skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This means that most of XBLA type/calibre is still going to happen (90% or 100% of XBLA had publishers)

This move is more for quality control (plus data on the lackluster downloads of Xbox Indie games) rather than hatred for indies. Its still short sighted but it would also make Xbox One deal with less cruft of games, thereby avoiding the signal-to-noise being bad (remember all games are not silo'ed anymore.) making the game library browsing experience just generally more appealing to the mainstream customer. I doubt these demographic will miss Xbox indie-type games, heck I don't think they even visited that tab.

But I do like the intense focus on games by the PS4 camp more. Just happy that Xbox One and PS4 are now going in totally divergent paths.
If you follow this link, and then follow their source (Which is http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/05/xbox-one-analysis/, though they also confirm with the Verge, which lists its source as the Wired article), you'll only need to do this if you want to install it locally. It goes on to say:

cite: http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/05/xbox-one-analysis/
But what if a second person simply wanted to put the disc in and play the game without installing – and without paying extra? In other words, what happens to our traditional concept of a “used game”? This is a question for which Microsoft did not yet have an answer, and is surely something that game buyers (as well as renters and lenders) will want to know. (Update: Microsoft called Wired after this story was originally published to say that the company did have a plan for used games, and that further details were forthcoming.)

So taking games around to other people's houses? Or used games? Undefined. Not evil, not announced. They might be doing something bad, but this is shit-stirring, and nothing more.
OnLive?
Killers Of Justice - (In India)
Same here, aside from Slashdot and breathless Hackaday posts where someone has shoved 8 beagleboards into a suitcase.
Socialvane Gears Up To Organize Social Media with RabbitMQ and Celery
Steve Jobs had a clear vision: We are going to launch a device that is going to revolutionize the way people consume media. I believe, this is how he won that negotiation.
[OT] I've been reading quite a few posts from qz.com and medium.com these days - what is going on?
Ah, yes, the old "On warfare with a heavy fortress, containing lots of supplies, that can withstand a prolonged siege: be the side with the fortress".
Not really considering how my laptop/computers are connected to the internet 24/7...it's not a large leap to have my console be as well.
This text is a bit misleading - in step two, you aren't promising that you will remove the content, you're simply listing the things that GitHub removed that you'd like to see reinstated.

The meaning of the counter-claim is not, "I agree, I removed the stuff, sorry", the meaning is, "I disagree, put the stuff back up. If you don't like it, take me to court."
Readability and the Golden Ratio
I'm using it on Linux and Windows.
You might enjoy Direct3D...imagine if people designed an API, documented it really well, and weren't crufty as fuck.

I've done a lot of time with OpenGL, but I won't pretend for a second that there aren't better things out there.
> The web isn't text on steroids, it's the infancy of the replacement for tv.

The web started as a digital version of books and newspapers. Now it's trending towards a replacement for TV? How awful.
Show HN: ccolors - nodejs cli colors
Backlash over Xbox pre-owned games
That's why he is in jail for the time he is, and that's why he is in SHU. Person who doesn't want to be in jail says "Your honor, doing what I did was a terrible mistake, and I will remember it for the rest of my life and will behave responsibly in the future and apply my knowledge for good, not for evil". Person who wants to end up in SHU says "Fuck you, judge, fuck you, system, you're not the boss of me, I'll keep doing what I want to do and I'll do it worse next time. Yeah, you thought your puny jail would stop me from doing it again?! Fuck you!".

If he was some kind of Ghandi that refuses to cooperate with the system for a noble cause, I'd feel sympathy for him even though his conduct is contrary to what a reasonable person would do. Struggle for freedom requires people to do unreasonable things to push the boundaries and improve the system. But he's no Ghandi, he's a douchebag and the only cause I can see about him is his own douchebaggery. So my sympathy for him is very minimal.

And repeated proclamations from his supporters in the vein of "oh, he's treated so badly, he'll burn you all to the ground once he's out" is not helping either. Threatening is usually not the best way to gain sympathy.
I agree with this. When I was first learning to code I was ten, and my mentor would show me the solution, and I would go 'aaaah I get it now', and then he's ask me if I really understood it, which I would sometimes reply with 'not really, no'.

Copy paste compile, a terrible way to "learn".
[IANAL] Oh, probably. What will be really interesting is if the AG tries to pierce the corporate veil, under the notion that the troll created the corporation for express purposes of fraud.
Things like instant switching seem to be minor to me compared to the locked-down nature of the XO. I would much rather have a PS4 and just use a Roku for watching video.
The is beautiful. Jobs is great at stating his position in a way that is simple and direct, yet crushing.
Even if you don't care about reuse, wouldn't it make more sense to just do a selector like ".my-completely-and-totally-unique-class-name" instead of nesting so many levels deep?
Maybe there was a time in your linguistic community when those words meant that. I suggest that this is not universal. I've seen lots of people in games use "newb" in a profanity-laden attack, and I've seen people people say things like "c'mon, don't grief the noobs, pick on someone your own size".

What's the difference between "geek" and "nerd"? Ask five language communities, get five different answers. Or ten answers, if you ask the same five language communities again two years later.

When you use slang in a new speech community, you need to expect that to your listener, it probably doesn't mean what you think it means, especially in fine nuance like you're claiming exists between "newb" and "noob" (or "n00b" or "newbie" or "nooby" or "noobie" or ...)
This part from Jobs's letter sounded strange to me:

3. Hold back your books from Amazon. Without a way for customers to buy your ebooks, they will steal them. This will be the start of piracy and once started there will be no stopping it.

Publishers must realise that all books are already available in pirated variants, right? Their worst nightmare - everybody being able to download any book without paying them, is already a reality.
That sounds really great, but the courts have been very lenient to those who file false DMCA notices and the burden of proof falls on you to prove that it was filed falsely intentionally.

So, I'd say, don't lawyer up yet. File the counter-notice and if they come after you, then get a lawyer and publicity.
How deep does Pickover's book go? I read in the reviews that each topic is limited to one page only, so I presume the real mathematics would not be covered. In other words, after reading this, will I understand the topics or would just understand things about them?

I also see a Physics book by the same author, but have the same question there too: http://www.amazon.com/Archimedes-Hawking-Science-Great-Behin...
I read runescape!

Not a bad idea given the prevalence of REST but it won't help with more performance oriented messaging eg 0mq or message queue oriented integrations.

I'll keep the product in mind though.
iOS style multitasking is great for battery life. And for the foreseeable future: 1) I'm not going back, voluntarily, to being tethered to a wall socket; 2) Lithium-ion batteries aren't getting more capacious very quickly.
The extra CUs in the PS4 are offset by the ESRAM in the One; I would expect the die size is similar. Sony has more expensive RAM, though.
This is not good advice if you need your list to have unbounded size and want it to be lock-free. Growing an array and copying all the elements over is very expensive in a thread-safe scenario. If you use a linked list, however, you can implement all the operations without using any locks at all.

(Linked lists are what we use for our channels in Rust, and as a result they're extremely fast: in the new scheduler they're totally lock-free except if the task is sleeping, which we can optimize to be lock-free later. They have unlimited size, which helps prevent deadlocks.)
> The smells are there for a reason.

What reason is there for CSS that is commented out? Or for redundant prefixes? Or for debug to be left on and to have a bunch of comments and paths from the build structure?
Signed up and looking forward to the email! Does anyone know of other sites like this out there? I've spent the past year or so pushing my own startup idea, it didn't work out but I learned a lot. Now I am just looking to take a few months off of my own ideas and pitch in on someone else's MVP, get more experience, and meet new people.

I guess I might as well shamelessly plug myself: I am a developer who writes python and nodejs on the backend, loves coffeescript, and my last project used Meteor.
Yeah, this was the moment for me too. It's like he's saying "Who do you think you're talking to? You think we don't know what you people do?"
More than just snippets. Deploy example code to Dropbox with HelloJS
"Acceptable terminology"? What does that even mean? What would it mean to be "unacceptable terminology", short of being legally prohibited hate speech?

Are you asking if other HNers are offended by it? Are you asking if other HNers think you should be offended by it? Are you seeking support for a community censure of people who use that language? Are you asking if you can go around calling anyone with less experience a "noob", without context? Are you asking if you can, in some context, write marketing copy that contains the word "noob", and has a desireable outcome? (My answers are "no", "no", "no", "no", and "yes", in case one of those was your question.)

I feel like your question is fundamentally confused, and it's the sort of confusion that leads other people to make snarky comments about "being PC", which drags down useful conversations about healthy community standards. Maybe I'm the confused one, though, so please help me to understand.
I can't say I know the greatest amount about medium and svbtle, but after looking at their sites multiple times, it seems like they don't have much to offer past each other, or any other blog delivery platform...

And even worse, they would easily become quickly less useful than some sort of pointed aggregator
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5736678

Alternate report: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5752411
Soda fountains are awesome but need daily cleaning by food service staff to avoid bacterial badness.
I really love Instacart and use them often: they did a great job so far.

What I am consistently amazed at, is how they manage to get press for every new city or stores added. I mean, they are a successful Company but there are other cool growing Companies that get new clients or expand to new cities or launch new products, and we don't hear about them all the time. I don't blame them for getting press. I blame the press for being so pageviews driven that they don't deliver news or reporting anymore but press releases or newsletters' content.

Keep up the good work though!
The free coffee test, or Lefkowitz’s Law of Corporate Financial Health
1. As you said yourself, django no-rel basically means you're stuck with a version of django that is 2 point releases old and will have to forgo all future releases of django for the foreseeable future.

2. Using mongoose, however, means you throw out the admin ui and any other apps that use django's orm.

At this point, I think it is very clear that you have 4 feasible options:

1. Use Django with mongoose.

2. Use a lighter framework like Flask, since you kind of lose most of django's benefits when you throw out the django orm.

3. Use Django with SQL (preferably postgres)

4. Use some other language (Ruby?)

I recommend that if you really want to use Mongo you should use a framework like Flask. Otherwise I recommend you use SQL and stick with vanilla Django. Worry about scaling when it becomes a problem. Scaling is a problem you want to have! When I was working at a startup I wish our main problem was scaling (versus finding product market fit). Don't prematurely optimize.
Your last paragraph is especially funny. Are you on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn, by any chance?
Won't help...for now. We don't have any specific plans around that yet, but it's something we've discussed. We've got an interest in applying some of the same concepts we have for APIs but in a way that won't compromise performance for high-performance messaging systems.
To do a redesign right, listen to your customers
Wait a minute, I think I see what they're doing here. If they make these "requests" and you say no, then you're somehow a bad person for it. You don't want to come off as "dirty" or "snooty" or whatever, so you give in willingly. How evil!

Personally, as for having to clean a bathroom shared with 30 people at work? No way. Not unless I own the place, and can fire the bad ones who mess it up.
You mean like this? http://www.gamefly.com/
The snap-in app stuff loses a lot of its potential when Microsoft comes out and says that devs have to establish traditional console publishing partnerships.

e.g.
Want to put your app.net snap-in out there so people can communicate that way during broadcast events? Sorry, Twitter doesn't want it. Maybe Facebook has enough money to buy its way in, but you're SOL.

Want to do an Amazon-style "X-Ray" companion app for video content? Sorry, Microsoft is rolling their own.

xmpp chat? Nope. It's Skype-or-nothing.

etc.
By that reasoning, can't one make the argument that what weev did was use an undocumented API though? The endpoints were publicly accessible but obfuscated (and quite poorly at that).
Even more important for the company, such a person shouldn't be trusted with SSH access, database access, etc. Another reason to fire them rather than penalize everyone.
I never said he was allowed to keep his job. To be honest, I don't know what happened to him.
I used to feel the exact same way about using any sort of voice coms. If anyone else was in the room with me it felt incredibly awkward. The pinnacle was when I decided to play a video game with my then girlfriend in the room and use Ventrilo. She tried to respond to everything I said, and I went as silent as possible.

Fast forward sometime and using voice com software on my computer feels as natural and second nature as using a phone to me. Skype, Vent/Mumble, Web Demos, etc all feel normal.

I imagine that those that stick with using it will find it pushes their comfort zone less. I would also make the prediction that as voice becomes more readily available that the rising generation will just get used to using it and won't really give it a second thought.
I made a transcription of a FLOSS interview with DHH about Rails, Ruby, and how he became a programmer.

http://www.transcribed-interview.com/dhh-rails-david-heineme...

From that interview: "The wonderful thing about the Web is that it divorces the notion of the native environment from the implementational technology. Any piece of programming language can spit out HTML and JavaScript, which means that you can build it in whatever the hell you want. It can be a tiny program. _You_ can invent a language and you can start using it and your users will not know the difference. So it really is this great equalizer in the sense of allowing new technologies to spring up and get serious traction because they don't need those network effects."
This is kinda strange. I know that the indie market on 360 wasn't all that great. But the way they are billing this thing as an overall living room system rather than just a game system makes me think that there could be great potential for more casual games as well as actual applications.
There are two different camps within NoSQL; some people are webscale and some people want NoSchema. This looks like it's aimed at the latter category.
Introducing Anonymous Job Matching
Maybe your old boss thought you still had them?
Mike Wasowsky, rendered in browser real-time using ray-marching
maybe it's implied that the soda wasn't ever meant for you...
Error establishing a database connection.

I guess they didn't ask him any questions about caching or scalability...
Of course they know the economics of the situation. What they have been attempting to do is to cement a price point for eBooks in their customer's heads so that they can continue to charge $10, $14, $16 etc for a megabyte of text for a new release. I think they've been successful so far.

Just because they are doing something illogical doesn't mean they are stupid; they are doing it to make more profits.
Perceived leverage. HC would have been able to operate with greater flexibility without the deal and Amazon now has dominant market share. Jobs argues that Apple's digital subscribers are the important part of this deal when a very legitimate argument could be made (especially in retrospect) that Amazon's ownership of the book market, and book commerce traffic could help it's marketshare even more.

The lesson is to convince someone reading the negotiation that you have all the leverage, and Job's certainly seems to have done that. So much so that you dismiss any lesson as all.
Actually, there's a temporary workaround which you can use and works till you update to a new version (works with any app or package not signed with an Apple ID)
Simply right-click open and you'll not see the error message.
No need to disable gatekeeper in System Preferences
Kinda sad that the first thing we have to worry about is how we could possibly be sued while having strangers over.
Aww. You can't add Oakland or Berkeley & not have Berkeley Bowl as a grocery store option. =[
CastleOS has demos that appear to be successfully demonstrating that the Kinect makes a fairly cost effective voice receiver that can cover an entire room.
Updated the repo significantly since this link..
Yes, that is the basis of my objection.
1. Identify perpetrators.

2. Sack perpetrators.

3. Put a notice on the drinks machine that, through use of polite informality, makes it clear what was going on and that it would be appreciated if people didn't take the mickey. ("Inform, don't instruct" should be a rule of management.)
Ok - should be fixed now.
I used rails 0.8, which was a couple months after rails 0.5, the first released version. It was the same mvc structure, centered around activerecord, actioncontroller, and erb views. It embedded webrick for development, and production was a heinous cobbled-together choice of fcgi, fastcgi, or pcgi that you were expected to figure out for yourself.
It's more than strategy, it's also very good phrasing and choice of words :

* (I’d appreciate it if we can keep this between you and me)

* Maybe I’m missing something, but I don’t see any other alternatives. Do you?
Apple Targets Samsung Galaxy S4 & “Google Now” With Amended Patent Claims
Textbook irony.
We've found a kind of "hole" in Apple's sandboxing (they know about it but I guess it's necessary for legacy software) and hope they don't close it too soon
That would be newsworthy!
You're linking to the Latest news part. The correct URL is:

http://qz.com/87204/if-apple-and-other-american-corporations...

Posted it here if you can't Edit this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5753021
> Analysts estimate that Amazon has sold more than one million Kindles in 18+ months (Amazon has never said). We will sell more of our new devices than all of the Kindles ever sold during the first few weeks they are on sale. If you stick with just Amazon, Sony, etc., you will likely be sitting on the sidelines of the mainstream ebook revolution.

Hindsight is a funny thing. Amazon's eBook/Kindle business is continuing to soar while Apple doesn't even mention iBooks anymore.

And then there was this, something believable only in the middle of a reality distortion field:

> Apple is proposing to give the cost benefits of a book without raw materials, distribution, remaindering, cost of capital, bad debt, etc., to the customer, not Apple. This is why a new release would be priced at $12.99, say, instead of $16.99 or even higher. Apple doesn’t want to make more than the slim profit margin it makes distributing music, movies, etc.

In Steve's world, Apple's raising the price by 30% and then taking 30% is a benefit to the customer and not Apple. Fascinating!
If American corporations are people, why aren’t they taxed like people?
I've been through this more than once.

Adding my experience to the data points of anecdote -- from working outside the Valley and in larger, more "traditional" corporations (albeit ones where sodas and at times meals were made free as perks -- either an historical legacy or a management practice gleaned from magazines and consultants).

When the soda stops being free (or meals, if you're so lucky, etc.), it's time to go.

If don't simply want to take this external advice, listen for yourself to the explanations that are given when this is done. After absorbing a bit of that language and convolution and misdirection, if you don't want to go on your on accord and the basis of direct experience... well, some people do do all right. But, from my perspective, they don't tend to be people I enjoy.
Every one of these Windows/Office -> Linux/Cloud/Google analysis I've looked at included staff retraining and retrofitting costs. Not saying they aren't rosy estimates, but CIO's tend not to be complete idiots.
On a related note, there are two interesting (older) posts "out there" on "How to build your own Watson". And while you probably aren't going to win Jeopardy with your garage built supercomputer, a lot of the basic technologies are out there to enable you to do some pretty cool stuff.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/21/ibm_watson_qa_system...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomgroenfeldt/2011/04/14/build-y...
It really needs to pop more though. I noticed the links to the top-left and top-right of the select and really wondered why they aren't forward/back arrows. They could at least have chevrons.
Titanium ring whose jewels glow through induction
Its Ruby on Rails itself :).
> When python, ruby, javascript are around, why will anyone want to use a strongly typed language for writing web applications?

Because Go is multiples faster at runtime! After using Go I lost interest in learning Python, which seems only slightly easier to code in.
Forgive me for butting into stuff i do not understand,but you guys are quoting Scott Aaranson the same way most people quote holy books.He could be wrong,you know.
It's even better with intrusive containers. As an extreme case, let's say we need a collection of 24 bit RGB triplets:

struct node {
uint8_t r, g, b;
uint8_t idx_next;
};

Of course, a contiguous array uint8_t[256][3] might still be faster.
I would prefer the "Netflix streaming" of gaming, actually.