skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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it also makes it seem likely to me that the screenshots of users posting on forums were fabricated. they seem a little too good (too ironic, too much like south park) to be true.

Googling seems to confirm:

http://i.imgur.com/TfxzkrA.jpg

This is a total hoax! :)

Those posts simply don't exist. (As of 11:39 CET on 4/29/2013.)

still, south park worthy, I laughed very hard.

OP, write satire: not hoax. good luck.
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just out of curiosity, I wonder why "A minute after we uploaded it, my torrent client looked like this:" shows a screenshot with 3 torrents that were "Added a day ago" and "Added 18 hours ago".

it sure looks like this is a slight exaggeration :)
I haven’t bought games released after 2004. I bought a few games on Steam and GOG, but they were all released before 2004. Plus some free games (MUDs, FreeCiv etc.).
This would happen anyway.
I was under the impression Amazon used 256Kbit VBR?
The way to do it is not obvious, and varied by browser.

For Chrome and Safari, click on the Ghostery icon to bring up its popup control, then click on the 'Edit blocking options' link which will give a checkbox list of trackers to enable/disable. Click out of the pop-up to close it then, reload the page.

For Firefox, bring up to pop-up, then click on the checkbox to the right of the slider, then click on the reload link to reload the page. The slider enables/disables the tracker browser-wide, the checkbox enables/disables for the current domain.
Discussed about a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5408767

Lots of interesting comments there.
This is what shocked me in Bitcoin community, btw.

Most of them use Windows and forums as means of distributing software.
Somebody writes "Here is the new Bitcoin miner release, get it here http://someshadydomain - and everybody actually downloads and runs it.

And they somehow get by with it.
Seems to have crashed due to load, mirror: http://www.greenheartgames.com.nyud.net/2013/04/29/what-happ...
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Yeah, I get you--I apologize to poster^3, I'm used to hearing that line out of people more interested in rationalization than anything else. That said, in my experience the assumption that each pirate is a lost sale went out the window about a decade ago. And the idea that it's only "1%" of pirates who'd have bought the game, on the other hand, is ridiculous on its face. There's about 10,000 seeds and leeches of the various Skyrim torrents on The Pirate Bay, do you seriously think that only 100 of them would pay for it?

(Most folks I know who deal with game piracy figure a hypothetical conversion rate around 20-25%, which, especially for companies of the article writer's size, is easily the difference between make or break.)
I do not get the outcry over this. This is a Good Thing with capital letters.

We as a whole species are currently producing more content than the sum of humanity prior to the 20th century per day every day. Content production has become so cheap, in fact just the other day I wondered if "from each his own ability; to each according to his need" can be rightfully applied yet.

Sure, you say there are moral issues of profiting off the backs off someone's hard works. But such a law allows you to also do the same.

You might say for example, that you don't intend to do the same. Good on ya mate. Then go profit off your own work, and also allow others to profit off your work! This is not a pie that is finite in size. If someone does not intend to profit off their own work anyway, what is it to them then that someone else profits off their work?

That said, I think attribution is still a requirement as we enter the age of digital communism
Says the guy with an MBA.
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There is no coming back your employees will leave promptly.
Sad but true. This could have been an excellent case to see the impact that those who pirate games have in creating buzz and influence those that do pay rather than pirate.

The trouble is to get social research people to observe this without media influencing the result.
And I played it then, and I bought Avernum, and I bought the new Avernum remake too. Neither remake bears a lot of mechanical resemblance to Exile or each other and the newest one is absolutely fantastic.

Nethergate: Resurrection is worth a buy, too.
It sounds like the article is saying that many photos will be automatically "orphaned"... Looks like there would be a ripe opportunity for an app (or at least a new feature from Instagram) that registers the IP for your photos automatically... can't be that hard!
"What a terrible game! I actually have to use my imagination and make my own fun, what is this?"

Minecraft is a sandbox game. The zombies are just props. Just like any other good sandbox game it leaves a lot of the direction up to the player.
Acutally, using fanotify() you can watch a whole filesystem with one watcher; use FAN_MARK_MOUNT (inotify and fanotify both use the fsnotify subsystem in the kernel). So then you set a watch on either /etc (if it is separately mounted) or watch / and then ignore any paths that aren't in /etc.
Being locked in a Nash equilibrium is an interesting way to look at this. That perspective however is based on the idea that both parties (polluters and the entity responsible for controlling the pollution, say the government) are doing the best they can.

Without having experienced/researched it, it is not easy to appreciate the extent of apathy the governing structure in India exhibits towards its people. From the perspective of someone living in a developed country, its tempting to view this as a reasoned and logically approachable problem between different interest groups. That approach works well when the underlying institutions and the people embodying them are functioning well and functionally logically. When the people responsible for governing are simply not, well governing, then we don't need to go much further in unravelling why there is status quo. The status quo here is not because of a strategic/organic deadlock between two parties but rather because one of the parties is not doing its job.

Why isn't the government doing its job? I think it takes time for large democracies to come to age. I was talking about this to a friend who made the same point and asked me to read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_Age#Politics to get a sense for life in the US during a similar stage of its economic development as India is in today. The section Politics is especially resonant.

In America the democratic governing institutions have had time to mature over 237 years. Even with its flaws, it is the best governance humanity has been able to achieve at scale. It has had its rite of passage, from the early days of Indian removal, slavery, the mexican war, expansion, the civil war and many other wars plus thing like Women's suffrage. Indian government is merely 66 years old. And its not starting afresh in a "new land". Its trying to govern huge masses of people whose separate histories go back a long long time. India needs to go through its rite of passage and I guess one of those alleys is full of shit.
5. Be clear about wanting to work for someone else

I think this particular point requires a bit more emphasis. I work for a large development company that requires me to source the top technical talent in the UK. A significant number of highly talented individuals are currently running their own start-ups which is understandable. Regardless of how brilliant a developer may be, that's not a guarantee of success and there will come a point where some of those startups fail and the founders will have to go find a 'regular job'.

The number one concern I have when I'm in discussions with a failed startup founder is how long they will stick with us before coming up with another brilliant idea and leaving us to go give it another shot.

I'm more likely to relax when a potential employee tells me that for the next couple of years they simply want to focus on a 'regular job' and maybe revisit the startup idea further down the line. Unfortunately the onus is almost entirely on the developer/start-up founder to place the employers mind at ease.
Can they? I don't know. What I know is that you don't need a truck load of sand to construct a toilet.
But the stereotypes of technologically illiterate "designers" and neckbeard, tasteless "developers" are outdated, though unfortunately still pervasive in the industry

The problem is that one person cannot possibly learn about everything. One has to make choices. If you spend time learning graphical design rules, you cannot use that time to learn some new algorithm, or how to do business, or some other thing life asks of you. The idea that everyone can be a jack of all trades is equally misguided. I agree that learning everything around your trade up to a certain level is a good idea (to have a clue what people are talking about), but people that specialize in an area tend to underestimate how much time it took them to become experienced in that area, and trivialize how easy others can learn to be adept in their area of expertise.
This is a very important idea that is fortunately gaining some traction in academic science at the moment ... that is, the need to share data and code. Some journals even require it (sharing data that is, I'm thinking of brain imaging journals).

My own opinion is that every academic scientist ought to, as a matter of course, make their data and code publicly available.
You're still shaving v here, we can just see from the snipped that the shared v isn't used inside the anon function. But I suspect what the GP meant by "easy" is not having to think about this sort of thing. Your solution is good when you know you need to do this, but it can't even happen in Erlang so it's not a "gotcha" to watch out for.
I can't afford to buy games. So i pirate them. digital goods are not like physical goods, no harm done whatsoever.
Game i didn't play: Diablo 3, SimCity 3, World of Warcraft, Guild Wars 2 etc... All from major studios and have millions of paying users, not for me.
This sounds terrible. First of all the use of 'diligent search' in the legislation. What constitutes a diligent search? The worst bit however is that if this turns up nothing the user of the 'orphan' work now has the ability to become the owner of it AND license it to others. As the site says "This gives the green light to a new content scraping industry, an industry which doesn't have to pay the originator a penny." It seems like the government tried to do something good here and really didn't think it through.
Are people who go outside and drink from a stream (through a filter/firewall, of course), stealing? What about people who take in the scenery, or people who breath? Is nature a starving artist? I'm not for dumping toxic waste in the river, or stealing property, but the Internet is my environment, and copying data is not only cheap, that's what I pay my ISP to be able to do. IMHO, that makes copying as moral as breathing. That said, I do support artists and research, etc, only I do it after I evaluate them and feel like I got something - similar to how I choose to upvote/downvote on HN, only there is no way to downvote a game producer after you have paid for something you didn't know in advance that you would like.

FWIW, I do think that "sharing is caring" is a higher level of intellectual honesty than "trust me - you'll like it," especially when the former does nothing to damage attribution.
No different to the American love affair with Myers-Briggs. People love superstitious rituals - especially when they're drenched in the language of science.
This act applies precisely in the case where attribution isn't possible.
Yeah part of me thought, as I was reading the NYT article, why am I supporting this guy's personality disorder by reading what amounts to an extended biography of him?
Do nothing for 2 minutes
Google isn't so good at SEO ? ;)
I thought initially I will be able to run my car for free thanks to this piece of shit enterprise presentation software we have that crashes all the time.

I need some coffee.
> When I was younger, I always pirated stuff because I didn't have the money nor the means. But today...

That's a familiar story, and a win all-round. It is said to be a main reason why Microsoft was very relaxed about pirated copies of Windows - young people who run a pirated copy of windows grow up to be workers who know windows and the business buys a seat (as they say).
The controversy was that in 2009 there were lots of queues for sanitation trucks to dump their waste

The controversy was that ultramodern, brand new, skyscrapers in what was pretty much an all new from scratch city that hosted the tallest building in the world had to have sanitation trucks to haul away the waste at all. It was symbol of ultra-superficiality.
"Except M.A.D worked."

For a truly insane value of "worked" - running terrible (and largely unnecessary) levels of risk for decades hardly has much to recommend it.
The problem with this is that it weakens copyright from the wrong direction: it makes more content available to big corporates without them having to give anything back.
"when in reality there maybe 1% of pirates that would have otherwise bought the game"

Your number is ridiculous, and no-one assumes every pirated game is a lost sale either. Do you have any evidence to support this number?
One thing they could do is check if you're still logged in when you call up claiming to need account recovery.
Note that the author of that piece - Andrew Orlowski - is a man with an axe to grind with regard to copyright reform.

This is a significant factor to consider. Read his other work.
Amazing image editor in HTML5/CSS3/Javascript - Photoshop for the web
That's a common approach to using gameplay for rhetorical purposes; the fact that you can code causal processes as you want is one of the main ways you can get videogames to push a point.

As a more overt example, in the game Bacteria Salad [1], created after one of the E.coli scares, profits trade off directly against food safety: bigger farms are more profitable but also spread contamination more quickly. This may or may not be an accurate explanation of the causal mechanism (at the very least it's an oversimplification), but it's the causal mechanism the game's author has chosen to implement in an attempt to make a point. The author of that particular game also wrote a book about the use of games to make points like that [2], which this piracy mode seems like a good example of.

[1] http://www.persuasivegames.com/games/game.aspx?game=arcadewi...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262514885/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...
I'll add Bastion, King's Bounty, Binding of Isaac, Torchlight II, Realm of the Mad God, Trine 1 and 2, Atom Zombie Smasher, Eufloria, Limbo, Super Meat Boy, Osmos, Recettear, Bioshock
> At least in the tech circles this is definitely something unseen.

There's a scarcity of tech people, so it would be ridiculous to add yet another level for rejection. However I may imagine that this could be used for some jobs with high ratio of candidates to vacancies (so called "beauty contests").
As your steam collection cannot be resold doesn't it now have zero monetary value?

I stopped buying games when I realized I don't actually play the games I buy. Some are still in their cellophane wrapper.. I recently signed up to Playstation+. Surprised I didn't do it sooner. £40 a year. Access to 10+ games a month to download and keep while subscription is active. Not going to buy another game for a long while.
I agree, I've seen a few but not many, and when they Email me again I just mark it as spam and never see another one. Email is commanded by algorithms right now, which take a heap of hints from their users, it's seriously stupid not to unsubscribe people kind enough to unsubscribe instead of marking you as spam.
Seganograhpy to hide your email address in the picture?
Here are two instances I recently came across:

1. Pandora - http://it-jobs.fins.com/Articles/SB129683674636383261/Pandor...

2. ThatGameCompany (Journey) - http://www.destructoid.com/journey-took-thatgamecompany-into...
The screenshot is basically a direct copy of Game Dev Story down to the perspective.
Ditto.

I was looking for a job (found one) and nobody asked me a handwritten cover letter.

I think this is quickly going the way of the dodo.
And everyone will starve, but will be able to drive to work! :-)
Hmm.

I wonder if I could make a fortune in France by writing some software that looks for patterns in typing cadence. The employers could get applicants to type something on a computer and get a score indicating what their 'personality' was like.
"I can't write (anything longer than a few phrases, anyway) and soon nobody will. Why if you type all the time?"

I type all the time. Code, reports, all that sort of thing. I also get through about two A4 sized daybooks each year full of handwritten notes, plans, observations, minutes, analysis, calculations and all that sort of thing. The convenience and (relative) permanence of writing on paper using a pen is huge. It's not going to vanish anytime soon.
Mozilla Persona for the non-web
I would rather have a surgeon without a drug dependence.
Kenya’s new cellphone money model could disrupt global banking industry
"sandbox game" really stretches the meaning of the term game. I'm not saying that minecraft is bad, I'm saying that what it has is not "gameplay".
In the UK it's enough to provide a postcode and the house number to find a specific place. So you can compress:

Flat 3,
Bowsden Court,
South Gosforth,
Newcastle Upon Tyne

To:
3, NE3 1RR

And that's it, it just can't mean anything else.

However, in other countries, like Poland, a postcode is used per city, so a postcode 32-600 is not telling you much apart from the name of the town, you need to provide a full address.
I think many people, regardless of age, pirate becouse of laziness.

Such a simple thing as having to fetch your credit card from your wallet, installing and registering on a game download service (such as GoG, Steam). If you are used to torrenting, if that is you normal way to get stuff like TV shows and movies, there is less _resistance_ to download the cracked version of a game.

I dont justify this, or think its good, just pointing it out.
It's indeed not wise to use technologies only one employee knows. The best way is to chose technologies together and find developers who want to learn those. You have to motivate your colleagues to jump on board. And tell the senior developer websites will be more and more depending on JavaScript. It's not 2000 anymore.
Clever idea, and genius advertising. Most of your website is down at the moment, but I'm looking forward to getting the demo when it's back up.
Think he might live to regret the claim he'll never live a day without a pair of smart glasses (is that the right term for the general device space?), but even if he does it's possible he might be the odd one out.

To me it's like someone getting the first Segway and saying they'll never live a day without it. It might be great to them as a nerd, but doesnt do anything to validate how everyone else is going to view it.
Another angle - pain with audio on linux. With traditional demoscene computers, you could easily get access to the audio hardware and expect it would work on every computer you shipped it to. (This second bit is important. You want to distribute your stuff.) You could generate wave form data dynamically with your graphics.

I've thought of a way around this for linux, but stalled each time I look at it. Imagine if your demo/game hosted a server socket. VLC would connect to this for streaming (as though it was web radio). Now the domain becomes well-defined: you look after the concurrency and generate the wave signal. But let VLC sort out the hardware issues - VLC has strong support from package management across linux distros.

I'll mention why I get stuck in case there's good advice. I've found that generating polyphonic wave data is easy. But I don't understand how to package the data for transport. I'm also expecting some gymnastics in trickling the audio data stream out at a steady rate.
Instead of making high quality games in the game, the pirates should make crap knockoffs of already popular games and then spend most of their effort on publicity stunts; that seems to be a better strategy.
Given I've listed a bunch of companies started by MBAs, the statement 'It only illustrates the point that MBA's don't do startups.' is clearly incorrect and a lazy thing to say.

I just listed high profile ones. Does Kiva not count as recent? I know loads of fledgling companies started by other MBAs. Here's one for starters: http://www.tradechase.com
Well said.

It's in some ways quite anti-RESTful for a consuming client to start to try parsing a URL semantically. "URL building" is not something a client should be responsible for, it should be (semi-)blindly using URLs the service has provided for it.
I would surmise that MBA's are more or less capable of doing startups, but don't have the incentives: with a huge debt load, they're better off with something that's guaranteed to pay a lot, like, say, a job in finance.
> Reset buttons are highly under-rated.
Sit in it and write a manuscript on saving trees!
This article inspired me to write an essay about my disillusionment with academia after completing a PhD. I've posted it at http://mytimeinacademia.pen.io

HN comment thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5624903 - I'd be grateful for your feedback
HYDRA: A Hybrid Cloud-based GPU-CPU Engine for Real-Time LVCSR
Registries for photo copyright already exist.
I got this a lot. I think it was the cause of me not getting a few job offers. It's good to pre-empt the concern and be clear about wanting to take what you learnt on to another project.

What I found hardest was trying to explain that I also didn't want the stress and emotional ride of running a company for a while - without coming across as lazy or unmotivated.
Microsoft Puts Free Portable WiFi In Forbes Magazine Print Issues
> there is no way to downvote a game producer after you have paid for something you didn't know in advance that you would like

I'm not going to fisk your post, which is largely self-serving rationalization. But I am going to touch on this.

The choice is not "pirate it" or "pay for it". You can also--shocker incoming--not pirate it and not pay for it. Don't like that a publisher doesn't have a demo? Don't buy it. Don't like that the demo's not long enough? Don't buy it.

But that's hard, and you can just take it for free. So, under the guise of "evaluating", that's what you do. And, yeah, I'm assuming some bad faith here, because the next person who actually compensates creators, without exception and at the price they ask for the content they pirate and use will be the first.
I still don't really get what google glass is for.

The only things he mentions using it for is directions and taking pictures, my phone works perfectly for both those things (I can't remember any time where I've missed a good picture because I couldn't get my phone in time)

Maybe its something you need to try to really understand, but I'm not excited by it.
it's definitely not small or easy to miss. The whole "instant upload" part is an entire screen outlining what it is with a clear opt-out.
The two screenshots are from 2 different forums, the first is Steam community forum and the second is Facepunch. The Facepunch post is here: http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?p=40453336#post40453336 and the Steam one is probably somewhere in here: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/discussion...