skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had this mostly written up, so I'm going to say pretty much what my sibling said in a different way :)

It's not about the ruleset so much as the players' attitudes.

There's a way to play Apples to Apples that's as a card game. You deal the cards, flip a topic, everyone puts up, the judge reveals the cards and picks a winner. It's pretty boring unless the cards themselves are hilariously lewd, hence CAH. (And I've played rounds of CAH this way that were just as boring.)

There's another way to play it, more like a role-playing game with the cards as a prop. The judging is a discursive experience played with the whole group. When the cards are revealed, due attention must be given to each one. "Fuzzy like teenagers. Fuzzy like... The Clinton administration? Fuzzy like herding cats, okay. Fuzzy like... Dinosaurs." Once all the cards are on the table, the judging begins. Unlike in the card game version, the cards which aren't relevant must be dealt with explicitly, and audience participation is encouraged.

"Dinosaurs just aren't fuzzy."

"What about pterodactyls?"

"Yeah, birds are technically dinosaurs."

"Okay, but birds aren't fuzzy, they're fluffy."

"Maybe it's fuzzy on the inside. Like dinosaurs have nice personalities."

If I'm hawking my own card, that's minus points. Or is that not my card, and I'm trying to sandbag it with praise? Complex interpersonal dynamics meet linguistics as every judge's turn becomes a little game to itself. And just wait until cards start to turn up that tie into previous rounds...

It requires the players be engaged and committed to playing with each other, rather than with the cards, but it's hopefully obvious how that's fun in a way that has little or nothing to do with the content of the cards themselves. So nothing against CAH or other forks, but people who think CAH is fun where A2A isn't probably don't understand what makes the concept fun in the first place.
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5722532
Their SSL negotiates AES256, so they're technically correct?
I feel the fact that they named the armed cops the Viking Squad is being overlooked here. Viking Squad aint nuthing ta fuck wit.
It looks like he bought 100 consecutive tickets. If the winning tickets are truly random, it wouldn't matter, but I wouldn't be surprised if the distribution is controlled in some way that ensures winning tickets will be more evenly distributed than random. Anyone know whether this is the case?

If it is, the variance at least (if not the expected return) could be different if the tickets were purchased in 100 different places.
It's almost as if there are multiple people commenting here with different opinions.
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Let me clarify that I think computers would help the most with explaining concepts in an engaging, pedagogical and interactive way. Having a personal tutor that helps you with your homework and example problems is much further into the future. But my biggest problem in school was not that I didn't get help to solve problems and do homework, it's that the teachers often didn't explain high-level concepts in a way that made it click for me. It's the one-to-many teaching that is especially bad today if you get a teacher that either can't explain well, or just doesn't understand the subject deeply enough to explain it well.

Edit: As an example, listen to Feynman talk about anything and everything, and compare that with your average or below average college lecturer. The difference in your understanding is immense. A good teacher helps you build a mental model of the world and gets you excited about it. A bad teacher just regurgitates what the course material says with no real engagement. I wish I could have had Feynman-level lectures on everything from the start, it would have saved me years.
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When I was young, I liked to mix the questions and answers from different Trivial Pursuit cards. A kind of surreal "Trivial Pursuit: Exquisite Corpse Edition." :)
>>Sometimes it's the technologists who are the most resistant to technological change.

Because it's the technologists that truly understand the pros and cons of a proposed technological development. Everyone else tends to be starry-eyed daydreamers who are living in an alternate reality.
There's a big ol' elephant in the middle of the room that this post is not addressing.

The irrational love programmers have for horrible monospace fonts.
+1 to making the findings in this wiki public.
Wikimedia employs a lot of people, I personally do not donate because I believe they employ way too many. Also pretty much all costs are already covered by corporate sponsors like Google.
Thank you so much for the feedback! I was a little nervous submitting this here, but was hopeful for the constructive critique. Your thought out notes really made my day :)
I would hate to fight the ender dragon like this.
Right on. I would definitely constrain such a thing to a small subset of C++.
But they have confiscated domains without evidence or trial before[1].

[1] http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57428362-93/critics-say-fed...
If by investment you mean "waste of money". Then sure.
So you add one line to your config to replace colons with spaces? I'm not sure that's a legitimate reason to bail on trying it.
Perhaps this is the perfect time to shamelessly self-promote a side project: https://deckepic.com is a Facebook-driven dynamic CAH card generator.
This is the best idea ever and I think I need to try it.

I'd suggest calling it "Disney against Humanity" - but then again I used to work in animation, maybe I'm bitter.
50 employees is too many? (140k per person)

100 employees is too many? (70k per person)

* that 140k and 70k include things like healthcare and benefits too, I bet.
The behavior actually depends on the app. If the application can't figure out a good way to use both screens, then you get the gray texture on one screen.
I post nearly nothing on Facebook and am not an activist, and I've been getting the same kind of emails very frequently lately. Some (but not all) of my friends have reported the same. It's likely that it's just random phishing spam.

Edit: To be more specific, the emails use the names of my Facebook friends, but have incorrect sender addresses, indicating that they're just spoofing the name rather than hacking the email accounts of my friends. They're usually fairly short, with an obvious phishing link to a gibberish domain. They come from Facebook friends that I don't necessarily communicate with, and I've confirmed with at least two of those friends that their accounts have not been hacked.
I would severely miss the history completion. I can't count how many times I type !vi to return to the last file I was editing while goofing around in between editing sessions, or !scp to re-upload a fixed package. I understand the need for simplicity, but hitting the up arrow an undefined number of times until I see the command I need seems less efficient.

Other than that fish looks really polished and I plan on devoting a few days to it to give it a fair shake.
Tf you live outside of the US or just travel a lot, and have a US account, the Chase Sapphire Preferred is THE card to have. it saves me a lot of money. i like it slightly better than the Starwood Amex just because i can use it more places.
Or as the expression goes: Gambling is a tax for those who are bad at math.
Friend, truly, this is a mistake and you should change the name.
It can be easily customized to suit your needs., The features are there but its upto the freelancer/agency to use the features they want to use.

Anyways this is Version 1, Hopefully Version 2 will change your mind.
usually you can see how many of the bigger prizes have been collected during a run. If you didn't manually ensure they were not all clumped together, you might run into cases where tickets could be deduced to have substantially different odds (in either direction)... I think this has actually happened. You wouldn't want all the big prizes to get claimed right at the beginning, I imagine people would largely stop buying your tickets.
Anyone know how this might be implemented in Android? Seems like cruft in the code for most users.
I agree; it reminded me of this, in a bad way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzkRVzciAZg
Do you mind sharing more details about your legacy environment configuration? How are you currently setting $PATH? Usually the differences in syntax for setting variables causes more problems than the colons.

Regarding $PATH: it is actually not delimited at all in fish. Instead, $PATH is an array, which is a first class notion in fish. This allows for nice tricks like, say, looping through $PATH:

for dir in $PATH
echo $dir
end

or deleting its last entry:

set --erase PATH[-1]

Of course, fish flattens $PATH into a colon-delimited string when setting it as an environment variable, and unflattens it when reading it from the environment.
Let's hack together Austin
I hate this phenomenon. It's so easy for an organization to misappropriate targeted funds, simply by removing & redirecting regular funding equal to the amount of the targeted funds.

It's why I am very hesitant to donate to my alma mater. I want to, but I know no matter what I tell them I want done with my donation, a little wizardry on the books and they can send it wherever they please.
Would you rather be judged by an AI than a human?
Facebook plays fast and loose with data, perhaps one of your friends used a FB integrated service at some time which captured their friend list (e.g. you).
Setgym time twice a week, tell your team, then go back to the office after. Dating is harder, but you need to find a weekly hobby/social group you can do . I don't know you well enough to recommend anything offhand, but I think my email is in my profile if you want to tell me more, or you can post interests here and see if some.

I probably wouldn't recommend online dating, if you are straight. I suspect that it would be unpleasant in several ways. There is no stigma though, if you do.

edit: apologies for the triple post. should be fixed now. Was replying from my phone.
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> The SKI combinator calculus is Turing-complete, but you can't read a CSV file with it.

Of course you can, it's just a matter of input handling. For that matter you can read a CSV file with any Turing machine. It's just easier elsewhere.
Check out https://deckepic.com
I think they are saying the communications are encrypted, not the data on the server.

Which is not really that impressive, it's becoming standard to ENCRYPT ALL THE THINGS!!!1 in social apps. But the way they said it did confuse me as well.
Did you try it? (that doesn't match what other people have explained to me)
For some purposes, Israel is grouped with Europe; that's all.
> One of the cute things about the Culture is how damned nice the Minds are

Were the Minds (originally) designed to be "nice"? Or have they evolved to be nice because that is an effective way to influence humans? (I've only read one Culture book.)
The next day they were probably wishing they had just gotten $5 instead.
Thanks for the reply and checking out the app! Will get that fixed.
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This article surprised me; normally you see advice that suggests only building products for profit centers. Thinking of different techniques for the two domains is a great idea.
Yes, I do find it is interesting how much faith we have in something by it just being called scientific. But...

About the example of split couples finding themselves 95% or even 100% compatible with their ex's on dating sites: that can be used both ways. The ex's actually DID end up choosing each other and DID have some good times and were, day I say, "compatible" for a set period of time. Plus we're not even sure what drove the divorces in these examples. Did someone cheat? Was there a specific unforeseen event that happened? Heck, the ex's themselves didn't see the split coming in the beginning/match-making part of their relationship.
what's an example
What exactly did you have on this website?

Once is happenstance, twice is a coincidence, three times is an act of war. :O!
How 'bout we just go with the unix philosophy and let you build these things yourself so that they have a chance of actually working?

Yes, I'm saying you should use IRC.
The kind of people that line up their assignments and other syntax elements of the same sort are the ones that prefer justified text, even in inappropriate cases. It's annoying.

You also end up with "floaters", where if in this case `numSides` is removed, x and y assignments will have a needless number of spaces. These can be corrected, but you'll also inherit "blame" for the change, which is misinformation.

Keep them tight, learn to read code that way. Code is not ASCII art.
When people become versed in math and statistics the politicians will have harder time lying and deceiving. Also carries, bank, big businesses and advertisers. So it is in no one's interest.
I understand when it comes to something that is normally bought and sold, but I guess it changes for me when it comes to something that is normally given away for free and never sold, except as part of a larger system such as OS X or enterprise Linux.
Customize this music video in real time using a photoshop style UI
> That question, "Can you find out? Hell no," is relativity in a nutshell. If you really grasp what that means, the whole deal from simultaneity to time dilation to curved spacetime all falls out more or less intuitively. (Of course it was harder to work out the first time :P)

You cannot deduce relativity from the knowledge that you can't find out whether you're moving. In Newtonian physics you can't find out whether you're moving either. The essential ingredient is that the speed of light is the same in all reference frames. Furthermore curved spacetime is by no means trivial; that's general relativity. It took Einstein himself 10 additional years before he got from special to general relativity, and more still to really develop it.
Is it just me, or is there very little "real software" being shown here? Everything in the video was just "artist's interpretations" of what it "could look like", no?
Thank you for this!!! I tried out fish for a while but vi broke and I just reverted back to bash. I might give it a second try now.
Thanks zck :) Happy to continue the discussion here!
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I remember reading though a page where they listed their employees and I remember it was 100+, I wanted to include the link in my comment, buy couldn't find it this time.
Furthermore, Glass doesn't put itself 'over' the world, but out of the way - it's not about augmented reality. That's part of why I think its approach is ultimately going to be abandoned.
I've given away 10-12 complete CAH sets to friends. Not a single person has said "oh that game is boring", and more than one of them has come back later and told me it was their favorite birthday/Christmas present, etc.

It's also a great way to judge if you'll get along with someone.
I think looking at musical typesetting is even closer to the problem of typesetting source code. lilypond.org does explain some ideas about musical typesetting. For example when and when not to align notes, etc.

The OP does seem to favour a table-like grid layout for source code, yet I rather feel like source code describes hierarchical trees (that is why we like the indenting). Arranging things in a tabular way is not principally beneficial. Sometimes you encounter things like this:

int x = get_width();
const long double y = 1.5 * get_width();

But what use is the aligning? Type, identifier and value of `x` are far apart, it is easy to switch lines here.

Now most programming languages have a big problem with indentation and layout because their syntax is weird. C's habit of putting types in front, etc. That is probably why the GNU C styleguide is proposing something like this:

int
strcpy( ....

Type and identifier on separate lines. This style is not widely adopted, and that probably shows another aspect of typography: What is typographically correct depends on what is common.
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Oh I understand now. In NYC a car can be more of a problem than a solution.
What I'm not seeing is anything about positioning. I don't see the usual white balls for the camera (or colored ones as used in Sony's Move). So is it relying entirely on the 3D camera and dead reckoning with accelerometers to figure out where the user is? Because that stuff inevitably fails the moment you start walking around the room.

I'm mostly thinking about ARQuake and the like, where the AR objects are walking around the room or hallways rather than being confined to a table in front of you.
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Exactly why I'm leaving my company after ~3 years. There's absolutely no movement but lateral with a laughable pay raise, more responsibility in tasks that are unrelated to my skills and greater micromanaging.

While I've learned a lot here, most of the time I've been stagnating and it's depressing and infuriating.
I think you will really like the autosuggestions then. Just begin typing 'vi' and it will suggest the rest of the last command you typed, like doing a history search for free. See http://fishshell.com/assets/img/screenshots/autosuggestion.p... .

One of the nice features of autosuggestions is that they remember which arguments were files, and which ones were not. So if you have changed directories, !vi will edit a file that does not exist - probably not what you meant to do. The fish autosuggestion won't suggest it at all.
Yeah, the magic (if there is any) is doing the match across a silly amount of songs in a relatively short time. Not groundbreaking exactly, but operationally quite interesting.
Same here; Mac OS 10.8 running Chrome (Version 24.0.1312.57)
Yeah, I'm seeing a lot of "what it could be like," in a video that probably cost thousands to produce. The big round $100K number is suspicious to me as well. They're making... a dev kit? For an environment, device, and service platform that doesn't exist (nor the technologies to enable it, just yet), and their budget to create all this is exactly $100K? If so, that's not gonna happen. If not, and this is just cherry on the cake funding, I don't think that's what Kickstarter is "for," as much as Kickstarter can be "for" one thing and not another.
You can phone Shazam up and have it make the identification using what it hears live. There's no client processing at all for that.
I'm in the US and I've never heard of Shazam either until now.

I don't really watch much TV though.
Fair comment except that cards against humanity is pretty much just riding the coattails of an already huge hit itself.
Is there an open-source library for archiving a URL, including all assets (JS, graphics, etc.)?

This task is trickier than it initially seems.

I'd love to have a local cache of bookmarked URLs.
Love the tech, but the design is spectacular. I'm one to get turned off pretty quickly if things aren't obvious/well-designed, but this is the exact opposite. Kudos.
This reminds me of Minecraft Reality: http://minecraftreality.com/.
I understand a frame of reference doesn't have to be physical. However, if you're in an apparently empty and dark universe, and you're interested in knowing whether you're accelerating or not, postulating a frame of reference is not going to be of much help.

I may have missed the point of dropping an object, though. I thought the idea was to create a physical point we could anchor the coordinate system to, and in that way be able to measure acceleration.
Good point. I guess it gets a bit more complicated when you try to do the right thing. So I'll re-examine the simple while loop like oneeyedpigeon posted:

while (*t++ = *f++)
;

This code really packs a lot of punch. The value of f is copied to t and then both pointers are incremented. If the value is 0 the loop is terminated. So there's always at least one character copied.

In my initial rash response the loop would exit without copying the 0. So to fix it I might just add a new line

*to = 0;

(if I'm not mistaken the pointer is already incremented when the loop exits).

Another option would be a while loop with a break statement, It looks weird, but does express the correct intent, which is "continuously copy from source string and exit if you've reached the end":

while (true) {

*to = *from;
if (*to == 0) break;

from++
to++;

}
Get a Mac, install Meteor.
Totally just backed this. I haven't been so excited about a piece of tech in ages. This is truly a game-changer if it works anywhere near as well as they're showing.
Great to see this on here. Hope postach.io and quoterobot get further attention over the next few months. Both really great products, and Shawn really seems to know what he's doing.

Wish the team the very best.

Full disclosure: I am a user of both products and got to know Shawn via QuoteRobot about 6 months ago.
The white balls are a color-separation process for location, the Kinect uses an IR emitter.

The Kinect is perfectly capable of creating sets of objects based on its depth map. Normally it's a "skeleton" in a whole body, but it can just as easily make a skeleton of your hand, with the fingertips automatically tracked and used as activation points.
Have you heard of LikeBright.com? I just found it, but it uses Facebook friendship and "vouching" to play off the "met through a friend" method of finding a relationship.

shudder If I had realized Match.com had bought OkCupid, I would've bailed much sooner. Ironically, days after I shelled out $5 because of OkCupid's seemingly understanding stance on AdBlock, I found my current girlfriend, and shortly thereafter, I closed my account. (I theorize they only match you with good matches once you give them money, especially the $5 once and done deal, where they will never get money from you again.)

Finally, you quote "concrete things like religion, wealth, and education have been associated with relationship happiness." Couldn't they be used in algorithms in a way to meaningful improve the usefulness of matching?
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