skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And in this thread...a guy in Flint criticizes Detroit for being unsafe. Maybe you're secretly jealous? I mean come on,

http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2013/09/flint_stil...
I watched a bluray movie last night for the first time and I was shocked. I was so surprised how much higher the definition was vs streamed "hd" content.
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> it's a miracle humans managed to survive the first few million years...

They haven't, yet; humans (H. sapiens) have only been around for ~200k years.
I see a couple of misunderstandings in the comments here.

First: the PRNG state is not stored in the game's save file. It's in a "save state", which is an emulation term for an image of the system's RAM etc., which is a far cry from how the games work on a physical console.

That leads to my next point: if you're seeding the PRNG with the current time every time you need a random number, then you're doing it wrong.
I knew almost nothing about this guy before reading this but I must say, karma be damned, this guy is legend... wait for it... dary!
I hate responses (and attitudes) such as this. It's as if you've concluded that anything you do going forward is pointless and a waste of time.

I am not yet ready to come to that conclusion and have recently stepped up my efforts to better protect my data -- both at rest and in transit -- and encourage everyone else to do the same.
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If so, then it's just as slimy as buying/selling likes, and anyone involved should be named, shamed and 'unliked'.
As inhospitable as Mars is, asteroids and space stations are far worse!
We still have trees, here...
Not really. Did as much research as I could, and most of the value of the island to me is having a group of friends with an island to build up by our own designs.

Also, we did check it out before wiring the money. If it was burnt down or something really bad, we wouldn't have bought it.
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> There are no AAA titles available on Linux.

Other than the Valve games Linux will soon get Metro: Last Light and Football Manager 2014. Almost no AAA games so far, but it is to be expected that AAA producers are generally slower and more conservative.
I hadn't heard of CK (http://concurrencykit.org/) before.

Do you know of anything else that's using it?
This points to an interesting strategy folks could take when taking on Patent Trolls ... cutting through the corporate veil of the holding companies and personally identifying the people who are behind the trolls....the inventors, the patent owners, the lawyers, etc.

Not to cross the line by slandering them, but just shining a light on them -- shaming them, basically.

I'm sure plenty don't and won't care, but I wonder whether it might make a dent. Maybe that inventor who figured "sure, why not - free money from my patent" might have a different feeling if the whole world knows what they're up to and doing so damages their reputation.
Stack Overflow has been an invaluable resource for me as I learned, and continue to learn, programming.

Congratulations on five years! (it feels like I've known you a lot longer)
Pension accounting is tricky because you have to put a number on your fund's ROI, and that number has gigantic implications for the solvency of the fund. Some committees are more optimistic than others, but they're not necessarily wrong.

A good example is California's public retiree system. If CALPERS didn't estimate an 8% ROI the fund would be underwater. I don't know anyone who actually thinks you'll be able to get 8% over the next 20 years from pension-quality investments. On the other hand, I'm not ready to say the people in charge are doing anything illegal.
Haha, thanks. I had a great time communal living in school. Everyone involved in the island is trustworthy, fair, reasonable, etc., so I think it will be good. We also outlined ways to deal with disputes in advance.
What does HN think about the last statement?
-Promote social programs for when things go wrong
...If you happen to live in the United States, and the tax laws there don't change.
Totally agree on the size.

In much of the rural midwest, 5 acres is the _minimum_ plot to build a house on. One single-family house. Five acres was how far we could play as children without going "far". It's 3.78 American football fields.

That said, it's five more acres of island than I own.
It's probably just the way it generates the random seed.

Edit: Oops, posted before reading other posts - this appears to be the general sentiment.
I assumed game developers did this for pretty much everything that requires randomness if for no other reason than ease of debugging.

I've written similar non-game code where you generate a random seed and every other random value is derived from that. Makes it much easier to reproduce "random" issues because you just need the build + the seed, not luck.
Walking the walk: Travel app Vayable trades the Valley echo chamber for Paris
Take control with branch restrictions
I am mildly worried by someone who is obviously an experienced and competent coder not understanding how pseudorandom number generators work. As they have an initial state which is often determined at program or level load time saving the state of the game means the state of the srand[1] or the 64's equivalent is stored.

[1] http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstdlib/srand/
Seems like a no-brainer to me. The alternative is to have people panhandling on the streets. That's not pleasant -- on either side of the transaction. I'd rather live in a country where it wasn't necessary.
I guess this is a recurring one:

I complained, but I eventually gave in. As we grew, it was harder and harder to maintain our informal processes. (I remember a real inflection point at about 50-60 employees, and another at about 100.) We gradually gave up our homegrown way of doing things, and accepted normal HR practices — vacation and sick days, regular reviews, annual salary adjustments — and bit by bit, I let the “HR professionals” take over the job of framing and managing the internal culture. That was a mistake.

The original process reminded me of Bryan Cantril's (bcantrill on Hacker News[1], creator of DTrace and VP of Engineering at Joyent) recent post on Leadership without Management: Scaling Organizations by Scaling Engineers[2], and of Yshan Wong's (former director of engineering at Facebook, and current CEO of Reddit) writtings on the topic[3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bcantrill

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6387649

[3] http://algeri-wong.com/yishan/engineering-management-process...
"Poor stock holders"

To be clear, the stock hit the all-time high last week (https://www.google.com/finance?q=P today's close 23.99 all-time-high 24.29 last thursday). Most stockholders have made quite a bit
Slightly different in that case, as Ives has pointed out. For example, 4k7 = 4.7 kilohms. Extra zeros are significant, e.g. 4k700 = 4.700 kilohms.
The most beneficial aspect of reacting this way is probably from letting others being victimized by the troll know that they are not alone. I am sure these trolls are careful to only bite off what they think they can chew, but if their targets begin banding together they may find themselves choking.
Calling -20@100 km/h winds 'a bit rough' should qualify for the understatement of the decade if there is such a thing. I've been out in weather like that and it cured me of a desire to see snow and ice for a very long time. I've seen it be below -40 on St. Josephs Island a couple of nights every year and that was definitely quite strange. As long as the wind wasn't up it was doable, even the slightest breeze and you'd be crazy to go out (or you'd have to feed the stove...).
I would be shocked if Appelbaum is still using a standard cell-phone at this point. There's just too much reason to worry about remote compromise of the device.
Don't be so sure: see this Google search (which undoubtably turns up some political propaganda in addition to some true scandal): https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=bain%20capital%2...
I would have an opinion but Australian law prevents me from having one without providing a statement of advice.
Sounds like political advice more than financial advice.

In a similar vein, I would advise people to support charities that help the less fortunate like food banks, but I wouldn't consider that financial advice.
and why do you call this art. I think that's misusing the term. it's a data visualization.
If you look at their portfolio you would see most of these investments are centered around products, namely those that processes or make sense of either large amounts or complex data, nothing that includes covert surveillance a la facebook.

NSA bad actors withheld, I have a tough time seeing why anyone would consider In-Q-Tel a bad thing. A lot of our current technology (lets not forget the Internet) were born out of government funded projects.
This was my guess, that the 'roll' occured earlier in the sequence and by the time the dice showed up it was set in stone.

There was a very interesting hack in World of Warcraft where the server would not show you the stats on an item unless there was one currently "on" the server, and after a server reboot (every tuesday!) if you were one of the first guilds on, you could step into an dungeon instance and check stats on the rare loot you wanted (warglaives were the big deal as I recall) and if you didn't see it, the boss hadn't spawned with them. So you step out, reset your view of instances and step back in, check, rinse and repeat until they show up. Then you go through and collect your prize at the end. Blizzard patched the loophole once it was discovered but for me the interesting thing was that the loot spawned right at instance creation time, not the time the boss 'died'.
agreed. HN often has too many "yet more oh-so-wise life advice from 20-something white male programmers living in an US city in 2013"-type articles.
Just curious - why are iPod Socks in 'crappy products' group? I thought they looked awesome and were actually useful - yeah, they were kinda overpriced, but hey, Apple.

Are iPod Socks really considered a failed product?
If going for RICO, why not ethics type complaints with the attorney's bar? I have no idea what type of success one might expect, but clearly baseless threats of criminal charges and what have you is out of line. I would also think "escalator clauses" for filing a response in court is also illegal or at least unethical, and could potentially get the lawyer(s) suspended or reprimanded. Probably the fastest way to kill a patent troll is to take out their legal!
5 acres in si units is 20,000 square meters. A typical house in nl is on 200 square meters if it is a house in a row and on maybe twice that much or a bit more if it is freestanding.
I've got about 84" of my office shelves devoted to O'Reilly books and while Tim may be able to see failure in hindsight, the only thing I want to convey to him is my thanks ... I wish my failure was so grand.
Ask HN: How to create interactive guiding pages?
I wonder how to create interactive guiding pages on a website? Such as http://www.learnstreet.com/lessons/study/javascript. Thanks a lot!

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There wasn't really any other outcome its why trolling works in the first place. While govts are starting to take note (its affecting non geek industries now...) They're a while off fixing it.

And also on the topic, piss enough people off eventually you'll find one of us willing to throw business "logic" out the window n fight back.
well yes, but it should be too hard to replace "401k" with whatever tax-advantaged retirement program is available
If you work on a team, mark time on your calendar where you are busy and stick to it - there are very few emergencies that really are more important than maintaining your own personal productivity - in the rare event that you hit one, throw an exception.

And that may sound self-centered and harsh, but really, your most valuable time at work is your time in flow. If your employer doesn't value that, and feels free to interrupt you willy nilly as well as drop you into the middle of a 1960s boiler room of coders happily jabbering away instead of writing code, your project and likely your company is doomed.

If you're working alone and you're blocked, go exercise, it works like magic because it monkey wrenches your brain out of the infinite loop that's keeping you from seeing the solution. If you aren't blocked, go exercise anyway. Make it a regular habit.

Finally, review that stack of code after you come back from the gym. You'll be in a much more receptive state to do so.
I still don't buy the idea of the Linux container as a universal way to do anything. It depends on your kernel [opposite of what the slides claim], it depends on your apps, it depends on your dependencies, it depends on your architecture, etc.

The one phrase that's correct is "it's chroot on steroids". That is in fact exactly what it is. The exception is, it's even less portable than just a chroot environment. Docker adds extra features on top of the chroot, but that's basically its core functionality.

So the first thing you have to ask yourself is: does my software need to be run in a chroot environment or a VM isolated from all other applications? If no, you very well may not need this at all for your software deployment. If anything, Docker images create a bigger burden on your deployment as you have these large images to distribute, modify, manage. Of course they built in some fancy network transmission magic to make it only copy changed parts of an image, but this is still wildly less efficient than traditional means, and you still have to fuck around with the image to make it incorporate your changes before you push it.

If the big selling point is "commoditization", keep in mind that basically everyone rolls their own environment and customizes their deployment. It's the natural order of having your own architecture that fits your application. The one thing that's never going to happen, is you taking Docker images from the internet and never modifying them. This universal container system goes out the window the first minute you have to start modifying everything to fit edge cases, which is always going to happen.
A Web Comic That Wonderfully Illustrates 'Strong Opinions, Weakly Held'
Agreed. This seems to me to be all very simple: Nintendo is using a straightforward pseudorandom number generator. At time t, it has an internal seed. If the guy saves the emulator state then, of course that seed is saved along with everything else. When he restores it, it's still that seed -- why would he expect anything else?

Nintendo did this because it's the correct behavior if you want the die to be statistically random in normal play, that is, not hacked up for cheating in a non-Nintendo game emulator. So what this guy is really complaining about is that he cannot influence or bias the roll of the die by hitting the die when it's displaying a certain number on-screen. He somehow thinks this is "determinism".
That's not a good excuse. There are plenty of hours in the day from which to choose an 8 minutes window.
Quitting our jobs/school to learn to code and build—YNC podcast 1.0
Some argue that if it makes calls to a GPL application, it's a derivative work, which means it must also be GPL.

This means that if one part of the stack is GPL, everything higher must also be GPL.
California school district hires online monitoring firm to watch 13,000 students
Sophia – An embeddable key-value database
Almost all of this is excellent advice, except for one point: "save 20% of your money". That's a bare minimum, which will let you retire after about 37 years of working. Bump it to 35% and you'll retire after 25 years. Bump it to 50% and retire in 17. Bump it to two-thirds and retire in 10 years.

That's one of the most important factors in your personal finances: not how much you make off your investments, not whether you max your 401k, but how much of your income you save and how much you spend. The only more important factor is "never borrow money", and in particular "never carry a balance on a credit card".
Mathjax is great when applicable. My team and I built texit to allow us to take notes in Markdown, rather than writing them in pure LaTeX.
Cynically, you can consider it hedging one's bets (no pun intended.)
I wouldn't worry about it, the mental image of the moon skimming the surface of the earth was worth it :) But at the required orbital speeds the tidal effects would be another matter. Talk about a rip-tide :)
Not to mention that AAA games take 2-3 years to produce, whereas Steam Linux has been out for only 6 months. There's a lot of inertia to overcome.
The current rumor is that the NSA told Facebook, Microsoft, et. al to do this and they have yet to receive any In-Q-Tel funding.
You missed the point. Part of the game is that you thought you could control the number with your timing of exactly when you hit the button (it shows the "die" spinning above your head, you hit a button to jump and hit the die, at which point it stops spinning).
he clearly qualifies it for "when things go wrong", so the suggestion is more like some kind of insurance in case that happens
Cute, but these guys have a loooooong way to go.

Will it be just an editor or will they incorperate sharing features or Dropbox support?
It's not that they are well funded, it's just that most people without a pile of cash are very risk averse, and doing what the big mean patent troll says is, to many people, the least risky option.
More likely they just created a RNG with a seed at the beginning of the game and then use the generated set later on so that the N64 doesn't have to waste resources (albeit a small amount) generating a random number mid-game. I imagine every little bit of CPU power saved adds up with the N64.
So in the ideal world everyone around you is doing the same thing as the card. If that is true, then when something goes wrong there will be plenty of safeguards already in place.

It takes a special kind of hubris to social welfare benefits believing you will never need them.
2 things. 1. You do not represent everybody. 2. Even the best current systems are not representative of what automated cars will bring. What you are talking about are still way more expensive than the automated solution will be (I have to make some assumptions) and organising someone to drop the car off at a specific time is not the same as being able to make the decision 5 minutes before you need it.

At the end of the day, even if I am half right, car production will see a huge drop.
I imagine that was for the benefit of GMs (in-game customer support). Occasionally they'd be responsible for spawning loot for guilds who had just spent some hours fighting to and killing a boss, only to have the server crash afterwards and wipe out their rewards. By making the loot table a property of the instance, and attaching the last instance a player was part of to their character, the GM can just do a lookup to see what items were missing after the server reboot and hand them out. The only thing they have to take the players' word for is that the kill happened, rather than whether or not some ultra-rare reward was part of the missing loot.
Yeah but why should that matter? If you hit it at a random time and it should be random, then why does it matter if the random number is generated at that instant or before? It's all still random in the user's eyes.
Functionality: Well, libdispatch doesn't really work outside of OS X, and this is primarily targeted at Linux server apps.

I can't comment on performance.
Expandable Mini-ITX SBC runs Linux on 1.8GHz Atom
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You have missed the point. The point was that it is calculated by an algorithm (presumably a RNG), not by the user. Part of the game is that you thought you could affect the value by timing when you hit jump.
The savings part sounds like advice from Mr. Money Mustache, there was discussion about his advice here before.

"Never borrow money" would include never having a mortgage, which would be a huge lost opportunity for many. Not to mention borrowing money to invest in oneself, start a business, etc.
If we're going for diagnosis-via-internet I think that it sounds a lot more like ILD (Intermittent Lawsuit Disorder). It's a pretty classic case - sudden displays of aggressive legal threats, weirdly self-righteous justifications, conflating criminal & civil law, completely disproportionate responses, and assertion of bizarre offenses. I think it meets most of the criteria in the C&DSM IV.

Less flippantly I think that there may be a pretty strong correlation between these behaviors and personality disorders, but bullying and animal threat display behaviors are still relevant models. It's potentially a big mistake to confuse one of these people who is panicking and trying to use intimidation as a response with someone who has slipped into a state of irrational anger & obsession. The former can be dissuaded or possibly negotiated with, the latter is more likely to just keep escalating. In particular I'd presume that the latter are more likely to actually file the frivolous lawsuits and it's a higher priority to get everything locked down on the legal front. Generally a good idea anyway.
Here is a Harvard economist drawing lessons from Detroit:

http://www.city-journal.org/2011/21_4_entrepreneurs.html
Having other people seize 10 million of your assets does not make anyone's business a ponzi scheme.

MTGox should be able to cover these costs by selling BTC onto their own market. The strange thing is that if they were doing this, it should drive bitcoin prices LOWER on MTGox than elsewhere, and encourage people to play the arbitrage game in reverse (depositing rather than withdrawing USD).

Maybe they are having deposit issues in addition to withdrawal ones.
I'm currently researching and developing my own resume. The current iteration is here: http://bliti.github.io/resume/

Its built on top of bootstrap 3, and I open sourced the markup and css that I used to construct mine. Find it here (with clear usage instructions): https://github.com/bliti/resume

Aside from the presentation, I have been testing structure and content. Aside from the usual experience and skills, I have included other non-standard fields (in the software world). So far, I have been getting a better response rate than the first iterations. I plan to blog about my findings after I finish the research.

By the way, go and fork my stuff if you want to save time building a pretty web/mobile/pdf resume.
It's like Press Your Luck: you could theoretically determine what value you get, but human reflexes are too slow to hit the value you want consistently, so you might as well play randomly for fun.

Unless you're Michael Larson, of course.
"I type on a Dvorak keyboard instead of QWERTY" ... Wow, didn't it existed. Do you still use Dvorak ? (wondering if its worth the switch)
I thought it was interesting that they named companies who'd settled.

It would be interesting to make a site isettled.com where people could leak that a company had settled to trolls. The idea being that you'd have to weigh the cost of fighting the troll against the risk of bringing a flood of secondary trolls. If the secrecy was removed it would start to make business sense to fight
Cable companies pay for AMC. They are compelled to take IFC and the others as a condition of showing AMC.

This is how AMCX, the firm, maintains its ad inventory. It doesn't matter if the content on AMC can't pay for itself as long as the suite of channels in combination can.
I don't see why it would even make sense to be able to control your die roll at all. I think the spinning was just an animation. This ain't slots.