skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not the same story since GOG gives you the installers. If GOG goes out of business you can still use them, if you have them. You just should be diligent to back them up. Steam doesn't give you such option and you simply have no way to transfer the game in absence of access to Steam at all.
"because the general best practices"

It's important to know and understand the reasons behind advice like that. It totally depends on the circumstances, who is doing it and a host of other factors. Best practice? Get a government job with a pension and you won't have to worry about anything. Work for a corporation where they have departments that tell you what you can and should do and worry about all sorts of minutia.

I've used Apple logos in the past frequently as well as other things similar. Large companies don't expend energy and legal time doing anything nasty to small companies without a compelling reason (of course you could show me outliers obviously but you can't make money in business worrying about those outliers). Worse case scenario is normally a nasty letter asking you to stop, if that. The chance of an actual legal claim and money damages (once again in most cases) is minute. You might have to pay a lawyer to write something in reply. So what?

(And yes I've gone up against the NCAA and AMX with nasty letters and made them go away so I've pushed the envelope at least that far..I've also gotten approval in advance from the IRS as well for a project using their logo.)
Is there even a decent IDE for Go?
I've found that the more over-funded a Kickstarter project is, the higher the probability that delivery of perks and products will be delayed or have problems.

In my experience over the past two years, I've seen a number of projects that I funded where the project creators got bogged down after deciding to add features not originally specified at the time of funding, or continually "tweak" features that then result in delay after delay.

Looking through my backing history, some examples:
- Honey Badger BBQ sauce: first run had bacterial problems.
Had to send out new batch months later.

- Electricity | The Life Story of NIKOLA TESLA: "Oh, that
perk you chose, is out of production, if you want
something equivalent to it you'll have to send even
more money". Nope.

- L8 SmartLight The SoundLess Speaker: "Ooops, we forgot
about CE/FCC certification..."

- NeuroDreamer sleep mask: "Oops, battery problem."
Funded July '12, finally shipping June '13?

- Ouya: ETA was March '13, now it's 3 months later and I
finally have a tracking number.. we'll see.

- HexBright - funded July '11, delivered Feb. '13.

- IronBuds earbuds: Funded Aug. '11, sent "freebie" 3-piece earbuds Sep. '12, still haven't sent the 6-piece IronBuds originally advertised as rewards.

The projects that I've seen with the quickest "fulfillment" and so forth? Custom sets of playing cards.
We had our computers pretty well locked down but our mobile messages were still plain text so we wrote a whatsapp style mobile messenger over transparent end-to-end encryption. SURESPOT is free to use and open source, check out the source on GitHub, feedback is much appreciated.
www.surespot.me
Many of the changes you propose -- all of them, actually -- would tend to make me less happy and less satisfied with my life than I am currently.

We may have the capability to do all of these things within 50 years, and some of them much earlier. But I'm skeptical of whether these sorts of cultural "innovations" will see widespread adoption if they don't improve quality of life.

We've had the ability as a species to have sex without physical consequences for more than half a century now, and yet most people, once they reach a certain age, still seem to derive more satisfaction from a stable, monogamous relationship than any other arrangement. Maybe we're just wired that way.
Given the PayPal story, which started with the company being encryption software to beam money between Palm Pilots, that couldn't possibly be what Max meant. They definitely didn't "know whether [they were] going in the right direction."

What he means, I think, is that at an early stage startup the cost of coordination is very high. When you have 5 people working together you almost want a hive mind. If part of everyone's mutual understanding includes how, when, and why to change course then the cost of potentially sticking with the wrong thing for too long is far outweighed by the cost of coordination.

Your example is the opposite of what I take him to mean, viz., in a small team where everyone understands how to operate independently and has a deep, mutual understanding then nobody's going to introduce a breaking change that leaves the other 4 people flat footed at a critical time.
Deadlock in quora login
why the hate guys?
he made some good looking pictures and is offering them for free. And the top 3 comments here are people hating.
Creative Commons is difficult in most stock photo use cases - there is often the requirement to display an attribution close to the picture, which would look odd in most designs.
So please calm down and try to appreciate the effort.
Fun!

You should build an aggregator about air for the benefit of the environment Using these APIs: MyMemory - Translation Memory, Gender and ethnic detection for Russian names, oDesk
Typical US electricity rates are around $0.10/kWh, and a baseline Model S having a 60kWh battery, so if I totally guess at a charging efficiency of 50% then a full charge should cost somewhere in the vicinity of $12. On the 60kWh model, it costs $2000 to enable the supercharger hardware, so I can't imagine they'd lose too much money off these.

Keep in mind that these aren't really intended for frequent use: they generally have been placing them on highways in between large cities, with the intent to enable the occasional long-distance road trip that would otherwise be outside the car's battery range. Even if Tesla loses a bit of money per car on average, it's probably worth it just for the value it adds to the cars in peoples' minds.
Internet Voting Snafu at USRowing
What the Fark?
SFLC: VP8 cross-license draft compatible with FOSS licensing
The first thing that came into my head as soon as I saw it was:

power
mac
g4
cube

I think it needs a little more originality in the design department.
Our local credit union was sued by the city for using a picture of a local bridge on their debit cards. The credit union owned the rights to the photograph that was provided by a local photographer. The city owned the right to pictures of the local bridge. Vicious cycle.
Lessons from my failed start-up
Nos. 2, 3, 7, and 8 are basically about housing costs; as Glaeser and Tobio note in "The Rise of the Sunbelt": http://www.nber.org/papers/w13071, Sunbelt states like Texas are growing so fast because building housing there is cheap.

In most coastal cities, by contrast, building housing is exceedingly expensive and sometimes verges on impossible (http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/05/face...). So when demand rises, prices rise too, and existing residents see the purchasing power of their salaries erode because much of those salaries have to go to housing costs. In Texas, when demand for housing rises so does supply.
So long as a person's existing computer can still view Facebook, check email, and watch YouTube videos, there's no real impetus for them to upgrade. That tablets and phones are quite capable of doing this means there's even less need for a new PC.

Microsoft doesn't add anything new. Windows 95 was appreciably better at doing what people already did, there was reason to upgrade, and Windows XP took that even further. Ever since then they've been pretty rudderless. Windows 7 doesn't offer anything that Windows XP can't already do, apart from the new theming. At least it's inoffensive, though, and lets you do whatever you want to do without putting up a fuss.

Windows 8 is something nobody wants or needs, it's a very hard sell, and it's even more bizarre that Microsoft would be pushing so hard on touch into the market that least wants it: Corporate IT.
It's a damn shame that knockout.js [1] receives so little attention. Both in terms of not being included in the article, and if it had been included it would look quite poor next to the others (currently "only" 3750 stars). But it's a great framework and for some reason it's often overlooked in spite of other lesser libraries (e.g. spine, if we use the github stars metric)

First and foremost, it has excellent documentation. Everything is explained clearly on the site, and it's got a great interactive tutorial [2]. Contrast this to everybody (myself included!) moaning about the angular, ember docs etc.

Besides that, it's got deep browser support (all the way back to IE6!), two-way data-binding, plus it's intuitive and simple. In fact, combined with the excellent docs, I'd wager any competent dev could have the gist of knockout and be quite productive within an hour. It is also extremely easy to extend if you wish to plugin external functionality. Which leads to the final point - it plays well with other libraries that you're probably familiar with. e.g. I usually pair with Zepto, jQuery and/or AmplifyJS.

In the interest of being balanced, I must say it does have some bad points. The main thing for me is lack of architectural guidance. Nowhere is it explained the best practices for structuring apps. Nor is there any guidance on unit testing. You can, of course, work out all these things yourself, but why must the same problem be solved over and over? Set some conventions and be done with it! That said, there's a framework of sorts being built on top of knockout called Durandal [3] that aims to solve some of these problems. I've not used it yet, but it looks very neat. Also you'd be remiss not to check out Ryan Niemeyer's website [4] for lots of guidance and useful plugins (he's one of the core contributors I believe)

[1] http://knockoutjs.com/
[2] http://learn.knockoutjs.com/
[3] http://durandaljs.com/
[4] http://www.knockmeout.net/
As somebody who did pro photography for a few years, these photos are a good example of why you should never shoot JPG, but RAW instead, and process everything in 16 bit per channel until you actually save the end result.

Your process resulted in absolutely horrible posterization, can be clearly seen on this one (display of the laptop):

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18793141/macbook-air-all...
That may be marginally helpful but only if all the cars are self-driving and if there is no traffic have fun going the speed limit the whole way. A good way to foster adoption of self-driving cars may be to let them go faster when on auto.
Can't functions have multiple "returns"? It seems like "end" should always be required. Or am I missing something?
Why does he need to beat Flickr? Should I not open an e-commerce shop because Amazon exists?

I think this is a great idea. Why go through the hassle of selling your photos and worrying about people stealing them when you can make money on ad revenue instead?
Evernote gains new security features
Ironically, I think it's actually slightly easier for an eavesdropper to detect that your keystrokes are part of a password if the password is not being echoed.

They could potentially use this information to know the length of a password, which would make brute-forcing easier. A very hypothetical attack, but fun to think about! Less effective than a $5 wrench, no doubt.
Apple will most certainly be upset. The have a ton of brand guidelines on how you can display their products in your own marketing. For instance you are not allowed to show an iphone in any direction other than straight on, and you are not allowed to have anything partially occluding the iphone.
Large corporations in the U.S. want to be treated like individuals (or better), e.g. the Citizens United prosecution and decision (unlimited political spending).

At the same time, they don't want to be treated like individuals: Taxes, prison time for criminal offenses, etc.

I have little sympathy for them.

This includes because, as a corporeal individual, I am in competition with them. And they've stacked the deck.
Show HN: everything for employees
this is what they call meritocracy.
My personal favorite is Nicaragua. Here's an example:

Reparto Serrano, de la Policía de Plaza del Sol 4 cuadras al Lago, Casa esquinera Managua, Nicaragua

Translation: Serrano Division. From the Policía de Plaza del Sol go four blocks towards the lake (which is North in Managua). Corner House. Managua, Nicaragua.

Absolutely crazy. No street names at all. Addresses are really directions from well-known places (except when it doesn't exist anymore - "de donde fue" : "from where there was.."). They use the old spanish unit 'vara' - 84 cm instead of the meter to specify houses within blocks. Up and down aren't north and south; they're where the sun goes up and down (east and west).

More information here: http://vianica.com/nicaragua/practical-info/14-addresses.htm...
There is. But racial diversity has nothing to do with it.

The more diverse the backgrounds and thought patterns are of people on a team, the more likely they'll think of and consider solutions and paths that might not have been considered otherwise -- or see pitfalls in them.

If you're building a rocket to go to Mars, you absolutely want as much diversity in your engineering backgrounds as possible (assuming everyone already meets the engineering requirements in the first place).
Exactly! Stop taking SEOmoz as gospel.
Doesn't matter: any sequence of calls for calc() from any number of threads will always yield the same result.

Mutating m1 non-atomically is completely unrelated here, because non-const functions may be not threadsafe. You should just ensure that const functions are threadsafe.
> and yet most people, once they reach a certain age, still seem to derive more satisfaction from a stable, monogamous relationship than any other arrangement.

You still aren't accounting for societal and cultural pervasiveness of monogamous relationships. It is so historic and traditional it is, if not taught, experienced from the earliest years of life. I feel like in a society with plenty people would be more generous and "risky" in their interactions with others. So I think we are culturally wired that way, but I'm not sold that we are physically wired for monogamy, and I'd site foreign cultures like the Persians where polygamy was common, even when the primary goal was still rapid population expansion.
AdZerk is a fantastic local company doing impressive things with node.js in a space that is admittedly underwhelming. James is the driving force behind that, with his decision to move to the RTP region and make a clear statement about the objective of the company early in its history, really has made AdZerk successful.
Why not one photo a day?
You shouldn't be using RDC on Server 2012 with or without Metro. You should be using either Powershell and or RSAT. In general the interface on 2012 is a marked improvement over 2008 R2.
Show HN: Open Data to create transparency in Development Aid
I have read about this, and I've always wanted to try an uberman sleep cycle, but I had a hard enough time switching to the 17/9 6 day cycle I don't want to risk it.
Interesting, but a slight critique. There's some lens chromatic aberration in the bokeh/blur... a better lens that performs with little chroma wide open would solve it, or failing that stopping down just a couple notches down from wide open.

Yet another reasons people pay for hi-resolution high-quality photographs, or take their own. Photographs cost money because they provide value, and some random photos taken by a non-professional don't always cut it. Great of you to give it a shot and put it out there though.
A follow up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5794549
Do We Count? ~ Policy by the Numbers
Not really fair to reference Google here.

After all, the flip side is, "or announce that a flavor that you paid $600 for barely 14 months ago is end-of-life and will not be getting any updates".
I wonder if they will introduce LTS for Rails 3.0 etc, once Rails 4 will be released.
That's because people have liability and machines do not.
Its not sinister, its entirely predictable. But that doesn't make it any less selfish and callous towards the lives it could save.
MQTT broker in node.js
I'm technical. Why would I install that? You just press the windows key and start typing what you want exactly like you did in Windows 7.

Do people actually use the Start Menu for anything beyond searching? I guess shutdown? What else? Anything?
Nowhere in nature does moving your head also move the thing you want to look

It's not nature, but everyone who already wears glasses knows what this is like. It's just part of my software by now.
I'm a big fan of Backbone. I'm used to do most of the scripting by myself and I don't like to mess my html data-attributes with javascript libraries. Also the source code is pure and self-explainatory, supports underscore and is used to be paired with CoffeeScript. Because of that, I'm pretty fast and flexible.
Only downside is most of the implants want to bring their left leaning policies with them, apparently completely, and blissfully, unaware that it was those same policies that ruined the states they came from. I am looking at You CA and NY.
Press the power button.
Then you'll need the override when the passenger (or driver) is dying and needs to get to the hospital. I guess you would have to read and sign the 85 page EULA and sign: "I understand that if I crash here there will be hell to pay".
OMG, JSX.. why? just why?? Stop ruining js people!
Those do not pop up while navigation is on.
As others have said here, you should consider hosting these with great keywords with a Creative Commons license on Flickr, and/or contribute them to a few free stock photo sites, and link back to your new site consistently featuring new work. You'll get found more easily at the places most people are searching, and start to make a name for yourself through bringing them back here.

At the same time, you should look into your technique if you'd like these to be usable for commercial print work.

These likely cannot be used in print work as is; the photo quality is borderline. They likely wouldn't be chosen by art directors to use large (eg., background images) or on today's retina screens, for the same reason. If someone is reviewing the work, too many clients' eyes will jump to the problems.

You may want to consider a better lens that doesn't exhibit the strong purple color fringing. You also need to reduce (or change methods of) the post processing that's causing severe fringing between the various subjects in the pictures, ringing on the out of focus elements, etc. These look and feel a lot like high end camera phone pics run through too much filter.

In considering composition, watch out for elements like the errant finger on the left hand writing. Any element that's too unusual draws excess attention, detracting from stock photo value, unless of course that element is the featured element.

Check out the quality standards guidelines at iStockPhotos:

http://www.istockphoto.com/help/sell-stock/training-manuals/...

For example, they would have likely rejected these for chromatic aberration and maybe for over filtering:

http://www.istockphoto.com/help/sell-stock/training-manuals/...

http://www.istockphoto.com/help/sell-stock/training-manuals/...

Finally, as noted in other comments, generally company logos are not acceptable in stock photography:

http://www.istockphoto.com/help/sell-stock/training-manuals/...
The probable reason the iOS devices are locked down is because that's where Apple's money is now.

If Apple encouraged jail-breaking that would dramatically alter the nature of their product line-up. If the jail-broken phones developed a reputation for crashing, for apps not working properly, or for being a vehicle for rampant piracy, that would taint their brand.

It's a tough position they're put in. As an enthusiast I'd really like to see the iOS hardware sold without locks, specifically for hacking, but Apple isn't interested in that market.

The good news is that whatever Apple pushes hard, be it iPads or iPhones or iPods, puts enormous pressure on the supply channel to deliver parts at scale. Where touch-screen panels used to be stupidly expensive, you can buy them for under $50 from many vendors.

Like an ice-breaker, Apple's enormous volume causes the price of components to plunge across the board. Everything they touch becomes commoditized in time. This is good for consumers, they get better products from third parties, and amazing for hardware hackers that want to build or customize their own gear. Want a quad-core ARM CPU? It's a couple of bucks. Think about that.

You can get an OEM tablet from some random vendor in China that's as good as an iPad 2 hardware-wise, and you can get them cheap. For a little extra, you can get them customized. This is not a bad thing.

Apple will keep their hardware locked down, it's their call, but it opens up enormous opportunities in the open-hardware arena.
Yeah, that would definitely be an interesting way to use it.
Referring to the Berkeley TCP/IP stack?
Do you have home Internet? I mean, you can install those on just about any network so long as you have the permissions to open ports on the router. Synology cloud app keeps track of dynamic IP addresses and your cloud app knows where to connect even without using a service like no-ip.
Just to add to this - I know others who have grown disillusioned with the system. With a complex condition the chance that the sufferer has seen just the one doctor is almost zero. A dozen may be an underestimate. If the patient is no better, its hard not to become skeptical as the cost falls only on the sufferer and their family.
I can hear great in quiet places. If I'm on the road (biking, or driving) there's too much ambient noise and I can hear notifications or dings, but no detailed audio.

As far as what other people can hear, definitely something, but not super well. Also, depends on how quiet it is.
> "the world is, generally and on balance, a better place to live this year than it was last year."

On average, yes. The standard deviation doesn't look as promising.
No, it does not require a trade off. That is exactly what I just pointed out. There is no such problem. Parametric polymorphism was solved in 1976. None of the things you mentioned are actual problems, they simply do not exist. Those are invented excuses. If Rob seriously still hasn't bothered to read CS papers from 30+ years ago, that is very unfortunate. But it does not mean the problem wasn't solved, it just means he is unaware of the solution.
All of which is summed up by the comments about people from one particular university.

Point by point:
Easy to leverage people you went to uni with
Easy to attract top talent, if you went to uni with it
Ruthless? If you mean selecting from a single know talent pool, sure.
You'll probably scare away 2nd tier talent, if you a already populated with your mates from a top uni.

OK, those are bitter and twisted replies, but being British, I know all about closed shop universities and mates giving mates jobs. Old School Tie we call it. Have a look at our government....