skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree.

I also have some other problems with "pro gaming" being seen as legitimate due to the insane impact corporate sponsorships have on the landscape of competitive gaming.

Granted, massive corporate sponsorships are nothing new to sports, but there's nothing in other sports quite equal to the situation in console gaming where Microsoft is the official console of competitive Call of Duty gaming. Even though the game can be played on many consoles, to play it as a "sport" you need to be playing it on the Xbox. This goes well beyond the already unfortunate lengths to which corporate sponsorships impact other sports, IMO.

And thanks to Microsoft's hardline "no cross-platform play" guidelines for the Xbox line, this isn't something that can be easily solved even if everyone but Microsoft wanted to do it.
> You can't get rid of just one subsidy, because that just gives an advantage to the next-most-subsidized item.

If the total amount of subsidy $ is reduced, it will be an improvement.
A)Your experience isn't typical.

B)You can spend an extra ~$30 for a "pixel perfect" unit.
This post title is highly deceiving, the blog post's title would be far more accurate. I wonder what the motivations of the poster were in choosing thia title. There are no problems addressed, other than the obvious mouse vs. human differences.

Given that we do know that fructose and sucrose deliver different hormonal responses, it shouldn't be suspicious that HFCS and other sugars mixtures have different weight gain pricked, but we should be careful to jump to conclusions about humans based on mouse metabolism.
Not only that, but there should be consequences for submitting this crap too.
exactly. However, I do believe "Not Proven" is more palatable than "Not Guilty"; both are acquittals.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_proven
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Hey Chuck, I actually replied to your comment on the "Human-Powered Helicopter Wins the $250,000 Sikorsky Prize" thread about a more conventional way we could achieve "permanent points of presence in the air" before we enter the "Diamond Age" :) - and I was curious about your thoughts on it, given that I'm not anything close to an engineer. Anyway, sorry to bug you, just curious if there's anything to it.

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I've often wondered if a balloon-based system might be the way that this ("permanent" points of presence in the air) is eventually achieved. As solar energy becomes more and more efficient every year (apparently it's on an exponential price/performance growth curve), you coat the balloon with a light-weight, flexible solar array, and either heat the air like a hot air balloon, or as it becomes cheaper and more efficient to extract hydrogen from water, fill the balloon with hydrogen, and constantly replace the hydrogen that leaks out with hydrogen extracted from water vapor in the air: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/512996/a-cheaper-way-to....

You could use low powered propellers (like a blimp), and take advantage of weather patterns (like Google's Loon project) in order to maintain position or to slowly travel.
Awesome stuff for an APCS project! If you're interested in porting the game to iOS I'd recommend checking out our website MakeGamesWithUs (https://www.makegameswith.us), we teach people like you who know java how to build games for iPhone. We also have a really cool level hub feature set in our SDK which you might be interested in for this game. It allows users to build / share / play / upvote levels and discover new levels through their feed + top lists. If you're interested, shoot me an email at ashu@makegameswith.us and we can chat more!
I wonder if there's some way to use eyetracking and headtracking to fake an enormous display with extremely high DPI. Only a very narrow area of the eye is actually focused and can detect features with maximum fidelity.
>Aliens are as likely an explanation as anything found so far.

That's quite the logical leap you took there. I think it's far far more likely that a human wrote this document.
I'm running Debian Wheezy on a Chromebook Pixel (2,560×1,700 at 12.85 in, or 244.28. Intel HD Graphics 4000) and it works great.

If Intel GPUs can drive a screen that large, then I strongly suspect that Linux will as well. Intel support in Linux appears to be more or less on par with Intel support elsewhere.
Ask HN: Could this work?
Small business needs 4 things from an app:
The ability to track inventory, money, sales/work orders, and foo

Why not make an app for the first three, and just hire a freelancer for each company's foo?

If the small business just picked the type of business they are (eg. flower shop), the first time you would free lance the foo (maybe tracking flowers in season) out, then each flower shop would get the same foo, with options to customize to each specific business (the flowers they stock).

This removes the bloated options so prevalent in the current small business app, while at the same time ensuring that the user gets a custom experience just for them.

Price point: $200 per month and up (based on users?)
Let's actually trace the problems. I don't think Larry, Sergey, Eric, or Marissa have security clearances, do they?
I think that's why the article mentions "bike-lane legal". It sounds like it's trying to be a bike with a big cage attached and an electric assist. Personally, without the maneuverability of a bicycle, I can't imagine how it can be at all practical on US streets.
#define ?
Were the tweets really so bad that they incited racial hatred?
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I haven't personally noticed it in the short term. In the long term, I mean, we've had accounts for roughly the same amount of time on the site so we've both seen trends and the overall traffic is http://www.archub.org/hntraffic-17oct12.png
the article is a bit of a cheap shot against Typescript. They have had async in the roadmap the last 6 months at least (and the public project is only about 10 months old).

IIRC, async is the next big feature on the roadmap, and going to be in before v1.0 (v0.9, released 2 months ago, added generics)

given the pace of development, typescript v1 should be done in 6 months or less.
to get mindful feedback.
This: http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/ssl-and-the-future-of-authe....
Thanks for the information (including the links.)

Based on other comments on this post, it looks like HNSearch and Reddit APIs have the same limitations, so doing something like this should be feasible for Hacker News. Also, another post indicates that the data for Reddit was done with only single 1000-limit queries, so the time-intensive method shouldn't be needed to produce equivalent results (although it could provide more accurate results.)

Finally, for those looking for something like this for Hacker News right now, check out these sites:

http://www.hntrends.com/, http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/, Hacker News hiring trends (https://github.com/adamw523/hackernewshires)
Lots of spelling mistakes ... and Wordpress import failed twice. I'll pass.
Evolution does not necessarily always find the best solution. It can get stuck in local optima: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotating_locomotion_in_living_s...
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It was interesting to see that some of our own silicon valley folks are on Endgame's board. Notably, David Cowan from Bessemer and Ted Schlein from Kleiner Perkins.
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(For parties that wanted to downvote this comment more than once: you can do so by clicking "link", then clicking "flag".)
AES of a counter and a key set from a table based on your CPU serial number also "meets various standards for RNGs and the dieharder tests don't show anything of concern".

And, of course, if you make it the kernel /dev/random you're making it the source of randomness recommended for long term keys and other important things... while you don't know what the users will use it for, you can safely assume it will include some of "the most critical of applications".
> Apart from the fact that most "Western" (ie: Non Korean) players who dream about becoming the next major eSports hero will never make it

Of course this is true of most of those who dream of a career in "traditional" sports as well.
Ask HN: what happens between assembly and c?
Hi,

so in my undergrad, I've done some low level assembly programming I've also done quite a bit of c, and all the higher languages above that.

so my question is, what goes on between assembly and c?

HN please help me fill this gap, as it currently stands to be a mystery to me.

Thanks
His point was that worrying about malpractice causes doctors to spend more money on tests and other diagnostics than they normally would so that they don't have to worry about being sued.
Does anyone know if there is a program to capture 3D/isometric screenshots of your app?
Every time the media reports something sensational and people won't shut up
Hey Zed that's pretty cool.

I think this was submitted with a back-thought of possibly generating ridicule. It doesn't matter, anyone coding and playing with shit like this gets upvotes from me.

I also like web.py (the framework conceived and built by Aaron Swartz) for some of the same reasons -- simplicity and cleanliness. Start with something like "let's see how would a clean and simple web framework look like in Python." That's beautiful I think. Yeah I know it hasn't exactly taken off and flask and friends surpassed it but I still like it.

EDIT: corrected Aaraon Swartz's name (thanks bensw)
Even reversing the silicon won't likely help— and, uhh. Reversing a state of the art CPU is not do-at-home stuff.

The reason it won't help is that the design is _explicitly_ microcoded. E.g. RDRAND triggers running loadable microcode which is supposed to read the real RNG and AES it. Maybe there is an unrelated "bug" that allows that microcode to be corrupted after some particular instruction sequence happens. All your investigation would turn up everything looking like normal.
> You might ask yourself, how are you going to come back down to earth if you cannot release some of the hydrogen/helium?

So if the aircraft loses power, or loses its hydraulics, the failure results in the aircraft getting stuck in the air? I can see that being promoted as a feature.
Helium 0.1786 g/L

Hydrogen 0.08988 g/L

Air 1.275 g/L

This stuff is six times lighter than air so 0.2 g/L or there about. Both Helium and Hydrogen are lighter than this stuff. Considering the explosive reintroduction of air thing being pretty equivalent to the other two what makes this theoretically better?
How is this for hackers?
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Sort of like we have now with satellites + the ISS, which has to move occasionally to avoid the pieces of junk we can track?
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I understand that many people have some moral objection to Zimmerman claiming self defense because it is claimed that Zimmerman was pursuing Martin, thus provoking the confrontation. However, that doesn't make the behavior illegal and your interpretation of the law claiming that this is harassment is without foundation. One of the first clauses in your cite is "and serves no legitimate purpose." It is legitimate under the law to check out suspicious behavior, so the statute doesn't apply to this situation.

Almost universally in American law, the legitimate use of force in self defense can be summed up as "meeting force with force." Merely pursuing someone is not even assault and committing battery in response is thus unlawful. That is to say, Martin could not have lawfully attacked someone who was merely pursuing him. It would only be lawful self-defense on Martin's part if he was repelling physical violence (say, a punch or a kick) initiated by Zimmerman with equal force.

Again, though you may have a moral objection to how the law assigns blame here, that doesn't change the law.

Also, it's not an undisputed fact that Zimmerman was chasing Martin. Zimmerman, for one, disputes that. He claims that he got out of the car to see the street sign and then later tried to get a better view of where Martin went. Zimmerman claims he was attacked as he was walking back to his car. You don't have to believe Zimmerman, but the evidence presented to rebut his claim was hardly conclusive.

And yes, Zimmerman totally had no idea what was on Martin's phone and so the evidence is of absolutely no bearing on what Zimmerman thought of Martin. However, Zimmerman claimed that he was attacked by Martin. Nobody saw the beginning of the confrontation, so the only word we have is Zimmerman's. The prosecution called Zimmerman a liar on this point, so the evidence could show violent tendencies on Martin's part, bolstering Zimmmerman's story. It's not direct evidence and it's certainly prejudicial against Martin, but the defense certainly had the right to try to use it.
I think your comment is spot-on. A good Perl programmer can do wonders, but if you add just one average programmer to the team (without a very extensive training), he can write stupid things faster than the good programmer could fix, LOL. Then the codebase would be a mess, with things that kinda work but are conceptually wrong or weird for those who really know the language.

And the good programmer could do anything in a less eccentric language anyway, so...
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Whenever a prosecutor intentionally withholds evidence (and punishes others for not playing along), they are doing it in furtherance of their goal of obtaining a conviction. In this case a conviction would have resulted in a substantial prison sentence.
Perfect example of money equaling justice. A multi million wouldn't worry about the cost of any software that might provide any useful evidence.
It may help to introduce a few different levels. Like offer your distilled videos (which are less frequent, I believe) for price X, and all videos for price Y. Experiment with offering to let people watch you record the videos live as well, that would be a fairly unique experience, although no idea how well it would work in practice (no "I'll research this offline, brb", but you could reach out to those watching interactively as well).

Good luck, I got a ton of info on testing out of the KS series, and recommend your site whenever someone asks me about JS testing.
Just checked the order and it turns out we got two Nixeus WQHD 27" @$450 in August of 2012. After about 6 months we had one panel completely die which we RMA'd and received another one after a decent expense shipping. Shortly after the RMA the second panel we purchased died in a similar fashion. We currently have one that works and are not going to bother with RMAing the other dead panel.
That thing is waaaay overpriced.
Seiki (a big cheapo chinese manufacturer) has a 4k 50" "tv" that is currently selling for under $1,000 on amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BXF7I9M/

One problem with using the Seiki for a PC monitor is a maximum 30Hz refresh rate at that resolution. However you won't notice the difference between a 30Hz display and a 60Hz display unless playing video games. Movies are 24hz and tv shows are 30hz (25hz in the UK). I have a lot of experience using one of those old Viewsonic 3840x2400 monitors (same as IBM T220) which also ran at roughly 30Hz.

I think the Seiki would make a perfect monitor if it were only 40" - I love my 30" + rotated 24" set up now. Apparently a 39" version is due any day now. Model number SE39UY04. MSRP $700.

On a personal note... I've waited a decade for higher dpi monitors to become mainstream. Just in the last year or so I've noticed my near-field eyesight starting to go. Ironic for me that just as these things start to show up, I start to become less able to use them.
> not an intimidation campaign aimed at the average citizen...
> but ultimately the police are not focused on you.

This is exactly what is wrong. As long as these massive injustices don't affect the 'average' middle class unit it's all ok. As long as the military police thrashing through your house on their latest manhunt aren't actually after you, that's ok. It all seems pretty Orwellian to me, right down to the citizens actually justifying it all.

Anyway to be more on point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UC_Davis_pepper-spray_incident

This seems pretty intimidating to me. It would certainly make me think twice about attending even the most peaceful of protests. Pepper spray and tazing is a common response to people objecting to the status quo. Hell, if you want to protest a political rally you have to actually go to a 'free speech zone', if that isn't Orwellian enough for you I don't know what is. Than again, the 'average' citizen probably is ok with a two party 'choice' and so doesn't need free speech.

And then you have Obama's HR347 'anti protest' bill which could potentially be used to lock people up for many years for protesting in an area which the Secret Service/DHS etc. has secretly declared a heightened area of security.

It's really frightening how much potential leeway there currently is for arbitrarily locking U.S. citizens up. All these loosely defined laws are sitting around just waiting for someone to come in and abuse them. While things are quiet and everyone is behaving it all seems ok, but as soon as there is a bit of trouble, another Occupy protest for example it will be a different story.

Watch how you see your right to due process being eroded away next, it's already not needed when hunting down suspects on foreign soil. You watch as language is changed, terms subtly augmented to make it ok to execute US citizens with a drone - you know, for your protection. Maybe you, the average citizen, aren't intimidated yet, but perhaps tomorrow you might be.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-08/obama-s-drone-attac...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/19/us-usa-security-dr...
Actually, I would be more excited about it replacing the non-biodegradable styrofoam. Since it's a simple carbon composite it should be more environmental friendly, no?
It would be ingenious to advertise job postings where you claim to be incompetent. It would appear to hard workers as one of those truly rare opportunities they simply can't miss and start lining up.
MIL-SPEC means encryption built to military specifications. It includes, but does not equate to, NSA Suite B cryptography. As you can imagine, using crypto designed by a paranoid spook agency would not be appropriate for all military applications, for example a near-real-time flight application. As a result, there are a variety of encryption standards used by the military, some of which would be approved by the NSA, others which wouldn't.

It's a good question about the Russians. The ties between Russia and Iran are much tighter than most in the US realize, especially when it comes to national security, and particularly with regard to US-related issues. If we used industrial grade crypto on a system, it would be in line with past behaviors for the Russians to help the Iranians with it.
The general challenge with balloons is drag, or specifically their response (or lack thereof) in the presence of winds so staying in one place can be problematic. I like the idea of cracking water to get hydrogen to replenish your lift bags, but if you are to fly this over the flyways (say at 60,000') you're not going to get a lot of moisture in the air. The old Zeppelins had gas generators which, while they had to be replenished, could supply plenty of hydrogen during the journey.

Google's balloon system [1] is apparently using quantity to cover holes that appear when winds blow them down range. Also if they get caught in the jet stream the can leave the area in a hurry.

Granted winds are a challenge for any aerial platform but actively flying shapes, seem to out perform lighter than air ideas when staying on station is required [2]. So solving the station keeping question would be a big part of the equation.

That said, the company that proposed the blimp to the Army is continuing to develop it as far as I can tell from their web site [3]. Perhaps it will get additional engineering work on those issues.

[1] http://www.google.com/loon/#utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc...

[2] http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-02/army-cancel...

[3] http://airshipmanufacturing.com/sentinel-2-airship.html
On airships of old, this was actually a potential problem as well. They tried to avoid venting lifting gas whenever possible and investigated several techniques to avoid it as much as possible.

Extracting water from the air or weather to use as ballast as your airship becomes lighter and lighter (by consuming fuel for instance) is a particularly clever idea I think.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buoyancy_compensator_(aviation)
People bash Mac users for paying hundreds of dollars extra for style and marketing. But some of the extra cost does go somewhere: the display. I haven't been able to find anything approaching the pixel density of my 13" Macbook Air for less than $400. Name brands are more like $1000.
Doesn't the NSA end up using these machines as well? It seems like a lot of work to introduce a flaw that you have work around for you own use later. And if it's a hardware flawu, I doubt even the NSA could demand intel or amd manyfacture seperate batches for their own use.
It also needs to be hard to detect and relevant specifically for crypto operations. So where would you put a backdoor on a chipset?
I usually don't like it when people comment about the submission's website rather than the content, but what the fuck is this?

http://i.imgur.com/70rsTUr.png

I'm about 20-30 seconds into the video and out of nowhere a popup ad animated onto the foreground with its own video? Are you KIDDING ME?

This is the second time today that this happens to me on two different websites. Wired got it worse because I was watching a video which then got covered up by this stupid ad (while youtube continued to play in the background) but even if this article was 100% text - if you're going to give me overlays like it's 2002 then please do so right when I load the page, not 20 seconds after I've already started to digest your content.

/rant
The US does patrol the borders with UAVs, and has been for a long time. They don't even try to hide it...

http://files.air-attack.com/MIL/predator/predator_dhs.jpg
Your criticism is fundamentally horrible. The whole rhetorical approach is horrible. It's the contemporary equivalent of a flame on USENET, just using more recent but equally mindless rhetorical cliches.

In fact, it's so horrible it makes YouTube comments look good.
Are you asking what languages fill that gap, or how C programs interface with assembler libraries and OS interfaces?
I think you're target audience may be off, "hackers" would likely want something more like Octopress. Also, the image of the guy freaks me out, you might want to just push the stuff showing off the product in place of that...

It looks really cool, but as others mentioned the copy needs work.
"pumped"

Ionize the air?
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Give PyQt a spin. Or, if you use GNOME/Ubuntu Unity on Linux, try PyGTK.

EDIT: forgot to mention, both PyQt and PyGTK have decent tutorials on their website. You could also use Tkinter, which comes with Python and runs everywhere, but IMHO it looks terrible.