skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seemed very familiar, then when I saw phrases in the Kickstarter like "You are the computer and they get to order you around", the lightbulb went on:
http://drtechniko.com/2012/04/09/how-to-train-your-robot/

...it's a very similar game, for the same age group, except you order around people in a room instead of turtles on a board. (Not knocking Robot Turtles. There's room for both)
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I used to be a serious night owl: in university I commonly stayed up till 6-7am working thinking I was at my best. However, since getting into the real world and having a 9-5 I obviously couldn't keep this up, so recently I tried to switch to becoming a morning person.

It wasn't easy (especially those first few days), but slowly I managed to push my weekday alarm back to 6am (from 8am: I live just round the corner from where I work) and on weekends to 8-9am. The biggest things that worked for me were:

1. Make the alarm annoying and put it somewhere that forces you to get out of bed

2. Have a good routine that you can follow in your zombified state (e.g. get up, head straight for the shower, get dressed, have breakfast while not browsing HN/reddit, sit down to work)

3. Give yourself a good reason for getting out of bed. For me, this was only allowing myself to work on an exciting new project in the morning before work

I still lapse occasionally, but it has made me realise that being a night owl or a morning person is entirely my choice.
This is one cool project. Looking forward.
Sounds like a good way to commemorate him!
Have you tried asking around on http://oni.bungie.org/community/forum/index.php ? I have been able to get Oni running on Windows 7 in the past (although IIRC only the modded EXE ran)
Why the Media has Mostly Been Wrong About Youtube
In my humble experience, 50 employees is make or break for most companies. My theory is that it's because once you hit 50 people, you begin to get the "who's that" effect.
I posted some of the others while they were live : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6336789
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6336778

Hopefully we can have an interesting discussions on those topics now that at least 1 news about them has reached the main page.
> America and most European countries already exercise care with antibiotics

Warning: Generalisations ahead

And even in the countries you include as exercising care, we still have a significant number of people who do not finish their antibiotic courses.

Tis a bit of a quandry, people tend not to be altruistic if they cannot observe the effect of their altruism.
..and thankfully we had the most amazing alternative to Experts-exchange.com
Netflix studies piracy sites to decide what to buy
Siri Finally Comes Out Of The ‘Beta’ Stage
Between US trying to create an empire for itself through total surveillance and bullying of other countries (up to attacking them and removing the leaders they don't like) and the totalitarian-friendly China, it seems like the world is stuck between a rock and a hard place right now and for the foreseeable future.
Yeah I am confused too after seeing all the discussion on NFC. I thought Bump uses the accelerometer (and thus works on the iphone too). SO where did NFC come in all of this?
This is my concern as well. It's somewhat inevitable that the Internet will end up politically divided.

The boundary-less state the fledgling has had was, in American historical corollary, the great western expansion. Eventually though structure, regulation and political boundaries are inserted by institutions designed to do those things.

Brasil building more connections to the rest of the world is a good thing for global infrastructure. Diversity and multiplicity is awesome.

It'll be disappointing once they start tuning their national boundary firewalls and routers to avoid or block services and end up cutting N America out of S America (presuming Chile, Argentina etc. will start moving toward a Brasil-supplied internet).
> New Windows versions make most old games unplayable

That is simply not true, the vast majority of games work fine, and most of those that don't only need you to fiddle with the "compatibility" settings.

As for the reason why "old" games are important, it's because they offer a back-catalog, you open your store with a very large selection. Not so much the 10-15 years old, but rather the 2-5 years old games.
Japan halts last nuclear reactor at Ohi
Katrina, probably.
This is amazing ! It crossed my mind but didn't put thoughts on how to actually buy an island.

Apparently this one cost less than 100k (which can't even buy an apartment in a crappy place). I shared the link with a couple of friends.
I've thought the same: no hospitals near = serious problem.
It's really alien to me to judge a book based on its publisher. Whenever I need a book I check out reviews on Amazon or on programming sites to find the best in class. Is there a reason that it matters that I'm not thinking of?
As a challenge a Dutch research: http://www.vwa.nl/onderwerpen/risicobeoordelingen/bestand/22...

From the abstract (freely translated): "... guessed is that a third to half of resistance encountered in germs within humans is of agricultural origin."

Important is that not the antibiotics are transferred from animals to humans but the already resistant bacteria.

A short summary is here: http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2012/08/31/Antibiotic-resist...
> If a language developed as a runtime, and no standard has yet been defined for exactly how the language will behave, then that runtime IS the spec. See Perl.

Nope, it simply means that there is no spec.
It's a shame gog.com have stated that they don't plan on supporting Linux anytime soon. The main reason being that they won't be able to provide reasonable support for multiple distros and distro versions. Why they can't just officially support Ubuntu like Steam does defies me...
From what i understand it uses the accelerometer to create a "bump signature" and matches the two devices according to that. The geo-location thing only helps filter that search and i think they introduced that part later on when they got a huge number of users across the globe.

Now what is note-worthy here is that the signatures wouldn't be "identical". They may not even be opposite as i think the idea is to bump your HANDS while holding them, so the hands may distort the vibrations. So the fact that they actually managed it to WORK is astounding.
Title link didn't work for me, try this one http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/09/did-i-r...
Ask HN: Can I track browser extensions users are using while browsing my site?
That really is so. Anyways, what is the solution then?
Pen&paper encryption like the cold war spies?
Dedicated hardware (calculator form factor) that allows to write emails and encrypts them before they leave devices?
HighchartTable, convert HTML tables to Highcharts graphs
Many people will point out that the antibiotics given to animals are mostly different from those used on humans. However, as your example points out there are actually only a small number of families of antibiotics each of which share a specific method of attack on bacteria. And bacteria that become resistant to a cheap antibiotic, like virginiamycin, will do so in a way that also renders them resistant to their more expensive cousins that have been reserved for human use.
I hadn't heard of that film at all! Will be watching it at some point in the future, it sounds like fun.
Microsoft open sourced Hyper V drivers because they were in violation of the GPL ( http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/pigs-are-flying-low-why-... ). They just made the most of it afterwards.
aha! so YOU are the culprit! the reason NFC is at the top of the page even though it is no way related to bump! You got a lot of us confused btw
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Unless there is some kind of apocalypse (rinderpest making it to the USA due to global warming) then the decline in meat production might be (relatively) gradual. The main use of antibiotics in agriculture (AFAIK) is simply to aid fattening animals as they are sick for fewer days of the year and so can put on more weight. Reduce antibiotic use and the market weight of animals will decline and either prices will have to rise or demand will fall as people move to other sources of protein - assuming there are reasonable/viable alternatives.

I'm not sure there will be many political effects - unless of course people are going hungry, however the economic effects might be interesting. If intensive meat production stopped then perhaps there would be more free-range or extensive meat available (certainly at a higher price). Environmentally this might not be a bad thing, for example, the integrated olive/chestnut, goat/pig agriculture we have here in Portugal is pretty good for wildlife. More animals wandering over a wider area would be good for vultures as well (which are in rapid decline globally). Admittedly this is probably a limited scenario but it illustrates that there are desirable alternatives to highly intensive agriculture.

Aside: The economics of meat production seem pretty crazy to me. I can go to my local supermarket and purchase several meals worth of fatty pork for less than the price of a couple of heads of broccoli and and few carrots. Given it takes a lot more resources to produce the pork that suggests that the system we have is seriously out of whack.

Caveat: Off course, we might not be able to carpet the globe in goats to make this all work. It's just not going to be possible (or at least very difficult) to do this with a population well in excess of 10 billion.
> That is simply not true, the vast majority of games work fine, and most of those that don't only need you to fiddle with the "compatibility" settings.

I realise that's just my experience, added a remark above. I've had very little luck getting even stuff that works fine on XP to run on 7. I'm not blaming Microsoft, I know they're going to great lengths for backwards compatibility. But I don't see old games running on new systems as a given, not on Windows, not on any other platform/OS.

> As for the reason why "old" games are important, it's because they offer a back-catalog, you open your store with a very large selection. Not so much the 10-15 years old, but rather the 2-5 years old games.

Maybe I'm old, but 2-5 years old games aren't "old" at all in my book. I'm thinking about >10 year old stuff. Don't recall any trouble getting <5 year old games running on 7, indeed.
Maybe it'd be more interesting to think of it like an FPGA that can run a Verilog JIT compiler and reprogram itself when damage occurs or new information changes priorities?
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Poem: What you think is what you are…
Crews Right Cruise Ship in Waters Off Italy
"It's the policy."
Antibiotics are now so widespread in use that you can detect them in the ground water and in the oceans.

http://sustainability.formas.se/en/Issues/Issue-3-November-2...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070821153926.ht...

MRSA is just one small example of what the future holds if we don't manage this carefully, we're actually exerting evolutionary pressure on the one adversary that holds a serious trump card over us, an 8 hour reproductive cycle.
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Why Angular, Ember, or Backbone don't work for us.
Why do we need a new VCS anyway? (2008)
The term is "key/value."
> Nothing is going to happen.

I'm a bit more pessimistic than that. They'll spend a ton of money buying (because we can't build -or even design - it ourselves) before we withdraw and declare success.

> and not because we don't know how, it was because of politics.

Politics contaminate our universities and research centers so deeply that it masks any selection for actual competence. I seriously doubt we could develop a window. Putting someone on the tourist track was the only way a Brazilian could fly. The tab was about US$ 20 million.

For all that it's possible to know, the AEB repeatedly attempted the incredibly stupid idea of launching satellites into LEO using solid-rocket fuel engines. Naturally, all attempts failed, but that didn't stop them from trying until they got 21 people killed on a launch pad explosion. Some conspiracy theorists say it was sabotage, but I don't think such a design warrants the effort - physics alone can take care of it.
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Why is Linus Torvalds  angry with Github's pull request interface?
Here: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-5654674

I am new to git and github. And what is his preferred way of doing pull request?
Are you serious ? What kind of nonsense is that and who invented those legal concepts ?
The Five Year Itch
really interesting to see classes as ressource manager above all, instead of concept incarnation.
I was almost convinced to go back to C++ until the slide with auto range and all, combining new features of C++, at which point i remembered why i didn't want ro have a look at C++ code again.

but hey, i'm not a system programmer so i can afford it :)
Larger brain by itself is a very strong evolutionary disadvantage - it consumes a lot of calories, and in humans it hampers childbirth which in out natural state is very deadly already.

There is a strong pressure for us to have a brain that's "barely just enough" capable for the functions that increase survivability.
HS2?
I use kendo grid: http://demos.kendoui.com/web/grid/sorting.html
Steam is every bit as walled a walled garden as any other.

Valve wants to build it on top of am open platform (Linux) because building a walled garden inside someone else's (MS's) walled garden is risky. But that doesn't make steam itself an open platform.
Relevant abstruse goose comic.
http://abstrusegoose.com/531
Calling this an acquisition is bending the truth.

Umm. Google bought them - that's an acquisition no matter if they are making money or not (unless "acquisition" has been redefined somehow)
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Nexus 5 to use Snapdragon 800 and 1080p Display, Confirm Benchmarks
Nitpicking, 48k is close enough for the point to still be valid.

You are technically correct though.
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Manning[1], the Pragmatic Bookshelf[2], and Apress[3] have been the best in my experience. They cover relevant topics and technologies, the books are typically written by experts and written well, there are ebook versions of everything at reasonable-ish pricing, and sometimes you can get early access to books before their finished.

1: http://manning.com/
2: http://pragprog.com/titles
3: http://www.apress.com/
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Samsung may be gearing up a second Galaxy Gear smartwatch
Yes, he's serious. On an Island where I lived (which was connected with a bridge to the mainland) a couple of teenagers in their car got lost dressed for a party in -20 celsius weather. They stumbled onto someone's lot, then got out of the car and walked around searching for help. (200 sq km island, lots of unmarked roads and nasty woodlands). By the time they were found one of them had frostbite and lost a couple of toes. They sued the owner of the land and the municipality because no 'no trespassing' signs were posted and won.

Pretty sad.
Why monads have not taken the Common Lisp world by storm (2008)
1) I think the OSS landscape has simply changed. We used to have a handful of languages and frameworks with cryptic documentation, which O'Reilly books could coalesce in definitive bibles. Now you have new stuff coming out every day, github repositories all over the place, new tools, languages on top of languages... It's much harder to figure out what matters and what not. In that sense, O'Reilly is holding better than most other publishers, in what is probably a lost war (things will accelerate more and more, to the point where relevant point-in-time documentation will become impossible to produce in book format).

2) I agree on this. I wrote it down to the spirit of "American optimism" that us Europeans can find a bit distasteful, and sometimes it just seems too self-serving, fanning the flames of this or that technological phenomenon in order to sell more books. However, that's his job, and at least he tries to bring some open debate on the topics rather than leaving big players to come out with The Next Big Thing on their own.

3) All O'Reilly eBooks get automatically synchronised to your Dropbox folder in pdf, ePub and Mobi, which I think is a fantastic story for mobile (could do with better Kindle integration I guess, but Amazon holds the keys to that particular kingdom). I've never used Safari tbh, I'm not a fan of subscriptions.
I don't get much rep for answers because usually someone else has already given a better answer than I'm able to give. I'm just saying you don't actually have to know anything to get rep. You can get it for asking good questions too. (But first search to check if someone else has already asked the same thing.)
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I'm a big ad agency. Silence is impossible to find, unless you start working at 7PM. Everyone here uses headphones.
He is a rude person.

Look at his comment in the same thread:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56599...

He says:
"Btw, Joseph, you're a quality example of why I detest the github interface. For some reason, github has attracted people who have zero taste, don't care about commit logs, and can't be bothered. The fact that I have higher standards then makes people like you make snarky comments, thinking that you are cool. You're a moron. Linus"
Regarding your aside: Cattle are usually not fed broccoli and carrots, and I am fairly certain you can get loads of their food for the price of some fatty pork. Even one of the higher-quality cereals, wheat, is sufficiently cheap that the price you pay for bread is almost entirely in manufacturing the bread and the various ingredients with less mass.
Thanks for the great list. I will go through it and pass on the suggestions.
Double-agreed: "20-something white male programmers" with great paid-for education and early access to capital...
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Apologies & thanks for the heads-up! :)
While this is an important distinction to make, I think that it doesn't understate the importance of this change.

I've worked for quite a few enterprise clients, and many of them are in offices working on old hardware and old software. The lucky ones get Windows 7, but I know plenty of people that are stuck on XP and IE8 (if they are lucky). Many of these users would love to use this Chrome or Firefox browser that every external company suggests, but their IT department won't let them install anything.

Now, if they can't view their Analytics reports without a modern browser, we'll start to see some changes.

It's a huge move, and should go a long way to getting these pesky users away from their legacy browsers and OS.
Thank you. You might be right, but then again I think that when it comes to a bigger collection of books you could say that this book is just one of many. So having it prescribe is not such a bad thing when you keep in mind that it is just ONE of the ways to do things.
The moment I see an open source repository for this I'm going to contribute the hell out of it.

This need to exist. This has to exist.
> it's more like 2 minutes for a Haskell question

My experience: it is still possible to come in an hour and beat the quick answers, although I agree with the other comments about the rep being somewhat unpredictable.
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Is there a way to get transcriptions from infoq presentations ?
That's amazing how SaaS is getting trendy these days.
Do you mean plugins such as Flash and Java? These can be enumerated with Javascript code in Gecko/WebKit browsers[1]. AFAIK there's also something similar for IE.

When it comes to extensions such as HTTPS Everywhere and AdBlock etc I don't think it's supposed to be possible. Some extensions may unintentionally leak information that can be used to detect them though[2]. What are you trying to do?

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/NavigatorPl...
[2] http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20060823/detecting-firefox-extentio...
That's more or less the premise of Atlas Shrugged. John Galt (one of the protagonists) invents a device just like that.
They could make this one work if they use laws that force Google, Microsoft, etc. to build their datacenters in Brazil.

I think it's would be good idea in general. If you provide significant infrastructure services from distant countries, you must move servers close.
Looks like Google Drive icon on the side, broken... not?
I agree. It seems like positive articles get less attention on HN, and in general for that matter. I guess the internet flocks to angry more easily than happy. Even accounting for that, though, it seems like there's less positive material out there. I actually went a-googling as I wrote my original comment and couldn't find much in the way of material that would be helpful for someone in the position of organising a conference, even in terms of exemplary behaviour by other conferences.

After your comment I went looking for information on PyCon and it really does seem like they're doing a lot right. I suppose I can't speak for anyone else, but I'd definitely vote up a post that went into a bit of detail about it.

I'm not sure I understand your link. Are you accusing me of being a "concern troll" or engaging in "derailment" to "ruin conversations and silence people"? I thought I was being pretty civil, but I'm happy to modify my behaviour if you can point out something specific.
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was. With all the revelations about data security, I reckon 2014/2015 will be slightly flatter than in that infographic.

It is only trendy when people don't have to take responsibility for their data security.
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Sounds like a recipe for amateur experimentation...or a real Walter White.
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Have you looked into pandoc?
Doesn't sound like he or she considers it "fun". Different tastes I guess. To me, all the "problems" mentioned are the whole reason I'd love to undertake something like this.
Why is it that some apocalyptic scientific predictions are accepted, while others gain a culture of denial?

Strikes me that one could construct a counter argument against this prediction which is as strong as the arguments, for example, climate change deniers use. Yet, no one has done so.

I'm struggling to imagine why. Is there profit for the current big players in solving this issue, where as climate change solutions are not so good for current energy supplier? Or something like that?
I liked this snippet about pointer misuse:

void f(int n, int x)
{
Gadget* p = new Gadget(n); // look I'm a java programmer! :)
// ...
if(x<100) throw std::runtime_error("Weird!"); // leak
if(x<200) return; // leak
// ...
delete p; // and I want my garbage collector! :(
}
That looks great, congrats.

I suppose the main use case is working on data loosely coupled with web app, thus ? For example, if we have to do any big processing on active_record objects, we would have to reimplement all model stack in go ?
A big part is written in C++, for example the interrupt descriptor table is managed by a class: https://github.com/cloudius-systems/osv/blob/master/arch/x64...
Check out this post:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6314628

I know my spoken and written english is far from perfect, but I can live with it.