skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Compuware has been struggling since Y2K ended. In some ways it has mirrored Detroit's decline.
Not to trivialize bluedino's message, but I also thought of Fallout 3, more-so Fallout: New Vegas. The description is indeed somewhat reminiscent of the game.
Darpa proposes flexible new unmanned vehicle network
Ask HN: How common are hybrid iOS Android developers? (mid-level)
I don't think humans have walked on the moon. I wouldn't bet my life on it, and I don't have a complete narrative as to the why/how of it, but I'd put the odds at over 50%.

It's something of a technological anomaly. A few years back the Apollo program had been in complete shambles, burning the Apollo 1 astronauts to death. 30-40 years later, we are still crash landing probes into the surface of planets and blowing up space shuttles. But for a few years starting in 1969 we routinely soft landed a rocket on an unmapped alien surface, and then launched it again and docked with the command module orbiting at 3000 mph? It just doesn't seem to "fit".

I've seen enough historical examples to know that you CAN dupe most people most of the time.

Most people seem to be convinced by the "social proof". I really believe if it were the other way around, no one had heard of the moon landings, and you were going around telling people "no really, we landed on the moon, drove a car around on it and played golf!" ... that you would be completely ridiculed.

Anyway, not here to start a huge debate, just providing an answer to a question.
relavant Calvin & Hobbes:

http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/09/21
The point of In-Q-Tel is not to make money, or even traditional ROI. It's to bring technologies to the intelligence market that might not otherwise exist.

They're actually not for profit. https://www.iqt.org/about-iqt/ . It's certainly an interesting approach to the problem.
That is almost certainly true, but I doubt that alone would explain it, as people also love to look at cute pictures of animals, list of facts, etc.

So it would seem to me that the more interesting question is why would they like being indignant so much? Does it foster some group cohesion or does it trigger our flight/fight response so that people get a dopamin rush?
hummm, ya I guess that could be close to what I want to do. Thanks for the heads up.

I'm planning to do stuff a little differently though (mostly visually. I don't want to make a HN clone). The only other major difference is I want to separate resource links from general discussion (just have them in different tabs/sections or something).
This may be the future. Ubuntu is already going this direction, with Ubuntu on Android, Ubuntu mobile, the desktop of course and it's all going to be merged together...
We're actually pretty close to a hospital. Five minutes to shore by boat and maybe 20 minutes to a hospital. Didn't see any scary spiders, but will keep an eye out next time I'm up there!
What incentive does Valve have to pull some kind of bait-and-switch? They may be wrong about the future, but I don't think they're being intentionally deceptive.
If I did that, the code would always return at the first GetSession call.

Instead, it unwraps exceptions, and while it propagates cancelations, it ignores other exceptions and tries other providers in turn.

In fact, I could even use `break` or `continue` in the midst of async code, and there would be no problem.

Also I just love using `try` and `finally` in async code—with callbacks, you have to do finalization from all error and success paths (which can be a lot of places).
The sort of games present in App stores (itunes, google play, microsoft, facebook) cater to an entirely different audience than Steam.
>I see Android winning against desktop Linux for most consumers

Erm... maybe, but not for the consumers who are in Valve's target demographic. Valve sells AAA video games, and while tiny systems might have the hardware to be able to play today's TF2 five years from now, their games will also have moved on.

Android only works on PC at all through third-party forks, and certainly doesn't have GPU support. Whatever else you think of Canonical, they've been taking point on getting graphics driver support for Linux.
Yes, but as one is too little, I would list some other companies that have business models very focused on direct social impact: 7 Cups of Tea, SoundFocus, Amicus, True Link Financial.

Other than that, both application forms are very similar and I imagine the YC criteria are going to be very similar too. So... any YC alumni may provide useful advice.
If you're an employer, is this a desirable trait, or would you want just one stellar person per each platform?
I thought it was more about making it impossible to use GPUs to guide cruise missiles, but that might be a bit presumptuous.
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What's the price difference between a Canada vs US island?
How do you intend to prevent locals from "visiting" your island when you are away? Once someone realizes there's an awesome free island with lots of cool stuff to play with you might find it prone to vandalizing.

I've had similar romantic notions about owning an island (we kayak a lot). But the reality is that every vacant island IS your island. There's plenty of islands < 1 hour away that are beautiful and completely uninhabited. Hopefully someday I will come upon yours... sounds nice.

<pessimism>I hope it works out for you but taxes go up, structures get vandalized, local permits are annoying and 10 hours is a long friggen drive. And the fastest way to end a friendship is to joint own something.</pessimism>
You made me eval() ... Don't be eval.

Excellent piece of code though!
4 dices thrown around 200 times are needed for 2048 bits.
What is it about islands that gives them their mystique? I don't think a post entitled, "My friends and I bought a five-acre plot of land near Halifax" would have garnered as much attention.
Toss a coin. VPS offerings are more or less a commodity nowadays. The price difference is ignorable for a person at first world income levels? Linode is a full cup of coffee price more expensive than Ocean over a month. The specs will be exactly equivalent shortly, if not already. Unless you happen to end up on the same machine with an abusive neighbour, you'll be fine.
Widowmaker, not widow spider. See, what you don't know could kill you ;) Spend some time in an unmaintained bit of forest and you'll get to know plenty of these things.

Five minutes to shore when the weather is good and your engine starts. Really, please heed my advice and make sure each and every one of you knows how to do basic first aid, I hope you're never going to be in a position to use it but when you do you'll be happy you took the time and trouble. First purchase: a very good first aid kit.

This is all not to piss on your parade but because I lived in a pretty remote area for 2 years and have a little bit of experience that might be relevant to your situation.
If you can't get one of those, you can try Moxie's RedPhone for Android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.thoughtcri...
Your neighbor won't knock on your door and complain your dog is barking too much.
I would wager a guess that's it's total. He mentions island prices similar to land prices.
Importing Stanford's Deep Learning Sentiment Treebank
Ruby module to parse & import the new Stanford treebank for deep learning: https://github.com/someben/treebank/
I'm curious about this, too. We've done a little research, and it seems like building non-permanent things like sheds and yurts will be fine, but docks, septic, permanent buildings that cost over $5k will need permits.

Then again, there are some pretty janky home-made docks in the bay that seem to have been there for a while.
I think that interfaces aren't necessarily the issue here, as I could easily hook up a PS3 controller or a keyboard + mouse to my current tablet or phone if I wanted to.

I think it will come down to a few things:

1. Price - How much is a Windows 8/8.1 license these days? Why would a games console manufacturer want to bring on that additional cost?

2. Performance - Microsoft is too busy tripping over its own feet and supporting legacy enterprise applications and environments from decades long past to be able to tackle performance issues in a serious manner.[1] There's a reason the Xbone switches from Windows to an "Xbox OS" to run games.

3. Portability - Install a Linux flavor of your choice on your Raspi, phone, tablet, Steambox, Nvidiabox, whatever. The limitations will ultimately be upon the hardware, and the OS can get the heck out of the way and just let the games run.

[1] http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=74
Tablets are the future and Windiws 8 will dominate. Got it!

Can't help thinking there's a Linux kernel based OS by some internet company already out there that's selling on a few tablets. Obviously it can't be selling as many tablets as the continuing-to-dominate Windows so it must be an aberration. And there's another unix based OS out there doing even better, from some company in Cupertino I think. What are their names again?

Never mind, Windows will continue to dominate. On tablets. Right!
Congratulations! That's a fantastic project and a very cool retreat. I'm curious about:

- Ownership structure. With 10 of you, how have you prepared for people falling out or wanting out?

- What are you allowed to build on it?

- How do you access it? Do you have to pay a boatman to take you out there?
Where can I learn more about UAVs, incl: what to look for when buying, how to fly, how to hook up a GoPRO, how to provide live FPS video? Also, what are the limitations re: flight time, weight carried, etc?

I live in a disaster-prone area (NOLA) and would love to have one of these, just in case—I just don't know where to start.
Why are there so many articles posted on HN about this? Want to live long and be productive exercise and eat mostly healthy must be common sense at this point right?

I'm not knocking on the OP for posting this but am interested in hearing comments on why this keeps getting repeated. I sure know that everyone around me on a day to day basis knows this independent of whether they follow it or not.
Sure, it's a significant cost - but quite many people are both willing and able to pay that cost; as the cost mostly depends on the stage of your life (family, kids, other commitments) and the desired lifestyle.

The point is, usually market prices are set not by your costs, but by the costs of your competitors. If sufficiently many others can undercut you because they are willing to do it for less or for free... then no matter what your costs are, the market won't pay you anyways. Trying to change such basic behaviors is simply futile, it simply won't work even if the goal is good.
New Ruby module on Github to import & parse the treebank corpus: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6395420
The answer to un-screwing Linux graphics is Wayland, and every major player in the ecosystem agreed to it. Then Ubuntu decided to go their own way so the other players are freezing Ubuntu out.
Still not inherently unhealthy. There is nothing wrong with calorie dense foods, provided you consume them in reasonable portions.
More or less than an x.500 directory service?
I use gdb to debug qemu as well - have you tried using qtcreator as a gdb frontend? It is actually fairly decent. There is always room for improvement, of course, and it is far from perfect - so a new debugger would always be welcome. But it is about the best front end for gdb I've used, although I used to be pretty partial to Insight as well for embedded work.
I have no problems with the GPL or releasing software under it. But if I'm also using MIT code, should I simply release the result as GPL? And could I upgrade that up to an AGPL (which the outliner could have used, being serviceable online.)
Warren Mosler explains a bit on how "lending" to the US works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1uWVj0YJ3M

Warren and Stephanie Kelton on "governments are not households": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba8XdDqZ-Jg

current "net financial assets" (national debt) are not sufficient for our current level of productivity as evidenced by our unemployment rate.
Maybe the Freep should have done this in-depth investigation like a decade ago?
I really like the idea of gaming on Linux, but I feel like there are still has a lot of unanswered questions. How do you stop developers from using Direct X? How do you convince graphics card companies to optimize their drivers for linux?
Dean Kamen of Segway fame tried to do this once, albeit only half seriously: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Dumpling_Island
What about visa? Do I get some kind of resident visa if I buy an island in Canada?
In lakes the rules are extremely strict, for an island in the ocean the rules are much more permissive. No matter what the rules you typically want to keep your impact as low as possible or your island feeling will soon be replaced by something more akin to living in a small polluted town.

Legally all your island really is is a bit of land surrounded by shoreline and that shoreline is the interesting bit. It may automatically be public access or not depending on where you are, you may be accidentally part of some incorporated town and there may be specific rules governing islands.

I would advice against issuing your own passports but if you happen to have an anti-aircraft gun and an old torpedo lying around you could even consider going sovereign.

And once you successfully pull that off you can do whatever you want with your island ;)
I would have never guessed that it would, either. I was pretty shocked to see it here when I loaded up HN on my phone.

When I was inviting friends to be a part of this, there was a big divide... half of them LOVED the idea and felt like an island was something special (as I do), and others just saw it as some difficult-to-access land. I've had a tough time articulating exactly why an island seems special to me.
XP extended support will end on April 2014. Antivirus will also cease support (most of them). This means that the day after, there will be a dozen of 0-days (currently being held) exploited in the wild.

I hope those organizations you cite have a plan for April. If they run XP, they must update. If they run Vista+, they can switch to a newer IE and use GPO to force IE8-mode for the intranet (if they wish so).
I think “widowmakers” doesn't refer to spiders, but things to watch out for, like falling trees, slippery ledges, sharp rocks, and so on.

They're one of the “five Ws”—a mnemonic list of things you need (or need to keep away from) to survive in the wilderness: water, weather, wigglies (which would include spiders), widowmakers, and wood.
It's like when we all waited months to hear Elon Musk explain how, in very vague statements, the hyperloop could maybe work, if everyone (the government) pitched in a hand.
Only the range of data the client is interested in is fetched from the storage layer.

As for why they chose this, you'd have to ask them to be sure.

But two reasonable assumptions are: 1. they wanted the storage layer to be "dumb", in particular so that they could use existing services like Dynamo. 2. they wanted reading processes to be totally independent. Readers can talk directly to the dumb storage layer without any centralized resource coordinator to execute queries. That means horizontal scalability in the strict sense.
so true, jQuery is like a plague on there. I want vanilla Javascript results.
What do you mean by an "order on the edges"? I'm only superficially familiar with graph theory.
Really?! Living in Düsseldorf, small world HN. :)
Oh right, all resources should only be spent on literally the most unfortunate single human on the planet, until he or she becomes the second most unfortunate human on the planet, ad infinitum.
I suspect he meant "widowmakers" in the "bits of tree that can suddenly fall and kill you" sense, not spider sense: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widowmaker_(forestry)
I agree. I think this point really hit home for me when Rome Total War 2 came out. This has been one of my favourite game franchises ever since the original Shogun TW.

But.

I haven't bought it yet because it doesn't run on Linux. I don't want to reboot my dual-boot system anymore.

Now, I just want to take a sec to point out that I'm not saying this from a snobbish boycotting point of view. But from a purely practical one. I've been toying with the Steam Linux beta since release and whilst I've had a lot of indie games in my catalogue (thanks Humble Bundle!), I've had hardly any AAA games except some old Valve titles - which I'd finished playing years ago.

But recently there have been a couple of great Linux versions of strategy games that have come out (Crusader Kings 2, Europa Universalis 4), and when I weigh up the decision between rebooting to Windows to play something, or just stay in Linux and play one of those. I always stay. And that's in spite of a potentially great game like Rome TW2.

Then when you add in some great looking upcoming games on Kickstarter, like Wasteland, Project Eternity, Torment Numenera, etc... Also, a huge victory (for a UK fan) of Football Manager 2014 upcoming for Linux. The future is looking very bright.

All of this adds up to one thing, I don't have a need to reboot anymore. I used to get forced into using Windows just for gaming, now I actually have a choice.

NB. On a side note, the catalogue for Linux isn't looking too bad either. I just checked my account and I have 310 games, of which 76 will run in Linux. Not too shabby anymore.
I wrote one. It might not be exactly what you had in mind. It works okay for me for brainstorming: github.com/andrewf/graphpaper
I think the health results of daily excersize are a fringe benefit to the perseverance and dedication required to do so. Once you have perseverance and determination, you can DO anything.
Back in the early 90's I ran across an island in a lake in British Columbia that was supposedly priced at $35k.
GPLv3 will prevent hardware manufacturers from locking down their devices if they intend to ship Ubuntu Mobile.

Actually the opposite; Canonical will sell phone vendors a non-GPL version of Mir so that they can lock down their phones.
rdl is on here actually...
I use the "7-minute workout" android app. There's a bug in it where you can't switch apps in the middle, but I consider this bug to be a feature! For whatever reason, the chromium plugin which was my backup, no longer works (I also liked it because it plays a nice arpeggio at the end, so that's a positively reinforcing primary stimulus).

If you're asking about the workout, I've begun modifying it - I now do the 7 minute workout with 5 lb dumbbells and 5lb ankle weights. I also often do some pull-ups before and after. I also do triangle push ups (or sometimes clap-push ups) instead of the push ups, I do side-to-side push ups (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqQcQrXoYrw) instead of push-up and rotate, and instead of side planks, I do static leg lift, at about 5 degrees elevation.

when I first started out I was doing 7 days a week, but cheating (which is fine, you do whatever to bootstrap) - now I'm doing 5 or 6 days a week, which I think is sufficient.
How We Got Coverage on 15+ Top Sites with Big Content
Although not every big content project hits it out of the park, a single home run can change the course of a business (especially a startup looking for initial traction)

What most people don’t realize is how possible it still is to achieve massive exposure for what is, relatively speaking, still a small amount of work and effort.
OTA is an approved content distribution system. How I choose to tune into OTA broadcast is my own business.
Few thousand would be lowballing it rather lot. An impact of that magnitude would melt the entire surface, boil the oceans, and strip off the atmosphere. It would take hundreds of millions of years for earth to recover, if it ever would.

Also, Mars is not that hospitable to life. The best option I see would be putting as much people and industry in orbit as possible, and try to live from asteroids.
So true. nerdfitness.com has some great articles on this mindset, especially 'Underpants Gnomes': http://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/2012/04/05/underpants-gnomes...

There are many, many books, videos and sites that will tell you exactly what to do. The issue is not that "there is nothing that will give you a grocery list and workout plan"; the issue is that you don't think that the ones you find are 100% optimized for your specific situation, so you research and research and research and never make a single change.
Is there any site or organisations that are around for the purpose of buying these kind of things? Kind of kickstarter but more larger payments for a percentage of a large purchase? I suppose kind of like a timeshare, but not a rip off?

I've come across 1 thing like this myself, which is a car club, you pay £10k and you get X days per year to drive the cars in their selection but you also own something like 5% of the company that owns the cars. I'd be very interested in other kind of group buying things like this.
If we didn't file charges within thirty years, yes, IIRC.
It is possible to simultaneously be against something both because it threatens your business and because you find it personally distasteful.

Knowing what I've seen of Gabe the past few years, I'm inclined to believe it's a bit more of the latter than the former.
Yep. And suddenly fall they do (gust of wind, guy playing around with a chainsaw at the base, random chance).
A 1,476-foot tower equipped with its very own cloaking device
Mitsuku wins Loebner Prize 2013
Thanks for the advice and suggestions.

I'll likely just build a prototype and link it to HN for initial 'beta' signups. I'm not really a fan of making landing pages to extract email address. Its great for certain things but I don't think my side project really needs one.
That criticism seemed sensible several months ago, but where we are at right now, does it really seem like MS's App Store is doing any significant threatening? Just looking at http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/apps it seems clear to me that this is not a threat. These are "iphone games", not "PC games".

From what I have seen, the only competitor to Steam that is even a blip on the radar of gamers is Origin. If anything, Valve is pushing into territory that they think Origin cannot enter, not MS.
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Time for another thrilling round of everyone's famous game, Guilt By Association yaaaaay!

The truth is usually 83.46% more boring than conjecture, but in this case I bet it's 100%. I have no affiliation with In-Q-Tel, nor have I ever worked for an In-Q-Tel-funded company, but I have friends on the management teams of more than one and my bet is: In-Q-Tel just gives money to things they thing DoD will find useful, and that's that.
I'd like to echo others and say that this is indeed awesome.

At 5 acres, are you concerned at all about deforesting it too much over time?
His company's future is now banking on getting games on Linux to be a reality. That may not be a particularly altruistic motivation, and sure it would be great if Valve had done more in the past to further the ideals of games on Linux, but with the success they were having on Windows platforms up until that point one could hardly blame them for wanting to focus their efforts on previously more pressing matters.

Gabe now sees that Windows 8 is not a viable platform for games, and his future may well depend on making Linux work. Given that, I see no reason to doubt his resolve in the matter.
Maybe you accidentally clicked on something in the internet, and that led to you liking it.
Needs tree houses asap!!!
Same experience here. Quick, one or two line answers to simple, common questions seem to do the best.

Although, those questions that I've poured the most time into and really tried to answer thoroughly are my favorites. Especially if it's something I had to do a bunch of research and/or testing to confirm. The lack of feedback is supplanted by the quenching of the thirst to learn something new. In fact, this quenching is my favorite part of the SE sites.