skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very true, and I'm glad that approach is being actively pursued by meta (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/551975293/meta-the-most-...).

I also like the Oculus Rift hack that Occipital showed briefly here -- it makes a lot of sense for augmented/virtual reality, though I guess it means you can only interact with things when looking at your hands, as opposed to Sixense's controller-based approach.

PS: Hi, Travis!
Hearing Bezos's regret minimization framework was one of the things that helped to make an easier decision to leave my job to start a company (I left Amazon, ironically). Here is the original video which this quote is taken from:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwG_qR6XmDQ
>If you distribute a single source tarball with code files with different licenses, all of them apply.

Yes, the tarball distribution must respect all the licenses of files inside it, but once the tarball is unpacked it goes back to individual licenses per file. I understand how it's a big mess when it gets to binaries, but do any licenses actually place restrictions on what they can be tarballed with?
I'm sure I'm not the only one thinking back on some long-ago startup and thinking, "Oh! Those assholes! I knew it!"

Not that what PG says here is exactly news to me at this point, but his wide experience and resulting confidence is fantastic confirmation of things that I now know to suspect, but at the time seemed so reasonable. Oh, you don't lead? Oh, you want to see just a little more progress? Well of course you do. And I, earnest nerd, took them at their word.
It'll be interesting to hear the views from Hipmunk designers or engineers, if any, lurking on HN.
> Who benefits from punishment ?

Society benefits, in that it is deterrent to crime and as a tool to uphold law.

But that doesn't mean that the punishment should be the highest priority for imprisonment.
There are a number of considerations because the compiler can't prove it in general without augmenting the type system or doing whole-program analysis.

Do you allow, but not require, the compiler to do this substitution whenever it can prove a value is never used again? This is unreliable across build options and compilers so it would be unwise to depend on it. There is an opportunity here for a tool that could identify places where you could insert move, perhaps even a -W option for the trivial cases such as above, but I am not convinced the language should allow the compiler to do this.

Do you make it mandatory and add more special cases for the compiler to have to implement? This would require the compiler to track references to make sure they don't get passed to some other function. It would need someone to codify the special cases in the standard and this might be very difficult. It would also be fragile, there would be cases where implicit move used to kick in but some added function call inhibits it even though a move is still the right thing to do.
"In the US, many people see prisoners as fundamentally failed human beings, they are in prison because they are "Bad", not so much because they broke law X or law Y."

I don't believe this -- neither do you. Thus in my strictly scientific sample of people in the United States (n=2), 0% believe that statement.

"in fact, many people are against letting people out of prison even once they have been cleared!" -- I'd ask you to find the name of one person who believes innocent people should be incarcerated.
Ghost Recon RAMBO STYLE
For anyone that hasn't seen it, the Google Maps view of the situation is quite impressive: https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!q=costa+concordia&data=...
Adobe and Adonit producing (hardware) Tools for the New Creative
You might be right. That doc is described as: example report at [link] (not the correct numbers, but you'll get the
idea).
People sentenced to life in prison don't typically have the means to make a lawyer rich.
For that, there's Java.
> It begins by saying why Gabe has come to care about Linux (it is a solution to MS lock in).

That's not why he cares, he cares because the MS App store is a threat to Steam lock in, and he wants his tasty 30%.

> Then you say that he doesn't care about Linux. / He now obviously cares about linux.

No he doesn't, he cares about being a pied piper leading people away from a potential loss of revenue for him. I know otherwise reasonable people who only buy games if they are on Steam, and who dump on Origin while simultaneously praising Steam. He wants to make sure that continues, and having Windows 8 centre around an app store that he doesn't make money from is upsetting to him.

There is not one thing that Windows 8 does that is "bad for gaming" from a consumer perspective compared to Windows 7, a platform he is fine with. Note that I have no intention of buying W8, but I have a distaste for BS, regardless of the source or the target.

> Some people like a sports team...

Sure, a rising tide raises all ships etc, I understand that. It's just disappointing it's coming, not from a love of what makes Linux great, but from a greedy app store owner who doesn't want another app store cramping his style.
Good question. I think this is getting to specific for me to comment on. IANAL.
The one I admire the most is from a previous generation: Amancio Ortega, from Inditex. The innovations in logistics by Inditex are amazing. As for current(ish), and with a heavy skew towards IT, my list would be, in no particular order:

- Bill Gates, for MS strategy during the 90s. Evil and Borg-esque but ultra effective.

- Steve Jobs, for Pixar and the early 00s turnaround at Apple.

- Elon Musk, not so much for co-founding PayPal, but rather because of Tesla

Now that I'm at it, let me nominate the worst CEO: Eric Schmidt. Title earned for destroying engineer culture at three great companies: Novell, Sun and Google. Novell and Sun tanked, Google will be the first to survive Schmidt's effects, albeit scarred. There are financially worse CEOs, but Schmidt attacked companies that I particularly liked with the same repeat effects.
Adobe Bringing Project Mighty Digital Pen to Market First Half of 2014
PG makes the comparison explicit later in the essay:

"There are many analogies between fundraising and dating, and this is one of the strongest. No one wants you if you seem desperate. And the best way not to seem desperate is not to be desperate. That's one reason we urge startups during YC to keep expenses low and to try to make it to ramen profitability before Demo Day. Though it sounds slightly paradoxical, if you want to raise money, the best thing you can do is get yourself to the point where you don't need to."
Nothing stopping you from writing a script that automatically compiles and installs the module when you're installing your distro.
This is super nice for anyone running RHEL/EL, lets you use recent versions of Python, Ruby, Perl, etc.. without having to package everything yourself.
Adobe will power smart iPad styluses through hardware partnerships
What's the advantage of using ZFS RAIDZ over mdadm? I thought that mdadm was more flexible in growing your RAID array.
I was going exclusively by what was on the notecard. :)
I don't know why you're being down voted as that's the direct response to come out of the hardcore player-base.

Spamming will grow and third-party sites will flourish.
Shame, Disappointment and Anger
Whoa, a cell phone number was included in one of the screenshots? That can't be good. (Cobook Contacts)

Also, the interface for Photo Investigator is horrible. It's really hard to read the buttons at the bottom!
But as he said, the US is many things.

It's not that hard to find an area the size of Germany in the US where the population density is the same or higher than in Germany - just as you'll find parts or states that has the population density of Sweden.
Affixes?
Handling Support in an Agile Team
Dramatic interpretation: http://youtu.be/volV54jPkqI
Five Important Questions to Ask a Potential Employer
One of my favourite complains is rooted in the lightning and colour palette choices of D3 when comparing to D2.

http://www.diablowiki.net/Art_controversy
That Yahoo Weather app looks like that on my iOS 4? 5? (ancient, whatever it is).
ZFS is the best thing that happened in storage! Big thanks to the developers! Happily uses Western Digital 25AV 2.5 disks. Will probably use WD Red series. Total remote backup time with ZFS incremental snapshots negligible.
Disney creates gear software to make super-realistic movement
Oh Github, you're wonderful
How to Inject Resilience into Data Analytics
I was thinking the same thing and was wondering how exactly that would look like as the page loaded. In a way I was disappointed. It's still a pretty cool feature though.
Tying ability damage to weapon DPS was the worst mistake they made, in my opinion. Not only did it make zero sense but also made all character classes feel the same in terms of itemization.
Well, it's flat design. While with the pre-7 design you could have substance - really polished apps that shine by using textures, lighting, shadows, etc. with flat you only really have colored rectangles to show.

And as you can't make more appealing colored rectangles than your competition everything starts to look the same.
In my experience, speed isn't an issue. The only slow part of any of this is PBKDF2, unless you're dealing with huge files (not the case in chat).
I'd argue the difference is how the complex ecosystems handled parasites.

On the one hand, Blizzard enabled balance-breaking monetization, and TF2 enabled costume-breaking monetization. Blizzard could've made just as much (or a lot more really) money just by enabling cosmetic rewards instead of gameplay rewards.

I feel like I quote this once a week [0] but Cory Doctorow makes a ton of great points on this and related subjects in the linked essay.

[0]http://craphound.com/complexecosystems.txt
One has to wonder about the plans for Hearthstone (another F2P game from Blizzard). The recent discontinuation of WoW TCG seems to make it apparent that they may be pushing Hearthstone as a replacement.

Cards Against Humanity is a really popular table-top card game, and Blizzard would be smart to be taking a hard look at emulating it. Attempting to "monetize" Hearthstone could be dangerous.
Elon said that their path to self-driving cars is incremental and will be by adding such features over time until eventually it just drives itself.

Seems saner than Google's approach, but Google doesn't manufacture cars so the same model would be harder...
I don't think the first is a rationale in and of itself, only when combined with the second. I don't think anyone disagrees with the first except perhaps criminals themselves, but I certainly don't think disagreement with the first has much to do with the Norwegian system. Norwegians obviously think that people should not benefit from acts of evil; I mean, they do have laws after all.

Anyway, you are missing a third option. Imprisonment does not have to be about either rehabilitation or punishment. It could also, or even instead, be about detainment and isolation. In other words, you can imprison somebody not out of some sort of desire to "get back at them", and not with any hope of correcting their behavior, but merely to make sure they cannot injure people again.

Consider the case of Charles Manson: That guy is way too far gone to ever really hope that he can be rehabilitated. There is no fixing that guy; the US prison system couldn't do it, the Norwegian system couldn't do it, no "Manhattan Project of Psychiatry" could do it. Even so, that doesn't mean that the only option left is to ensure that he lives in relative misery the rest of his nature life. We could allow him to live the rest of his life out in relative comfort, so long as we never allow him to be free to harm others again.

Where we cannot 'fix', we obviously need to detain and isolate, but doing that for the safety of the public is sufficient motivation. We don't need to do that out of a desire to 'punish'. (Unless you buy into "such punishments act as a deterrent")
It's not a waste of resources, it's just a different approach to solving a problem. Hadoop / "big data" clusters make the problem harder to solve (and probably even restrict the types of problems that can be solved) in exchange for cheap hardware. Supercomputers give engineers the ability to solve problems in a traditional manner, while moving the costs over to the hardware.
Well the dictionary definition of society is: the aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community. "More or less ordered" comes from the creation and enforcement of norms. That's how I get legitimate.

I do consider punishment ethical, from a utilitarian perspective it acts as a deterrent, and preventing men from benefiting from evil acts appeals to a human sense of justice and well ordering.
"All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you're Woolworth's."

This made me think of facebook.
It's more than just $3.99 extra. The food is marked up as well. The site live chat rep just told me to except groceries to be 10% more expensive via Instacart than if you shopped yourself.

I imagine it will be easy with things packaged goods, but when it comes to meat or fruit, you're hoping the personal shopper doesn't pick out some rotten fruit.
787-9 maiden flight
Sweet! I love 3DS -- started my current company there.
Maps that will change the way you see the world
Feeling the exact same way. So much insight and time-saving advice, I can't believe it just falls into my lap.
I've found compression to be one of the big benefits of Hive / Impala; we are able to load and manipulate compressed data very quickly compared with our friends using a RDBMS who have to uncompress and then import the data. This shortens the cycle time on some analytics challenges by days (typically we get data in the 3-8TB range) where we can answer simple questions in a few hours (and senior management loose focus immediately afterwards).
I had a bunch of toons at level 97; the last 3 levels have the same experience requirement as the first 96, so it's a lot of work to get to 99.

The problems with D3 are manifold, but they all, at least to my mind, come back to wanting to monetize gameplay elements when they should've monetized cosmetics. It's like Blizzard/Activision took a big hit of the EA koolaid and forgot how to make good games. It didn't help that they fired all of Blizzard North back in the day...

If you ever meet a Blizzard North developer, ask them about what it was like. It's an incredible, really just incredible, story of how NOT to treat developers.
I have to say the game has just started. Just like my previous comment on another thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6387986):

As I wrote in my past blog(http://mattzlw.wordpress.com/2013/07/24/ios-7-beta-ux-thinki...): "Making users think which part of the iOS application I am in less, instead, a more strong feeling in one single place Apple provides." Apple made their move. Whether the rebalance can be reasonably achieved or not, how and when remain uncertain. I do think, in terms of graphic design choices, it seems to have fewer variables. But, perhaps this is where a more dynamic 2D physics UI engine comes to help.

I also would like to add:

A playful, responsive, hence visually less heavy UI system may wait ahead. But I don't think it could be the same scale of positive feeling like the original iOS UI brought to us years ago. That was like achieving from 0% to 65%. This time, 75% to 85% maybe? Both are not easy jobs to do though. And Apple's continuous effort on this at a systematic level is a good thing for users.
Agreed. I know many people who don't have a car living in the denser parts of the city, and grocery shopping (even for a single person living alone) can become a harder task simply because you can't carry a ton at once.
Financial Crisis and the Zombie Apocalypse
Angus MacAskill - Natrual giant
Stop Forcing Your Kids To Learn Musical Instruments
Crain's created this handy dandy Google Map outlining the delivery area borders: http://goo.gl/maps/6iwQK
This guy gets it :)
A generalised synthesis of all of the "hardware" companies I have ever come into contact with ... :-)
Quoting that article:

> the term does not necessarily imply superiority

Those for whom the term does imply superiority lie largely on the right, politically speaking, while those on HN lie largely on the left, in my experience. It seems to me that there is a difference between calling someone out on an inferiority complex, and calling someone out on sharing a country with people who have an inferiority complex.
It's worth noting that the UK had these too[1] but also managed to f-- them up by not providing the required rehabilitation. This resulted in IPP prisoners languishing, unable to "show" they were reformed because the courses which supposedly proved this were not made available. As a result the government ended up paying out compensation to some of the prisoners.

UK prison policy is a catastrophe for everyone, prisoners, their families, their victims, society. News at 11.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19630617
The prevailing opinion is that the AH killed the fun of hunting for rare drops, and it should be abandoned.

Over time, I've found games that involve grinding for rare drops resembling more and more the psychology of slot machines.[1]

It's hard for me to be sympathetic to people who claim the fun thing is now too easy, because it doesn't involve as much mind-numbing work. If your game only works with a slot machine mechanic, maybe it has other design issues?

Also relevant: [2].

[1] http://99percentinvisible.prx.org/2013/04/29/78-no-armed-ban...

[2] http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/12/31 (There may be one that's more on point...)
European Union is basically many countries living together as one too. I can move between countries without any problem. I can work in any other EU country just as easily as I can in my home country. How about you consider Sweden as one province of EU. Are you really saying that different cultures aren't getting along here? What you win at economy you lose in quality of life.
Ah, thanks for pointing those files out. I'll have to try loading them up in Fargo for fun.
Where can I download a pretty printed source? I was curious about your AES-CTR implementation.
Thanks for the response. Hearing a real world example of a type promotion trap was illuminating.

I pick on printf in particular because most seasoned programmers consider copying and pasting code a smell, but is accepted for printf and friends.
> F2P

Don't you have to buy card packs with RL money for Hearthstone to be able to play at all?
Hoping they expand to my neighborhood soon so I can give them a try. I think there's a big future in grocery delivery because there is so much energy expended per household buying groceries.

- Drive to grocery store
- Roam around store picking out groceries and putting in shopping cart
- Remove all items from shopping cart, put them on belt to checkout
- Take all bags of purchased groceries and put in shopping cart
- Take all bags out of shopping cart, put in car
- When you get home, take all bags out of shopping cart and bring into house
Me too, and was initially disappointed.

Now I think about it, it's super cool that GitHub are putting so much effort into being a useful platform for file formats traditionally not associated (much) with software development.

There is so much cool stuff you could investigate over and above text files: understanding photoshop files and describing layer changes; diffing audio and identifying mixes and how they were mixed.
Monetize your photo apps and sites with CanvasPop's Photo Printing API
> There are so many cultures here that all get along better here than they do anywhere else in the world.

Brasil.
Even assuming everyone commutes at the same time, the status quo cars sitting idle the rest of the day, the only difference is that they need two or three spaces to park each, and typically in high value locations. Your car sits at home at night and at work during the day. With the car service there could be half as many parking spaces or less, and they can drive themselves to a garage in some remote area, rather than within walking distance of a place you want to be.

The car service makes car pooling and mass transit more practical as well. Maybe you could hitch a ride with someone to work, but then you might have to stay late. With personal car ownership, you need to drive alone both ways, but with the car service, you can share the morning trip and if you need to take separate transportation in the evening. If buses in your area can't reliably get to work on time, you could have the car service pick you up to go to work, the the bus take you home.
A Whole New World (Or, why GaryBernhardt rewrote the Terminal)
I’m sorry, could you elaborate on the difference between prison, jail and penitentiary? To my non-native understanding, they’re exact synonyms.
How to Run Multiple Big Data Apps on a Single Data Store w/ GemFire
Cloud provider Nirvanix gives customers two weeks to vacate data
This reminds me a lot of the book by Bruno Latour: "Aramis, or The Love of Technology", which was about a French government-sponsored light rail project called "Aramis" (Really a revolutionary public transport concept), where each car would route itself to it's destination independently, coupled to the cars in front and behind electronically, rather than physically. Of course, continual political interference scuppered the whole thing before they could get it to work (a challenge with the technology of the day), and the whole thing drifted on and on for decades without really taking off. Now, of course, the whole thing would be much easier, and the technology behind self-driving cars might actually make it a reality.
Alas, like the YC application form.
Turtl: an Evernote replacement with real data privacy
The thing I love most about this, is that it shows they still hold faith in human kind. They sincerely believe they can help people change, and people are changing.

This is a seriously heart warming story.
Flagger: A browser add-on to troll the NSA harder than ever
Off the top of my head: Jail is local and generally short term. Prison is regional and longer sentences. Penitentiary...I think federal (national rather than state level) and higher security.