skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"When I say I started building a game, this isn’t strictly true – what I actually built was a graphics engine."

This is really surprising to me. If you google for how to make your own game, the first thing you see is usually something telling you NOT to do this. I don't understand how someone in the gaming industry for 13 years could miss this advice.
You may want to check out Stefan Molyneux, he's a libertarian (ancap, actually) and he addresses a lot of the things that are not directly related to state. He talks a lot about children and bullying too.
This looks like a summary of the talk on InfoQ on the subject:

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/scaling-reddit
If you've ever been in a position to hire/fire employees and deal with managing a non trivial number of people then you'll appreciate taking the time to vet them (as best you can) before you hire them. Five hours interviewing someone is nothing compared to the days/weeks/months they'll be working with you. Even at 5 minutes of "savings" a day for a good vs poor choice you'd recoup the value of the interview in 60 working days (e.g. 3 months) and that's assuming it's just a single person's time your saving. In reality a worker's abilities and performance impacts more than just one person and the difference between a good and poor choice of employee is significantly more than 5 minutes a day.

I'm not saying you need to spend more than five hours with a candidate though it's not an obscene amount of time to vet out a person.
The Inca used forced labor to build temples and roads and provide food and other goods to the military. Cooperative farming can certainly become more efficient with additional infrastructure like irrigation and food storage, but I find it hard to believe that the tradeoff here is starvation vs massive cleptocratic absolute monarchy. It went way beyond the need to grow food cooperatively. And in fact, the only way that you would end up with all of this labor available for armies and temples and so on is by generating large food surpluses, so it's clear they weren't on the boundary of starvation. How did I work, I wonder, before there was an emperor?

That said, we currently use money to build roads and provide food and other goods to the military, which we fund through taxes. Taxes are just a more nuanced, easier-to-administer form of "provide x% of your labor to the central authority". The evil part here is the absolute monarchy that makes self-interested decisions about what to do with that labor, but the Inca were hardly alone in that respect.
I agree that the one good thing this law has done is start a debate.

On the downside it is negatively affecting how you interact with websites. Often before I can even determine if I am on the right website I get a pop up message before I can continue.

Recently I was on a shopping site and I clicked no to the cookies thinking it would only stop tracking cookies. Was surprised when my cart wouldn't save. It is silly that this breaks the site's basic functionality.

If anything browser vendors should be doing more. I do not think this can be done via legislation though. I also think prosecuting websites is silly. If these cookies are so toxic the companies running the services should be showing messages.

For example. Analytics. Why is it that I need to "opt in" to this on every site with a pop up? Why can't I just click YES and be done with it when it comes to this service?

You could then have non-tracking cookies essential to the running of the service exempt from this law.
Linux.io has been acquired by Yahoo, Inc. and will be shutting down effective October 1st, 2013.
Some pages (eg. all that use the consent.truste.com script) use localStorage to store the decision.
That way the decision remains client-side and can still be persistent by hiding the question via javascript.
> Yes, I really do want to fill my company with people who want to be there 24x7

No, you don't. This is naive. Human beings aren't computers.

There is no constant output per hour of work. It's nonsense. The output per hour of work depends entirely on the state of mind and physical condition of the employee.

If the employee is well-rested, healthy, and happy, they will be quite productive.

If they are sleep-deprived because they stayed at the office until midnight, depressed because they have nobody to share their life with, and physically exhausted or sick because they haven't taken time off in years ... you really think they will produce the same output as well-rested, happy employees? No. They won't even produce a quarter. In fact, they will make mistakes that will end up costing you on top of whatever it is that you're paying them.
I love the comic: http://landoflisp.com/#guilds
If you're saying that "cotton headed ninny muggins" isn't on the banned list, then I am officially offended.
US Citizen online identities to be vetted through Canadian cloud service
Can you elaborate on why it's impractical? I understand that at a gut level you have the concept of "full blown video", but I'm not sure instinct is faithful to reality.
Months/years and a lawyer.
It's not the Snowden debate, not by a long distance. Some cookies (like ad trackers) can be annoying/slightly disturbing, but even before the cookie law they were pretty obviously there and in most cases pretty easily opted out of already if you knew what you were doing.

I don't remember seeing the "opt out of NSA surveillance" option anywhere in my browser or email client.
Is it common for people to use PostGres for a key-value store in production (rather than redis)?. This is the first time I have heard of it, and I am just starting to use PostGres now, so I was a bit surprised
This is a fantastic view into indie development that I don't think enough people get to see.
You're married with two young children. While commuting to the office one day, you're severely injured in a car accident. This injury is so severe that you're unable to return to work, but not severe enough to kill you.

Congratulations! Your partner not only has to care for you for the rest of your life -- he/she also has to go to work full-time so your kids don't starve.
What examples from WW2 do you have? I can see no pattern between countries ruled by dictators and not.
This appears to a summery of an InfoQ presentation, which was discussed about two weeks ago @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6222726
That's a very Kate Courteau picture incidentally. She's our architect, and is the reason YC looks so distinctive. It's hard to get simple right, but she does.
Some related discussion about incorporating this type of functionality into Go directly:

https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=4720
Facebook will shut down its physical gifts service this week
Actually, AdBlock is making the new ad appear to those who have AdBlock installed

I saw the same thing, but that's not exactly the same thing as seeing ads, they're not (AFAIK) only showing AdBlock ads... they're informing you of something they are implementing in a hidden way.

If you really take offence to what they are doing then you (and not directed at you per se)
- Uninstall AdBlock
- View ads on websites, maybe click on them occasionally so click-through rates increase
- Install Adblock Plus, because it's not the ad blocking that you are specifically against, just the fact they are advertising

The point is, you have options, and they are presenting options to potential users. This is how things work in a free-market economy. We're not living under a totally facist regime just yet...
They also greatly changed the way Deja News worked. Ruined it, if you asked people at the time.
I'm not him, but I can try to answer you.

It applies to any businesses, professionals with a web page, and anyone who offers a service as long as they a) are located in Spain, b) target their services to the Spanish market or c) if they have a (permanent or regular) workplace or facilities in Spain.

(It's a translation from Spanish legalese, so probably the language is muddled, sorry.)
> but they got rid of guys like J Allard and Ray Ozzie who were pushing for devices and services almost 10 years ago

That's all Ballmer was good at. Getting rid of potential CEO rivals.
I posted the register link on this story, seeing Koushik's comments it looks very much like there is an intent at work here. That intent being that the 'crown jewels' of this device is sitting between what you see and the source of that stream. I would guess that Google would consider doing what Hulu did and inject 30 second commercials into that stream. Perhaps that doesn't work if you call the streaming API directly?

A number of folks seem to make these 'linux/android to HDMI dongle' type systems, I guess we're stuck making our own version of one.
It's a bit light on details. I know from personal pirating that the vast majority of things I downloaded I never touched or only opened once. Especially as a teen, with slow modems and BBSes, it was more of a status/fun thing to hoard as much as you could get.

I'd like to know if they have telemetrics installed that show how many game sessions are being played on unique installs. The article also admits it's titled Gentlemen, which is a hit song. So maybe some hacked up version of Google Play provides universal search, this gets to the top, downloaded, opened, then closed and forgotten about as the user tries to figure out why the song didn't start...
I'd recommend spending a few weeks in lapland, I suspect you'll rapidly want to come back to civilization :)
Do you have any advice on how to put it in front of users to get feedback? Friends are good for a while, but they're biased. Just go on IRC and ask a few folks?
It's not atypical in US tech to be offered long-term disability coverage, startups just tend not to think about it until somebody brings it up. Incubators like YC should probably be raising the point with their alumni.
The problem is that there is no debate about how to deal this in pragmatic terms. Instead, they are just issuing fines on businesses that are probably already having a hard time keeping themselves alive.

The whole situation would be completely different it this would have been discussed in practical terms. They could have matured possible technical solutions for this and also made sure that big third party providers (Facebook, Tumblr, etc.) that host websites for EU businesses comply with this regulation, rather than making the business owner responsible.

If you get a fine of €30K I bet you wouldn't call that a debate, correct?
Eric Schmidt, Google, Wikileaks and the US State Department
For us non-StarCraft players, what is a "cheesy build"? <:)
In either case, storing the cookie before consent, in the Google context, seems to run directly counter to the intent and spirit of the law.

I'm not big on technicalities. Normally I would put this in the "not a big deal" bucket, but in this case the specific cookies do not belong to the website itself. This means that you cannot retroactively "untrack" a user once they refuse your warning.

If this was just the website's own cookie, and if the cookie could be deleted and all tracking data would vanish from the site's own backend, then I'd be inclined to give it a pass.
The number is lower if you take into account the probability to develop RSI each year.
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On page 8: "On June 6, 2013, the public's already healthy interest in Google's receipt of, and response to, national security legal process skyrocketed."

It appears to me that that this could be a misunderstanding by the journalist. The entire rest of that paragraph is redacted. To my reading, it appears that this could just as easily be a case of "We want to bring to the court's attention the public's desire to have more information about these NSLs, including Google's denial of the scope of NSLs received in reaction to the Guardian article published on June 6th"

So that this would the attorney's way of showing the court that it's not just the redacted company that is affected, but also very public companies like Google.
highscalability is a strange reposty/blogspam aggregation thing that takes information from other places and just puts it up on their own site. I think they started having some original content, but it's still mostly second hand reports of source material found elsewhere.

(Think of it more as somebody's personal notes about how things work and not an exclusive source of breaking news or architecture revelations.)
Not going to happen. Microsoft will continue to make gobs of money no matter what, just because so many users are afraid of change and learning new ways to do things (i.e. not using Office). Until Apple products drop dramatically in price, the average user will continue to buy PCs with Windows and other MS products.

The phone and Surface might end up failing (which is a shame, both of those products are WORLDS better than they ever should have been), but the classic Windows PC will stick around for quite awhile, and Xbox isn't going anywhere either.
24x7 is hyperbole. No one literally wants to be there 24x7, but some people want to be at work more than others. If your argument is that no one can maintain any more than a 40 hour work week without burning out, I disagree.

So yes, even aware of burnout, I would still want to fill my company with people who want to work more than 40 hours a week.

This may be a twisted analogy, but I think of work in a way similar to how one properly cages a dog. Some people make cages a place of punishment for their dog; break a rule, be disruptive, and you enter the cage, which is far away from all happiness or socialization. It's a place for bad dogs. It makes the cage a hugely negative place for the dog, and causes all kinds of anxiety and trouble.

The solution? Make the cage an everyday and normal part of the dog's life. Put the cage in the middle of a high-traffic area, leave the door open so the dog can go rest in the cage when it's tired, make the cage a comfortable and happy place for the dog, and it becomes much easier to put the dog into the cage when the time calls for it (company, leaving the house, etc.).

Work should be thought of similarly. It can be your 9-5 cage, or it can be a place you come and go, a place to willingly spend free time, a social experience where you interact with cool and interesting people who you'd hang out with even if you didn't work with them. In both cases, you have to be there 9-5, but in the latter case, you actually want to be there, and it's not associated with huge Dilbertesque negatives.

So when someone talks about "I want people who want to be there 24x7", they're talking about having a cage that isn't for bad dogs, but a part of their everyday doggy life.
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It would definitely make sense, but I don't see it happening.
linuxly, the social network/unlicensed taxi service for your 386 processor.
I was actually fairly well able to deal with the personalities and political stuff. I've always been fairly easy to get along with and able to establish good working relationships with a wide variety of people. (Even the jerks, although I've become increasingly less tolerant of such behaviour.)

It was the physical environment that did me in. I was responsible for fairly essential financial analysis of about a billion dollars in revenue, at one point, including managing the transition of/to some fairly radical and poorly planned systems conversions. Yet they couldn't find anything better for me than a cube where my kitty-/katy-corner neighbor spent a couple of hours a day on speakerphone, and the senior manager next to me spent a different hour of the afternoon chatting on the phone with his son -- a fabric wall is not effective when two people are sitting circa five feet apart.

I didn't even care what they were doing -- or, in the case of the family chats, also not doing. I just didn't want to fight the noise for my concentration.

In another position, they finally agreed to move me to an office. Which, despite better rooms being available (and turned down by my manager), they made a windowless box (fine -- well, ok, I can cope) located next to a conference room, with no sound insulation in between (not fine).

The irony in that was that about half of the team I was on at that point was located either at other offices or virtual. That aspect worked our really just fine. One of the fellows I grew to have a lot of respect for, over the course of a couple of years, I never met in person. Yet we could pick up the phone and call -- or just email or IM or whatever -- and immediately address and plan a course of action, or take action when immediately needed, with no problem. He was a seasoned developer who knew how to get stuff done.

So... Personalities and experiences differ. But, I wouldn't worry too much about the virtual part. From my perspective, it would be likely to make me more effective in doing the actual work. And I would welcome the separation from all the environmental crap. Perhaps also the ability of people to just stop by my cube or office and draw me into their political BS or social BS. There's good social. And there's wasting an hour debating the best Jim Carrey movie. I can do without the latter.

Actually, I'm dealing with a little environmental noise now, at the moment. So, I hope I remained coherent in this response.

TL;DR: Do the work, and unplug from the crap. Keep the network active, for if/when the crap nonetheless starts to exceed the work. Use virtual as a crap buffer/filter.

--

P.S. The guy I mentioned coming to respect? Well, I got to know more than a bit about his golf fetish. There is -- or can be -- quality socializing in a virtual environment. What's nice, though, is not to be forced to tune out your neighbors' two hour discussion of their weekends.
Depends what other features you need. redis will be better if you need to do things like time-based collections, sorting by z-score, etc. Postgres gives you mature clustering (at least for master-slave), a mature tooling ecosystem (PgAdmin has been around for awhile, I didn't say it was good), better access controls, etc.

Like anything else in engineering, it's all a series of trade-offs to figure out what fits your needs the best.
I have seen more of the world than you would guess, and there is this FUD all over the place. I was on the fence about including Switzerland, but their banking law and gun law is much more sane than the US.

The draft in the states was used in Vietnam.

Opening a business in ALL of Europe is hard (especially France) but in most of the countries I listed it is easy. Stop grouping all of Europe into one big thing.

Biometric passports are horrible, but the US requires it for certain forms of visitation.
You don't have to release it to the WORLD when you put it on a forum. For example, if it's web based, you can whitelist usernames/IPs. If it's a downloadable app, you can make it self destruct after a period of time or something so that people can't keep playing it.
Sierra games deserve my thanks. Hero's Quest, Space Quest, Kings Quest, Police Quest - all of the early games required a deep amount of typing, and some of the really early ones could get harsh about it (the v1's often didn't "pause" the game while you typed). I shed a tear when they moved to the mouse-only adventure games.
> Error establishing a database connection

Diabolic, stateful database connections blocking a Haskell treatise! They should have copied the database on each request instead.
... which is not nothing. These developments come from somewhere, I don't understand why one would bash GNUstep because it's not a unicorn.
Lost me at "Marxists". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism

edit: this came out kinda snarky, sorry.. I found all of that very interesting and insightful, just not the very end of the ending.
If they're not customers, they don't matter. Whether they pirate your game or not, you're going to make the exact same amount of money from them - $0.
thanks. so by condition b that includes almost anyone on the internet!
Well, this is wishful thinking. With their recent major re-org, Microsoft went the complete opposite direction, and they are going to have tightly coupled, horizontal/functionally-aligned departments rather than loosely coupled, vertical/product-aligned divisions. Will be interesting to see how that works out.
Redis doesn't have a great solution for the D(urability) in ACID yet. PostgreSQL can ensure that changes are durable while being performant; redis can't do that as well.

Redis does offer AOS for durability, but it's not nearly as mature as PostgreSQL (and comes with all sorts of caveats).
> Database Error: Error establishing a database connection

Looks like we brought down another one. I was looking forwards to reading this too.
I'm still waiting for his in depth article about his experiences while porting Wolfenstein to Haskell - mainly to see if it's worth learning Haskell. Beacause as he said in the video: Most examples in books (I guess that counts for evangelization blogs too) are toy examples. And I'd like to know how viable the language is for bigger systems.
The average non-power user isn't going to want to learn how to use Linux, they're comfortable with Windows so they'll stick with Windows. I predict that they'll make two very distinct version of Windows next time, one for tablets like Windows 8 and one a lot more like Windows 7 for the desktops.
It's still relatively new functionality, so I wouldn't expect to see it in wide use, but we're currently trying it out in a limited, point-solution kind of role. (We're a Postgres-mostly shop already.)

So far, everything's working as well as I'd have expected from something released by the PostgreSQL community.
an epub would be even awesomer.
That seems like a plausible choice. I want to do labor somewhere, hence why I'd love working on a ship. Out in the cold, no technology, and just work.
I don't think that rule is meant to apply to places where 95% (?) of software is pirated. Can you even buy the game in China?
As has been pointed out, it's not illegal when it comes to insurance. I'm not sure it's illegal when it comes to lending.

Honestly, I'm a little confused by some of these equality laws. I'm pretty sure that the law can't compel you to make a loan you don't want to make, whether there is a good reason on not. I think you just can't say the denial was for a racial reason or gender reason or whatever. But even if those things were at the heart of your decision, so long as you don't say it, is that even illegal?

And in this case, I'm talking about private companies who don't have connection to US government. (ie: I think if you're government ensured or whatever, they have more power to compel specific behavior.)
Mailpile seems to get a lot of press if nothing else. I hope their engineers are as good as their marketing department.
They haven't been able to do that for a while, and their competition is now a lot smarter and much richer than even Microsoft.

Apple's iPhone business alone is larger and more profitable than all of Microsoft combined. Take out the iPhone and Apple is still bigger.
I don't feel entitled to anything, I just take a perverse amount of pleasure in pointing out how much shit people are full of.

I'm just trying to encourage some honesty from an intellectual perspective -- why confuse ourselves when the outcome will be no different than the last? Why do we willfully continue to lock ourselves into an ecosystem, be it Google, Facebook, or Apple?
That may be true, but the principles are pretty much the same. Both parties would use gender to assess risk.
> On the other hand, if you have a community of asians or western europeans, it doesn't.

I might be mis-understanding the context here: I've been to a few impoverished communities composed of 98% descendants of Western Europeans. Think: white trash.
Here's the video: http://youtu.be/1PhArSujR_A (the text on the page just introduces Carmack)
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When you registered the domain name and selected branding, did you know moot is a well-known internet handle?
So if I'm outside of Spain I don't need to care about this?