedback was still around, I'd have left them the same with something like "PITA buyer, - feedback for being off $1 in shipping. AVOID."

What you are actually doing when negging a seller is deciding "This seller made me so mad that I am going to cost them large amounts of reputation, raise their fees, restrict their ability to list, and possibly help drive them out of business". This is not an idle threat. Feedback is calculated over a 12 moth period, meaning if you only sell a couple things a year and get a single neg, you'll trip over all of the eBay restrictions and fee increases.

Now let's get some perspective here. The seller delivered the item, as described. There are no complaints about the item itself, so we can assume the buyer is happy with it.

Buyer's willing to mark the whole transaction as terrible over a freaking dollar?

There are some levels of shenanigans to which this is an appropriate response. $1 is not.

The more I think about it, the more I think there may be some merit to this case. If the seller offered to make the problem right and the buyer hit them anyways, given the effect that hit will have, is it possible they have a case?
That's all fine and dandy until Apple's iGoggles come along, generously allowing you to deploy commercial apps (perhaps for an initial "outrageous" profit-sharing of 50/50?) and bam, these iGoggles within a few months offer zillions of uses to the consumer at a similar price-point as Google's say "only" 100s of uses.

Right now, from the current state of our knowledge, Glass initially seems to cost upwards of a good laptop, with a severely limited-in-capabilities developer API and no way to charge for potentially highly valuable apps.

If the above parameters don't change, Glass may well be the first in this new market but maybe not the one to blow up a completely new mass consumer gadget market from scratch, like the iPhone did..
There's one large warning sign as you freely exit the baggage claim area and walk out of the airport completely unimpeded and without additional queues.
The idea was not to claim copyright on the definition, but use the inclusion of the definition in another work as an indication that this other work is a copy of the original work in its entirety.
If they don't have to publish the data publicly then the only people who will really know what trades they made are the IRS and their brokerage.

I wonder what the voluntary reporting rate will be. My guess is 5% tops. And what does get reported will take years to get released if someone makes a FOIA request.
A lot of the pressure to pass this law came from a 60 minutes piece. I am curious how they will respond.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7388130n
When Hacking Is the Smaller Crime
Testing the Ouya with 3DMark
My sons thank you 31 year old childless white man. I don't believe they will also become 31 year old childless white man because 1, they are asian, and 2, they won't even take the trash out to the can, even if the can was where it was supposed to be...
> His approach will hopefully force developers to focus on useful utility rather than trivial novelty with the goal of extracting money from the first waves of users.

Rephrased: "this approach forcefully prevents developers from making what people (sadly but quite apparently seem to) want". Aren't we here all about "making something people want" -- even if it turns out that the majority of people just end up "wanting" Angry Birds?
Great share to hear the more realistic side of some of the MVP pieces.
Certainly one of the biggest challenges I hit almost daily with my saas is what feature is critical to success, and which can be 2.0, especially in light of the comment than they might not want to wait for a 2.0. Customer research only gets you so far.
Actually getting the records. It's not as though you can march in somewhere with a FOIA and get a copy five minutes later. Expect years of heel-dragging with "we weren't given the resources!" to be the excuse for the delay. It's law-breaking to be sure but who's going to prosecute someone for it?
Sorry, this doesn't add up. Lean doesn't mean your product breaks or is pushed out functionally incomplete. If no one wants it it's not viable.

The article says give your customers what they want. Unfortunately they thought the customers wanted a mobile app... but they didn't! Wait, what startup methodology could have prevented this...

The article is honest about their mistakes and that must have been hard to do and props for trying but don't try and pass the failure buck to a methodology you didn't even do right.
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I don't think dictionary definitions are. However, if I make up a word, that is copyrightable as it is my creation, or IP, or whatever term you wish to use.

Similar to putting a fake street on a map, I would think.
So, instead of a public database we'll have to use FOIA requests to get the data?
I'm a consultant that mainly works with big companies, the main thing big companies have in common is that they are big.

Seriously there's so much variation in how they go about things that it makes no sense to say big is bad and small is better. It all depends on the individual case. I've seen a lot of dysfunctional companies of all sizes.
Duetto compiles C++ applications to JavaScript
For the length, I omitted some words. The whole sentence here:

Duetto is a software that compiles C++ applications to binary code and Javascript, allowing you to write high-performance, client-server distributed applications in a single C++ codebase.
With Duetto, all your C++ applications can go to the web!
Dating site OKCupid wants to help Bitcoin users find love
I hope no one minds if I hijack to ask:

What are some really good MODERN adventure games, along the lines of MI or the Space Quests?

Besides the Two Guys' Kickstarter campaign, I mean...
And for exactly that reason I've had my credit card reissued as well, even though no fraudulent charges have been made. The risk is just too great for me to feel safe with the old credit card number.

Edit: Fixed spelling mistake.
South Africa is inherently so violent that terrorism doesn't make much difference (though there is some terrorism, at least bombings by white supremacists 10 years ago or so, and some activity against Israel.)
Them that wants the gold makes the rules.
Dota 2 E-Sports Tournament Disrupted by Player DDOS
When I had my CitiBank credit card, there were actually 2 options for virtual credit card numbers. One time use and max dollar use. The max dollar version could get charged repeatedly (e.g. Netflix or other subscriptions), until they hit your cap, at which point they were invalid.

I got rid of that card because they wanted to implement an annual fee, and I wasn't even getting good rewards, so I dumped it. That was at least 4 years ago though.
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It's quite likely that someone has left root logged in on hvc0 (the LISH console) on their Linode, while logging out of LISH. Probably more than one person.

Also, access to LISH even without a root password provides access to some scrollback output, which could expose sensitive information.

Also, LISH allows multiple connections, all of which see the same console, so the attacker can just connect to it and wait for a root prompt to appear when root logs in next. (Does changing the LISH password prevent this attack if they're already connected? I doubt it.)

Also, most distribution boot processes can be messed with at boot from the console. For example, you can ctrl-c to stop important daemons from loading. In some cases you may be able to get a shell without the root password.

Also, Magic SysRq can be accessed over a serial console by sending a BRK. You do not need to be logged in to do this, and it could be used to kill processes, reboot, etc. I don't know if LISH allows sending BRK.
From what I've read about SCUMM, it was designed to be very similar to writing a regular script for, say, a TV show. The famous "hamster in the microwave" sequence was conceived, planned and implemented in one afternoon, and it even included some form of multitasking. Just by reading a piece of code such as this one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SLVyjUCOIo&t=0m10s) you get a sense of what is going on, and that makes trying ideas really simple.

You probably wouldn't use SCUMM for anything except an adventure game, but in that particular case I think it would be much better than a general-purpose language as LUA.
Is the Internet driving competition or market monopolization?
Oh I see. Thanks for correcting
He is almost certainly being used as a neutral pronoun in this context.
Astronomical Waste: The Opportunity Cost of Delayed Technological Development
More redundancies at Sophos
I am sure glass has GPS, does it have accelerometers as well?
To play the devil's advocate, I'll point out that anyone selling in multiple currencies has to deal with hedging fx risk. For example, USDJPY has been pretty nuts thus far in April (not BTC nuts, but intraday swings of 1-2%).

If you were 1) very determined to sell in BTC and 2) could buy USDBTC options you could probably sell in BTC and limit your exposure to the fx risk.
Lean Startup theory can be pain in the ass for many kind of startups. I think it's wrong that Lean Startup doesn't encourage sales from the very beggining. Sales are the best validation of your idea, not feedback from customers who doesn't pay for your MVP anyways. Build a product for people who pay for it - that's my advice. It's not universal eighter, but more than 50% of startups can start sales before coding anything.
I think you guys misunderstood the purpose of MVP, since your lessons learned part explains pretty much what we can find in Lean approach books. MVP is not a product, it's a learning process. Bugs have nothing to do with being lean (or not), it's sloppy developers.

Not trying to be a wise-ass, but I still think your mistakes are avoidable while still following lean principles. Good luck on your next venture!
Congrats.

One suggestion: Post an example of how a 'status' looks amongst a feed of other pics on instagram.
In your example, it seems obvious that the speaker's gender isn't the source of the hindrance - instead, shouldn't it be the audience of misogynists that are at fault as the hindrance?
I'm assuming this is just while the product is in testing? They can't really expect to get much software made for the product when it's released if developers have no obvious way to make money from it.
Agreed. Last night my personal trainer who is otherwise the nicest guy ever said "why does this always happen here, these things happen here all the time" to which I replied "they happen almost every single day in other parts of the world, they barely ever happen here". He didn't believe me and proceeded to tell me about how "it's because we let all those god damn foreigners into the country". This is a really great guy and I had no idea he had these views but after hearing him say such an ignorant thing I too wonder why this doesn't happen here in the U.S. more often too.
what does it say on it, if you can recall?
This assumes good password hygiene on the part of all of Alice's users, which is a bad assumption. In reality, a large proportion of Alice's users will use the exact same password for her site as they use for their bank. She owes it to her users to protect that data.

Best password practices do not have to be user hostile. You can still allow a password reset while doing things properly. Yes, you can't e-mail them their old password, but you can set a new one for them, which is nearly as usable.
Largest Known Prime Number Discovered; Has 17,425,170 Digits
Cool, good job releasing.

What was the motivation behind blocking by using `Await` in btce.scala (line 70 and 81)? Without it, you could return a Future, which would keep you from blocking and would allow you to compose them.

Also, curious: Do you prefer Lift's json libraries to Play's? I noticed you used Play for their WS call, and also Lift's json libaries.
I worked for a enterprise software company where we practiced incremental development. The quality of software was hardly stellar but they had a great sales team. By the time I left, they had 6000 customers, lot of them Fortune 500. It is also worth mentioning that they were completely bootstrapped until recently.

Our customers were always ok with us informing them that features will be in x.0, as long as we delivered on them.

Maybe, it was your market that prevented the lean startup methodology from being applied?
How was this able to pass in the first place if they unanimously voted to repeal it now?
Code outdoors in a sunny day? Kindle + RaspberryPI setup
Has this made headlines in all kinds of mainstream media yet? Because it bloody well should.
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10% seems reasonable to me but I agree the Pirate Bay connection is probably hurting their business in all kinds of ways.
Ask HN: what does web2print mean for you?
We are building an API to ease PDF customization and we noticed this business domain is called web2print. Does that mean something for you? Do you plan to add any web2print features on your products?

Any feedback welcome.
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Guess who sponsored the bill? Sen. Harry Reid, the same senator who, less than 6 months ago, railed against Mitt Romney for not disclosing his tax returns and, in 1974, boldly asserted that "[a]ny man or woman who will not be completely candid about his or her finances does not deserve to be in public office [...]"
> "give me the money and trust me"

That's basically the inverse of my attitude when I back a kickstarter. I generally support what they're doing, believe that they are going to try and make the thing they said, and then just trust that they'll eventually deliver something.
Then what is? What is the average citizen to do, other than refuse to be terrorized?
I like the term "minimum desirable product". Minimum viable product suggests something that barely works, while minimum desirable product alludes to something people actually want.
Good News for Startups: Angel Investment Remains Stable
Election cycles, of course.
It's the old "pass a law and make a big deal about it when everyone cares, then repeal it quietly when they've moved on to something else" trick.