skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What really annoys me about Dark Souls is the shitty PC port. They're still selling tons of copies of the game for PC because of all the silly hype around it, and yet the game is virtually unplayable - even with all the mouse fixes, mods, etc. Why is it acceptable for game developers to completely abandon their customer base and continue to sell a broken product?

I picked up the game during a Steam sale, spent a good few hours trying to make it playable with a variety of mods, fixes, etc. and then just gave up completely. And for those few hours I did play it, nothing about it stood out to me as being incredible or ingenious.
There are two measurements that can be made; RON (Research Octane Number, measuring fuel behavior at 600rpm) and MON (Motor Octane Number, measuring fuel behavior at 900rpm).

MON is typically 8-10 points lower than the RON.

In the US/Canada and some other parts of the Americas, they use the average of the two. Hence lower.

In most other places, they just use the RON.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octane_rating#Measurement_metho...
I think once facebook, and the more "real identity" networks came around, that "natural" communities got destroyed. I was thinking about some of the friends I had made when I was 13 that I still occasionally talk to, that I have never seen pictures of or even heard speak, that I had met online.

Back then groups were formed over interests, and the interests itself could be very niche, but the people you met were also interested in what you were interested in. It was like a self selecting group of uber-friends. The only step in relationship building was really "oh you like thing? I like thing too." Relationships then were really about shared-interests.

However once facebook rolled around cyber communities became more like digital archive of real lives. You don't friend someone on facebook because they had a similar interest with you (most of the time), you friend people that you had some in-life experience with. Now internet relationships are now really about shared-experiences.

Another way to look at it is if imagine you went to a bar by yourself, and everyone else in the bar came alone. You might imagine eventually people would group themselves by similar interests (although certain human dynamics might lead people to group with other people visually similar to themselves.)

In the post-facebook era its the same setup, but this time everyone bring 8-12 of their high school friends. Your high school friends may have not been had as much deep rooted interest in AstroMUD, but they are generally all-around ok people. At the end of the day you are really only together because you went to the same high school, and weren't assholes to one another.
I think this is one of those things you either care about or you don't. Personally I don't - I'm quite happy to let smarter/insaner/beardier people do the proper deep worrying about data structure and algorithms; I'll just use what they suggest when they're done.

[edit: not particularly helpful, sorry!]
Some other cool configurations if anyone is interested.

Di Pietro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGiviT-C_oY

Rotary(wankel)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BCgl2uumlI

Fibonacci Offset Rotary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tklMGxqRtw4

k-jetronic fuel system:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4fJAfXYxWk
The Nostradamus Committee - an exercise in communication or being an asshole?
10 months later "random crashes due to pointer misuse".
It's common to be bored studying material that you have no background in, and no motivation for. These things seem unmotivated, disconnected, and completely arbitrary.

In general, I find the best way to study these sorts of things is to have a puzzle to solve, to work through it, and then have a mentor demonstrate a little piece of magic that makes me feel stupid for not having thought of it. Here's an example that you may not know, but most people here will.

In the Pollard Rho method of factoring you compute f(x) repeatedly, and need to find somewhere that it repeats. So you start with x[0] = x0, then compute x[n+1]=f(x[n]). Question - find i and j such that x[i]=x[j].

You can think of this as an implicit linked list between integers, and you're given a starting point and asked to find a loop. How can you do this with fixed, limited additional storage?

Yes, there is an algorithm to do that.

Here's another. Suppose you have a vector of key/value pairs and you need to sort on the key. More, if two keys are equal, their positions in the result must be the same as their positions in the original. Can you do that? Many library sorts don't offer that option - can you find a way?

Having found some of these sorts of problems in the real world and puzzled over them, only to find that (a) they've been done, (b) they've been done better than you thought possible, and (c) there is a touch of magic about the answer, then you might become more engaged with the topic.

Otherwise, maybe the job isn't really for you.
> fiber-to-the-home

Or, as it will be known on Saturday evening: copper to the "good luck with that".
What do they think doing this serves, in their opinion? In the US, there's at least the excuse that there's this big block of neoconservative religious-fundamentalists to win the votes of. Does Australia have those too?
Well they snuck this in at the last minute hoping no one would notice and their supporters would be too dumb to care... Based on current opinion polls sadly good assumptions. Add this to killing the NBN as another stake in the heart of our digital future...
Lenovo Thinkpad.
Awesome tutorial! I haven't gotten around to reading it all yet however I noticed it provides you with a base to begin coding which is good but is there anyway you can do a short writeup on how exactly that base is created?
Ugh... we're stuffed.
This is what I tried to say 5 or 6 messages ago, when I first replied to you.
suck squeeze bang blow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-stroke_engine
Oh it's nothing but a low move, introduced by a vile bunch who would prefer Rupert Murdoch controlled all media.
once you reach a certain point, design /is/ largely subjective.
PS2, not PS3, right?
The sneaky fucks think they have carte blanche from the electorate and so are releasing policies either after the blackout or possibly not at all.

"Vote for us to end the deficit. We'll work out how if you vote for us."

(IMHO more likely to send us into the recession we've avoided thus far)
I don't understand what you would have in "models". Services?
Yes very much so. I first thought it would look better on a cosmetic product, without the exclamation point.

The Clinique branch has similar "scallops" and no straight edges... http://bit.ly/161aoLo
Caring != stock value.
Ugh, don't remind me -- so shortsighted!

(Some context: the opposition party -- which apparently is going to win? I don't follow politics too closely -- was suggesting that the NBN project could be done more cheaply if it was fiber-to-the-node instead... thus completely defeating the purpose of the network upgrade.)
Different, but effectively yes.
There is already a filter in place. It was utilised most recently earlier this year. ASIC maintains a database of fraud/scam websites, and blocks them so as to minimise the impact on unsuspecting victims.

"The Federal Government has confirmed its financial regulator has started requiring Australian Internet service providers to block websites suspected of providing fraudulent financial opportunities, in a move which appears to also open the door for other government agencies to unilaterally block sites they deem questionable in their own portfolios." (http://delimiter.com.au/2013/05/15/interpol-filter-scope-cre...)

And direct press release from ASIC: "ASIC has already blocked access to these websites."

http://www.asic.gov.au/asic/asic.nsf/byheadline/13-061MR+ASI...
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/they

often used with an indefinite third person singular antecedent <everyone knew where they stood — E. L. Doctorow> <nobody has to go to school if they don't want to — N. Y. Times>

If it's good enough for the NY Times, it's good enough for you and me
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Would quite like the civilians to win there...
Passwords are broken and I really wish we would all move away from them. Persona is a nice idea with regards to privacy and control, but it's still a password that you need to remember, which can be cracked. Also, people generally don't use strong passwords.

What irks me is that every OS in use today has support for strong cryptography and browser vendors could easily integrate that. We would no longer register for a website, we would simply upload our "Online Identity" or whatever we called it. This of course is just an id_rsa.pub with maybe name and email in the comment. The remote site stores the public key and the browser authenticates using the private key, stored securely in the keychain.

This has the potential to be invisible to users, and thus used by default, and highly secure since the local keychain can generate incredibly strong keys, all behind the scenes.
It's a moral panic [0].

If filtering doesn't happen immediately, fear may be exploited and politicians will have to find something else to procrastinate on rather than tackling real issues (poverty, health care, budget waste).

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_panic
First, the 100 years of jail time and now this. It's like a parody inside a parody.

Except this is now US reality.
"The bevel is bad" is not a very good argument, either. Why is the bevel bad? Explain it without making a reference to current flat trends.
Cant tell if this was sarcasm but it is obviously a one time team created just for the purpose of redesigning the logo.
I think you should publish this brilliant $75 logo for us to critique :)
For me, the Yahoo logo was all about differently-sized characters, the fat Y with one of the arms sticking out and the big fat exclamation mark. All of those cues have vanished.

The new logo seems almost devoid of flavor. The rest of their homepage has a nice UI without gradients, and this newly adopted logo seems like a extremely odd misfit, almost out of place. There's absolutely no sense of belonging.
I like how the Paypal link actually works.
Just one of many good reasons to vote Greens in the senate.
Passwords should be a thing of the past. It gives the users an illusion of security.
DSFix and an Xbox controller makes it perfectly playable, IMO. What problems did you run into?
That might ax a few plans for US -> AU citizenry.

What country without US extradition is the most socio-libertarian/anarchist friendly?
Adobe unveils $9.99 'lite' version of Creative Cloud
Minimizing the HTTP request using data URI
Children are surprisingly capable of not falling over dead or turning into monsters even if their parents spend a little time pursuing other interests now and then, you know.

Also, be honest: Would that thought have even occured to you if Yahoo! had a male CEO? If not, why not?
Had to scroll all the way to the bottom to see a simple comment appreciating the design.
Honestly, this is in my top 5 all time favorite games. It's brilliant. By the time I finished it, it wasn't difficult anymore, you just have to master it. Can't wait for Dark Souls 2.
Thx. Btw - is hackernewsed the new slashdotted?
> We didn’t want to have any straight lines in the logo. Straight lines don’t exist in the human form and are extremely rare in nature, so the human touch in the logo is that all the lines and forms all have at least a slight curve.

This reminds me of the design team that tilted the Pepsi logo 10 degrees to show Pepsi was "leaning towards the future." [1]

Is there a rule that says you can't run a company if you see through these sort of lines as utterly laughable?

1. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505123_162-42740470/pepsis-nonse...
http://www.unlimitednovelty.com/2012/03/dont-use-bcrypt.html
It makes me want to go look at something else. It screams, "You are not interested in me! I am not going to entertain you in any way!"

It reminds me of being in a mall, and looking for that one interesting store that I want to go to. I pore over a directory, scanning over a whole bunch of logos, for brands whose names I can't even remember. Eventually I find the one I want, and in that moment, if you asked me what else was on that directory I could not tell you. The new logo is on that directory somewhere, attracting no attention.
In summary: "he posted a link in a chat room"
Several annoyances here:

1. Showing hand-drawn versions of your logo in what clearly is set in hardly-modified Optima (a typeface designed way back in the 1950s) makes me cringe. Why show fake process work?

2. No one is impressed when the manager does the job of their employees. For one, it implies that they don't trust their employees, and secondly, it makes the job of designers look like a fun hobby that anyone can get into. The result is exactly what happened here: an utterly boring logo redesign that looks just-polished-enough to make people think that Marissa Mayer is some kind of genius, yet simple enough to make people think that true designers bring no value to the table.

3. The whole 30 days of logos schtick was awful. Good artists know that the worst thing you can do for yourself is show too much of your own work. After a while, everything looks same-y and the weaknesses begin to become more apparent. The whole concept reeks of indecision and a pray-to-God moment that one of the logos would have such a huge outpouring of support that the Yahoo! team wouldn't have to make up their own minds on a vision.

4. The bevel isn't even customized. It's a preset Adobe effect. Pretending like the Y shape in the bevel was intentional is horseshit and obviously a desperate attempt to give some sort of conceptual significance to what is otherwise a completely forgettable design.
If you have enough time, the Robert Sedgewick's course[1] could be the answer you're looking for. It's much more engaging to watch video lectures and discuss the material with other students than it is to read articles on Wikipedia or some boring textbook.

[1] https://www.coursera.org/course/algs4partI
WREN: Fly a real spacecraft by yourself
> Content Encoding Error

>

> The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression.
Good luck with that -- it's a royal PITA to get citizenship in AU.

Usually the countries without US extradition treaties have much more worrying issues, like abysmal civil / human rights records, IIRC. Also, it doesn't stop the US from leaning on them to extradite you as a special case, anyway.
I'm not a designer and know nothing about logo design, so let me ask: Is there an objective way to evaluate a piece of design such as this new logo? Or does it just come down to personal like/dislike?
Why talented creatives are leaving your agency
The consensus seems to be that the game is hardly playable without a controller (by the way, steam has a big warning about that on the game's page in the store).

Some people make do with the mousefix mod (the default mouse targeting behaviour is beyond silly). It's quite a bad port indeed, but it's a good game so I guess it's better than nothing...

If you do a lot of gaming on PC buying a controller can be a pretty good investment anyway, it makes sense for a lot of games.
Will they cut with the porn bullshit we all know this is all about power and controlling what people can see.
Once a filter is set up it's very easy to block any website they want.
Porn/sex shouldn't be taboo to begin with it's how we all got on this planet.
I grew up on the internet without filters and I'm happy to report I'm just fine stop filtering my shit.
The only legacy code that people talk about is bad legacy code. People never fondly remember the function they wrote ten years ago that's still doing what it should do, no debugging required.

It's always the function that's been rewritten twenty times that gets labelled as legacy code.
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What country without US extradition is the most socio-libertarian/anarchist friendly?

NZ can't be worse than AU. I am a citizen of both (and DE) and plan to move to NZ myself.
I was making a point about the U.S. per capita incarceration rate. Shown here on Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcerat.... It is dismal and countering with North Korea's injustice system being hypothetically worse doesn't make it better.
Someone needs to start doing version control systems for legislative bills and documents in governments everywhere. Most lawmakers are ugly sneaks and we will need to watch their every move.
This is why I play randomized rougelikes, like Nethack, or more recently, Torchlight. You can't make spoilers for a game that randomizes its levels.
I'd be surprised if they could get a "temporary scaffold screen" "at street level" up "within 24 hours" that would be capable of that. This is a tall building and the problem appears to be quite high up.

I would imagine that the purpose is to provide something else for the death ray to burn instead of shops and cars.
> he provides a useful factual context for the decision

Ugh, no he doesn't. The very first thing he states is wrong. A jury ruling does not establish case law.

He really is just a self-aggrandizing pundit, and even if he wasn't terrible, he'd still be a pundit. He's even gotten worse over time, as half of each of his articles now is just pointing out how the weasel words he used to describe upcoming cases in previous posts turned out to be totally true. Who on earth cares that the damages turned out to be relatively small, but hey, earlier he wrote that the monetary amount didn't matter?

Don't give him link juice. The OP Bloomberg article contains a large amount of context for the case.
This is always a good news, but honestly, I am little dissappointed this is yet another Linux based hypervisor, while OpenStack supports already few, not mentioning it supports LXC itself. What about BSD derived ones, like Jails or rising BHyve? I would love to see these supported!
I was under the impression that Australia is much much more conservative in general compare to USA.
I point my finger at you and laugh, Australia.
That is absolutely reprehensible. This is precisely why blackouts are such a bad idea. It turns out they are extraordinarily easy to game.
They are almost opposites or complementary (the complement of yellow is actually violet, not purple, but purple is close enough), so just like blue and orange.

Complementary colors used in combination give the highest contrast.
I agree, I love both games but it's casual nethack as far as I'm concerned: it's very difficult to enjoy the games without a minimal amount of spoilers.

I went blind for my first run in both games, and while I could finish demon's souls with a minimal amount of grinding I hit a wall in DaS because some upgrade paths are simply dead ends. Leveling up resistance, for instance. Certain weapon's upgrade paths. And you have no way of knowing that before you get destroyed in the next dungeon because "hey, occult weapons are useless! Tough luck".
I've designed a few logos in my time. All I see here is post-rationalisation, the last bastion of the cowboy designer trying to justify their costs.
Can Stow do hardlinks? The reason I ask is that IIRC systemd shits a brick if your service files are symlinks.

Conversely, I have a script that does this:

https://github.com/radiosilence/dotfiles/blob/master/relink

All I have to do is maintain a MANIFEST file.
> Twitter the 900 person corporation

That's now. Look back to their FailWhale period. They certainly didn't have "best of the best", yet they did succeed. Though I guess you can count Arrington's constant cheer-leading as the best of marketing... but it'd still be a stretch.

> Why do you think Spolsky started his career there right out of college?

Because of their stock option program, why else. But that's irrelevant.

Microsoft did not succeed because they had "best of the best", but because of their underhanded sales and customer entrapment tactics.

Point being the company don't need "best of the best" to succeed. It's often sufficient, but it's certainly not necessary.
And how do you access your identity from a device that isn't your own?

I'm 100% with you, it would be a major step forward - but it's too inflexible for Joe & Jane.
Clearly, vote Wikileaks.
But that's not quite the same - older versions of C didn't have a real Boolean type so you could well run into those kinds of problems.

In a language that does have a proper Boolean type I still think checking equality with literal true/false values is a bit silly.
Well, in that case, I believe you need to be more specific in your job posting at your careers page.
The death ray is the active tramp deterrent system.
Didn't NZ have that whole fiasco with kowtowing to the US and sending a SWAT team after Kim Dotcom?
It is really surprising how Pebble hit almost all the right spots [ form factor, multi-day battery, screen readability, standard watch strap, hardware buttons, SDK ]. Sure there is room for improvement but we've now seen three big tech companies ( Sony, Samsung and Qualcomm) bringing in smartwatches and none of them got close to Pebble.
Good question, where did the bevel originate? Who first beveled a 2D graphic?

I can find lots of designers claiming they're out of fashion, but I can't find anyone with a history of the bevel...

Can someone call Roman Mars?
One of the problems of scrypt is a lack of language bindings. There's no officially blessed language binding for PHP, there's a ruby gem that only works on MRI but doesn't support jruby. Bcrypt on the other hand is widely supported, simple and easy to use implementations exist for devise and activerecord for example. I'd pick the slightly worse but widely supported algorithm and rather tune the work factor than being stuck with an extension that might or might not be supported depending on the authors availability of time and resources.

This all can change, but that's the current state of things. Sorry scrypt.
http://i.imgur.com/qv1WDrS.png

Anything will be better than this. My guess is that they're fully aware that the bevel makes a lot of people think of the 90's. To me, the message is "stability" and "experience".
I don't think this is a vote-winner; this policy has been as well-hidden as it possibly could be. 99% of voters will not even know about it.

More likely some back-room deal has been done with vested interests and the implementation of this policy somehow benefits them (financially or politically).

It is likely a combination of: rightsholder companies who will eventually twist the filters to block internet-based competition, large IT contracting companies who will get lucrative contracts for implementing it, and (tin-foil hat time) the Catholic church.

There are some VERY skeezy links between the federal opposition and the Australian Catholic church which see the church hold significant lobbying power over LNP policies. See: marriage equality, abortion rights, royal commission into child sexual abuse etc.

As a small, uncontroversial example, the current government handed over regulation of charities (including churches) to an independent regulator last year. The Catholic Church in particular hates being under the thumb of a regulator it doesn't have in its own back pocket. Conveniently the LNP plans to scrap the regulator if they win the election. Even mainstream newspapers are reporting that this is at the behest of Cardinal George Pell:

http://www.smh.com.au/business/bad-liberal-policy-will-damag...
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How Easy It Is To Hack Wifi Networks
("Conservative" doesn't necessarily mean "socially paternalistic along Old-Testament Christian lines" in most countries, though; thus the question.)
$9.99 per month, not $9.99
Australian opposition govt to require proof of age for unfiltered internet