skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not "silence", that's the power of the "2 week give-a-damn limit". In today's society we're overwhelmed with constantly breaking news from all over the world. People tend to forget about things after about 2 weeks. There's just so many new things to care about that it's impossible to not move on from old news. Especially when it's just about a game. I'm sure gamers will keep the Sim City fiasco in the back of their minds and pirate later games published by EA but for now, we're really just tired of hearing about old news.

Same thing happened with the whole "WarZ" fiasco. That team had false advertising on Steam, a glitched game released, artwork from the walking dead was stolen, bug reporters banned from the forums and censored. It was a lot worse than SimCity, yet 2 weeks later we just stopped caring. It's a shitty game, moving on, lets focus on something more important, like plastic in our oceans.
I had an original IBM PC XT (used) with a 10MB full height (2x today's 5.25") MFM hard drive.. it had about 3MB of available disk space and took I swear 6+ minutes to boot.

It actually ran faster double-spaced (stacker) and had nearly 12MB of available space... didn't have any problems with programs loading, surprisingly enough.. which became more of an issue when moving onto a 486.

Yeah, when your storage is so relatively slow, the CPU can run compression, you can get impressive gains in space and performance.
Welcome back _why. I had a feeling we'd see you again. :-)
Wow, tragic anecdotes as a substitute for statistics. Awesome.

An important question - currently 17 year olds are bad drivers, due primarily to being unskilled (only 1 year of driving experience). Suppose we adopt your plan and limit driving to 18+. Why do you feel that unskilled 19 year olds (with 1 year driving experience) won't get into accidents at a similar rate?
The issue was more the fact that they had Always On DRM built into the game, and didn't tell the full truth about what it was there for.
I don't buy this reasoning. Yes, if someone really wanted to get in, they could probably learn to pick locks. But that doesn't mean locks are useless - now we reduced the pool of potential criminals to people who 1) know to pick locks 2) have been hanging around the area enough to know when the neighbors are away and unlikely to notice anything suspicious while a stranger is picking the locks 3) take greater risks. This is a significant improvement from anybody who saw that the car wasn't parked and decided to waltz in.
Congrats you're an experienced advanced/game/physics developer, whatever. This is childs play to you. I'm a lowly web developer, my day-to-day involves HTML templates, Photoshop mockups and HTTP requests ... so I find this sort of thing done on a platform I'm totally familiar with novel and interesting. I see no reason to apologise for that.
Houdini afterdead experiments
They ask in the fb app before doing it. I assume you can say no there.

I don't know about the site itself, I really only interact via my phone.
The BBC tries to avoid terms like 'terrorist' http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2005/dec/16/terrorism.broadc...
I use the sender/client/HELO restrictions from Postfix to block misconfigured spambots (no FQDN HELO etc.), and a custom rule to block submissions where the sender domain equals to one of my own domains. This alone catches quite some spam, for the rest I use the NixSpam RBL[1], which has a very lenient policy (only IPs actually sending spam are listed, with a TTL of 12 hours, so false positives are pretty rare, while still covering the major botnets).

Usually less than 5-10 spam mails per day survive with this config, which is acceptable for me, I view it as a typical 80:20 solution and don't want to lose potential customer communication anyway.

Regarding outbound mail, in my experience it is sufficient to have a clean IP from a reputable provider with proper reverse lookup to have most sent mail go through. I don't check RBLs regularly but I did once when setting up the server, since sometimes one can get an IP which has been burnt by a spammer before. For a quick check whether everything is configured properly I recommend using the email check of webcheck.me[2], while not covering every single aspect, it gives starters a good overview where they can improve.

If you want to host a blog or personal site in addition to e-mail you should definitely have a look at Froxlor[3]. Froxlor (fork/successor of SysCP) is a lightweight control panel which allows to add domains and mailboxes through a web interface, without taking over your whole /etc (like Plesk or cPanel). Even if you don't use it in the end, the suggested configs contained in Froxlor are a good starting point.

[1] http://www.heise.de/ix/NiX-Spam-DNSBL-and-blacklist-for-down...
[2] https://webcheck.me/
[3] http://froxlor.org
Surely F.lux is fairly pointless unless the only source of light in your room is your computer monitor?

I would imagine that any windows or external lighting is going to have a far greater effect than F.lux. I tried F.lux a while ago when it was recommended in a previous HN post but for me the only difference it seemed to have, was to make my computer monitor more difficult to read by making it too dim.
Suffice it to say that Novell's experience was rather different than yours. It all depends on whether Microsoft saw you as a competitive threat.
If something goes wrong and it's your fault and you don't want to pay the consequences, silence may not be so bad.

J&J had the opposite situation. Something went wrong and it wasn't their fault. Choosing to pay the consequences anyway made them look double good; once for taking responsibility, and again for doing it when other companies might've walked away.

The problem with EA is not so much their PR strategy per se, but their general unwillingness to fix fuckups. No amount of marketing can fix a fundamentally broken company.
guessing that imap for gmail will be on the chopping block soon.

If that were to happen, I'd be shocked. But as a precaution I should probably start doing an IMAP export/sync on a workstation on a regular basis.

It'd be pointless to lose something as easy to backup as mail just because of you having too much faith in a service-provider.
Schlüssel means 'key' in German.
I disagree. Best game ever actually and I will probably never get tired of it.
The Go Circuit Project: An "AppEngine" for systems-level distributed engineering
I didnt buy it either and I haven't bought any EA games since Origin started. I figure there are a lot of other games out there from businesses I'd rather support.

I am confused by people that post on forums and get outraged then buy the games anyway.
Yes, it's quite common here to have series where a season is 6-8 episodes, once a year or less frequent.

E.g. Red Dwarf have had seasons ranging from 3 (if you count "Back to Earth") to 8 episodes, with most seasons having 6, and occasional multi-year gaps between seasons.
You forgot the </ sarcasm> tag.
The hyperbole and tone of the article is difficult to read through.

Have you thought about writing a simple letter to the solicitors saying something like "Hello, you sent us a letter. Would you like to review our webpage here to see if we actually are infringing on your client's trademark? We seem to have been caught in some automatic system."

Be careful about 'no legal reason to take down an url' - there are a few. DMCA requests, anti-deeplinking causes in ToS / AUP, etc etc. See the Shetland Times vs Shetland News.
No Serbia on the list even though official statements said it will be one of the first countries where phones will be available, so I sent them an email regarding that. I was amazed when less than 1 hour later, I got an email reply !!! "Dear Boris,
We took some countries out because of maintenance, but we'll put Serbia back on the list, don't worry, thanks for the remark and sorry for the inconveniences."
I think this is one of the most important things in life-- to keep your curiosity intact. It isn't easy. There are a million organizational forces that will try to discourage you from having it, in their efforts to push everyone into mediocrity, but I think that if you keep your head up a bit and don't lose that spark of creativity, there are rewards at the end of the slog... somewhere, after ups and downs that most people can't tolerate.

I enjoy learning at work, especially if working on something no one told me to do. You really gain an appreciation for the value of education when you steal it from a boss.
Even a GET is a signal. As henchman on the outside I can create a page, linked from my wikipedia personal page or on some otherwise innocuous page, that says something like "Boss, should I off Big Tony? Click here for Yes, Click here for No" and wait to see which link he clicks.
>Seriously, why does ANYONE use anything other than Google Search and Analytics? Why do you willfully choose to expose yourself and your business to what they can do to you?

A. Does anyone have a valid story were the user actually lost everything, for good?

B. Assuming it's possible the risk of catastrophic failure by losing Google can still be lower in a risk assessment than the cost of redundancy or of making each part independent. Especially in a startup where there is already risk everywhere.
Actually. Staring at a screen until midnight, the screen is a major light source.

Also for me, my desk lamp automagically dims from 11 to 1pm, just to make me feel a little more sleepy.
For what it's worth, the first thing I did was send it to my brother with, "Hey, your kids may be interested in this." That was a reaction independent of any bias towards the source.

Great work - I think you're on to something!
You probably haven't worked with Windows development.
"The word 'terrorist' itself can be a barrier rather than aid to understanding. We should try to avoid the term without attribution. We should let other people characterise while we report the facts as we know them."

That actually sounds pretty sensible to me.

These guys probably weren't part of some organisation that is trying to achieve political goals through acts of terrorism (e.g. like the IRA) - labelling a pair of nutters as "terrorists" really doesn't achieve very much in terms of news reporting or public understanding.
Uh?

So Google really closes accounts?!?

Wow...

But honestly, what the fuck are governments doing?

I mean, companies like Google, Facebook, Paypal etc. are de-facto monopolies and should NOT be able to refuse service to anyone, much less ban existing users!

In general, any company pulling such obvious "dick moves" needs punishment.

What's the point of having a government and a law system if it cannot even enforce such basic stuff?
ZOMG! We should totally make a petition to allow inmates to use the internet. How they manage without Facebook & Twitter is beyond me!
What's something most people don't know about you?
My comment directed people to a paper that explains the underlying maths behind this well established game physics algorithm. This is much more useful than looking at an implementation of the same thing in my mind.

So, I would say yes.
Way to go! At Cozy cloud(https://www.cozycloud.cc/) we are developing an open source personal cloud platform that you can self-host and assign your own domain.
Right now we already offer backup of your email address but we would like to offer a good web-mail alternative.
Have you got suggestion for a Node.js mail client we could cook in?
Names are used in various contexts with different meaning. There is nothing unusual about that.

If I would want to learn about prototype OO, I would check out the founding papers. Stuff like:

http://selflanguage.org/_static/published/parents-shared-par...

Parents are Shared Parts of Objects: Inheritance and Encapsulation in SELF

http://web.media.mit.edu/~lieber/Lieberary/OOP/Delegation/De...

Using Prototypical Objects to Implement Shared Behavior in Object Oriented Systems

'Delegation' in Objective-C is a different mechanism.
Former young American:
Lessons? Have your parents drive you to the park or just whip around the neighbourhood until you're confident to go on the main streets. Driving schools are available (much fewer than in the UK or europe) and the only ones that use them are people that have them as a court requirement.

The test was $50 when I took it. The learners permit is written only. A few weeks/months later you can drive back to the licensing office to take the driving exam. You'll need a car, any car from a licensed driver will do.

Insurance will be about $180 or £1400. I paid less than that because I had high grades (responsible student discount), no loan on the car, and I took the state minimum with the sketchiest insurance company I could find.

I paid about $100/mo for petrol. Until 17 you can only go to school and work during the week, weekends affords you more freedoms.

Working 20hrs/week part-time it's feasible to operate a car. While everyone goes on about how public transport is great. I don't see anyone bringing SCUBA gear on a bus, or moving apartments. Having a car meant freedom. Freedom to date, go places, and do things.
The only mystifying thing they did is getting up in the morning and decide that they want to kill innocent people. They've done it in a country that gave them citizenship and great possible future. That's the only question we should ask here.
No I'm serious. I remember my childhood, I had many problem, but the last thing I'll need is to be accompanied by an adult everywhere.

I could, for example, write QBASIC programs for hours, and how would my mother or father help me if they floated by my shoulder? They won't. They'll get bored, ask stupid questions, tell me to do something more understandable for them. Like, play outdoors. I hated outdoors.

Maybe I would benefit from meeting other people interested in what I was interested in (that is, computers, science, SF) - but that's what we should work towards.
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SoundCloud founder on scaling fast: "It's a landgrab on the web"
They happened, just in "other media" then the last part was time locked, then the whole universe was rebooted, and time restarted, and a whole bunch of other things that I forgot in silence.
People spend a significant amount of their online time on your website. It's only natural that developers want to integrate with you. The point is what happens after they do that. Look at some of the complain threads here for pointers.
What's funny, is I tend to deal directly with raw JS objects as models, then use them against modules/functions. Rarely do I ever do inheritance, or reference this.* except when dealing with monad-like utilities such as jQuery or MomentJS.

My life is much happier this way, it's effective and it works... Yes, it's much closer to a C-like way of dealing with libraries, but without all the messy issues like pointer logic or memory management.

People need to stop trying to shove JS's triangle into a OO's round hole.
Wow, look at those response times: impressive.
Just ordered a Peak, total impulse buy. Any word on when these will ship?
Placebabies ~ because there's no placeholder image generator with baby images
While playing around with gmail, I found out that you can send from any smtp server emails to gmail pretending you are someone else's gmail account. There is no way of seeing from gmail that it isn't the trusted sender. The fake email is associated with social details from the real account.
Weird right?
Swearing at work - a guide
> Actually, two labs reported achieving cold fusion before the results were published, and another also claimed to replicate the findings.

Yes, but they were all false and later proven false. A replication doesn't mean two or more labs making the same mistakes. There's a bit more to it than that.

> Generally, I suggest you devote more time to studying the history and philosophy of science before making pronouncements about it ...

I have. Science requires testable, falsifiable theories. Psychology doesn't have any of those. This is not remotely controversial.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability

Quote: "Simply, to be scientific, a theory must predict at least some observation potentially refutable by observation."

> It's apparently neuroscience and not psychology by your definition because it has neuroimaging data that links the effects to the behavior of specific neurons, even though it was published in the same journal.

The measurements were apparently neuroscience, but the claims that followed certainly weren't. It's not uncommon to see an apparently scientific measurement, followed by conjectures that aren't in any way supported by the measurements.

Science proceeds by theories either supported or refuted by empirical evidence. Psychology proceeds by votes.
cdjk is right: start with starting strength (or something similar like stronglifts) before moving to a different program. 3 times a week, takes about 45 mins. you start with an almost empty bar (to practice proper form), increase weight every single workout and do this until you can bench 1xbw, squat 1.5xbw and deadlift 2xbw (this is achievable after only 3-5 months). after reaching that goal you'll already be astoundingly fit and strong compared to most people you know. for me it worked a lot better than a halfhearted 5x a week split.

here's the basic workout, among other beginner programs:

http://i.imgur.com/FvuUb.gif (cheatsheet) or http://pastebin.com/FqDwRp8m (text).

one of the best thing about powerlifting is that it helps correcting some typical programmer ailments like an hollow back or forward slumping shoulders (both are unhealthy and, honestly, just plain unsexy).

you can do SS at home or in a gym; doing it at home requires space and upfront investments for the barbell, bench and squat rack.

gyms differ in quality. most chains don't want their customers to do real training. read this: http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/everything-you-know-abou... - tl;dr: lift free weights and don't unquestioningly trust the gym (-trainers) - their primary interest is money, not your progress. the gym i went to had just one squat rack, so i often had to wait (can take 20mins). also, gyms, of course, add commute time.

the good thing about gyms is that you can ask others to form-check you, but you have to be able to identify the competent athletes. imo at the cheaper gyms most people know even less about proper workout than i do; they focus on upper body and biceps. i've heard this is called "prison style" workout, but i'm pretty sure most convicts know more about proper form than your average gym-goer :)

if money isn't a problem, you could also try crossfit. it's fun and very effective, but usually not cheap. crossfit venues usually have competent trainers.

alternatively, see if there's an olympic lifting club near you. membership is usually even cheaper than a gym subscription (mine is just 25 euros a year), people are competent, they have enough barbells for everyone and workout is basically the same (full body strength, but more focus on legs, hips and back).
Plastic surgery has gotten better over the years but it's still pretty easy to identify who's gotten it and who hasn't. I shudder to imagine a world where anyone can become as beautiful as they want without others realizing that they've had work done. The societal implications are beyond what my brain can handle.

Sounds like a William Gibson novel.
If you are writing C or C++ software, please use something like CMake. Not everyone is using GNU, the same compiler, or the same editor/IDE. At the very least CMake can create GNU make files, Visual C++'s nmake files, Visual Studio projects and Xcode projects.
Even if it's on a larger scale, Sins Of A Solar Empire is also worth the look.
Why did Datadial then remove the link in the original article if believed they are irrefutably right?

The jurisdiction is not even the litigant-friendly US, it is the UK...
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every indication suggests that outright bans on cell phone use will follow.

Even headset / speaker phones? Lots of current cars seem to have bluetooth built in or speaker phones that integrate with the car audio system.
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I figured so too. Laravel 4 is still on beta as of now.
[joke]

I've always believed that, in general, being extremely good-looking from an early age is more of a curse than a blessing

And I thought of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHHEcmZtJvY
There are things that could be made at home that would count as WMD. Aum Shinryko made and released aerosolized anthrax. (Luckily, wrong strain of anthrax, and thus no widespread death.)

I'm surprised a pressure cooker bomb is included.
I've had a better experience from Norwegian planes than from some hotel WiFi networks.
Reddit apologises for Boston "Witch Hunt"
Don't be preposterous. How is arguing that reworking existing code for the web isn't that interesting 'bolstering self image'? Are the people anonymously agreeing with me also ego-driven?

You should consider that your post has zero content other than making a personal attack, which couldn't be said for the one you're criticising.
Having seen and worked on enough VB apps in the late 90's that looked like COBOL/FORTRAN, I can't agree more...

I hate abstraction for the sake of.. and really, a lot of JS "Class" libraries are mostly that.
Yes, let's make everything ridiculous, that way we can shout down any meaningful debate on whatever subject you don't agree with.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_prisons
The site design is decent but design comments is the only feedback you are going to get as that is all anyone can determine from your site. Some examples would be nice. How about the difference between standard personalised hashtagging and highly personalised hashtagging? A sentence or two about your technology stack?

If this is simply a test balloon to gather reaction for some potential software then great, it's an interesting notion but not one that warrants my email address.

Also, you may want to think about adding a middle tier option for occasional tweeters at a reduced price. There are a lot of people that send more than 5 tweets per day (but not much more) and will perhaps feel 5 euro per month is too pricey.
Now all I need is a lockable sheath to keep my key in so no one can take a photo of it.

Actually... Damn... http://www.google.com/patents/US7181939. Similar idea is already invented and patented.

Although, it isn't anything like I imagined it would be. My design's a lot more practical and only 1 piece, so the patent won't get in the way but I don't think it's something consumers might want to put up with. Having to enter a combination to use your house or car keys each and every time just doesn't seem worth it. Then again... fear is the easiest thing to sell.

What do you guys think? Would you buy a combination lock key sheath for $19.99?
Or he couldn't do it. Some keys require specialized fabrication hardware, which can get really expensive.
What difference would 5, 10, 15, 20 or 25 years make?

In other words do you think that he will achieve something today that he would not have been able to achieve 5 years ago?