skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just for people new to who Tynan is, he's a pretty far out guy. Some things I recall (sorry haven't kept up over the years)

1) Ran a successful professional online poker playing business, actually hired employees and trained them to predictably win.

2) Was one of the main characters in the book The Game (yes, that PUA one).

3) Did polyphasic sleep experiments in earnest (was it a couple months or so?).

4) Had a giant inflatable outdoor pool inside his house, taking up his entire livingroom.

5) Sold all his belongings, including said house, and travelled the world for a year with almost nothing... probably in 2k8 or so before such an idea became more commonplace.

There's probably some much cooler stuff I'm forgetting, but hey it makes perfect sense he'd be part of an island buying crew.
Sheesh. The Start screen is exactly as good at running Windows desktop apps as it is at running Metro apps.
Are you talking about the property tax rates in Texas or Detroit? Detroit's property tax, at least according to the article, is 6.7%. That's what the GP was referencing.
Can someone explain what eventing frameworks are used for? Are they related to event messaging or processing frameworks?
I still don't think the correct solution is to just give up on the relational model and store a bunch of denormalized documents. Just because Drupal has technical debt (which is not surprising to me) doesn't mean it's impossible to model a CMS in a relational way. Can you point me to a particular part of Drupal which is well suited to the Mongo document model over relational, versus simply 'well it's relational now and they cocked it up'?
Do you know if there are any other islands in the area that are for sale? Any resources aside from privateislandsonline?
Go to Sudbury, Ontario for an even larger one! (they're still mining that one today).
But you can't assume it is a gift. What does it matter if desktop Linux takes off on the backs of proprietary nonfree software? Not just proprietary apps on top of a free stack, but a proprietary distribution platform where most programs bought for it only run through it, where the controller can at whim close your account, and they vet and determine who they bless to use their platform earpiece? Doesn't that defeat the purpose?

The vast majorty of current Linux titles are not on Linux because of Steam. Few titles (Crusader Kings comes to mind) actually ported their engine to run on opengl / posix / alsa or sdl just because Steam appeared there. Most of the last 2 years of Linux gaming boom has been due to Unity and the Humble Bundle. Unity was porting to Linux before Steam on Linux was announced, same with the Humble Bundle.

Having a platform is fine and everything, but here are two observations from seperate perspectives:

1. Why develop for a platform where you can only expect a few thousand sales, even on the de facto distribution platform that takes a cut of proceeds?
2. If there are no games on a platform, wouldn't you just want to release directly and let your potential customers come to you? If they are desperate, wouldn't cutting out the middle man be more profitable, since Steam isn't making Linux development easier, just marketing and sales processing? I think Steam is so important on the desktop PC because there are so many games on it. People don't go download Origin or seek out a developers site to buy a game, they just buy it on Steam. If you are on something like gnu/linux, you have no competition game-wise, you just have to make sure people know you exist. In almost any genre, you have minimum modern competition on the platform. So why give Valve whatever % they take?
For what it's worth, I live in SF and know of several communities of people over 30 - people who are well-educated and could definitely afford to live in their own space - who choose to live together in big warehouse conversions. I'm sure there's drama but they consider being around other like-minded people to be worthwhile.

In this case it's just shared vacation land which is even easier, and they'll each get their own plot. My family of 6 lived on a quarter acre in a suburb and that always felt like plenty of space.
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> I'm already over 30 ...

Then I envy your youthful outlook. :)

By the time I was 30 I had had enough of communal living for several lifetimes.
I am not quite sure how that would work if you worked on a project alone and need to review a large stack of code or you work with somebody else, you can't exactly take 3 minutes on a threadmill.
Not really. QE is a swap. Bonds (or other financial assets) for cash. If I take a bond from you and give you cash, are you going to interpret it as a windfall and go on a spending spree?
> But it was beautiful while it lasted, no?

Yep. It was:

http://www.atariarchives.org/deli/cottage_computer_programmi...
Michigan's constitution requires that pension costs be funded at the time they are incurred. I'm not sure where they breakdown was exactly -- whether Detroit officials lied to state overseers or there were no state overseers to begin with, but there was a breakdown somewhere.

The statute of limitations has probably run, but I wouldn't be surprised if the pension trustees acted contrary to law. Grossly negligent if nothing else.
All money is printed. The debt is just outstanding bonds and will be paid as they mature, swapping one form of government liability for another.
And after that your neighbor complains because you started to jump around at 6 am.

Really all those exercises you can do anywhere - yeah you can do them anywhere if you live in the 'burbs.
I don't think I disagree with you, but the term set up to fail suggests to me that someone who set up the city did so with the intention that it fail.

One danger is the categorization of Detroit as an exception, that it couldn't happen elsewhere. I am not saying it will, but I try to avoid that label unless there is strong evidence to prove (rather than an explanation after the fact) a situation is unique.
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I've been using Linux since 2006 or so, and I've never heard anyone describe it in a positive manner related to gaming until the last year or so.

The advice for gamers was always "Well wine can do some games, but really you should dual boot if you want to game".
> Well you'll have to show me what Ubuntu has that Debian does not.

Ubuntu maintains a set of repositories for each version of Ubuntu, which (even when the same--by name--software is in Debian's official repositories, will often be different versions or otherwise different contents than Debian repos).

Kubuntu uses entirely software from the Ubuntu repos from the corresponding version number (e.g., Kubuntu 12.04 uses exactly the same set of repos as Ubuntu 12.04.) You can, in effect, switch from Kubuntu to Ubuntu, or vice versa, just using the apt package manager without changing the base repositories, just installing and removing the right packages from the ubuntu repos.

The difference between Kubuntu 12.04 and Ubuntu 12.04 is entirely in which packages, from the Ubuntu "precise" repositories are installed by default. The difference between either and any version of Debian is much greater.

The whole "unity or you have to call it 'Debian-based' instead of 'Ubuntu-based'" idea is nonsense.
>"because Detroit can escape via bankruptcy and the US can't"

What does "escape" mean in this context? Bankruptcy means that bondholders and other investors get stiffed. That's a rather one-sided view of the outcome, and will itself have economic consequences beyond The City of Detroit.

There is no "escape". Bankruptcy, while necessary, picks the wrong winners.
When you say political, are you referring to the licences? GPL seems to be losing popularity at the moment.
Google was originally called BackRub... "Let me backrub that for you" just doesn't sound as good.
Is Gabe specifically suggesting creating native Linux games? It wasn't too long ago when John Carmack commented that "The conventional wisdom is that native Linux games are not a good market". So then does Steam carry enough weight to challenge conventional wisdom?

1: http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/17x0sh/john_carmack_a...
Most of your coworkers have offices but you're in an open floor plan area?
> MOICA estimates that approximately 10000 cards were deployed in non-FIPS mode as a result of "human error".

While it's bit silly that the so called secure cards can be configured into non-secure modes, I think it's important to note that again we have the human factor messing our nice cryptosystems. The security of the FIPS mode might be questionable too due the behaviour of the HW RNG, it should still improve the security significantly over the non-FIPS mode which was the one found broken in this analysis.
It's interesting to see this, because one of my main criticisms of Crossfit is that the results aren't measurable because of the strong emphasis on utilizing an extremely wide variety of exercises, and lack of emphasis on progressive overloading of the same exercise.

My understanding of Crossfit is that its purpose is to isolate fitness adaptations from exercise-specific skill adaptations, to produce a well-rounded athlete who can perform almost any exercise at a competent level with minimal skills training.

In other words, if you run a 5k for every workout, and your 5k time goes down, how do you know whether it went down because your fitness improved, or because your running technique improved? How do you know if that improvement will transfer over to, say, swimming, or basketball?

Crossfit tries to answer this question by having the athlete perform various unrelated exercises, in circuits, for time, and varying the exercise selection each day. But the problem is, if you never (or infrequently) do the same circuit twice, how do you know you've progressed at all?

Contrast that with a powerlifting program that would have you increasing the weight on the bar by a certain percentage each workout. Yes, your improvements will be partly due to improved form and technique, but there's also no question that you're getting physically stronger as well. No attempt is made to separate the two phenomena, as they are inherently intertwined.

Perhaps different Crossfit gyms take different approaches to programming, though. I suppose the quality of the programming could really depend on the training philosophy and experience of a particular Crossfit coach. But I don't get the impression that the concepts of measurable results and progressive programming are really part of the core philosophy of Crossfit.
My mother is in a biochem PhD program at a top state school and uses R for her work.
The rest of the world has known for a lot of years (more than thirty) what has just been confirmed an publicized in the US itself with the latest developments: The US government is not at all a BDFL, but behaves more like a bully.

These revelations don't change things much, macropollitically.

The only thing that could, maybe, be changing is the US people perception of their country but, again, many western democracies are not keen on listening to the people.
We haven't looked at libdispatch specifically; would welcome your feedback on how we compare.

We hope we do well here; we've had some nice results:
https://github.com/facebook/libphenom/commit/c2753c2154a0cff...
Off-topic, I know, but are we calling 2008 "2k8" now? Is last decade the 2k's?
An unlocked cabin means the owner is near, possibly with a deer rifle.
This is the test code referenced by that commit:
https://github.com/facebook/libphenom/blob/master/tests/tpoo...
I would like something like this that translates directly into JSON. Kind of a cross between concord and http://jsoneditoronline.org/

It will just have to be something I write myself, I guess.
Show HN: TextBack - let your phone text for you when you can't
I keep hearing stories like yours, I'm not sure why people who have bad experienes at AngelHack don't share their stories more.
Tell that to Japan. They have a debt to gdp ratio well north of 200% and they still are fighting deflation. BTW, their interest rate is 0. Those bond vigilantes are tough.

The US needs to run larger deficits until we are at full employment. A simple way to do that is to eliminate the payroll tax both on employer and employee side. This will stimulate demand, and demand is the name of the game in this era of high productivity.

if you're a debt/deficit hawk, please read this:
http://moslereconomics.com/wp-content/powerpoints/7DIF.pdf
Duff’s Device in Racket
You can write Metro/Windows Store apps in HTML/JavaScript, C# and C/C++ etc, and you can use Visual Studio 2012 or the (free) Express version. This is much more open and flexible than writing iPad apps and it's something enterprises already know how to do.

Also, you can immediately deploy the same app to tablets, laptops and desktops, which isn't the case with iPad apps.
I agree, and I understood the careful phrasing ("safe", "assume") in the original remark---but given the number of people who apparently didn't understand, I wanted to give a clarified version.
Ask HN: What to do if my in-development app just got launched by someone else?
I've been working really hard on a web app for the past two-three months that I will soon launch into a private beta (for some co-workers, friends etc.).

About a week ago someone displayed their app here at HN that they just launched – an app that is more or less exactly like the one I am developing right now.

I really didn't think that I would care that much if I found an app similar to mine, but I really do. First of I am of course worried about competition, the potential market isn't really that big. But what bothers me more is that I am afraid of looking like an imitator, someone who stole someone else's great (yet simple) idea.

The (future) competitor has a really solid application, seems to have quickly grown quite the customer base.

Now, I know for a fact that my app have just a few more feature – and to be quite frank; looks better in most ways. But when I finally launch for the public I am afraid that people will just point fingers and say "Hey, he stole that idea straight from those poor guys and just added some features!".

What would you do in this situation? Work even more, and harder to have the application behave a bit different to try differentiate them more? Just launch and see which one of our applications will stick? Call it a day and take up another project?

Yes, I know that similar and almost identical apps already exists everywhere. But to have two of them launch at almost the same time for an extremely limited niche market? Thoughts?
I'd hate to tell you that you're in a bit of a minority buying bluray and using bluray medium. The future isn't physical disks that you lose.

Linux runs my media pc and my media server. Valve have already accomplished full platform support for most of their games, Humble indie bundles require full platform support for their games. Linux versions of most games, isn't some far away dream, it's here.

I'm not sure I fully comprehend your linux 'open-source' only argument. Have you seen ubuntu?
> Doesn't matter, that mod is expressing his speech not the speech of Reddit Inc.

Because Reddit sometimes expels moderators and subReddits it doesn't approve of, this implies that it either approves of, or tolerates, the rest. They're not under any legal obligations to monitor content, but they do, and they sometimes act in their own interest.

Not to make too much out of this. Reddit has the right to run their business any way they please and that their stockholders will tolerate. My point is that it's a business, not a soapbox.
Well, the thing is trading favors with the city council is politics, not corruption. You might not like what he did to have the city council extend term limits so he could run a third time, but it was above board, and no different politicking to get the law passed to begin with.

And I have no doubt that New York City's government has corruption, but comment I was responding to specifically referred to mayors.

I get that the head of an organization needs to keep a lot of people happy and the executive may need to needle and cajole, but as I said, that isn't corruption that's politics.
i'm sorry, but i think this is mistaken. it's both mis-applying the term and misunderstanding why this list could be useful.

guilt by association is when, say, two companies happen to share the same building. if one is known to work for the intelligence community then guilt by association blackens both. but this isn't (accidental) association. this is a direct, paid relationship.

and association isn't useful anyway. what's interesting is understanding why.

you don't give money for nothing. you use it to buy (or invest in) something. maybe it's a useful service. palantir's products seem like exactly the kind of thing you'd buy if you were an intelligence agency. or hardware and software for processing a large volume of data.

but what about other companies here? can they all be explained that simply?

if not, what else could the money be buying? access? information?

that seems like a smart question to ask. particular when you no longer trust the person paying.

i don't think this is being paranoid, but i am curious. i'm not painting everyone black through simple "association", but i am asking myself what is being sold.

and that seems like a reasonable question.

[indeed, given how reasonable that seems, your knee-jerk dismissal is odd. do you really not see the questions raised?]
More power to these guys. I hope they get some legislation going to protect entrepreneurs soon.
> caught wild crabs...

You may want to check with the DFO (Dept. of Fisheries and Oceans) on that. Licenses are sold for many types of shellfish and you want have fishers with licenses for crab, clam, oysters etc. near the island. http://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/fm-gp/rec/species-especes/shell...

Recently one lobster fisherman (farther off shore) was caught cutting trap lines and the owner of the lines shot him a few times and then ran him over in his boat. Fishing is taken very seriously in this region, it's all some people have done for many generations.

Other than that you should be fine.
I clicked to find out where the island was and how large. Well crafted title!
why would a digital distribution platform care about a blu-ray drive. None of the games on the platform will ever be sold on physical media.

Anybody who cares about blu-ray players will already have one anyway. They could also pick one up for very very cheap.
Completely inaccurate. Many of the companies literally cannot be financed by anyone, with the possible exception of Founders Fund. Moreover, it would be an extraordinary case where we would even ask for Board seats like that. In fact, we would more often then not prefer to avoid Board seats entirely. As a technical matter, you cannot increase your ownership % by investing via pro rata rights, just preserve it.
But I'm talking about some games that are way too complex even for something like the current PS3 remotes.
Sure, but it's not exactly a good example of the great lengths the NFL goes to provide content, since it wasn't intended
they help you monitor your system's performance
Not the guy you asked, but it's all about who you follow. You can't use Twitter like Facebook (i.e. "friending" everyone you tangentially know) without getting a useless flood of information overload.

Twitter is literally only as good as who you follow. You know the types that deride twitter as "Morons posting what they had for lunch" or similar? The answer is "don't follow people who post moronic food-based tweets".

Treat it more like an RSS feed with incidental two-way communication and you'll have a grand time.
If the market your app is going after can not support two competitors, is it a market worth pursuing?
Applying AI to games: the Q-Learning algorithm
I believe the practice starts with resistors, and because of differences in use of . and , and the fact they are hard to tell apart, the units are placed in stead of the .
ie 1,500 ohm -> 1k5 ohm
If it's a c# question maybe. Not many votes in vb.
Not exactly, IARPA is the intelligence community equivalent of DARPA. I don't think DoD has anything like In-Q-Tel.
Love it. I've always wanted an autoreply feature for SMS. The title could be a bit more descriptive though.
... and libev?
EDIT: Since I can't change the submission title. It's an SMS autoresponder app. Let your phone text for you when you can't!

Here's a video describing the app: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI9p5txM0Sg
"20xx: The year of Linux gaming" is the new "20xx: The year of the Linux desktop"
That storm was unusual but we do often get a few Nor' Easter storms in the winter and at -20C and 100km/h to 120km/h it can be a bit rough.
I've got over 15k rep on SO and I've found more and more difficult to make an impact on there. Questions have either been asked or are answered instantly. All the time I'm getting answers and questions closed down and deleted as mods are gardening. I don't know what the answer is but its grown to the point where I find it too much effort too much.

Having said all that I'm just glad that its there. I remember coding without the internet (and I don't just mean a router failure) and that had its own challenges but SO has got me answers typically with in minutes and now instantly as the Q. base has grown. It's an amazing resource. If they can work out how people can contribute easily again it will be here for years to come.
I did a PhD for the fun of it. And the challenges were so special and different and the whole crazy un-inuitiveness of academia (as opposed to the corporate world I was used to) was a complete breath of fresh air. I completed my PhD and went on to become an academic and never looked back. Its not for everyone, but if you like uncertainty, left-field and often unpredictable ways of thinking combined with talking with smart people all the time then it is a great place.
You can get the generally most popular camping hammock, an eno, with straps and a tarp for $70 + $20 + $80 (eno website).
You can get my favorite, the appalachian hammock with a slot for insulation during winter, with a tarp for $99 + $150 [2].

You need a sleeping bag to put in the hammock too too, but most people have those.
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"Clone" is silly. We have a perfectly good word for this, its called a "profile".

This has been done a lot before; formats in this space include vCard/hCard, XFN, and FOAF, that I can think of easily.

The really hard part (as with most things dealing with the semantic web) is getting "random websites" to use a link to your authoritative public profile when they mention your name, not coming up with yet-another serialization format for basic profile data.
At a high level, they make it easier to write server (or client) software that deals with multiple concurrent connections (such as HTTP server software, or just about any network facing service these days). They do this by abstracting some of the details away so that you can focus on writing your application code; instead you declare callbacks that get invoked when you have data available.

Traditional eventing frameworks focused on non-blocking I/O on a single thread on the basis that you don't need so many resources to scale up to a large number of clients when compared to a simple one-thread-per-client model.

There's lot of good material discussing this at http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html

libphenom is a bit more than just an eventing framework though; we have a number of APIs that help with putting together the whole application. And we blur the lines a bit: we also have thread pooling and dispatch support for cases where your can't build 100% of your application in a non-blocking fashion.