skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me less of parser-based text games and more of the 1990s hyperfiction like Afternoon, a story [1], Victory Garden [2] or 253 [3] and net.art like My boyfriend came back from the war [4]. Give those a look if you liked this. The hypertext novel 253, which looks in the life of every passenger on a London Underground train, is probably the best starting point.

Edit: Oh, and also Fallen London [5] and other StoryNexus games. In fact, in terms of mechanics A Dark Room is probably the closest to Fallen London of all the games of which I can think.

[1] Sadly, the HTML sample at http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/pmaf/hypertext/aft/ appears to not work in modern browsers. It was created in a pre-HTML hypertext system called Storyspace; you can see what it is supposed to look like on its native platform at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djIrHF8S6-Q.

[2] http://www.eastgate.com/VG/VGStart.html

[3] http://www.ryman-novel.com/

[4] http://www.teleportacia.org/war/

[5] http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/
yep, Reader keyboard navigation seems overlooked by most clones sadly
Nothing will change until all Americans get it once and for all that the attitude of being at war with the world and planning to win at all cost is actually opposite to being competitive and fighting hard to be the best in the world.

We the foreigners that buy into the american dream always think of the latter as the "american attitude" whereas US gov and corporations always go for the first. And they only coincide in very restricted contexts, basically in fewer and fewer contexts as the world changes and becomes more homogeneous. To "win the war" when you're well above everyone else tends to equate to playing fair most of the time, you just use what you have and what you have is always better so you always win, but when the economical and cultural ground levels, if your goal is still to "win the war", you end up playing dirty and forgetting about human rights and values.

...the USA's attitude will only change when they wake tf up and realize that there is now war to be won, it's just about competing in a healthy "jungle". The current US gov's attitude to everything seems to us foreigners similar to your classical story of the PTSDd Vietnam war veteran that gets home after the war and keeps fighting imaginary wars, butchering his family and blowing up the neighborhood in the process, just because that's all he's good at.
It is a web based game and uses Javascript, there isn't anything specifically wrong with that. Why is it objectively superior to have distributable binaries that have to be compiled or ported for each architecture and OS? What is the fundamental advantage here?

Honestly, aside from not making a point in your initial comment you chose to make it in an unnecessarily snarky manner. Completely uninteresting and irrelevant to someone saying "hey check out my game". If you don't want to check it out, then don't, it isn't necessary to share that non-information with the rest of us.

I'm sure most of us (as I can see from the extended comments on this here) would have been more than happy to have a reasonable discussion on the pros and cons of browser based distribution of applications if you had started there instead of where you did.
That's probably spelled out or trivial to infer from the readme (or file structure, top-level metadata & packaging files are generally obvious). Knowing pretty quickly I get, but the current prominent (most so for some languages with bright red-ish colors) bar takin the whole width of the screen is way over the top.
I'd much rather see elf boobs than Apple ads.

I think eventually FB will figure this problem out. Your article is on point; I've thought about this before.
You don't need scientific research to know that a good extensible, programmable editor that can become an extension of your mind and hands is going to make you more productive than Notepad.

Sure you don't. You can feel the difference. The problem occurs when people treat their editors as an extension of themselves and can't tell the difference between "not liking you" and "not liking your editor", eventually getting defensive. That's a "cognitive level" I don't want to get myself into.
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I wrote about this a while back, after watching a PBS documentary on domestic spying. Basically, it seems to me that the US could one day turn into a totalitarian regime with no way back [1]. Maybe it's overly-pessimistic, but once all the total-surveillance tools are in place, if the government ever turns totalitarian, it will be extremely difficult to overturn it

[1] http://andrewoneverything.com/post/43837476217/the-us-could-...
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> In practice, I look first at the project description and the beginning of the README to see how the project describes its own strengths and weaknesses. Many projects describe their major language choices and runtime requirements as a part of that description, so I never look at the language color bar unless I need to.

And even if they don't clearly spell those out in the readme, metadata/packaging files are usually at the top level of the library.
When did this become a contest?
> I've abandoned my intentions of living in the US, or even just visiting there solely because of this scandal. Not because of some deeply hurt morale or feeling, but because i simply wouldn't feel safe in the US anymore.

This is more a case of the straw that broke the camel's back for me, but I consider it a watershed moment nonetheless.

Privacy is a fundamental human right, enshrined in Article 8 of the ECHR, and one that I value dearly. Now it emerges the United States has been willingly violating my right to privacy for years.

Rather than rectifying the matter, officials are saying it's okay because I'm not a US citizen — non-citizens obviously aren't entitled to human rights — and focusing their attention on punishing the person responsible for bringing this to my attention.

That is unforgivable in my eyes.
The website is AWFUL.
Lato Regular font, green color. Web 2.0 is awful.
How do OpenID logins compare to "classic" email-confirmed registrations in this aspect?

I think, there're way more disposable email services than non-authenticating OpenID servers.
Agreed. There will never be 100% admirable behavior in any person or political body.

The amazing thing about the Founders, though, was that the admirable forces were able to write the documents.

Compare that to today's "gang of eight" senators who created the immigration bill. That thing was a disaster before they had their first meeting. They had a unique chance to create solid immigration law, but have f'd it up beyond all reasoning.

The Founding documents were philosophical and political works of art. Where are works such as they coming form in today's society? Where are they being enacted into law?
I want a text editor that is a pain in the ass
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The USA's murder rate is about 4x the UK's, so it's no big surprise that any given city's rate might be about 4x as well.
One word...gentrification.
I had a free service with only a tiny little bit of Adsense and some donations for 5 years. It was used by about 30,000 people over the lifespan with 5,500 active accounts at the time I announced that the free service would cost 0.99€ per month, starting in 30 days.

The goal with that pricing was to convert as many users as possible to the paid service. 0.99€ provokes this idea of "it's so cheap I don't even have to think about it" and it worked. In order to reduce the substantial transaction costs of such a cheap service, I offered prepaid accounts of 6 or 12 months, so the minimum transaction was about 6 euros and the fixed part of each PayPal transaction didn't grow too big. People who donated money before got 6 months for free. New signups get a free period of 30 days with no restrictions in the service.

About 80% of the users switched from free to paid, which is pretty good I think. However, I have to point out that my SaaS business is somewhat the best in its niche and there were no good free alternatives.

I doubled prices to 1.99€ euro per month last year and introduced a 3-month-prepaid interval. The increase in price was relatively well accepted. A few people complained, but I also offered existing customers to extend their accounts for the old rate, but only if they bought within 2 months. There weren't too many people who stopped using the service.

I can say that charging money and turning my side project into a serious business was the best thing I did in my life. In the Adsense times, I made maybe 400 euros a month, now I make close to 8,000 euro a month – same amount of weekly time investment on my side.

A very crucial thing that is often overlooked is that once you charge money, you turn your side-project into a serious business, which leads to entirely new situations you never thought of before. I get approached by people who want to cooperate. I see new opportunities for apps in the same niche. And I have a budget that can be reinvested to try things. If your site is just a side project, you'll probably miss many of these opportunities.

The only thing I wished I did differently was to start with the 1.99€ per month rate, since increasing prices isn't the easiest thing to do. 0.99€ helped to convert many people from free to paid, but it also set some boundaries in the perceived value of the service. After I went to 1.99€, people would say:"You increased the price by 100%." which sounds a lot more than saying "you charge a lousy euro more every month". I guess it takes a few years until I can start charging a bit more. Otherwise people would have the feeling that I double prices every year or so.

One more thing: I often heard that having a low-priced product is a bad idea because of the need to give customer support to a huge user base. I can't confirm that. I still get maybe a handful of emails per day and that's it.
Or because they don't see immediate value in it, as typical programming isn't done in ASM nowadays. I think it's worthwhile just to "demystify" computers, but since embedded programming, demos and retro gaming are part of my interests, I get practical benefits out of it as well.
Priced out, but apparently also losing jobs while lower incomes gained jobs: http://video.msnbc.msn.com/up/51308385

I agree with you I don't think the income gap is the cause of lower crime. Also these crime rates are dropping absolutely not per capita, right? Is there any data to show that the actual population of lower income (or even middle income) residents has dropped? All the news focuses on the variance in income distribution. NYC could be getting richer while still taking in more low income residents.
While the reduction is indeed something to be pleased about, remember that in criminology, it's not unusual to see blips like this. It might be a blip, or it might be the start of a new trend. Too early to tell.
Are you saying Snowden's actions result in a net loss overall because he went further to release info about NSA's spying on foreign states? In other words - Snowden has done more harm than good?

In general I'm ok with knowing whatever is true, for better or for worse. I mean, in a lot of ways, I don't really want to know the exact opinions people have of me at work like about how I look, dress or smell. :)
UK has had these for a long time. They first appeared in the "ring of steel" around the financial district in London, and Heathrow Airport. But they've spread out across the country.

We also have a law that describes what a licence plate must look like. (https://www.gov.uk/displaying-number-plates/overview)

I have no idea what happens to the data these machines collects - there's potentially a lot of information about people's movements there.
You could enforce nofollow tags for unpaid sites, as wikipedia does for all its links. This would mean the free sites couldn't contribute any link popularity to seo recipient sites.
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To provide a little bit of historical perspective on NYC's murders:

1990: 2,262
1993: 1,927
1998: 629
2001: 649
2012: 417
2013: 145 YTD

http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloads/pdf/crime_statistics/...
The odd person - or even every geek on the planet - working around tracking, etc makes bugger all difference to anything. If you wish to complain about an abuse, write to advocacy groups, protest and / or write to your democratically elected representative. Anything else is the equivalent of signing an online petition or changing your Facebook profile picture.
Cool. It looks like you updated the letter to mention that your users can download all their data, that's a nice addition
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While I wish Matlab just disappeared, Python is still far from replacing it in some fields (e.g. electrical engineering), in no part due to the massive amount of toolbox available for it.
Fortunately, lots of people other than Oracle work on the MySQL code. They would be susceptible to bug fixing donations. Hell, you could outright hire a Percona consultant.
Okay obviously my reply went right over your head so I'll give it to you straight: neither you nor the GP has any basis to make that claim. In another reply actual data was presented showing that American ignorance of basic geographical facts is nowhere near 95%.
We tried this model and it was not sustainable. People did upgrade by not by far enough of them.
Deep seated
I love Dash, it's saved my butt when I've had spotty or zero Internet access. However, I've found that on my laptop it is far faster to do a web search for documentation than it is for Dash to do the search locally.
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Waiting for mandatory "objectification of women" comment.
Let's say it's "not ok" - who enforces such a thing? The International Court of Justice? If so, it sounds like the US simply can veto a ICJ decision: http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-international-court-of-j...
This is just wrong. No public apology? There should be a lawsuit. And the damages should come out of the paychecks and pensions of the "agents" not public funds.
Yes, it seems that there are some types of simulations that could be structured as numpy operations steered by a little Python code. But can this kind of code be run effectively on large multi-processor machines?
I see that the police patrol your neighborhood pretty often.
Also, the other question to ask, if possible, is how many times they spotted stolen cars, expired plates, and "criminal" cars in your neighborhood?
With that data, I think it could help police track down burglaries faster. After a while, the cars that case the neighborhood will stand out with a few records, whereas the resident cars will have many records.
Wow, I didn't know these free speech prisons.

Cynically amusing I've to say.
Thanks for this. We have an issue that besides (amateur) photographers, we don't really cater much to a niche. We were in 2006 but we didn't work it hard enough. I certainly hope making it a serious business like you did will change this over time!
"...picketing is afforded less protection than pure speech due to the physical externalities it creates"

Part of the point of protesting is that it inconveniences normal people and forces them to pay attention, and to likely hear the group's message in the process. I get personally irritated when some group is causing traffic delays and making a ruckus where I'm trying to go about my life, but I firmly believe they have the right to do it. Some day I might want to protest something, and I'd like to have the option.
What niche was this?
The searching is part of the problem, it's just too much effort.

Build checking whether a public key is available via the STMP servers, do it transparently with designated trusted pub key repos much like browsers have trusted CAs or something along the lines of dns.

Problem still stands, lose your pub key, all mail signed with it is lost to you and people will complain. You could offer a service that allows folks to store and retrive the pub key, but that kinda misses the point because anyone who stores that info can hand it over to the NSA et all.

Other problem with this is the .GOV could MITM this service, give you a fake pub key, read the mail, then resign with read pub key and send it on. You need your mail client to actually register the pub key on first send and hope you weren't always being intercepted from the start, and give you a warning when the key changes.
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I read about LPRs a while ago, and since then I've noticed the cameras everywhere, all over LA. They are so much more prevalent than you think.

The hardware is cheap enough ($1000/camera) that there's no purely financial reason private interests couldn't start using them, e.g., for billboard advertising, etc. But for sure the idea is pretty scary.
I was going to comment on that too. The typeface made the content a pleasure to read. Matz just seems like a happy, genuine guy from all the articles and videos I've seen him in.
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Insurance and registration are tied to the vehicle.

License is tied to the person, and I'd hope that solely recognizing the plate of a car owned by someone with a suspended, revoked or never-existing license doesn't represent probable cause to stop the car and check out the driver. I suspect some PDs probably claim it is.
William Freehling's Road to Disunion covers the topic thoroughly. Most of the founders expected slavery to die away gradually. The idea that it should remain permanently didn't appear for another 50 years and was never universal, even in the Deep South.

The book also explores the tensions between slavery and American ideals, and the many complications the tensions produced.
The Mother Jones article addresses that. You should read it. It's an interesting theory.
What's to stop individuals or companies from using the same tech to collect data? After all, what you do in public is public, and private detectives are allowed to follow and film their targets in public to show their clients and use in court.
Google _could_ fix this by requiring SecurityException to be handled.

1. Enable the user to select "a la carte" permissions on a per-app basis.

2. The user selectively turn off permissions, e.g. I WANT my flashlight app to throw an unhandled exception when it tries to get my location.

3. Require exception handling for missing permissions in new versions.

The burden for developers is low, especially in the cases of gratuitous permissions.

There are some cases, like address book apps that require access to the Contacts provider where a permission could make an app's functionality a nullity, but I think the everyday user is OK with seeing a crash dialog if a crappy app with obnoxious permissions craps out.

In the case of a high-value app like Facebook, Facebook would be motivated to explain permissions and provide exception handling that preserves as much functionality as possible.

If app compatibility becomes an issue, "nerfed" results instead of thrown exceptions could be used to trick apps into accepting fake data.

By combining options, notifications to the user, the use of SecurityException, and changes to exception handling requirements, Google could readily retrofit fine-grained user-controlled permissions to Android.
Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos), Woody Guthrie:

[...]

The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos Canyon,

A fireball of lightning, and shook all our hills,

Who are all these friends, all scattered like dry leaves?

The radio says, "They are just deportees"

Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards?

Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit?

To fall like dry leaves to rot on my topsoil

And be called by no name except "deportees"?

This is some time after 1948. Then, just as now, there were people who saw non-citizens as barely humans, in the US and everywhere else. But then there was Woody Guthrie as well, and the many people like him who saw the human in the foreigner.

What has changed in recent years is the reach of the mightiest power, and sheer number of people who find ourselves in the wrong end of its struggle for control.
Being old enough have coded full applications in plain Assembly, I think it is a lost that not many developers know Assembly nowadays.

At least to be able to grasp what a piece of code might do, not necessarily to write code.
Just for the sake of evaluation your stance on security - what about people with physical access to your server in Finland? Do you trust them? For your 100% public information - can't a Bad Guy assimilate what's found to formulate a pretty good picture of who you are, and use that info indirectly to achieve whatever further objectives the Bad Guy has?
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> But again, it's only valid to complain about/mock javascript on non-interactive pages like blogs.

Which is a bit part of the point of this, it is an interactive page. Though again I'll disagree further and say it isn't valid at all to simply complain and mock. A reasonable discussion on usage of javascript, or browser-based applications would be worth having. Just saying "not gonna use it" isn't interesting.
Sure, though there are plenty of small government countries out there that aren't hell-holes (eg Vanuatu). It's just that social democracy is really quite philosophically different to libertarianism - the underlying ethos being 'everyone gets support' instead of 'every man for himself'.
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I want to add a few more things since you asked what you could expect:

First of all, the notice to your users is fine in my eyes. You wrote "think about it, this is less than a cup of coffee!" and the funny thing is that I used something very similar. I guess you'll also receive some smart-ass answers like "but I can get a cup of coffee for 0.80€".

In my experience, you'll always have some bored people who'd rather rant about the one-euro-per-month for HOURS instead of just earning 20 euro and be safe for 2 years. Customers are irrational.

Also, you'll be in some sort negative feedback bubble. Most people who accept the new price will say nothing. So the emails you'll receive will sound negative. Always keep in mind that the 50 complaining people is a tiny little minority. Be polite to them, but don't question your decision over a few negative emails.

Ultimately, I think your decision was right. It's the logical consequence and there is not really an alternative. And it might turn out very similarly to my situation and you'll have a great more-or-less passive income for years to come. You'll see :)
The leaded gasoline theory better explains observations (gathered data). The abortion rights theory is still very interesting, and worth discussion, but leaded gasoline is currently more right, to be amended and supplanted as we learn more.

Science!
Interesting. If you have any further guidance on that I'd love to bookmark it.
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"Police officials also credited their efforts at identifying and monitoring abusive husbands whose behavior seemed poised to turn lethal."

I found that interesting. I always felt that for domestics there wasn't a lot you could do, but I guess that's not the case.
Thanks for asking, but I decided to keep a low profile on HN, so I won't tell.
j/k missing. Instead up and down are used to go to the next/previous article. How am I supposed to scroll in an article? I am starting to think I really have to make my very own feed reader that fits my needs.

Edit: Ah, good luck with your reader though!
I can't make sense of crime statistics except when comparing either different times (article), or different places (your parent comment)
Thanks for the reply, will certainly check it out.