skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is one huge difference, they are a 3rd party walled garden. They get a lot of flack but they were the only ones in a good position to do what they did at the time. The market place scene needs 3rd parties like Steam, GOG, (to some extent) Amazon, etc.

You don't buy insurance from the hospital or heaven forbid, Pfizer. You are only guaranteeing that all of the terms and conditions are against you. So why do the same with software by giving either the platform maker and/or publisher's extra leverage (yes, Valve publishes their own games, a whopping 1 game per year, but they'd likely quit making games before they'd give up selling someone else's software)? This is the unsung problem of UPlay, Origin, etc. as well as iTunes and whatever MS call their market places this week.

3rd parties need customers to exist. 1st parties can just make deals with other 1st parties for their survival. It is the same problem we had with the recording industry. Who cares if CDs are $15? There is plenty of money in breakage, movie tie-ins, TV singing contests, cell phone ring tones, advertising cross-overs, etc. In other words, mass market incest.

The road of the 1st party is the road to gamer fuel, in game ads, E.T., slow matchmaking services, platform locking, and above all product stagnation. Folks can hate Steam for whatever reason, fine, but please, go to another 3rd party if you can. Without them the future is bleak.

As far as GPL'd games go, they have the same problem as regular games. Asset generation for AAA titles is too expensive and too slow. If you want to fix that problem don't look to a new engine that will be outdated by the time your game is finished or a distribution platform. Devote your time to breaking the development cost/time problem and give that to everyone. As soon as we beat that, we will break the "1999 cycle" and we'll get the game that people beg for but the industry can't afford to produce.
Good for distracting a user on a slow ajax day
Maps really are just lines on paper. "A text change on a localized website" is all the power you need to recognize someone's authority.
And the earth is flat.
Ask HN: Bitcoin Micro-Transaction App?
Have I got this right?

Say, I have 0.3265128 of a bitcoin.

At a Saturday yard sale, I see and haggle down a Taig Micro Lathe 3" 3-jaw chuck for $11.50. The seller is familiar with bitcoin only through recent media coverage(as I also) and is interested to weigh in with a bitcoin payment. My phone app evaluates:

$11.50/Today's-Up-To-The-Second-Spot-bitcoin-Price
decimal fractional bitcoin value,

generates QR code of this value, and whatever transaction necessary `provenance' bitcoin record keeping,

he captures it with his phablet, and ... we're `Golden'?

May a phone app exist, creates a new user `wallet'(...and its bitcoin ledger protocol, etc?) be possible, so these small(micro) transaction occur on the fly for we: marginal: single, and sub-fungible low-rollers "shiny and new" bitcoin enthusiasts? May we easily and securely balance our own phone app ledger to:

"put forth thy hand, and behold our own shard of glorious bitcoin"?
> Yes, and rightfully so.

I think you meant righteously so. You are saying to discount facts and logic because the person saying them offended your sensibilities. You're just building a bubble of ignorance around yourself by discounting everything unseemly.

The reason why you find 'geek culture' hostile is because geeks tend to value merit more than you value morality. The computer does not care if the n log n algorithm was created by an evil genius or Ned Flanders, and neither do geeks.

There is tons of creative and worthwhile content on 4chan than you'll ever know and will deny exists (or has a right to exist). At the end of the day, there's more humanity on display at 4chan than HN.
This isn't quite my field, but I've been told you only need to have a rotor turned if it's warped or scored; otherwise you can just change out the pads, then apply the brakes heavily to conform them to the rotor surface.
How could Google avoid taking a stance? Either they call it one thing or the other. Or they could call every contested bit of land Narnia but then no one would be happy with them.
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We used 2 liter bottles as the gas expansion chamber on one of our battle bots. They were good to 250 psi until some folks cut back on the amount of plastic. Then we discovered you could buy bottles headed for 'desert communities' (like Las Vegas) and those bottles had a higher pressure rating. So get your soda in Vegas kids for the most bang!
I can't speak to how the Twilio Client works, but how we're different is easy: We do video. Twilio is only voice.
Here in the US, I wish we'd have a "well regulated militia" to the same extent that Switzerland does. All able-bodied men do a bit of military service, and it's a yearly family event for them to go and update their training on their firearm. What we have here in the US seems more like a consumerist culture designed to encourage the buying of products and accessories. It's to the point where the word "militia" is associated with racists and kooks. Not "well-regulated" at all.

> Germany invaded surrounding territories in WWII, but left Switzerland alone.

May have something to do with the preponderance of blond-haired blue-eyed people there.
>Diablo 3 is definitely not easier to crack.

Moot point. Any client software can and will be cracked, regardless of how difficult it is to crack. Which is mtgx's point - online games are easier to secure because you can put logic and validation on a remote server. No DRM needed. Your example of Diablo 3 only proves his point. It's not the DRM that makes Diablo 3 hard to crack - it's the server side logic and validation.
I hereby declare Quebec free.
So I got [number], but I don't really know if it's good or bad. There is a percentile but no scale of where the psychopaths begin and end. Pretty pointless.
>How about 3d-printing something actually useful? Something which mankind actually really needs.

So I take it you'd like to live in a world without guns? Run that whatif scenario through your brain for a bit.
You do realise that however they refer to the region ('Palestine' or 'Palestinian Territories'), they're making a political statement.

Their reasoning (following the example of multiple international organisations - including the UN, ICANN, and ISO) is sound.
Not toolbars. 3 words: Retail Me Not. They are going public this year w/ a whisper valuation of $2 Billion.

Search any merchant + coupons and they are there. It's like printing money.
This. And mine is a backup dump too - if all else fails, its in gmail.
I'm curious about how it handles downhills. I would've thought that without engine braking you would have to rely exclusively on the brakes and would thus burn them up even more. Does the Tesla have another mechanism? Or just insanely efficient brakes?
> "In this case, we are following the lead of the UN, Icann, ISO and other international organisations."

Sounds like this was the less political choice, really.
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this could be a great way to deal with the world of pain that is WebRTC
Ultimately the only question that matters is how much money was made. Dwelling on fantasies is immaterial (until you can sell or find a way to lock in the price, the market price has no bearing on your actual value).

In your example, you can say whatever you want about how it was worth more than you actually netted, but at the end of the day all that matters is the fact that you realized 16K
This issue came up a few times before in discussion on Hacker News. A little known fact is that "facts on the ground," even entries in reference books or labeling on maps, can be taken in international law to indicate acquiescence to territorial claims by other countries (or to indicate assertion of hostile claims by the country in which the reference books or maps are published). This is why some countries with extensive programs of censorship censor maps, dictionaries, encyclopedias, websites, and whatever else is in reach of the government censorship program to make sure that private publications fall in line with the government's official position on territorial claims. (I have in my home office English-language and Chinese-language reference books published in Taiwan during the period of the military dictatorship there, which censor references to the existence of the independent country of Mongolia and assert province names for the mainland region of China that have been obsolete since 1949. Taiwan has since considerably loosened up on this kind of censorship after democratizing, but territorial claims vis a vis China are still a very sensitive issue.)

In countries without official programs of widespread censorship, government-published maps of other countries will still say things like "Boundary representations are not authoritative" and private publishers of maps in free countries will have notes near disputed boundary lines like "actual line of control; boundary in dispute" and so on. This is a pretty big deal in international law, so it is a somewhat big deal that Google, a business corporation organized under United States law, has changed its indication of the status of Palestine, even if only for the Google domain registered for the .ps top-level domain. The United States government may feel the need to make a formal statement to the effect that this action is the action of a private business corporation and does not represent an official view of the United States government.
I think you mean /usr/share/dict/words.
That is the entity filing, probably easier.

Here is the claimed background for this
http://www.young-targets.com/formation-of-tech_hub-started/

with implying that most of the people are on board with this - most of the organizer used in that image however where only asked if they liked the idea of the techhub nothing more. The good thing about the connected world is that those kinds of statements can be easily verified.

The discussion is happening with the guy here
https://www.facebook.com/groups/159595270791268/permalink/44...

if you don't like to join, you can see statements of organizers also here https://www.facebook.com/nicole.simon/posts/1015164077361130...
The point is that these days having Google recognize your claims to being a country is more important than having the UN recognize it (which it doesn't, yet Google does).
I don't think this comment makes much sense. If the original name was not political, then the change should be apolitical too. If the choice of text on the .ps page was a "political issue," then google's use of "Palestinian Territories" was already political in a pro-Israeli way – changing it is no worse than keeping up the old text.

Yes, I know you're jumping on the "corporations have too much power" bandwagon, but here I don't think it makes any sense.
Why is the regenerative braking limited to .25g? Even if they can't charge the battery faster than that, couldn't they dissipate the extra power some other way?
I would rather learn if there was a porn site bigger than Netflix.. as Netflix currently uses around 30% of US bandwith [1]

1. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2395372,00.asp
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Indeed. As well as perhaps an poll selection for options you've exercised but do not know yet what you'll get for them (company still running but haven't had opportunity to sell shares).
I'm not saying the rep was "rogue". I'm saying eBay set up their affiliate program to encourage affiliate sales "no matter what" and then in 2008 they started caring for quality of affiliate links when they didn't care before. Let me try this another way.

There are companies out there that pay salespeople a percentage of total revenue they get customers to buy, regardless if the order is profitable for the company. So salespeople offer 50%-75% discounts for their products to customers in order to get customers to buy, the salesperson makes the commission off the full retail price before discount, and the company loses on every sale with -75% gross margin. It's a fast-track to bankruptcy. No sane company would do this right? That company was called Ecomom. It happens that companies do things against their interest without knowing it as long as top line sales go up.

Companies give people license to do things in their own interest that are NOT in the companies interest all the time.
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I would take a similar stance but say that anyone who has the title "UI Desginer" or "Web Designer" should have to know HTML/CSS. If you are designing UIs for the web, HTML and CSS are your medium, Photoshop not, that is just where you formulate your ideas.
Yep. That's what I get for trying to be clever.
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Ha, ha, ha, stock options. Heh.
You can also get really nailed on AMT depending upon timing, even in situations where the stock ends up underwater and worthless before you can be rid of it.
If you explicitly logout from one browser, you are logged out from all. If you just close the window and discard the cookies, you remain logged in elsewhere.
I don't quite get the big concern about 3D printed guns, although printing the barrel is impressive. It's been possible to make a gun (as defined by US firearms law) at home for a long time with cnc equipment:

http://cncguns.com/

In fact, it's possible to buy an "80% lower receiver" for an AR-15 and some jigs that will let you finish it on a drill press. 80% is the magic number at which it's no longer considered a firearm. Even with advances in 3D printing I'd much rather shoot a metal firearm than a printed one. I'd also assume that they're using a fairly pricey 3D printer, or doing a lot of finishing work, and not using a stock reprap or the like.

If AK-47s are more interesting, they can be made out of sheet metal.

Also, I'm pretty sure the name is a reference to the FP-45 liberator, which was designed to be used by the resistance during WWII.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FP-45_Liberator
I think it's a cool idea. So have lots of others over the decades. (From the 70's I'd bet.) In a way, RoR is just the latest wrinkle in this quest. If you can do it, you might well have something. (BTW, are you familiar with SQLAlchemy?) If you are serious, I invented a graphical interface for dynamically exploring reporting information from such an app.
How about the alternative headline

Millions Paying for Netflix Without Watching

Thing that burns me up the most about how businesses operate in the USA; commodity-like sectors charge fixed rates and then whine about "abuse". They always like to rig the economy and market, while whining about how horrible it is they are not able to gouge even more. All just so Wall Street can snort some more of society's productivity.
the problem i have with these inventories (even the real ones) is that they never ask about degree. the questions are binary and the 'response' is a gradient, when it should be the other way around.

but then again i'm no doctor, i'm just some guy... who always scores really high on these things. (top 5% in this one).
Hey Jeremy, this is our engineering blog.
For iPhone, apps that create Bitcoin transactions have been pulled from the App Store.
Test put me as "a little psychopathic." I think this is bogus. The answers to most of those questions were along the lines of "it depends on the specific situation or persons involved" to some extent. Like where it asked if I
Why Google made this change, from the article, "In this case, we are following the lead of the UN, Icann [the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers], ISO [International Organisation for Standardisation] and other international organisations."

When it comes to Israel/Palestine, every mapmaker in the world is taking a stance.
Here's Robert Hare, the expert on this stuff:

"We refer to individuals with a very high concentration of these features (perhaps 1% of the general population) as psychopaths" [1]

So there's no clear cutoff, it's not a bimodal distribution, but if you are in the top 1% (of a professionally administered version of this test) you might be considered a psychopath.

[1] http://www.psychopathysociety.org/images/hare%20commentary%2...
Telnet when I'm lazy or its quick, curl when I actually want to write a full harness.
I don't know what your pedigree is in the anti-spam world (personally I wrote large chunks of SpamAssassin, implemented Symantec's Cloud anti-spam engine from scratch, wrote the Haraka SMTP server, and am one of the authors of RFC 6471), but this is called a FUSSP for a reason.

http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/you-might-be.html

In short, build a better client, sure, but don't have delusions that you can make spam a thing of the past. It's impossible once you get any level of traction worth talking about.
I don't favor require, I require it (sorry for the pun).

The main issue is that include() will just emit a warning and continue if the file doesn't exist, often leading to a confusing fatal error in a completely different part of the code; in other words, On Error Continue Next, PHP version. Even worse, people who use include are even more likely to use @include().

Oh, and require_once(), while we're on the subject: "if you're purposefully trying to require() a file twice, you're doing something Very Wrong."
I think the meta-meta question here is regarding the value of stock options vs immediate compensation (salary + benefits). So many CEOs treat options like they will definitely be of large worth to a person- but for the average employee they'll never see anything from them.
True, though recognition of someone's authority is not "taking" authority at all, which is what OP was complaining about.

One can make the argument that Google shouldn't be endorsing either side, but taking authority away from either they are not.
5 adults + 2 kids comfortably? In a car with max 5 seatbelts?
Where's the negative ($<0) option? I paid for some options and they were worthless.
The user might have received the one pixel "trap" cookie, but the article says they were watching to see users who only visited 1 page, since "normal" users click around and look at a few pages. If you only get the hidden pixel once, that's a sign you aren't normal.

It will be interesting to see how this goes in court since you cannot prove that any given single user was NOT a "real" user. But on the whole, the traffic smells wrong.

I don't understand why eBay didn't just ban the users when they suspected foul play. Trying to prove this criminally beyond a reasonable doubt would have been hard.
I work at the company that developed this cognitive training program. Happy to take any questions about the study if folks are interested.
I'll have to survive without it or wait until it becomes non-exclusive.

I care more about telling Netflix to sit and spin for bad business than I do about the Grim Adventures of Mike and Lindsay.
I'm not seeing what you're seeing in the parent comment. Which of his points were incorrect? If the answer is "none", I might consider apologizing for implying they wrote that comment in bad faith.
Breaking news: Millions use the internet without paying! That's because internet providers lets family and friends share ONE internet connection...
Bravo Google.
How about multi-factor authentication? That is the one reason I still use gmail. I wish Exchange Online had that feature - I'd switch in a heartbeat but it doesn't so I'm stuck with Gmail.
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You might want to be more precise -- founder's stock, RSUs, private company/incentive options/nsos, and public traded options are all different and the same.

I've never actually received private company options; it's always been founders shares, even in a post-A company.

I've made maybe 600% on my money trading options (mainly AAPL and some non-tech companies; lost on TSLA but made money on TSLA stock), which is probably not what you meant.
I switched back to hotmail after using gmail for so many years because of this ...
That looks absolutely revolting.

It looks like when you bite it it would just shatter everywhere and all that grim looking meat and cheese would slop down onto your hand.
I wonder why this guy says FSM are non-composable? I've done something that could be termed as "orthogonal" combination of multiple FSMs. It's also possible for one FSM to "freeze" the operation of another and "unfreeze" a 3rd. I know, because I've done it.
If you actually worry about the possibility of being a psychopath, then you almost certainly are not.
> it seats 5 adults + 2 kids comfortably

Wait, it seats 7?
Should is the operative word. I keep being amazed at what people ought to know, yet don't.
I always have problems with tests like this, and I imagine they work poorly for highly-analytical people. Take this question: "Looking out for myself is my top priority."

I know if I put "strongly agree," it'll be more likely to call me a psychopath. At the same time, I'm thinking, "I look out for people I love - sometimes at risk to myself - but ultimately that's only because they matter to ME. Looking out for others is undeniably motivated by what matters to me."

Aside from the false dichotomies, surely any psychopath with even a shred of intelligence could answer strategically and defeat the test's intended purpose. And they use this in prison hearings?
When I was 14, my friends and I used to blow up snowbanks in the backyard with these all the time. However, we were not doing it in the name of science. We were doing it because we were pre "Jackass" skater dickheads. I believe we found the instructions in either Thrasher or Big Brother magazine.

I can't help but think the "science" angle is actually working against this young girl. This was obviously not a science project, and there are few things rednecks hate more than being told how to approach their business by people who think they are smarter than they are. It would be more beneficial to donate to the girl's defense fund than to pay lip service to some phony "it was science" defense.
I don't like to think about this, because my first tranche of AAPL options were valued at ... $42.
Every UI designer knows the backstory of the QWERTY keyboard, how the designers arranged the keys to intentionally slow down the users, to prevent typing errors.

Well, Gmail's new pop-up Compose window makes me wonder if designers sometimes need to create interfaces that slow down users' cognitive processes as well.

In theory, it's more efficient to write emails using the pop-up window because you can easily reference other messages. But in practice it makes me less productive because I feel distracted by seeing all of the other messages.
George Westinghouse bought the rights to a steam turbine design off a UK engineer. Technically it wasn't "theft", but the idea wasn't his, was it? Also, one of the first working steam turbines was built in Sweden. We stand on shoulders of giants. Developing transistor required a lot of groundwork. Not all was done in the US. An important part of success of Edison's light bulb was Sprengel pump designed in... London.
Hace you ever heard the name Werner von Braun?
I am not negating any of those achievements, but arguing it was all purely done by US is ridiculous
All the facts are from Wikipedia
But the Photoshop interface did change dramatically with CS, Au least more substantially than gmail ever has.
Isn't it possible to be afraid of more than one thing?
Like peppercorn. Wendy Peppercorn.
why the hell would you be doing this at school?

Perhaps she didn't have anywhere else to do it?
> I guess a lot of recruiting in Detroit or something

Or Sindelfingen, hopefully.
I saw top 5% and did not know how to interpret that either.